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Former Texas Ranger Vladimir Guerrero, 3 Others, Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Those elected will be inducted into the Hall at Cooperstown on July 29 along with pitcher Jack Morris and shortstop Alan Trammell
By Ben Walker	• Published January 24, 2018 • Updated on March 19, 2018 at 5:13 pm
Former Texas Ranger Vladimir Guerrero as well as Chipper Jones, Jim Thome and Trevor Hoffman were elected to the baseball Hall of Fame.
Guerrero was elected in his second try, getting 92.9 percent. The nine-time All-Star slugger is the seventh player who wore a Texas Rangers uniform to be elected to the Hall of Fame. He joins Ferguson Jenkins (1991), Gaylord Perry (1991), Nolan Ryan (1999), Rich Gossage (2008), Bert Blyleven (2011), and Ivan Rodriguez (2017). Ryan and Rodriguez are the Hall of Famers with Rangers caps adorning their plaques. Other Hall of Famers with Rangers connections are managers Ted Williams (1966) and Whitey Herzog (2010), and coach Nellie Fox (1987).
Jones and Thome made it 54 players elected in their first year of eligibility by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Jones drew 97.2 percent (410 of 422) in results announced Wednesday, and Thome was at 89.8 percent.
"It was waterworks," Jones said after hearing the vote.
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Jones was an eight-time All-Star third baseman for the Atlanta Braves. The switch-hitter batted .303 with 468 home runs.
Jones was a force for most of the Atlanta teams that won 14 straight division titles — his election puts another member of those Braves clubs in Cooperstown, along with pitchers John Smoltz, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, manager Bobby Cox and general manager John Schuerholz.
Thome hit 612 home runs, putting him eighth on the career list. The five-time All-Star played mostly for the Cleveland Indians.
Hoffman was chosen in his third year, getting 79.9 percent after missing by just five votes last time. The former San Diego Padres closer had 601 saves, second to Mariano Rivera's 652.
Designated hitter Edgar Martinez came close after a grass-roots campaign to boost him. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, both tainted by the steroids scandal, edged up but again fell far short.
It took 75 percent for election, or 317 votes. Martinez made a big move up to 70.4 percent and fell 20 votes short. Mike Mussina climbed to 63.5 percent.
Clemens, winner of 354 games and seven Cy Young Awards, got 57.3 percent after drawing 54.1 percent last time. Bonds, the career home run leader and a seven-time MVP, reached 56.4 percent, up from 53.8 percent.
Clemens and Bonds each have four tries left.
The four new members will be inducted on July 29 . They will be joined by Jack Morris and shortstop Alan Trammell, who were picked last month by a committee that considered older players and executives.
Rivera heads the ballot next year, once again raising debate over whether any player will unanimously elected to the Hall. The late Roy Halladay also will be a first-time candidate.
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Cyber exposure compounds risk for agencies, brokerages, and their clients
It's always been challenging to determine a client's risk exposures and to understand the extent and limitations of coverage under various policies. Now, agents and brokers must become at least conversant in cyber risk and cyber insurance, both for their clients and their own enterprises.
Cyber insurance has a unique history as a line of coverage. It originated in the specialized world of professional liability coverage, where knowledgeable practitioners negotiated customized policies, but since has become an important—but not standardized—coverage for thousands of organizations with widely varying levels of IT expertise and infrastructure.
Although steps have been taken in recent years to introduce greater conformity in cyber insurance provisions, cyber policies still vary greatly in the range of losses that they cover and the wording they use to define loss exposures and events.
Cyber insurance is, therefore, adding a whole new layer of complexity to an agent's or broker's errors and omissions (E&O) exposure and insurance coverage.
"Agents are well advised to offer it, but as the cyber insurance market evolves, the carriers, coverages, and terms and conditions are in flux. It's a challenge for agents to keep up."
—Mark Angelucci
Resident Senior Vice President and E&O Segment Leader
Utica National Insurance
"Cyber exposure is getting more and more attention, and it appears that virtually every business has the exposure," says Mark Angelucci, resident senior vice president and leader of the E&O segment of Utica National Insurance. "Agents are well advised to offer it, but as the cyber insurance market evolves, the carriers, coverages, and terms and conditions are in flux. It's a challenge for agents to keep up."
"Agents and brokers must be able to talk intelligently to their insureds about the digital and technological exposures they have," says Steven Anderson, vice president and product executive for privacy and network security for QBE North America. "They must, at a bare minimum, understand the 'what' and 'why' of the coverage." That said, producers should not necessarily expect a big payoff from an investment in understanding cyber exposures and insurance options.
"Cyber insurance today is very much the way employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) was 15 years ago," says Jason Rogers, senior vice president of Gallagher Affinity Insurance Programs, which supports a cyber insurance program for the National Association of Professional Agents (NAPA).
"Everyone thought EPLI would be a good coverage to have, but once they saw quotes and pricing they did not buy," he says. "As time went on, many businesses saw the benefits of EPL policies and now consistently purchase the coverage."
Similarly, "for cyber coverage, many customers are shopping and quoting but not making the purchase," although Rogers finds "the pendulum is shifting" among attorneys, accountants, and other professionals, including risk and insurance advisers. "They are starting to understand how critical a cyber policy can be and are purchasing the coverage," he says.
Still, "at this point, the rewards [for understanding and marketing cyber coverage] are more in the retention of business rather than in new revenue streams or organic growth," says Tony Wittwer, president of CITA Insurance Services.
Despite growing concern over cyber-risk, observers see the market for agent and broker E&O insurance as essentially stable, with ample capacity, relatively soft pricing, and familiar sources of claims.
"Overall, the market continues to be soft for agent and broker E&O," says Wittwer. "The types of errors that we have seen for decades continue to be the leading causes of E&O losses, and current claim trends are not leading to restriction of coverage or significant rate increases."
"Cyber insurance today is very much the way employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) was 15 years ago. … As time went on, many businesses saw the benefits of EPL policies and now consistently purchase the coverage."
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According to Rogers, the E&O market has withstood recent attempts to fundamentally change its dynamics. "In recent years new entrants looked to make a splash by underpricing rates or broadening coverage," he says. "However, many of these new entrants have been slow to gain market share.
"Many agents are not willing to entrust their coverage to an unknown carrier that is not experienced in adjusting E&O claims or adding value to the claims adjudication process."
Angelucci concurs. "I would characterize the E&O market as stable," he says. "There are carriers exiting the line, but we also see new carriers willing to step in."
Claim trends
While pricing may be stable and coverage expansive, stresses may be emerging between E&O carriers and their producer clients.
Angelucci notes that "one trend we see is primary carriers suing their agents for the amount paid on a claim when the carrier believes the agent did not accurately describe the risk." Such situations arise, he says, when applications indicate that certain building safety features are in place and operational, only to have them found absent or inoperative in the event of a loss.
"This creates a need for agents to be sure policyholders sign all applications to confirm the description of the risk," he says.
One prominent source of emerging E&O claims is the expansion of agencies and brokerages into new lines of insurance and new types of risk services. "Agents are providing human resources consulting to clients, and that exposure needs coverage," says Angelucci. "They are also providing loss control services to non-policyholders and that, too, presents an exposure that needs coverage."
According to Rogers, "One of the biggest trends has been agents overextending themselves and selling products or providing services that they are not familiar with.
"How you present and sell a life insurance policy is very different from how you present and sell a homeowners policy," he adds. "We always advise our producer clients that, when they expand into an area where they have limited experience, they should hire a product consultant to help them."
"Agents and brokers must be able to talk intelligently to their insureds about the digital and technological exposures they have. They must, at a bare minimum, understand the 'what' and 'why' of the coverage."
Vice President and Product Executive for Privacy and Network Security
QBE North America
One must be especially careful when advising elderly people, Rogers adds. "How products are represented and sold to senior citizens has really become a focus," he says. "Plaintiffs' attorneys are regularly invoking state elder abuse laws in these cases. If they get a state to conduct its own investigation, that allows them to defer discovery costs."
Cyber insurance is only the most prominent example of a growing spectrum of insurance products producers are expected to be familiar with when they advise their clients. These include coverage for violent acts, reputational damage, loss of attraction, and others, including contingent business income loss in the absence of physical damage by an insured peril.
"The coverages and services associated with E&O in the market today are as varied as they have ever been," says Wittwer.
"This growth in exposures and coverage puts added pressure on agents to stay abreast of emerging topics and industry trends," adds Rogers.
But finding ways to identify and cover loss exposures is what the business is all about.
"The beauty of insurance is that social changes challenge everyone in the industry—from agents to underwriters to claims handlers—to address those changes," says Angelucci. "Whether it is cyber risk, the sharing economy, or healthcare, this mosaic puts pressure on producers to keep up and stay engaged with evolving coverages and carrier capabilities."
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Joseph S. Harrington, CPCU, is an independent business writer specializing in property and casualty insurance coverages and operations. For 21 years, Joe was the communications director for the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS), a P-C advisory organization. Prior to that, Joe worked in journalism and as a reporter and editor in financial services.
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The son of a deceased North Korean religious leader will visit the DPRK this week in what will be the first by a South Korean since April, the Ministry of Unification (MOU) announced on Monday.
Choi In-guk is the second son of Ryu Mi Yong, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party, who died of lung cancer at the age of 95 in November last year.
"The Ministry of Unification approved the application by Choi In-guk to attend his mother's memorial ceremony marking the first-year anniversary of her death and visit her grave," Baik Tae-hyun, a spokesperson for the ministry, told media during a regular news briefing.
Choi is scheduled to be in Pyongyang from Wednesday to Saturday, attending a memorial ceremony hosted by the Chondoist Chongu Party – one of the DPRK's only minor political parties.
"We approve Choi's visit to North Korea on humanitarian grounds so that he is able to visit her grave on the occasion of mother's first-year anniversary of the death," an MOU official told local media.
South Korean citizens were last in North Korea in April, when the ROK's Women's Football Team traveled to Pyongyang to play their DPRK counterparts.
The MOU confirmed to NK News that Choi had received an invitation from the North Korean side and had asked Seoul to grant permission for the visit.
The JoongAng Ilbo reported that the Chondoist Chongu Party had sent the invitation, which included a guarantee of personal safety – details the MOU declined to confirm when contacted by NK News.
Choi made a week-long trip to the DPRK when his mother died in November last year, the first by a South Korean citizen that year.
During a televised interview with JTBC TV network in 2013, Choi said that the 1986 defection of his parents had caused him great emotional difficulty.
Ryu met her son during a visit to the South in 2000, as part of a delegation of North Koreans separated from their families in the South.
A member of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK and a deputy to the SPA, in May 2016, KCNA released a statement by Ryu calling for a movement for national reunification.
The only daughter of Ryu Tong Yol, a famous independence fighter and politician who Seoul believes was abducted by the North during the Korean War, she later married Choe Deok-sin, who served as South Korean foreign minister between 1961 and 1963.
She emigrated to the United States in 1976, before defecting to the North in 1986 with her husband.
Since the inauguration of Moon Jae-in in May, Pyongyang has consisted rejected requests by South Korean citizens to visit the country.
Most recently, a request by Hyundai Asan to visit the formerly inter-Korean-run Mount Kumgang resort was rejected.
The group had hoped to mark the 14th anniversary of the death of Chung Mong-hun, the former chairman of the company.


