Great stuff! I need to monitor some animals in hibernation so need a string of five temp sensors and your solution looks ideal. So all in all are you happy with the DS18B20s?
They have several issues which are slightly annoying. But the strengths of the 1-wire bus, especially that long cable length (and you can use MOSFET's to boost that…), means I keep coming back to them again and again. In fact I am starting to breakout the one wire bus on all my loggers now just because it's so easy to do.
If you sleep the processor while they do 12-bit 750ms conversion they are not too bad on your power consumption because DS18's sleep at low current afterwards. I wish that they had better accuracy because ±0.1 is what you would really want to see for research work. I always buy the waterproof units in the stainless steel cans so that I calibrate them in a water bath, but also because it is really easy to cook the raw sensors if you linger while soldering the pins. I've lost a few there.
Sometimes I get a batch that have a high number of sensors that are out of spec, so beware that some of the cheaper vendors are selling dodgy stuff. I don't know if that's because they soldered them badly, or if they were counterfeit, etc.


Viewing all comments made on articles on iMore.
Hi, is there a way you can view all the comments you've posted on articles? Mine says I've posted 5 comments but I haven't used my account for 2 years and very curious to find out what those comments are.
Kinda like the way you can view all the forums you've participated in/created.
On the side choose PEOPLE then choose your user name. Then you will see the options you are looking for.
Re: Viewing all comments made on articles on iMore.
Click on your User ID. Once the menu opens, you can view your threads or post from the options at the bottom of the menu.
Does that show comments on the articles of the blog page? I think he refers to the comments at the end of articles, not forum posts.
It will allow them access to their threads & posts. Could you please give me some guidance as to how this is done then.
I have no idea. I have commented on many articles and blogs myself. But know of no way to view them without going back to the article. It's not part of the forum. It's the Reader Comments at the end of the Articles by Rene and others. AFAIK, there is no place to view all your comments from various articles.
Thank you sir! I have learned something new. Much appreciated!
Yes I'm referring to comments on the end of articles like in the image above its says he has made 8 comments. That's what I'm trying to view. Seems strange how they wouldn't allow this.
Now you & I know.
You may not find most comments since Rene disables comments on certain posts once he feels he's being attacked. Recent example, the post he had regarding Phil Schiller making a "funny" tweet. He disabled the comments after a day since he didn't appreciate some people saying they didn't think it was that funny at all.


Currently in the early stages of design, the new hotel will comprise 81 serviced hotel apartments with 98 beds and nine ground floor retail units. Part of the Wyndham Hotel Group, the world's largest hotel company with nearly 8,000 hotels across 73 countries, the specific operating brand for the property will be announced in the coming weeks.
Safari Group will also develop 55 residential apartments - a combination of one bedroom, two bedroom and two bedroom with study units - in a separate building immediately adjacent to the new hotel. Total project value for the development, including the hotel, residential and retail units, is estimated at $58m.
Robert Neil, Director of Safari Group, said the decision to move forward with the Wyndham branded property at Remarkables Park on the eve of the Ramada hotel opening had been an "easy" one to make.
"You know you've got a winning formula of easy to develop sunny sites complemented by stunning views and efficient access to everything Queenstown has to offer when the Ramada suites sold so quickly," he said.


DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – Cattle in the Dominican Republic will now be traced through a national system logging breeding data and health records.
The traceability programme, launched by the ministry of agriculture last week, hopes to bring Dominican cattle health and monitoring protocols up to international standards.
"What we are doing is for Dominican Republic to become one of the largest exporters of meat and dairy in the world," said Agriculture Minister Angel Estevez (pictured).
The ministry's message is that the scheme, part of an 'irreversible global trend of recording information', will benefit all through food security lines.
Summarising benefits for cattlemen: "It benefits producers because it enables consumers to obtain timely information that translates into greater confidence and security of the food you eat," the government said in a statement.
The statement added: "From the business perspective, traceability also allows producers to maintain eligibility of current exports target markets and gain access to new markets.
"While from the point of view of health validation and recognition of national systems, and safety of the animals are disease free is obtained.


