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Alaska Oct 9, 2020 15:28:22 GMT
Post by nelson on Oct 9, 2020 15:28:22 GMT
"Democratic and Republican outside groups are flooding the state with new spending in the final four weeks of the campaign between GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democratic-backed independent Al Gross."
It's a money bomb': Parties rush to surprising Alaska Senate race
John Chanin
Post by John Chanin on Oct 9, 2020 16:12:53 GMT
Oct 7, 2020 21:03:25 GMT nelson said:
New House of Representatives poll by Alaska Survey Research (B/C rating) has Alyse Galvin ahead in her rematch against 87-year old Don Young, who has held the "biggest seat in the nation" since 1973.
Alyse Galvin (D) 48%
Don Young (R) 46%
It really is extraordinary how the USA is a gerontocracy
Alaska Oct 10, 2020 17:42:25 GMT Richard Allen, conservativeestimate, and 1 more like this
Post by curiousliberal on Oct 10, 2020 17:42:25 GMT
Oct 9, 2020 16:12:53 GMT John Chanin said:
Don Young has been shown trailing in polls before but seems relatively active for a member of Congress and I expect him to narrowly win again. He's at an age where most have retired but some are still capable of serving and is no ordinary Congressman himself.
The US is something of a gerontocracy, but no ordinary gerontocrat can get away with pulling a knife on a House Speaker when their initial attempt at pork-barrelling fails and then have said Speaker turn up to their wedding as a groomsman.
Alaska Oct 17, 2020 9:00:10 GMT
Post by Richard Allen on Oct 17, 2020 9:00:10 GMT
NYT / Siena College
Trump (R): 45
Biden (D): 39
Jorgenson (L): 8
Sullivan (R): 45
Gross (D): 37
Howe (AIP): 10
Young (R): 49
Galvin (D): 41
Given that this is Alaska the high third party votes could well be genuine.
Last Edit: Oct 17, 2020 9:01:04 GMT by Richard Allen
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only here for the boundary review
Alaska Oct 17, 2020 10:03:47 GMT via mobile nelson likes this
Post by minionofmidas on Oct 17, 2020 10:03:47 GMT
Oct 17, 2020 9:00:10 GMT Richard Allen said:
doubt that. this poll does show the incumbents overperforming Trump (in terms of margin) though which isn't really in line with the received chatter but strikes me as perfectly plausible.
Alaska Oct 17, 2020 10:53:53 GMT
Post by nelson on Oct 17, 2020 10:53:53 GMT
Native Alaskans are significantly underrepresented in the poll so it's likely too Trump/Sullivan friendly. Whereas Don Young has some native Alaskan support, esp. among older Natives, so that's less of an issue for him.
But no pollster has figured out how to poll Alaska accurately, so no need to take AK polling too seriously.
Post by Richard Allen on Oct 17, 2020 11:02:08 GMT
Oct 17, 2020 10:53:53 GMT nelson said:
Nate Cohn said before hand that he was nervous about polling Alaska due to the well known difficulties. They only did it because it edged out Kansas in a Twitter poll of which state people wanted them to poll.
Alaska Oct 17, 2020 11:03:58 GMT David Boothroyd, jamie, and 2 more like this
The poll was of 423 likely voters. It's a state that is difficult to poll. The pollster hasn't polled the state before.
No matter the methodology, that should tell you something about the poll.
Though the numbers don't look wholly unreasonable.
Alaska Oct 18, 2020 21:53:41 GMT curiousliberal likes this
My name is Inigo Pollster. You outvoted my candidate. Prepare to die.
Given recent trends in Alaska I find it unlikely that third party candidates will poll as low as 2-3%. The NYT/Siena polls probably overstate them but not be all that much.
Alaska Oct 28, 2020 7:19:15 GMT via mobile
Notoriously hard to poll for obvious reasons. The Senate and House races will be close but ultimately the Republicans will probably hold on as they usually do. Trump 51%, Biden 47%
Alaska Oct 29, 2020 18:03:18 GMT via mobile
Post by CatholicLeft on Oct 29, 2020 18:03:18 GMT
Gravis: Senate
Sullivan (R) 48%
Gross (I) 45%
0ther/unsure 7%
Young (R) 49%
Galvin (I) 44%
Trump (R) 52%
Biden (D) 43%
26th-28th October. 770 respondents. MoE 3.5%
The consensus seems to be that Trump is about 5-8% ahead here although it's a very hard state to poll.
Oct 29, 2020 18:03:18 GMT CatholicLeft said:
Point of order, Gross and Galvin both appear as Democrats on the ballot.
Oct 29, 2020 21:35:13 GMT Richard Allen said:
Point of Order accepted, although they emphasise their Independent status.
Alaska Nov 9, 2020 17:42:17 GMT via mobile
Post by iain on Nov 9, 2020 17:42:17 GMT
Alaska will begin counting its absentee ballots tomorrow. I'm not sure how long this is expected to take.
Nov 9, 2020 17:42:17 GMT iain said:
It will probably take quite a while to count them all but we probably won't need all that many to be counted before we can be certain that Trump, Sullivan and Young have all won.
Alaska Nov 10, 2020 9:59:24 GMT via mobile
Post by CatholicLeft on Nov 10, 2020 9:59:24 GMT
Dr Gross's team are expressing confidence, but I don't see it as it would require a remarkable percentage of this next set of ballots for him to close the gap. Be funny if he did, as it would really put the cat among the pigeons in the Senate.
Nov 10, 2020 9:59:24 GMT CatholicLeft said:
It is worth mentioning that the initial NYT estimate of 56% of ballots already being counted was wrong and the tally of absentee ballots cast in Alaska is estimated to be over 10,000 higher. Gross has only the slimmest of chances but they could break quite differently from the in-person votes and save his hide, although at this point I'd consider a Biden-Sullivan result more likely than Trump-Gross or Biden-Gross.
Alaska Nov 10, 2020 11:36:43 GMT No Offence Alan, iain, and 4 more like this
The absentees will clearly skew Democrat but as I said in another thread plenty of Republicans vote absentee in Alaska and have done for a long time. Gross's statement strikes me as either propaganda or the typical view of a political neophyte who has seen huge pro-Dem absentee margins elsewhere and thinks they will be replicated in his race. I would be genuinely astonished if the GOP don't end up winning all three races with relative ease.