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UK industry donates produce for Ukraine
UK fresh produce grower-importer-distributor Nationwide Produce has coordinated the donation and delivery of three truckloads of fruit and veg from British growers to help feed Ukrainians trapped in, and fleeing from, their country.
Nationwide Produce is supplying Warsaw-based non-profit organisation AGROunia, which delivers food and supplies into Ukrainian towns and cities, as well as to refugee centres on the Polish-Ukraine border.
The consignments of UK produce are being received, unloaded and redispatched by one of Nationwide's Polish customers at their warehouse in Mlodzieszyn, just outside Warsaw, for delivery to AGROunia's headquarters.
The first truck full of UK produce left Nationwide's Evesham depot on 9 March and reached Mlodzieszyn on Monday morning (14 March), the second arrived soon after, and the third is making good progress, according to Nationwide Produce group managing director Tim O'Malley.
"It all began on Thursday 3 March, about a week after the Ukraine war began, with a conversation between two of our traders – Barry Gaskell in Southport and Sylwia (Silv) Rzeznik in Spalding about what we could do to help feed the Ukrainian refugees in Poland," O'Malley explains.
"Silv found a Polish charity, AGROunia, and contacted the main guy .. who was keen to have veg off us, particularly long shelf-life basic lines such as spuds, carrots, onions, cabbage etc. Also, fruit such as apples and oranges. Silv was then on a mission to pull together a full load with the help of her boss, David Noton."
The first port of call was Nationwide Produce's Lithuanian haulier, Girteka, who offered a 50 per cent discount. "We made up the rest," O'Malley continues. "We collated everything for the truck at our depot in Evesham. We also supplied all the onions from our own farms. We needed plenty of spuds, and Bartlett, Greenvale and Pryor down in Cornwall all kindly stepped up to the plate. Jonny Hammond insisted on supplying all the carrots & snips. John Saul supplied the cabbage, Jack Buck the celeriac, Poupart the apples, Fountain Fresh the oranges. All free of charge, God bless 'em! Turners even threw in free transport for delivering the goods to Evesham. And then we had a problem. A nice one though. Too much gear! So, we asked the charity if they could take another truck which they welcomed with open arms."
Nationwide then put out a call for new suppliers to donate goods. "They came forward in their droves," says O'Malley. "Fruco and Alfred Price for apples, Seddon for Leeks, Baxters Highbrow for Cabbage and Fresh Food BE for pears. One of our guys at Evesham, Dicky Dyde, mentioned it to one of his customers, West Country Fruit Sales. They asked if they could please donate dry goods which the charity was keen on. So, a mixed pallet of everything from rice and pasta to tea, nuts, flour and cleaning products was pulled together at short notice. West Country also donated a pallet of caps and remarkably, one of their growers insisted on donating £500!
"We're now saying to the Polish charity, you let us know when you're ready for your next one and we'll arrange it," he continues.
"The response from suppliers, customers, hauliers and our team has been truly overwhelming," O'Malley adds. "I think this demonstrates the extraordinary generosity of our industry. We're all working on wafer thin margins that are being pushed to breaking point by hyper-inflation, much of it caused by this war, and yet we've been inundated with donations. I'm proud to be part of an industry that has been overwhelmingly generous to provide the very best form of food, the most healthy and nutritious, fresh produce, to feed the Ukrainian refugees."