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Secularism may be on the rise, but you don't have to believe in God to learn from religion
Fascinating life: Rooney Mara in the new movie Mary Magdalene
By Mary Kenny
March 12 2018 7:00 AM
An increasing number of parents want to remove their children from religious education classes at school, according to the Republic's Education Minister Richard Bruton. That's entirely their right, but I wish I'd had more RE, rather than less.
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I only realised that I was quite ignorant about faith issues when I entered a pub quiz, and didn't know half the answers.
Why did Joseph have a multi-coloured coat? Eh, not quite sure.
Why was Mary Magdalene associated with the Sea of Galilee? Pass on that one.
Where is it said that "the lion shall lie down with the lamb"? Woody Allen! The Manhattan comic quipped: "The lion may lie down with the lamb, but it doesn't mean the lamb gets a good night's sleep."
He got it slightly wrong - the quote from Isaiah refers to the wolf and the lamb living together, but he knew his audience would twig that it's a riff on a Scriptural allusion, and Biblical allusions are part of our shared culture. Maybe that can't be said anymore.
A veteran translator working within the EU institutions told me that all European societies would once have immediately grasped phrases like 'swords beaten into ploughshares', 'physician, heal thyself', 'can two walk together, and except they be agreed' because they were recognisable in all languages. But less so now.
Even if you are not a believer, you can't change the past: you can't change the fact that the deposit of European culture rests on the history of belief, from the Babylonians and the Assyrians down to modern times. The history of Irish society is most particularly intertwined with faith, as a visit to a Mass rock, or the folk museum at Knock reveals - as does a perusal of the Book of Kells or the monastic Irish chalices on display at the National Museum.
The political row about the Irish language in Belfast might never have erupted if it were better known that Irish Protestants were the first to translate the Bible into Irish, crafted in an exquisite Celtic script.
Moreover, if you've ever wondered why so many famous Irish writers have been Protestants - Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, O'Casey, not to mention Swift, Goldsmith and Maria Edgeworth - one of the reasons is that they were raised on the stunning prose of the 1611 Bible.
Sean O'Casey's mother was a Scripture teacher, and, as his sight was always bad, she would read him long tracts from the Bible when he was a young child, and those cadences informed his own great gift.
There's a moving passage towards the end of Juno and the Paycock where the afflicted Mrs Boyle cries out against the cruelty of killing and war: "Sacred Heart o' Jesus, take away our hearts o' stone, and give us hearts o' flesh! Take away this murdherin' hate, an' give us Thine own eternal love!"
I often wondered how O'Casey, a Dublin Protestant, could have penned such a flawless echo of Catholic devotion.
It would have been partly from the tenements of Dublin that he knew, but I now think that he drew on something he'd have learned in the Old Testament (now often called the Hebrew Bible), in Ezekiel: "I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies and give you a heart of flesh."
And pray, tell us, when the secular students are excused from RE classes, what will they do with the time instead? I would suggest they could enhance their education with virtual tours of the great paintings inspired by faith, gazing upon the religious subjects depicted by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Mantegna, Giorgione, Cranach, Veronese, Tintoretto, da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Bruegel Elder and Younger, Rembrandt, van der Weyden, Raphael, Philippe de Champaigne, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Titian, Rubens, Murillo, Velazquez, El Greco, Claude Lorrain, John Everett Millais, Jean-Francois Millet, Blake, Dali, Corot, Chagall, Alma-Tadema, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Violet Oakley, William Holman Hunt, Evie Hone - and then the sculpture, the icons, the altar-pieces, and if desired, beyond Judeo-Christianity to the many universal sacred symbols.
But you can't do comparative religion until you understand the roots of your own culture first.
I'm thankful for the religious education I did get - the attention to the Gospels, the holy pictures and the lives of the saints, which are a portal to history, biography and social context as well as being edifying in themselves. And these accounts are also as much about women's lives as about men - female saints often dominated the iconography of religion.
Later on, I came to understand there was so much more to learn and understand: the new film about Mary Magdalene is built on a long deposit of scholarship about her, and a popular fascination with her life, too (Magdala by the Sea of Galilee was the centre of the fish industry).
There's a great exhibition coming up in New York in May, co-sponsored by Dame Anna Wintour (above), of Vogue, and Donatella Versace, entitled Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, which will bring the full flower of visual adornment to the catwalk, as inspired by faith. You have to know about the back-story to understand this stuff.
Those who abstain from religious education just don't know what they're missing.
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LINCOLN – The "Lincoln Lofts," proposed to transform the former Sayles Mill building off Walker Street into apartments, moved forward in the planning process Tuesday night after the Lincoln Zoning Board agreed to grant parking relief to the project.
The developer, Dakota Partners of Waltham, Mass., came before the Zoning Board to apply for dimensional variance for parking relief to renovate the former factory building at 90 Industrial Circle into 45 units of affordable housing. Lincoln's Technical Review Committee members recently called the mill complex "the Wild West for parking," but recommended the approval of the application on the basis that the proposed ratio of 1.67 parking spaces per unit, or 75 spaces total, would be enough to accommodate the needs of future residents.
Under the town's current regulations, 45 units of housing would require 90 parking spaces. The Zoning Board approved the developer's application for a parking variance, bringing the required number of parking spaces down to 75 total, or 1.67 spaces per unit, due to lack of space for additional parking on the property.
Rio Sacchetti, a project manager for Dakota Partners, said market-rate rent is usually one parking space per unit, and affordable housing is usually .8, according to data by Rhode Island Housing. Board member John Barr noted that Lincoln has a very limited bus service, and that the RIH numbers may be based on the state's urban areas and may not be applicable to this project.
"We originally proposed 64 spaces, and after meeting with the town planner, zoning official and Technical Review Committee, we came up with a parking formula based on the 100 percent affordable housing, which uses the number of bedrooms," said Mary Shekarchi, attorney for the applicant.
Shekarchi said she worked with town officials on the formula, which essentially grants two cars for each of the project's 30 two-bedroom units, and one car for the 15 one-bedroom units.
The developer was also granted relief from the town's requirement that parking spaces be 9 by 20 feet.
The town's definition of a parking space was originally 9 feet by 18 feet at the inception of this application back in 2006, Zoning Board Chairman David DeAngelis said.
"Since time has progressed, your application outgrew the ordinance, which is now nine by 20," said DeAngelis.
Shekarchi and Sacchetti said parts of the property are environmentally contaminated, and that the 75 parking spaces were the best they can do while maintaining green space for residents.
Contamination on the site will be addressed as part of construction and paid for by Dakota Partners. The company will have to remove between one and two feet of existing soil and replace it with fill.
Parking relief aside, the project did not require any zoning relief concerning the conversion of the actual building into affordable housing. The property is owned by AF Homes LLC and under agreement with Dakota Partners, with Dakota planning to close on the property by early next year. This is Dakota's first project in Rhode Island.
As an affordable housing project, units will be restricted to people making at or below a certain income, and/or rent-restricted. Rent is expected to be in the $800-$900 range for a one-bedroom, and $900-$1,000 for a two-bedroom unit, with heat and hot water included. The project will be required to meet HUD's Section 8 Housing requirements.
A second-story bridge connecting 90 Industrial Circle to the building behind it will be taken down, while a shared loading dock will be removed and replaced with green space. The building is currently completely vacant, last used as commercial/light industrial space, and has fallen into disrepair.
McManus asked that the board recommend that prior to any consideration of approval, the area be cleared of trash, mattresses and furniture.
"As a zoning board we can't do that," DeAngelis said, adding that he would ask someone from the town to look into the situation.
Jean Birchell of Smithfield Avenue, where properties back up to the mill, echoed the concerns of McManus.
"If you stop at the light at Walker Street you can see the mattresses – there's 18 of them in all," she said.
The board voted to move the project forward, granting parking relief at 1.67 spaces per unit.


