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The odds in a coin flip may not be exactly 50/50, a new study reveals
A new study has found that the odds of a coin flip may not be exactly 50/50. The study examined a number of factors that may impact whether a coin will land on heads or tails, and was conducted by researchers at a university in London. They found that things like the type of coin being used, the surface it's flipped on, and even the way it's flipped can all affect the odds.
It's a common misconception that the odds of a coin flip are exactly 50/50. In reality, the coin is more likely to land on the same side that it was flipped from. This is due to the initial upward momentum imparted on the coin when it is flipped, which causes it to land on the same side more often than not. The exact odds of a coin flip will depend on the specific coin and how it is flipped, but it is generally not exactly 50/50.
Flipping a coin is a simple way of making a random decision. The coin is typically flipped into the air and allowed to land on a flat surface, with the outcome of the flip determined by which side of the coin is facing up when it lands. The two possible outcomes of a coin flip are typically referred to as heads or tails, depending on whether the side of the coin with the head (usually a picture of a person or animal) or the tail (usually a design such as an eagle) is facing up.
The act of flipping a coin is often used as a fair way to make a decision when two people or groups cannot agree on something. Because the outcome of a coin flip is random, it can be seen as a neutral way to make a decision.
While flipping a coin may seem like a simple and straightforward way to make a decision, there are actually a few factors that can affect the outcome of a coin flip. For example, the initial upward momentum imparted on the coin when it is flipped can affect the coin's trajectory and cause it to land on the same side more often than not. Additionally, the specific design of the coin and the surface it is flipped onto can also influence the outcome of the flip.
Overall, flipping a coin is a common and simple way to make a random decision, but the outcome of a coin flip is not always exactly 50/50.
FlipCoinToss is a platform for making a decision by flipping a coin. The idea behind FlipCoinToss is that the outcome of a coin flip is random, making it a neutral and fair way to make a decision when two people or groups cannot agree on something.
There are a few different ways that FlipCoinToss can be used. For example, FlipCoinToss can be used to decide between two options when there is no clear preference or reason to choose one over the other. For example, if two people are trying to decide where to go for lunch and they both want different things, they could flip a coin to decide which restaurant to go to.
FlipCoinToss can also be used to settle disputes or make decisions in situations where both options have pros and cons. For example, if two people are trying to decide whether to go to a movie or stay home and watch TV, they could flip a coin to make the decision for them. This way, they don't have to spend time arguing or trying to weigh the pros and cons of each option.
Overall, FlipCoinToss is a simple and efficient way to make a decision when there is no clear preference or reason to choose one option over another. While the outcome of a coin flip is not always exactly 50/50, it can still provide a neutral and fair way to make a decision.
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Back office IT jobs in North America and Europe may be in danger of disappearing over the next four years, according to a report by the Hackett Group. The research firm forecasts that nearly half of the 3.1 million such tech jobs in place in 2002 will be gone by 2017 due to cheaper labor costs offshore and a slowing domestic market. Specifically, only 1.6 million will be left.
IT work that can be done remotely is at the greatest risk of moving offshore, says Erik Dorr, the Hackett Group's Senior Enterprise Research Director. He pointed to positions like tech support, which can be done via telephone, or computer programming, where code can easily be transmitted from one country to another. "The lower type of commodity skills are suitable for global distribution," he says.
This matches up with Princeton University Professor Alan Blinder's 2007 examination of IT jobs most at risk of offshoring. Among the top five were Programmers, Data Entry Keyers and Computer/Information Scientists.
Yea…. we know…. we can see the trend….
But yet we see other pundits telling us that offshoring has been a failed experiment, and that jobs are moving *back* to the USA. I guess it all depends on what today's Blog Roulette wheel spin says the article should be proving.
Wow. This is a surprise. I suppose most IT workers will just live off welfare or go out on the streets begging. This is really what it comes down to these days.
Unfortunately some are doing just that right now ! Just ask a laid-off Mainframe/legacy programmer.
We all know how much customers look forward to calling tech support and listening to people who speak with a thick Indian accent that cane mostly not be understood and equally being unable to make the support _specialist_ understand just what the problem is.
As for offshore workers writing program code, I just can't imagine that being nearly as successful as tech support. Writing software can be very erm, cultural. By cultural, I mean that if you are not deeply ingrained in the target culture aka the United States, you many not have enough of an inkling on how the software is going to get used and write the code appropriately.
Also, name that really big, popular, successful software product line that has been produced by a 3rd world country. You can't! I am surprised!
But behind every successful product or company there is an Indian. Why???
There are a great many shops that don't have Indians on-staff in any way whatsoever. For one thing not every company will spend the money to sponsor an H1B, or utilize an Indian company onshore or offshore for any part of the project. I'm reasonable certain that the Apple II was a successful product that was developed without the aid of an India. Also the pre-1980 Microsoft compilers, which were written by Bill Gates and an associate together in an Albuquerque motel room were not considered unsuccessful. Expensive, perhaps. But successful.
A good idea would be to let some "US citizen" IT workers, work from home, even if it meant lowering salaries. I know a lot of IT workers including myself, that would rather work from home than being laid off.
I'd be willing to work from home and/or work at a reduced salary. Sure would beat begging for handouts from family members, and eating the near-spoiled fresh produce from the local food bank.
Actually, back in the 1980's and 1990's in the USA there were few if any Indians in IT period. Although the Indians were building their IT power house in their homeland. IT was doing fine without them ?
Network Network Network! I need a job at home in the Industrial Technology infrastructure.
Programming as "The lower type of commodity skills"??? I'd hate to see what kind of terrible lower type of commodity software comes from his company. What are they called again–the Hack-it Group?
The good news is your (D) Senate is pushing for another 100,000 H1B 'super skilled workers' to be 'on-shored' and 'in-sourced' so they can have both cheap labor and overcome the time zone issues.
The Dems want to hold the H1b's down to 100k. It's the Republians that want to increase them by 165k per year.
Some of us want to eliminate H1b's altogether, unless it is for someone coming in to pick fruit or dig potatoes.
All things can be 'transmitted from one country to another' such as management, especially at the executive level and government.
We should go after REAL cost savings and outsource our government and management.
The only IT jobs that will be safe in the next 10 years will probably be the IT government jobs. There is not al lot of sympathy for IT workers, never has been. Most people think they make way too much money and/or are too smart for themselves. That is why the only people complaining about the IT outsourcing trend, are IT workers themselves.


