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Donald "Don" H. Meeks
Born: Sun., Jan. 4, 1931
Died: Thu., Dec. 17, 2015
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Mon., Dec. 21, 2015
2:00 PM Mon., Dec. 21, 2015
Mon., Dec. 21, 2015
Location: Lost Creek Presbyterian Cemetery
Donald H. "Don" Meeks, 84 of Mifflintown, formerly of Philadelphia, died Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015, at Golden Living Center West Shore, Camp Hill.
Born January 4, 1931, in Jermyn, Texas, he was the son of the late Floyd and Myrtle Meeks.
He is survived by his second wife, Carla Meeks, whom he married on December 27, 1975; three daughters, Donna A. Sikes of Westminster, Colorado, Carol Rosengarten and husband, Brad, of Philadelphia and Kathy Packer of Westminster, Colorado; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Anna Bonaduce, two sons-in-law, Joseph Sikes and Ted Packer, one step-granddaughter, three sisters and three brothers.
He was a veteran of the United States Army serving from 1949 to 1953.
While living in Philadelphia, he worked at Virginia Donuts and at Southco Tool and Die. He operated Meek's Buses for the Juniata County School District until 1987.
He enjoyed fishing, camping, gardening, studying the Bible and helping others to learn the word of God.
His funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, December 21 at Guss Funeral Home, Inc., 20 S. Third St., Mifflintown, with Albert Gray officiating. Interment will be in Lost Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, McAlisterville, where full military honors will be accorded by the Juniata County Veterans Council.
There will be a viewing from 1p.m. until the time of the services Monday at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942 or to the American Cancer Society, 1375 Martin St., Ste. 206, State College, PA 16803.
Condolences may be left at gussfh.com.
Charitable donations may be made in Donald "Don"'s memory to the following organizations:
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
http://www.stjude.org
501 St Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105


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The Loan will be secured by a general security interest granted by Empower at an interest rate of 12.95% per annum, and will be repayable on or before December 31, 2015 subject to certain terms and conditions. Early retirement of the Loan will have a three (3) months interest penalty on the principal amount repaid. The Loan will be mainly used as general working capital for Empower and additional working capital for Empower's operating subsidiaries to expand sales.


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Q: Shakespare's Scansion: Elision: half-solved This is, hopefully, the end of the saga: the third installment of the Shakesperean scansion series. The first two can be found here:
Shakespeare's Scansion
Shakespeare's Scansion: the Sequel
I've done some comparatively extensive research and will answer my own question below as a matter of "sharing information with those eager others." Should someone find my answer unsatisfactory, or half-baked, or in some other way faulty, PLEASE don't hesitate to say so. Should someone believe they have a better one, PLEASE don't hesitate to provide it. I'm all eyes and ears. This is obviously important to me, and of some considerable interest to many others.
Okay, here goes:
Wikipedia states flatly that iambic pentameter is the most common meter in English poetry. That's a laugh. There has been very little meter, and less rhyme, in English poetry in the last eighty years or so, which is an ignominious phenomenon no matter how colorful and jolly the fig leaf is with which we try to cover it up. Bear with me.
Iambic pentameter is the meter into which everyday English speech can fit almost seamlessly. It is as natural to the English language as the Alexandrine to French or iambic tetrameter to German and Russian. (Or the Terzia Rima to Italian, but that's debatable). In spite of that, it has been absent from  English-language drama for more than two centuries. Talk about continuity! There is none. An author who would want to reintroduce it in today's theatre would run into a bunch of nasty problems, some of which might even seem insurmountable.
Comparisons to Shakespeare (and Shakespeare alone, at that, even though, to the best of my knowledge, Shakespeare never claimed the monopoly on writing plays in verse) would be unavoidable. The world is full of morons who love to stir trouble and gloat while watching others, who have never harmed them in any way, suffer. But that's not the biggest problem.
The biggest problem is making one's dramatic verse sound contemporary.
Which is a monumental task, considering the fact that there is NOTHING AT ALL to build on; no templates, no patterns, no rules. Nothing! One would have to literally start from scratch. A vast ignominious versificatory void lies between us and Shakespeare's times. Have you ever seen a play by Dryden produced? Have you ever even heard of Dryden? Well, duh. Shakespeare had Marlow et al to keep him honest. Whom would today's Shakespeare have?
So how does a 21st Century playwright reclaim iambic pentameter? What's allowed and what isn't? What would the public accept as contemporary, and what would they reject as tedious imitation?
One would have to address the technical aspect first. Before one starts dithering whether he or she should, or should not, use words such as "cool," "whatever" (in the contemporary sense), "asshole," and so forth, and wonder whether he or she could get away with it, one should look at the structure of the line itself: the ultimate tool of verse drama. The Swiss army knife of the dramatic handyman.
We know (more or less) how to pronounce Shakesperean English. Sort of. Sometimes we have to bend over backwards to do it, but we do have a general idea. We sort of know that a pentametric line should consist of five feet; and each of those should consist of two syllables; and the second syllable should be stressed - for the most part. The stress can be occasionally reversed: trochaic substitution, it is (flippantly) called. The ending can be masculine (standard) or feminine (with an extra unstressed syllable at the end of the line). So far, so good.
Now, the phonetics. Here are the opening lines of Richard III by William "Our Only Hope" Shakespeare:

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;

You can see that the word "glorious" sticks out. It has three syllables. It should have two in order to fit the line. And so we use elision (rhymes with derision) to make it fit. Which is to say we combine two vowels, turning them into a single diphthong, bite the bullet, and say "glor-yes."
There are thousands upon thousands of word elided in this manner in Shakespeare.
(There are other kinds of elision he uses often, but, oddly enough, those are familiar to us and wouldn't raise any flags (i.e. offend the public ear) - thanks largely to Broadway musicals: his'ry (for history), pris'ners (for prisoners), gen'ral (for general), and so forth).
But it is the merging of two vowels into one that presents the biggest problem. For, look you, the more inquisitive, the more sincere, the better people on this here forum have informed me that not all elided syllables are equal. Specifically,  one of them pointed out to me that to his ear "ceremon-yes" (for ceremonious) is okay, but "cur-yes" (for curious) is, tragically, not. Which was, and is, my impression as well. At first, I suspected that the preceding consonant ("r") was a fault. But then there's "glor-yes" (as in "glor-yes summertime by this space object in New York), which breezes by painlessly. What gives?
How is this a problem, you might ask? Simple, my dear fellow intellectuals and erudites. Should a modern playwright start bending over backwards taking advantage of every elision Shakespeare ever used, he or she might as well consider using such antiquated fake pearls as "o'er" (for over), "ere" (for before), and so forth. Which would be - stylization. Stylization is only good up to a point. An attentive audience would then have a moral right to say: "Yeah, it's kind of cute and all, but we thought this was supposed to be a CONTEMPORARY play."
And so, finally, the question is:
What words can be shortened through elision by way of merging two vowels into one? ... and what words should never be shortened in this manner? In a hypothetical contemporary play in verse?
Thank you for your time.

