Clint Bowyer leads Coke Zero Sugar 400 practice, Qualifying for 60th Annual Event Set for Friday.
NASCAR Xfinity Series' Coca-Cola Firecracker 250 Takes Green Flag Friday at 7:30 p.m.
On Thursday, NASCAR returned to Daytona International Speedway with practice sessions in advance of Saturday night's 60th annual Coke Zero Sugar 400, the traditional midsummer, midseason night-time classic for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.
Drivers in both the Monster Energy Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series took to the DIS high banks for practices on Thursday. The Xfinity Series will run the Coca-Cola Firecracker 250 on Friday night. Qualifying for both races will be Friday – the Xfinity Series at 2:10 p.m., the Monster Energy Series at 4:10. The Coca-Cola Firecracker 250 takes the green flag at 7:30.
Thursday's sole practice for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 was led by Clint Bowyer (No. 14 Rush Truck Centers Ford), at 200.799 mph. Bowyer was one of 10 drivers to post a 200 mph-plus lap. The second practice was rained out.
Ryan Reed (No. 16 Drive Down A1C Lilly Diabetes Ford) and Xfinity Series rookie Chad Finchum (No. 40 Amana Toyota) led the Coca-Cola Firecracker 250 practices with fast laps of 196.143 mph and 185.567, respectively.
In line with this tradition-rich weekend of stock car racing, two drivers in the Coke Zero Sugar 400 are chasing special, respective spots in the record book. Austin Dillon (No. 3 American Ethanol e15 Chevrolet), the reigning DAYTONA 500 champion, can become the sixth driver to pull off a season sweep of DIS' two Monster Energy Series races. Likewise, defending race champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (No. 17 Fifth Third Bank Ford) is trying to become the sixth driver to win the Coke Zero Sugar 400 in consecutive years.
Dillon was last seen on the high banks pulling away from a last-lap DAYTONA 500 incident with Aric Almirola (No. 10 Smithfield Ford), beating Bubba Wallace (No. 43 U.S. Air Force Chevrolet) to the finish. That returned the legendary No. 3 of Richard Childress Racing to the DAYTONA 500's Gatorade Victory Lane for the first time since Dale Earnhardt's historic 1998 victory. For Dillon, Childress' 28-year-old grandson, it was his second victory at Daytona International Speedway; he also won the Coca-Cola Firecracker 250 in 2015.
"It feels great, anytime you come to Daytona when you've been able to win a couple of races here," Dillon said. "I've enjoyed this place from the beginning. I've been coming here since I was born. It's like a second home to me.
Back to reality – and Dillon's appearance Friday (3 p.m.) at the "DAYTONA 500 Champions' Walk of Fame" in front of the DIS Ticket and Tours Building. He and DIS President Chip Wile will place a cement block with Dillon's signature, hand prints and right footprint into the walk lineup. The imprints were made earlier this year following the DAYTONA 500, during the post-Gatorade Victory Lane celebration. Today's event is open to fans.
For Stenhouse, the weekend represents a chance to reestablish himself as a preeminent racer in restrictor-plate events. (At 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway and 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR mandates that cars have engine restrictor plates which contribute to the reduction of horsepower, in the interest of safety.) Stenhouse has only two Monster Energy Series victories, both coming last season in restrictor-plate races – at Talladega in the spring, then the Coke Zero Sugar 400. Stenhouse finished 29th in the DAYTONA 500, in February.
"It's a great opportunity for us." Stenhouse said. "We felt really good about our car here in the 500. We've made a few changes to the package but I still feel like our Ford will be strong enough to do what we need to and hopefully get it back into victory lane here and defend the race win.


Why is Parent/Educator Communication so Important?
Most students with Asperger profiles have weak social communication skills.
One result is that the student's life is like a bicycle wheel with a weak hub.
The adults need to hold hands around the rim to keep the wheel intact and functional.
Level One: A regularly scheduled meeting of core educational team members, ideally held monthly.
For example: Third Thursday of the month, 8am, September through June, with the parent, guidance counselor and building SPED Director. The team could have a different membership, but it's recommended that there be at least two educators on the team. Other educators or people from outside the school may be invited to a particular meeting if they have relevant information, expertise, or concerns about the student.
A daily blank journal, that travels between home and school in the student's backpack, in which an educator writes daily, and the parent writes daily/as needed.
Level Three: Communication between the parent and a designated educator, through a mutually agreed upon medium, when either party has time-sensitive information or concerns that should be shared promptly. This could include changes in the student's mood or behavior, or something the student became upset about at home or at school, such as not understanding/struggling with a new kind of academic assignment, or being bullied.


Archaeology and Historic Buildings Reports are required where there is a Heritage Asset close to a site that is going to be impacted on or disturbed for development or construction, it's usual for Planning Authorities to require landowners to undertake Assessments and Research to provide information on the history of the site or property affected and to understand the potential impact from development.
We provide clients with a variety of services and reporting to understand the Historic Environment and to inform and satisfy the Planning Authority's requirements, in an effective, cost conscious manner.
Should the initial phase of assessment show the Local Planning Authority that some features of interest exist, it's usual that as part of any planning permission granted, conditions will be attached that require further work to investigate and reveal the level of Archaeology present, at the applicants cost.
This usually means either continuous monitoring of ground breaking works or specialist Archaeological excavation, either sampling of a % of the land through targeted trench excavations or a complete stripping of the site to discover all of the buried Archaeology.
Our team will effectively negotiate with your Local Planning Authority to ensure the minimum work necessary is carried out to provide this information. Critically this saves valuable time and can reduce costs significantly.
Interesting old buildings that will be significantly altered by development, or are removed altogether through demolition to make way for new buildings are sometimes required by planning condition, to have the form and important historic features physically recorded by a specialist Archaeologist prior to works commencing.


With WOSM's enduring commitment it is only natural that Jamboree on the Air – Jamboree on the Internet, the world's largest Scouting event, would focus on the Sustainable Development Goals and support the movement to build global citizens.
Whilst JOTA-JOTI is primarily a weekend conversation between Scouts, the activities and projects initiated during that weekend, can launch on-going efforts and serve to develop all aspects for global citizenship among Scouts.
The JOTA-JOTI selected theme for 2018 is Life on Land — United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15. It is defined as: Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
So, what are these Sustainable Development Goals that everyone talks about?
There is a wealth of resources available to build your JOTA-JOTI weekend programme.
The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) launched the World Scout Environment Programme. Scouts across the world earned the World Scout Environment Badge.
From Scouts Scotland, Activities and Resources for Sustainable Development Goals .
From Global Dimension, Life on Land overview, video, and links to lesson plans. They have a lesson plan titled The Impact of Pollution on Our Planet and Our Lives.
From Microsoft Education, a complete course on Teaching Sustainable Development Goals.
From Earth Day Network, information on the Canopy Project and the reforestation campaign.
UNESCO Student Workbook, Schools in Action, Global Citizens for Sustainable Development. Page 40 covers learning objectives and suggested topics for SDG 15, Life on Land.
a 30 minute activity plan for SDG 15: Life on Land.
Download the Goal 15: Life on Land poster for your bedroom wall.
Get your United Nations Challenge badge: a full programme on Soil from the Food an Agriculture Organization of the UN. After completion you can order your uniform badge here. The programme has many resources available in multiple languages as well.
So you studied all this? Ok, then you are ready for the challenge.
You can pick a number of challenges to fulfill. You commit to carry them out (ask your leader to help you select one or more). After you have selected them, you will get your personal electronic Eco badge. You can print the badge and display it, anywhere you are working on your challenges. Or use them on your stationary, explaining to others about the challenges you committed to.
The weather map: Find 3 different local newspapers. Look for the map of the local weather. Can you make a weather map for your area for the JOTA-JOTI weekend? One cub Scout is the "weather man" and presents the weather to the others. Take turns and all have your own weather story.
How do you like the Global Development Village?


