This timeline represents a longitudinal study of a single job scam as it evolved from July 16, 2003 to July 7, 2004. The scam is a "payment forwarding" scam. Con artists tricked jobseekers by using a fake job ad asking for "accountants," "agents," or "finance managers." The job was fake, but the scam was real — victims were tricked into sending personal account numbers to the con artists so paychecks could be "direct deposited," then victims were fooled into transferring stolen money, which is a criminal offense.
The company names that the job ad was posted under are in bold. Names researchers have linked to this scam include Unk Electronics, Macrocommerce Intersales, Nanjing Panada Electronics, Omega Inc., BestElectrics, and Antares Electronics. Cities where the job were posted appear next to the name of the job site that posted the ad. Victim events are marked in red. Each posting has some form of corresponding documentation. Listings containing a "PDF" link are those listings that have screen shots of the job listings and/or the job ad. To see the job ad, click on the PDF link and the file will download. If a job was reposted after it was known to be fraudulent, "job reposting" appears next to the date.
MACROCOMMERCE Intersales job posted at Careerspan.com — Dallas, New York, Sacramento Full job ad PDF, Los Angeles; PDF.
MACROCOMMERCE posted at Preferredjobs.com – Atlanta; PDF.
UNK posted at Chicago Tribune (via CareerBuilder) ; Unk Chicago Trib listing PDF.
MACROCOMMERCE posted at PickaJob.com – Phoenix, AZ; Phoenix PDF.
MACROCOMMERCE posted at CareerBuilder- San Francisco; PDF; New York, NY; PDF.
Personal information stolen. Unknown consequences.
MACROCOMMERCE posted at CareerBuilder – Los Angeles; PDF.
MACROCOMMERCE posted at CareerBuilder – Cincinnati.Full job ad PDF; Miami PDF.
MACROCOMMERCE posted at Preferred Jobs – Cleveland; PDF.
WPF first learns of scam when it is contacted by Nick Corcodilos of Asktheheadhunter.com about the scam via a jobseeker tip-off.
WPF begins research on the scam. Finds MACROCOMMERCE job active at Jobvertise – Miami; PDF. PickaJob.com – Wash. D.C., Denver, San Francisco, Phoenix; PDF. The WPF found active postings (already detailed in the timeline) at CareerBuilder, Job Spider, Jobvertise, and PreferredJobs. WPF Notified CareerBuilder, Pickajob, JobSpider, Jobvertise, Preferred Jobs of job scam and requested it be taken down.
Publication of WPF Consumer Alert (Jobseekers warned of jobs from Macrocommerce Intersales, Unk Electronics.) Alert was posted to site, sent to media. Consumer alert: http://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2006/06/consfraudalert1/. At the time the alert was published, the WPF only knew of job postings between November 20 and December 11, 2003.
WPF notified by jobseeker of new scam name, Nanjing Panada Electronics. WPF Alert updated to include Nanjing Panada Electronics.
MACROCOMMERCE reposted at CareerBuilder – Portland Maine Maine Job ad PDF; PDF listing; Atlanta, Philadelphia, Minneapolis; PDF job reposting ; Job repostings on same page as news reports of fraud PDF.
Bank account numbers stolen, SSN. CareerBuilder notified by jobseeker of job scam.
CareerBuilder notified by jobseeker of job scam.
MACROCOMMERCE reposted at CareerBuilder -Minneapolis, Boca Raton, Kissimmee, Pompano Beach, Coral Springs, Miami Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Andover Massachusetts; PDF.
UNK reposted at CareerBuilder – Kansas City; PDF.
UNK reposted again at CareerBuilder – Baltimore; PDF; Atlanta, Maryland; PDF.
UNK reposted again at Jobvertise – Huntington West VA; PDF; New Orleans; PDF.
-WPF Notified of UNK victim awaiting trial.
As of July 3 this scam was still operational. ANTARES Jobs were posted on Preferredjobs.com in Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, and Dallas. Other known job sites posting the ANTARES job ad include: AOL.com ,aftercollege.com , australiajobsite.com ,canadajobsite.com , careerspan.com, collegegrad.com (College Grad Job Hunter, Preferredjobs.com, Retiredbrains.com. Other known sites that posted Unk Electronics jobs during this time frame: dallasjobsite.com, jobs.pearlhaven.com, baltimore.4jobs.com, tutorgig.com.
*Please note that Antares Electronics Ltd. is the name a legitimate company, as is Antares Technology Solutions. There may be other legitimate companies using the name "Antares." It is an unfortunate fact of scams that the scammers steal company names or names very close to legitimate companies in order to appear "safe." Additionally, Nanjing Panda is a legitimate company. Note that the scam company name was spelled very similarly to the real company name: Nanjing Panada is the scam spelling— there is an "a" added into the name to confuse job seekers. At the time this report was published, Monster.com listed jobs from the real Antares employers. As of the last date checked, July 7, 2004, these jobs are not from fraudulent companies.


AND JUST A FEW PICTURES FROM OUR HISTORY BOOKS !!!
Attendees at 2015 Annual Meeting - Boise, Idaho - All are regional trainers throughout Idaho. ISTA meeting was held at the conclusion of JHPTS Train-the-Trainer course in Boise. Kneeling: Lynne Whisner, Charlotte Gunn, Annie Pillers. Standing: Michael Barto, Jimmie Yorgensen, Alisa Rettschlag, Marvin Pillers, Linda Kearney, Siw Lea, Earl Aston, Jessica Knoelk, Sheri Isch, Matt Isch, Cindy Marx, Dan Scovel, Colin Stelma, Kris Scovel.
Historical Photo - This is a North Idaho Trackers (now ISTA) in-house training class in August 2001. North Idaho Trackers was already over 15 years old at that time. We have a bit of history as a tracking organization. Front Row: Kelly Isakson, Remy Newcombe, Annie Pillers, Jody Howard, Marvin Pillers, Tom Pentzer. Back Row: Ray Lutes, Pete Stuck, Joel Hardin, Ryan Sillers, Maggie Sillers, Christopher Langsett, Donna Langsett, (Unknown), Dave Newcombe.


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Q: SQL Server Cursor Reference (Syntax, etc) I don't use SQL Server Cursors often but when I do, I always have to look up the syntax and options.
So I wanted to ask, what is the best SQL Server Cursor reference on the web?.
I'm looking for a reference that explains all of the (major?) options (I.E. FAST_FORWARD) and also shows quick snippets of how to use it.  (I.E. How to implement looping though a cursor and with a good practice for checking the @@FETCH_STATUS variable.)
Best Regards,
Frank
Quick Update: I'm looking for a balance of quick-reference but detailed enough to see my options. As an example. MSDN is a great reference guide but it has too much detail. The reference, ideally, should be concise.
Further update: I'm still looking for sources. If someone posts a good source that fits my criteria of concise, I will accept that answer...

