Three races and three different winners made for a diverse opening day of the Premier Composite Technologies TP52 Southern Cross Cup Regatta on Pittwater, to the north of Sydney.
Pin end starts and insider knowledge of the lifting breeze that creates an elevator ride under Longnose Point split the results and gave Tony Lyall's Cougar II from Tasmania the opening punch in the final round of the four-part series.
David 'Chappo' Chapman, the 25 year-old tactician on Cougar II knows the local anomalies. Each school holiday he visited his grandparents on their boat in Akuna Bay around the corner in the Kur-ring-ai Chase National Park and together they explored the nooks of Pittwater and the Hawkesbury River.
Chapman went on to develop his skills and compete at the upper echelons of youth match racing, including Pittwater's annual Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship. Today he fused his knowledge and experience with the genetically enhanced talents of local Sam Treharne, son of 1983 America's Cup tactician Hugh Treharne.
'Chappo' has brought the Midas touch to Tassie boats recently. He is the strategist on the Farr 40 Voodoo Chile, which is two up in the class' summer series.
"Cougar is a good boat in those breezes," said Lyall of the nor'east sea breeze which started at seven knots and had doubled by race three."The newer boats are much faster, but we can hold them in flat water." On the 20 degree wind shifts he commented, "We get the same on the Derwent River so we were comfortable".
Today Chapman was up against an old foe from his Harken youth match racing days in Seve Jarvin, tactician on Bob Steel's Quest, which is one point behind Cougar II on the pointscore.
"Shogun and Beau Geste having their own battle definitely freed us up," said Jarvin this afternoon at host club, the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club on Newport's foreshore. "All three winners came off the pin end and we knew when the breeze was shifty that we could lift all the way along Longnose Point," Jarvin added.
Karl Kwok's Team Beau Geste (HKG) and Rob Hanna's Shogun V as expected were off fighting their own battle. TBG's helmsman Gavin Brady is a different vintage but equally ruthless as the young guns in the match racing stakes, and with loads more experience.
TGB has installed some heavyweights on board in the shape of Team New Zealand America's Cup sailors James Dagg, Tony Rae and Chris Ward, plus round-the-world winning skipper Mike Sanderson. With John Cutler unavailable they called up Sydney sailor Sam Williams, a regular on Guido Belgiorno-Nettis' Farr 40 Transfusion, as tactician.
All that star power didn't translate into top grades for the TP52 series pointscore leader. "If you had to have your driver's license for that course, we would have failed," laughed Brady, delighted that the earlier generation TP52s won the day. TBG is third on a countback.
Principal Race Officer Stephen Merrington added an amusing touch to his radio communication, relaying the cricket score to the crews during racing. The only sour note was the injury to Frantic crewman Murray Wright who was hit in the head by the boom and taken to hospital as a precautionary measure.
Racing will move offshore tomorrow, three windward/leewards scheduled to start at midday. The Bureau of Meteorology is expecting variable 10 knot winds turning southerly 10 -15 knots in the morning then tending south-southeasterly 15 - 25 knots in the middle of the day.