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Baker has faith in striker to get back target
Blyth striker Anthony Woodhouse, among those guilty of missing chances in the goalless draw at home to Bradford Park Avenue in midweek, got a pat on the back from boss Paul Baker today.
Baker, still to see Spartans win in nine matches, is backing the former Dunston Federation forward to rediscover his scoring touch in tomorrow's tricky FA Cup second qualifying round home tie against UniBond League first division promotion chasers Bamber Bridge.
Baker said: "Anthony spent a lot of time after our league match against Bradford apologising for not hitting the target.
"It is fair to say that the lad was distraught, but I told him the best way to put those misses out of his mind is to make sure he hits the back of the net tomorrow.
"Anthony has already proved he can do the job. Seven goals this season provide proof of that and I am confident he will bounce back quickly."
Baker has one or two knocks to sort out before naming the team for the 3pm kick-off.
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I start at 5:45 in the morning. I make sure all of the loads for the day get sent to the right customer with the correct paperwork and product and on time.
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What is the best memory you have working at Ring?
We recently lost one of our employees to cancer. Susan was one of four employees who had been here since the beginning. The four of us previously worked together before our former company was acquired by Ring. Susan did all of the decorating at the Christmas parties, and I think the best memory was having her at the party last year. She will be missed.
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By Mike Fitzgerald Belleville News-Democrat.
January is hardly the optimal time of year to pour concrete and begin construction on a $6 million, state-of-the-art medical marijuana cultivation center and greenhouse.
But marketing guru Mara "Mitch" Meyers, who during her days in the beer industry became known as the "mother of Bud Light," wants to attach her name to another type of bud, one with the potential to create thousands of new jobs nationwide and treat a long litany of illnesses and medical conditions.
Meyers' firm, Nature's Care, is one of nine applicants who have filed to open a medical marijuana cultivation center in District 11, which covers St. Clair, Madison, Clinton, Bond and Monroe counties. The Illinois Department of Agriculture is expected to announce the 21 winners of the cannabis cultivation licenses statewide as early as Wednesday under the four-year pilot program that begins next year.
The five counties that make up the district will be allowed one permit for a cultivation center. Eleven medical marijuana dispensary applications have been filed for District 11, which is allowed two permits.
Meyers said she won't waste a moment if the state of Illinois approves her application to build a medical marijuana greenhouse on a 14-acre site off Illinois 13 near Marissa. "We would get started immediately," Meyers said, noting that the pilot program under which she would get permission to open the facility requires a crop to be planted and growing within six months' time.
"We will have that greenhouse up and operating in four to five months and growing plants," Meyers said. "And while that is occurring, we will be building the processing building that will be attached to it. I would say within seven months we could be shipping our first product to the dispensary."
Illinois' Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program will allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to treat debilitating conditions such as HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and others.
So far, 150 entities statewide have applied for cultivation permits. The rules call for most areas of the state to have one or two dispensaries and one cultivation center per Illinois State Police district.
In light of the large sums of money involved -- in terms of up-front investments and potential payoffs -- it is hardly surprising the pilot program is attracting highly experienced and deep-pocketed businesspeople like Meyers.
Meyers, who in 1980 earned a master's in business administration from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, began her career in brand management with 7UP. She then moved on to beer giant Anheuser-Busch, in St. Louis, where she became marketing director for a new A-B beverage unit, making her, at the time, the top-ranking woman in Anheuser-Busch corporate marketing.
In 1987, AdWeek named her Woman of the Year. Meyers left the beer giant to help launch Zipatoni, a marketing firm where she had served as chief executive. When she retired in 2003, the firm had offices in five states and 350 employees. In early 2014, she helped start a firm called Proof Agency, which helps craft distillers and brewers take on much larger competitors.
Meyers, 58, acknowledged that 30 years ago, during her A-B career, she could hardly have imagined herself answering to the title of "medical marijuana entrepreneur."
"I spent a lot of time in Colorado over the last 15 years," Meyers said. "When I saw what's going on out there, and I saw the medical happening, and I actually know people that have used it successfully in various ailments and treatments, it's like, 'OK, there's something real about this.'"
Meyers made her name -- the "mother of Bud Light" -- for her ability to market a wide variety of alcoholic beverages. Now she plans to apply that marketing savvy to the new frontier that is Illinois cannabis.
Meyers said the list of strict laws under the Illinois pilot program is a good thing, since it is based on the experience of pioneer states such as Colorado, the home of around 700 dispensaries and 500 growers.
"They were pioneers doing this for 10 years," Meyers said. "And every year, they make changes to their rules and regulations, which makes it hard to comply. So many people have lost a lot of money because as the state changes the law, they are out of compliance."
One of the criteria that makes Illinois' pilot program so tough is the high cost of entry. Applicants for one of the 21 cultivation permits statewide must submit a $25,000 nonrefundable application fee. And if a cultivation permit is issued, then it will cost $200,000 the first year, and $100,000 annually for each following year.
Permit recipients must also provide evidence of financial responsibility, by posting a $2 million surety bond. The bond would be refunded at increments of $500,000 annually for each of the pilot program's four years.
Products grown at the Marissa marijuana greenhouse would be sold at 60 dispensaries spread across the state.
Another company vying for a cannabis cultivation permit in the metro-east is Largo Meds LLC, of Chicago. It has obtained agreements with Wood River, as well as the towns of Centralia and Princeton, that would enable Largo to build cultivation centers in three ISP districts if awarded the necessary state licenses.
A representative of Largo Meds could not be reached for comment.
The state has not released the names of the applicants, but the News-Democrat obtained the names of Largo Meds and Nature's Care through public zoning meetings.
Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation July 20 that added adults and children suffering from seizures to be able to use prescribed medical marijuana. The law also allows children under 18, with a parent's consent, to be treated with non-smokable forms of medical marijuana for the same conditions now available to adults.
"This new law will help alleviate the suffering of many adults and children across the state," Quinn said in a statement at the time. "Epilepsy is a debilitating condition, and this much needed relief will help to reduce some of its symptoms for those who endure seizures. The Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Act is now designed to help our fellow citizens of all ages by allowing its strictly controlled use for specific medical conditions."
The St. Clair County Board in July gave the green light for a medical marijuana farm to be located near Marissa. The proposal was the first to be considered in the metro-east and would sell cannabis in dried "bud" form and as edible products.
Nature's Care, the $6 million grow center that Meyers wants to build, would grow up to 15 strains of cannabis in a greenhouse attached to a 20,000-square-foot building. The building would include a commercial kitchen to make the edible products, such as cookies, hard candies and drinks.
The enclosed, locked facility would employ about 30 people and be located on 14-plus acres along Illinois 13. Surrounded by a tall fence, the greenhouse must be air tight and under 24/7 closed circuit TV monitoring.
Meanwhile, the competition remains intense to get into the medical marijuana business in the metro-east.
Medical marijuana patients must have a written certification from a doctor and get a background check, then pay $100 a year to apply for a medical marijuana card. Disabled people and veterans will pay $50 annually. Patients must be diagnosed with one of the dozens of qualifying medical conditions, such as cancer, glaucoma, HIV or hepatitis C.
One potential wrinkle for medical marijuana entrepreneurs such as Meyers and others statewide has to do with potential opposition from incoming Republican Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner, who during his gubernatorial campaign last fall expressed his concerns about legalized medical cannabis.
"Obviously any time you have change in political management, you have to be worried about it," Meyers said. "If we have three years to show the people of the state that this is something that helps the people of the state and provides tax revenue, it's not a drain on anything, they'll probably have a hard time canceling it at that point, when you have a lot of sick people using this medicine effectively."
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stephenbrooks.org › Forum › Muon1 › Bug Reports › Recording Crash?
2007-04-18 03:12:41 Everytime i try to start recording it crashes the simulation.
I've tried on both my Vista and XP machines to no avail.
I have the latest version of the program to.
2007-04-18 14:58:59 Animation recording? Ah, there's a feature I haven't used in a while.
I just tried and you're right - it goes one frame and then it crashes. I'll have a look to see if I can find out why, though obviously it's not the most important feature!
2007-04-18 16:16:50 Found the bug: forgot to declare some file handles as static in the animation recording function, so they were being forgotten. That'll be fixed the next time I release a Muon1 version, then.


A legend on the rise, 2013 marked the rejuvenation of one the most important labels in D&B's history. With a renewed mission to release the hardest, most dance floor focused tracks, Bryan Gee's Chronic is once again synonymous for heavyweight, bass-fuelled riddims. After a year that saw the label launch a brand new look with the mighty Chronic Rollers as well as releases from L-Side, Sativa Dub and Silent Type, Chronic is now ready to drop its most exciting project yet - the gully sounds of 'Warehouse Music'.
Kicking off 2014 in style, Warehouse Music takes D&B back to its roots on an undeniably deadly new compilation album. Featuring 24 tracks of hardest-hitting jungle drum & bass selected by the ever on point Bryan Gee, the aptly named Warehouse Music is an ode to the more stripped back, raw sounds of D&B's past - all with the unmistakable edge of 2014 production power. Bringing together established artists and newer faces, Warehouse Music sees tracks from the likes of Optiv and BTK, Roni Size, Serum and Bladerunner alongside equally huge joints from newer producers such as L-Side, DJ Chap and Unreal - all on one outrageous compilation.
From the industrial strength of Capone's 'I'll Be Your' to the jump-up howls of Need For Mirrors' rudeboy roller 'Trips' and Critycal Dubs' old skool bass mentality, the Chronic crew pull no punches and in doing so deliver a very welcome breath of fresh air to the sweaty enclaves of the drum & bass scene.
With the veteren amen master DJ Bailey drafted in to mix the CD album it's yet another masterstroke and completes an utterly heinous release from a label looking set for even more in 2014. Big, bad and extremely heavy.
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Davido has lastly spoken on why he has not recorded a track with 'Starboy' Wizkid.
The '30BG' crooner, who gained huge for his label on the 2018 Headies award, mentioned a collaboration with Wizkid wouldn't be deliberate however have to come back naturally to be able to have the most effective.
In accordance with him, this might solely occur when the time was proper.
Davido revealed this on Soundcity Fm.
He mentioned: "On my collaboration with Wizkid, I really feel like if it'll occur, it'll occur naturally.
Davido on the simply concluded 12th version of the headies won three awards.


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## Exercise

### Auction
- A user has a name and an email
- The email must be unique for all users
- An auction has a description, an start date, an end data, a seller, a starting price
- A user cannot bid on his/her own auction

### Rules of the game
- Pair programing
- Test-driven (TDD)
- Useful --testdox output
- 100% code coverage
- No database
- No HTML
- No Server
- Use value objects
- There are hidden / implicit requirements

## How to use

- Clone this repo and enter it
- Install the **dependencies** (https://getcomposer.org/download/)
```
composer install
```

- Run the tests

```
vendor/bin/phpunit --colors
```

- See Coverage: (Open index.html in coverage folder)

```
vendor/bin/phpunit --coverage-html coverage
```

- See TestDox

```
vendor/bin/phpunit --testdox
```
or in html format
```
vendor/bin/phpunit --testdox-html dox.html
```


"You were so helpful. You're so pretty. I know everyone loves you. I hope you feel good wherever you are. I love you so much. You are the best. Everybody cares about you."
"Kaitlin we will miss you very much. You were very very sweet. Love, Emily"
"Kaitlin, you're in God's hands now and He will take great care of you. I will never forget your last words to me.."see ya Bliss.' No matter what there will always be a big place for you in my heart. I miss you so much. love, Bliss"
"Kaitlin you were a great friend.
Occasionally we are graced with the presence of an earthbound angel.
They are unable to stay with us for long. But while they do, they bring unprecedented joy and happiness to all they touch.
While they are here we bask in their goodness and marvel at their contribution to the world.
When they leave, we are left with the devastation that comes with losing such a wonderful being.
BUT, we must remember that earthbound angels are not ours to keep.
They are ours to enjoy, learn from, and behold UNTIL THEY RETURN HOME.


