You'll be spoiled for choice for things to see and do during summer in the Alps, and Peisey-Vallandry in France is the perfect base for enjoying outdoor activities like mountain biking, road biking, rock climbing, rafting, swimming, and more.
We're thrilled to have our summer chalet, Chalet Cairn, neighbouring Vanoise National Park – a well renowned destination for hiking trails and watching wildlife.
In Peisey-Vallandry the chair lifts are open for mountain biking in July and August.
The Vallandry Lift opens daily from 9:15am to 12:50pm, and 1:20pm to 3:50pm during the summer mountain biking (MTB) season.
Lift timetables and track maps can be found on Les Arcs' website.
The Peisey-Vallandry/Les Arcs MTB park has more than 180km of trails for all abilities.
From green trails (for beginners, including children) to black trails (for experts) there are trails for all levels of skill and fitness, spanning the area from neighbouring town Bourg Saint Maurice, at the foot of the mountain, to Arc 2000 in Les Arcs.
There are 5 MTB practice parks ideal for people new to the sport to gain confidence in their mountain biking skills, or for children and families. There is a MTB trail at Mille8 which is perfect for beginners too.
For intermediate riders there are several blue trails for different branches of MTB: 3 downhill trails, 3 endurance routes, and the fun trail at Mille8.
The expert trails in the bike park include 2 red and 2 black downhill trails, 2 black endurance routes, and 2 red cross-country circuits.
MTB bikes and gear can be hired from Intersport Vallandry, open daily. Remember they close for lunch!
The French Alps are well-known for its road biking climbs in summer, with the Tour de France this year setting-off its 12th stage from neighbouring town Bourg St Maurice.
Our partners 1330 Road Cycling can organise fully supported Alpine cycling trips so all you need to worry about is how long you ride for each day.
People love coming to Vanoise National Park to walk the many hiking trails available for all levels of fitness, and one of the park's gates is located in Nancroix near our Chalet Cairn.
Guests can walk up to Refuge Rosuel, at the entrance of the famous park. It is about a 30 minute uphill hike.
Vanoise is the first national park created in France and is home to over 1000 species of flora and fauna – you may even see some wildlife of your walk like an ibex, chamois, or marmot.
You'll be able to admire the spectacle that is Vanoise National Park's lush forests, alpine land, fresh streams and lakes, steep hills, and mountain passes.
Chalet Cairn is situated almost on top of the GR5, which is a famous hiking route stretching north to south of the Alps. North is down, towards Landry and Bourg Saint Maurice.
South is up, towards the national park where you can really get amongst nature. Cars are permitted no further than the refuge. So although you will surely be accompanied by other hikers on a well marked path, you will find yourself in a serene, untouched region.
3 hours southwards you will arrive at Lac de la Plagne, a beautiful mountain lake with a tiny restaurant.
If you are fortunate you will see a golden eagle or the bearded vulture, which nest this side of the park.
We advise you to take communications and a map as well as plenty of food and water. Check the weather, wear and take the correct hiking equipment. Conditions in the mountains can change very quickly.
Hikers should check pathways themselves, these times are a guide only. We take no responsibility if the hike takes longer or is harder than expected. Maps can be found at the Peisey tourist office or bought online.
A number of routes available.
A number of routes available. Return via the Vanoise Express to Peisey village.
There are some beautiful heritage churches and castles to visit in the Peisey-Vallandry area which you can hike or drive to.
Notre-Dame-des-Vernettes chapel is a special historical monument open to visitors everyday from 9am to 5pm. For more than 200 years the chapel's original appearance has been preserved and lovingly restored by the people of the valley. It is possible to walk to the chapel from our chalet.
You could also take part in a guided tour of some of the heritage churches to make the most of your journey into the world of baroque art in Peisey-Vallandry.
The Via Ferrata on our doorstep is a very popular protected climbing route. Climbing the Via Ferrata only costs the price to hire your harness and helmet and is close to Vanoise National Park next to Chalet Cairn.
There is also an outdoor climbing wall in Les Arcs, with 20 climbing routes for all levels, which is great for children too. The wall in Arcs 1800 (Villards) is open Sunday to Friday, equipment is provided, and is supervised by a mountain guide instructor.
Imagine flying over Peisey-Vallandry valley with eagle eye views of Mont Blanc! First flight paragliding lessons are available for adults and children with training course for all levels.
There are several options for paragliding in summer in Peisey-Vallandry and Les Arcs.
Prices start at €70 and options include discovery flights, ranging in duration from 10 to 25 minutes, and longer flights of an hour or longer which can sometimes go over 3000m high above the mountain peaks.
There is an array of water activities in the area to suit beginners and advanced level participants, including white water rafting, kayaking, wakeboarding, and stand up paddleboarding.
Check out H2O Rafting for details on water sports.
If you have a car there are great destinations nearby like Annecy Lake, which is a 1h45 drive from the chalet and is popular for boating, wakeboarding, and jet skiing.
Le Bourget du Lac, near Chambéry, is a 1h30 drive away and attracts people to its lovely beach from all over for sailing, water skiing, and fishing.
For passionate wakeboarders, and for beginners from 7 years and up, there is a Wakeboarding Park in Albertville, just a one hour drive away. The park uses a water ski cableway which tows wakeboarders and water skiers without the need for a boat.
Plan d'Eau is a great swimming spot for the family about a 15 minute drive from Chalet Cairn. Plan d'Eau is a small lake at the foot of the mountains near Landry and is perfectly set up for an afternoon of sunbathing and taking a dip.
There is an ice cream stand and small restaurant there too.
Mille8 at Les Arcs is a fabulous health and wellness facility for adults and families. Mille8 Piscine is a child friendly swimming pool and visitors love taking in the pool's spectacular view of Mont Blanc.
The pool area also has bubble massage beds, jacuzzis, cascades, a cave, splash pad, and a multi-lane water slide, "pentaglisse", to entertain the whole family.
Relax your body and mind at Mille8's wellness area by indulging in one of their 2 saunas, 2 hammams, or the resting room, or use the fitness centre's variety of weight and cardio-training machines.
Or stay in the chalet and use the facilities, which include an outdoor hot tub (with incredible views), sauna and relaxation room.
Our wonderful in-chalet masseuse, Bryony of Alpine Hands, is available all summer.
For many people a summer getaway would not be complete without a round or two of golf, and you'll find lots of options to choose from in the area including two courses at the golf club nearby at Les Arcs – an 18-hole course, and a 9-hole course.
Les Arcs golf course is located on the side of the mountain facing Mont Blanc with breathtaking views.
Riding horses or donkeys is a unique way for young and old to view the natural features of Peisey-Vallandry: waterfalls, glaciers, and mountain vistas.
Trail orienteering can be a fun way to get the family working together (or competing in teams!) to find your way around a given area.
There are permanent orienteering trails set-up, both starting by the refuge de Rosuel of Peisey-Vallandry, and you can choose between the family trail, which takes 1-2 hours, of the sport trail which takes 2-3 hours.
Palais de la Mine is a bit of fun history for the family. The big house has an interesting story dating back to the early 1800s when the French School of Mines settled down in Les Monts d'Argent – the name of Peisey during that time.
Le Palais is close to Chalet Cairn in Nancroix, just a bus ride and short walk for kids, and nearby is one of our favourite restaurants, Le Fer À Cheval.
If the kids (or the parents) don't want to miss the latest summer blockbuster during your stay in the valley, Vallandry is home to Cinéma L'Éterlou, a short drive from Chalet Cairn in Nancroix.
After spending the day out and about there's nothing better than a lovely meal and cold drink at a local alpine eatery.
Le Fer À Cheval, the restaurant mentioned above, is just below Palais de la Mine. The bar and restaurant is open everyday and serves homemade delicacies like ice cream, faiselles (fromage blanc), and pastries. The local bus also stops there making it quick and easy for guests to return to Chalet Cairn in Nancroix.
Auberge de Cassiel is settled in the heart of Vanoise mountains and serves gourmet dishes from fresh local ingredients. The restaurant's sundrenched terrace is a wonderful spot to enjoy a beautiful meal and the surrounding countryside.
Le Chateau de Feissons' restaurant is set in a unique, medieval hall and specialises in elegant, traditional cuisine. The 13th century castle is open for lunch from Monday to Sunday over summer and the dining area will surely make your experience unforgettable.
Le Refugepizz is our lovable, local pizzeria in Plan Peisey. They have a huge choice of pizzas and salads, and you can dine-in or take away. Open 6 days a week, closed on Tuesdays, Le Refugepizz is a hit for the whole family.
Crêperie Chez Félix Rosuel is exclusively open in summer – an amazing place to enjoy sunny days. Not only is the food great, you can also spend many hours there playing mini-golf and relaxing on the large terrace.
Le Cœur de Vall' has a gorgeous summer menu to match how lovely their terrace is – with panoramic views over the valley. Open everyday except Monday, you should stop in to appreciate Le Cœur de Vall's creative, modern twist on traditional cuisine, and their friendly service.
Le Petit Hibou is opening this summer 2018, again, just below Palais de la Mine, a short and interesting walk from Chalet Cairn. We are looking forward to an international menu put together by a truly amazing chef. More on this when the restaurant is unveiled!
There is a bus stop just 200m from Chalet Cairn in Nancroix. The free shuttle service runs regularly between Nancroix, Peisey village, Peisey-Vallandry and Rosuel.
Click here for an example Peisey-Vallandry bus time table for summer 2017. We will update to 2018 when it becomes available.
Summer weather in France is lovely and mild in the Alps, with maximum daily temperatures usually between 18°C – 25°C, and lows of around 11°C – 13°C at night.
Be prepared to wear layers of clothes so you can adjust to the weather, and your activities, e.g. paragliding is going to be a lot chillier than hiking.
An easy way to find out what's on in Peisey-Vallandry is to keep an eye on the official Peisey-Vallandry tourist website. There are lots of events throughout the year, traditional, fun, family or adult.
Throughout July and August, Chalet Cairn is available fully catered, or Bed & Breakfast, in Peisey-Vallandry and is perfectly positioned for summer activities in the Alps.
A seven night stay in Chalet Cairn, with en-suite rooms, includes breakfast, and dinner with wine on six evenings.
Take in the views of the valley while soaking in Chalet Cairn's outdoor hot tub, or enjoy our sauna and relaxation room after a day of outdoor activities.
Enquire about our B&B rates and special offers – email us at [email protected].


