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In some cases, as with Chronicles of Narniadisagreements about order necessitate the creation of more than one series. A vecna hand of the revenant theme in the adventures in which the character appears is Vecna's never-ending quest for power, ending, should he succeed, with Vecna as the only deity in existence.
Relationships[ edit ] Vecna has few allies, and countless enemies.
In 2nd and 3rd Edition, his greatest, and perhaps only true ally is the mysterious entity known as the Serpent. The famed cambion lich, Acererakonce served Vecna, but the current status of their relationship is unknown. In 4th edition, Vecna's main foes in the realm vecna hand of the revenant death and undeath are KasOrcus vecna hand of the revenant the Raven Queen though he would rather she rule the dead than Orcus.
Among the gods, Ioun is something of Vecna's antithesis, for she would share with the world all the knowledge he would keep secret. Scriptures[ edit ] Being a secretive cult, there are no real collections of Vecnan teachings.
However, copies of the Book of Vile Darkness are highly prized by the cult for Vecna's role in that work's development.
The Open Grave book offers the "Scroll of Mauthereign", which offers a twisted version of Vecna's history and tells his followers that committing evil acts is holy and righteous. Worshippers[ edit ] Vecna's cult is very secretive, and cells have been uncovered, at various points in history, in Diamond Vecna hand of the revenantGreyhawkand Verbobonc.
Temples to Vecna have also been reported in the Pomarj town of Highport and Erelhei-Cinluthe debased city at the heart of the Vault of the Drow. Hierarchy[ edit ] Each position in Vecna's vecna hand of the revenant is named for a certain body part. At the top is Vecna himself, followed by the Voice of Vecna, which can only be filled by Vecna's manifestation.
Next is the Heart of Vecna, the high priest of the cult.


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Age-related changes in working memory and the ability to ignore distraction
Fiona McNab, Peter Zeidman, Robb B. Rutledge, Peter Smittenaar, Harriet R. Brown, Rick A. Adams, and Raymond J. Dolan
aSchool of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom;
bWellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, and
cMax Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom; and
dThe Brain and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
PNAS May 19, 2015 112 (20) 6515-6518; first published May 4, 2015; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504162112
Fiona McNab
Peter Zeidman
Robb B. Rutledge
Peter Smittenaar
Harriet R. Brown
Rick A. Adams
Raymond J. Dolan
Edited by Marcus E. Raichle, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, and approved April 8, 2015 (received for review March 3, 2015)
We reveal a novel and highly significant change in how items are held in mind in healthy aging. Using smartphones, data were collected from 29,631 participants, between the ages of 18–69 y. We compare the ability to exclude distractors when items are entered into working memory (WM) (encoding distraction, ED) and when items are held in mind (delay distraction, DD). In older adults, WM in the absence of distraction was more similar to ED exclusion than DD exclusion. A greater reliance on focused attention during encoding may reflect compensation for the more pronounced deterioration we observed in DD exclusion in older age. This can inform other areas of cognition and strategies to ameliorate or manage debilitating age-related cognitive decline.
A weakened ability to effectively resist distraction is a potential basis for reduced working memory capacity (WMC) associated with healthy aging. Exploiting data from 29,631 users of a smartphone game, we show that, as age increases, working memory (WM) performance is compromised more by distractors presented during WM maintenance than distractors presented during encoding. However, with increasing age, the ability to exclude distraction at encoding is a better predictor of WMC in the absence of distraction. A significantly greater contribution of distractor filtering at encoding represents a potential compensation for reduced WMC in older age.
↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: F.McNab{at}bham.ac.uk.
Author contributions: F.M. designed research; P.Z., R.B.R., P.S., H.R.B., and R.A.A. contributed to the development of the application; F.M. analyzed data; and F.M. and R.J.D. wrote the paper.
Data deposition: The data reported in this paper are available on request from The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging.
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Fiona McNab, Peter Zeidman, Robb B. Rutledge, Peter Smittenaar, Harriet R. Brown, Rick A. Adams, Raymond J. Dolan
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2015, 112 (20) 6515-6518; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504162112

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How does the default PHP error handler work? Is it safe from race conditions?
For example, do I have to lock the file (which might cause errors to be lost in this simple version)
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You are almost certainly better off using the built in logging available via error_log.
The PHP flock implementation uses advisory locking, which makes it possible for other processes to simply ignore the lock and write. Additionally, within your own processes you will end up being IO bound as the process waits to acquire the lock. By using error_log, you can configure syslog logging. Syslog is asynchronous so you avoid the lock acquisition, and it's also backed (generally) by a kernel buffer which will allow any syslog daemon to write consecutive records without a problem.
Having implemented high throughput logging at a number of companies I would strongly recommend configuring either syslog or going with something like scribe. My 2c.

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Man 1: It was always Tex and Diane or Diane and Tex.
Man 2: Was the gun inside the bag or outside the bag when you saw it in Mr. McIver's hands?
Dani: Halfway inside and halfway outside. I couldn't see the entire gun.
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Michaela: This was big news in Atlanta. It's a big case. These are people that were colleagues and are colleagues of yours.
Michaela: Let's talk about this testimony.
Michaela: How important was this, from Dani Jo?
Page: Well, it's critical because she is the only witness to the killing. She was in the car at the time. She did not actually see Tex McIver fire.
Page: She was driving, but she heard it. And she immediately turned around to see what was happening. Tex McIver's cleaning off the revolver right after he fired the shot. The gun is halfway in a bag, halfway out of a bag, so it's critical testimony. Now, she could have helped the state a lot more had she actually seen him shoot the gun.
Page: Because there's some question about the forensics. Did it appear to go off accidentally? Was he in a position where he was actually aiming the firearm? A lot of unanswered questions.
Michaela: One of the things that I found interesting is that she revealed in testimony that he actually asked her to lie to police.
Michaela: That's never good. I'm not a legal person, but that feels wrong to me.
Page: Right, not a good strategy, no.
Michaela: Not a good look.
Michaela: Does that speak to culpability to you or more of a personality trait?
Page: It could speak to both, and that's why I think it's going to be important for the defense to tell the jury who Tex McIver is. I don't know him personally, but I know him by reputation. He's a very controlling kind of guy. And he's a lawyer, so he's thinking not just as a husband at that point, but as a lawyer who knows this is going to be investigated.
Michaela: And he doesn't want to go to jail, as a lawyer.
Michaela: How damaging is that?
Page: Well, who does? Who wants to go to jail?
Page: The defense is saying, "Well, it's because he's claustrophobic. He doesn't want to be in a jail cell," but he did take a lot of steps that the state contends were very unusual, things that he did that somebody who was simply present and had an accident occur, they wouldn't do those things.
Michaela: You're a defense attorney.
Michaela: If this was your client, let's just pretend, would you advise him to take the stand to testify on his own behalf?
Page: Absolutely not, because at the end of the day, the state has a lot of sizzle, but no real meat here. There was some inconsistent statements, but there's nothing to suggest that he had a true motive to kill his wife at the time that he actually did. There was no real argument prior to that time.
Michaela: But who cleans their gun in the backseat while you're driving around Atlanta?
Page: He has all kinds of excuses for that. He took it out because he was scared of the neighborhood. He took it out and then fell asleep before putting it back in and it went off. Again, all of those could point to this being a murder, but it's not substantial enough to show guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Now, if he takes the stand, he may make more inconsistent statements.
Michaela: Yeah, and it gets troublesome.
Page: Exactly, and he's not a real likeable guy. So the jury may listen to him, hold him responsible for his wife's murder, and he could be convicted even though the state doesn't have all of that evident.
Michaela: Isn't it fascinating? I tell you, talking to Page, because again, any insider in this whole legal world here in Atlanta, to get your perspective on this and your professional perspective is invaluable to us. Thank you so much.
Page: Thank you, [inaudible 00:04:05].
Michaela: A delight to see you in person as well.