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Resources for Secwepemctsín Learning
Chief Atahm School has been the leading Secwepemctsín Immersion School and offers a unique education program for school-age children and now has partnered with SFU to offer a Post Secondary Program in Secwepemtsín. Click Here to visit the main website.
First Voices keyboard
Indigenous language keyboard app for Apple and Android mobile devices. Download the FirstVoices Keyboard App to type in Secwepemctsín on your mobile device.
First Voices Website
First Voices is a library for all Canadian Indigenous Languages including Secwepemctsín in both Eastern and Western dialects. FV helps support language programs including the language nest initiative.
Secwepemctsin-Cstelen Dictionary
A Chief Atahm collaborative language project. This is a Secwépemc language dictionary in the Eastern dialect: Cstelnec (Adams Lake Band), Qw7ewt (Little Shuswap Band), Splatsin (Enderby), Kenpésq̓t (Shuswap Band), and Sk̓etsin (Neskonlith). This online dictionary is an ongoing project.
Chief Atahm Vimeo
The Chief Atahm Vimeo page contains Secwepemc language learning resource videos including short audiobooks narrated by Secwepemc Elders, alphabet sounds video, a childrens puppet show, documentaries, and TPR class videos.
Visit the Secwepemc Knowledge Institute for language, updates, and more....
Chief Atahm Games
Chief Atahm Online Games
Jetpack Learning has collaborated with a First Nation School in British Columbia, Canada, to create seven games in the Secwepemc language.
Online games can provide a fun and educational way to teach Language concepts, both preparing students for a contemporary use of computer technology and helping them develop critical thinking and logical reasoning skills that can be applied to other subjects.
This is a fun and engaging way for both youth AND adults to learn language concepts.


system represented by the pathname stored in the symbolic link.
the name you want the link to have.
Explanation of Example: Creates a link to my home directory to my web files. If there's an error an error message will come up while attempting to create a symbolic link, and if successful no output will be displayed.


Cherry Brandywine is a perfect 1 1/2 oz. miniature version of Brandywine, with the very similar fabulous flavor! Heirloom Seed Packet.
Cherry Brandywine is a perfect 1 1/2 oz. miniature version of Brandywine, with the very similar fabulous flavor!


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23 Oct 2018 Story Climate change
When the rain comes: fighting climate change with forecasting in the Comoros
UN Environment / Hannah McNeish
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How improved weather forecasting and observation is helping the Comoros face a changing climate.
The children playing in the school grounds in Diboini, a hilly central area of the Comoros' main island, pay no attention to the gated area housing unremarkable-looking metal structures.
But in the capital Moroni, staff at the country's meteorological service are thrilled with what these machines comprising automatic weather stations are doing: generating reliable forecasts to help the country now, and gathering crucial information to predict its future.
"We need data for more than 30 years to try and make reliable forecasts about climate change," says Mohamed Hamid, the head technician at the agrometeorological service.
Before the Government of the Comoros, UN Environment and partners established five stations across the Comoros' three islands with the support of the Global Environment Facility in 2013, its weather forecasts came from satellites only focused on one point, plus a few outdated stations that were ill-equipped to deal with the islands' varied topography.
Older people living on steep hillsides around the southern part of the island of Anjouan remember when the rains were steady and harvests so plentiful that people would give food away to neighbours, before climate change and deforestation started causing crop failure. Photo by UN Environment / Hannah McNeish
"We only had stations on the coast, and because we live in a country with big mountains, we have real microclimates," says Hamid. "You can't study climate change using the data from the coast and extrapolate what's going on at higher altitudes."
Having proper climate information is becoming increasingly important in the Comoros, one of the world's poorest countries with a large rural population that relies on rain-fed agriculture and subsistence farming.
"We used to know exactly when the rain was coming, and there would be six months of rain and a six-month dry season," says Djuma Mlara, a farmer living in Diboini.
Farmers used to be confident in knowing when the rains would start and stop, and exactly when to plant each crop. "But we no longer have any idea if the rain will continue the next day or if it will turn really sunny," says Mlara, who has to walk miles to fetch water from storage tanks to stop his harvest of greens, potatoes, manioc and bananas from failing.
"The rain has changed, and it has really reduced. There is not enough water for farming, or even for drinking."
A farmer stands with his banana trees on the steep hillsides that used to burst with fruit but are struggling or dying due to changing weather and soil erosion. Photo by UN Environment / Hannah McNeish
What little climate data there is on the Comoros shows that this trend is set to continue. "Studies have shown that there is a 0.2 percent increase in temperature per decade, a 10-15 percent drop in rainfall and there is also a problem with rising sea levels," says Hamid.
Youssouf Elamine Mbechezi, the Director of Forests at the Ministry of Environment in the Comoros, says that unpredictable weather, climate shocks and disasters are hitting the country hard.
"All countries are feeling the effects of climate change, but the world's islands are a lot more vulnerable than others," he says. "For example, rising sea levels, very frequent floods, changes in rainfall, cyclones—all these problems affect the population and the country in general. No one escapes climate change."
Floods have been so severe in recent years that they have destroyed homes or whole neighbourhoods and washed away seeds, crops and soils.
Hamid says that the project is helping the Comoros to improve observation and forecasting of weather patterns to help farmers become more resilient to climate change. "Since most agriculture in this country is rain-fed, we have already gained efficiency and time, because with one click we can receive and process data, and from this we can do more cartography and track rainfall."
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As well as providing more modern equipment that provide a solid database for future reports, the project is also building human capacity for the future. "At this very moment, we have two engineers in Niger being trained in agrometeorology," says Hamid.
Having more and better information about each island's different climates at the touch of a button will allow the government to understand climate variability across the Comoros and help more people adapt to the changes around them. "Reliable forecasting comes from having reliable stations," he says. "This service helps provide reliable information to a variety of users and can play a really important role in progressing the agricultural sector."
To learn more about UN Environment's work in climate change adaptation, please contact Jessica Troni
"Business as usual" could lead to catastrophic global sea-level rise, says new study


Sweet & Savory Brilliance— I'm not a big frozen pizza fan, but Leave it to DiGiorno to introduce a hand-tossed style pizza and a dozen break-and-bake Nestle chocolate chip cookies in the same box. Somebody in product development deserves a raise for concocting this great combo.
Chick-fil-A Kudos – Man, this is one fast food eatery that "gets it" when it comes customer satisfaction. Not only did Mrs. Lunchboy and I enjoy a free dinner Friday night. All we had to do was go to the website and then print out and don the cut-and-tape-on cow costumes. Even more impressive, I scored a free chocolate milkshake! How? "Because you are dressed like a cow," the cheerful male employee said as he gave me my 16 ounces of hand-spun goodness. I totally didn't expect a complimentary dessert. Needless to say, Chick-fil-A's stock just went up in my eyes.


Has it ever happened with you that you started climbing the stairs and on the way you realise that you have forgotten the keys to your flat? You would get agitated, especially if you live in a highrise building and if the elevator has broken down. But, have you ever wondered what does this lesson imply?
We all have the tendency to achieve more and upgrade our lifestyle. Right from birth, we are taught to compete for the best. From the best school to the best tutors, from the best college to the best university, from the best job to the best salary, from the best car to the best lifestyle and a life partner too! We are never satisfied with what we have already. Rather, we just blindly run behind gaining more and more. But even if you conquer the entire world and rule over it, will it give you happiness? Peace? Health? No, never. Then, why this mania to own things? I have nothing against the desire to make more money or trying to have a better lifestyle. But not at the cost of your relationships, family members and loved ones. Remember that man has always craved for the best living and nor the best lifestyle. Unfortunately, we all misunderstand this. It isn't the car which makes you happy, it is the people with whom you ride. It isn't the house that brings a smile on your face, it is the people whom you love to be with in that house. It is love and respect for one another that makes you feel rich rather than being rich.
Have money, as it is necessary for social causes like philanthropy and charity, but while doing so if you ever feel that you are on the wrong path, check your pocket once and verify whether you have the right key to open the door to sublime happiness with you or not.


Education: All states require physical therapist assistants to have an associate's degree from an accredited physical therapist assistant program. Programs typically last about 2 years. Classroom study includes courses in algebra, English, anatomy, physiology, and psychology. Assistants also gain hands-on experience during supervised clinical work.
Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations: All states require physical therapist assistants to be licensed or certified. Licensure typically requires graduation from an accredited physical therapist assistant program and passing the National Physical Therapy Exam for physical therapist assistants administered by the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy. Some states require that applicants pass additional state-administered exams, undergo a criminal background check, and be at least 18 years old. Physical therapist assistants also may need to take continuing education courses to keep their license.


Building Social Support – It's Good For Your Health!
in America are living with extreme stress.
Here are some tips to help you create, keep and strengthen vital connections in your life.
least one emotional connection a day, but plan realistically.
Share what's on your mind honestly and openly.
or a good laugh. Don't hesitate to ask for help.
When you talk, also listen.
often shed a new light on your own challenges. Offer help when you can.
value their opinion – listen and respond.
our spirits, gives us energy and makes us more productive.
build connections for your emotional health.
learning a new language? Take a class, or join a local group.