Cultural landscapes are defined by the timeless record of human activity and experience in to the land. The plateaus of the region contain constructions and relics of the past that can allow the visitor to discover the history of the area. In Ano Pedina the luxurious private houses, public buildings and churches shows the wealth that people of Zagori brought back from a life time labor abroad.Threshing floors and stonehuts testify that these plateaus produced cereals in the past. Cisterns to collect water, wells and ponds for watering the animals refer to a place where the water was always scarce. Around the area of Ano Pedina, one of the most common species of vegetation is the prickly oak (Quercus coccifera), a characteristic species of landscapes with long human presence and the practice of goat grazing. South of the village, there are deciduous oak wood pastures and extensive seasonal wet meadows both endangered ecosystem types in the country. Simultaneously grazed natural meadows create an agricultural mosaic consisting of dry meadows, arable crops with cereals and legumes that create a unique combination of anthropogenic ecosystems shaped by a variety of land uses.


A critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic Role Playing Game released exclusively for the Sega Saturn console in early 1998.
Memorable characters, immersive narrative, haunting visuals, cutting edge voice acting - a vast, sprawling epic which was arguably unsurpassed at the time.
The game was largely overshadowed by that of several other blockbuster hits from the same year - Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid and the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time all helped to ensure that this masterpiece of a game somehow went virtually unnoticed.
Despite its limited release and relative obscurity, the game has since garnered a cult following and is now recognised as one of the best RPGs of all time.
Developer Team Andromeda disbanded after its publication, and the Saturn's demise followed shortly thereafter.
Panzer Dragoon Saga remains the best video game that you've probably never played.
Get a Panzer Dragoon Saga mug for your barber José.


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THE JOHN WICK WATCH - WHAT ON EARTH DID HE WEAR?
The franchise follows John's escapades. In the first movie, we're shown his backstory and how dangerous he really is. It followed him seeking revenge on the bloodthirsty Russian Mafia that he once worked for as they try and assassinate him.
The second movie from followed John and his adventures in Italy's crime scene, while the third and final movie focused on John having a price on his head after killing a member of the international assassin's guild.
In each movie, something that stayed the same was John's watch. This is why there are so many articles, guides, and videos on what exactly he wore.
Not that we're trying to be unoriginal, but we'll be looking at the John Wick watch as well. So read ahead if you want to learn more.
So What Does He Wear?
Manero AutoDate
Carl F. Bucherer Manero Automatic Men's Watch 00.10908.08.33.01
John Wick is a man of class which is why he wears the Manero AutoDate, from Carls F. Bucherer. Carls F Bucherer is a high-end brand in the watch world which is why you'll have to pay an arm and a leg for their pieces.
In terms of the watch John Wick owns, The Manero AutoDate is a whopping $6000.
Arguably, what has drawn everyone into the watch is how John Wick wears it. He places its dial towards the inside of his wrist. Although strange, it's quite smart considering the man is always getting into fights. If the watch was placed normally, it would've got bashed into a billion pieces, don't you think?
With that out of the way, let's look into its specs:
The watch has a Sapphire display. After all, it's incredibly expensive, so this is expected. The sapphire makes the Manero durable as its display can take quite a beating. (This doesn't mean it can withstand John Wick's escapades though).
As he's always on the move, the Manero's anti-glare display is perfect.
What's more:
The watch oozes luxury. It comes with an Alligator strap. The strap comes in a range of colours, but we see John rocking the black version.
The Manero is a Swiss Automatic watch. Considering his lifestyle, this is the best watch he could own as it takes care of itself. He's always on the move, so its 42-hour power reserve won't be much use to him. That being said, a 42-hour power reserve is pretty useful, at least to the everyday user.
He doesn't have to worry about his time being inaccurate as the Manero comes with 25 jewels. This keeps its gear moving smoothly.
His watch comes with a degree of water resistance. Unfortunately, it isn't the most water-resistant watch out there as it can only withstand 100 feet (30 m) of depth.
And best of all, the Manero Autodate is dainty. Its case is only 1.49 inches (38 mm) across.
John Wick's watch is great, but you may not have $6000 lying around. Don't fret as we'll be going through cheaper alternatives on the market.
Seiko PRESAGE SRPB43J1
SEIKO PRESAGE Automatic Ice Blue Cocktail Time "Sky Diving" SRPB43J1
The PRESAGE is an automatic watch as well. It comes with 23 jewels instead of John Wick's 25.
That being said, it has an almost equal power reserve of 41 hours.
It comes with a strap that looks identical to the Manero. The only difference is that the PRESAGE's is not made from alligator skin.
The display looks the same as well. They're both very classic looking with sleek and chic lines that replace Arabic numerals.
Of course, we have to talk about the elephant in the room, which is the PRESAGE's blueish hue. Other than this, both the watches look alike.
Orient '2nd Gen Bambino Version I'
Orient Men's 2nd Gen. Bambino Ver. 1 Stainless Steel Japanese-Automatic Watch with Leather Strap,...
We believe this is the watch that looks the most like John Wick's. In fact, if you didn't know any better, you could be fooled by the Orient Bambino.
It has a strap that looks strikingly like Alligator skin. The only difference is that the Bambino has a brown strap while John Wick's watch has a black one.
The Bambino is water-resistant. Although it's not impressive at 100 feet (30 m), we're not complaining since the Manero is only water-resistant up to this depth as well.
It has a somewhat small case too. However, it's larger than Manero's by 0.007 inches (2 mm).
Of course, it doesn't have a sapphire display, instead, it's mineral.
If you're wondering, the Orient Bambino is an automatic watch. Unfortunately, it only comes with a 40-hour power reserve but we aren't complaining since it's about $5500 dollars cheaper than the Manero Autodate.
Orient '2nd Gen Bambino Version III'
Orient Men's 2nd Gen. Bambino Ver. 3 Stainless Steel Japanese-Automatic Watch with Leather Calfskin...
Like the Bambino Version I, the Version III looks identical to John Wick's Manero.
It has a minimalistic dial. Its display is grey, having chic, rectangular markings that replace Arabic numerals.
Although it is an automatic watch like the Manero Autodate, it's isn't Swiss Automatic. Instead, it's Japanese.
Like the Bambino Version I, Version III has a somewhat small case. It's only 0.007 inches (40 mm), after all.
It's water-resistant at 100 feet (30 m).
Frankly, Version III and I are models that are pretty much the same. The only difference is their price tag.
John Wick is an incredible trilogy, which is well-loved around the world. The watch he wears is equally as good.
If you ever thought what watch does John Wick wear, you now know.

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Kids love to dip! Adults do to. That is why this healthy white bean dip made with white cannellini beans and a few other ingredients make such an easy and absolutely delicious snack idea for you or your little ones.
I am always trying to get my family to eat more vegetables, and one way I do that is to serve cut up vegetables with dip for a snack. Now usually this means serving some sort of dressing for dipping which is also usually loaded with fat and calories. Now that this tasty white bean dip is stocked in my fridge, I reach for veggies and bean dip instead of veggies and dressing, and me and my family are happy. This bean dip is loaded with fiber and nutrients instead of fat and calories, so that is something to feel good about.
1. To prepare the dip, drain and rinse the cannellini beans in a colander. Then place the beans in a blender or food processor along with the peeled garlic, the two tablespoons of olive oil, the fresh squeezed lemon juice, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, and the pinch of ground cayenne pepper.
2. Blend of process the white bean dip until completely smooth. Then, remove the blending cup from the blender and use a rubber spatula to scrape the mixture into a bowl for serving. If not serving immediately, cover the white bean dip tightly with an airtight lid or plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator until ready to serve. To serve, place the white bean dip on a bowl and serve with baked pita chips, sliced carrot sticks or celery sticks or other veggies or your choice.


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Das Amtsgericht Fürth ist ein Gericht der ordentlichen Gerichtsbarkeit und eines von 73 Amtsgerichten in Bayern. Das Gericht ist in drei Gebäude aufgeteilt. Das Hauptgebäude befindet sich in der Bäumenstraße 32, die beiden Nebengebäude in der Alexanderstraße 24 bzw. in der Bäumenstraße 28 in Fürth.

Geschichte

Im Jahre 1804 wurde die als Gericht der ersten Instanz fungierende Justizkommission Fürth im Zuge der allgemeinen Angleichung der Amtsbezeichnungen in Preußen zum Kgl. preußischen Stadtgericht Fürth. Als das preußische Fürstentum Ansbach 1806 an Bayern fiel, wurde das Stadtgericht Fürth als Untergericht bestätigt. Neben diesem Stadtgericht gab es ab 1862 das Landgericht Fürth, das zuständig für 18 Gemeindebezirke war, die aus dem Gerichtssprengel der Landgerichte (älterer Ordnung) Cadolzburg und Erlangen übernommen wurden.

