If you're concerned that painful joints and bones will force you to live life from the sidelines, it's time to STOP worrying and start Living Again! This breakthrough nutritional discovery could help you regain the mobile, active lifestyle you deserve safely, naturally and without adverse side-effects!
If you or a loved one have concerns about poor bone and joint health, it's time you put the breakthrough 11-in-1 Ultimate JointFlex formulation to the test.
Do you experience stiffness in your joints when you wake-up... Pain after exercise or work... Difficulty climbing or descending stairs or chronic joint tenderness or swelling?
The culprit behind the vast majority of joint pain is worn, torn or missing cartilage – the natural 'shock absorber' in your joints. And the only way to really help your joints is to give them what they need to maintain good health.
complete joint health without drugs or surgery – at any age!
Not only that, as we've seen with the recall of Vioxx, Bextra and other NSAIDs, the side-effects of these drugs can be devastating. These include stomach irritation, high blood pressure, diarrhoea, peptic ulcers, kidney failure and liver damage. And painkillers have also been linked to 80% of cases of gastrointestinal ulcerations and bleeding – 10% of which are fatal.
But the medical profession continues to turn a blind-eye to natural joint-health solutions that have been shown to be safe in study after study.
The joint formula that works!
By supporting your joints from the inside out with Ultimate JointFlex you could soothe your joints, rebuild cartilage and halt deterioration in your joints – safely, naturally and without any adverse side-effects.
Time and time again, I've heard from people who have tried Ultimate JointFlex and were thrilled to find the answer to their joint problems.
If you're concerned about a sore back or neck... tender knees or hips... creaky wrists or knuckles... throbbing shoulders or elbows... or any joint discomfort at all... it's time you learned about Ultimate JointFlex and the mountain of testimonials regarding the effectiveness and safety of its breakthrough 11-in-1 formulation.
"My 87-year-old mother couldn't visit us this summer due to a painful hip. She had to walk with a cane and give up her beloved golf and gardening, and she accepted it as 'part of growing old' with resignation.
I sent her two bottles of Ultimate JointFlex. And she just called to say that after 3 weeks, she had put away the cane, and was back playing golf!
Felicia is just one example. Her story of renewed health – and hope – is just like countless others I've heard, from people expressing genuine gratitude for this amazing drug-free joint-health breakthrough.
I've included just a few of their remarkable stories in this Special Health Alert. But first, read on and learn all about the "extraordinary" compound called Ultimate JointFlex. Discover how it could help you live with flexible, mobile joints every day, so you can do the things you really want to do!
Take it from me – sore, tired joints are not an "inevitable" part of ageing.
It's true that natural 'wear and tear' takes a toll on our joints and the cartilage that cushions them. Until recently, this gradual (but sometimes rapid) deterioration, and the accompanying stiffness, irritation and swelling, was accepted as a "fact of life" to be endured as we grow older.
But now you can throw that thinking right out the window!
Full relief to her utter surprise!
As a natural health researcher, I've seen first hand how nutritional therapies can work wonders for thousands of people. And I knew we had at our fingertips an arsenal of natural weapons that could help people keep their joints flexible and discomfort-free.
That's why I was pleased to see FSP Nutritionals create one of the most effective, most cutting-edge natural alternatives for boosting joint health ever developed. One that could ensure soothing comfort to joints, restore lost movement, and rebuild and nourish joint cartilage worn down by decades of hard work and grinding contact.
The result is Ultimate JointFlex.
The "Perfect 11" for ultimate joint health!
You see, not only does Ultimate JointFlex speed help to your hurting joints, it harnesses the repair power of 11 extraordinary joint-health warriors in one turbocharged formula!
Rebuild healthy, new joints from the inside out!
And helps you regain the healthy active life you deserve... into your 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond!
Since Ultimate JointFlex's multi-nutrient formula addresses joint health from all different angles, it could achieve remarkable results even in situations where other natural solutions may have fallen short!
The evidence is in – Ultimate JointFlex works like gangbusters!
It's called Methylsulfonyl Methane – or MSM for short – and science has finally unlocked its powers, thanks to 19 long years of research by the award-winning scientist Dr Stanley W. Jacob.
MSM is a naturally occurring source of bioactive sulphur. Our bodies need sulphur for healthy connective tissue and joint function. When we're young, our MSM supply is abundant. But as we get older, it decreases dramatically. This causes your joint cartilage to break down. And cells literally become hard and stiff.
But restore your MSM supply, and wonderful things could start to happen. Cell walls become flexible. The natural healing process in your cartilage is increased. Your body's natural joint-health boosters go back to work. Before you know it, you could feel healthier, younger, more agile, and more energetic.
According to Dr James F. Balch, MSM helps detoxify the body on a cellular level; nourishes hair, skin and nails; and promotes gastrointestinal health.
Energetic on the job again!
Tackles chores without the agony!
"I've worked as a distribution manager for many years, which means walking on hard concrete floors and running up and down stairs constantly. After years of wear and tear, my knees were showing their age. I tried aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen first. All they did was to tear up my stomach. Then I tried prescription drugs, which helped but made me feel awful. And finally I had cortisone shots until I couldn't have any more. So when Ultimate JointFlex came out, I was more than ready and willing to try it. And I'm glad I did. The results were amazing. Within one day I felt better. There was more flexibility. I could get around and do my job without discomfort. Ultimate JointFlex is definitely the best of everything I've ever taken!
Sound good so far? It gets even better.
Unlike NSAIDs and steroid treatments, users have actually reported that Ultimate JointFlex's joint-rejuvenating power actually increases with daily use. Glucosamine HCL is a big reason why.
Scientists refer to glucosamine as an essential "building block" for good joint health, since it's a vital component for the repair and growth of new cartilage.
Young, healthy joints usually produce their own supply of glucosamine. But as we age, production slows. Less glucosamine means less natural repair power for cartilage and joints – and you know only too well what happens next!
Luckily for us, over time, glucosamine supplementation can stimulate cartilage and bone growth and actually help maintain joint structures. And I have many testimonials from others who agree!
Combine glucosamine with MSM, and Ultimate JointFlex already delivers amazing double-duty action for boosting joint health.
Researchers found that chondroitin helps reduce pain, increase joint mobility and decrease the need for painkillers. It's no wonder when you think it's a vital part of cartilage, giving it elasticity.
Other studies have found that taking chondroitin can prevent cartilage breaking down and can also stimulate its repair mechanisms. It also reduces the activity of enzymes and substances that break down collagen in joints, and has powerful anti-inflammatory properties.
This kind of joint-building power is exactly what you need to "jump start" healthy joint cartilage and bone!
Ginger Root – Stops inflammation in its tracks!
It's one of the all-time astonishing medicine herbs, prized for centuries by Chinese Traditional Medicine healers... to the ancient Ayurvedic doctors of India... and even the medical practitioners in ancient Greece.
But it was the Carribean Islanders who truly discovered its potent powers for reducing joint inflammation and tenderness – while increasing circulation as well! Doctors throughout parts of Asia and Europe rely on Ginger to halt tenderness and inflammation in their patients with joint concerns.
Working full-time days with part-time joints?
If you're one of the millions of people who end the day feeling far worse than you started it, you're not alone. One expert, Dr Margareta Nordin atNew York University, estimates that nearly every person will suffer work-related aches sometime in his or her career.
In fact, a recent Lou Harris & Associates survey found that a whopping 68% of people experience joint stiffness on the job!
If your joints call it "quits" before your day is done, give them a powerful supportive boost with Ultimate JointFlex. Clinical research has documented the soothing, joint-building benefits that accrue with the healthful nutrients in Ultimate JointFlex. It could help make your long day easier to tackleand your free time easier to enjoy!
Ultimate JointFlex has helped countless people find relief from the damaging effects of long term repetitive tasks, overexertion or just running themselves ragged on the job. Here are a few!
Boswellia serrata – Derailing soreness before it begins!
Natural Ayurvedic healers in India have been using boswellia serrata for over 1,500 years – and it may be the most amazing herbal anti-inflammatory in all of nature. That's because researchers have found that it successfully impedes the leukotriene cycle – which effectively stops inflammation before it can even start!
Now, can you just imagine what boswellia could do for you?
Give your tired, worn joints a new lease on life!
Imagine waking up, sitting up and stretching – and not feeling the stiffness and aches!
People from all walks of life have reported an amazing sense of revitalisation and rave about once-tender joints that feel practically "like new" – thanks to Ultimate JointFlex. That's because Ultimate JointFlex gives joints the full nourishment and daily support they're crying out for!
Next, Ultimate JointFlex continues to go to work on inflammation with two more remarkable compounds: EPA and DHA.
EPA and DHA are considered Omega-3 fatty acids, important nutrients that occur naturally in your body. But not only do Omega-3 fatty acids mask inflammation, they actually stop the auto-immune reactions that cause it.
Patients report less joint stiffness, swelling and tenderness when taking Omega-3 supplements. As well as less long-term dependence on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
Imagine feeling great without painkillers? These two compounds can help make it possible. Most people don't get enough Omega-3 fatty acids in their diet, so Ultimate JointFlex helps fill in the gap.