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Prue's recipe for a glorious garden: The Great British Bake Off star opens her showstopping space in a new book of celebrity sanctuaries
A new book of celebrity sanctuaries reveals the secrets of the stars' gardens
Victoria Summerley and Hugo Rittson Thomas shared an extract
Prue Leith and others shared the inspiration behind their gardens
By Victoria Summerley And Hugo Rittson Thomas For Weekened Magazine
Published: 18:31 EST, 6 October 2017 | Updated: 18:31 EST, 6 October 2017
The people in our book may be familiar to most of us, but they are just like any other garden owners. They wage daily battles with slugs and they have weeds in the vegetable patch.
They may have a bit more cash, and yes, they might also be able to afford a bigger garden – thanks to decades of hard work, it should be pointed out – but it's all relative.
Walk down any road in the UK, whether it's on a council estate or in an affluent suburb, and you will see well-tended gardens and those that have been neglected. You soon realise that creating a good garden has nothing to do with money.
It's about having a vision and the determination and skill to bring that vision to fruition...
Prue's terrace and a bank of Rosa gallica 'Versicolor' in her home in Oxfordshire
PRUE'S RECIPE FOR A GLORIOUS GARDEN
Prue Leith
There were a number of reasons why chef and food writer Prue Leith decided to move to Oxfordshire 40 years ago, but the desire for a bigger, more beautiful garden was not among them. The main aim was to set up a duck farm. At the time, Prue was running her eponymous Michelin-starred restaurant, and one of the most popular items on the menu was duck.
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'We used to have to buy so much duck, and it was so expensive that I thought perhaps we could produce our own,' she explains. 'So we bought this old rectory plus a few acres of land with that intention in mind, but when we did the sums we realised that duck is expensive because it costs a lot to produce – you need thousands of ducks to justify the cost of a plucking machine and hand plucking was just not viable.'
Prue and her first husband, the late Rayne Kruger who died in 2002, decided to give up the idea of duck farming and simply enjoy the rural setting around their honey-coloured stone house, although they didn't make a garden in the conventional sense. Rayne wasn't keen on flowery gardens, apparently. 'He preferred grass, water and stone,' recalls Prue.
'So the only flowers I had were rosa mundi [Rosa gallica 'Versicolor'] below the terrace, where he couldn't see them if he looked out of the window.' This old rose, a red-and-white-striped variation on Rosa gallica var. officinalis, possesses a wonderful classic damask scent, but despite its antique origins it's a hardy, easy plant to grow.
Prue has lived in Oxfordshire for 40 years
There were other flowers on the site, but these were grown, along with vegetables, for the restaurant. Today, that pattern has been reversed. The large walled vegetable garden is now filled with ornamental plants, with pink achilleas in place of herbs and brassicas in the formal parterres, flanked by rows of standard Japanese cedars (cryptomeria). Prue still grows vegetables but they are protected from birds and other flying pests in fruit cages and cold frames.
The five-acre garden surrounds the house, with the kitchen garden, featuring a round window in the wall, on the east side. The Red Garden is also here, next to the kitchen itself, with herbs growing in pots outside the back door, saving the cook a walk to the kitchen garden.
There's a woodland garden brimming with hostas on this side too. To the west of the house, a box parterre planted with roses acts as a counterbalance to the kitchen garden, and beyond that there's a tunnel of 'Perle d'Azur' clematis and the rambling rose 'Sander's White'. At the back, you look out over a meadow towards the lake, which Prue and Rayne dug out when their children had learned to swim.
The garden is now more open than it used to be. A tall screen of holly and brambles surrounded the property to the west, but this has been cleared. To the east, a massive hedge of Lawson's cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) has also been drastically cut back. Prue's second husband, John Playfair, whom she married in 2016, is responsible for much of this work. Handy with a chainsaw, he has a good eye for landscape design and has opened up hitherto unseen vistas.
John has also built an impressive playground for the couple's mutual grandchildren, with zip lines, platforms and trapezes. On top of a grassy mound, on a seat made from an old tree stump, is the figure of a man. It's actually a prop, bought from the Royal Shakespeare Company during one of their decluttering sales.
Originally painted white, it's now black, and over the years it has lost most of its clothes. The figure was once used by Prue's children, Danny and Li-Da, in a prank to tease their father, whose study looked out from the house towards the lake. They positioned the figure with a rod to look like someone had wandered in and started fishing. 'The reaction was all we hoped for,' said Prue with a broad grin.
Although John plays his part, Prue is the main driving force in the garden, aided by her 'wonderful' gardener Malcolm. There is a sound, practical reason for everything she does, allied to a sense of design that combines flashes of flamboyancy with attention to detail.
Beside the kitchen, a stone pergola shelters a long table on the terrace that can seat up to 24 people. Apparently Rayne used to tease Prue, saying that for the price of building the pergola they could have flown 24 people to the south of France and given them lunch in a top restaurant. Friends and family are important to Prue.
The lake with its red pagoda part of the stunning landscape in Prue's expansive garden
She herself had no connection to Oxfordshire before she moved here, but her and Rayne's great friends Sir Peter Parker (the former chairman of British Rail) and his wife Jill had bought Manor Farm at Minster Lovell, near Burford, where they created a wonderful garden. 'Our husbands played tennis together, and we wanted somewhere that wasn't too far away,' says Prue. 'They were just 30 minutes drive from here. Our house is also close to Wiltshire, Somerset and Bath – all places I love to visit.'
John says Prue is the best colour coordinator he knows, and he has encouraged her use of colour in the garden, particularly hot shades, a taste that she attributes to her childhood in South Africa. The Red Garden, where the pergola is situated, bears testament to this. Prue has planted 'Bishop of Llandaff' dahlias, with their scarlet flowers and dark foliage; Crocosmia 'Lucifer', probably the most vibrant of all the montbretia; and the smoke bush, Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple', with its sultry maroon foliage.
The planting palette on the south-facing terrace includes cooler shades of blue and white, and a box parterre on the other side of the house features the rose 'White Pet', a dwarf shrub variety, originally bred from a variation of the rambler 'Félicité Perpétue', that produces clusters of pompom flowers.
Prue is a great believer in mulch – no less than 12cm on each planting area – and proudly shows off her extensive series of compost heaps. She mulches twice – with this general compost and with leafmould. Her philosophy is 'right plant, right place', pointing out that if the conditions are suitable, you can let the plant get on with it.
Prue's favourite job in the garden is a real hands-on task: sorting out a border by removing everything and putting it on a tarpaulin before dividing and replanting. She prefers to restrict annuals to pots, but admits that poppies are good for planting in borders. She loves the Ladybird types (Papaver commutatum 'Ladybird'), which have bright scarlet flowers with big black spots, like the insect after which they're named.
Like her garden, you could describe Prue's career as multicoloured, and in 1999 she fulfilled a long-held ambition to write fiction, publishing her first novel, Leaving Patrick. One of her subsequent novels, The Gardener, features a garden historian who goes to work for a millionaire. She says she had to curb her instincts to write a planting manual and force herself to focus on the love story to keep the publishers happy.
Perhaps this is what creative people value most, consciously or unconsciously, about their own gardens. In a world where agents, publishers, directors, managers or editors always want to change things, often for commercial reasons, there is an intense pleasure to be found in doing exactly what you want in your own backyard.
Griff Rhys Jones' has rows of lavender hedges in his delightful garden in Suffolk
A PASSION FOR TOPIARY AND TREES
Griff Rhys Jones
The garden at actor and TV presenter Griff Rhys Jones's home in Suffolk, where he lives with his wife Jo, overlooks the Stour Estuary. From here, the river snakes its way inland along the Essex/Suffolk border to the pastoral landscapes of Flatford Mill and Dedham Vale, immortalised by the painter John Constable. The garden's formal clipped hedges of box and yew, and its avenue of holm oaks (Quercus ilex), gradually give way to a more relaxed layout, with mown paths through wildflower meadows, where the garden blurs into the landscape.
Griff and his wife Jo in their charming garden
A lot of care has gone into working out vistas, so that in one direction you might have a view of the estuary, and in another, the house, its Suffolk-pink walls contrasting with the dark green of a knot garden and swathes of lavender.
Suffolk pink is thought to have been developed by cloth dyers who added blood from oxen or pigs to colour the limewash with which they painted their homes. The county doesn't have much in the way of quarries or brickworks, so building materials included flints from the fields, reeds, clay and timber, which were then covered in plaster or render. In the case of Griff's house, the clay with which it was built was in the backyard. 'The house came out of the pond,' as he puts it. The pond, dug to provide the building materials and water for livestock, has one shallow sloping side, which would have allowed cattle or horses to walk in and drink, and Griff and Jo say they still find horseshoes there.
The initial design for the garden was 'sketched out on the back of an envelope', according to Griff, but he and Jo have spent hours assessing the viewpoints and deciding on planting schemes. Griff got the idea of a holm oak avenue after seeing a picture of one in a gardening book.
The vegetable garden (which is Jo's domain) is laid out in box parterres, each devoted to different vegetables, such as broad beans, artichokes, asparagus, onions and pumpkins. But the main reason for the box hedging is that it masks the chicken-wire barriers installed to keep out rabbits.
The topiary shapes provide a pleasing formality and look good all year round. Griff insists the garden is low-maintenance – while the yew, box and holm oaks may need clipping once or twice a year, this is not nearly as labour-intensive as a herbaceous border.
The garden is split into compartments, each with a different character. It includes a pergola in one section that supports old-fashioned climbing roses, while the borders around it are filled with peonies, hardy geraniums, alchemilla, sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis) and veronica. Griff describes the garden as a 'sequence of events', and one great flowering event is the daffodil display in a field once rented by a Dutch bulb nursery. The nursery dug up the bulbs when they moved out, but some were left behind, and these have naturalised over the years, resulting in a river of cream-coloured flowers in spring.
The knot garden outside the house, which is painted in traditional Suffolk pink
A table that seats 24 beneath the pergola decorated with red lanterns
Griff loves growing fruit, and there are espalier pears, fig trees, a grapevine, medlars and apples here, though he has no idea which kind of apples because he and Jo bought rootstocks, which are much cheaper than grafted varieties. Rootstocks are usually supplied to nurseries, which then graft other varieties to them to produce trees of different sizes or apples with specific flavours or attributes, but left to themselves they will develop into mature fruit trees.
As well as the topiary trees, Griff has planted natives such as ash, oak, hawthorn and alder. Some were bought as mature specimens while others were whips (young unbranched tree seedlings). He and Jo are hands-on gardeners, and they've paid their dues in terms of earth-moving, planting and path-laying (mini-diggers are, apparently, great for removing turf).
Griff says gardening 'is all about having fun. When the weather's good, I like nothing better than being in the garden.'
AN OASIS OF CALM IN THE CITY
The garden of designer Cath Kidston is set in one of those extraordinary corners of London where the mood, light, architecture, noise and even smells change abruptly as you turn from one street into another.
Cath Kidston stands at the gate to her patch
She lives near a big roundabout with routes to two motorways and permanent queues of traffic. But for Cath the roundabout is a benefit, offering easy access out of London, while a tall building separating her from the main road provides a noise barrier. Stand in her back garden and all you can hear is birdsong.
The house is late-17th/early-18th century and the design of the outdoor space complements its generous proportions, with the main axis following a line that runs right through the house.
Cath and her husband, the record producer Hugh Padgham, bought the property in 2001, and in 2007 added a new kitchen extension and revamped the garden. The kitchen is modern and glazed on two sides, and Cath wanted the garden to echo this contemporary style. 'It is a luxury to have open space in London, and I was after something quite simple and airy,' she says.
She drew a sketch, then commissioned garden designer Brita von Schoenaich to make it a reality. There are actually three separate spaces: a back garden, a front garden and a river garden, which is across the road on the banks of the Thames. The back garden was challenging, because the lawn is not level, but slopes from side to side.
Brita's solution was to install paving slabs of different lengths extending into the lawn. The terrace and kitchen are laid with the same stone, blurring the line between inside and out. The 'bar chart' slabs fool the eye so completely, you're unaware of the slope until you get to the end of the garden and look back.
The orderly back garden that provides the designer with sanctuary from busy London life
Opposite the extension is an enormous London plane (Platanus x hispanica), with a wooden seat around its trunk. A rectangular canal crosses the entire width of the garden, with a shallow end for paddling and a longer, deeper end.
To see how the axis through the garden works, you have to go upstairs. From here, you can see that the path in the back garden lines up with the path in the front garden, which also lines up with the entrance to the river garden.
'I like order and symmetry,' Cath says, which may seem a surprising comment from a woman famous for florals. Flowers are at the heart of the fashion and textile empire she created, yet the only really flowery bit of the back garden is what she calls a 'jungly path'. In spring, it is a mass of dark tulips, which give way to a cottage-garden mixture of foxgloves, irises, euphorbia, rock roses and fennel. Honeysuckle and jasmine scramble up the old brick wall and in among the paving are clumps of Alchemilla mollis.
Beyond the canal is an orchard planted with quince, apple and cherry trees, a greenhouse bursting with pelargoniums, a vegetable patch, and a cutting garden full of dahlias that Cath uses to decorate the house. She is too busy to be a hands-on gardener but she has strong ideas about what should be planted, and a clear vision of the effect she wants to achieve.
The front and river gardens offering a spectacular view out onto the Thames
The front garden is more formal, with climbing roses and neat shrubs, including myrtle, honey spurge (Euphorbia mellifera), smokewood (Cotinus 'Grace'), black-leaved elder (Sambucus), and box topiary. Cath's gardener, Toby Davis, is proud that the garden has no box blight, which he puts down to good biosecurity. He disinfects his tools before trimming each of the plants, and keeps a separate set of shears for his individual clients.
One of Toby's biggest jobs is clipping the privet hedge that screens the river garden from the road and forms an arch around the gate. The river garden floods regularly at high tide – two or three times a month, says Toby – but the hedge doesn't seem to suffer at all.
Many people hate privet, either because they think it's boring, or they dislike the smell of the flowers. Others love the scent, saying it reminds them of summertime.
Behind the hedge, the river garden is mainly laid to lawn, with a willow tree that loves the damp conditions, and roses and philadelphus at the drier end. Grass, of course, is tolerant of flooding as long as it does not remain submerged for long periods. The seat hanging from the willow is perfect for watching the river traffic, which here is mainly leisure craft and rowing eights.
The Secret Gardeners: Britain's Creatives Reveal Their Private Sanctuaries by Victoria Summerley with photos by Hugo Rittson Thomas is published by Frances Lincoln, £30. To order a copy for £24 visit mailbookshop.co.uk or call 0844 571 0640, p&p is free on orders over £15. Offer valid until 21 October.
second extract from a new book of celebrity sanctuaries
Buttery escargot, mounds of chips, £2k red wine and clotted cream... super-healthy Victoria Beckham enjoys indulgent Paris date night with David
Sia looks like an average Jane as she trades her signature wig for sweats and a bare face just days after revealing adoption
'We're more friends than lovers': Nadine Coyle reveals her 11-year relationship with footballer Jason Bell came to an end 'naturally'