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Indie Partner Newsletters
Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, November 10, 2020
BookIt Nook Opens in Poulsbo, Wash.
BookIt Nook, an independent bookstore in Poulsbo, Wash., held its official grand opening this weekend. The store has around 2,000 square feet of selling space and carries general-interest books for children, teens and adults. BookIt Nook also offers a variety of non-book items, including tea, art and gifts.
Owner Jenna DeTrapani said the store will focus on promoting books and other products by people of color, LGBTQ+ authors and independent artists. DeTrapani plans eventually to carry used books as well, but those plans are on hold due to the pandemic. She expects to start buying used books from community members in late 2021.
The store has a drive-thru window, and once BookIt Nook's website goes live later this month, customers will be able to place orders online and then pick up their titles without leaving their vehicles. DeTrapani and her team have already set up a quick-service counter, allowing for easier checkout and order pick-up.
Standing: (l.-r.) booksellers Taylor Sather, Jackie Fix and Deb Beddoe, with (front) owner Jenna DeTrapani.
DeTrapani has lived in Poulsbo--often called "Little Norway"--for about five years. She has a background in marketing and in bookselling, having been the children's buyer and store manager at Eagle Harbor Book Co. in Bainbridge Island. She called Poulsbo a "quaint tourist destination," adding that the year-round community is very well-read. And though there are two other indies in Poulsbo already, they are both located in the city's downtown, while BookIt Nook is located on the "fringes" of the city, near the local community college and the site of a planned hotel and events center.
The store's opening weekend went "above and beyond" expectations, DeTrapani continued, and visitors have responded quite positively. She and her team have also been pleased that visitors are following all Covid-19 safety precautions.
On the subject of the store's logo, which features the ouroboros symbol of a snake eating its own tail, DeTrapani explained that for many readers, every book is like living a new life again and again, hence the ouroboros.
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European Union Files Anti-Competition Charges Against Amazon
The European Commission, the European Union's antitrust regulator, has formally charged Amazon with violating competition laws by using nonpublic data it gathers from third-party sellers on its sites to compete against those sellers. As the New York Times reported, the European Commission said "Amazon had abused its dual role as both a retail store used by millions of vendors, and a merchant that sells its own competing goods on the platform. The authorities accused Amazon of harvesting data from the millions of merchants who use its marketplace to spot popular products, then copy them and sell at a lower price."
At the same time, the Commission said today that it is launching another investigation, focusing on how Amazon selects the default seller for a given product, "alleging that the tech company, and those that pay extra for Amazon services, are more likely to be chosen," the Wall Street Journal wrote.
The charges made today are the most recent step in the European Commission's investigations of Amazon and other U.S. tech giants. It could take years for a fine or other penalty to be levied or a settlement to be reached.
Binc Launches First Holiday Gift Guide
The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation has launched its first holiday gift guide, which features a range of items such as T-shirts, sweatshirts, totes, mugs, caps, masks and more. The items include an exclusive Binc T-shirt designed by illustrator and designer Henry Sene Yee; copies of Alone Together, edited by Jennifer Haupt; as well as items from Jon Klassen and Libro.fm. Many of the potential gifts are from independent bookstores and comic retailers, who were invited to participate in the gift guide. Anyone who buys a gift from the guide receives a free audiobook from Libro.fm. All purchases from the guide support local indies and/or Binc.
Pam French, Binc's executive director, said, "We know how important the holiday shopping season is to independent bookstores, and we're excited to showcase products from a number of indie bookstores. We hope the gift guide will help shoppers support those stores in a new way."
Since January, Binc has helped more than 600 households along with hundreds of independent book and comic book stores across the United States. The need continues, and every week Binc hears from store employees facing problems related to Covid-19, natural disasters, medical crises, and other emergencies. French added: "We are still in a very precarious moment with rising Covid rates and a steep decline in foot traffic during the most important sales season for stores. The gift guide is our way of raising funds while reminding everyone to shop indie this holiday season."
International Update: Bookshop.org U.K.'s Big First Week, 'Firebreak' Lockdown Lifted in Wales
In its first week of operation after launching in the U.K. on November 2, Bookshop.org sold £440,000 (about $575,810) worth of books, earning £83,000 (about $108,620) for local bookstores and attracting 480,000 visitors to the website. The number of bookshops on the platform in the U.K. has increased from about 150 at launch to 250.
"We're very pleased with how it has turned out so far," said Bookshop founder and CEO Andy Hunter.
Describing Bookshop.org as "a game changer for independent bookshops" that has "taken the sting out of Amazon," Jessica Paul, owner of Max Minerva's Marvellous Books & More in Bristol, observed: "This is another weapon in our arsenal to provide curated, thoughtful recommendations to our customers who want to shop online.... Our personal experience has been incredible. We've made more than enough to cover our rent for the month, and that's a huge weight off our shoulders during this lockdown. It's been fantastic to see the people we've reached, not just our wonderful loyal customers, but customers from all over the U.K. The lists are another avenue for us to be creative and share it with like-minded people."
Nicole Vanderbilt, Bookshop.org U.K.'s managing director, told the Bookseller: "We are very encouraged by our first week of trading. We've seen great support from publishers, authors, bookshops and readers. The money generated for independent bookshops on the platform will have a real impact on these shops which are so vital to our culture."
The Covid-19 "firebreak" lockdown in Wales was lifted yesterday. Meryl Halls, managing director of the Booksellers Association of the U.K. and Ireland, tweeted: "Welcome back to all our Welsh members coming out of lockdown today--go forth and sell many books! #ChooseBookshops @Books_Wales @TheHoursBrecon @WellfieldBooks1 et al."
And from the Book Council of Wales: "Good luck to all bookshops reopening in Wales this week. Show your support by popping in, ordering online or by telephone. Find your local bookshop here."
Chepstow Books
Other Welsh booksellers lighting up Twitter yesterday:
Chepstow Books, Chepstow: "So excited to be back open after 17 long days. A huge thank you to every single person who supported us via web, e-mail or phone orders during lockdown (still encouraged)."
Griffin Books, Penarth: "WE ARE OPEN!!! A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us during the #Wales lockdown. You're the best! We will be *OPEN* as usual from 9.00 am this morning (with social distancing measures in place) and can't wait to see all of your lovely faces!"
Palas Print, Caernarfon: "eLythyr Palas Print ¦ Ail Agor ¦ Reopening ¦"
Book-ish, Crickhowell: "Much love and support to my fellow Welsh booksellers coming out of lockdown today."
In the most recent installment of its "5 questions" series, BookNet Canada interviewed Hilary Atleo, co-owner of Vancouver's Iron Dog Books, an Indigenous-owned bookshop and booktruck dedicated to the belief that "books should be affordable and accessible." Among our favorite responses in the q&a:
What attracted you to bookselling?
I like hard work, and I don't care about being wealthy. One day I looked at the career options in an office, and I said, "I need to make my work life more like my time away from work" and what I like to do for fun is go to bookshops and drink coffee. Now I spend almost every day in a bookshop drinking coffee and it's the best life in the world.
What is the most pressing issue facing bookselling today?
Government policy that creates a hostile environment for new entrepreneurs. Booksellers are essential to the creative economy of Canada, and yet the municipal, provincial, and federal governments have cultural policies that encourage the writing and publishing of books but not the selling of them. If we want our literary community to thrive in Canada, we need to make it possible for young people to start in the bookselling industry and actually make a living; that means addressing runaway commercial leases for small independents and properly taxing and regulating online retailers and their labor practices. --Robert Gray
New Penguin Random House Español Division Formed
Effective January 1, Vintage Español and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA are combining to become Penguin Random House Español.
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The president of the new division is Silvia Matute, who is based in Miami, Fla., and has been president of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA. Members of the Vintage Español team, including editor Alexandra Torrealba, production editor Indira Pupo, and publicity and marketing manager Michelle Domínguez, who are in New York City will work with their colleagues in Miami. Cristóbal Pera, publishing director of Vintage Español, will advise the Penguin Random House Español team throughout the transition until February of next year.
In a memo to staff about the changes, Madeline McIntosh, CEO of Penguin Random House U.S., commented: "We are very proud of our position as category leader in the U.S. Spanish-language publishing market, and we know the opportunity to connect our books with an even wider audience is an important one. With the publishing knowledge in Miami, the operational infrastructure of PRH U.S., and the editorial expertise coming from both groups, we have exactly the pieces we need to expand our publishing list and further grow our business. This new venture will build on and expand the existing sales and distribution partnership between our Miami and New York offices, ensuring maximum reach for all Penguin Random House Spanish publications in the U.S. In addition, Silvia and her team will continue to work closely with the Penguin Random House English-language publishers to procure rights and coordinate publications of Spanish editions."
The Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial team in Miami, which McIntosh called "the leader in Spanish-language publishing in the U.S.," has been publishing Spanish-language titles for the U.S. market since 2014, focusing on commercial nonfiction, religion, and children's books. The group also distributes titles in the U.S. from other PRH Grupo Editorial publishing houses in Latin America and Spain. Its backlist features more than 38 Nobel Prize winners and international bestsellers and authors, including Margaret Atwood, Julio Cortázar, Roald Dahl, Yuval Noah Harari, Anabel Hernández, Robert Kiyosaki, César Lozano, Javier Marías, Dr. Juan Rivera, Robin Sharma, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Jacqueline Woodson.
Founded in 1994, Vintage Español focuses on original and translated works of fiction and narrative nonfiction for the Latinx audience in the U.S. Vintage Español authors include Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Roberto Bolaño, Sandra Cisneros, Paulo Coelho, Junot Díaz, Gabriel García Márquez, Stephen King, Jorge Ramos, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Erika L. Sánchez and Esmeralda Santiago.
November Indie Next List E-Newsletter Delivered
Last Thursday, the American Booksellers Association's e-newsletter edition of the Indie Next List for November was delivered to nearly 700,000 of the country's best book readers. The newsletter was sent to customers of 179 independent bookstores, with a combined total of 683,092 subscribers.
The e-newsletter, powered by Shelf Awareness, features all of the month's Indie Next List titles, with bookseller quotes and "buy now" buttons that lead directly to the purchase page for the title on the sending store's website. The newsletter, which is branded with each store's logo, also includes an interview (from Bookselling This Week) with the author whose book was chosen by booksellers as the number-one Indie Next List pick for the month, in this case Memorial by Bryan Washington (Riverhead Books).
