England captain Chris Robshaw made a winning return to action as Harlequins overcame Leicester at The Stoop.
Visiting fly-half Owen Williams put his side ahead with two early penalties but tries by Danny Care and Jack Clifford meant Quins led 15-9 at the break.
Marland Yarde scored their third touchdown, which Ben Botica converted before adding his second penalty.
Williams kicked another penalty in reply but replacement Tim Swiel's late score secured Harlequins' bonus point.
While many eyes were on the returning England captain, it was his back-row colleague Nick Easter, making his 250th appearance for Quins, who put in a man-of-the-match performance to revive his side's hopes of reaching the top four.
Following victories for Harlequins and Sale Sharks on Saturday, just 14 points separate the top eight sides in the Premiership after 13 rounds of fixtures. At the end of last season that gap was 43 points.
The 36-year-old number eight had a hand in three of his side's four tries, as the hosts bounced back from a slow start.
The Tigers were looking for their fifth win in six Premiership matches and three early penalties from Williams gave them the best possible start.
One of the game's fascinating match-ups was at scrum-half, where both Care and Ben Youngs have designs on a starting place in England's Six Nations opener.
It was the Harlequins nine who came out on top on this occasion - and it was Care who also scored the first try of the match, timing his run to perfection to latch on to Easter's offload. Botica's conversion, which added to his earlier penalty, gave Quins a lead they would never relinquish.
Easter's drive was the catalyst for their second try, with former England Under-20 captain Clifford eventually crossing after neat work from Care and Yarde, and Quins held a 15-9 advantage at half-time.
Four minutes into the second period the hosts grabbed their third touchdown, with Easter claiming Williams' poor clearance and feeding Yarde.
The England winger somehow threaded his way through a wall of Leicester defenders to give his side a healthy advantage.
In a rather dull last quarter in which Williams added his fourth penalty, the bonus point appeared to have eluded Quins until England full-back Mike Brown created a chance for replacement Swiel to score in injury time, which he converted himself.
I've stopped speaking to [England head coach] Stuart Lancaster about because I'm banging... Nick wants to play for England.
"Stuart's worry has always been, will he get to the World Cup with the ability to play at that intensity and pace? Look at that performance against Leicester and think about the Leinster games when he played against Jamie Heaslip.
"I've been very fortunate to have Nick at the club while I've been here - he plays at a level very few people can - that offload [for Care] wasn't just world class, it was out of this world.
"The harder the going gets and the more we're under pressure, the better he plays - I said to him four years ago I'd stop playing him every week, but I can't stop playing him every week."
Leicester Tigers: Tait; Thompstone, Goneva, Allen, Benjamin; Williams, Ben Youngs (capt); Ayerza, Tom Youngs, Balmain; Kitchener, Parling; Croft, Salvi, Crane.
Replacements: Ghiraldini, Rizzo, Mulipola, De Chaves, Gibson, Harrison, Burns. Bai.
Harlequins: Brown; Yarde, Hopper, Lowe, Monye; Botica, Care; Marler (capt), Gray, Sinckler; Matthews, Robson; Clifford, Robshaw, Easter.
Replacements: Buchanan, Marfo, Collier, Twomey, Trayfoot, Dickson, Swiel, Williams.


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require "storage_helper"

describe Google::Cloud::Storage::File, :acl, :storage do
  let :bucket do
    storage.bucket(bucket_name) ||
    storage.create_bucket(bucket_name)
  end
  let(:bucket_name) { $bucket_names.first }

  let(:files) do
    { logo: { path: "acceptance/data/CloudPlatform_128px_Retina.png" },
      big:  { path: "acceptance/data/three-mb-file.tif" } }
  end
  let(:local_file) { File.new files[:logo][:path] }

  let(:user_val) { "user-blowmage@gmail.com" }

  before do
    # always create the bucket and set default acl to auth
    bucket.default_acl.auth!
  end

  after do
    bucket.files.all { |f| f.delete rescue nil }
  end

  it "adds a reader" do
    file = bucket.create_file local_file, "ReaderTest.png"
    user_val = "user-blowmage@gmail.com"
    file.acl.readers.wont_include user_val
    file.acl.add_reader user_val
    file.acl.readers.must_include user_val
    file.acl.refresh!
    file.acl.readers.must_include user_val
    file.refresh!
    file.acl.readers.must_include user_val
  end

  it "adds an owner" do
    file = bucket.create_file local_file, "OwnerTest.png"
    user_val = "user-blowmage@gmail.com"
    file.acl.owners.wont_include user_val
    file.acl.add_owner user_val
    file.acl.owners.must_include user_val
    file.acl.refresh!
    file.acl.owners.must_include user_val
    file.refresh!
    file.acl.owners.must_include user_val
  end

  it "updates predefined rules" do
    file = bucket.create_file local_file, "AclTest.png"
    file.acl.readers.must_include "allAuthenticatedUsers"
    file.acl.private!
    file.acl.readers.must_be :empty?
    file.acl.refresh!
    file.acl.readers.must_be :empty?
    file.refresh!
    file.acl.readers.must_be :empty?
  end

  it "deletes rules" do
    file = bucket.create_file local_file, "DeleteTest.png"
    file.acl.readers.must_include "allAuthenticatedUsers"
    file.acl.delete "allAuthenticatedUsers"
    file.acl.readers.must_be :empty?
    file.acl.refresh!
    file.acl.readers.must_be :empty?
    file.refresh!
    file.acl.readers.must_be :empty?
  end

  it "retrieves and modifies the ACL" do
    bucket.default_acl.private!
    file = bucket.create_file local_file, "CRUDTest.png"
    bucket.default_acl.owners.must_be  :empty?
    bucket.default_acl.readers.must_be :empty?

    bucket.default_acl.add_reader user_val

    bucket.default_acl.owners.must_be  :empty?
    bucket.default_acl.readers.wont_be :empty?

    bucket.default_acl.readers.must_include user_val

    bucket.default_acl.reload!

    bucket.default_acl.readers.must_include user_val

    bucket.reload!

    bucket.default_acl.readers.must_include user_val

    bucket.default_acl.delete user_val

    bucket.default_acl.owners.must_be  :empty?
    bucket.default_acl.readers.must_be :empty?

    bucket.default_acl.readers.wont_include user_val

    bucket.default_acl.reload!

    bucket.default_acl.readers.wont_include user_val

    bucket.reload!

    bucket.default_acl.readers.wont_include user_val
  end

  it "sets predefined ACL rules" do
    file = bucket.create_file local_file, "PredefinedTest.png"
    file.acl.authenticatedRead!
    file.acl.auth!
    file.acl.auth_read!
    file.acl.authenticated!
    file.acl.authenticated_read!
    file.acl.bucketOwnerFullControl!
    file.acl.owner_full!
    file.acl.bucketOwnerRead!
    file.acl.owner_read!
    file.acl.private!
    file.acl.projectPrivate!
    file.acl.project_private!
    file.acl.publicRead!
    file.acl.public!
    file.acl.public_read!
  end
end

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What does the Boise Neighborhood Association do?
The Association is made up of its members, which include everyone who lives and works in the neighborhood. Members are able to be elected or appointed to the board, but being on the board is just one way to serve in your community. Anyone can work on a project, volunteer, or start a committee. Anyone can organize a volunteer event or throw a block party. Whether the board chooses to endorse or support the project, committee, or event would be decided by vote at a neighborhood or LUTC meeting.
At meetings, association members and board members discuss neighborhood issues and decide how to act in a way that represents the association. Sometimes they form committees to work on a particular issue, such as affordable housing, parking, or beautification. Sometimes they vote to write a letter of support on an issue or for a certain organization.
April 2016 - Board Meeting. Letter sent to City here.
Land Use & Transportation Meetings: Fourth Monday of the month, 7 pm at the Q Center (no August meeting). See LUTC page for members, minutes and other documents.
The Board of Directors shall be the governing body of the Association and exercise control of the affairs, funds and property of the Association. The affairs of Boise Neighborhood Association shall be managed by the board in the interim between general meetings. The board shall be accountable to the General Membership; shall actively seek the input of those affected by any proposed policies or actions, when possible, before adopting any recommendation on behalf of Boise Neighborhood Association; and shall strictly comply with these bylaws.


