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High-level System Design
The Berkeley UPC compiler project is seeking to develop a fully-portable, high-performance UPC compiler that will run on a wide variety of shared-memory and distributed-memory platforms using different network interconnects, including large-scale multiprocessors, PC clusters, and clusters of shared memory multiprocessors. One of the main goals of the project is to experiment with parallel compiler optimization techniques, without being tied to a particular system architecture or network. Portability is achieved by translating UPC programs to an intermediate representation in C, which can then be compiled using the system's ANSI C compiler and linked to a standardized runtime system and communication system tailored to the specific platform.
High-level system diagram The figure shows the high-level system diagram for a UPC application compiled using the Berkeley UPC compiler. The generated C code runs on top of the UPC runtime system, which provides platform independence and implements language-specific features such as shared memory allocation and shared pointer manipulation. The runtime system implements remote operations by calling the GASNet communication interface, which provides hardware-independent lightweight networking primitives.
The Berkeley UPC-to-C Translator
The Berkeley UPC-to-C translator performs source to source translation from UPC code to ANSI-compliant C code, with shared memory operations transformed into calls to the Berkeley UPC runtime. The translator is based on the Open64 compiler suite; please refer to their documentation for information about the design and specific features of that compiler. Numerous modifications have been added to the translator to support UPC features, and the translator's C front end has also been extended to support both 32- and 64-bit platforms. A detailed description of our modifications can be found here.
The figure gives a high-level overview of the translation process. Upon receiving a preprocessed UPC program, the translator invokes the UPC front end, whose function is to parse, type-check, and generate the Whirl intermediate format for the program. UPC-specific information such as shared types and block sizes of distributed arrays are kept in the symbol table, so the translator could take advantage of such information during optimizations. The back end operates on the Whirl intermediate language and lowers shared memory operations into equivalent runtime library calls. The Berkeley UPC runtime provides a wide of variety of shared memory accesses from non-blocking to bulk, so that the translator could experiment with different strategies for communication optimizations such as message pipelining and prefetching. Finally the whirl2c component translates Whirl into ANSI-compliant C code, with shared variables declared as the opaque pointer-to-shared construct.
The Berkeley UPC Runtime
The Berkeley UPC runtime specification documents the platform-independent interface between compiler-generated C code and the UPC runtime system. It provides platform-independent job/thread control, shared memory access (put/get operations and bulk transfer operations), shared pointer manipulation and arithmetic, shared memory management, UPC barriers and UPC locks. The shared memory operations provide very flexible non-blocking shared memory access with a wide range of synchronization alternatives.
In addition to providing platform independence, the Berkeley Runtime interface provides a cleanly-documented, compiler-independent "UPC abstract machine" that can be used as a compilation target by other front-end UPC compilers.
The UPC Runtime Specification:
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UPC Runtime Implementation Notes:
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The GASNet Networking Layer
GASNet is a language-independent, networking middleware layer that provides network-independent, high-performance communication primitives including Remote Memory Access (RMA) and Active Messages (AM). It has been used to implement parallel programming models and libraries such as UPC, UPC++, Co-Array Fortran, Legion, Chapel, and many others. The interface is primarily intended as a compilation target and for use by runtime library writers (as opposed to end users), and the primary goals are high performance, interface portability, and expressiveness. GASNet stands for "Global-Address Space Networking".
The design of GASNet is partitioned into two layers to maximize porting ease without sacrificing performance: the lower level is a narrow but very general interface called the GASNet core API - the design is based heavily on Active Messages, and is implemented directly on top of each individual network architecture. The upper level is a wider and more expressive interface called the GASNet extended API, which provides high-level operations such as remote memory access and various collective operations.
System diagram showing GASNet layers
The Berkeley UPC runtime was initially implemented over GASNet-1, circa 2004. Since then, the GASNet-1 product has been superceded by GASNet-EX, a major specification upgrade and implementation renovation effort funded primarily by the Exascale Computing Project. GASNet-EX is a superset of GASNet-1, providing both backwards compatibility and a wide set of new features and functionality. The Berkeley UPC runtime is now implemented over GASNet-EX and takes advantage of some of the new functionality, most notably using the support for network hardware offload of atomic memory operations to implement <upc_atomic.h>. GASNet-EX releases continue to improve speed, scalability and portability of the networking layer, and the Berkeley UPC runtime inherits those improvements. The GASNet Specification:
The most up-to-date version of the GASNet-EX specification is available from the GASNet web page.
For citations, please see the GASNet BibTeX
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ON WHAT BASIS IS IT DEEMED THAT THE CURRENT ORGAN WILL FAIL & WHEN ?
When it stops working. No one can tell us definitively when it will fail. Jewkes has said it will fail, but he is not willing to give a time frame, for he and others do not have that ability to accurately predict the failure.
Is there a fixation on a single builder (SIOC) And if so WHY?
No, it is the only one that has been forthcoming in any quote. My understanding is that expressions of interest were sought, only SIOC presented a full proposal.
ARE PARISHIONERS CLEAR THAT THE REPLACEMENT ORGAN IS LIKELY TO BE NOT ONLY SECONDHAND BUT OVER 80 YEARS OLD?
The statement is not quite true. The pipes are certainly going to be second-hand, that is absolutely correct, the console will be refurbished, and be like new, however, the action will be new. I have had a long conversation with the organ builder, John Hargreaves (14 Feb) and ascertained from him what will be new and what will be old. What will be old will be the organ console case, everything in it new, the pipes will be old, everything else, except where refurbishing things like timber which is no longer available today will value add to the organ will be retained.
HAS ANYONE EXAMINED THE ACTION ?
No because it will all be new.
HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS ORGAN ?
Yes, the organ builder, and Brett has been given photos.
Yes it is a hybrid, but from my conversation with Hargreaves the core is about 1935.
Daniel Moult, a renowned UK organ Scholar indicates that pipework in storage or in neglect, can deteriorate and become extremely expensive to rectify.
I take this to be a comment, but I have asked John Hargreaves about this. His response is that there is almost certainly some damage due to storage but that is his concern and should not be ours, as when the pipes go in they will have been repaired.
The Music Association per se, appeared to have little input into directions but an Organ Committee did.
Disagree. Brett is competent enough to know what we need for Anglican Liturgy. The question then becomes, who do we get? If we get Peter Jewkes, then we don't have an external consultant, and my view on consultants is they are usually a waste of time, especially when we have limited funds.
There are ranks of pipes and casework In the current instrument that would be worth keeping. The console developed in the 1970's is adaptable to additions.
With respect to the case work, totally disagree. One of the reasons Jewkes asked for engineering diagrams was he recognised that there would need to be new case for the organ, and the old case unusable. The ranks from the current organ that will be recovered will be stored for use in an antiphonal organ. Please be under no illusion about this next comment. The organ project DOES NOT INCLUDE AN ANTIPHONAL ORGAN. I can write it again if necessary. The organ project DOES NOT INCLUDE AN ANTIPHONAL ORGAN. It is so vital that everyone understands this. The antiphonal organ is nice to have but not necessary. It will not happen while I am rector, unless someone comes along and fully funds it themselves. There will be no call on the parish to do this. The antiphonal organ is the only appropriate location for any recoverable pipes from the current organ. The current organ has NO HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE despite what people might think or it being in an historical book. It is simply not significant. The pipes will not match with the pipes from the SIOC organ.
I will take that as a comment.
Bearing in mind the terrible case of St Luke's Mosman, there will be Blow-outs and overruns .
They are rough figure, because we will have to go back to SIOC and they will have to re quote if we get the go ahead for the project in March.
This then becomes effectively a fixed price contract, and Bill Killinger will be going through the details in the scoping phase in due course. I have every confidence in his ability to get this done on budget. I have every confidence that we will not have the cost over runs and blow outs that Mosman experienced.
The Mosman experience was quite different because they did not have a Bill Killinger to help them out.
Will or is, the old committee still having Control ?
Has a clerk –of-works been considered?
Are the Parish(ioners) willing to allocate the St John's Foundation funds for the structural Work required and therefore reduce the actual organ construction costs?
Don't know but that is one of the questions we can put to the AVM in March, the AVM will make up its own mind.
What provision has now been made to retain these items and artifacts and Where would they be stored?
I am not sure I understand the question, but if you mean the pipes etc from our current organ they will be stored here in Australia. We will consult with relevant people to do that effectively and properly.
Will a 1920's console have this same facility?
The console we will have for the new organ will absolutely cope with all that we need it to do.


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The officers of the Association consist of a president, vice-president and a secretary/treasurer. It is governed by an executive committee consisting of six (6) members who are elected for three -year terms. The TCBA also employs an executive director.
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What law would you make?
Parliament's Education Service wants young people to tell Parliament what new law they would make by producing either a 3 minute short film, a 200-500 word script or a 5–10 frame storyboard.