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A whirlwind of motion flooded the hospital emergency room when the four of them entered. The staff tried to take Danny from Gunner, and he growled like some wild beast. They backed away. Saint said something quietly to him. Gunner's shoulders sagged, and he nodded as Saint backed up and the attending moved in with a gurney.
"Sir, please. You've got to let him go. He's in good hands." A male nurse said, approaching inch by inch. Gunner's gaze lasered in on the nurse. The guy didn't back down. Danny didn't make a sound when Gunner set him down gently. The staff moved at warp speed after that.
"Sir you can't come in here. It's better you stay in the waiting room."
"Try and fucking stop me. Where the boy goes, I go."
Sienna's focus sharpened on the big man holding Danny until she realized the tears streaming down her face. She blinked.
"Sienna, honey let's get you into emergency too."
"What?" She looked up, Saint's fingers wiped her streaked cheeks. He guided her into a wheelchair a nurse parked in front of her. "Oh." She still clutched his hand when they started to roll her away. Sienna struggled to keep hold of him, not wanting him out of her sight after what she'd let happen. She tried to turn in the chair. A hiss of pain made Saint's eyes narrow. She gripped him harder, but he slowly slipped away, the release causing a chill to mark her skin. She'd told him she loved him but would he still want her after all she'd heaped on Saint?
"I'll be here. I'll come back to you as soon as the doctors let me," Saint said.
The nurse nodded at him. "As soon as the doctor says it's okay," the nurse told her. "Not a second before," the older woman scolded.
Sienna reached out to him again and moaned from the pain.
The nurse patted her shoulder to still her. "You'll be done in no time." Sienna glared at the nurse and winced. She wanted to hate the older woman pushing her, but she seemed nice if she looked beyond her bossiness.
"Mmm, mmm, that man is hot. You're one lucky lady. If my Reggie had a face and body like that, I might have overlooked his wandering eyes. And hands. If you know what I mean. With a man like that, it would have been worth it." The nurse kept chattering on and on, and Sienna toned her out thinking about what she could say to Saint to make up for pushing and yelling at him. What if the result of his fall was a cracked skull? She was lucky that all he had was a sore head and some stitches.
Going through the stark double doors further away from Saint felt like a chasm had opened up, like he would forget about her, disappearing like every other good thing she'd tried to hold onto in her life. The last glimpse was of Saint staring at the floor. What did that mean? Was he rethinking being with her? Had she ruined everything?
After being poked and prodded, a few hours passed. Sienna finally drifted off to sleep, her injuries not as severe as she'd thought. X-rays revealed her ribs were bruised but fine. She was battered badly and would heal in time. Sienna knew she'd be fine, at least she thought she would. But more so, she was worried about what Saint was thinking. Even before they'd reached the hospital, he'd been terribly quiet in Gunner's SUV.
The arms of the clock slowed as if sculpted with concrete, and Saint still hadn't made an appearance. Even the nurse came by more than a few times to check on her. The shift even changed. When the nurse stepped up to her IV bag and switched it out with another, things started to blur. She didn't want to fall asleep without seeing Saint.
"Where's Saint," she thought she'd asked. The nurse's lips moved, but all she could hear was a jumble of noise. Her eyelids kept slipping closed. "Saint?" She struggled to stay awake. Everything had to be alright between them, she was frantic to see him. But her limbs fought against her and became heavier. She eventually succumbed to the drugs dripping into her system and sleep washed over her.
Voices woke her with a jolt, unexpected words entering her mind. Her eyelids hung heavy, and she struggled to open them.
"Three of Danny's ribs… I thought…lung…punctured but he got lucky."
Sienna opened her eyes, things still a little fuzzy. Two figures stood by the window in her room. She blinked.
The forms finally cleared and one started to speak again, Gunner, she thought, emotion ripping through his voice. "He…when I found him…God dammit!"
Was he crying?
"When I found him, his pants were around his ankles."
She gasped.
"Sienna, you're awake." It was Saint's words that drew her attention.
She tried not to read into what Gunner had just revealed. Did Marco rape him? She whimpered. "Where's Danny? What did that fucking bastard, Marco, do to Danny?" Her words were small, the pain for what Danny endured too large to make it past her aching throat. And then she remembered the blank stare of her mother when Marco had carted her into that small shack. Sienna didn't know how long her mother had been dead before she had arrived. "Ohh," she groaned.
Saint came to her side and took her hand. The relief she felt from the contact making her sharp breaths ease only a little. Sienna had to focus on something else. She couldn't think about her mother yet. She'd known it was going to be bad. She pinched her eyes closed and tried to shift her thoughts to something else.
Her eyes flicked back up to Gunner's his arm bandaged where he'd gotten shot. He continued speaking. "The doctors said there was no evidence of sexual violation. Thank God. But until I talk to Danny…" His words trailed off, and he took a deep breath. "He was so dirty by the time I got to him," he took another harsh breath, "that I didn't notice the cuts in his abdomen. Christ!" Gunner rubbed his face with rough, jerky movements. "The doctor said he cleaned and stitched the wounds. There were no serious internal injuries. He's bruised more than anything."
"He'll be okay right," Sienna asked.
"Physically? Yeah, mentally, I won't know until he wakes up."
"You haven't talked to him yet?" She said. "What time is it? How long have I been asleep?" Her words tripped over one another, pain sliced through her lungs with each breath, her ribs taking that moment to reintroduce themselves as the medication disappeared.
"Calm down, baby," Saint said. "Danny's asleep. He's going to be fine."
Sienna watched Gunner's eyes move to the floor, and his body shake, with what? Anger? Fear? Guilt? She couldn't know.
Gunner interrupted her thoughts. "I'm going to head out."
"But, what about…"
The man steamrolled over her. "Don't worry about Danny. I'm taking care of him when he gets out of the hospital."
Her eyes widened in surprise. Why would Gunner do that? He didn't seem very child-friendly.
Saint asked what had stuck in her throat. "You are?"
"I know a few people," he grimaced.
"But the woman I spoke to with social services said she'd try to have Danny placed with me," Saint said. Gunner shook his head.
"It's nothing against you, man, but I think I'm better equipped to deal with the boy than you are."
"How so?" Saint asked as he stood up and crossed his arms facing Gunner.
Gunner just smiled, it not reaching his eyes. "Just know that I have his best interests at heart."
"Yeah, now you do," Saint whispered just loud enough, and Gunner grimaced.
Silence trickled on for long seconds, and Gunner finally said, "I'll let you know when Danny's released and where we'll be." And then he turned around and exited the room, his stride sure and quick.
Sienna was so focused on the doorway that she jumped when Saint sat on the edge of the bed.
"How are you feeling, baby?" She couldn't speak. "Sienna? Are you hurting? Do you need me to go get the nurse?" He stood up. She grabbed onto his shirt not caring about the pain, and her forehead fell against his chest, and she let loose her tears. Saint enveloped her with his arms forming a cocoon of warmth, holding her close.
"I'm fine." She breathed him in. The memory of hearing him yell out for her, storming into the small shack, him taking the too tight blindfold off her face. "God, I'm fine. I love you! I love you so much. I'm sorry I said all those nasty things. I didn't mean them. I didn't mean to push you. When Danny told me, you'd fallen…" Her words rolled right over each other and Saint seemed to hold her tighter.
"I know, Sienna. I know you didn't mean what you said or did," he replied. "I love you too." He kissed her temple and then her lips, barely a touch. She wanted more, and she needed more. Her fingers curled in his shirt, pulled him closer and took his lips. He moaned in surprise and gently pulled her back and looked down at her.
"Saint, please kiss me. I need it. I need you." Lifting her head and leaning in again she tried to reach him, but he held her off.
"Sienna, you're hurt. You need to rest." He smiled down at her.
She pouted, trying not to wince when she figured out her lip still really hurt where Marco had hit her. Saint chuckled and gave her a quick peck on the lips. Sienna exhaled and linked her fingers tightly in her lap and tried to lean back on her own but Saint was there to help relax back onto the bed.
"See. You need to heal."
Silence lingered. "What now?" Sienna asked.
"Now, we wait until you're released and make sure Danny's okay with Gunner. I'm still not positive he should go with Gunner." He looked toward the window.
"What's wrong with Gunner? He saved us both by killing Marco."
"I don't know. Gunner's got secrets. I don't like it."
"Well, I think it will be okay," she said and closed her eyes. "If Social Services believes he's the upstanding guy they think he is then we should let them be."
"How can we do that when I know for a fact, he didn't help Danny in that damn house. He let Danny's mother beat the shit out of him. It's not right. I want him with us."
Sienna's eyes snapped open, but she couldn't look at him. Not yet. She focused on her fingers the red skin mottling to a white as she gripped harder and harder. Hope bloomed in her chest making her heart ache. Was what he felt worth more time than just a few weeks they'd spent together? He told her he loved her but did he mean more than the passion they'd shared so far? She wanted to grab on tight to the word 'us' and never let it go. But she was scared to ask him what he meant directly, so she focused on Danny instead. "Danny and I don't get along. How well do you think he would handle me helping take care of him? Especially when you're living above your garage, and I live at my house?"
Saint gently lifted her chin with his fingers and caressed her jaw back and forth, back and forth. When Sienna's eyes met his, she fell into the depths of love there wanting to stay forever.
He shook his head and smiled one side lifting up knowingly. He kissed her and held his lips over hers for too long. When he didn't move away, his next words tickled her when he spoke. "You're worried I don't love you enough." His lips lingered on hers, and his tongue slipped out softly to slide across hers. She moaned, and his smile felt good against her. "Don't. 'Us' means you and me forever, Sienna." Saint's kisses brushed across her jaw as he leaned in closer. She lifted her chin, and then his lips met the soft spot below her ear, and he nipped her there leaving his mark. Then he slowly came back to her lips for another drawn out soft kiss. "Even though our time together has been short, I know you're it for me. I knew it when I carried you to your bed with that migraine. I surely knew it when I didn't know if I'd reach you in time when Marco had taken you. I love you, Sienna."
He wiped her cheeks again and she laughed. "I'm a mess."
"You're a beautiful mess. My beautiful mess." He took her hands. "I don't care how we do it. The 'Us.' Just as long as we're together. You can move into the apartment above the shop." He laughed when she wrinkled her nose. "Or I can move in with you. It doesn't matter as long as I'm with you."
He gave her some much-needed tissues.
"I say, yes."
Saint smiled, and she started to giggle as he crawled onto the small bed with her and he replied, "I can't wait.
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namespace media_router {

namespace {

// Asserts equality between the two objects.
void ExpectEqual(const DialDeviceData& first, const DialDeviceData& second) {
  EXPECT_EQ(first.device_id(), second.device_id());
  EXPECT_EQ(first.label(), second.label());
  EXPECT_EQ(first.device_description_url(), second.device_description_url());
  EXPECT_EQ(first.response_time(), second.response_time());
  EXPECT_EQ(first.max_age(), second.max_age());
  EXPECT_EQ(first.config_id(), second.config_id());
  EXPECT_EQ(first.ip_address(), second.ip_address());
}

bool IsValidUrl(const GURL& url, const net::IPAddress& address) {
  DialDeviceData device_data;
  device_data.set_ip_address(address);
  return device_data.IsValidUrl(url);
}

