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Q: C++ SFML getting a white rectangle instead of a green circle Using VS 2017 and SFML 2.5.1 I followed the instructions for installation and used the code given in the tutorial here. I get a window with "SFML Works!" but instead of drawing a green circle I only get a white box like this:

The output after I close the application is as follows:
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 'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Users\userName\source\repos\SFMLTutorial\Debug\SFMLTutorial.exe'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll'. Symbols loaded.

'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\KernelBase.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Users\userName\source\repos\SFMLTutorial\Debug\sfml-system-d-2.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcp140d.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vcruntime140d.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\winmm.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Users\userName\source\repos\SFMLTutorial\Debug\sfml-window-d-2.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\gdi32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\gdi32full.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcrt.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ucrtbased.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\winmmbase.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cfgmgr32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcp_win.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ucrtbase.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\user32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\win32u.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ucrtbase.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ucrtbase.dll'
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\advapi32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Users\userName\source\repos\SFMLTutorial\Debug\sfml-graphics-d-2.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\opengl32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sechost.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rpcrt4.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\glu32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\opengl32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\opengl32.dll'
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sspicli.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cryptbase.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\bcryptprimitives.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ucrtbased.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ucrtbased.dll'
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\imm32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\combase.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Avecto\Privilege Guard Client\PGHook.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cryptsp.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rsaenh.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\bcrypt.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\psapi.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Cylance\Desktop\CyMemDef.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Cylance\Desktop\CyKNPHDOJQHQZ.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Cylance\Desktop\CyNTFMIHYBLXA.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\uxtheme.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msctf.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\oleaut32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\ink\tiptsf.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_8c587880ddec6926\ig9icd32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_8c587880ddec6926\ig9icd32.dll'
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_8c587880ddec6926\ig9icd32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\shell32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SHCore.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\windows.storage.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\shlwapi.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel.appcore.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\powrprof.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\profapi.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wtsapi32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dwmapi.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\version.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\version.dll'
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_8c587880ddec6926\igc32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_8c587880ddec6926\igc32.dll'
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_8c587880ddec6926\igc32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dinput8.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\InputHost.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CoreMessaging.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CoreUIComponents.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntmarta.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WinTypes.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\hid.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\setupapi.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\devobj.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wintrust.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msasn1.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\crypt32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\TextInputFramework.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\clbcatq.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\UIAutomationCore.dll'. Symbols loaded.
onecore\com\combase\inc\comcataloghelpers.hpp(67)\combase.dll!753F0530: (caller: 753F02C0) ReturnHr(1) tid(3efc) 80004002 No such interface supported
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sxs.dll'. Symbols loaded.
mincore\com\oleaut32\dispatch\ups.cpp(2125)\OLEAUT32.dll!75CD239F: (caller: 75CD1F41) ReturnHr(1) tid(3cf4) 8002801D Library not registered.
mincore\com\oleaut32\dispatch\ups.cpp(2125)\OLEAUT32.dll!75CD239F: (caller: 75CD1F41) ReturnHr(2) tid(3cf4) 8002801D Library not registered.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\oleacc.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\twinapi.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\twinapi.appcore.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rmclient.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ole32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dxgi.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\d3d11.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ResourcePolicyClient.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'SFMLTutorial.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ResourcePolicyClient.dll'
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The thread 0x392c has exited with code -1073741510 (0xc000013a).
The program '[15600] SFMLTutorial.exe' has exited with code -1073741510 (0xc000013a).

The source code (copy / paste) is here:
#include <SFML\Graphics.hpp>

int main()
{
    sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(200, 200), "SFML works!");
    sf::CircleShape shape(100.f);
    shape.setFillColor(sf::Color::Green);
    while (window.isOpen())
    {
        sf::Event event;
        while (window.pollEvent(event))
        {
            if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
                window.close();
        }

        window.clear();
        window.draw(shape);
        window.display();
    }

    return 0;
}

I should be getting a green circle. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?


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Q: DropDownChoice onSelectionChnaged DropDownChoice<Bean> groupDDC =new DropDownChoice<Bean>(....) {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Override
    protected void onSelectionChanged(Bean newSelection) {
    super.onSelectionChanged(newSelection);
    // my logic

    }
}

super.onSelectionChanged(newSelection); is pre-written in the onSlectionChnaged method.
I can remove that code or I can keep that and add my code below that, it all works the same.
So my question is, is it better to keep that code? And why?
Note : I am using wicket 1.4.x

A: DropDownChoice#onSelectionChanged() is an empty hook method, you don't need to call it from your override.

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A lavender filled memory bear.
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I'm so happy you are here! My name is Alynn and I live in Southwestern Ontario, where I was born and raised. I live with my husband and 5 children – aged 17 down to 3yrs – We have 6 furkids too, all rescued… 3 dogs + 3 cats. We are a chaotic, crazy, fun bunch. Wool is my therapy, my passion. I create from my soul and share my experience with you through my work. Each and every piece is a part of what I was feeling at the time it was created. I treasure this gift, I'm so thankful for this amazing outlet. I thank you for the support I've been shown! If it wasn't for your encouragements and love, I wouldn't be able to continue this venture.


I'd ignored my thirst for perhaps two hours and finally stopped here to drink. I'd seen no evidence of cattle so didn't bother using my Steripen, downing nearly four mugs of water from the fresh looking Rio Ara. I removed my hat, poured water down over my head, washed my face, arms, and legs. A few days previously I'd seen a good trick. A man filled his hat with water and returned it to his head. Not only sluicing his body but also making his hat a cooling garment for the next thirty minutes. Happy days.


[…] In April, prosecutors arrested three suspects, members of an elite unit within the "Berkut" riot police. Senior among them was Dmytro Sadovnyk, 38, a decorated commander, who was accused of ordering his men to fire on the crowds on the morning of Feb. 20. The three stand accused of massacring 39 unarmed protesters.


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Name four chamber works scored for oboe, viola, and piano. Then name four chamber works for oboe, viola, and piano that are based on poetry. Most of us would give up before getting to the second question. But the Jackson Trio — oboist Roger Roe, violist Michael Isaac Strauss, and pianist R. Kent Cook — have turned up pieces by August Klughardt, Felix Harold White, Josef Holbrooke, and Charles Martin Loeffler that fit the criteria for their fascinating album, Wordless Verses, released on the Oberlin Music Label.
And what interesting verses these four composers have set to wordless music. For the five fantasy pieces in his 1872 cycle Schilflieder ("Song of the Reeds"), Klughardt turned to poetry by Nikolaus Lenau — whose writings fueled the imaginations of Franz Liszt (Faust), Richard Strauss (Don Juan), and Alban Berg (Seven Early Songs).
Felix White, who served as keyboardist for the London Symphony in the first half of the 20th century, went back to the 17th-century English metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell for his wordless setting of The Nymph's Complaint for the Death of her Fawn (1921), which is actually a reflection on human inconstancy.
Edgar Allen Poe was a favorite of Josef Holbrooke, an English pianist and composer who based more than 30 compositions on the Baltimore poet's fantastical works. Holbrooke's 1917 Nocturne is based on Poe's Fairyland (an eerie place full of unsettling imagery).
The best-known composer on this album is the German-born Charles Martin Loeffler, longtime assistant concertmaster with the Boston Symphony, whose Trois Rhapsodies on poems by Maurice Rollinat were originally meant to be sung. Loeffler denuded two of them of their words, resulting in the truly wordless Deux Rhapsodies (1901). Here, the chilling verses paint images of a pond populated with "aged fish struck blind" (in L'Étang) and a bagpiper of death whose cries are "like a woman's agony" (in La Cornemuse).
Needless to say, this colorful and often neurotic poetry inspired the four composers on this album to write some evocative — and often quite beautiful — music. Roe, Strauss, and Cook play this unusual repertoire with excellent ensemble, and beautiful, expressive tone and phrasing in their solo moments. Engineer Ryan Miller caught their warm playing vividly at sessions in Clonick Hall at the Oberlin Conservatory.
Having presumably used up most of the available pieces for oboe, viola, and piano in assembling this striking album, perhaps the Jackson Trio will persuade some of today's composers to craft other "wordless verses" for the ensemble. Who needs words when the playing is this poetic all by itself?
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Daniel Hathaway founded ClevelandClassical.com in September, 2008, after a thirty-one year tenure as music director of Cleveland's Trinity Cathedral, where he founded the Wednesday Noon Brownbag Concert Series and Trinity Chamber Orchestra. A graduate of Harvard College and the Episcopal Divinity School, he also studied historical musicology at Princeton and Harvard Universities. Before coming to Cleveland in 1977, he served as head of humanities at the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City and as head of arts at Groton School in Massachusetts. In Cleveland, he has served on the music staff of Cleveland Opera, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and the faculty of Laurel School. As an organist, Hathaway has played recitals in the U.S., England, France, Germany, and Austria. He team-teaches Music Journalism at Oberlin College and Conservatory and is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America.