Anyone between the ages of 7 – 16yrs can enter the competition either individually or as part of a group. Prizes will include a cinema voucher, a video camera for the winner's school, a behind the scenes tour of Parliament with a chance to meet Members and a special showcasing of the winning entries at the British Film Institute!
Last year's winners proposed laws that would make it compulsory to wear helmets when cycling and that would lower the voting age to 16. You can see their inspiring films at https://www.makewav.es/story/485967/title/lightscameraparliament2013winners
This year's website has just launched with lots of new tips and resources for young people – and regularly updated inspiration topics and blogs. Entries can be submitted from now until the 14th of February. Find out more by visiting www.makewav.es/lcp and http://www.parliament.uk/education/in-your-school/lights-camera-parliament/
Get creative and get your voice heard!
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Overcoming Identity Governance Challenges with ForgeRock Autonomous Identity
Most organizations see the value of identity governance and administration (IGA). However, they recognize that it has its challenges in practice, with certain tasks being complex and cumbersome. As a result, existing IGA solutions are faltering. Dynamic businesses require new approaches with a high degree of automation. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) bear the promise of delivering such automation to complex tasks. ForgeRock Autonomous Identity implements such capabilities for ForgeRock and third-party IGA platforms, ensuring that more organizations can use them effectively and gain maximum benefit from them.
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IGA is one of the core components of identity and access management (IAM). While IGA is a well-established technology, it remains challenging for both businesses and the users that are involved with IGA tasks. There are various reasons for these IGA business challenges:
Identity silos are hard to manage. It is difficult to understand where access takes place and hard to deliver consistent experiences for managing access entitlements, such as roles and groups, for requesting access, and for doing access reviews and analytics across the silos.
Operational inefficiencies are related to the complexity of many tasks for users, such as access recertification, which frequently leads to rubber stamping. Inefficiencies are also caused by the complexity of administration and operation, including creating and maintaining role models or manual fulfillments.
Many activities are also made more challenging by a lack of context, including why an entitlement has been granted, whether it is used, or how it relates to other entitlements.
This results in a range of challenges for businesses, including over-privileged access and excessive permissions, orphaned accounts that are no longer required or used, and a lack of visibility and accountability. Despite enormous time and effort dedicated to implementing and running IGA, many organizations don't see great results because of these challenges.
Conceptual approaches, such as role mining and engineering, have proven to be insufficient to address these challenges. Many of these can be addressed with automation, more advanced solutions, and approaches that assist users in executing many IGA-related tasks. AI and ML technologies can do many of these things.
Enhanced by AI and ML, IGA solutions are better suited to deal with regulatory compliance and security risks – such as data breaches, privacy violations, or fraud – and to provide more agility and ensure a better customer experience. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses have had to become more agile, support different work models, implement new types of collaborative solutions, and even change their business models entirely. To support these requirements, IGA must not be an inhibitor for change. Instead, it must deliver the flexibility required by dynamic businesses and changing access requirements.
AI can support many areas of IGA. It can be used to analyze common patterns of entitlements and identify outliers, as well as standard entitlements for certain groups of users. This can help to create roles or other groupings of entitlements. AI can propose entitlements to users that are most likely to be requested, simplifying the search amongst the sheer mass of available entitlements. AI can also make recommendations for access review processes regarding approvals and revocations.
Augmenting traditional IGA with AI and ML, is an obvious measure as long as solutions are well thought out. When they are, they can help overcome many of the challenges users face with their existing IGA solution.
ForgeRock's AI-driven solution, ForgeRock Autonomous Identity, focuses on understanding who or what should have access to what – with sufficient confidence for supporting and automating approvals – provisioning, and reviews.
The specific strengths of ForgeRock Autonomous Identity are its data agnostic approach (the use of a large amount of data beyond data kept by the ForgeRock Identity Platform) and the ability to operate with other third-party IGA solutions. The latter is enabled by a comprehensive set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for integration with other solutions. With these capabilities, ForgeRock Autonomous Identity leverages existing identity investments and overcomes the challenges introduced by multiple identity silos.
We are convinced that we will see a strong uptake of AI-based solutions in IGA and overall IAM, such as ForgeRock Autonomous Identity. However, it is essential to understand that technology will not solve all challenges, and to be aware that we are still at the beginning stages of an evolution in this area.
3 The Need to Augment IGA: Better Support for Businesses and Users
4 Common Challenges and Pitfalls in Today's IGA Solutions and How to Address Them
5 Improving IGA with AI: What to Consider and How to do It Right
6 ForgeRock's Modern Approach - AI-Driven Identity Analytics
7 Action Plan for Leveraging AI-Based Solutions in IGA


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Share The World's Resources joins 'World Bank out of climate finance' campaign
News / 9th December 2010
Plans to hand control of global climate funds over to the World Bank – an undemocratic institution recognised as one of the main drivers of current unsustainable development trends – are being met with stiff opposition. In an open letter to the governments of the world, STWR joins the call to keep the World Bank out of climate finance.
Press release: new report - the seven myths of 'slums'
The increasing rate of slum growth in the Global South is the direct result of an international development paradigm that fails to prioritise the basic needs of the poor. A world without urban poverty cannot be realised without a redistribution of power and resources on the national and global level, argues a new report by Share The World's Resources.
Share The World's Resources at the UK steady state economy conference
News / 22nd June 2010
STWR joined a diverse group of academics, activists and business people at the first ever international conference on steady state economics held in Leeds. The event was an inspiring and important step forward for a burgeoning movement questioning limitless economic growth, writes Anna White.
International call for food reserves sign-on letter
News / 17th May 2010
Food reserves are a valuable tool in addressing the structural causes of hunger. In a joint letter with concerned civil society groups worldwide, STWR calls on governments and institutions to put the issue of reserves at the centre of their policy considerations.
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Ian Toloczko and Owen Dankworth, of Eagle Scouts from Troop 673 in Great Falls –- sponsored by the Great Falls United Methodist Men – are the most recent among more than one hundred Eagle Scouts developed by the Troop for over 50 years of activity.
Owen Williams Dankworth, son of David Dankworth and Pamela Williams of Great Falls, joined Troop 673 in 2009, after achieving the award of Arrow of Light as a Cub Scout. Since joining the troop, Owen has served as Chaplain's Aid, Patrol Leader, Assistant Senior Patrol Leader twice, and Den Chief. An enthusiastic participant in scouting, Owen attended nearly every troop outing while in elementary and middle school, multiple boy scout camps each summer, and participated in the Triple Crown of High Adventure trips: Sea Base in 2012, Northern Tier in 2012 and Philmont in 2013. He advanced to the level of Order of the Arrow (Scouting's National Honor Society) in 2010 and achieved the rank of brotherhood in 2011. Owen's various distinctions include 50 miler awards in bicycling, canoeing, and hiking; National Junior Shooting Award; National Youth Leadership training; National Outdoor Achievement Awards in Camping and Adventure; and an Eagle Gold Palm.
Owen's Eagle Project was the construction of an outdoor fire pit at the Great Falls Methodist Church, providing a place of fellowship for the numerous groups who meet at the church. Under his supervision, scouts, youth, and adults excavated and leveled a site and constructed a three-foot diameter fire pit.
Owen is a sophomore at Woodberry Forest School in Madison County, Va. Active in the Great Falls United Methodist Church Youth Group, he has participated in domestic and international mission trips. This summer, Owen will be travelling to China to continue his study of Mandarin.
Ian Carlyle Toloczko, son of Matthew and Lynn Toloczko of Great Falls, transferred to Troop 673 in 2012. He has served as Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, Chaplain Aide, Quartermaster, and Assistant Patrol Leader for the troop. Ian has attended summer camp every year since joining scouts in 2007, and participated in the Florida Sea Base High Adventure trip in 2013.
For his Eagle project, Ian cleared the upper meadow of Riverbend Park and constructed brush pile habitats for small animals. Working with park staff, Ian developed a plan to return the meadow to its pre-wooded state. Working over two weekends, he supervised scouts to complete the project, benefiting the park and its ecosystem.
Ian is a senior at Langley High School where he is a member of the Future Business Leaders of America, and DECA, the association of marketing students. After high school, Ian plans to pursue a degree in Risk Management and Insurance with a minor in International Business at the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business.


The Murnion Lecture "Is Common Ground Possible in the Pursuit of Racial Justice?" was given by Rev. Bryan Massingale, STD, Professor of Theological Ethics, Marquette University.
The recent killings of unarmed African Americans has put the nation's unfinished quest for racial equality at the forefront of public debate. Yet these discussions are often racially polarized, and Catholic engagement with these discussions presents a muddled and muted witness. This lecture examines the challenges of and possibilities for robust Catholic witness in overcoming our nation's most enduring social divide.
