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Katherine Wilemon is passionate about helping families like hers with inherited high cholesterol.
Only one in ten people with inherited high cholesterol realize they have it.
The condition can lead to heart attacks as early as in the thirties, unless treated.
A cholesterol screening can check for familial hypercholesterolemia, FH, in the family.
Katherine Wilemon knew she was having a heart attack at age 38, even though paramedics and the emergency room doctor told her that she probably wasn't — being a young woman. The cause was familial hypercholesterolemia, FH, though at the time, no one knew it.
"I became absolutely committed to change the way that FH was diagnosed and people were treated," Wilemon, now 46, recalled. "It is a disease that if treated early, can change the trajectory of your life."
Wilemon, who would later found the FH Foundation, already knew she had high cholesterol, thanks to an early cholesterol screen. But she was surprised to find out she had progressed to severe heart disease, when the news came from her cardiologist in the days after her heart attack. Even then, she wasn't given the correct diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia — inherited high cholesterol.
The condition too often goes undiagnosed until someone has a heart attack.
For Wilemon, a resident of Pasadena, Calif., it took two more years before she finally learned she had familial hypercholesterolemia. This genetic condition left her body unable to effectively remove cholesterol from her blood, despite the fact that she was following a healthy lifestyle. The resulting rapid cholesterol buildup led to early heart disease.
Though she asked whether she should be doing anything differently after her heart attack, it took a while to get a referral to a doctor who specializes in treating problems with lipids, or blood fats, including cholesterol.
Because FH is inherited, family members should also be tested — and Wilemon soon learned that her 2-year-old daughter had the condition, too.
Health Risks of Familial Hypercholesterolemia
People with untreated FH have a high risk for heart attack, which can hit as early as their thirties, as Wilemon experienced. With treatment, the risk can drop back to normal. However, she pointed out that FH requires a different treatment approach than other cases of high cholesterol. These can usually be managed with statin medication and lifestyle changes, but FH needs more treatment.
Wilemon is currently on the full gamut of drugs available to people with FH, including a high dose statin, ezetimibe (Zetia), colesevelam (Welchol), niacin (vitamin B3), and fish oil supplements.
Based on her own history of misdiagnosis, one of her concerns is that people might know they have high cholesterol, but not realize they have FH. As a result, they may be given only a statin rather than the combination therapy that usually works better for people with FH. And without an official FH diagnosis, people might not know to encourage their immediate family members to be screened and treated for high cholesterol.
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Wilemon's passion for building awareness of familial hypercholesterolemia led her to travel around the world. She shared her story with physicians and professional associations. In the process, she learned that some countries are more aggressive than the United States about cholesterol screening and diagnosing FH.
For example, she said, U.S. experts believe that, at most, 10 percent of those with FH have been diagnosed. Compare this to Holland, where about 70 percent of those with FH have been identified — through an aggressive effort to screen the family members of people with FH. She also learned that other countries maintain national registries of people with FH.
Starting a New Foundation for Change
Wilemon's mission was clear: Build on her network of contacts to create the FH Foundation in the United States. Her intention was to advocate that the United States adopt some of the best practices from around the world. Having a national registry for people with FH was a high priority from the outset, with the goal of finding the 90 percent of U.S. residents with FH who were not yet diagnosed.
"If we can get the metrics, we can better advocate for proactive care," she explained. More data on patients and FH should lead to recommendations on follow-up testing. It may also provide information needed for funding requests. The registry is confidential and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, compliant. It launched in September 2013 and is available through the FH Foundation's Web site. Here, both patients and physicians can enter information.
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Wilemon and her colleagues are currently working on getting approval for a diagnostic code for familial hypercholesterolemia so that people's medical records accurately reflect the condition. Standardizing the coding in combination with a national movement toward electronic databases could make it easier to document the full extent of FH.
"One of the exciting things is the potential ability to search electronic medical record databases to find people who have high LDL, to go back and figure out how many of those people have FH, and start screening their family members," said familial hypercholesterolemia expert Joshua Knowles, MD. Dr. Knowles is an instructor in cardiovascular medicine at Stanford University and a member of the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease in Palo Alto, Calif.
Could You Have FH?
Many people with familial hypercholesterolemia might not yet have an official diagnosis, but still could have clues to an FH condition such as:
A family history that includes early heart attacks or unexplained deaths
Very high cholesterol, particularly starting as children, teens, or young adults
Wilemon advised talking to your doctor or cardiologist if you're concerned. "Even if your physician says, 'No, you just have high cholesterol, I wouldn't worry about it,' if you're only 25 or 30, that doesn't have to be the end of the conversation," Wilemon said.
Ask for a referral to a cardiologist or lipidologist if you want to go further with your investigation. It's also important to talk to family members and encourage them to get screened for high cholesterol. Even though there's been some controversy about cholesterol screening and treatment for children, Wilemon and Dr. Knowles emphasized that it is important. Finding children with FH can make a long-term difference.
"The discriminatory ability of [cholesterol testing] is better in children. In childhood, you haven't had a lifetime exposure of bad habits," Knowles said. His advice for all people with FH is clear: "They are at very high risk, they need to be treated aggressively, and their families need to be screened. There are not individuals with FH, there are only families."
He said it's also important to know that medication is key to managing FH, though a heart-healthy, low-cholesterol diet and lifestyle are helpful. Finding out about your diagnosis early means an early start on medications that could save your life.
As Wilemon noted, the FH Foundation doesn't just advocate for changes in data collection and management, but also serves as a resource for those looking for information, support, and direction to health teams with FH expertise.
Get started learning more about FH today by reaching out to the foundation and your own doctor.
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The Lost Madam Restell Mansion - 657 Fifth Avenue
Lithographers Hatch & Co. depicted a busy intersection of 5th Avenue and 52nd Street. The artist erroneously placed the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum in the background. It, in fact, sat in the block south of the mansion, out of frame to the right. collection of the New-York Historical Society
Ann Trow was born in Paineswick, Gloucestershire, England in 1812 to an impoverished family. While still a girl she became a servant in a butcher's family, then married a tailor named Henry Somers. The couple immigrated to New York where Somers, "a habitual drunkard," according to The New York Times decades later, died leaving Ann to raise their daughter alone. She made her living as a seamstress, then married a struggling printer, Charles R. Lohman.
At the time the plight of many poverty-stricken women who became pregnant was dismal at best. Many newborns were abandoned by parents who either did not want them, or were unable to care for them. Called by the New-York Tribune the "step-children of Nature," 78 percent perished. Desperate women, too, died at the hands of clumsy abortionists.
Ann responded to the need, as well as to her own financial problems, by reinventing herself in 1836 as a midwife, Madam Restell. While she did assist in births, her main income came from what The New York Times would call "the pill and powder business"--birth control. Charles followed her lead, taking the name Dr. Mauriceau. In 1840 they moved to No. 146 Greenwich Street.
Her advertisement in The New York Herald on October 10, 1842 reveals Ann's careful wording. She thinly veiled birth control in medical and social terms. It said in part:
"Preventative Powders," for married ladies, whose delicate or precarious health forbids a too rapid increase of family, will be sent by mail to any part of the United States. Price $5 a package.
Birth control was both illegal and immoral in Victorian New York. But private need outweighed public righteousness and the couple's business thrived. The $5 package price would be about $155 today. But, according to The Times, "their notoriety kept pace with their prosperity."
Ann was tried for performing an abortion on Maria Bodine in the fall of 1847. She was imprisoned on Blackwell's Island for a year. \
Ann was depicted along with a baby-devouring demon. National Police Gazette, March 13, 1847 (copyright expired)
While she was there, Charles remained busy. In 1847 he published the ungainly-titled The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion, Embracing the Treatment of Menstruation, or Monthly Turns, During their Stoppage, Irregularity, or Entire Suppression, Pregnancy, and How it May be Determined. Shockingly, it openly advocated birth control and abortion and pushed his "Portuguese Female Pills." But like his wife, he was careful to present the pitch as medical help. The pills would "undoubtedly, even produce miscarriage" when problems like the malformation of the pelvis made birth dangerous.
In 1850 the Lohmans moved to a fine home on Chambers Street. The Times later recalled "She there occupied a handsome house, sumptuously furnished, drove fast horses, kept many servants, and exhibited herself in public so boldly as to excite general disgust."