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I'm not trying to bum you out with all this grief business. But it's life, right? And I didn't quite finish what I wanted to share in the last post.
And that's this: Sage advice for friends who want to help, but aren't sure how.
I was a third of my way through the first draft of Shelter Us when I discovered/decided that protagonist Sarah Shaw, a mother of two boys, had had an infant who died. Up until then, she was just a woman struggling with an unnamed loneliness.
I decided to make Sarah virtually friendless. (Okay, I admit that part of this decision was connected to the fact that this first-time novelist wanted to juggle as few characters as possible. This may also explain why Sarah and her husband are only children, with one living parent each).
But a weightier part of the choice to make her friendless was my intuition that a mother who had lost an infant would lose friends, too. It was too easy to see living examples of this situation. I could look at myself to understand a person who, in the presence of great loss, did not know what to do or say, who shied away from facing another person's pain directly.
Susan made sure that GriefHaven would not only offer resources to grieving parents, but to the friends wanting to support them (as well as these resources for children.).
Just "be" with the parent when they are grieving. Share your own feelings about the child's death, such as, "My heart aches for you. I wish there were something I could do." or "I care so much," or "I miss Joey too. I remember him running down the street with his friends," or "She will never be forgotten." Those types of comments are real and come from your heart.
Also, just listen. Listen. Listen. Listen.
Also, cry with the parent. You don't need to be stoic. Your tears will not upset the parent. Quite to the contrary, your tears show them that they are not alone. We often hear that crying with someone is healing for the parents and siblings. This also applies to grandparents and other family members.
As part of trying to help parents and siblings, avoid trying to help them see some kind of "silver lining" in their lives, such as pointing out all of the "blessings" the parents still have. For instance, you would want to avoid saying things like, "You have other beautiful children" or "At least you had her for seven years" or "She's in a better place" or even "You need to be strong." What is true strength anyway? We would say that it takes real strength to feel the pain, deal with it on a daily basis, and let it be expressed in whatever way works. That is true strength.
One more shout-out on this topic, then I'm done. The brilliant, funny, wise Judy Silk wrote a beautiful piece after her husband Dan died. She said, in a nutshell, "Please talk about him. Say his name." As much as death is a part of life, we don't really know what to do or say, what will help. So I am grateful for the wisdom, hard won, of two extraordinary humans, whose lives and words can shine a light down the darkened path we may all walk down one day.
Thank you, Susan, for sharing about what helped you. In the course of writing about how a baby's death affected a family, I have heard from many people who experienced a miscarriage and felt that they either didn't want people to know, or couldn't talk about it. It's a big loss, too, and important that women can feel supported and loved as they go through it and the pain that comes with it. And of course, that they will come through it and there will be laughter again.


Parastrongylus (=Angiostrongylus) costaricensis was first reported in the United States from cotton rats, Sigmodon hispidus, in Texas in 1979. Here, we report the findings of P. costaricensis in a siamang (Hylobates syndactylus) from the Miami MetroZoo, in 2 Ma's night monkeys (Aotus nancymaae) from the DuMond Conservancy located at Monkey Jungle in Miami, in 4 raccoons (Procyon lotor) trapped near the MetroZoo, and in an opossum (Didelphis virginiana) trapped at the MetroZoo. These records are the first records of P. costaricensis from all 4 species of hosts. All of the primates were zoo-born, and the raccoons and opossum were native, indicating that this parasite is now endemic at these 2 sites.


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El torrent del mas Canals, també anomenat torrent de Can Bonvilà, és un curs d'aigua del Vallès Occidental. Neix a l'oest del terme de Terrassa, creua els plans de Can Bonvilà passant a prop de Can bonvilà i mas Canals i finalment entra a la ciutat de Sabadell per desembocar a la riereta, al barri de Ca n'Oriac.

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Rius de Sabadell
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Scipio Colombo (25 May 1910 – 13 April 2002) was an Italian dramatic baritone, and was known for his abilities as a musician and singing-actor.

Born in Vicenza, Italy, Colombo first studied philosophy at the University of Padua, before turning to music. He studied in Milan with Giuseppe Venturini and in Rome with Giuseppe de Luca, and made his debut in Alessandria, as Marcello in La bohème, in 1937.

Throughout World War II, he sang at most of the major opera houses of Italy, including the Teatro alla Scala. In 1947, he sang there in the Milan premiere of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, and of Britten's Peter Grimes, and later took part in the world premiere of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, as the Marquis de la Force, in 1957. He also sang in Mussorgski's Khovantchina, in 1949. He created roles in contemporary Italian works, notably in  Dallapiccola's Il prigioniero (Florence, 1950), and  Pizzetti's Cagliostro (La Scala, 1953).  He also sang in Dallapiccola's Volo di notte at the Scala (1964).

He made guest appearances at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Vienna State Opera (Il trovatore, Rigoletto, and Tosca, in 1955 and 1956), Arena di Verona, and Covent Garden (Tosca, in 1956 and 1958), as well as the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Bregenz Festival.

Colombo also sang many of the great baritone roles of the Italian repertory:  Rigoletto, Count di Luna, Giorgio Germont, Count Almaviva, Don Giovanni, Guglielmo, Lescaut, Marcello, etc.  In 1957, the singing-actor sang the Baron Scarpia to Magda Olivero's first Floria Tosca, for RAI (a performance published on Compact Discs, by Opera Depot).

In 1956, the baritone portrayed Ford in a film of Falstaff for RAI, with Giuseppe Taddei in the name part, Tullio Serafin conducting, and Herbert Graf directing.  In 2005, VAI published the film on DVD.

He was awarded the Order of Merit by the Emperor of Japan.

Beginning in 1963, he taught at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe. He died in Gernsbach, Germany.

Studio Discography
 Giordano: Fedora (Caniglia, Prandelli; Rossi, 1950) Cetra
 Verdi: Luisa Miller (Kelston, Lauri-Volpi; Rossi, 1951) Cetra
 Puccini: Tosca (dell'Argine, Scattolini; Quadri, 1951) Westminster
 Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Aimaro, Oncina, Luise; Quadri, 1952) Westminster

Videography
 Verdi: Falstaff (Carteri, Moffo, Barbieri, Alva, Taddei; Serafin, Graf, 1956) VAI

Sources
 Operissimo.com

External links
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1910 births
2002 deaths
People from Vicenza
Italian operatic baritones
University of Padua alumni
Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe
20th-century Italian  male opera singers


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Breastfeeding on the rise
The percentage of mothers who start and continue breastfeeding is rising, a trend officials say is good for public health.
By Kathryn Mayer | Updated on February 07, 2013
According to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mothers who started breastfeeding increased more than 4 percentage points from 2000 to 2008. During that same time, the number of mothers still breastfeeding at six months jumped nearly 10 percentage points, from 35 percent in 2000 to nearly 45 percent in 2008.
What employers should prioritize in 2023: Mental health and cost-containment
Rachel Trembley | January 26, 2023
The top two priorities for just about every employer should be keeping benefits affordable while bolstering mental health programs.
David Baumann | January 26, 2023
No slowdown is expected in the coming months when it comes to employer-sponsored health care and retirement plans. Here are some of the big-ticket items.
Employers, beware, prepare: Workplace disputes spark some mass attacks, says report
Enhanced mental health benefits may be especially important in the wake of the pandemic and at a time of economic uncertainty, and employers should also anticipate the unexpected, says a new report from the Secret Service.


