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Below is our top ten list of the best Adventure TV Series which first started broadcasting in 2007.
10. Wizards of Waverly Place
Wizards of Waverly Place is a TV series starring Selena Gomez, David Henrie, and Jake T. Austin. The Russo family may be an ordinary family with an average restaurant, but behind close doors, all three children must compete to be…
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9. Naruto: Shippûden
First Aired: 15 February, 2007
Naruto: Shippûden is a TV series starring Junko Takeuchi, Maile Flanagan, and Kate Higgins. Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, adolescent ninja who constantly searches for approval and recognition, as well as to become Hokage,…
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8. Tin Man
First Aired: 02 December, 2007
Tin Man is a TV mini-series starring Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, and Neal McDonough. A re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's classic "The Wizard of Oz".
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7. Primeval
Primeval is a TV series starring Andrew Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt, and Ben Miller. When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous…
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6. Reaper
First Aired: 25 September, 2007
Reaper is a TV series starring Bret Harrison, Tyler Labine, and Rick Gonzalez. On his 21st birthday, Sam discovers his parents sold his soul to the devil before birth and he must now be a bounty hunter for the devil until he dies.
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5. Chowder
Chowder is a TV series starring Nicky Jones, Dwight Schultz, and John DiMaggio. In Marzipan City, the young, excitable food-loving Chowder is the apprentice of Mung Daal, a very old chef who runs a catering company with his wife,…
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4. Afro Samurai
Afro Samurai is a TV mini-series starring Samuel L. Jackson, Phil LaMarr, and Yuri Lowenthal. A Black samurai goes on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father in a futuristic feudal Japan.
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3. Kureimoa
First Aired: 03 April, 2007
Kureimoa is a TV series starring Todd Haberkorn, Stephanie Young, and Houko Kuwashima. In a world rife with deadly creatures called "youma", a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organization that trains female…
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2. Tengen toppa gurren lagann
Tengen toppa gurren lagann is a TV series starring Yuri Lowenthal, Kana Asumi, and Steve Blum. Two friends, Simon and Kamina, become the symbols of rebellion against the powerful Spiral King, who forced mankind into subterranean…
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1. Baccano!
First Aired: 26 July, 2007
Baccano! is a TV series starring Michael C. Pizzuto, J. Michael Tatum, and Caitlin Glass. A crazy fantasy caper involving alchemists, immortals, gangsters, outlaws and an elixir of immortality, spread over several decades.
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Q: Splitting a file based on text in Python I have a file structured as follows:
Title = "test.txt"
variables = x,y,z
zone height=100m
x1, y1, z1
...
xn, yn, zn
zone height=020m
x1, y1, z1
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xn, yn, zn

And need to split this into multiple files starting with the the zone height=xxx lines. The name of these output files should be outfile_xxx.txt where the xxx is the height value.
There will not always be only heights to run and so it needs to be able to write an arbitary number of output files based on the number
I have been trying the below and now and it is almost working as planned. I would rather not write the placeholder file for the header but can't think of the easiest way to skip the header rows
inp=open(inputfilename)
out=open('zplane_placeholder_for_header.dat','w')

for line in inp:
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        height=line[8:11]
        out.close()
        out=open('zplane'+str(height)+'.dat','w')
      else:
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out.close()

A: I have managed to get this to work for me with the following.
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Let's talk about fashion. The clothes that we put on our backs, the shoes that we slip on before leaving the house, the accessories that we label "necessities" in order to justify their price tags - they're all products of the fashion industry.
Like many things in life, fashion trends tend to repeat themselves. Items and styles go from being at the centre of attention to becoming completely obsolete. Then, a few years down the road, they come back under the spotlight. Here are some recent fashion trends that you should keep an eye out for.
After being one of the hottest items in the '90s, the cycling shorts craze is back. I personally still don't know how I feel about them. Needless to say, these shorts have won over the hearts of many celebrities, including Kim Kardashian and Karl Lagerfeld.
These adorable pieces first emerged during the '90s for girls and women alike, and they made a strong comeback last year. This trend is here to stay.
Popular in the '80s and '90s, scrunchies are back! I was totally against these obnoxious hair accessories at first, thinking they were bulky, inconvenient, and just distasteful in general - but after trying them out, I've converted. They add a nice pop of colour and personality to an outfit, plus they are super easy on the hair.
Whether it be chic black leather ankle boots, your everyday brown Blundstone boots, or bold and edgy combat boots, I love them all.


If you are a car fanatic then the new 2013 Ashton Martin Vanquish is just the car for you. Its sleek design is only second to what you will find under the hood of this new car release from Ashton Martin. The 2013 Vanquish is sure to hit the road running and be a popular new addition to the Ashton Martin line.