A: After some research, I ran into this web page. It is sloppily written, contains many spelling errors and grammar lapses, but it does give you something like an answer. Or half-answer, anyway:
http://www.skidmore.edu/~lopitz/KRII/scansion.html
Specifically, it has this to say about elision:

Elision
When there are eleven or more syllables and the final syllable is
  stressed, two interior syllables are frequently elided or combined -
  an internal vowel is often omitted or supressed (almost always the
  schwa which is so common in English). Sometimes the elision is clear
  (e'en for even) and sometimes the actor has to make a determination
  (read "best guess"). Contiguous vowels are often elided also
  (heav-i-er becomes heav-yer, glor-i-ous becomes glawr-yus) To God, the
  wi- dows Cham- pyan and de-fense. (King Richard II, I, 2, 44) not To
  God, the wi- dows Cham- i-on and de-fense.
or
To God of heav'n, King Ri- chard, and to me; (King Richard II, I, 3,
  40) not To God of heav en, King Ri- chard, and to me;
or
His no-ble kins-man. Most de-gen-rate king! (King Richard II, II, 1,
  262) not His no-ble kins-man. Most de-gen-er-rate king!

Well. I suppose to get a complete, helpful and usable, answer, one would have to actually WRITE something in verse, get a few aspiring actors together, and conduct a reading. Trial and error. That's a shame, isn't it? There are so many books in print. So many scholarly studies on various language-related subjects. So many people are making money off it as we speak. And this - one of the handful of the most important things in English literature - is not covered AT ALL.
A playwright residing in New York City would certainly have an advantage.

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Richard Branson's space tourism company used similar numbers to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. Were investors duped?
Michael Moses
by Douglas Messier
Nicholas Schmidle's book about Virgin Galactic and SpaceShipTwo is coming out on Tuesday. In an essay he wrote for The New York Times, he recounted how Virgin Galactic President Michael Moses didn't believe the company's own flight projections when they were presented to him by its then-chief financial officer.
At one point, I was leaked a cache of internal documents. Some revealed the depth of Virgin Galactic's oftentimes shaky grip on reality.
In 2013, Mike Moses, at the time Virgin Galactic's senior vice president for operations, was sent an email containing a chart from Virgin Galactic's chief financial officer at the time, Ken Sunshine. The chart showed a radical uptick in flight operations, projecting 75 flights in 2015, 194 in 2016, 229 in 2017 and 264 in 2018. "No chance in hell," replied Mr. Moses, who is Beth's husband. "These numbers are a pipe dream." (Mr. Moses, through a representative, declined to comment on those emails.)
Ken Sunshine Joins Stofiel Aerospace Board
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Coloring pages for each Work of Mercy are accompanied by challenge pages that define virtues such as generosity, affability, kindness and patience–and in a section subtitled "Live It!" lists ways in which students can live out those virtues in their own families, schools, friendships and communities. Those ideas would be great discussion starters for students to brainstorm more things they can do to bring the Works of Mercy to life and will be particularly engaging to the older students among this book's audience.
There are also puzzles: crosswords and word searches that drive home examples of living out these virtues. Get your crayons ready!
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The Additional Footage We Deserve in the BVS Ultimate Edition!
We're getting an extended, R-Rated cut of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice when DC's superhero magnum opus hits Blu-ray and DVD on June 28th. How "extended?" Well, we're getting an additional 30-minutes of previously unseen footage, footage that apparently grants cohesion to an initially volatile, sometimes incoherent narrative. So, what are these amazing scenes filling in the gaps and maybe, just maybe, softly mitigating or explaining away some face-palming plot devices and character behaviors that couldn't be more devastating if written by a pair of drug-addled sock-puppets??? Well, I'm currently unsure about the contents of said additional footage, but I can damn well tell you about the additional footage we DESERVE in the BVS Ultimate Edition. I mean, believe it or not, I actually liked it regardless of my past, vociferous litanies of its sometimes colossal faults. But…it could sure do with some serious, serious tweaking. So, what do we need to see in order to enhance and repair our initial BVS experience? Glad you asked!
1. A Happier Superman
That's a little too intense, Superman.
I was sick, sick, SICK to my stomach when it came to Superman's portrayal. Sure, there were scenes where he was genuinely helpful, but he was consistently sad, relentlessly dour, uncharacteristically angry and completely detached. Oh, and he disarmed terrorists by knocking them through several stone walls at about Mach 3. THAT'S NOT HELPFUL, THAT'S HURTFUL!! So, I want to see a happier Superman, a Superman that doesn't allow the woes of the world to paralyze him or discolor his perspective. I want to see a Superman who acts very much like…uh…Superman.
2. A Longer Batman Training Montage
C'mere, Super-tire!
Yes, people bashed Bruce Wayne's training montage, a completely unnecessary scene because, well, let's be frank here; being able to lift 15 more pounds after said training won't enable you to shove that dump truck off your chest. Yes, it was unnecessary and even a little dated. How to save it? Extend it; revel in the silliness; make it 7-minutes longer and include Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" as the accompanying music. Intersperse it with images of Jason Todd dying, the Joker licking a shotgun, and Superman decapitating Jim Gordon with an exhale.
3. The Killing Joke References, A Death in the Family References
Remember…this??
There were rumors that BVS might show a few flashbacks regarding the abduction/torture of Barbara Gordon, aka Batgirl, at the hands of the Joker. There were also rumors regarding scenes detailing Jason Todd's violent, crowbar-induced death. Well, let's see it! Let's see the events(s) that pushed Affleck's obviously more tortured, extravagantly brutal Dark Knight to the point of being more tortured, extravagantly brutal, and prone to arming his Bat-vehicles with armor-piercing chain guns!!
4. More Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg
What about us??
We got camera footage of these cats, and nothing at all relevant to the story. Sure, Luthor's been keeping tabs on Metahumans, so their inclusion isn't completely illogical, but the way these characters were shoehorned into the film made their inclusion seem incidental, reductive, and almost disruptive. How about this:
We see Flash watching a TV at Best Buy, reacting to the massive battle including the oft-rumored Bat-person of Gotham, the Superman of Metropolis, and a mystery woman with a killer right hook and bracers capable of deflecting the always feared nuclear solution. He takes off, heads for the "point of impact," and joins the battle.
Cyborg…well, his father is currently reassembling the biological remains of his son and trying like hell to tame an especially aggressive Mother Box. Okay, he's pretty busy. Let's move on.
Aquaman, already pissed about Kryptonians beating the hell out of the Indian Ocean with all that terraforming business, notices further rumblings and explosions which draw his attention right back to the confoundingly noisy surface world. However, this time…this time he makes landfall. And this time…this time he punches someone. Crap in his oceans once? Fine, you had a bad day and all is forgiven. Twice? A giant cave troll poops nuclear fallout into the Aegean Sea? Yeah, consider his tolerance-ceiling breached.
5. A Refilmed Version of the Fight between Batman and Superman
This was….not right.
Firstly, Superman doesn't fall for the same trick twice. He either DODGES using super-speed, or employs super-breath to BLOW the second canister of Kryptonite mist into the Atlantic Ocean. C'mon, Superman. You know what the mystery gas felt like the first time, so why in the HELL would you blindly charge towards it?? Superman should have known that the SECOND canister would be more of the same, and equally debilitating. Good grief.
Secondly, let's reshoot the ending of the fight. No, Batman doesn't win, and no, Superman doesn't stay his bat-glove by discovering the uncanny connection between similarly named mother-persons. Nope. He heat-visions the hell out of Batman's boot, punches him in the crotch and tells him, assertively, to "settle down and listen. Someone I love is in danger, and I need your help. Are you a killer, or are you a hero?" You want to give Batman a psychological wake-up call, you remind him why he does what he does, and for whom he does it.
So, any other suggestions? What else would you like to see in the additional footage from the forthcoming BVS Ultimate Edition??
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Tyler Neihoff June 19, 2016 at 3:33 pm
(no spoilers)There are more Superman/Clark moments added in (significantly more). But your first point is pretty grossly exaggerated, and don't count on him being "happy", this is a movie about the world being uneasy about him and making him doubt himself. I enjoy this interpretation of him very much.
The training sequence is slightly longer, hope youre kidding about what you want out of it.
There are no Joker references, and no more Justice League footage.
Refilmed fight? Im not even going to comment. Its slightly longer than we saw.
The point is, the Ultimate Edition is not a "patch" for people that didnt like the movie, it is a longer (better) version of the same movie you already saw. Only 2 portions are entirely new, everything else is extensions of the same scenes that make the movie flow much better. Coming from someone who was disappointed in the film from a storytelling point (not characters,action,etc), this version is far superior.