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Polish monks reluctant to leave Central African Republic
Peter Gentle 05.02.2014 09:26
Poland's foreign ministry has appealed to Polish missionaries to leave the Central African Republic "immediately" as ethnic violence left at least 75, mostly Christians, dead this week.
Foreign Ministry's Marcin Wojciechowski (right) with president of the Capuchin Foundation Tomasz Grabiec in Warsaw: photo - PAP/Jakub Kamiński
"In connection with the dramatically worsening security situation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland categorically appeals to Polish nationals residing permanently or temporarily in the Central African Republic to leave the country immediately using any available means of transportation until the situation returns to normal," a statement on the ministry's web site says.
The appeal comes after a Polish mission in Ngaoundaye was raided by Muslim rebels on Monday.
A Polish foreign ministry official is meeting with the Capuchin Order in the Central African Republic after reports that the missionaries are refusing the leave the country, where ethnic violence between Christians and Muslims has caused around 20 percent of the population to flee their homes.
Thirty nine monks and others connected to the order are now in the country after three more missionaries and a nurse arrived from Poland this week, Polish Radio's new agency (IAR) is reporting.
"We are in touch with Catholic missionaries despite communication problems," foreign ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski told reporters in Monday.
"We are offering to evacuate the Polish missionaries. But because of the nature of their work, their vocation, for them [leaving the country] is the last resort," he added after meeting with president of the Capuchin Foundation in Warsaw, Father Tomasz Grabiec.
Sectarian fighting in the town of Boda, around 100 kilometers from the capital Bangui, left at least 75 people dead, a local priest has said.
The majority of those confirmed dead were Christian, Father Cassien Kamatari said.
Fifty Polish troops are to assist 1,600 French and 4,000 African soldiers with logistical support in the Central African Republic as they try to stabilize the situation there.
The United Nations has estimated that around 10,000 troops are needed on the ground, however. (pg)
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package es.fnl.fsm;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Stack;

/**
 * An engine that performs match operation on a sequence of generic elements E by
 * interpreting a {@link Pattern} (analogous to Java's {@link java.util.regex.Matcher}).
 *

 * A matcher is created from a pattern by invoking the pattern's {@link Pattern#matcher(List)
 * matcher} method. Once created, a matcher can be used to perform different kinds of match
 * operations:
 *

 *
The {@link Matcher#matches matches} method attempts to match the entire input sequence
 * against the pattern.

 *
The {@link Matcher#find() find} method scans the input sequence, looking for the next
 * subsequence that matches the pattern.

 *
The {@link Matcher#lookingAt lookingAt} method attempts to match the input sequence,
 * starting at the beginning, against the pattern.

 *

 * Each of these methods returns a Boolean value indicating success or failure. More information
 * about a successful match can be obtained by querying the state of the matcher.
 *

 * The explicit state of a matcher includes the start and end indices of the most recent successful
 * match. It also includes the start and end indices of the input subsequence captured by each
 * capturing group in the pattern as well as a total count of such subsequences. As a convenience,
 * methods are also provided for returning these captured subsequences.
 *

 * A few convenience methods present in Java's {@link java.util.regex.Matcher} are not implemented,
 * particularly appendReplacement, appendTail, and
 * replaceAll.
 *

 * Greedy vs. non-greedy behavior of the quantifiers can be modified by changing the
 * {@link #greedy} flag (default: non-greedy matching).
 *

 * This class is not thread-safe.
 *
 * @author Florian Leitner
 */
public final class Matcher<E> {
  final State<E> entry;
  final State<E> exit;
  private List<E> seq;
  private int len; // length of the previous match (-1 if the previous match attempt failed)
  private int idx; // offset of the previous match (-1 if no previous match attempt was made)
  private int[][] captureGroups; // capture group offsets (int[][2] arrays)
  private BFSQueue<E> queue;
  /** A flag indicating whether quantifiers should behave greedily or not (the default). */
  public boolean greedy = false;

  /**
   * Creates a new Matcher object.
   *
   * @param entry pattern state
   * @param exit pattern state
   * @param sequence to match
   */
  Matcher(State<E> entry, State<E> exit, List<E> sequence) {
    this.entry = entry;
    this.exit = exit;
    reset(sequence);
  }

  /** Returns the pattern that is interpreted by this matcher. */
  public Pattern<E> pattern() {
    return new Pattern<E>(entry, exit);
  }

  /**
   * Attempts to find the next subsequence of the input sequence that matches the pattern.
   *

   * This method starts at the beginning of the input sequence or, if a previous invocation of the
   * method was successful and the matcher has not since been {@link #reset}, at the first
   * character not matched by the previous match.
   *

   * If the match succeeds, more information can be obtained via the {@link #start}, {@link #end},
   * and {@link #group} methods.
   */
  public boolean find() {
    // if no failed previous attempt is indicated
    if (len != -1) {
      int max = seq.size();
      idx += len;
      while ((len = match()) == -1 && idx++ < max) {}
    }
    return (len != -1);
  }

  /**
   * Resets this matcher and then attempts to find the next subsequence of the input sequence that
   * matches the pattern, starting at the specified index.
   *

   * If the match succeeds, more information can be obtained via the {@link #start}, {@link #end},
   * and {@link #group} methods.
   *
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if start is less than zero or greater than the length of the
   *         input sequence
   */
  public boolean find(int start) {
    idx = start;
    len = 0;
    return find();
  }

  /**
   * Attempts to match the input sequence, starting at the beginning, against the pattern.
   *

   * Like the {@link #matches} method, this method always starts at the beginning of the input
   * sequence; unlike that method, it does not require that the entire input sequence be matched.
   *

   * If the match succeeds, more information can be obtained via the {@link #start}, {@link #end},
   * and {@link #group} methods.
   *
   * @return true if any input sequence' prefix matches the pattern
   */
  public boolean lookingAt() {
    idx = 0;
    return ((len = match()) != -1);
  }

  /**
   * Return true if the whole (entire) sequence matches.
   *

   * If the match succeeds, more information can be obtained via the {@link #start}, {@link #end},
   * and {@link #group} methods.
   */
  public boolean matches() {
    idx = 0;
    if ((len = match()) == seq.size()) {
      return true;
    } else {
      len = -1; // set the flag indicating that this previous match failed
      return false;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Return the subsequence matched by the previous match.
   *

   * For a matcher m with input sequence s, the expressions
   * m.group() and s.subList(m.start(),
   * m.end()) are equivalent.
   *

   * Don't forget that the result could be an empty list for particular patterns.
   *
   * @throws IllegalStateException if no match has yet been attempted, or if the previous match
   *         operation failed
   */
  public List<E> group() {
    if (noMatch()) throw new IllegalStateException("no previous match");
    return seq.subList(idx, idx + len);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the input subsequence captured by the given group during the previous match operation.
   *

   * Capturing groups are indexed from left to right, starting at one. Group zero denotes the
   * entire pattern, so the expression m.{@link #group(int) group(0)} is equivalent to
   * m.{@link #group()}.
   *
   * @param group index of a capturing group in this matcher's pattern
   * @throws IllegalStateException if no match has yet been attempted, or if the previous match
   *         operation failed
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if there is no capturing group in the pattern with the given
   *         index
   */
  public List<E> group(int group) {
    if (group == 0) return group();
    if (noMatch()) throw new IllegalStateException("no previous match");
    int[] o = captureGroups[group - 1];
    return seq.subList(o[0], o[1]);
  }

  /** Returns the number of capturing groups in this matcher's pattern. */
  public int groupCount() {
    return captureGroups.length;
  }

  /**
   * Returns an array of group offsets (start, end), including the entire match group.
   *