Forecasts for 2019 have indicated that lingering volatility from the year prior will be sticking around for a while yet.
So in an environment where the only sure thing is uncertainty, how can investors protect their portfolios?
Well, one of the most dangerous things to a person's investments are, in fact, themselves: being too jumpy at the slightest sign of bad news will make you a worse investor (millionaires know this, and so do the world's most famous investors).
Financial markets hate uncertainty and are also prone to over-reacting to events that may only have an impact in the short-term. So take a step back and be prepared for volatility, and you'll be less likely to react irrationally.
"By having an open mindset and a longer-term investment perspective that accepts short-term volatility, investors can begin to take a more dispassionate view," Fidelity International's experts said.
Unlike sovereign bond investors, equity investors are generally rewarded for the extra risk they take.
In the long term, stock prices are driven by corporate earnings and have generally outperformed other types of investment in real terms, i.e. after inflation, Fidelity International experts said.
Expect to see more than one stock market correction over the course of a 'bull' market, and it's often a great opportunity to invest in choice stocks to generate above-average returns when the market rebounds.
If you're a long-term investor, you're in it for the long haul!
When investors try to time the market and stop-and-start their investments, they can run the risk of denting future returns by missing the best recovery days in the market and the most attractive buying opportunities that become available during periods of pessimism, Fidelity's investment experts said.
So if you miss out on just five of the best performance days in the market, your long-term returns could be seriously impacted.
The principle of this is straightforward and follows the same logic as 'don't put all your eggs in one basket'.
If things go bottoms-up in a specific market or sector, holding a mix of risky assets (e.g. equities, real estate and credit) and 'defensive' assets (government bonds, cash) can mean the brunt of a market downturn can be softened by other investments.
For a stable source of income during volatile market periods, dividends paid by high-quality, cash-generating companies like leading global brands can stand the ups and downs of market cycles thanks to their established market shares, strong pricing power, and resilient earnings streams.
Reinvesting your dividend payments can not only boost your total returns over time, but support share price stability and protect against inflation.
Remember the crypto-craze? It wasn't just a fad among young investors, but even greying nan-and-pop investors asked their financial advisers about Bitcoin – and look how that turned out.
But there's also something to be said about growing trends like population growth, e-commerce and healthcare that are supporting the growth of certain companies.