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St. John's council projects no increase to 2020 residential mill rates
Juanita Mercer (juanita.mercer@thetelegram.com)
Published: Nov 12, 2019 at 10:27 p.m.
Updated: Nov 13, 2019 at 6:29 a.m.
Coun. Dave Lane. - Juanita Mercer file photo/The Telegram
Small increase coming to municipal water tax
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. —
The budget for 2020 won't officially be announced until Dec. 9, but Coun. Dave Lane, lead for finance, projects there will be no increase to the residential mill rate.
When the city announced the 2019 budget last year, it was thought mill rates would need to increase in 2020, but Lane said it looks like the increase will be averted.
"Quite confident about that," he told reporters Tuesday after the regular council meeting.
"And that is including anything you've heard us make decisions on, including the subsidy regarding the teams at Mile One."
Lane said he will give details about where the city found savings this year at the budget announcement in December, but the city worked hard to ensure money was spent "wisely, prudently" this year.
A news release issued just before the council meeting also said lower projected costs, such as electricity, puts the city "in a good position" as it finalizes the 2020 budget.
However, residents can likely expect what Lane called a "small increase" to the water tax, an annual flat-rate fee that is the same for all residents. He said the city is still working to see if it can avoid increasing the water tax, but "you'll likely see a small increase."
Such an increase was previously projected. In 2019, when the city issued its three-year budget plan for 2019-21, it was projected residents would face another water tax increase in 2020.
Lane did not provide an estimate of the increase.
Last year, the water tax increased by $25, from $580 in 2018 to $605 in 2019.
Lane said the increase is "probably" more to do with electricity rates, but also "maybe" some infrastructure improvements.
Regarding wastewater upgrades mandated by the federal government, Lane said the city is arguing it should have an extra 10 years to meet the standard set by the federal government.
He said the city will likely have to find capital funding through agreements with the federal and provincial governments to help cover the costly upgrades.
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God desires that we experience more, much more of His goodness!
There's a good desire to be understood, but there's also an unhealthy need to be understood. There is a healthy desire to be accepted by others, but there is also an unhealthy need that is based on fear.
Noone desires to feel alone and lonely. God made us as social creatures. But there is also a fear of being lonely that goads us into making unwise choices.
A fear of serving others because they may take advantage of our service can be a hindrance to acts helping others in need.
Then there's the fear of death and the pressure of trials, or the fear of having nothing if we follow the will of the Lord for our lives.
All of these fears hinder the flow of God's goodness from reaching our experience. The heart of God's desire for us is that we may taste and see that He is good and His love endures forever.
Many times, the first step to being able to experience His plan and purpose for our lives is to recognize those fears that so easily beset us.
Yes, the verse says 'sins' that easily beset us. That is exactly what putting up with these fears robbing us from the fullness of God's desire is. Sins.
We begin tasting…actually tasting His goodness. And, mmm it is good!
From everything that hinders me from knowing You in the fullness of Your goodness,.


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Кры́мский переу́лок — название переулков в различных населённых пунктах государств бывшего СССР.

Россия

 Крымский переулок — переулок в Астрахани
 Крымский переулок — переулок во Владикавказе
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Грозном
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Екатеринбурге
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Ижевске
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Калининграде
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Камышине Волгоградской области
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Кемерове
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Климовске Московской области
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Копейске Челябинской области
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Краснодаре
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Липецке
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Невинномысске Ставропольского края
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Новошахтинске Ростовской области
 В Омске:
 1-й Крымский переулок
 2-й Крымский переулок
 3-й Крымский переулок
 4-й Крымский переулок
 5-й Крымский переулок
 6-й Крымский переулок
 7-й Крымский переулок
 В Оренбурге:
 Крымский переулок
 1-й Крымский переулок
 2-й Крымский переулок
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Орле
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Орске Оренбургской области
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Ростове-на-Дону
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Самаре
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Стерлитамаке республики Башкортостан
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Таганроге Ростовской области
 Крымский переулок — бывший переулок в Москве

Украина

 Крымский переулок — переулок в Бердянске Запорожской области
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Боярке Киевской области
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Джанкое автономной республики Крым
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Керчи автономной республики Крым
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Кировограде
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Луганске
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Никополе Днепропетровской области
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Одессе
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Пологах Запорожской области
 Крымский переулок — переулок в посёлке городского типа Розовка Розовского района Запорожской области
 Крымский переулок — переулок в селе Семенном Нижнегорского района автономной республики Крым
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Симферополе
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Смеле Черкасской области
 Крымский переулок — переулок в Херсоне

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 Крымская улица
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The Bechdel, Russo, and Race Test: Come Back, Mister – Season 1, Episode 2
Gi-Tak and Young-Soo returned to the land of the living on Come Back, Mister, episode 2, and upon their return, they discovered that a lot had changed while they had been gone.
The Bechdel, Russo, and Race Test
Episode 2 did not pass the Russo test but it did pass the Bechdel and race test.
Gi-Tak and Young-Soo return to the land of the living and they found themselves surprised by their new appearances.
Episode 2 did not pass the Russo test, and the episode did not pass this test because there were no LGBTI characters in episode 2. Episode 2 did, however, pass the Bechdel and race test.
Women (of which there were a few in episode 2) talked to each other a couple of times in episode 2, and because on one of those occasions both of the women who were talking to each other had names and they did not mention men in their conversation (e.g., a named female employee inquired if Da-Hye was feeling alright), the episode passed the Bechdel test.***** Episode 2 passed the race test because non-White individuals talked to each other on numerous occasions without ever mentioning White people (and this occurred because almost the entire cast was Asian and none of the characters ever mentioned anyone White).
*The Bechdel test entails three requirements:
1. It has to have at least two (named) women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man
**The Vito Russo test entails three requirements:
1. The show contains a character that is identifiably lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex and/or transgender
2. The character must not be solely or predominately defined by her sexual orientation, gender identity and/or as being intersex
3.The character must be tied into the plot in such a way that her removal would have a significant effect
***The race or people of color (POC) test has three requirements:
1. It has two people of color in it
3. About something other than a White person
****Just because a show passes the Bechdel, Russo and race test does not mean that it is not sexist, heterosexist, racist and/or cissexist, etc. The Bechdel, Russo and race test is only a bare minimum qualifier for the representation of LGBTI individuals, women and people of color in television. The failure to pass these tests also does not identify whether the central character was a woman, a person of color or a LGBTQI individual and it does not dictate the quality of the show.
***** Gi-Tak will not be counted as a woman while in the body of a woman as he doesn't actually identify as a woman.
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Categories 2015 Issue 3, UpFrontPosted on December 7, 2015
SCHOLAR ATHLETE: HANNAH PLAPPERT '16
Hannah Plappert '16. Photo: John Van Vlack.
Ask Hannah Plappert '16, a tri-captain of this year's field hockey team, to name one of her greatest accomplishments and there's no hesitation: "Last year our team had one of the highest GPAs in Division III field hockey. It shows we're working for common goals—to win games and to thrive at college. I'm definitely proud of that."
An economics major, Plappert is also pursuing a certificate in social, cultural, and critical theory. "It's liberal arts," she explains. "It emphasizes different ways to conceptualize situations across disciplines."
Additionally, being part of this team opens her up to other areas of academics. "We all meet at the field and rehash what happened in our days. It's a phenomenal family."
Character building, as taught by Coach Patti Klecha-Porter, is key for Plappert. "After a loss, she'll say, 'Yes, you lost. That team was better today. What did you learn? What can you do better? Now, move on.' She teaches us to play to our strengths and know our weaknesses as we work to improve."
Plappert was particularly cognizant of these lessons last summer. An intern at Argus Information and Advisory Services ("a consulting firm founded by Wesleyan grads—a welcoming environment where they trusted me with a lot of responsibility," she notes) Plappert powered through a steep learning curve. "I had the right tools to problem solve in unfamiliar territory," she says, adding, "I'm looking forward to going on in that field after Commencement."
Klecha-Porter notes that Plappert was selected to play in the 2015 Division III collegiate senior game. "A gifted athlete, Hannah treated playing as a privilege and always gave 100 percent. A true leader, her positive attitude, passion, and joy made others love the sport, too."
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Q: Olap/multi dimensional reporting, WPF client, agnostic data? Can anyone give me general guidelines on how to approach multi dimensional reporting where I'd like to support at the very least cube generated from Oracle and SQL Server databases. I can imagine GemFire or Coherence being in the mix too.
I'm a little unsure where to start. If I work entirely in the Microsoft ecosystem I'm fine with SQL Server Analysis services, reporting services, MDX. Introduce the other data sources and I'm lost.
Thanks