}  // namespace

TEST(DialDeviceDataTest, TestUpdateFrom) {
  DialDeviceData original;
  original.set_device_id("device_a");
  original.set_label("label_a");
  original.set_device_description_url(GURL("http://127.0.0.1/dd-a.xml"));
  original.set_response_time(base::Time::FromInternalValue(1000));
  original.set_max_age(100);
  original.set_ip_address(net::IPAddress::IPv4Localhost());
  original.set_config_id(1);

  DialDeviceData new_data;
  new_data.set_device_id("device_a");
  new_data.set_device_description_url(GURL("http://127.0.0.1/dd-a.xml"));
  new_data.set_response_time(base::Time::FromInternalValue(1000));
  new_data.set_max_age(100);
  new_data.set_ip_address(net::IPAddress::IPv4Localhost());
  new_data.set_config_id(1);

  DialDeviceData original_1(original);
  EXPECT_FALSE(original_1.UpdateFrom(new_data));
  ExpectEqual(original_1, original);

  DialDeviceData original_2(original);
  new_data.set_max_age(200);
  new_data.set_response_time(base::Time::FromInternalValue(2000));
  EXPECT_TRUE(original_2.UpdateFrom(new_data));

  EXPECT_EQ("device_a", original_2.device_id());
  EXPECT_EQ(GURL("http://127.0.0.1/dd-a.xml"),
            original_2.device_description_url());
  EXPECT_EQ("label_a", original_2.label());
  EXPECT_EQ(200, original_2.max_age());
  EXPECT_EQ(base::Time::FromInternalValue(2000), original_2.response_time());
  EXPECT_EQ(net::IPAddress::IPv4Localhost(), original_2.ip_address());
  EXPECT_EQ(1, original_2.config_id());

  DialDeviceData original_3(original);
  new_data.set_device_description_url(GURL("http://127.0.0.2/dd-b.xml"));
  new_data.set_config_id(2);
  EXPECT_TRUE(original_3.UpdateFrom(new_data));

  EXPECT_EQ("device_a", original_3.device_id());
  EXPECT_EQ(GURL("http://127.0.0.2/dd-b.xml"),
            original_3.device_description_url());
  EXPECT_EQ("label_a", original_3.label());
  EXPECT_EQ(200, original_3.max_age());
  EXPECT_EQ(base::Time::FromInternalValue(2000), original_3.response_time());
  EXPECT_EQ(net::IPAddress::IPv4Localhost(), original_3.ip_address());
  EXPECT_EQ(2, original_3.config_id());

  DialDeviceData original_4(original);
  net::IPAddress new_address;
  CHECK(new_address.AssignFromIPLiteral("127.0.0.2"));
  new_data.set_ip_address(new_address);
  EXPECT_TRUE(original_4.UpdateFrom(new_data));
  EXPECT_EQ(new_address, original_4.ip_address());
}

TEST(DialDeviceDataTest, TestIsValidUrl) {
  base::test::ScopedFeatureList enabled_features(kDialEnforceUrlIPAddress);

  net::IPAddress ipv4_address_1;
  ASSERT_TRUE(ipv4_address_1.AssignFromIPLiteral("192.168.1.1"));
  net::IPAddress ipv4_address_2;
  ASSERT_TRUE(ipv4_address_2.AssignFromIPLiteral("192.168.1.2"));
  net::IPAddress ipv4_address_public;
  ASSERT_TRUE(ipv4_address_public.AssignFromIPLiteral("8.8.8.8"));
  net::IPAddress ipv4_address_bad_octets;
  ASSERT_FALSE(ipv4_address_bad_octets.AssignFromIPLiteral("400.500.12.999"));
  net::IPAddress ipv6_address;
  ASSERT_TRUE(ipv6_address.AssignFromIPLiteral(
      "4401:fa00:480:8600:c4ee:4adc:6dd2:8e78"));

  EXPECT_TRUE(IsValidUrl(GURL("http://192.168.1.1:1234/apps"), ipv4_address_1));
  EXPECT_TRUE(
      IsValidUrl(GURL("https://192.168.1.2:4321/apps"), ipv4_address_2));
  EXPECT_TRUE(IsValidUrl(GURL("http://0xC0A80102:1234/apps"), ipv4_address_2));
  EXPECT_TRUE(IsValidUrl(
      GURL("http://[4401:fa00:480:8600:c4ee:4adc:6dd2:8e78]:1234/apps"),
      ipv6_address));

  // URL host does not match address.
  EXPECT_FALSE(
      IsValidUrl(GURL("http://192.168.0.1:1234/apps"), ipv4_address_1));
  EXPECT_FALSE(IsValidUrl(GURL("http://400.500.12.999:1234/apps"),
                          ipv4_address_bad_octets));
  EXPECT_FALSE(
      IsValidUrl(GURL("http://192.168.0.2.com:1234/apps"), ipv4_address_1));

  // URL is publicly routable.
  EXPECT_FALSE(
      IsValidUrl(GURL("http://8.8.8.8:1234/apps"), ipv4_address_public));

  // URL is has a bad scheme.
  EXPECT_FALSE(
      IsValidUrl(GURL("file://192.168.1.1:1234/apps"), ipv4_address_1));

  // URL host is not an IP literal.
  EXPECT_FALSE(
      IsValidUrl(GURL("http://example.com:1234/apps"), ipv4_address_1));
}

}  // namespace media_router

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Q: How do I concatenate arrays based on their size in JavaScript? I have four arrays A,B.C, and D. For example:
length of A is 1
length of b is 4
length of C is 1
length of D is 2.

var a = [1];
var b = [2,3,4,5];
var c = [6];
var d = [7,8];

I want to concat those four arrays based on the larger length of the arrays, so the arrays will be in order: b,d,a,c:
Expected result:
[2,3,4,5,7,8,1,6]
[2,3,4,5,1,6,7,8] //also valid, a and c are same length, so can be sorted this way too.