A: How to Perform SQL Server Row-by-Row Operations Without Cursors:
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/per/operations_no_cursors_p1.aspx
SQL Server Cursor Examples (with Cursor Alternatives):
http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1599

A: I'd start out with the MSDN help page for cursors...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180169.aspx

A: I always use the built in "Transact-SQL Reference" help within management studio. I find the examples on everything there to be more than enough for what I need.

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Q: What happens when an electron collides with an atomic nucleus? Say an electron is shot towards an atom at such a speed that a violent collision (or just a regular collision) is unavoidable, what happens to electron and the nucleus?
(Also, I'm a mere highschooler. I don't really understand a lot about physics.)


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Q: How to get the proper exit code from nohup From the nohup documentation in info coreutils 'nohup invocation' it states:
Exit status:

 125 if `nohup' itself fails, and `POSIXLY_CORRECT' is not set
 126 if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked
 127 if COMMAND cannot be found
 the exit status of COMMAND otherwise

However, the only exit codes I've ever gotten from nohup have been 1 and 0. I have a nohup command that's failing from within a script, and I need the exception appropriately...and based on this documentation I would assume that the nohup exit code should be 126. Instead, it is 0.
The command I'm running is: nohup perl myscript.pl &
Is this because perl is exiting successfully?

A: As my understanding, the question was how to get the command status when it was running in nohup. As my experiences it was very little chance that you were able to get the COMMAND exit status even when it failed right away. Most time you just got the 'nohup COMMAND &' exit status unless you wait or synchronize as Jonathan mentioned. To check the COMMAND status right after nohup, I use:

  pid=`ps -eo pid,cmd | awk '/COMMAND/ {print $1}'`
  if [ -z $pid ]; then
     echo "the COMMAND failed"
  else
     echo "the COMMAND is running in nohup"
  fi

A: If your shell script runs the process with:
nohup perl myscript.pl &

you more or less forego the chance to collect the exit status from nohup.  The command as a whole succeeds with 0 if the shell forked and fails with 1 if the shell fails to fork.  In bash, you can wait for the background process to die and collect its status via wait:
nohup perl myscript.pl &
oldpid=$!
...do something else or this whole rigmarole is pointless...
wait $oldpid
echo $?

The echoed $? is usually the exit status of the specified PID (unless the specified PID had already died and been waited for).
If you run the process synchronously, you can detect the different exit statuses:
(
nohup perl myscript.pl
echo "PID $! exited with status $?" >&2
) &

And now you should be able to spot the different exit statuses from nohup (eg try different misspellings: nohup pearl myscript.pl, etc).
Note that the sub-shell as a whole is run in the background, but the nohup is run synchronously within the sub-shell.


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BARRACUDA ANNOUNCE 2019-20 REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE
SAN JOSE - The San Jose Barracuda (@SJBarracuda), proud AHL (@TheAHL) affiliate of the NHL's (@NHL) San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) announced today their regular season schedule for the 2019-20 season.
San Jose will open the 2019-20 regular season at the Toyota Arena in Ontario against the Ontario Reign on Friday, Oct. 4.
San Jose's home opener is set for October 11 at SAP Center against the San Diego Gulls (7 p.m.).
The Barracuda will play 34 regular season home games at SAP Center, which includes 11 doubleheader games with the San Jose Sharks (Please note a separate ticket is required to attend each game). Click HERE for a printable 2019-20 schedule.
In 34 home games, San Jose will play one Monday game, one Tuesday game, 11 Wednesday games, seven Friday games, eight Saturday games and six Sunday games.
The Barracuda will host a season-long six-game home stand from Feb. 9 to March 7, and will embark on a season-long four-game road trip to round out the season from April 5 to April 11.
The Barracuda will play one team outside of the Pacific Division in 2019-20 with a four-game home and road with the Iowa Wild (Minnesota Wild).
The Barracuda are entering their fifth season playing in San Jose, following the American Hockey Leagues creation of the Pacific Division of the AHL, consisting of seven teams - all of whom serve as primary development affiliates for the National Hockey League: San Jose (Sharks), Bakersfield (Edmonton Oilers), Colorado (Avalanche), Ontario (Los Angeles Kings), San Diego (Anaheim Ducks), Stockton (Calgary Flames), and Tucson (Arizona Coyotes).
Many of the players on the Sharks roster made their journey to the National Hockey League by playing and developing in the AHL, including Logan Couture, Brent Burns, Martin Jones, Brenden Dillon, Radim Simek, Timo Meier, Marcus Sorensen, Tim Heed, and Aaron Dell.
This seasons Barracuda roster will be comprised of several of the Sharks top prospects including goaltenders Antoine Bibeau and Josef Korenar, defensemen Mario Ferraro, Nick DeSimone, Jake Middleton, Jeremy Roy, and Kyle Wood, and forwards Lean Bergmann, Joachim Blichfeld, Ivan Chekhovich, Alex True, Jonathan Dahlen, Noah Gregor, Jayden Halbgewachs, Jeff Viel, Evan Weinger, and Manny Wiederer.
The 2019-20 Barracuda promotional schedule and ticket information will be released at a later date.