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We have been able to successfully supply the best quality of Stone Cladding & Cluster Bricks at cost effective prices.
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We Believe That an Individual`s commitment to a group effort is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, and a civilisation work. Talent win`s games, But teamwork and intelligence win championships. Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
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New Milford Musician Turned Photographer Captures Beautiful Images Around Connecticut
Lou Milano Published: July 19, 2022
Dave King - New Milford
Dave King's social media accounts always seem to get my attention. Such was the case recently when I saw his photo called "Super Moon over The Bleachery Train Trestle in New Milford."
He'd captured the night sky over New Milford in a way you don't often see. It was clear, crisp and I felt like I was standing right there. I reached out to Dave and asked him about his photos.
Dave King
Tell me a little about you?
Many people know me as a musician as I have performed at countless bars and restaurants in the greater Danbury area for more years than I care to admit. I have also recorded and released several albums, the most recent being "Into The Deep Blue" in 2020.
Dave King - Roxbury
When did you start taking pictures, and why?
In addition to my music, I have also developed a strong interest in photography in recent years. It first started out as an excuse to get outside and do some hiking and enjoy the outdoors - even during the winter months. I NEVER went outside much in the winter until I got into photography. Now it is one of my favorite seasons to get out and take photos!
I am primarily interested in landscape photography, but I also dabble in other genres too. Night Sky photography is fun because it is particularly challenging. In order to get a good shot of a Super Moon or the Milky Way, you need a lot of elements to come together. Not only do you need the proper equipment, but you also need the right weather, location, time of year, etc. Without all of these elements aligning, the photo will fail.
Dave King - Lake Waramaug
Are the pics all New Milford related?
Since I live in New Milford, many of my photos are taken in the New Milford area and surrounding towns. New Milford is a great town with a strong sense of community and offers a lot of beautiful locations for photography.
Dave King - Washington
You still doing music?
I'll be performing at Rosy Tomorrows in Danbury, CT on Friday, July 29 at 6:30pm
My original music and performance schedule and more are available on my web site: www.davekingmusic.com
Dave King - New Preston
I appreciate these photos, Connecticut has a lot of beautiful landscapes and Dave has a good eye. Keep trudging into the wild, and out into the night Dave, these are great.
Dave King - Warren
Danbury Police Say They Busted Repeat Criminal Busted With Drugs, Guns + Cash
Danbury Police arrested Joel Albarran on Thursday (6/16/22) and say they found illegal drugs, guns and cash after a search. Albarran's bond was set at $250,000 and he faces the following charges:
New Milford Man' s Chilling Texas Chainsaw Massacre Truck Seen in Monroe
This past weekend's (6/4/22) Barnum Festival in Monroe, CT was a success by anyone's measure. It was a place to go see classic cars of all kinds, have some food and see live music. In that sea of automobile madness was a terrifying thing. There was a vehicle with a recognizable and chilling theme, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Truck. I spoke to the truck's owner Sam Gentile from New Milford, to find out how this came together, and why.
Under the Bridge – Danbury's Hidden Art Project
Danbury, CT has a lot of murals which have been sanctioned by the city and then there is the illegal graffiti. The Hat City has its fair share of illegal graffiti but most of it, is off the beaten-path. It's near the train tracks, and under bridges, it's in places most residents will never go. I intentionally seek these places out. I like to go to places most people would find scary, grimy or even dangerous. I'm willing to climb over downed trees, step on broken glass and dodge rusting metal to find my way to a place I was never meant to see.
Source: New Milford Musician Turned Photographer Captures Beautiful Images Around Connecticut

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The beautiful 2013 growing season was briefly interrupted by September rains, but a sunny fall rewarded those patient enough, like ourselves, to pick after the weather. The extra hang time allows this bottling of Cataclysm Pinot Noir to be complex and alluring, even in its youth.
Wafts of berry cobbler, a savory meatiness, herbs and a fun hint of chocolate orange introduce the palate of cranberry, preserved cherries, dried currants and Mexican chocolate.


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Q: Ajustar tamaño de una tabla de imagenes en android, de forma que sea uniforme en los distintos tamaños de pantallas Dentro de un GridLayout tengo definidos images de este estilo:
<ImageView  android:id="@+id/algo"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:src="@drawable/imagen"
            android:background="#000"
/>

Para cada imagen usada tengo su equivalente en mdpi, hdpi y xhdpi. El problema es que la tabla en pantallas pequeñas se ve incompleta (hasta llega a faltar una columna) y en pantallas grande me sobra mucho espacio, realmente su tamaño es muy desuniforme en cada posible pantalla.
Creía que este problema se resolvía al generar las distintas resoluciones. No sé si las propiedades width y height de cada imagen las debería manipular con un tamaño en dp y generar distintos layout o cómo resolver este problema para que sea mas uniforme la visualización de la tabla en distintas pantallas.

A: La mejor opción en este caso puede ser que uses match_parent sobre todo para el GridLayout en lugar de usar wrap_content, de esa forma podrás conseguir que siempre ocupe el máximo de la pantalla, si sigue sin verse toda la tabla seguramente sera porque las imágenes son demasiado grandes y no caben, en este caso te recomiendo usar un scrollview.

A: Esto sería un 3x3 que se adapta a cualquier tamaño.
En resumen es un contenedor LinearLayout en el que sus elementos tienen de tamaño la proporción correspondiente:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/prueba"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:weightSum="100"
    android:orientation="vertical"
>
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_weight="33.33"
        android:weightSum="100"
    >
        <Button
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="33.33"
            android:text="New Button"
            android:id="@+id/button1"
        />
        <Button
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="33.33"
            android:text="New Button"
            android:id="@+id/button2"
        />
        <Button
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="33.33"
            android:text="New Button"
            android:id="@+id/button3"
        />
    </LinearLayout>
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_weight="33.33"
        android:weightSum="100"
    >
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            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="33.33"
            android:text="New Button"
            android:id="@+id/button4"
        />
        <Button
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="33.33"
            android:text="New Button"
            android:id="@+id/button5"
        />
        <Button
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="33.33"
            android:text="New Button"
            android:id="@+id/button6"
        />
    </LinearLayout>
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_weight="33.33"
        android:weightSum="100"
    >
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            android:layout_weight="33.33"
            android:text="New Button"
            android:id="@+id/button7"
        />
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            android:text="New Button"
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Marriage is without any doubt one of the biggest life-changing decisions that you will ever make or come across and that's why the pre wedding jitters are considered quite a normal phenomenon or experience which both the brides and the grooms have to go through. But here's the basic problem- how do you tell when your sixth sense is actually warning you for the right reason about the impending doom and when the butterflies in your stomach are nothing that you should get yourself even stressed out about?
Deviating from the archaic norms as advised by our grandparents and keeping the changing trends of marriage in mind, marriage counsellors are actually there to advise brides and grooms to take some time out for themselves and to rationalise exactly what is making them dread the very special wedding day.
The fairy tales tell us that our Prince Charming will be the tailor-made to suit our every need but in reality, it is a very different picture altogether. While many women think that an ideal life partner should be one whose every interest undoubtedly matches with theirs, counsellors don't really hold the same point of view. Beautiful marriages have been built by couples who have a completely different array of likes and interests.
However, if you find that the two of you can't even meet at a halfway with regard to making the smaller decisions before the marriage, then you shouldn't be under the illusion that marriage itself will be the reason to solve everything. In all likelihood, you will definitely end up marrying the very wrong person!
When asking a guy to take an AIDS test before marriage was once considered as a major taboo but the same is not there anymore. You have every right to know if the guy you are willing to marry is at risk of getting a lifestyle disease. Likewise, your partner too has the right to know if there are any diseases running in your family which he may not be aware of.
We suggest that the best way to tackle with this pre-wedding jitter is to talk about your concern in a private manner with your partner and then go for a full medical check-up together before the wedding. After you say your vows, you don't need to feel like you both had hidden anything from each other.
Do you need to ask yourself this question that what exactly is it about his family that you really don't like? Is it that they haven't really taken to you, or that they don't really gel with your own parents or that you just don't know them well enough? Not getting along with one's in-laws is the standard and one of the most common pre wedding jitters for any bride to beat!
However, we suggest that you should consider taking time understanding each member of his family individually and for doing so one of the best ways is to build up a bond which is to find a hobby or class or an activity or even go out for a movie together. In spite of all your efforts, if you still feel that there is an untouched vacuum, rethinking the marriage may be the best option in such circumstances.
We would like to recommend that though everyone has pre wedding jitters we should not let them take charge of your decisions beyond limits. We should definitely consider them but once all the doubts are cleared, we should not try to dig in so deep that it ends up spoiling the relationship between the couple.
Do share your thoughts on it and what's your way of overcoming it?