Bryan N. Massingale received his doctorate in moral theology from the Academia Alphonsianum (Rome). He specializes in social ethics and teaches courses on Catholic Social Thought, African American religious ethics, liberation theologies, and racial justice. His approach to social ethics focuses upon the impact of religious faith as both an instrument of social injustice and a catalyst for social transformation.
He is the author of Racial Justice and the Catholic Church (Orbis, 2010), which received a First Place book award from the Catholic Press Association. He also has authored over eighty articles, book chapters, and book reviews. These have appeared in both scholarly and pastoral journals such as Theological Studies, New Theology Review, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Philosophy and Theology, Journal of Religion and Society, U.S. Catholic Historian, Origins, U.S. Catholic, The National Catholic Reporter, Signs of the Times in the Americas, and Catholic Peace Voice.
His current research projects explore the contribution of Black religious radicalism to Catholic theology; the notion of "cultural sin" and its challenge to Catholic theological ethics; and the intersections of race and sexuality in both social life and Catholicism.
Click here for the video presentation of the 2015 Bernardin Award and Murnion Lecture, in its entirety.


Today and for the first time, watch Tina & Eros Ramazzotti perform in Munich, July 4 1998 in Full HD (720p).
See inside the post for the videos!
Don't forget to click on HD to enjoy the full quality of the video!
Apparently the video is blocked for people living in Germany. You can watch the video by using the website "hidemyass" but you won't be able to enjoy the HD definition.
"Cose della vita" (translated: "Things in life") is song originally released in 1993 by Eros Ramazzotti. The track re-recorded by Ramazzotti and Tina in 1997 for the greatest hits compilation Eros. This time the song was bi-lingual with Turner's English lyrics written by Turner herself, then retitled "Cose Della Vita – Can't Stop Thinking of You". The duet version charted better, with a peak in The Netherlands and Germany at #4. Ramazzotti later re-recorded a Spanish language version with Turner's English vocals called "Cosas De La Vida – Can't Stop Thinking of You", and a live version of the Italian-English version featuring Tina Turner was included on his album Live in 1998.
"Cose Della Vita – Can't Stop Thinking Of You" has been included on Tina Turner's greatest hits albums All The Best (2004) and The Platinum Collection (2008).
No apology needed for the watermarks, know how you feel! Some people have no idea or respect. Well done boys, enjoying your blog!
Good answer, all this repeat posting of videos is pointless and I have said that all along, totally agree with you. The fact that you are uploading stuff to begin with and at your own cost is generous enough without having other people rip your collection from you.
Thanks for your comment Beto, Simply The Best will be upload tomorrow evening, i have a very slow connection where i am today!
Thank you for always coming up with NEW stuff !
I love the videos, I love the quality, I even love the watermark!!
great videos! I've been there in Munich! During the afternoon before the concert when I walked along the concert area and could listen to the rehearsals of "the best" with Tina. Unfortunatelly I couldn't see anything. In my oppinion Eros was quite boring because some of his songs he performed in spanish, which I didn't like. But then Joe Cocker and Tina arrived! Just great moments!
Tina toujours simply the best. I love ……………..
Hello, where o how can i download the complete concert of Eros Ramazzotti…the quatlity its great!! i like so much his music and the duet with tina turner…i hope can help me some one and find where i can download all the concert because i like it.
Merci pour ton commentaire JB! Et oui, toujours autant d'énergie même si la video date de 1997!
This song was a huge success on South-American radios, due to Eros popularity there. But this version also helped him to be known in America, touring in there after the worldwide commercial success of 'Cose Della Vita', selling almost half a million copies.


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19 October, 2018 10:44 AM Lupin gets 5 observations from USFDA for Pithampur Unit-3 facility
The pre-approval inspection (PAI) was triggered after the company filed Tiotropium dry powder inhalation (DPI) abbreivated new drug application (ANDA). Lupin, India's third-largest maker, said it has received five observations from US FDA for its Pithampur Unit-3 facility near Indore. Procedural observations are referred to as deficiencies in standard 125
17 October, 2018 5:26 PM Indian Super League: ATK Beat Delhi Dynamos To Register Their First Win Of The Tournament
Noussair El Maimouni scored the winner for ATK in the 84th minute. Uche then had another opportunity when Vinit Rai gave away the ball to Pronay Halder. The midfielder found the Nigerian striker who eased into the box but saw his shot saved. ATK, however, did not have to wait long to surge ahead. In the 20th minute, Lanzarote exchanged passes with Halder 97
16 October, 2018 6:34 AM Shoaib Malik Recalls When Virat Kohli And He Laughed About Funny Dropped Catch
Pakistan beat India by 180 runs in the Champions Trophy final. Pakistan cricketers Shoaib Malik and Saeed Ajmal have both played a crucial part for their country over the years. However, one incident that stands out in their playing careers is the mix-up between them before taking a catch. The dropped catch drew comical reactions across social media 83
15 October, 2018 6:00 AM Time to shift from active funds to passive funds?
After news of loan defaults by IL&FS broke, the Sensex and Nifty have dropped significantly from their highs. This scenario is also coupled with rising crude oil prices and the depreciating rupee. As per the current outlook of the bearish market, passive funds are snatching the limelight. Let's do a 3 point analysis on whether it's time to switch 99
14 October, 2018 5:54 PM PKL: Patna Pirates Beat UP Yoddha, Puneri Paltan Defeat Haryana Steelers
Pardeep Narwal scored 14 points to be the star raider for Patna Pirates. In the day's first match, Pardeep Narwal scored 14 points to be the star raider once again but it was the Patna defence that laid the foundations of this win. Shrikant Jadhav got 17 points for UP Yoddha and Rishank Devadiga scored 11 but their efforts went in vain. Rishank scored 77
13 October, 2018 9:31 PM Guru Tegh Bahadur Hockey Tournament: Former champs Air India confirm participation
Indian Oil, the joint winners last year have withdrawn from the tournament due to the absence of key players who are currently on national duty. Former champions Air India have confirmed their participation in the 14th PMC Bank-All India Guru Tegh Bahadur Gold Cup Hockey Tournament, scheduled on Sunday. Air India, due to non-availability of players 133
9 October, 2018 1:28 PM Chelsea winger Eden Hazard reiterates Real Madrid dream
Chelsea winger Eden Hazard still hopes he can one day fulfil his dream of playing for Real Madrid. The Belgian`s contract at Stamford Bridge ends in June 2020 and the Blues want to renew his deal, although Hazard said he would like to move to the Spanish giants. "Real Madrid is the best club in the world," Hazard was quoted as saying by ESPN. "I don't 119
9 October, 2018 10:50 AM Ish Sodhi Tries Out Rap Music And Has His Team-mates In Splits
Ish Sodhi, a decent chess player, now tries his hand at something new. Ish Sodhi, the Indian-origin cricketer, made his Test debut for New Zealand against Bangladesh in October 2013. While he played his last Test against England in March earlier this year. In the 15 Tests that he has played, he has taken 38 wickets, with his best bowling figure for a match 106
9 October, 2018 9:05 AM Para Asian Games: Ekta Bhyan clinches Gold in Women's Club Throw
Para-athlete Ekta Bhyan on Tuesday bagged a gold medal in Women's Club Throw at Asian Para Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. Para-athlete Ekta Bhyan on Tuesday bagged a gold medal in Women's Club Throw at Asian Para Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. The 33-year-old grabbed India's fourth gold in the 2018 edition with a stunning throw of 16.02m in her fourth attempt 99
9 October, 2018 5:51 AM Raju Rakshita-Jadhav Suyash clinch gold at Para Asian Games, swell India's tally
The Indian Para-Athletes on Monday bagged 11 medals, including three gold, four silver and five bronze, on the second day of the 2018 Para Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Indian Para-Athletes on Monday bagged 11 medals, including three gold, four silver and five bronze, on the second day of the 2018 Para Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia 138


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Remember yesterday when I wrote about Boleslaw Prus' THE DOLL? Well today I'm 25% of the way through! Yes, I made an absurd amount of progress with this 1000 page Polish realist novel, because it's actually really readable. For the first few chapters, I was like, what am I reading? And then I realized it was a novel about a businessman who's in love with an impoverished noblewoman and I'm like okay, I get it.
The reverse of this novel is actually a staple of more Romantic literature (the high-status woman who's being courted by a business man–Trollope's The Way We Live Now comes to mind). In those novels, commerce is always portrayed as something quite ignoble and demeaning, though. But in this one the businessman is the hero! And what's more, he's also a would-be scientist!
It's a fascinating book. So full of rich detail about 19th-century Poland. For instance, I've only rarely read a novel that was so concerned with how things look. You get paragraph after paragraph of loving description of the interiors of places.
The book is full of set-pieces. For instance, there's one where the businessman, Stas, encounters the object of affection in his store and suddenly realizes he's just a woman and that there's no reason to be obsessed about her. And then he wanders the streets of Warsaw for twenty pages and sees all the poverty and need, and thinks, "Hey, I'm rich. I could do something about this!" and then he goes home and continues to obsess about the woman.