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Congressman Mollohan Loses Democratic Primary
Posted on May 12, 2010 October 11, 2016 by Peter Flaherty
Rep. Alan Mollohan, whose finances were the subject of a four-year federal probe triggered by NLPC, was defeated yesterday in the Democratic primary in West Virginia's first Congressional District. The 14-term Congressman was beaten 56 to 44 percent by state Senator Mike Oliverio, who made corruption the centerpiece of his campaign. Mollohan accused Oliverio of "spreading right-wing smears."
The investigation began in February 2006 after NLPC filed a 500-page Complaint with the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia alleging that Mollohan failed to report millions in assets on his Congressional disclosure forms in order to conceal cozy financial relationships with recipients of earmarks he had arranged.
Mollohan, a member of the Appropriations Committee, earmarked as much as $500 million to nonprofit groups founded and controlled by business partners, campaign contributors and former staffers.
Our allegations were first made public in a front-page Wall Street Journal story by the late John Wilke, who was awarded the 2007 Everett McKinley Dirksen prize for distinguished coverage of Congress by the National Press Foundation.
In the uproar that followed, Mollohan "temporarily" resigned as ranking Democrat on the Ethics Committee. At the time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blamed NLPC, instead of Mollohan, for his problems.
The end of the investigation came in a two-sentence press release in February when the Justice Department announced that it had ended its four-year probe, just weeks after Mollohan voted for Barack Obama's unpopular health care plan.
While we are delighted to see corruption become the central issue of this race, and we are heartened to see the political system work, we believe that Attorney General Eric Holder has perpetrated a grave injustice by saving Mollohan from criminal indictment.
In February, NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm called Holder's action a "horrible precedent, " and asked, "Has Attorney General Eric Holder now made it legal for members of Congress to earmark money to their business partners?"
Mollohan put out a statement claiming that he had been "exonerated." Choosing not to indict is a lot different than exoneration. The Justice Department said nothing about the specific allegations. Mollohan also repeated his attacks on NLPC as being "right wing."
Mollohan himself confirmed key elements of NLPC's Complaint on June 13, 2006 when he amended six years' worth of his disclosures (1999-2004), after denying for two months that they contained errors. He omitted more assets than he reported on his original filings, including his largest single asset, a note worth over $4 million.
The Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended, provides that the Attorney General may seek a civil penalty of up to $11,000 against an individual who knowingly and willfully falsifies or fails to file or report any information required by the Act. Other statutes provide for criminal penalties.
Even though Mollohan's reporting violations were potentially criminal, especially given their scale, NLPC was more concerned with the actions that they were intended to keep hidden, specifically Mollohan's personal financial relationships with persons who were also getting taxpayer money through Mollohan earmarks. The appearance was (and still is) that Mollohan was recycling taxpayer money into his own pocket.
One such appearance was Mollohan's relationship with Don and Laura Kuhns. Laura Kuhns is a former Mollohan staff member who heads Vandalia Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit which received more than $28 million in federal earmarks with Mollohan's help. Mr. and Mrs. Kuhns jointly invested with Rep. Mollohan and his wife in more than two million dollars worth of property on North Carolina's Bald Head Island where the two couples had adjoining ocean front beach houses.
Mollohan filed an amendment (actually a letter) to his 2005 disclosures with the House Clerk on December 23, 2005. In the letter, Mollohan claimed that he had "inadvertently" failed to report a $35,000 loan from the Kuhnses. Mollohan stated that "the loan was used principally to make payments on the partnership borrowings, and related expenses." In other words, the joint expenses of the partnership were being paid by the Kuhnses.
Another such appearance was the joint purchase of a West Virginia farm on the aptly named Cheat River by Mollohan and Dale R. McBride, the CEO of FMW Composite Systems, for which Mollohan had secured a NASA contract.
Mollohan's June 2006 amendments showed that he misstated investment income, failed to disclose an asset worth more than $2 million for five consecutive years, misidentified assets, failed to disclose liabilities exceeding $2 million associated with a secretly held asset, and misstated a loan liability amount. During 2000, Mollohan reported income producing assets of $179,012 to $562,000 yet failed to disclose his 50% interest in a $2.3 million asset – meaning that he failed to disclose more of his assets than he disclosed.
While Mollohan did not correct his reports prior to 1999, he released a letter from his accountant revealing additional misrepresentations and omissions in his financial disclosure reports filed prior to 1999. The largest problem dealt with Mollohan's repeated failure to disclose the 50% interest he and his wife held in a company called Remington Group, LLC, which purchased 17 condo units in the Foggy Bottom area of Washington.
The decision to let off Mollohan is fueling charges that Holder is soft on corruption in Congress. According to a March 15 article in the Daily Beast, Philip Shenon reported:
…current and former department officials fear the department under Attorney General Eric Holder is mostly out of the business—at least for now—of bringing criminal charges against corrupt federal lawmakers and other powerful government officials in Washington.
Holder set the tone soon after his confirmation when he announced that former Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) would not be retried for failing to report gifts from lobbyists on his disclosure forms. His conviction had been thrown out for prosecutorial misconduct that had nothing to do with the actual merits of the case.
Holder started his career at the Justice Department in the 1970's as a prosecutor in the Public Integrity Section. When he became attorney general, Holder promised to make a priority of corruption cases. What Mollohan and Stevens have in common is a history of success in securing earmarks. Holder knows that the leadership in Congress would not welcome an aggressive crackdown on corruption related to earmarks.
This is the second time that Holder has punted on an important case involving NLPC. The first was when NLPC successfully sued Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care task force to open its meetings and records. During a sworn deposition in 1993, task force director Ira Magaziner lied to us when he claimed that no non-governmental personnel had taken part in the task force. When Judge Royce Lamberth learned of Magaziner's falsehood, he referred the matter for prosecution to Holder, who was the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia at the time. In 1995, Holder announced that he would not prosecute Ira Magaziner.
Mollohan Will Not Be Charged With Crime; Culture of Corruption Wins
Mollohan Scandal Property Goes to Foreclosure
Corruption Probe Hangs Over Mollohan
Pelosi AWOL as Mollohan Still Controls Budget of Those Investigating Him
Rep. Mollohan's Foundation Got Free Rent From Earmark Recipient
John Wilke (1954-2009) Helped Expose Murtha, Mollohan
Report: Mollohan Should Have Been Indicted
Ethics Committee Delays Rangel, Waters Trials as New Poll Says Pelosi Failed to Drain the Swamp
Leaked Document: Justice Probe of Mollohan Is Ongoing
Posted in Government Integrity Project
Former Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott Belittled at Goldman Sachs Annual Meeting
Washington Post: Mollohan Had 'Worst Washington Week'