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José Eulogio López Escribano (Oviedo, 9 de Mayo de 1960) es un periodista, pensador, escritor y empresario español.

Actividad periodística y profesional
Licenciado en ciencias de la información por la Universidad de Navarra, es el fundador y actual editor del diario digital Hispanidad.

Previamente trabajó en los diarios La Nueva España (Oviedo), La Gaceta del Norte (Pamplona), Heraldo de Aragón (Zaragoza), Ya y ABC. De 1982 a 1984 fue redactor y locutor en Radio 80 Zaragoza y director de la misma de 1984 a 1985. Entre 1985 y 1990 fue redactor del semanario satírico El Cocodrilo, redactor del semanario El Nuevo Lunes, corresponsal financiero del diario El Independiente y director de la colección de libros Tibidabo Actualidad.

Entre 1990 y 1995 fue jefe de la sección de economía del semanario Tiempo de Hoy, columnista de la agencia OTR, redactor jefe de economía de la agencia de noticias Servimedia y articulista del semanario Banca 15.

En 1996 fundó el diario digital Hispanidad y continúa sus colaboraciones como comentarista del semanario El Siglo y asesor ejecutivo de comunicación del Ministerio de Industria. Entre 1998 a 2001 fue director del programa Confidencial en Radio Intereconomía y profesor de redacción periodística y de expresión oral en la facultad de humanidades de la Universidad San Pablo-CEU.

En febrero de 2018, la Audiencia Provincial de Madrid confirmó una condena a seis meses de prisión y multa de 1800 euros a López por la comisión de un delito de odio tipificado en el artículo 510.2 del Código Penal español. El tribunal consideró probado que el periodista, quien en 2015 difundió un vídeo en el que relacionaba homosexualidad y pederastia, se expresó con «menosprecio y descrédito» hacia las personas homosexuales y con la clara intención de humillarlas.

Libros
 Califas del dinero (1989)
 Por qué soy cristiano (y, sin embargo, periodista) (1992)
 En defensa de la Iglesia (1993)
 María Bustamante (1825-1913): una vida que mereció la pena vivir (1995)
 Los Magos de Oriente (1997)
 Por qué no soy progre (2001)

Referencias

Homófobos
Periodistas católicos de España
Periodistas de España del siglo XX
Periodistas de España del siglo XXI
Nacidos en Oviedo

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More than 76,000 immigrants illegally crossed the border in February and about half came with families, a 10-fold increase over the past two years. Border apprehensions in March probably exceeded 100,000, the highest monthly total in a decade. At the current rate, border apprehensions will exceed one million this year—the most since 2006—as human smugglers become more ambitious and reduce prices to entice more migrants...The Ninth Circuit in 2016 created other opportunities for asylum arbitrage by extending to families the 1997 Flores settlement, which limits the time unaccompanied children may be detained to 20 days. This has encouraged parents to bring their children on a perilous journey in hopes of expediting their release into the U.S. A father of an eight-year-old boy who died in government custody last December while waiting to be processed had heard rumors that children are a fast-track entry ticket to the U.S. Border agents have identified 2,400 "false families" over the last year as smugglers pair adults with unrelated children.
Border Patrol has reached a "breaking point," with detention facilities totally overwhelmed and overrun, resulting in the release of hundreds, if not thousands, of illegal immigrants into the US interior. We have no place to put them and no capacity to process them in a timely manner, under our current, broken laws. The word has gone out that arriving in America with a child, and claiming asylum, is a golden ticket into the country. People have adjusted their behavior accordingly, leading to the chaos that's currently playing out. If Castro's policy were implemented, imagine how the incentives would tilt even further in favor of encouraging illegal immigration. There would be virtually no risk of criminal penalties for violating our sovereignty as a matter of course, there would be fewer physical barriers to avoid, there would be fewer officials tasked with stopping you, and you would be far less likely to be detained than to be cut loose into the United States with a future court date in your pocket.


The trigger to this article was a discussion I had with someone on Reddit. There is a common misconception about calculating gains on trades that require margin, like credit spreads and short options (naked puts/calls, strangles or straddles). I believe it is important to explain how to do it properly.
Lets examine two cases, using the same underlying (BABA).
As we can see, the margin requirement is $400 (the difference between the spread width and the credit), the maximum gain is 25% and the maximum loss 100%. Maximum gain is realized if the stocks stays below $130 by expiration and both options expire worthless. maximum loss is realized if the stock is above $135 by expiration and both options are ITM. In this case your loss is the $5 less the $1 credit.
As we can see, the margin jumps to almost $1,250. Maximum dollar gains remains the same ($100), but return on margin is reduced to only 8%. If you sold the strangle for $1.00 and bought it back for $0.75, you made $25, which is around 2% return on margin.
Here is a general guideline how to calculate ROI on credit spreads.
Let say we open a 10 point wide credit spread (i.e. there are 10 points between the sell leg and the buy leg for the credit spread) The broker requires $1000 of maintenance margin to open this credit spread. When we open this credit spread for $2.00 credit, or $200. Our risk capital is then $1000 – $200 = $800. The potential ROI is then $200/$800 = 25%. If you close the trade for $1.00 debit (50% of the maximum gain), your gain is 12.5%, not 50%.
Why it is important you might ask?
Well, lets say you have a $100k account and decide to allocate 10k (or 10%) per trade. If you allocate 10k per trade and make 25%, you would expect to make $2,500, so your account grows by 2.5%, right? Well, in case you sold the naked strangle, you can sell only 8 contracts based on the margin and your allocation. When you buy the 8 contracts back for $0.75, you make $200, which is 2% gain on $10k trade.
When you sell a $5 wide credit spread and get $1 credit, you risk $4 to make $1. Your risk/reward is 1:4 - you can lose 100% and make 25%.
When you sell a $10 wide credit spread and get $1 credit, you risk $9 to make $1. Your risk/reward is 1:9 - you can lose 100% and make 11.1%.
I hope you can see how margin impacts the returns when you are selling options.


