Superstition runs in the blood. Even now I fear showering during a thunderstorm—a lingering trace of growing up in the shadow of my father's anxiety. When my sister and I were children he didn't allow us to bathe if it was raining, regardless of the actual presence of lightning, warning that the stray electricity would climb the metal faucet and fry us in the tub.
These things passed down to us stick, shape reality until pointed out by an impartial party as error or familial quirk—like "uncle" pronounced "onkle" and "neither" pronounced "nee-ther" the way I do; the way my mother does.
I'm fairly certain no one has been struck by lightning in the shower in the last fifty years, since water pipes have been grounded against shock—or so it has been explained to me—but the worry sticks. A myth conjured out of fear is stubborn that way, stained bright red until the fear dies, or a new myth is created to take its place.
My mother has always been cautious, too, but as I've witnessed it, her fear is rooted in motherhood; a fear of loss, occasionally irrational, but almost always directed at the safety of her children.
One night I left a friend's apartment around 8 PM to find my phone flooded with text messages and tearful voicemails from her, saying that something felt wrong, that she'd had an intuitive feeling and was worried something bad had happened to me. My mother often reminds me we have a kind of telepathic connection, things like calling the other right as the other is thinking of calling. For whatever reason, that time her "feeling" was off completely. I arrived home safely, a little annoyed.
My father carried blind anxiety, wild and directionless. He shook with it. His hands carried tremors that sometimes grew so strong as to render them temporarily useless—from fear and from the alcoholism, though I'm not sure which came first. From him I inherited a healthy fear of heights and a predisposition to wasting a bottle of Jack Daniels over a weekend.
My fear manifests on airplanes: what else but ultimate helplessness is allowing yourself to be suspended inside a metal vessel above the clouds, and what worse way to die than a freefall so sharp and endless? Still, I fly fairly often, and when general statistics fail to comfort, I remind myself of this: my father, over the course of his life, travelled by plane over 3,000 times, and he died on solid ground.
There's superstition, and then there's precognition. Superstitions are eclectic sets of beliefs that influence behavior, usually in order to avoid something unfortunate: Step on a crack, break your mother's back. A broken mirror brings seven years of bad luck. Pick up a penny only if it's face-up.
Precognition is the first cousin of superstition, the estranged spouse of religion, and one step beyond déjà vu: a glimpse of the future. A friend in college, an adamant atheist, once told me with certainty that if a person dreams about their teeth falling out, it means someone close to them will die. It happened to him, he said—he woke up the next morning and his aunt had been hit by a car. Studies of both superstition and precognition have been branded pseudoscience, but they permeate our cultural consciousness, forming a small place in the lives of even the most scientifically-minded.
Both involve a conscious or unconscious belief in mystical forces. Both rely on the premise that there are no such things as random events. There are no accidents; the universe is watching, noticing.
I almost died before I was born. The doctors told my mother that I didn't have a heartbeat, said they lost it, as if it had gotten stuck in someone's jeans pocket and had gone through the wash. Now they would have to remove my body from hers, they said. There was nothing else they could do, and all the tests confirmed their stance.
But my mother argued with them. She refused their carefully practiced words and pseudo-sympathetic expressions; she told them they must have gotten something wrong, to double-check the tests. Somehow, she felt that the tiny light inside of her womb was still glowing, breathing, beating.
So it goes, on one of the hottest days in mid-August, in a west-American desert city, I was born. It was Friday the 13th, a notably unlucky day, though there's no single agreed-upon origin for the cross-cultural fear the date inspires. It's been said that it was the day the Knights Templar were arrested and executed in the fourteenth century, or that it marks the last day of King Herold II's reign over England. It's been traced to the Christian belief that Judas was the thirteenth person at the Last Supper, but Hindus branded gatherings of thirteen people unlucky before Christ's time. Norse Vikings attributed thirteen to a myth about the arrival of Loki, the god of mischief, and for Egyptians the number signified death and bittersweet passage to the afterlife. Regardless, Friday the 13th signifies one common thing for those who maintain it has power: disruption.
Upon my maternal grandfather's first time seeing me, he declared that our Irish blood was strong within my tiny veins, and that my favorite color would undoubtedly be green. He had been born on a Friday the 13th as well, in the springtime some seventy years before. When my mother told the story, she whispered it like a prayer. As we celebrated each year at ice-skating rinks, zoos, and amusement parks, her blue eyes followed me.
My favorite color has always been green. I like to think it was my own preference that determined this, and not just a product of being told about my grandfather's prophecy. But then again, it's hard to know if we create myths to make sense of ourselves, or if our myths create us. We are all a product of something.