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He loved Balzac
In summaries of the plot of The 400 Blows, Antoine, the young boy whose sorry life is chronicled over a period of a few months, is often referred to as "misunderstood." Ignored and treated like a piece of wood is more like it. The adults around him, beginning with his sexy young mother who finds him irritating, his teachers, and adult officialdom generally, have no interest in him at all, his growth, his mind, his feelings, or his future. They just want to have him "taken care of" in some institutionally acceptable way.
In the only scene in which Antoine reflects on his life, speaking to an (unseen) psychologist at a delinquent 'observation' center to which he is sent after being picked up for stealing, Antoine reveals that he knows more about his situation than any adult. He knows he is an unwanted child, that his mother has affairs, that his parents regard him as a burden, and that the world, generally, sees him as a worthless scapegrace bound for jail or the military. The film presents his story with great economy, verve, and profound sympathy. Today, we know it was highly autobiographical of the young Francois Truffaut's life, who burst onto the scene as a director with this film at the age of 27 in 1959.
I am not a fan of Truffaut, finding him sentimental and too sweet, but this film is stark: only the soundtrack mars the tone, adding a treacly and naïvely innocent contrast to the bleak tale of the 'real world' grinding young boys to dust between its wheels. As if we had to have that idea pounded into us that these are, after all, just very young boys. And speaking of pounding, the title, a literal but misleading translation of the French, refers to the idiomatic expression, faire les quatre-cent coups, which means "to raise hell."
The only things that rouse Antoine's genuine enthusiasm are films, and a book of Balzac that his grandmother gave him. (His mother regards it as rubbish, and sells it.) Pressed to find a topic for a homework assignment, he plagiarizes Balzac's story, In Search of the Absolute, which he had been reading with rapt attention that evening. He even lights a candle to a miniature shrine to Balzac that he creates in his house. The candle sets the room on fire; his teacher gives him an 'F'. The fact that this delinquent, under-achiever had actually read a Balzac story doesn't interest him at all.
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Eugénie Grandet
This little tale from Balzac's scenes of provincial life is one of my favorites, having a simple plot anchored by a character of monumental greed and miserliness, Old Grandet. He has amassed a fortune in land, farms, shares, and wooden casks of gold coins that he loves to gaze upon, but he lives like a simple workman with not a centime to his name. His good wife and lovely daughter, Eugénie, are completely dominated by his tyrannical personality. Eugenie has never known any other life, and hardly dreams that one is possible, let alone that she is an heiress to millions.
Into this small town darkness flashes the meteoric path of Charles, Grandet's nephew, whose father killed himself to escape the shame of bankruptcy. Charles visits his relations in Saumur at his father's direction, not knowing why, and learns the awful truth from his uncle. He is a rich, spoiled, foppish dandy, but he is truly despairing when he learns of his father's end, and he resolves to remake his fortune in the West Indies. But first, through a few secret interviews, he and Eugénie fall in love. To help him on his way, Eugénie gives him her entire life savings, a bag of gold coins, resolving to wait for him forever, blissfully enslaved to the only true love she has ever known.
Charles sails away, and Grandet finds out about Eugénie's absolutely foolish, blasphemous action with her gold. Initially, he punishes her by locking her in her room on a diet of bread and water. The mother's health fails, the town gossips, and the two top families scheme to get their sons married to Eugénie. Charles grows rich trading slaves, and becomes corrupt and miserly – Eugénie is orphaned. Charles returns to France and feels obligated to write Eugénie a "Dear Jane" letter so he can proceed to marry into a decrepit but prestigious noble family with a clear conscience. Eugénie marries one of the sons, but insists that she remain a virgin, and lives a life of humility, austerity, and generous charity. Her husband never gets to enjoy his wife's wealth; he dies young. Charles is shocked to learn that the pretty cousin he jilted, the one who lives in poverty in the country, is far more wealthy than he – he calculated wrong!
Such is the plot – another French tale of sharp provincial dealing and financial chicanery – of which Balzac is a master. It is the character and psychology of Old Grandet that makes it an epic of obsession and sexual repression. Grandet seems hardly human, a mass of granite, and completely devoid of feelings. He drives hard bargains always, and only shows delight and humor when he manages a particularly crafty financial triumph. He has a wen, a cyst or wart, on his nose that is his principle indicator of internal passion – it becomes inflamed and pulsating when he is agitated or angry. The symbolism is obvious.
Eugénie, his daughter, is a beautiful young woman who is practically living the life of a nun, married, in bondage, to her father and his gold. He gives her gifts of coins on special occasions, but his gifts come with strings. He asks now and then to view the coins with her -"Go and bring your coins, girlie. Looking at them warms me up." His use of the diminuitive is unsettling – Eugénie is a fully grown and lovely woman. The coins give him heat and life: money is always something supernatural in Balzac, and here it is the life-sexual force itself. There is nothing else for Old Grandet. Locked in his office, gazing at his barrels of gold, Grandet is like a boy ashamed of his sexual longing, hiding himself away with his favorite girlie magazines. At one point, he exclaims: "You ought to kiss me on the eyelids for telling you the secrets and mysteries of the life and death of money. Really, coins live and swarm like men' they come and go and sweat and multiply." Such are the facts of life according to Monsieur Grandet. Swarming, multiplying, sweating…only gold lives. It's the only sex education Eugénie gets.
When Eugénie gives Charles her coins, he gives her a golden casket of his mother's in return, to hold for him in trust, promising to repay her the value of her coins. Eugénie and her mother, who sympathizes with her, delight in looking at the box, rehearsing their memories of the handsome cousin, now far away. Upon learning of this exchange, Old Grandet leaps upon the casket "like a tiger" and begins clawing it, almost destroying it to get some goldwork that he can sell to recoup her idiotic squandering of her treasure. Eugénie tries to stop him, shouting that the cask is neither hers nor his, it is only held in trust against Charles' return and repayment of the loan of her coins. Grandet shoves her aside, hurting her, and cries, "Why were you looking at it if it was given you in trust? Looking is worse than touching."
Ah, yes, the looking! His gloating over his coins has an element of sexual looking, voyeurism. This is more explicit when, after punishing his daughter with house arrest, he fumes and walks in his garden, but can't resist looking at her as she mournfully brushes her hair at her windowsill. His gaze is filled with anger, love, paternal and avaricious, and sexual? The scene made me think of this painting by Thomas Hart Benton and the story of Susanna and the Elders – young women wronged by crude, dirty old men. When Eugénie tries to evade his requests to see her gold in order to forestall revealing what she did with it, Old Grandet wheedles: "Listen, Eugénie, you must give me your gold. You won't refuse your old daddy, will you girlie, eh?" sounding like a increasingly frustrated pedophile with a recalcitrant intended victim.
Eugénie, disappointed in love, agrees to marry only to procure a service from her notary-suitor that will rescue the honor of that cad, Charles, and with the stipulation that she remain a virgin. Her fate reminds me of Zeus impregnating Danae with a rain of golden coins – another woman done wrong by gold.
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The Wild Ass's Skin (Peau de chagrin)
The Wild Ass's Skin is the weirdest novel by Balzac I've read to-date. It was his second major novel in his vast Human Comedy, and it features several characters who reappear later in the series, albeit not always in a consistent manner. In it, we have Balzac's pseudo-science, fascination with magic, some romanticism such as I've never read in his work, the usual thrilling and cynical dissection of social structures, and sex portrayed with an abandon and explicitness from which he usually refrains.
The premise of the plot is magical: A down on his luck, impoverished aristocrat, Raphael Valentin, looses his last coin gambling, and resolves on suicide. To pass the time until an opportune moment arises, he visits a vast antiques shop and meets its strange proprietor. He is shown a strange piece of leather, an ancient scrap of an ass's skin, embossed with eastern script. The skin has the power to grant him his every wish, but each time it does so, it shrinks, and with it, so does the lifespan of Valentin. Another twist on the old theme of making a deal with the Devil.