For a sample of the November newsletter, see this one from Crow & Co., Hutchison, Kan.
Post-election Chalkboard: Penguin Bookshop
"From Hoover/Curtis (1929) to Biden/Harris (2021), 91 years strong!" That was the sidewalk chalkboard message shared by Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley, Pa., which posted on Facebook: "From the 31st President to the 46th, the Penguin Bookshop stands 91 years strong! We look forward to a bright future serving our community!"
Fast Company Recommends Quarantine Reads & Indie Bookstores
Fast Company staffers recommended the 19 best books they've read during quarantine and "the indie bookstores where you can buy them." As the weather gets colder, Covid-19 cases rise and people spend more time at home, "we at Fast Company encourage you to shop local, independent bookstores for all your reading needs. If you don't have a bookshop in your own neighborhood, we have great news: Online store Bookshop.org supports local bookstores around the country with every purchase."
Personnel Changes at Atria
At Atria's publicity and marketing departments:
Lisa Sciambra is promoted to director of publicity. She began her publishing career as a publicity assistant at Touchstone and joined Atria as publicity manager in 2009.
Dana Trocker is promoted to associate publisher and will continue to oversee the marketing department as well as serve as primary liaison to the sales department and to inventory management. She joined Simon & Schuster's trade imprint in 2013 as associate marketing manager and moved to Atria in 2018 as marketing director.
Suzanne Donahue has been named v-p, director of backlist marketing. After working at the Free Press and Simon & Schuster, she joined Atria in 2015.
Book Trailer of the Day: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Floor Rieder (Pushkin Children's Books).
Media and Movies
Media Heat: Katherine E. Standefer on Fresh Air
Good Morning America: Emmanuel Acho, author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man (Flatiron, $27.99, 9781250800466).
Fresh Air: Katherine E. Standefer, author of Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Little, Brown Spark, $28, 9780316450362).
Movies: All Russians Love Birch Trees
Production is underway in Germany and Israel on All Russians Love Birch Trees, starring Aylin Tezel (7500) and based on the novel by Olga Grjasnowa, translated by Eva Bacon, Deadline reported.
Directed by Pola Beck, who co-wrote the adaptation with Burkhardt Wunderlich, the project "re-unites a handful of the creatives behind Beck's 2012 drama Breaking Horizons," Deadline wrote. Beck was showrunner on the German series Druck and most recently directed the Netflix Germany series The Last Word.
Awards: Richell Emerging Writers Winner
Aisling Smith won the 2020 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, which aims "to unearth, support and nurture new Australian writing talent," for Petrichor. Founded in honor of the late Hachette Australia CEO Matt Richell, the award is sponsored by Hachette Australia and the Richell family, in partnership with the Guardian Australia and the Emerging Writers' Festival.
Smith receives A$10,000 (about US$7,095), to be donated by Hachette Australia, along with a 12-month mentorship with one of Hachette Australia's publishers. Hachette Australia will work with the winning writer to develop the manuscript with first option to consider the finished work and shortlisted entries for publication. In addition to promoting the prize, the Guardian Australia will publish an extract of the first chapter of Petrichor and a profile on the winning writer.
The judges said Petrichor "announces an assured and evocative new Australian literary voice. Smith, using the disintegration of a marriage, explores powerful themes around communication, race, culture and family. Aisling's writing is evocative and sophisticated, and the story is one all the judges want to read much more of."
In accepting the prize, Smith said, "It's been a year of such widespread isolation for everyone. Certainly, that's been my own experience of the pandemic. And this has been echoed in the experience of writing, where an already solitary activity has had to proceed with very little engagement with community, often feeling directionless or even as though you are writing into a void. Against this backdrop, winning the Richell Prize feels to me like a moment of real connection."
Review: The Art of Falling
The Art of Falling by Danielle McLaughlin (Random House, $28 hardcover, 384p., 9780812998443, January 5, 2021)
Little did the characters of Danielle McLaughlin's fiction debut, Dinosaurs on Other Planets, know that they had it relatively easy. That short story collection features numerous characters on the brink of various losses, but it's all over after a few pages. The decorous but deceptively fearsome novel The Art of Falling consolidates the stressors, cycles them through several hundred pages and puts a single character in the crosshairs.
As the novel begins, a teacher has summoned Nessa McCormack, who lives in a well-heeled suburb of Cork, to her 16-year-old daughter's school, alleging that Jennifer has been bullying another student--Mandy Wilson, who used to be Jennifer's best friend. Although Nessa recognizes the parental obligation to appear distressed at the prospect of her child's troublemaking, she registers relief at news of the girls' withered friendship: "If Jennifer and Mandy had not been friends, then perhaps Cora Wilson would never have gotten to know Philip and might have confined her affections to her own husband."
Nessa and Philip, an architect, are seeing a marriage counselor to stanch the bleeding caused by his now terminated affair with Cora. Of a lesser, but still acute, concern to Nessa is the debt that Philip has racked up thanks to his atrocious instincts for property investment. Nessa's job at an art gallery is a vital source of both income and pride. She's the project manager for a major acquisition: the studio of the artist Robert Locke, dead nearly 20 years but still an object of some fascination. Everything is going smoothly with the acquisition until Nessa is confronted by a woman who insists that she worked on one of Locke's most celebrated pieces--"If you are the expert that you claim to be, you will know this"--and wants to be credited for her contribution.
The Art of Falling can read like a beleaguered-everymom novel--I Don't Know How She Does It in a more picturesque setting--although McLaughlin isn't playing Nessa's circumstances for laughs. While the book's characters occasionally behave in implausible ways out of what seems like narrative necessity (never mind how she does it; why is she doing it?), McLaughlin's storytelling gifts and dexterous sentences are amply compensatory. At times her plotting verges on masterly, as when she introduces an aspect of Nessa's past that infiltrates her work and family lives with the gentleness of an ice bath. --Nell Beram, author and freelance writer
Shelf Talker: In this blistering first novel, a project manager at an art gallery finds her past sneaking up on her, further complicating her already frazzled work and family lives.
by Danielle McLaughlin
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3. Man in Charge by Laurelin Paige
4. Spells by Kristen Proby
5. The Harbinger II: The Return by Jonathan Cahn
6. From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
7. Lost Harbor Alaska Box Set (Books 1-3) by Jennifer Bernard
8. Happily Ever After in Bliss by Lexi Blake as Sophie Oak
9. My Big Fat Fake Honeymoon by Lauren Landish
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Kerri Hatt
EMS providers, agencies underprepared for violent MCIs
As mass violence incidents grow in scale and frequency, less than half of EMS feels adequately prepared to respond
The first 10 minutes of an MCI and how the response is launched considerably impact emergency operations and survival. Recent acts of mass violence, from active shooter incidents at schools, churches and businesses, to bombings, to bad actors using vehicles as a weapon, have highlighted the need for multipronged training and strategy for an MCI response to violence, including:
EMS role in warm and hot zones
Coordination with other agencies and local partners
Pre-planning mass gatherings
Equipment needs, from ballistic protection to specialty vehicles
Triage techniques and casualty collection points
Interoperable communications
Transporting patients away from the scene
Yet, in a recent poll and data from the 2020 EMS Trend Report show that less than half of EMS providers feel adequately trained for this type of response.
Poll call: Do you feel properly trained to respond to incidents of mass violence?
We asked the EMS1 community about training for incidents of mass violence. Just 40% of respondents noted they feel properly trained to respond to incidents of mass violence. While 8% were unsure, 52% responded that they did not feel adequately prepared to respond to mass violence.
The 2020 EMS Trend Report painted a similar picture. When asked "how prepared is your organization for an active shooter incident," just 31% replied that they were well or extremely well (7%) prepared.
Those numbers – agencies who felt they were extremely or well prepared for an active shooter incident – were highest in public third-service agencies (40%) and fire-based EMS (34%), and lowest in private, for-profit (23%) and public utility (27%) models.
Mass violence training needs
We asked readers to expand on their mass violence response training by filling out a short form. The responses were split evenly, with 50% of respondents replying that they felt properly trained. Some expanded, with comments, such as, "I have been through TCCC and multiple live trainings for active shooter and MCI."
The other half of respondents noted they need more when it comes to MCI training:
"I personally don't feel ready for an MCI. I am fresh out of school and only did one day of simulations, which was about a year or so ago."
"I am not sure if my limited MCI experience (multiple vehicle collisions) would transfer well to a violence caused MCI, especially if the threat had not been contained or neutralized. Because of that, I'd like more training, especially high-fidelity training."
"As a security professional and EMT, I feel that I lack sufficient training for a mass casualty incident that can happen here."
Others pointed to specific experiences that identified a training gap. One respondent noted he hadn't given much thought to MCIs and no thought to mass shootings, and hadn't had much training beyond incident command in general and communications, and so, a school shooting in his community came as a "rude awakening."
Another respondent asked if he felt confident his training prepared him to respond to a mass violence incident put it this way, "Yes I do. But like anything in this field you should not be overconfident."
As you consider your own training, and your department's unique capabilities, staffing and equipment, what do you want to know about how to respond to mass violence?
Fill out this short form to submit a question, and your question might be answered by one of our dozens of EMS leaders in an upcoming article or newsletter.
Additional resources on MCI training
Learn more about EMS exercises, training tenets and more to prepare your department for an MCI/incident of mass violence with these resources:
In the commander's chair: Lessons for the incident commander gleaned from the 7/7 2005 London terrorist attack
The key to saving more lives in a mass violence incident
Training hard and fighting easy
How to avoid the most common active shooter training mistakes
Training day: Disaster response, transporting patients from the scene
How to practice the EMS response to an MCI
How to standardize mass casualty triage systems
How to use SALT to triage MCI patients
Kerri Hatt is editor-in-chief, EMS1, responsible for defining original editorial content, tracking industry trends, managing expert contributors and leading execution of special coverage efforts. Prior to joining Lexipol, she served as an editor for medical allied health B2B publications and communities.
Kerri has a bachelor's degree in English from Saint Joseph's University, in Philadelphia. She is based out of Charleston, SC. Share your personal and agency successes, strategies and stories with Kerri at khatt@lexipol.com.
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import ecologylab.bigsemantics.generated.library.commodity.product.Product;
import ecologylab.bigsemantics.metadata.builtins.MetadataBuiltinsTypesScope;
import ecologylab.bigsemantics.metadata.scalar.MetadataString;
import ecologylab.bigsemantics.metametadata.MetaMetadataCompositeField;
import ecologylab.bigsemantics.namesandnums.SemanticsNames;
import ecologylab.serialization.annotations.simpl_inherit;
import ecologylab.serialization.annotations.simpl_scalar;
import java.lang.String;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