How can I find the larger to lower arrays and concat them from larger to smaller in JavaScript?

A: It's simple enough using sort and concat:
Array.prototype.concat.apply([], [a, b, c, d].sort(function (a, b) {
  return b.length - a.length;
}));

Array.prototype.concat.apply is used to join the child arrays together.

A: You could do this quite neatly with underscore:
_.sortBy([a,b,c,d], function(num) {
    return num.length;
}).reverse().join(',').split(',');

A: Mine's more verbose but still seems to work; the idea in all first 3 answers is to put the arrays into an additional array, then do a custom sort of the arrays based on their length.  A good if somewhat dated reference is at: http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/arraysort.shtml
var arrays = [a, b, c, d];
var concatentation = [];

arrays.sort(function(x, y) {
    return y.length - x.length;
});

for (var i=0, n=arrays.length; i<n; i++) {
    concatentation = concatentation.concat(arrays[i]);
}

console.log(concatentation); //[2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 1, 6]

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Police arrest at least 100 over voice phishing in Jharkhand
IG Meena said that the Action Taken Report that has reached her office in Ranchi mentions 26 arrests. Jamtara is located in the Santhal Pargana division and is about 250 km from Ranchi.
Written by Deepu Sebastian Edmond | Ranchi | Updated: November 18, 2015 12:00:55 am
Local police say that over the past three months, about 100 youngsters have been picked up for voice phishing in one of Jharkhand's most backward districts.
According to IG (Organised Crime) Sampat Meena, police teams from Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Bengaluru have either reached or requested information on rampant fraudulent activity originating out of Jamtara district.
Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Singh described the criminal landscape. "The hotspots are Narayanpur and Karmatand localities. There are about 15 villages from where these boys hail and there are 10, 15, 20 boys in each village doing this kind of work," he said. He said that most of the accused are poorly-educated youngsters with minimal technical know-how. "It is like when someone in the village starts reaping the rewards of a cash crop. Everyone follows blindly," said the SP.
For the same reasons, the police suspect there may be no organised nature and kingpin to these crimes. "However, the villagers endorse such activity. We have faced resistance while attempting arrests, so we now move in smaller squads to avoid detection," he said.
IG Meena said the CID and district police are still studying the modus operandi of the accused. This is also because of the absence of FIRs filed in Jamtara. "These are the phishing (sic.) tricks you hear about often these days: callers telling you that you have won a prize, that your ATM card has been blocked, etc and then demanding your card numbers," said the SP. They then use the data extracted to make one-time-purchases or withdrawals online.
Case detection picked up pace since Singh, a 2005-batch officer, was appointed on August 10 this year. "Local journalists told me that the name of the district was being dragged through the mud because of these youngsters. It was an open secret that Jamtara was the centre of these activities. It was like a red light area," he said.
Singh was tutored by the technical personnel who operate out of the CID office. IG Meena said a Tech-Cell has since been established at Jamtara to detect more cases and understand M.O. "We collect phone numbers from where such calls are made and then try to go back to the name under which they were registered. The database has 250-300 numbers now," she said. Jamtara police have been requesting victims to get in touch at sp-jamtara@jhpolice.gov.in
Police are yet to ascertain how much these scams add up to. "They were almost always one-time transactions, so we are probably talking in terms of lakhs of money," said the SP, adding that the youngsters arrested are from economically backward families. "About 10-15 years back, there was another crime epidemic here, when youngsters would travel in trains and poison passengers before looting them. They have merely adapted now," he said.
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Authors Jesmyn Ward, Jacqueline Woodson, and Lynn Nottage. Tina Fineberg / Associated Press, Jessica Gow / Associated Press, Charles Sykes / Associated Press
Joshunda Sanders | Longreads | November 2018 | 10 minutes (2,718 words)
More than three years ago, in July 2015, Glory Edim sent her first Well-Read Black Girl newsletter, describing how she came to personally experience Black Girl Magic for the first time: through an "enchantment with storytelling" that began with Eloise Greenfield's Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems.
Greenfield's first book of poems, Honey, I Love was initially published in 1978 before subsequent reissues and has become a modern-day classic. Long before renewed calls for representation and increased diversity in children's literature, Greenfield wrote a picture book inspired by the title poem alone. It was illustrated by Diane and Leo Dillon and features a Black girl on the cover — in part because, though Greenfield went on to write 40 books, she was unable to find books for her own children to read and see themselves in before she wrote her own.
"I liked that phrase, 'Honey, let me tell you,'" Greenfield said in a 1997 National Council of Teachers of English profile. "It was a phrase that was used a lot by African American people, but it had not reached the point where it had become stereotyped. So I wanted to use that, and that's where the title came from. And I wanted to write about things that children love, about childhoods where there may or may not be much money, but there's so much fun."
These sentiments from Greenfield — taking a Black expression usually uttered with intimacy between women and making it a public affirmation of love centered on children — shaped for Edim a landscape of possibility. "I recognized myself immediately on the page;" Edim writes, "a Black girl with wide eyes, full lips, and thick braided hair. The book was my first introduction to poetry that was full of rhythm and everyday language. I was delighted to learn that my trip to the grocery store could be a poem."
At five years old, Edim was proud to be Black. It set her on a path that would lead her to establish a lifelong ritual of reading as self-discovery — from Greenfield to "authors like Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou – and many more…their books and profound literary legacy have become my inheritance."
What Edim has done with that inheritance is beyond impressive. While she was working for a start-up, she published a bi-weekly newsletter, grew a Brooklyn book club, a sizeable social media presence, crowdfunded, organized and successfully created an annual festival and gathered the beautiful work of some of the most famous American writers of our time into a distillation of an experience that is hard to do justice to without giving any author short shrift.
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, edited by Edim, is both very much of our times and will resonate far beyond it. It is located squarely in a classic American tradition of letters, featuring writers whose work is rarely made visible with proper context, reverence or reference. From the internationally-recognized authors — Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Jesmyn Ward, Rebecca Walker to name just a few — to a few lesser known names, it is at once both a political statement and an apolitical one. Edim puts it best:
"Maya Angelou, and the rest of the inspiring authors I've encountered throughout my life, have taught me that, as Black women, we define ourselves for ourselves… We are not looking for anyone else to give us validation; because we have each other… Instinctively, Black women writers have always had to take care of ourselves. Creating our own limitless boundaries, whether we explore taboos, stereotypes, the theoretical idea of love, or the literary cannon itself. We are writing ourselves into spaces that neglect or ignore us. Headstrong. A necessary quality to withstand the losses and celebrate the victories."
Well-Read Black Girl's first Instagram post in May 5, 2015 garnered 62 likes. To give you a sense of how much the community has grown, an Instagram post with a photograph of a stack of the brilliant blue spines of the new anthology had more than 10,000 likes from her community's more than 144,000 followers as of this writing. The book was published on October 30th, ahead of the second annual Well Read Black Girl Festival, which will be held in Brooklyn on November 10th.
"Well-Read Black Girl is growing — so many of the conversations before were online and social media. Now there's the festival, there's a book you can hold, it's tactile," Edim said. "I'm really proud of it. I want the festival to be a lifelong thing. I'm thinking about what the organization will look like in five years or 50, something that will have longevity beyond me. Now, I'm thinking in generations. I'm really excited to see how this will change the legacy of black womanhood, as a lens for Black women across the African Diaspora."
Joshunda Sanders: You say in the introduction that this anthology represents your inheritance of a profound literary legacy. Was that daunting to bring to bear in this collection?
Glory Edim: The word 'daunting' feels accurate, because I feel a responsibility to my community, as well as the authors and literary scholars I admire. One of the scholars I look to when it comes to Black women's writing is Toni Cade Bambara, editor of The Black Woman: An Anthology. That anthology was such a major inspiration for the Well-Read Black Girl. A lot of the major black women writers we look to today — Alice Walker, Audre Lorde — were published in that anthology. They were the brightest and the best. I wanted an anthology that would feel as timeless. I wanted you have the same sense of reassurance, of Black excellence, whether you're reading it in 2018 or 2050.