I'm frequently wrong and try to learn from my mistakes. This, however, is not really helping me to avoid making any new mistakes. I just try to stay afloat.
Despite that, I beg your indulgence. I must contradict you. I think your information is incomplete or your premises are wrong.
The second (third?) one was made in 1877, and it involved William Dall, a famous malacologist in the United States. Although I could not find the proposal, the reference was included by Judith Winston in his magnificent book, Describing Species. She included some relevant information for this discussion as well.
Therefore, there was indeed a code and it was ruling internationally, at least from 1901. Its reading would help us better understand if the dissertation was regarded as a formal publication, or not. If it was regarded as a publication, why bother repeating it? On the other hand, it is known that in legal grounds, no law or act can have retroactive powers. Perhaps it is easier to do in science or in zoological nomenclature, but its implications have to be taken into account. Precisely for that is the provision of the dilemma of strict priority against widespread usage.
Regarding Soderstrom dissertation, 1920, the spionid specialists must have a better idea why it has been regarded as a valid publication for nomenclatural purposes. I don't know about that. What is self-evident, even for me, is that there was no additional publication to deal with. Therefore, that would make that example quite different from the one dealing with Arwidsson, 1906 vs 1907.
I insist, the dissertation was not a publication, and we must agree on the fact that it was the publication in the Supplement 9, part 1, of the Zool Jahrb, dated 1907, that made it a valid one for nomenclatural purposes.
Sergio is wrong. The Code clearly specifies that as Mary pointed out: "Before 2000, an author who distributed separates in advance of the specified date of publication of the work in which the material is published thereby advanced the date of publication. The advance issue of separates after 1999 does not do so, whereas preprints, clearly imprinted with their own date of publication, may be published works from the date of their issue (see Glossary: "separate", "preprint")."
Given this, Arwidisson's preprinted version iin 1090 is the correct date of publication.  In 1906 there was no Code of Zoological Nomenclature and no rules regarding a Thesis, Dissertation, or preprints. In fact, at the time, publication of a Dissertation was often considered the formal publication of monographic work. Consider Soderstrom's 1920 monograph on spionids as an example.
dealt too much with any problem about priority.
time to check and list the corresponding publications for each usage.
by using the dissertation instead of the publication.
types, the spelling of a name, or any other matter.
publications and nomenclatural acts as well.
of 1906 for Arwidsson's monograph.


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Avon Park Offers Starlight Shuffling! It's Working!! Why Not Try It In Your Club?? The Weather Adds to the Enjoyment!!
Special Thanks to Club member Joan Brisbane who invited five Shufflers from her park, and yes, five Shufflers came. There was every indication they were having a great time, AS WERE ALL SHUFFLERS. Here is their picture!! Joan is at the extreme right.
If Joan is sharing this with you, All Club Members were happy to have you this evening; all Club Members would like to have you join our Avon Park Club!!


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Mon 16th Jun 2014 - Breaking News - River Cottage Canteen launches £1m mini-bond
River Cottage Canteen launches £1m mini-bond: River Cottage Canteen has issued a £1m mini-bond, paying 7% interest, through crowd-funding website Crowdcube to enable expansion of the brand to large footfall sites in prime locations. Launched in 1998 by food writer and chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, River Cottage is a pioneer of seasonal, local, organic and wild food. It operates an award-winning cookery school and three Canteens in the South West. So far, 26 investors have pledged £252,000. In its prospectus, the company states: "River Cottage Canteen annual sales rose to £4m this year, over 3.5 times 2011 sales of £1.1m. Over this period the group has expanded from one store to three whilst also building up a head office team to oversee further growth. In this last year the average Canteen produced sales of over £1.3m, with the busiest restaurant achieving just over £1.6m. Each restaurant is on target to pay back opening and design costs within three and four years of trading. The first canteen to open was in Axminster and although only a small town the site has traded at over £1m per annum from its first year of opening. Sales are boosted by the in-store deli and a close working relationship with Park Farm just down the road. The Plymouth canteen opened in November 2011 and is our largest Canteen, with the added benefit of external seating in the magnificent Royal William Yard. We opened our third canteen in Bristol at the end of February 2013 and the first year of trading has been very promising with income hitting £1.3m and producing a ROCE for the site of 29%. Our total debt, adjusted for cash in the bank, at the end of March 2014 was £277,000, of which £176,000 is related to short-term loans for each of the existing Canteens and £101,000 of overdraft and cash balances. The River Cottage Bond will enable the Canteen business to grow and will also offset the need for future short-term bank borrowing." The company added: "Over the last seven years the Canteens have evolved from an ambitious idea into a unique group of popular and independent restaurants embedded in their communities. Each opening has been accompanied by a high level of media attention and local interest. The canteens have served over 300,000 guests since the beginning of 2013 and we are keen to continue to expand. The River Cottage Bond will help us to take our Canteens to more towns and cities in the UK. And whilst we are ambitious, we should also emphasise that we're not in a rush. We are growing organically and care needs to be taken for each new opening to be a success. In addition to identifying the correct sites, we also need to set up a strong supplier network and train staff. When we began our growth plans concentrated on the South West, where we were looking for attractive and stimulating buildings relatively close to our Devon headquarters. This has allowed us to progressively develop management systems and supply relationships close to home. Now that this process is firmly established, the Canteens are ready to expand further and actively consider sites in the South and South East. This is a logical extension of the initial territory and an area where, due to television coverage, the brand is already very well known. The Axminster and Bristol Canteens largely compete with local independent restaurants and gastro pubs, as there are few branded operators nearby. Whilst initially we were happy to avoid expensive prime locations where these chains normally gather, opening in Plymouth has shown us that the Canteen trades well against them. When the Plymouth Canteen opened originally there were very few restaurants in the area. They have since flocked in as momentum has built and the Canteen now trades close to the likes of Bistrot Pierre, Wagamama and Las Iguanas. As a result of this success, in the next phase of expansion we are also looking at sites where branded operators congregate and higher footfall can be expected. To make this more economically feasible we have developed a model for smaller footprints. This will substantially widen the range of sites that we can consider and improve the prospects for delivering the expansion plan. The River Cottage Bond should help us to grow from three sites this year to seven by 2018, and we are hoping to launch one new Canteen each year. We plan to use part of the money from the bond to fund some of the capital cost of opening in Winchester, and the remainder will be used to reduce bank borrowings until we are ready to open Canteen number five." Perks for investors who pledge a minimum of £500 include: Free access to our eight online course (worth £160), 10% off cookery school courses and events at River Cottage HQ; 10% off Canteens in Axminster, Bristol and Plymouth; Access to exclusively-signed River Cottage books; the opportunity to join Hugh Fearnley-Whitingstall at special events; front of the queue access for exclusive events and filming.


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Towards the first Free Software GSM Phone
GSM, phone
Harald Welte
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This presentation describes the progress of hacking and extending the Motorola series of Linux based Smartphones, with the ultimate goal to replace all proprietary applications with 100% free software. It's been two years since Motorola has released the first Linux Smartphone (A768). More recently, two new models were introduced, the A780 and the E680, the former even officially distributed in Germany and all over the EU. What's so special about a Linux based smartphone? It's special because the Linux kernel acts as an enabler for 3rd party hacks and 3rd party software, like it can be observed with the OpenWRT, OpenTom, NSLU2-Linux, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus and other similar projects. The author of this presentation has sucessfully obtained "telnet" access to an A780 cellphone, built a matching cross-compilation toolchain and installed various applications for debugging, such as busybox, iptables, nmap, lsof, strace, etc. While re-engineering efforts are still in a early stage, work is proceeding extremely fast, and important pieces such as the protocol between the PXA270 frontend processor and the ARM7TDMI GSM processor have already been partially re-engineered. The project is expected to progress significantly until 22C3.
Slides Towards the first Free Software GSM Phone
Video Towards the first Free Software GSM Phone
http://www.secdocs.org/docs/towards-the-first-free-software-gsm-phone-audio/


The former Prime Minister warned the Solomon Islands prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, to keep out of PNG politics after publicly backing Sir Michael Somare to win in forthcoming elections.
He says he finds it somewhat disturbing that a Prime Minister could publicly declare his preferred counterpart before elections were to be held. Mr Sogavare recently stated in a PNG newspaper that he wants to see Sir Michael return as prime minister following the upcoming elections.
The Opposition has also come out strong against the Prime Minister's recent public statement. Speaking on behalf of the Opposition group Hon. Edward Huniehu describes Prime Minister Sogavare's action as a bad precedent.
"He (Sogavare) is putting the Solomon Islands Government in an awkward situation in the event of a new Executive Government taking over power after the elections" said Huniehu. "Such public outburst of support for Sir Michael was uncalled for"