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SAP Automotive Forum: "Best of Breed Is No Longer Enough"
June 23, 2016 by Andreas Schmitz
Digital transformation paves the way for new business models. But first we have to leave complex legacy systems behind. Audi, BMW, Mercedes-AMG, and Bosch share their experiences at the SAP Automotive Forum.
There is one trend to which no industry is immune. "The business models of the future put the customer at the center," says Wieland Schreiner, executive vice president of SAP S/4HANA.
This has consequences for IT at car manufacturers. Until just a few years ago, a material requirements planning job took hours to run. The person working on it had to be an expert to understand the data. Today: "The system understands the context, the data, and the user's role. It displays an SAP Fiori interface containing the information the user actually needs," says Schreiner. According to him, the real benefit is that the system helps the user make decisions. "The user knows what they have to do because the system has tested the scenario," says Schreiener, referring to what he considers one of the major advantages of the SAP S/4HANA digital core.
From Legacy IT to Data Lakes
The SAP Automotive Forum shows that the automotive industry is looking for solutions that offer greater transparency, new digital business models, and faster decision-making. Henning Löser, head of the Audi Production Lab, believes that the key to future success is uniting empirical knowledge and forecasting.
His vision is already becoming reality at one of Audi's manufacturing plants in Mexico. The company is building a brand-new factory, which means it does not have to deal with legacy IT. A data lake, as envisioned by Löser, could contain all the relevant processes and data relating to operating facilities, orders, and the supply chain. This would not only speed decision-making; it would enable Audi to deliver faster and offer customers products that are more tailored.
However, the reality is different in other parts of the company. "All the information is there but it's hard to get at because it's spread across over 400 legacy systems, which we are still using," says Löser.
With SAP MII, BMW can prevent a 30-minute production line downtime.
The picture is similar at BMW. It deploys SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) to meet a requirement that Audi also shares, and which chimes with SAP's vision: being able to identify where faults occur without needing the technical expertise. BMW's new system has been up and running since the end of last year and reports faults in production.
It too still has its share of legacy systems. SAP MII collates data from across its heterogeneous IT infrastructure and displays it on an advanced user interface. BMW has not yet migrated to SAP HANA, but its approach shows that it is far from alone in wanting to draw on all data to make decisions faster. "If SAP MII helps to prevent a 30-minute downtime in our production line, we'll be happy," says Karin Peisl, manager of order to delivery at BMW.
"Decision-Making Has to Be Fast"
Business value drives all activities at Mercedes' high-performance division Mercedes-AMG. "Everything else comes second," says Dirk Zeller, head of IT consulting at Mercedes-AMG.
When the company turns a Mercedes E500 into a high-performance vehicle, it has to modify and exchange anywhere from 40 percent to 60 percent of the car's parts. Each year, 70,000 high-performance vehicles roll off the production line.
"All departments, from development to finance, have to make decisions fast. We have to keep on finding new ways of attracting customers, for instance using social media, offer digital services, and rethink how vehicles are developed," says Zeller. Mercedes' Joint Project for Tec and Biz will see the company implement SAP S/4HANA. The road map is ready, and the SAP-AMG master plan is at an advanced stage.
"Best of breed is no longer enough," says Zeller. "We need a platform that doesn't require any additional integration."
According to René Deist, executive vice president of Bosch, this is a key requirement for ultimately realizing the values that IT as an enabler promises. "Standardizing the backend is as important as digitization," he says.
"Employees Have to See the Benefits"
SAP HANA is not new at Mercedes-AMG. Back in 2014, it was one of the first companies to deploy SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA and is an advocate of SAP's simplification strategy.
Meanwhile at Audi, Henning Löser still has some persuading to do. "Before we can transform successfully, we have to get people's buy-in," he says. Benefits of new technology have to be tangible. For instance, for every bolt used to anchor a seat belt, the turning force and angle are measured and transmitted to the system. In the future, the system will tell the employee if a bolt is not correctly fitted. "Employees will accept digitization if they can see how it benefits their work," says Löser.
An SAP demo shows how advances in IT are changing car manufacturing. A vehicle rolls of the production line every eight seconds. It used to take until the evening for the IT system to update. Now, three production lines are in operation at the same time and the system sends messages from the live system 1,000 times a minute. Users can simulate data ad hoc, analyze it, and use it to make decisions.
The technology has already improved inventory turnover and cut costs by eight percent. SAP S/4HANA is behind this degree of transparency in manufacturing. Management and shop floor staff alike have the information they need at their fingertips.
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Warren — Feature, Musings —10.29.2020 01:43 PM
My latest: the political anniversary everyone wants to forget
An anniversary happened last week. You can be forgiven for missing it.
That's because no one really celebrated it.
The Canadian federal general election happened on October 21, 2019. It resulted in Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party getting re-elected. It was in all the papers.
Except the first anniversary of Trudeau's re-election really wasn't – in the papers, or a victory. Postmedia and CBC published a couple stories, true, in which a couple Paul Martin acolytes were interviewed.
And, to be sure: if you're writing a story about how to take a perfectly good Parliamentary majority and turn it into a minority or a loss, those are indeed the guys to consult: they are the undisputed experts in wrecking Liberal parties, and losing power.
But the anniversary of the October 2019 election? No one really noticed, or cared. The reason was simple: with a single notable exception, every federal Canadian political party – every federal leader – lost something. They didn't win.
Justin Trudeau, for example, may have been returned to power. But he lost plenty.
He lost a comfortable Parliamentary majority, and was reduced to a minority, one that the Opposition parties can combine to remove from government. While still clinging to power, Trudeau's share of the popular vote is puny – just 33 per cent.
Trudeau actually received a lot fewer votes than the Conservative Party. And it was the first time in history that a Canadian political party has formed a government with so little of the popular vote.
It's not just a numbers game, either. By losing his majority, Trudeau lost control of some powerful House of Commons committees. (And that is why he actually threatened to force an election last week – to prevent the creation of a new committee that would have the authority to subpoena witnesses and documents in the never-ending WE scandal, which has implicated Trudeau and his family.)
Trudeau lost something else in the October 2019 election, too: his reputation. When it was revealed that the Liberal leader wore racist blackface at least three times, he shocked Canadians, and became a figure of ridicule and derision around the world.
And it's not forgotten, either: just this week, satirist Sacha Baron Cohen savagely mocked Trudeau in his hit Borat movie sequel, showing the Canadian Prime Minister wearing blackface while a teacher at a Vancouver school.
The Conservatives and their former leader lost plenty, too. The Tories were shut out of Canadian cities, and shunned by Canadian women or youth. Despite Trudeau's myriad scandals – including blackface, which literally broke while the election campaign was underway – the Conservative campaign was disjointed, incoherent and poorly-managed.
Its then-leader, Andrew Scheer, distinguished himself as a remarkably unremarkable politician – and one who couldn't score on an open net, even on a breakaway.
The New Democrats lost, as well. When the election was called, Jagmeet Singh's party had nearly 40 seats. When it ended, Singh had lost almost half of them. His share of the popular vote plummeted.
In the intervening year, Singh has further diminished his party by cravenly propping up Justin Trudeau's government – simply because Singh and his NDP lack the money, and the strength, to fight another election. His New Democrats have handed Trudeau a majority in all but name, in exchange for nothing.
The Green Party – which, full disclosure, was the only party with which my political consulting firm had a contract – devoted money and resources to winning many more seats. In the end, it only added one. And its quixotic leader, Elizabeth May, finally was obliged to take a hint and resign.
Finally, Maxime Bernier's People's Party did not win a single seat. Not one. And the only seat it had – Bernier's, which had been previously held by his father – was lost, crushed by his Conservative opponent.