Vitamin C is an important building block in the formation of cartilage, collagen and joint tissue. But it also has important preventive benefits as well. According toresearcher Dr Deborah Symmons, "Vitamin C is a scavenger of free radicals, which are known to be produced in inflammatory conditions like arthritis." These freeradicals are found in the joint fluids of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and inflamed joints. Vitamin C can play an important role in preventing free radical damage.
We all know that vitamin D is essential for healthy bones and teeth. But vitamin D has also been shown to play an important role in the synthesis of synovial fluid – the fluid found in and around joints to keep them lubricated and flexible.
Just another reason to get out in the sun, soak up that vitamin D providing sunlight... and nourish your joints with Ultimate JointFlex each day.
Not only is vitamin E shown to be necessary for optimal immune function, it has also been known to be an effective natural anti-inflammatory when up against joint stiffness! Plus, recent research suggests vitamin E's powerful antioxidant properties may help prevent damage to joint tissue caused by heavy work and stress to the joints.
They are potent antioxidants that neutralise free radicals – produced in arthritic joints and which cause damage to them.
Only Ultimate JointFlex packs the incredible power of 11 joint-health nutrients in the exact ratio and dosages I've found to be the most effective. Each includes the optimum dosage of important joint-protectors like MSM, Glucosamine and Chondroitin... as well as high-performance levels of Boswellia, EPA, DHA and four additional nutrients.
Sure, you could take them all separately. But why waste your money on separate supplements that may do little or nothing when, for less cost, you can have one, effective formula that does it all?
Thanks to Ultimate JointFlex, you can!
Earlier in my practice, I met too many wonderful people whose vibrant lives were tragically transformed by the progressive problems associated with poor joint health.
It was heartbreaking to watch them cope with pain that seemed to get worse daily. But it was just as awful watching them give up the gardening or golfing they loved... lose their ability to take a simple walk or drive... forego pleasures like shopping and visiting friends... and ultimately surrender their independence altogether.
No doubt you have similar memories of loved ones or acquaintances.
Of course, we can't change the past, but we can take charge of our future. With what we know today about joint health, we can help make sure this doesn't happen to us.
As we've so painfully seen, one can't rely on drugs alone. Drugs have sometimes-devastating side-effects and do nothing to address the foundation of joint health.
But Ultimate JointFlex provides an amazing army of joint-support warriors shown to relieve discomfort, build cartilage, and protect the health of your joints for years to come.
Whether it's playing with your grandkids, fishing with your buddies or travelling cross-country on a trip you've always dreamed of, Ultimate JointFlex could help you live the way you want to live..
So if you've just started feeling the effects of lifetime 'wear and tear' on your joints, it's crucial to begin replenishing them now before serious damage occurs. And if you're already hampered by frequent joint discomfort, its not too late. We think you'll see real results that will help you "get back into the game" – and keep you there.
Life's active pleasures are endless. Ultimate JointFlex guarantees that you could never be forced to watch them from the sidelines!
Let your creakiest joint be the judge!
I know that Ultimate JointFlex is helping my joints stay strong and flexible. And with my hectic non-stop lifestyle, that's saying something!
I'm just as confident about what Ultimate JointFlex can do for you, too. That's why I'm inviting you to use it daily for up to two full months without risking a cent.
I have even included a simple "before and after" Report Card for you (below) that lets you conduct your own 60-day "clinical trial". Print it and clip it now while it's handy and use it to judge its full effectiveness for yourself. If you're not pleased with the results within 60 days – for any reason – just return the unused portion (including any free bottles) and we'll issue a complete refund.
Gets a whole new lease on life!
Bounces back betterwith Ultimate JointFlex!
"After many years of Arthritic suffering and after trying all the present products available, I decided to try your Ultimate JointFlex and can report as follows: I commenced my programme on Monday 12th November. I noticed an immediate advantage in that within a couple of days my previously stiff knees where no longer stiff and painful when getting up from my desk. By Saturday 17th (5 days after commencing) I was walking up the staircase at work with no pain whereas previously it was so painful climbing the stairs that I was considering moving my office. The pain in my hands had by now completely disappeared and life was worth living again. I write this after 15 days of taking the capsules and can confirm that my knees are almost back to normal despite having been told that I needed a knee replacement. To me this is a miracle and if things continue to improve at this rate I will be wanting to run marathons. I am extremely excited with the improvement in such a short time. Thank you, thank you a thousand times"
When good painkillers turn bad.
We've all taken over-the-counter painkillers like acetaminophen, naproxen and ibuprofen at one time or another, and they can be a blessing. But they do have a dark side.
These supposedly harmless pills are linked to 80% of cases of gastrointestinal ulcerations and bleeding – 10% of which are fatal. Prolonged use of these non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can also cause stomach irritation, high blood pressure, diarrhoea, peptic ulcers, kidney failure and liver damage.
Prevention magazine reported that complications from OTC pain relievers kill 16,500 people each year – an average of 45 needless deaths every day in the US alone. And as for potential risks of prescription NSAIDs, the recall of Vioxx, Bextra and Prexige speaks for itself.
Ultimate JointFlex – brimming with nutrients that fuel your active lifestyle!
Ultimate JointFlex's exclusive 11-in-1 formula goes well beyond joint health to help you enjoy a more vibrant, healthy life!
MSM is a powerful metabolism booster that helps your body absorb nourishment and produce energy. It also helps flush away toxins!
EPA and DHA support cardiovascular health and help maintain healthy cholesterol levels.
Ginger Root has been used for centuries to aid digestion and strengthen the immune system.
Boswellia serrata also helps maintain healthy respiratory and digestive systems and relieve menstrual cramps.
Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that offers protection to increase heart health, vision and regulate blood sugar levels.
Vitamin C is an immune stimulant and antioxidant used to promote heart and circulatory health.
Vitamin D is essential to the synthesis of joint-lubricating synovial fluid and strong healthy bones.
Proanthocyandins derived from common red wine grapes are potent antioxidants that neutralise free radicals.
Your painkillers may alleviate symptoms, but they don't help your joints. You could get caught up in a cycle where first you suffer the symptoms. Then you suffer the side-effects.
When your joints get worse, you're back where you started – only now with more aches, more pills, more side-effects, more risks.
Does that make sense when there's a better alternative? With Ultimate JointFlex, youcan soothe your joints, rebuild cartilage and halt the deterioration in your joints – safely, naturally and without the dangerous side- effects!
Convenient automatic delivery. With SmartShip, you'll never worry about running out of Ultimate JointFlex. Each month, you'll receive a fresh supply delivered to your doorstep automatically.
Low price guarantee. You're guaranteed today's low price for 12 full months.
No strings attached... you can cancel your SmartShip delivery at any time just by calling our call centre.
Pay as you go. You'll only be charged one month at a time from your second shipment, when your Ultimate JointFlex is dispatched. Plus you can cancel at any time with no further obligation!
That's right! Buy two and you'll get one FREE – or better still, buy 3 and you'll get 3 bottles FREE!
Imagine…for about R7 a day – less than the price of a cup of coffee – you could nourish and protect your joints... and retain the active, healthy lifestyle you deserve!
Finds replacement for recalled painkiller!
Works better than prescription remedies!
Blessed relief for Mom – at long last!
So why not put Ultimate JointFlex to the test?
Just click the "ORDER NOW" button and we'll rush your supply of Ultimate JointFlex at these money-saving prices.
How soon will you see results? Some Ultimate JointFlex users have reported dramatic results in as little as a weekend. Others, a few weeks or a month. But the best results come when you make it part of your daily health regimen.
When you stick with Ultimate JointFlex for the long run, you're providing your joints with the nourishment they need to repair themselves and stay flexible and strong. That's why I recommend you start with a 6-month supply – but let me urge you to try at least a three-month supply.
Remember, the effects are cumulative. The longer you take Ultimate JointFlex, the better you can feel.
You'll notice a gradual difference with each passing week, until finally it hits you... your joints feel more flexible, more mobile and that morning stiffness is gone!
Order your supply of Ultimate JointFlex today and take a big step toward a lifetime of mobility, flexibility, and independence. And remember, FSP Nutritionals guarantees your complete and total satisfaction... or you pay nothing!
P.S. Get up to 3 bottles FREE! With this limited-time offer, you can get 3 Free Bottles of Ultimate JointFlex. That's a saving of R1349.95. Remember, your satisfaction is completely guaranteed.
P.P.S. Remember to print, clip and save your "before and after" Report Card – to prove for yourself that Ultimate JointFlex does everything we promise in your 60-day risk-free trial!
When you stick with Ultimate JointFlex for the long run, you're providing your joints with the nourishment they need to repair themselves and stay flexible and strong.
This product contains NO yeast, wheat gluten, soy protein, milk/ dairy, sodium, sugar, starch, artificial colouring, preservatives or flavouring.
Not suitable for people allergic to seafood.
Diabetics should only use this product under the supervision of their healthcare practitioner.
If you are using blood thinning medication, such as warfarin, consult your healthcare practitioner before using this product.
Discontinue use at least 2 weeks prior to any surgical procedure.
You won't risk a cent of the product price. Not for your long and healthy, life.
Yes!... A 100% CUSTOMERSATISFACTION GUARANTEE!
If you're not thrilled with the way you feel with Ultimate Joint Flex, you can simply return the unused portion within 60 days and we will cheerfully refund your purchase price - in full.
Just return all your bottles (used and unused) within 60 days of purchase and we'll happily give you a 100% refund.