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My favorite detail about this page is Masuhiro showing off the hogtying skills he learned in the ninja cave to Yori and Ina. Ina is not impressed.
The canon explanation as to how Tang ended up hogtied is that after he insulted Wu, Wu turned around, marched toward him, apologized, and wushu chopped Tang across the head, knocking him out. Then Cho produced some rope, and Masuhiro proceeded to tie Tang up. Also, the bandits were dispatched to retrieve Wu's luggage, which they did, and it was very heavy and they complained about it a lot to each other but not to Wu because they're terrified of him.
In other news, I have a picarto streaming channel set up that I intend to stream art from Wednesday evenings between 7pm EST and whenever I decide to wrap up. If you want to come chat at me, I'll be there!
So I'm still absolutely loving Samurai Jack season 5, but there's a weird contradiction going on. It's almost like now that the show is on adult swim, some of the humor has gotten more juvenile. Dick jokes,, excessive blood, and random cursing just to be funny. I don't really object to the content, what bugs me about it all is that Samurai Jack never needed any of these things to tell great stories and set up great action scenes, and considering how weird and distracting they are in this last, otherwise fantastic, season just highlights how unneeded they continue to be. Perhaps Genndy Tartakovsky is a better story teller when he's restricted to all-ages storytelling, even if he seems to relish being unshackled from that burden.
Also, in the most recent episode, Jack does this meditation deal to get his sword back, and I was really hoping it'd just materialize in his hand like a shard blade from The Stormlight Archive, but no luck.
And lastly, Joe bought Mariokart 8 Deluxe on the Switch. He also bought it for full price when it originally released on WiiU, and he bought the DLC when that released. That means he's officially spent $140 on Mariokart 8 at this point. JOE, YOU SPENT $140 ON MARIOKART 8!!!
Published on May 1, 2017 by Alex Kolesar
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RE MK8: No regrets.
Damnit, Joe
MK8 wrote the next page..? 😉
I think the next page got kidnaped by some ninjas
charles81
Masuhiro shows his expertise in knots once more.
And the product line expands to require the collection of Tao MASTER Cho… Ken buddy sold separately.
If Buddy Ken is anything like Buddy Jesus…I want one.
THEY'RE EXACTLY ALIKE!
People are constantly praying when Ken appears
People become generous when Ken appears
The sick are miraculously able to walk again… In fact Ken does better and has them run!
and most importantly… they are both fictional!
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I'm pretty sure that general historical consensus is that there is at least one real Jesus. Opinions beyond that may vary (some think there may have been more than one, some think he was just a man, some are dead serious when they think he performed literally all the miracles written in the Bible, best not to go into the details there but you get the idea), but the man himself, probably not fictional.
You could say the things he's attributed as doing are fictional (though best to avoid that lest you want a long drawn-out discussion on religion), but Jesus himself probably did exist.
The awesome thing about the ancient Romans was that they were super serious about the records they took. If you can find someone in them (and you *can* find direct references to Jesus) then you know that they were 100% real. Whether he was or wasn't the son of God is worth debating, but his existence is a proven fact.
I don't really buy into Christianity. But the witness records of his actions by life are inspiring. He was a rebel (like Ken) but also a humanitarian (unlike Ken). This is something anyone can be inspired by, while still thinking he was just a man. With several biographies written down in an ambiguous language.
There was one paragraph in one Roman record, written decades later, by a roman called Tacitus who commented on a group called the christians by the general population who's founder, called Christus, had suffered "the extreme penalty"… No mention of a Buddy Jesus
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Like Cho would say: 'The unwise tinder peddler who feeds the fire with his own wares, usually ends up with clouded vision.'
Joshua Petersen
Problem is that Christ isn't the biblical character's name, it's a title. So if the Romans recorded a Christus, it's the wrong individual. Christ, in the era, was a title that meant high priest or king. So you should be watching for a high priest. Considering Jesus's stories involved baptism, likely a high priest of the Essenes. And the Essenes did have high priests during the time period.
That's why he was known as Jesus of Nazareth (his birth place). To fight ambiguity one would often state genealogy as a last name. However, don't forget that Jesus is our European name for Iesoos (Greek) which is probably how they wrote his Jewish name Yeshua. Which gives less certainty of how it was written down in the Roman records which were in Latin.
Kids these days…no one remembers the classics. George Carlin would be turning in his grave.
Red Xe
For every thing I try to like about Jack season 5, it seems like there's at least one thing to offset that, so overall, it feels like the season so far is just a lost opportunity. As you mentioned, there's the dick jokes and unnecessary blood etc etc which feel out of place, but it seems like outside the first 2-3 episodes, the mystery reveals aren't worth the pay off, the story-telling is placing the wrong emphasis on stuff, and some of it even feels pretty rushed right now, esp when it comes to throwing in cameos.
(hi scottsman army, hi star wars reference)
Wanting to avoid a long rant, but its like, every mystery, or potentially dramatic moment is undermined by needing to resolve stuff in one episode. Jack looking for the sword, and then empowering it should probably have been a bigger deal "oh hey, here's some gods that made the sword from your dad's soul, but we had to budget ashi's brutal and excessive gore fest to undermine the significance of blood and fleshy enemies coming after jack, after which that demeaned the whole threat of skaramoosh (sp?) possibly telling aku jack didn't have his sword in the first place.
Its like "here's something that could be compelling and interesting, but the show doesn't have time to make it work in the story telling, cuz well, jack has a hot non-aku women in his life now, so its going to magically fix everything in a hurry."
Its great to see some of the older characters, but the whole 'oh jack is so amazing, we should help him but just, eh, for 50 years, oh but we all magically know where he is all the time, just feels weird. I could get behind maybe jack was too swimming in doubt and anger or whatever to accept their help, but given the latest rush to redeem jack in time for one episode to be resolved, that doesn't seem like that's a thing the story is going to use, or acknowledge or whatever — if anything, those cameo's should have been part of the path to jack finding his balance and coming to terms with his failure's and overcoming his guilt of killing etc etc Maybe they'll still be part of the army to help corner aku and eventually see jack off to face the guardian once again at the last time portal (assuming its still a thing, though kinda sad jack lost his beard and such already) but it just feels like its more lost opportunity. Its kinda getting to be a point to me that maybe the whole "jacks' not the one' from season 3 will just end up with jack making a sacrifice to end aku in the future, and then pass the torch onto ashi to travel to the past. And while that could work, right now I'm kinda just anticipating this is going to end up as just more 'could have been handled much better' that I've been seeing/feeling from this season thus far.
So tl;dr, want to enjoy the show, but as said, it really is a weird bunch of contradictions.
Oh! Outfit upgrade! This means that Cho leveled up!
fuck yeah, alternative outfit unlocked
So epic upgrades for all?
jankmaster98
Cho is now Loyal to the Squad and will focus on the mission, disposal of troublesome brother to follow. Questions as to what this will mean for the future of the order unknown. Will have to trust the Tao
Unlocked New Power: Thousand Palms of Tranquillity
Alternate Outfit Unlocked!
Weapon Upgrades Acquired!
Opal Eyes
Now to just be careful about the aftermath of The peaceful brother's loyalty mission. If you're not careful, you could lose loyalty on both of them, and then they'd wind up dying on the suicide mission. (*grumps at Miranda and JAck*)
"It felt peaceful. As if I knew I didn't have to fight anymore. You kept blocking yet I felt… transcended somehow. Like I knew the truth of things."
"Yes, well-"
"Real talk, I think your super block got me high"
Cho looks less than delighted at the new outfit; maybe he's worried it won't go with his hat?
No, he thinks "But my outfit is already white!
… oh wait, I haven't cleaned it in a while…
Maybe he's just confused, or taken aback, or contemplative. I don't know how you can read his expression when literally half his face is covered!
Badly.
Ohh! Streaming -yay! But, 7pm in which time zone, please?
http://tapastic.com/series/Sun-Incarnate Discorvid
EST!
yes, that would be 7pm EST. I will update the blog to reflect that! Sometimes I forget that we're all operating in different time dimensions.
Thank you both!
Agreed on Masuhiro showing off his hogtying skills! Even before reading the commentary I was sitting at my desk chuckling over how proud of himself he looks.
Wow. I really did not see this coming.
Those who have sight may find a shoot of bamboo and believe they have seen the beginning of the forest, only to miss the panda beside them.
…Too coherent?
I hope you're pleasantly surprised and now super frustrated!
*shrugs* eh.
Cho: The beaver may bury the machete at mount ying, But the Dragon never wears white after labor day.
Also, do you have this in a size 13, all this Japanese food is murder on the love handles.
That's what I was afraid of, with it being put on AS. It's like… there are more mature shows on regular CN than their "adult" program.
Also, the storm knocked my internet out on Saturday, and since I save all my writing to an internet file and there was no chance of getting it fixed until today, I decided to take some time off and buy Breath of the Wild (which I was going to wait and use as an award for finishing my current book, but… oh well). You were right! The constantly breaking weapons is annoying, but overall I'm loving the game.
Also also, HE REFERENCED STORMLIGHT ARCHIVES EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Also also also, I'm starting to wonder if Cho's really the buddhist monk who prophecised to end the world. It didn't say *blind* buddhist monk, it just said buddhist monk, right? Tang seems much more… end the world-y than Cho.
The third Stormlight book, Oathbringer, is coming out in November (I believe) and it is over 60,000 words longer than the Words of Radiance! How are they even gonna bind that behemoth?? It's the book I'm most looking forward to this year.
Also, an update just today for BotW came out that lets you play the game wit the Japanese VO! I think I'm gonna wait until all the DLC for the game is out, though, before I commence a second playthrough.
I KNOOOOOOW! So excited! Only problem is that I only buy his stuff in mass market paperback. I hardly ever read at home (I always seem to have other stuff to do at home) and as much as I love Sanderson, I refuse to lug a refrigerator sized book around town with me. So if it comes out in November I'll still have a few months to wait. I'll probably reread the first two, and I still haven't finished Shadows of Self and Bands of Mourning. I'm rereading the entire Mistborn series too, and alternating between each book with a book I haven't read yet (currently reading The Great Hunt) so I'll probably have plenty of material to last me until the paperback comes out.
And I have to admit, despite how much I loved the first few hours of BotW, I'm starting to feel fatigued after a couple days of extended play. I was afraid of this. I usually stay away from free roam games because they're so drawn out that it loses my interest. I'm not the kind if guy who really enjoys "exploring" a pretend world. I usually prefer more streamlined games that can tell me an awesome, tightly written story (Tales of Xillia is one of my all time favorites, despite having rather lackluster gameplay). I'll admit, BotW hasn't lost my interest *yet* and the bright Zelda graphics are way better for me than the bland realism of something like Skyrim, but… I dunno, we'll have to see.
60,000 words longer? Geeze. At least I know I'll be getting more than my money's worth when that purchase comes around (most likely if/when Sanderson does a signing around here…being close to SF has serious advantages)
I'm guessing the book will utilize new advances in binding technology. Advances involving thinner, stronger paper, improved glue resilience, and ancient words of holding to contain the gravity of the whole thing.
And so Gandalf the Grey became Gandalf the White.
Insane Disciple
Did she really do anything?~
"Rules only tell you what you can't do, not what you can" Rember that? Cho learned not to focus on what he could not do. And so he opened up himself up to learning what he COULD do.
In short he was trying to hard.
I see https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7d2c0653da5a1c69f75a72cc0d93f9d55e0e4d61587cff81855d9912c48d98d6.jpg
DarthJazzHand
Essentially, her lesson boiled down to "Don't do the same shit as those bald bastards, do something different"
Maaaaan. Not how I expected that to end. I thought it'd be more like…
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Try watching that gif while blinking as fast as you can. It's really trippy, despite the fact that it doesn't actually change it that much.
😵😂