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We are in the second week of homeschool. This year I opted for Sonlight. The advantage of a pre-planned curriculum was very appealing. Let's just say that last year I sufficiently deluded myself with the idea of creative planning, solely by me. It was pretty cool, picking and choosing from this book and that, but I wondered if I really accomplished everything. And, at least this way, if I follow the plan, I feel confident we will cover everything neccesssary for third and fifth grade.
The books you read in this program,(we selected American History, 1850-present), are wonderful. We are reading Mocassin Trail, and Around the Great Horn Spoon to start. It's a refreshing change from Captain Underpants. We also are doing Teaching Textbooks math for my fifth grader. This is a highly recommended, (by the homeschool/educational experts of at least a couple of websites). It's the colorful graphics that my child loves, perfect for boys. And My youngest is doing Horizon Math, also highly recommended.
I usually spend half my computer time in June or July looking up reviews of these different homeschool curriculum. One of my favorites is the Old Schoolhouse website. Although the reviews seem thorough, they are lengthy. For more concise, actual user reviews, go to www.homeschoolreviews.com. I prefer that one.
We have changed from an actual Spanish class to Rosetta Stone, or rather we will begin Rosetta Stone as soon as it arrives, after I order it. I am giving my credit card a little time to recuperate.
My husband really wants to spend a month in San Miguel de Allende, in Mexico. It's one of our most favorite places on earth; really beautiful, really foreign and close to the U.S. And, its 72 degrees year around. Not to mention, the whole town has been declared a national monument, meaning there are no high rises, but instead, beautifully preserved hacienda hotels and villas. They have Spanish immersion classes, art, music and writing classes at the Bellas Artes. Very awesome. That's my official excuse for procrastinating the start of Spanish this year.
We have a great area we dedicate to homeschooling. It's home to two Red-Eared Sliders, a baby Box Turtle and a Ball Python. That pretty much defines our "Science Area". We use Noeo Science, Biology II. We will finish most of it this year (we started last year), but then will begin Noeo Chemistry II. There are lots of colored pictures, internet links, etc.
In addition to Science, we have a Math area, writing area and a "hands on" area. I was inspired by the Montessori method and it works partly because I have children in two different grades. This way, they can do different subjects, in an interesting way, without disrupting the other child.
Oh, and if you want to join us in San Miguel de Allende, sometime this year, check out Mansion del Bosque. It's a great hotel, with an expatriate owner. She's about 80 years old, doesn't look a day over 65 and her place is reasonably priced, spotless and the food is great!
Its hard to believe that summer is over. The dragonflies days are numbered, even here in Georgia. No more sleeping until 10:21 a.m. ,on the weekdays anyway.
Because we homeschool, I suppose we could sleep that late every day. But, there's a certain satisfaction in doing all your work, starting at the same time as all other students, and finishing three hours earlier.
The very best thing about homeschooling though, is not doing math barefoot,at your kitchen table. It's not picking out every book your child will read this year, or finishing school work in four and a half hours. It's not declaring Backwards Day, or Friday Fun Day, or going to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell instead of reading about it in a classroom. It's not even Spanish at IHOP. The most fantastic thing is the time you get to spend with your children, instead of sending them away for seven hours a day.
I feel very blessed to have this opportunity. And, I am also happy that I am not running two businesses while homeshooling, (like last year), when I was the proprietor of an inn AND a restaurant. I found that as much as I loved the business I'd built, it seemed to keep me more and more focused on everyone except my family. I would arrange these fabulous dinner parties for 40 people with steak and asparagus, etc. And my family was next door eating mac and cheese. I'd arrange beautiful flowers for the main house, make sure every room was picture perfect, while my own house was an absolute mess. But more than anything, it seemed that my babies were growing up so, so fast. I was afraid I'd turn around and they'd be sixteen.
So, my husband and I sold the whole thing, including our house, to the new owners, and really de-stressed my existence. I only regret that I didn't do it five years ago. Don't get me wrong, I loved the challenge and adventure of building a business. I was driven. But somewhere in there, I had an epiphany. I suddenly saw with absolute clarity, it's all about your family and the everyday little things. I mean, it's really only about the little things. That's where the big things are. The things we strive for, the extra stuff that's acquirable, layawayable, and consumable are all smoke and mirrors. They can't make your heart sing. The really great stuff is within an armslength. There's a miracle in every day, just waiting for discovery and I don't want to miss one spiderweb with dew.
I want to be the one to explain the 2008 Presidential Election, the Olympics, and the clash in Russia. I want to read my children, Little House in the Big Woods. I want to "look at the lizard crawling up the tree by the front porch", admire temporarily captive baby toads, discuss Batman vs. Ironman, and be able to leave with 30 minutes notice, and go anywhere out of town.
I want to just hang out and soak up every tiny bit of my children growing up. The most incredible experience in the world.
Washington D.C. was an incredible experience. After spending a sleepless night on Amtrak, (more on that later), we arrived at the Omni Shoreham. We had an enormous suite, with two queen beds, great linens, a separate area for lounging, two flat screen t.v.s, another more remote area with a marble bath. It was really great. They even had the keys ready for check-in, without going through the front desk. And, of course, my husband was ready to go as soon as we got there. So, napless, we showered, changed and were off to the Smithsonian, the National Mall, etc. Only after 4 hours of walking around Washington did I get back to the hotel for a nap. Twenty minutes after we arrived, a knock at our door and a tray of ice cold milk and chocolate chip cookies, compliments of the Shoreham! That happened every day for the kids. Nice touch and they looked forward to it too. And I had a great nap!
Washington has so many great places. We ate across from the Shoreham every night. One night, Italian, next night Lebanese, then Greek. Then we went across to Baskin Robins. It was totally a multicultural experience, including the caramel sundae.
We saw everything from the National Mall, Lincoln Monument, every museum in Washington, the National Portrait Gallery, where I decided Reagan's pencil portarit in his jeans was one of my favorite's, followed by Clinton and Roosevelt. Of coures, by this time, (around 5 p.m.), my youngest was rolling around on the floor, nomatter who I pointed out to him and even though they had a presidential video playing, he wanted to go swimming. We even saw the Spy Museum, it was very cool. You name it, we walked to it and saw it. I think Washington was the kids' favorite stop. I highly recommend the Shoreham. But wherever you stay, make sure you are near their metro. It's so easy to hop on and off, even if you aren't used to it. It's cheap too.
One more thing, if you are shopping for a hotel, try to book early. Some hotels were 150.00 more per night, than they were a month earlier. And try more than one web site; Expedia, Hotels.com and the hotel's own website. Many times, when I called the hotel directly, I got the best rate, (the "best available rate" is usually cheaper than the AAA rate, who kew?).


