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Dubnyk stopped 27 of 32 shots Monday in a 5-4 loss to the Blues.
Dubnyk was making his first start as a Shark and was not welcomed politely by the home team. San Jose actually jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period, but the Blues got to Dubnyk four times in the middle frame and once more in the third. Dubnyk logged an .890 save percentage in 30 games last season with Minnesota and will compete with longtime incumbent Martin Jones for playing time.
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Sharks' Radim Simek: Assist in season debut
Simek (undisclosed) had an assist to go with two blocks and one hit in Monday's 5-4 loss to St. Louis.
Simek missed San Jose's first two games with his undisclosed ailment but stepped into Monday's lineup and logged just under 13 minutes on the third defensive pairing. Simek, 28, had two goals and seven assists in 48 games last season as a sophomore.
Sharks' Brent Burns: Collects first three points of year
Burns collected a power-play goal and added two assists Monday in a 5-4 loss at St. Louis. He also contributed four shots and one block.
Burns was a force for the Sharks, racking up his first three points of the season while logging a game-high 28:39 of ice time. The veteran defenseman figured in on the first two goals of the game as the Sharks built a 2-0 lead, then tallied one of his own with the man advantage to give San Jose a 3-2 edge in the second period. Burns enjoyed another productive campaign in 2019-20, although his 45 points represented a steep decline from the 83 he registered the previous season. His plus/minus also fell from plus-13 to minus-22.
Sharks' Kevin Labanc: Enjoys two-point night
Labanc scored a goal and an assist with two shots in Monday's 5-4 loss at St. Louis. He also had two PIM.
Labanc opened the scoring 11:38 into the game, deflecting a Brent Burns point shot while parked in the slot. He also drew the primary assist on a Logan Couture goal that tied the game 4-4 early in the third period. It was a nice breakout effort for Labanc, who was held without a point in his first two outings of the season.
Sharks' Tomas Hertl: Registers two helpers
Hertl had two assists and two PIM in Monday's 5-4 loss to the Blues. He also went 12-for-22 (54.5 percent) in the faceoff circle.
Hertl had a helping hand on power-play goals by Logan Couture and Brent Burns. The 27-year-old has found the scoresheet in each of the first three games, collecting three goals and three assists. However, that production has been partially mitigated by a minus-5 rating over his last two contests.
Sharks' Logan Couture: Big effort in loss
Couture scored twice and added an assist in Monday's 5-4 loss at St. Louis. He also had three shots and won 12 of 21 faceoffs (57.1 percent).
Couture found the back of the net on the power play in the first period, ripping a one-timer from the right circle to give the Sharks a 2-0 lead. He scored again in the third period, tying the game from below the left circle. He also drew an assist on Kevin Labanc's goal, which opened the scoring. Couture slumped from 70 points in 2018-19 to just 39 last season but iis off to a quick start with four points through three contests.
Sharks' Fredrik Handemark: Brought up from taxi squad
Handemark was recalled from the taxi squad Monday, Curtis Pashelka of The San Jose Mercury News reports.
Handemark spent time with Malmo (Sweden) before NHL training camp started, and he produced 15 points over 25 games. The 27-year-old forward has yet to make his NHL debut, but he could draw into the lineup for Monday's game against the Blues.
Sharks' Nicolas Meloche: Shuffles to taxi squad
Meloche was assigned to the taxi squad Monday, Curtis Pashelka of The San Jose Mercury News reports.
The 23-year-old played in the season opener and logged just 5:43 of ice time, and he was a healthy scratch in Saturday's loss to the Coyotes. Meloche will still be eligible to practice and travel with the team while on the taxi squad.
Sharks' Joel Kellman: Shifts to taxi squad
Kellman cleared waivers Monday and was placed on the taxi squad, Curtis Pashelka of The San Jose Mercury News reports.
Kellman likely will remain on the taxi squad until injuries pop up. The 26-year-old played in the season opener and logged 12:07 of ice time, a minus-1 rating and two PIM.
Sharks' Radim Simek: Ready to go
Simek (undisclosed) will play in Monday's game against the Sharks, Kevin Kurz of The Athletic reports.
Simek missed the opening two-game series against the Coyotes, but he'll make his season debut Monday. The 28-year-old blueliner averaged 17:11 of ice time per game last season with no power-play usage, and he finished with nine points, 91 hits and 60 blocked shots over 48 contests.
Sharks' Devan Dubnyk: Making first Sharks start Monday
Dubnyk will defend the road net against the Blues on Monday, Sheng Peng of San Jose Hockey Now reports.
Dubnyk entered Saturday's loss to the Coyotes in relief of Martin Jones and stopped both shots he faced. The 34-year-old struggled for the Wild last year, generating an .890 save percentage and a 12-15-2 record through 30 appearances. He'll get a tough matchup against a familiar foe in his first start for the Sharks.
Blues hope to answer wake-up call vs. Sharks
Sharks' Marc-Edouard Vlasic: Scoreless so far
Vlasic is averaging a career-high 24:22 of ice time per game but has yet to score a point this season.
After scoring at least 20 points in six straight seasons, Vlasic recorded just 15 points in 70 games last year. His massive increase in ice time may not be sustainable and his lack of power play involvement will hinder his fantasy ceiling.
Sharks' Kevin Labanc: Scoreless through two games
Labanc has four shots on goal and a plus-1 rating through two games but has failed to record a point.
After scoring less than a half-point-per-game last season, Labanc has started the 2020-21 season with some early scoring troubles. His playing time, both overall and on the power play, is about the same as last season and he's still secure in a top-six role. His scoring should improve as the season moves on, but Labanc could be in line for another letdown with his offensive numbers.
Sharks' Joel Kellman: Heads to waivers
Kellman was waived by the Sharks on Sunday, Sportsnet's Chris Johnston reports.
Kellman logged 12:07 of ice time in the season opener, recording a minus-1 rating, a shot on net and a blocked shot. The 26-year-old was a healthy scratch Saturday. Kellman likely will remain with the team via the taxi squad, but he could end up in AHL San Jose when the minor-league season commences.
Sharks' Maxim Letunov: Cleared to return
Letunov cleared the NHL's COVID-19 protocols Saturday, Sportsnet's Chris Johnston reports.
Letunov likely will be assigned to the taxi squad or AHL San Jose now that he's available. The 24-year-old spent most of his time in the minors last season, accruing 40 points over 50 games.
Sharks' Timo Meier: Carries offense in loss
Meier scored an even-strength goal and added two power-play assists in Saturday's 5-3 loss to the Coyotes.
After going scoreless in San Jose's opener, Meier bounced back quickly but didn't get enough help to put the Sharks in the win column. The 24-year-old has scored more than 20 goals in three straight seasons and is just one year removed from a 30-goal campaign, and he still has significant upside with an assignment on the No. 1 line and the top power-play unit.
Sharks' Devan Dubnyk: Needed in relief Saturday
Dubnyk replaced Martin Jones early in the third period of Saturday's 5-3 loss to the Coyotes, stopping both shots he faced.
The former Wild netminder wasn't tested and had little pressure on his shoulders during his abbreviated Sharks debut, as San Jose was down by three goals when Dubnyk came in. The team doesn't have to play any back-to-back sets until February, but Jones, who has struggled the last two seasons, could still cede a start or two to Dubnyk before then.
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Custody (parental responsibility) is the duty and right of parents. It includes caring for and raising the child, managing the child's property and representing the child, in addition to other matters (Section 158 of the Austrian Civil Code – Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch).
According to Section 160 of the Austrian Civil Code, caring for a child means primarily looking after his/her physical wellbeing and health and directly supervising the child, and raising a child includes, in particular, ensuring the child's physical, mental, emotional and moral development, and promoting the child's talents, abilities, preferences and development potential and his/her schooling/vocational training. Care also includes children's medical treatment and raising the child also includes deciding on the child's place of residence (Section 162 of the Austrian Civil Code) and therefore also, for example, taking decisions on foreign travel, selecting schools and choosing or changing the child's religion. The right of the parents to raise the child also implies the right to name the child.
Management of the child's property includes, for example, maintenance of the child (determination, modification, receipt, collection and use thereof). Section 164 of the Austrian Civil Code states that parents shall manage the child's property 'with the care of decent parents'.
'Legal representation' of the child is defined as the right and obligation to handle legal matters for the child. This includes representing the child in cases where rights or obligations are assigned directly to the child or granting consent on behalf of the child. Legal representation can refer to caring for and raising the child and managing the child's property in the 'external' sense (e.g. concluding a medical treatment contract with a doctor, agreeing to curative treatment for the child) as opposed to actually performing these tasks 'internally' (e.g. administering medication, changing a baby's nappy, monitoring the completion of homework). Legal representation also applies outside of these areas (in the 'pure' sense of the term), such as when changing the child's name or nationality, requesting recognition of extramarital paternity and exercising the child's personal rights.
As a rule, if the child is born in wedlock or if the parents marry one another subsequent to the child's birth, both parents will have custody of the child (Section 177(1) of the Austrian Civil Code). If the child is born out of wedlock, by law only the mother will have custody of the child (first sentence of Section 177(2) of the Austrian Civil Code).
The second sentence of Section 177(2) of the Austrian Civil Code states that unmarried parents may, after being informed of the legal consequences, declare in person before the registrar that they are both responsible for the child's custody, as long as custody has not already been settled in court. If the parents do not live in a single household, they must come to an agreement on which parent will be the child's primary carer. Alternatively, the parents can enter into an agreement before the court or submit such an agreement to the court (Section 177(3) of the Austrian Civil Code). The court can also grant custody to both parents (Section 180(2) of the Austrian Civil Code).
Joint custody can only be terminated by means of a court decision. The court must then seek an amicable settlement. If this is unsuccessful, the court will grant custody to one parent or again to both parents (Section 180 of the Austrian Civil Code). If the court awards joint custody, it must also stipulate the household in which the child will primarily be cared for. In these decisions the court will always prioritise what is in the child's best interest.
If only one parent is awarded custody, the other will be granted the right to personal contact with the child and the rights to information, expression and representation as defined in Section 189 of the Austrian Civil Code.
If both parents are prevented from exercising custody, the court must decide which grandparents (or, failing that, grandparent), or which foster parents (or foster parent) should be awarded custody of the child. If the grandparents or foster parents are to be granted custody, a couple will generally take precedence over one grandparent or foster parent, unless this is not in the child's best interest. If both parents are prevented from providing some aspect of care, this will apply accordingly. The child's wellbeing is always the primary criterion when custody is being awarded.
If the parent with sole custody is prevented from exercising custody, the court must decide whether in that case full or partial custody should be awarded to the other parent, to grandparents or a grandparent, or to foster parents (or a foster parent). The other parent will take precedence over grandparents and foster parents as long as the child's wellbeing can be guaranteed with that parent.
If there are no parents, grandparents or foster parents who can be awarded custody, another suitable person can be awarded custody of the child (Section 204 of the Austrian Civil Code). The wellbeing of the child is the decisive factor when choosing this person; the child's wishes and those of the parents must also be taken into consideration (Section 205(1) of the Austrian Civil Code). Relatives are the first to be considered, followed by other persons close to the child, and finally other suitable persons, such as child or youth welfare organisations (Section 209 of the Austrian Civil Code).
Joint custody continues to apply following divorce or the annulment of a marriage. However, if the parents wish to maintain joint custody as before, they must submit an agreement to the court within a reasonable period of time specifying the parent with whom the child will primarily reside. The court must approve this agreement if it is in the best interest of the child. Parents are not allowed, however, to share custody in a way which would mean, for example, one parent being solely responsible for caring for and raising the child, while the other only deals with managing the child's property and representing the child; the parent with whom the child primarily resides must always have full custody. If such an agreement is not submitted within a reasonable period of time following the dissolution of the marriage, or if it is not in the best interest of the child, the court must decide, if an amicable agreement cannot be reached – where necessary after mediation, which parent will have sole custody of the child in the future.
The parents can also specify that only one parent should retain custody of the child after the dissolution of the marriage. An agreement stipulating the parent with whom the child will primarily reside is clearly not needed in such cases. This not only applies to cases in which the marriage is dissolved, but also to instances in which the parents of a child are still married but live permanently apart. In such cases the court will only decide at the request of one of the parents.