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There's more depth and humour in the manga series. And it's not a really long series. I think... 14 volumes.
Yeah Psycho Pass is great. First season incredible, second season good, movie good. Hopefully the third season & new movie will also be good. It's one of those series that even a non-anime fan could get into, as it doesn't rely on anime tropes or stereotypes. It's basically just a cyberpunk sci-fi TV series in animated form.
New song from Soil work is good. The singer is a beast. Best from melodeath by far.
#603 eochaid, Dec 5, 2020
The video on the other hand is the new low. I like how even people in the comments all agree that at this point they are making videos bad intentionally.
#604 drawntoblack, Dec 5, 2020
And, somehow, anyone thought that it was good enough to put credits on it
Thanks to Alexa misinterpreting a song request I have found an album @eochaid will no doubt agree is officially album of the year. High $tatus - Make Room for the King featuring genre legends such as Mistah White, DJ Wicked and $litwri$t ! Brokencyde meets Black Veil Brides, instant classic album.
Woop Woop
#606 DE4life, Dec 11, 2020
It needs Anders.
#607 eochaid, Dec 12, 2020
I think he might be $litwri$t ...
Alexi Lahio has died at 41
#609 eochaid, Jan 4, 2021
Wow, heroin OD?
#610 galvanized, Jan 4, 2021
Damn, that's sad news. I've never been a huge fan of Bodom, but Hate Crew Deathroll was one of the first extreme metal albums I really enjoyed. Still love it to this day tbh. CoB were always in the conversation alongside IF, DT, Soilwork, Arch Enemy, etc back in the early 2000s. Follow the Reaper was a decent album too, and there were a couple of songs I liked on Hatebreeder too.
I'm actually not sure I ever saw Bodom live. If I did then it would have been at a festival, but I don't remember seeing them.
Some great tracks. Their cover of Oops I Did It Again was actually pretty fucking good as well.
#611 DE4life, Jan 4, 2021
Hatebreeder is my fave but first 3 albums were great. Hatecrew Deathroll was a step down in my opinion because the neoclassical elements were my fave and were de-emphasized. I don't know, I was just really disappointed by all my favorites in 2002-2004. In Flames, Bodom, Opeth, Dimmu, it seemed like everyone was diverging away from what I really liked.
Something Wild is a bit of a mess to me. Some potential there, but a lot of flaws too.
Hatebreeder, Follow the Reaper and HCD all solid albums. I lost interest in CoB fairly quickly after that. I liked a handful of songs post-2003 but pretty much nothing after Blooddrunk.
90s and early 2000s were for sure my favourite period for metal music in general. Nowadays it feels like everything has already been done, and usually better than by whoever I'm listening to.
The police is searching for John Schaffer in order to arrest him due to the incidents at the Capitol. Someone pass Anders the number to identify him. He will win satisfaction and 1000 dollars.
Hope he's locked up for a long time. Anders 1-0 Schaffer.
Jon Schaffer: "I spend a lot of time and energy trying to get people to do some research."
identified himself and spoke to the German daily newspaper Die Welt while in the crowd at a Washington, D.C. demonstration supporting Trump and protesting the election results.
what an idiot. If he'd done some "research" into the massive amount of hoax videos that were released claiming to be evidence of voter fraud he might not be in the situation he's in now.
You've written some great music Jon, but you're a fucking moron.
He is. I'm so afraid, not afraid, terrified, of the people doing their own research.
The good thing is that now we have some memes of him to share with Anders.
DE4life likes this.
That's crazy. I remember the old singer 20 years ago left the band to do government work after 9/11 and thought that was pretty noble. Now Jon is a part of the group hurting the US just like the terrorists 20 years ago. Seems ironic and sad.
If you're talking Matt Barlow I believe he's a cop, so yeah, pretty disgusting that Schaffer willingly took part in a terrorist act that ended the life of a policeman. Problem is narcissistic, childish fucks like him and most other Trump supporters only care about themselves. Combine that with a refusal to face reality, instead choosing to live in a pretend world of ridiculous conspiracy theories, and you end up with this bullshit.
What bothers me most is how many people seem to be infected by this madness. It used to be something at the fringes of society to be laughed at - I'd like to know at which point this QAnon, David Icke, Alex Jones, conspiracy nutjob nonsense became legitimate discourse. Is Western society so unbearable that people genuinely need to invent and believe in this idiocy just to give their lives some kind of meaning?
They are people who found "leaders" telling them what they want to hear. Not only that, they are also telling them that they are right and, if they cannot achieve their goals is due to some conspiracy lead by the forces acting in the shadows.
The most of them are alt right and arrogant cunts. The fact that they think that mass media, in the USA, social media, millionaires and the Democratic Party are dangerous leftists is a symptom of how crazy and deluded they are.


Stuart was asked to provide Customer Service Training by a major Call Centre client who, although already generally receiving fantastic Customer Service feedback, wished to take the service they provided to the next level and deliver a truly Five Star Customer Experience.
He completed a full Training Needs Analysis of what was already being provided – this included listening to recorded calls, side by side monitoring, discussions with Customer Service Advisors, Team Leaders, Ops Managers and members of the Quality Assurance teams.
A 2-day Five Star Customer Service workshop was developed and a number of test and learn sessions were trialled in one of their centres so that the module could be closely reviewed, evaluated and fine-tuned.
The workshop; "The Five Star Experience", was successfully rolled out across the remaining contact centre teams in York, Sheffield and Norwich and due to the positive results across all sites, other business areas also requested similar programmes for their specific requirements.


Yes, that's the pizza-hoarding rat that went viral, showing the world that, in New York City, pizza and rats go together like bread and butter, Tinder and labial herpes, or overpriced rent and closet-sized apartments.
So they contacted Brandiose and asked its founders, Jason Klein and Casey White, to come up with an awesome logo to match the awesome name. Klein and White specialize in making logos for small home teams, including the Richmond Flying Squirrels and Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs. Brandiose says that they bring "'can-do' attitude and whimsical approach to storytelling . . . to minor league clubs"–and boy do they deliver.
They designed some variations of the pizza rat theme to feature in merchandising that will probably sell faster than pepperoni pies at Patsy's Pizzeria by Lexington and 59th street. My favorite one, by far, is the NYC with the Y that is a slice partially eaten by the rat. I want a T-shirt with that myself and I don't even like baseball (I'm Spanish, we only watch football).
If you are in New York, you can watch the Staten Island Pizza Rats play on June 23, July 7, July 14, July 21, and August 4. Bring the pizza, leave the rats.


Christian Rowland Reporting live for ODOGWU MEDIA....Barcelona striker, Luis Suarez, has said that Atletico Madrid's Antoine Griezmann and Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho would be welcome at the club.
Barca failed with three bids for Coutinho in the summer, but are expected to return for the Brazilian in January.
Mundo Deportivo reported on Sunday, that Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu, met with Griezmann's family this week ahead of a summer transfer.
The Catalans' director of institutional relations, Guillermo Amor, then refused to deny that talks have taken place.
"Both Griezmann and Coutinho are elite players that are playing at the top level," Suarez told RAC105 on Monday.
"They are where they are for a reason. They're both young and have long careers ahead of them. And Barca always want the best players.


This group began in March 2017 and was borne of a desire to link with fellow professionals in similar roles. Despite heavy workloads and a diary brimming with meetings and other dates to keep, working as an operational leader can often feel quite isolated.
As a senior manager, you are often directing activity, developing new processes and pathways and supporting others to meet their goals and targets. It isn't often that you get the chance to take time to reflect, share your experiences and learn from others in similar position.
This was the motivation for creating this group in early March 2017. As the Deputy Chief Operating Officer at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, I felt that joining a network of colleagues and peers across industries would be hugely beneficial and so I began to search for such a group, unfortunately to no avail.
And this where you come in. We are always on the look-out for more members to join our #Proud2beOps movement. The strength of the network is the colleagues within, the learning shared and all opportunities taken to come together to support each other.
It is our goal to become an national recognised network, clearly defining the role of operations and, in the process, supporting budding and seasoned leaders in all walks of life. As we reach upwards of 100 members and almost 10 conferences held, I sincerely hope you will join us in the exciting, energising and essential journey.
Show that you're #Proud2beOps and get involved.