Das Landgericht Fürth war zuständig für die Gerichtsbarkeit über folgende Orte im

 Rentamt Cadolzburg: die Gemeinden Obermichelbach, Tuchenbach und Veitsbronn
 Rentamt Erlangen: die Gemeinden Boxdorf, Buch, Großgründlach, Höfles, Kraftshof, Neunhof, Ronhof, Sack und Schnepfenreuth und Fürth.

1876 legte man die beiden Gerichte zum Stadt- und Landgericht Fürth zusammen. Dieses wurde mit dem Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz 1879 in das Amtsgericht Fürth überführt.
Das benachbarte Amtsgericht Markt Erlbach wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg zur Zweigstelle Fürths herabgestuft, 1959 endgültig aufgehoben und dem Amtsgericht Fürth zugeordnet.

Zuständigkeitsbereich

Der Amtsgerichtsbezirk umfasst den gesamten Landkreis Fürth, sowie die kreisfreie Stadt Fürth. Insgesamt leben in diesem Bezirk rund 228.000 Menschen. Das Gericht ist erstinstanzlich für Zivil-, Familien- und Strafsachen verantwortlich. Bei Konkurs-, Vergleichs-, Insolvenz- sowie Zwangsversteigerungsverfahren erweitert sich der Zuständigkeitsbereich auf die Amtsgerichtsbezirke Erlangen sowie Neustadt a.d.Aisch. Selbiges gilt für Handels-, Partnerschafts-, Genossenschafts- und Vereinsregister.

Folgende Verfahren werden von anderen Gerichten bearbeitet:
 Ehefähigkeitszeugnis (Oberlandesgericht Nürnberg)
 Landwirtschaftsverfahren (Amtsgericht Nürnberg)
 Patentstreitsachen (Landgericht Nürnberg-Fürth)
 Personenstandsverfahren (Amtsgericht Nürnberg)
 Schifffahrtssachen (Amtsgericht Nürnberg)
 Transsexuellengesetz (Amtsgericht Nürnberg)
 Urheber- und Markenrecht (Landgericht Nürnberg-Fürth)

Übergeordnete Gerichte
Dem Amtsgericht Fürth ist das Landgericht Nürnberg-Fürth übergeordnet, welche beide wiederum dem Bezirk des Oberlandesgerichts Nürnberg angehören.

Gerichtsgebäude

Das Amtsgerichtsgebäude steht unter Denkmalschutz. Es ist ein vierflügeliger, nahezu geschlossener, um einen Innenhof gruppierter Gebäudekomplex. Der dreigeschossige Walmdachbau auf hohem Sockelgeschoss mit Sandsteinfassaden, rustiziertem Erdgeschoss, Lisenengliederung und zwei Mittelrisaliten mit Dreiecksgiebeln wurde in neubarocken Formen vom Landbauamtsassessor Andreas Roth 1898 bis 1900 erbaut.

Siehe auch
 Liste deutscher Gerichte
 Liste der Gerichte des Freistaats Bayern

Weblinks

 Internetpräsenz des Amtsgerichts Fürth
 Übersicht der Rechtsprechung des Amtsgerichts Fürth

Einzelnachweise

Furth
Organisation (Fürth)
Baudenkmal in Fürth
Bauwerk in Fürth
Gegründet 1879

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[media-credit name="Western Writers of America" align="alignleft" width="300″] [/media-credit]The Western Writers of America presents the Spur Award annually for the best writing in the western genre. In 2014, the award was given in fifteen categories. To be eligible for the award, the work must be set in the American West, the early frontier, or relate to the Western or frontier experience. Members of WWA, as well as non-members, may submit works for consideration for the 2015 award. The material submitted must be first copyrighted in 2014.
In my blog post on June 30, 2014, I described my participation in the WWA annual convention at Sacramento, California. The final banquet of the five-day session celebrated the presentation of the Spur Awards for 2014. It was the highlight of the convention. The awards this year were presented by famous western actor Clu Gulager.
Many of the viewers of my website are interested in western literature; therefore, I designed this blog post to provide an easy way to learn about the history of the Spur Award. Looking back through the years, the reader will discover the names of the world's outstanding western writers. A listing of all of the Spur Awards made since 1953 can be found on WWA's website: http://westernwriters.org/spur-awards/.
My novel Eagle Talons, The Iron Horse Chronicles–Book One, will be released by Five Star Publishing on October 22, 2014. The book will be submitted for consideration for a 2015 Spur Award.
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Congrats on the review of Eagle Talons for the Spur award. Good luck, hope you win.


They met at a bus stop at a school near Adriana's house. Gera asked for her number, she gave it to him, and she told him he'd forget. I mean, he wrote it on his hand. He promised he wouldn't lose it. A month later, he contacted her after a search for her number (from a friend of a friend...) and then their story began. They were high school sweethearts, best friends, and in two short weeks, will be husband and wife.


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using System.Threading.Tasks;

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        public decimal Value { get; set; }

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import java.math.BigDecimal;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

public class MinerFeesItemTest {

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        // given
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        MinerFeesItem testedClass = this.getTestedClass();

        // when
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        // then
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    public void it_should_manipulate_totalFee() {
        // given
        BigDecimal expected = BigDecimal.TEN;
        MinerFeesItem testedClass = this.getTestedClass();

        // when
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        // then
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    }

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Are there any laws to compensate employees when their employers pay them late? This is the third time we have had our pay delayed by 3 days or so, we just didn't get our direct deposits because our employers forgot to submit the numbers. What should we do? Thanks!
If i were you,since it seems to be a constant brain fart and not because they don't have the money to give you,i would politely call the bookeeper,or whoever calls in these numbers,and remind them to do it on time. There will be another senior member here that would know the legal actions to take,if it continues on and on. Good luck!!
There is no law that requires the employer to compensate employees when paychecks are late, although it's possible the employer could have to pay a fine to the state.
You can file a complaint (notice I said complaint, not claim, since you WERE paid) that the employer is randomly paying you past the regularly schedule payday because of their ineptness (well, don't say ineptness, but you know what I mean).
Have you complained to Human Resources or the Accounting manager?
I should have said actions to take, not legal actions (which could be interpreted as a lawsuit) sorry poster!!
Thanks! We are a very small company, so we have no human resource manager. We had been reading CA labor laws and saw sec 203.1, which we thought might apply to us.
It may. However, since this is direct deposit and not a check, it may not apply. Good thinkg to do is not spend the money until you have verified that the money is in your account. Like I said, contact the DLSE and file a complaint. They may choose to investigate, but honestly, I wouldn't hold my breath.
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In France the kitchen garden, or "potager" is centered on vegetables and herbs and is typically an informal design perfectly in tune with nature. The garden can be a place where local fauna, including insects, birds and reptiles feel at home. Great promoters of biodiversity, kitchen gardeners have saved many heirloom vegetable varieties with their efforts, so by planting your kitchen garden you can be part of a growing and necessary group.
A classic potager next to a French chateau.
When planning your own potager, consider how the site you choose fits into the rest of the landscape, it's proximity to your kitchen and your vantage point to get the best view of the garden.
A variety of plants artfully arranged in this kitchen garden.
Also, consider the overall design and how you plan to cultivate by hand or machine to determine the width of the paths and shape of the beds. As the seasons change and your plants grow, the width of the paths will evolve, and you won't see much bare earth between plantings. A good design will include vertical accents as well as lots of colors and shapes. Small fruit trees traditionally stand at the edge of the potager with strawberries, annual herbs or flowers planted at their feet. Aggressive herbs like mint should be planted in containers.
A mix of trees is dispersed throughout the potager.
Complete your potager garden with stunning floral displays. Annuals like poppies, cornflowers and sweet peas add a cottage garden charm, plus their roots don't take up much soil space. You can also grow edible flowers to make the entire garden productive. Rose petals taste delicious, and chamomile flowers can be used to make tea. Borage is stunning floated in drinks or frozen in ice cubes, and lavender adds subtle flavor to sugar, cocktails, champagne and baked treats like shortbread.
Herbs are a must for any garden that supplies the kitchen–big or small.
You can also choose flowers that help you out in the garden. Plant calendulas (English marigolds) around your tomatoes to deter aphids. The orange petals have a peppery flavor and can be used as a cheap alternative to saffron in the kitchen. Nasturtiums have edible leaves and petals too, but unlike marigolds they attract aphids, as well as cabbage white butterflies. Plant them near vulnerable vegetables like kale, beans, cabbage and cauliflower, and the pests will eat the nasturtiums instead of your dinner. After harvesting, plant fast growing plants such as chervil and salad greens to fill in any empty spaces.
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As most businesses try to reign in spending during tough times, they try and do without.
For some one-person offices, 'doing without' means getting rid of their offices altogether, according to Roger Kahn, owner of Intelligent Office of Garden City. Intelligent Office rents on-demand fully-furnished office space, and Kahn says he's never been busier.
Many of Kahn's latest customers are independent attorneys who can no longer afford the $30-per-square-foot rent in Long Island Class A buildings and may have laid-off employees when they left.
Located a few blocks from the Nassau County Courthouse, Intelligent Office is a business cooperative that charges from $150 to $250 a month for its space which includes shared receptionists, private meeting rooms, kitchenette, etc. and its 'tenants' can lease on a month-to-month basis.
Kahn said his customers not only save on rent, but since Intelligent Office is fully-staffed five days a week, they save on salary as well. He said the portability of today's technology also allows for a more flexible work environment.
Packages at the Franklin Avenue office co-op can include local phone/fax number, conference room privileges, live receptionists and a secure mailbox with 24-hour access.
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Mario Sports Mix
Offering basketball, volleyball, hockey and dodgeball and out in Europe on January 28th.
Published on Nov. 24, 2010
Get ready to hone your supreme sports skills with Mario this year, when the brand new Mario Sports Mix, an action-packed sports frenzy for all your friends and family, launches across Europe on 28th January 2011, only on Wii. Mario Sports Mix is a collection of four high-energy arcade style sport games; Basketball, Volleyball, Hockey and Dodgeball, with some unexpected twists and turns along the way, ensuring hours of crazy sporting fun. Challenge your friends to some fast-paced fun in quick fire rounds to get that adrenaline pumping and competitive spirit racing!
Play as famous Nintendo characters or challenge your own personalised Mii character to a match against of the likes of Mario, Peach, Yoshi or Toad. However, choose your stage carefully as it will affect gameplay in challenging ways changing the way the ball and your surroundings behave. During each game you will also find items that will scupper the opposition and coins that increase your score, so that the final result is never certain until the very end. For example allowing you to slip up your opponents with banana peel or shoot a green shell to stun another player for a couple of seconds so that they lose possession of the ball. Each character in the game also has a different special move, like filling the opponent's side with flowers for Daisy or throwing a yellow "bomber shot" for Wario.
Mario Sports Mix can be played in single player mode or in up to four player matches in every sport where you compete for three different cups: Mushroom, Flower and Star Cup. Play as your chosen Nintendo characters and pit your skills against your opposition of 8 teams to become champion of each fast and furious sport, where additional stages and characters will be unlocked upon victory.
To ensure your experience will never be the same, when replaying a tournament, an alternative path may appear where you will be faced with special challenges or a mini game from the party mode to complete. Four different mini-games can be played, each inspired by a different sport. In the Basketball mini-game, Feed Petey you must grab low-hanging fruits from the ceiling and aim them directly into the mouth of Petey the piranha plant... In Smash Skate, you must push other players off a ledge using hockey sticks to perform charged shots and Bomb-omb Dodge requires you to dodge bombs that are shot by cannons at each corner of the Dodgeball court. In the final mini-game Harmony Hustle, different coloured volleyballs are thrown in line with the music onto the court - you must catch the one of your own colour and avoid a multitude of traps and balls to win combo points.
With so many features and action-packed levels to complete on each court, expect to have some crazy sporting adventures with Mario and friends launching 28th January 2011, in Mario Sports Mix, only on Wii.
For further information, please contact... Nintendo@Bell-Pottinger.co.uk
About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its WiiTM home console and Nintendo DSTM family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment SystemTM, Nintendo has sold more than 3.5 billion video games and more than 577 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSiTM and Nintendo DSiTM XL, as well as the Game BoyTM, Game Boy Advance, Super NESTM, Nintendo 64TM and Nintendo GameCubeTM systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as MarioTM, Donkey KongTM, MetroidTM, ZeldaTM and PokémonTM. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of Europe, based in Grossostheim, Germany, was established in 1990 and serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in Europe.