Starting with build 6106 (Acronis True Image New Generation) and build 8029 (Acronis True Image Standard), we have implemented an additional setting for adjusting snapshot type.
During a disk or partition backup process, which often takes a long time, some of the backed up files may be in use, locked, or being modified one way or another. For example, you may work on a document and save it from time to time. If Acronis True Image backed up files one by one, your open file would likely be changed since the backup start, and then saved in the backup to a different point in time. Therefore, the data in the backup would be inconsistent. To eliminate it, Acronis True Image creates so called snapshot that fixes the data to back up to a particular point in time. This is done before the backup starts, and guarantees that the data is in consistent state.
This option is for advanced users only. Do not change the default setting if you are not sure which option to choose.
A snapshot will not be created. The files will be backed up one by one as an ordinary copy operation.
This is the only recommended option for backing up your system. Your computer may not start after recovery from a backup created with a different snapshot type.
This option is default for disk-level and the Entire PC backups and guarantees the data consistency in the backup.
A snapshot will be created with the Acronis driver used in previous versions of Acronis True Image.
(!) Do NOT use the option "Acronis snapshot" for "Entire PC" backups and for Windows system disk backups. Otherwise the operating system, restored from such backups, may not boot. Use only the "VSS" option for Entire PC backups and backups of Windows system disk.
This option is default for file-level backups.
VSS writers are special VSS components for notifying applications that a snapshot is going to be created, so that the applications prepare their data for the snapshot. The writers are needed for applications that perform large number of file operations and require data consistency, for example databases. Because such applications are not installed on home computers, there is no need to use writers. In addition, this reduces the time required for file-level backups.