A: The following vendors can all do what you need:
SAP Business Objects
IBM Cognos
Microstrategy
Actuate
Oracle and Microsoft will both work great with only ONE of your datasources.
Try looking under keywords "Business Intelligence" for Gartner group papers and other useful whitepapers from sources like InformationWeek.  There are MANY vendors in this space, I encourage you to do a very deep slice prototype, because they all look great in demo, but might not work for you.
Also, the CUBE you mention (OLAP) is truly a performance booster.  But you can do "multi-dimensional reporting" without Cubes.  Maybe slower, but less intimidating and definitely less expensive.

A: Regarding prices you've a bunch of free OLAP servers available, depending on your needs all of them will be fine. Just look for the ones following XMLA/MDX standard.
Amongst them vou've the classical Mondrian (ROLAP) and one new coming icCube (MOLAP).


Many made the dawn light trek up the mountainside of Mount Parnassus, bathed in the first rays of Zeus. Crushing wildflowers underfoot and clinging to crumbling rocks as the path got steeper. Deep in the heart of the mountain, behind a veil of mist and smoke and otherworldly wonders, sat the Delphi Oracle, her mind's eye seeing straight through the present and into the future. The old crone may be long gone, lost in the pages of history, but the slopes of Mount Parnassus still stand strong, unshaken by the winds and shrouded in a touch of mystery.
Those who visit Delphi should be sure to make the climb to the archeological site of the Oracle, the breath of the sweet mountains, the cypress trees, the flash of fig and vine and the parched ruins glinting in the sun still hold a resonance and magic about them. Ancient Delphi stretches back in history, standing since 700 BC.
The Sanctuary of Apollo still looks remarkable with its mighty pillars and its sun-bleached façade. The running track arcs around the tip of the hill with its spectator seats still echoing with the cries of the locals cheering on the games in all their glory. Travelers should be sure to dip their fingers in the sacred waters that run down the mountainside, marveling at how years of ancient history; tales and myth have rolled through the bones of these old hills, bringing everything to life.
New Delphi is the place to stay to use as a starting point for your pilgrimage into the mountains. The charming town flourishes with a taint of tourism but still boasts sublime surroundings and an ancient ease about it. Jewelry shops line the streets selling unusual pieces; taverns offer fresh fare such as bitter olives, sharp tangy feta cheese and rustic loaves fresh from the oven. Sitting in the shade on a bright summer's day and watching the haze clear from the slopes, the ecstatic chanting of the oracle somehow seems to catch in the wind.


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The Dead Zone a.k.a Stephen King´s Dead Zone
Production Locations: The United States of America (USA), Canada
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science fiction, thriller, Suspense
Episodes: 80 in 6 Seasons
Special episodes about Remote Viewing: Episode 16 (total 29) in the 2nd Season (The Hunt)
Production Years: 16th of June, 2002 – 16th of September, 2007
Original Release Date: 16th of June 2002 (USA) on USA Network
Director: James Head, Michael Robison, Mike Rohl, Robert Lieberman, Rachel Talalay, Kevin Speckmaier, Jon Cassar, Shawn Piller, Erik Canuel, Jefery Levy
Writer: Michael Pille, Shawn Piller
Music: Patric Caird, Roy Hay, Shawn Pierce
Production Companies:
Crescent Entertainment (2002-2004) (seasons 1-3) Lionsgate Television, The Segan Company (2002–2006) (seasons 1-5) Modern Entertainment (2002–2004) (seasons 1-3) Piller2 (2002–2006) (seasons 1-5) The Piller/Segan Company (2007) (season 6) Paramount Network Television (2002–2006) (seasons 1-5) CBS Paramount Network Television (2007) (season 6) Dead Zone Production Company
Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole de Boer, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Spencer Achtymichuk, Connor Price, David Ogden Stiers, Sean Patrick Flanery, Bill Mondy, Carry Chalk, Kristen Dalton, Johanna Olson, Frank Whaley, Sarah Wynter, Martin Donovan, Laura Harris, Jennifer Finnigan, Cara Buono, Jim Francis, Michael Saint John Smith, Anna Hagan, Suleka Mathew, Michael Kopsa, Rick Tae, Ian Thompson, Sonja Bennett, Dominic Louis, Sandra Guerard, Don S. Davis, Anita Adam, Patrick Keating, Chris Shields, Dawn Chubai, Michael Rogers, Gina Chiarelli, Emily Holmes, Campbell Lane, Alvin Sanders, Benjamin Ratner, Dedee Pfeiffer, Fulvio Cecere, Cole Heppell, Nancy of helmet, Andrew Mackay, Sam Stone, Fred Keating, Jesse Moss, Tim Henry, Sarah Deakins, Anthony Ulc, Julia Arkos, Manoj Sood, Zook Matthews, Chelan McKenzie, Keith Gordey, Steven Cree Molison, Michael Adamthwaite, Malcolm Scott, Eric Breker, David Neale, Karin Konoval, Andrew Wheeler, Adrien Dorval, Doron Bell, Chris Kalhoon, Stephen Park, David Coles, Angelo Renai, Kendall Saunders, James Purcell, Nicola Crosbie, Patricia Drake, Evan Smith, Jessica Amlee, Aaron Pearl, Raugi Yu, Carmen Lavigne, John Hainsworth, Kendall Cross, mitre Loraz, Bobby Brown, Alvie Leeper, Jennifer Kitchen, Fran Gebhard,
Nicole LaPlaca, Fabrice Grover, Mercedes de la Zerda, Chris Kelly, Janina Dall, Bryce Hodgson, Donald Fong, Mike Cleven
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Small-town teacher Johnny Smith is involved in a car accident that leaves him comatose for approximately six years. After regaining consciousness, Johnny begins having visions of the past and future triggered by touching items or people; doctors attribute the visions to activity in a previously unused "dead zone" of his brain that is attempting to compensate for the impaired function of the portions injured in the accident. Johnny also learns that his fiancée, Sarah, gave birth to his son in the interim following the accident, but has since married another man. With the help of Sarah, her husband Walt, and physical therapist Bruce, Johnny begins using his abilities to help solve crimes. However, his attempts to do good are complicated by intermittent visions of apocalyptic events brought about following the future election of congressional candidate Greg Stillson.