The above information on custody following dissolution of the parents' marriage also applies to cases in which life partners separate. The parents of a child born out of wedlock can therefore be awarded joint custody by the court if the joint household has been abolished or even if such a household never existed, provided that there is an agreement on residence in place which is in the child's best interest.
See question 4.
Parents can contact child welfare or youth services (family counselling) or private organisations for advice. Alternatively, parents can attend mediation, couple's counselling or parental counselling or make use of other counselling services.
The judge in the Guardianship Court (Pflegschaftsgericht) is only able to officially initiate and adjudicate in proceedings relating to custody and access rights. If there is an acute risk to the child's wellbeing, child and youth welfare services must be notified. If the child is in imminent danger, they can take appropriate measures, including the withdrawal of custody in the most serious cases.
Child maintenance can only be decided at the request of the child's legal representative or the person of legal age entitled to maintenance, it cannot be decided by the court of its own motion. Child maintenance must be claimed as part of non-contentious legal proceedings (Außerstreitverfahren). This also applies to children of legal age. Judicial officers (Rechtspfleger) are responsible for this.
The parent without custody has the right to be informed in a timely manner of important matters affecting the child and planned measures which require collective representation in the case of joint custody (Section 167(2) and (3) of the Austrian Civil Code) by the person with custody and to comment on this information (right to information and expression). The comments should be taken into consideration if the wishes expressed better serve the interests of the child. These rights also extend to less important matters (provided they are not merely everyday matters) if, despite the willingness of the parent without custody, he/she does not have regular face-to-face contact with the child, for example because circumstances do not allow this or because the child refuses contact (Section 189(3) of the Austrian Civil Code).
If the parent with custody persistently fails to comply with these obligations, the court can issue appropriate injunctions upon request and, if the child's wellbeing is at risk, of its own motion (Section 189(4) of the Austrian Civil Code). The court can, for example, issue specific orders to the parent who is failing to comply, or authorise the parent without custody to obtain information himself/herself from the doctor or school. If the behaviour of the parent with custody puts the child's wellbeing at risk, custody may be withdrawn either partially or in full pursuant to Section 181 of the Austrian Civil Code.
The right to information and expression can be restricted or withdrawn by the court if the exercise thereof seriously endangers the child's wellbeing. The same applies if the parent concerned abuses these rights or exercises them in a way which is unacceptable to the other parent. They also cease to exist if the parent himself/herself refuses contact with the child without justification (Section 189(2) of the Austrian Civil Code).
Custody must always be exercised in a manner which best serves the interests of the child. When determining what the best interests of the child are, the child's personality and needs, especially his/her talents, abilities, preferences and development potential, and the living conditions of the parents should be taken into account.
All persons with custody (parents, grandparents, foster parents, others) and persons who have other rights and obligations in relation to a child (e.g. access rights) must, in order to safeguard the wellbeing of the child, refrain from anything which could undermine the child's relationship with other persons who have rights and obligations in relation to the child or which could make it more difficult for such persons to perform their duties (good conduct requirements [Wohlverhaltensgebot], Section 159 of the Austrian Civil Code).
The principle of sole representation applies to legal representation, i.e. each parent is entitled and obliged to represent the child alone. Legal action taken by one parent is therefore still legally valid even if the other parent does not agree with it (Section 167(1) of the Austrian Civil Code). The agreement of both parents authorised to represent the child is only required in the cases listed under Section 167(2) of the Austrian Civil Code (e.g. when changing the child's first name or surname, choosing or changing the child's religion, transferring the child to outside care, etc.)
The approval of the other parent authorised to represent the child and consent of the court are required when the child is represented or consent is given on behalf of the child in property-related matters not subject to ordinary enterprise (Section 167(3) of the Austrian Civil Code). These include, for example, the divestment or mortgaging of property, the waiver of a right to inheritance, the unconditional acceptance or waiver of succession, and the acceptance of gifts with encumbrances.
In civil proceedings each parent is entitled to represent the child on his/her own. If the parents cannot agree or the court has not designated either of them or a third party as the child's representative, the representative will be the parent who completed the first procedural step (Verfahrenshandlung) (Section 169 of the Austrian Civil Code). Parents must observe the good conduct requirements (see question 9).
According to Section 109 of the Act on court jurisdiction (Jurisdiktionsnorm – JN), the competent court is the District Court (Bezirksgericht) of the district in which the child has his/her habitual residence or, in the absence of such a residence in Austria, his/her (actual) residence. If the child has no residence in Austria, the competent court is that of the district in which the legal representative has his/her habitual residence. If there is no such residence in Austria, it is the court of the district in which one parent has his/her habitual residence, otherwise it is the Vienna Inner City District Court (Bezirksgericht Innere Stadt Wien). The habitual residence differs from the (simple) residence in that it is usually the place of residence for a specific, continuous period of time (approximately six months).
Applications for the transfer of sole custody or participation in custody can be made in writing by post or in person at the District Court on what are known as 'office days' (Amtstage), which take place at least once a week, usually on Tuesday mornings. The parties do not need to be represented by a lawyer. If they do wish to be represented, however, they may only be represented by a lawyer ('relative requirement for legal representation' [relative Anwaltspflicht] under Section 101(1) of the Act on non-contentious proceedings).
The application must contain a description of the case, the names, surnames and addresses of the applicant and his/her representative and, if necessary, the names and addresses of the other parties known to him/her, and in matters pertaining to civil status also the date and place of birth and the nationality of the parties (Section 10(3) of the Act on non-contentious proceedings).
If the form or content of the application is incorrect or incomplete in a manner which hinders further procedural steps, the Court must not dismiss or reject it immediately but should first seek to have it rectified (Section 10(4) of the Act on non-contentious proceedings).
The non-contentious procedure applies in these cases, in accordance with the Act on non-contentious proceedings.
In accordance with the best interests of the child, the Court must award or withdraw custody and the right to personal contact, especially in order to maintain reliable contact and to establish legal clarity, and must sometimes do so on a provisional basis as part of an emergency procedure. This may be necessary, in particular, after the dissolution of the parents' marriage or joint household (Point 1 of Section 180(1) of the Austrian Civil Code). This decision is provisionally binding and enforceable, unless otherwise decided by the Court.
In accordance with Section 63 to 73 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Zivilprozessordnung – ZPO), legal aid is granted in civil proceedings on request if a party is unable to meet the costs of the proceedings without finding himself/herself below the necessary subsistence level. In accordance with Section 7(1) of the Act on non-contentious proceedings, these provisions must be applied accordingly in non-contentious proceedings (such as in proceedings relating to child maintenance).
The necessary subsistence level, in abstract terms, lies between the statistical average income of an employed person and the minimum subsistence level. It is deemed to be at risk if the party and his/her family entitled to maintenance would be unable to lead even a modest life, taking into account any usable assets or the possibility of accumulating savings during longer proceedings. Partial legal aid may also be granted.
Legal aid will only be approved if the intended legal action or defence does not appear to be manifestly frivolous or futile. Legal aid can be granted to both natural and legal persons. The nationality of the party is irrelevant.
Legal aid includes in particular a provisional exemption from the payment of court fees, and fees for witnesses, experts, interpreters, as well as payment of the party's travel costs if he/she needs to appear in person. If representation by a lawyer is required by law (such as in disputes involving amounts over € 5000 or in proceedings before regional courts [Landesgerichte]) or if it appears necessary in the light of the circumstances of the case, the party will be provisionally provided with an Austrian lawyer free of charge. The lawyer will give the party legal advice prior to the proceedings with a view to settling the dispute out of court.
Section 71 of the Code of Civil Procedure stipulates that parties receiving legal aid will be required to repay part or all of the amounts from which they were provisionally exempt and which have not yet been repaid. Furthermore, they will have to pay the lawyer assigned to him/her the established rates if and as soon as they are able to without risking their necessary subsistence. After a period of three years following the conclusion of proceedings the repayment obligation can no longer be imposed. In order to check whether the conditions for repayment have been met, the court can ask the party to submit a new declaration of assets (Vermögensbekenntnis) together with reasonable evidence within an appropriate period of time.
Decisions by the court of first instance on parental responsibility can be appealed against (Section 45 of the Act on non-contentious proceedings). The deadline for the appeal is 14 days from the date on which the written copy of the decision is served (Section 46(1) of Act on non-contentious proceedings). As a rule, it is the court of second instance that will decide on the appeal.
In certain cases, appeals on a point of law (Revisionsrekurs) can be filed with the Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof) against a decision issued by the appeal court (Rekursgericht) as part of appeal proceedings (cf. Section 62 of the Act on non-contentious proceedings). Such appeals are only permissible if they resolve a legal question of considerable importance for the maintenance of legal unity, certainty or development. On some matters, however, such appeals are not admissible, such as on matters relating to legal aid, costs and fees. The deadline for appeals on a point of law is 14 days from the date on which the decision of the appeal court is served (Section 65(1) of the Act on non-contentious proceedings). The appeal must be signed by a lawyer or notary (Point 5 of Section 65(3) of Act on non-contentious proceedings).
Under Section 110(2) of the Act on non-contentious proceedings, decisions cannot be enforced in accordance with the Enforcement Code (Exekutionsordnung). According to Section 79(2) of the Act on non-contentious proceedings, the Court must order appropriate binding measures upon request or of its own motion. These measures include fines, detention of up to one year, compulsory attendance, inspection of documents, information and other moveable goods and the appointment of trustees who must take reasonable action at the expense and risk of the person in default. Rulings concerning personal contact must also be enforced against the will of the parent who does not live in the joint household with the child. The court can also enforce rulings concerning custody using appropriate direct force.
According to Section 110(3) of the Act on non-contentious proceedings, the court can, of its own motion, only refrain from pursuing enforcement if and as long as it jeopardises the wellbeing of the child. In addition, when enforcing custody rulings by the court or approved by the court, the court may seek assistance from child and youth welfare services or from the Family Court, especially in relation to the temporary care of the child if this is required in order to ensure his/her wellbeing. However, only judicial bodies may use direct force to enforce court rulings. They may request assistance from the police.
According to Article 21 of the Brussels IIa Regulation, decisions from other Member States will be recognised without any special procedure being required.
A procedure for the endorsement of a decision taken by a foreign court (exequatur procedure) is required for the enforcement of custody decisions (Article 28 et seq of the Brussels IIa Regulation); the details of the procedure are left to the Member States to regulate under Article 30 of the Regulation. In Austria this is governed by Section 112 to 116 of the Act on non-contentious proceedings.
Requests for the non-recognition of a custody decision taken in another Member State (Article 21(3) of the Brussels IIa Regulation) fall – like the exequatur procedure – under the competence of the District Court in whose district the child has his/her habitual residence or, in the absence of such a residence, his/her residence in Austria. If the child does not have a residence in Austria, the competent Court will be the one in the district in which the legal representative has his/her habitual residence or, in the absence of such a residence in Austria, and as long it relates to a child, the Court in whose district one of the parents has his/her habitual residence. Otherwise, the competent Court will be the Vienna Inner City District Court (Section 109a of the in Act on court jurisdiction in conjunction with Section 109 of this Act).
If Austrian courts are deemed competent under the Brussels IIa Regulation or the 1996 Hague Convention on protection of children, they will primarily apply Austrian law.