@simpl_inherit
public class HmProduct extends Product
{
	@simpl_scalar
	private MetadataString color;

	@simpl_scalar
	private MetadataString gender;

	@simpl_scalar
	private MetadataString category;

	@simpl_scalar
	private MetadataString detail;

	public HmProduct()
	{ super(); }

	public HmProduct(MetaMetadataCompositeField mmd) {
		super(mmd);
	}

	public MetadataString	color()
	{
		MetadataString	result = this.color;
		if (result == null)
		{
			result = new MetadataString();
			this.color = result;
		}
		return result;
	}

	public String getColor()
	{
		return this.color == null ? null : color().getValue();
	}

	public MetadataString getColorMetadata()
	{
		return color;
	}

	public void setColor(String color)
	{
		if (color != null)
			this.color().setValue(color);
	}

	public void setColorMetadata(MetadataString color)
	{
		this.color = color;
	}

	public MetadataString	gender()
	{
		MetadataString	result = this.gender;
		if (result == null)
		{
			result = new MetadataString();
			this.gender = result;
		}
		return result;
	}

	public String getGender()
	{
		return this.gender == null ? null : gender().getValue();
	}

	public MetadataString getGenderMetadata()
	{
		return gender;
	}

	public void setGender(String gender)
	{
		if (gender != null)
			this.gender().setValue(gender);
	}

	public void setGenderMetadata(MetadataString gender)
	{
		this.gender = gender;
	}

	public MetadataString	category()
	{
		MetadataString	result = this.category;
		if (result == null)
		{
			result = new MetadataString();
			this.category = result;
		}
		return result;
	}

	public String getCategory()
	{
		return this.category == null ? null : category().getValue();
	}

	public MetadataString getCategoryMetadata()
	{
		return category;
	}

	public void setCategory(String category)
	{
		if (category != null)
			this.category().setValue(category);
	}

	public void setCategoryMetadata(MetadataString category)
	{
		this.category = category;
	}

	public MetadataString	detail()
	{
		MetadataString	result = this.detail;
		if (result == null)
		{
			result = new MetadataString();
			this.detail = result;
		}
		return result;
	}

	public String getDetail()
	{
		return this.detail == null ? null : detail().getValue();
	}

	public MetadataString getDetailMetadata()
	{
		return detail;
	}

	public void setDetail(String detail)
	{
		if (detail != null)
			this.detail().setValue(detail);
	}

	public void setDetailMetadata(MetadataString detail)
	{
		this.detail = detail;
	}
}

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Nose: Apples, bananas, vanilla, walnuts, honey, hints of ginger.
Palate: Honey dominates, the fruits step into the background, vanilla, hints of ginger and pepper.
Overall: A thoroughly enjoyable dram, rather light-bodied. It has a nice freshness but you can still feel it's not a youngster.


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Q: Reference string resource in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML I am unclear how do I reference a control text property using string resources in Windows Phone 8.1?
For instance I have:
<HubSection x:Name="MySection" HeaderTemplate="{StaticResource MyHeaderTemplate}" Header="{StaticResource MyText}">

and

<AppBarButton Name="MyAppBar" Label="{StaticResource MyText}" ...>

and

They both reference MyText which I want to load from resource .resx file.

A: To Refer Any control Property from resources in the XAML, create a x:Uid for that control say for a TextBlock, I made a control like :
<TextBlock x:Uid="Header" Text="from Resx" Style="{ThemeResource TitleTextBlockStyle}"/>

And in the Resources.resx define a new Resource with name Header.Text and Value as desired say, My Header Text. See the screenshot below :

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My dad is going to love this card!
I used the Penny Black Spoolin Around, Holly Jolly and Party Pooped (made the impression backwards) stamps. Thankfully, I found a fishing pole and fish in digi stamps. The waves have been accented with Martha Stewart Fine Glitter and the bobber has Glossy Accents on top. I used Colorbox light blue chalk ink for clouds. Typed the sentiment and die cut with Spellbinders.
Fabulous card! I love the little scene you've created! Thanks for joining us at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge!
Bet your dad is going to love it, Penny! Such an adorable card and love the fishing rod!