But he also maintains a vestigial interest in charity. He's obviously been changed by this epiphany…he just hasn't been changed very much. Which I love! It takes a lot of psychological insight, and a very sure hand, to thread the needle in that way.
And the book is just, on a page by page level, engrossing. I compared it yesterday to War and Peace, and I think the comparison is apt. Just like War and Peace, it makes you forget that you're reading a book. Instead, it's just a dream that goes on and on. When I was reading, I had the–nowadays quite rare–experience of checking where I was on the kindle and seeing that I'd gone ahead thousands of locations without realizing it! That's pretty amazing. Usually even the best book leaves me wondering how close I am to finishing it.
There are parts that leave me scratching my head. For instance, there's an internal set of chapters: 'The journal of an old clerk' where the businessman's head clerk narrates his life in the first person. The best thing about them is that oftentimes they're so clearly tedious that you know you can skip them. So, for instance, there were pages and pages of the clerk's experience as a partisan in the Hungarian revolt, and I just skipped them. I've read The Charterhouse of Parma and I've read Les Miserables and I've read War and Peace, so I know that long battlefield scenes can be very powerful and interesting. But in this case they weren't.
And I am also left with a persistent feeling that the underlying engine of this book–the love plot–is unworthy of the fantastic eye and energy and level of detail and observation that we see. I don't know. All the characters are interesting, but it's just…I suppose it's that the businessman seems too self-sufficient. He doesn't seem like he'd fall prey to this kind of obsession.
Have I never talked about how much I love the New York Review of Books Classics?


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Factor subsidies, employment generation and cost per job: a partial equilibrium approach
D Holden, J K Swales
Factor subsidies in a perfectly competitive setting are analysed. A very general model is used to derive expressions for the effect of a factor subsidy on the price and quantity of output and the two factor inputs. These expressions are differentiated to generate qualitative results for the impact of changes in the product-demand, production-function, and factor-supply parameters on the subsidy effects. A similar procedure is used to investigate the exchequer cost per job of general labour and capital subsidies in an industry with Cobb — Douglas technology. The analysis is relieved with illustrative simulations in which 'representative' parameter values are used.
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The Life & Hard Times of
Rooker (the "Rock") Feldman, Esq.
Rooker Feldman
DESPERATE CONSUMER
Law Office of Rooker Feldman
No Checks Accepted
Rocky is a modest little solo practitioner in a modest little town. His practice consists largely of bankruptcy, taxes, divorce, international commerce, and horse law.
Rocky's firm is what is called a "Boutique" law firm, consisting of one lawyer, Rooker Feldman, Mable, over 50, a reliable, sensible office manager who is the only one in the office who can spot grammatical mistakes, Rooker's hot dingbat front-desk girl, Bling, and Rooker's old but loyal paralegal, Lou, in early senility.
"Reasonable Doubt for a Reasonable Fee"
THE MASTER OF HIS FATE
Rooker ("Rocky") Feldman, Attorney at Law, was rushed to the local Our Insolvent Lady of Mercy Hospital, over bumpy roads un - repaired for 20 years by the City and County of We Done Gone Broke, after his hot, front-desk girl, Bling, the office dingbat, found him sitting at his desk mumbling nonsense.
"How much debt could Claudette forget If Claudette could forget debt?"
"How much lasagne could Tanya put on ya If Tanya put lasagne on ya?"
That was the normal part.
But then the gibberish began . . .
"He-settin, I-settin, you-settin, we-settin. Deed-a-bye, deed-a-bye, deed-a-bye die!"
He stared at Bling. Bling stared back, her eyes bulging, and glanced at the door, estimating her chances to escape, if it came to that.
Bling yelled to Mable, the old office battle-wagon, "Mable! Call 911, quick!"
Oh, how, you may ask, had it all come to this?
Rocky's day started out OK. Then . . .
He was told by the court clerk that e-filing was now mandatory. So, he cheerfully went to work setting his computer up for e-filing, only to find out that his old reliable, familiar MS-DOS 386 with Wordstar was obsolete.
"When did that happen?" he muttered to himself.
So, he shelled out some moola and bought a new computer.
Then, he discovered that his old programs wouldn't work on the new computer. He was told his outmoded apps were incompatible with the new, state-of-the-art technology, and he would have to install all updated apps.
"Of course" he muttered to himself, his voice dripping with scepticism.
Finally he was ready.
His printer wouldn't work with the new computer. So, Rocky forked over some more moola for a new printer.
And, he was strongly advised to get a new monitor, as well. More moola.
Finally, he sat at his desk, nursing a cup of coffee (with a little Brandy thrown in), and proudly contemplated his state- of-the-art systems.
He was content and at peace with himself as he commenced to upload and e-file his first document. He smiled slightly, and puffed gently on a Macanudo Prince Phillip Especial.
He watched in anticipation as a message appeared on the screen.
"Parsing error," it said, "File could not upload."
"Parsing error?" he muttered to himself, jamming his cigar into an ashtray.
"What the hell is a parsing error? Mable! Get someone on the line who can tell me what a parsing error is."
"What?" Mable yelled back from her desk.
A few moments passed, and Mable opened the door and stuck her head in.
"Excuse me, Mr. Feldman. Did you say Parsing Error? What the hell is a parsing error?"
"Mable! That's what I want you to tell ME!"
A few hours later the parsing error message suddenly disappeared.
Rooker took this as a good sign, but worried that the parsing error hadn't really gone away ... but was just ... waiting ... waiting ...
Rocky poured himself a nice cup of brandy (with a little coffee thrown in), and settled contentedly in his chair.
In triumph, he pressed "send" to upload his first document.
"Error" said his monitor. "You have filed this document under the category "Affidavit." This document is not an affidavit. Please re-upload into folder for "Declaration.""
Rocky and the mysterious non-human presence on the other end began to play a cat and mouse game, about whether there was a difference between an affidavit and a declaration, with little progress being made.
And then the mystery presence threw in a new monkey wrench.
"Due to errors you have made attempting to upload improper affidavits, you can no longer upload these documents. Please re-file them but do not upload them."
Rooker stared at the screen.
"How the hell do I re-file without re-uploading?" he murmured.
Rooker e-mailed the judge's law-clerk:
"Clerk, how does one re-file without uploading?"
The answer came back:
"The judge does not accept ex parte communications by email. Please upload your question."
Rooker heaved a long sigh, and typed in his question to upload it.
"OK, Little Miss Upload," he murmured. "UPLOAD THIS!"
But when he hit the "upload" key, a little sign came on asking for his user name and password.
"OH, CRAP!" he shouted. "Does this EVER END?"
Out in the front office, Bling and Mable looked with concern at his door.
He eventually found the sticky-note with his user name and password laying on the floor under his desk. He entered them and hit the "send" key.
"Your user name and password do not match" came the message. "Please pick a new password."
By this time Feldman was perspiring heavily, but he was not going to give up.
Quoting from Invictus, he whispered "I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul."
He entered a new password, and hit the key.
"You have picked a user name that is already taken," came the message. "Please call your service provider."
He stared in disbelief. "Of course the user name is already taken. IT'S MINE!" he shouted at the monitor.
That was the moment Rooker encountered what in science is known as "The Singularity," the moment when one's soul comes so close to a black hole of technology it can't avoid falling right into it. The gravity is so strong nothing comes out. Certainly nothing that could possibly answer Rooker's questions.
A few moments later Bling, Mable, Lou, and two guys in doctory-looking coats rushed into his office, grabbed him, and tied him to a stretcher.
And so we leave our friend Rocky at the psychiatric unit of Our Insolvent Lady, where he is resting comfortably.
Later, in the middle of the night, back at Rooker's darkened office, the computer monitor suddenly flickered back on.
"Parsing error!" it said. "File could not upload."
Rooker's conundrum
The first client of the morning had arrived.
Rooker and his new client settled in to their respective chairs, and Rocky opened his checklist for new cases.
As the discussion advanced, Rocky got to question no. 52 on his checklist.
"So, have you sold, given away, or otherwise disposed of any valuable assets?"
Lost in thought, the client scratched his chin briefly.
"Does that include stuff stolen from me?"
Rooker penciled in a note to himself to add to the checklist, have you lost, had stolen, burned up in a fire, destroyed by an ex-spouse, or abducted by aliens, any valuable assets?
"I had six tractors, but they disappeared from the lot where they were supposed to be. I have no idea where they are!"
Rocky was suspicious about this likely story about why the estate can't grab the tractors ... they were stolen!
But Rocky figured the client didn't have to tell him about the six so-called stolen tractors. He could have just kept his mouth closed. Besides, the client told him he had reported the theft to the police, so Rocky could offer the police report if the trustee questioned it.
Rocky scribbled a note to add to his checklist, are you trying to hide anything?