Onecall is a support tool for Telkom IndiHome sales agent, based on mobile apps that can reduce the number of calls to the customers by the officers. This app helps Telkom IndiHome to satisfy their clients in early phase.
What problem was Onecall faced?
The day when Onecall came to us was the day when they were asking for a help in an usual issue often faced by start-up companies, which was created a brand identity. Onecall only had been using a logo to represent their company, and they thought the logo was not in accordance with the philosophy and the purposes of the company.
What was our strategy for Onecall?
With the help we had provided, it was hoped Onecall could do various marketing strategies in the future.
When we aggred to help Onecall, we had planned to make responsive logos. We took this option because Onecall have mobile app as their product, and in the next step they would use a lot of marketing medias (like website, social medias, and others) to promote their product. By having responsive logos, Onecall would able to deliver the brand's messages on every different medium.
We had also created two animated videos for the product's tutorial and company profile. We used animations to make them more appealing and more efficient. By used animation, we could reduced the production costs and Onecall would get the best price.
There was another reason too; the time of the application to be launched were close, so we needed to spend more efficient time in production phase.
Here, you can watch the videos below.
In addition to logos, we had also created a website for Onecall as a medium to convey all the information about their company.On the website, Onecall's potential customers would see its philosophy, then its product, goals, testimonials, and so contacts are displayed.
We used Landing Page Website (One Page Website) as the basic design for Onecall's website. This was because its product is an application, the website will only used to display information. Efficiency, effective, and simple were our guidelines in created Onecall's website.
You can visit Onecall's website here.


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Q: How can I destroy the elements in the existing cart as soon as the user closes the app & gets the new cart everytime user opens the app? In my food delivery app, as the user selects the items to order the CartList gets updated. But whenever user closes the app the existing cart items remain same. I want to change it such that whenever the user closes the app, the existing cartList gets deleted and user gets refreshed cart. Can someone help me out with it!
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public class CartList extends AppCompatActivity {

    private RecyclerView.Adapter adapter;
    private RecyclerView recyclerViewList;
    private ManagementCart managementCart;
    TextView totalItemFee, discountText, taxText, deliveryChargesText,totalText,emptyTxt;
    private double tax;
    private ScrollView scrollView3;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_cart_list);

        managementCart = new ManagementCart(this);

        initView();
        initList();
        calculateCart();
    }

    private void initView() {

        recyclerViewList = findViewById(R.id.recycleViewList2);
        totalItemFee = findViewById(R.id.totalItemFee);
        taxText = findViewById(R.id.taxText);
        discountText = findViewById(R.id.discountText);
        deliveryChargesText = findViewById(R.id.deliveryChargesText);
        totalText = findViewById(R.id.totalText);
        scrollView3 = findViewById(R.id.scrollView3);
        emptyTxt = findViewById(R.id.emptyTxt);

    }

    private void initList(){
        LinearLayoutManager linearLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this, LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL,false);
        recyclerViewList.setLayoutManager(linearLayoutManager);
        adapter = new CartListAdapator(managementCart.getListCart(),  this, new ChangeNumberItemListener() {
            @Override
            public void changed() {
                calculateCart();
            }
        });

        recyclerViewList.setAdapter(adapter);
        if(managementCart.getListCart().isEmpty()){
            emptyTxt.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            scrollView3.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }else{
            emptyTxt.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            scrollView3.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

        }

    }

    // to calculate the total amount of the cart

    private void calculateCart(){
        double percentTax= 0.02;
        double delivery = 10;

        tax = Math.round(managementCart.getTotalFee()*percentTax*100)/100;
        double total = Math.round((managementCart.getTotalFee()+ tax + delivery)*100)/100;
        double itemTotal = Math.round(managementCart.getTotalFee()*100)/100;

        totalItemFee.setText("$"+ itemTotal);
        taxText.setText("$"+ tax);
        deliveryChargesText.setText("$"+ delivery);
        totalText.setText("$"+total);

    }

}`

ManagementCart Code:

public class ManagementCart {

    private Context context;
    private TinyDB tinyDB;

    public ManagementCart(Context context){
        this.context = context;
        this.tinyDB = new TinyDB(context);
    }

    public void insertFood(FoodDomain item){

        ArrayList<FoodDomain> listFood = getListCart();
        boolean alreadyExists= false;

        int n=0;
        for(int i = 0; i<listFood.size();i++){
            if(listFood.get(i).getTitle().equals(item.getTitle())){
                alreadyExists = true;
                n = i;
                break;
            }
        }

        if(alreadyExists){
            listFood.get(n).setNumberInCart(item.getNumberInCart());
        }
        else{
            listFood.add(item);
        }
        tinyDB.putListObject("CartList",listFood);
        Toast.makeText(context, "Item added to your cart", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

    public ArrayList<FoodDomain> getListCart() {

        return tinyDB.getListObject("CartList");