An article in Psychology Today reports that about 50% of the general population claims to have had a precognitive dream. In 1998, Dr. M.S. Stowell interviewed 51 people who claimed to have precognitive dreams, 37 of which came true throughout the course of the study. One report was from a woman who dreamt of a plane crashing on a highway as she was driving under the overpass. Weeks later, a plane crashed on that same highway.
It's family legend that our Irish ancestors, the O'Learys, were responsible for starting the Great Chicago Fire. I've told this story at so many parties and on first days of class when reaching for a "fun fact" to share about myself. Whether there's truth to it is debatable—factually, our family descends from Irish O'Learys, and it has been written that the O'Leary family cow knocked over Catherine O'Leary's lantern one fall night in 1871 and began the blaze. Even this was cast with doubt after the fortieth anniversary of the event, when a former Chicago Republican newspaper reporter claimed he and two colleagues had completely fabricated the story. Others have speculated drunkards in the barn; spontaneous combustion; meteor strikes. Still, the original story feels true, has always felt true: my lineage carries with it a history of small and large arsons.
I was fourteen, a single weekend separating me from my freshman year of high school, when I first encountered the number. It came in the form of a movie at a sleepover, five or six girls huddled in blankets around the television on my friend's living room floor.
The Number 23 starred Jim Carey in a dramatic role, as a man who picks up a random book in a bookstore, written under the pen name "Topsy Kretts," and realizes that it seems to be about him, all the events in his life connected by the number 23. He becomes obsessed with the number 23, sees it everywhere, holes up in a hotel room and goes insane. It failed miserably at the box office, and it deserved to. It was a ridiculous movie. I was fourteen.
That night after the movie, we all lay in our sleeping bags in the darkness and giggled as we watched the red glow of the digital clock, added up the numbers, waiting for 23 to appear. Wanting to feel that current of electricity at the back of our necks when it showed up.
It began to show up everywhere for me, and looking for it became a kind of obsessive compulsion. When I entered a room, I would count the objects on the wall to see if they added to some multiple of the number. I would count the tiles on the floor of my classrooms. I would count the letters in my name, in my friends', and add/subtract/divide the numbers in their birthdates. I looked at the clock and always seemed to catch it right at 2:30, or 3:20, or 1:23. Always right on time.
Superstition runs in the blood. The Irish are known for being a superstitious people, and their folk tales say that character traits run in families, that "goodness" and "badness" are inherent in DNA, inescapable. To the ancient Celts, poetry was understood as pulse, the fe'ith na fili'ochta ("vein of poetry") residing only in poets' bodies, snaking up the back of the head. And some believed that poetry, a hereditary gift, would flee the bloodline for seven generations if it appeared in a daughter rather than a son.
Apophenia, a term coined by German psychiatrist Klaus Conrad, refers to the human tendency to interpret random occurrences as meaningful patterns. This is where belief in superstition comes from: say you opened an umbrella inside twice, and on both of those days, you slipped and fell in the rain. Say you picked up a penny off the sidewalk, and in the next moment, got a phone call that you had been accepted to medical school.
Because only so many numbers exist, repetitions are inevitable. People remember seeing the number they give meaning to, and forget seeing other numbers.
So much can be attributed to coincidence: if 3 billion people fly every year, and 500 million of those have a dream about a plane crashing, it is likely that over the course of the year, at least one of those people will end up on a plane that crashes (according to The Guardian, there are around 80 plane accidents per year, while 3.4 million flights land safely). Those who dreamed about plane crashes and landed safely will likely never think of it again; for those who crashed, the fact of their incidental dream will always linger.
The 23 enigma theorizes that all events are connected to and by the number 23, including life itself: the ovule and sperm contributed from each parent at conception consist of 23 chromosomes each.
As I write this, the city bus next to the coffee shop I'm sitting in services route 23.
The 23rd letter of the alphabet, W, has 2 points facing down and 3 facing upwards.
She was in the front seat of a car driven by a faceless driver. The car pulled down a long dirt road and drove up to a farm. When they stopped, my mother got out, and the driver opened the back passenger-side door to help an old woman out of the car. The woman wore a burly fur coat, her salt-and-pepper hair pinned up beside her ears. As the faceless drivers, now multiplied into many, carried the woman across the farm to bury her, my mother screamed and beat them, trying to rescue the woman from burial, as she was still very much alive.
She woke the next morning and told my father her dream, and he immediately called his sister, my aunt; apparently, the old woman in the dream was an exact description of his grandmother, who died before my parents met, who refused to sit anywhere in a car but the back passenger-side seat, and whose greatest fear was being buried alive.
The first telegraph message sent was a Bible verse from Numbers 23:23: What hath God wrought?
The number 23 represents the goddess Eris, Greek goddess of discord and chaos—her name only one letter off from mine.