By 1863 the couple's wealth was so vast that they began construction on a lavish mansion at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street. At the time there was little development--Fifth Avenue this far north would not be paved for nearly two decades. The Lohmans' seemingly self-imposed isolation (their only neighbor was the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum in the block directly to the south) may simply have been an issue of practicality. No one in polite society would abide them as neighbors.
Completed in 1865, the massive brick and brownstone house diminished almost all of the mansions of Manhattan's wealthiest citizens. A broad stone staircase led to the entrance portico. Multiple balconies clung to the facade and the roof line was crowned with a regal balustrade with giant finials. To the north was a sprawling walled garden.
The Times later described the house in unkind terms. "It was furnished throughout in an extravagantly rich and vulgar style, the window shades, covered with gaudy flowers, making the house one of the most conspicuous on Fifth-avenue."
A gate in the side wall led to Ann's office. An advertisement in The New York Herald on May 28, 1867 read "Madame Restelle--Professor of Midwifery over thirty years, guarantees immediate relief to every lady requiring medical or surgical treatments, from whatever cause. Office No. 1 East Fifty-second street, first door from Fifth avenue."
At the same time, "Dr. A. M. Mauriceau" ran daily ads for "A great and Sure Remedy for Married Ladies" in the same newspaper. They promised that the Portuguese Female Pills "always give immediate relief."
On August 23, 1871 The New York Times called the ads "these shameful notices" and claimed that "nearly $60,000 per annum is invested by this couple in advertising." The newspaper sent two undercover reporters--a man and a woman--in an attempt to get damning evidence that Ann was an abortionist. They explained their desperate situation; but Ann was wary.
"I can sell you some pills, but really we do no other business. We have had so much trouble about these matters we don't take any more risks. In all the six years that we have lived in this house there has never a stranger slept under the roof--none in fact but our own family," she told them.
The family members to whom Ann referred were her grandson, Charles R. Purdy, her granddaughter Caroline and her husband R. H. Shannon. Ann's daughter had been married to a man named Purdy (a relative of Ann's attorney, Ambrose H. Purdy). Following his death she married a policeman named Farrell against Ann's wishes. Ann never truly reconciled with her daughter, refusing to recognize either her or her husband. She adored her grandchildren, however, and convinced her daughter to transfer custody to her.
Ann allowed Caroline to visit her mother, but refused to allow her carriage to be seen in front of the house. The Times said "Mrs. Farrell was visited by her daughter frequently, the latter blazing with diamonds, driving in the splendid carriage of her grandmother to the corner of Varick and Carmine streets, walking thence to the humble abode of her parents on Houston-street." Ann was not heartless, nonetheless. She paid for the Farrells' house and frequently took care of the past-due bills of their butcher, grocer and such.
As the mansions of New York's best families inched up Fifth Avenue, Ann attempted to sell the plots that made up her garden. The Times said later "It is said that she made efforts to sell the lots adjoining her house on Fifth-avenue, but could find no purchaser who cared to build in her neighborhood." Frustrated, she erected the Osborn apartment house on the site in 1876. Two years later The Times said "The "Osborn" was for a long time an unproductive investment, and the aversion of Mme. Restell was so great that even when the rents were reduced 50 per cent, it was difficult to get tenants."
Charles R. Lohman died on January 5, 1877. One year to the day later Ann found herself in deep trouble. Anthony Comstock, the founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, was indefatigable in his crusade against perceived immorality. On January 28, 1878 he visited Ann's office in disguise and became "convinced that she was still engaged in her nefarious practices," according to newspapers. He made a complaint charging her "with selling and having in her possession certain instruments and medicines."
In reporting on her arrest, The Times mentioned the house. "It is one of the finest in the City, and never fails to attract the attention of the passer-by, on account of its architectural beauty and magnificence." The article added that Ann's fortune, estimated "to be not less than $1,500,000" was "entirely the proceeds of her criminal profession." It, perhaps unintentionally, revealed the hypocrisy of Victorian morality. "Her patrons are said to belong to belong to the very wealthiest families."
In fact, it appears that Ann Trow Lohman truly felt she was doing good (as did another of Comstock's targets, Margaret Sanger, who is positively viewed today as a pioneer in birth control.) Ann pleaded with the Judge Kilbreth to be released on bail. "She urged that she had several ladies belonging to good families under her charge; that they needed her personal care, and that her enforced absence would place them in great danger," reported The Times.
On February 27, 1878, the second day of the trial, Ann sat in the courtroom behind a veil. She was forced to listen to Assistant District Attorney Herring's condemnations. He said, for instance, that she had established "a maelstrom of hell" and organized "a business of such a nefarious character that it seems to have tainted the whole atmosphere with evil within the precinct."
Although Ann maintained a composed presence in court, she was seriously traumatized by the publicity and trial. Caroline's husband told a reporter that "All day Sunday [March 31, 1878] she rambled restless about the house, talking pitifully about what she called the persecution she was undergoing." He said she repeatedly wrung her hands, saying "What shall I do? What shall I do?" and "I have never injured anybody; why should they bring this trouble upon me?" She went to bed at around 9:00 that evening, having said she could not bear to appear in court again the next day.
The following morning a chamber maid, Maggie McGrath, noticed the door of a bathroom on the second floor was open as she headed downstairs around 7:00. She could see a nightdress thrown over a chair and assumed Ann was taking a bath.
Around an hour later, having had breakfast, Maggie went upstairs again. She was surprised to see the door still open and the nightgown still on the chair. The Lohman mansion had the latest in luxuries and conveniences, including the wood-encased bathtub with wooden folding doors for privacy. According to The Times, when Ann did not respond to her voice, Maggie opened the doors, "uncovering a spectacle that curdled her blood and sent her screaming with horror from the room."
On April 2, 1878 the newspaper began its article entitled "End Of A Criminal Life" saying:
The notorious Mme. Restell is dead. Having for nearly 40 years been before the public as a woman who was growing rich by the practice of a nefarious business; having once served an imprisonment for criminal malpractice; having ostentatiously flaunted her wealth before the community and made an attractive part of the finest avenue in the City odious by her constant presence, she yesterday, driven to desperation at last by the public opinion she had so long defied, came to a violent end by cutting her throat from ear to ear."
Ann was buried next to Charles in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown. The hurried funeral the following morning "was a private, unostentatious and unchristian as possible," according to The Times. Ann had been placed in a simple rosewood coffin the night before and was placed in the reception room. Just before the hearse arrived, the servants were called in for a last look at their mistress. Ann's children and grandchildren followed them in a short line around the coffin.
There was no religious service and, according to The Times, "the casket was carried to the hearse and fastened in without any acknowledgement of a future life."
With the infamous Madam Restell gone, reputable families felt comfortable moving in to the neighborhood. In 1882 the Vanderbilts completed construction on their massive mansions directly across the street. Ann left her entire estate to her grandchildren, leaving her daughter with nothing. They combined No. 657 Fifth Avenue with the Osborn in 1883, creating the Langham Hotel. The family retained ownership until 1902.
The Lohman mansion and the Osborn Apartments were combined as the Langham Hotel. from the collection of the New York Public Library
On July 15, 1911 the Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide reported on "Loft Buildings Among the Mansions," and noted that a "purely loft structure" was rising "on the site of the old Langham Hotel." Completed in 1912, it survives.
The loft building on the site was completed in 1912. Record & Guide, July 13, 1912 (copyright expired)
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Magnuspetrie March 12, 2018 at 5:06 AM
I am told that the restaurant La Grenouille occupies what had been Mme. Restell's stables. Don't know if that story is apocryphal.
Tom Miller March 12, 2018 at 6:13 AM
Indeed it was. See here: https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/search?q=La+Grenouille+
And although off topic for this forum, i have often wondered if the pills and potions sold by Mme. Restell and her husband were at all effective or if the pair were simply highly effective "snake oil" salesmen?
Hi--they were effective. So many women practiced this first-trimester abortion (a way of "restarting a late period" that the white birthrate declined throughout the nineteenth century. Restell also provided adoption services to women who came to her too far along in their pregnancies. Best wishes, Dana
Divert4abit August 13, 2022 at 10:37 PM
What happened to all of the records kept by Madame Restell?
Tom Miller August 14, 2022 at 1:12 AM
I wouldn't presume she kept records, but if there were any I'm sure they were destroyed after her death.
Divert4abit August 14, 2022 at 9:46 AM
Thank you. She's an interesting part of history isn't she?
Tom Miller August 14, 2022 at 10:48 AM
I find her absolutely fascinating
Divert4abit October 15, 2022 at 1:13 PM
Do you still write?
Tom Miller October 15, 2022 at 4:42 PM
Glad to hear that
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Créé sous le nom Arorangi FC, sa dénomination change en 2004 pour devenir le Puaikura FC.