I re-read The Black Woman anthology and looked at its structure because I wanted people to be thinking about how they can reimagine what the Black literary canon looks like through reading this anthology. There are so many places where we are undervalued and undermined.
This was also my first time going from reader to editor. I wanted to understand how to go from being inspirational to being accessible.
The Well-Read Black Girl Book Club and organization is useful for pushing the conversation forward around publishing, and making sure publishing is more equitable, that there is not only symbolic representation, but that there is depth and analysis.
Tell me what your thoughts were regarding the cover.
Two things served as inspiration for me. (Influential Harlem Renaissance artist) Aaron Douglass — who worked with Zora Neale Hurston — and (acclaimed sculptor and printmaker) Elizabeth Catlett who worked with the Black Panther movement. A lot of their work was in black and white but even the woman on the color feels very symbolic of our community. It's a feeling of adoration. Just a beautiful image, you can look at with intense pride.
I learned a lot about those those two artists in college at Howard University. I was constantly seeing their images. They're part of my subconscious. I see that, I see myself.
I try to reflect that mindset on my Instagram page, with words that feel really grounding. The things that I reflect or write about on social media or Instagram, they're what I'm talking about in the community. It feels personal because it's what I lean on for personal therapy and sustenance. I never want to downplay how much words can inspire and help motivate. I imagine they help others in the same way.
How did you go about selecting the writers for the collection and what was that process like?
I've worked with a number of the writers over the years in some capacity. Tayari Jones is a dear friend and mentor. Zinzi Clemmons and Kaitlyn Greenidge, like a lot of the writers in the collection, had books that were part of the WRBG Book Club. Some were rather intuitive. There were some that were phenomenal writers on my wish list that I was hoping would say yes. Jesmyn Ward is on that list as is Rebecca Walker and Lynn Nottage. They are my own version of a Hail Mary pass.
With Lynn Nottage, we follow each other on Instagram and Twitter. She was very gracious when I asked her to write for the anthology. The same thing is true about Jacqueline Woodson. I've done panels with her before, I've gone to her house for fundraisers. Jacqueline is such a stellar role model for women because she makes time even though she's terribly busy. Even the day I interviewed her, she was accepting the Astrid Lindgren award (the biggest international award in children's literature). My friend Carla Bruce-Eddings has her first piece in the book. My friend Bsrat Mezghebe, who wrote about Roald Dahl, contributed a phenomenal piece on childhood trauma. We've known each other since childhood. The anthology is a mix of women who are established, and have incredible bodies of work and other women who are at the start of incredible writing careers.
What was your instruction to the writers in terms how they should think about framing their exploration of their relationship to reading/writing for the anthology?
When I was curating this, I kept it simple and open-ended on purpose. I asked, "What is your origin story? It could be a story from childhood, from yesterday, an a-ha moment. When did you first see yourself in literature?" That allowed all the writers to tell their own truths. Like with Barbara Smith, writing about her upbringing and James Baldwin's funeral — everyone had a different beginning. I was very clear about every author having a different direction.
Even with that instruction, I had concerns that everyone would give me an essay about Toni Morrison, but that didn't happen. There are a number of references to Toni Morrison but they are so different — Tayari Jones and Nicole Dennis-Benn take different approaches to her work.
It all came together so beautifully, I couldn't have predicted it. I very much left it open to the author to ask me questions. They each knew what they wanted to write about immediately.
Did you ask them to provide lists of their favorite titles by black women?
All the recommendations (in the anthology) were my lists of books that I have bookmarked, that I've read in the past and books that I refer to often, that I've read multiple times or were on my syllabus in college. That's where the book lists came from, along with members of the book club. Then we pulled out every book that the writers mentioned in their essays.
How did you narrow down your own lists of books?
I'm working on my own memoir project and I've been going through old journals and my old yearbook photos… Reconstructing my childhood and thinking about all the things that happened. By making a finite list, an amalgam of my lists, I also pulled from a books-that-I-returned-to list.
I am not 'the Well-Read Black Girl'; you're all the Well-Read Black Girls. We are all well-read black women. It's an empowering term that is a call to action.
You're a curator, which is a word that is very much of this time, but you're also a writer yourself and working on a memoir now, as you mentioned. How do you navigate these identities and the complexities of them so well both online and off? Could you talk about the importance of doing that?
I have been wrestling with that — am I a writer, an artist or… a cultural practitioner? I have been thinking about titles. It comes down to identifying myself and how I want to present myself in the world. Even the word entrepreneur — that word has been floating in my head — because I am running a cultural organization.
There's so much duality in my personhood. I'm learning how to articulate that in public and be comfortable with it. I went from being a community organizer to being an editor.
There are different parts of my personal and professional life. One of my greatest gifts is being an advocate and doing my best to cheer people on. I've been looking at the milestones at my life, it's always been community, always uplifting others, helping them find their greatest strengths. I've been privileged to find that space and work well for other people — I did that at a start-up, I did that for government. Now I'm learning to do that for myself, and it's been a long time coming.
I love listening to other people's stories, and now, I have to pose those questions to myself. The anthology was challenging to put together, but the memoir is a different challenge — but I'm ready to do it.
You've traveled the world evangelizing about black women reading and writing as a kind of vocation — what have been some things you've valued about this journey? Some things that were surprising?
There are so many parts that have been valuable: Building relationships with members of the book club, with authors and having mentorships that have been incredibly rewarding. I've been surprised that making book suggestions is powerful. It's a way of people giving you authority and expertise.
People have entrusted me as a public figure and it makes me feel like I have a huge responsibility. But I also feel very honored that people have put their faith in me.
The other surprising thing is the nonlinearness of this. A lot of people ask me "How did you do it?" I don't have a response to that. I would say be open to opportunities. Be open to working with others. Be generous.
Life has been super multidimensional. I've worked at a theater company, I've worked at a start-up. With the exception of some careers — lawyer, doctor…there's a straight line to those careers. If you want to be a creative with a practice rooted in being curious, a lot of the examples I find inspiration in are plays. Looking at the stage, listening to actors and the words coming from their mouths. That intense focus on one thing. Building that platform.
It's not the only thing that informs me… I'm surprised by all of it. How did this happen? It's a mix of timing and opportunity. It's not one thing that projected me to this stage. If I said it was just one thing that would be pretentious of me.
I had a passion that I was excited about for me and my friends. I thought, "How is this useful? To me, to other people?" The moment it feels like it's not worthwhile, I'll have to pivot. Having the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club and organization is useful for pushing the conversation forward around publishing, and making sure publishing is more equitable, that there is not only symbolic representation, but that there is depth and analysis. Because I am "not part of publishing" I didn't study creative writing, I didn't go to an MFA program, I'm even wary of the word 'curator' — I see that word to be watered down. I also have respect for people who study curation — me putting books on my Instagram feed is a small level of that.
I value so much of this as a first generation Nigerian-American woman. I also want to encourage progressive action. When I do book selections now, I want readers to know that reading can be activism; that literature can tie to social justice.
Like The Training School for Negro Girls by Camille Acker or Charlene Carruthers' Unapologetic, a radical mandate about what it means to be a Black queer feminist woman. I want to encourage Black women and girls, wherever you are, to speak up and tell your story.
I am not "the Well-Read Black Girl"; you're all the Well-Read Black Girls. We are all well-read black women. It's an empowering term that is a call to action.
Joshunda Sanders is an author working on her first novel. She lives and works in the Bronx, NY.
Editor: Dana Snitzky
Tagged: black women, fiction, Jesmyn Ward