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Foster Street is a hamlet in the North Weald Bassett civil parish of the Epping Forest district in the English county of Essex.
A non-conformist burying ground was established in 1677 by William Woodward, for the congregation that he was the leader of in the Harlow area. Among the burials are the radical editor Benjamin Flower, his wife Eliza, and their two daughters, the composer Eliza Flower and the poet Sarah Fuller Adams. The burial ground remained in use until 1979.

Nearby settlements
Nearby settlements include the town of Harlow and the area of Church Langley and the hamlets of Hastingwood, Threshers Bush and Hobbs Cross.

Transport
For transport there is the M11 motorway and the A414 road nearby.

References
 A-Z Essex (page 55)

Hamlets in Essex
North Weald Bassett

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Q: How do I chain a VACUUM off of a purge routine running with pg_cron? Postgres 13.4
I've got some pg_cron jobs set up to periodically delete older records out of log-like files. What I'd like to do is to run VACUUM ANALYZE after performing a purge. Unfortunately, I can't work out how to do this in a stored function. Am I missing a trick? Is a stored procedure more appropriate?
As an example, here's one of my purge routines
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RETURNS int4

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WITH  -- Use a CTE so that we've got a way of returning the count easily.
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-- Instead, using a interval constructor to achieve the same result:

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COMMENT ON FUNCTION dba.purge_event_log (integer_positive) IS
'Delete dba.event_log records older than the day count passed in, with a default retention period of 14 days.';

The truth is, I don't really care about the count(*) result from this routine, in this case. But I might want a result and an additional action in some other, similar context. As you can see, the routine deletes records, uses a CTE to insert a report into another table, and then returns a result. No matter what, I figure this example is a good way to get me head around the alternatives and options in stored functions. The main thing I want to achieve here is to delete records, and then run maintenance. if this is an awkward fit for a stored function or procedure, I could write out an entry to a vacuum_list table with the table name, and have another job to run though that list.
If there's a smarter way to approach vacuum without the extra, I'm of course interested in that. But I'm also interested in understanding the limits on what operationa you can combine in PL/PgSQL routines.
Pavel Stehule' answer is correct and complete. I decided to follow-up a bit here as I like to dig in on bugs in my code, behaviors in Postgres, etc. to get a better sense of what I'm dealing with. I'm including some notes below for anyone who finds them of use.
COMMAND cannot be executed...
The reference to "VACUUM cannot be executed inside a transaction block" gave me a better way to search the docs for similarly restricted commands. The information below probably doesn't cover everything, but it's a start.
Command                Limitation
CREATE DATABASE
ALTER DATABASE         If creating a new table space.
DROP DATABASE
CLUSTER                Without any parameters.
CREATE TABLESPACE
DROP TABLESPACE
REINDEX                All in system catalogs, database, or schema.

CREATE SUBSCRIPTION    When creating a replication slot (the default behavior.)
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION     With refresh option as true.
DROP SUBSCRIPTION      If the subscription is associated with a replication slot.