Client no. 2
A week later another new client was sitting across Rocky's desk.
Rooker went down his list of questions for new clients.
When he got to question no. 52, the client denied having transferred, given away, or sold anything of value. The insisted he was not trying to hide anything.
Then the client paused, looking vaguely out the window into the distance.
"Oh oh!" whispered Rocky to himself.
"But," the client said, "there are the six tractors."
Rooker wasn't sure he heard correctly.
"What's that about six actors?"
"I have six tractors. T - R - A - C - T - O ..."
"You mean you have six tractors? Do you own them?"
"I don't know. I found them parked at a closed gas station, and took 'em. I guess I stole them."
Suddenly, it dawned on Rocky that these must be the same six tractors that last week's client said he had stolen from him. Then it dawned on him, as well, that he now had a conflict of interest (or something). He would like to call client no. 1 and tell him there is good news ... he found the tractors!
But did the rules of ethics prevent him from telling on his other client?
Obviously, he couldn't tell the first client anything, because he had a duty to preserve the second client's attorney-client privilege.
At the same time, he couldn't tell the second client about the first client's lost tractors because the first client, as well, had an attorney-client privilege.
The word conundrum crossed his mind.
Rooker had to notify both clients that he could not represent either of them. He gave them their files and refunded their retainer fees (after deducting a lot of it to cover the time already expended on the cases. Most of it, in fact).
So, it was out of Rooker's hands. No longer his responsibility!
But still he worried, did he have a duty to appear at the 341 hearings and disclose to the trustee what he knew about the six tractors?
He lit up his favorite cigar, a Macanudo Prince Philippe to be exact ... and leaned back, gazing out his office window . . . the portal to his spirit cave.
As he turned his conundrum over and over in his mind, a wisp of undulating pinkish whitish Macanudo smoke filtered lightly from his mouth.
How Rocky Lost his Mojo
Rocky was in his office cleaning up Area 51 (his desk) when the new client stepped in for the appointment.
After the usual introductory pleasantries Rooker began his checklist of questions that he asked in every potential bankruptcy case.
"So, how much do you think you owe, not counting mortgages? A rough estimate will do."
"Oh, I don't know. A lot."
"Give me an estimate."
"Well" he said, laughing, "... let's just say it's bigger than a bread box."
"Ok. Let's go on. Do you owe any taxes"?
(laughing again) "No. as long as I'm not audited," with a snicker and a knowing look at Rooker.
"Ok. Any spousal support?"
(also with a snicker) "Only when the "ex" is being a bitch, know what I mean?" He winked at Rooker.
"How about fines or restitution?"
The client glanced quickly at the door that was part way open.
"Can we close the door?"
"BLING, PLEASE CLOSE THE DOOR ALL THE WAY? THANKS!
The client leaned in.
"Well, maybe."
"Maybe?"
"I may be fined for a little Ponzi stuff. But let's just not go there," he said with another snicker in his voice and another wink.
Rocky sat back a bit in his chair.
"Well, the reason I ask is that we have to list everything you owe, or probably owe. And also all your financial circumstances."
Leaning in more toward Rocky, and in a whisper, "But, how would the judge ever find out?"
With a sigh, "Ok. Let's talk about assets."
He went to a question that he always asked as a joke, since he knew none of his bankruptcy clients were rich enough to own a yacht.
Rocky, with a gentle, sardonic chuckle, "Where is your million-dollar yacht tied up?"
Again, in a whisper and a knowing look, "I don't really own the yacht, exactly."
"Exactly? What do you mean?"
"It's not in my name anymore. Also, it's tied up in Texas. It would be hard to find."
"To whom did you transfer title to?"
"My son."
"Did you transfer title to a family member?"
"And what did he do with it?"
"Nothing. He's only 4 years old."
Another snicker.
Rocky, putting his pen down and leaning back further.
"I need to know the details" replied Rocky.
The client paused before replying. Then, also leaning back a bit, "Well ... there is an attorney-client privilege, right?"
Now Rocky gazed wistfully out his Forgive Them Their Trespasses window.
"Please understand," Rocky said, " ... we have to disclose everything in good faith, honestly and in good faith."
Abruptly the client stood up and, turning toward the door, muttered "Ok. I think I've come to the wrong lawyer." Whereupon he marched out the door and past Bling without a glance.
Bling leaned over her desk a bit and looked into the door where she could see Mr. Feldman's at his desk.
"Wow! What was that all about?" she asked.
Rocky sighed deeply and sauntered over to the window. He lit up a Macanudo and puffed a big, slow, contemplative puff.
Over the years, Rooker has tried various marketing methods to promote his practice. And, among those methods, he has made some mistakes.
At one time his office was in an urban area that had a fairly large section of town occupied by Asian minorities, including Chinese. In fact, the city had its own "Little Chinatown," its own Chinese newspaper, and a Chinese radio station.
He realized he would be making a big mistake not to take advantage of this.
So, thinking smart, he placed an ad in the Chinese Yellow Pages, advertising bankruptcy services.
Immediately after the phone book came out, a call came in to the office. Bling, the hot dingbat front desk girl, took the call and buzzed Rooker.
"Mr. Feldman, we have a potential new client calling. Do you want to take the call?"
"Why don't you take a message, I'm in the middle of something."
"OkayFine," replied Bling, with her typical little huff.
An hour later Rooker walked out to the front desk and picked up Bling's note on the call. As he looked at it, he realized he couldn't read Bling's handwriting.
"Bling, I can't read your handwriting!"
"I did the best I could."
"What do you mean? Where's the name and phone number?"
"I have no clue," replied Bling. "I couldn't understand a word he said!"
"Bling - for goodness sake, you could have asked him to speak slower!"
"It wouldn't have made any difference."
"Because he was speaking in Chinese!"
In an instant Rocky realized that his entire investment in the Chinese Yellow Pages was a huge mistake. He shrugged his shoulders and returned to his office.
Several months later, he asked his loyal old paralegal, Lou, to place a large ad in the regular Yellow Pages, advertising for personal injury cases.
As the months went by, very few calls came in off the ad. Rooker had glanced at the ad after came it out, and it looked okay to him. It focused on "big rig" accidents, and announced "Rooker "Big Rig" Feldman. When You Need a Big Rig of a Lawyer!"
Rocky got curious about why there were so few calls off the ad. He opened the phone book and turned to his ad.
In large print, it blared "If you've been killed in an accident ..."
He stared briefly in disbelief, and muttered, "Oh, Lou!" and tossed the book in the trash bin.
But Rooker Feldman does not give up easily.
He invested a fair amount of money and time designing a lovely brochure advertising his services for small businesses. It advertised "Partnership Agreements, Incorporation, Small Business Bankruptcy, Tax Relief, Business Litigation, and Business Debt Defense."
But, few calls came in.
So, he did what he probably should have done first ... he hired some bright young folks to call and survey 200 local businesses and try to identify what they last used a lawyer for, and what legal services they thought they might need in the future.
After a week his callers typed up a nice, concise report on their findings, and left it on his desk. When he arrived the next morning, he eagerly studied the report. The results dismayed him.
None of the answers mentioned any of the services he was offering!
Rather, what they almost all needed was help collecting receivables! The last time most of them had hired a lawyer they did it to sue customers for unpaid bills.
Rooker realized it was just the opposite of what he was offering ... helping small businesses get out of debt!
Did he want to become a debt collector?
Wistfully, he tossed the report back on his desk, leaned back in his expensive leather chair, and gazed out the window ... the portal to his spirit cave, and sighed deeply.
Mrs. Beelzebub's Meeting of Creditors
At the meeting of creditors Rooker's client, Mrs. Beelzebub, stepped forward to take the trustee's questions.
"So, Mrs. Beelzebub, do you own anything of value you haven't included in your schedules?"
"Everything is listed except some stuff to be kept out of the bankruptcy."
The trustee glanced at Feldman, then back to the debtor.
"What do you mean? Is there something you didn't list?
"Only a small vase."
"Why? What's so important about a vase?"
"I'm not sure."
The trustee raised his eyebrows and again looked at Rocky, this time with a slight hint of frown.
"Well, do you have any plants in it that you want to keep?"
"Oh, of course not. Don't be silly. You wouldn't plant something in a Ming Dynasty vase, for goodness sakes!"
Now, the trustee's mouth dropped open.
"A Ming Dynasty vase? What is it worth?
"Oh heavens, I don't know. She says about $30,000."
The trustee thought there was something a little off-kilter about her answer.
"What do you mean, 'she'?"
"My sister."
"And what does she have to do with your bankruptcy?"
"Oh, heavens! I'm not the one filing the bankruptcy."
The trustee and Rocky were both gasping with eyebrows in full elevation.
"It's my sister who's filing the bankruptcy. I'm only here because she couldn't find a baby-sitter."
"Wha????"