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Sorry, But Your Browser Password Manager Probably Isn't Enough
Posted by Dave Cahill on Aug 30, 2016 in Privacy, Security News, Tips & Tricks
Written by Brian Barret / Courtesy of Wired.com
As you navigate through Chrome, or Safari, or Firefox, or whatever your browser of choice is, you're often given an enticing option: Would you like us to save your password? A recent browser beach is a reminder that if you answer yes, you're taking a risk.
Late last week, the browser Opera confirmed a successful attack on its systems. The hackers were likely able to access personal information, company developer Tarquin Wilton-Jones wrote in a post announcing the breach, "including some of our sync users' passwords and account information."
Opera sync is that browser's version of the feature that helps you coordinate passwords across devices. Save your Facebook password in Chrome or Safari or Opera on your desktop, and it'll be there waiting for you on the mobile versions of those devices, as long as you're logged in. While Opera says it encrypts all passwords it stores, it still reset all Opera sync account passwords, and asked people to reset passwords for third-party sites as well, "as a precaution."
Of Opera's 350 million users, only 1.7 million used sync in the last month, meaning the fallout is likely limited. The incident is a reminder, though, that while browser-based password syncing can be a terrific time-saver, it's not a replacement for more serious security hygiene.
The issue isn't that what happened to Opera will necessarily happen elsewhere; that's a concern, but it's not something that's likely to be repeated at companies with more security resources at their disposal, like Google or Apple. The real concern is that while these browser-based password managers make life more convenient, they may offer a false sense of security. In fact, for the most part, it's not at all clear how secure any of them really is.
"The cryptography details and implementation details should at least be documented somewhere, but they're not," says Evan Johnson, a systems engineer at CloudFlare who has studied password managers. "Chrome says 'Your passwords are always encrypted,' but this doesn't say a whole lot," says Johnson. Safari and Firefox aren't much better.
Neither, for that matter, is Opera, which makes it difficult to assess the scope of the damage of last week's hack. "Little is known about how Opera's password synchronization is implemented," says Jérôme Segura, an analyst with Malwarebytes. "Users have to put their trust in the only developers that have full access to the code."
If you were buying a safe, you'd want to know at least something about how secure its mechanisms are. For password managers, you mostly have to go on reputation. "It's hard to say if any other company is doing a better job at protecting stored passwords because all we have to go by are their claims," says Mark Burnett, author of Perfect Passwords. "It's impossible as outsiders for us to truly know who is more secure or who will get hacked next."
The Price of Convenience
Even if the company was more transparent, though, the central problem would remain: Browsers can do a lot to keep your password safe, but that security is always going to be a secondary focus. These features exist to make your life easier, not safer. (It's the same old convenience-versus-security problem that plagues so much of our digital lives.)
"I think storing passwords with the browser is a bad idea with the ecosystem in place today. Browser password managers have not evolved much over the last five to eight years," says Johnson.
That's not to say they've been stagnant; Chrome, in particular, has recently taken important steps to improve its Chrome Password Manager. Last year, as part of its Smart Lock suite of features, Google introduced passwords.google.com, a central place where you can manage what passwords Chrome keeps. Access to the site is protected by two-factor authentication. Smart Lock also lets you skip the log-in process entirely with some apps, if you choose to activate that setting.
There is at least one potential benefit to this approach, however, according to Lorrie Cranor, FTC chief technologist and Carnegie Mellon computer science professor. She says that relying on your browser is at least better just reusing passwords. "You are likely to find out pretty quickly if there is a security problem with your browser password storage," Cranor says. "If you use the same passwords everywhere, you might not find out that one of the places you use your password had a breach."
But the biggest problem with browser-based password storage is that it doesn't require strong passwords. If it did, the value equation would be different. The Opera breach is the only public example so far of a hack like this; the vulnerabilities, at least on a large scale, otherwise remain hypothetical. The scourge of weak passwords, however, is very real.
"Browsers are still missing all of the usability features that really help normal people have good password hygiene," says Johnson. "Random password generation, weak password hunting, password reuse, etc. Browsers do not do this at all, and it's a huge source of value for end users."
In fact, just one strong password—usually required to access the other passwords in a browser storage system—may be enough to help users even in a case like Opera. "Although it's very concerning seeing a major web browser developer experience a breach like this, the passwords themselves are probably safe if you have a strong master password," says Burnett.
Still, experts recommend the use of a dedicated password manager, like LastPass, 1Password, or Dashlane. If they store your information in the cloud, they can still be breached—researchers unearthed a handful of LastPass vulnerabilities earlier this summer—but at least they can help you create, and keep, better passwords.
"I think there can be a fair trade-off when it comes to security versus convenience, and online password managers are better suited than browser-based ones," says Segura, who argues that it's largely a matter of focus; browsers have to support many interweaving parts, while password managers have a singular focus that leads to a more secure result.
If you use Opera sync, hopefully you've already changed your passwords by now. But for anyone else letting your browser share your password across devices, consider this a modest warning. Your digital life is easier than ever, but still not as safe as it should be.