My initials, ES, if flipped backwards, or written down and held in front of a mirror, resemble a 2 and 3.
My father was murdered on August 23, 2009.
It's called confirmation bias: when we start looking for something we tend to find it. I don't remember the times the number 23 wasn't in sight, even after counting all the objects in the room, or adding and dividing the numbers that make up the time and date three different ways. I don't remember the dreams that never came true, dreams about tornados and teeth falling out that never resulted in real-life chaos. But I remember the ones that did, and they take root, shaping the story like embankments constructed to keep rivers from running wild—from washing whole towns, whole lives away.
On a cold October morning in 1966, a landslide tore through the small village of Aberfan, Wales. Within minutes, a schoolhouse was buried in a flurry of black sludge, the avalanche of rock and soil crushing and killing 116 children and 28 adults.
In the aftermath of the disaster, psychiatrist John Barker received almost a hundred letters from people claiming they had precognitive dreams predicting the tragic landslide. A man from north England saw the word ABERFAN spelled out over and over behind his eyes; a woman in Brighton dreamt of a child walking towards her with a black mass looming behind him; another woman's dream featured coal hurtling down a mountain towards a schoolhouse, and a little boy being pulled from the wreckage—a boy she would later recognize on television as a local station aired coverage of the rescue efforts. But the most famous and troubling premonition of the Aberfan disaster came in a letter written by the parents of a ten-year-old girl.
When her mother asked why she was being so morbid, the girl relayed a dream she had the night before: her schoolhouse had been flattened by "something black." She told her mom she was not afraid to die because she would be with her friends, Peter and June.
The next day, Eryl Mai went to school, where she was killed in the landslide. The girl was buried along with the other victims in a communal grave, laid between her schoolmates, Peter and June.
My youngest sister, Trinity, was so named because she is the third child of both my mother and my stepfather (and though they deny it, her name could be inspired by the heroine of The Matrix trilogy, which they watched nightly during my mom's pregnancy). Her birth acted as a hinge between two families; with two half-siblings on each side, and her own name meaning "three" between them, my sister's life has an ironic symmetry with the number 23. Though my stepbrother and stepsister were raised by their grandparents, our full family consists of 5 siblings—2 in one home, 3 in another. It's a reach, I know. We find these things because we are looking for them. And still a reach, maybe, when my mother pointed out that Trinity will graduate from high school in the year 2023.
What I'm getting at is this: the summer she turned four, Trinity had a dream she doesn't remember now. If events had unfolded differently—if no one had been in the room when she woke from her nap, if he had died the following year instead of just a handful of weeks later, had died in some other way—if we were a skeptical people instead of a family willfully embedded in a paradigm of superstition—I wouldn't be telling this story.
My mom was using the computer at the desk next to the bed, and I was on the couch feet away, on the other side of an open door. Trinity stirred and sat up in bed, and began talking about the dream she had.
"Wait, slow down. What happened?" my mom said.
"Look, I'll call him, you can talk to him yourself and he'll tell you he's fine," she began to dial the phone.
"I don't want to talk to a ghost!" she squealed. Everything seems silly when a toddler says it with conviction.
He answered the phone, and my mom told him the story. He laughed over the speaker.
"Tell Trin I'm just fine," he said.
Trinity didn't seem sure. A few minutes passed and she lost interest. She left the bed for the kitchen, to climb the counter and reach for the bucket of candy on top of the refrigerator.
And no one thought of it again, until weeks later, when my dad sat down on a couch in the center of a room circularly-arranged. And boom.
At that exact moment, an eighteen wheeler merged in front of us. Painted on the back of the trailer: a huge, red, number 23.
Remember: I'm not telling you the truth. I'm telling you what I saw.
Humans take coincidences and make stories of them, shape them, create myths that inform how we understand our place in this vast and unsettling world. Even on the days I am most rational, there is a space in the back of my mind where I cradle these supernatural explanations, tentatively trust them even as I label them nonsense.
A 1978 Gallup poll found that 37% of Americans believed in precognition. In 2007, a similar poll found that women were more prone to superstitious beliefs than men. A 2013 study discovered that people who felt in less control of their lives were far more likely to believe in precognition and superstition, possibly as a psychological coping mechanism. Even without my father's death, and my mother's superstitious sensibilities, I fall into all of these categories. I am American, a woman, and very, very afraid.
Erin Slaughter is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Elegy for the Body (Slash Pine Press, 2017), and GIRLFIRE (dancing girl press, 2018). She holds an MFA from Western Kentucky University, and is editor and co-founder of literary journal The Hunger. You can find her writing in F(r)iction, Bellingham Review, Sundog Lit, Tishman Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Nashville.