Palmarès

Section masculine
Championnat des Îles Cook  (4)
 Champion : 1985, 1987, 2013, 2016
Coupe des Îles Cook (3)
 Vainqueur : 1985, 2016, 2017

Section féminine
Championnat des Îles Cook  (5)
 Champion : 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012
Coupe des Îles Cook (2)
 Vainqueur : 2007, 2009

Club de football aux îles Cook

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It's make with guava leaves, so it's piratey.
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Trust the Quartermaster (it IS my job to take care of you lot) the only "cure" for a hang over is water. Dehydration is the #1 cause of headaches and fatigue as well. Drink before you sleep. Drink after you wake up. You don't have to match what rum you drink but try to match what you leave behind (if ye be catching me drift).
Like ALL the "hang over" medicines before, I'm willing to bet a shilling you have to drink 2 glasses of water with the tables. Hmmmmm.. should make ye think.


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Businesses renegotiating contracts to cope with Covid-19, ERG says
07 June, 2020, 12:50 am
Business casual evolving to business comfort
Covid-19: Daily infection rate tops 27% in just 21 days in Ctg
Amar Ekushey Book Fair deferred by 2 weeks due to Covid-19
Businesses are renegotiating contracts with their counterparts to cope with losses caused by Covid-19.
The Economic Research Group (ERG) recently completed a study on selected areas of contracts where renegotiations being made were observed.
These were presented in a webinar, attended by researchers and academia from The Dhaka University, North South University, Brac University, Brac Institute of Governance and Development, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Youth Policy Forum and the ERG, including its Chairperson Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud.
On behalf of the research team, the key presentation was made by ERG Associate Mutasim Billah Mubde and the session was moderated by Dr Sajjad Zohir, executive director of ERG.
A phone survey was administered on around a hundred firms during the second and third week of May 2020.
The businesses surveyed covered sectors including RMG, electric and electronics, plastic, IT, agro-processing, food and services. Office-based works have largely been shifted to home-based or a mix of both office and home-based activities.
This may be further promoted with implications for both property rentals and employment of less-skilled labour. The study did not look into the negotiations underway with client groups. In cases of work order reduction as, three coping strategies are observed.
Delays in rent payment are observed, though some firms could renegotiate 10 to 50 percent reduction, while a few others went for deferred payment. Yet many have not made a move to resolve.
Participants suggested that social conflicts may surface unless these are amicably resolved right now when both property owners and tenants commonly face uncertainty and threat of Covid-19.
It was suggested that no rule be made to meddle with the issue of rent. However, the government, NGOs and community-based organizations should facilitate conflict resolution and protect the weaker party.
Employment has been adversely affected in all sectors. Relatively it was the least in the IT sector, which lost a large volume of work order from foreign markets, but got new clients in the domestic market, particularly, in health E-commerce and government service sectors.
Amid disruption, firms running with 16-59 percent capacity in May were expected to increase that ranging from 40 to 77 percent, depending on their sectors.
Uncertainty is revealing, given the finding that none of the surveyed firms could retain their workforce if no revenue was earned before October/November. More than 15% reported their inability to pay salaries in June.
87.3% of firms operating in rented or leased premises will have to delay rent payment. While 43.1% of firms operating in the same space were successful in renegotiating delayed rent payment, the implications of it were discussed in terms of the national economy.
Discussion on government intervention was followed, and the requirement of space for tenants to raise concerns or complaints came up.
Compassionate media coverage is necessary for such spaces to play the role of facilitating outcomes beneficial to both parties, the discussants suggested.
ERG / COVID-19 / Coronavirus / Economy