COMMIT PREPARED
ROLLBACK PREPARED
DISCARD ALL

VACUUM

The accepted answer indicates that the limitation has nothing to do with the specific server-side language used. I've just come across an older thread that has some excellent explanations and links for stored functions and transactions:
Do stored procedures run in database transaction in Postgres?
Sample Code
I also wondered about stored procedures, as they're allowed to control transactions. I tried them out in PG 13 and, no, the code is treated like a stored function, down to the error messages.
For anyone that goes in for this sort of thing, here are the "hello world" samples of sQL and PL/PgSQL stored functions and procedures to test out how VACCUM behaves in these cases. Spoiler: It doesn't work, as advertised.
SQL Function
/*
select * from dba.vacuum_sql_function();

Fails:
ERROR:  VACUUM cannot be executed from a function
CONTEXT:  SQL function "vacuum_sql_function" statement 1. 0.000 seconds. (Line 13).
*/

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS dba.vacuum_sql_function();

CREATE FUNCTION dba.vacuum_sql_function()
RETURNS VOID
LANGUAGE sql

AS $sql_code$

VACUUM ANALYZE activity;

$sql_code$;

select * from dba.vacuum_sql_function(); -- Fails.

PL/PgSQL Function
/*
select * from dba.vacuum_plpgsql_function();

Fails:
ERROR:  VACUUM cannot be executed from a function
CONTEXT:  SQL statement "VACUUM ANALYZE activity"
PL/pgSQL function vacuum_plpgsql_function() line 4 at SQL statement. 0.000 seconds. (Line 22).
*/

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS dba.vacuum_plpgsql_function();

CREATE FUNCTION dba.vacuum_plpgsql_function()
RETURNS VOID
LANGUAGE plpgsql

AS $plpgsql_code$

BEGIN
VACUUM ANALYZE activity;
END

$plpgsql_code$;

select * from dba.vacuum_plpgsql_function();

SQL Procedure
/*
call dba.vacuum_sql_procedure();

ERROR:  VACUUM cannot be executed from a function
CONTEXT:  SQL function "vacuum_sql_procedure" statement 1. 0.000 seconds. (Line 20).
*/

DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS dba.vacuum_sql_procedure();

CREATE PROCEDURE dba.vacuum_sql_procedure()
LANGUAGE SQL

AS $sql_code$

VACUUM ANALYZE activity;

$sql_code$;

call dba.vacuum_sql_procedure();

PL/PgSQL Procedure
 /*
call dba.vacuum_plpgsql_procedure();

ERROR:  VACUUM cannot be executed from a function
CONTEXT:  SQL statement "VACUUM ANALYZE activity"
PL/pgSQL function vacuum_plpgsql_procedure() line 4 at SQL statement. 0.000 seconds. (Line 23).
*/

DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS dba.vacuum_plpgsql_procedure();

CREATE PROCEDURE dba.vacuum_plpgsql_procedure()
LANGUAGE plpgsql

AS $plpgsql_code$

BEGIN
VACUUM ANALYZE activity;
END

$plpgsql_code$;

call dba.vacuum_plpgsql_procedure();

Other Options
Plenty. As I understand it, VACUUM, and a handful of other commands, are not supported in server-side code running within Postgres. Therefore, you code needs to start from somewhere else. That can be:

*

*Whatever cron you've got in your server's OS.

*Any exteral client you like.

*pg_cron.

As we're deployed on RDS, those last two options are where I'll look. And there's one more:

*

*Let AUTOVACCUM and an occasional VACCUM do their thing.

That's pretty easy to do, and seems to work fine for the bulk of our needs.
Another Idea
If you do want a bit more control and some custom logging, I'm imagining a table like this:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS dba.vacuum_list (
    database_name   text,
    schema_name     text,
    table_name      text,
    run             boolean,
    run_analyze     boolean,
    run_full        boolean,
    last_run_dts    timestamp)

ALTER TABLE dba.vacuum_list ADD CONSTRAINT
   vacuum_list_pk
   PRIMARY KEY (database_name, schema_name, table_name);

That's just a sketch. The idea is like this:

*

*You INSERT into vacuum_list when a table needs some vacuuming, at least as far as you're concerned.

*In my case, that would be an UPSERT as I don't need a full log-like table, just a single row per table of interest with the last outcome and/or pending state.

*Periodically, a remote client, etc. connects, reads the table, and executes each specified VACUUM, according to the options specified in the record.

*The external client updates the row with the last run timestamp, and whatever else you're including in the row.

*Optionally, you could include fields for duration and change in relation size pre:post vacuuming.
That last option is what I'm interested in. None of our VACUUM calls were working for quite some time as there was a months-old dead connection from something sever-side. VACUUM appears to run fine, in such a case, it just can't delete a whole lot of rows. (Because of the super old "open" transaction ID, visibility maps, etc.) The only way to see this sort of thing seems to be to VACUUM VERBOSE and study the output. Or to record vacuum time and, more important, relation size change to flag cases where nothing seems to happen, when it seems like it should.

A: VACUUM is "top level" command. It cannot be executed from PL/pgSQL ever or from any other PL.

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Nothing special here, just fiddling with EFT, trying some active tank options on a Hyperion Battleship. Feel free to give any advice or critique.
I was very satisfied with the tank capabilities of this ship. Especially when overheating the Repair modules.
I know that there are some other good options here such as removing the Tracking Computer or the Medium Cap Booster and adding another Sensor Booster, but I prefer it Cap stable and with better turret tracking.
I know that it does not have the range of a Rokh, but still has some decent range.
I also tried some 425mm turret fit.
Sometimes I feel that I have just discovered something that everybody knows, but I decided to share it in case you find it interesting.


WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 25, 2008 (STAR) The Federal Reserve, in coordinated action with foreign central banks, plowed $30 billion into money markets overseas yesterday, part of an ongoing effort to fight a global credit crisis.
The Fed's action sets up temporary "swap" arrangements to supply dollars to the central banks of Australia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden in exchange for their currencies.
Most Asian stock markets edged higher yesterday as Warren Buffett's plan to invest at least $5 billion in Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs helped allay fears about the world's troubled financial sector.
The Fed's new swap arrangements will provide up to $10 billion each to the central banks of Australia and Sweden and $5 billion apiece to the central banks of Denmark and Norway.
The Group of Seven countries said they welcomed the extraordinary steps by the United States to stem the crisis, including a plan for the Treasury Department to buy $700 billion in bad mortgages and other toxic assets held by banks and other financial institutions. Those dodgy debts are at the heart of the crisis. Besides the United States, the Group of Seven is made up of Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada.
Buffetted Billionaire investor Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will invest $5 billion in Goldman, a major boost for the Wall Street bank whose shares fell 50 percent from their 2007 record high in this month's market turmoil.
However, the news failed to significantly boost risky assets after the US government's push for quick congressional approval of its financial rescue plan hit a wall of opposition on Tuesday among senators who said the plan puts taxpayers at risk.
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke testifies again later, after warning lawmakers on Tuesday that a failure to act could doom the economy to a recession.
In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.2 percent to close at 12,115.03 after languishing for much of the day in negative territory.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index climbed 0.5 percent to 18,961.99 points. Stock measures in mainland China, Australia and South Korea were higher, while Taiwan lost ground and Singapore finished flat.
A number of financial issues gained on news that Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. was investing in the Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a show of confidence in a company that has weathered Wall Street's financial turmoil better than most.
Wednesday's advance, though, was limited by investor anxiety over the outcome of US congressional debate of the government's $700 billion rescue plan for the financial sector.
Japanese banks were higher, with Nomura Holdings Inc., the country's biggest brokerage, jumping 5.2 percent after announcing it would buy bankrupt firm Lehman Brothers' operations in Europe and the Middle East.
Top Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. advanced 4.2 percent. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., Japan's third-largest bank, added 1.18 percent amid media reports that it's considering investing in Goldman Sachs.
Leading Australian investment bank Macquarie Group Ltd surged almost 11 percent. China Life, the country's largest insurer, was up 3.1 percent.
China's shares have gained, led by oil giant Sinopec and phone company China Unicom, led by oil giant Sinopec and phone company China Unicom following government steps to support the market.
Chinese banks, however, bucked the regional trend and declined despite buying by a state fund.
In Hong Kong, hundreds of customers descended on branches of Bank of East Asia to demand their deposits back after the bank was hit by unconfirmed rumors questioning its stability.
The Philippines will survive the global slowdown without seeking intervention from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) even if oil prices were to return to record 2008 levels next year.
Remittances from overseas Filipino workers, together with the trickling in of foreign investments and export earnings, would ensure that the country has healthy foreign exchange reserves that would make external intervention unnecessary.
The IMF said yesterday that some 50 developing countries were at risk until 2009 as a result of food and fuel price increases, based on its updated assessment of the macro-economic impact of these price shocks.
"While food and fuel prices have eased somewhat in recent months, they remain well above their levels at the onset of the recent price surges," said Strauss-Kahn.
"What this means for a large number of countries – particularly in Africa – is a significant shock," he added.
According to the IMF, food and oil prices peaked in early summer this year, with oil prices reaching levels predicted in the Fund's worst-case scenarios when it made its assessment in June.
"Against this background, the effects of higher prices on the balance of payments, budgets, and domestic prices intensified," the IMF said in its assessment, adding that a large group of low- and middle-income countries was experiencing a substantial weakening of their balance of payments as well as higher inflation.
These findings, according to the IMF, reinforce the importance of adopting what it called "appropriate policies" to maintain macroeconomic stability while protecting the low-income families.
Fortunately, however, the build-up in the country's reserves in recent years that continued this year despite high oil prices would keep the country afloat even under the new worst-case scenario of the IMF.
The IMF document shows that should oil prices drop lower in 2009, thus lowering the oil price shock, the country's current account would bounce back to 1.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) from the baseline figure of 0.4 percent of GDP.
Under this scenario, the country's reserves would increase to the equivalent of 5.5 times the country's imports of goods and services.
In contrast, the IMF said reserves of equivalent to less than three months' worth of imports were considered too low.
If oil prices were to revert to the 2008 peak, the IMF said the Philippines' reserves would still be respectable, although it would decline to 4.8 times worth of imports while the current account would finally lose its surplus and drop to negative 0.4 percent of GDP.
IMF assistance is normally needed for balance of payments support but these numbers indicate that while the country's BOP might decline, it would not necessarily lead to dropping back into IMF.
The Philippines has actually become one of the net lenders in the IMF after over 40 years of being in debt with the Fund. The country paid the last of its obligations last year and for the first time in four decades, was free of any obligation from the IMF where it was considered a prolonged user of funds with 23 IMF-supported programs since 1962.
However, Strauss-Kahn said the IMF's updated assessment shows that the impact of food and fuel price increases on developing countries, far from diminishing, has continued to mount since its previous report last June.
As of mid-September, the IMF said oil prices were at some 40 percent below their mid-July peaks, but still double the levels recorded at end-2006.
Similarly, food prices have eased 8 percent from their June peak but are still above end-2006 levels.
As a result, the IMF projects that net fuel-importing low-income countries are facing an increase in their fuel bill equivalent to 3.2 percent of their GDP – or $60 billion.
For 43 net food-importing countries, the rise in their food bill is 0.8 percent of GDP – or $7.2 billion.
"From a macroeconomic perspective, we see the effects in weakening balance-of-payments positions and national budgets – and acceleration of inflation," said Strauss-Kahn. The average inflation rate for low-income countries increased by almost 3 percentage points during the second quarter of 2008, and was expected to exceed 13 percent by the end of this year.
"As we all know, inflation hurts everyone, but it especially hurts the poor," Strauss-Kahn said.
He said the costs of the fiscal policy response to the food and fuel crisis also have continued to increase.
Countries have responded to rising prices primarily by reducing taxes and tariffs, increasing universal subsidies, expanding transfer programs, and increasing public sector wages.
The IMF's updated assessment showed that in 24 countries, the combined fiscal cost from rising food and fuel subsidies was expected to exceed 2 percent of GDP. The report also pointed out that these subsidies were almost always poorly targeted in terms of reaching those people most in need.
The IMF said the key was to bring inflation back under control, but would require a robust monetary policy stance – tightening where necessary and avoiding unsustainable wage increase.
The IMF also said there should be a shift to better-targeted social safety net programs to protect the poor in a more cost-effective manner.