So who won the October 2019 election?
The separatists did. Under Yves-François Blanchet, the Bloc Québécois dramatically improved its standing in the House of Commons – from ten seats at dissolution, to 32 now.
Blanchet eviscerated the NDP, denied the Liberals a majority, and helped reduce the Conservatives' presence in Quebec. His Bloc is now the third-largest group in the House of Commons, and arguably the most effective Opposition party.
All of that explains, then why the anniversary of Canada's October 2019 election didn't attract much attention:
Every Canadian political party lost – except the political party that wants to break up Canada.
whyshouldIsellyourwheat says:
Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatchewan, and Regina are not Canadian cities?
Saskatchewan is a province!!!!!
WSISYW,
I can already hear you yelling: damned auto-correct! LOL.
Nick M. says:
How many Canadians know that 2 of the largest 5 Canadian Cities are in Alberta?
Calgary is Canada's third largest municipality and fourth largest metro.
A "city" must contain a Laurentian institution to breed (and inbreed) Liberal politicians and strategists. Harper endured so much hate as he dared interrupt the natural governing order.
Quebec never loses. Canada exists to serve Quebec and politicians accept this if they want to form a national gov't. Confederation is a canard and a myth.
Sounds just like the 1982 Constitutional Act. Yeah, we in Quebec sure were big winners on that one.
I am curious out of my own ignorance about this issue you raise. What are these grievances besides Quebec government not signing?
My grievance about the whole constitution is that Peter Lougheed would have never agreed to the constitution knowing the way the courts have interpreted it years later.
Ted Morton wrote a good article how Lougheed put all these safeguards to prevent today's judgements not in Alberta's interest.
We have unfortunately learned, that Lougheeds safeguards don't seem to matter.
Nick,
Federal politicians, especially Liberals ones, are generally dismissive of what happened in 1982. Fortunately, at least one current Quebec cabinet minister sees it the same way as yours truly. Now, I will speak only for myself: first off, it is an absolute travesty of justice and a national disgrace to impose a constitution on one of a nation's constituent parts without the express and formal consent of its sovereign provincial government. Secondly, the way English Canada just started whistling and looked the other way says all you need to know about the former Gang of Eight. Lévesque very foolishly fell for the one-day Canada-Quebec constitutional accord designed expressly by Trudeau to break the others from Quebec. And it worked like a charm. Quebec was immediately outmanoeuvered and isolated and the rest is history.
This is not a question of some technical error or irrelevant legal formalism. Rather, it's about all provinces and territories being equal in law to a federal government. Trudeau's Ottawa, then and now is not a unitary state.
At least in Germany they did the honorable thing: most of Protestant Germany quickly agreed to the constitution but largely Catholic Bavaria did not sign. However, in the interim, a framework agreement was reached with Bavaria whereby the latter agreed to be bound by the provisions of the federal constitution.
In Quebec, we are still waiting, thirty-eight years later. Not today, not tomorrow, not even in the foreseeable future, but one day we will be sovereign because Canada chose not to undo what absolutely should have been undone years ago.
Watch Legault. What he was, what he is, and what he'll become again, will be for all to see and Canada will pay the ultimate price for snoozing while the future of a country was quietly and subtly in the balance…now you know why I never voted for Legault.
William,
I trust this is the second and last time that you'll be desperately grasping at Fantasy Island type straws. When Trudeau finally drops the writ, he can consider himself lucky if he manages to come from behind and get elected La Métropole's celebrity dog catcher.
Seriously, you think that was strident? Wait until I warm up. LOL. But that's not for today. Once again, I have the thankless task of doing all I can to help defeat another government so I'll put my shoulder to the wheel, just like in 2015.
I thought Trudeau's post election Olive branch to the West was to fast track the latest census with provincial seat allocation?
As in, Alberta and BC are underrepresented in parliament, and he was working on remedying this.
This pro-democratic issue should have been a no brainer.
A. Voter says:
The fact that neither the NDP or Conservatives were willing to bring back the tradition of allowing a new party leader to run unopposed in a by-election show both parties still have the political instincts of a door-knob. If the Green Party leader had been elected it would have weakened the Liberals further, could have led to further Green/NDP co-operation to strengthen both parties, and enabled the Conservatives to benefit from vote splitting. Instead we had two leaders who couldn't let go of the past, thus electing another Liberal. The likely blueprint for the next federal election.
A tradition extended to a party that doesn't have official party status? This "tradition" for a party not recognized in parliament never existed.
By that definition, the tradition should have been extended to Maxine Bernier, who ran in the other by-election.
The tradition you are thinking of was the leader of the opposition went unopposed in safe seat.
When Elizabeth May ran in a by-election in London, no one talked about a tradition being violated.
Was the "tradition" granted to Tommy Douglas when he had to be parachuted into BC?
It's nuts that any fringe party ( fringe defined by a party that has never come close to official party status,) should be granted a tradition that was typically offered to the Leader of the Opposition in a safe seat.
Weren't Layton's New Democrats the Official Opposition in 2011? So I assume you would put them in the same basket as the Conservatives?
In the end, there is no tradition for by-elections.
We look back fondly of yesteryear, and forget that it was just as petty at today.
That date was also quite close to the 5th anniversary of Trudeau winning his first election.
I get the exact same vibe happening in the USA now as existed in Canada 5 years ago. The incumbent was obviously doing a good job (best economy, jobs, help for working class) and the challenger obvious doesn't have the mental capacity or moral character to be leader. But this doesn't prevent the media from rallying around the challenger and forgiving and overlooking all his weaknesses – leading to a resounding win.
Shortly thereafter, the "new" leader shows his poor leadership and corruption and the country suffers as a whole.
As they say – history repeats itself.
Harper was a good manager, no question about it, but Harper lost because of Harper, not because of the shining embrace of Trudeau by the media. Harper's IQ is impressive, enough to know what the average Canadian will take or reject as part of the longstanding Canadian fabric. And yet he foolishly and /or egotistically quite deliberately chose to lurch more to the right in the majority mandate than most voting Canadians were comfortable with. THAT's why Harper lost both the country and power.
Harper calmly and gently returned the country to balanced budget, while increasing transfers to provinces by 6% for healthcare. If Harper counts as right wing then do you view Chretien as ultra-right fascist?
Come on Walter, you know what I'm talking about: abolishing the long gun registry, eliminating the long form census, the command and control over government scientists to speak their peace, the lack of enthusiasm for Kyoto and the multilateral approach to the real threat and menace of climate change and the topper: not quickly repudiating Leitch on the barbaric practices hotline… Harper just let it sit there in the campaign. And who can forget the old-stock Canadians remark that was advice from an Australian dimwhit who had previously worked for Howard.
Steven Harper lost his third term chance by not developing any plans whatsoever to secure a third term of leadership. Harper planned on two terms, and then threw the election to the Liberal Party because he had no Plan B. that would suffice to undermine Trudeau's rise to power.
I watched businessman Larry O'Brian lose his second term for the office of mayor in Ottawa via the same miscalculation of not being prepared for the next term via poor election planning.
If a politician wants to secure a term of leadership they have to plan ahead and not simply rest on their laurels erroneously assuming that incumbency will secure the election for them.
Incumbency is nothing without appropriate planning to exact a win. This is why seasoned managers like Warren are required to take over the election campaigning so that politicians can win. Without the right management politicians lose.
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Q: Image Processing: Concrete test blocks Background
Concrete is mixture of aggregates and cement. Aggregates are composed of different sizes and colors. Core samples are taken by drilling in order to test the strength of concrete . They are usually in  cylindrical form. See the image below. I want to detect the circle of the cylinder and aggregates as well as calculate the areas.
Question