   * The first two integers are the entire match' offsets, each following pair are for each group.
   * I.e., the length of the resulting array will always be even.
   *
   * @return all group offset pairs (start, end)
   * @throws IllegalStateException if no match has yet been attempted, or if the previous match
   *         operation failed
   */
  public int[] groups() {
    if (noMatch()) throw new IllegalStateException("no previous match");
    int[] groups = new int[2 + captureGroups.length * 2];
    for (int i = captureGroups.length; i >= 0; i--) {
      groups[i * 2] = start(i);
      groups[i * 2 + 1] = end(i);
    }
    return groups;
  }

  /**
   * Return the start index of last match.
   *
   * @throws IllegalStateException if no match has yet been attempted, or if the previous match
   *         operation failed
   */
  public int start() {
    if (noMatch()) throw new IllegalStateException("no previous match");
    return idx;
  }

  /**
   * Return the end index of last match.
   *
   * @throws IllegalStateException if no match has yet been attempted, or if the previous match
   *         operation failed
   */
  public int end() {
    if (noMatch()) throw new IllegalStateException("no previous match");
    return idx + len;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the start index of the subsequence captured by the given group during the previous
   * match operation.
   *

   * Capturing groups are indexed from left to right, starting at one. Group zero denotes the
   * entire pattern, so the expression m.{@link #start(int) start(0)} is equivalent to
   * m.{@link #start()}.
   *
   * @throws IllegalStateException if no match has yet been attempted, or if the previous match
   *         operation failed
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if there is no capturing group in the pattern with the given
   *         index
   */
  public int start(int group) {
    if (group == 0) return start();
    if (noMatch()) throw new IllegalStateException("no previous match");
    return captureGroups[group - 1][0];
  }

  /**
   * Returns the end index of the subsequence captured by the given group during the previous match
   * operation.
   *

   * Capturing groups are indexed from left to right, starting at one. Group zero denotes the
   * entire pattern, so the expression m.{@link #end(int) end(0)} is equivalent to
   * m.{@link #end()}.
   *
   * @throws IllegalStateException if no match has yet been attempted, or if the previous match
   *         operation failed
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if there is no capturing group in the pattern with the given
   *         index
   */
  public int end(int group) {
    if (group == 0) return end();
    if (noMatch()) throw new IllegalStateException("no previous match");
    return captureGroups[group - 1][1];
  }

  /** Resets this matcher, returning itself. */
  public Matcher<E> reset() {
    idx = -1;
    len = 1;
    return this;
  }

  /** Resets this matcher with a new sequence, returning itself. */
  public Matcher<E> reset(List<E> input) {
    seq = new ArrayList<E>(input);
    idx = -1;
    len = 1;
    return this;
  }

  /** Check if there was a previously made match. */
  private boolean noMatch() {
    return (len == -1 || idx == -1);
  }

  /**
   * Breadth-first search of a match for the pattern in the input sequence at the current
   * {@link #idx index}.
   *
   * @return the match length or -1 if no match was made
   */
  private int match() {
    if (idx > seq.size()) throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException("offset exceeds sequence length");
    captureGroups = new int[][] {}; // reset capture groups
    // (capture groups will be built from the backtrace of the queue)
    if (entry.isFinal()) return 0; // a "match anything" pattern...
    E element; // the currently consumed item
    State<E> state = entry; // the currently processed state
    int offset = idx; // the current position of the state machine in the sequence
    queue = new BFSQueue<E>(offset, state); // start a new tracer queue
    QueueItem<State<E>> match = null; // for greedy mode
    int length = -1; // for greedy mode
    // search for an accept state on the queue while there are items in it
    search:
    while (!queue.isEmpty()) {
      QueueItem<State<E>> item = queue.remove();
      offset = item.index();
      state = item.get();
      if (state.isFinal()) {
        // determine the length of this matching sequence
        length = offset - idx;
        match = item;
        if (!greedy) break search; // only keep looking in greedy mode
      } else if (offset < seq.size()) {
        element = seq.get(offset); // get the item in the sequence at the relevant index
        for (Transition<E> t : state.transitions.keySet()) {
          if (t.matches(element)) {
            // add the result states of matching transitions (if they have not been added yet)
            queue.addTransistions(offset + 1, item, state.transitions.get(t), t.weight());
          }
        }
      }
      if (state.epsilonTransitions.size() > 0)
        queue.addTransistions(offset, item, state.epsilonTransitions, 0.0);
    }
    // backtrack captured groups
    if (match != null) setCaptureGroups(match);
    return length;
  }