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On 18 May 2017, the Belgian Parliament transposed the EU Damages Directive (the "Directive") into national law by way of the Act on Damage Claims for Breaches of Competition Law (the "Act"), which was published on 12 June 2017 in the Belgian Official Gazette and came into force on 22 June 2017. The Act inserts several articles as a new Title 3 in Book XVII of the Code of Economic Law, effectively making it only applicable to private enforcement of competition law. It aims to ensure that anyone who has suffered harm from an infringement of competition law has the rights and the procedural tools to obtain full compensation.
The binding effect of decisions of the European Commission (the "Commission") was already enshrined in Article 16 of Regulation 1/2003. Now, the Act ensures that a final decision of the Belgian Competition Authority (the "BCA") or the Brussels Court of Appeal also irrefutably establishes the existence of the infringement, which facilitates follow-on damage claims. However, the same decision in another Member State may be presented before Belgian courts only as prima facie evidence that an infringement of competition law has occurred. While the difference between final decisions of the BCA and other National Competition Authorities ("NCAs") and non-Belgian courts is set out in Article 9(2) of the Directive, the unequal treatment seems to come from a general distrust of the decisions of newer Member States' NCAs.
With the entry into force of the Act and in line with the Directive, the Parliament introduced a rebuttable presumption that cartels cause damages. In a 2014 judgment, the Brussels Commercial Court dismissed a claim by the Commission in the Elevators and escalators cartel, because the latter was unable to prove it had sustained harm. Interestingly, the Commercial Court noted that the Commission did not try to show the exact effects of the infringement in its decision, thereby not making it sufficiently clear that it had suffered certain and actual damages. Under the Act, injured parties of cartel infringements will no longer be faced with these types of situations. However, while the new Article XVII.73 transposes Article 17(2) of the Directive almost verbatim, it could still cause issues in the Belgian legal system for two reasons.
First, shifting the burden of proof to the infringer does not apply to all infringements of competition law – it is only limited to cartel infringements. Consequently, the presumption is not applicable to, for example, private damages claims in abuse of dominance cases. The Explanatory Memorandum to the legislative proposal states that this is warranted because cartel infringements are more secretive, heightening the information asymmetry between parties and making it more difficult to show damages in court.
Second, despite the wording of the Directive and the Act, the injured party will still have to quantify the harm suffered as the presumption applies only to the existence and not the amount of the damage. However, the court can now request the assistance of the BCA in determining the amount of the damage.
As accepted by the European Court of Justice in Courage and Crehan and Manfredi, the full effectiveness of Article 101 TFEU would be put at risk if it were not open for any individual to claim damages for loss caused to him by a contract or by conduct liable to restrict or distort competition. The Directive adheres to this logic, obliging Member States to ensure that anyone who has suffered harm by an infringement of competition law is able to claim full compensation for that harm.
Closely linked to the notion of full compensation is the concept of passing-on. This concept entails two principles.
First, that a seller in an action for damages can invoke as a defence that the direct purchaser passed on the overcharge resulting from competition law either partially or entirely to his downstream customers. The seller bears the burden of proof.
Second, that indirect purchasers have standing in court to file suit against the original seller.
In Belgium, claimants have already invoked the passing on defence prior to the entry into force of the Act. In a 2011 judgment of the Brussels Court of Appeal, NMBS/SNCB, Belgium's national railway incumbent, claimed damages alleging that Electrabel, Belgium's incumbent electricity provider, charged NMBS/SNCB for the value of the emission allowances it had obtained at no cost. In this case, Electrabel argued that NMBS/SNCB could have passed on the overcharge to its customers, but this point was not taken up further in the judgment.
Now, the Act cements the passing on defence by virtue of the new Articles XVII.83 and following. It states that the indirect purchaser has the burden of proving that the overcharge was passed on. Interestingly, when filing suit against the direct purchaser, the indirect purchaser can rely on the seller's proof of the overcharge. The indirect purchaser only needs to prove an infringement of competition law by the defendant, that this infringement led to an overcharge and that the indirect purchaser acquired goods that were the object of the infringement. If this is proven, the indirect purchaser is deemed to have proven that overcharges were passed on to him.
Neither Article 34 of the Explanatory Memorandum, nor other sources specifically state that this presumption is rebuttable, but there are reasons to believe it is.
First, recital 41 of the Directive does mention that the presumption is rebuttable, which suggests the omission is merely a hint of forgetfulness on behalf of the Belgian legislature.
Second, if an indirect purchaser had the right to invoke the presumption of passing on, without the defendant being able to rebut that presumption by pointing to an earlier judgment between the defendant and the direct purchaser, stating there is no passing on, this would run counter to the principle of res iudicata.
With relation to disclosure of documents, the Act makes use of the black and grey lists to specify which documents in the competition authority's file can be disclosed in court proceedings. The black list comprises those documents that can never be used in court proceedings and includes leniency statements (excluding supporting documents) and settlement submissions, because those documents contain recognition of the infringement. Prior to entry into force of the Act, national courts were tasked with a difficult weighing exercise to determine whether leniency statements were admissible (see cases Pfleiderer and Donau Chemie).
Information specifically prepared for a procedure by a competition authority, information drawn up by an authority and sent to the parties in the course of its proceedings or withdrawn settlement submissions can only be disclosed after the authority has closed its procedure, by adopting a decision or otherwise. These documents make up the grey list. Prior to the entry into of the Act, private damage claims were governed by Article 877 of the Judiciary Code, which was stricter in two ways.
First, Article 2(13) of the Directive speaks about "evidence", which includes "documents and all other objects containing information, irrespective of the medium on which the information is stored", while Article 877 of the Judiciary Code applies to "documents" in a narrower sense.
Second, the claimant requesting disclosure of documents had to identify the documents as precisely and narrowly as possible. The new Act requires the claimant to identify the relevant categories of evidence as precisely and narrowly as possible. This means that a claimant can now ask for all the records of meetings within a certain timeframe, whereas before, it had to identify every single record it was interested in (see Article 20 of the Explanatory Memorandum).
In case of breach of these rules or non-compliance with a disclosure order, a fine of €1.000 to €10.000.000 can be imposed on the parties themselves, third parties and even on legal representatives. It is currently unclear if the legal representatives – read: lawyers – need to commit the disclosure infringement themselves, whether they need to instigate such an unlawful non-disclosure or if the lawyers can be held accountable for the party they represent. In any case, if a judge could not get access to certain documents in those cases that warrant a fine, he can presume the issue to be proven or dismiss the defences.
Article 37 of the Act introduces joint and several liability for competition law infringements. This entails that each of the co-infringers are bound to compensate the harm done in full, and that the injured party has the right to require full compensation from any of them.
Though the concept of joint and several liability is not new in the Belgian legal order, there are two exceptions to this principle that are of interest. First, an immunity recipient is only jointly and severally liable for its own direct and indirect purchasers and to other injured parties where full compensation cannot be obtained from the other undertakings that were involved. The reason behind this exception is that immunity recipients are often the first target of damage claimants. Second, as stated in Article 11 of the Directive, small and medium enterprises ("SMEs") that committed competition law infringements are liable only for their own direct and indirect purchasers if their market share is below 5% and if the application of the normal rules of joint and several liability would jeopardise the SME's economic viability. Without any obligations deriving from the Directive, the Parliament has chosen to limit the benefit for SMEs by also imposing joint and several liability to other injured parties if no full compensation can be obtained from the other undertakings that have infringed competition law.
For both immunity recipients and SMEs, the Act states that for the harm caused to injured parties other than the direct or indirect purchasers or providers of the infringers, the amount of any contribution to other infringers shall be determined in the light of their relative responsibility for that harm.
The Act introduces several rules to further encourage consensual settlements as they generally avoid costly court proceedings and reduce the uncertainty faced by both infringers and injured parties.
For example, the Act provides that the claim of a party involved in a settlement is reduced by the settling co-infringer's share of the harm that the infringement inflicted upon the injured party. Any remaining claim is only recoverable against non-settling co-infringers.
For a period of up to two years, a judge may suspend proceedings where the parties are involved in a consensual settlement. Yet again, the Parliament opted to transpose the Directive into Belgian law without looking at existing procedural law. Indeed, according to Article 747 of the Judicial Code, parties can agree to deviate from procedural rules by mutual agreement, which means that a judge has no role in any case and the suspension can be longer than two years.
Another interesting addition introduced by the Act can be found in Article XVII.70, which states that the BCA can take compensation as a result of a consensual settlement into account as a mitigating circumstance when calculating the fine in the infringement decision. This way, the injured party has the possibility of obtaining compensation more quickly, and the infringer has the possibility of obtaining a fine reduction. Interestingly, Article XVII.70 states that this can only be done "before it [the BCA] takes a decision to impose a fine". The question then arises if this means that the BCA could split up its decisions in two parts: an initial decision where it establishes the existence of the infringement, in order to facilitate the settlement, and a final decision where it calculates and imposes the fines. Since the Explanatory Memorandum is silent with regard to this issue, it remains to be seen whether the BCA will split up its decisions in order to encourage settlements.
The Act provides for limitation periods equal to those under Article 2262bis, §1 of the Belgian Civil Code, albeit with slightly different starting dates. The limitation period is five years after the infringement of competition law has ceased and the day after the claimant becomes, or should become, aware of both the anticompetitive behaviour, the fact that the infringement caused harm to it and the identity of the infringer. Often, this means the limitation period starts running after the BCA issues its press release of the final decision. Moreover, an action will be time barred twenty years following the day of the end of the infringement, regardless of whether the claimant is aware of the infringement and the identity of the infringer.
The Act also introduces an interruption of the limitation period if the BCA takes action for the purpose of the investigation or its proceedings in respect of an infringement of competition law to which the action for damages relates.
The Directive states that substantive provisions do not apply retroactively. However, the procedural provisions apply retroactively to a court seized after 26 December 2014. Regrettably, neither the Directive nor the Act define what constitutes a substantive provision. Moreover, it is unclear if the substantive provisions apply only to infringements commencing after the entry into force of the Act or to actions brought after the date of entry into force.
As was to be expected, the transposition of the Damages Directive into Belgian law has resulted in a rather tardy implementation of the Directive – it was the 22nd Member State to transpose the Directive. As a result of the Act, Belgian courts will have an easier time relying on decisions by courts in other Member States, which would increase legal certainty. The Act will improve the possibility of consumers and other parties who suffered damages from an infringement of competition law to obtain full compensation by lowering the burden of proof and establishing clear rules on disclosure and limitation periods. The possibility for consumer groups to file class action law suits since 2014 will further facilitate full compensation. However, due to minor issues and uncertainties and the general lack of ambition in the Act, it is unlikely that Belgium will become a popular forum for damages claims – plenty of its neighbouring countries will likely continue to fulfil that role. Nevertheless, while there were relatively few actions for damages in Belgium in the past, an increase is expected, much to the benefit of consumers.