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Israel turns attention to the Red Sea. Iran and the United States a hot summer
Halbert Gray July 7, 2022 4 min read
Iran is increasing its presence on the Red Sea, condemning Israel, and this can create problems along those routes. The threat of a new hot summer also includes the US and Gulf countries (while Jcpoa has been discontinued)
"Today we can confirm that Iran is systematically establishing its bases in the Red Sea, with warships patrolling the southern region," the Israeli defense minister said. Benny Gantzduring an event in Athens. "In recent months, we have identified the most significant Iranian military presence in the region over the past decade," he explained. As for the Israeli defense, there are satellite images of at least four Iranian warships patrolling the Red Sea.
Officially, this interest in the Red Sea, which has lasted for a few years, has only a security function: Tehran says the presence of its ships serves to protect Iranian shipments from the dangers of pirate attacks — which actually fly into the southern region of the Red Sea, around the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Sea, as part of Anti-piracy operation "Atalanta" (EU Naval Force in Somalia).
However, the concern of Israel and some Arab countries is that interest in the Red Sea does not stop only with these kinds of reasons, but is also part of sabotage operations. The Pasdaran several times in recent years carried out sabotage and aggressive actions against other boats passing through the Strait of Hormuz, along the Persian Gulf.
The fear is that these activities may now expand in scope. However, given that if Hormuz is a central hub for the energy trade (oil and liquefied natural gas) leaving the Gulf, the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea are more important for all the trade connecting Asia to Europe – A corridor connecting a quarter of the Mediterranean and a quarter of the Indian Ocean.
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The situation could also be a multiplier for the tensions around the Islamic Republic, which come as it still struggles to find a box to reconfigure Jcpoa. For months, an agreement to freeze Iran's nuclear program – in a state of limbo after the US exit and abuses by Tehran – has been underway. Interview now without solution.
The last of these attempts, last week, was mediated by Qatar has not achieved results even if, according to the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hussein Amir AbdullahianThe road to diplomacy is open. Yesterday, Wednesday, July 6, Abdullahian hosted his Qatari counterpart in Tehran, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thaniwho in turn held telephone conversations with the heads of European and American diplomacy in recent days, Josep Borrell And the Anthony Blinken.
Today, Al-Thani is in Oman, which, along with Doha, is leading the regional push to find a solution to the file. For Qatar, above all else, an agreement between the United States and Iran will be beneficial so that there are no concerns about the development of the gas field it shares with Tehran.
However, the United States has ruled out that Doha will soon host another round of indirect talks (so called because EU officials are leading the discussions) with Iran, due to the lack of progress. We are committed to returning to compliance with the JCPOA if Iran adheres to the same commitment. Unfortunately, Iran, as I said earlier, continues to raise foreign issues [e] The State Department spokesperson commented, however, that it still appears to have not yet made such a political commitment.
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In recent days, the US special envoy to Iran said, Robert MalleyHe said Tehran had enough highly enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb. Mali said NPR That the failure of the latest round of talks was a "missed opportunity," he blamed Iran for making other requests unrelated to discussions about the nuclear program during the past few talks.
On the table is an Iranian request to exclude the Sepah movement from the US "terror" list. Washington says it is not part of the JCPOA dialogue. Tehran wants to include them in the context of lifting sanctions. Iranian president, Ibrahim RaisiHe declared that lifting "harsh" sanctions on his country is a prerequisite for reaching an agreement. Everything remained as it was in November 2021, when talks resumed three years after the stalemate began.
He comments, "One thing is certain: the 'no deal, no crisis' dynamic is not sustainable." Ali winner An expert at Crisis Group, the Washington think tank where he runs the Iran Project Director. Fayez, who along with former colleague Robert Malley actively contributed to the drafting of the JCPOA, explains that "with so much friction between Iran and the United States and their regional allies, there is plenty of room for intentional or involuntary escalation to spiral out of control."
The Red Sea, like the Strait of Hormuz or Syria and southern Lebanon, could be the blast points for this escalation. Everything seems to resemble the summer of 2019, when tensions flared in the form of tightening sanctions and attacks on international shipping routes and infrastructure for the Arab Gulf states, leading Tehran and Washington dangerously close to opening the conflict several times over the course of the war. few months.
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Unlike three years ago, Iran has now consolidated its regional presence through the network of militias linked to the Pasdaran Party. An activity carried out despite the country being subjected to the so-called "maximum pressure" regime by the United States. Recently, along the Hormuz Line, three small Iranian boats of the "Bogmar" class came perilously within meters of contact with two US Navy warships.
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July has been crazily insane. In the best of ways. I signed with my wonderful agent.
I edited one book, outlined and wrote synopses for two sequels, and kicked off major revisions on my current WIP.
July definitely was busy on the writing front after I had pretty much taken all of June off to read, road-trip, and get my edits in line. I learned a ton this month, including finally embracing writing synopses first and tackling edits quickly and efficiently (the Sticky Notes desktop app is a lifesaver, btw).
I also realized that I need to figure out a better way to track words written vs. hours spent editing, since that doesn't necessarily just translate into new words. I participated in both Camp NaNoWriMo and the July Writing Challenge, both of which have been great boosts for me to just buckle down and write. I also had edits to get to my agent, sequels to outline, and really dove into my revisions of MENTAL NOTE, the current draft of which I hope to finish by September 30.
Ultimately I did fall a few thousand words short of my CampNaNoWriMo goal, but at the same time I probably wrote just as much in edits, synopses, and blog posts throughout the last month. My goal is to keep up this rhythm through August and the beginning of the new school year. It will take some serious compartmentalizing, but I'll figure out a way to keep this up and boost my word count as I go, because let's face it, I need to step up my game if I want to finish this revision by the end of September and committing to my goals publicly always helps.
While July hasn't been AS insane of a reading month as June, I still read all the things in July. Just a quick aside here but I hear a lot of writers voicing skepticism about reading a lot in their genre for fear of being overly influenced. Um. Sorry, but you're wrong. Not only should you read a lot in your genre to keep up with current trends and because it's always, always cool and helpful to get to know and share author authors' work, you also should branch out and read outside of your genre as much as possible. For me, there's just something about reading both in and outside my genre that keeps me engaged, motivated, and ultimately inspired. One of my favorite things is to discover new books and I love how the writing community basically ensures that there never will be a shortage in awesome things to read.
THE FIVE STAGES OF ANDREW BRAWLEY - Shaun David Hutchinson: This book was both amazing and heartbreaking. I loved the mix of the traditional novel format and the graphic novel sections that added another level to the characters. Thanks to the amazing, Liz Mallory for the recommendation!
SKIN GAME (The Dresden Files, Book 15) - Jim Butcher: This concluded my epic re-listening to all of the Dresden Files audiobooks. Can't wait for the next book!
RADICAL - E.M. Kokie: I need to write a full review for this, but I was fortunate enough to take part in a traveling ARC tour for the wonderful E.M. Kokie's next book and I loved the way it reversed gender roles, dealt with survivalist culture, and involved girl-kissing on top of all that. Watch out for it releasing on September 13!
STORY ENGINEERING - Larry Brooks: This was a great refresher on plotting and structure. Just what I needed as I was tackling re-jigging the plot of MENTAL NOTE and outlining other books.
THIS SAVAGE SONG - Victoria Schwab: Loved this very vivid take on what makes someone human or monstrous set in a city where violence breeds actual monsters.
CHARMING (Pax Arcana #1) - Elliott James: What if Prince Charming didn't actually have anything to do with fairy tale princes, but more with monster hunting, with a good dose of snark and shape-shifting thrown in? Really enjoyed the beginning of this series. More, please.
THE BETTER PART OF VALOR (The Confederation, Book 2) - Tanya Huff: This series gets better as it goes. I love how Tanya Huff moves from military SF into more of a character-driven version of military SF, with a great voice and kickass female lead to boot.
PAPER AND FIRE (The Great Library, Book 2) - Rachel Caine: This sequel to INK AND BONE, which I really loved really deepens the plot and character relationships set up in book one. Now I just need to wait for the next book... Sigh.
MS. MARVEL Vol. 5: SUPER FAMOUS - Wilson Miyazawa and Leon Alphona: I have a huge thing for YA comic series, but this one is by far my favorite. The new Ms. Marvel is diversity in comics done right and just makes me so, so happy.
As for my August goals, I basically want to up my writing to a word count of 25,000 for August, which will take some serious compartmentalizing given that the new school year starts halfway through this month. Talking about balancing writing with a heavy-in-brain-power day job is another post that I've lined up. In the meantime, I'm going to track words written as well as hours spent editing.
On that note, tell me how you like to track your writing/reading/life goals? Any cool new tracking methods I should know about?