The novel also has three parts, and they don't seem to fit together all that seamlessly. The first part describes Raphael's coming into possession of the magical skin and his first orgy; the second is an extended flashback describing his impoverished life while he was in love with a completely heartless and drop-dead gorgeous society woman; and the third describes his agonizing descent to his inevitable end.
At one point, Valentin enlists the help of the greatest scientists in France to see if they can stretch the skin back to its original size, after he has grown fabulously wealthy by its power, and watched horrified as it diminished in size. The great mechanical engineer gives a discourse on Pascal, motion, and hydrostatic pressure, and then watches stupefied as the skin resists the force of his engines and causes them to explode under the strain.
"Between each point in space occupied in succession by that ball," continued the man of science, "there is an abyss confronting human reason, an abyss into which Pascal fell.
A chemist is nonplussed, and can find nothing to make the slightest change in the skin. At a forge, in a scene that seems a combination of Joseph Wright and John Martin, the men try to incinerate the hide, but it emerges from the flames cool and untouched. The scientists have a laugh – the mysteries of the universe never end! Raphael is not amused. He visits some doctors to see if they can determine why his life force is ebbing away, but they just argue amongst themselves.
"What is the good of science?" Raphael moaned. "Here is my recovery halting between a string of beads and a rosary of leeches, between Dupuytren's bistoury and Prince Hohenlohe's prayer…Shall I live? They have no idea. Planchette [the engineer] was more straightforward with me, at any rate, when he said, 'I do not know.'"
When Raphael first takes possession of the skin, he wishes to be at a stupendous banquet and orgy – and then he sees the skin shudder and shrink a bit. Next thing we know, he is whisked to a phenomenal debauch by two friends he stumbles upon in the street. The tale is one of Balzac's philosophical studies, and it dissects the psychology and practice of excess and orgies, depicting them with great realism and in detail.
His chandeliers had been filled with wax-lights; the rarest flowers from his conservatory were carefully arranged about the room; the table sparkled with silver, gold, crystal, and porcelain; a royal banquet was spread–the odors of the tempting dishes tickled the nervous fibres of the palate. There sat his friends; he saw them among beautiful women in full evening dress, with bare necks and shoulders, with flowers in their hair; fair women of every type, with sparkling eyes, attractively and fancifully arrayed. One had adopted an Irish jacket, which displayed the alluring outlines of her form; one wore the "basquina" of Andalusia, with its wanton grace; here was a half-clad Dian the huntress, there the costume of Mlle. de laValliere, amorous and coy; and all of them alike were given up to the intoxication of the moment.
His only salvation from an early death is to arrange his life with mechanical regularity so that he need never give rise to an utterance of "I wish that…" and so never invoke the power of the skin. He becomes a recluse. His faithful servant, fearful that he is wasting away, and minding the doctor's orders to "keep him interested…" arranges a special treat for him which he at first takes for one of his opiated dreams:
As Raphael's death-pale face showed itself in the doorway, a sudden outcry broke out, as vehement as the blaze of this improvised banquet. The voices, perfumes, and lights, the exquisite beauty of the women, produced their effect upon his senses, and awakened his desires. Delightful music, from unseen players in the next room, drowned the excited tumult in a torrent of harmony–the whole strange vision was complete.
Raphael felt a caressing pressure on is own hand, a woman's white, youthful arms were stretched out to grasp him, and the hand was Aquilina's. He knew now that this scene was not a fantastic illusion like the fleeting pictures of his disordered dreams; he uttered a dreadful cry, slammed the door, and dealt his heartbroken old servant a blow in the face.
Contrasted with this infernal decadence, there is the scene he encounters when he flees to the mountains, searching for a serene resting place in which to live out his days without desires:
As Raphael reached the place, the sunlight fell across it from right to left, bringing out all the colors of its plants and trees; the yellowish or gray bases of the crags, the different shades of the green leaves, the masses of flowers, pink, blue, or white, the climbing plants with their bell-like blossoms, and the shot velvet of the mosses, the purple-tinted blooms of the heather,–everything was either brought into relief or made fairer yet by the enchantment of the light or by the contrasting shadows; and this was the case most of all with the sheet of water, wherein the house, the trees, the granite peaks, and the sky were all faithfully reflected. Everything had a radiance of its own in this delightful picture, from the sparkling mica-stone to the bleached tuft of grass hidden away in the soft shadows; the spotted cow with its glossy hide, the delicate water-plants that hung down over the pool like fringes in a nook whereblue or emerald colored insects were buzzing about, the roots of trees like a sand-besprinkled shock of hair above grotesque faces in the flinty rock surface,–all these things made a harmony for the eye.
Such a romantic, pastoral scene, so unlike Balzac's usual settings of village interiors or urban apartments. And in the two locales, he encompasses the twin extremes of Romanticism: the diabolic, and the idyllic.
In the end, Raphael is united with Pauline, who loved him when he was poor, and now that he is rich, has herself come into a fortune. They live together, planning to be married, and Balzac describes their lives together as one of erotic bliss, although Raphael is doomed. When Pauline realizes Raphael's situation, she resolves to kill herself so that they can die together: there is a frenzied embrace, he bites her breast violently! – is it consummated? .. and they die.
Not surprising that Balzac loved the novel Melmoth the Wanderer.
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Sarrasine's cynosure
"He entered and took a seat in the pit, crowded between two unconscionably stout abbati; but luckily he was quite near the stage…Suddenly a whirlwind of applause greeted the appearance of the prima donna. She came forward coquettishly to the footlights and curtsied to the audience with infinite grace. The brilliant light, the enthusiasm of a vast multitude, the illusion of the stage, the glamor of a costume which was most attractive for the time, all conspired in that woman's favor. Sarrasine cried aloud with pleasure. He saw before him at that moment the ideal beauty whose perfections he had hitherto sought here and there in nature, taking from one model, often of humble rank, the rounded outline of a shapely leg, from another the contour of the breast; from another her white shoulders; stealing the neck of that young girl, the hands of this woman, and the polished knees of yonder child, but never able to find beneath the cold skies of Paris the rich and satisfying creations of ancient Greece. La Zambinella displayed in her single person, intensely alive and delicate beyond words, all those exquisite proportions of the female form which he had so ardently longed to behold, and of which a sculptor is the most severe and at the same time the most passionate judge. She had an expressive mouth, eyes instinct with love, flesh of dazzling whiteness. And add to these details, which would have filled a painter's soul with rapture, all the marvelous charms of the Venuses worshiped and copied by the chisel of the Greeks. The artist did not tire of admiring the inimitable grace with which the arms were attached to the body, the wonderful roundness of the throat, the graceful curves described by the eyebrows and the nose, and the perfect oval of the face, the purity of its clean-cut lines, and the effect of the thick, drooping lashes which bordered the large and voluptuous eyelids. She was more than a woman; she was a masterpiece! In that unhoped-for creation there was love enough to enrapture all mankind, and beauties calculated to satisfy the most exacting critic.
"Sarrasine devoured with his eyes what seemed to him Pygmalion's statue descended from its pedestal. When La Zambinella sang, he was beside himself.
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Balzac pre-Benjamin
Add to my list of overrated thinkers, Mr. Walter Benjamin. Much is made of his arcane and metaphysical piece, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Mass Production." In fact, my college senior thesis borrowed most of the title – "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Mass Reproduction." Clever, eh?