My Current Wish / Lust List | Save. Spend. Splurge.
The colour, the wrap coat, the absolute divine gorgeousness of it all.
*swoon* They also have a shorter version called the Paria, which I also like.
I'm also a fan of the gorgeous cobalt blue it comes in as well.
NOW I WANT BOTH. Look what you've done!!!!!
I think Mommyhood is screwing with my brain because fanny packs look more and more appealing the more I look at them.
I'm not talking about those awful fanny packs that look like a nylon snake is digesting a squirrel around your midsection, but the leather hip bag that is flat, square or rectangle and chic wouldn't look so bad… would it?
OMG. I feel like such a hipster.
…. but I really REALLY want a pair of GOOD scissors that I could keep, sharpen and use for a long time.
I appreciate quality craftmanship and am willing to pay for it. Just have to justify this $125 purchase somehow.
Or, I could buy this relatively cheaper $59 version made in the U.S. as a general pair in stainless steel.
Aren't they divine? Suede. Grey, gorgeous metallic leather detailing.. I'm WAITING on pins and needles for these darn shoes to come back in stock so I can snap them up.
I have been looking to replace my two pairs of tired, dead flats for a while now. I'm hanging on to them for dear life because I cannot find good replacements.
These ones look great, they're pointed, patent black leather and with an elasticized back so they'll grip on my feet.
They would look great under pants or with work stuff to make outfits a bit more chic.
The patent leather I wasn't quite sold on yet, but it is growing on me as a chic version.
I of course want these as well.
A pair of round-toe ballet flats because you also need a pair that isn't pointy and uber shiny.
Note: I do have 2 pairs of shoes I need to replace, I think #5 and #6 would map perfectly to replace them well.
This metallic linen tote looks summery, breezy and completely chic and wonderful.
How PERFECT would this be for traveling?
I could put my Macbook Air in there, iPad and everything.
I just can't figure out where to put the charger for the iPod Touch, Laptop and the converters for the plugs.
I know you can put it in the back in the leather slit but it just looks ugly / bulky.. and frankly, they should have thought about these things.
I have been coveting and eying this cape for a long time…. but I decided to buy the Cuyana made in Italy navy wrap coat instead which is why I did not pull the trigger on the cape.
But one day.. my pretty.. you shall be mine!
i've been wanting to try out a pair of m. gemi flats, but alas, i think i will have to wait until i get a job (or never, lol). also, that cape is divine!
My wish list… A convertible backpack/handbag. A new suit for interviews. New fall boots. Rainboots & rain jacket (or trench). A new (p)leather moto jacket.
The perfect wine red lipstick.
Nars Cruella is INCREDIBLE as a lipstick.
Frye is a great brand for boots.
Ballet flats — M. Gemi right now is on my lust list..
As for black heels, I am too, looking for a great pair.
I secretly dream of being a stylist actually.
A question: what does the horizontal line thru some of your selections indicate? Does this suggest you have decided to resist the "siren call" of these items, or instead, have the vendors run out? Curious!
LOVE getting your emails… Many thanks!
OK so I have a Broken Links checker & it's supposed to check for links that are broken but for some reason it does it randomly..
I like that "fanny pack". I used to see them in Europe all the time and imagined myself wearing all black with it and being a hipster haha!
I feel like I'm crazy but it looks fine to me.
THANK YOU! I think I will go for the Dovo scissors instead then. They're practical household ones.
Thanks for introducing me to m. Gemi. Those shoes are gorgeous. Or should I say no thanks?
*sigh* You and me both. I want them so badly.


The suburban provinces of the metropolitan monton are also divided ' as above.
In the metropolitan monton there are primary, secondary and special schools for boys and girls, affording instruction to some 10,000 pupils.
It is spoken throughout central Siam, in all parts of southern Siam except Patani Monton, in northern Siam along the river-banks as far up as Utaradit and Raheng, and in eastern Siam as far as the confines of the Korat Monton.
BATTAMBANG, or Battambong (locally Phratabong), the chief town of the north-western division of Cambodia, formerly capital of Monton Kmer, i.e.


Kick it on if you're feeling lucky. Lucky Strike is based on the famous Diamond® CPR1 Compressor* pedal and recreates the musical opto compression tone with natural, smooth attack and decay.
This Choruium + is based on a rare, discontinued model from one of the first creators of chorus. The original features depth and rate control and we added a stereo output option for maximum versatility. Hook this up to hear how guitar chorus was first conceived.
Based on the legendary FET-based belt clip preamp, this FET boost is a clean volume machine. Use this pedal to get a huge amount of gain (+26dB!) without any distortion,tone sculpt with the flexible 2-band EQ. Onboard you'l also find a handy low cut filter for tone shaping and eliminating low frequency feedback.
This model combines "Pulser" and "Northstar", allowing you to use two effects simultaneously (Vibrato + Reverb).
The vibrato is a rebirth of the super rare all-analog vintage vibrato pedal, which gives you a classic vibrato sound with true analog warmth.
The reverb is a finely-tuned, musical model that takes you to shining reverb heights while keeping the highs under control. Two knobs keep it simple.
This model is a cabinet simulator based on the sound characteristics of a Diezel® 4x12 cabinet with four 12-inch Celestion™ Vintage 30™* speakers.


The Colonial Dames of America (CDA) is an American organization composed of women who are descended from an ancestor who lived in British-America from 1607–1775, and was of service to the colonies by either holding public office, being in the military, or serving the Colonies in some other "eligible" way.
The National Headquarters is at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum in New York, which was purchased by the CDA in 1924.
The organization was founded in 1890, shortly before the founding of two similar societies, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution.


Continuing in the style of Four Belgian Blondes and Four Wittes, I am going to try to work through the Belgians I have squirrelled away over the last few months style by style. I also want to avoid one problem that arises doing a side-by-side, especially when you are looking at triples and strong ales. Four of those at 8 to 11%, especially when one or two only come in a quart, can frankly blow the top off yer heed. So, to ensure some benefit of the colour and head comparison, while at the same time avoiding a public display of the ever famous liquid lobotomy, I have decided upon a handy-dandy chart format for these posts. As I open each brew within the set, I will add it to the table with a photo of its label and one of the pour along with some notes. Click on the photos for a bigger view.
The trouble with this first set, however, is that they are not a style all. They are just a grab bag of styles all of which fall under the word "brown" more or less. The Petrus is a tangy Oud Bruin, while the Leffe Brown is something more familiar, a rich brown. The Kasteel is more of a barleywine while Rodenbach Grand Cru is a sour beer gone mad – the best malt vinegar you will ever find. All, however, are forms of browns from Belgium.
Lambic-like, sour cherry aroma, refreshing but also, at its core woodsy. Tart orange and spicy but in a good Christmas cake way. The body is not heavy. Slight carbonation – very light for a Belgian. 5.5% in a 250 ml bottle. BAs speak.
This is a dandy big beer – brown sugar plumy or red grape malty goodness at 11%. Without a trace of orange peel or spice so no hint of a dubble. No sour at all so nothing oud about it. This is surprisingly fresh for its bulk…like me. Rummy. Very subdued hops, only enough to keep the sweetness from being cloying. Here is the brewery's take on it. A juicy swallow ending in a hot port finish. 330 ml bottle. Advocates comment.
I said that this was the best malt vinegar you will ever taste and I am not kidding. This is pure soured, oak aged Belgian brew. Michael Jackson is kinder speaking of a vanilla-like oakiness, passion-fruit flavours, a clean sharp acidity like sour cream. That is all there but you have to appreciate that the acidity is that of a sub-puckeringly sharp wine. Vineous does not cover how sharp. Tart but only in the sense of King Tart of the Tartonians. Within the tart the is some reflection of spice and certainly a gooseberry-rhubarb custard trifle would go well with this. That acid lingers the palate with the yeast with some deference to richness. It is nice. Try it but prepare to wish for a nice light double IPA as a cleansing light chaser. 6% in a 330 ml bottle.Beertonians blown away.
Hard label this one. It has some rich round brown like the Kesteel and also some tang like the Flemish Browns. Another calls it an almost double and another a dark ale. But labels have a limit. A lively head which leaves a rich foam ring. Medium to strong body. Cream and chocolate with a strong hop edge cutting the sweet. 6.5% in a 330 ml. Great on tap.Beersters consider.