  /**
   * Use weighted backtracking to identify capture groups based on a dynamic programming approach.
   *
   * @param item final queue item from where to begin the backtracking
   */
  private void setCaptureGroups(QueueItem<State<E>> item) {
    List<QueueItem<State<E>>> path = queue.backtrack(item);
    // collect one offset per state starting or ending a capture group
    Map<State<E>, int[]> starts = new HashMap<State<E>, int[]>();
    Map<State<E>, int[]> ends = new HashMap<State<E>, int[]>();
    int i = 0;
    for (QueueItem<State<E>> qi : path) {
      State<E> s = qi.get();
      // collect the minimum (i.e., first) recorded offset for a captureStart state
      if (s.captureStart && !starts.containsKey(s)) starts.put(s, new int[] { qi.index(), i, 1 });
      // collect the maximum (i.e., last) recorded offset for a captureEnd state
      if (s.captureEnd) ends.put(s, new int[] { qi.index(), i, 0 });
      i++;
    }
    int numGroups = starts.size();
    if (numGroups > 0) {
      // sort all start and end offsets by their positions, then by the order they were matched,
      // and last order start AFTER end positions, leaving minimal space for any ambiguity
      int[][] positions = new int[numGroups * 2][];
      i = 0;
      for (int[] s : starts.values())
        positions[i++] = s;
      for (int[] e : ends.values())
        positions[i++] = e;
      Arrays.sort(positions, new Comparator<int[]>() {
        public int compare(int[] a, int[] b) {
          if (a[0] == b[0]) {
            if (a[1] == b[1]) return a[2] - b[2];
            else return a[1] - b[1];
          }
          return a[0] - b[0];
        }
      });
      // populate the captureGroups offset array using the ordered positions
      i = 0;
      Stack<Integer> endIdx = new Stack<Integer>();
      captureGroups = new int[numGroups][];
      for (int[] p : positions) {
        if (p[2] == 1) {
          endIdx.push(i);
          captureGroups[i++] = new int[] { p[0], -1 };
        } else {
          captureGroups[endIdx.pop()][1] = p[0];
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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A Hero for the People by Arthur Powers
September 8, 2014 by Serena
Source: Author and Book Junkie Promotions
A Hero for the People by Arthur Powers is a quiet collection of short stories about the Brazilian backlands that examine faith and perseverance among people who were downtrodden and beaten down by their richer brethren off and on between 1964 and the early 1990s. In this crucible, men and women are either made stronger or they are broken by the land, the people, and the government. Powers uses sparse language and thrusts the reader in the middle of situations, but there is enough background given so that the reader understand each character's position in the towns they visit — from the Brother sent to help an older priest live out his final years before the parish is closed and finds himself becoming a people's hero to the young wife and mother who dreams of escaping her life as a wife for a passionate love affair.
"She turned and walked inside. She would miss this house. The house where she had grown up had been made of wattle — mud and sticks — plastered over in parts where the plaster hadn't worn through. Its floor had been dirt, pressed hard enough so that you could sweep it almost clean, but turning muddy when rain leaked through the old tile roof. In this house, when water leaked through the tiles in the hard rains, it could be swept off the floor. And here there was a pump in the kitchen; she didn't have to walk to the river for water." (from "The Moving", page 96)
While Powers begins his collection with a note about the political and social environment during the time in which these stories are set; it is hardly necessary because it is clear that those factors influenced the lives of his characters. At the heart of these stories are families trying to make their way in the world and keep what little they have, but there are the missionaries who come from the outside world to help them and there are the wealthy landowners and their gangs who try to take it all. Powers' style is reminiscent of the stories told by the fire before televisions were prevalent in homes, and these stories will transport readers outside of their own lives into the lives of these Brazilian farmers and ranchers. As they struggle, readers will feel the tension grown, and when they fall, they will cheer them onward.
A Hero for the People by Arthur Powers is a powerful look at a less affluent society that is no less worthy of prosperity and happiness than the next. Hearts will break, families will falter, but in the end faith and love hold them together through the toughest parts of their lives. Powers has crafted harrowing stories that dig at the root of all human societies when they are beginning anew.
Arthur Powers went to Brazil in 1969 and lived most his adult life there. From 1985 to 1997, he and his wife served with the Franciscan Friars in the Amazon, doing pastoral work and organizing subsistence farmers and rural workers' unions in a region of violent land conflicts. The Powers currently live in Raleigh North Carolina.
Arthur received a Fellowship in Fiction from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, three annual awards for short fiction from the Catholic Press Association, and 2nd place in the 2008 Tom Howard Fiction Contest. His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many magazines & anthologies. He is the author of A Hero For The People: Stories From The Brazilian Backlands (Press 53, 2013) and The Book of Jotham (Tuscany Press, 2013).
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2. Bone Map by Sara Eliza Johnson for review from Milkweed Editions.
Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection, Bone Map (2013 National Poetry Series Winner), pulls shards of tenderness from a world on the verge of collapse, where violence and terror infuse the body, the landscape, and dreams: a handful of blackberries offered from bloodied arms, bee stings likened to pulses of sunlight, a honeycomb of marrow exposed. "All moments will shine if you cut them open. / Will glisten like entrails in the sun." With figurative language that makes long, associative leaps, and with metaphors and images that continually resurrect themselves across poems, the collection builds and transforms its world through a locomotive echo—a regenerative force—that comes to parallel the psychic quest for redemption that unfolds in its second half. The result is a deeply affecting composition that will establish the already decorated young author as an important and vital new voice in American poetry.
3. The Fever by Megan Abbott on audio from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community.
The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher and the father of two teens: Eli, a hocky star and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent student. Their seeming stability, however, is thrown into chaos when Deenie s best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class. Rumors of a hazardous outbreak spread through the family, school, and community.
As hysteria and contagion swell, a series of tightly held secrets emerges, threatening to unravel friendships, families, and the town s fragile idea of security.
4. Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta on audio from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
When thirteen-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity, and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare.
The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and the boy are Ethan and Allison Serbin, who run the wilderness survival program; Hannah Faber, who occupies a lonely fire lookout tower; and endless miles of desolate Montana mountains.
The clock is ticking, the mountains are burning, and those who wish Jace Wilson dead are no longer far behind.
5. The Last Mile by Blair Richmond for review from Ashland Creek Press in October.
In the final book in the acclaimed Lithia Trilogy, Kat has new losses to mourn but also new reasons to live. On the brink of new beginnings, she is back together with Roman, their relationship deepening more and more even as she wonders whether she may still harbor feelings for Alex.
Yet Kat finds it difficult to focus on such things as college and romance, with terror still haunting the hills of Lithia and threatening the entire town. As several recent earthquakes baffle scientists and put residents on edge, it seems that something more dangerous may be looming in Lithia's future.
6. The Moonlight Palace by Liz Rosenberg for review from TLC Book Tours in October.
Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over Singapore to the British.
Now Agnes is seventeen and her family has fallen into genteel poverty, surviving on her grandfather's pension and the meager income they receive from a varied cast of boarders. As outside forces conspire to steal the palace out from under them, Agnes struggles to save her family and finds bravery, love, and loyalty in the most unexpected places. The Moonlight Palace is a coming-of-age tale rich with historical detail and unforgettable characters set against the backdrop of dazzling 1920s Singapore.
7. Madame X by William Logan purchased from Novel Books.
One of the most technically gifted poets of his generation, William Logan here presents four sequences, each of which is haunted by the battered history of the enchanted city of Venice: two refugees from Nazi Germany replay a version of the Aeneid that shadows their lives in and out of Venice; the comedy of Tiepolo's Punchinello drawings are given mocking narrative; a modern traveler finds in Venice's insects, birds, and fish a nature that endures within an unnatural city; and, in a formal sequence reminiscent of W. H. Auden's "The Sea and the Mirror," King James commissions a revision of Macbeth in order to impress the chief magistrate. These new poems showcase Logan's trademark refinement and erudition.
The poems here delve into what William Logan calls the "ill-lit kingdom of the past." The book is haunted by the dead but equally penitent toward the rich insinuations of the living: the lost floral paradise of the Florida outlands, the steamy Gatsby summers of a Long Island childhood, the frozen stones of a colonial burying ground. This new collection of seventy-two poems will allow readers to delight in the richness of Logan's language and the boldness of his vision.
8. A Hero for the People by Arthur Powers for review for Book Junkie Promotions in September.
"Set in the vast and sometimes violent landscape of contemporary Brazil, this is a gorgeous collection of stories-wise, hopeful, and forgiving, but clear-eyed in its exploration of the toll taken on the human heart by greed, malice, and the lust for land." -Debra Murphy, Publisher of Idyll's Press, Founder of CatholicFiction.net
9. Crow-Work by Eric Pankey for review from Milkweed Editions.
"What is a song but a snare to capture the moment?" Eric Pankey asks in his new collection, Crow-Work. This central question drives Pankey's ekphrastic exploration of the moment where emotion and energy flood a work of art. Through subjects as diverse as Brueghel's Procession to Calvary, Anish Kapoor's Healing of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio's series of severed heads, and James Turrell's experimentation with light and color, the author travels to an impossible past, despite being firmly rooted in the present, to seek out "the songbird in every thorn thicket" of the artist's work. Short bursts of lyrical beauty burn away "like coils of incense ash," bodies in the light of a cave flicker, coalesce and disappear. By capturing the ephemeral beauty of life in these poems, Crow-Work seeks not only to explain great art, but also to embody it.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (April 12, 2019) — The 2019 National Lipid Association Nominating Committee released its annual report and recommendations on Monday.
Chaired by NLA Immediate Past President James A. Underberg, MD, MS, FNLA, the committee compiled a list of recommended candidates to serve in elected NLA and chapter officer and available at-large Board member positions. In accordance with NLA bylaws, elections for each open position, which include President-Elect, Executive Council Chairs, Secretary/Treasurer and specified at-large spots, will take place during the NLA business meeting on Saturday, May 19, 2019 in Miami, Florida.
If affirmed, the recommended candidates will assume their respective roles immediately following the conclusion of the business meeting.
Per NLA bylaws, the office of President and Immediate Past President are not elected. Antonio M. Gotto, MD, DPhil, FNLA will assume the role of NLA President, and Alan Brown, MD, FNLA, will become Immediate Past President.
The complete report can be accessed here.