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Q: Java Bubble Sort Iterates Only Twice I'm in an intro to Java course and am just trying to get ahead of the curve with some practice, so I'm making a bubble sort program. For some reason, it only will run through the outer loop twice.
public ArrayList SortArray(ArrayList<Integer> u) {
    int temp;
    int spot;
    for (int isOrdered = 1; isOrdered == 1;) {
        for (spot = 0; spot < u.size() - 1; spot ++) {
            System.out.println(u.get(spot) + " " + u.get(spot + 1) + " " + spot);
            if (u.get(spot) > u.get(spot + 1)) {
                temp = u.get(spot + 1);
                u.set(spot + 1, u.get(spot));
                u.set(spot, temp);
                isOrdered = 1;
            }
            else {
                isOrdered = 0;
            }
        }
    }
    return u;
}

As far as I can tell, what's happening is after the second iteration, it doesn't reset 'spot' to 0 so it doesn't run through the loop again. Any ideas?

A: Well, for starters that's an ... unusual way of using a for loop to implement a while loop. Try using a boolean for isOrdered and a while(!isOrdered) for a statement like that.
As Ted Hopp's comment said, your logic isn't quite right. What your code is doing is that it will sort ONE value in the list and once that value has "bubbled up" your flag is set to true.
You need your outer loop's condition to be that it keeps running until ALL cells are in order.
Right now your flag simply says it's sorted, when you've gone through the list, but what it needs to do is be true when it's gone through the list without performing a swap.
Try to implement that without looking, then if you can't get it (I'm assuming you're interested in doing it yourself since you're working ahead in your class) take a look at the sample here.

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(Page 1 of 29) - Feminist Consciousness and the Production of a Contemporary Women's Section authored by Harp, Dustin.
Unformatted Document Text: Feminist Consciousness and the Production of a Contemporary Women's Section ABSTRACT Once again in the history of U.S. newspapers a clear border was drawn around news content meant for women when, during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, several U.S. metropolitan daily newspaper editors reintroduced women's pages to their readers. This re-emergence of women's sections is especially interesting within a feminist context since it was during the late 1960s and early 1970s, during a particularly active period of feminism, that newspapers first eliminated these gendered sections and started producing lifestyle pages aimed at a general audience. While illuminating how a newspaper staff conceptualizes and constructs a contemporary women's section, this research demonstrates how a feminist consciousness at times influences an editors work on the section. Through interviews and observation at a Midwestern daily, the research, however, also illustrates how an individual standpoint often becomes overshadowed by organizational concerns and constraints.
U.S. metropolitan daily newspaper editors reintroduced women's pages to their readers.


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Seized tanker seen off Somali coast
Pirates controlling oil tanker steer north, heading towards Somali coastal village.
The Sirius Star holds more than a quarter of
Saudi Arabia's daily exports [AFP]
Its cargo is valued at $100m. The fate of the 25 crew members is not known.
'Easy' hijacks
Richard Mitchelson, a former special forces soldier and security consultant based in Singapore, told Al Jazeera, that the pirates have refined their technique over time.
"They have a lot of larger vessels," he said.
"They use a mother craft so they can position themselves in open water, then they use smaller, faster speedboats and use caving ladders to gain access to the decks [of the vessels they target]. Once they are on, it is pretty easy. They are well armed.
"They have access to GPS [global positioning system] and Sat phones ... I'm sure they would have some form of intelligence as to which vessels are coming their way."
The Sirius Star, weighing 318,000 tonnes and flagged in Liberia, is operated by Dubai-based Vela International.
The crew members come from Croatia, Britain, the Philippines, Poland and Saudi Arabia.
Oil prices rise
The tanker can hold up to two million barrels of oil - more than one quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily exports.
It had been heading for the US via the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, instead of heading through the Gulf of Aden and the Suez Canal.
Last week, the European Union started a security operation off the coast of Somalia to combat growing piracy and protect ships carrying aid agency deliveries.
It is the EU's first-ever naval mission.
Pirates are well organised in the Horn of Africa, the area where Somalia's northeastern tip juts into the Indian Ocean.
So far this year there have been 63 reported incidents of piracy and 13 vessels are still being held with a total of 275 crew members.
This year alone $30m has been paid in ransoms.
Somalia has had no effective government since the 1991 overthrow of Mohamed Siad Barre, the former president, touched off a bloody power struggle that has defied numerous attempts to restore stability.
SOURCE: Al Jazeera and agencies

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humour – life gets messy.
Sometimes even I need a break from feminist rants and the horrors of the world. Shocking, I know. So, in light of this, I thought I'd copy the idea of a much greater blogger than I: Allie of Hyperbole and a Half. In her 2013 book of the same name, one of the segments consists of her writing letters to her past selves of various ages to question their decisions and to offer advice. It is hilarious. Go read it now.


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Microsoft Earnings Beat Estimates
By ECT News Staff
Microsoft late this afternoon reported quarterly revenue and earnings that topped the company's expectations.
Crediting stronger-than-expected PC demand from consumers and businesses, the Redmond, Washington company said it earned US$2.9 billion, or 27 cents per share, on revenue of $9.19 billion for the three months ended September 30. Those figures, up 11 percent from the first quarter of 2003, compare with earnings of $2.6 billion, or 24 cents per share, on revenue of $8.22 billion a year ago.
Beat Revenue Estimates
Analysts polled by Thomson First Call had been expecting earnings of approximately 30 cents per share, on revenue of $9 billion. In July, Microsoft itself had forecast revenue of $8.9 billion to $9 billion, with earnings per share of 25 cents, including about 5 cents per share in stock-based compensation expenses.
In a statement, Microsoft CFO John Connors said he expects continued growth in commercial and consumer businesses this fiscal year. "This quarter, we had a very healthy commercial server and desktop business driving double-digit revenue growth, and we expect to continue the trend of growing revenue faster than expenses as we work to make each of our businesses more efficient and profitable," he said.
Connors said Microsoft's quarterly performance was helped by strong personal computer shipments, which grew 10 percent in the quarter rather than the company's projected 6 to 8 percent. He also said server shipments also were slightly higher than expected.
Current Quarter Could Be Lower
Despite the good news, the company's revenue forecast for the current quarter fell below Wall Street estimates.
For the current fiscal second quarter, which ends in December, Microsoft forecast revenue between $10.3 billion and $10.5 billion, slightly below the First Call consensus estimate of $10.7 billion. Microsoft said it expects earnings per share of 28 cents, including stock-based compensation expenses.
Microsoft raised its expectations for the full fiscal year ending in June. The company anticipates revenue between $38.9 billion and $39.2 billion, with per-share earnings of $1.07 and $1.09, including compensation charges. In July, Microsoft had predicted revenue of between $38.4 billion and $38.8 billion and earnings per share of between $1.05 and $1.08.
Shares in Microsoft were down 14 cents at $28.56 at today's market close before the company released earnings data. Shares fell another 56 cents in after-hours trading.
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Microsoft Delays SQL Server Software, Plans Beta
Microsoft Won't Charge More for Multicore Licenses
Stocks Rise as Oil Dip Overcomes Earnings Blues
RIAA, YouTube, China: Plotting New and Creative Ways to Separate You From the Internet
Merger Madness: Love Is in the Air
YouTube vs. Royalties, Spy vs. Spy, Dell vs. a Firehose
Microsoft Takes a Beating, Gmail Takes a Nap
Giving In to Pressure: Hulu, Facebook Buckle
Read All About It — 3 Ways to Spare a Tree
Street Corners, Internal Organs, Watery Depths: Google Is Watching
Obama, Obama, Recession, Recession, Obama
Separation Anxiety: Obama and His BlackBerry, Apple and Steve Jobs
Redmond Grinch Steals Cybercrooks' Christmas, Straight-Talk Express Breaks Down in Cupertino