Derrick has been making this style of ring since 2009. The shank is particularly wide in front, then dramatically tapers to a much narrower width in back. Beautifully stamped and decorated with appliqueés, an oxidizing agent was used on this to develop tarnish in the stampwork to heighten the contrast between the stamped motifs and the smooth polished surfaces. This is set with a thick, egg-shaped stone of natural, untreated Royston turquoise from Nevada.
Hallmarked Derrick and stamped Sterling on the inside of the shank.


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UN Professors Launch Joint Programme on Children and Young People in Ireland
Ireland's two UNESCO Chair holders come together on Monday to launch an innovative and exciting programme dedicated to improving the rights and well being of children and young people across Ireland.
The Children and Youth Programme is an independent academic collaboration between Professor Alan Smith (pictured) at the University of Ulster and Professor Pat Dolan from NUI Galway.
In the coming months the Programme will initiate a debate on two key points – the value of a rights-based approach to the planning and provision of children's services in both parts of the island, and the need for both governments to incorporate a stronger commitment to children's rights in legislation.
Speaking today on United Nations Day, Professor Alan Smith, UNESCO Chair in Education for Pluralism, Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Ulster said: "As the two UNESCO Chairs on the island of Ireland we believe that the academic programme we are launching today will help to reinforce the notion that a strong commitment to children's rights will have better outcomes for children and families across the island.
"As we see on a daily basis the most difficult part of any economic downturn is the fact that it is the poorest and the vulnerable who are usually most affected by financial cut backs. Consequently it is the children of those hardest hit by job losses and cutbacks to children and family services who suffer most.
"We only need to look at the stark predictions being made by those who work in the front line services to see that this is the case. For example, the impact of welfare and budget cuts on increased poverty levels in Northern Ireland or the fact that today in Ireland, 18.6% of children now live in risk of poverty, and 8.7% already live in consistent poverty.
"A rights based approach provides stability and certainty of resource allocation and protection for the most vulnerable in times of financial constraint and cutback. As a constant it also requires that all government decisions take account of the rights of children, ensuring that no one falls through the gaps in monitoring processes or becomes a victim of shifting political priorities."
Professor Dolan is Director of the Child and Family Research Centre at NUI Galway, and hold the UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagements: "We believe that there are clear signals the administrations on both sides of the border can send, not only to the international community, but to the next generation on this island, that they will be protected and nurtured, with certainty in policy making and reliability in service provision.
"The Northern Ireland Assembly has the power to pass legislation which will require every government department to take account of children's rights in all policy decisions, as the Welsh Assembly has already done. Incorporating the UNCRC and developing a rights-based approach to policy development could be one of the greatest single legislative acts undertaken by the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive since its formation.
"Likewise, the prospect of a referendum in Ireland to include a clear and binding commitment to children's rights in the constitution is a 'once in a generation' opportunity. Common sense concern for children and families should encourage everyone to support such a referendum.
"Over the next year we want to initiate a debate on how services for children and young people can be provided on the basis of rights. We hope to show that it is an approach underpinned by clear and consistent obligations that will cherish all children equally".
Notes to Editors The Children and Youth Programme is an independent, academic collaboration between the two UNESCO Chairs in Ireland at the University of Ulster and NUI Galway. Using a multidisciplinary framework the Programme will draw upon the knowledge and expertise of researchers from a wide range of disciplines on issues affecting children and youth.The first output of the Programme will comprise a series of Special Reports and corresponding Briefing Papers to be disseminated at regular intervals during 2011 and 2012. The first report released today, A rights-based approach to monitoring children and young people's well-being will be followed by five reports addressing issues such as policy development and implementation, youth justice, educational achievement, mental health, and civic engagement.The Children and Youth Programme is based in the UNESCO Centre at the University of Ulster and in the Child and Family Research Centre at NUI Galway. The Programme is headed by Professor Alan Smith, holder of the UNESCO Chair in Education for Pluralism, Human Rights and Democracy, and Professor Pat Dolan, holder of the UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement.Professor Alan Smith is currently an advisor to the UNESCO Education for All, Global Monitoring Report and is also currently undertaking research for UNICEF on education and the protection of children in conflict affected countries. In September 2011, Professor Pat Dolan was appointed as a member of a new Government Task Force, named by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, TD. The Task Force has been established to advise the Government on the necessary transition programme in establishing a dedicated Child & Family Support Agency. Both Professor Smith and Professor Dolan are members of a research group to support the Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership in Ireland (North and South).As members of the UNESCO International education network, UNESCO Chair holders are encouraged to act as 'bridge builders' by establishing and sustaining dynamic links between the academic world, civil society, local communities and policy makers.


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package org.hisp.dhis.android.testapp.settings;

import org.hisp.dhis.android.core.settings.DataSetSettings;
import org.hisp.dhis.android.core.utils.integration.mock.BaseMockIntegrationTestFullDispatcher;
import org.hisp.dhis.android.core.utils.runner.D2JunitRunner;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;

@RunWith(D2JunitRunner.class)
public class DataSetSettingObjectRepositoryMockIntegrationShould extends BaseMockIntegrationTestFullDispatcher {

    @Test
    public void find_dataset_setting() {
        DataSetSettings dataSetSettings = d2.settingModule().dataSetSetting().blockingGet();

        assertThat(dataSetSettings.globalSettings()).isNotNull();
        assertThat(dataSetSettings.specificSettings().size()).isEqualTo(2);
    }
}


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Kaua'i GOP holds first straw poll
By Tom LaVenture - The Garden Island | Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 11:15 p.m.
The first Hawaiian Republican presidential caucus made history Tuesday night as Mitt Romney won in the preference polling, with volunteers more clear on their respective campaigns throughout the islands.
David S. Chang, state chairman of the Hawai'i Republican Party, said the national GOP has designated Hawai'i a top state to support because of the U.S. Senate election bid of former Hawai'i Gov. Linda Lingle. The race against U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawai'i, is close, and Republicans stand a good chance of winning "a D seat," he said.
"Every seat is open in the state for election except for Sen. Inouye and Gov. Abercrombie, so Kaua'i will have to vote for Senate, Second Congressional District, and (state) House and Senate seats," Chang said.
The Associated Press reported that Mitt Romney won the Hawai'i straw poll Tuesday with 45 percent of the vote. Rick Santorum placed second with 25 percent, followed by Ron Paul with 18 percent and Newt Gingrich at 11 percent.
Kaua'i Republicans chose Romney with 36 percent, followed by Santorum with 28 percent, Paul with 26 percent, and Gingrich with 9 percent.
Romney will grab nine of Hawai'i's delegates from 51 districts to be cast at the Republican National Convention in Tampa the last weekend of August. Santorum received four delegates, and Paul earned one.
Bill Georgi is the county-wide chair in the Second Congressional District. He leads a group in localizing national politics, relating them to Mainland issues.
There are three state district chairs: Dave Hammon in District 14; Ron Agor in District 15 and JoAnne Georgi in District 16.
"The district numbers are the old districts. The new boundaries and district numbers have not yet been formally established," Bill Georgi said.
"I expect the Big Island will get one more state House and one more state Senate seat. Therefore, we should have House districts 15, 16, and 17 for the election," he said Tuesday.
The party channels information through the district chairs. Much of the work on Kaua'i is handled at the presidential caucus, the Lincoln Dinner, State Convention, Kaua'i Fair and individual candidate events.
Chang, who works out of state Party headquarters in Honolulu, said the 2012 General Election is a "one in 40 year" event with decennial redistricting and a presidential election year.
"Democrats are strong all across the island," Chang said. "We will just have to get our message out, recruit good candidates, get a good message out and be united to elect Republicans."
The Kaua'i County Republican Party is a "good group" of volunteers, Chang said.
The Hawai'i Republican Party held its election kickoff in February. There are presently no presidential candidates scheduled to appear in Hawai'i, but volunteers will be doing outreach, he said.
Find out more about the Hawai'i Republican Party at www.GOPHawaii.com.
• Tom LaVenture, staff writer, can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 224) or tlaventure@ thegardenisland.com.
Jury finds man guilty of assault
Gas prices take higher toll on Hawai'i drivers


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Visits are by appointment only. We will never call without letting you know first and for your comfort and safety, we will always let you know the name of the person who is coming and they will carry relevant identification.
You can read more about St John's Hearing Aid Centre and our approach on our About Us pages.
As part of our Free Home Consultations service, we offer Free Hearing Tests carried out in your home by experienced and qualified audiologists.
We offer free hearing tests in the comfort of your own home or residential care facility.
If you're experiencing Hearing Loss, these audiometric hearing tests will establish the cause and the potential severity of any ongoing condition.
If required, St John's Hearing Aid Centre supply a wide selection of digital private Hearing Aids from well-known brands, such as Oticon, Phonak, Starkey, Widex and more.
Whether you're looking for an In The Ear (including invisible), Behind The Ear or Spectacle hearing aid, our qualified audiologists will help to advise you on the most suitable digital hearing aids for your specific requirements.
As well as fitting your hearing aid, they will fully explain its functions and controls. And if you have further questions or experience any teething issues post purchase, you can call our Grange-over-Sands branch for aftercare.
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Please take a look at our Ear Wax Removal page for more details.
Our Grange-over-Sands branch can carry out hearing aid Servicing, Calibration and Repairs, as well fit new batteries for most makes and ages of digital hearing aids.
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From our branch in Grange-over-Sands, our private hearing consultants offer Home Visits throughout the Workington area, including Bassenthwaite, Cockermouth, Distington, Drigg, Egremont, Gosforth, Keswick, Maryport, Seascale, Nether Wasdale, Whitehaven, Workington and beyond.