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Family Guy 6/26 - open spoilers
Otto June 27, 2005, 8:16am #21
"Yes, well I guess the pilot was John F Kennedy Jr…oh my, even I'm a little offended by that."
Rubystreak June 27, 2005, 11:40am #22
We also got to see Teen Stoner Stewie, which was pretty cool. Any episode with the creepy old man is a good one, though he didn't get to talk in this one.
Trunk June 27, 2005, 11:54am #23
I loved the line about how you gotta use junk to have soul.
Then they made a crack about Chevy Chase, which is totally true. That guy hasn't been funny since 1980.
I also thought that having the old man watch Chris jiggle was hilarious, and I liked the "how's the novel coming along" bit.
Hey_It_s_That_Guy June 27, 2005, 12:12pm #24
AuntiePam:
Thanks. Now I know who John Mayer is, but I don't get the joke.
John Mayer is a pretty generic, bland, "vanilla" acoustic singer-songwriter, who plays the kind of sappy, light love songs that make sorority girls squeal, and not much else. He doesn't rock very hard, he doesn't have a lot of soul, he's not very accomplished guitarist, and if horny teenage girls didn't consider him a reasonably handsome, non-threatening sex symbol, we'd all probably be spared having ever heard of him. Basically, John Mayer makes Dave Matthews look like the biggest badass ever.
CandidGamera June 27, 2005, 12:51pm #25
Big Bad Voodoo Lou:
Basically, John Mayer makes Dave Matthews look like the biggest badass ever.
Bwahaha! You just made my morning.
I loved this episode, and felt it was one of the strongest so far this season.
Hee… the Snorks.
Hey_It_s_That_Guy June 27, 2005, 1:02pm #26
I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned that "Doug," Chris' pimple, sounded and acted a lot like Audrey II, the man-eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors. Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops provided Audrey II's voice in the movie when "she" bossed Rick Moranis around, but I didn't notice his name in the closing credits of Family Guy.
Nonsuch June 27, 2005, 1:05pm #27
I also thought it was perhaps the strongest new episode so far. Cleveland's would-be pickup line was great. Stewie needling Brian was great. The Animal House parody. Brian singing that awful Family Ties song. Cleveland shaking the woman's foot goodnight. All good stuff, and nothing I really didn't like.
middleman June 27, 2005, 1:21pm #28
It was a decent episode. Had several dull moments, but enough gold to be a solid episode.
Probably the second best episode of the new season.
I loved it when the zit pulled a gun. It was so random.
"Fat ass?"
Stewie's novel monologue was funny the first time. The second one was just annoying.
Quagmire slipping her a rufie on camera. Hilarious!
I thought there were a few too many over the top pop culture add-ons. He-Man, the Snorks and one other I can't recall seemed to appear just for the sake of appearing.
Brian singing the Billy Vera and the Beaters song At This Moment (aka, the Family Ties song), however had me laughing.
The evil monkey appearance was funny.
Burnt Sienna was good.
While the John Mayer joke had me laughing, it seemed to be a close cousin to Chris's earlier joke about Kevin Costner and No Way Out. Of course, that was probably one of my favorites all time.
Licentious_Ectomorph June 27, 2005, 1:44pm #29
Stewie's "novel" joke went on way, way, WAAAAAAAAAAAY too long. Both times. Honest to Og, I almost turned off the TV the first time. People found that funny? He could have just said "Oh, like you've got such a heavy workload around here" and left it at that. That made me laugh. Maybe added "How's that novel coming along?" but it wouldn't have been necessary.
It seems to me this show is coming down with "Saturday Night Live Syndrome" in that the bits drag on FAR past the point of funny and well into the realm of tedium.
I'm no "Family Guy" afficionado; in fact, this season is the first where I've made a point of watching it regularly. The handful of episodes I had seen before were hilarious, and I don't remember the jokes being so drawn out (I could be wrong). My favorite bit was one where the family was at the dinner table, sans Peter, and someone lamented his absence. Stewie said "Well, let me just simulate the experience for you," smacked his face down in his plate, and rubbed it around, snarfing his food with gusto and gobbling noises. That had me howling.
SmackFu June 27, 2005, 2:55pm #30
Licentious Ectomorph:
I'm with you on that one. Usually I like these kind of jokes, but this one started unfunny, stayed unfunny, and lasted FOREVER.
Cliffy June 27, 2005, 2:59pm #31
The novel joke the first time was very funny, went too long, and then came 'round again to hilarious. The second time stayed funny the whole way through because Stewie's voice kept going up. The Snorks bit was perfect.
–Cliffy
Push_You_Down June 27, 2005, 4:23pm #32
The novel joke I thought was probably the funniest thing I've seen on the show all season. The second time it wasn't funny because it was basically off topic.
The appearence by He-man made me lose my shit. Almost as much as the appearence by Flint from GI JOe earlier this season. Snrks were funny only because how often do you see the Snorks referenced in anything?
I also loved Peter tying Cleveland down, stripping him naked, and stripping himself naked all to make him feel more comfortable.
Only_Mostly_Dead June 27, 2005, 4:32pm #33
Push You Down:
I really should get the message by now that Fox's "this show will contain brief cartoon nudity" warning at the beginning almost always means Peter will be naked with overhanging gut. We want more Lois!
RandMcnally June 27, 2005, 5:53pm #34
Murcielago:
Is this a reference to some other work? When the chimp was pointing and displaying that menacing stare, I had a feeling I should have recognized it from somewhere.
Chris: There's an evil monkey in my closet. (Shows evil monkey pointing)
Chris: He wasn't always evil.
(Flashback) Then Un-evil monkey coming home from work: Honey, I'm hope. (Walks in to see his wife in bed with another monkey. They then start howling etc.)
RandMcnally:
*home. He says "Honey, I'm HOME."
How did I screw that up?
FordPrefect June 27, 2005, 5:59pm #36
Only Mostly Dead:
Best part of the episode: Evil Monkey bursts out of Chris' closet, and does his Evil Monkey pointing thing. Chris snaps "I'M IN NO MOOD!" Evil Monkey sadly slinks back into the closet, gently pulling the doors closed behind him.
This was the only part that I really enjoyed.
singular1 June 29, 2005, 11:22am #37
The novel joke I thought was probably the funniest thing I've seen on the show all season.
Absolutely! We watched this at least three more times, and it just kept getting better - fantastic timing!
AngelicGemma June 29, 2005, 12:44pm #38
Loved it. But as others have said, the novel joke went on FAR too long.


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HomeHeadlines4 Amazing Black Women They Don't Tell You About in School
4 Amazing Black Women They Don't Tell You About in School
Elizabeth "Mum Beth" Freeman
AFRICANGLOBE – As with Black History Month, the focus on already well-known figures has been an ongoing criticism of Woman's History Month. When it comes to Black women, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells and Rosa Parks are on repeat.
What makes these much-needed theme months thrive, however, is the spirit of discovery. It's doubtful that the names Elizabeth "Mum Bett" Freeman, Callie House, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin or Johnnie Tillmon even draw a glint of recognition but they should. In their own ways, each of these women made important contributions to the ongoing struggle for freedom and justice.
Even as a slave, Elizabeth Freeman, known as Mum Bett most of her life, had the audacity to sue for her freedom. Born into slavery in Claverack, New York around 1742, Freeman, at a reported six months old, was sold, along with her sister, to John Ashley of Sheffield, Massachusetts, a judge in the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas.
Enslaved to Ashley until she was almost 40, Freeman was spurred to action when the mistress of the house Hannah Ashley tried to hit her sister with a heated kitchen shovel. Freeman intervened and was hit instead, leaving the house, vowing to never come back.
Aware of the 1780 Massachusetts state constitution and its declaration of all men being free and equal from Sheffield's many conversations, Freeman sought the services of Theodore Sedgwick, an attorney with anti-slavery sentiments. In 1781, a Massachusetts court awarded Freeman and another of Ashley's slaves named Brom their freedom in Brom and Bett v. J. Ashley, Esq., even requiring Ashley to pay damages.
This set a major civil rights precedent. W.E.B. DuBois even claimed Freeman, who adopted the name after her legal victory, as his maternal great-grandmother – even though this connection was by marriage – as she was such an important figure to him. Freeman passed away in 1829.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born into privilege in Boston in 1842, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin used her education and background to uplift Black women. Married at age sixteen to George Lewis Ruffin (who would later become Harvard Law School's first Black male graduate, the first African-American elected to the Massachusetts state legislature and to the Boston City Council, and the first African-American municipal judge in Boston), Ruffin, a suffragist, helped Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone form the American Woman Suffrage Association in Boston in 1869.
After her husband's death in 1884, Ruffin, also a journalist and early member of the New England Women's Press Association, became even more active, launching Women's Era, believed to be the nation's first newspaper published by and for Black women, serving as editor and publisher from 1890 to 1897.
With her daughter, Florida Ruffin Ridley, and Boston principal, Maria Baldwin, she launched the New Era Club for Black women in either 1893 or 1894 depending on the source. In 1895, Ruffin helped organize the National Federation of Afro-American Women, convening its first national conference in Boston attended by 100 women representing 20 clubs in 10 states. A year later, in 1896, the organization merged with the Colored Women's League to form the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.
Although a member of several White women's clubs, Ruffin advocated for Black women as a suffragist. She rejected recognition as a delegate at a major conference in 1900, for example, because organizers only sought to confer the role due to her membership in several prominent White women's clubs. Instead, Ruffin chose to stand up for the validity of Black women's clubs like her own New Era.
Active in other areas, Ruffin was also a founding member of the Boston branch of the NAACP. She passed away in 1924 at age 81.
More Amazing Black Women
Callie House
Callie House, born Callie Guy in slave-holding Rutherford County, Tennessee in 1861, is still relatively unknown, despite the book about her life My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry. But House, a laundress operating out of Nashville in the 1890s, is an important figure in the reparations movement.
In 1894, House, along with Isaiah Dickerson, who had worked with White political activist William Vaughn around reparations in Omaha, Nebraska, organized the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association.
Open to all, the Ex-Slave Pension Association, working nationally and locally, filled the void of the Freedmen's Bureau, providing burial services as well as care for the sick and disabled to its membership in addition to advocating for legislation for ex-slave pensions.
Because of her success, House became a target. In 1899, the U.S. Post Office, emboldened by the Comstock Act of 1873, issued a fraud order against House and the Ex-Slave Pension Association. Continued federal intimidation forced House to step down as assistant secretary of the Ex-Slave Pension Association in 1902 but did not stop her from organizing more local chapters throughout the South. The wind left her sail, however, when Alabama Congressman Edmund Petus's reparations legislation failed in 1903.
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The New Orleans Pelicans signed free-agent forward Dante Cunningham and he will be in uniform for Thursday night's game against the Golden State Warriors.
The Pelicans also could be adding free-agent point guard Gal Mekel, according to ESPN.
Cunningham had gone unsigned after he was charged in April with felony domestic assault. He was accused by his then-girlfriend of choking her and slamming her head against a wall, but the charge was dropped in August.
Cunningham played for the Minnesota Timberwolves for two seasons before his contract expired. Teams were hesitant to sign him during the offseason because of the domestic abuse allegations and the related scandals that have impacted professional sports in the past few months.
With the Timberwolves last season, Cunningham averaged 6.3 points and 4.1 rebounds per game. He made $2.1 million in the final season of his contract.
Mekel was with the Dallas Mavericks last season but waived before the start of the 2014-15 season after the Mavs signed point guard J.J. Berea. As a rookie, Mekel averaged 2.4 points and 2.0 assists in 31 games for Dallas.
Up to the minute news and reports from the news wire of The Sports Xchange.