Great to know now I need to check this out on this delayed start on my dushwasher. Thanks for the info.
You're welcome, Victoria. I hope this will help you save money. Thank you for commenting. Hope you have a great day!


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Cocker Spaniels have loads of personality and character they are just such happy little dogs and are lot's of fun with their amenable, cheerful disposition they are a treat to have in any family.
Cocker Spaniels are far too intelligent for their own good and they Love getting up to a little mischief whenever they can. These clever little dogs have the ability to twist their owners around their little paws!!!
The Cocker is known to be a sensitive dog, mentally and physically. He has a "soft" personality and does not respond well to harsh treatment Early Socialization and Training isessential to teach the Cocker appropriate canine manners.
the Cocker Spaniel is a hunter at heart.


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A strange Love
By: Jaspersonlymistress
What happens when the cullens are out hunting but Jasper and Rosalie are left home? An event that leads to new feelings, the fall of a relationship, and a new one. Yes this will eventually be JasperxRosalie. Dont read if you dont like. No flames. D
Rated: Fiction T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 8 - Words: 3,583 - Reviews: 20 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 12/22/2008 - Published: 12/8/2008 - id: 4704010
1. What the Hell?2. A new begining3. Suprise suprise!4. Just Run5. Strangersnote6. Home for Christmas7. Deck the halls with boughs of holly8. Christmas Eve
Jasper's POV.
It's Christmas Eve and we're all finally happy with each other. The excitement of Alice and Rosalie is defiantly overwhelming.
"Merry Christmas everyone!" They both yelled through the house as they danced around.
"Jasper, could you at least act a little more excited?" Rosalie complained.
"Yippee!" I said trying to sound enthusiastic.
"He does this every year. At least until later in the night." Alice said chuckling.
"Oh Jesus." Rosalie said.
"Emmett? What are you doing man?" I asked confused.
"I'm trying to wrap these presents." He said.
"Want some help with that?" I asked.
"Sure." He said.
I helped him wrap presents as Alice and Rosalie giggled enthusiastically about the presents. Edward was over at Bella's for Christmas Eve.
"Okay. All the presents are wrapped." Emmett said.
"Yay! Present time." Alice said.
"Okay. I wanna give mine first!" Rosalie said.
"Alrighty."Everyone agreed.
"Well. Here is my present to Jasper." Rosalie said handing me a tiny box with a red bow on it.
I opened it and inside I found a very nice D&G watch.
"Thank you Rosalie. You really didn't have too." I said.
"Yes I did. Now here is Emmett's Present." She said handing him a slightly larger box. When he opened it up inside the box were four new X-box games.
"Thanks so much!" He said.
"Your welcome. Now here is your present Alice." She said handing Alice a bag. Inside the bag Alice found something that made her face light up.
"You bought me lingerie?" Alice said smiling.
"Mhm, and inside the card there is a gift card to Victoria's secret." Rosalie said.
"Oh my Jesus. Thank you so much Rosalie. Now to find someone to use all this on." Alice said mischievously.
"Okay I wanna go next." I said. Everyone nodded.
"Here is Emmett's gift." I said handing him a box. He opened it and found Wii fit.
"Thanks man!" Emmett said.
"You're welcome, now here is Alice's gift." I said handing her a card. Inside she found a gift card to H&M her favorite store.
"Thanks so much." Alice said.
"Your welcome, Here is Rosalie's gift." I said handing her a box. She opened it up and inside she found a ring.
"Oh my Lord. Is this?" She said curiously.
"Yes. Will you marry me?" I asked.
"Of course I will!" Rosalie said excited.
"Thank God. Do you know how hard it was to keep that secret?" Alice said.
"You knew about this?" Rosalie asked.
"Of course I did. I was the first person Jasper came to." Alice said.
"Okay. My turn." Emmett said.
"Here is Alice's Gift." He said handing her a box. When she opened it she found a lambie blanket from Bath & Body works.
"Thank you Emmett!" She said.
"Your welcome. Now here is Jasper's Gift." He said handing me a card. Inside I found a Gift card to Barnes and Nobles.
"Thank you so much!" I said.
"Mhm. Now here is Rosalie's Gift." He said. He handed Rosalie a box. Inside she found a lambie blanket as well.
"Thank you Emmett." She said.
"No problem. I guess that leaves Alice's Gifts." Emmett said.
"Okay. Here is Rosalie's Gift." She said handing Rosalie a box. When she opened it she found Lingerie.
"Thank you so much Alice." Rosalie said.
"Your welcome, Now Emmett's Gift." She said handing him a bag. Inside was a football.
"Thank you Alice." He said.
"Your welcome. Now here is Jasper's Gift." She said as she handed me a box. Inside I found a Burberry scarf.
"Thank you so much." I said.
"Your welcome." She said.
Rosalie looked at me and said "I don't know about you….but I want to try out Alice's gift."
"That sounds like a great way to end the night." I said smiling.
A/n- Hey all. Sorry the writing sucks. Sorry this prolly sucks a lot. But I have major writers block and I need to get a Christmas chapter in. so I hope you like it even though you wont. Read and Review. =D


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Subaru BRZ shooting brake and WRX wagon unveiled in Tokyo
By Jake Lingeman
PASCALE CAMPICHE
Subaru surprised us at the Tokyo Motor Show with the Cross Sport Design shooting brake. The BRZ-based wagon looks ready to roll in a coat of matte gray paint.
To us, there's very little of the original BRZ look to the car. The front end looks bulkier and seems to sport a faux-skid plate for off-road use. The tires have a higher profile, and we're not too sure about the dark gray body cladding all around.
Motor Trend is reporting that the car is longer than its coupe cousin, but it weighs about the same. It's rear-wheel drive with a (miserable –ED) continuously variable transmission that Subie seems to be so into these days.
According to Motor Trend, it rides higher than the BRZ and sports a split tailgate in the back. We'd guess those giant tailpipes won't make it to production.
What are the chances of seeing two yellow Model T Speedsters lined up side by side?
Subaru also unveiled the Levorg at the show, a full-sized wagon that looks like a longer WRX. It gets two options for powertrains, a 1.6-liter DIT (direct-injection turbo) or a 2.0-liter DIT. The company's SI drive system, with sport and sport plus modes, hypothetically allows drivers to feel the CVT's imitation of gears shifting. Output is rated at 167 hp for the 1.6-liter and 295 hp for the 2.0-liter. Subaru claims the car will go into production in January and that it will be on sale this spring.
Subaru says the roof was kept low to enhance the silhouette from front to rear. The three-dimensional design features the hawkeye headlights that all of the company's concepts are now wearing. Subaru says it will be available in metallic blue-gray steel and pearl-crystal white, two colors that have never been offered before.
The Levorg gets electric power steering, which has been optimized for the wagon, a D-shaped steering wheel and a stiff suspension for agility. Subaru says the car is made for short jaunts on Japanese roads, but it will also suffice for a long road trip.
The Levorg gets Subaru's new group of safety features including pre-collision braking, lane-keeping assist and EyeSight, which looks for problems on the road ahead.
The production Levorg is scheduled to go on sale in the spring of 2014--no word on whether it will come here.
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Q: How to add a data dynamically from JSON array to HTML table using JQuery I have created a HTML table