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Q: How to access to names of functions defined before a class within the class Let's consider the following file myfile.py.
def f_1():
    print("Run !")

def f_2():
    print("Run, run !")

class Test():
    def __new__(cls):
        print("In the class", dir())

print("After class", dir())
Test()

I would like to access to all the functions defined before my class within it. The inside dir is about the class and not the file as the output above shows.
After class ['Test', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', 'f_1', 'f_2']
In the class ['cls']

One solution would be to add a global constant previousnames = dir() just before the class but is there a better way to do that ?

A: As I said in my comment: be explicit, and don't try to do dynamic function discovery. dir is not intended for programmatic use anyway; it's a helper for use in the interactive shell.
def f_1():
    print("Run !")

def f_2():
    print("Run, run !")

for_Test = [f_1, f_2]

class Test():
    def __new__(cls):
        for f in for_Test:
            # Based on your linked question
            setattr(cls, f.name, f)

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ICE outlook: Large crop bearish long-term
U.S. grains: Canada's big crop hits wheat
By Sam Nelson
Crops, Markets, Weather
U.S. wheat futures fell more than one per cent to a one-week low on Thursday on slow U.S. export sales of wheat and a larger-than-expected Canadian crop.
Wheat tumbled for the second day in a row, and at 1.5 per cent, posted its biggest one-day decline in over two months.
European wheat futures, which hit a near seven-month high on Wednesday, tracked U.S. prices lower.
Corn fell for the first time in four days as a short-covering bounce from a three-year low petered out, while soybeans also eased.
"The weather in South America continues to be non-threatening so that I think is having some impact on the soybean market as well," said Don Roose, analyst and president of U.S. Commodities at Des Moines, Iowa.
All three commodities were pressured by lower-than-expected exports of each as seen in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's weekly export sales report, which was released on Thursday.
Wheat declined despite the potential for some winterkill damage to the U.S. winter wheat crop late this week as bitter cold temperatures and ice threatened to harm some of the crop in the U.S. Plains and in the U.S. southern Midwest.
"There may be some winterkill in the Plains but I don't think it's a major problem. A bigger issue will be the ice cover from northeast Texas into the Delta," said Don Keeney, a meteorologist at MDA Weather Services.
Chicago Board of Trade December wheat closed down 9-1/4 cents per bushel at $6.38 per bushel, December corn was down 2-3/4 at $4.22-3/4, and January soybeans were down 1-1/2 at $13.28 (all figures US$).
Although grains and soy ended lower the closing prices were above the day's lows due to a weak dollar and slow country movement.
"Part of it is probably the (weakness in the) dollar," said Jack Scoville, analyst for the Price Futures Group.
"And I don't think there is much for sale right now. Farmers are pretty tight holders," he said.
"Once it gets put in the bin and the temperatures drop into the 20s (F), and to the south they are going to get a couple inches of ice, who wants to go out and open a bin door, fill a truck and take it into town?," Scoville said.
Big Canadian wheat crop
"The big news in wheat was the (Statistics Canada) production figure (…) and I think this is driving the movement today," said Brett Cooper, senior manager, markets, at FCStone Australia.
Statistics Canada said on Wednesday that farmers produced a record 37.53 million tonnes of wheat in 2013, up 38 percent from 2012 and well above market expectations.
The estimates dampened a rally in wheat that had been driven by strong export demand at a time of fading competition from Russia and Ukrainian supply, as well as worries over freezing weather forecast this week in the U.S. wheat belt.