"But it's okay, because I pretty well know everything so I can speak for her."
By now the trustee was standing up - smoke pouring out of his ears, eyes firmly fixed on Rooker Feldman, who had also jumped up with blood draining from his eyes.
Rocky's Lost Password Stress Disorder!
Rooker's family, friends, and office staff had already done one intervention on him, to get him detoxified and withdrawn from post-online Internet e-Filing trauma stress syndrome. It had worked, at least for the last year from the intervention, and he had been happily handling e-filing ever since. Accordingly, he was surprised at this morning's events.
When he was about half-way through the morning mail, he decided to bring up an online news provider.
It asked for his user name and password. His user name was always the same ... rookerfeldmanesq, and his password had always been ... hmm ... what was it?
He had a Word document on his computer where he had saved all the user names and passwords he used. In fact, he had almost 100 user-name-password combinations for almost 100 Internet things. He had not realized how many passwords he had. Hence, his eyes grew wider as he scrolled down the pages.
"Where is that password"!?
He kept scrolling. Finally, he found it. The password was his horse's name, Rootbeer.
But when he entered it on the online news page, a message popped up that said "This password is already taken. Please enter another."
"What the ...?" he mumbled. But, he had been through this before. He knew it was hopeless to try to reason or argue with the Internet. That had already resulted in one intervention. He clicked the thing that said "Forgot your password?" This link announced, "Check your email to recover your password."
When he checked his email, a link came up saying "Enter your password." He typed in "Rootbeer." A message popped up saying "Already taken, stupid!" (or words to that effect).
So, he thought, he would just pick a new one.
"BeerRoot." He had to enter it twice.
Up came a message, "Your password entries don't match, idiot!" (or words to that effect). So, he tried the same password again, but again he was notified that his two entries of "BeerRoot" did not match. He hit the "refresh" link, and suddenly he couldn't get his email up at all!
His computer demanded a password in order to get his email! The computer told him to click the link "Retrieve Your Password." He clicked it and up came a message directing him to check his "in" folder on his email where he would find their message containing his password.
"Aha!" he mumbled. "Now we're cooking!"
Then, he realized he couldn't get that password, because he couldn't reach his email, because he needed that password to get to his email.
By this time his mind was reeling. He was already stressed when he realized how many passwords he had. He called it a day, went to his satellite office at "The Lawyers' Bar" down the street, and took up some therapeutic martinis.
The next morning, he looked for his list of passwords on the Word document, but couldn't find his list. His eyes glazed over as he moved the cursor around his desktop. Nope. The list of almost 100 passwords had been accidentally deleted. Banks, research services, news providers, his own web sites, several organizations to which he belonged, the Bar Association, his local Rose Flower Club, a subscription porn site ... gone!
"But," he thought, " ... those passwords are my whole life! It has taken me ten years to make them up!"
As the ramifications intruded into his consciousness, his blood pressure skyrocketed, and he began to perspire.
"WHAT," he yelled, " ... AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW?
He thought he had saved everything with a backup module on his desk, until he realized it had run out of memory months ago.
Then, be began talking nonsense.
"How much lasagna could Tanya put on ya if Tanya could put lasagna on ya?" Then he yelled it. "HOW MUCH LASAGNE COULD ..." That same thing had happened before, when he was detoxed the first time.
He paused. Then uttered, "Password Bassword Gasword Sassword Wassword Zassword!"
Then, he began to weep loud enough for Bling, Mable, and Lou (Rooker's old faithful paralegal with early onset whatever) to hear him through the wall. Lou rushed out to the outer office. They all looked at each other with alarmed eyes. They remembered that they had heard him babbling the same thing the first time they had to do an intervention a year ago.
Mable picked up the phone and dialed 911.
In a few minutes strange men arrived with a straight-jacket, and they took him to the Bedlam Mental Health Institute for Desperate Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys ("BMHIDCBA," pronounced Bimdumbiba.
At the hospital the doctor diagnosed Blunt Force Trauma by Rude Anonymous Replies to Request For Passwords, aka Passwords That Don't Work Panic Disorder. He added, with a knowing look, "It's another form of Way Too Many Passwords Syndrome. It's a disability." And, worse, he had also suffered Lost Entire List of Passwords Rage Disorder.
His wife visited him here, but back home she found his wallet and removed all his credit cards. "Now," she mumbled, "let him try to register another domain name!"
There we leave him for now, parked in a wheelchair and looking out the window, at peace with the world.
Rooker's (imagined) career as a trial attorney
This morning we find him at his desk, dreaming. He dreamed about a trial he had litigated some years back. (Or, maybe he didn't).
His client was charged with drug possession. This client had three prior convictions for the same thing!
All morning, Rooker and the deputy district attorney argued with the judge in chambers.
At last Rooker persuaded the judge to keep all mention of the prior convictions out of the jurors ears, on the grounds that it might prejudice the jurors.
It was time to break for lunch. Rooker, ecstatic, rush his client out of the courtroom and into the elevator. He waited for the door to close, then gave his client a big smile.
Rooker: I won the motion! The jury will never hear about your three prior convictions for drug possession!
The client smiled, not really understanding the significance.
Client: What about my conviction for selling heroin?
Rooker continued beaming his grin to the client for a few moments.
Rooker: Yes! The jury will never know!
Then, he noticed the elevator was jammed with people. He gave them all a smile, and then noticed that they were all wearing big buttons that said "Jury."
It took a moment for Rocky to let it sink in. Then the smile left Rooker's face. Later, he had to advise the judge of what happened. The judge was furious.
"You realize we have to release that whole panel and call in another 30 people for the jury!"
Continuing ... this reminded the judge of the time in closing argument you spilled cocaine all over the jurors right in the courtroom!
Rooker: You still remember that, judge?
Back in his office, Rooker took a brief "power nap" at his desk. He began to dream about being in trial again.
Addressing the witness on the stand
Rooker: So, you admit it was hunky, yet still insist it was not dory, as well?
Witness (perspiring and wiping his forehead with a tissue): That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.
Rooker: And even after this mountain of evidence is in, you admit she was riding six horses, yet still insist they were not white?
Witness: Well, she never came round the mountain when she came round the mountain.
Later, his client was on the stand, being cross-examined by the D.A.
Client: I can't be guilty. I wasn't even there! She can't identify me!
D.A. So, you deny ever meeting her, and she can't know what you looked like, so how could she sit in this courtroom today and identify you as the perp?
Client: Right! She can't say she got a good look at my face!
D.A.: Why is that?
Client: Because my head was turned away from her at that moment, all she could see was the back of my head!
AREA 51 AND THE BLACK HOLE
The staff referred to Rooker's desk as "Area 51." They had seen things on that desk that they couldn't identify. Some of them caused great controversy in the office. Other documents simply vanished.
But nothing beat the desktop of a terminated former attorney-employee for inexplicable stuff on the desk.
Among other things were found, buried under a fistful of half-ass legal pleadings, a pair of red panties, a list of every whore-house in Nevada, several peeled banana skins, the spare office key that had been missing for over 10 years, and an unused contraceptive packet labeled "Zeus."
Ever afterwards that office was called "Area 52."
But for mystery and controversy nothing beat The Black Hole.
This was also called the Utility Room. The staff joked that nothing that went in to that room ever came out. One day the lights went out in there. Mable, Lou, and Bling shared knowing glances. Not even light came out, they joked.
It was also the room with a desk drawer holding Rocky's cigars. Rocky had convinced himself that it was a secret drawer that the staff didn't know about. The staff smiled at his little delusion and let him think they didn't know all about it.
This room is where the Beelzebub file had been last seen. But that was not the weirdest case. One day the 4th Trustee of the Apocalypse called about the Parker matter.
The office had been receiving mail for over a year for a "Mrs. Parker." Her complete medical records had been received at the office, as well as her unsigned tax return for last year.
A call to the U.S. Trustee's office elicited that Feldman's firm had no such case, yet a 341 had been scheduled. The Chapter 13 Trustee said they didn't have such a case and had no idea why there was a 341 scheduled, or what it was about.
Eventually, Bling, Rooker's hot dingbat front desk girl, started calling it the "Mrs. Parker Ghost."
So, the firm was haunted.
"Why am I not surprised? mumbled Rocky.
He lit a cigar and went over to his office window, which looked out into his Spirit Cave. He took a long, smoky, satisfying puff on a Macanudo Prince Philip.
Mable, scrunching her nose, quietly closed his office door.
THE URGENT CALL FROM MABLE
After Rooker left the meeting of creditors, shaken his client's hand, and wished him a long and not-too-much-in-debt-life, he received an urgent call on his cell phone.
"Mr. Feldman!" gasped his reliable, overweight, competent secretary Mable, "You've got to get back to the office fast!"
Rocky was alarmed."Why? What's going on?" he asked. "Can't talk now. Get back here quick!"