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Measurement and Data Analysis Hold the Key to Lean and Effective Overtime in Construction, According to New Study
Dodge Construction Network partners with construction tech company, Versatile®, to empower general contractors through its Measuring What Matters series of jobsite reports
HAMILTON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new study by Dodge Construction Network and Versatile, a construction technology pioneer using artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) to optimize construction processes, found that unexpected overtime is predictable and controllable through regular jobsite activity measurement. According to the study, overtime is predictable at an 88% confidence level if proper measurement is utilized.
Overtime is a persistent feature of construction sites; however, it is often unplanned and unpredictable. Despite the cost of overtime, its impact on skilled workers, and its implications for safety and other key factors on a project site, it is often applied to address immediate concerns rather than planned to maximize its effects. This recent study shows that to best understand overtime and its impact, data and measurement of jobsite activities is key.
"Unique insights derived from advanced data and analytics tools will empower construction crews to build better," said Meirav Oren, cofounder and CEO of Versatile. "Overtime can be a very effective tool on the jobsite. Through the power of data, general contractors gain the ability to minimize unnecessary overtime while maximizing its strategic benefits."
To conduct the study, jobsite productivity and performance data was collected through Versatile's AI- and IoT-powered CraneView®, a non-intrusive device mounted below the crane hook. Versatile analyzed data from a sample of project sites that deployed overtime to provide valuable insight into how measuring overtime can help improve productivity.
Key findings from the study include:
71% of crane processes during overtime are indirect activities to the actual project build.
96% of days with overtime experienced a higher volume of non-productive activities during the morning hours compared to the volume of total activities during overtime.
Crane utilization was 6-7% better during overtime than for the same activities performed during standard shift.
Overtime is strongly correlated to unscheduled breaks, with 63% of unscheduled breaks happening during the morning hours, or first part of the shift.
"The goal of this report is to encourage conscious, intentional measurement of site activities and objective analysis to determine true best practices. This approach can help every kind of contractor with useful, actionable perspectives based on facts, rather than commonly held myths," states Steve Jones, Senior Director of Industry Insights Research at Dodge Data & Analytics.
This initial study, Measuring What Matters: Overtime Efficiency, kicks off the companies' co-authored series of reports on utilizing data and measurement on construction sites. Dodge and Versatile will analyze jobsite data to find other ways for contractors to improve productivity, safety and overall performance on projects, with more research expected in 2022.
The full findings of the study are available for free download at www.construction.com.
About Dodge Construction Network
Dodge Construction Network leverages an unmatched offering of data, analytics, and industry-spanning relationships to generate the most powerful source of information, knowledge, insights, and connections in the commercial construction industry. The company powers four longstanding and trusted industry solutions—Dodge Data & Analytics, The Blue Book Network, Sweets, and IMS—to connect the dots across the entire commercial construction ecosystem. Together, these solutions provide clear and actionable opportunities for both small teams and enterprise firms. Purpose-built to streamline the complicated, Dodge Construction Network ensures that construction professionals have the information they need to build successful businesses and thriving communities. With over a century of industry experience, Dodge Construction Network is the catalyst for modern commercial construction.
About Versatile
Headquartered in Los Altos, CA, Versatile creates technology that gives construction professionals unmatched visibility into their production rates. By delivering the right data to the right people at the right time while naturally fitting existing processes, a fragmented industry becomes a controllable manufacturing process. The result? Increased productivity, predictability and safety with the insights needed to manage and bid future projects more competitively. Want to learn more? Visit: www.versatile.ai, follow us on Twitter @versatileai and LinkedIn or email us at letstalk@versatile.ai.
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Martin Scorsese is to direct a dramatisation about the Ramones, which is expected to launch in 2016 – the 40th anniversary of band's formation, it's been reported. Nothing more has been revealed about the film, other than Scorsese's involvement… more about Scorsese Ramones movie new.
Duff McKagan has revealed that he will join friend and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready when he performs as a special guest with the Seattle Symphony at Benaroya Hall on January 30th… more about Duff and McCready new.


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Side dishes are the main course of Post Holdings' $1.5 billion acquisition of Bob Evans, officials said.
St Louis-based Post announced the deal on Tuesday, citing Bob Evans' market leadership and strong growth in the refrigerated side dish business, which is benefitting from trends toward perimeter shopping and convenience. The deal also brings the U.S.'s No. 3 ready-to-eat cereal maker an alternative breakfast choice in leading sausage brands, but Post CEO Robert Vitale made it clear that "heat-and-eat" products like mac and cheese, potatoes and pastas drove interest in the deal—Post's third acquisition in the last year.
Evans' refrigerated side dish business has posted a compound annual growth rate of 14% over the last five years as consumers have increasingly sought easy-to-prepare meals. Vitale said Post sees opportunities for further organic growth as well as opportunities to expand distribution and innovation in the space, with expectations that the category and Bob Evans could see high single-digit growth.
For New Albany, Ohio-based Bob Evans, the Post sale — which is expected to be completed early next year — closes out an eventful year during which the company also sold its restaurant business and acquired Pineland Farms Potato Co., a potato processor, as part of a shift to concentrate on its profitable retail foods business. Those deals were announced in January.
As part of the transition to Post, Bob Evans' current president and CEO, Mike Townsley, will lead a refrigerated foods business unit that will include Post's existing retail egg, potato and cheese business. Jim Dwyer will continue in his current role as president and CEO of Post's Michael Foods Group, managing the commercial foodservice egg, potato and pasta businesses, which will include the Bob Evans foodservice business.
Post earlier this year acquired Weetabix Ltd., the largest ready-to-eat cereal company in the United Kingdom, for about $1.7 billion, as well as egg producer National Pasteurized Eggs Inc.