It's nice to spend time outside, most especially during spring or summer. You can enjoy feeling the cool breeze on your skin and marvelling at the beautiful backdrop of the city lights or refreshing greeneries. It's even more enjoyable to eat or party outdoors with your closest and dearest friends, families and colleagues.
If you're planning on inviting your neighbours, colleagues, and friends to barbecues and other kinds of outdoor celebrations this year, you must first work on creating a nice outdoor space.
There should be enough space for all your guests in your outdoor area so your living room and dining room won't get cramped.
Improve your barren backyard by adding concrete pavers. Because pouring concrete is both costly and complicated, a lot of homeowners prefer installing concrete pavers.
You don't need to hire a professional to install the patio pavers. You can handle this task on your own.
Start by cleaning the area and spreading crushed concrete. Fill the space with the crushed concrete and ensure that the layer is roughly two inches thick.
Then, you can screed the sand and aggregate. If you're working in a large area, you must work in small sections. After you screed the area, you can start laying the pavers piece by piece.
You have to avoid creating too much space between the pavers. If you have to cut pavers to fill corners or edges, you must be extra careful in taking the measurements.
Creating a lounge area is a great and simple way to utilise free space on your porch, backyard or rooftop. You only need to use a few items such as outdoor wicker furniture, rugs, umbrella and textile. You can also add an open cabinet where you can place colourful potted plants.
Mix and match the colours of the items you use to achieve an organised and harmonious look. Also, make sure to maintain your furnishings and decors so you can use them for a longer time. Take note of the special cleaning and maintenance trick you need for your rattan furniture so you don't damage the material.
Plenty of homeowners today want to have an outdoor dining space. You can easily convert an open space in your backyard into a comfy dining area by adding a steady table, a few chairs, and pretty table linen.
To shield your guests from the hot rays of the sun, you can add an outdoor umbrella or build a gazebo or pergola.
You may also try growing flower arches if you want to wow the crowd and have a rustic and charming dining area.
If you want to use your dining area during the late afternoons or at night, make sure to add the proper type of lighting fixture. For example, if you build a gazebo, we recommend using pendant lights or scones. To achieve a romantic and whimsical effect, you can add pixie lights.
Wouldn't it be more convenient if you have an outdoor kitchen where you can prepare the dishes for the party? It will simplify your cooking task and minimise the risk of accidents caused by walking back and forth from the kitchen to the outdoor dining area.
It won't cost you a fortune to build an outdoor kitchen. You can start with a simple setup that includes a kitchen sink, a small working station, a cooking range, an oven and a barbecue grill.
Once you have enough budget for an upgrade, you can install modular cabinets and open shelves. You can also invest in commercial-grade appliances especially if you frequently host outdoor events in your home.
Growing a garden is one of the best ways you can boost the aesthetic appeal of your outdoor spaces. With a beautiful garden, you can surely wow your guests every time they come to your place for your regular social gatherings.
This simple outdoor improvement idea works both for large and small outdoor spaces. If you have a large backyard, you can create numerous plots and fill them with the beautiful ornamental plants. If you have a limit area to work with, you can grow a vertical garden or a green wall.
It's crucial for you to choose the right type of plants and dedicate a few hours a day to maintain your garden. It would be best to do your research about which plants you can add to your garden and start fixing your schedule so you can weed your garden beds, trim and prune the plants, and water your plants.
What better way for you to enjoy the company of your loved ones and friends than gathering around the fire pit or fireplace sipping ice cold beer at night.
Contrary to popular belief, it's not expensive to set up an outdoor fireplace or fire pit.
You can build one on your own with simple materials such as cement and bricks. Take note, however, that you may need to secure special building permits or community clearance if you want a DIY fire pit or fireplace.
If you don't want to deal with legalities and other necessary paperwork, you can hire a professional company to build it for you.
If you already have an existing deck, you should consider revamping it so you can use it as a reception area for your guest.
One way you can boost the appeal of your deck is to replace the wood panels.
We also recommend adding a retractable canopy to protect your furnishings and deck panels from the damaging effects of the changing weather. You can create a DIY canopy or purchase one from your trusted home improvement shop.
If you're not too keen on adding a canopy system, you can install a roof or add an outdoor umbrella. This way your guests are well protected from the weather.
If you love inviting guests over the weekend for barbecues and pool parties, you should have a comfy and beautiful outdoor space. The home improvement designs we enumerated above can help you upgrade any size of outdoor space so you can host fun and impressive outdoor parties this coming spring and summer season.