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HRC32 Oral Statement – High Commissioner's oral update on Sri Lanka and report on Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar
32nd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council
Item 2: High Commissioner's oral update on Sri Lanka and report on Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar – General Debate
Oral Statement Delivered by R. Iniyan Ilango
On behalf of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
Mr. President, we note the High Commissioner's update on Sri Lanka and welcome his report on Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Burma/Myanmar.
On Sri Lanka we welcome cooperation with Special Procedures and the High Commissioner; and the ratification of the Conventions on Enforced Disappearances and Disabilities. We recognise the ease in threats to fundamental freedoms in the country, but remain concerned about continuing incidents, particularly in the North and East. We echo the High Commissioner's call to swiftly address continuing allegations of violations including arbitrary arrest, torture and sexual violence, as well as more general military surveillance and harassment. We condemn the continued use of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and call on the government to repeal it immediately. We also share the High Commissioner's concerns on the lack of progress in releasing civilian land and call for reversing disproportionate military deployment in the North and East.
We concur with the High Commissioner's assessment on accountability mechanisms and call on the government to fully include international judges, lawyers and prosecutors in a judicial mechanism for accountability. We are alarmed at backtracking on this key commitment in resolution 30/1 by the President and the Prime Minister. We call on the government to enact legislation for all transitional justice mechanisms it had committed to within 2016, after broad and inclusive consultations with all stakeholders.
On Burma/Myanmar we call on the government to utilise the historic opportunity provided by political change and take a fresh, human rights based approach to Rohingyas and other ethnic minorities. If not the credibility of the government's commitment to human rights will be seriously undermined. We appreciate clear and concrete recommendations by the High Commissioner on policy and legislative change; and in establishing accountability. We call on the government to take immediate steps to implement these recommendations; ensure that any national reconciliation process is inclusive of all minorities; and announce a roadmap with human rights benchmarks to end deep rooted discrimination and intolerance towards Rohingyas and other minorities.
Download the PDF version of the statement here
HRC38: Oral Statement during the General Debate on the oral update of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
HRC32 Oral Statement – General Debate on Item 2, High Commissioner's oral update to the Council
HRC39: Oral Statement on the situation of Rohingya and the need for an accountability mechanism in Myanmar
HRC 40 Oral Statement on Item 2: General Debate on the High Commissioner's country reports and oral updates


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Cardita distorta, or the dog's foot cockle, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Carditidae, endemic to New Zealand including the Chatham Islands and southern offshore islands. It is found from low tide to depths of approximately 185 m.

References
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 Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979