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Chapter 61: Being Naked and Examining My Achievements Board
May 28, 2020 / Thedude3445 / 0 Comments
So I guess it's time I explained the Achievements Board to Delta and Eryk, something I have been putting off for a very long time.
"So I guess it's time I explain the Achievements Board to you two," I say. "This is something I have been putting off for a very long time."
"No shit," Delta says.
"It has never proven to be incredibly relevant… Until now, I guess."
The three of us are still taking a hot mineral bath together in the Yuletide Lounge, a hot spring that overlooks a magnificent vineyard termed the Great Grape Gardens. It is the single greatest moment of my time in Paso Robles so far, and I am enjoying it with great stride.
"So what is it?" Francis asks. He's still cuddling up to Delta, who currently has her arm around his shoulder. "What exactly is the achievement system in your, uh, system?"
"The Achievements Board is a list of one hundred different tasks that grant rewards when completed," I explain. "These rewards are often trivial or silly, such as weapons that are usually outdated, or ceremonial trinkets. Sometimes the rewards can be greater, but it is unknown what will be rewarded until you trigger the achievement, because the exact reward varies depending on your rank, level, and race."
"So it's a dynamically scaling loot system, essentially…" Francis seems absorbed in thought, like he has pondered this very design even longer than I have.
"It's really no big deal," I say. "It's one of the many minor features of the Destiny Deck System that I have mostly deemed unnecessary."
"Features you haven't told us anything about until it's convenient?" Delta asks.
"Well… I'm sorry. I should have given a more thorough explanation of my entire system. It would be easier if I were simply able to find a Sorting Scepter and bring it to Earth to grant the two of you the ability to choose your own class, though. You'd gain access to the system and would quickly understand everything that I already do."
"And we'd be tied to the whole Life Points thing that will slowly kill us," she adds.
"Well… Yes."
"But wait, you just got an achievement for… what?" Francis asks. "Soaking in the hot springs?"
"Yes, apparently," I say. "I cannot see all one hundred achievements; the only ones visible to me are those I have completed, and those adjacent to the completed. This one I succeeded at all on its own: 'Soak in fifteen hot springs.'"
"What a weirdly specific achievement."
"That's the fun of it," I tell him. "The whole Achievements Board is a bonus to help ease new users into the Destiny Deck System, by giving them concrete and sometimes lofty goals to reach for. Each board is geared towards its specific class, and so my [Adventurer] board is filled with tasks to help me succeed at exploring, fighting monsters, and trying new things."
"Can we… see it?"
"Uh, not that I know of. But I guess I can list the whole board to you…?"
Well, here it goes:
Complete the tutorial software.✓ Travel over 100,000 miles.(Progress: 65%) Sleep at 125 inns.(Progress: 44%) Defeat a member of royalty in battle. Kill your first monster.✓ Fight a B Rank opponent.
Defeat the boss of an Apex Lair. Uncover buried treasure. Adjust the System Personality settings.✓ Use the Wedding function and marry another System user. Become drunk to the point of passing out. Keep going. Draw a Rank 5 card.✓ Frighten a goblin away from its gold. Perform a stunt so impressive that a bystander shouts "Superb!"
Kiss someone while underneath a waterfall. Reach E Rank.✓ Access your Sorting Scepter to assess your options. Reach the Top 16 of the Grand Tournament. Sail over 10,000 miles. (Progress: 92%) Soak at 15 hot springs.✓ Rescue a damsel in distress.
"That really is a lot of achievements," Delta says. "Some of those aren't even possible to complete on Earth, either. Most of them maybe."
"Your system has a personality?" Francis asks.
"I turned it off," I say. "Trust me. It was not something you would want on all the time. It can speak out loud all on its own…"
"But it'd be a new friend! We'd be a team of four interesting quirky folk, not just three!"
"I really have to agree with Eryk on this one," says Delta. "Please never turn this system personality thing back on."
So next for me is to claim the reward for achieving the hot springs achievement. I wonder what it could be?
[51 DP total.]
"I heard a ding!" Francis shouts.
"Yes, and by The Goddess's name was it a ding!" I exclaim. "Three Destiny Points awarded to me. Wow."
"So we've been sitting on a possible Destiny Points goldmine this whole time and you never even told us," Francis says. "On one hand that makes me mad at you and we're going to talk after this. On the other, holy crap, we have a whole new set of tasks to strive for!"
"Indeed, indeed," I say. I don't want Francis to be mad at me, though… I really should have told him about some of the features the system gives me, it's just… I never really thought about some of them. The most the Achievements Board has given me is a single gold bar for reaching E Rank back in the day. There wasn't even an achievement for reaching D Rank, for some reason…
Well, anyway, for now we can continue relaxing in the bath with absolutely zero interr—
Knock knock.
"Hello, Mr. Bacall and party?" a voice asks, one belonging to the woman from the front desk who put me at a noticeable unease. We don't answer immediately, but she doesn't hesitate to continue. "There is one Pablo out here asking to join you in the bath. He is quite nice. Shall I let him in?"
Pablo Rosas is here…
Chapter 60: A Nice Hotsprings Bath (Fanservice Chapter)
I throw off my shirt and pants and underwear in one fell swoop, so fast that the clothes haven't even hit the ground by the time I've grabbed a towel and wrapped it around myself. Delta sneers at me, but Francis stares in amazement.
Francis attempts the same maneuver, but then trips over his feet trying to get his pants off.
I put away my clothes and belongings (which so far include just my phone, a granola bar, and a ziploc bag with paper currency) into a bin and slide it into a shelf. There appear to be no protective measures against someone stealing these items if they so wished, though I assume the Yuletide Lounge has other security measures that can prevent theft. At least, I hope so. Otherwise I will have overestimated the intelligence of the people of Earth even further. Don't they know gremlins or other such non-sentient beasts could enter and take all the items in an instant?
"I'll be the first to enter," I say, "since if there are any heinous villains or vile traps, I will be the one to fend them off before letting you come to harm."
"Okay," Delta says. "Just don't cannonball into the bath please."
"Cannonball…?"
"Uh, very well then."
I enter the bath room, which consists of a few buckets of water to wash oneself off with, a pleasant blue tile floor, and steam permeating every inch of the air. There is a wide glass-free window-like opening. I'm not quite sure if it counts as a window if there is no glass. But either way, right in front of the bath is a window that lets out all the steam and also allows a great wide look at the Great Grape Gardens of Paso Robles, the same vast vineyard I viewed a few minutes earlier in the front entrance.
This is not quite a natural hot springs like I would have wished for, though the creepy woman at front promised that the water is from a natural hot springs and the building was simply designed around it. But I must say I prefer a bath built from rocks, one where the calming sense of nature surrounds you completely. One of the downsides of Earth's magnificent societal advancements is that the path to nature is quite a lot harder. Even the vineyard out there is man-made, as beautiful as it may be. It gives me some sense of longing, but one I can't quite describe.
Well, a bath is a bath, especially one with the enriching properties of scalding hot mineral water. If it is as powerful a bath as the ones I sometimes partook in back on Mystix, soaking for long enough will give me the [Soothed] status effect, which will slow my non-combat Life Points drain for around a day. That's great!
So I take off my towel and set it on a rack, and then wash myself off with the shower to rid myself of the germs and gunk accumulated over the day. And then when I am ready, I stand up and—
Oh, Francis is in here now.
We meet eyes.
And then I look down instinctively and back up at him.
Francis is completely naked, and so am I. His body is curvy and soft, just like I always expected, but much hairier in the chest and elsewhere. He has the figure of a hearty lumberjack after a winter's break, more powerful than a video game player should be. And… While I can never say I have felt this way in my life before… I am somewhat uncomfortable. Also I haven't taken my eyes off him in upwards of fifteen seconds.
He blinks a few times in response to my staring and steps into the bath without washing off first.
I gather my bearings and do the same.
The water is extremely hot—
Ouch, for a second. I'll have to acclimate myself and step in slowly—
Splash.
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh….
Amazing. Just fantastic. If baths counted as a Class Action for [Adventurers,] I'd probably gain two Destiny Points right here on the spot (this is a joke; one cannot gain two Destiny Points for the same action in almost any case.)
My body heats up and relaxes in exactly the way it always needed. It's been approximately one week since I came to Earth and I'm incredibly tired to say the least. This is a much-deserved break from the rough and tumble world of the Destiny Deck System. No Dragons here. No Persian Mob. No disconcerting Paso Robles fans. No wondering about the mysteries of what Miss M was trying to bring me to. Just sitting (laying?) in this large pool of mineral water.
Francis gives me a weird look, probably from how I was acting earlier. I try not to meet his eyes.
I blame Delta for all of this.
She's the one who told me that whole spiel about how Francis thinks extremely highly of me and considers me a great friend, or even a "sweetheart" or whatever. She used the word "crush," but I'm still a bit unsure of the meaning behind that. Either way, now I have to wonder…
Wait minute, why did he not stare at me when he saw my naked body? What, am I not chiseled and muscular enough to warrant an emotional response from my appearance alone? Does he not appreciate the fine form of the human body as much as I do? If so, that is a sad case. The human body is beautiful in all shapes and sizes. It is our own artwork which we carry around with us, and I will not—
I see Delta enter the bath room. She, of course, removes her towel and shows off her naked, nearly completely hairless body. With a flat chest, prominent abs, and wide hips, Delta is picturesque in the classical sense—I have seen few paintings that have captured the essence of feminine beauty in such a way as her. I stare at her and take in the art that The Goddess crafted before she steps into the bath and her features disappear below the murky water.
She glares at me harder than I've ever seen her do before.
"You have literally not even a speck of decency in that shriveled up cranium of yours," Delta says.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"You know exactly what you mean, you pervert," she says.
"Pervert? What did I do to offend you so?"
"You're gawking me like a real creeper," she says flatly. "I thought we… you know, after Chasing Amy…"
"Chasing Amy? Francis asks.
My face lights up with the distinct burn of a blushing face. "Ah, yes, that's right… Chasing Amy…"
"Yeah, so…"
"My apologies," I say. "I did not mean to imply—Well, I will admit I find you very physically attractive—that I was examining you for lewd behaviors. I was simply taking in your physical form, which is at the peak of womanhood. You deserve to have your likeness sculpted into a statue and put on display in a gallery."
She sighs, and leans back at the edge of the bath, putting her arms behind the back of her head and looking slightly upwards. "I get it. You're from a different world and all, so it's not quite the same. It's super fucking weird, but I'll take the compliment."
"Maybe I'm desensitized from seeing Delta naked like a billion times since we were six," Francis says, "but I really don't see where you're coming from with all this."
"Hey!" Delta shouts.
"Just kidding." He giggles.
"I have doubts about that…"
Francis scoots across the bath and gets up right next to Delta, resting his head on her elbow. "Isn't this great?" he asks. "It's so relaxing."
"Besides Eryk being here, yeah I guess so."
He lets out a long, pleasant sigh, completely unlike the one Delta just gave towards me. "This was a good choice, Delta. I'm really starting to feel better."
"Yeah. Being with you, just spending time hanging out with my bestie. It's been forever since we could just… You know, have fun."