I have many images similar to this one.
May Questions are :

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*How can I remove the background and detect the circle?

*How can I find the shape of aggregates calculate the areas?

PS: I'm well aware of related Questions on this site but most of them end up with failure.
Edit 1
Thank you shrx for the first part of the Q
Code
img= Import["http://i.stack.imgur.com/tNcYK.jpg"]

circles = SelectComponents[MorphologicalComponents[
    LaplacianGaussianFilter[
     ColorNegate@DeleteSmallComponents@Closing[EdgeDetect[i, 3], 11],
     2], 0.0056`],
   "Count", # > 600 &];
cm = ComponentMeasurements[circles, "MeanCentroidDistance"]
ct = 1 /. ComponentMeasurements[FillingTransform@i1, "Centroid"];
Show[i, Graphics[{Thick, Red, Circle[ct, cm[[1, 2]]]}]]

A: Ad 1):
Applying
Closing[EdgeDetect[image, 3], 5]

Produces a well defined image:

edit: another option:
Binarize[ImageAdjust[TopHatTransform[image, DiskMatrix[20]]]]

After this, it's the same procedure as in the related examples you've found.

A: One way to approach the segmentation of images like this is to make use of the different colorspace representations. For example, applying the LAB colorspace to the original image allows separating the image into three pieces
ImageAdjust /@ ColorSeparate[img, "LAB"]

Observe that the third image is almost a mask for the circle. Likely, you could process this image to find the circle more easily than the raw image. But the others also have some interesting features. Notice the dark shape below the center in the left hand image, about halfway to the edge of the object. With luck, this could be segmented out from the rest. Similarly, the whitish shape in the middle, just below the center can be separated from its surround more easily here than in the others.
So -- it might be worthwhile in a problem like this to look through the various colorspace representations and see if they bring out features that might be of interest. A variety are easy to use: "LAB", "LUV", "XYZ" and the ever popular "HSB".