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Report says California's rat population is exploding, but county data differs
Former San Diego councilman calls on officials to declare emergency, oppose bill banning certain rat poisons
Quick pickling gives fresh veggies and fruit a tangy crunch in a day or less
Forgo canning hassles and make small batches, but use them up quickly
The house D.J. Fluker bought
By Michael Gehlken
MOBILE, Ala. —
This is not a shelter. This is not a car. This is not a van.
This has not been washed out, burned down or blown away.
The house D.J. Fluker bought in a quiet West Mobile neighborhood has outer walls built of brick, red and brown with white spots, stacked under a gray-shingle triangular roof. The ceilings are high and the kitchen is spacious, large enough for his 2-year-old son L.J. to run in circles. The rooms, four with three baths, and square footage, 3,000-plus, outnumber the ideas how to fill them.
This is more than somewhere to live.
This is a place not to flee.
Last April, the Chargers sought to stabilize their offensive line when drafting Fluker, a former Alabama right tackle, with the No. 11 overall pick. The plan worked both ways. A first-round guaranteed contract gave the Flukers stability in a life that previously had none, where the toll of Hurricane Katrina is one chapter to a survival tale.
Fluker, his mother, younger brother and two younger sisters ached with hunger in the barrels of their stomachs. They operated the oven at night, not to bake but to keep warm. They endured the horror of domestic violence and moved place to place, staying together amid conditions that threatened to split them apart.
And that car. That car. For weeks, all five sleeping in that damn car.
"Just visualizing it pisses me off," Fluker, 22, says. "That just drives rage in you. That's what drives me."
One disaster
Her name was Katrina, and she was a Rottweiler puppy with puppy eyes and a puppy mouth and a puppy tail.
The Flukers found her when they returned to their neighborhood in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, assessing hurricane damage that was absolute. Everything was gone at 2128 Gordon St.; their old building was a cleared slab. But down the street, they found the dog they would call Katrina.
She was under a car, scared and hungry, with her mother but without a home. The family wondered how she survived and took her in, maybe because her situation reminded them of their own.
When escaping Katrina in August of 2005, they twice-crossed the Biloxi Bay Bridge in Mississippi that was in no condition to be crossed at all. The family was in between living situations, a new place in Biloxi and old place in New Orleans. Most of their belongings were still in New Orleans. Annice Fluker, D.J.'s mother, hadn't been watching TV and was unaware of the city's condition. She loaded up the kids in the Ford Escort to drive there.
The sons protested. They had seen the news.
"We were on the verge of dying, and we knew it," D.J. Fluker says.
Authorities turned the family away from New Orleans, an area drowning in engineering failure. After crossing the 1.6-mile bridge once, the little Escort had to again.
The sky was a running faucet. The wind screamed as water from the rising bay smacked against the swaying bridge, which connects Biloxi to U.S. 90. The structure would snap into several pieces, forcing a closure that lasted more than two years.
They crossed the bridge and hurried to Mobile. Completing the trek on a near-empty tank took a $25 WalMart gas gift card, about $2.75 in loose change from inside the car, and fumes.
The Flukers aren't heard mourning the loss of property in New Orleans or the sudden relocation from Biloxi. They didn't have much, and they've always moved. They've been to 64 churches they can count. D.J. Fluker was never taught to read cursive; he missed the lesson somewhere between jumping from elementary school to elementary school. If a counselor inquired about clothing or living arrangements, they moved. If someone from child services approached the family about living conditions, they moved.
But what became of puppy Katrina does unsettle them.
They fed her, they played with her, and they loved her. When a man offered $200, a nice bonus to the welfare check, to buy the friendly dog, their answer was no. She was theirs. They found her.
The glossy eyes of D.J.'s sisters, Aeriel, 16, and Elizabeth, 13, tell the rest.
Sometime after adopting the dog, she went missing in Biloxi. They searched and searched before finding her for a second time. The miracle dog was howling nearby, hidden from plain sight, lying in a building drainpipe with foam bubbling from her mouth.
"Somebody in the neighborhood poisoned the dog," says Leon Fluker, 21, D.J.'s brother. "That's how it died."
McGill family
No one warned D.J. Fluker.
Steve Savarese is a bit of a hugger.
The Charger stands today at 6-foot-5 and 340 pounds, and that is without much help from high-school growth spurts. Still, in the fall of 2005, when Fluker's size-22 shoes first entered the football office at McGill-Toolen Catholic High in Mobile, in came Savarese for the squeeze.
The freshman flinched and backed away. Sure, he'd been touched before, from having an abusive father to getting jumped by an estimated 20 people in middle school, among other violent childhood events. But no man had ever hugged him, he would tell the varsity coach later.
Yes, it is fair to say McGill embraced Fluker from the beginning. Quickly, a sociable Fluker found people at the school deserving of his trust and love.
"God sent us an angel that day," Savarese says.
People gravitate toward Fluker. Always have. The scientific community might one day invest millions to study the phenomenon.
Friends remember the first time they met him — tough to forget a handshake that covers a wrist. As big as he is, they swear it, the heart is larger. They admittedly grow impatient when in public with him; there isn't an autograph or picture he's refused. While at Alabama, he once missed the team bus from Bryant–Denny Stadium because, after the locker room cleared out and everybody's bags were loaded, he was still signing and posing with that wide smile of his.
If a high-school coach buys him fast food, he thinks of his younger siblings. If a friend treats him to a buffet, he gets a to-go box for his family. Simply, Fluker is a provider.
In high school, he made $5 per hour cutting grass every weekend. He power-washed houses. He built cabinets. He built piers. He worked at Ace Hardware. He worked at Swatters, a batting cage facility. While paid to clean out trailers and their surrounding grass area, he lifted a shovel, stalked the rattling, and with a swing, guillotined a snake. Earnings helped support his family.
There is a genuineness in Fluker's interaction with people. Like a tennis serve, that quality returns to him.
Fluker would seek 1-on-1 tutoring or film review. For him, teachers and coaches found the time. Seeing he needed a meal, somewhere to sleep or a ride to school, several McGill families helped out — it was never just one. Around the holidays in 2006, the entire student body donated a present to a family in need. Fluker, thinking the recipients must really be struggling, spared $1 to the cause. Fluker got his dollar back: the family was his, and what a Christmas it was.
John and Julie Beall, parents at McGill, learned of Fluker's story his sophomore year.
"How can we help?" they asked Savarese, and to this day, they haven't stopped. If love unites, the Bealls and Flukers are one.
Before the Flukers moved to Biloxi in 2007, had their trailer burned down by kids toying with matches, and then moved to Foley, Ala. where Fluker played offensive tackle his senior year for the first time, Fluker grew close to Savarese.
Savarese and his wife have a daughter who was off to college, and Fluker occasionally slept in her old room. After Fluker was shown the bed for the first time, he walked downstairs and asked Savarese and his wife before bedtime if there was a toothbrush.
"Sure," Savarese said. "But what's the matter, D.J.?"
Fluker had tears in his eyes. He wasn't sad. He wasn't scared. That he was finally about to do something so simple, something most take for granted, had made him overwhelmed. After getting by for so long on the barest of necessities, it felt strange to look up and admit at age 15.
"I've never slept in a bed by myself before," Fluker said.
Sleeping giant
Fluker's cell phone is a hornet left for dead, buzzing and buried in his pocket, unanswered nine times out of 10. By now, friends know what they are in for — ring … ring … ring — when they try, unlikely to reach Mr. Missed Call.
On April 27, 2011, John Beall tried.
A tornado warning was declared for Tuscaloosa. Beall wanted his loved ones to know, and three were students at the University of Alabama. He called and reached his son Bo, who said he was OK and somewhere safe. He called and reached Fluker's brother Leon, who said he was OK and somewhere safe. He called Fluker.
Ring ... ring ... ring ... Missed call. Beall tried again. No answer.
Fluker was asleep.
Leave the apartment, D.J.
Between Beall and his wife, Fluker had about a dozen missed calls that afternoon while napping off a spring football practice. After Beall finally reached him, Fluker groggily went back to bed before the phone rang again.
It was Chance Warmack, an Alabama teammate whom the Titans would draft No. 10 overall in 2013, one spot before the Chargers would pick Fluker.
Fluker answered.
Warmack invited him to come over and hang out. He accepted, getting out of bed and getting dressed while dark afternoon clouds sailed over his apartment. He headed downstairs, ran to his truck and got inside. Rain pelted the windshield. He drove to a gas station and filled his tank, the visibility so poor he could barely read the street names en route to Warmack's dorm building.