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Late Night Training
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The grunts and impacts from inside the training room are controlled, no sounds of undue effort, no grunting for effect, no growls of frustration, just the sounds of impact and a hissing exhilation of breath. Slade stands in front of one of the 'heavy' bags used in the training room, leather layered over leather and synthetic fibers holding a couple of inches of sand coating a core of pure concrete. It weighs nearly a full ton. It also swings slightly on it's thick chain, creaking as Slade's bare fists hammer into it in blurring staccato combinations almost to fast to follow. He's stripped down to a pair of combat pants and boots, showing a few scars, some ink on one shoulder, all under a thin veil of sweat.
He moves around the bag in perfect balance, chaning the angle of his attacks, alternating his footwork, never seeming to offer an opening to his 'opponant' all the while hammering away at it, working in an elbow or a knee that leads the bag to a spinning swing. "You should be sleeping." he says between breaths as someone interupts his alone time. He doesn't bother looking up, never taking his eye off of the complicated series of strikes he's working through.
Stepping into the training hall, Alexander makes no answer at first. It was the noise that drew him there. His room had been silent as he sat there, giving leave for his thoughts to wander and to gather upon the events of the last week and some, to his teammates, to the current situation. It was the faint clink and clank of the chain dancing as the heavy bag was smacked around, just enough to be an errant chord in the silence of the evening. So he arose, walked, entered.
The voice answers him easily enough, "Sleep is mostly recreational for me." The young deity wanders in, wearing the combat fatigues and gear that they'd been given not too terribly long ago. He walks towards where the other man works out, bracing the dancing bag when needed with the pressure of one hand.
Lunair keeps odd hours. It's what college students often do, even the legally dead ones. Perhaps especially the legally dead ones who tend to make spending cash picking off mobsters and mafiosos of varying stripes. Hobby? Job? Who knows. But she probably should work on keeping in shape and using something that doesn't explode or put holes in walls weaponwise. So wearing loose, softly violet colored clothing she joins the Should be Sleeping Club.
There's a blink. Alexander and Slade already seem to be here and hard at work. She tilts her head, watching. Part curiousity, part awe. Part considering what's going on and taking notes. It's nice to be super intelligent, even if few people have any sort of idea about it. "Really?" She seems curious about Alex's comment. "Erm. Sorry. That must be interesting." And she watches the two for now. Maybe she'll find something more active to do shortly.
"Well. That explains a lot." Audrey's voice comes not from behind Alex, but from inside the training hall, in a shadowed corner that, to all appearances, looks entirely empty. She's been absent so far, thanks to the unexpected dissolution and reorganization of X-Red. She's too careful to hang around all of that. Which is perhaps why she's finally shown up, just as cautiously.
She doesn't linger in that dark corner after speaking, instead coming into view a good ten feet away, hands in the pockets of her black BDU pants.
Slade Wilson nods his head as Alex speaks, "I wasn't talking to you." he says simply as he continues to pound away at the bag, from somewhere inside it there's a deep wunk sound. "Apparently the training hasn't been exhausting enough." he says as everyone is oddly awake and wondering around the training room. "Good to know." he makes a mental note to have Taskmaster try to kill them the following morning, a portion of his mind advancing the training schedule and filing that away.
A glance over his shoulder is given as Alexander braces the bag with that steadying hand. His brow knits as his gaze falls first upon Lunair, and then Audrey. His lip curls, then he turns back towards Slade. "Please don't intensify the training on my account." The young man has that deadpan tone down pat even as he adds, "If it gets back to the other teammates they'll hold a grudge. Then one night they'll hold me down and then beat me with soap wrapped in towels."
Lunair sort of blinks. Aw, nuts. She's apparently one of the few who doesn't have a super body, rock hard abs and she clearly missed out on the super soldier serum gravy train. There's an uncertainty on her face at the proclamation. She does smile politely at Alexander. She's well mannered. "That sounds cliche. I prefer my revenge to be both creative and horrifying. It gets the message across. Furthermore, I buy nice soap and I can't be wasting it slinging it at a deity." Her heart is … somewhere in the right neighborhood before it rolls up and rocket launchers a car out of boredom. At least she has a sense of humor about it.
"The training is really intense, but I'm learning a lot," She considers. At least her melee score is climbing up from somewhere between 'probably won't put an eye out' and wrangling an angry pack of ferrets. She does lift a hand in greeting to Audrey, slightly surprised but having some trouble emoting properly.
"Please," Audrey smirks at Alex as she joins the others. "Like that would put a dent in your skull." She points a thumb at Lunair. "She has good thoughts on the subject." A graduate of army training herself, she knows that look from Slade, and knows better than to let on that she does, instead stopping a respectful distance away. No questions. Just watching.
Slade Wilson's knee smashes into the bag mid range and Alex can feel something hard inside suddenly give way, pulping in the center and the wunk noise grows louder. Slade turns to walk away from the bag and reaches down to pluck up his shirt, shimmying into it, "No they won't." he says evenly, "They'll blame me." he's pretty matter of fact about it as if he's so used to the process of crafting a squad of dangerous people that he's become bored with it. The compression shirt really isn't helpful, he might as well left it off, but it covers up the Delta and Ranger ink and the scars, so there's that. "I assume you're here to ask me some questions," he turns to glance at each of them as he snags a bottle of watter from the floor, "so ask away." he squirts water in his mouth and waits for them to come. He can't help himself, he's curious as to who will ask which questions.
No mention is made of the effect Slade has on the bag, for now the young Olympian steps around the bag and walks along with Slade. He gives Audrey and Lunair a look, a half-smirk lighting on his features that would promise suitable reprisals if they weren't in front of 'the boss'. But he turns back to the man leading the squad. "I was curious if we had a charter of some sort, or some form of operational parameters that we would hold to upon engagement."
Alexander slides his hands into the pockets of his black fatigues, gaze distancing somewhat as those glowing red eyes seem to look past all of them. "Not that we entirely need such, but it was more a curiousity thing. Also if there was intention for this operation to be long term or primarily a troubleshooting outfit?"
Lunair is a bit in awe of the effect Slade has on the bag. There's a wry smile to Audrey, now that she's actively working not to have a constant blank, distant stare. Even that wryness to Phobos. Her training was more experimental and paramilitary sort of stuff. Cause chaos, casualties and pick people off. It's not terribly nice. At Slade's reply on asking questions, Lunair looks a bit thoughtful. Probably because she really is going over what questions to ask. She nods at Alexander.
"That's one question she thought of. "Is it alright to still attend college classes? I honestly don't really need to study a lot," She muses. So it won't be a big problem. But if she's here fulltime, she may need to put that on hold, after all. She is also still hoping her symbol isn't duct tape. She is apparently taking one question at a time, careful of any that sound obviously stupid.
Slade Wilson nods at Alex's question as if that were what he expected, "Charter? Not…persay. We're not like the other teams that currently exsist, we're made up primarily of murderers, mercenaries, theives, the broken and discarded. If you want to be a criminal when you're not on duty, I don't judge, you do what you want, I'm not the police. But there are rules we don't tolerate being broken, lines we don't cross. Laws change, they flow from land to land, culture to culture, government to government, but a code?" he shakes his head and his expression is hard, "Codes are personal and only the weak break their own. I have one, I never stray from it, it's what seperates me from the rest of those in my business, makes me a cut above. My code is my own, but as a team we will have one. We're not here to stop criminals, we're here to stop atrocities. One of those is inevitable, the other is avoidable if you're willing to do what needs to be done. I'll simplify it and put it up where you all can see it." he seems to like the idea and sets a small fraction of his mind to working on the issue and chewing over the language.
"Yes." he says to Lunair, "You can do whatever you like with your life so long as you're not on duty or here training." he points at Audrey as she asks her question, "We're both. Currently we're a group of untested people who don't work well with others trying to make something important happen. For now we're a mess. We will become something more then that. Once we officially begin, come out of the closet as it were, you may publicly affiliate yourself with the team if you desire, or chose not to if you dont want to risk the wrath of the dangerous people we will be facing, and the rest of us will respect that or they'll answer to me.
Still holding his place in front of Slade, Alexander seems to absorb the man's words and store them away after processing. His gaze doesn't waver and as Audrey and Lunair speak to him he tilts his head just enough as if inclining an ear in their direction. But once the man completes his answer the younger gives a nod.
"We are all a group of deplorably beautiful snowflakes. How do you intend to focus on us and get those of us who are so terribly unique and special to sublimate ourselves for the good of the group?" The question is couched in mildly derisive terms, but the sentiment is there. Right now they're something of a team, but they're more individuals than aught else.
Lunair nods. "Thank you," She's duly polite and respectful. If nothing else, it's the feeling that however murderous one might be, they are being dwarfed by a gargantuan god of slaughter. Lunair watches and listens, quiet and intent. So, they are a group and answer to their own code. She inclines her head a bit. The legality of it may be uncertain, but then she's been legally dead in her true identity for ages.
"Sorry. I'm turning over a few questions." She politely defers for a moment, preferring not to waste time that might get her a gibbs smack.
"Leadership," Audrey answers Alex's question, though she doesn't look at him when she does. "He'll break anyone who can break, and the ones who don't - like godlings who've already had anything breakable taken care of - will either find enough respect for the rest of the team to cooperate, become leaders themselves, or break ranks. Who decides what means are worth what ends?" It's not a challenge. She's asked something similar before. But she'll keep asking until she's sure of the answer, and what she thinks of it.
Slade Wilson smirks at Alexander, "Same way teams have been forged through out the millenia." he says none to helpfully, "Given enough time it never fails." he is likely to know, considering he's the longest constantly serving combat veteran in US Army history. Audrey's quip makes him smirk more, "Oh I've broken gods, you just have to know where to push. It's all about knowing where to push." he looks away from Alexander to Audrey now, "I do." he says simply, "I don't run a democracy, we don't vote, and all of you follow orders…" he pauses, "That said I've been on the receiving end of exactly that sort of chain of command, it never sat well with me. So if you take issue with a mission, approach me before arrival there. I'm not an emperor or a delusional despot, I'll hear you out take it into consideration adapt things accordingly if at all possible. While we're on mission however, we're /on mission/. Bring up your concerns before or after, never during. Hessitation will get your squadmates killed."
Crinkling his nose a bit, Alexander clearly takes exception. Perhaps with some words offered by Slade, perhaps those offered by Audrey. In any case he takes a step back and turns to the side, looking towards Lunair and the other woman. He cocks an eyebrow curiously, ceding the 'floor' to them and allowing them to take point with their queries.
A moment passes, then he adds off-handedly, "Watch that one." He gestures to Audrey and gives a solemn nod. "She's trouble." That having been said he steps over towards the benchseat of a military press machine and lounges against it, not using it, more just finding a place to 'perch'.
… he perches. Kind of. Lunair is thinking her questions over carefully. Social interaction is not her strong point. "Do we work with any other teams or things of that nature in an official capacity? I mean, I know that alliances are often temporary…" She seems curious, cautious like a snail in a maze made of salt. One stupid question and she's going to go back under her rock. She fully well believes Slade could break a god. But then, this is different from what she's used to. Lunair seems skeptical at Audrey being 'trouble'.
She doesn't seem to have problems with legality, it seems. Still, she's just being very careful with this. It seems important to her.
"So this is your private crusade?" There might be a little bit of a challenge to that one, as Audrey watches Slade. Her concerns are less about legality and more about knowing what's happening. She trusts completely in Slade's operational prowess. His moral compass, on the other hand, is a little less clear. Alex's comment doesn't even get a glance at the moment. This is key.
Slade Wilson quirks a brow at Audrey but answers Lunair first, "No. We are completely autonomous, which is the point. We are subject to no law but the code we make. We do not limit ourselves to a single city block, or a city, or a state, or even a nation. We are global, going where we're needed, doing what needs doing, and leaving. If all goes well, our missions will be few and far between, though training will be regular and mandatory. By nessecity we can't ally ourselves with other teams, because they are biased by nature, inheirently driven to protect what they see as theirs. When was the last time you saw Spider-Man protect London from an invasion of undead monsters? Or Superman stop a genocide? Or the X-men give a shit about anything that happens outside of their nicely constructed race war?" he shakes his head at them both, "This isn't a crusade, it's a holding action. Our job is to limit the toll. Atrocity is like pornography," he says to Audrey inparticular, "I know it when I see it. Can I give you a number, a static line that says 'this is right and this is wrong'? No. But do I know that when Boka Haram kidnaps 200 little girls from a village in Nigeria Superman didn't do shit. No one did. Ironman went to Stark Con that week, showed off a new gadget, a phone is memory serves." he lets out a slow breath, "I'm not a good man, I'm not even a nice one, but civilization runs on certain simple rules. When civilization fails it falls to the uncivilized to clean up the mess. That will be us."