A: Here's a possible approach for the aggregates.
I've used a scaled down image (it was faster to experiment with) and adjusted the gamma to try to bring out the colour variations. I've also masked out the background (I estimated the circular region by eye but you could of course use your ComponentMeasurements code)
i = Import["C:\\Users\\Simon\\Desktop\\tNcYK.jpg"];
i2 = ImageResize[i, Scaled[0.3]] ~ImageAdjust~ {0, 0, 1.5};
i2 = Image[ImageData[i2] RotateLeft[DiskMatrix[190, Reverse@ImageDimensions@i2], {0, 3}]]

I used ImageForestingComponents to try to identify the different regions:
Colorize[c = ImageForestingComponents[i2, Automatic, 1]]

I keep only the large components, and apply a CommonestFilter to smooth the edges a bit:
Colorize[c = DeleteSmallComponents[c, 300] ~CommonestFilter~ 1]

Now compute the "Mask" and "Area" of each component (sorted by area)
cm = SortBy[ComponentMeasurements[c, {"Mask", "Area"}][[All, 2]], Last] // Reverse;

Grid[{ImageCrop[i2 ~ImageMultiply~ Image[#1]], #2} & @@@ Rest@cm]

This shows the component outlines superimposed on the image:
ImageSubtract[i2, Image@Total[GradientFilter[#1, 1] & @@@ cm]]


The Wyevale Nurseries Taster Menu includes four new plants selected for customers to further develop the concept that launched last year.
Wyevale Nurseries unveiled the Taster Menu in its 2018 promotional catalogue and retailers were invited to trial the eight plants. Now four of the plants have been incorporated in to the 2019 catalogue.
Andy Johnson, managing director at Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford, said: "The eight Taster Menu plants are at the commercial trial stage and their volumes are very small, under 500 plants. We want to give customers the opportunity to feature these as something new.
"We're offer retailers the chance to trial them in their plant areas before they are available in commercial numbers. We also feel it will give us useful feedback as to what we should promote in larger numbers in subsequent years.
"The comments from our customers are very helpful and it led to Phormium cookianum 'Blondie', Hesperozygis 'Midnight Mojito', Disporum cantoniense 'Moonlight' and Rodgersia 'Bronze Peacock' being incorporated in to the main 2019 promotional catalogue as full promotions.
Cordyline 'Electric Star' has a clumping upright habit with many narrow leaves that appear mostly green but have a deep burgundy central stripe – very unusual.
Phormium 'Sweet Mist™' is an ultra-compact Phormium, with an exceptional bronze colour. This New Zealand native adds an exciting choice to landscape design. It has more compact foliage compared to other colourful Phormiums.
Dahlia 'Totally Tangerine' is a pretty anemone flowered dahlia, pinkish orange with a tangerine centre. Single petals surround a fully double centre, the reverse of the petals is rose-pink giving added contrast. A pretty introduction to our Dahlia range.
Parrotia persica 'Persian Spire' will be grown for its stunning foliage that can match even Japanese Acers. In spring its leaves, which are narrower than standard Ironwood varieties, emerge a deep blushing purple. Then in summer they turn a rich deep green with a purple edge. Finally, in autumn, when the temperature begins to fall, they change into a cascade of red, yellow and orange tones. Upright in habit.
The product selection available for the Wyevale Nurseries taster menu are collated by the talented team and are made up of award-winning plant varieties.


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Q: Large remainder upon non-integer division Let $0 < r < 1$. Does there always exist $s<r$ such that $s=1/n$ for some positive integer $n$, and the remainder when dividing $r$ by $s$ is at least $0.99s$?
(As usual, we define the quotient as the largest integer $k$ such that $ks\leq r$, and the remainder as $r-ks$.)
This feels somewhat similar to the result about the density of the fractional part, but I'm not sure if there is any formal connection.

A: Given $r$, you want to know if there are non-negative integers $m$ and $n$ for which
$${m+.99\over n}\le r\lt{m+1\over n}$$
Let's rewrite this as $100m+99\le100rn\lt100m+100$.
Now consider the number $r=1/10$. The largest multiple of $10$ less than $100m+100$ is $100m+90$, so the inequality $100m+99\le10n\lt100m+100$ cannot be satisfied. So the answer in general is No.

A: I think we can use the result on the density of the fractional part. First, let me rephrase the problem: we want to prove
$$\forall r\in(0,1),\;\forall\varepsilon>0,\;\exists n\in\Bbb N,\;\{nr\}>1-\varepsilon.$$
Indeed, in this case, setting $s=\frac 1n$, the division gives a quotient of $\lfloor nr\rfloor$ and a remainder of $r-\lfloor nr\rfloor s=\frac 1n(nr-\lfloor nr\rfloor)>s(1-\varepsilon)$. Reciprocally, if there exists $s$ leaving a large remainder, then setting $n=\frac 1s$ proves this statement.
Now then, this statement is equivalent to
saying that $1$ is an adherent point of the sequence $(\{nr\})_{n\in\Bbb N}$, which is true if $r$ is irrational by the density of the fractional part. If $r$ is rational and $\frac pq$ is a reduced expression, then as you said in the comments, $s$ exists iff $\varepsilon>\frac 1q$.

A: You are asking if for any $0<r<1$, one can find a natural $n$ such that
$$nr>1\land \{nr\}\ge\frac{0.99}n.$$
When $n$ increases, the conditions becomes easier and easier, I don't see what could make them impossible to fulfill.
Let the first nonzero decimal of $r$ be the $m^{th}$, then $n=10^{m-1}$ works.