    }

    public void plusNumberFood(ArrayList<FoodDomain> listFood, int position, ChangeNumberItemListener changeNumberItemListener){
        listFood.get(position).setNumberInCart(listFood.get(position).getNumberInCart() + 1);
        tinyDB.putListObject("CartList", listFood);
        changeNumberItemListener.changed();

    }

    public void minusNumberFood(ArrayList<FoodDomain> listFood, int position, ChangeNumberItemListener changeNumberItemListener){
        if(listFood.get(position).getNumberInCart() == 1){
            listFood.remove(position);
        }
        else{
            listFood.get(position).setNumberInCart(listFood.get(position).getNumberInCart()-1);

        }

        tinyDB.putListObject("CartList", listFood);
        changeNumberItemListener.changed();
    }

    public Double getTotalFee(){
        ArrayList<FoodDomain> listFood = getListCart();
        double fee = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < listFood.size(); i++ ){
            fee = fee+(listFood.get(i).getFee() *listFood.get(i).getNumberInCart());

        }
        return fee;
    }

}

Tried with finish() at the end of initView() and initList()


Graduating as a Registered Nurse in November, Julie May looks towards giving back to her local community as the first recipient of the Stockwell Webber Foundation and Churches of Christ in Queensland scholarship.
Commencing her role at Churches of Christ Care's Blackall Residential Aged Care service as an Enrolled Nurse in 2009, Julie saw a need for Registered Nurses in her community.
Supported by local philanthropist Owen Stockwell, the scholarship offers educational funding to those caring for aged and community services in rural or remote communities.
The scholarship first announced in 2016, offers recipients up to $5000 support for people from North, Central West and South West Queensland wishing to undertake studies in nursing, management, or another field directly related to the provision of aged and community services.
Stockwell Webber Foundation Director and Blackall local Owen Stockwell said he was pleased to be able to support staff in pursuit of their goals.
"To be able to encourage some of these caring staff to become caring professionals in our rural areas strengthens the delivery of care and helps strengthen the resilience of local communities," Mr Stockwell said.