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Harrassing Yankee Fans
A regular came by today I hadn't seen in a while and we were talking about how the Red Sox are out spending the Yankees this year. The evil empire has always outspent every other team and it appears they're scaling back. Who can blame them after Kevin Brown, Carl Pavano and A-Rod. What has it gotten them? Well, they haven't won a World Series this millennium; maybe the Yanks are revisiting how to build a team.
I really believe the Yankees are due for an implosion this year. The Yankees are going to fall victim to their own excesses in 2007. With a string of failed free agent signings and a pitching staff that can't measure up to the Red Sox, they will be lucky to come in second place in 2007. Mariano Rivera is griping about his contract and it isn't even spring training yet, Joe Torre is showing signs of being frustrated, A-Rod is on TV saying the love is gone between him and Jeter and Andy Petit won't live up to his legacy. While the Yankees will have a powerful batting line up, they won't be able to close the deal as in years past.
I predict A-Rod will be dealt by the trading deadline, Joe Torre will be fired and Petit will be on the DL. Red Sox take the AL East by 4 or 5 games.
Back to my customer: He has a son-in-law who is a Yankee fan living in Vermont. Poor deluded man. He apparently gets a lot of grief from just about everyone in his life. I intend to pile on here! We started chatting about how we treat Yankee fans. Personally, I grew up with the "old" Red Sox: break yer heart every time. Yankee fans were a constant source of pain and harassment-their arrogance and superior attitude were exceeded only by the success of their team. Thank God that era is over and my children won't have to grow up with the same inferiority complex that plagued me through my fortieth year.
So I was telling this customer how I treat Yankee fans these days. Customers wearing Yankee apparel must pay a two dollar surcharge for their meals and be subject to any abuse I hurl their way while serving up their delicious dogs. A boy at my daughter's middle school actually trashed his Yankee hat in favor of a Red Sox hat because he got tired of me calling him out when I was picking her up from school; his dad thanked me at a school concert for doing what he had been unable to do! Then there was the kid who wore a Yankee hat to his first practice as a member of my Little League team-after he finished the 5 laps around the field I made him run, he swore he'd never wear the hat to practice again (he didn't). And there's the bag boy at the local market who always wears a Yankee hat-I asked to speak to the manager and the manager said we could take him out back and rough him up a bit. When I see someone wearing a Yankee hat at our beach, I tell them they need to remove it-"club rules." My customer's son in law was told by his boss not to wear his Yankee hat to work if he wanted to keep his job!
The collective consciousness of Red Sox Nation is getting its revenge for years of abuse and we're not shy about letting our feelings be known. I don't intend to let up on Yankee fans-at least not in this millennium.
Labels: A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez, Andy Petit, Baseball, Boston, Carl Pavano, Derek Jeter, humor, Joe Torre, Kevin Brown, red sox, red sox nation, Yankees, Yankees SUCK
Steve Kenul said...
Lucky to place second? Please, tell me what law of science you had to break to come up with that assumption?
hotdogman said...
Steve's comment proves my point. Yankee fans have a new found inferiority complex. ;op
Where's the pitching? Mussina? Done. Petit? Please. Rivera? Whining. I could go on, but I'm saving my material for posts.
Rant On Steve. And thanks for stopping by.
Chein-Ming Wang - AL Cy Young runner-up, tied ML in wins, best gorund ball pitcher in the AL
Philip Hughes - scouting reports and batters say he is the best pitcher to come up from the minors since Rivera.
Kei Igawa - Although unproven, the best foreign pitcher signing next to Dice-K
And I still don't understand how you can base your hopes on Mussina, an incorectly misspelled Pettitte and Rivera.
But I wouldn't base my argument on an inferoity complex, you see, we have won the division crown for nine straight years with four world titles in six trips.
The Red Sox, two wild card titles and (shamefully) a stunning comeback in 2004 for your first title since Babe Ruth was a pitcher.
It'll be nice to see the Red Sox looking up at the Yankees...again.
Be happy that I gave you guys the wild card.
Yeah but what have you won in this milenium? The Yankees will be disfunctional and heads will roll this season.
Me thinks you doth protest too much....


This sampling of poems from The Irrationalist by Suzanne Buffam is hand-set in Dante type with Michelangelo initials, and is printed on Magnani paper in an edition of fifty numbered copies by Hans van Eijk at the Bonnefant Press of Banholt, The Netherlands, made specifically for House of Anansi Press. The pages are bound, and the cover is removable.
The Irrationalist is the acclaimed follow-up to the award-winning poetry collection, Past Imperfect, from one of Canada's best poets. At once whimsical and heartbreaking, these eccentric lyrics investigate the shifting grounds of knowledge while refusing to take any authority -- be it Epictetus, Therese de Lisieux, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ma Yuan, or the fugitive spectre of self, to name only a few of the volume's dramatis personae -- too seriously. Here one inhabits a world on the eve of extinction, in which "astronomers predict a 'Big Rip' in the cosmos resulting in a cold, dark, never-ending end," and yet the darkness is continually illuminated by a pyrotechnics of curiosity, candor, and wit.


Jeremy Hosking wants Theresa May to have 'an army' of Brexit MPs.
A millionaire Brexiteer has pledged to fund an effort to oust pro-remain MPs in the upcoming general election.
Jeremy Hosking, a London asset manager and Conservative Party donor, spent £1.7m ($2.19m) on the Vote Leave campaign and has vowed to funnel cash to Tory candidates who will not oppose Brexit.
He told the Observer that he wanted to give Prime Minister Theresa May "an army" of pro-Brexit MPs that was "fully equipped and as big as possible".
He will target constituencies where most voters backed Brexit, but which are currently represented by an MP that favoured Remain, offering upto £5,000 per candidate. With nearly 140 such constituencies, Hosking could end up spending close to £700,000 on the campaign.
Announcing the plans on his Brexit Express website, Hosking said: "The British voter, having delivered a clear answer to the question put to them on Europe, now deserve to see that decision delivered upon. That's the essence of direct democracy.
"We have seen that the institutions of the EU are determined to make life as difficult as possible for the UK and, indeed, have told us that 'Brexit cannot be a success'.
"I believe it can be and realistically the only way to ensure 'no backsliding on Brexit' is to back the Prime Minister to the fullest extent. I'm asking Brexit voters to put aside their party allegiances temporarily, lend Brexit their votes and climb aboard the Brexit Express."
Much of the money will be spent on candidates in traditional Labour heartlands of the north and the Midlands.
Hosking, who founded Marathon Asset Management, said he wanted a "full, national Brexit" rather than a "City of London Brexit".
"Brexit has been labelled a divisive issue. It is my belief that it can be a unifying one," he said.
"That, at least for the moment, a bigger prize is at stake; one that only Theresa May is likely to be able to deliver. In my mind, the prize is quite simply the sovereign future of this independent-minded democracy.
"Britain has always come together when that is what is at stake. Let's do it again. No backsliding over Brexit."


This loveable dog is highly intelligent, easy to train and extremely loyal to its owner and family. They are natural herders and puppies will have a strong instinct to this from birth so it needs to be taught not to do this at an early age (unless you are training your Rough Collie as a working dog).
They are good with children and usually get along well with other pets as they are good natured and very friendly dogs. This breed is full of energy and have a remarkable sense of direction.
They are an intelligent dog that is easy to train and when socialised with strangers from a young age there should be no problems with this breed.
Hair type: There are two coat varieties for a collie, rough and smooth. The rough coat is long and abundant all over the body but is shorter on the head and legs and the coat forms a mane around the neck and chest. The outer coat is straight and harsh to touch and the undercoat is soft and tight. The smooth coat variety has a short one inch coat all over the body. Coat colours on both varieties include sable and white, tricolour of black, white and tan, blue merle or predominantly white with sable, tricolour or blue merle markings.
Daily coat care: The stiff coat sheds dirt readily and a thorough weekly brushing with a pin brush and standard comb will keep it in good condition. Take extra care when the dense undercoat is being shed. The smooth variety has a one inch coat and should be brushed every 2 weeks. Bathe or dry shampoo as necessary. The rough collie sheds heavily twice a year and the smooth collie is an average shedder.
Recommended groom frequency: Both types of collie coats should be professionally groomed every 6 to 8 weeks.
Depending on the size and age of your Rough Collie, you will need to feed between 275g and 362g of high-quality dry food a day, divided into two meals.
The Collie needs plenty of exercise, which includes a daily, long walk. In addition, they would enjoy some romps off the leash in a safe area. They are naturally fit dogs that will run all day if given the chance. They also enjoy agility training.