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December 2021 – A small but companionable group returned to Kelsey's in Ellicott City, Md., where we celebrated Jane Austen's birthday. We were entertained by a group of local actors using Rosina Filippi's Playing Jane Austen – can you identify Mrs. Elton? It was so wonderful to be together and toast Our Jane!
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August 2021 – We haven't had a lot of occasions to dress recently so this month members were encouraged to promenade in their Regency finery and send us photos.
2021 continued with meetings being held monthly. In January, we delved into "Seeing and Being Seen in Northanger Abbey" with Tim Erwin from the South Nevada Region. Georgian Valentines were the subject in February with Michael Russo and Nancy Rosin from the National Valentine Collectors Association. A crafternoon followed the talk, and several of our members' own Valentines are in the gallery below. In March, we held our meeting on a Tuesday evening for a rousing game of bingo with "Huzzah!" instead of the usual shout of "Bingo!" In April, we enjoyed a video presentation on English gardens courtesy of American Ancestors by the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Candice Hern joined us for a virtual Q&A session in May after we watched her AGM videos on "Things That Might be Kept in a Reticule." She was a great guest, and there was interesting discussion and questions. In June, Dan Macey, of the Eastern PA region, helped us enjoy a Virtual Box Hill Picnic. Receipts were shared before the event and members shared pictures of their treats. We welcomed Andrew Och, the First Ladies Man, in July and were regaled with personal stories of the First Ladies. Kim Wilson helped lead us through hosting "One Very Superior Party" worthy of Mrs. Elton in August. For September, we returned to American Ancestors by the New England Historic Genealogical Society with a video on the Adam family architects.
The normal in-person 2020 summer and December events did not occur, but beginning in spring 2020 we began meeting virtually on a monthly basis. These meetings have featured lively discussions on many Austen topics including the film adaptation EMMA.; making a reticule and how to challenging it was to dress in Jane Austen's day; a virtual trip to Austen's England; a Jane Austen Murder Mystery; food in the time of Austen; an AGM recap and scavenger hunt; Hillary Davidson's "Dress in the Age of Jane Austen"; and carols of the Regency period paired with a special-order Birthday Box.
December 2019: The JASNA MD Winter Meeting on Saturday, December 14, was at Kelsey's in Ellicott City, Md., where we celebrated Jane Austen's birthday. Maggie C. Sullivan from the Eastern PA Region presented "From Handmade to Digital: Jane Austen's Publication History."
October 2019: Although not technically one of our JASNA meetings, we wanted to share some of the fun pics from the 2019 Williamsburg, Va., AGM and the post-AGM Day with Martin and Susan Dell at Goucher College, Md.
June 2019: We had a delightful Summer Meeting featuring Alexandra Deutsch of the Maryland Historical Society. Ms. Deutsch spoke to us on the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, and about the Maryland Historical Society and its collection of Regency/Federal artifacts. A buffet brunch and a business meeting followed.
December 2018: We had a lovely time at the JASNA MD Birthday Meeting on Saturday, December 8. The Johns Hopkins Club was decorated for the holidays and made for an amazing setting for our festivities. It was wonderful to catch up with all our JASNA friends and toast Jane on her birthday.
The highlight of the meeting was a presentation by Sarah Walsh and Vicki Lynn Embrey titled "Mrs. Adams and the Authoress: A Fantasia on Two Remarkable Women." Sarah wrote the short script, which imagined the two women meeting in Heaven's Library in the year 1818. It was quite clever, informative and entertaining.
October 2018: The Day With Emma in Staunton Trip. We had an amazing day in Staunton, Va.! Thanks to every one who joined us and made this trip so much fun. The weather on the way down was a little iffy, but the rain cleared as we hit the Staunton city limits and all was good.
The Playhouse Tour was fascinating — what a beautiful theater!! There's not a bad seat in the house. It was fun to go backstage and down into the prop room (did any one else spy the basket of strawberries on the shelf?) and the costume room. Tea at the Anne Hathaway Tea Room was delightful. The garden was quaint, and inside you felt as if you'd been transported back in time. And the play was just the icing on the cake. The best part … there are seats on the stage for truly brave audience members (including a few of the ladies on our tour). Two girls from the local college who had never read Emma and had never seen any of the adaptations were experiencing Austen for the first time. When Mr. Knightley proposed, one girl turned to the other and mouthed "I knew it!" By the time Mr. Martin proposed to Harriet, they (the girls) were in raptures. Such a treat to see the magic of Austen through fresh eyes.
After the show we were treated to an exclusive talkback with four of the cast members. They answered our questions and explained their process in bringing the characters to life.
Even the bus trip was fun, with trivia, Austen-related Bingo, door prizes and a raffle.
July 2018: On Saturday, July 21, was our Summer Ode to Captains Wentworth, Benwick and Harville as we explored life on an early (American) sailing vessel, Baltimore's own USS Constellation. After an exclusive tour of the ship, we headed off for provisions. It was a very muggy and showery day, but it was enjoyed by all.
December 2017: JASNA MD members attended a Birthday Event for Jane Austen on Saturday, December 16, at the Johns Hopkins Club in Baltimore. We celebrated with lunch, a specially decorated birthday cake and the singing of "For SHE's A Jolly Good Writer."
Our featured presenter was the always delightful Dr. Juliette Wells, who gave an illustrated lecture titled "The Hidden History of Austen in Early America."
Members also had a chance to place donation bids on a one-of-a-kind plush fleece Austen blanket made especially as a fundraiser for this meeting. Joyce was the lucky winner.
July 2017: JASNA MD members met for lunch on Saturday, July 29, at Union Jack's in Columbia, Md., for our annual Summer Meeting. The event featured a memorial to mark Austen's passing with readings of the tomb marker, her obituary, the 1870 brass tablet, and an excerpt from Kipling's "Jane's Marriage." A proclamation from Governor Larry J. Hogan of Maryland commemorating the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death and expressing "great respect and deep appreciation" to JASNA for our efforts to honor her legacy was also read. The memorial ended with the group singing "Amazing Grace." Members Susan Dill, Mark Turner, Juliette Wells, Nancy Magnuson, Jennifer Jones, Polly Bart and Rita Baker-Schmidt led the memorial.
The main event was food historian Kimberly Costa's presentation "From Page to Plate: Food in Jane Austen's Time." Ms. Costa's delightfully entertaining slideshow/talk gave us peek into the Regency kitchen as cooks and hostesses planned and prepared food for a variety of households.
May 2017: On Sunday, May 21, five JASNA MD members and their guests joined Chef Nancy Longo at PierPoint Restaurant in Fells Point, Baltimore, to learn about Regency cooking and make some sweet and savory dishes. We made curry soup, meat pie, fish, apple puffs and two types of rout cakes. Then we set the table and sat down for a delicious meal. It was the perfect combination of good food, wonderful company and a bit of learning.
December 2016: JASNA MD celebrated Jane Austen's Birthday with a trip to the Baltimore Museum of Art on Saturday, December 3. We gathered at 10:00 a.m. at the museum to enjoy a wonderful lunch at Gertrude's Restaurant. This was followed by a brief business meeting, including our traditional toast, the AGM wrap-up and the election of officers (Peggy and Rita were re-elected to their posts of Treasurer and Coordinator, respectively). Then we went on a self-guided scavenger hunt of the museum to find Regency and Federal period art. Members who completed the scavenger hunt earned a commemorative magnet.
July 2016: We had a delightful day exploring Hampton Mansion on Saturday, July 16. Our Summer Meeting began with a delicious boxed lunch arranged by our treasurer, Peggy. After a short business meeting, Rita gave a presentation on how life on a large estate in Federal Maryland compared with life on a large estate in Regency England. She gave us some history on Hampton Mansion and the estate, and explored how the Ridgelys of Hampton compared to the heroes in Austen's books. A Q and A followed the talk, and then we broke into small groups for tours of the house. While the first tours took place, the rest of the group explored the grounds or stayed in the Orangery to play Jane Austen Bingo and have some fun.
The house tour was a delightful and informative glimpse into the lives of the Ridgely family. Highlights were the bedrooms (restored to various periods), portraits of Governor Ridgely and Eliza Ridgely and, of course, Eliza's harp. Alas, we couldn't convince our guide to let us sneak up to the famous cupola.
December 2015: We rang in the holiday season with a talk by our own Dr. Juliette Wells, Associate Professor and Chair of English at Goucher College, who presented a lecture on what we know about Christmas celebrations from Austen's letters and fiction. Dr. Wells concentrated on Emma, our bicentenary novel, which includes Austen's most extended description of festivities. Dr. Wells also explored the busy Decembers of 1815 and 1816 that led to the publications of the first English and first American editions of Emma, respectively.
Dr. Wells specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, with a special focus on Jane Austen. She is the author of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) and the editor of the recently published Emma: 200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), for which she also penned the introduction.
We enjoyed a tea with scones, sandwiches and pastries at the lovely Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Baltimore on Light Street. And we toasted Jane's birthday with a rousing chorus of "For She's a Jolly Good Writer!"
"Dress was her passion. She had a most harmless delight in being fine …" —Description of Mrs. Allen (Northanger Abbey, Chapter 2)
July 2015: Saturday, July 18, broke hot and muggy over the shores of Lake Kittamaqundi in Columbia, Md. But, like an Austen heroine, a little bad weather wasn't going to stop us from having some fun. We met at Petit Louis Bistro just before noon. The rain took a break for our promenade and group photo at the lake. Then we retired to the restaurant for a lovely French luncheon and our program.
Dr. Ann Wass, a costume historian, presented an illustrated lecture on the latest fashions in 1815 called "New and Fashionable Goods, Suitable to the Present Season." Dr. Wass walked us through fashions that were popular in both England and France. As the talk progressed, we were able to put together our own fashion albums from copies of historic advertisements.
December 2014: We celebrated Austen's birthday with movies at Christopher Daniels Restaurant in Timonium, Md. Media critics Christopher Llewellyn Reed and Linda DeLibero joined us to discuss how to take a fresh look at the 1940, 1995 and 2005 versions of Pride and Prejudice, discussing the elements that make for great adaptations and considering how our preferences are shaped by filmmakers' choices. From Greer Garson's hoop skirt to Colin Firth's famous lake scene, everything was on the table for our fascinating multimedia discussion.
On the business side, we elected a new Regional Coordinator, Rita Baker-Schmidt, and a new Treasurer, Peggy Maxson.
"The profession, either navy or army, is its own justification. It has every thing in its favour; heroism, danger, bustle, fashion. Soldiers and sailors are always acceptable in society. Nobody can wonder that men are soldiers and sailors." —Mary Crawford, Mansfield Park, Volume I, Chapter XI
July 2014: Our Saturday, July 26, meeting gave us a historical glimpse at life in the Royal Navy, the Navy's role in the Battle of Baltimore and their links to our beloved Miss Austen. The year was both the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mansfield Park and the bicentennial of the bombing of Fort McHenry, and we commemorated both.
The meeting started out at Hull Street Blues Cafe. Named after Isaac Hull, Captain of the frigate USS Constitution and darling of the American fleet, the historic Hull Street Blues was a ship's chandlery (a store specializing in ship's supplies) before it was converted to a tavern in 1889.
From there we proceeded down the point to Fort McHenry for an exclusive lecture by one of the park's historians, Ranger Vince. We were treated to an amazing and in-depth talk on what it was like to be a sailor in the British Navy, Austen personal and literary connections to the Navy, and the role the British Navy played in the Battle of Baltimore. Afterward, many of our members took the opportunity to tour the fort.
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." —Jane Austen
December 2013: Our Sunday, December 15, meeting took place in the Formal Lounge in Doyle Hall at Notre Dame of Maryland University and featured mystery author Tracy Kiely. Her books include Murder at Longbourn, Murder on the Bride's Side, Murder Most Persuasive and Murder Most Austen. Much like her books, Ms. Kiely's talk was interesting and witty. No wonder she was named a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award.
Summer 2013: Jane Austen has inspired countless writers to set pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). The results, both scholarly and easy reading, bulge our bookshelves and cram our Kindles. But which are worth recommending to our fellow Janeites? At this meeting, our own members took the stage to review Austen-inspired books and helped us separate the Darcys from the Wickhams.
We had a lovely tea at Goucher College's Athenaeum, caught the college's "Pride and Prejudice: A 200-Year Affair" exhibition and even had a peek inside the Alberta and Henry Burke Jane Austen Collection.
December 2012: The pianoforte played a supporting role in many of Austen's novels. WBJC classical music host Mark Malinowski shared with us some insights on how Austen used the instrument to evoke emotions of sorrow, deceit, love and affection.
The day was an extra special one for JASNA Maryland, because we got to honor one of our longest serving members and then treasurer, Rena Kelly. Rena was surprised with a basket of gifts, a tiara and a proclamation from the Mayor of the City of Baltimore announcing December 1, 2012, to be "Rena Kelly Day"! We also got to hear a brief history of Rena's life story as written by her son, Eugene.
Lunch and festivities took place in the Hamptons Dinning Room at the Royal Sonesta Harbor Court in Baltimore.
June 2012: Our members gathered on the grounds of the Patapsco Female Institute Ruins in Ellicott City to see the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company perform Pride and Prejudice on Sunday, June 24. Pre-show activities included music, English line dancing, a costume booth and a swordfighting display.
Our group was also treated to a pre-show panel titled "Kitty and Lydia: Mischief and Merriment," moderated by Polly Bart. The discussion included JASNA members Mark Turner and Karen Hornig as well as the actresses portraying Kitty and Lydia in the show, Jana Stambaugh and Rachael Jacobs.