Whenever a private American citizen talks to someone in a foreign government—as Gen. Michael Flynn was accused of doing before his resignation as national security advisor—political adversaries start tossing around the accusation that the conversation violated the Logan Act. That makes for good headlines, but the real danger in foreign policy is not people playing diplomat, but plaintiffs dragging the courts into their personal issues with foreign governments.
The Logan Act, enacted in 1799 and never enforced, purports to make it a crime for an American citizen to attempt to influence a foreign government without our government approving of it. It was passed because Congress was annoyed at George Logan, a pacifist who was trying to better relations with Revolutionary France, and it is generally considered unconstitutional. But that will not stop politicians and pundits from throwing it around in the continuing and bipartisan effort to make political opposition criminal.
The larger problem today is not congressmen or pacifists conducting foreign policy on their own hook, it is private citizens using the court system to make their own private diplomatic statements. The problem began in the 1980s when activists unearthed another obscure eighteenth-century statute, the Alien Tort Claims Act (ACTA,) and used it to sue foreign governments for offenses committed in foreign countries against their own citizens because the acts were deemed to be against international law.
International crimes when ACTA was written were essentially restricted to piracy and mistreatment of ambassadors, but after World War II the list grew to include many other things deemed offenses against all mankind (in the first modern ATCA case, Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, the crime alleged was torture by the government of Paraguay).
In the 2004 case of Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, the Supreme Court reigned in the scope of ATCA, but many people (and their lawyers) still wanted to use the courts to mete out justice when they thought the federal government's diplomatic arm was not acting quickly or strongly enough. Congress agreed, and in 2016 helped to more thoroughly mangle this already twisted area of law by passing the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA).
Congress acquiesced in the idea, held by many populists on both the Left and the Right, that our government is treating Saudi Arabia too well, and they have not been properly punished for their role in the September 11 terrorist attacks. What that role is, exactly, is a matter of debate depending on how many conspiracy theories you believe.
We know for a fact that the majority of the hijackers in that attack were Saudi citizens, but lack certainty about any greater nexus between that government and its terrorist sons. It is generally held in certain corners of the Internet fever swamps, however, that the Saudi kingdom's involvement goes much deeper, despite the 9/11 Commission's findings to the contrary.
Victims' lawsuits against the Saudi government had failed in the past, because the law at the time held that Americans could only sue a foreign government for damages caused by terror attacks if the State Department listed that government as a state sponsor of terrorism. That list currently includes just three nations: Iran, Sudan, and Syria; Saudi Arabia has never been on it.
The State Department, whether run by Republicans or Democrats, has found no evidence that would require such a designation, but the absence of evidence only fuels belief in a conspiracy theory, and the demand for a lawsuit—helped, not incidentally, by Saudis' vast wealth that makes them a juicy target—continued unabated. Election years often make for bad legislation, and 2016 was no exception.
As the American Lawyer reported in December, senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain proposed an amendment to the pending bill that would have confined liability to governments that "knowingly" engage with a terrorist organization, but their fellow senators rejected it. Congress feared being on the wrong side of 9/11 victims and their relatives, a group that has (and deserves) the public's sympathy, so it caved and passed JASTA by voice votes in both houses. After President Obama wisely vetoed it, Congress overrode the veto by overwhelming margins, because voting against 9/11 widows is the stuff negative campaign ads are made of, and this ill-considered bill became a law.
The unintended consequences began almost immediately. As Britain Eakin reported for Courthouse News earlier this month, anti-Israel activists are using JASTA to sue that government, claiming that Israel has committed war crimes, genocide, and ethnic cleansing against Arabs in the West Bank (the case is Peled et al. v. Netanyahu, filed in federal district court in DC). The complaint strings together the usual anti-Israel conspiracy theories to form a legal theory with far too weak a connection to permit American courts to adjudicate it. Or, that would have been the case until JASTA. Now, any radical's claims against foreign enemies real or imagined are serious enough to get into court, if not to win the case.
Interactions between governments should be conducted carefully and in ways those governments have approved. With JASTA, Congress has allowed any citizen who can afford the filing fees to bring the weight of the judicial branch into his arguments with foreign sovereigns. That this would be misused was entirely predictable. Congress should work to fix its mistake before it is too late.


This is screen captures from pictures we took yesterday October 3rd 2014 it was Day 15 on the beach out of 30 plus days of traveling . It was gusting 35 km and almost dark i,m working on the settings for my camera because a lot of shots came out dark . Simon and Terry cameras seem fine for dark days . As usual we found the same handful of species and nothing extra . When we can get a real internet connection the original raw files will show up below but at least this way you get some context for that day .
It is important to remember we are looking at the tidal pools first and everything else second because they are the most effected immediately Not Fish Not Tuna Not Whales NOT Seals not that they are immune to radiation from Fukushima but they bio accumulate the radiation and it shows up later . The cameras can take microscopic pictures and can also enhance colors plus flash etc so while some pictures might look like life is vibrant or plentiful it is only a illusion of the cameras and the other pictures of those areas show how sparse and truly void the nursery aka the tidal pools are .


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Q: How do I list multiple sentences which contain the same word. The heading is the word that is contained in those sentences This currently prints all the nouns with sentences they are found in right below.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings FATAL => "all";
my $search_key = "expend";    ## CHANGE "..." to <>

open(my $tag_corpus, '<', "ch13tagged.txt") or die $!;

my @sentences = <$tag_corpus>;    # This breaks up each line into list
my @words;
my %seens = ();
my %seenw = ();

for (my $i = 0; $i <= @sentences; $i++) {
    if (defined($sentences[$i]) and $sentences[$i] =~ /($search_key)_VB.*/i) {
        @words = split /\s/, $sentences[$i];    ## \s is a whitespace
        for (my $j = 0; $j <= @words; $j++) {
            #FILTER if word is noun, and therefore will end with _NN:
            if (defined($words[$j]) and $words[$j] =~ /_NN/) {
                #PRINT word (without _NN) and sentence (without any _ENDING):
                next if $seenw{$words[$j]}++;    ## How to include plural etc
                push @words, $words[$j];
                print "**", split(/_\S+/, $words[$j]), "**", "\n";
                ## next if $seens{ $sentences[$i] }++;
                ## push @sentences, $sentences[$i];
                print split(/_\S+/, $sentences[$i]), "\n"
                ## HOW PRINT bold or specifically word bold?
                #FILTER if word has been output, add sentence under that heading
            }
        }    ## put print sentences here to print each sentence after all the nouns inside
    }
}
close $tag_corpus || die "Can't close $tag_corpus: $!";

A: Your original:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings FATAL => "all";

That's a good start...
my $search_key = "expend";    ## CHANGE "..." to <>

Since you're going to use this in a regex in a loop, it's better to compile the
regex right now: my $verb_regex = qr/\bexpend_VB\b/i. I put word boundaries in
there, because it seems like you need them. '
open(my $tag_corpus, '<', "ch13tagged.txt") or die $!;

my @sentences = <$tag_corpus>;    # This breaks up each line into list
my @words;
my %seens = ();
my %seenw = ();

for (my $i = 0; $i <= @sentences; $i++) {

This does much of the same with less overhead:
while ( <$tag_corpus> ) {
    ...