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Oenanthe capensis är en flockblommig växtart som beskrevs av David Nathaniel Friedrich Dietrich. Oenanthe capensis ingår i släktet stäkror, och familjen flockblommiga växter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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We called this project the Ultimate Miter Saw Station because it features everything you can ask for in a saw stand. It was originally featured in the June 2010 issue of Woodworker's Journal magazine.
Due to the enormous amount of interest in this project, we have made the Ultimate Miter Saw Stand (including the plans for the entire project and the optional Scrap Bins, as well as the Cutting List) available as a Downloadable Plan in our online store. Click here to purchase and receive the plan immediately!


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ASN-121 es un personaje de la Guerra de las Galaxias.

ASN-121 era un robot de forma ovalada, con varios adminículos que le daban gran estabilidad cuando se desplazaba por los aires. Estaba provisto de repulsores que le daban la capacidad de flotar y así cumplir sus misiones. Este modelo de robot fue en particular propiedad de Zam Wesell, una caza-recompensas. ASN-121 participó en una misión de enviar un cargamento de kouhuns hasta la habitación de la senadora Padmé Amidala, la cual la completó satisfactoriamente.

Pero Obi-Wan Kenobi, un caballero Jedi, logró atravesar la ventana del apartamento de la Senadora, y aferrarse al robot, pudiendo así llegar hasta su dueña Zam Wesell. Pero sin tiempo que perder, la caza-recompensas tomó un rifle y tras un certero disparo derribó a su robot ASN-121.

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So if Google looks, swims and quacks like it doesn't care about user privacy, it must be that it … doesn't care about user privacy.
I on the other hand do care about my privacy, so I decided to put even less eggs in Google's basket: I've switched my search-engine to startpage.com, which is operated by a Dutch company (i.e. one which has to comply with stricter European privacy laws) and which guarantees privacy while being powered by Google.
Startpage's only downside: they are blocked by our company internet-filter because they provide proxy-services, so as an alternative I also use the less powerful DuckDuckGo (I changed keyword.url in Firefox' about:config to "https://duckduckgo.com/?q="). And a nice bonus; DuckDuckGo also has a nice Android-app, which I have installed to replace Google Search on my Sammy SII as well.
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Fancy a holiday with Brendan?
The hit Channel 4 show is on the hunt for the latest batch of contestants to take part.
Coach Trip is hunting for outgoing duos to take part in the new series and get a free holiday, reports the Croydon Advertiser.
The popular show sees team of two competing against each other in a series of challenges whilst on a coach tour between 20 and 50 days, alongside guide Brendan Sheerin.
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Atlas of Material Damage, Second Edition provides a systematic analysis of the modes of damage and morphology of damaged material, and compares the experiences of different industries to provide insight into the most frequently encountered failures, reasons for these failures, and potential improvements to prevent future materials failure. Product reliability is a critical aim of materials scientists and engineers. Uninterrupted performance of manufactured products at typical and extreme conditions of use is the major goal of product development and the most important indicator of material quality.
This atlas has microscopic pictures, schematic diagrams, and graphs which show how materials fail, how they are produced to not fail, and how they are designed to perform particular functions to make outstanding products. Findings presented by each illustration are fully explained in the text and labeled.
Materials increasingly must have optimal structure and specially designed morphology. The book offers numerous examples of how this special morphology can be achieved in electronics, the plastics industry, the pharmaceutical industry, aerospace, automotive applications, medicine, dentistry, and many other fields. This book provides information on defect formation and materials damage; discusses effect of composition, morphological features and structure of different materials on material performance, durability, and resilience; and analyses the cause of material damage and degradation, and the effect of processing conditions on material damage.


Come to the Nasher from 5-7 on Dec 1 for an opening evening of full of contemporary jewelry with me! The collection and I will also be at the Store all day on Saturday Dec 2nd. I will be debuting several new designs just for Dallas!


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The Arnold Arboretum explores, preserves, and studies temperate biodiversity as living museum in Boston. Free and open to the public every day of the year, the Arboretum inspires thousands of visitors each year. Complete our printable donation form or contribute now via our online giving form to support this unique community resource.
Support the Arnold Arboretum as an international center for plant study, community resource for education, and free and open landscape of trees and shrubs from around the world. Read the 2019 appeal letter by Director William (Ned) Friedman, and donate online to the Arnold Arboretum by December 31 to help us end the year with vigor!
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is largely self-financed, funding its programs in botanical research, education, and horticulture through a private endowment built and maintained by past and present philanthropy.
From early gifts made by friends of founding director Charles Sprague Sargent to today's annual contributions by members of the Friends of the Arnold Arboretum, the institution has developed and thrived through the generosity of the supporting public.
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The Samsung USB driver for mobile phones was not installed successfully? Connected your Samsung smartphone to the computer via USB cable but can't access the phone? Computer can't recognize your Samsung mobile device? The key point lies in the Samsung USB driver for mobile phones. To make your Samsung cell phone works on PC, you need to install a correct USB driver for the Samsung mobile phone.
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FP Marketing: Cossette, Taxi, Juniper Park nab Marketing Awards
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Cossette's "Mentos-Make Art Pop" campaign for Perfetti Van Melle in 2007 snagged the 'Campaign of the Decade' award at the Marketing Awards in Toronto on Wednesday night. The awards' 'Best of Show' category winners from 2000 to 2009 faced off in an online vote to determine the special award.
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Taxi Canada snagged the top 'Best of Show' prize for its dryly humourous Antiquing/Strolling/Reading campaign for the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra by Pfizer Canada Inc . "The Viagra campaign has become iconic, demonstrating Canada's top-shelf creative and strategic abilities to the world," said Christopher Loudon, executive publisher and editor-in-chief of Marketing magazine.
Sun Chips , with an innovative campaign from Toronto-based Juniper Park , won an 'Excellence in Brand Creativity' award for its "Green Effects" campaign in the U.S., which highlighted the Frito-Lay snack brand's compostable chip bag. "It's the kind of thing that will have companies, regardless of sector, playing catch-up," said awards co-chairs Sean Barlow and Nicolas Dion. "It's such an example of how a brand can act differently."
The first-ever 'In Memoriam' award – bequeathed to the best advertising concept that never made it to market — was given to The Nissan Sales Event Unlike Any Other Sales Event, Event from TBWAToronto .
The jury awarded 90 gold, silver and bronze awards in total, down from 126 medals last year.