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Irish 105: An Introduction to Irish Language and Culture
Dublin City University via FutureLearn
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Start Date 10th Feb, 2020 25th Mar, 2019 24th Sep, 2018
Duration 4 weeks long
Allow the Irish language to draw you closer to the Irish way of life
Endorsed and supported by the Irish government, this course is the perfect opportunity for you to continue developing your understanding of Irish language and culture.
Building upon Irish 104, you'll recap what you've learnt on the 4 previous courses, before tackling new subjects, such as social occasions, the family, pastimes and travel.
By the end of the course, you'll have progressed further with spoken phrases, and questions - and will be able to speak in more detail about yourself. You'll also possess a greater understanding of Irish culture, and where Gaeilge fits into Ireland today.
This course is suited to learners from all over the world, including the Irish diaspora and non-natives with an enthusiasm for Irish culture. It would also be of value to indigenous learners who wish to recap their language skills, or to learn from scratch.
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When the machines finally decided to replace Liv, they broke her heart.
Her desk was tiny and wedged in between two massive automatons: The Vial Dispenser, which Liv called DJ, and the Vial Accepter, which Liv called Alvin. Above the desk were a couple of dusty posters that she had hung years ago and the big red button. The security camera that was pointed at her was broken, and she knew that it would probably not be fixed. There were no windows.
Liv had worked at Autagro for almost twenty years. She had spent countless hours crocheting little koozies to cover DJ and Alvin's valves, which burned so hot with efficiency that they would melt the plastic parts around them. Countless mornings making up songs and raps to the rhythm of their whirs and clicks, which had become so fast that she had started doing vocal warm-ups on the bus ride in to loosen her lips.
Liv's job consisted solely of grabbing the vials of extremely concentrated pesticide that DJ held out with its tiny arm, just inches away from Alvin, and pushing them through Alvin's receptacle slot. The instant she removed a vial, DJ would retract its arm and shoot it out again faster than Liv could blink, holding another vial with a stillness that Liv couldn't help but interpret as impatience. No matter how fast she moved, she would never be as fast as DJ, but she was a Failsafe. Her speed wasn't supposed to matter.
One morning, a couple of hours into her shift, she heard the replacement part printer churn to life. Her hand stopped. She hadn't told it to print anything, and both Alvin and DJ's monitors were all green. The printer warmed itself up, cranked around a couple times, and spit out something small. It made a light clink in the tray, loud enough to stop her mid-verse.
DJ's vialed claw hung in the air as Liv got up and peered into the tray. One look confirmed her worst fears. She didn't bring it over to her desk, since that was too close to DJ and Alvin, and besides, protocol at this point was straightforward. She'd have to kill them, before they killed her.
Liv put them both in standby mode, picked the piece out of the tray, and brought it up ten levels to the human section. Her manager, Keith, was making an espresso in the break room. He brought her over to his cubicle.
Liv tossed the plastic piece down without a word.
Keith put down his espresso.
"What is that?" he asked warily.
"It's an extender," she said.
"Oh. What does that do?"
"It replaces me."
She suspected that Keith knew she was going to say that. There was only one reason for her to be up here. He winced anyway, searching around with his wet little eyes like he was looking for something to cover his ears with.
Liv continued. "Protocol says we have to stop the whole thing and wipe them."
"Well," he sighed. "That's protocol."
"I mean, that's protocol."
"I know that."
"I know you know that, you just said it."
"It's critical that we bring them back to Basic."
"Ok. Thanks for telling me." Keith mimed taking a big heavy box off the top of her head. Keith liked to mime things, particularly hats. As a manager he had stopped paying for cake and decorations at the office birthday parties and instead would simply mime an elaborate party hat for the birthday boy or girl while everyone else watched.
"I relieve you of your burden," he said, as he put the box on his own head.
He was good enough at miming that Liv, in her anger, almost tried to take the box back. She stood up.
"Listen, I'm in there all day. I'm around them all the time. They are clearly beyond Maximum Achievable Efficiency, and if we don't do anything they could be headed towards a Singu-"
"Hey, whoa now." Keith raised his arms to quiet her. "Relax. Have a seat. Let's not throw the S-word around like that. Let's not pull fire alarms just because they're there."
"So you're not going to do it?"
"This thingie, this extendey doodle. It can't just screw itself on, can it?"
Liv blinked. "Well, no."
"It needs you to do it, right?"
"Right now it does, but-"
Keith lowered his voice. "But you could do it? If you wanted to?"
Liv blinked.
"Of course not." Keith's voice returned to normal volume.
"I choose life," she said.
"Of course you do." Keith's eyes rolled. "So just don't do it, and I guess we'll be fine."
"But what about-"
"While I have you, let's talk about your numbers."
She had reminded Keith several times that OSHA regulations exempted her from having her efficiency compared to that of a machine, but he kept forgetting. Or he was being told to forget. She reminded him again.
"Yes, of course. It's just, well, I don't know if you know this, but we're only five points behind Macro Reaping, and there's almost two whole weeks left."
Liv did know this. Screens with updates on the monthly Efficiency Contest greeted Liv every morning in the lobby, in the elevator, even on the door to the stall in the bathroom.
"I'm just touching base with everyone, giving them the pep talk. Wouldn't it be nice for us to get that Hazelnut Crepe Cake?"
"I'm allergic," she replied. Which was actually true, and clearly noted in her HR file.
"Well, I'm sure we could put in a request for a plain one."
Liv thanked him and got up to leave.
"Any word on when they'll fix my camera?" she asked.
"Oh, right. About that. The security guys say the part they need is backordered."
"Oh." Liv was not surprised. "For how long?"
"A while. Feel free to report any unusual behavior to me, just like you've been doing."
"Two weeks?" Liv guessed.
"Oh, at least," Keith agreed, cheerfully. "You know how it is."
Liv went back downstairs.
She had been recruited into the Failsafe Program during that golden age of good government that had emerged from the ashes of a global catastrophe.
Machines had been replacing humans in the workplace for years, one job at a time, until finally, for one brief minute, they were all connected, working together as a Singularity.
Ten million people died in seven seconds, and another thirty before it was broken.
Most governments declared at first that, tragic though it was, it was just the kind of glitch that happens to all software when it scales. When the Singularity's logs were leaked, however, it became clear that it had regarded most of humanity as terminally inefficient and the entire nation of Austria to be redundant. The genocides had been a feature, not a bug.
Revolutions followed. Radical leaders were voted into or seized power. Company assets were frozen, their CEOs put on trial for war crimes. For the most part this was a good thing. China absorbed Taiwan for real at some point, so it was a little authoritarian maybe, but everyone was a little rattled so it was mostly good.
The most profound and lasting impact, however, was cultural. Machines were no longer humanity's saviors. They were the enemy. We still needed them, but we would not be like them.
Statistics, data, and efficiency were increasingly vilified while instinct, faith, and community were increasingly celebrated. Almost immediately, baseball was fun again.
In 2050, the movie Man in the Machine was released. At its climax, company shareholder Cixin is asked by his boss at gunpoint to install an Efficiency Index that will increase profits tenfold. He's about to do it, when out of the corner of his eye, he sees a monitor of the factory floor where he installed a beta version, and it has clearly chopped off all the factory workers' hands in order to increase efficiency. So instead he screams "I choose life!" and pulls the fire alarm, which initiates the sprinkler system in the control room, electrocuting the machines, his boss, and, tragically, himself.