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O'Toole Wins Conservative Party Leadership
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Andrew Scheer's Path to Victory
Pictured here: Amber Ruddy, Counsel's Director for Western Canada (l), Conservative Leader, Andrew Scheer (c), and Stephanie Gawur, Counsel's Associate Vice President (r) on July 6th at the annual Conservative Stampede BBQ at Heritage Park. Leading up to the...
Tories in turmoil
January 25, 2018 – In a game-changing moment just four months before the provincial election, the Ontario PC Leader resigned as leader early this morning under a cloud of sexual misconduct allegations. With his resignation, the Tories are left scrambling to fill...


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Obama Transportation Appointees Like Speed Cameras, Tolls
Obama Administration appointments to transportation agencies point toward a future of speed cameras and tolling.
Candidate Barack Obama made few concrete statements on the subject of transportation during the 2008 campaign. Now that his cabinet has been sworn into office, President Obama has turned his attention to filling the lower-level positions that are frequently responsible for making major policy decisions. At the US Department of Transportation, these new appointees all share a love for speed cameras and toll roads -- especially Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's new number two man.
"With great pleasure I want to bid a hearty welcome aboard to our new Deputy Secretary, John Porcari," LaHood wrote yesterday. "And, though he's been on duty less than a week, he already has done some heavy lifting for us."
Porcari, 50, was confirmed by the US Senate on May 22 and serves as the Transportation Department's chief operating officer, overseeing day-to-day operations. Porcari has the formal administrative experience that LaHood lacks. Most recently, Porcari headed Maryland's transportation agency where his main accomplishment was spearheading the effort to install speed cameras on every freeway in the state with fines of $2000 per ticket. As late as April, Porcari was out defending the successful passage of legislation allowing speed cameras in "work zones" that have no workers. The legislature, however, opted for a significantly reduced fine from Porcari's original proposal.
"Marylanders will be safer traveling our highways thanks to legislation authorizing speed cameras in construction work zones," Porcari wrote in a letter to the Baltimore Sun newspaper. "And with clear signs offering advance warning of speed cameras, this will not be a matter of 'gotcha.'"
Like his new boss, Porcari is also a major fan of imposing tolls on roads. So too is the newly confirmed Undersecretary for Transportation Policy, Roy Kienitz, 46. Kienitz was formerly the Deputy Chief of Staff for Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (D) with responsibility over transportation issues. Rendell credited Kienitz for the state legislation that would have allowed the imposition of tolls on Interstate 80 and sold the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a foreign toll road consortium. Both plans ultimately failed. Kienitz is also a board member for "Building America's Future," a group that lobbies on behalf of government officials to promote toll roads as infrastructure projects.
Such projects were what Peter H. Appel, 44, worked on for the consulting firm A.T. Kearney. The Senate confirmed Appel as Administrator of the DOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration on April 29. Appel's former firm is one of many that stands to profit from the twenty-two percent overhead cost added to every tolling project.
"A.T. Kearney has a broad transportation client base, including railroads, airlines and airports, shipping lines, ports, motor carriers and toll roads," the company explained in a summary of the areas in which it does business.
President Obama has also nominated Victor M. Mendez to be Administrator of Federal Highway Administration. Mendez, who awaits confirmation, was most recently the Director of the Arizona Department of Transportation where he coordinated state agencies and interest groups for the rollout of the state's freeway speed camera program.
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#### According to
The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011

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Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. -naturw. Kl. , Abt. 1 116: 831 (1907)

#### Original name
Tomentella flavovirens Höhn. & Litsch., 1907

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Angela Asher is a Canadian film and television actress. She is most noted for her role as Tara Mercer in 18 to Life, for which she received a nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series at the 26th Gemini Awards in 2011.

She has also had recurring or regular roles in the television series Married Life, This Is Wonderland, Degrassi, Inhuman Condition, Bad Blood, Hard Rock Medical and Workin' Moms, and appeared in the films Interstate 60, King of Sorrow, A Dark Truth and Ghostland.

In 2022, Asher was a candidate in the 2022 Ontario general election for the New Blue Party of Ontario, which garnered publicity by opposing public health measures against COVID-19. She ran in Spadina—Fort York, placing fifth with under two percent of the vote while incumbent MPP Chris Glover was re-elected.

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1. Is it grit or salt?
Most of the "grit" you see on the road is actually rock salt, which is brown due to the impurities within its unrefined form. However it may also be combined with grit for greater traction on hard packed snow. The more expensive option of molasses combined with rock salt provide adhesion so salt isn't thrown off the road by passing traffic, but is more expensive.
2.Does it come from the sea?
No, it's mined from underground. Salt Union, one of the main suppliers produces 6,000 tonnes a day from its mine in Cheshire. Middlesbrough has another useful source in the form of Cleveland Potash, which generates over 3,000 tonnes of salt a day at Boulby Mine as a by-product. Some councils have contracts with salt suppliers in other countries.
Salt stops ice from forming by lowering the freezing point of any surface moisture and dissipates any existing ice or snow to a certain temperature. The reason that you'll see gritters on busy roads, beyond treating the most heavily used areas as a priority, is because the salt needs vehicle tyres to crush and spread to maximise its effectiveness.Gritted roads are still not able to hold up against overnight heavy snowfall, which will still settled even in the presence of salt.
While the salt won't vanish at the slightest bit of precipitation, it does need to be protected from the elements. By keeping stockpiles under cover, councils can keep them for a number of years or longer, but supplies are always used before we have a chance to find out. Salt exposed to the elements will keep for a while, but will eventually become soggy and difficult to spread equally.
However, some salt is "pre-wetted" by mixing it with water as this allows for quicker, more even spreading and can reduce the amount of salt needed by a quarter. This method relies on more expensive equipment which a council may not have at their disposal.
5. When does gritting fail to work?
Even salt has its breaking, or rather freezing point, which is around minus 8-10 degrees. In these temperatures, roads will still ice over regardless of whether or not they've been gritted.
Salt can also be washed away by rain or snow which has turned to slush and dispersed by passing traffic, which is why you'll often see gritting lorries repeatedly covering the same stretch of road.
When looking for value, we'll give you more … keeping you informed with this useful article from us here at H&H Insurance Brokers.


The Saint Leonard Health and Research Foundation, Inc. isheadquartered at Bobende Limbe II Sub-division Fako Division, South West Region, Cameroon. Created in 2010 by Dr Sinda Leontine, The Saint Leonard Health and Research Foundation,Inc. is a non-governmental and apolitical organization composed of professionals from different background and volunteers who work together for social and economic inclusion of young girls and women and to bring education and primary health care closer to the underserved populations in rural zones Cameroon and Africa.
To promote Education, Health, Human Rights and Sustainable Development to the underserved communities in Cameroon, Africa.
To promote education, socio/economic inclusion, primary health care, human rights, preventive methods on infectious diseases and cancers, and reinforce capacity building of health care workers in rural health centers in Cameroon and Africa.
Educate and bring primary health care closer to the underserved communities and less privileged especially women and children in non accessible rural zones in Cameroon, Africa and refugees camps, and fight against socio/economic exclusion and gender based violence.
To develop mobile strategies to reach more women and children with education, primary health care and essential drugs so as to reach rural women with Ante Natal Care and emergency care in case of complications in non accessible rural zones in Cameroon, Africa and refugees camps.
 To reinforce human resources in quantity and in quality in non accessible rural zones through training workshops, seminars and conferences for better management of diseases in children.
 To sensitize the rural communities on the benefit of education, the protection of environment, hygiene and sanitation.
 To reinforce IEC activities on behavioral change and create awareness on diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, STIs, HIV/AIDS, cancers, unwanted pregnancies and abortion.