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Telenet gives its office a new purpose and allows staff to work from home until at least the end of the year
An office landscape and car parks make way for big collaboration areas
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 — Telenet adopts a fresh approach to the combination of teleworking and working at the office. Yesterday, the telecom operator informed its staff that they will be able to work from home until at least the end of this year. However, in order to promote and encourage social cohesion and physical cooperation even in times of COVID-19, the company is also setting up twenty big collaboration areas where teams of up to 30 people can hold meetings or brainstorm sessions while maintaining a safe distance of one and a half metres. Telenet is also looking into the possibility of setting up collaboration areas in the open air at unused car parks. This will, however, result in a reduction in the number of individual workplaces. All employees can book a workplace in advance using an app. Anyone who is unable to work from home for social or technical reasons will be given priority. As a result, the office will more than ever become a place to connect and collaborate.
Big international companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter have already announced that teleworking will be the standard at their companies until at least the end of this year. Telecom company Telenet is one of the first Belgian companies to follow suit. The telecom operator is also working on a new vision on the use of its offices, in which they are no longer seen as a traditional workspace but as a social meeting place.
Physical collaboration in corona-proof spaces at car parks
Telenet is adapting its seven offices in Mechelen-Noord, Mechelen-Zuid, Wommelgem, Zaventem, Sint-Truiden, and Aalst to this new way of working. The telecom player is making space for a total of twenty collaboration areas where up to thirty employees can work together or hold meetings, while maintaining a safe distance of one and a half metres. In doing so, the company strictly observe the recommendations of the government: only ten people will be able to convene here at the same time, at a safe distance from each other, for the time being. Offices are making way for corona-proof collaboration areas that can even cover an entire floor.
Given that many car parks are currently not being used, Telenet is also looking into the possibility of setting up open-air collective workspaces here. The company is already encouraging people who convene in the office to hold their brainstorming sessions and other meetings while taking a stroll outside or around the building.
"Before we knew it, we all ended up taking part in a social experiment. Instead of waiting until this corona crisis is over and returning to our former situation in the office, we see this as a positive challenge in which we can redraft our HR policy and the way we work in an accelerated yet carefully considered manner. Will we ever be stuck in collective traffic jams again during the morning and evening rush hours? At Telenet, we hope that we will never return to this situation. Rather than an everyday workplace, an office should be a meeting place where employees can gather for inspiration from time to time. At Telenet, we are busy drafting our plans for a future that reflects this idea."
Ann Caluwaerts, EVP People, Brand & Corporate Affairs Telenet
2,600 teleworking employees
Full-time teleworking will remain the standard at Telenet until the end of the year. The measure applies to employees who can work remotely without any issues. This applies to 86% of the staff, or 2,600 of the company's 3,025 employees. However, employees who want to work in the office can book a workstation in advance using a specially developed app. Employees who are unable or unwilling to work from home for technical, personal or social reasons are given priority. This gives Telenet not only an overview of the building's occupancy, but will also enable easy contact tracing should an employee become infected with COVID-19.
It's becoming increasingly clear to everyone: COVID-19 will have an impact on both our private and professional lives until at least the end of the year. We are aware of the fact that no one benefits from what you would call a yo-yo effect, in which employees constantly alternate between compulsory teleworking and returning to the office. Several in-company satisfaction surveys also revealed that employees need clarity and perspective. This is precisely what we are offering them: teleworking will remain the standard for the majority of employees until at least the end of this year, but with the big difference that they can get together at the office from time to time to connect and physically work together at a safe distance. This new balance between working from home and at the office ensures that employees will maintain a connection to each other and the company while still being able to enjoy all the benefits of working from home."
The Telenet and BASE stores remain open. Telenet is convinced that it can run its business operations here in a controlled and safe manner, for its employees as well as its customers. The technicians will also continue to provide their assistance to any customers who encounter problems with their products or services.


For an added simplicity and ease to your bathing experience, this toe touch drain will perform like a state-of-the-art product. Simply push the drain open or closed with the touch of your foot to activate the spring mechanism. Available in multiple finishes to match your tub filler faucet, the Made To Match Tip-Toe Bath Tub Drain will fit standard bathtub sizes. Overflow is sold separately.
Includes all mounting hardware and brass pop-up. Two handle deck mount. 8 in. - 16 in. mini-widespread. 0.25 turn on and off water control mechanism. 0.5 in. IPS male threaded shank inlets. Ceramic disc cartridge. Max 1.2 GPM/4.5 LPM water flow rate at 60 PSI. Integrated removable aerator. 6.5 in. spout reach from faucet body. 3.5 in. overall height. Classic style. Three hole sink application. Drip-free ceramic cartridge system. Designed for a lifetime of performance. Meets ASME A112.18.1. ANSI and NSF 61 Sec. 9 code. Made from brass. Polished chrome finish. Made in Taiwan. Premium color finish resists tarnishing and corrosion.
Traditional style. Push and pop design. 2.88 in. Dia. tube. Overflow height: 16 in.. Warranty: 10 years. Made from premium brass. Made in Taiwan. Assembly Instructions. The smooth design of tub waste and overflow's 16 in. height and its 12.5 in. length is layered with solid brass construction built to last with optimal results. A tiptoe drain is mounted at the base of the overflow allowing water drainage to occur.
Contemporary style. Durable and reliable. Premium color finish resist tarnishing and corrosion. Single handle on and off water control mechanism. Max 1.2 GPM/4.5 LPM water flow rate at 60 PSI. Designed for three hole 4 in. center set installation. Made from brass. Oil rubbed bronze finish. Made in Taiwan. Clean minimalist Euro-styling is the best way to describe the Vilbosch collection, round tubular design will give your bathroom that fresh look.
The smooth design of tub waste and overflow's 20-Inch height and its 12-1/2-Inch length is layered with solid brass construction built to last with optimal results. A tiptoe drain is mounted at the base of the overflow allowing water drainage to occur.
Contemporary style. Designed for push-and-pop functioning. 2.88 in. dia. tube. Overflow height: 18 in.. Warranty: Ten-years. Made from premium brass for durability. Made in Taiwan. Assembly Instructions. The smooth design of tub waste and overflow's 18 in. height and its 12.5 in. length is layered with solid brass construction built to last with optimal results. A tiptoe drain is mounted at the base of the overflow allowing water drainage to occur.