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In two years, spyware has gone from mere nuisance to serious concern, catching companies so off guard that many executives today still don't know what exactly spyware is. Think of it as a computer virus that has found a purpose in life. Viruses and worms have long posed a risk to corporate security because of their potential to bring networks down or corrupt important data. Spyware, on the other hand, doesn't just want to ruin your day, it wants to track your every movement, collect data right under your nose, and perhaps transmit sensitive corporate information outside the company. And since spyware is economically motivated (rather than being launched at the whim of bored computer geeks), its perpetrators have ample incentive to concoct new and improved versions that are consistently more difficult to eradicate.
"I've never seen anything evolve so quickly," says Sam Curry, vice president, eTrust Security Management, at Computer Associates (CA). "About 15 months ago, the calls started coming in from our enterprise customers one after another. It's been lurking for a while, but now everyone is worried about it."
Spyware is a catchall term that refers to software applications that reside on desktop machines or laptops and that log and often transmit information about that machine's user back to the creator of the spyware. While it's meant to be invisible, it often gives subtle signs of its presence. Last year, for example, the IT support staff at Miami Children's Hospital noticed something just wasn't right with the desktop machines used by the hospital's 650 physicians and 2,400 employees. "We had machines that experienced freak reactions," says Alex Naveira, the hospital's information security officer. "They were running too slow or they reacted oddly to Websites and pop-ups." After a battery of tests, the diagnosis was clear: an acute case of spyware.
Large Dollars Behind It
Provident Bank has also felt the strangling strain on support-desk resources that spyware brings. "We had a meeting several weeks ago and spyware was all we talked about," says Sean Wasta, senior network engineer at the $6.4 billion commercial bank. "Desktop support is noticing it cropping up on a lot of people's workstations, and it's taking up a lot of their time." The company relies on Microsoft Explorer-based interfaces for many of its internal applications, he says, and the glut of spyware hiding on users' machines often prevents these applications from working properly. Antivirus solutions haven't helped one bit. "Spyware ends up on all our desktops even though we have all the antivirus software applications," says Wasta.
In fact, two-thirds of IT professionals and security administrators say spyware is the top network-security threat of 2005, according to a survey by WatchGuard Technologies. Market research firm IDC predicts that the market for antispyware software will climb from $12 million in 2003 to $305 million in 2008. It also estimates that about two-thirds of the world's computers already have some kind of spyware on them.
Forrester Research predicts that 65 percent of companies will either purchase or upgrade antispyware software this year, making it the number one security technology of 2005. And most think the spyware epidemic is nowhere near peaking. "There are large dollars behind the scenes. The denial-of-service [DOS] craze and superworms never had this much money behind them," says CA's Curry. "Spam was a nuisance. This is a genuine security threat, and it will get worse before it gets better."
Sometimes spyware is simply annoying. It can take the form of applications dubbed "adware" that hide on your PC and then spring pop-up ads in your browser, or it might change your default home page or fiddle with the navigation toolbar of your browser to steer you toward specific Websites.
The developers of these programs embed their spyware on an unsuspecting user's computer in a variety of ways, including legal and technical tricks and promises. One such approach includes presenting a pop-up window that purports to be an end-user license agreement. Most users have become so used to clicking "OK" when such boxes pop up (if only to get rid of them) that they do so automatically, and thus spyware finds a home by being invited in. Sometimes it masquerades as a "browser enhancer" or "download accelerator" to hide its devious intent. Other variants, dubbed "drive-by downloads," are instantly triggered by clicking on banner ads (a technical trick), or by downloading a screen saver. And even if you vow to never click on anything you don't trust, you may still be hit: new versions can load and upgrade without the user doing anything.
Even spyware that aims to do little more than change your default home page or pose some other kind of nuisance can exact a hidden price. As it runs unseen in the background, it can suck up memory and CPU usage, especially when several versions of the spyware are running at the same time. This can often bring a machine to a complete crawl and generate many frantic calls to the help desk. Worse, spyware can be designed to either fix or reinstall itself even as it is being removed, much like DNA's ability to heal itself.
More insidious are the variants that violate a user's privacy by tracking Website visits and tailoring pop-ups to keywords that the user has typed into search engines, E-mail, or documents. Some spyware takes this practice, known as keylogging and tracing, to new levels. These programs not only track your every move online, but also collect information about you, your customers, and your company based on anything you might type into your computer, be it your credit-card number, Social Security number, bank-account information, log-in name, passwords, or other information. It can all be neatly collated and sent off without your knowledge. This can be frightening enough for a consumer, but for a company, the risks are severe, with everything from customer trust to legal penalties at stake.
And then there is the financial risk. In March, Britain's Hi-Tech Crime Unit foiled an attempt by hackers to steal $403 million from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui. The hackers had placed a keylogger on the bank's system and were using it to trace account numbers. They were caught when one of them attempted to transfer $25.5 million from one account to another.
The shift in emphasis that spyware represents — away from bringing systems down and toward gaining financial advantage — was recently in evidence at Cornell University. Colleges have long been a popular destination for hackers of all kinds (particularly students), who heretofore have been happy to crash networks or perhaps tinker with transcripts. But Cornell recently detected a spyware program in a less likely spot: the pro shop at the university's golf course, where a keylogging program was detected on a point-of-sale system. Fortunately, says Ricky Stewart, Cornell's computer service manager, "it was caught by antispyware software before it could be used. The system takes in people's credit-card data, so someone could have gotten a lot of information if they had gotten into it."
The war against spyware is being fought on several fronts: in the courts, in Congress and various statehouses, and on the desktop and enterprise level, where antispyware software programs are doing a booming business.
California and Utah have passed antispyware laws, but both have been challenged (Utah's successfully). There are also three pending bills before Congress that seek to put the lid on spyware, much as the CAN-SPAM Act has tried (unsuccessfully, many critics say) to rein in junk E-mail. In October 2004, the Federal Trade Commission filed suit against a collection of spyware makers, including Mailwiper and Seismic Entertainment Productions, and has since added five more defendants to the case. Also in April, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed suit against Los Angeles-based Intermix Media, claiming that its downloads were installed on users' machines without their consent, constituting deceptive business practices and false advertising. Spitzer was said to be interested in a nationwide solution; the programs were downloaded nearly 4 million times in New York alone.
I Spy a Loophole
Unfortunately, few people expect legal solutions to strike fear into the hearts of these cyberspies because there is simply too much money to be made. Digital security firm Aladdin Knowledge Systems estimates that more than 70 percent of former virus developers are now getting paid to write spyware applications for companies and criminal elements. Many of these mysterious developers are based offshore and have created dozens of shell companies to distribute legal responsibility and make it almost impossible to contact them, let alone file suit against them. "Legislation and lawsuits will not help," says Shimon Gruper, vice president of Aladdin's eSafe business unit. "Spyware vendors will simply move out of the United States. Bad deeds can be done from anywhere, and they will continue to bypass legislation, as they did with spam."
Indeed, spyware developers have even gone on the offensive by filing suit against antispyware companies for classifying their applications as spyware, and in some cases, these suits may be on solid legal ground. After all, spyware is often lodged on a computer only after the user clicks "OK" on a pop-up screen, effectively agreeing to confusingly worded messages that green-light the installation of the program.
Meanwhile, many online advertisers and legitimate Websites that track users with cookies (information that a Website puts on a user's hard disk so it can remember that user at a later time) have been lobbying Congress to tone down pending antispyware bills, because they fear the definition of spyware used in the legislation may be too broad. As CA's Curry says, "There are a lot of companies bringing a great deal of resources to bear. You don't see virus writers lobbying up on Capitol Hill. This is going to be a much bigger fight in the long run."
If looking to the courts or government intervention for help against spyware seems futile, looking to software manufacturers is far from a silver bullet. Until recently, spyware detection and removal was usually included as an add-on to existing antivirus solutions, such as those from McAfee, Symantec, Aladdin, Lavasoft, and others. Most of these are fairly effective at detection but not cleaning at the desktop level. IT staffs have deemed them difficult to install and support across hundreds and thousands of desktops in large companies. In fact, most IT managers have had to deploy a combination of applications in an attempt to plug up all possible spyware entry points.