Well, here is the gist of that esoteric work, en avance, in a sentence, from Balzac's Beatrix, one hundred years before:
While working for the masses, modern industry progressively destroys works of art that had been as personal for the buyer as for the creator. Nowadays, we have products; we no longer have works.
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Leathernecks/Chouans!
On NPR today, I heard an interview with a Marine Colonel directing American forces in Afghanistan against the Taliban. He remarked on the nature of the countryside in which they were fighting, describing it as some of the most difficult you could imagine in which to wage a counter-insurgency effort. The countryside is divided up into squares that are bounded by trees and shrubs, providing cover for small bands of fighters, and making movement of his troops slow and dangerous. The description matches exactly that of Balzac's portrait of Brittany in his historical novel, The Chouans.
This was Balzac's first entry into his monumental cycle of novels, and it is his only in his projected "scenes of military life." It tells the story of brutal guerilla warfare between the agents of the infant French Republic, and the rebellious people of Brittany who, like the great Vendee, fought the authority of the Paris government and supported the return of the king. The novel is heavily influenced by the work of Walter Scott, and it is remarkable, I thought, for its gritty and believable portrayal of a bloody provincial civil war.
Balzac's politics were "conservative" after a fashion, he was a monarchist, but he plays fair. The Chouans are often shown as bloodthirsty, ignorant, bestial peasants led by noblemen with various degrees of integrity and clergy who seem to be mentally in the middle ages. The Republicans are led by Commandant Hulot, an impressive, honorable, and laconic man who lives again, and dies, an old decorated soldier in the magnifient novel, Cousin Bette. But there is also Corentin, a cold, devious, unprincipled spy for the Republic's police, who cares nothing for honor, and would turn his coat for the right price, or the right woman delivered to his bed. In his introductory role in Balzac's comedy, he is an incroyable, one of the enthusiasts of the first revolutionary days known for their outrageous and scandalous dress, and he reappears much later in A Harlot High and Low, where he meets his match in Vautrin, the arch-criminal.
The novel turns on the romantic and machiavellian actions of a central female, Marie de Verneuil, a pre-cinema Bond-girl. Is she a whore, a noblewoman, a spy, a republican, a royalist? All of the above? She is destroyed by the deadly game she plays, one that will not make space for a deep and true love that is beyond, or above, politics. Or is that just too sentimental, and does she deserve everything she gets? You decide.
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The Black Sheep (La Rabouilleuse)
One of my favorite novels, and certainly at the top of my Balzac list, is this story of a titanic battle over a family fortune in the provincial town of Issoudun. The French title can be translated as The Fisherwoman, and that is how Flore Brazier, the character is known in town. More precisely, la rabouilleuse means a girl who assists a fisherman by using a stick to disturb the water in a stream so that the fish flee right into the nets. This is how the young Flore was employed by her guardian when she enters the story.
I don't know why the book is called The Black Sheep in English. It leaves open the question of just who is the black sheep: Phillipe Brideau – the brutal, callous, murderous, thieving, totally dishonorable former soldier of the Imperial Guard; or his brother, Joseph Brideau – a sincere, talented, hardworking, but impoverished artist living in a crassly materialistic milieu that considers painting a career for failures, no matter how brilliant the practitioner. Flore, on the other hand, is the point about which much of the action revolves.
A child of stunning beauty, even in the abject rags of rural poverty in which she lives, Flore is 'rescued' from her fate by Old Rouget who happens upon her on a ride. His intentions in bringing her to his house are anything but honorable, but Balzac, as always, is tactful in his Olympian manner. He sees all, but needn't tell all. The old man dies, and the girl, grown to a fabulously beautiful young woman proceeds to dominate his imbecile of a son. He is totally in thrall to her sexual power, and she sets up a comfy menage a trois by bringing Maxence, a local reprobrate of a magnitude to equal Phillipe, as her live-in lover. Together, they scheme to get the dolt of a son to sign over his enormous fortune, accumulated by his hard nosed miser dad, to them. Sex is the lubricant that keeps their machinations going.
Well, the field of battle is set for the confrontation between Flore-Maxence and Phillipe. It turns out that Phillipe's mother is the dolt's aunt, so she has an interest in the family stash, although her brother, the dead Rouget, always claimed, without evidence, that she was illegitimate, and he didn't speak to her for the thirty years she lived in Paris. Money, family, sex, city vs. country…everything!
Phillipe turns hero as he comes to Issoudoun to find a way to eliminate the influence of Flore and Maxence over his rich and stupid uncle. The town isn't big enough for the two villainous rascals. One will have to go, and it will have to be in a box. And so it happens…
The suspense is great, the absolutely devilish brilliance with which Phillipe outwits and crushes the gold digger crew, and his subsequent destruction as he pursues his true corrupt nature, now with piles of cash to back him, is amazing. The mother is without a clue, nearly to the end, believing Phillipe to be her "good" son, and Joseph to be an ineffectual, if loyal boy, even as Phillipe robs her blind. The action and grasping morality of the characters is breathtaking in its brutality.
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THANK YOU to John Lewis + iCandy.
Mr Eli was so happy to be back in his iCandy Strawberry!
As I have previously documented, I'm a huge fan of iCandy. No-less because they're a British brand with eye-catching, yet hardwaring products. It's also very well documented that as a family, we're HUGE fans of John Lewis. Again, another British brand with an amazing ethos for quality products and a company that prides itself in looking after its customers; and it's partners (general staff!).
So, you can imagine my horror when one day I couldn't remove the safety bar on my iCandy Strawberry pram. Eli was wearing his Ponseti Boots so it made it awkward to get him out. Eli had only been riding in the stroller/seat unit for about 5 weeks. So it was still pretty much brand new. I can't say that this travel system was on the cheap side either; all in all it did cost nearly £900. BUT as I walk everywhere, the iCandy Strawberry was a definite investment – and I absolutely LOVE it.
As a Social Media wizard, my first point of call was to message the iCandy Facebook page. I left a comment on their wall and got a lovely response soon after. The iCandy Facebook assistant advised I contact John Lewis. So I did just that.
Unfortunately, you can't call a store directly. You go through to the John Lewis central customer service centre, even if you have a direct number for the store you wish to contact. This however, is not a bother. The customer service advisors are so astute and just want to help you out. So jolly (but not annoyingly jolly!) and helpful they all are. This also means that all discussions are kept under a reference number so everything is kept organised and each advisor you speak to already know everything there is to know about the nature of your call.
I was advised that someone from the Stratford store would contact me with regards to having the seat unit fixed.
Our iCandy Peach loan, soon after it arrived!
Someone called me from the Nursery department at Stratford about an hour later. After a few discussions it was decided that someone from the Stratford store would personally come to my home, on the train, with an iCandy Peach loan. Then they would take my iCandy Strawberry seat unit back to the store, where it would be sent away to be fixed. I cannot drive and now I'm working from home it makes it difficult to take a whole day off – plus it would mean paying for the cost of trains to and from Stratford, twice. I thought this was just incredible.
After the weekend sure enough, a lovely chap called Calvin from the Nursery department turned up, bang on time, with my iCandy Peach loan.
Our replacement iCandy Strawberry seat unit came back in just over a week!
A week later, Calvin came back with my new iCandy Strawberry seat unit and collected the iCandy Peach loan.
Absolutely above and beyond. Just simply wonderful service from start to finish. I can't think iCandy and especially, John Lewis enough. I've never ever heard of a retailer doing that for anyone. Retailers just aren't like that these days. John Lewis have completely set the standard in retail customer service and they should be extremely proud of all who work for them! That kind of service is just off the scale. Unheard of. Exceptional.
THANK YOU JOHN LEWIS AND iCANDY! Just superb.