About five years ago, American Electric Power (AEP) made a surprising discovery: Its investors were seeking insight on non- financial business matters beyond what was included in the annual financial report. In response, the company integrated its financial and sustainability reporting, producing a single annual report that presents a view of how the company creates financial and non- financial value now and how that will evolve in the future. The company has now produced four such reports.
Is your company prepared for a similar change—both to meet investor and other stakeholder needs and reap the benefits of being a more cohesive organization?


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By Christine Kearney	| February 18, 2010
British actors Hugh Dancy and Ben Whishaw have won praise for their turns playing troubled gay lovers in a New York production of a play that jumps back and forth from repressed 1950s London to 2008, reports MiNDFOOD.
British actors Hugh Dancy and Ben Whishaw have won praise for their turns playing troubled gay lovers in a New York production of a play that jumps back and forth from repressed 1950s London to 2008.
Hugh Dancy and Ben Whishaw portray two couples in the different eras who anguish over emotional isolation and gay identity in The Pride, which opened off-Broadway in New York on February 16 after the drama received an acclaimed debut in London in 2008 with different actors.
Dancy, 34, who is married to American actress Claire Danes and starred in the 2009 film Confessions of a Shopaholic, and Whishaw, 29, who played poet John Keats in the recent Jane Campion film Bright Star, both received positive feedback from US critics for their performances.
"The evening benefits immeasurably from the performances of its British leading men, Hugh Dancy and Ben Whishaw," said the Hollywood Reporter.
Showbiz newspaper Variety said Dancy's "ability to convey the longing beneath his harsh behavior is especially moving," while describing Whishaw's debut on the New York stage as "tremendous" and adding his film work "barely hints at the actor's riveting stage presence."
New York's Daily News said "Dancy is particularly good as the controlled 1950s Philip, who can't acknowledge his same-sex longings" and Whishaw was "a wonder to watch."
The New York Times was less enthusiastic, although mostly reserving polite criticism for the writing by the play's author, Alexi Kaye Campbell, than the performances.
"Mr. Dancy, who was excellent in the Broadway revival of Journey's End has two thankless roles," the review said, while Whishaw "exudes a compelling, contained nervous energy, but he suffers from his characters having to explain who and what they are."
Actor-turned playwright Campbell won several new writing awards in London last season for the drama that debuted at the Royal Court Theater.
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You Can't Karaoke Bon Jovi or Adele Anymore, So Karaoke Is Pretty Much Done.
You Can't Karaoke Bon Jovi or Adele Anymore, So Karaoke Is Pretty Much Done.
Going the way of forgotten industries like video rental, print journalism, and coming up with third things, is a beloved friend to whom we hoped we'd never have to say goodbye: karaoke. After eons of providing an acceptable next stop for three-sheets-to-the-wind work friends dreading a return home to their significant others after a happy hour that lasted just a few dozen rounds longer than expected, the time-honored staple of intoxicated joy is suffering a significant blow in the form of the prohibition of music by some of its most important contributors. As reported by Flavorwire, impassioned songsmiths will no longer be able to revel in the the whiskey-addled wonders of Bon Jovi, Adele, or Dave Grohl, as the artists have decided not to license permission to use their music for karaoke sessions.
Which, effectively, cuts our song selection in half. No more full room explosions into "Livin' on a Prayer." No more post-breakup beltings of "Someone Like You." No more acerbic renditions of "You Give Love a Bad Name," or "It's My Life." Oh, and Dave Grohl… that's also a bummer. Anyway, what does this new gutting robbery leave us with?
Well, as history proves, the only remaining songs that anyone ever karaokes are Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" or the song from Rent where Idina Menzel and the other lady yell at each other for a while. But man cannot live on midnight trains and Broadway love squabbles alone! We'll need replacements for Adele's empowering ballad and the raspy stylings of a long-haired New Jerseyan. As such, we turn to the leading authority on finding artists passably similar to the artists we actually want to listen to: Pandora.
According to the site, if we're gearing up to churn out some Adele on a crowded two-for-Tuesday night, we can settle on Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Christina Perri, or Pink. Standing in for Bon Jovi, Pandora suggests Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Bryan Adams, and, of course, Journey. So there we go! Not totally at a loss! We can still delay our inebriated unions with spouses and fiancés on those nights that got away from us and could only be appropriately capped off with the sort of slurred Tazmanian Devil roar that passes for singing in our beloved karaoke community. Perhaps this isn't the end to our favorite pastime after all! Perhaps in fact, we will survive.
Oh, there's another good one!