He arrived, and there was strangeness inside. Residents crowded together, sitting on the floor near the entrance. They asked Fluker to join them. He declined. They insisted Fluker join them. Agitated, he declined. He met with Warmack upstairs. People were behaving oddly, they agreed. Warmack played some of his beats. They took turns rapping when a third voice came.
A tornado notice advised residents to take shelter immediately. Fluker, Warmack and some other teammates went downstairs, opened a door and looked outside.
They saw it all.
The devil's finger poked through the dark clouds of Tuscaloosa and lowered to the ground. The multiple-vortex fog raised hell, whistling while it worked, leveling a Krispy Kreme, a gas station, a bank, a shopping mall, neighborhoods — everything. The tornado was a giant gray thumb scraping against an ant farm, and it was directed straight for the apartment Fluker vacated less than an hour ago.
When the rampage ended, Fluker and a friend drove to a nearby town and bought dozens of burgers for people at the dorm building. They saw dead bodies on the side of the road, people hanging from trees, buildings smashed together.
The devastation was nuclear, Fluker thought.
The next day, Beall drove from Mobile and took a cell-phone photo of Fluker. He is standing atop his flattened second-story apartment room. A different shot shows a Ford Mustang that had flown into Fluker's bathroom, the place he would have hidden had he stayed.
Fluker saw that and knew.
"If (Chance) never called me, I wouldn't be here right now," Fluker says. "That one phone call saved my life."
On the football field, Fluker is a kid again.
He is a kid bothered his parents aren't in the stands at McGill when other parents are; the kid being told in New Orleans he is just a muscle-man who will never earn a degree; the kid lying awake at night, furious, wondering why they have to sleep in this damn car when there is so much room inside that house.
Before games, Fluker hops up and down and, to pump them up, yells at teammates, "Get your mind right!" For him, that means entering a vault of childhood memories, choosing one or two events, reliving the emotion of that moment, and then, the vault door swinging shut behind him, strapping his helmet to hit somebody and make it right.
Fluker often tells people the football field is the only place you can hit a person and not go to jail. They laugh. He does, too, but always adds, "I'm serious."
The vault contains many memories — too many — from which to choose, but the one most often selected, the one recalled most vividly, is a small, green Chrysler car.
Its roof was the only one the Flukers had for weeks during D.J.'s sophomore year at McGill. It belonged to his mother's sister, who lived in a large house her husband said was too small for her in-laws. Night after night after night, they could sleep in the Chrysler. They could not sleep in the house, but they could sleep in the car.
Fluker asked his mom, "Why? Why can't we sleep inside?"
That was the answer. The uncle said no.
Life is hard. Regardless of class, race, gender or era, life is hard. But it didn't have to be that hard, Fluker says. More family members should have been there. That is what families are supposed to do. He remembers the emotion, the sense of rejection.
Fluker couldn't sleep, too irate about being cramped together, stuffed inside a car like unwanted groceries. He loves his mom. He loves Leon. He loves Aeriel. He loves Elizabeth. None of them in that car should feel so displaced again.
Months later, at school, Fluker was told to write a goal on the back of a white T-shirt. He grabbed a black Sharpie marker and, knowing what it would mean to his family, didn't think twice. He pressed down on the Dri-FIT fabric. He felt the pressure of the words.
In print letters, not cursive, they read: I will be a first-round pick.
It was a conversation where neither side had heard enough, said enough or seen enough to press "End." He in Atlanta and they in Mobile, Fluker held a black iPhone in front of his face last month as the video streamed for 22 minutes on the other side.
He watched his mother, Aeriel and Elizabeth walk through the front door for the first time and see the house D.J. Fluker bought. It was for them.
Hands covered mouths. Tears flowed down cheeks. Eyes looked up and around. The girls laughed and screamed into the two-way video screen: "Thank you, D.J.! Thank you!"
The girls saw Fluker's reaction to theirs. So often he smiles, but they've never seen him this happy. He was an All-American at Alabama. He graduated from school in 3 1/2 years. He was a first-round draft pick. And now, finally, he did it.
Leon saw the house days later. He slept peacefully that night and awoke the next morning.
"I didn't get out of my bed because I thought I was in heaven," he says.
The Flukers used a video call for the unveiling because D.J. was in Atlanta, working out before Chargers training camp. A few days before reporting, he drove from Atlanta to Mobile and met his family at the house for the first time.
All five lounged comfortably between two large couches.
Next spring, Leon is set to graduate from Alabama on scholarship with a degree in sports management. Aeriel and Elizabeth are both honor roll students and recently won leadership and algebra awards at school, respectively. D.J. is in the NFL, setting new goals that involve Super Bowls and the highest personal accolades. Annice achieved what meant most to her, keeping her children together and in school.
They reminisced. They teased. They laughed.
The Flukers, for the first time, were home.
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Proposed amendments to Ontario Regulation 569 made under the Health Protection and Promotion Act
The OHRC welcomes the proposed amendment to Ontario Regulation 569 made under the Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA) that would require collecting information on race, income level, language and household size for people who test positive for a novel coronavirus, including COVID-19. The OHRC recommends the ministry consider expanding the required collection of information to include other vulnerable populations identified in Ontario's Human Rights Code.
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I am writing today on behalf of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) about the government's consultation on Ontario's next Poverty Reduction Strategy (Strategy). The OHRC calls on Ontario to take a human rights-based approach to poverty reduction by entrenching the types of economic and social responses to COVID-19 into permanent solutions that will once and for all protect the well-being of everyone in our province.
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OHRC statement on Independent Reviewer's report on compliance with Jahn v MCSCS settlement and OHRC v Ontario order
Today, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) notes the release of Justice David Cole's Final Report, which finds that Ontario has not complied with a legal settlement and order requiring it to ensure that prisoners with mental health disabilities receive appropriate mental health services, and are not placed in segregation except as a last resort.
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Following the lead of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) urges Ontarians to keep human rights principles under Ontario's Human Rights Code (Code), the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) and relevant international human rights treaties at the centre of decision-making during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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On the second anniversary of the deaths of Joey Knapaysweet and Agnes Sutherland, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) announced it has filed an application with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) alleging discrimination based on Indigenous ancestry by public service providers in Timmins, Ontario.
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Rainbow Laces: Tottenham left-back Ben Davies says open discussions can help create positive change
Ben Davies: "The club and us as players have a platform and speaking about it is the only way forward"; the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will be illuminated in rainbow colours for their game against Brentford on Thursday
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Tottenham's Ben Davies sits down with Olympic hockey gold medallist and Proud Lilywhites patron Helen Richardson-Walsh to discuss their support for Stonewall's Rainbow Laces campaign
Ben Davies believes being open and speaking honestly about abuse suffered within LGBTQ+ communities can only help the process of rooting it out within sport and society.
The Tottenham left-back sat down with Olympic gold medallist Helen Richardson-Walsh, who also is a patron for Spurs' club-affiliated LGBTQ+ fan group Proud Lilywhites, to discuss their support for Stonewall's Rainbow Laces campaign.
This year's initiative is encouraging people to 'Lace Up and Speak Up', emphasising the importance of holding open conversations in support of LGBTQ+ communities.
The captains of Spurs' men's and women's teams will wear multi-coloured armbands for their upcoming fixtures and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will be illuminated in rainbow colours for Thursday's Premier League match against Brentford.
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Davies said: "I think it's important that as key figures within our club, as role models to a lot of people and in society, we show that football really is an inclusive sport, that everybody is welcome, and as players, as fans, we have to do our best to make sure those environments are as welcoming as possible.
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"I think it's incredibly important that this club supports the Rainbow Laces campaign. The club does some amazing work in regard to tackling all forms of discrimination, be it Rainbow Laces, Kick It Out, be it antisemitism, these things are unfortunately part of our society.