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United we fall?
When governments relinquish power over monetary policy, they're more likely to default on foreign loans. And lenders know it
Douglas Clement Managing Editor (former)
Ciranno Marcon Soares/Minneapolis Fed
When the eurozone was created 20 years ago, its member nations bargained that the benefits—a stable currency, lower transaction costs, and reduced investment uncertainty, among other advantages—would more than compensate for their sacrifice of independent monetary authority.
That faith was sorely tested during and after the 2007-09 financial crisis. Greece, Spain, and Italy faced severe sovereign debt crises; stronger economies like Germany and France were reluctant to bail them out. The union came perilously close to collapse, rescued in large part by Mario Draghi's famous 2012 reassurance that the European Central Bank would "do whatever it takes to preserve the euro."
Economists have devoted substantial effort to understanding the dynamics behind such crises, and "rollover risk" is the focus of much of this research. It's the risk that when a nation needs to refinance its debt, lenders will require higher interest rates or will simply refuse to lend again. The prospect leads nations to consider outright debt default, even though that means borrowing in the future will be difficult and expensive.
In recent research, Minneapolis Fed Senior Research Economist Javier Bianchi and Jorge Mondragon of the University of Minnesota look at "Monetary Independence and Rollover Crises" (WP755) to understand how lack of monetary autonomy affects a nation's vulnerability to rollover risk.
Relinquishing monetary policy raises the likelihood of a rollover crisis; lenders anticipate that nations without access to macroeconomic stabilization will consider default more attractive.
Their conclusion? Relinquishing the ability to set national monetary policy, whether by joining a monetary union or fixing exchange rates, significantly raises the likelihood of a rollover crisis because lenders accurately anticipate that, in crisis situations, nations without access to macroeconomic stabilization powers will consider debt default more attractive than nations with such access.
"Our quantitative findings suggest that a significant cost from joining a monetary union is a higher exposure to a rollover crisis," they conclude. Without access to the tools of monetary policy, nations in crisis find it harder to stabilize their economies. Repaying debt becomes more onerous because the necessary tax increases and expenditure cuts will generate unemployment, making default a more viable option. Lenders realize this and are less likely to lend. The crisis is self-fulfilling.
The "printing press" argument?
Economists have often suggested that belonging to a monetary union makes nations vulnerable to such problems, but the conventional argument is that a nation with full authority over its own monetary policy has an ability to inflate away debt burdens by issuing more domestic currency, if necessary, and that eurozone countries became more vulnerable because they could no longer resort to the "printing press" to reduce their debts.
Bianchi and Mondragon's argument is different. The major sacrifice that nations make when joining a union, they contend, is giving up the ability to use monetary policy to stabilize the economy in the event of financial distress and unemployment. "Our analysis provides a new perspective," they write.
Analysis of failure
To understand the mechanism at play, the economists build a model economy whose key features—along with the standard elements of households, firms, and government—are international lenders and downward wage rigidity.
Households provide labor to firms, firms pay workers from those households and produce goods that they consume, and the government pays for public goods such as education and national defense using taxes and borrows from international lenders.
When all is well, the economy churns along, lenders provide needed funds, and governments repay them on agreed terms. The economists dub this the "safe zone," where governments will repay debts even if lenders are unwilling to lend in the future.
But when a crisis hits, as in 2008, equilibrium is lost and, as governments weigh the value of repayment against the value of default, loan repayment is more tenuous. If governments have access to monetary policy, they can stabilize their economies by lowering interest rates (much as the Fed did) and depreciating the exchange rate. But if they've relinquished that power by joining a monetary union, the costs of a crisis rise substantially because governments must rely on fiscal policy, which, by definition, is limited during a debt crisis. "As the government engages in large cuts in expenditures or increases in tax revenues," they explain, "the economy will experience a contraction in aggregate demand, which will generate involuntary unemployment."
Nominal wage rigidity
Wage rigidity is a crucial feature here. If wages adjusted downward during the crisis, unemployment would not be an issue—firms would still hire workers, at lower wages. But in the model, as in reality, wages tend to be somewhat inflexible—set by union contracts, perhaps, or government regulation—and unemployment is the result. "This increase in unemployment," write the economists, "is at the heart of the mechanism to generate a larger exposure to a rollover crisis."
The combination of rigid wages and lack of monetary independence leads to a rollover crisis because such governments are unable to stabilize their economies, and investors know it.
For governments facing higher unemployment, the value of repaying loans decreases. Their first responses to financial crisis will be painful enough: Cutting social expenditures and/or raising taxes are socially distressing and politically unpopular. Demand for goods and services will shrink, generating unemployment—even more painful. "And if the increase in unemployment is large enough," Bianchi and Mondragon observe, "the government defaults." Realizing that this outcome is likely, lenders will be unwilling to lend: A rollover crisis ensues.
Thus, the combination of rigid wages and lack of monetary independence leads to a rollover crisis because such governments are unable to stabilize their economies, and investors know it.
The economists test their theory using data from Spain from 1996 to 2015. The simulation shows that sacrificing control over money supply—by fixing an exchange rate or joining a monetary union—results in a sixfold increase in the likelihood of rollover default.
"This highlights a substantial cost when entering a monetary union or pegging a currency," they conclude. "In the presence of nominal rigidities, sacrificing monetary autonomy makes an economy more vulnerable to rollover crises."
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This collection makes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' brilliant essays on the weekly Torah portion available in book form for the first time. Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy and literature to present a highly...
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Ceremony & Celebration: Introduction to the Holidays by Jonathan Sacks
When did Rosh HaShana, the anniversary of creation, become a day of judge¬ment? How does Yom Kippur unite the priest's atonement with the prophet's repentance? What makes Kohelet, read on Sukkot, the most joyful...
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Therapy Today, April 2012
The future is appy
Phil Topham describes the first steps in a project to develop an app to provide self-help for social anxiety.
Bodies in an embodied world
How we inhabit our bodies speaks volumes about how we are in the world, argues Nick Totton.
A self divided
Psychotherapist and blogger/author Fiona Robyn considers the ethical issues raised by her dual identity.
A velvet fist in a steel glove
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy is all of these things, writes Astrid Carrington.
Diagnostic disarray
The American Psychiatric Association's proposed revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has thrown the mental health world into open conflict. Catherine Jackson reports
Louis Heyse-Moore: Counsel of hope
Caitin Wishart: Boiling point
Marc Brammer: Three words say it all
Julia Bueno: The art of not doing
Michelle Bridgman: Changing bodies and minds
Robert Elliott
Amanda Hawkins: Valuing the human connection
Articles from this issue are not available online. Members and subscribers can download the pdf from the Therapy Today archive.
Personally, I hope that the future is not 'appy' but I can appreciate that mental health apps might have their uses: for one thing, they save money and people want the flexibility of having access to help anywhere and any time. In the States, where the term 'therappy' has been coined, mental health apps are also known as 'therapist extensions'!
Phil Topham describes his involvement in the development of an app to help students with social anxiety in learning situations. In this design, the app would complement face-to-face work, although it could also be used for students who might not choose to access counselling anyway. But Phil stresses that, while we know that the therapist/client relationship is a crucial part of effective therapy, we don't yet know enough about what happens to people psychologically when they switch on their computer or mobile phone to access an app. While apps are well suited to task-based therapy, he suggests, they don't have the capacity to recreate the interpersonal elements of counselling or psychotherapy.
We also report on the much criticised draft of DSM-5, due to be published by the American Psychiatric Association next year. Nearly 13,000 people have signed an online petition arguing that the latest revision applies psychiatric diagnoses to an even greater number of what could be considered normal human behaviours and emotions. For example, the draft DSM-5 includes 'arguing with adults' and being 'spiteful or vindictive at least twice within the past six months' among the symptoms for the new diagnosis of 'Oppositional Defiant Disorder'. Child psychiatrist Sami Timmi calls these diagnoses 'iatrogenic abuse' because of the absence of any scientific basis for the highly toxic treatments that a psychiatric diagnosis permits doctors to prescribe to young children. He has launched a campaign against all such 'psychiatric labels' on grounds that: 'The idea that we can come up with technical solutions to people's problems is crazy. The problems we deal with are relational, not technical. That is where the solution lies.'
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Q: How to safely unwrap a value from user defaults? if let seen: Bool = defaults.bool(forKey: UtilitiesKeys.mainTutorialSeen) {
    return seen
}
return false

if i do this swift shows me an issue:

Conditional cast from 'Bool' to 'Bool' always succeeds, Non-optional
  expression of type 'Bool' used in a check for optionals.