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Tracking the illicit drug trade in the Caribbean
From Sexual Sadist, Rapist, to Serial Rapist then Serial Killer in Trinidad and Tobago: A Colossal Failure of Policing
Analysis of what has been published in the daily print media of Trinidad and Tobago especially the testimony of an abduction, robbery and rape victim reveals the enterprise of a sexual sadist, rapist who evolved into a serial rapist, then into a serial killer to silence his victims to ensure the integrity of his enterprise and the sustainability of the impunity he was afforded by the colossal failure of policing and the court system of Trinidad and Tobago. The perpetrator was no apex sexual sadist rapist as he was incapable of sustainable earning vitally necessary to maintain a facade of respectability and to generate the capital needed to invest in the sustainable infrastructure needed for the hunt, abduction, sexual sadism during repeated rape, murder and disposal of the body of the victim. His incompetence led him to form working alliances with partners in the enterprise which forced him to rob the victim to pay them for their services and to pay himself towards continuing his enterprise. He was a bungling, incompetent serial rapist, serial killer driven by a burning desire to stalk, abduct, render his victim powerless and in this situation of powerlessness unleash a range of sexual violence on his victim that gave him pleasure, that satiated his desire for the moment. Sexual violence on the powerless victim was his erotic. His bungling incompetence meant that he could not afford the infrastructure to abduct victims holding them in bondage as sexual slaves then killing them. This is what his desire demanded but he was incapable of earning, of creating and maintaing the facade necessary to ensure the sustainability of this enterprise. The burning question is then is how often then did he abduct rape and how many of his rape victims did he kill. Alas we will never know because he is silenced, beaten to death, when we all need him alive to deconstruct his mind methodically, without a hint of violence to reveal to us where did he dump his victims and when. Beating a sexual sadist means nothing, they are immune to violence for it is violence that molded them. What they fear is being incarcerated, unable to stalk, abduct and unleash violence, to satiate their desire. Some when faced with the certainty of incarceration their self-importance kicks on and they begin to boast of their conquests, others show relief in being caught convinced that the case against them is air tight they sing like a semp. To see the signs of the modus operandi of a serial rapist, serial killer and act upon them to arrest and incarcerate this perpetrator and in the process deconstructing their minds, you need policing liberated from colonial policing where your police is a hammer therefore they can only see nails. The potent, abiding lesson is that the failure to incarcerate this perpetrator when he started his career gave him the operating space in which to evolve from sexual sadist, rapist to serial rapist then to serial killer. The system failed, the politicians and the recycled failed politician failed all of us and there were victims who did not need to die and surviving victims who did not need to be victimized and to date the system has refused to say sorry, be penitent and then show how it will never happen again. This is the arrogance born out of the impunity the politics of race affords the system in T&T. Which has failed us miserably and will continue to fail us. In 1978 I wrote on rape in T&T for my BA (HONS) thesis at UWI, St Augustine, in the late 1970s and early 1980s I continued with my research doing filed work in specific areas of the East/West Corridor and what I have read on the experience of victims when they interact with the TTPS to report the crime has not changed from the testimonies I collected in my field studies and this is the 21st Century. Rape is a crime that affords the perpetrators impunity through its very low reporting rate by victims to the police. When you add to the mix an approach by policing which is not welcoming and not driven by the conviction to identify and incarcerate the perpetrator for the good of the social order then you foster a culture of rape with impunity which in the 21st Century is patterned after what obtained on Massa's plantation not a post-modern democracy. The very response of the public reveals deep denial and delusion when faced with the culture of sexual violence in T&T today and in our history. To speak of only gender violence, violence against woman deliberately silences the adolescent boys who are victims of sexual violence in a social order that denies the level of sexual violence perpetrated on young boys. We are told to watch our girl children whilst boys who are victims of sexual violence don't exist, silenced and are expected to handle it like a man, like their attacker, hence some of these boys evolve into sexual predators themselves. The sexual power relations of Massa's plantation exist today as we refuse to face reality and deal with it, which means that the flood of victims will never abate.
March 2, 2021 The testimony of another victim of the deceased serial rapist/serial killer reveals that he was operational in the Chaguanas transport hub where at least 3 victims of rape and one who was abducted made reports to the TTPS. The testimony of the abduction victim confirms that the predator was part of a crime organization which was vitally necessary for the success of his predatory enterprise. This means that he had to earn to benefit this crime group even on days when he was abducting, raping and killing victims he was expected to earn for this group. It is most likely that he was a transporter for the crime group. The predator was then a career criminal with a predilection, Desire for abduction, rape and murder. From his hunting ground of Chaguanas he then migrated for Arima which showed his strategy of transporting women from transport hubs to rural areas with an accomplice who aided and abetted in the abduction. What is now abundantly clear is that when women, young girls and children disappear without trace the TTPS must now accept the reality of the possibility of abduction and murder by a serial killer for where there is one discovered there are others out there much more intelligent and elusive in practicing his craft. Welcome to the real world T&T we have come of age! The question that is of prime importance is the fitness of the national security apparatus to discover, locate, charge and convict such predators in T&T? The answer many will not like and they will slip into delusion for that is the preferred survival mechanism in T&T today.
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SKU: 9781926975054 Categories: Psychology, Teich, Howard
by Howard Teich
"The perception that masculine and feminine traits represent oppositional forces has contributed to a long history of personal and cultural dysfunctions. Through a skillful interweaving of modern psychology, mythology and ancient history, Howard Teich, PhD offers a thought provoking thesis that these polarizing traits are actually cooperative partners in evolution's dynamic dance. Solar Light, Lunar Light is a healing journey that encourages readers to transcend misperceived limitations so that we may write a new empowering chapter in human evolution."
–Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., Cell biologist and bestselling author of The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles and coauthor with Steve Bhaerman of Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (And A Way To Get There From Here)
"This is a significant, life changing book. Howard Teich's work is crucial to understanding and healing the damage our rigid ideas of gender have done to us all, women and men alike. This is a book that can change how you see every problem you encounter and point you toward deeper more creative responses. Here is a psychology that has the potential of restoring us all and our world to wholeness."
–Susan Griffin, author of A Chorus of Stones and Woman and Nature
"Howard Teich has discovered a brilliantly simple and invaluable way of helping men and women move towards wholeness and healing. With vivid examples from his therapeutic practice and from his own life, Solar Light, Lunar Light presents Teich's pioneering development of the solar/lunar polarity, and his sharp distinction of this from the masculine/feminine polarity with which it has long been uncritically and often destructively conflated. Recognizing this distinction, and moving towards a deep integration and rebalancing of the solar and lunar principles, represents a crucial task not only for every individual but for our civilization."
–Richard Tarnas, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, Author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche
"Howard Teich has created a skillful and sensitive therapy based on the solar and lunar archetypes. His work is a fascinating enrichment of Jungian psychology that combines modern scientific theory with his own personal experience of emotional crisis. Solar Light, Lunar Light is a significant contribution to contemporary psychotherapy."
–Theodore Roszak, Professor emeritus of history at California State University, Haward. Author of The Making of a Counter Culture and The Voice of the Earth
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Six "merchant kings" and one obscure employee of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) feature in these two starkly different books. In separate chapters, Stephen Bown examines the careers of Jan Pieterszoon Coen (of the Dutch East India Company), Pieter Stuyvesant (Dutch West India Company), Robert Clive (English East India Company), Alexandr Baranov (Russian American Company), George Simpson (HBC), and Cecil Rhodes (British South Africa Company). These men's leadership of large monopolistic companies put them in positions of economic power and civil authority in vast territories. The main theme permeating the book is that power and authority were lenses magnifying the unsavory aspects of each man's personality—especially inclinations towards violence, autocracy, and arrogance. Bown's are portraits of cold and ruthless men.
Merchant Kings ably does what Bown intended it to do: provide a general audience with a good read. It is neither analytically innovative nor interpretively sophisticated. The book has no citations, and only a short bibliography featuring secondary sources—some quite old. The need for entertaining stories evidently convinced Bown to repeat some unlikely arguments and interpretations. It doesn't matter. Only credulous readers will read the book as fact. Bown's work laudably contributes to the aim of sustaining public interest in history—something we academic historians haven't done much lately.
George Simpson's career with the HBC coincided almost exactly with that of James Hargrave. But Simpson—the subject of one of Bown's chapters—was very different than Hargrave, the subject of Helen Ross's Letters from Rupert's Land. Ross' book consists of a forty-page introduction and about 350 pages of primary documents, mostly letters written by Hargrave to his Lowland Scottish emigrant parents and siblings in Lower Canada, and his extended family, close friends (and eventually his fiancée) in Canada and Scotland, but it also includes his 1820 engagement contract with the North West Company, and journals he kept during 1828 and 1829 to send to his family.
Ross is not an academic historian, but her informative and carefully researched (but somewhat stilted) introduction and the useful annotations to the letters are aimed at a scholarly audience. Some readers familiar with the unpublished Hargrave papers might be disappointed in the letters Ross selected for publication. They might prefer selections from the same papers published by G. P. de T. Glazebrook (1938) emphasizing the fur trade and the life of traders, and by Margaret Arnett MacLeod (1947), to highlight a woman's perspective. The fact that Ross was drawn to Hargrave's letters because she herself is descended from him might tempt some to dismiss the collection as rooted in filiopietism. But give the collection a chance. You might become captivated by the poignant story the letters reveal.
James Hargrave's letters offer valuable evidence relating to the history of families, the history of migrants, and the history of religious thought. Specifically, they reveal Hargrave's drive to better his station in life (and his desire to see his immigrant family flourish in Canada), his deep love for his family, his abiding affection for Scotland, and his devout Presbyterianism. Hargrave comes across as a warm and sensitive man—the opposite of any of Bown's merchant kings. The letters also offer some insight into the intellectual life at HBC posts. Hargrave, like many of the HBC's educated men, read voraciously.
Readers of Letters from Rupert's Land will see dimensions of fur-trade life quite different from what they might expect. Hargrave was employed by the HBC at York Factory—the company's North American headquarters along the bleak coast of Hudson Bay. But his life resembled the life of a twenty-first-century urban office worker more than the stereotypical fur trader. Desk-bound for twelve or more hours a day, Hargrave grew overweight and stressed. Torn between his love for his aging parents and his desire to earn enough money to retire early, he put off furloughs in the hopes of securing promotions. He learned no Cree, and showed little interest in the Native people who visited the post. He evidently developed no attachment to Rupert's Land. Someone writing a novel about life in the fur trade would find some grist here.
Although they are very different books, Bown's and Ross' will both find niches. Bown's entertaining and generally informative book will appeal particularly to an educated and curious public. Ross presents a collection of letters to which scholars and writers will be able to resort for insights into the life of a Scottish immigrant to Canada, turned fur trader.
This review "Six Kings and a Pawn" originally appeared in Prison Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 208 (Spring 2011): 138-139.