"It goes on, and the best way to stamp it out is to highlight it, to try and support the right causes and make people aware of their biases and discrimination and it's really not acceptable in our society.
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"The club and us as players have a platform and speaking about it is the only way forward."
Proud Lilywhites works closely with Tottenham to help combat issues relating to homophobia within the game and create a safe and inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans fans.
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The group regularly runs training sessions and educational workshops for club staff and matchday stewards, with the Proud Lilywhites signature flag on display at all home matches.
Proud Lilywhites membership has grown to over 700 and, in 2018, the group was awarded the Fans for Diversity Award by the Football Supporters' Federation.
Richardson-Walsh said: "It's been a real pleasure and honour to be the patron of Proud Lilywhites. They create a network where people feel included.
"During the pandemic, I think it's been highlighted even more how necessary that is. We've got supporters all over the world and they've been able to come together, to feel safe and talk about football, that one shared love that we all have.
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"It's something the club takes incredibly seriously. They do a lot in terms of diversity training for their employees. With the support of the Foundation, they go out into communities and help children which is fundamental to the future of this and it is making a difference.
"'Lace Up, Speak Up' is moving the conversation forward. As football clubs, as supporters, we are getting much better at talking about being inclusive of everybody, but I think we need to take it onto the next step.
"It's also about speaking up when you see something that isn't acceptable and be the voice for those that cannot be that voice themselves."
Noble: The world has changed
West Ham midfielder Mark Noble speaks with Pride of Irons, the official West Ham United LGBT Supporters Group, during Stonewall's Rainbow Laces campaign
In a sit-down chat with official West Ham United LGBT+ Supporters Group Pride of Irons, long-serving midfielder Mark Noble says he believes football is slowly becoming a more accepting and inclusive environment.
"West Ham has been known, especially now, as a family club, and I think especially since I've been here I think things have changed," Noble said.
"The world has changed now and we have got to show that everyone is included - that's what I think. Especially over the last five years I would say that's really come to the forefront in football especially.
"I think you see the young boy that came out in Australia, I think it was Josh Cavallo. That was a massive step, you see the support that he got. And hopefully, that shows you that players and obviously supporters, that they feel free to express themselves. And if they are gay they come out and say it because that's what we encourage."
In a landmark moment for inclusivity in football, Adelaide United midfielder Cavallo recently came out as gay and is the world's only known out gay male professional footballer currently playing in a top-flight league.
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Nathalie Voser is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer's dispute resolution group in Zürich. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in a large number of cases and has advised clients involved in complex multi-jurisdictional disputes before state courts. Nathalie's areas of specialization include general contract law and international procedural law such as (pretrial) attachment and recognition of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. Her practice focuses on contracts regarding construction, civil engineering and energy-related projects, research and development, distribution and license agreements, joint ventures as well as mergers and acquisitions. Nathalie is well known for her expertise in the construction, power production, pharmaceutical and automotive industries.
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Nathalie is currently a Vice President of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), a board member of the Swiss Arbitration Association as well as a board member of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC). She has other functions in various institutions such as being a Swiss delegate in the ICC Arbitration and ADR Commission in Paris.
In 1988, Nathalie graduated summa cum laude from the University of Basel, and was admitted to the Swiss Bar in 1990. In 1992, she became a juris doctor summa cum laude and in 1994 she earned an LLM with honours from Columbia University, New York.
In 2005, she received the venia docendi for private law, conflicts of laws and comparative law; in 2014, she was awarded the title of professor in private law, arbitration law, private international law and comparative law by the University of Basel, where she regularly teaches courses in commercial arbitration and other areas of Swiss private law. She additionally has published a leading text book in arbitration and numerous articles in the area of dispute resolution. Finally, she is regularly invited to as a panelist or session chair at various conferences.
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During the "PS Vita Game Heaven" online press conference, Sony detailed the Japanese "UMD Passport" program which allows Vita owners re-buy their already owned UMDs on the PSN for a drastically reduced price.
Step one has you log onto the PSN Store with a PSP and download the UMD Passport App. Step two is to run the app with the UMD you wish to transfer in the drive. The PSP will then connect to the PSN and authorise a UMD Passport download of the game. From there you log into the PSN with your Vita and buy the passport version of the game.
While not all titles are available for transfer right away, Sony released a list 50 game companies partaking in the passport program as well as a list of the games that will be transferable when the service launches March 9 in Japan.
Sadly, Sony told announced last month that this service would not be coming to the US, so those outside of Japan will just have to pay full price and re-buy digital versions their favourite UMD titles on the PSN.
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Arakawa Under the Bridge Vol. 1
Written by Bryony Stibbons on 03 May 2018
Distributor Vertical Comics • Author/Artist Hikaru Nakamura • Price £14.99
Arakawa Under the Bridge was first published in Japan in 2004, and made the jump from page to screen with an anime series in 2010, followed by a live action film in 2012. It tells the tale of Kou Ichinomiya, a young businessman destined to inherit his fathers company. He has been raised by his single father who taught him that he must never be in debt to anyone, to the point that he will have a panic attacked if he is ever forced to take anything from another person. Unfortunately, some bullies steal his trousers and throw them over the side of a bridge - one of the books least random moments! In an attempt to get them back Kou falls into the river and is rescued by a girl named Nino (who incidentally is from the planet Venus and lives under the bridge), to whom he now owes his life!
Kou feels that he must now repay the debt he owes Nino, but she doesn't want money or a house, she wants Kou to teach her about love and to be her boyfriend. He feels he has no choice but to agree, which leads to him relocate and live under the bridge. As if this tale isn't already wacky enough, Kou gradually becomes acquainted with the other residents under the bridge that include a Kappa, who is in fact the mayor (and who re-names Kou 'Recruit'), a man with a head shaped like a star, called Hoshi and a male nun who runs Sunday mass whilst holding a semi-automatic weapon.
The basis of this book is pure wacky humour, but of the adult variety, with a fairly simplistic initial premise taking you on a journey that leaves you wondering 'how does someone even come up with this stuff?'. The fact that Recruit comes from a well-to-do, financially stable background with great prospects and ends up living under a bridge eating fish from the river, gives the generally crazy story a more typical 'how the other half live' element – that is if the other half are a bunch of the universes most obscure characters!
In general, the artwork is great with a good balance between scene-setting and focus on characters. Each cast member is so distinct and unique, with some being drawn relatively simplistically whilst others are more detailed - it's obviously not going to be difficult to tell characters apart when one has a star for a head and another in wearing a nuns habit! All the characters convey emotion well, although it is sometimes a little unclear from expression whether something is said seriously or with humor. It is made clear what is speech, thought and narration, which isn't always the case with manga, and this makes the narrative easy to follow.
This book is not for everyone, as it is fairly obscure with a distinctly wacky humour to it, but I must say that it really did draw me in. So far, I have read volumes 1 and 2, which serve to both set up the story, introduce a whole host of unusual characters and make clear the dynamics of the community under the bridge. Each of the short chapters is a mini random scenario that Recruit finds himself in and I found that I was never at any point able to guess what could be going to happen each time I turned the page. If you like a bit or mad humour, you are visiting this planet from outer space or ever wondered what it would be like to live under a bridge, this one's for you!
Ever wondered what it would be like to live under a bridge with aliens, cross-dressers and mystical creatures? Now you can find out!
About Bryony Stibbons
A life-long board game addict, but anime newbie, Bryony is gradually getting hooked!