Since there might not be a value for my key, I don't want to force unwrap it. Now obviously it's working like this, but how do I safely unwrap the value without having swift complaining?
I have tried to use guard as well...

A: if let seen = UserDefaults.standard.object(forKey: UtilitiesKeys.mainTutorialSeen)) as? Bool {
        return seen
    }else {
        return false
    }

A: Apple document says:

/*!
       -boolForKey: is equivalent to -objectForKey:, except that it converts the returned value to a BOOL. If the value is an NSNumber, NO
  will be returned if the value is 0, YES otherwise. If the value is an
  NSString, values of "YES" or "1" will return YES, and values of "NO",
  "0", or any other string will return NO. If the value is absent or
  can't be converted to a BOOL, NO will be returned.

open func bool(forKey defaultName: String) -> Bool

Initializer for conditional binding must have Optional type, not 'Bool'
hope this help you.

A: As suggested in doc:

-boolForKey: is equivalent to -objectForKey:, except that it converts the returned value to a BOOL. If the value is an NSNumber, NO will be returned if the value is 0, YES otherwise. If the value is an NSString, values of "YES" or "1" will return YES, and values of "NO", "0", or any other string will return NO. If the value is absent or can't be converted to a BOOL, NO will be returned.

open func bool(forKey defaultName: String) -> Bool

It is not an optional anymore. So you don't need to cast it with if let.
You can directly use:
let seen = defaults.bool(forKey: UtilitiesKeys.mainTutorialSeen)

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Harbour Towne Yacht Club: A boater's oasis with a home-like feel
Published on May 29, 2019 May 31, 2019 by ebstein
The community is comprised of five three-story buildings across 5.3 acres.
By Roger Drouin
At the end of a garden alcove at Harbour Towne Yacht Club, a first-floor entry leads into a two-bedroom condo unit. Inside, the condominium has sweeping water views and a renovated kitchen.
The lush landscaping and water views are just two of the signature features at Harbour Towne Yacht Club, a waterfront gated community of 50 town-home style units.
This particular unit is listed for sale, for $569,000, by Bob Ruiz, of Key Solutions Real Estate. A multi-functional lanai overlooks a marina and a deeded, private boat slip that can accommodate a 43-foot vessel. The unit is one of five units currently listed for sale in the waterfront community.
Harbour Towne is an enclave of 50 town-home style units in a lushly landscaped setting, located mid-Key, and a short walk to Siesta Beach. It offers canal and bay views from throughout the property. Of the 50 units, 25 are three-bedroom condos and the other 25 are two-bedroom units. The units range in size from 1,217 to 2,326 square feet.
All of the two-bedroom units in the community are single-level units, while the three-bedroom units are two-level (on the second and third floors).
The deep-water boat slips and ideal location with no bridges to the Bay make the community a top choice for boaters, Ruiz says. "The water is no less than four-and-a-half feet at low tide," Ruiz said. "It's straight across from Phillippi Creek, and the No Wake zone is less than a mile long, then you are out in the Bay." Each unit comes with its own private, deeded boat dock. Harbour Towne Yacht Club is only a seven-minute walk from Siesta Public Beach, adds Ruiz, who also resides at Harbour Towne.
But the community is also a draw for those seeking more of a townhouse style, rather than a typical condo. For instance, rarely found on the Key, Ruiz noted, each unit also includes its own full car garage—with walk-around attic storage—attached to the unit. In addition, owners are able to store a barbeque grill in the garage and grill just outside their unit.
The community is comprised of five three-story buildings across 5.3 acres. The smaller scale of the buildings, along with the lush landscaping, and friendly neighbors, gives Harbour Towne a home-like feel for Kathy Roche, vice president of the board of directors and a long-time resident.
A quiet, well-kept community
"If you are coming in and new to the area, it is a great place to make warm friendships," says Roche, who purchased a unit at Harbour Towne with her husband in 2000. The Roches are half-year residents on Siesta, spending the other half of the year in Ohio.
While it is not the most glamorous feature, the fact that each unit includes an attached garage (with the storage space) was a major plus for the Roches.
"Very few [other] condo units have garages," Roche says. The couple keeps their car and a bicycle in the garage, but some neighbors store multiple bikes and kayaks in their garages. And the storage space above the garage comes in handy.
The other unique attribute of the community is the private, deeded boat docks. Roche says many unit owners keep boats, but some do not.
"It's a quiet, well-kept community," Roche says of Harbour Towne. The community is fully funded with reserves, and sets aside a portion of HOA fees for regular, long-term maintenance such as roofing and paint.
Community amenities include a heated pool and spa, tennis court, clubhouse with full kitchen, and covered pavilion with grills. The club house was renovated five years ago, Ruiz says. The pool deck and resurfacing was done three years ago, and pickle ball courts were added two years ago.
But perhaps one of the nicest attributes is the neighbors that make up the community, Roche says. Often an informal social gathering will take place at the club house after a few residents start talking at the pool.
"Residents gather most evenings at the pool/clubhouse," adds Ruiz. "Because of the docks, boats, and grilling outside the unit, residents frequently run into each other making for a very congenial community."
Renters are welcome, Roche adds, but the community's one-month rental minimum encourages seasonal and full-time residents. As a result, it is an owner-driven community. More than 80 percent of owners are owner/residents, estimates Ruiz.
The monthly homeowners' fee is $600, which both Roche and Ruiz note is very reasonable considering the deeded boat docks and other amenities, such as the pool and club house.
One trend Roche has noticed is her neighbors will purchase their condo before they retire, and as they retire, will spend more time at Harbour Towne. "Before retirement, it is used as a getaway, and as they retire, they stay fulltime or more of the year," she says.
Recent and pending sales over the past year have ranged from $345 a square foot to $452 a square foot.
• Topping the higher end of the sold prices, a 2,326-square foot unit with three bedrooms and three baths sold for $818,000, or $352 a square foot. The retreat, which sold this May, offers full Bay views and a completely renovated interior. The unit has master suites on both levels, and, according to the MLS listing, the home reflects the soft, sandy tones of the island, especially in the impeccable kitchen adorned with exquisite granite and solid wood cabinetry.
• One two-bedroom unit, with 1,450 square feet, sold in October, 2018, for $655,000, or $452 a square foot. The unit was completely remodeled two years previous, including new impact resistant sliding glass doors. This first-floor unit has oversized bedrooms, double master walk-in closets, a private brick patio and extra parking space, and features full harbor views, and a deeded boat slip that can accommodate a sailboat/boat up to 43 feet. The unit was offered turnkey furnished.
Five current listings include a pair of listings by Ruiz. The two-bedroom unit with the garden-alcove entry has 1,343 square feet. It is situated all on one-floor, and the large master with water views is open to a dual-sink bath with separate, tiled walk-in shower. The spacious lanai overlooks the marina. According to the MLS listing, "multi-functional, the lanai may be used as a den/office, alternate dining space, or to accommodate overnight guests." The listing works out to $424 a square foot.
• Another listing by Ruiz has two-bedrooms, two baths and 1,217 square feet. The unit has an open floor plan, including new granite topped wood cabinets in the kitchen. The fully renovated master bath features dual sinks and a walk-in shower. A second bedroom and bath are ideal for guests. It is listed for $539,000, or $443 a square foot.
• A three-bedroom, three-bath unit is currently listed for sale for $719,000, or $393 a square foot. The condominium has a full view of Reigel's Harbor and a large boat slip complete with boat lift. Inside, the unit has vaulted ceilings, lots of natural light, updated bathrooms and new ceramic tile floors.
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The Epoch Times Senior Editor-At-Large Roger Simon Talks Golden Globes Cancellation and Reflects on Being Nominated for an Academy Award
Live from Music Row Tuesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville's Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed Senior Editor-At-Large at The Epoch Times Roger Simon to the studio to weigh in in the Golden Globes cancellation and reflect upon what it was like to be part of the Hollywood scene as an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.
Leahy: In studio with Roger Simon, my former boss at PH TV, now a Senior Editor-At-Large for The Epoch Times. Roger, you made a good suggestion to me off-air and I've been plugging shamelessly to all the coffee shops out there when I say we have a nice cup of radio station coffee. It's sort of like Army intelligence right? (Laughter) It's an oxymoron. A nice cup of radio station coffee. But I'm shamelessly, and Scooter our producer is going, yes we need to get some really good coffee in here.
Simon: You could give somebody a tip on it.
Leahy: Our listeners, like to listen in to our conversations. We're having a cup of coffee. They're having a cup of coffee at home. We just need to get a coffee shop that will say, yes, I like Conservatives and I like your conversation and I'm going to provide some coffee. So if you're out there, just give us a call. 615-737-9522.
Simon: And add a lot of caffeine.
Ogles: Well, it should be noted. It's coffee. It's cold. (Leahy laughs) It's bitter.
Leahy: What more could you ask for?
Ogles: But I had to get up at four o'clock in the morning to be here.
Leahy: It's a reward. It's a reward.
Ogles: Will work for coffee.
Simon: It's your combat pay.
Leahy: Roger, you are the Hollywood guy here in town. You were right in the middle of Hollywood. An Oscar-nominated screenwriter. That's very impressive.
Simon: Yes. But now excommunicated for my awful views.
Leahy: Because you think independently. Speaking of, I don't know entertainment industry views on politics. I got to tell you this. You'll crack up. Our lead story at The Tennessee Star. The tennesseestar.com. AP Government Test Asked How a Taylor Swift Instagram Post Illustrated Structural Barriers to Voting by our own Corinne Murdock.
Last week's AP U.S. Government in Politics Exam asked how a Taylor Swift Instagram post illustrated structural barriers to voting. It appeared on the May third version of a free-response question. The college board explained to The Tennessee Star that Swift's post as an example of a key concept for AP students how one's knowledge of voter registration laws and procedures influences the nature and degree of vote turnout. My goodness.
Simon: Well, I have a rule that my rule is, anyone who pays attention to anybody in entertainment on anything serious loses eight IQ points per time.
Leahy: (Laughs) I think that's a good rule. Taylor Swift is, let's say we congratulate her on her great success as an entertainer.
Simon: Yes.
Leahy: However her far left-wing illogical posts are another matter entirely. They should not be featured on AP Government text.
Simon: Laura Ingram years ago had a good title on that thing. What was it? Shut up and sing. And for the actors, it is shut up and act. But that's the sequel book that was not written.
Leahy: Now give us some insight into why the politically correct Golden Globes now have canceled themselves.
Simon: Oh, no, they didn't cancel themselves. They were canceled by the network NBC at which there is no more woke.
Leahy: What are the Golden Globes?
Simon: The Golden Globes are like one of the phoniest awards ever created. They're given by something called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Leahy: Is there, like a foreign press in Hollywood?
Simon: Yes. And then there are a bunch of stringers from countries, mostly some countries that you've never heard of, or places like Montenegro that are sent over by the Montenegro Times as a part-time job usually to report on the latest gossip about Brad and Angelina or something.
Leahy: That's the Golden Globes. The foreign press association.
Simon: Anyway, these people are the ones who vote on the Golden Globes. Now the woke idiots at NBC that put this thing on the air have discovered that there were no Black people among the 25 or so of these people this year.
Leahy: There has been in the past right?
Simon: Yes. Sometimes they are from Nigeria. There is always somebody. But this year, no Black people. Uh oh, this is the year of the woke. So goodbye. Now the Hollywood Foreign Press, of course, has gotten on its knees and promised that they will have some Black people next year.
Leahy: None this year though.
Simon: They're quickly wiring the Nairobi Times to send their one and only. The whole thing is a farce. So that anybody who actually watched this thing is watching kind of the silliest thing that they will watch. It's another kind of phony Hollywood display. It's even more fake than the Oscars. But by the way, I'm gonna say something in public that I was gonna put on The Epoch Times first. I happen to be an Academy member. They're 8,000, 0 of us. A vote counts for more than it does most elections actually. For the first time, I did not vote this year.
Leahy: You didn't vote.
Simon: Not only that, but I didn't watch the award ceremony. The whole thing is so pointless and boring.
Leahy: So Let's talk about the Academy Awards. In 1989, 1990, when were you nominated?
Simon: '89.
Leahy: Enemies, A Love Story.
Simon: It's a serious movie. It's a very good movie.
Leahy: It was a good movie.
Simon: They don't make good movies anymore.
Leahy: They don't. But I'd like you to tell us about your experience attending the Academy Awards back then and tell us what that was like.
Simon: Oh, well, first of all, it was very thrilling because I was a young guy and I wanted to write and direct movies. That was my big ambition and I was getting closer to it. And to go to the Academy and first of all, I was so nervous it was ridiculous even though I knew I wasn't going to win but I was being nominated. And they will say, well, being nominated is like winning.
Leahy: How did you know you weren't going to win.
Simon: I was nominated against in my category, Driving Miss Daisy. Do you remember that that movie? That movie won like every award. I'm not saying that I was better than that or worse.
Leahy: I can say that.
Simon: I said it to my wife. It was a more interesting movie. It was a more serious movie, but nevertheless the experience I think for writers, because writers in Hollywood are, like, lower class.
Leahy: At the bottom of the totem pole. So you get the nomination. How do you learn that you were nominated for Academy Award?
Simon: The story of how I learned about it will make you laugh because the Academy Awards nominations are announced at six am. I don't know why exactly. Maybe for world media time or something.
Leahy: Six a.m. Pacific? That's 9 a.m.
Simon: Exactly. It has to do with all that. Anyway as I normally am at six am was asleep and got a call from my ex-wife.
Leahy: This is a Hollywood story. Hold it! Let's do a little role play here. You be Roger Simon at six am in the morning on the day you'd learn and I'll be there's the telephone right now. Ring ring ring. You pick it up and what did you say?
Simon: This was pre-cell phone.
Leahy: This is your ex-wife?
Simon: Her name is Diane.
Leahy: And she says what?
Simon: You were nominated. And I said holy…
Leahy: You added an expletive and you can't say on air. So then what did you do?
Simon: Well, I got up, drank about as much coffee as I could find in the house. I was single at the time and I sort of danced around I think. I can't really remember.
Leahy: On the night of the awards, how did you arrive? Did you have a limo?
Simon: Everybody arrives in a limo. It's vulgar and awful.
Leahy: Oh come on. You are in a limo. Did you come by yourself or did you have a guest?
Simon: I had my then-girlfriend who was then gorgeous. She was a Chinese-American woman named Pamela.
Leahy: So you had a date.
Simon: I had a date and I went with the man who directed the movie Paul Mazursky and his wife. It was four of us in the limo. And actually, I lived very close by where they have the Academy Awards.
Leahy: Did you walk on the red carpet?
Simon: Of course.
Leahy: Were there people taking pictures or something?
Simon: Yes. All of that.
Leahy: Did you take a bow?
Simon: They are not all that interested in writers.
Leahy: They want stars.
Simon: You are dressed in a penguin suit. (Leahy chuckles) In my case, it was a rental because I didn't have that many opportunities to wear them. But I went for the expensive rental. You go to these places and they ask if you want the cheap penguin suit or the expensive penguin suit?
Leahy: So you walked down and all the press is there and you got your picture taken. And when they made the announcement of the winner, did the camera pan on your face, and did you deadpan it?
Simon: As a loser did I weep?
Leahy: Yes, did you weep?
Simon: I can't remember.
Photo "Golden Globe Awards" by Peter Dutton. CC BY 2.0.