"It does feel nice," she says. "But are you sure you're…" she trails off, apparently not to directly bring up how upset Francis was yesterday after something he didn't want to tell us about.
"Yep, for sure," he replies. "Rest, relaxation, and adventuring across the United States."
"Or at least California. I don't know if we should go all the way out past LA, should we?"
"And not let Eryk see the Grand Friggin' Canyon?"
"True, true," she says. "I haven't even seen the Grand Canyon."
My mind puzzles with the possibilities of what such a grand canyon could be like that it's become its own proper noun. That interests me a lot.
"Well then, it's decided," he says.
"I guess it is, Francis."
The two continue leaning back and soaking in the steamy atmosphere of the hot springs.
I watch them and a small smile grows on my face. It's starting to become clear to me why they were so eager to help me, why they were so happy to go on this big adventure with me. Sure, I'm in great need of help and they are the ones who will bring me into becoming the first S-Rank Hero in generations. But I think they just wanted to escape the pressures of Earth's stressful adult life and hang out with each other.
I really respect that.
Hanging out is really fun, after all. Taking a nice relaxing bath with your friends in a mineral water pool and—
[Achivement Unlocked! Soak in 15 hot springs.]
!!!!!!!!
[Visit the Achievements Board to collect your reward.]
"I did it!" I exclaim. "I got a new achievement!"
Both of them look at me with absolute confusion and speak in unison: "Achievement?"
Chapter 59: Entering the Hot Springs, I Notice Something…
"I just don't believe it…" Francis groans.
"Why not? It has most certainly happened. I can verify it. I have now 52 Destiny Points." (It's a lie, since I only have 47, but I'm playing coy about that extra card I drew at the hotel.)
"But it's just so…"
"So what?" I ask.
"So stuuuuuupiiiiiid…." Francis groans. "Video games are not supposed to be any sort of substitute for real life. They're a distraction, like entertainment. That's the exact opposite of adventuring!" He throws his hands up in the air.
"Tough talk for someone whose entire life revolves around playing games," Delta tells him.
We are outside the entrance to the Yuletide Lounge, a world-famous hot springs that sits right in front of a vast grape vineyard. People from all over the realm flock to visit and soak in the warm baths. However, today it seems relatively empty, which is either a good thing for our attempt to hide from Pablo Rosas, or a bad thing because it makes us a lot easier to spot.
Now that I think of it… there really have not been many people in Paso Robles these past couple days. I'm not sure how I feel about that, now that I think about it…
"I'm just saying, this adventure is utterly pointless if we could have just kept Eryk at home playing games. I could have made a ton of money off teaching a dude from medeival times how to play games and recording it all."
"You would really use me as such a cheap vessel for monetary gain?" I ask.
"Yeah, probably… Sorry, Eryk, but you'd make so much money as a streamer. Especially if you used a spell every now and then."
"Perhaps… But, Francis, how are young people donating their disposable income to you when you are here with us on this trip, rather than at home on your computer setup?"
Francis flashes a smile. "Well, I do got a super special secret: Sometimes, I stream mobile games! Like Boys Frontline and Star Wars: Girls' Love Idol Team and Jelly Joy, that sort of thing. Not as many people watch, and I can't stream my voice or face very much, but it still attracts a few viewers somehow. Kids really wanna watch me play games."
Delta glares at him. "Completely and utterly defeating the purpose of a vacation, you continue to work. That's my explanation for it."
He puts his arm behind his shoulders and rubs the back of his head. "Well, I love video games, what's a guy gonna do…"
"I think video games are potentially a quite interesting medium of entertainment, especially if they reward me Destiny Points," I say. "Perhaps I should be the one playing mobile games in my spare time."
"When we finish setting up your phone, maybe we can," Francis says. "But anyway, let's stop talking shop and enter this shop!"
"It's not a shop, it's a hot springs," Delta says.
We finally enter the Yuletide Lounge hot springs. It seems to be a normal office building akin to anything else I've seen on Earth; there is a small, fake tree in the corner with seating against the walls and clean tile floor. A woman in a suit looks on with vague happiness while standing behind a counter that has some papers and pens on it.
And the woman stares at us with a vague sort of pleasantness.
"Welcome to the Yuletide Lounge Hot Springs," she says. "We are so glad for you to have come to Paso Robles today to visit this spot in particular. Will you be enjoying a nice hot bath today?"
"Yep, that's the plan," Francis says.
I keep looking at her, though she never looks my way. "…"
"Will you want a public bath or a private one? How many? Would you like complimentary olive oil?"
"Private bath, and uh, just one," he says. "No thank you to the olive oil."
She doesn't respond for a moment. Her expression remains unchanged. "Very well, then," she says, finally. "Sign in and we can get you paid and set up for a nice bath in a room overlooking the Great Grape Gardens of Paso Robles."
"The Great Grape Gardens…?" I ask.
She beckons a hand. "Yes, look out that window. You can see one of the world's most beautiful grape farms. We use this to make wine. We use wine to bring visitors. We are a very happy city."
I look out the window and see a vast vineyard stretching out as far as the eye can see, all the way to the mountains in the distance. By The Goddess's name, that's beautiful.
Oh, I have 48 DP now. As Earth people like to say, sweet! I pump my fist lightly.
The woman notices me and tilts her head to the side, expression unchanged.
But as my two Earth friends seem not to be saying…. very un-sweet.
She's… a little bit unsettling.
This whole place is very unsettling.
It has that sort of atmosphere of… I don't know. A cave full of treasure, but also full of mimics? It feels calm and peaceful, but my guard is up at all times. I'm even instinctively checking my Destiny Card hand just out of habit:
There are a great many strategies I can take at a moment's notice, especially with a card as versatile as [Blinding Rush,] but I do not feel like I should be going around and wasting these cards, sometimes I quite often say.
Why even have these Destiny Cards if I'm just going to sit on them for long periods of time? Well… You never know when you will get in a combat situation so perilous that you end up using four cards at once.
I don't necessarily suspect that today will go like that, but…
"Okay, your bath is in Room 20C. Enjoy at your leisure." The lady clasps her hands together like she is fawning over the fact that we are deeming this place of business worthy of partaking in.
I look at Delta, and she keeps a neutral face, but I can tell she's thinking many of the same things I am.
I look at Francis, and he's got his tongue stuck out. "Woo-hoo!" he shouts. "Let's get naked and take a piping hot bath!"
Is that how I look to other people whenever I become foolhardy?
Chapter 58: I Ponder My Worries; Delta's Secret is Revealed
After what seems like an eternity of waiting, we take action.
Yes, I know that I, Eryk Solbourne, am not someone who is typically seen as a cautious person. In just the past few days, I have done certain things that one could charitably consider "hasty."
For example, within hours of my arrival on Earth, I had acted with zero hesitation with an assumption that this was a world where kaiju roamed freely and the humans on the planet were relegated to living on giant moving cities. I fought and nearly killed innocent cosplayers in the thought that they were aiding a monster invisible to my system.
For example, shortly after meeting Francis Bacall, my dear friend, I destroyed a cardboard skeleton standee, fled from the San Fransisco Police Department, set fire to a convention center seller hall, and beat up a man named Buddy because he said mean things about my friends.
For example, I was given the chance to be resurrected back on Mystix and to potentially reuinte with my lost love, my own elf lover Malia, and instead decided to go back to Earth where my life was constantly at risk and my system gnawed away at my very being.
For example, I eagerly wrestled a bear into submission the moment it threatened me without any regard to etiquette or care.
For example, without any regard to the way people perceive me, I entered an underground fighting ring and handily disposed of every single contender in the entire building, then defeated mobsters from a far-off land known as Persia.
For example, I…
Well, I think it's obvious. I am a hasty person, and one that sometimes commits actions that do not have the optimal outcome thanks to my not thinking things through. Sometimes I feel that this may be my charm, that people are attracted to someone they can rely on to always be prepared for large-scale and dynamic action, but someone who also must be looked after and protected. It is part of what makes Eryk Solbourne the man he is.
So then, knowing all of this, it must come as a surprise that I am feeling heavy trepidation right now, that I am the one in my trio of friends who is urging caution and wanting to stay back.
In this twisted, possibly sinister city of Paso Robles, even someone like Eryk Solbourne can become a worrisome figure. That fact alone should give some pause.
But I am not the one leading the charge in this hasty endeavor. It is instead my dear friend Francis.
Using our best collective sneak skills (and sadly because I am an [Adventurer] rather than a [Butler,] I do not have the access to Destiny Cards that would give all of us amazing stealth abilities), we exit our hotel room. We do not take our things, for reasons I am currently not quite sure about. It VERY MUCH seems to me like the best course of action would be to take our next train ride out of Paso Robles and leave this creepy place behind!
But no. Instead, we climb aboard a public bus, tap our IC Cards (these are magical cards, similar to the hotel room key cards, that store money and can be used to pay for transportation and even vending machines), and go off on our next day's adventure.
"I am not quite certain this is the best course of action…" I say.
"Don't worry," Francis says. "We're going to get our money's worth out of this trip! I promise! You're going to get so many friggin' Destiny Points."
"But the amount we had to sneak just to get around that Pablo Rosas man… it's some pretty unsettling feelings I am having right now."
"I kinda feel it too," Delta adds. "I'm really not sure we should do it. But… We can't leave yet. Not right now when the heat's still high. So might as well enjoy our trip. I'm looking forward to the hot springs, anyway."
"As am I," I say. "I have not enjoyed a hot springs in a very long time! It excites me."
"Good on you," she says. "Me neither, so this might be fun."
"You know, Delta, you've changed," Francis says.
"You sound a lot more chill lately," he tells her.
I can see the very pores of her face start to shift. Her relaxed expression morphs into the same stern, angry scowl that Delta Rafati is famous for. In an instant, she is anything but "chill."
Francis shrugs. "I'm just saying… You're starting to be back to your old self a little bit."
"My old self… Fuck off."
"Did you know Delta used to be cutesy and happy all the time?" Francis asks me. "When we were teens she always dressed in gothic lolita fashion and listened to pop music all the time. Absolutely an adorable human being. Super chill about everything."
"Really?!" I exclaim so loud it makes other people on the bus look back at us. "Delta was cute? I can hardly fathom it."
"The cutest little lesbian you've ever seen," he says. "Just by being around her back then I met almost every girlfriend I ever had. Some of them dumped me for her though."
Delta growls. "Everything Francis is saying is a complete lie, Eryk. Don't listen to him."
"It seems extremely plausible, I must say." I rub my chin and try to picture in my mind's eye a younger version of Delta, one where her bangs are cut short and she has a frilly pastel dress (yes, I know what gothic lolita is—we have that fashion style on Mystix too). It's very difficult for me to imagine it being real, I must admit.
"Well it's not, and I hate Francis forever," she says. She crosses her arm and looks out the window, ignoring the two of us for the rest of the bus ride. Francis continues to snicker quietly for the entire time as well.
I for one am still extremely nervous about our trip to the hot springs. Yes, it will be something that is absolutely relaxing in a way I have not felt in years, but… must we really stay in Paso Robles another day? Is this truly a wise decision?
We'll have to see…