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NTU Singapore Launches Quantum Science and Engineering Centre
Kirana Aisyah
Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) Quantum Science and Engineering Centre has developed microchips smaller than fingernails which can predict stock performance, encrypt data and model networks like COVID-19 clusters. The centre aims to develop devices and technologies powered by quantum science – the study of how particles behave at the atomic level.
The centre, the first of its kind in Singapore, will conduct research on developing and producing quantum chips using semiconductor fabrication technologies. These chips form the backbone of quantum devices such as quantum chip processors, networks, and sensors. They hold important applications in many areas such as quantum computing, communication, cryptography, cybersecurity, and sensor technology.
The Centre aims to train skilled manpower for quantum engineering, the application of quantum science to real-world scenarios, and to promote and develop Singapore's quantum industry. It will collaborate with the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), a Research Centre of Excellence established in 2007, on quantum technology research and engineering application, and look to establishing an international platform to collaborate with other overseas partners.
Quantum science, technologies, and engineering have drawn huge investments worldwide. Singapore is a long-standing investor in its potential and remains at the forefront of this field. In 2018, the National Research Foundation started a quantum engineering programme with the goal of establishing a competitive quantum engineering research community and industry ecosystem to translate the technology into real-world applications.
The Quantum Science and Engineering Centre (QSec) aims to conduct ground-breaking research in several areas: quantum key distribution chips, quantum computation, quantum and classical neural network, cluster state computation and quantum sensing. NTU's focus in these areas is part of our strategy to be a key enabler in the development of quantum science technologies to support Singapore's efforts in quantum engineering for the benefit of industry and society."
– NTU President Professor Subra Suresh
One of QSec's main research projects is the development of a quantum computing chip that can perform quantum calculations using an integrated photonic chip, which can be made with semiconductor materials such as silicon wafers.
Such quantum processor chips hold the promise of solving complex calculations that are impossible for classical computers. Classical computers rely on binary bits as their building blocks, as all computational information can be reduced to either ones or zeros. Instead of using such bits, quantum processors use quantum bits, or qubits, which can exist in quantum states such that they represent both one and zero at the same time. This allows qubits to encode far more information than binary bits.
QSec researchers are exploring how photonics engineering – the science of applying, using, and manipulating light – can be used in a quantum context. While classical computers use electricity to flip the binary switches between their one and zero states, quantum chips, however, can use single particles of light (photons) to represent qubits.
By using lasers and beam splitters within a chip circuit, researchers can manipulate individual photons as qubits. This method, called boson sampling, uses light to perform quantum calculations which can far exceed the performance of supercomputers. Creating such a quantum photonic chip that can do this will open the possibility of bringing quantum computers into mainstream, real-world use. These quantum computers will be able to rapidly solve calculations and tackle problems in diverse fields such as financial modelling, transport optimisation, and artificial intelligence and machine learning.
As reported by OpenGov Asia, NTU Singapore has also developed a technology, called Dynamis, that makes industrial robots nimbler and almost as sensitive as human hands, able to manipulate tiny glass lenses, electronics components, or engines gears that are just millimetres in size without damaging them. The breakthrough was first published in the top scientific journal Science and went viral on the internet when it could match the dexterity of human hands in assembling furniture.


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Q: join and merge is not return correct number of rows in R I have two dataframes which share a common column (named sys_loc_code). The first dataframe (df1) has 1033 rows. The second dataframe (df2) has 2751.
I would like to combine df1 and df2 so get a new dataframe with all columns found in df1 and df2 keeping only rows from df1.
I have tried join, left_join, and inner_join (from dplyr) and a simple merge. Each of these returns 2057 rows, and I think it should only be returning 1033 to match what is in df1. How do I return only rows from df1?
I cannot share the datasets that caused this problem. However, after a bit of consultation, I can recreate the problem with this minimal example:
df1 <-
  data.frame(
    sys_loc_code = c("A", "B", "C")
    , df1Val = 1
  )

df2 <-
  data.frame(
    sys_loc_code = c("A", "B", "B", "C", "D")
    , df2Val = c(1, 1, 2, 1, 1)
  )

left_join(df1, df2)

Returns 4 rows while df1 only has three rows.

A: The most issue is that df2$sys_loc_code contains multiple entries for some of the values in df1$sys_loc_code.
df1$sys_loc_code has only 3 values, but one of them ("B") is present twice in df2$sys_loc_code, meaning those merges will return 4 rows. e.g.
left_join(df1, df2)

gives
  sys_loc_code df1Val df2Val
1            A      1      1
2            B      1      1
3            B      1      2
4            C      1      1

So, the short answer to your question may be that the results actually are "correct" based on the code you are writing. If you want something different to happen (e.g., only one entry from df2 per match), you will likely need to decide exactly what output you want.
For example, if you want the first entry from df2:
left_join(
  df1
  , df2 %>%
    group_by(sys_loc_code) %>%
    slice(1)
)

gives
  sys_loc_code df1Val df2Val
1            A      1      1
2            B      1      1
3            C      1      1

left_join(
  df1
  , df2 %>%
    group_by(sys_loc_code) %>%
    summarise(df2Val = mean(df2Val))
)

gives
  sys_loc_code df1Val df2Val
1            A      1    1.0
2            B      1    1.5
3            C      1    1.0

and
left_join(
  df1
  , df2 %>%
    mutate(aVarToSortOn = 1:n()) %>%
    group_by(sys_loc_code) %>%
    slice(which.max(aVarToSortOn))
)

gives
  sys_loc_code df1Val df2Val aVarToSortOn
1            A      1      1            1
2            B      1      2            3
3            C      1      1            4

If you know you have unique values in a column, you could also use filter to select which match to keep from df2