 URL
 Total Hits
 Percentage of all Hits

and this is my json object array
json_object = None
json_object = {'url_name': url_name, 'total_count': entity.total,\
'url_id': url_id,
'percentage': percentage, 'facebook_count': entity.facebook_count,\
'twitter_count': entity.twitter_count, \
'buzz_count': entity.buzz_count, \
'linkedin_count': entity.linkedin_count, \
'digg_count': entity.digg_count,\
'delicious_count': entity.delicious_count,\
'reddit_count': entity.reddit_count}
json_array.append(json_object)

from  a java script im extracting the json object as follows
var json_array = data.json_array;
var table = document.getElementById('top_five_table');
var rowCount = table.rows.length;
var colCount = table.rows[0].cells.length;

I wont to populate my HTML Data table dynamically using Java script or JQuery and im so new to these two technologies. I do not know how populate the table dynamically . Can any one help?

A: The basics off this is below you will just need to change content to your data.
    //EQ The row off the table
    var row = $("#top_five_table tr").eq(1);

var i=0;
while (i<=3){
    //EQThe col off the table
        var col = $(row).find("td").eq(i).html("content");
i++;
}


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A riffing good time (and a review of "Starship Troopers")
On: January 15, 2016 January 18, 2016 By: Mark
If you are going to watch a bad movie, why not do it with laughs and commentary? It's hardly a new idea but it sort of went away in 1999 when Mystery Science Theater 3000 died on what was then the Sci-Fi Channel. You may have slept through the 1990s if you don't remember Joel Hodgson (1989 – 1993) and later Michael Nelson (1993 – 1999) and his crew of compatriot robots (Tom Servo, Crow and Gypsy) endlessly "riffing" (making fun of) bad movies from their "space station" usually parked on Comedy Central. You basically saw their silhouettes in the foreground while some dreadful movie generally from 1960 or earlier played in the background. Their wisecracking "live" commentary was usually great fun, and the films they "riffed" tended to be crap that the original producers didn't care were riffed, mainly because they were now dead.
It had a good ten-year run but it definitely became less entertaining when Hodgson left the show and Nelson took up his slack. You can still find MST3K (as it is commonly known to its fans) online at the Rifftrax site. Rather than ripping off these riffs, devoted fans will get the DVDs instead, including whole seasons.
Or if you are more interested in the personalities than in the robots and the silly staged setting aboard a space station, you can watch Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy at your local theater instead. No you don't watch them perform live, unless you are lucky enough to be in a city where they do this, but you can see their shows streamed live at many local theaters. You can also see rebroadcasts courtesy of Fathom Events. That's what we did last night with maybe a hundred others (mostly local college kids) at our local Cineplex in Hadley, Massachusetts, where we enjoyed a rebroadcast of their 2013 riff of Starship Troopers (1997).
In some ways I do miss the robots because the personalities behind MST3K are now fifty-plus with bellies that generally precede them, often by a considerable amount. Their funding comes from devoted fans that sponsored their Kickstarter campaign. Presumably they also make money from these remote broadcasts. Seeing these riffs in a theater actually is better than seeing them alone, as you are more likely to laugh along. The tickets were a bit pricey ($12.50 each for us) but well worth the price of admission. This rebroadcast was typical: Mike, Bill and Kevin provided commentary in pop up windows on the right side of the screen whilst the movie occupied the rest of the screen.
Many of these bad movies can stand by themselves as stinkers without the commentary. That was certainly the case with Starship Troopers. I would have preferred to see it first without the commentary, then have gone back to see it with the commentary. Wow! Starship Troopers is really quite a stinker, and that's not just because of all the oversized bugs that get dismembered! Allegedly based on the novel by the late Robert Heinlein, this is a movie only Donald Trump could love. That's because with a few exceptions it stars an all-Aryan cast of trim and handsome men and puffed-lipped beauties with flawless skin, mostly blondes. You get an odd combination of "talent" like Jake Busey as Ace Levy with his famous spiked Marine haircut, Neil Patrick Harris as Carl, Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico (perhaps the central character) and Dina Meyer as Dizzy who ends up in Johnny's squad fighting together.
It's hard to know when this convoluted plot is supposed to take place, but it's presumably at least a hundred years in the future. The "federation" (our world government, with a vaguely Nazi-like symbol) is apparently at war with distant bugs from other worlds. We send vast spaceships across the cosmos to do battle with them, but for the most part we send in storm troopers to dry class M planets who use machine guns at close range to destroy these oversized insects. Strangely enough, fighting in these wars seems to be optional, as is the case for our young heroes here, who fight to kill bugs and to become "citizens" as opposed to being a lesser boring "civilian".
What you get in this movie is weird vision of the future, shot in 1997 that epically fails to imagine what the future will look like. We still play football, but in indoor gyms with silver footballs where they keep score on 1990s technology dot matrix clocks. There are weird scenes of kids stomping on insects, Dizzy losing her lunch during biology class, where students dissect the insects from other worlds. Rue McClanahan in there in a bit part as their teacher wearing weird looking sunglasses. You also get an odd scene where teacher, also a veteran, points with the stub of his arm.
You get a space opera that basically makes no sense, but with tons of gore and CGI. These new recruits are off for the ride of their abbreviated lives, and that's because most of them will end up dead with insect stingers through their innards. I'll stick to being a civilian, thank you. You get a planet Earth apparently overwhelmingly Caucasian, even in Buenos Aires where the flaxen haired Johnny is apparently from. Given their short mortality, one can at least rise quickly in rank. It helps if you don't mind seeing lots of dismembered storm troopers or having your brains sucked out by these insects.
The plot basically makes no sense at all. Carmen (Denise Richards) wants to be a spaceship pilot but I guess they haven't invented shields yet. Worse, all these spacecraft stay in close proximity to each other, so they are frequently crashing into each other. Their tactics for defeating the bugs make no sense. It's clear their machine guns are not quite up to the task and only occasionally does their air force (space force?) drop a bomb. A brave trooper will occasionally get an opportunity to lob a grenade down a bug's throat, but mostly they are dismembered or pierced long before then. The bugs sure look lethal, but not so much if you are pretty. At the end of the movie Carmen gets a stinger through the chest but walks away firing back.
So Starship Troopers can stand on its own and doesn't need the riffers, but the MST3K crew keeps the one line commentaries coming so quickly it's hard to appreciate just how appalling this movie actually is. So lesson learned. Next time I got to one of these events, I'll try to see the movie first and then enjoy the movie with the riff, its own special art form worthy of enjoyment.
And we're likely to be going frequently as they release a new movie riff or a rebroadcast about once a month. It's a highly entertaining way to spend an evening with fellow bad movie compatriots and an opportunity to get out of the house. Fathom Events is clearly exploring a new revenue model for movie theaters that might just give live events some competition to these bloated Hollywood features.
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