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Q: Opencv cv:Mat::at allows to modify only part of the image I'm playing around with opencv 3.2 (new to this library), and noticed some weird behavour of the cv::Mat::at method.
1st when typing myMat.at help notes about method signature don't show up in QTcreator but do show up for the rest of the methods
2nd when iterating over pixels of the image it modifies only some part of the image (I'll better show a screenshot and the code)

the code
#include <QCoreApplication>
#include <QDebug>

#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>
#include <opencv2/core.hpp>
#include <opencv2/imgproc.hpp>
#include <opencv2/highgui.hpp>
#include <opencv2/imgcodecs.hpp>
#include <stdint.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QCoreApplication a(argc, argv);

    cv::Mat orignalImg = cv::imread("/path/to/image/pic3.jpg", cv::IMREAD_ANYCOLOR);
    cv::Mat modifiedImg = cv::imread("/path/to/image/pic3.jpg", cv::IMREAD_ANYCOLOR);

    for (int r = 0; r < modifiedImg.rows; ++r)
    {
        for (int c = 0; c < modifiedImg.cols; ++c)
        {
            modifiedImg.at<uint8_t>(r, c) = modifiedImg.at<uint8_t>(r, c) * 0.2f;
        }
    }

    cv::imshow("original", orignalImg);
    cv::imshow("modified", modifiedImg);
    cv::waitKey(0);
    return a.exec();
}

As you can see the image on the right side isn't completely processed, but only part of it.
Why is this happening ?
According to the code it should process whole image.
what Am I missing there?

A: You're accessing the Mat with at<uint8_t> (btw, you should've used at<uchar> instead), meaning that the image is of type CV_8UC1, i.e. a matrix of 1 channel (C1) with underlying type 8 bit unsigned (8U).
However, your is a color image, which means that it has 3 channels (C3) with type 8 bit unsigned (8U), which means 8 bit for representing each of the color B,G,R (0:255). This means that the image is of type CV_8UC3, and you should access it with at<cv::Vec3b>.
So your code becomes:
 modifiedImg.at<Vec3b>(r, c) = modifiedImg.at<Vec3b>(r, c) * 0.2f;

You can also avoid to scan the image, and use directly:
modifiedImg = modifiedImg * 0.2f;

You can also use imread with cv::IMREAD_COLOR (the default) to be sure to load the image with 3 channels.

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Container Seedlings are our smallest sellable plants. Generally used for reforestation and riparian buffer plantings, these plants are best for high volume plantings. Grown in air-pruning pots, these plants develop fibrous roots that improve survival rates especially compared to bare root plants.
How tall are the plants and what size container are they grown in?
Plant sizes vary by species. Oaks and slower growing species may range from 8″-20″ tall. Fast growing species such as sycamore and tulip poplar may reach heights of 2-3′. Please note however, Container Seedlings are not sold by height. The container size is 3″ square x 9″ deep (SP5).
How are Container Seedlings sold?
Plants are sold in quantities of 25 plants per flat. Flat size is 15″ square x 5″ deep with a lip for easy handling and transport.
Can I break up a flat and "mix and match" plants in a flat?
No, plants are sold only in full-flat increments of the same species (i.e. 25 Acer rubrum / red maple per flat).
Do I need to use a tree shelter with my Container Seedlings?
If you have deer pressure, rodents or invasive plants, it is recommended to use a tree shelter. Properly installed, a tree shelter provides protection for your new plants. Tree shelters are not recommended for shrubs species as they may inhibit their natural growth habit. Click here for more information about Tree Shelters.


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Apple is more than just the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac, it is also TV. The Apple TV is a small box you plug into your current TV that turns your TV into a smart TV. Apple has just come out with the 4th generation of their Apple TV with some great new features.
A Smart TV is a TV that allows for more than just simple channel surfing. Smart TVs give you access to online services like NetFlix and Hulu. With the 4th generation of Apple TV, Apple has taken Smart TVs to a new level. Not only is it fully accessible, unlike most Smart TVs on the market, it has a whole new way to access information, entertainment and gaming.
The remote control for the new Apple TV is something that other Smart TVs just do not have. First, the remote has a touch screen so you can use the same gestures you use on your other Apple devices. Next, it has a SIRI button so you can use SIRI to perform actions on your TV like "Find Oscar-nominated movies," or "turn on the football game." You can even use the remote as a game controller similar to the controller for the Nintendo Wii. As amazing as the new remote is, that is not all Apple has added to the new Apple TV.
The new Apple TV has a new operating system called TVOS. Think of TVOS like Windows for your PC or iOS for your Apple devices. TVOS is based on iOS 9, so it will be similar to other iDevices you have used in the past. Among other things, TVOS gives you access to the App Store. That is right, you can now add apps to your TV like Facebook or perhaps even Peapod Online Shopping.
With all these features, it must cost a fortune, right? While a new iPhone starts at $649, the Apple TV costs just $149 with 32 GB of storage or $199 with 64 GB of storage. Hard to believe you can get that much technology for such a small price!
I could go on all day about the new Apple TV, but Apple has already done that for us. Check out the Apple TV page to learn more about the 4th generation of Apple TV.