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Q: Can I use a class method inside an Android View? I'm new to Android(Java), and one of my lessons is to create this scenario.

They teach to use a different method for each button, but that adds two methods almost equal and my DRY mind says it's not the best solution.
Sho I wrote a BasketTeam class:
package com.example.android.courtcounter;

import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class BasketTeam {

    private TextView team;

    public BasketTeam(View v) {
        team = (TextView) v;
    }

    public void threePointsThrow(View v) {
        this.addPoints(3);
    }

    public void twoPointsThrow(View v) {
        addPoints(2);
    }

    public void freeThrow(View v) {
        addPoints(1);
    }

    private void addPoints(Integer addedScore) {
        Integer teamScore = Integer.parseInt((String) team.getText());
        team.setText("" + (teamScore + addedScore));
    }

    public void resetScore() {
        team.setText("" + 0);
    }
}

And at my MainActivity I've created 2 instances as public BasketTeam1 and BasketTeam2.
They are both okay and well instanced since in my MainActivity I have a method called resetScore use them and it works:
public void resetScore(View v) {
    BasketTeam1.resetScore();
    BasketTeam2.resetScore();
}

But when I try to use one of those class methods in my view, it can't find.
Why?
Here is a example of my try:
<Button
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="120dp"
    android:text="+3 points"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
    android:id="@+id/team_1_3_points"
    android:background="@color/colorAccent"
    android:textColor="@android:color/white"
    android:onClick="BasketTeam1.threePointsThrow"/>

Update
This is the error message:

05-25 13:30:19.880 2345-2345/com.example.android.courtcounter E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                                                Process: com.example.android.courtcounter, PID: 2345
                                                                                java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find method BasketTeam1.threePointsThrow(View) in a parent or ancestor Context for android:onClick attribute defined on view class android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton with id 'team_1_3_points'

A: The onClick property of your Button must correspond to a method in the Button's Context, typically your MainActivity. See onClick.
A solution may be:
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    ...
    public void threePointsThrow(View v) {
        switch (v.getId()) {
            case R.id.team_1_3_points:
                basketTeam1.threePointsThrow();
                break;
            case R.id.team_2_3_points:
                basketTeam2.threePointsThrow();
                break;
            default:
                break;
        }
    }
}

In the layout:
<Button
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="120dp"
android:text="+3 points"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
android:id="@+id/team_1_3_points"
android:background="@color/colorAccent"
android:textColor="@android:color/white"
android:onClick="threePointsThrow"/>


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Dacnophylla är ett släkte av skalbaggar. Dacnophylla ingår i familjen vivlar.

Kladogram enligt Catalogue of Life:

Källor

Externa länkar

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The British newspaper will share its video content across the global AOL On Network, and get access to AOL's library.
AOL UK has entered into a global video distribution partnership with the national British newspaper The Guardian, the companies announced.
Per the terms of the deal, The Guardian's video content will be distributed across the global AOL On Network and the news organization will have access to AOL UK's complete video library, including AOL Originals.
According to company data, the AOL On network averages more than one billion video views a month globally across a publisher network that includes AOL sites, third-party publishers, mobile applications and 16 over-the-top platforms.
AOL On launched in the U.K. in March 2014 and currently has two U.K. Originals in production, Being Mum, starring Tess Daly and Rochelle Humes (pictured), and 30Something, starring Richard Bacon. In April, AOL announced a partnership with Group M Entertainment (GME) to create a U.K.-produced slate of AOL Originals series with brand integrations.
Earlier this month, Verizon announced that it would acquire AOL for $4.4 billion, in a deal expected to close this summer.
Image: screengrab from the Being Mum trailer.


Melbourne Heart FC's hopes of reaching the Hyundai A-League Finals Series were shattered this evening as top-six contenders Brisbane Roar defeated the Red and White 2-0 at Suncorp Stadium.
Melbourne Heart FC-s hopes of reaching the Hyundai A-League Finals Series were shattered this evening as top-six contenders Brisbane Roar defeated the Red and White 2-0 at Suncorp Stadium.
While Heart entered the match unbeaten in five encounters against the Roar, and hoping to keep its finals chances alive, a dominant first-half display from the reigning champions extinguished those hopes.
Heart were dealt an early blow as Sam Mitchinson-s tackle on Ivan Franjic in the box was penalised and Roar marksman Besart Berisha buried the spot-kick past Andrew Redmayne just 12 minutes in.
That sparked Roar into life and as the home side turned on the style and turned the screw, the Red and White went further behind as Thomas Broich-s bullet from 25 metres found its way past Andrew Redmayne, who registered an otherwise excellent performance.
In fact it was Redmayne who kept Heart in the contest in the first stanza as he denied Broich-s awkward bouncing strike in the 17th minute, tipping the Brisbane skipper-s effort around the post.
Heart had a fleeting chance previous to that as captain Matt Thompson-s fourth-minute toe-poke was knocked wide by Roar keeper Michael Theo.
Redmayne produced another superb save after good work from Franjic and a dangerous shot from the effervescent Broich.
Heart-s stopper was again to the rescue in the 27th minute as Mitch Nichols broke into the box and powered a strike destined for the roof of the net, only for Redmayne to tip over for a corner.
Heart battled to stem the orange tide as Brisbane launched wave after wave of attack, but it took something special from Broich to double the home side's lead as he unleashed an unstoppable swerving drive which had Redmayne clutching at thin air in the 31st minute.
Heart had a rare chance on the stroke of half-time as Golgol Mebrahtu curled a free kick high and wide over Roar-s cross bar.
The Red and White seemed a more structured side in the second half as Head Coach John Aloisi delivered instructions at the break, but the Heart found it difficult to contend with a Roar side oozing with confidence.
While there were fewer chances in the second period, Steven Lustica almost latched onto Nichols- through ball in the 58th minute, but the Roar striker fired over the bar.
Roar went closest to a third as substitute Stefan Nijland crashed an exquisite effort onto the inside of Heart-s woodwork but the effort bounced away to safety in the 75th minute.
Heart thought that they had pulled a goal back when substitute Eli Babalj linked nicely with fellow strike partner Josip Tadic, but despite slotting the ball past Theo, the Croatian-s effort was ruled out for offside.
Roar also had an effort scratched out for offside, but Heart threw everything at the home side in the dying minutes as David Williams, with a low strike, and then Vrankovic, with a downward header from a corner, produced excellent stops from Theo.
With one match remaining against Central Coast Mariners next Sunday, Heart are mathematically out of the finals race as Brisbane move into fifth spot on the ladder.


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Hampton Ridge kan syfta på följande platser:

Antarktis

 Hampton Ridge, Antarktis,

USA

 Hampton Ridge (ås i USA, Kentucky), Bell County,
 Hampton Ridge (ås i USA, Tennessee, Johnson County),
 Hampton Ridge (ås i USA, Tennessee, Rhea County),

Robotskapade Antarktisförgreningar
Robotskapade USAförgreningar


There are three separate nesting boxes ideal for sparrows who like to live colonially, giving you a greater chance to attract breeding pairs. Beautifully finished with a natural wood ridged roof and copper trim this is a quality built 3 bird nesting terrace painted in lichen. Hanging tabs are already fitted and there are rear doors to each compartment for end of season cleaning. Presented in its own colour gift box as shown.