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Bivalves of New Zealand
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Timefulness
Like an increasing number of people, I find mindfulness meditation is a great way to live in the moment, stop reliving the past and stop being anxious about the future.
That's why I was taken by a book review of a new book, "Timefulness," which has as its central argument that,
With mindfulness, the goal is to focus on the present. With timefulness, it's to see the present as a tiny detail in a complex grand sum. Here is how the piece begins:
At midnight, the glittering crystal ball will drop in Times Square. Revelers around the world will straggle home, nod off, and greet the new year with a dullness caused by sleep deprivation, overstimulation and inebriation. This behavior suggests that we give higher priority to the final few hours of the past than the first few hours of the future—perhaps because endings are more concrete than beginnings, and regrets sharper than resolutions.
Geologists don't think this way, particularly Marcia Bjornerud, author of "Timefulness," a profound meditation on the richness, depth and entanglements of geologic time. Her brief book on a big subject puts the ball drop in proper perspective by reminding us that the Gregorian calendar is anachronistic and by elegantly condensing the landmark tomes of geology, from James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth" (1788) to John McPhee's "Annals of the Former World" (1998).
A New World Order
With tens of thousands of new books on the market, deciding what to read is getting more and more challenging. Friends recommend books and we get inputs from multiple sources.
That's why I gravitate to the New York Times best-seller lists in the Sunday Book Review section, as well as their periodic lists of critics' top choices.
Here is how the latest list of top books begins:
If we had to use a single word to describe the past year in books, it might be eclectic. Novels were told from the perspective of a woman imprisoned for murder, a woman who suddenly inherits a Great Dane and a woman having an affair with a writer who strongly resembles Philip Roth. We also got an esteemed literary biographer turning her lens on herself, a sprawling, fresh look at New York's postwar art world and clear-eyed advice about how to die. As in 2017, some of the year's best nonfiction addressed global tumult — but a bit more subtly, in several cases, by casting an eye back to distant but still-resonant history, like the decades of deferral and denial that led to the Civil War. Below, The New York Times's three daily book critics — Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai — share their thoughts about their favorites among the books they reviewed this year, each list alphabetical by author.
Want more? You can read it here
World's Policeman?
Most Americans feel somewhere deep in their gut that it is futile for the United States to try to be world's policeman – but many of us have trouble articulating why that is a bad thing.
A review of Stephan Walt's new book, "The Hell of Good Intentions" helped me understand just how badly we stumble when we try to be everything to everybody. Here's an excerpt:
Like Edmund Burke, who warned, "I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded," Walt views America's recurrent bouts of missionary zeal with consternation. Others, like the foreign policy writer Robert Kagan, may fret about an encroaching jungle invading the gardens of the West; Walt's attitude is to forget about trying to trim it back. As a longstanding member of the realist school of foreign policy, which has traditionally subordinated considerations about human rights and morality to a balance of power, Walt might be expected to wax enthusiastic about Donald Trump, who has espoused a "principled realism" and condemned the foreign policy establishment. Walt, however, exhibits as much disdain for Trump's bellicosity as he does for the liberal internationalists that he indicts here. Walt's book offers a valuable contribution to the mounting debate about America's purpose. But his diagnosis of America's debilities is more persuasive than his prescriptions to remedy them.
According to Walt, the dominant narrative after the conclusion of the Cold War was that history was on America's side, even, as Francis Fukuyama put it in a famous 1989 essay in The National Interest, that so-called history had ended and all that remained was economic materialism. Globalization would lead to what Karl Marx had called in the Communist Manifesto a "universal interdependence" among nations; warfare would become a thing of the past. America's mission was to push other states to protect human rights and to help them transition to democracy.
In Walt's view, "despite minor differences, both liberal and neoconservative proponents of liberal hegemony assumed that the United States could pursue this ambitious global strategy without triggering serious opposition." But the very steps that America took to enhance its security, Walt suggests, ended up undermining it. He reminds us, for instance, that George F. Kennan warned in 1999 that NATO expansion eastward was a "tragic mistake" that would, sooner or later, ignite Russian nationalism. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, Russia became a revanchist power that launched cyber-attacks on the Baltic States, seized Crimea, invaded Ukraine and interfered in the 2016 American presidential election. In Walt's telling, "the energetic pursuit of liberal hegemony was mostly a failure. … By 2017, in fact, democracy was in retreat in many places and under considerable strain in the United States itself."
Want more? You can read more here
Decision Time!
We make decisions every day – dozens, scores, or even hundreds. Our brains are constantly juggling a dizzying array of choices. Somehow we do this with ease.
But it's the big decisions that often trip us up and leave us befuddled. That's why Steven Johnson's book: "How we Make the Decisions that Matter the Most" is being wildly hailed as a breakthrough in helping us cope with the act of deciding (see the review of his book here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/books/review/steven-johnson-farsighted.html).
Johnson shared the highlights of his suggestions in a recent piece in the New York Times. Here's how he began:
In July 1838, Charles Darwin, then 29, sat down to make a decision that would alter the course of his life. The decision he was wrestling with was not related to scientific questions about the origins of species. It was a different kind of decision — existential as well, but of a more personal nature: Should he get married?
Darwin's method for making this decision would be recognizable to many of us today: He made a list of pros and cons. Under the heading "not marry" he noted the benefits of remaining a bachelor, including "conversation of clever men at clubs"; under "marry" he included "children (if it please God)" and "charms of music and female chitchat."
Even if some of Darwin's values seem dated, the journal entry is remarkable for how familiar it otherwise feels. Almost two centuries later, even as everything else in the world has changed, the pros-versus-cons list remains perhaps the only regularly used technique for adjudicating a complex decision. Why hasn't the science of making hard choices evolved?
In fact, it has, but its insights have been underappreciated. Over the past few decades, a growing multidisciplinary field of research — spanning areas as diverse as cognitive science, management theory and literary studies — has given us a set of tools that we can use to make better choices. When you face a complex decision that requires a long period of deliberation, a decision whose consequences might last for years or even decades, you are no longer limited to Darwin's simple list.
As I mentioned in a post this summer, a decade ago, New York Times reporter Dexter Filkens wrote, "The Forever War." The book was a best-seller.
Filkens explained why we were mired in the Mideast. A few years later, President Obama announced America's "Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific."
Why we are still fighting is a question that continues to bedevil all of us. That's why I was drawn to a book review of C.J. Chivers, "The Fighters." Here's how Robert Kaplan began his review:
J. Chivers, a senior writer for The New York Times and a former Marine infantry officer, begins his new book with a description of an American weapon, equipped with GPS sensors and a guidance system, hitting "precisely the wrong place" and killing and mutilating a family of women and children on the Afghan steppe as a consequence. But Chivers's narrative has only begun to slam you in the gut; later on, the author captures the psychological effect the errant bomb has on the Marines at the scene. Indeed, because of the way the stories and characters spool into one another with mathematical intensity, and the second-by-second in-your-face descriptions of prolonged battles from a sergeant's eye view, "The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq" could be the most powerful indictment yet of America's recent Middle East wars.
Chivers is interested in the chemistry between platoons and companies, not that between battalions and brigades: In other words, this is a book about the lower ranks who experience the thing itself, the gut-wrenching violence and confusion of war — history from the ground up, not from the top down, precisely what Washington elites miss. "The Fighters" constitutes an illusion-free zone, where the concrete triumphs over the abstract, where the best and most indelible of those profiled, from that vast working-class heart of the country, begin their military service in a blaze of patriotism following 9/11, and end up confused, cynical, betrayed and often disfigured or dead.
Much ink has been spilled about how America and the West won the Cold War. But little has been said about how that war was won on the oceans – until now.
Arthur Herman's review of former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman's new book, "Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea. Here is how he begins:
Two major shifts in military strategy allowed the United States to win the Cold War with the Soviet Union. One was the Strategic Defense Initiative launched by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. It convinced Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that the U.S.S.R. couldn't compete in a high-tech weapons race without major economic and political changes—changes that ultimately backfired and led to the Soviet Union's collapse.
The other shift, less heralded, was Sea Plan 2000, a bold new idea for reviving American sea power in the face of a Soviet bid for naval supremacy. Reagan would be the president to put the plan in motion, and his secretary of the Navy, John Lehman, would be the man to implement it.
As Mr. Lehman tells us in "Oceans Ventured," the strategy was first conceived in Newport, R.I., roughly three years before Reagan's election—at a June 1977 dinner with Mr. Lehman, Graham Claytor (the Navy secretary), James Woolsey (counsel to the Senate Armed Services Committee) and the military-affairs author Bing West. Mr. West served as amanuensis, recording the gist of the plan on a napkin. Over time, it grew into a full-blown proposal and led, not long after, to the rebirth of the U.S. Navy's global dominance, often summed up as "the 600-ship Navy."
In fact, as Navy secretary Mr. Lehman never quite made it to 600 ships—594 was as far as he got. The ships that the Navy did build, however, included a new generation of warships like Aegis cruisers and destroyers with advanced antimissile systems, and Ohio-class nuclear submarines of the sort that the novelist Tom Clancy would make famous in "The Hunt for Red October" (1984). There was as well an increase in the number of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
Even more important than the ships was a change in how the Navy planned to use them. Mr. Lehman's "Command of the Seas" (1988) detailed the arduous process of expanding the Navy despite congressional opposition and a cumbersome Pentagon acquisition system. "Oceans Ventured" describes the men and events that enabled the Navy to snatch the strategic initiative from a Soviet navy determined to challenge the U.S. around the globe.
One of the most well-credentialed military writers of our generation is Thomas Ricks. Why? He is a former war correspondent and author of six military-themed books.
That's why I gravitate to his quarterly column in the New York Times Book Review, "War Stories."
Ricks serves up military books that are rich resources for all of us – from casual reader, the military buff, to serious historian. Here's how he begins his latest offering:
One of the most interesting books on military affairs that I have read in some time is ARMY OF NONE: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War (Norton, $27.95). Its author, Paul Scharre, a former Army Ranger and Pentagon official who is now an analyst at the Center for a New American Security (a think tank with which I was affiliated several years ago), provides a thoughtful overview of the mind-boggling issues associated with autonomous weapons — or, as some people call them, "killer robots."
Unlike many authors examining the advent of autonomous weapons, Scharre doesn't get bogged down in the question of whether they will be built. They already are here, he argues, citing the example of the Stuxnet computer bug as just such an armament. It was software inserted, almost certainly by American and Israeli intelligence agencies, into Iranian computers running that country's nuclear enrichment program. Because the Iranian computers were "air-gapped" — that is, not connected to the global internet — once the bug was inside the Iranian system, delivered through porn-laden thumb drives, it was on its own. And it worked impressively, physically destroying a key part of the nuclear program.
Full disclosure, I like to line up my summer reading early. That's why I latched on to the latest summer reading recommendations from the New York Times. Here's how it begins:
Here come the page-turners of summer 2018. They're about … maritime disaster? America's opioid crisis? Toxic social media? The legacy of the Confederacy? How about a man who falls in love with a bear and is completely serious about it? No one said this was going to be pretty, but there are some very fine reads out there this year. There's also some of the season's usual fun, like the glitter of Broadway and fiction that wallows in the richly dramatic lives of the rich.
A Writer's Writer
Tributes are still pouring in for one of the greatest writers of our – and maybe any – generation. Tom Wolfe did it all and he did it with wit and verve.
William F. Buckley perhaps said it best, He is probably the most skillful writer in America – I mean by that he can do more things with words than anyone else.
There are far too many eloquent tributes to capture in one blog post, so I'll focus on just one, that by Ben Yagoda. Perhaps I picked this one because I spent most of my adult life as an aviator":
One of the best passages in Tom Wolfe's best book, "The Right Stuff" (1979), starts out:
"Anyone who travels very much on airlines in the United States soon gets to know the voice of the airline pilot . . . coming over the intercom . . . with a particular drawl, a particular folksiness, a particular down-home calmness that is so exaggerated it begins to parody itself (nevertheless!—it's reassuring) . . . the voice that tells you, as the airliner is caught in thunderheads and goes bolting up and down a thousand feet at a single gulp, to check your seat belts because 'it might get a little choppy' . . . the voice that tells you [ . . . ]: 'Now, folks, uh . . . this is the captain . . . ummmm . . . We've got a little ol' red light up here on the control panel that's tryin' to tell us that the landin' gears're not . . . uh . . . lockin' into position when we lower 'em . . . Now . . . I don't believe that little ol' red light knows what it's talkin' about—I believe it's that little ol' red light that iddn' workin' right' . . . faint chuckle, long pause, as if to say, I'm not even sure all this is really worth going into—still, it may amuse you . . ."
The rendition of the "drawlin' and chucklin' and driftin' and lollygaggin' "—the style of speech even pilots from Massachusetts or Oregon universally affect, Wolfe says—goes on for another few hundred words, too long to quote here; I commend it to your attention. The voice, Wolfe ultimately tells us, originated from someone who picked it up in the mountains of West Virginia. Starting in the late 1940s, it drifted "into all phases of American aviation." "It was the drawl," he writes, "of the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff: Chuck Yeager."
You can read his full piece here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-appreciation-tom-wolfe-1526678237?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
Want more? You can read a comprehensive New York Times piece here.
We Have An App
Few writers have as much of a knack for taking difficult subjects – especially technology – and making them understandable for the lay person. Tom Friedman is one of those people.
I read his book, "Thank You for Being Late" some time ago, and found it interesting and enlightening. However, I never really felt I was able to capture succinctly just what the book was about. Then I came across an old review of the book in the Wall Street Journal. Here's how it began:
Change is nothing new. Nobel laureate Bob Dylan sang that the times they were a-changin' back in 1964. What has changed is the pace of change: "The three largest forces on the planet—technology, globalization, and climate change—are all accelerating at once," notes New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman in "Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations." Gradual change allows for adaptation; one generation figures out trains, another airplanes. Now, in a world where taxi-cab regulators will figure out Uber just in time for self-driving cars to render such services obsolete, "so many aspects of our societies, workplaces, and geopolitics are being reshaped and need to be reimagined." All of it creates a sense of discomfort and provokes backlash—witness Brexit and the American presidential election. Yet there is cause for optimism, Mr. Friedman believes. Humans are crafty creatures.
In this book, Mr. Friedman tries to press pause. The title comes from the author's exclamation to a tardy breakfast companion: The unexpected downtime had given him an opportunity to reflect. If we all take such time to think, he claims, we can figure out how to "dance in a hurricane." It's a comforting idea, though one wonders why, if Mr. Friedman was so happy for this pre-breakfast downtime, he was busily scheduling daily breakfast meetings in the first place. Likewise, this ambitious book, while compelling in places, skips about a lot. His attempt to cover much of the history of modern technology, for instance, quickly descends into gee-whiz moments and ubiquitous exclamation points. Big-belly garbage cans have sensors that wirelessly announce when they need to be emptied, and so Mr. Friedman marvels that "yes, even the garbageman is a tech worker now. . . . That garbage can could take an SAT exam!"
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if/else
Williams, Evan
flute, interactive electronics
Adjective New Music
SKU: 13A490002007
if/else for flute and interactive electronics by Evan Williams
Extended techniques required: Jet Whistle; sing and play; key clicks; tongue pizzicato; tongue rams; multiphonics
i. if/else – Fast with momentum
ii. switch – Fast and crisp
iii. while – Slow and meditative
iv. break – Not too slow, with intensity
v. else/if – Not too slow, with a sense of grief
Program Notes from the composer:
In various programming languages, conditional statements allow a program to make choices based on given data through simple Boolean logic. The most common of these is probably the if/else statement. an example of this logic is "If x is true, then do y. If else, do z."
While my own programming skills are limited, during my brief study of languages like C, C++, and Objective C, these conditional statements fascinated me on a philosophical and poetic level. Very complex code relies on these very simple pieces of logic. They also give the illusion that the computer or program has agency to make a "choice."
if/else is inspired by these programming statements. Each movement is inspired by programming logic, and uses the statement to influence the musical material, the live processing, or both. For example, in the opening movement "if/else," if the flutist plays the pitch E5 or higher, the electronics will react with a randomized effect, if the pitch is lower the E5, nothing will be triggered.
In "switch," the flutist and electronics trade between playing melodic and accompanying material, using high sustained pitches from the flute as a catalyst to switch roles. The movement "while" is concerned with immediate response. The electronics processes every sound from the flute in real time. The fourth movement "break" sets up intense layers of dissonant sounds until reaching a breaking point, and then restarting. The final movement, "else/if" serves as a short, quasi-palindromic coda to the work.
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Crown pays AUD 1 a year for casino site
The Packer-controlled Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) pays rent of just AUD 1 a year for its Crown casino complex in Melbourne.
A Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation report, tabled in parliament on Thursday, reveals Crown's owners will pay AUD 1 a year for its Southbank site for the first 40 years of its 99 year lease and market value for the remaining years, Fairfax newspapers reported on Friday.
Crown entered the lease in 1993.
The casino made AUD 370.1 million in profit last year, from AUD 2.03 billion in revenue.
Crown spokesman Gary O'Neill told Fairfax the casino site was a "derelict piece of land, which had been unused for a long period and couldn't be built on until it was cleaned up".
The casino had paid a licence fee of AUD 200 million, spent almost AUD 2 billion to develop the giant casino complex and had paid the government almost AUD 2.7 billion in taxes and charges since 1993.
The report called on Crown to do better at detecting people who had stolen money to gamble and noted a sharp rise in the number of underage gamblers trying to enter the complex – from 2,060 a month in 2003 to 6,859 a month this year.
In the five years to June 20 this year, only 148 minors were caught inside the gaming area, the report said.
The report found Crown "continues to be at the forefront of Australian casinos, meets the requirements of an international world-class casino complex and has a satisfactory degree of operational compliance".
It noted 207 breaches of table gaming rules and 1,668 breaches of gaming machine rules and 25 disciplinary actions against the casino.
Gauselmann Group acquires stake in the casinos in Mainz, Trier and Bad Ems
Der "Bettertainment-Markt"*: Milliardenschwerer Wachstumstreiber der gesamten Medienbranche
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Refugee Crisis in Greek Island Lesbos
posted on May 27, 2020 by Ceren Sarpege
Koç University Tagged With: Border, European Union, Greece, human rights, Refugee Crisis, Turkey
As Turkish government recently opened its western borders to the European Union for the refugees and migrants, Greece keeps its borders closed shut, putting aside the asylum system, claiming to deport the ones to come and leading the asylum seekers to borders back; tension rose in the Greek island Lesbos where the refugees are welcomed by bats, police batons or blocked roads by the island residents at the shores.
A camp with 3000 people capacity, even in 2016 had 6000 asylum seekers. On March 2020, the number increased as high as 20,000 people in an island of Europe where people visit to vacate. The Moria refugee camp is called a "hot spot" and a "horrible hellhole" by the Refugee and Migrant Rights Program Director Bill Frelick. He states that the NGO facilities and volunteers are also attacked by the vehicles of mobs, even the staff is called back to Athens suspending their operations. (2)
Locals blocking the roads to the Moria refugee camp on the 1st of March, 2020 displays the discomfort whereas many new boats from Turkey continue to arrive according to the reporters of DW who are detained by the police, and said that they are not allowed to go back along with the Green Party member of European Parliament Erik Marquardt and other journalists observing the humanitarian disgrace with overcrowded unhygienic tents at the site. (1)
The island´s history with refugees are not a new incident since the island hosted refugees since 1990s mostly from Yugoslavia at the time. Currently, the refugees come from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Somalia and other places as well even though it is mentioned mostly as the Syrian refugee crisis. Moreover, Lesbos is not the only island that hosts refugees. Chios and Samos are also portraying similar images with hardships to host and integrate the asylum seekers present and more to come. Even though the refugee deal with Turkey is seen as a solution and the police is continuing to stop the newcomers on the landside, the citizens of Greece, especially the islanders are disappointed with their government. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the prime minister proposes to solve the issue by taking two distinct policy measures by implementing a tougher asylum law to open the road of sending as many comers as possible to Turkey being the first. Secondly, he wants to initiate the construction of formerly closed refugee centers on the Greek islands which faced with mild resistance movements by the island locals. (1) The opposition to the refugee centers held street demonstrations earlier in March which was partly suppressed by the police forces. A shopkeeper in Mytilini states that locking the people that lived among the locals all these years may result in criminalization of the migrants, being another reason why some locals have discomfort with the law proposed. The public agrees on the situation being unacceptable at the centers on the islands and the conditions were obvious for years. However, the time of the implementation is still ambiguous. (1) On another perspective, the immigrant issue united everyone on the islands from all political views from far right to left even though the government stayed still and even sent MAT, a special task police force in addition to initiating the construction on one of the closed centers in Samos. The residents of Lesbos now have the common goal to prevent facing with a similar situation, being afraid of turning to Ellis Island of New York as the point of collection of immigrants to the United States for more than 30 years. The locals also state their concerns of being seen as racists, mentioning that the island has 30,000 people with 25.000 being refugees to mention the disproportionality, even though there is a small group present with neo-Nazi tendencies. Another source of fear comes from economic reasons where tourism was effected the past two years by only two camps of Mytilini and Mora, since the summer is soon to come bringing more sun, good weather and potentially more boats to the shores.(1)
The asylum seekers are also not in a pleasant condition with inhumane living standards and with promises not kept by the governments since according to the procedure, their status has to be decided in 6 months, waiting for more than years, crying for help from the Europeans. Salam Aldeen, founder of a Danish NGO Team Humanity that serves as a center next to the refugee camp, who is expelled from the country of Greece last year by the police also states that the current situation on the islands are already bad and Turkey opening the borders without a solution present is only making things worse, and throwing lives at risk not only on the boats, but also in the camp sites because of poverty. (1)
The EU leaders also pay visits to Greece, calling the country "Europe´s Shield" for its position in the refugee situation. However, it is horrifying that the island serves as a total failure of the values EU possesses if not all humanitarian values. Since the refugee deal with Turkey is now proven to be ineffective, the public is seeking for better and more viable strategies in the relations with Turkish government; continuing their claim by stating the need of a fair distribution across all European countries to implement. (2)
It is obvious that protecting refugees, migrants and the NGO staff with providing services to them and allowing new arrivals with providing proper shelter shouldn´t only be addressed by Greek government, but also the EU and a larger entity like international community should take a part. (3)
1.https://www.dw.com/en/refugee-crisis-in-greece-anger-and-foreboding-grow-on-lesbos/a-52615534
2.https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/06/interview-whats-happening-refugees-greece
3.https://www.transform-network.net/de/kalender/event/greek-refugee-camps-and-the-covid-19-crisis/
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A mom's story: Addicts asking for help but face barriers to treatment
Lisa Brisbois' two sons struggling with heroin addiction
5 Investigates Reporter
For Lisa Brisbois, looking at her family photos gives her comfort. "Innocence. That's what I see," she says of baby pictures of her sons.Watch the reportNow, Brisbois sees a daily struggle for her two sons Adam and Jarrod. They are both fighting heroin addiction.Each son has overdosed and been in and out of detox over the last several years.What is that like for Brisbois as a mom?"Heart wrenching," she says.One of the most heart wrenching parts for Brisbois is seeing her sons asking for treatment, but unable to get help."They don't get a bed and then they are discharged. And where are they going to go? Because they have burned their bridges with everyone, with family members. So they are going to go back on the streets and they're going to use. And that's sad. Very sad," Brisbois says.Her son, Jarrod Brisbois is now taking suboxone to help him stay clean. He's been sober for two months.Adam Brisbois is facing his own struggles right now. "It's like a cycle, it's a continuous cycle," describes Lisa Brisbois.Relentless AdvocatesWith no statewide referral hotline or website showing available treatment beds, Shannon Lundin, with the Charlestown Substance Coalition, says she has to be relentless to help her clients. Many times insurance only covers a limited amount of short-term treatment.What are the biggest barriers people are facing?"Definitely transportation, lack of bed availability, and insurance is a huge barrier," Lundin says. "That's a huge problem, because going to detox for 5-7 days is just a spin dry. It's not addressing the underlying issues of the substance abuse disorder."If further treatment is covered, she says there's almost always a wait, no matter which step in the treatment program. She says one of the biggest shortages she sees is available beds in programs for people after leaving detox, but before they are ready for a long term residential treatment facility."If they can't get what they need to get, the majority of the time, they get frustrated, and it's just easier to go back to what they know, which is using unfortunately," Lundin says.She knows the struggles first hand. She has been sober for 11 years."It's really, really heart breaking to see somebody who is asking for help and not being able to connect them to the things they need, because there are all these barriers in the way. It's sad for the family members of a particular addict, client reaching out for help, when they think, finally, they will get that help, and the help they need isn't available. It's just so sad, it's so sad. It's like how many more lives do we have to lose before something is done?" asks Lundin.That's not stopping Lisa Brisbois from trying to save her sons."A mother's love for her children has no end. Lives are at stake," she says.What is the state doing to address these problems, and help users get treatment?State officials say the governor's Opioid Working Group is trying to find those solutions right now. A plan is expected in the next couple of weeks.
For Lisa Brisbois, looking at her family photos gives her comfort. "Innocence. That's what I see," she says of baby pictures of her sons.
Watch the report
Now, Brisbois sees a daily struggle for her two sons Adam and Jarrod. They are both fighting heroin addiction.
Each son has overdosed and been in and out of detox over the last several years.
What is that like for Brisbois as a mom?
"Heart wrenching," she says.
One of the most heart wrenching parts for Brisbois is seeing her sons asking for treatment, but unable to get help.
"They don't get a bed and then they are discharged. And where are they going to go? Because they have burned their bridges with everyone, with family members. So they are going to go back on the streets and they're going to use. And that's sad. Very sad," Brisbois says.
Her son, Jarrod Brisbois is now taking suboxone to help him stay clean. He's been sober for two months.
Adam Brisbois is facing his own struggles right now. "It's like a cycle, it's a continuous cycle," describes Lisa Brisbois.
Relentless Advocates
With no statewide referral hotline or website showing available treatment beds, Shannon Lundin, with the Charlestown Substance Coalition, says she has to be relentless to help her clients. Many times insurance only covers a limited amount of short-term treatment.
What are the biggest barriers people are facing?
"Definitely transportation, lack of bed availability, and insurance is a huge barrier," Lundin says. "That's a huge problem, because going to detox for 5-7 days is just a spin dry. It's not addressing the underlying issues of the substance abuse disorder."
If further treatment is covered, she says there's almost always a wait, no matter which step in the treatment program. She says one of the biggest shortages she sees is available beds in programs for people after leaving detox, but before they are ready for a long term residential treatment facility.
"If they can't get what they need to get, the majority of the time, they get frustrated, and it's just easier to go back to what they know, which is using unfortunately," Lundin says.
She knows the struggles first hand. She has been sober for 11 years.
"It's really, really heart breaking to see somebody who is asking for help and not being able to connect them to the things they need, because there are all these barriers in the way. It's sad for the family members of a particular addict, client reaching out for help, when they think, finally, they will get that help, and the help they need isn't available. It's just so sad, it's so sad. It's like how many more lives do we have to lose before something is done?" asks Lundin.
That's not stopping Lisa Brisbois from trying to save her sons.
"A mother's love for her children has no end. Lives are at stake," she says.
What is the state doing to address these problems, and help users get treatment?
State officials say the governor's Opioid Working Group is trying to find those solutions right now. A plan is expected in the next couple of weeks.