In Europe, March milling wheat on the Paris Euronext market was down 0.7 per cent at 211.50 euros a tonne as it pulled away from a near seven-month high of 211.25 euros hit on Wednesday.
Corn remains within sight of a three-year low of $4.10 for front-month prices that was hit on Monday as the market faces the arrival of a record U.S. harvest and China's rejection of some cargoes of U.S. corn.
China confirmed on Wednesday it had rejected the entry of five U.S. shipments tainted with a non-authorized genetically modified strain, and analysts said the move could be a sign of a tougher Chinese line on imports.
— Sam Nelson reports on grain and oilseed futures markets for Reuters from Chicago. Additional reporting for Reuters by Julie Ingwersen in Chicago, Gus Trompiz in Paris and Colin Packham in Sydney.
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The Junyos were laid down in 1939 as 27,500-ton passenger liners Kashiwara Maru and Izumo Maru. Part of the "shadow program," they were designed with destroyer machinery and were converted to light carriers on the ways. They retained much of their civilian character, including clean hulls, forward sheer, and inadequate subdivision. Though rated as fleet carriers on account of their relatively large air group, their speed was inadequate for fleet operations. The two hangar decks were cramped, the lower having barely enough ceiling clearance for the A6M "Zero", let alone carrier bombers. The ships had almost no armor protection, which with their poor subdivision meant that their survivability in battle was minimal. However, they were the first Japanese carriers to direct their uptakes through the island, and the island was sponsoned out so that it did not encroach on the flight deck. The hulls were asymmetrically bulged to compensate for the island.
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Virgin Money has announced that it is to cut rates on a range of its residential and buy-to-let mortgages includer tracker and fixed rate products.
MoneySupermarket reports that since the introduction of the Funding for Lending Scheme more mortgage products are available at lower rates but fees have risen.
The number of mortgages available to consumers is on the rise, with an increase of 34 per cent since April 2012 when the Bank of England's Funding for Lending scheme came into effect, although there are still concerns over extremely high fees on many products.
These are the conclusions of a new report from moneysupermarket.com, which found that the number of mortgage products had increased from 2,458 to 3,288 over the course of a year, representing the highest number on the market since August 2011.
The number of 60 per cent loan-to-value (LTV) products on offer has almost doubled, while 80 per cent LTV products have seen a 48 per cent increase and 75 per cent LTV mortgages witnessed a rise of almost a third.
Fixed rate and tracker mortgage rates were found to have fallen since April 2012, although the price comparison website warned that high fees remain commonplace on the mortgage market, citing the average fee on five-year fixed rate mortgages of 22 per cent as an example.
Moneysupermarket.com warned consumers that they would be well advised to take such a high price into account before investing in a mortgage as those products with the best headline rate may no longer represent the best deal once the fee is taken into account.
In spite of this, Clare Francis, mortgage expert at the comparison website, was quick to say that mortgage borrowers are going through a golden age, with a great variety of products on offer.
"Since the Bank of England's Funding for Lending Scheme launched last August, we have seen a significant increase in the number of new mortgage products on offer," she said.
"In addition, two and five-year fixed rate deals are currently at an all-time low. However, the thing to watch out for is the set up costs."