The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on May 26 invalidated two of three patents owned by Smartflash LLC, a patent licensing firm that was awarded a $532.9 million verdict against Apple in February 2015, according to Bloomberg.
A three-judge panel at the patent agency found that the two patents never should have been issued in the first place because the idea of storing and paying for data is an abstract concept, not a specific invention.
A third patent owned by Smartflash LLC was also invalidated in late March, increasing the odds that Apple will not have to pay the large sum. Smartflash LLC, which fits the description of a patent troll, can still ask the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to reconsider and file an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Last year, a federal jury for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found certain iTunes apps to be infringing upon Smartflash LLC's patents, related to digital rights management, data storage, and managing access through payment systems. Apple appealed the decision, arguing that the patents were invalid.
Smartflash LLC also targeted Samsung and Google with similar patent infringement claims.
I think I'd be in favor of throwing out patents entirely. I don't see any reason for them to exist. They supposedly exist to protect inventors... but from what?
I put a lot of effort into R&D. Bring my product to market. I'm now the only person selling my product for a period of time.
You want to duplicate my product. You buy it. You invest in reverse engineering. You can now also sell the product.
Com'on man. Read Tesla's story and consider the above. He did the big thinking and then the big inventing that is still crucially important to all of our lives today. What he always lacked? The money to thoroughly bring his inventions to market. Bigger players with deeper pockets exploited his inventions and got very, very rich... continuing to reap the profits from his inventions to this day. He died penniless.
Fundamentally, a patent allows the poorest of the poor to invent something and get compensated for it... either by finding a way to bring it to market or by those who have such resources licensing the invention from him or her. Either way, the inventor gets paid for their innovation.
As is now, gigantic corporations will just skip the licensing and implement inventors work and then fight the poor inventor in court if the inventor can bring themselves to try to take on Goliath. Goliath can pay a 100 of the best attorneys while poor inventor can't necessarily even pay for 1 poor one. And still, because there is a granted patent, the inventor may get paid anyway for their invention.
Are there flaws in the patent system? Yes, plenty... especially when it comes to patenting software (which, IMO, should fall under copyright law, not patent law) and fundamental tech (like rounded rectangles).
Do as you suggest- basically kill the system of patents altogether- and only the big corporations would have the incentives to invent and share their inventions with the world in products. A Tesla could not do his kind of thing in such a world. And, if so, you & I might be reading each others posts by candlelight, probably written in ink on parchment paper without the work of the Teslas.
If the patent system is good when it works for Apple is should be just as good when it works against Apple. Apple- and our Apple halo opinions- cannot have it both ways.
That's an awful idea, large companies who can outsource and come up with money easily could squash little guys before they even get a chance to start making a profit.
Now hold up just one minute. :rolleyes: We can't kill the patent trolls. Otherwise, we'd have to kill Apple, Blackberry, Microsoft, Ericsson, and Sony. Because that little cabal formed a patent troll. Thankfully, they eventually came to their senses, but there's no denying they were a troll. And they went trolling.
A patent troll is a company that holds patents for no other reason than squeezing money out of it with no intention at all to monetize the patents in any products or services. The companies you name don't fit the definition.
A) Anybody can outsource, even individuals.
C) Big companies already use patents to keep others out of their sand box.
While I do not agree that there should be no patents. I do not like the idea of companies being able to buy them all up and wield them like a sword to take down others. There should be some system of 'use it or lose it.' IMHO.
I think I'd be in favor of throwing out patents entirely.
I don't see any reason for them to exist.
They supposedly exist to protect inventors... but from what?
How is the original person who invested in R&D harmed? They still made their initial profits. Their future profits might decline... but so what? Can't rest on your laurels. Consumers benefit because they have more choice.
I put a lot of effort into R&D. Bring my product to market. Charge insane prices because I have a monopoly.
Starts the same way as if they didn't exist. But wait, a patent troll exists! The person who invested in the R&D gets a BS lawsuit!
Patents make no freaking sense. If they worked perfectly, it would be terrible for consumers. If they didn't exist at all, it would be ideal for consumers. As is, they're terrible for everything but patent trolls and lawyers... consumers and inventors both suffer in the current system.
Looks like Apple Samsung'd Smartflash. Just let the court invalidate the patents. Patents that, in retrospect, never should have been issued.
So an entire lawsuit was able to be litigated and appealed before a patent review could be conducted? Sue the FEDGOV for costs caused by their own negligence.
So basically, rules that favor Apple at all others expense.
No. I am by no means one of those types. I cannot even fathom how anything I said would lead you to believe that.
If the buyer is a troll, then so be it. If the troll will ultimately seek compensation from an Apple, why didn't an Apple get in there and outbid the troll for the inventors patent in the first place?
One, the inventor and/or his invention was unknown. Trolls buy up tech en mass at bargain prices from desperate inventors long before any of it is relevant. Most of those patents never pay off, but it doesn't matter so long as a few win the troll some major lawsuits. It's not like there was a big auction where Apple/whoever sees the patent and passes on it or intentionally decides not to license it.
Two, the patents are stupid. The software engineer at Apple or any other big or little company easily "invents" the exact same stuff with no knowledge of the existing patent, and it seems so obvious to them that they don't bother investigating. The troll also doesn't tell them they were accidentally using their patent and make a licensing offer; instead they wait it out until they can maximize their pay day.
That's how the system currently, actually works. I am not saying the concept of patents is bad, but how it presently works is pathetically broken.
The companies I named fit that definition exactly. They 1. Purchased a patent portfolio. 2. Formed a holding company together and called it Rockstar Consortium. 3. Immediately started doing what patent trolls do - started suing other companies. So yeah, patent trolls.
Not only were they patent trolls, they turned the dial to 11 as vindictive patent trolls. They went out as sued Asustek, Google, HTC, Huawei, LG, Pantech, Samsung, and ZTE. They figuratively sued everyone from A-Z that had anything to do with Android.
Fortunately for everyone, calmer heads prevailed and those companies dissolved Rockstar and sold the assets to RPX.
I didn't call them patently trolls in jest or as a slight against any of them. That's what the were.
First, how are you going to bring your product to market? If you are independently wealthy, good for you. However, most others need investors or loans to help with that part. Investors would be more hesitant to invest, and banks will charge much higher interest, if there is no collateral or assets left of from a worst-case-scenario failure. Just in case you flub the going to market part of the operation, banks and investors want to see some valuable asset they can sell after the fact to recoup some of their losses. IP is that valuable asset.
Indeed, I think most of the trolls you see are the result of such failures. Startups fail, this is fine, it's part of the process. But those engineers had salaries, which were paid for by investors or banks. To recoup that loss, they sell the patents to companies that are willing to assert them. Without the ability to profit from assertion, the patents are worthless, and thus investors and banks don't get paid back, which means they are less willing to take risks on startups.
Second, it takes very very little time to reverse engineer most things. And the effort put forth is proportional to how successful your product appears. As soon as it looks like it would be profitable to do so, your product will be reverse engineered in a matter of weeks if not days. Look at companies like Chipworks - they have full circuit schematics of very advanced chips within a few weeks of their launch, and that is not on an expedited effort.
Do you really thing a few weeks or months of profitable operation is fair for inventions that could take years to develop?
There are very few patent trolls compared to the huge number of successful stories of IP working as it should. It just doesn't make good headlines or get clicks. Look at companies like ARM - their entire business is licensing their IP to others such as Apple. Look at pretty much every startup that was able to get investors by leveraging their potential IP. Look at every university that is able to fund future research in part by licensing the fruits of prior research. Look at Apple, who probably wouldn't have been able to succeed with the iPhone had they not patented every single thing about it.
Also, patents do work as you said they should "perfectly." There are millions of examples, but one that has been in the news a lot lately is 3D printing - specifically the kind that melts plastic and uses essentially a printer head on a z-axis to inject the plastic onto a xy-axis table. (e.g., MakerBot) This technology was invented a while ago. It was patented and licensed to a few manufacturers who made very expensive 3D printers purchased mostly by big prototyping shops or big engineering companies. They did well raking it in for 20+ years on such great inventions. They did have to fight hard to keep rip-off printers off the US market the entire time, as there were plenty (especially in China) who reverse engineered this in no time at all. When the patents expired, it was as if overnight there were affordable consumer-level 3D printers from dozens of companies.


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