He leans back slightly, arms crossing over his chest, "I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed. I knew what each of you would ask before you did, and it was very predictable. None of you have asked the questions I expected," he points at Alex, "you at least to get to. The simple things, the obvious ones. Somewhat disconserting. I see we'll have to up tactical training as well as physical."
"Slade," Alexander finally looks fully at the man, crimson gaze skewing sideways. "I'm here, as well you know, because I wish to take part in the conflict, the wild. But I also told you when we started…"
The young Olympian gains his feet and gestures absently to the side, as if brushing past the words. "I do not feel an investment in these things, I do not feel a connection. I'm here because I know I _should_ or perhaps I wish to if only to maintain what connection I have. If you wish for some measure of honesty, then here it is."
Those dark eyes narrow, "How are you going to make me care? How are you going to make me give a damn about any of these people here, or those people out there? Your swagger amuses me in the abstract, the people you've gathered as well. But I have this unshakable feeling of being a tourist in my own existence. Solve that and then I might be impressed."
Lunair tilts her head. "Well… I did have to help deal with undead in the Gotham aquarium once." Not even Dickens kicked that many urchins. She seems curious. She definitely seems to be in need of socialization. At his comment on asking questions, she keeps her head tilted. "Hmm… well, it is important to learn a lot of different viewpoints and possibilities. It's entirely possible we simply operate differently than expected or what is written in our files and past. Predictability is death," She notes quietly. She doesn't contract him, thoughtful of what is offered. It seems to occupy an awful lot of brain energy for her. She struggles desperately to process talk at times. Someone is a fan of continual learning and new situations. Lunair is sort of a fan of nonlinear thinking, even if cleverness is fickle at best.
Her problems are odd. But she certainly seems sympathetic to the cause, following her own, strange morality and code. Shooting a mafioso in the throat, but stopping the Punisher from sticking someone's face in the deep fryer so the kind cook wouldn't lose her job. In other words, her brain is a bag of cats and weasels. For her part, she is quietly still nearby.
"I won't apologize for asking questions you knew I would ask, having provided no information," Audrey arches a brow at Slade. "You recruited us knowing who and what we were, sir. I'm a soldier. Predictable to your commanders is a positive trait. Just like being predictable to your teammates. You want a team, and you recruited individuals. I'm guessing you could use some predictable." She steps back, glancing to Alex and Lunair before she looks to the door. "I should unpack and get some sleep before the 'surprise' alarm in the morning."
Slade Wilson nods his head, "Close." he says to Alexander, "But you're thinking to complicated, letting your own personal desires cloud the greater view of the battlefield. Someone would be disappointed. The question you need to ask, the one that holds some of the answers you seek, is much smaller, much more obvious." he glances at Audrey, "Maybe you." he says, and his eyes glint a little bit. This is one of the few things he enjoys, flaunting not only his intelligence and understanding over others, but also teaching them something. In another life, another world, he would have made one of /those/ teachers. Lunair makes him shake his head, "You I expected to question it the least." he admits, his tone noteably lacking any surprise. "Come on," he says, staring Audrey down, "three little words kid. Ask the right question." he shakes his head when he doesn't get it.
He holds up his hand and raises a finger with every word spoken, "Where. Are. We." he says with a smirk. "There are three labratory experiments in this room and a godling supposedly capable of all manner of unknown things and not one of you have tried to play through the tactics of an escape if it should be required?" he quirks a brow, "Not one. Shocking. And yet, none of you has ever arrived or left here by any means but a glowing portal that appears when summoned." he looks back and forth, "It really is somewhat… disappointing." he points at Alex, "You I get, arrogant son of an arrogant son, learned behavior, don't question a thing you think can't harm you." points at Lunair, "You I also get, to many ideas in your head, playing at the cute idiot you hide a sharp intelligence, but it leads you to distraction." finally Lux, "You… you've been sneaking around for a couple of days, flitting off, trying to scout. It's good. I like that level of question, not to mention skill. I could only track you twice. Tell me Lux," he grins wider, "find a window? A door out? Maybe something that you can use to suss out our location?"
Slouching back onto the rack of the military press, Alexander curls an arm around a bar and looks sidelong towards one of the walls, as if considering it and what might lie beyond. He looks back and tilts his head towards Slade as he offers his own answer, "I was figuring somewhere terrible. Ninth circle and all that. Or Detroit." The smile is given easily enough, but there's little behind it as he lounges where he perches.
Lunair blinks a bit. Huh. "… it is sort of hard to talk to people, sorry." She has a few socialization issues. "Besides, if I worked so hard to get here and I am learning a bunch, trying to escape too much would get me in far more trouble than I care to deal with. With my luck, it's probably those damnable drones. Or pop up Taskmaster in a box with one of those shields. Besides that, I would have no car or means to get sufficiently distant if I did get out. Sure, I could use power armor and fly for awhile, maybe - but then I'd stand out so hard it would hurt. Probably copyright lawyers," There's a sense of humor. "Then I wouldn't have supplies with me and if we're in a field far away," Handwave. "And, for the cherry on top, I sincerely doubt that short of complete invisibility, I would go unnoticed. I mean, it's not hard to break out of somewhere usually. It's the keeping out for more than a few moments that gets you." Path of least resistance. And she REALLY has a hate-on for drones. Lunair looks to Alex, at his comment. She shakes her head. "No, not Detroit. Not nearly enough shooting or rubble," And she would know.
Whatever she may think of Slade judgments, she keeps to herself. Probably on account of truth. "Detroit is an exercise in what could have been. It had so much hope…" So much hard work, so many dreams. "Sleep well," She offers to Audrey. "I should probably get some tea and sleep, too. I'm sorry I disappointed you all. I'll just have to work harder." Hey, she's got faults.
"Not yet," Audrey answers Slade as she heads for the door. "I stopped looking for exits after the first day, though. Today's been control panels for the portal. Then I'll start looking for a communications array. And failing all else, I let Alex and Luna do the heavy hitting while I provide cover. Alex'll do it because he's bored, or it's a challenge. Or briefly amusing. And if Luna believed she was cornered, she wouldn't stay here either. She has the resources. She'd need the motivation and support. I don't have enough of a read on the others yet to see where they'd fall, or who's your mole." Because of course she assumes there is one.
She pauses at the doorway, looking over her shoulder. "I'd reason out places we could be, but the world's a big place and I've got limited information on your resources and connections. And background, for that matter. And it'd be moot if we can't get out." At Lunair's apology, she shakes her head. "Don't be sorry, Lun. You always give it your all. Night, Alex," she adds with an upward tip of her chin to the godling.
Slade Wilson snorts, "As if I'd build something like this team in Detroit. I'm an asshole but I have my limits. Conviction, please bring up a view of the exterior." he says to the air, and a holo screen boinks to life in front of him, roughly 70 inches across. The screen is dark and showing a lot of nothing. "External of the hull." he says next, and then there's a gray nothing in the screen, it begins to zoom away at high speeds, shrinking and shrinking, until eventually a sizeable (one would assume though there's nothing for scale) ovid shape appears floating amid the blackness. "Control panels won't help you." he says evenly, "There is almost no communications array, or rather, it's not the kind you can hack." he smirks, "Alex and Luna and Grace could rage all they like, but you survived the Proving Grounds, what good did it do you there?" he glances over at Alexander, "We currently exsist inside pocket space, outside of reality, on a station, ship, whatever you want to call it, that's roughly the size of an office building, give or take. Most of it is taken up with the Proving Grounds, admitedly, but that's fine, we don't need much more then that." he seems to be trying to will Alexander to realize something, but doesn't say it out right. He glances back at Audrey then, "We are untrackable here, unfindable. Safe. We are truely global because we're not /on/ the globe. Our transporation is instantaneous, our location completely secret." he glances back at Alex, "No one can see us here. No one." he waves a hand and the screen vanishes, "Welcome to the Convicted."
"Ok, now that is pretty great." Alexander seems pleased as he looks at the display, turning to listen to Slade as the man speaks. His smile grows as he straightens up, pushing himself up and off the benchseat even as he tosses a wave towards Audrey as she makes her departure. "It is an inspiration in one way, and a point of reference in another. Hm." The young Olympian strolls over and considers the view, the void, the nothing, as if half hoping for it to look back into him.
A moment passes. Nothing.
He looks back to Slade, "This resolves my mild distraction about possible reprisals."
With not a lot of response, Lunair settles quiet. She huhs softly at the reality of where they are. She then waves to the others - even the Divine Snark. "Be well. And thank you." She's duly grateful for the kind words.
And to note, it's not a spiteful or passive aggressive silence. It's simply the silence that comes from acknowledgment and listening in turn. She seems to have picked up that much.
"That's why kill Slade and do what we want wasn't on the list of possible strategies." That, and for all Audrey knows it's actually impossible. "Pretty sure your contingency plans have contingency plans, and most of them end with if all else fails, destroy the evidence." She doesn't seem particularly surprised; pocket dimension was apparently on her list of possibilities. But it's one more piece of information to store away. "Good night, sir. You'll most likely try to kill us in the morning." And with a Dread Pirate Roberts joke, she's off to sleep.
Slade Wilson shakes his head at Alexander, "You don't understand… that's fine. Life /should/ be mysterious, it's what makes it fun. Gives us purpose. If you knew all the answers then what would be the point?" he shakes his head at Audrey, "I gave you my word." he says simply as if that was all there was to say on the matter. He promised her he'd make her better, he'd give her more then what she had. And he promised her some small measure of saftey. He then turns back to the bag and rolls his shoulder, "Go." he says to the group, his fists slamming into the bag in a rapid series again, "You'll need your sleep. In a couple of hours we begin water op training and you'll need the rest." The sounds of concrete slowly becoming gravel can be heard as the summary dismissal hangs in the air.
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When did you get the idea of the Bike Grip Board?
I was 10 years old and riding the waves at Santa Monica Beach when the idea came to me. I imagined I was riding a bicycle on the waves and thought how much more fun it would be if I had handles on the body board.
How long did it take before you had the first prototype?
It was years later and a lot of hits and misses before I finally put my dream into a prototype that worked well.
I've seen on your Web Site at http://garyrevel.com/bd that Gary Revel is managing the marketing of your invention. When did you meet Gary and how did he become your partner?
We were both on the jogging trail at Chatsworth Park in Chatsworth, California one day. That's where I met him. We got to talking and when I told him about the Bike Grip Board he wanted to help me with it. A few weeks later he took some of the prototypes to the beach and let others use them. He saw how excited people got and how they didn't want to give the boards back after using them. That's when he got back to me and he and I formed a partnership.
It was after that you were filmed and did a broadcast segment of Real TV. How did that come about?
I mailed some pictures of various people riding the waves on the beach using the Bike Grip Board to the show in Los Angeles, California. Shortly after I heard from them and they set up to meet me on the beach. Some of the filming was done with complete strangers that just became interested in the board. A couple of them had never been on a body board-boogie board before but felt safer and more comfortable using it because of the bike grips.
What did they like the most about it?
The bike grips provide more control and maneuverability and simply put, just makes body boarding-boogie boarding more fun for beginners, pros, more fun for the whole family. One perspective would be to think of the advantage of going from a unicycle to bicycle with handlebars. That's similar to the advantage of going from a typical boogie board and adding sturdy handles to make my Bike Grip Board.
You've been at this for many years now. What keeps you going?
Knowing how much others will enjoy it once it's available for everyone. That is the dream that I hang on to. It's kind of like the bike grips make hanging on to the board easy when I think of that it's easy to keep the dream alive.
Anything new happening with it now?
Yes, we're developing it and other surfing-like products for licensing and manufacture in other countries. We're excited about having new partners right now in India working on this with us. I also have some new boards and surfing-like products on the drawing board.
Bill Dandurand was recently interviewed by Tim Conway Jrl on the KFI Tim Conway radio show. Click here to go to where you can listen to the interview.