Make your little astronauts' dreams come true with an interstellar birthday blast-off. We've got some supersonic ideas just for you.
Bring the awe-inspiring solar system into your home with colored cut-outs of the planets. Stick on the walls, or hang from the ceiling with ribbon or string. You can also hang up lots of shiny foil to create a space-age effect, or black sheets of card with shimmering silver foil stars. If you want to create an eerie alien atmosphere, then swap your light bulbs for blue or green colored ones - simple yet effective! We've got a brilliant decoration for you, our To The Moon garland, which features a host of bright 3D planets made with honeycomb paper, a rocket and lots of shiny stars.
For an astronaut costume, with a helmet and jet pack with pretend flames, you'll need: small boxes for the helmets, empty soda bottles for the jetpacks, scissors, silver foil, silver tape, flexible plastic tubing and red, yellow and orange tissue paper. Here are the step-by-step instructions.
For the robot costume, you'll need big boxes for the bodies, square boxes for the heads, and smaller boxes for the hands. You'll also need paper cups, scissors, large paper plates, paintbrushes, strong tape, pencils, and paints. Here is an excellent step-by-step.
For space themed prizes, you'll love our Sun & Moon temporary tattoos and our Moon and Star hair slides.
When playing music for games, or throughout the party, go for sensational space-themed songs. Check out our Meri Meri Spotify Space songs playlist.
After fun and games, it's time to get your galactic guests to come back to earth for a space inspired meal. They'll love our To The Moon range of plates, cups and napkins. Check out the very funky Robot plates!
Check out here for more ideas.
Finally, send the tired little space adventurers off back to their home planet, happily clutching a robot party bag, filled with yummy treats and gifts. Mission impossible accomplished!


In the parallel universe of Ethereum Classic, the DAO saga continues with the DAO hacker, whose IP may have recently been identified, converting almost 100,000 ETC into 144.92992187 bitcoin, worth almost $100,000.
According to chain analysis by Bok Consulting, the hacker divided 106,100 ETC into smaller amounts of approximately 2,333 ETC in different addresses, then sent them to Shapeshift for conversion. We tried to reach out to shapeshift representatives for comments, but have not received a response in time for publishing.
Shapeshift is somewhat unique as it requires no identification whatever for currency exchanges. Through an online website, you simply choose what currency to convert, automatically receiving funds without shapeshift having any information about yourself. It is not clear, therefore, whether the funds can now be tracked further, with the hacker potentially escaping unscathed with $100,000 and perhaps more.
Around 3.5 million ETC remains in the hacker's main address, worth around $3.5 million. If the hacker, therefore, escapes with what may be a test run, he might continue further draining the account, placing immense pressure on ETC's price which fell at some point today by more than 7%.
While ethereum took a collective decision with overwhelming consensus in favor of preventing the theft through a hardfork, some, mainly anonymous users, decided to continue giving the hacker's coins some value. The currency quickly gained a speculative price at the beginning, with Berry Silbert, Coindesk owner and Bitcoin Investment Trust manager, together with Chandler Guo, a bitcoin and ethereum miner, publicly supporting the coin.
However, after a near unanimous show of unity by Ethereum project developers, the currency began to quickly lose value as traders rushed for the exit. It continued to slide further, with the currency now worth less than a dollar.
There has been some speculation regarding potential connections between ETC developers, who largely remain anonymous save for Elaine Ou and perhaps Charles Hoskinson who joined later, as the hacker sent some ETC to Ethereum Classic developers. Moreover, following a spate of dos attacks against both Ethereum and ETC, a decision to hardfork, while non-controversial for ethereum, has attracted much debate within ETC due to arguments that deletion of empty accounts violates the principle of immutability which was the sole justification for the continuation of ETC in spite of an overwhelming consensus to hardfork.
Both currencies have already hardforked to make some urgent technical changes, but they both are to undergo a second hardfork, expected in a few weeks, which deletes empty accounts. For ETC, this second hardfork may be controversial, but the currency has already lost much support in any event, with its subreddit barely active. The recent cashing out by the hacker may only participate its demise, closing a potentially historical chapter in the decentralized governance of public blockchains.
Image from Shutterstock. Chart from Poloniex.