As he drove in a hurry back to the office, he went over in his mind what it could be. A fire? Rocky's old office had, in fact, burned down, but the new office seemed less likely to burn. The new office had also survived the '89 earthquake, but did not recall feeling any shaking today.
Is his faithful old early-stages-dementia paralegal, Lew, having a heart attack? He seemed okay this morning.
Rocky tensed up as he wondered if the IRS was there seizing office furniture for his own delinquent taxes. Naw! He was sure he would have heard something before they did that.
Even worse, maybe the U.S. Trustee has dropped in! Criminy!
"Oh, God!" he thought, "did Mable's hard drive crash?"
He shot out of his car and leapt up the stairs to the office. Rushing through the door, he looked frantically around, but saw nothing out of order!
Then he noticed Bling's dog, Washington (Washy for short), laying on the floor in the waiting area. Washy raised his head and glanced at Rocky's noisy entrance, then laid his head down and went back to his nap.
"Mable!" yelled Rocky, "What's happened? Did Washy bite somebody? I told Bling not to bring that damn dog to the office!"
But he noticed that neither Bling nor Mable were at their desks. Where were they?
Then, from the utility room with the copier, postage machine, bond paper, and letterhead, came Mable's anguished shout, "Mr. Feldman, help!"
At almost the same instant Rocky heard Bling's anguished shriek blasting from deep in the utility room.
"Oh, my God!" thought Rocky. "She's being raped!"
He rushed to the door of the utility room half expecting to see Bling in a life-or-death struggle with an ex-client. But he paused and just cautiously poked his head in the door.
After all, Rocky may be dumb, but he's not stupid!
There, in the far corner of the room stood Bling, pressed as far back against the walls as possible, her face contorted in horror. Mable stood a few feet away holding the large stapler as though she were going to use it to as a weapon.
Bling's terrified gaze was firmly fixed at something very small on the floor in front of her.
The office's little 4-inch tall parakeet, Dr. Watson, had trapped Bling in the corner. Watson was just standing there on the carpet looking with extreme curiosity at the terrified woman. Each time Bling screamed, Watson did his best imitation of it.
"Schrawweee!"
This in turn triggered another shriek from Bling. Rocky bent down and lifted Snappy up on his finger. He pursed his lips against Watson's head and murmured "What's wrong little guy? Is Bling scaring you? Well, it's all over now, my precious, back in the cage you go."
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As he gently put Snappy back in his cage, he gave Bling a sarcastic look. Bling was calming down but looking really embarrassed, and Mable was already back at her desk blocking the whole episode out of her mind.
Rocky went into his office and paused at the window that opened out into his spirit cave. He looked out the window and inhaled the honeysuckle fragrance, and sighed deeply.
DON'T LET THEM DIP ME IN THE CHOCOLATE
Rooker Feldman's office paradigm explains his somewhat unorthodox law office, an office that is sometimes a bit much to ask of his clients.
Oh, they can usually overlook having to step carefully over the huge, slightly smelly hound that lays snoozing on the floor in front of Bling's desk.
They can more or less ignore Rooker's canary, Dylan (after that crooner, Bobby Dylan), who emerges from his cage-that-has-no-door and flies about the office unrestrained, chirping cheerfully while defecating on office furniture and files.
And yes, they can overlook the clock on the wall that actually has a wooden bird that jumps out on the quarter hour blurting, "Cuckoo! Cuckoo!"
Because they can sense the humanity in Rocky's eyes, his voice, his understanding, centered manner. And, this humanity is genuine, because Rocky has realized, over a long career of law practice, that every client who walks into his office, every trustee who hassles him over a case, every employee in his office, is a Walking Novel, with a story to tell if someone would only take the time.
Then there's faithful old Lew.
Because Lew, the paralegal, has the disconcerting habit of falling asleep at his desk, and, in his sleep, saying things. Odd things. Sometimes alarming things. And saying them loudly. Then suddenly waking up, totally unaware that he has uttered anything at all.
The first time a client heard, blurted through the wall from the next office, "Well, if I had a palm tree in front of my desk, I'd probably feel the same way!" she simply raised her eyebrows, cast a fleeting, concerned glance at Rocky, and then shrugged it off. After, all, Rocky didn't seem perturbed, so it couldn't be anything serious.
Then, when the next client heard the muffled but audible, "Please don't let them dip me in the chocolate!," that client, as well, seemed to take it in stride, especially as Mr. Feldman had not appeared alarmed.
Then one day, in the middle of a conference with a new and uninitiated client, Lew's gruff voice came through the wall loud and clear.
"Put the gun down! PUT THE GUN DOWN NOW!"
The client turned pale, and then leaped from her chair and bolted out the door without looking back.
Rocky patiently watched the client race out the door. Then, with a long sigh,
the sigh of the stoic in the face of all-to-human humanity, leaned back in his
chair and pulled out one of his forbidden cigars. He contemplatively rolled it between his fingers for a moment, then lit it up.
In the background, Dylan chirped his carefree song. Mable got up and gently closed Lew's door. Bling's hound briefly raised his shaggy head to look around, then resumed his dreamless nap.
Rooker took a long puff, then slowly exhaled. The fine white smoke curled before him.
DID HE THINK? DID HE EXIST?
Rooker was taking a short break in a busy day, kicking back with a cup of coffee and his well-worn copy of "The Philosophical Trustee," volume 3 of "The Four Trustees of The Apocalypse." Absent-mindedly flipping through it, he came across this famous phrase by René Descartes;
"I think, therefore I am."
This, thought Rooker to himself, was a comforting thought, as his eye wandered down the page.
Then he realized something he had never noticed before. This quote was taken out of context. The full quote was;
"I think, therefore I am. At least, I think I am. Maybe I'm not."
Rooker carefully set his cup of coffee down on the desk. He gaped at the words.
Now, a wave of anxiety swept over him.
"What?" he thought. "He thought he thought? Or is it, he thought, therefore he thought he was?"
His voice raised as rage began to take over.
"HE JUST THOUGHT HE WAS? HE MERELY THOUGHT HE THUNK? HE THUNK, BUT MAYBE HE WASN'T, AFTER ALL?"
"WHAT IS THIS CRAP!"
His voice could be heard in the outer office. Bling looked at Mable, and Mable looked at Bling. Then they both looked at the door to Rooker's office.
Rooker flung the book across the room. Bling and Mable heard a thunk from the other side of the door.
Then he went over and picked it up, and continued reading:
"But," continued Descartes, "I have convinced myself that there is absolutely nothing in the world, no sky, no earth, no minds, no bodies. Does it now follow that I too do not exist?
"No. If I convinced myself of something [or thought anything at all] then I certainly existed. But there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me. In that case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something.
"So, after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that the proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
This had a calming effect on Rooker. He collected himself and went back to his desk, sat down, and took another sip from his coffee that was quickly getting cold.
Then, just as suddenly, he sat bolt upright, spitting the coffee back into the cup. Reading further, he came across these parting words;
"At least," continued Descarte, "that's what I think."
This time he threw the book hard enough against the door to really alarm Bling and Mable. Their eyes widened, and then they jumped up and ran out of the office.
As they stood on the sidewalk, they saw the window to Rooker's office fling open, and Rooker's head appeared.
His hair was frazzled, and his cheeks deep red. He opened his jaws to full capacity, and yelled ...
"OK, deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me ..."
"I am Rooker Feldman, Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney!
"HEAR ME ROAR!"
He then bellowed the best imitation of a lion's roar that he could do.
This last was at the top of his voice, loud, angry, and defiant. The words echoed down the street.
Bling and Mable stared at Rooker. After a moment, the silhouettes of their figures huddled on the sidewalk caught his attention.
"What are you two doing out there?" he asked.
"Well, to be honest, Mr. Feldman," stuttered Bling, "we're a little concerned about you. I mean, we don't quite know what to think ... "
"DON'T . . ." shouted Rooker. " . . . even think about it!"
"Do you want to know what I think?" he asked; "I think you two should get back to work!"
After a moment he gently closed the window, and Bling and Mable went back in the office and resumed where they had left off.
Will this never end?


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Xavier Stamps-Lafont
FALL 2011-Present
THE MISSION is a hardcore retro sci-fi shooter/platformer. The idea grew from the union of the themes of the past two Global Game Jams, deception and extinction, as well as one of the achievements of this past GGJ. The achievement was:
3. Back to School, OLD School
The game must have a screen resolution of exactly 160×144, is restricted to a color palette of four shades of the same color, and the game must be 1 Megabyte or less on disk (incl. executable, all assets and external libraries, unzipped)
I started making this little game after the Game Jam. After several months I finished a first level of it. As the player, you explore the surface of a barren planet, encountering enemies that shoot on sight. A cavern leads underground, and you fight many more enemies. Destroying parts of the cave with your charged shots lead you to discovering the entrance to an underground base… The first level ends there.