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Cibachrome Prints: Elusive and Beautiful
Cibachrome is the Moby Dick of rare photographic printing processes. Many a Captain Ahab has gone trolling through deep waters in search of the scarce paper and chemicals that are needed to produce these sought after prints. After the chemistry needed to create Cibachrome was discontinued a few years ago, some photographers squirreled away enough supplies to last a few years in large freezers. When this hoard runs out, no new Cibachromes can be printed.READ ENTIRE ARTICLE
Noatak Rainbow, 1997
Cibachrome, which later came to be known as Ilfochrome, after the Ilford Company bought the process, is a dye destruction positive-to-positive photographic process used to reproduce film transparencies (slide film) on photographic paper. What makes Cibachrome unique is that instead of having a traditional paper base, Cibachrome prints are made on a stable polyester base. It also uses 13 layers of Azo dyes sealed in the polyester base. Most papers have a surface that is coated with an emulsion. Cibachrome's design lessens the chances that prints will fade, discolor or deteriorate for an extended time, according to archival experts.
Sumac Along the Chattahoochee, 1987
Robert Glenn Ketchum, whose work can be seen in this post and additional images on his artist page, is one of several well known landscape photographers who value Cibachrome's ability to faithfully reproduce the images captured on slide film in the pre-digital era. Natal Rainbow, 1997, Blossoms in the Twilight, 1986, Sumac Along the Chattahoochee, 1987 and The Te-conic Parkway, North to Albany #27, 1983 are but a few examples.
As an environmental activist, Ketchum feels that his photographs must reflect the grandeur of nature with few embellishments. Since Ketchum regularly takes on projects that defy the interests of big business and industry, his work must be a realistic document of the land he is trying to preserve. At a recent symposium at the Booth History Museum in Georgia, Ketchum said his photographs can not be open to charges of manipulation.
Blossoms in the Twilight, 1986
Though Cibachrome's complicated history of ownership and production, is too lengthy to elaborate on completely, here are some of the basics. Hungarian scientist Dr. Bela Gaspar created Gasparcolor, the dye bleach process upon which the Cibachrome process was originally based, in 1933. Gasparcolor was used primarily in animation and for United States military reconnaissance photography during World War II.
Though Gaspar turned down many offers to sell the rights to his process, after his death, his associate, Paul Dreyfus, later developed the process for a Swiss company called Ciba AG, according to the book, Frozen Moments by Richard C. Miller. Ciba acquired Ilford in 1969,
and sold it to International Paper in 1989.
In 1992 the product was renamed "Ilfochrome".
Eventually, like many other analog processes, Cibachrome and most of the slide films it was printed from, have given way to digital capture and ink jet printing. Unlike other art forms such as painting or sculpture, the availability of photographic materials has often been driven by the consumer market. Cibachrome was always more in the provenance of professional and fine art photographers because it is difficult and time consuming to use.
In our current digital era, slide films and Cibachrome printing have been come almost as rare as sightings of the great white whale.
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Cibachrome was a miserably difficult process to print but the results could be remarkable. I have a handful of prints I made years ago and treasure them. There were also a lot of bad Cibachromes made and shown because, unlike dye transfer, it was not hard to make a Cibachrome. But not so easy to make good one.
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Jamie is angry. As the episode opens he's desperately trying to help Prince Charles convince his generals that it's worthwhile to press on to London (since winning at Prestonpans, the Jacobites have taken large parts of northern England). The generals are completely against the idea, dismissing Jamie's arguments and refusing to stand with the Prince. Isn't that mutiny? The Prince is devastated, for all his efforts he only has one man standing by him...and that man has an ulterior motive: to change history.
The next morning, Dougal brings news that they are to go on ahead to Inverness, ostensibly to set up lodging and provisions for the rest of the army…but really just to get rid of Jamie, who the generals think is too close to the Prince. Said Prince has already been spirited out during the night - taking Jamie's horse. (Sorry Charlie, you just lost any sympathy I had for you!)
So Clan Fraser start back north through some gorgeous scenery. I'm not sure why the director had the horses walk in slow motion for the first couple of shots, I guess they were conserving their strength for the later race through the woods. That was fun, I love when actors get to show off some of their skills; here we had our leads really riding real horses at real speeds.
During the chase, Rupert is shot in the eye. They hide out in a small chapel, where Claire is able to remove the musket ball and sew him up (those Highlanders are tough!), but the British find them anyway. Against Jamie's better judgement, Claire offers herself up in another "save me from these brutes" scenario. Being men of honour, the British agree - not knowing that the notorious "Red Jamie" is with them. (Sam Heughan was spot-on throughout this scene, culminating in the look on Jamie's face as he handed Claire to Dougal: it was taking everything he had not to grab her back.)
Jamie and Murtagh head out to rescue Claire...who is being taken to a "big house owned by a rich Englishman" instead of the garrison they expected. The Englishman turns out to be one of Claire's least favourite person: the Duke of Sandringham (not sure why his estate is nowhere near Sandringham...) However, he plays nice - for now - and convinces Claire he also needs rescuing, since he's sort of under house arrest for being a suspected Jacobite sympathiser. With the help of the Duke's messenger and Jamie's friend, beggar Hugh Munro, they get word to Jamie.
Earlier, Jamie recited a touching Gaelic prayer to Claire as she slept, asking for her protection. Gaelic is usually not subtitled (the audience is supposed to be in the same boat as Claire: not understanding it) but this was. The writer of this episode said that in this instance, she wanted the audience to know what Jamie was saying. Apparently Claire thinks she's learned Gaelic though, a notion quickly dispelled by Murtagh as he and Jamie try to decipher the note she sends them. However, it did give us one of the best lines of the episode: "She's even misspelled 'help'".
Meanwhile, the dastardly Duke has double-crossed Claire: seeing a way to get back in the British army's good graces, he's told them to expect Red Jamie. Things slide further downhill when it turns out he was the one who arranged the attack on Claire & Mary in Paris, as payment for a debt to the Comte. Claire is locked in her room, but later let out by Mary (who is conveniently also at the house, being the Duke's goddaughter). Claire comes up with a plan - which a babbling Mary initially bails on - and ends up stuck in the kitchen with the Duke. Mary finally does her part, nearly gets caught, and is escorted into the kitchen by the Duke's servant (who also happens to be her rapist), Danton. At that moment Jamie and Murtagh burst in to rescue them. Everyone is yelling and waving weapons and fists about, and as the truth comes out about the attack in Paris. Mary gets her revenge by stabbing Danton.
Murtagh never had much use for the Duke anyway - and the guilt he's been harbouring over not being able to to stop what happened to Claire and Mary pushes him to the limit. With a few swings of the axe, the Duke's head is separated from his body. A fitting end to the character, although Simon Callow played the simpering, duplicitous Duke of Sandringham perfectly. [There's a wonderful shot of the actor grinning as he holds up his 'severed head'...a masterful job by the prosthetics department!]
Everyone is stunned into silence as Murtagh kneels and presents the dripping head to the ladies, proclaiming "I kept my word, I lay your vengeance at your feet." Alrighty then! Quite the ending...and much better than the Duke's 'offscreen' decapitation in the book.
I rarely comment here on the books, I always try to consider and enjoy books and show separately. But this week was unique - because the script for 211 was written by Diana Gabaldon (yes, the book's author). To this book reader, it was very apparent: there were a few fleeting times I felt as though I was seeing the dialogue on a page, instead of hearing the actors say it. This didn't take away from the experience of the show at all, instead it was like a lot of little easter eggs: Claire describing to Rupert what pirates are like; Jamie's comment to Claire about being a bad liar and the truth showing all over her face (something he does often in the books) are just a couple of those moments. I was also pleased that two characters who died during these events in the book, were still breathing at the end of this episode.
Of course that may change again next week!
Julie is a British-Canadian, currently living in Toronto. She enjoys walking, reading, wishes she had a TARDIS & believes aliens are probably already here. When it comes to TV "It's all about the characters!" You can follow her on Twitter @JulieChaston
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Under new ownership, O'More College renamed Franklin Grove Estate & Gardens
By Cole Gray | 9:00 am April 11, 2019 CDT Apr 9, 2019
The Franklin Grove Estate & Gardens. Photo by Cole Gray, Community Impact Newspaper.
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Since it was acquired by the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County, the O'More College of Design at 423 South Margin Street, Franklin is now known as the Franklin Grove Estate & Gardens.
The historic campus will be restored by the Foundation to be used for private events, educational tours and an entrepreneurship center.
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The In-Laws offers a humorous look at the perils of combining two families in the holy bonds of matrimony.
Why is The In-Laws rated PG-13? The MPAA rated The In-Laws PG-13 for suggestive humor, language, some drug references and action violence.
The In-Laws may well be what Michael Douglas was attempting to achieve in his recent film It Runs in the Family. While both storylines include less than perfect parents trying to make things right with their children, The In-Laws focuses less on drama and offers instead a humorous look at the perils of combining two families in the holy bonds of matrimony.
Only days away from their marriage ceremony, Mark Tobias (Ryan Reynolds) and his fianc0xE9e Melissa (Lindsay Sloan) have yet to introduce his dad to her parents. Although the effort has been made countless times, Steve Tobias (Michael Douglas) is about as unpredictable as weather due to business commitments. Showing up suddenly and then disappearing without warning, he is constantly changing their plans. It's a lifestyle that has already cost him his marriage to Judy (Candice Bergen) and strained his father/son relationship with Mark. Melissa's father, Jerry (Albert Brooks), on the other hand is an orderly and meticulous podiatrist whose rather bland life is scheduled to run in a neat little circuit.
Finally, at Steve's suggestion, the betrothed couple and proposed in-laws all meet for dinner in a seedy part of town where the illusive businessman seems to know everyone. Already pushed outside his comfort zone by the food and unsavory atmosphere, Jerry starts to question the suitability of his daughter's future father-in-law when he overhears Steve engaged in a sexually suggestive conversation. His suspicions are confirmed when he stumbles into a scuffle during a visit to the men's bathroom.
Shortly however, the timid foot doctor, outfitted with his fanny pack, discovers his ability to deal with uncertainty when Steve reveals he is an undercover CIA agent. Dragging Jerry into an explosive and highly secretive smuggling operation, Steve introduces the mild-mannered medic to a world full of intrigue, suspense and a notorious, international villain, Jean-Pierre Thibodoux (David Suchet). With bullets flying and stakes rising, Jerry gets a firsthand look at the wilder side of life.
Remade from a 1970s film, the apprehensions about future family connections and overblown reception arrangements provide plenty to laugh at in this well-paced and engaging script. Unfortunately, The In-Laws also embraces content issues that will cause many parents concern. Graphic shootings and thug violence are paired with suggestive sexual comments, tiny bikinis, a homosexual kiss and recurring profanities. Alcohol, served at parties and at home, results in at least one drunk character and references are made to illegal drugs.
Despite all the glitz and glamour of this couple's big day, this is one bridal party families may be cautious about attending.
Comedies sometimes include content that appears to be too oppressive for the mood of the movie. Did this film include some of these scenes? How does a writer pace a script to engage the various emotions of the audience?
How difficult would it be for a highly trained spy to maintain a normal kind of life with a spouse and family? What other kinds of occupations are difficult on family relationships?
Ceremony preparations get out of control when a wedding planner is hired to help out in Father of the Bride. A mousy ticket taker is mistaken for an injured man's fianc0xE9e in the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping.