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Rights of Daughter when Father dies Intestate- Supreme Court
By Lucy Rana and Devika Mehra
The Hon'ble Supreme Court in a recent judgment[1] dated January 20, 2022 laid considerable emphasis on the importance of customary hindu succession law while pronouncing that daughters have the complete right to inherit their father's self-acquired property even if the father dies intestate. The Apex Court also observed that Hindu Succession Act, 1956 has specific provisions that ensure that where a woman dies intestate and issueless, her property must devolve back to the source i.e. to her husband's family or to her parents, as the case may be.
History of Succession in India
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 was enacted, in the post-independence India, to bring a halt to the succession related disputes that occurred in the lives of Hindus in the India that became after Independence from British rule in 1947. The Act made it clear that all properties of a Hindu male, be it ancestral / coparcenary property, or the self-acquired property, shall devolve upon the made heirs of the Hindu male, with an exception to the widow of the deceased who would have only limited estate in the property of the deceased with a right to claim partition. The line of thought behind this law was the customary practice that a daughter marries into a new family, leaving behind her family of birth and thereby placing her new family as per priority. Therefore, keeping this in view, the property must devolve upon the son so that the ownership over a family property remains within the family via the son and the ownership does not dilute via the daughter.
Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005
With time the independence of women from the male members of their families including father, grandfather, husband, brother, son, et al became a prominent subject. With the changing and evolving mindset came the necessity to bring about necessary changes in the laws in force. This laid the foundation and enactment of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 wherein it was established that the daughters, since their birth, have equal rights and liabilities as that of sons[2] in the joint family property i.e. a daughter had become a coparcener vis-à-vis the ancestral property.
Certain questions continued to remain unanswered regarding whether this amendment had a retrospective effect which were eventually addressed to by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India via various judgments. One such judgment[3] [4] stated that Section 6 of the Act would be applicable only when the coparcener and his daughter, both were alive on the date of commencement of the 2005 Amendment. In another judgment[5], the Hon'ble Supreme Court, while agreeing with the principles laid down in the Phulavati judgment (supra), held that the 2005 amendment confers upon the daughter of the coparcener in her own right in the same manner as the son and accordingly, the female coparcener was given a share upon partition even if the father had died before the 2005 amendment came in force.
Rights of daughter unobstructed
Putting a full stop to all these questions, the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Vineeta Sharma vs Rakesh Sharma & Ors.[6] held unobstructed heritage takes place by birth while obstructed heritage takes place after the death of the owner. Under Section 6 of the Act, the rights are given by birth which means that it is unobstructed heritage, independent of the owner's death. A coparcener's that the finding in Phulavati that the rights under Section 6 accrue to living daughters of living coparceners as on September 09, 2005 irrespective of when the daughter was born is misconceived. Phulavati judgment overlooked the concept of creation of coparcenary at birth and hence, the judgment was overruled. Accordingly, the decisions based on Phulavati judgment were also overruled while the Danamma judgment was partly overruled.
Arunachala Gounder (Dead) by LRs. Vs. Ponnusamy and Ors.
In yet another landmark judgment in Arunachala Gounder (Dead) by LRs. Vs. Ponnusamy and Ors.[7], the bench of Justices S. Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India held that a daughter's right to inherit the self-acquired property of the father who died intestate is recognized under the customary Hindu laws. The Hon'ble Supreme Court laid specific emphasis on the customary Hindu laws and judicial pronouncements observing that the right of a widow or a daughter to inherit the self-acquired property or the share received in partition of a coparcenary property by a Hindu male who died intestate is well recognized under the old customs of Hindu law as well as in various judicial pronouncements.
The Hon'ble Supreme Court in its judgment dated January 20, 2022 made the following observations:
A. The Mitakshara law also recognizes inheritance by succession. However, it only recognizes succession of property which was separately owned by an individual, male or female. Females were, however, included as heirs to this property by Mitakshara Law.
B. The Madras subschool recognized that large number of female heirs could inherit i.e. son's daughter, daughter's daughter, and the sister who were expressly named as heirs in the Act[8]. The agnates and cognates ranked as "Bandhus" in Bombay and Madras.
C. The primary and the most relevant observation made by the Hon'ble Supreme Court were the language of Section 14 and 15 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 wherein properties acquired and / or inherited by the Hindu Female from her in-laws would, upon her intestate and issueless demise, devolve back upon her marital relations, whereas the property that she acquired and / or inherited from her maternal and paternal relations would, upon her intestate and issueless demise, devolve back upon her paternal and maternal relations. Hence, the basic aim of Section 15(2) has been to ensure that all property devolving upon a Hindu female dying intestate and issueless is devolving back to the source.
The Hon'ble Court observed that the ancient text as well as the Smritis and Commentaries written by various renowned persons, as well as judicial pronouncements have recognized the rights of several female heirs, the wives and daughters, being foremost of them. The views of the Mitakshara laws on the matter are unmistakable and the Vijneshwara also nowhere endorses the view that women are incompetent to inherit.[9]
If the property of a male Hindu dying intestate i.e. without writing a will is a self-acquired property or obtained in partition of a coparcenery or a family property, the same would devolve by inheritance and not by survivorship, and a daughter of such a male Hindu would be entitled to inherit such property in preference to other collaterals.
[1] Arunachala Gounder (Dead) by LRs. Vs. Ponnusamy and Ors. Civil Appeal No. 6659 of 2011 decided on January 20, 2022
[2] Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1996
[3] Prakash & Ors. vs Phulavayi & Ors. [(2016) 2 SCC 26]
[4] Mangammal vs. T.B. Raju [(2018) 15 SCC 662]
[5] Danamma @ Suman Surpur & Anr. Vs. Amar & Ors. [(2018 3 SCC 343]
[6] Diary No. 32061 of 2018
[7] Civil Appeal No. 6659 of 2011 decided on January 20, 2022
[8] Hindu Law of Inheritance (Amendment) Act, 1929
[9] Para 64-65 of the Judgment
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Das Komitat Bereg (deutsch auch Komitat Berg/Berger Gespanschaft; ungarisch Bereg vármegye, lateinisch comitatus Beregiensis) war eine Verwaltungseinheit (Gespanschaft bzw. Komitat) im Königreich Ungarn. Heute liegt der kleinere Teil in Ungarn (im heutigen Komitat Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg), der größere Teil in der Ukraine (Oblast Transkarpatien).

Lage

Das Komitat grenzte im Norden an das österreichische Kronland Galizien (bzw. vor 1772 an Polen), im Osten an das Komitat Máramaros, im Südosten an das kleine Komitat Ugocsa, im Süden an das Komitat Sathmar (Szatmár), im Südwesten an das Komitat Szabolcs und im Nordwesten an das Komitat Ung.

Es lag zwischen dem Gebirgszug der Karpaten im Norden und dem Fluss Theiß im Süden, 1910 hatte es 208.589 Einwohner auf einer Fläche von 3.783 km².

Bis zum Jahre 1621 wurde die Gespanschaft Bereg als Komitat Borsova bezeichnet. Vom flachen Teil des Komitats aus, der im Süden lag, wurde das Relief in Richtung Nord-Nordosten immer gebirgiger. Der höchste Berg war der Stoj (ungarisch Sztoj, 1681 m), ein wichtiger Pass war der Verecke-Pass. Durch das Gebiet des Komitats flossen die Flüsse Theiß, Serne, Latorica, Irschawa usw.

Die Volkszählung 1910 erbrachte eine Bevölkerungszahl von 208.589 Personen. Darunter waren 93.198 (44,7 %) Ungarn, 18.639 (8,9 %) Deutsche und 95.308 (45,7 %) Russinen (im damaligen Sprachgebrauch "Ruthenen"). Die Ungarn lebten vor allem in dem Flachland in der Nähe der Theiß, die Russinen vorwiegend im Gebirge, weniger im Flachland, und die Deutschen hauptsächlich in den Städten oder in kleineren Gruppen überall im Komitat verteilt. 103.206 Personen bekannten sich als Unierte, 56.289 als Calvinisten, 19.128 als Katholiken (römisch) und 29.052 als Israeliten.

Bezirksunterteilung
Im frühen 20. Jahrhundert bestand folgende Verwaltungseinteilung:

Sämtliche Orte liegen in der heutigen Ukraine.

Literatur
 Révai Nagy Lexikona, Band 3

Siehe auch
 Liste der historischen Komitate Ungarns
 Geschichte der Karpato-Ukraine

Weblinks
 Eintrag zum Komitat in Meyers Konversationslexikon von 1888
 Eintrag im Pallas-Lexikon (ungarisch)

Einzelnachweise

Bereg
Berehowe
Geschichte (Oblast Transkarpatien)


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Doing something for the first time can cause jitters – that is what I could read from the faces of the team of NGO communications practitioners that was going to shoot and produce a television story for the first time. The story was an assignment during the "Strengthening the Representation and Portrayal of Women in the Media in East Africa " training by Commonwealth broadcasting Association and UNESCO.
Off they took a trip to wonder world. Wonder world is an incredible place in a Dar es Salaam where the disabled people that once used to beg on the streets have been handed a second chance to turn scrap metal into anything they choose.
A large crocodile greets the team and when they get out of the car- lo and behold there is a zoo – Lions, a variety of bird species, fish and even monkeys. As if filming for the first time is not challenging enough, I am beginning to worry about the distractions that the wonders of Wonder Welders might cause.
After being introduced to the manager Shukulu, the video team took a tour around the project to identify what possible stories they might want to film- from onset, the disabled men in the workshop that made the welding work intrigued them because they made the work look very easy.
It was time to decide what angle the story was to take, one of the team members said that that was pretty simple until when they all spoke out loud and each one had a different angle. T
Once the team had come up with an angle, they divided up the roles since the camera crew were available, a director, someone to interview were selected from the team.
Now that the team and story angle were in place, questions in place, they wanted faces behind wonder welders; everybody seemed to agree that Shukuru was the perfect choice for the first interview he has been there from the start, he had risen in ranks to manager- perfect pacesetter for the story. What about the gender aspect, that was a question that lingered in the minds of the team. So they headed to Aisha Alfan the lady that had greeted us with a smile in the paper workshop as we were building rapport. As the plot was climaxing, the team was convinced that it was key that other people are inspired by the work of wonder welders. The inevitable choice was Joyce a mother of two married to a deaf man and a sole breadwinner of the family that was an amazing story.
The interviews started, I could tell that some of the team members were beginning to resign because at that point, the journey seemed so far and how in the world would all this footage be cut to only three minutes?
Thank God for Salim, the team's amazing cameraman by the time the team got to the studio, he had already organized the footage into folders.
Now the task ahead was to write a script in as few words as possible- I discovered that if you are the kind of person that clings onto things, video editing is not for you- we let go of lots of things including Joyce's voice and opted to narrate her experience because she was a slow speaker.
We reviewed the videos, identified the plot of the story, cut-a-ways. The story was unfolding- the first ten seconds of the story meant everything- a catchy first line was a must- no ifs no buts otherwise the viewers will walk away to grab coffee or if they are like me that watches news with a remote in my hands, I will have already changed the channel to watch something that is more interesting.
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Q: Counting records in JSON array using javascript and Postman I have a control that returns 2 records:
{
  "value": [
    {
      "ID": 5,
      "Pupil": 1900031265,
      "Offer": false,
    },
    {
      "ID": 8,
      "Pupil": 1900035302,
      "Offer": false,
      "OfferDetail": ""
    }
  ]
}