What is a typical York Suburban Senior High School student like? Describe the type of person who should attend York Suburban Senior High School.
A typical student at York Suburban makes eye contact with others as they pass by in the hallway. He/she does not shy away from others or miss out on fun opportunities. Students at YS are unified together and support our fellow peers in any way we can, whether it is cheering for the football team, even though they are losing, or quietly watching those recite poetry. People who are willing to support others, though they may not be a best friend, would fit in perfectly at York Suburban.
York Suburban Senior High School: Describe the type of student who should not attend York Suburban Senior High School and explain why.
York Suburban Senior High School: Describe the type of student who should attend York Suburban Senior High School. Why?
York Suburban Senior High School: Would you recommend attending York Suburban Senior High School if you had the choice? Why or why not?
York Suburban Senior High School: What is a typical York Suburban Senior High School student like? Describe the type of person who would be happiest at York Suburban Senior High School.
York Suburban Senior High School: Which 3 extracurricular activities at York Suburban Senior High School are most popular? Which extracurriculars would you recommend?


Marvel's Runaways is the kind of show you'd expect to be on FreeForm thanks to this eclectic group of angsty teens who are coming of age and discovering their immense powers.
And so we come upon the day not only Nancy but Mr. Kinnear were murdered. But does Grace tell us the whole story?
Though certain plot elements require more forgiveness than you may be able to muster, Koe no Katachi (A Silent Voice) may end up being considered this year's Your Name.
I know I have been hemming and hawing about this or that all season, but Ozark's season finale is probably the best I've seen in a long time.
I rented No Way To Live on Amazon thinking I was going to get some complicated 1950s interracial romance. But, let me tell you, don't be fooled by the advertisement. We get something much more interesting.
If you are expecting a touching love story or harrowing tale, prepare to be as disappointed as I was.


Snails Cauderan Escargots a La Cauderan recipe and other easy bread recipes updated by our cooking food network top chefs. Fill Free to download and share with your friends and family.
Preparation time 1 hour. Cooking time 1 hour. Melt the lard in a saute pan and brown the ham and chopped shallots add a small amount of breadcrumbs soaked in the wine. Moisten with stock and season with salt and pepper. Add the bouquet garni and cook for 20 minutes. Add the starved and well washed snails. Cook over a low heat for 40 minutes, turning often. Red wines: Bordeau from the Cotes de bourg or Blaye, Blayais or Premieres Cotes de Blaye. From Larousse Traditional French Cooking.


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BMW: Sleepwalking
In this commercial
A really clever concept
Dreamy cars are never a hard sell, but in today's crowded automotive industry, the hard part is standing out. Here, we review the "Sleepwalking" TV commercial by BMW. The advert was created by the advertising agency Paranoiia.
We'll give this ad a score out of 10 for memorability, effectiveness, style, heart, and execution. Were you blown away by this BMW concept? Check out our thoughts below and see if you agree with our scores.
The concept revolves around the idea that everyone in the family appreciates a good car, so we should all aim to drive one. It's a striking notion that almost all keen driver will relate to. The visuals depicting the girl move as if she were an adult driving a fast sports car are just as striking as they are beautifully choreographed. The most memorable part of the ad is the close-up shots of the child shifting gears and enjoying the cool breeze within her imaginary automotive experience. This is a joy that even people who don't drive will be sure to appreciate. Very catchy, extremely relatable to a wide audience, and very easy to remember.
The pure goal here for BMW is to reinforce the brand as the ideal car for all young families to aspire to. Everyone recognizes the fact that children play "adult", and this concept makes clever use of that theme. It will make viewers, especially those of adult age, long for a car of dignity, luxury, and power. Does the ad suggest only a BMW will provide this "dream experience"? No, we don't feel it does. This concept could be applied to almost any other luxury car brand in the market. There's no part of this concept that tells the viewer they can only feel this way if they have a particular car. A huge opportunity has been missed to show some of the unique pleasures that only the latest BMW designs can offer.
It's a stunning clip to look at and beautifully shot, but the product doesn't feature enough in the content. The ad doesn't includes a single clear shot showing a real car or any special BMW design features. The exact same ad could be presented with a different logo and steering wheel popping up at the end, and it would work for a completely different brand. The idea here is clearly to condition BMW's market positioning as "the ultimate brand" to dream about, so the producers are far less concerned with pinpointing any particular model. Still, you always feel a car advert requires at least one incredible shot of real bodywork as a key USP…
A balance of both humor and heart mix to draw viewers in from the start. Parents will imagine their own children "sleep-driving", and single adults will remember the dreams they experienced growing up of driving the perfect car. Great connectivity and appeal to a range of key target demographics.
Execution – 8 / 10
A really clever concept that has been executed on a sizable budget. Strong videography makes the scenes cool and attractive. Great audio production ensures the clip oozes quality with a distinctly "dreamy" feel. The only thing that is missing is an actual vehicle.
The only thing that is missing is an actual vehicle.
Execution8.0
Acura ad 2023 – A Thrill Ride Across Multiverse
Ford ad 2023 – Go Break It
Toyota Christmas ads 2022
2022 BMW Christmas ad
A night-time museum visit with Mercedes-Benz and a moose
Renault advert 2022
Volvo Trucks – A Love Story advert (full version)
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Escape to New York
On September 16, 2015 By IoIn Rethinking Old Ideas
I went up to New York this weekend to enjoy A Day of Conjure and Cunning Craft. It's part of a concerted effort to de-hermit a little (I'm not great at it; when it comes to socializing, I'm cultivating dumb but dogged). Since I was already up there, I did a little out and about the city. There is a fair amount I want to talk about with that, but for this post I'll just talk a little about the conference itself.
Steven Grasso opened with a charmingly self-deprecating account of his personal work with a specific graveyard, sharing some of his own early necromantic missteps. His use of the terms of vodou (loa, ghede, and baron) made me a little uncomfortable since he seems to lack initiation or intimate experience with those ritual worlds, but it wasn't too hard to see past that, to the concrete dialogues with his British dead that those terms helped him to pursue.
The concrete relationship with a specific place, with specific dead. It's hard not to admire that.
Jesse Hathaway's talk shared some of the DNA of his VG talk (though without the practical hands in the graveyard dirt accompaniment; not that this was the sort of setting for that). He proceeded from anecdote to anecdote, developing a picture of the spirits of Quimbanda through those anecdotes and then proceeding to apply that to the topic at hand. In this case, that topic was the grimoires and their relationship to the Quimbanda, from the perspective of the spirits of Quimbanda.
The anecdotal style worked well. Using the first-person voice of the spirits and his encounters with them, neither what the spirits say nor what he says are to be taken as the final word on the matter. Instead, between the two, the listener is invited to reflect for themselves on the matter. When he reports an Exu saying that the spirits have Quimbanda have masqueraded as grimoire spirits, that some of the grimoire spirits aren't even really around anymore, he's providing us insight into Quimbanda's self-understanding, not making a dogmatic cosmological assertion against the claims of grimoirists.
There were useful tangents, too, ranging from the centrality of Justina in Mexican Cyprian work to the notion within Quimbanda that the remembered dead eat the unremembered dead (a fiercer way of looking at what W. B. Yeats described). Of course, by necessity, eventually everything passes into the unremembered.
He mixed in liberal amounts of history, but his anecdotal style gave some of it a pat quality that isn't to my taste. His account of the role of Ife in the slave trade and the trajectory of Kimpa Vita's movement, for example, seemed to be based more on how members of contemporary diaspora practitioners have used history to form myths to understand themselves (cf. Andrew Apter on West African strategies of deep meaning). That isn't exactly a bad thing (cf. Nietzsche's uses and abuses of history for life), but it's a bit of a tangle and it flattens out the complexities of the historical African situation.
Al Cummins' talk was the surprise gem for me. I didn't know much about him before the talk and had very little idea of what to expect. His talk was a nicely turned bit of textual scholarship with an eye toward the interests of practicing occultists. Focusing on a grimoire that predates the Book of Oberon, he unpacked a method of doing magic that developed from a relationship with Azazel/Asasel/Azazil, the four cardinal kings, and a series of alliances with the mighty dead of the Western esoteric tradition.
(It looks like he may be doing some version of the talk for the Esoteric Book Conference this year. Worth your time if you get a chance.)
Troy Chambers spent a good bit of time expressing his ambivalence around talking about obeah, his concern that even cautious sharing would lead to shallow copycatting without an appreciation for the invisible, lineage-driven forces that animate the power of obeah. He played the devil, talking about the dangerous and difficult aspects, squirming before his summoners on the seal of the stage.
As devils are wont to do, he played the accuser, too, lambasting those who take to the African diaspora as a model from which they can extract this bit or that without undergoing the intimacy of initiation. From my perch toward the back, I could see a few people shift uncomfortably in their seats.
To talk about the theater of his presentation is not meant to deny his sincerity, but the dynamics of the stage and audience and the devil and the summoner? It sets me to wondering a bit about the dynamic at work in the grimoire tradition between the summoner and the devil.
There is something else, too. The particular flexibility of obeah, it's capacity to absorb and deploy different outer forms for its work, reminded me more than a little of the accounts of honest-to-goodness conjure work in the African American tradition. The particular forms of isolation Troy described as proper to the obeahman also reminded me of the isolation proper to the root doctor. Troy's lineage traces its line to the Ashanti regions, the very same regions from which many Africans were captured and sent into the slave trade destined for South Carolina and Georgia lowlands.
It makes me wonder if the latest effort to give the lowland region's religiosity a Kongo foundation may just be the latest in a long line of misreadings, and if part of its roots may lie more properly with the Ashanti and their hinterlands, rather than with the Kongolese. Speculative, no doubt, but there is a long history of misreading African American culture by failing to address the richness of its African roots (I know, I've toyed with some of this before from a slightly different angle).
Jake Stratton-Kent…what to say there. One of the reasons I came to the conference was to see him in person. I have been unable to get into any of the excitement around his work and I was curious to see if I would respond differently to the presentation of his ideas in person.
His way of talking and thinking about this stuff just doesn't do it for me. Some of that has to do with the (pagan) reconstructionist language that animated some of his commentary. The grimoire magicians' others seem to straightforwardly be the conjurers of the Jewish and Muslim world (who may not be Jewish and Muslim). He even quoted texts that explicitly identify spirits like Frimost with the 'Lebanese.' These aren't the cunning folk of England at all, except insofar as some of them have direct ties to these ancient traditions.
Which makes the grimoire tradition less of the beginning of the end of the Western esoteric tradition, but more the scrapings from the much richer, well-developed, and deeply old world of the Middle East and its outposts throughout the early modern Mediterranean (perhaps the same that form the roots of some of the contemporary diaspora practices Jake suggests looking to for role models). It makes the western esoteric tradition the backwater that is only recently begun to find its way back into the deeper currents.
Reading things like the Brethren of Purity, its easy enough to see that tradition, with its practices of initiation and sacrifice, more in-line with the living traditions of the African diaspora in all its multitude, a tradition that lives by hand-to-hand, mouth-to-ear transmission. The problem, of course, is that those aren't the sort of things you can reconstruct. If the line breaks, the line breaks.
(I do think the relationships with spirits can be remade anew, but that doesn't requires less archival work and more concerted spiritual work to reforge alliances both with spirits and other people, regardless of how it fits against an archive. Hand-to-hand, mouth-to-ear. In the European world, Masonry and blasphemous transmutation seem to be the two easiest vectors for doing that.)
This doesn't even touch on some of the after-hours nuggets turned up, but this is getting a little long. Another time, perhaps.
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[NB] "I do solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
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simon tomasi
Thanks for a great write up and your thoughts on the talks.
I heard Al Cummins at Treadwells bookshop recently give that same talk, very informative and enjoyable.
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WB Debuts New Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald Poster Ahead Of Tomorrow's Trailer
By Matt Joseph @wgtc_site 2 years ago
Those who head out to theaters to catch The Crimes of Grindelwald in November will be in for a "darker, more rigorous" movie than its predecessor. That's according to Eddie Redmayne, at least, lead star of Warner's Fantastic Beasts prequel saga (for now) who issued a warning to Potterheads while speaking with Entertainment Weekly the other day.
Indeed, the actor's comments arrive in good time; Warner Bros. is all set to light up San Diego Comic-Con tomorrow, July 21st, with Shazam!, Aquaman and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald. All three movies will likely receive brand new trailers, along with plenty of intel relating to their respective stories – stories that will no doubt capture the imagination of fans long into 2019.
Ahead of that, though, the studio's now debuted this cool new art deco themed poster that you'll see in the gallery below. With the main characters in the center and the supporting cast surrounding them on the four corners, it's very well designed and certainly fits in with the film's atheistic and tone. Especially since we know the sequel takes place, at least partly, in France, which is where art deco came from.
WB Debuts New Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald Poster Ahead Of Tomorrow's Trailer
Set to be the second installment in a five-movie saga, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will look to cast a spell over Potterheads on November 16th, when Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), her sister Queenie (Alison Sudol), and the fiercely loyal Muggle known as Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) will round out the colorful cast of characters, which is headed up by Redmayne's Newt Scamander, Jude Law's Albus Dumbledore and Johnny Depp's Gellert Grindelwald.
And after that? Another three prequels set in the wider Potter universe, with each movie expected to take place in a totally different city. We've already paid a visit to 1920s New York, while The Crimes of Grindelwald is about to whisk viewers off on a Parisian adventure, so there's no telling what Warner Bros. and director David Yates have in store for their "global story."
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Ghettotech has many different names, such as "getotek," "booty bass," "Detroit bass" and a few others. This genre of music will usually mix styles of Chicago's electronic music with other styles, such as hip-hop, electro, techno, and certain variants of house music, like Chicago's ghetto house.
This type of music is much faster than most other genres of techno music, or even electronic music in general. Having a tempo going up to around 170 beats per minute, this genre is one of the fastest ones around (without being a genre that's a genre due to its speed, like speedcore). The tempo increased as this genre developed to influence the dancers to move faster. It was originally around 150 and 160 beats per minute.
Lyrically, since it's similar to Miami bass, it will sometimes feature the harsher side of some of the Miami streets, explicit language, violence, the same things you will find in most forms of rap and hip-hop. This is the main theme of getotek, and is used quite frequently in the music.
The music drives at getting the people into a fast paced dance, known as a "jit," a type of dance that focuses on not only moving the feet in a fast style, but using the arms and body as well. Chicago has a dance style that is similar to this, called the "juke," a style of dance that focuses more on fast paced footwork.
During the middle of the 1990s is when this genre of music came into being. It comes from the same place as techno does, from Detroit, Chicago. It was born as a style of DJing. A fast paced, eclectic mix of other styles and genres of DJing, like Miami Bass (a hip-hop style of music, usually with sexually explicit lyrics) and Detroit techno (the first form of techno music to be known).
During the year of 2011, this genre of music had a big break and became popular in the techno and tech house scenes, being related to them. Featuring party-like and hip-hop style vocals behind the trademark sound of getotek.
This genre of music plays a strong role in the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, an event held for all types of Chicago's electronic types of music. Artists from many different styles can come to showcase their work and perform live on stage. This event had many name changes, eventually just being called "Movement" in 2007. The Detroit Electronic Music Festival, when it was first introduced in 2000, had almost 1.5 million attendants, although it usually has 50-100 thousand attendants annually.
General Techno - Back to the overview of techno.
Detroit Techno -Widly regarded as the birth of techno, where it originated.
Free Tekno - Played at free parties in Europe, this techno is fast, free and loud.
Ghettotech - Hailing from the same place as Detroit Techno, having hip-hop influences.
Minimal Techno - Using only the bare minimum to make the music. Back to the basics!
Schranz - Taking elements from hard techno, you can expect it to be, well, hard!