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Trump's First Year Was Terrible, But Things Could Have Been Worse
It is fitting that Donald Trump, who claimed that "I alone can fix it," couldn't make it through his entire first year without breaking the government. Donald Trump has been among the worst presidents ever. However, while the past year under Trump might have been the worst of times, it was not the worst of all possible times. Trump's first year has been terrible, but we must also be appreciative all those spared from dying in Hillary's wars over the past year.
Donald Trump and the Republicans have been terrible on many issues, including health care, race, and immigration. As I had previously predicted, Trump has been totally incoherent on foreign policy. He has escalated a potential nuclear crisis in North Korea, but we also must not forget that Hillary Clinton was largely responsible for the situation and peace would have probably have been impossible if she was in the White House. Clinton's push to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi based upon lies after he surrendered his nuclear weapons, along with her joining with her neocon allies in lying us into the Iraq war, have been cited by both Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin as reasons for their nuclear buildup and other foreign policy actions.
Donald Trump's relations with Russia have been mixed, and evidence has grown of both a history of financial crimes and an attempt at a cover-up over the past year. At least Trump's financial crimes are under investigation, while Democrats regularly make excuses for the influence peddling of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
The irony is that, after the risk of deterioration of relations with Russia and a return to a Cold War atmosphere was feared by many should Clinton become president, Clinton has managed to create hysteria over Russia without even being elected. While Trump is probably guilty of money laundering and a obstruction of justice, the evidence to date has contradicted conspiracy theories which appear to have been fabricated Clinton and the DNC to blame Clinton's loss on Russia. With Clinton continuing to promote belligerence towards Russia even out of office, using conspiracy theories to get Democrats to embrace her neoconservative interventionism, it is of considerable concern as to how much greater harm Clinton could be doing in the White House.
Donald Trump has been terrible for civil liberties as president, including his attacks on the press. It must not be forgotten that even before the election Clinton had far right wing views on civil liberties which were not all that different from Trump's. Donald Trump has ignored the norms of a democratic society, but since the election Clinton has also continued her attack on civil liberties and has attacked the fundamental principles of democracy, including the legitimacy of election results. Both Clinton and Trump have cited fake news, which often means information critical of them, as justification to call for censorship.
While many Republicans have little respect for civil liberties, in the past year we have seen Democrats engage in McCarthyism as part of their anti-Russia hysteria. The Democratic Party as a whole turned out to be worthless when faced with a vote to renew and expand warrantless surveillance as many joined with Republicans. If many Democrats were unwilling to stand up to Donald Trump on a fundamental civil liberties issue, I would expect even fewer to resist calls for increased powers by an authoritarian like Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump has been a terrible president, but at least his faults are widely recognized, and his falsehoods are regularly exposed. Donald Trump might have authoritarian tendencies, but if so he is a very weak authoritarian. He has brought about serious damage to the entire Republican and conservative brands, likely doing far less damage than Hillary Clinton would have been capable of.
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Creative and Intellectual Life
Arts and Society
Story: Awards and prizes
Awards and their origins
Literary awards, 1950s onwards
Visual arts, music and theatre awards
TV, film, news media and radio awards
General and international awards
Publication by Katherine Mansfield fellowship winners, 1999 (2nd of 3)
As fair as New Zealand to me (Victoria University Press, 1999) is a collection of essays, in the form of letters to the memory of Katherine Mansfield, by 23 holders of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. The pieces evoke the experience of living and working at Menton, and reveal the work processes of some leading New Zealand writers.
Victoria University Press
Reference: 'As fair as New Zealand to me': New Zealand Writers in Menton. Victoria University Press, 1999.
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Katherine Mansfield at Villa Isola Bella, Menton, 1920
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Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship winners, 1970–2015
Mark Derby, 'Awards and prizes - Literary awards, 1950s onwards', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/document/44681/publication-by-katherine-mansfield-fellowship-winners-1999 (accessed 22 January 2020)
Story by Mark Derby, published 22 Oct 2014, updated 9 Aug 2016


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Podgora () is a rural locality (a village) in Kosinskoye Rural Settlement, Kosinsky District, Perm Krai, Russia. The population was 51 as of 2010. There are 2 streets.

Geography
Podgora is located 38 km north of Kosa (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pyatigory is the nearest rural locality.

References

Rural localities in Kosinsky District

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Actually, startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand. Which means, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless.
While I agree with his main point that execution counts, his affermation bugs me a little bit because it clashes with my understanding of economics. To wit, that ideas are "Non-excludable goods".
Non-excludable goods are defined in economics as goods or service whereby it is impossible to prevent an individual who does not pay for that thing from enjoying the benefits of it. Market allocation of such goods is not feasible.
How would a market for ideas work, in any case? How could you prevent someone from listening to a bunch of ideas and just walking away with the ones they like?
Perhaps with lots of lawyering and monitoring schemes, something could be kludged together, but at that point, since the ideas alone most likely aren't worth that much compared to well executed ideas, putting together that market would probably be more trouble than it's worth.
So Paul Graham is right, for practical purposes, but his economics don't seem correct to me.
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{
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Biden trip and the issue of "rebalancing in Asia" →