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Sherwin-Williams paints its competitor Valspar and dreams big
Published by BSIC on 16 April 2016 16 April 2016
Sherwin-Williams, market cap as of 15/04/2016: $27.154bn
Valspar, market cap as of 15/04/2016: $8.469bn
Sherwin-Williams, the largest producer of paints in the United States, agreed to buy rival Valspar Corp., for about $9.3 billion, to become the world's biggest coatings maker. This compelling combination will lead to a significant expansion in Asia-Pacific and EMEA markets and at the same time it will allow Sherwin-Williams to secure a competitive position in the challenging paints industry. The deal will generate $280 million of annual savings, expected to be achieved by 2018, and the implementation of improved technology capabilities in order to accelerate product innovation.
About Sherwin-Williams
The Sherwin-Williams Company was founded by Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams in 1866 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. As third-largest worldwide firm in the development, manufacturing and sale of paint, coatings and related products, it has an extensive retail presence throughout the Americas, and a growing network in Europe and Asia-Pacific. The company is composed by four reportable segments: Paint Stores Group, which operates for Sherwin-Williams branded products in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean; Latin America Coatings Group, that sells a wide range of architectural paints and industrial coatings in Latin America; Consumer Group, which manages a highly efficient global supply chain in North America; Global Finishes Group, which manufactures and sells a wide range of protective, marine and automotive finishes. Now the company is focused on strategies that will drive long-term growth in revenues, market share and profitability: broaden the share of the do-it-yourself market and the stores' density, strengthen the retail availability of products throughout Latin America and differentiate the global product offering. The Company's financial condition, liquidity and cash flow, in FY 2015, continued to be strong, showing an EBITDA margin of 15.9%. It consolidated net sales generating $11.3bn, with an increase of 1.9% over 2014. Furthermore, net operating cash increased by 34%, to $1.45bn, and allowed to return about $1.3bn to shareholders, through dividend payments and share repurchases.
About Valspar Corporation
The Valspar Corporation, founded in 1806 by Samuel Tuck and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is headquartered in Minneapolis (MN) and is the 4th largest producer of Coatings and Paints globally. The paints segment includes consumer paints whereas the coatings segment includes four lines (packaging, general industrial, coil and wood coatings). Both distribute products in over 25 countries between North America, Australia/New Zealand, Asia and Europe. The company highlighted a strong performance in China in FY 2015 and reached an EBITDA margin of 16.3%. In June it acquired the performance coatings businesses of Quest Specialty Chemicals, which included automotive refinish and industrial coatings. This strategic acquisition doubled the size of the existing businesses and provided Valspar with another strong platform for future growth. In FY 2015 the consolidated net sales were $4.3bn compared to $4.6bn of 2014, with a five year CAGR of 6%, which includes FX effect. The decline was primarily caused by the impact of foreign currency exchange and lower sales in Consumer Paints product line, but it was partially offset by the acquisition of QSC. For the 37th consecutive year, the company consistently increased cash dividends for a total amount of $1.20 per share, with a CAGR of 14% and generated nearly $400 million in cash, this allowed to repurchase 5% of stocks.
From a strategic point of view, the companies involved are complementary: the acquisition will allow Sherwin-Williams to diversify its range of products by exploiting Valspar's resin technology and its portfolio of patents and it will be able to further reinforce its presence in the US market through Valspar's well-recognized brands. The acquiring company will also leverage the established presence of Valspar in EMEA and Asia-Pacific in order to boost its own international growth. This will allow Sherwin-Williams to increase the current proportion of international revenues from 16% to 24% when the acquisition will be completed. The new conglomerate will now be the first player in terms of global sales ($15.6bn), just ahead of PPG ($14.2bn) and Azko ($11.1bn). In this industry there are still many competitors with similar market shares, it is therefore unlikely that the regulator will stop the deal, however in that case the acquisition price would be revised according to the proportion of divestures required.
However, adding new products or entering new markets does not create value for shareholders if the acquisition price is fair. Indeed, the main source of value for this transaction is driven by cost synergies. The annual value of cost savings is estimated to reach approximately $280m when the transaction will be successfully completed. The acquisition is expected to be accretive already in the first year, excluding exceptional costs.
With regard to the offer price, considering an Enterprise Value of $11.3bn, the multiple EV/EBITDA is 15x, which is above 9x which is the average for recent transactions in the same industry. This might suggest that Sherwin-Williams overpaid for Valspar also taking into account the low-growth of the industry.
The enterprise value of the transaction is valued at $11.3bn including Valspar's $2bn debt. Sherwin-Williams agreed to pay $113 in cash per Valspar share, representing a 28% premium to the all-time high closing price. The equity purchase will be financed with a combination of $1bn in cash and $9.3bn of a bridge financing facility fully committed from Citigroup. The new debt financing will include both new bonds as well as low interest term loan.
The deal already anticipated potential regulatory clearance requiring divestitures of assets. Therefore, the agreement took into account the possibility of divestitures of assets for $650m, in this case the transaction price would drop to $105 per share. Sherwin-Williams has the right to call off the deal if required divestitures exceed $1.5bn in 2015 revenues.
The deal has been unanimously approved by both Valspar and Sherwin-Williams Boards of Directors and is subject to the approval of Valspar shareholders and customary closing conditions, including the expiration or termination of the applicable waiting period under the U.S. Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and regulatory approvals in various other jurisdictions. The acquisition is expected to close in Q1 2017.
As you can see from the graph below, the market reacted differently for the companies involved. Valspar's share price spiked because of the 28% premium that Sherwin-Williams will pay if no major divestures will be required. Since Valspar's share price is now trading around $107, it seems that the market does not consider sure the positive closing of the transaction.
On the other side Sherwin-Williams' share price dropped almost 5% on the first day of trading, confirming the initial consideration that the price was a bit high, especially comparing transaction multiples. However, the stock recovered pretty well on the following days, over performing the S&P500 and rebounding above preannouncement levels. This may signal that the market is starting to reevaluate the price paid for the acquisition.
Citibank and JP Morgan acted as financial advisers to Sherwin-Williams while Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch are acting as financial advisers to Valspar. Citigroup Global Markets will also provide bridge financing.
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Zombies! Let's go behind the scenes with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Absolution.
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Plus, we hear from more listeners about their earliest gaming memories. Enjoy!
My first Playstation memory was in 1995 when Sega stealth released that Saturn. It looked…okay. Butbat 499 I thought I would see what Soby had. So that fateful September afternoon I raced up to Toys R Us who had a shiny Playstation demoing Ridge Racer! The graphics! The speed! The silky frame rate! Never looked back.
Favorite accessory was that Guncon. Played the crap out of Point Blank and Time Crisis. Even had that Working Designs light gun game. Runner up would be the Arkanoid paddle on the NES. C'mon Sony bring back Arkanoid and the paddle!


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// File: vogl_sync_object.cpp
#include "vogl_sync_object.h"
#include "vogl_gl_state_snapshot.h"

vogl_sync_state::vogl_sync_state()
    : m_snapshot_handle(0),
      m_is_valid(false)
{
    VOGL_FUNC_TRACER
}

vogl_sync_state::~vogl_sync_state()
{
    VOGL_FUNC_TRACER
}

// TODO: Requires GL >= 3.2 or extension GL_ARB_sync
bool vogl_sync_state::snapshot(const vogl_context_info &context_info, vogl_handle_remapper &remapper, GLuint64 handle, GLenum target)
{
    VOGL_FUNC_TRACER

    VOGL_NOTE_UNUSED(context_info);
    VOGL_NOTE_UNUSED(target);
    VOGL_NOTE_UNUSED(remapper);

    VOGL_CHECK_GL_ERROR;

    clear();

    m_snapshot_handle = handle;

    GLsync sync = vogl_handle_to_sync(handle);

    bool any_gl_errors = false;

#define GET_INT(pname)                                                    \
    do                                                                    \
    {                                                                     \
        GLint val = 0;                                                    \
        GLsizei len = 0;                                                  \
        GL_ENTRYPOINT(glGetSynciv)(sync, pname, sizeof(val), &len, &val); \
        if (vogl_check_gl_error())                                         \
            any_gl_errors = true;                                         \
        m_params.insert(pname, 0, &val, sizeof(val));                     \
    } while (0)

    GET_INT(GL_OBJECT_TYPE);
    GET_INT(GL_SYNC_STATUS);
    GET_INT(GL_SYNC_CONDITION);
    GET_INT(GL_SYNC_FLAGS);

#undef GET_INT

    if (any_gl_errors)
    {
        clear();

        vogl_error_printf("GL error while enumerating sync %" PRIu64 "'s' params\n", (uint64_t)handle);
        return false;
    }