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Ерик Алин Корнел () е американски физик. През 2001 г. заедно с Карл Уиман и Волфганг Кетерле е награден с Нобелова награда за физика "за постигането на Бозе-Айнщайнова кондензация в разредени газове от атоми на алкалните елементи и за ранните фундаментални изследвания на свойствата на кондензациите". Първият синтез на Бозе-Айнщайнова кондензация е осъществен от Корнел и Уиман през 1995 г.

Биография
Роден е на 19 декември 1961 г. в Пало Алто, Калифорния. Две години по-късно семейството му се премества да живее в Кеймбридж, Масачузетс. Завършва Станфордския университет, а през 1990 г. получава докторска степен по физика от Масачузетския технологичен институт. Става професор в Колорадския университет в Боулдър. Работи в Американския национален институт по стандарти и технологии към Департамента по търговия на САЩ.

През октомври 2004 г. лявата му ръка е ампутирана, за да се спре разпространението на инфекция, предизвикана от бактерията necrotizing fasciitis.

Външни препратки
 Страница за Корнел в Колорадския университет
 Страница на Нобеловия комитет за наградата по физика за 2001 година

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Американски физици
Носители на Нобелова награда за физика
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Станфордски университет
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Q: Map spread array to numbers When mapping an array containing integers and strings I want to cast only the numbers.
Assume the array ['55', 'abc'] is passed as a param to a function.
How can I use the spread operator and get the same results?
"Run code snippet" and notice that with the spread operator, 55 is not cast to a number.

console.log(['55', 'abc'].map(val => isNaN(val) ? val : Number(val)))
console.log(...[['55', 'abc']].map(val => isNaN(val) ? val : Number(val)))

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How can I use the spread operator and get the same results?

You can't. Spread (which is syntax, not an operator) doesn't do mapping. It spreads out values. For mapping, stick with map (what you have in the first line of your code). (Or if you were starting with something that was just array-like without actually being an array, you might use Array.from passing in a mapping callback. But your starting point in your example is an actual array.)
The reason your second line doesn't work is that you're calling map on the outer array, which has an array in it, so val in the callback is that array. isNaN(['55, 'abc']) ends up being isNaN('55,abc') which is true because '55,abc' when converted to the number type is NaN. So the callback returns the inner array unchanged.
Your first line creates a new array with the values mapped the way you seem to want them to be mapped.

A: Looks like you aren't spreading it into a new array. The below gives the desired result.

console.log(['55', 'abc'].map(val => isNaN(val) ? val : Number(val)))
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In 1982, a year after the Sino-Australian forestry collaboration first kicked off, an outdoorsy young Melburnian, having just graduated with Bachelor of Science (Forestry) from Australian National University, began a career that was to see him gain a PhD from North Carolina State University (a world-leader in the field of tree breeding). He would go on to improve the lives of millions by guiding the development of successful forestry programs in developing nations.
"After graduating I spent six years working in private industry, then did postgraduate study in the US, then joined CSIRO [Australia's national science agency]," recalls Dr Roger Arnold.
"At that time, the CSIRO's forestry division was assisting developing countries identify the best sources of seed, establish seed orchards and develop advanced generation breeding programs for eucalypts. I helped implement programs in Sri Lanka and the Philippines but it was obvious the country with the biggest potential was China.
"From 1999 to 2004 I spent a lot of time in China, mainly working on a project to establish cold-tolerant eucalypt species in a number of southern provinces. Eventually I relocated there permanently," Arnold recalls.
"Initially I worked for a Chinese forestry company but after the Global Financial Crisis hit, I accepted an offer to become a senior research scientist at the Chinese Eucalypt Research Centre. There had already been a revolution in productivity from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, due to intensive Sino-Australian experimentation into which species, varieties, fertilisers, planting densities and rotation times yielded the best results and I was employed to help engineer a second 'great leap forward'."
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