Eyeko was established in 1999 re-inventing mascara with it's no waste squeezable tubes. The brands focus is on eyes only, and with Alexa Chung as their creative consultant since 2013 the brand has been going from strength to strength collecting a loyal fan base.
Eyeko are best known for their amazing mascaras and stay put all day liquid liners.
I'm instantly in love with the packaging particulary the squeezey tube. The wand is indeed very FAT and larger than what I'm used to.
It sweeps on my lashes with ease with no clumsiness or gloop just beautiful fibre enhanced keratin conditioned long lashes! I wouldn't say this is the most amazing mascara I've ever tried but it does deposit dense carbon black colour which stay's put all day without rubbing off around my eyes. The effect on me is long and spidery lash as apposed to thickness or fullness. I like it but personally think it's more of a daytime wear mascara for me.
The image on the right is before and the image on the left is after 2 coats on the top and 1 coat on the bottom.
Have you tried any of the products of the this iconic brand?


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Donald Trump is Clearly the Weakest GOP General Election Candidate
By Leon H. Wolf | Dec 07, 2015 3:00 PM ET
The GOP primary race has essentially come down to four candidates: Donald Trump, Ben Carson, [mc_name name='Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)' chamber='senate' mcid='C001098′ ], and Marco Rubio. Of these four, it is increasingly clear that, all his bluster to the contrary, Donald Trump would make the weakest potential foe for Hillary Clinton in the general election.
The recent polling on this matter, of course, isn't even close. Trump, like the rest of the GOP field, was drastically helped by a recent FoxNews poll that probably ought to be completely discounted by now, but even still his numbers relative to Hillary's are not especially good.
Cruz has also struggled relative to Clinton; however, his poll numbers have consistently been moving in the right direction on that front:
Carson does better than either, but his numbers have been moving in the wrong direction:
Rubio, meanwhile, as might be expected, performs the best against Clinton, and like Cruz, has been moving consistently in the right direction relative to Clinton:
Now obviously, when measuring a Republican candidate's expected strength against a Democrat, simply looking at head-to-head poll numbers does not really tell the full story.
We can probably discount the Carson polling data entirely, because his name recognition remains much lower than Clinton's, and moreover, even though he briefly led the GOP field, he has never garnered one tenth of the attention that Donald Trump has, either in terms of scrutiny of his positions or in terms of his ability to impact the electorate in the age of television and the Internet. Even to many likely GOP primary voters, Carson remains a tabula rasa – he will not be able to continue as one if he is nominated and we would probably expect to see drastic changes as people got acquainted with him.
When it comes to Rubio and Cruz, we can likewise take their head to head numbers versus Clinton with a grain of salt. More than Carson, they are known quantities to people who follow politics obsessively, like the people who read this blog for instance. But still in the minds of general election voters, their perceptions of Cruz and Rubio are still a bit hazy at best. There's a lot of room for either to either vastly improve relative to Hillary or to flounder epically. I do think that I agree with what the polls are saying right now, which is that Rubio presents a noticeably better chance of winning the general than Cruz would.
However, with respect to Trump, there's good reason to believe that the polling, even at this early stage, reflects his true standing relative to Hillary. Trump has been overexposed during the course of this primary to an extent that no other political candidate in living memory has. Tons of digital ink has been spilled already at the unprecedented amount of free "advertising" Trump has received from the cable and network news during the course of the campaign, which has been largely responsible for his current lead in the GOP field.
As a consequence, most voters' opinions – left, right, and middle – are baked in about Trump. That's essentially why none of the crazy things he says or does – even including mocking a disabled person for their disability – causes him to go up or down in the GOP primary polls. That's good news for Trump in terms of keeping the national lead until the primaries start to thin the field; however, it's bad news for him in terms of succeeding in the general.
Donald Trump does not have a plausible (in terms of being plausible to anyone but his current supporters) explanation for how he will raise his standing relative to Hillary in the general. Everyone in America already knows him and has had significant exposure to him. The same can be said of Hillary. There's no convincing reason why the dynamic will change when it's only the two of them in this race.
That is not to say that Trump would have no chance of winning; obviously, events on the ground or a major mistake by Hillary could catapult literally any Republican into the lead. But it's becoming increasingly obvious that of the current Republican candidates, Trump's chances against Hillary are clearly the weakest.