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Q: Issues rendering videos on Edge I've crawled every corner of the web that I know of and cannot understand why videos are struggling to render on MS Edge.
I cannot paste the exact code as it's a project in work but it follows the format of
<video>
<source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<video>

and to complicate things further, it displays correctly on Edge with some colleagues but not with others. Initially thought it could be a version of Edge that didn't support the codecs which would be strange as it was the newer versions of Edge (V42.17134.1.0) that was failing in work to display the video correctly but older versions were fine. However, when I got home I asked friends to check their versions and if it worked for them and people are reporting that everything works fine with them on V42.17134.1.0.
So that lead me to the question of, could it be hardware/software? So I've just checked for updates and installed everything to absolutely no change. The video still doesn't display.
Using www.youtube.com/html5 I can see that on my machine nothing is supported on Edge with HTMLVideoElement throwing up an exclamation mark. Whereas my friend who is on the exact identical version of Edge as me has full support based on this url.
Any advice, tips would be extremely helpful!

A: I made a test with your code and with that YouTube URL. Looks like everything is fine on my side.

Maybe, There is some issue on your end. I suggest you to first try to repair your Edge application, If issue persist than try to reset the Edge application may help to solve this issue.
To Repair or Reset the Edge, You can refer steps below.
(1) Go to Settings in your windows 10 OS.
(2) Click on Apps.
(3) Search for MS Edge in Apps & features.

(4) Click on Advanced options.
(5) Scroll down and find Reset or Repair option.

(6) Perform the Repair or Reset by clicking on the button.


Yasuo X Riven: Is It Possible!?
Today's Topic: Did Riven kill the Elder?
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"'The Elder was killed by a wind technique. Who else could it be?'"
A Japanese Master Yi Story.
"I am of two worlds, yet I belong to neither."
Hoefener says that the long, multi-faceted design process PROJECT: Yi went through is all part of what defines League of Legends' artistic sensibility.
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The Role of Games in Socialization
Posted on March 15, 2022 by domtoreto88
Games are characterized by tools and rules. These rules can be altered or changed, but are usually immutable. For example, baseball can be played with real baseballs, a wiffleball, or just three bases. Although the tools and rules of games are sometimes altered, meta-rules, which determine the time-keeping system, rights and responsibilities of players, and preset boundaries, are often mutable. In other words, the game's goal is to achieve a certain number of points or complete the game.
The role of games in socialization has been the subject of debate for decades. According to Roberts and Sutton-Smith, games serve as ways to soothe internal conflicts and help us cope with social pressures. In societies where children must obey the rule of the law, games that allow children to exercise strategic thinking may be helpful. However, in societies where children must be obedient, such games can also provide adults with power over others. Similarly, games of chance and luck may be played by people who would otherwise have no responsibility, such as teenagers.
Games serve as a form of communication, but they can also act as tools for socialization. In societies where children are subject to strict obedience, strategy games can provide an escape from these social obligations. Moreover, they can provide adults with a sense of power over other people, making them feel more comfortable in social situations. As a result, games are often a good outlet for internal conflict. They can also help adults develop interpersonal skills, as they allow them to form relationships with others.
The creation of games is a constant struggle between the desires of the creator and those of the audience. The lack of a satisfying relationship between the creator and the audience results in two types of failure. In the first instance, the creator creates a work that reflects her ideas, whereas in the second, the creator copies an existing game that failed to meet the expectations of the audience. The latter type of failure is more likely to lead to a clone of the original.
The socialization process can be a difficult process. The creator may be motivated by the desire to be a leader or a savior. The game may be an escape from the responsibility of a leader. The creator may have to change his or her approach to a new situation and avoid conflict. The latter scenario is likely to lead to the development of a new game, while the former will merely stifle the emotions of the audience.
Multiplayer games involve several players. They may involve teams or coalitions. It is difficult to analyze a game with so many players. Some examples include competitive sports and board games. Some of these games are multi-player. For example, association football is played worldwide. Regardless of the type of game, there are commonalities between games. They are generally interactive and goal-oriented. Furthermore, they are typically supported by a fictional context. The player may become emotionally attached to the game's outcomes.