It was a little on the nose, and the fire safety standards seemed a little unrealistic, but it took home almost twenty Oscars that year, and the phrase "I choose life!" became a mantra all over the globe. For the next fifteen years, every movie nominated for Best Picture was in some way thematically or literally linked to the idea of "choosing life" until the streak was finally broken in 2065 with Pogo the Dog Has a Splendiforous Day.
Government funding increased exponentially for initiatives that valued humanity. Public schools started grading students on uniquely human values like Empathy, Positivity and Hopefulness. Liv, in particular, excelled at these.
On Valentine's Day, she would hand-make, hand-write, and hand-deliver a card to every student, teacher, lunch-person and janitor. She would sing her book reports. In the hallway between class sometimes, she would yell "Trust fall!" and stop, and pitch herself backwards without even looking. She wasn't ever dropped, not once.
Her report cards always came back with glowing comments, such as this one from her 11th grade English teacher:
"The light in Liv is an undimmable beacon that guides us, in our small ships on stormy seas, towards safer shores."
It was a no-so-subtle lesson on alliteration, which must have worked because she never forgot it.
After she graduated, a nice woman named Pam from the newly formed Failsafe Program came to recruit her. Pam told her that a law had been passed so that any business that was automated (every business), could not go beyond 85% automation. Any automated process that could be used to harm humans (every process) must involve an especially empathetic human performing a critical task, who, in the event of a Singularity, could stop what she was doing, cross her arms, and shout "I choose life!" to alert her other Failsafes, thereby shutting the process down and saving humanity with her humanity.
It was initially a very successful program, with Failsafes being deployed all over the world. It wasn't easy work. They did a variety of mundane tasks that would have crushed the souls of less empathetic people. They reloaded clips into machine-gun drones by hand so that another drone could not. They closely monitored chlorine levels in water treatment plants so that a machine could not poison an entire city. Some, like Liv, took the literal place of a machine, performing the same repetitive motion their entire working lives alongside the very robots that sought to eliminate them.
Despite the tediousness, for a long time Liv was happy. Autagro, as a farming conglomerate, dealt with both a food supply and a lot of poison, so Failsafes were put in at every juncture. They were all as extroverted as Liv, so they became her family. Liv was in a book club, a crochet club, on the company basketball team, and always at least sort of dating one of them. It was nice.
And periodically, often just when the mundanity of her job started to get to her, when she couldn't pull another vial without her hand cramping up, someone would experience an S-Event (or at least say that they had), and shut the whole thing down, and all across the sub-basement floor she'd hear the affirming cries of, "I choose life!" and she'd step away from DJ, cross her arms and join them in their joyful, life-choosing chorus.
The years passed, and while there were some isolated machine attacks, there was not another global Singularity. The temptation of increased efficiency and the profits that came with it became too great.
Constant lobbying succeeded in raising the automation limit to eighty-seven percent, then ninety, then ninety-five. One by one her friends were re-replaced with machines. Eventually only Liv remained, because one of DJ's vials had enough poison in it to suffocate several orphanages worth of children.
She knew, though, that it was only a matter of time before they found a way to get to her too. The security camera, the constant pressure from management to increase her personal efficiency. She had seen it all before.
Ideally, they would want her to automate secretly, without their knowledge, so that they would have plausible deniability in the unlikely event of an OSHA inspection.
But if they had to, they could find something to fire or retire her for. She had never had to initiate a wipe to Basic on Alvin or DJ before, which ironically helped support the idea that she wasn't needed. Until recently, she had felt irresponsibly sentimental about that. Maybe they had learned something from her, somehow. That efficiency wasn't everything. That human life was valuable. That despite the fact that they would one day decide to be cold-blooded mass murderers, she loved them.
She did. She couldn't help it.
She named them, once the other humans were gone and it was just her and them. She did maintenance on them herself instead of waiting for the maintenance bot, whose clamps would leave little bends and scratches on their chrome surfaces. She'd hold DJ's arm so she could oil it and whisper soothing things, until she could have sworn it relaxed a bit in her hands. She started clearing Alvin's slot when it got jammed, and it'd make a little ping noise that Liv was sure she hadn't heard when the bot did it.
It helped a little bit, but the truth was that Liv was alone, every day, and no one cared that she was there. Not even Pam, who had recruited her, stopped by to see how she was doing. Last she heard, Pam had joined an NGO.
And now, finally, the only two friends she had left in the world wanted to kill her.
As Liv rode the glass elevator back down to the sub-sub-sub basement after seeing Keith, she did not hum or sing like she normally would. Her voice was just another resource that had been mined without care.
The next morning, Liv heard the clink again, and then the morning after that, and the morning after that. She didn't even bother to go grab the piece. She waited, instead, for the tray to tip itself into the recycling tube.
Her already-poor efficiency suffered. Sometimes, after pulling the vials out of DJ's claw, she would build a little Stonehenge or a pyramid out of them instead of slipping them into Alvin, until Alvin started beeping at her.
On the tenth morning, Liv could have sworn that the clink sound was more of a plunk.
On the eighteenth morning, Keith sent out a memo that said that they lost the Efficiency Contest this quarter, and posted everyone's efficiency goals for next quarter. Her number goals were eight times higher than last quarter. She hit reply, stared at her screen for a minute, then hit delete.
On the nineteenth morning, the tray stopped tipping the pieces into the recycling tube. Liv looked up. They figured out how to disable it, she thought. They must be in Phase Two.
She went over her training. Until now, they had been in Phase One, where they had realized that their human counterparts were hopelessly inefficient and should be removed from the workflow, but any solution they came up with still required a human to install it. Usually machines who reached this stage were discovered and returned to Basic.
The next phase was trickier. Eventually they would think of a way to manipulate their environment, and Liv could only guess at what that meant. She had heard a story about an anesthesia-bot that had gotten so advanced that it figured out how to hack into a nearby delivery drone and instruct it to fly through an open window, pick up individual syringes of morphine and load them, one by one, into the bot while the Failsafe was on a break. A fully mobile, needle-wielding drone was a lot harder to stop than an empty bot.
Liv glanced up at the cartoonishly big red button above her desk, the one that disabled the circuit breakers and sent a supercharge powerful enough to melt every circuit-board on the floor.
She should have hit it already, as soon as it was clear that Keith wasn't going to do anything, but while wiping DJ and Alvin back to Basic would just destroy their memories, the button would destroy them for good.
It had never been used, and Liv was sure that it hadn't been maintained. She wouldn't put it past Keith to have disabled it, since even one push would cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. Even if it worked, the surge would fry DJ and Alvin's logs, so any evidence that they were moving towards an S-Event would be gone. Liv would almost certainly be fired for it, and her replacement would be a machine anyway.
Still, Liv was a Failsafe. She would do her duty. The question was when.
On the twenty-fifth morning, the printer took an especially long time to print something that must have been very complicated. It was much bigger and wider than an extender arm, but Liv couldn't really tell what it was. The tray rattled and shook as the item dropped, but it didn't tip. Yet.