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Q: Check if array element exists in string I thought this would be a simple thing to do with a native php function but i've found a few different, all quite complicated, ways that people have tried to achieve it. What's the most efficient way of checking if a string contains one or more elements in an array? i.e, below - where $data['description'] is a string. Obv the in_array check below breaks because it expects param 2 to be an array
$keywords = array(
            'bus',
            'buses',
            'train',
    );

    if (!in_array($keywords, $data['description']))
            continue;

A: Assuming that the String is a collapsed/delimited list of values
function arrayInString( $inArray , $inString , $inDelim=',' ){
  $inStringAsArray = explode( $inDelim , $inString );
  return ( count( array_intersect( $inArray , $inStringAsArray ) )>0 );
}

Example 1:
arrayInString( array( 'red' , 'blue' ) , 'red,white,orange' , ',' );
// Would return true
// When 'red,white,orange' are split by ',',
// the 'red' element matched the array

Example 2:
arrayInString( array( 'mouse' , 'cat' ) , 'mouse' );
// Would return true
// When 'mouse' is split by ',' (the default deliminator),
// the 'mouse' element matches the array which contains only 'mouse'

Assuming that the String is plain text, and you are simply looking for instances of the specified words inside it
function arrayInString( $inArray , $inString ){
  if( is_array( $inArray ) ){
    foreach( $inArray as $e ){
      if( strpos( $inString , $e )!==false )
        return true;
    }
    return false;
  }else{
    return ( strpos( $inString , $inArray )!==false );
  }
}

Example 1:
arrayInString( array( 'apple' , 'banana' ) , 'I ate an apple' );
// Would return true
// As 'I ate an apple' contains 'apple'

Example 2:
arrayInString( array( 'car' , 'bus' ) , 'I was busy' );
// Would return true
// As 'bus' is present in the string, even though it is part of 'busy'

A: You can do this using regular expressions -
if( !preg_match( '/(\b' . implode( '\b|\b', $keywords ) . '\b)/i', $data['description'] )) continue;

the result regexp will be /(\bbus\b|\bbuses\b|\btrain\b)/

A: Asssuming whole words and phrases are being searched for
This function will find a (case-insensitive) phrase from an array of phrases within a string. If found, the phrase is reurned and $position returns its index within the string. If not found, it returns FALSE.
function findStringFromArray($phrases, $string, &$position) {
    // Reverse sort phrases according to length.
    // This ensures that 'taxi' isn't found when 'taxi cab' exists in the string.
    usort($phrases, create_function('$a,$b',
                                    '$diff=strlen($b)-strlen($a);
                                     return $diff<0?-1:($diff>0?1:0);'));

    // Pad-out the string and convert it to lower-case
    $string = ' '.strtolower($string).' ';

    // Find the phrase
    foreach ($phrases as $key => $value) {
        if (($position = strpos($string, ' '.strtolower($value).' ')) !== FALSE) {
            return $phrases[$key];
        }
    }

    // Not found
    return FALSE;
}

To test the function,
$wordsAndPhrases = array('taxi', 'bus', 'taxi cab', 'truck', 'coach');
$srch = "The taxi cab was waiting";

if (($found = findStringFromArray($wordsAndPhrases, $srch, $pos)) !== FALSE) {
    echo "'$found' was found in '$srch' at string position $pos.";
}
else {
    echo "None of the search phrases were found in '$srch'.";
}

As a matter of interest, the function demonstrates a technique for finding whole words and phrases, so that "bus" is found but not "abuse". Just surround both your haystack and your needle with space:
$pos = strpos(" $haystack ", " $needle ")


I am a beginner cyclist, having not learned how ride a bike as a kid, I've started riding from scratch 3 months ago. Local "bike buddies" have helped a lot.
I'd like to ride my bike to work, which is only 2km (1.24 miles) away from home. However, the entire path is a climb - max grade 4% for about 2 blocks, which is tolerable. While I can ride uphill, I can't start uphill. When I try, my front wheel tilts sideways and either by reflex I put a foot down, or if I am able to balance, I start riding diagonally, but bikelanes are too narrow for me to do that.
I ride a freewheel/singlespeed, so there are no gears for me to shift. Also, I haven't learned yet how to ride standing, so that is not an option for now.
Am I missing something in the starting technique? The only thing I could think of is that maybe I'm not pushing the pedal hard enough when starting, but I feel like pushing harder is what makes the front wheel tilt, due to pressure on handlebars.
I've read the Sheldon Brown article, and I am able to apply the proper starting technique he described when in a flat or downhill terrain, and I think it's because the bike gets enough speed only with my weight on the pedal.
I've also read How to start uphill?, and it's a different scenario, it was informative but didn't help me.
EDIT: I (finally) bought a floor pump and realized that part of my problems were uncalibrated (underinflated) tires. It doesn't make it easy to start uphill, but it is less harder. I think it'd be so because the first stroke gives the bike more momentum.
Answer: You need to get your second foot ready in time, when taking off uphill.
Aim your bike sideways across the slope to lessen the gradient until you get both feet in.
Use clipless pedals so you can pull your starting foot up to give more time.
Practice mounting quicker so you can be ready for the second power stroke when you need it.
Walk the steep bit - at least you're doing it!
There's no shame in any of theses suggestions - at least you're riding! The only embarrassing one is giving up and not getting up the hill.
Another technique is to keep your backside out of the saddle. Keep your crotch near the stem until you're up to a couple km/h of forward speed.
I strongly suggest you borrow a geared bike of some sort and have a go. A singlespeed is hipster - remember, the TDF riders planned a sit-down tantrum to get permission to ride geared bikes!
Based on the Sheldon Brown article here's my approach. I find that putting the pedal 45 degrees forward of top dead centre is too far for maximum starting impulse - I go more vertical than that. I also start with my strong foot resting on the pedal, but that's partly because that means I lean the bike away from traffic and towards my single pannier when stopped.
Starting out on a hill I'm forward of the saddle. I push forward with the foot on the ground as I step up on the pedal, which puts the saddle under me.
But this depends on being in a suitable gear. And as you don't have a choice in this respect that sets an upper limit for your starting gradient. Unless your gearing is too high for the riding you do (and don't rule this out) you should be ok starting out on 4%. I have about a 6% start regularly, in a bike lane, and would be in something like 38x13 on 700C wheels - so a similar ratio to many single speed commuter setups I've read about. A little lower would be better, a little higher is possible.
One tip if it's a traffic light start in a bike lane: start as wide as you can in the lane and get going as soon as sensible (this is both a personal and a local matter). That way any wobble out of the bike lane is done while you've got some space around you - but you've got room to wobble towards the kerb.
Starting from a dead stop, am afraid it is a matter of leg and core strength and handling skills, which seems that you do not quite have yet. They will come with enough riding time.
In the meantime you can try to get the bike in motion by pushing the road with your leg as when you push a skateboard or a kid's scooter, then turning the cranks will be easier. I do this a lot to start when I am in hard gears, not only uphill.
If the slope is too steep it may not work, but if slope is too steep you might not be able to resume climbing unless you go down and then turn 180 degrees ti face the hill again.
The key to starting on a hill is coordination.
It helps to practice in a location where the incline is lower (or with no incline), and there is no traffic. The stress of trying to learn on a steep hill, and / or with traffic makes it harder to learn.
There are two main techniques.
Stand over the bike, with both feet on the ground. You are not on the saddle at this point.
Adjust the pedals so that one pedal is at about the 11 o'clock position. On many bikes you can rotate the pedals backwards to achieve this. With a fixie or coaster brake you may need to lift the back wheel off the ground so that you can rotate the pedals (do this before you stand over the bike).
Put your foot on the 11 o'clock pedal. Grasp both handle bars firmly. If you have drop bars, your hands should be on the tops or hoods. The bike should be leaning a little toward the foot that is still in the ground, so that you have a stable position. The seat is well behind your bottom.
Start pushing yourself forward, by rising onto the toes of the foot that's on the ground. Your body is moving forward, causing you to lean over the handlebars. You can practice this part a few times to get the feel of it.
Without sitting, lift your other foot onto the pedal, and as soon as it gets past 12 o'clock, stand on it. You should now be moving fast enough to maintain control, and sit if you want to.
Since you say that you have not mastered standing on the pedals, you will find this requires practice, away from the traffic and hills. It's the same for most beginners.
You will notice as you learn that you'll nearly always wobble about as you start. You'll find that you wobble less as you improve, and also that you can predict the amount of wobble.
The wheel "tilting" can be because you are not leaning the bike toward the foot that's on the ground when you're stationary. As you push your body forward, you will be moving your weight slightly across over the wheels, which will cause the bike to stand up straight.
With this method, you stand to one side of the bike, with your hands on the handlebars, and your feet behind the bottom bracket. Let's say you're on the right side of the bike. Adjust the pedals so that the right pedal is at the 12 o'clock position (yep, higher than the basic method). Put you right foot on the right pedal, and push forward as you stand on the pedal. To get more speed you can push and hop with your left foot a couple of times. Swing your left leg over the bike, bringing your left foot onto the pedal as it reaches the top. Cheerfully ride away.
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module ScoresQa
  module PremiereStatusService
    mattr_accessor :authority
    self.authority = Qa::Authorities::Local.subauthority_for('score_premiere_status')