This game has good old fashioned difficulty. The AI is mortally efficient. If the enemies see you and there is any possibility of them getting a shot at you, they will take advantage of your opening. Then it's up to you to dodge the shot – if you have the reflexes. In addition to the hardcore AI, there are also a few traps in the level, including a deadly plunge through a saw-lined chasm. This game is not meant for those who want to be told how to beat a boss as soon as they encounter it.
I developed it from scratch in Processing: controls, UI, camera code, AI, graphics, autotile code, optimization code.
During Global Game Jam 2013, I made a 3-player version where players fight against each other in an arena level. Since then, I've continued to work on this, calling it BATTLE MODE. Now up to 4 players can play, using controllers (mix and match PS3 and Xbox 360 controllers), and with two more victory conditions (timed and survival).
FOR DOWNLOADABLES, SCREENSHOTS AND MORE, GO TO THE SITE


/ Game Update 5.2 Maintenance time?
Is the maintenance for this Tuesday going to stay the same time schedule as last week was suppose to? Haven't seen any announcement from the devs yet.
I will get messaging up this morning. Right now it is looking more like normal maintenance time as opposed to the earlier time we had for 5.2 last week. I will have more info later today.


As the title says, in my iPhones contacts and calendars all birthdays show up one day earlier as on my PC.
I am syncing from Windows with Lotus Notes via CompanionLink and Deja Office to my iPhone, all SW is up-to-date.
In the Deja Office contacts and Calendar the birthday dates are correct ! It must happen when transferring them to the iPhone data...!
I did several test, deleted all contacts on the iPhone and in CompanionLink switched to reload from Lotus Notes and wipe on iPhone and retransfer, nothing changed.
Searching the Internet I found that iPhone users syncing from Mac via iTunes to the iPhone used to have the same problem some time ago, I checked that with my Mountain Lion and iPhone with IOS 6.0.1, the dates are correct. The problem in the Mac SW was switching to the right timezone and PM/AM setting (I am CET, UTC +1h).
May be here in Deja Office is still some similar issue ??


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Monday, October 3rd, 2016
Monday, October 3rd, 2016 8:00PM
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Episode: 10.03.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Gary Johnson's libertarian ideology and funding; masculinity in the presidential election; Post-impeachment politics in Brazil & Colombian voters reject proposed peace agreement
1) Adele M. Stan, Senior Washington Editor with Alternet.org, talks about her recent article, "Meet Gary Johnson's Koch-Network Money Men." Stan's piece uncovers important information that should be in the hands of many young people who have been attracted to support Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson.
2) Jackson Katz, an educator, author, filmmaker and cultural theorist who is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender and violence discusses the 2016 presidential election campaign and the observations featured in his new book, "Man Enough? Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity."
3) Alex Main, senior associate on international policy with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, discusses the U.S. relationship with Brazil's post-impeachment government, which took power after the removal of Workers Party President Dilma Rousseff -- and Washington's current support for austerity economic policies in Latin America's largest nation.
4) Chris Knestrick, a project support coordinator with Christian Peacemakers' Colombia Team and Ben Brazil, director of the Ministry of Writing program at the Earlham School of Religion, who leads student trips to Colombia in partnership with Christian Peacemaker Teams, talk about the consequences of Colombian voters rejection, by a narrow margin, of a proposed peace agreement between the government in Bogotá and leftist FARC guerillas that would have ended more than 50 years of war. Chris and Ben recently wrote the article, "In Colombia, the real work of peacebuilding begins now," for the online publication WagingNonviolence.org
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Behold Some Fantastic Fan Art of Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
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Art by J Yang
There have been some fantastic depictions of the worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin in recent years. The Folio Society produced some fantastic editions of The Left Hand of Darkness and A Wizard of Earthsea, and her massive Earthsea tome from Saga Press recently picked up the Hugo Award for Best Art Book. Artist J Yang produced their own set of artwork for The Left Hand of Darkness, and it's another fantastic depiction of the icy world of Gethen.
Art by J Yang (Click to enlarge)
Yang had read the story in high school, and "the book blew my mind when I first read it. It introduced me to science fiction's ability to challenge societal norms by immersing the reader in a world similar enough to relate to, but with a side helping of different perspectives on an integral part of what our own society is built on." They were moved to draw up their own renditions of Le Guin's characters when they picked up The Left Hand of Darkness not long ago, and noted that they "appreciated that all the characters were people of color."
Speaking with Tor.com, Yang noted that "The Left Hand of Darkness is very important to me because it examines how a society might function differently if gender as a social construct didn't exist. Think of how different our society would be if EVERYONE was capable of getting pregnant. How gender issues wouldn't exist if all humans had similar experiences with their bodies!"
Yang published the artwork on Tumblr back in April, noting that they had the urge to draw mountains, and came up with several images, playing with the form of book design, and replicating details like the publisher's logo, price on the spine, back-cover blurb, and bar code. Scanning that barcode? It works, too.
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UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES MIGHT AN INDIVIDUAL CHOOSE TO FILE A BANKRUPTCY?
An individual might choose a bankruptcy when a life event, such as a job loss, divorce or medical emergency, causes a disruption in income or a complete lifestyle change. For a consumer, when income is disrupted, and debts can be repaid, a chapter 13 may be the best option to repay any home, vehicle or tax arrears over a period of 3 to 5 years. In other situations, such as when the mortgage has not fallen behind, or income is below average, a chapter 7 may be the best option. It is important to consult with a bankruptcy attorney since bankruptcy is extremely complex. Your circumstances may not fit neatly into the descriptions listed here.
HOW DO I CHOOSE THE RIGHT BANKRUPTCY LAWYER?
You should choose a bankruptcy lawyer you feel comfortable with. A good place to start is to choose an attorney Board Certified in Consumer Bankruptcy by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and who has experience practicing in the area where you live.
Filing fees in a chapter 13 bankruptcy are $310. Filing fees in a chapter 7 bankruptcy are $335.00. You will also be responsible for a credit counseling class, a credit report and possibly a financial management class if your Trustee does not offer this course free.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO HIRE A BANKRUPTCY LAWYER?
In a chapter 13, the Court has set all attorney fees and all attorneys must charge the same unless otherwise ordered by the Court. In a chapter 7, fees are determined on a case by case basis.
The term of a bankruptcy depends on the chapter you have filed, your repayment plan and your current monthly income. If you have filed a chapter 7, your case is likely to last 3 to 5 months. In a chapter 13, the term is 36 to 60 months. In a chapter 7, the term is shorter because you are not proposing a repayment plan.
Chapter 7 eligibility is partly determined by your income. However, chapter 13 eligibility is determined by your debt.
WILL I LOSE PROPERTY IF I FILE BANKRUPTCY?
Only if you have non-exempt assets. Exempt assets are beyond the reach of your creditors. Non-exempt assets may be used to pay your debts. Since the exemption statutes are generous, most clients do not have any non-exempt assets. However, it is important to disclose all your assets.
CAN I CONTINUE TO LIVE IN MY HOME?
Yes, if you are making ongoing mortgage payments and have a plan (such as a loan modification or a chapter 13 plan) to catch up the arrears.
CAN I CONTINUE TO LIVE IN MY APARTMENT?
Yes, if you stay current on the rent and your landlord agrees.
Yes, if you are current on your car payment or you can catch up the car payment arrears (usually through a chapter 13 plan). You must also maintain appropriate vehicle insurance.
CAN DEBTS SOLD TO A COLLECTION AGENCY BE DISCHARGED?
Yes, debts sold to a factoring company or collection agency can be discharged just as a normal unsecured debt.
CAN I SELL OR REFINANCE MY HOUSE WHILE I AM IN BANKRUPTCY?
Yes, you may sell your house if you obtain Court permission.
WHO ARE THE MAIN PLAYERS IN BANKRUPTCY?
Automatic Stay: automatic bankruptcy protections which begin as soon as you file. While the stay is in place, your creditors cannot write you, call you, sue you or continue with any pending actions such as a lawsuit or foreclosure.
Discharge: the goal of a bankruptcy. If you complete your bankruptcy case and follow all the bankruptcy rules, you will receive a discharge. If you receive a discharge, your creditors cannot ask you to repay a discharged debt. Discharged debts include credit cards, medical bills, payday loans, repossessions and certain taxes.
If you would like to set an appointment for your free consultation, email megan@priceandpricelawfirm.com or call 214-696-9601.
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The true value of anything has always been what someone is willing to pay for it. Two chickens, a cow or $$. Oil is an incredibly dense energy source. One barrel can do the work of 10 men for a year..what's the value of that. Even in China it takes more than 98.06 to pay and feed 10 men for a year. What is the value and what do the so called fundamentals have to do with anything. The cost of producing something has no relationship to price. I am thinking that if there was truly a robust supply of oil even the speculators couldn't drive up the price —its pinched supply and big demand that allows that to happen.