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Q: iOS7 barcode scanner API adds a Zero to UPCA barcode format Scanning this (https://www.barcoderobot.com/static/bcgen/01026/478064310081_3b120.jpg?preview=True) barcode we should obtain the following result: 47806431008
Using the iOS7 api to read the barcodes, I have the following result: 047806431008
Any ideias how to deal with this?
part of the code:
CGRect highlightViewRect = CGRectZero;
AVMetadataMachineReadableCodeObject *barCodeObject;
NSString *detectionString = nil;
NSArray *barCodeTypes = @[AVMetadataObjectTypeUPCECode, AVMetadataObjectTypeCode39Code, AVMetadataObjectTypeCode39Mod43Code,
                          AVMetadataObjectTypeEAN13Code, AVMetadataObjectTypeEAN8Code, AVMetadataObjectTypeCode93Code, AVMetadataObjectTypeCode128Code,
                          AVMetadataObjectTypePDF417Code, AVMetadataObjectTypeQRCode, AVMetadataObjectTypeAztecCode];

for (AVMetadataObject *metadata in metadataObjects) {
    for (NSString *type in barCodeTypes) {
        if ([metadata.type isEqualToString:type])
        {
            barCodeObject = (AVMetadataMachineReadableCodeObject *)[_prevLayer transformedMetadataObjectForMetadataObject:(AVMetadataMachineReadableCodeObject *)metadata];
            highlightViewRect = barCodeObject.bounds;
            detectionString = [(AVMetadataMachineReadableCodeObject *)metadata stringValue];
            break;
        }
    }

    if (detectionString != nil)
    {
        [_session stopRunning];
        [self scanResult:detectionString];
        break;
    }

A: In case anyone interested in for the swift version.
Swift 3.1:
guard let barcodeReadable = barcodeData as? AVMetadataMachineReadableCodeObject else {
    return
}

guard var barcode = barcodeReadable.stringValue else {
    return
}

if barcodeReadable.type == AVMetadataObjectTypeEAN13Code && barcode.hasPrefix("0"){
    let index = barcode.index(barcode.startIndex, offsetBy: 1)
    barcode = barcode.substring(from: index)
}

A: I found the problem. Apple just convert every UPC-A barcode to EAN13 just by adding a leading zero.
The solution is to verify if the barcode is EAN13 and if the string result have a leading zero is safe to remove it and obtain a UPC-A barcode.
if(detectionString!=nil){
    if([metadata.type isEqualToString:AVMetadataObjectTypeEAN13Code]){
        if ([detectionString hasPrefix:@"0"] && [detectionString length] > 1)
            detectionString = [detectionString substringFromIndex:1];
    }
}

Link to Apple technical note: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2325/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40013824-CH1-IS_UPC_A_SUPPORTED_
More information in: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=pos1R1002813

According to the Uniform Code Council, an EAN-13 barcode that begins with a zero is, by definition, a 12-digit UPC-A barcode. To follow this rule, when a scanner device reads an EAN-13 barcode beginning with a zero, it drops the leading 0, truncates the barcode to 12 digits and appends the UPC-A (instead of EAN-13) indicator to the label, before passing the label to the Operating System. Therefore, the Operating System has no way to recognize that this UPC-A label that was passed to it by the scanner device was initially an EAN-13 label beginning with a zero.

A: As Sandro and Gunhan wrote:

The solution is to verify if the barcode is EAN13.

This code will work for Swift 4.2 version:
if let metadataObject = metadataObjects.first {
        guard let readableObject = metadataObject as? AVMetadataMachineReadableCodeObject else { return }
        guard var stringValue = readableObject.stringValue else { return }

        if readableObject.type == AVMetadataObject.ObjectType.ean13 && stringValue.hasPrefix("0"){
            let index = stringValue.index(stringValue.startIndex, offsetBy: 1)
            stringValue = String(stringValue[index...])