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Q: Rewrite Api - Invalid Api Path i'm new with magento, but i need help with API rewrite.
I've added some methods up to Catalog_Product_Api_V2 which are working well.
I can also call them with SOAPv2.
Now i want to add product attributes product "catalogProductAttributeCreate(...)" but now  i'm getting this error message:
Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [3] Invalid api path. ...
Here's my SOAPv2 Call:
$data = array(
    "attribute_code" => "test_attribute",
    "frontend_input" => "text",
    "scope" => "1",
    "default_value" => "1",
    "is_unique" => 0,
    "is_required" => 0,
    "apply_to" => array("simple"),
    "is_configurable" => 0,
    "is_searchable" => 0,
    "is_visible_in_advanced_search" => 0,
    "is_comparable" => 0,
    "is_used_for_promo_rules" => 0,
    "is_visible_on_front" => 0,
    "used_in_product_listing" => 0,
    "additional_fields" => array(),
    "frontend_label" => array(array("store_id" => "0", "label" => "some label"))
   );

   $result10 = $client->catalogProductAttributeCreate($session, $data);

Here's my config.xml
<catalog>
    <rewrite>
        <product_api_v2>MyCompany_MyModule_Model_Catalog_Product_Api_V2</product_api_v2>
    </rewrite>
</catalog>

Do I overwrite all the standard methods like "create, update, info, etc."?
Please help me... :)

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Q: Removing the [ ] and commas in brackets in a list I am trying to remove the commas and box brackets [ ] in the list. The program asks the user to enter in the number of values they want randomized within a range of their choosing then displays the results. Currently the program prints out as:
How many #s do you want? 10
Enter the lowest number to generate 1
Enter the highest number to generate 10
[1, 8, 6, 3, 6, 10, 4, 2, 10, 9]

but I need it to display as:
How many #s do you want? 10
Enter the lowest number to generate 1
Enter the highest number to generate 10
1 8 6 3 6 10 4 2 10 9

Maybe I'm going about it incorrectly? Thoughts?
import random

def main():
  numbers = int(input("How many #s do you want? "))
  numbers_2 = int(input("Enter the lowest number to generate "))
  numbers_3 = int(input("Enter the highest number to generate "))

  pop = make_list(numbers, numbers_2, numbers_3)
  print(pop)
  num_string = ""

  for i in sorted(pop):
    num_string += str(i) + " "
  return num_string

def make_list(numbers, numbers_2, numbers_3):
  num_list = []
  for numbers in range(numbers):
    num_list.append(random.randint(numbers_2, numbers_3))
  return num_list

main()

A: You can do this with print(*pop).
When given several parameters (e.g., print(1, 2, 3), the print command will print them all out, converted to strings, separated by spaces.
With the *, your array pop is unpacked so that it forms the parameters for the print function.
By setting the sep parameter, you can even change the separator. For example, print(*pop, sep=",") would give 1,8,6,3,6,10,4,2,10,9.

A: You are returning the list, and so it is formatted appropriately in the output. To control the formatting, use print e.g.
print(' '.join(map(str,pop)))


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The Mythology of the Hindus
Авторы: Charles Coleman
churning of the ocean, he disguised himself like one of them and received a portion of it. But the sun and moon having discovered his fraud, Vishnu severed his head and two of his arms from the rest of his monstrous body. That part of the nectareous fluid that he had time to swallow secured his immortality. His trunk and dragon-like tail fell on the mountain of Malaya, where Mini, a Brahman, carefully preserved them, by the name of Ketu or Cetu; and, as if a complete body had been formed from them, like a dismembered polype, he is even said to have adopted Ketu as his own child. The head with two arms fell on the sands of Barbara, where Prit'henas was walking with Sinhica, by some called his wife. They carried the daitya to their palace and adopted him as their son, whence he acquired the name of Prit'hinasi. This extravagant fable is, no doubt, astronomical.
Ketu often appears as a comet, a whirlwind, a meteor, a water-spout, and a column of sand. Fifty-six comets are said in the Chintamani to have sprung from Ketu; and Rahu had a numerous progeny of grahas and crocodiles.
In this battle Ganesha too proved a degenerate son of his invincible and amazonian mother; for, on being wounded in the mouth, he cried out lustily on the field, "Oh, my mother! Oh, my father! Oh, my brother! Oh, my dear Rat!"
Kartikeya is worshipped in the month Kartika; on which occasion numerous images are made (Mr. Ward says not less than five thousand in Calcutta alone, some of which are twenty-five feet high), which, after the ceremony of worship, are cast, like those of Durga and Kali, into the river. Images of him are also Stt up and worshipped, as I have before mentioned, with those of Durga, on the festivals of that goddess. The model by Chit Roy, from which fig. 3, in the frontispiece, is taken, is a correct specimen of the images of Kartikeya on these occasions. Vows and offerings are made to him by Hindu females to obtain children, especially sons.
Kartikeya has many names; among which are Skanda, Subrahmani, Tarikajit, or he who conquered Tarika, &C. &c.
Fig. 1, plate 17, from a drawing, represents him on a peacock, the tail of which forms a back to his lotus throne. In one hand he holds a spear, in another a trident, in a third an arrow, and the fourth is held in the act of solicitation. The peacock is treading upon a serpent holding something red in its mouth.
Fig. 2, in the same plate, from the temple of Rama, represents him similarly mounted and armed, except that his fourth hand holds a bow. In the compartment of the temple the tail of the bird is trailing on the ground, which want of room obliged me to alter in the plate.
Parvati, or Suti—Durga.—Kali.—Chinnu Muktuka.—MahaDevi.—Bhavani—Anna PurnaDevi. Ganesha Junani.—Jugud'hatri.—Krishna Krora.—Kamula Kamini.
PARVATI.
The contradictions which pervade all the parts of the Hindu mythology are so strongly opposed to every thing in the shape of a consistent relation, that the farther we proceed, the more perplexed we become to reconcile every fresh legend with the fables already related. In the account of the creation, I have mentioned that the goddess Bhavani (or nature) divided herself into three females, for the purpose of marrying her three sons, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva; to the last of whom she united herself under the name of Parvati. Other accounts make Parvati the daughter of Brahma, in his earthly form (or avatar) of Daksha, named Suti.
After her marriage with Siva, a dispute arose between that god and Daksha; who not only refused to invite his son-in-law to a feast given in honour of the immortals, but reviled him in terms which roused the indignation of Siva, and pierced the tender and affectionate bosom of Suti, who first resented, and then sank under the contumely; for, on hearing Daksha term him a wandering mendicant, a bearer of skulls, a delighter in cemeteries, a contemner of divine ceremonies and unfit for the society of the gods, she took the part of her husband; and true to the Hindu creed, that when a virgin marries she leaves for ever her father's house, gave Daksha a memorable lecture in return, which would be too long to insert here, and might moreover prove a dangerous specimen of eloquence to some new-married ladies; who, in their zeal, might not always wait for proper occasions to
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In celebration of the holidays, we'd like to share with you our favorite vegan and paleo-friendly chocolate and peppermint truffle recipe. It's festive, easy and indescribably de-lish!
Soak the dates in a bowl of warm water until they soften, about 10 minutes. Drain dates and put in a food processor with almonds (or pecans), coconut oil, salt, peppermint extract, water, and cacao powder. Process for one minute or until the mixture forms into a ball.
Remove the mixture from the food processor and form 15-18 small round truffles with your hands. Sprinkle additional cocoa powder on a flat surface and roll each truffle in the chocolate until well-coated. Place in refrigerator for 15 minutes to set. Remove from the fridge and top each truffle with crushed candy cane pieces. These can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer for several weeks (do not store with the candy cane garnish – sprinkle on top right before serving).
Our Rejuvena staff wishes you peace and joy this holiday season and a new year filled with health, happiness and prosperity.


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Q: How exactly does MongoDB's add unique items into an array via $push and $each operators? I got the hang of using the $push with the $each operator to add items to an existing array.
For example, I update my existing document like this:
Collection.update({userId: currentUser}, {$push: {data: {$each: document}}});

Sorry if the syntax is a little confusing. I'm using this on Meteor.
Anyway, how does MongoDB know they are inserting unique items to the array, in my case, the data array.
My data array is an array of objects, that looks like this:
data = [
{name: "Name",
 score: 24,
 date: "12/3/2014",
 entryCode: "3234SG34"
},
{name: "Name1",
 score: 20,
 date: "12/4/2014",
 entryCode: "3004SG34"
}
];

Basically, the only way from identifying "uniqueness" us the entryCode, since there are multiple objects in the data array that share the same date. From the documentation, the $each operator adds elements that don't exist/that are unique (in the most simple cases). Does the same apply when adding objects to an existing objects array? If not, then how is it possible to update a MongoDB document and only add object entries that are unique?