Back to yours:
    if (defined($sentences[$i]) and $sentences[$i] =~ /($search_key)_VB.*/i) {

If the line contains the record separator--and it will unless you chomp it, you'll always be
getting a defined line until the end of the file. There's no need to test for defined.
Additionally, you don't need the .* after the search term and capturing the $search_key
here has no effect.
        @words = split /\s/, $sentences[$i];    ## \s is a whitespace

You don't want to split on a single space for whitespace. You should use /\s+/, but
even better is: @words = split ' ', $sentences[$i];
But you won't even need that.
        for (my $j = 0; $j <= @words; $j++) {
            #FILTER if word is noun, and therefore will end with _NN:
            if (defined($words[$j]) and $words[$j] =~ /_NN/) {
                #PRINT word (without _NN) and sentence (without any _ENDING):

But that's all you're if-ing on: words ending in _NN. In addition, the whole
list from a split will be defined-- no need to test.
                next if $seenw{$words[$j]}++;    ## How to include plural etc

Unless you want to reset %seenw after each sentence, you'll only process each _NN
word once per file.
                push @words, $words[$j];

I don't see how this push can serve any possible purpose by appending nouns
back on the list of words. Sure you've got the uniqueness check before it to save
you from the infinite loop if there are any _NN words, but it just means you'll have
all the words in the sentence, followed by all the "nouns". Not only that, but you're simply
going to test that it's an noun and do nothing with it.  Not to mention that you
clobber the list with the next sentence.
                print "**", split(/_\S+/, $words[$j]), "**", "\n";

                ## next if $seens{ $sentences[$i] }++;

You don't want to do this in the word loop
                ## push @sentences, $sentences[$i];

Again, I'm not thinking that you would want to do this if it were uncommented
and outside the word loop. It seems like everything from 2 lines ago would be
after the word loop.
                print split(/_\S+/, $sentences[$i]), "\n"
                ## HOW PRINT bold or specifically word bold?
                #FILTER if word has been output, add sentence under that heading
            }
        }    ## put print sentences here to print each sentence after all the nouns inside
    }
}
close $tag_corpus || die "Can't close $tag_corpus: $!";

Nope. That won't handle the bad return from close. The || or is "binding" too
tightly. You are closing either $tag_corpus or the output of die. Luckily (or perhaps unluckily)
the die never gets called because if we got this far, $tag_corpus should be a
true value.
This is a kind of cleaned-up version of what you're trying to do--with the
parts that I can make sense of left in.
my @sentences;
# We're processing a single line at a time.
while ( <$tag_corpus> ) {
    # Test if we want to work with the line
    next unless m/$verb_regex/;
    # If we do, then test that we haven't dealt with it before
    # Although I suspect that this may not be needed as much if we're not
    # pushing to a queue that we're reading from.
    next if    $seens{ $_ }++;

    # split -> split ' ', $_
    # pass through only those words that match _NN at the end and
    # are unique so far. We test on a substitution, because the result
    # still uniquely identifies a noun
    foreach my $noun ( grep { s/_NN$// && !$seenw{ $_ }++ } split ) {
        print "**$noun**\n";
    }
    # This will omit any adjacent punctuation you have after the word--if
    # that's a problem.
    print split( /_\S+/ ), "\n";
    # Here we save the sentence.
    push @sentences, $_;
}
close $tag_corpus or die "Can't close ch13tagged.txt: $!";


The crowd murmurs and jabbers like a wild beast at the Canyon Theater Guild in Newhall as the beer starts to take effect and the improv group announces the first of three headlining comics for the night.
It's a special evening at the theater. After the professionals got the crowd to begin making sounds similar to hyenas, these masters of chuckles and jibes are letting a first timer take the stage and try his hand at the craft.
Brandon Gibson — the personality behind the morning radio show on KHTS 1220 AM — put together the act named Safety Net Comedy.
The first time comic, Kurt Tocci, came from Santa Monica for this event. Tocci is somewhat stocky, with a genuinely friendly personality. His performing style is reminiscent of what Dane Cook was like at his age. A theater student at Santa Monica College, he found an ad on Craigslist asking for audition tapes. Eventually, he was called back by Gibson, who asked Kurt to participate in the "Safety Net" experiment.
Behind Tocci and Gibson were comics Patrick Keene and Lou Santini. Improv group Bent-Neck-Giraffe was also on stage. A three-man group, Giraffe is comprised of theater students from College of the Canyons.
The "Safety Net" portion of the show only lasted 30 minutes, but Tocci was able to keep command of the stage — with the occasional interruption from the professionals making a comment or two. While some of his material needs to be refined, he has great potential. Lou Santini commented on this after the show in the main lobby of the Canyon Theater Guild.
Gibson is not sure about future Safety Net shows, but is weighing the possibility of pitching the idea to Comedy Central.


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National Ag Week Highlights Farmers' Work During Pandemic
Meet Utah Farmers and Ranchers
As the industry celebrates National Ag Week and National Ag Day, it offers a chance to reflect on the challenges and successes over the last year. American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall says it is a chance to honor the hard work done during the pandemic.
"Agriculture is the foundation of our country and it's also the backbone of a healthy country, and a prosperous nation. And all that's made possible by the hard work of the American farmer and rancher," Duvall said. "#StillFarming was something that we created last spring after people was going to the grocery store seeing empty shelves, wondering whether or not the American farmer was going to still work. And we started the hashtag to inform the American people that we were going to continue to farm."
Reflecting on the last year, Duvall said the pandemic added to the daily stresses of U.S. agriculture.
"A lot of our farmers lost their markets because a lot of their markets were in food services, and when those restaurants and food service areas shut down everybody rushed the grocery store, and it changed the pattern of way Americans purchase their food," Duvall said. "So, our industry had to readjust and that was very difficult for our farmers."
However, as farmers do best, they adapted.
"You know, one year later, we've made great strides in returning to normal. Our commodity prices are beginning to go up, meatpacking plants across America are almost back to full capacity and our restaurants are returning to full service. And now we are hoping and praying that 2021 will be a better year," Duvall said.
Duvall says there are still challenges farmers face, and AFBF is working to help farmers and ranchers over those hurdles.
"This pandemic has shown us that broadband is no longer a luxury, it's a necessity. And then there's labor. Labor is the biggest limiting factor that American agriculture has," Duvall said. "And then, of course, there's discussion around climate change and the policies that go along with that, and we've worked really hard with other organizations to make sure that we're at the table."


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