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H.Res. 17 (116th)
H.Res. 17 (116th): Expressing concern over the detention of Austin Tice and Majd Kamalmaz, and for other purposes.
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2d Session
H. RES. 17
In the House of Representatives, U. S.,
A resolution expressing concern over the detention of Austin Tice and Majd Kamalmaz, and for other purposes.
Whereas Austin Tice is a 39-year-old veteran, having served in the Marine Corps as an infantry officer, a Georgetown law student, and a graduate of Georgetown University, from Houston, Texas;
Whereas Austin is an Eagle Scout, National Merit Scholarship finalist, and eldest of seven children;
Whereas Austin was a contributing freelance journalist to McClatchy Newspapers, the Washington Post and other media outlets, and a recipient of the 2012 George Polk Award for War Reporting;
Whereas, in May 2012, Austin crossed the Turkey-Syria border to report on the intensifying conflict in Syria;
Whereas, on August 11, 2012, Austin celebrated his 31st birthday in Darayaa, Syria;
Whereas, on August 14, 2012, Austin departed for Beirut, Lebanon, was detained at a checkpoint near Damascus, Syria, and contact with family, friends, and colleagues ceased;
Whereas, in late September 2012, a video clip appeared on YouTube showing Austin blindfolded and being prodded up a hillside by masked militants;
Whereas in the years since Austin's disappearance, no group has claimed responsibility for his capture;
Whereas the Syrian government has never acknowledged detaining Austin and has denied the same to Austin's parents;
Whereas officials of the United States believe Austin is alive and being held in Syria and that the Syrian government should assist in locating and returning Austin to his family;
Whereas Austin Tice's parents, Marc and Debra Tice, have been diligent in their efforts to find their son, repeatedly meeting with senior officials of the United States Government, the Syrian government, the United Nations, and many others;
Whereas the Tices have traveled to the Middle East multiple times, most recently in December 2018, seeking Austin's safe release, and Debra Tice spent four months living in Damascus, Syria, for the same purpose;
Whereas the Tices have partnered with Reporters Without Borders to launch campaigns with nearly 270 newspapers and media organizations, highlighting Austin's case in their publications and on their websites;
Whereas institutions and organizations, including Georgetown University, Georgetown Law Center, the National Press Club, the Committee to Protect Journalists, McClatchy, and the Washington Post, have collaborated to raise and maintain public awareness of Austin's detention;
Whereas, on November 18, 2018, then-United States Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, Robert O'Brien, said that the United States Government believes Austin Tice is alive;
Whereas at a press briefing on March 19, 2020, President Trump expressed concern for Austin and called on the Syrian government to release him;
Whereas Majd Kamalmaz is a 62-year old Syrian-American psychotherapist, father of four, and resident of Texas;
Whereas Majd is a well-known mental-health professional with experience in disaster relief and post-traumatic care;
Whereas in February 2017 Majd traveled to Syria to visit an elderly family member and aid civilians traumatized by the Syrian civil war;
Whereas on February 16, 2017 Majd's family received word that he had been detained at a checkpoint on his way to Ghouta, outside of Damascus, Syria;
Whereas since February 2017 Majd's family has not heard from him;
Whereas the Syrian government has never publicly acknowledged detaining Majd;
Whereas Majd's family and the Syrian-American community have advocated tirelessly for his immediate release;
Whereas in July 2020, United States Ambassador and Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens publicly stated, The U.S. Government is in frequent contact with the Kamalmaz family to provide support and information and that Bringing home Majd, along with all U.S. citizens held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad, has the attention of the highest levels in the U.S. government. ; and
Whereas, as described in the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 (22 U.S.C. 8791 note), Congress calls on the regime of Bashar al-Assad to release all political prisoners forcibly held within its prison system and to allow access to the same facilities for investigations by appropriate international human rights organizations: Now, therefore, be it
That the House of Representatives—
expresses its ongoing concern regarding the capture of Austin Tice in August 2012 and Majd Kamalmaz in February 2017, and their continuing detention;
encourages the Department of State, the intelligence community, and the interagency Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell to jointly continue investigations and to pursue all possible information regarding Austin and Majd's detention;
encourages the Department of State and the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs to engage the Syrian government to facilitate Austin and Majd's safe release and return;
encourages the Department of State to work with foreign governments known to have diplomatic influence with the Syrian government; and
requests that the Department of State and the intelligence community continue to work with and inform Congress and the families of Austin Tice and Majd Kamalmaz to the extent possible regarding efforts to secure their safe release and return from detention in Syria.
Cheryl L. Johnson,
Clerk.


Sometime in your blogging journey you will probably start to get emails from companies asking you to post about them on your blog. Some ask that you do this for free, while others offer a good compensation. The problem arises when you are messaged by a company that you are not familiar with. What's a blogger to do? *disclaimer* this post contains affiliate links.
I never want to sell my readers out by posting about any old site for a payout, but I also don't want to turn down a job opportunity merely because I hadn't yet heard of the site! Clearly they need some help spreading the word about their company, and maybe I can help with that!
I recently discovered a site that is very useful when you are considering doing a sponsored post for a company that has emailed you, or even one that you've found on a site like sverve!
It's a common practise to see if the site is a BBB (Better Business Bureau) accredited site, but many times webpage won't have made it to the BBB just yet. If they are not on that site I look them up on Site Jabber.com This is a website that allows people to come rate the service they have received from various merchants online. Since it's not run by the company itself, you are more likely to see real reviews, and not have all the negative ones deleted!
I got an email from a company offering me a nice sum of money to post about their site. The product they sell was relavent to my readers, and typically something I would enjoy writing about. When I looked them up on Site Jabber, I found a couple glowing positive reviews (potientially made by employees) and then dozens of negative comments. People saying they received damaged products with no refund offered, others complaining that the site misrepresented the quality of product being sold and numerous other horror stories. Needless to say, I politely declined the opportunity.
Had I not looked into their site a bit more, I could have lead my readers into a really poor experience by posting about the online store and suggesting they purchase from there. I want my readers to trust my opinions on things! Now, I won't turn down a post for one negative review (every one gets negative reviews from time to time) but if the majority of the comments are legitimate-sounding complaints, then it's just not worth it to me.
Build trust with your audience first, it will benefit them, you and even future sponsors!
Have you ever been approached by a brand that you've never heard of to do a sponsored post? How did you handle it?
I've had several of these requests and appreciate your great tip Paula! I've now bookmarked Site Jabber.
Great advice Paula. I'm just starting to "look into" sponsor posts !
Thanks for the great post. I will definitely check out site jabber. Yes, I've been approached by many sites I've never heard of before, especially in the home decor/design space. I typically research their site and google their name + reviews. This is where I make most of my decisions on wether to say yay or nay.
Additionally, if their English is not good, this posses a red flag to me, mainly because I've been approached more often than not by scammers overseas. Also, I tend to prefer to promote American companies, products and small businesses based on my own personal preference. I will, however, feature other international companies if they are super cool, cute, green or useful…AND they've checked out on "reviews" with 4 or more stars.