Unprepared for anything
Posted on July 12, 2013 by Bharat Karnad
There are three unalterable constants when natural and man-made disasters strike in India – there is almost always a prior alert or intelligence report that is ignored, local administration and police and government generally at all levels (local, state, and central) disappear from the scene, and the army fills the breach — the only orderly presence engaged in saving people and restoring a semblance of order. The recent Uttarakhand floods featured the three constants as had the earlier natural disasters, such as the horrid cyclonic storms that lashed the Odisha coast in the late 1990s. The question is two-fold: Why are alerts and prior intelligence invariably disregarded by the government – as evidenced, once again, in the Bodh Gaya bombing — and why do official organizations dematerialize from the impacted areas at just the point in time when they are most needed?
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is, of course, a bad joke. Previously housed in the rundown public sector Centaur Hotel (near the airport) but now occupying a swanky blue glass building in South Delhi, it does little other than provide sinecures for politicians and post-retirement jobs for superannuated bureaucrats and the like. NDMA also guzzles public funds — to the extent of Rs. 864 crores in the last fiscal, makes paper plans for managing disasters, but once disasters actually happen, there is nary a hint on the ground of plans having been implemented, and the usual helter-skelter recovery efforts, ensue leaving the NDMA trawling for excuses. In the Uttarakhand case the NDMA Chairman, Shashidhar Reddy, a Congress Party honcho, blamed the agency's failure on not getting the Doppler radars to detect the formation of cloud-bursts! There being no system of accountability, excuses and finger-pointing is the norm in the wake of diasters.
Some disasters are wholly the product of the way the government system routinely (mal)functions. The 1999 hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight from Kathmandu to Kandahar by way of Amritsar was preventable. Indeed, the military, para-military forces, and various civilian outfits had practised pre-empting just such an incident, including stationing a truck in front of the aircraft to prevent it taking off, and thereafter mounting action by commando to infiltrate the aircraft and rush the hijackers. This training exercise was codenamed 'Sour Grapes'. But when the plane landed for refuelling in Amritsar, the predictable happened. The lessons of the exercise were forgotten, and the emergency committee commandeered by the then National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra couldn't communicate with Amritsar, the only order getting through was to the Army formation surrounding the Raja Sansi Airport to stand down, do nothing as the plane was refuelled and flew off with the Islamic extremists cocking a snook at the country.
The response to every new uncontained disaster is the same old bureaucratic solution – new committees and organizations to add to the layer upon layer of bureaucracy piled up over the years that gum up the works and complicate authority lines and decision-making. Thus the 26/11 episode was followed by the mooting of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (of the kind the CIA has) as the apex body to coordinate, collate, and process intelligence data streaming in from a plethora of agencies. Except the National Grid (Natgrid) was already established for this purpose.
It leads one to ponder the worst — the horrendous consequences and the aftermath of, say, a nuclear attack. Over the last 15 years, when addressing military audiences on nuclear doctrine and strategy, I have made it a point to bring up the little matter of the "No First Use" (NFU) principle embedded in the country's nuclear doctrine. It elicits knowing laughter when I tell the officers that for a country that is unable to handle a seasonal phenomenon, such as "a Monsoon strike" that can be predicted to the hour and reduces Indian cities to extended lakes, to imagine it can absorb a nuclear first strike, and retain its wit and wherewithal to launch a retaliatory counter-strike as decreed by the Indian nuclear doctrine is, beyond fantastical to, in fact, be delusional!
And yet, the NFU is one of the central pillars of India's nuclear strategy requiring that, notwithstanding any intelligence of an adversary planning a surprise nuclear attack, Indian strategic forces will have to bide their time, wait patiently for the enemy to first vaporize an Indian metropolis, say, at his convenience, before a nuclear missile salvo is permitted to be fired in retaliation. The country's institutional/systemic weaknesses and the government's inability to keep its head and nerve in a crisis of any kind, should have been factored into drafting the nuclear doctrine, and NFU discarded at that stage, but it wasn't. The NFU, incidentally, was hotly debated by the doctrine drafting group in the National Security Advisory Board and incorporated any way for all the wrong reasons and without reference to an absent civil defence system and infrastructure.
NDMA, incidentally, is tasked with drawing up plans for dealing with nuclear bombed Indian cities or, more plausibly, the triggering of radiation diffusion devices ("dirty bombs"). Hopefully, NDMA has stocked up on the anti-radiation potassium idodate pills and, perhaps, has made plans for evacuating people and, in case of alerts being available, of removing large parts of the population, for instance, to the tunnelled portions of the track on which the Metro trains run – such tunnels being perfect underground nuclear shelters. Except, such evacuation/safety measures will have to be repeatedly practiced by the people and conducted by NDMA, with the tunnels being provisioned with sufficient food, medicines, etc.
But civil defence exercises to train city folk on what to do, where to go, and why to avoid mass hysteria, panic and pandemonium have not so far been undertaken by NDMA in any city, and the first time its plans will be rolled out is only post-nuclear attack. Then, it will be discovered that everything which works well on paper, in actual practice, will go horribly wrong. In the event, people will be left free to deal with this cataclysm the best they can, mostly on their own.
[Published in the 'New Indian Express' July 12, 2013 at http://newindianexpress.com/opinion/Unprepared-for-anything/2013/07/12/article1678942.ece
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Guru says:
Very nicely put. As any practitioner in the nuclear field knows, the 3 aspects of disaster response hinges on "APT: Awareness, Preparedness and then Training". When the first prerequisite, ie, awareness is itself so abysmally low, then one shudders to think of the outcome if a RDD is ever used by any non state actor(s) on Indian soil.
Hopefully, with more such articles in the public domain, the citizens themselves will clamour and get the much needed response, or is that just wishful thinking???