    VOGL_ASSERT(m_params.get_value<GLenum>(GL_OBJECT_TYPE) == GL_SYNC_FENCE);
    VOGL_ASSERT(m_params.get_value<GLenum>(GL_SYNC_CONDITION) == GL_SYNC_GPU_COMMANDS_COMPLETE);
    VOGL_ASSERT(m_params.get_value<uint32_t>(GL_SYNC_FLAGS) == 0);

    m_is_valid = true;

    return true;
}

bool vogl_sync_state::restore(const vogl_context_info &context_info, vogl_handle_remapper &remapper, GLuint64 &handle) const
{
    VOGL_FUNC_TRACER

    VOGL_NOTE_UNUSED(context_info);

    if (!m_is_valid)
        return false;

    VOGL_CHECK_GL_ERROR;

    if (!handle)
    {
        GLsync sync = GL_ENTRYPOINT(glFenceSync)(GL_SYNC_GPU_COMMANDS_COMPLETE, 0);
        if ((vogl_check_gl_error()) || (!sync))
            return false;
        handle = vogl_sync_to_handle(sync);

        remapper.declare_handle(VOGL_NAMESPACE_SYNCS, m_snapshot_handle, handle, GL_NONE);
        VOGL_ASSERT(remapper.remap_handle(VOGL_NAMESPACE_SYNCS, m_snapshot_handle) == handle);
    }

    return true;
}

bool vogl_sync_state::remap_handles(vogl_handle_remapper &remapper)
{
    VOGL_FUNC_TRACER

    m_snapshot_handle = remapper.remap_handle(VOGL_NAMESPACE_SYNCS, m_snapshot_handle);

    return true;
}

void vogl_sync_state::clear()
{
    VOGL_FUNC_TRACER

    m_snapshot_handle = 0;
    m_params.clear();
    m_is_valid = false;
}

bool vogl_sync_state::serialize(json_node &node, vogl_blob_manager &blob_manager) const
{
    VOGL_FUNC_TRACER

    if (!m_is_valid)
        return false;

    node.add_key_value("handle", m_snapshot_handle);

    return m_params.serialize(node.add_object("params"), blob_manager);
}

bool vogl_sync_state::deserialize(const json_node &node, const vogl_blob_manager &blob_manager)
{
    VOGL_FUNC_TRACER

    clear();

    m_snapshot_handle = node.value_as_uint32("handle");

    const json_node *pParams_node = node.find_child_object("params");
    if ((!pParams_node) || (!m_params.deserialize(*pParams_node, blob_manager)))
    {
        clear();
        return false;
    }

    m_is_valid = true;

    return true;
}

bool vogl_sync_state::compare_restorable_state(const vogl_gl_object_state &rhs_obj) const
{
    VOGL_FUNC_TRACER

    if ((!m_is_valid) || (!rhs_obj.is_valid()))
        return false;

    if (rhs_obj.get_type() != cGLSTSync)
        return false;

    const vogl_sync_state &rhs = static_cast<const vogl_sync_state &>(rhs_obj);

    if (this == &rhs)
        return true;

    return m_params == rhs.m_params;
}

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So it finally happened: you've found yourself stuck. Not just "let's take a day or two to think it over" stuck – you're really at a loss of what to do next. As you travel down the wonderful, twisted, and at times topsy-turvy road of success and self development, this stop is going to happen. For many of us, even more than once.
Every single successful individual has had a time when they were stuck, when it seemed like a dead end. When they felt that their journey was coming to a screeching halt. But they pushed through, and thanks to their willpower, they grew into the successful individual that they KNEW they were within themselves.
The following five books have repeatedly helped hundreds of business owners, athletes, and friends of mine from all over the globe (to whom I've given these books to), to break free and accomplish big – often times HUGE – things.
But this isn't about their getting unstuck – it's about YOURS. These books will prove to be worth their weight in gold, as they will not only help you in getting unstuck, but also to release the greatness within you that you must share with the world!
Grab your notebooks, pencils, and highlighters, because you have some reading to do!
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Word to the wise: buy the 5-pack or 48-pack because you're going to want to give a copy away to everyone you want to succeed.
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Would Porting To Group Members Be A Good Idea?
One thing that gets on my nerves sometimes is when I am in a group with someone in Avery's Court who wants to run Kane or Moo and I don't have the ability to port to them without adding them. Most of these people I wouldn't want as a game friend, but I do wish I had the ability to port to them if they are in my group. Perhaps Ki could make an option that you can turn on and off that allows people in your group to port to you.
Re: Would Porting To Group Members Be A Good Idea?
Yes. This is especially helpful for me as I have excess friends and have to annoyingly delete 50+ to add new ones. I fully support this.
I like this idea. It's a good point about being able to port to someone to help them with a ship combat. I'd hate to have to delete a nice and chatty friend I've had for a while, even if I hadn't seen them recently, just to help someone who needs help with one thing, and then takes off. I still do like to help those people, when I can, and am free. So far, I mostly use group when I have a few friends on, who are all talking to me, from different places, to simplify the chat. This would give me another reason to use group. I can also see myself on the other side of this, getting easier help for my little pirate, for ship quests, from pirates with full lists.


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Who is Viktor Bout: Who is Merchant of Death Prisoner?
Who is Viktor Bout: The Russian arms dealer, who was called the "merchant of death," was traded for Brittney Griner.
His look is more like that of a suburban dad than a global gun-runner. He wears polo shirts, khaki pants, has droopy eyes, and a moustache like Carlos Santana. But Viktor Bout didn't get the name "merchant of death" for nothing. In exchange for basketball star Brittney Griner, who was being held in a Russian prison colony, a Russian arms dealer went back to Moscow on December 8. He had been in prison in Illinois for ten years. Qui est-il?
It's hard to get a clear picture of Mr. Bout's life. He was born in 1967 in Tajikistan, which was part of the Soviet Union at the time. He went to school at Moscow's Military Institute of Foreign Languages. He then went to Africa, where he served in the Soviet air force for two years in Mozambique and as an army translator in Angola. Mr. Bout's ability to speak English, French, and Spanish, and, according to reports, Farsi, German, Portuguese, Urdu, Xhosa, and Zulu, as well as his contacts in Africa, helped him get into the business of selling weapons.
When the Soviet Union broke up, Mr. Bout saw an opportunity to sell huge amounts of weapons to dictators and warlords in Africa, Asia, and South America. During the cold war, the Soviet Union helped many countries, and those countries now had a ready market. At first, America didn't pay much attention. An official at the State Department told his biographers, Stephen Braun and Douglas Farah, that "a few planeloads of arms going to an African country just didn't make the cut" as a priority.
Mr. Bout worked for bad people like Mobutu Sese Seko in Congo and Charles Taylor in Liberia. He did this from a base in Sharjah, which is in the United Arab Emirates. He sometimes made the two sides work against each other. In Afghanistan, Mr. Bout helped an anti-Taliban rebel named Ahmad Shah Massoud before he offered his services to the Islamist group.
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Mr. Bout ran a fleet of about 60 cargo planes for his business. So he could hide, he always said he didn't sell guns and said he was in the freight shipping business. In 2002, when Interpol put out a warrant for his arrest, he said, "I only deal with air transportation." In fact, he moved things that were not illegal, following the rule in the freight industry that you should "never fly empty." Flowers from South Africa, frozen chicken, and aid for countries hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 were some of the things that were sent.
After he caught the attention of authorities in the West, he stayed in Moscow and rarely went anywhere else. But in 2008, he made a bad decision: he flew to Thailand, where he was caught in a trap by American agents pretending to be members of farc, a Colombian rebel group. He was sent back to America and was given a 25-year prison sentence in 2012 for plotting to kill Americans and helping a terrorist group.
Even before Mr. Bout was caught, people made up stories about what he did. In the 2005 Hollywood movie "Lord of War," Nicolas Cage played a charismatic arms dealer who was based on him in some ways. In Russia, his imprisonment was seen as unfair because people were worried about what Mr. Bout might tell his captors. There are many rumours that the Kremlin was eager to get the ex-prisoner back because he knew military secrets or had ties to Russian intelligence.
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