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Nel 1780 gli fu dato l'incarico di svolgere alcune missioni politiche in Spagna e nel Portogallo, ma sprecò in un nonnulla le sue ricchezze e fu costretto a dedicarsi alle lettere per guadagnarsi da vivere.

Scrisse alcune opere teatrali, di genere sentimentale, tra le quali
 I fratelli (1769)
 L'indiano occidentale (1771)
 L'innamorato alla moda (1772)

Fu autore anche della sua autobiografia Memorie della mia vita (1807), considerata dai critici poco veritiera.

Opere
Tra le sue commedie si trovano:
 The Natural Son (1785)
 The Impostors (1789), una commedia di intrighi
 The Box Lobby Challenge (1794)
 The Jew (1794), una commedia dove il personaggio di Sheva fu interpretato dal grande attore tedesco Theodor Döring
 The Wheel of Fortune (1795), in cui John Philip Kemble ebbe un fortunatissimo ruolo nel misantropo Penruddock
 First Love (1795)
 The Last of the Family (1795)
 False Impressions (1797)
 The Sailor's Daughter (1804)
 Hint to Husbands (1806)

Altri lavori realizzati nel corso della sua vita furono:
 The Note of Hand (1774), una farsa
 le canzoni delle sue commedie musicali, The Widow of Delphi (1780)
 le sue tragedie di The Battle of Hastings (1778)
 The Carmelite (1784), un dramma romantico in versi, sullo stile di Douglas, di John Home
 il dramma (in prosa) The Mysterious Husband (1783)

Le sue opere postume (pubblicate in due volumi nel 1813) includono:
 la commedia The Walloons (1782)
 The Passive Husband (o anche A Word for Nature, 1798)
 The Eccentric Lover (1798)
 Lovers' Resolutions (1802)
 il dramma semi-storico Confession
 Don Pedro (1796)
 la tragedia Alcanor (o anche The Arab, 1785)
 Torrendal (tragedia)
 The Sibyl, or The Elder Brutus
 Tiberius in Capreae (tragedia)
 The False Demetrius (tragedia)

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Weekend gone saw the last ranking race of the 2018 season. It was a great turnout by Salmon Leap CC members with 3 trailers loaded and towed by members for Juniors and Seniors!
Well done to everyone who took part and a Massive thank you to the Marathon Committee for a great 2018 racing season! I'm sure we all look forward to 2019!!