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1. Once a day every day write down 10 things that you are thankful for. Use the format mentioned by Rhonda Byrne in the book "Magic": I am thankful for _________ , because _________.
2. After you have completed your list, read it to yourself. As you go through the list keep in mind how much each thing on the list pleases you and after each sentence and say "Thank you, thank you, thank you".
You will almost immediately start feeling the effects of this practice benefit you daily life. The interesting part is that the ore you practice it, the more it becomes a part of your nature and the more satisfied you naturally satisfied you become as an individual.
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If your Mac uses a case-sensitive filesystem, the Safari Plugin that comes with the new Flip4Mac Windows Media component will not load properly. The correct directory for the plugin is /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/, but the installer doesn't properly capitalize that last 'i'. The files wind up in a new directory named /Library/Internet Plug-ins/.
To fix the problem, just move the Flip4Mac files from the lowercase 'i' directory into the uppercase 'I' directory. Then, move the "Windows Media Plugin" bundle to the "Disabled Plug-Ins" folder. Quit and re-open Safari to activate the plugin.
Most users won't be affected, because Macs use case-insensitive filesystems by default. On these systems, lowercase and uppercase letters can be used interchangeably in filenames, and small errors like this cause no trouble. This should only be an issue on systems that have been reformatted to use case-sensitive filenames. I've sent a note to Flip4Mac about the issue, so hopefully this will be fixed in the next release.
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Characters, Main Characters
Gilmore Girls Lore: Emily Gilmore
Emily (last name n/a)
The Cobra
Vicious Trollop(once by Lorelai)
Docent at Nantucket Whaling Museum
Corporate wife
(daughter)
(granddaughter)
(sister)
Lorelai "Trix" Gilmore †
(mother-in-law)
Charles Gilmore †
(father-in-law)
Cora †
(aunt)
(son-in-law)
April Nardini
(step-granddaughter)
Unborn great-grandchild
Richard Gilmore †
(husband)
Simon McLain
(dated)
(boyfriend)
Sweetie Nelson
Natalie Swope
Cassie Sullivan
Carol Stiles
Pilot (1.01) Fall (8.04)
❝I've never done anything❞
—Emily reflecting on her life[src]
Emily Gilmore is a supporting character on WB drama Gilmore Girls. She is portrayed by Kelly Bishop.
Emily went to Smith College and was a History major. She is at home in high society, and hosts functions related to Richard's business[1] and her charity work on a weekly basis, and is very finicky about all of the details. She is a person of taste and appreciates fine things. Both she and Richard are well-traveled and have visited Europe many times. This traveling was shared with Rory when the two traveled Europe together.[2] Outside this world of fancy and niceties, she appears incapable of dealing with her emotions, not wanting to show her vulnerability, seeming at times non-compassionate.
Series arc
Although much of the Gilmore Girls focuses on the relationship between Lorelai and Rory, Lorelai and Emily's fractured relationship forms a strong counterpoint to the generally positive relationship between Lorelai and Rory. In season 5-6 Emily goes against Lorelai's wishes and along with Richard allows Rory to drop out of Yale and gets her "do-over with the daughter [she] always wanted" causing a rift between Lorelai and Emily and Lorelai and Rory. Emily is a dedicated and committed member of her society lifestyle and of the Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]. She hosts many events and is instrumental in Rory's involvement in the DAR in Season 6. She has a definite eye for detail and is known for her strict requirements placed on people who provide services to her, (a recurring joke is that there is a new maid every episode) most notable are her interactions with her maids who are always "incompetent". Her history with Maids is a checkered one and includes being sued by a former maid who she had fired for walking too loudly to firing a maid because of Rory's interaction with her. She has had maids from Guatemala, Britain, Ireland, Romania, USA, Portugal, France, Germany and numerous other countries and is constantly criticized for her treatment of them and the expectations she has of them. Though it is mentioned that she pays the best rates.
Although her character provides comic moments, hers is one of the darker characters on the show, being manipulative and vindictive at times. Though this is often not truly the case when it comes to her family. Emily deeply felt the loss of Lorelai and Rory when they left the house a year after Rory was born. Her "manipulations" are often an attempt to provide what she believes to be the best for Lorelai, Rory and Richard and to help Lorelai and Christopher be the family "they should be". The hurt she has felt over the years from missing out on this life is obvious, especially when she learns that Lorelai had broken her leg or when she first sees where Rory grew up at the Independence Inn. She has reached out to Lorelai numerous times over the years and holds people at arms length as much as her daughter does. When Jason decides on Atlantic City instead of a "stuffy old cocktail party" telling Emily she could "relax and hang out" her conversation with Lorelai was heartfelt and honest, leaving herself vulnerable with her daughter for just a moment. She is very loyal and her family is very important, this is evidenced best when coming to the aid of Lorelai when Christopher ambushes Friday night dinner, asking him to leave, and when she discovers that Lorelai has a back spasm she stays with her to make sure she is looked after. She is often a misunderstood character with some wanting only to see the negative due to her treatment of Lorelai, though in truth they are much more alike than either of them would ever admit. As far as their relationship goes in comparison to Lorelai's relationship with Rory, Lorelai and Emily are "mother and daughter always" while she and Rory are "best friends first, mother and daughter second."
She met Richard at a Yale college party, when he was engaged to Pennilyn Lott. Emily was the "other woman" until Richard broke it off with his fiance after she "showed up to the party in that blue dress." He proposed to Emily by a bench at Yale University (subsequently replaced by a trash can)[3], they got married in 1965 when Emily was 23. You can estimate that she had Lorelai at 26. Richard and Emily separate[4] after Richard pushes Jason out in order to return to Floyd Stiles's company and avoid a lawsuit.
For a short time Emily stays at a hotel, but returns to the house with Richard moving into the Pool House. They are shortly at a detente when a stray dog shows up and they both care for it until its owners were found. However, this is short lived and Emily attempts to date, going to dinner with another man after asking Lorelai how it "worked". Richard and Emily only truly reunite when Richard drove into the back of her car at a charity event, after seeing her speaking with the man she had been to dinner with. When they return home they were both obviously unhappy with the situation and Richard moves back into the main house.
❝It's Mrs. Gilmore – Mrs.! I am not a cosmo-woman❞
—Emily[src]
❝You can't even let Rory have one piece of our lives, even if it's her choice. You hate us that much❞
—Emily to Lorelai[src]
❝When a woman gives birth to a crack baby, you do not buy her a puppy❞
Emily is at least conversational in French (as evidenced by her conversations with Michel)[5] and Italian (shown when she travels through Europe with Rory)[6].
She travelled Europe by herself when she was in college.[2]
She is Protestant. If her family have stayed in Connecticut since their ancestors arrived, they are either Lutheran, Congregationalist, or Anglican.
She has a sister, Hope, who lives in France[7].
She went through 14 hours of labor before giving birth to Lorelai.
When she was 12 she decided her wedding bouquet would be lilies and orchids tied together with a silver bow.
She's part of a book club.
She takes a water aerobics class, which Richard wanted to join when he retired for the first time[8].
Shopping is one of her pastimes, and she is on very good terms with a Bloomingfield's-esque department store.
Emily found her mother-in-law insufferable, something that made Lorelai grin with glee[9].
She wishes she was as close with Lorelai as Lorelai is with Rory[10]. Also, she admires the way Lorelai is in control of her life[11].
According to Richard, she wore an overcoat when they went skinny dipping.
She was on the field hockey team at college.
Together with Richard she bought an annex where they can store the bodies of loved ones once room runs out in the family crypt.
Emily is friends with Headmaster Charleston's wife Bitty, as they are on the symphony board together[12].
She keeps her wedding dress in the attic, and offered to save it for Rory[7].
She wears St. John Knit in most of the episodes she is in.
She is on the board of multiple charitable organizations, including the Starlight Foundation, the Hartford Symphony, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Half of the organizations she chairs.
She writes notes on her vanity mirror to remind herself of her errands for the day.[13]
Emily Gilmore/Gallery
↑ An Affair to Remember
↑ 2.0 2.1 Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller
↑ Let the Games Begin
↑ Afterboom
↑ Emily in Wonderland
↑ A Messenger, Nothing More
↑ 7.0 7.1 Love and War and Snow
↑ Richard in Stars Hollow
↑ The Third Lorelai
↑ There's the Rub
↑ Scene in a Mall
↑ The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
↑ Help Wanted
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John Coleman named Sky Bet League 2 Manager of the Month
Accrington Stanley boss John Coleman has been named the Sky Bet League 2 Manager of the Month for September.
A creditable draw at Portsmouth was followed by four straight victories as swashbuckling Stanley climbed into the Sky Bet League 2 Play-Off places.
Coleman's passing creed saw his attractive side score 10 goals while conceding just three.
The manager said: "It's an honour to receive the award but it's a fallacy that it's Manager of the Month as it should be Team of the Month as it's the team that gets the most points.
"I am just the recipient. I didn't score any goals - although I wish I had.
"The last time I got any kind of award like this, we won the league - the Conference - so hopefully it's an omen."
George Burley, who chairs the Sky Bet Manager of the Month judging panel, said: "To gain promotion you have to be consistent and John has certainly got this from Accrington Stanley in September.
"They achieved a good draw against Portsmouth then had four straight wins scoring 10 goals while conceding just three."
Sky Sports' Football League pundit Don Goodman said: "What a job John Coleman is doing at Accrington Stanley.
"Tipped by many to be relegation candidates, his side have defied everyone's expectations and are sitting pretty just inside the Play-Off places thanks to an incredible September."
Sky Bet Football Trading Manager Paul Lowery said: "Stanley started the season as they usually do – tipped by many to struggle towards the bottom of Sky Bet League 2.
"Thoughts have now turned to the top of the table thanks to an unbeaten month featuring a very creditable point away to title favourites Portsmouth as well as convincing wins over Exeter and Crawley."
The Sky Bet Manager of the Month judging panel comprises former Ipswich Town boss George Burley, Sky Sports' Football League expert Don Goodman; Football League Chief Operating Officer Andy Williamson; League Managers' Association Director Olaf Dixon and Sky Bet Football Trading Manager Paul Lowery.