Miami Children's Hospital uses that multitiered approach to fighting spyware. First it relies on managed E-mail security services from MessageLabs to monitor and track incoming E-mail messages for suspicious attachments, potential Trojan viruses, and keylogger threats. Next, it uses Web-filtering software from WebSense to block out sites that are known to harbor spyware and other insidious software parasites. Finally, the hospital deploys antivirus and antispyware software from a variety of vendors on all desktop workstations. "We don't really have one technology to get the job done," says MCH's Naveira. "You cannot rely on one thing to protect your whole organization."
The Search for Solutions
"I can kill a virus but I can't kill spyware," says Kim Jones, director of global security services at eFunds, a financial technologies company. "Right now, if I find a desktop with spyware on it, I have to pull the computer off the network, wipe the hard disk, do a hard format, and completely rebuild the system. You are talking about downtime and manual labor spent rebuilding that box. I'd love to have an antivirus-type solution instead."
Having one centralized solution to the spyware problem has become a Holy Grail of sorts for large organizations. Vendors such as Symantec and Blue Coat have tried to differentiate themselves by offering enterprise or gateway products rather than desktop applications. CA has offered its eTrust Pest Patrol software as a consumer product and as a corporate edition for enterprises. The latter combines client software with a central console application that can remotely manage antispyware deployment and updating across thousands of PCs. Cornell University's Athletic and Physical Education Department now uses eTrust to effectively manage antispyware installations across 250 desktop machines.
Microsoft's dryly named AntiSpyware application, in beta testing but available for download at the company's Website, represents the first step in what some hope will be a march of Microsoft antispyware tools for enterprise customers. Using technology originally developed by Giant Company Software (acquired by Microsoft in December), the application offers a fairly bare-bones approach to catching and deleting spyware on desktop PCs that run Windows. The software is expected to be officially released later this year, and many speculate that it will be incorporated into the next version of Windows.
The jury is still out on whether any of these solutions will provide the kind of safety net Corporate America will need against spyware infiltration. While waiting for someone to deliver a solution to satisfy large users, many industry analysts and technology managers fear spyware may evolve into a greater threat as it combines with viruses, phishing techniques, and other forms of "malware" to create a hydralike monster for corporations.
"This has already happened — we're seeing it," says eFunds's Jones. "We are at the beginning of the curve. Viruses are already being used as delivery mechanisms for spyware. Next, I see spyware invading your PDAs, Blackberries, wireless devices, and cell phones. In fact, we are beginning to see some of those things already."
Jones isn't entirely pessimistic about the possibility of better tools in the antispyware war — he just doesn't expect to see any within the next year or so. That, unfortunately, will give spyware developers more time to improve their wares. As he says, "Security lags technology. It will get better, but there will still be a certain level of pain."
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Review (Warning): Total Recall Should Be Totally Recalled.
Seriously. Seriously? WTF!
It's hard to fathom a reason why Len Wiseman's Total Recall remake needs to exist. An extremely watered down version of the original, he serves up a criminally boring Total Recall Lite, stripped of everything fun, ingenious, brash, vulgar and ridiculous that made the first one so entertaining.
This is Total Recall without Mars, without mutants, without midgets, without conjoined monster baby Kuato, without human arms being severed by elevators, without memorable one-liners like "BLAM! Consider dat a divorce!", without eye-popping, or nasal implants, or robot taxi drivers, or a copious amount of blood. It does have a rogue three-breasted prostitute but it fails to explain how she got in that predicament and no other physical deformities are ever present in the film.
Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger gave us a raging hard-on of a film. Len Wiseman and Colin Farrell gives us a tiny, sad, pale penis.
To find out what else I thought... join me after the jump!
Now I appreciate that both films are based on Phillip K. Dick's short story We Can Remember it For You Wholesale and that the Arnie version veers from that story significantly. So the remake team are under no obligation to reference the original film at all, and yet they continually do, with so many small, shoe-horned in nods (all of which are clumsily delivered). It leaves you to totally recall how much better this was in 1990. It would have been a better course to just distant it entirely, but instead all the surprises are sapped away because we basically know which beats are coming, and they constantly disappoint for being smaller and less adept than in the film we know and love.
Farrell's Douglas Quaid is as dissatisfied with his life as I am with this film. Now only two cities continue to exist in a largely uninhabitable world ravished by war. He lives in the Blade Runner-esque slums of Australia, now dubbed "The Colony" (not that we see a single Australian there, just Americans and Asians) and every day (?) he rides an elevator through the center of the earth to his job constructing robot police officers for The United Federation of Britain.
His restlessness is obviously building up to the point where he decides to spice up his life by getting an implanted memory of a spy adventure from shifty back alley company Rekall, and from that point onward you kind of know the rest. Doug develops sudden fighting prowess, his wife (Kate Beckinsale) tries to murder him, he teams up with a mystery new dream woman (Jessica Beil) and does a whole lot of running.
And that's all there really is to this movie, half of which is spent watching Kate Beckinsale walk purposefully towards the camera. She chases Colin and Jessica to a new location with her robots, they punch each other and/or shoot at each other for a couple of minutes and then escape to the next location. They catch their breath with a bit of expository dialogue, and then Kate Beckinsale bursts in with her robots and the whole cycle starts again. The film repeats this simple sequence for two hours.
It's very much a throwback to the most ham-fisted action movies of the eighties/early nineties in that regard except without the sex, violence, profanity or fun. (I'm not sure Colin and Beil even kiss, as though she stipulated that in her contract). Wiseman is convinced that we'll be excited enough just to watch people punching, shooting and running. It couldn't be less engaging. At least Verhoeven knew how to inventively ramp up the stakes.
But despite excising the lowbrow, it's such an unsophisticated movie with terribly acted cartoon characters delivering the most wretched cliched dialogue. Political villain: "You will give us your testimony" Emphatic, sweaty female hero: "Never!" Captured swarthy male hero: "You've got me! Leave the girl!" It's almost like a serial from the 1940's and easily the shittiest big-screen script I've endured in a long time and the actors really struggle with it. It's total crap and yet they take it all so seriously which only makes it worse. Schwarzenegger had a dopey naivete that made you believe he wanted to have a spy adventure injected into his head. Colin Farrell doesn't manage to make that believable at all. In fact all of these leads are far better than their performances here suggest which leads me to believe that it must be Wiseman who is inept.
Although how can you rag on Len Wiseman? Looking him up he's just three years older than I am, has directed a number of feature films, is married to Kate Beckinsale, and isn't horrible to look at. Do you think Len Wiseman gives a shit? Any criticism towards him would be like an ant biting a T-Rex. If I was him I guess I'd just keep my head down and keep on doing what I was doing.
But his (gigantic unfair) win is ultimately the audience's loss. The movie is so slow at times that I'm amazed that a two hour version was released without a studio-enforced trim. You could carve 20 minutes or so off it easily with very little impact. And as the whole thing drags on the believability is also stretched. Can we assume that a futuristic elevator, that travels from one side of the earth to the other, is moving many, many times faster than your average jet? Then how the hell do you climb up the side of it to fight on top of it?
It's not worth your time and it's not worth my time to continue harping on about it. After a big summer of movies it can be tempting to see the next "big" genre film - because you're already on such a high - but this certainly isn't it. Hollywood's summer has ended and these are the leftovers. If I had been watching it at home I would have honestly turned it off. Stick with the original.
Labels: bullshit, movies, review (movies), Total Recall
Jacinta August 23, 2012 at 4:57 AM
Saw the 'Farrell gets a face full of Beckinsale vag' moment again tonight, and damn if that isn't the best thing in the movie.
Suzanne August 23, 2012 at 7:45 PM
When did THAT happen? I must have been snoozing.
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In the 818 days since the 2016 election, the Washington Post has used the word "unprecedented" in reference to President Donald Trump, or his associates, about 657 times — or almost every day.
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Darren Ferguson has apologised for his comments about officials following Saturday's draw.
Doncaster Rovers manager Darren Ferguson has been charged for saying it would be a "good idea" to shoot referees after his side's 1-1 draw against Plymouth on Saturday, the Football Association has announced.
The 45-year-old was annoyed when Andy Baines ignored Rovers' appeals for a penalty after James Coppinger went down in the box in the last minute of the League One clash.
When asked by reporters about the decision after the game, Ferguson said: "The referees are part-time and the standard is appalling, their fitness levels are a disgrace, I've had enough of it.
"What can I do? Shoot them, it would be a good idea."
In a short statement on Wednesday, the FA said: "It is alleged his comments were improper and/or brought the game into disrepute."
The former Peterborough and Preston boss has until 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 22, to respond to the charge.
Speaking on Sunday, Ferguson said his comment was "tongue-in-cheek" and was a result of "frustration," before stressing that he does not "advocate violence against officials."
Apologising for the comment and saying he regretted the wording, Ferguson added: "Referees have a tough job and I have a lot of respect for the challenges they face, but I would like to see more done to raise standards across the board and give them the best chance of getting decisions right."