His 2018 Oscar nomination for Coco, which is up for best animated feature, is far from Lee Unkrich's first time at the awards rodeo. Unkrich joined Pixar more than two decades ago, as the company was transitioning from making just shorts and TV commercials to features. He co-edited Toy Story and went on, as Pixar employees do, to work in various capacities on many more films, including directing Toy Story 3. In Coco, Unkrich roots the story of a young musician whose family hates music in the visually sumptuous and intellectually rich soil of Mexico during a Día de Muertos holiday, creating the most emotionally resonant Pixar film since Toy Story 3. The film incorporates the gorgeous colors of Mexican treasures like Oaxacan alabrijes, the hillside houses of Guanajuato, and the strings of papel picado that festoon so many of the nation's walls and streets. The film also animates resonant Mexican concepts like the belief that we all die three deaths: the first when our hearts stop beating, the second when we are buried or cremated, and the third when there's nobody left on Earth who remembers us.
In a phone interview last week, Unkrich talked about how studying the Día de Muertos helped him deal with the death of his father, the challenges of making a film about Mexico when you're "a white guy from Ohio," and the tension between family ties and individual freedom.
Coco started out for you as an exploration of Día de Muertos. What initially interested you about the Mexican holiday?
I went to school at the University of California. There's obviously a big Latino community in Los Angeles, and I remember starting to see a lot of the iconography and the folk art having to do with the celebration and being fascinated by it. There was something about the juxtaposition of skeletal imagery and death imagery with bright colors and this feeling of celebration that was so different than anything I had grown up with. So I was interested in that, but I had just kind of filed it away. It wasn't until I finished Toy Story 3 and I was thinking about what to do next that it kind of popped into my mind, the notion of doing something having to do with Día de Muertos.
I started to do a lot of research and learn more about the holiday. I quickly moved beyond the kind of misconception that a lot of people have that it's some kind of Mexican Halloween and started to learn about the roots and the history of the celebration. Death is of course an element in it, but it's not about death; it's about life, it's about family; it's about remembering one's ancestors and keeping their memories alive and passing them along to the next generation. It seemed to me that we could make a film that would not only celebrate the beauty of Mexican culture, but could also tell a story that would be universally relatable around the world.
Has making this film changed your own thinking about death?
I don't know that it has, specifically, but I do know that I now do some things that I didn't do before making this film. My family and I now make an ofrenda at home, and I think that that tradition is going to strengthen over time. It's important to us now. My father just passed away in December.
Luckily, I got to show him Coco just a week before he passed away, and it was really meaningful sharing that experience with him and then knowing that he was going to be joining our ofrenda. It's such a lovely notion, to be able to help actively keep people's memories alive and tell their stories. My mom has boxes of old photos and old photo albums from her childhood and the generations before her, and we know who some of the people are in the albums, but we don't know who all of them are, and we certainly don't know who they are as people. I know a few names and maybe one story, but that's kind of it, and that seems like such a shame. That's why this idea of the final death that we explore in Coco seems so powerful to me, this idea that when nobody remembers you any more, you really cease to exist, as if you had never existed in the world before.
Yeah, that's a really interesting idea. I hadn't known that about the three deaths before I saw your film.
I didn't either. That came out of the research we did, and talking to people. At first we wanted to find some spot for that in the movie. It took us a while before we realized that that idea needed to be the bedrock of the entire story.
I grew up in the Midwest and went to college in the Northeast. It wasn't until I moved to Texas and that I really came in contact with Mexican culture, and it struck me as a kind of revelation. Why do you think so many of us North Americans know so little about Mexico, even though we share a border and it has had such a strong influence on our own Southwest?
I don't know, really. It's such a shame, because it's a beautiful country and the people are really beautiful. Unfortunately, these past couple of decades, because of the narco activity, Mexico's gotten a really bad reputation: A few people have really ruined things for a vast population. And of course the current [U.S.] administration hasn't done anything to help those perceptions of Mexico. [laughs] I don't know what people think. I don't know if they think it's a country full of people trying to race across the border or something, but you go down to Mexico and you see an incredibly rich culture with, of course, people of every socioeconomic level, and with a long, long history—way older than [North] American history. We never were setting out to make the definitive Mexican film. I think that would be impossible. But within the confines of the story we were telling, I really did want to celebrate as much of Mexican culture as I could, and I hope that the fact that Coco has proven to be such a big hit will start to move the needle a little bit in terms of people starting to really appreciate what is so wonderful about Mexico.
Which puts you in the odd position of serving as an ambassador to a culture that's not your own. I know you got into a little faux rivalry online after The Book of Life came out—not with the people who made that film, since you always supported their work and they supported yours, but with other people who were expressing doubts about whether a white North American could or should be making a movie about Mexico. Do you think those doubts have been pretty much put to rest?
I think so. When all that was going on, I understood why it was happening, but it was still very frustrating, because I knew we had a special film and it wasn't the film that people were trying to paint it as being, and I knew that we weren't stealing anything from The Book of Life and they hadn't stolen anything from us. They were just two films that just coincidentally happened to be made at around the same time. So once the film opened down in Mexico, once it was so warmly embraced in Mexico, that kind of put that all to rest. Nobody could argue that we hadn't gotten the details right and that we hadn't made a film that really, truly was trying to honor Mexico.
Can you talk a bit about what it's taken to maintain the creativity and emotional authenticity behind Pixar's films over the years? Were there some crisis points where you felt like something was in danger of being lost?
Every film has multiple crisis points. I don't think that's avoidable. Childbirth is messy and painful, and so is making a good movie. It doesn't matter how many hit films we've made; each new film that comes along, it's as if we're making our first in many ways. It's just difficult to tell a good story. You can maybe learn some things about structure, and you can analyze other stories that have been told well, but when it comes down to creating your own, it's difficult. I wish I could say I'm an expert at what I do now. [laughs] I think I'm experienced—I've been through it a lot—but it really doesn't get any easier.
But are there are no additional pressures as the company has gotten bigger and the financial stakes have grown?
Well, there are pressures that come along, like Toy Story 3. There was huge pressure on my shoulders, as I was asked to direct a sequel to two of the most beloved films of all time. On this film, the pressure was mostly the cultural authenticity and respect. That was the thing I was most concerned about. When I was making Toy Story 3, there was a lot of talk about it, and hope for it to be great. With Coco, other than diehard fans, people really weren't aware of it. So we were able to kind of fly under the radar and make the film without that kind of pressure. All the pressure was pretty much internal. And, of course, me being a white guy from Ohio, I had that much more pressure on my shoulders to get it right. I knew right from the beginning that there was going to be very little room for missteps along the way.
Coco does a great job of capturing how traditional Mexican culture values family and how that can clash with individual needs by focusing on a boy who longs for something his family forbids. Ernesto de la Cruz's motto, "Seize your moment," is an interesting way of getting at this dilemma. It sounds good to us at first, since that kind of language is such a big part of the North American cult of individualism, but the way Ernesto seized his moment is actually the opposite of admirable.
So I'm curious to hear what you feel is the film's message about individual freedom versus being true to your family. Is seizing your moment a selfish idea that's likely to lead to disaster? Or is it more like we all need to seize our moments when we can, but only while taking into account how our actions affect the people who love and depend on us?
I don't know that I can boil it down to a simple solution because I think there's no simple solution in life. We were trying to explore that very real conflict that can arise when somebody has dreams or sees themselves as a different kind of person than what their family approves or sees for them. Especially when you're a family where everybody does love each other, that becomes a difficult situation. Because one solution to that problem would be everyone just runs away and does their own thing, but many people don't want to abandon their families. They want to have the love of their family, so they're caught in this place where there are no easy answers. We wanted to put Miguel in a similar situation and see how he would navigate that.
Coco is now out on Digital and Movies Anywhere today and available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on February 27.