    def self.select_all_options
      authority.all.map do |element|
        [element[:label], element[:id]]
      end
    end

    def self.label(id)
      authority.find(id).fetch('term')
    end
  end
end


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Beautiful, eerie and somehow elegant
Horrorstör
Grady Hendrix, multi-published author of books and stories like Dead Leprechauns & Devil Cats: Strange Tales of the White Street Society (which, incidentally, just leaped onto my To Read list based on the title alone).
Something is rotten in the state of Orsk, an Ikea-wannabe store with a murderous core. It's up to Amy, disgruntled employee and unwilling hero, to save her fellow employees from the psychotic ghost of a dead prison warden.
Good Furniture Gone Wrong: A story of murder and mayhem in a faux-Scandanavian superstore.
This is a book that reads like a classic ghost flick, so rather than giving you other book titles, I'll say instead: Poltergeist; Thir13een Ghosts; The House on Haunted Hill; 1408.
Amy is a young 20-something whose life is going nowhere fast. She's got a bummer of a retail job at Orsk, and she's doing her best to avoid work and, more importantly, her boss Basil, whose interest in her success is nothing short of creepy.
Dawn of the Dead-era Sarah Polley, because every young, distressed, and disenfranchised female character is played by Dawn of the Dead-era Sarah Polley in my head.
Setting: Would you want to live here?
The story is set in the Cleveland, Ohio-based (fictional) Orsk superstore, a sprawling, Ikea-style world of artificial rooms and cavernous warehouses. While I love Ikea with all my heart (back in high school, my best friend and I would spend entire days in the Ikea in Elizabeth, New Jersey, just because it was new and exciting and sold cheap accessories for our rooms), I'd rather not live inside one. I think the daily grind of thousands of people wandering my halls would get old fast...not to mention the ghouls and goblins taking up residence in Orsk, due to the fact that it was built on the site of a burned-down asylum/prison...
What's your favorite sentence?
Betcha I can NEVER pick just one sentence, in any of my Bookshots reviews. Here's part of a paragraph instead.
'The prison was round, with a guardhouse in the center, so that the prisoners—he called them penitents—never knew if they were being watched. Zero privacy. It was called a panopticon. Underneath the cells were three sub-basements where the penitents worked. Giant labyrinths full of mindless tasks designed to rewire their brains.' He shrugged. 'Just like Orsk.'
To say I loved the experience of reading Horrorstör would be putting it mildly. I read it fast, mostly on the three airplane rides it took my family and me to get to Mexico, and I read it on my Kindle. This will be important in a moment, when we talk about the actual printed book. But first...the story.
The story is fun and campy. It reads exactly like a horror movie, all visual cues and snappy dialog. Main character Amy has all the snark and sarcasm inherent in a great lead horror movie role, and it's clear of the supporting cast who will be the first to die. The action is great— there are chase scenes and horrific torture devices and the foulest smells and sights imaginable. It quite literally has everything a horror movie has to offer: ghosts, possessions, doorways to another dimension, and even a seance! And if the whole "new building built atop the site of an ancient, evil prison" plot sounds rather formulaic, that's probably because it is. For me, though, a lifelong horror fan, that didn't take away from the story at all. Instead, it felt like something in which I was complicit—a nod to the movies I'm guessing author Hendrix loves as much as I do.
Such was my experience with the Kindle version of Horrorstör: fun, snappy, silly, creepy.
And then the book arrived in my house, like a little gift waiting to welcome me home from Mexico...and it was divine. Quirk Books, the publisher of Horrorstör, is well-known for their interesting publications (see: The Resurrectionist, one of my favorites from last year). With Horrorstör, they've outdone themselves.
Created to resembele a furniture store catalog, the cover alone is a work-of-art, a magazine-worthy snapshot of a bright and shiny room (with the smallest hint of something sinister) on the front, and a grim, dismal scene on the back. Inside, full pages are devoted to furniture descriptions and illustrations that gradually morph into medieval torture devices. The design is well-planned, and brilliantly executed.
Horrorstör. It's beautiful, eerie, and—somehow—elegant. You need to see it to believe it.
Bookshots review written for LitReactor.com by Leah Rhyne
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package ee.tuleva.onboarding.capital.event.organisation;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.Query;
import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;

public interface OrganisationCapitalEventRepository
    extends CrudRepository<OrganisationCapitalEvent, Long> {

  @Query("select sum(e.fiatValue) from OrganisationCapitalEvent e")
  BigDecimal getTotalValue();
}