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Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
Interpersonal Intelligence
Intrapersonal Intelligence
Linguistic Intelligence
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Musical Intelligence
Naturalist Intelligence
Spatial Intelligence
New City School was founded in 1969 to help stabilize the then-struggling neighborhoods of the city's Central West End. A group of neighbors, many of whom had small children, began meeting to discuss the possibility of opening a school — but not just any school. They dreamed of a unique school that would provide opportunities for a diverse group of children (and adults!) to learn together, to be creative, and to develop a sense of independence and confidence.In the many years since its founding, New City School has remained true to the vision of its founders. The school continues to be a place of bold vision and unlimited possibilities. It is a place that considers the needs of children first, a place that is built on a commitment to diversity, and a place that brings children, parents and teachers together in a community of joyful learning.
By the Decade
In the world: the Vietnam War, the Beatles, Civil Rights Movement, the vision of New City School comes to life.
The genesis of New City School was sparked when two venerable schools in the Central West End, Barat Hall and City House, closed in 1966, deflating real estate values and leaving the neighborhood without first-rate schools.
Led by Tad Foote, a group of neighbors began to meet to talk about creating a new school. From the beginning, the vision was to create an inclusive, progressive school focused on individual kids' needs.
In 1969, New City opened under the leadership of head of school Jerry Glynn, with six teachers and nearly 100 children -- from three-year-olds to fourth graders -- and began class in the First Unitarian Church located at Waterman and Kingshighway.
In the world: "Saturday Night Fever" hits the box office, Nixon resigns, and Sony invents the Walkman.
New City moves to the old Mary Institute building at Waterman and Lake. Built in 1901 at the then-edge of the City, the building was the home of Mary Institute until 1937. It then became Lutheran High until being abandoned in the early 1960s.
Head of School Charlie Rathbone took over after two years, and remained for one year. Board members played leadership roles during the transition between Heads of School. Len Marks then became head in 1974.
In 1975, 150 students were enrolled, and 30% were of color.
Full accreditation received from the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS).
Several classrooms were renovated on the second floor and enrollment reached 200 students during the late '70s.
In the world: the Commodore 64 computer, Michael Jackson, and the Rubik's Cube are all the rage.
In 1980, 235 students were enrolled.
University City Elementary School Principal Tom Hoerr becomes Head of School in 1981.
In 1983, New City is named an A+ School by Instructor Magazine.
A performance-based merit pay plan for teachers was adopted in 1984.
In 1989, $93,901 was distributed in need-based scholarships to 18.9% of the students.
In 1987-1988, a $1,000,000 Capital Campaign is launched to renovate the building so that all three floors can hold classroom spaces.
In 1988, the faculty begins to pursue implementing Multiple Intelligences (MI).
In the world: the first web browser is released, Nelson Mandela is freed, and "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is published.
In 1992, a $1,200,000 capital campaign enabled the school to acquire land to the west to create a new playground and soccer field, and the land to the south to create a parking lot and playing field.
The Financial Aid Endowment Fund was created in 1993 ($3,422,000 as of July 2013).
Four Multiple Intelligence conferences were held at New City, and the faculty wrote two books, Celebrating Multiple Intelligences: Teaching for Success and Succeeding with Multiple Intelligences: Teaching through the Personal Intelligences.
In 1996, a $1,000,000 grant from an anonymous donor pays for central air-conditioning, new windows, and tuck-pointing of the building.
In 1998 our theater is renovated and named Founders Hall.
In 1999, $351,597 was distributed in need-based scholarships to 26.7% of the students.
In the world: Apple introduces the iPod, Facebook is launched, and 9-11 occurs.
The New City Centennial Garden was opened on our playground in 2001, in honor of our building's 100th anniversary.
In 2005, Howard Gardner, creator of MI theory, joined us to open the world's first Multiple Intelligences library.
In 2009, the Green Roof is created on top of our dining hall.
In 2010, Jossey-Bass publishes our faculty's book, Celebrating Every Learner.
In 2011, the Betsy Blankenship Plaza on Waterman is created.
In 2014, New City celebrates 45 years at our Founders' Dinner in the Fox Theatre.
In 2015, Head of School Tom Hoerr retires after 34 years at New City School. Pat Nuernberger becomes interim Head of School for the 2015-2016 school year during the search for a permanent replacement.
In July of 2015, Alexis Wright is named the next Head of School at New City.
New City School is celebrating its 50th anniversary during the 2019-2020 school year. Learn more about how you can be a part of our celebration!


Mumbai: The Maharashtra government is planning to launch a website on medical tourism in the state that will serve as a single window by providing necessary information about treatments and costs to foreign patients.
The website is likely to be functional in a month's time. The officials said that the website will provide a fair idea to foreign patients about the treatment programme, cost and success rate. To ensure transparency and accountability in the medical tourism sector, a meeting was held on Friday between public health minister Deepak Sawant and representatives from private and charitable hospitals, where it was decided that the portal would be the first in a series of measures that will follow to boost the sector.
The officials said Maharashtra witnesses an annual flow of nearly 50,000 patients coming from abroad for a heart, orthopaedic, cancer and other ailments. The move comes after the spat between Egyptian national Shaimaa Selim (32) sister of former world's heaviest woman Eman Ahmed (36) who died in September in Abu Dhabi. The official said that they are likely to prepare new rules, guidelines for foreign patients and protocols for treatment.
Sawant said the idea was to give a realistic picture of the kind of hospital, facilities, expenditure, duration of treatment, visa and cost. "Often exaggerated expectations can give rise to misunderstandings. The portal will have information about every patient, the nature of ailment, arrival date, etc," he said. Hospitals, including PD Hinduja, Fortis, Wockhardt, Jaslok, Breach Candy and Global, have already submitted suggestions. "The final Standard of Protocols (SOPs) will be ready soon," he added.
Mumbai: Construction of theatre in Kashimira stuck in drama!


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DENISON, Texas -- A Denison woman driving along Highway 75 South had her car rammed by her estranged husband.
The crash happened Thursday evening just after six p.m.
Denison police tell us: two children and the woman's friend also were in the car. They believe the crash to have been intentional.
"Well we'll, at the conclusion of the investigation, we'll send the case to the district attorney's office and let them review and see if any charges will be filed," said Mike Eppler with the Denison Police Department.
Police said the estranged husband left the scene after the crash.


It's a good start for the anime-inspired fighting game.
Dragon Ball FighterZ has reached two million units sold worldwide a week after the game launched.
The sales, which were confirmed by Bandai Namco on Twitter, take into account both digital and physical purchases of the game since it launched on Jan. 26 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
The game was just released in Asia yesterday, which is one of the world's biggest Dragon Ball and fighting game markets—so it's possible that sales will increase even more in the coming weeks.
This game has been a hit with fans of both fighting games and Dragon Ball for its tight controls and great visuals. Arc Systems, the developers of Dragon Ball FighterZ, even added a bunch of easter eggs into fights that showcase some of the series' most memorable moments.
With the game doing so well, it won't be long until we hear about Dragon Ball FighterZ's first DLC character. A recent datamine revealed what could be the full lineup for future DLC, with characters like Bardock and Broly all rumored to be coming to the game in the future.


Yarmouth Recreation is offering a Women's Self Defense course taught by Mario Ross Thursday evening, July 6th at Milo Boat Club from 6:30 till 8:00 pm. All ages welcome! This is a great opportunity to learn efficient and effective techniques to protect yourself if ever in a sticky situation or to just gain more confidence.