        }

A: Verified solution in swift version 5.0 with better way to drop zero string.
guard !metadataObjects.isEmpty else { return }

guard let metadataObj = metadataObjects[0] as? AVMetadataMachineReadableCodeObject,
  var barcode = metadataObj.stringValue,
  metadata.contains(metadataObj.type)
  else { return }

var type = metadataObj.type.rawValue

if metadataObj.type == AVMetadataObject.ObjectType.ean13 && barcode.hasPrefix("0") {
  barcode = String(barcode.dropFirst())
  type = AVMetadataObject.ObjectType.upca.rawValue
}

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package com.navercorp.pinpoint.profiler.context.id;

import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.context.TraceId;

/**
 * @author Woonduk Kang(emeroad)
 */
public interface TraceIdFactory {

    TraceId newTraceId(long localTransactionId);

    TraceId continueTraceId(String transactionId, long parentSpanId, long spanId, short flags);

}


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Sujatha Fernandes reviews 'Known and Strange Things' by Teju Cole
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Sujatha Fernandes
Published in November 2016, no. 386
Known and Strange Things
by Teju Cole
Allen & Unwin $29.99 pb, 385 pp, 9780571331390
In the opening piece of his book of collected essays, the novelist and photography critic Teju Cole feels briefly possessed by the spirit of James Baldwin who, like him, travelled outside the United States as a black writer. In every encounter, from rural Switzerland to Palestine, Rome, Rio, and Moscow, we are privy to Cole's vantage as an embodied black subject: his seeking out of African vendors in the Lapa district of Rio, the looks he receives in Zurich, the sceptical anti-colonial instinct he brings to the museums in Rome's Capitoline Hill.
Unlike Baldwin, Cole is not descended from slaves. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he returned with his Nigerian parents to Lagos at five months of age. He studied at college in Kalamazoo and later made his base in New York City. The essays in the book grapple with the complex notions of home for subjects like Cole who traverse cosmopolitan circuits. Like many of us who have made lives in New York City, he calls the city home even when not living there. Throughout his travels, Cole considers and reconsiders what counts as home, describing it as both a location and a state of being.
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Sujatha Fernandes is a Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney. She was formerly a Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of several books and articles on Caribbean cultural politics, hip hop culture, and global social movements. Her new book, Curated Stories: How storytelling is hindering social change, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2017.
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'Catastrophic' Hurricane Dorian intensifies into Category 5 storm
By Justin Wise and Zack Budryk - 09/01/19 08:16 AM EDT
Hurricane Dorian has been upgraded to a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm, the National Hurricane Center announced Sunday.
The hurricane center said on Twitter that Dorian had "devastating" 160 mph sustained winds as it headed toward the Bahamas.
It also warned of a "life-threatening storm surge and very heavy rainfall" in the area of the Abaco Islands, east of southern Florida.
Dorian is expected to make landfall in the region Sunday.
NEW: #Dorian is now a category 5 #hurricane with 160 mph sustained winds. The eyewall of this catastrophic hurricane is about to hit the Abaco Islands with devastating winds. Next advisory: https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB pic.twitter.com/oFspgN0XbT
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 1, 2019
Much of Florida's east coast is now under a tropical storm warning. The storm is projected to slow and head northward as it nears the state, potentially resulting in hurricane-force winds for parts of the Florida coast by midweek, according to the hurricane center.
"Residents should have their hurricane plan in place, know if they are in a hurricane evacuation zone and listen to advice given by local emergency officials," the center said Sunday morning.
"There is an increasing risk of strong winds and dangerous storm surge along the coasts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina later this week," it added. "Residents in these areas should continue to monitor the progress of Dorian."
Florida landfall also remains a "distinct possibility," the center said.
Tourists in the Bahamas have been evacuated to government shelters in schools and churches, according to NBC News.
Residents, meanwhile, have boarded up their homes and, in some cases, have been moved to larger islands from low-lying areas by boat. Grand Bahama and Great Abaco are home to about 70,000 people in all.
This report was updated at 8:37 a.m.
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'90s Boy Band Members Recorded A Song For Nick Carter's Zombie Movie
Ali Szubiak
Ali Szubiak Published: March 28, 2016
Nick Carter's upcoming zombie western Dead 7 is set to air later this week (April 1), and it's gearing up to be a late '90s/early '00s dream come true.
Not only are long-forgotten boyband members starring in the film, but they came together to record a new song for it, too.
Nick Carter, A.J. McLean and Howie Dorough from Backstreet Boys, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC, Jeff Timmons from 98 Degrees and Erik-Michael Estrada from O-Town joined forces to record "In The End." It's a harmony-heavy call back to the boy bands of yesteryear, and totally perfect in this specific context. Stream the track, and download a free MP3 here.
"Think about it," Carter said about the movie in an interview with BuzzFeed. "Boy-banders, people from the late '90s, people who you love, fighting zombies in a post-apocalyptic world. Pretty crazy, right?"
Yes, it is pretty crazy.
PEOPLE reports that Joey Fatone will play sidekick to Carter's protagonist and hero and AJ McLean will appear as the "apprentice to the main villain."
In further good news, Carter reportedly worked closely with The Asylum, the production company behind the endlessly engaging and GIF-able Sharknado franchise, ensuring that the movie will be entertaining, if nothing else.
Be sure to catch Dead 7 when it airs on SyFy on April 1 and head over to BuzzFeed to listen to "In The End."
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ASC Announces Actors for 2019 Summer Festival Season
Geoffrey Kent, Constance Swain, Zoe Speas, and David Anthony Lewis
among cast to be directed by Ethan McSweeny, Sharon Ott, Eric Tucker
The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) announces their ensemble for the 2019 Summer Festival Season which runs at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Va, June 25 – September 1. The season features three plays in repertory: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra, and George Bernard Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra.
For his inaugural season at ASC, Artistic Director Ethan McSweeny has crafted a Roman Trio for audiences to experience. The 2019 Summer Festival unites 3 great plays by 2 great authors that together tell 1 epic story of politics and power played out in private and in public.
Ethan McSweeny will direct the season's first production, Julius Caesar, which begins performances June 25. Recognized with more than 75 awards and nominations for his work (including Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Helen Hayes), McSweeny took the helm at ASC last year.
For his first summer with ASC, McSweeny has brought in two nationally-recognized directors to round out the rest of the season. 2014 Wall Street Journal Director of the Year and artistic director of NYC's Bedlam Theatre Company Eric Tucker will direct Caesar & Cleopatra, and Obie award-winner Sharon Ott will helm Antony & Cleopatra. All three plays will perform in repertory together beginning August 8.
"For my first summer, I really wanted to emphasize the power of plays in repertory to tell a larger story taken together," says McSweeny, "As far as we can tell, this may be the first time these three plays have ever been performed together by a single company. We have assembled a superb and versatile company of actors led by three very different and equally accomplished directors for what will be a season to remember at the Blackfriars."
Actor and fight master Geoffrey Kent (Utah Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival) joins ASC for the first time this summer. Kent plays Mark Antony in Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra, as well as Rufio in Caesar & Cleopatra. Alongside him, David Anthony Lewis plays the eponymous Caesar in both Julius Caesar and Caesar & Cleopatra. Lewis has performed with ASC for 4 seasons. Fellow ASC alum Zoe Speas will play the iconic queen Cleopatra in Antony & Cleopatra and Constance Swain will take on the role in Caesar & Cleopatra.
Also making her debut at ASC is Leighton Brown, who was previously seen on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She will be featured as Calphurnia in Julius Caesar. Michael Manocchio (Utah Shakespeare Festival, Moscow Art Theatre School, Virginia Repertory Theatre) and Nashville singer-songwriter Sylvie Davidson (Rubicon Theatre, Alliance Theatre, ACT Theatre) join at ASC for the first time.
ASC veteran Brandon Carter returns to the troupe as Cassius in Julius Caesar while John Harrell, who has performed with ASC for over 25 seasons, takes on the role of Brutus. They are joined by ASC performer of over 20 seasons Chris Johnston who plays numerous parts in each production and arranges the live music sung by the cast during each performance. Constance Swain (Cleopatra), along with actors Annabelle Rollison and Ronald Román-Meléndez, enters the ASC Resident Troupe at ASC after several years and 75,000 miles on the road with the ASC National Tour.
The 2019 Summer Festival Season is performed in the Blackfriars Playhouse, the world's only re-creation of Shakespeare's indoor theatre. Entering a new artistic era, the company is treating the Playhouse as a laboratory for exploring the early-modern stage and its performance conditions in a contemporary context. In this, as in all of ASC's programming, the mission is to make good on the promise of being Shakespeare's American Home.
Performances of the season's first production, Julius Caesar, begin June 25. Tickets for the 2019 Summer Festival Season cycle are on sale now and can be purchased by calling the ASC Box Office at 877-Much-Ado. You can visit them on the web at americanshakespearecenter.com. Tickets are also on sale for the Fall and Holiday Seasons atASC, and subscriptions are available for purchase.
Photo of David Anthony Lewis, Constance Swain, Zoe Speas, and Geoffrey Kent by Lauren Parker.
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The Nike Air Jordan Future Low Boys' Shoes just got released in the USA. Unfortunately, like with most sports products, these superior cushioning sneakers will only be in available for purchase in America initially.
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Now we all know that if you're looking for the quickest way to jinx your relationship with your significant other, you tattoo their name on your body. And that's what Wiz Khalifa did (sorta). The Taylor Gang leader confessed his love to Amber Rose in a recent interview with Angie Martinez where he said, "It's pretty serious. I really, really dig her." Wiz added, "I'ma be with her. That's why we wanted to give it to the world. But it's realistic. It's nothing that we're just beefing up or just doing for anybody's eyes. It's real. She's a great girl. I really, really am into her."
Which leads us to his brand new "Amb" tattoo. We're not sure why he didn't completely spell out "Amber Rose," but maybe there just wasn't enough room. Hey, it could've been worse.