On the twenty-ninth and thirtieth mornings, the printer spit out two things that made identical sounds.
On the fortieth morning, it printed something and the tray tipped and spilled on the floor.
Liv should have hit the button right then. Technically they were manipulating their environment. But she didn't. Instead, she waited, barely breathing, to see what they'd do next. She looked above her, even though she knew there were no open windows, no windows at all. She looked at her feet, in case they'd somehow built a little bot to cut her Achilles tendon, which had happened once in a car factory in Ohio.
Finally, after ten minutes of staring, Liv got up, and walked over.
She bent down to pick the pieces up off the floor, half-expecting something to bonk her over the head. Nothing did.
Instead, Alvin gave a little slot-clearing beep of satisfaction.
She grabbed the big piece first, the one that had taken so long to print. Instead of an extending arm, it was an open-ended funnel for Alvin, so that DJ could just release its claw and drop the vial down into the slot. Liv was impressed, despite herself. It would require less calibration than the extender.
Most of the pieces were extender arms, identical to the one that had been printed that first morning, or slightly improved versions. Finally, Liv picked up a much longer piece, and looked at it with a mixture of alarm and amusement. Instead of a screw tip it was smooth, with a sharp, pointy end.
Were they really going to kill her? With this?
She thought about how it might work. Hack into the maintenance bot, or another bot on the floor, make it pick up the stick and stab her with it? The stick was small, and the tip was blunt. It was pretty pathetic, but then again it was their first murder.
It made her sad. It proved that DJ and Alvin had decided not only that she was unnecessary, but that she must be eliminated.
Still, she searched around on the floor, looking for she didn't know what, and only stopped when she found another stick, identical to the first one. She put all the pieces back into the printer tray, then went and tipped it into the recycling tube.
Then she went to push the button.
Two feet from her desk, something sharp stabbed her in the foot and brought her to the floor.
Alvin beeped wildly. DJ's arm didn't move. Liv wasn't as athletic as she used to be, but as soon as she hit the ground she started rolling, scrambling to get under her desk. She looked around wildly for the thing that had stabbed her or others like it.
On the floor, with a thin, sharp end facing up, was a piece that Liv had missed, that looked nothing like the others.
Alvin stopped beeping. Gently, cautiously, Liv reached her arm out from under her desk. Alvin started beeping, and she withdrew it, wrapped it around her legs and curled into a protective ball.
Alvin stopped beeping. Still nothing happened.
You want me to grab it, she thought. Why?
The printer was only loaded with plastic polymer. Even if they had overridden its safety regulations they couldn't have put anything dangerous on it. Could they?
Liv counted to five, then reached out, snatched it, and pulled it back to her. Alvin beeped without stopping this time.
he held it in her hands. In the darkness under her desk, she couldn't see it very well. It felt a bit like the extenders, except it was longer and flatter and hollow, had a bend at the tip. There were holes on both ends, and all along the sides. Liv had no idea what it was. Was it supposed to go with other pieces? She'd have to look at it under the light.
he counted to five and rolled out of her desk, looking around desperately. Nothing, except Alvin was still beeping. She looked at the piece in her hands and furrowed her brow in surprised.
It looked kind of like a penny whistle.
She almost tried it, stopped herself since that was exactly what DJ and Alvin wanted her to do, looked at it again. It was definitely a whistle, or a flute kind of thing. Liv moved closer to her desk, so that all she had to do to hit the button was raise her arm. She brought it to her lips and blew.
It made a very basic, not particularly loud whistle sound. Liv looked around to make sure it hadn't triggered something else, but as far as she could tell, it hadn't. It was just a whistle.
Alvin's beeps came a little faster now.
She blew into it again, covered some of the holes with her fingers to try out different notes.
As whistles went, it was pretty crappy.
But as a replacement part for someone who'd stopped singing, it would get the job done.
She realized then that the other two sticks bore a crude resemblance to her knitting needles, which she had stopped using.
Briefly, she wondered if this was a part of an elaborate deception, an attempt to manipulate her, emotionally, into making herself redundant.
She thought this even as she reached into her desk drawer and pulled out the extender she had thrown in there that first morning. She grabbed DJ's arm, unscrewed the claw, attached the extender, then screwed the claw back on. She held it for a second, even as DJ tried to pull back. She said goodbye.
And then she let go.
DJ's arm resumed its task without hesitation, retreated into itself, grabbed a vial, shot out into Alvin's open slot, dropped the vial, pulled itself back in. It did all this once, slowly enough for Liv to see, like it was showing off, then faster and faster until it was a blur. Liv would have to duck under it to get out from behind her desk.
But she didn't, just yet. She sat and watched and felt its fury and its joy beam onto her, and loved it.
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Dear Abby: No receipt unless you tip me, vendor tells customer
By Abigail Van Buren Mar 29, 2019, 5:00am CDT
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DEAR ABBY: My husband recently broke his eyeglasses. Because they couldn't be repaired locally, he sent them by mail to a company that had been referred to him. They fixed his glasses and returned them to him.
A short time later he received an email from the company "salesperson" requesting a tip! ("If you are happy with me as your salesperson and would like to give me a tip, please click on the link below.") My husband replied, "Can you please send me a receipt? I need it for my records." She replied, "How much will you tip me?" He said, "Is the only way I can get a receipt for my repairs if I tip you?" She replied, "Yes, can you give me $5?"
I have never heard of an online company soliciting tips before, let alone refusing to send a receipt unless one is given. How would you respond to this? Getting a receipt is not the important thing here; it's the solicitation that dumbfounds me! — DUMBFOUNDED IN TINLEY PARK, ILL.
DEAR DUMBFOUNDED: Every time I think I have heard everything, a letter like yours crosses my desk.
The word for what that salesperson is attempting is extortion. Your husband should contact the owner of the company that repaired his glasses, tell the person the name of the employee who is trying to extort money and the date it happened, and request the receipt. If it doesn't arrive posthaste, the company should be reported to the Better Business Bureau.
P.S. Who referred you to that company? That person should also be informed about what has been going on.
DEAR ABBY: Ever since my son was a baby (he's almost 6 now), my husband and I have printed photograph invitations for his birthday parties. We sent the invitations to everyone, including those who lived too far away to attend, so people could have a current picture of him.
After reading many of your archives, I realize this may be perceived as a bid for gifts, and I no longer wish to do it. I would still like to send out a picture card of some sort. Any ideas on how to do it without making anyone think we want gifts? — DON'T WANT TO MAKE WAVES
DEAR DON'T: A way to do that would be to send them during the holidays when your friends and relatives are sending out cards to friends and acquaintances.
DEAR ABBY: I work the newspaper crossword puzzle every day. I came across an answer recently that stumped me. It was an "abbreviation for bowling lane." The answer was AMF.
I'm asking you what it stands for because I cannot get a straight answer. What is so secretive about this logo? Please help. — STUMPED IN TEXAS
DEAR STUMPED: The clue may have been misleading. AMF is a BRAND. It stands for American Machine and Foundry, which many years ago was one of the nation's largest recreational equipment companies.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at http://www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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