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Q: for loop syntax in shell script I run below script:
for (( i=1; i <= 5; i++ ))
do
    echo "Random number $i: $RANDOM"
done

I am getting below Error:
Syntax error: Bad for loop variable

why this syntax is not working?

A: Your original script has a (( i=1; i <= 5; i++ )) construct in for loop which is a bashism and hence is not being understood by dash.
In Ubuntu sh is a symbolic link to dash, so when you are running
sh ./script.sh

you are basically running
dash ./script.sh

As i mentioned earlier dash is not understanding the C-like for loop construct, it is showing the error.
To run the script using bash, you can:

*

*Run it as as an argument to bash e.g. bash script.sh (you don't need to make the script executable)

*Make the script executable and from a bash shell run (from the directory containing  the script):
./script.sh

*The most portable way is to use a shebang (#!/bin/bash or preferably #!/usr/bin/env bash) as the first line of your script. In this way you can run the script from any shell by ./script.sh, the script will be interpreted as a bash script and hence will be executed accordingly.

A: Thought I'd contribute to the discussion a little bit.
It's already been mentioned that the syntax used in your script is a bashism and hence isn't portable, even though this is C-like and is well understood by those familiar with java and C. From asking my own question on unix.stackexchange.com , I've also learned that syntax such as for i in $(seq 1 5) generates a set of numbers first and then iterates , which can be wasteful if you have a very large set.
A better way to simulate C-like behavior, which is portable, is to use while loop, with a variable that can be incremented. For instance,
#!/bin/sh
number=0
while [ "$number" -lt 10 ]
do
        printf "\t%d" "$number"
        number=`expr $number + 1 `
done

This works with bash, dash, zsh, ksh, mksh . . . or basically any shell related to bourne shell. In fact, I've a Unix System V book from like 1995, and I've tested their example for bourne shell and it still works. The behaviour is also that of C-like for loop: you have initial condition, testing condition within while [ . . .], and update condition at the end.
csh and tcsh have syntax closer to C language, but its not portable to other shells, and they're not recommended to be used in scripting.
Addition:
Concerning portability of $RANDOM, according to this page on ubuntu wiki, with dash random number generation should rely on using /dev/urandom

A: As heemayl's answer points out, your construction is a bashism. The standard way of doing what you want would be:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5
do
  echo "Random number $i: $RANDOM"
done

Or, more easily expandably:
for i in $(seq 1 5)
do
  echo "Random number $i: $RANDOM"
done

(See man seq for more detail).