C'mon! Sochi is quite easy to remember! At least not as difficult as Novorsibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod or some other russian cities.
It's definitely a -ch sound so Why on the earth It would be Sotsi? I really don't understand some of you guys typing mistakes.
In some countries it's spelled as Sotsi.
Technically it's called The Bronx and not just Bronx.
It's "Bronx". The Bronx is a misnomer.
Love it when I get the least guessed answer.
Good tough quiz, 16/24. Had heard of some of the others that I missed but could not dredge them up at the time!
I've always seen the Czech spelling of Prague as Praja, but maybe I'm crazy.
wow, I made a huge improvement on this one over the first time I took it. Still missed a couple, though.
Idaho is hardly the only northwestern state. Why not Alaska, or Washington?
Paris (from June 1944 onwards) and Tours (briefly in 1940) were also 5-letter French capitals in World War 2.
There are actually quite a few former capitals of Japan whose English names have 5 letters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_of_Japan. Other than the currently accepted answer, the most well-known are probably Asuka, Osaka, and Heian.
Finally someone who writes Ayers Rock instead of Ayer's Rock.


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Q: Beautiful soup complicated query question I want to scrape the table on the following website
https://www.hkab.org.hk/DisplayInterestSettlementRatesAction.do
However, it has a very complicated query

I tried the following code but I cant find the table I want.
url = "https://www.hkab.org.hk/DisplayInterestSettlementRatesAction.do"
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html.parser')
table = soup.find('table',{'class':'etxtmed'})

And the table result is:

Home

How can I get the value of the table? I cant find the table value.
Some comment say that it is generated by javascript, any suggestion for getting the table value instead of beautifulsoup?

A: I've tracked from where the data loaded and found the url to load from it :).
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv

r = requests.get(
    'https://www.hkab.org.hk/hibor/listRates.do?lang=en&Submit=Detail')
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')

mat = []
hk = []
for item in soup.findAll('td', {'align': 'right'})[2:]:
    item = item.text.strip()
    mat.append(item)
for item in soup.findAll('td', {'align': 'middle'})[3:11]:
    item = item.text
    hk.append(item)

data = []
for item in zip(mat, hk):
    data.append(item)

with open('output.csv', 'w+', newline='') as file:
    writer = csv.writer(file)
    writer.writerow(['Maturity', 'HKD Interest\nSettlement Rate'])
    writer.writerows(data)
    print("Operation Completed")

Output: Click Here


David Partridge, the managing partner of Argent, announces today that he will be stepping back from the day-to-day running of the business in two years' time, when the development of King's Cross (which he and the Argent Partners have masterminded) reaches its final stages, at which point the new Argent Related projects will be in full swing and he will take up the role of Chairman of the Argent Related business.
Since the formation of the Argent LLP development business in 2012, David and the senior management team at Argent have grown the reputation and scale of the business through developing out King's Cross and, as Argent Related, won significant new projects at Brent Cross South and Tottenham Hale. Together, they have built the skillset and headcount of the now 160-strong team.
Of the Argent Partners, Robert Evans is leading King's Cross, Andre Gibbs and Nick Searl are heading up Brent Cross South, Anna Strongman is Head of Assets, Will Colthorpe leads on New Projects and Mike Lightbound is Chief Financial Officer, and the group (alongside their leading US partner Related) are seeking a CEO to run the Argent Related business.
Argent Related's ambition is to expand the business further, based on the legacy of exemplary city building demonstrated by Argent and Related, in order to create a global leader in real estate. It is looking for a CEO with skills to complement the existing team and with the experience of running a business of scale.
All existing and new stakeholders in Argent are pleased to see the positive evolution and growth of Argent Related and welcome the opportunity to expand the leadership team.
The intention is for the new CEO to take up his or her appointment next year (2019), with a view to taking over the running of all elements of the AR business in 2020.


Home » Accessories » Chunky Clear and Jewel-toned Bracelets Make Serious Impact for Little Cost!
Chunky Clear and Jewel-toned Bracelets Make Serious Impact for Little Cost!
Are you loving the chunky bracelet look? I certainly am!! However I have trouble with the 3 digit pricetags of faux jewels at most department, specialty store and boutiques. It's not like these are real!
Instead I found a fairly reasonable spot to score these babies easily — other than Goodwill, Salvation Army, thrift stores that require you to dig and maybe clean them up too.
If you have a Loehman's near you, you want to check this babies out! The price tags are affordable, you can bring on the bling with about 3 bracelets (2 on one arm, 1 on the other) and give a tee and jeans a bit of luxe look or add to an already great dress.


Okay, I have to pass this on.
Someone published a list of letters to the editor that they think would be printed if Paul's letter to the Galatians were published in Christianity Today in modern times.
How arrogant of Mr. Apostle to think he has the right to judge these people and label them accursed. Isn't that God's job? Regardless of this circumcision issue, these Galatians believe in Jesus just as much as he does, and it is very Pharisaical to condemn them just because they differ on such a secondary issue.
Do note, in case you don't already know, that there wasn't actually a Galatian church. Galatia was a province, so Paul wrote his letter to the "churches" of Galatia.
In the Scriptures it was one church per city or town.
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	ref class SpringModifiers;
	ref class RestitutionModifiers;

	public ref class Constraint1D
	{
	internal:
		static void ToUnmanaged(Constraint1D^ constraint, Px1DConstraint& c);

	public:
		property Vector3 Linear0;
		property float GeometricError;
		property Vector3 Angular0;
		property float VelocityTarget;
		property Vector3 Linear1;
		property float MinimumImpulse;
		property Vector3 Angular1;
		property float MaximumImpulse;
		property SpringModifiers^ Spring;
		property RestitutionModifiers^ Bounce;
		property Constraint1DFlag Flags;
		property int SolveGroup;
	};

	public ref class SpringModifiers
	{
	internal:
		property float Stiffness;
		property float Damping;
	};

	public ref class RestitutionModifiers
	{
	internal:
		property float Restitution;
		property float VelocityThreshold;
	};
};