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Offsite movement of pesticides by drift is an important consideration when making any pesticide application but can be an even greater concern when products are applied later in the growing season. There are several reasons for increased concern with later applications. One is that off-target movement of products from mid-season pesticide applications can affect non-target plants and other organisms more because they are actively growing. A common scenario illustrating this point is a postemergence-applied corn herbicide that drifts onto an emerged soybean crop versus a product that was soil-applied before soybeans were planted.
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The Witcher Season 2 Will See Geralt Of Rivia, Ciri And Yennefer All In The Same Timeline
on 28th January 2020 at 3:48 pm
The Witcher Season 1 has been one of Netflix's biggest ever hits and they didn't spend too long before getting Season 2 into production.
The new Netflix series, which is based on a series of books of the same name, ended up being one of 2019's most-streamed shows despite having only been released ten days before the end of the year.
The series stars Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia and the show's two other main characters are Yennefer (played by Anya Chalotra) and Ciri (Freya Allan).
They spent most of the first season in differing timelines and places, yet The Witcher's showrunner and creator Lauren Schmidt Hissrich has revealed that Season 2 will see all three characters be in the same timeline.
She revealed this during an interview with Vulture when the aked her she'll be abandoning the multiple storylines for The Witcher Season 2.
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All three characters [Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer] are on the same timeline now. That's where we ended season one. That's absolutely where we will pick up in Season 2.
The stories will be told in a much more linear fashion. They won't all be one story.
It's not like all three are together and happy all the time. But, I do want to employ some different ways to look at time series-wide.
I think that there is a lot that we couldn't fit into Season 1. There are different short stories that I would love to highlight and focus on. We may end up doing those in the future, via flashback, for instance.
But no, we won't have things happening across 100 years at the same time anymore.
So, hopefully, this means that The Witcher Season 2 will make a little bit more sense than the first season did.
What do you make of this? Are you looking forward to The Witcher Season 2?
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