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The Supreme Court vacancy: What's next for Democrats?
Fear and uncertainty run rampant in the wake of an unprecedented election, and an open seat on the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alexander Song)
By: Dillon Cranston
With the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a seat on the Supreme Court is up for grabs, and with it the potential outcome of the 2020 Presidential election. Many voters are now left wondering: What recourse is left for the Democratic Party?
As of Saturday, President Donald Trump chose Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee. Barrett, who is a Notre Dame law professor, has expressed criticisms of Supreme Court decisions upholding Obamacare and the landmark ruling on Roe v. Wade, which protects a woman's right to have an abortion.
Trump also recently announced his intentions to invalidate the "unsolicited millions of ballots" sent by mail, declaring he would need nine justices on the High Court in order to do so. In other words, he would ask his new conservative court to invalidate an election in his favor.
These updates strike fear in the hearts of many Democratic voters. Even more, we are now staring down the barrel of a 6-3 conservative majority in the Supreme Court, an imbalance which could alter the next few decades of United States legislation.
Days before her death, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's granddaughter told POLITICO that Ginsburg's "most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." Many were outraged, then, when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday night that the Senate would vote on President Trump's nominee.
"I'm sickened by GOP hypocrisy," said Dylan Locke, a USC senior studying theatre, citing McConnell's refusal to proceed with a vote for former President Barack Obama's nominee back in 2016.
"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice," McConnell said in 2016. "Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
Many voters are now left wondering what the Democrats will do to prevent this outcome. "Packing the Court" has come up in conversations –– an FDR-era piece of legislation that would allow Congress to increase the size of the Supreme Court, effectively evening out the imbalance. But Arthur Auerbach, a Political Science professor at USC, seemed less than convinced by the idea.
"I think there would be a lot of pushback with increasing the size of the court," Auerbach said. "Even to the point where there could be a constitutional amendment to fix it in time. Which there probably should be, to be totally honest."
Talks of a second impeachment trial have also been floating around Washington, which Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has reportedly refused to rule out. When asked about the plausibility of such a plan, Auerbach bluntly stated, "I don't even know what she was talking about."
"It sure wouldn't help the Dems to go back down that road," Auerbach added. "It starts to look like a sore loser when you start to do this, short of new allegations."
Another worry for Democrats, especially with Barrett as the nominee, is whether Roe v. Wade could be overturned by a new conservative court. Auerbach was, again, unconvinced.
"I don't think John Roberts would overturn that precedent. I don't know if Neil Gorsuch would," he said. Both of these conservative justices would need to uphold the ruling in order for it to survive.
"I think it's wrong to suggest just because a Republican president puts a nominee on the High Court that the nominee will always vote in a conservative fashion," Auerbach said. "Justices are not political pawns, as much as Donald Trump would love them to be."
While this situation brews much dread and uncertainty for some liberal voters, others find it pointless to view the future with dread without having a plan to take concrete action moving forward. Simply submitting to whatever comes next shows performativity, as well as a lack of empathy for RBG's death said Chi Aziza, a USC student studying theatre.
"I think that most people, when they saw that RBG died, their first thought was, on no, now Trump is going to replace her, or oh no, we lost this tool we get to use in our politics," Aziza said. He referenced the people who flocked to the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. the night of Ginsburg's death.
"If you really care about it," he said, "I better see you out there again, physically putting your body in between what you believe to be fascism and what you believe to be democracy."
Whatever happens next, Professor Auerbach remains optimistic about the democratic institutions of this country.
"At the end of the day, I believe in this country," he said. "And I think we will persevere. This country is not about one personality. It's not about Donald Trump. It's about the American people. And I really believe at the end of the day, American people will choose wisely."
About Dillon Cranston
Dillon studies Political Science and English at USC. He hails from Irvine, California.
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As you are probably aware the traffic in the last few years has slowly decreased on myfreecams. This fact has been confirmed to me by both top and not so top models, so everyone is feeling the effect.
I can understand MFC may not be able to control all aspects of this decrease however there are some things that they can do better in order to retain more new quality traffic.
I am not saying MFC should promote only the top girls, nor am I saying the rest don't matter. I have seen many girls with talent that don't make it in the business. People don't tip them for some reason or another. It's a combination of many things. However if you as a viewer, like these girls and want to see them succeed the best way is to just tip them more.
I also often try to help new people by giving free advice on my blog. I am happy to see new models succeed on MFC, especially the ones that show a high amount of dedication and passion. However this post is not about discussing why some girls don't make it or we would be here for ages.
I posted a list of the top 8 most consistent girls from Jan 2017- April 2018. If you look at the list there are many more down the list that have shown remarkable results so the list goes beyond 8 people. You can go and look at the Miss MFC finishes yourself. I picked 8 to illustrate a point.
1. It is slowly decreasing their passion and incentive to do better on the site due to lack of not recognizing their contribution, especially during a hard time when we are all suffering from lowered traffic. A business without passion and incentive is destined to die.
2. It is not optimizing the best overall profit for the site. By promoting models that are not likely to be online very often and that may not always give the best level of entertainment and completely leaving the top ones out, new people that stumble upon the site may think it's not worth checking out any further.
I am not saying whoever MFC promotes right now is a bad model, however by leaving their top ones out they are hurting both traffic and profitability for ALL MODELS!
The more people have a general first good impression of the site, more people will decide to stay longer and check out different girls. Sometimes this includes girls that are not always at the top. But by not promoting the girls at the top, the good first impressions are hard to make and this is why.
CASE 1: So let's see a new guy goes into a top room from an ad on the internet. Full of people talking tipping. He thinks, well maybe that ad I saw on Pornhub wasn't just bots. These are real people. This is fun! I may check this back sometimes when I have more time. He comes back. This scenario repeats itself and one guy becomes two guys, then 50 then 100 then a million new guys. (wouldn't that be nice!) . Some of these guys after a while realize they are bored with the top rooms and they look below. This creates opportunity for new girls to make it to the top.
RESULT= good first impression + more repeat traffic + ALL models profit.
CASE 2: Guy gets an ad on Pornhub or anywhere on the internet of a room that is not at the top. I will ask you to go and look on MFC and compare the level of interaction in the two rooms. It makes a difference! Now the general lack of traffic that is now a problem which we are all having gives the lower model less tools to create a fun atmosphere. Sure some models are boring as hell and the have slim chances of making it, especially if they don't change their ways, and put their phones away.
Ever heard of the saying: "A rising tide lifts all boats". Don't be upset when the top models are doing well. This is a good indicator that there is traffic on the site. There are tippers on the site and YOU can get some of those tippers and traffic, maybe they can become the next big model as well.
The problem is when the top models are not doing so well. That will reduce the number of good first impressions of new people to the site and WE WILL ALL SUFFER! The lower models much more than the top ones. And the new talent much more than the existing one.
If this continues for too long the site will just stop existing because it will stop being profitable.
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Explorations in Turkestan, expedition of 1904 : prehistoric civilizations of Anau, origins, growth, and influence of environment - Page 144
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Q: Node JS not running TypeScript file Node is able to run the following without errors (node hello-world.ts):
var f = () => {
    console.log('Hello World!');
};

f();

However, when I try this file:
interface Accountable {
    getIncome() : number;
}

I get get the following exception:
interface Accountable {
          ^^^^^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:414:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:467:10)
    at startup (node.js:136:18)
    at node.js:963:3

I've tried adding --target ES5 and ES2015 to the TSC settings page, but no effect.

A: Making my comments into an answer.
node.js has no built-in support for TypeScript and no built-in support for automatically transpiling TypeScript into plain Javascript.  As such, you have to transpile your TypeScript files first before running them in node.js.
Your first code example works because it is legal ES6 Javascript syntax and thus node.js can just run it directly.

A: I've had the same problem using both VS Code and WebStorm.
Thanks to cdbjorin I was able to make it work by changing one line in the Package.json file:
...
"name": "myProject",
"version": "0.0.0",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
  "start": "node ./myScript.ts"// <--
},
...

to:
"start": "ts-node ./myscript.ts"

Or in this case simply use ts-node myScript.ts to run it;
Hope this helps