I need to test via Postman, that I have 2 records returned.  I've tried various methods I've found here and elsewhere but with no luck.  Using the code below fails to return the expected answer.
responseJson = JSON.parse(responseBody);
var list = responseBody.length;
tests["Expected number"] = list === undefined || list.length === 2;

At this point I'm  not sure if it's the API I'm testing that's at fault or my coding - I've tried looping through the items returned but that's not working for me either.  Could someone advise please - I'm new to javascript so am expecting there to be an obvious cause to my problem but I'm failing to see it.  Many thanks.

A: This is what I did for counting the recods
//parsing the Response body to a variable
    responseJson = JSON.parse(responseBody);

//Finding the length of the Response Array
    var list = responseJson.length;
    console.log(list);
    tests["Validate service retuns 70 records"] = list === 70;

A: More updated version of asserting only 2 objects in an array:
pm.test("Only 2 objects in array", function (){
    pm.expect(pm.response.json().length).to.eql(2);
});

A: Your response body is an object you cannot find the length of an object try
var list = responseJson.value.length;

A: In postman, under Tests section, do the following (screenshot below):

  var body = JSON.parse(responseBody);
  tests["Count: "  + body.value.length] = true;

Here is what you should see (note: I replaced responseBody with JSON to mock up example above):

A: Correct your json. and try this.
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var test = JSON.parse('{"value": [{"ID": 5,"Pupil": 1900031265,"Offer": false},{"ID": 8,"Pupil": 1900035302,"Offer": false,"OfferDetail": ""}] }')

test.value.length; // 2

So you need to identify the array in the json (starting with the [ bracket. and then take the key and then check the length of the key.

A: Here's the simplest way I figured it out:
pm.expect(Object.keys(pm.response.json()).length).to.eql(18);

No need to customize any of that to your variables. Just copy, paste, and adjust "18" to whatever number you're expecting.

A: First of all you should convert response to json and find value path. Value is array. You should call to length function to get how many objects in there and check your expected size
pm.test("Validate value count", function () {
    pm.expect(pm.response.json().value.length).to.eq(2);
});

A: I had a similar problem, what I used to test for a certain number of array members is:
responseJson = JSON.parse(responseBody);
tests["Response Body = []"] = responseJson.length === valueYouAreCheckingFor;

To check what values you're getting, print it and check the postman console.
console.log(responseJson.length);

A: Counting records in JSON array using javascript and insomnia

//response insomnia
const response = await insomnia.send();

//Parse Json
const body = JSON.parse(response.data);

//Print console:
console.log(body.data.records.length);

A:

 pm.test("Only 2 objects in array", function (){
     var jsonData = pm.response.json();
     let event_length = jsonData.data.length;
    pm.expect(event_length).to.eql(2);
 });

A: As mentioned in the comments, you should test responseJson.value.length
responseJson = JSON.parse(responseBody);
tests["Expected number"] = typeof responseJson === 'undefined' || responseJson.value.length;

A: I was facing similar issue while validating the length of an array inside a JSON. The below snippet should help you resolve it-
responseJson = JSON.parse(responseBody);
var list = responseBody.length;
tests["Expected number"] = responseJson.value.length === list;

A: Working Code
 pm.test("Verify the number of records",function()
 {
   var response = JSON.parse(responseBody);
   pm.expect(Object.keys(response.value).length).to.eql(5);

 });
//Please change the value in to.eql function as per your requirement
//'value' is the JSON notation name for this example and can change as per your JSON


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This morning, he was waiting for the lift as I was leaving the apartment. We chatted about an upcoming show he was exhibiting at The Raffles hotel, which he said featured taxidermy, or the art of reproducing a life-like 3D representation of an animal for permanent display.
"That sounds like something that artist does — what's his name –Damien Hirst?" I said.
I could see the artist about to respond, and ignoring what I saw and being true to self, I barrelled on. "I don't really like Damien Hirst," I said, grimacing at the thought of the British artist's most controversial work, including one of a 14-foot tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde grandly titled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living and the diamond-encrusted cast of a human skull cast in platinum and embedded with 8,601 diamonds.
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Eric then said he had changed galleries in Hongkong. The new one representing him also happens to represent, who else, Damien Hirst.
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I'm not a big fan of Damien Hirst. Taxiderming is not my thing. I like the photography of Daniela Rossell.
And I like oil paintings, especially if the painter is talented. Unfortunately most of todays "modern artists" don't have any talent (having a good curator & a business talent doesn't make you an artist).
Thanks for your comment! Yeah, taxiderming is such a niche thing, isn't it? Give me classically good paintings and art anytime!


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Q: creating google api for iOS https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/ios/start
I have registered in (https://developers.google.com/maps/ios-access) GoogleAPIs console to get Apikey for google maps sdk for iOS. but i didnt get and also i didnt find google maps sdk for ios option to enable in Google APIs console. can any one plz suggest me to get api key
Google maps api key for ios is not visible in API access panel in API project..
Create new iOS key is missing in API Access pane in the console.as per i followed
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PD Draw
The PD Draw is a partially dismantled railroad bridge on the Passaic River between Newark and Kearny in the US state of New Jersey. It was built as part of Central Railroad of New Jersey branch known as the Newark and New York Railroad. The swing bridge is the first crossing upstream from Newark Bay at mile point 1.2.
At the north end of the bay at Kearny Point, the mouths of both the Passaic and the Hackensack River meet at the tip of a peninsula once known as New Barbadoes Neck. In order to build the line, the CNJ built bridges across the rivers, with service beginning in 1869. The original bridge was replaced in 1888. In 1912, the 212-foot (65 m) swing span was relocated 185 feet (56 m) upstream to create another bridge on a new alignment. The entire line across the rivers and Kearny Point was raised about 30 feet (9.1 m) to avoid conflicts with maritime traffic in the newly developing Port Newark.
In February 1946, a freighter damaged the HD Draw over the Hackensack, and when it was decided not to repair that bridge the railroad discontinued through service from its Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City. To minimize maintenance costs, the bridge over the Pasaic was reduced from two tracks to one in 1955.
The Kearny station was an important stop for the railroad as it was within walking distance of the Western Electric plant and other key industries, such as the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Until the Aldene Plan was implemented in May 1967, the PD Draw was used for local passenger service between Kearny and CNJ's Broad Street Station and for local freight train service. The railroad also ran through-train service from point on its mainline and Newark Branch to the Kearny station; the last such service was a weekday rush-hour train between Kearny and Plainfield on April 29, 1967. After the Aldene Plan took effect, the bridge was used for a few years for local freight operations, but was taken out of service with the creation of Conrail on April 1, 1976.
In October 1970, in what was determined to be an act of sabotage, a 22-car freight train that included five engines was secretly assembled at the nearby railyard and intentionally let plunge from the bridge left in the open position, a standard procedure during overnight hours.
The center span of the bridge has been removed. The abutments and piers remain in place. The New Jersey Department of Transportation is considering building a new bridge along the alignment. Studies are being conducted as part of an extensive project conceived to facilitate freight transshipment through the Port of New York and New Jersey known as Portway. A new bridge could include a rail component. The new structure would allow for a dual bridge crossing in combination with the Lincoln Highway Passaic River Bridge.
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