Quick and easy dinner recipes are what we all need any time of the year, from the busy holiday season to the summer when you want to just be outside having fun, and especially at back-to-school time. The school bus is late, one kid has football practice, the other has baseball, dance class is later on, let's not forget about scouts and piano, and then there's that PTA meeting. That's when you need quick, easy dinner ideas!
Don't let weeknight dinners get you down. You don't have to always rely on fast food and microwave meals. Whether you've pulled a package of ground beef out of the freezer, want to make a simple chicken dinner, or literally need to make a no-cook meal because you really don't have time, you'll find some amazing recipes to make sure you get dinner on the table fast.
What do you make when you are looking for quick and easy dinner recipes?
One pot meals or one skillet meals – there's nothing better than a meal that comes together easily and you only have one pot or pan to wash, like my Chicken Corn Chowder.
Sheet pan meals or foil pack meals – toss everything on a pan or wrap it up in foil, then pop it in the oven and you have a no-fuss meal with tons of flavor and, once again, easy cleanup. These Cheesy Maple Dijon Chicken Foil Packets can even be tossed on the grill.
Casseroles – casserole recipes sometimes take a little longer to cook in the over, but prep time is usually fast, and you can be taking care of other things while it bakes.
Slow-cooker meals – sure these take awhile to cook, but your hands-on time is usually minimal, like my Slow Cooker Tomato Basil Pulled Chicken and all of these Back to School Crock Pot Recipes.
Breakfast for dinner – eggs, pancakes, oh heck, even sometimes a bowl of cereal is always a family favorite and simple to make. This can easily be a 15 minute meal if you are really pressed for time.
Instant Pot meals – those pressure cookers can do amazing things, especially when you forgot to defrost meat. And my Butternut Squash Soup with Sage and Thyme cooks in no time.
And that's just a few of the possibilities!
Want to share more quick and easy dinner ideas?
Join us in the No-Fuss Food for No-Fuss Families group on Facebook. Everyday we share recipes, ideas, sometimes even a little about ourselves to get to know each other, and, most importantly, chat about what we are having for dinner every night, and yes, sometimes that means telling everyone when we are having cereal or ordering pizza, because we are totally keeping it real.
But in the meantime, you still need some new ideas because you are bored of the same old dinners week after week.
But even I need some new ideas. Luckily I have some amazing food blogger friends who also know what it's like to be crazy busy, which is why we rounded up our favorite quick and easy dinner ideas.
The Best Quick and Easy Dinner Recipes for Back to School – you'll love these easy dinner ideas!
This recipe turns your favorite Mexican food into a 30 minute meal.
The classic comfort food gets a new twist using beef ravioli.
A simple dish with pasta, chicken, sundried tomatoes, and a creamy mozzarella sauce.
Everyone loves pizza Friday, but this casserole lets you have pizza any night of the week.
An easy dinner idea combining favorites of pasta and sloppy joes in one dish.
Roll your pizza into a handheld food kids love.
Southwest comfort food cooked in your slow cooker is an easy dinner recipe for a busy day.
One pot pasta is one of the best easy dinner ideas and this one tastes like your favorite dip.
You don't have to save the tacos for Tuesday, especially when you can just toss these in the oven for a quick meal.
One of everyone's favorite weeknight dinners gets a smoky, spicy twist.
There is probably not another easy dinner idea more fast and comforting than grilled cheese, and extra cheese makes it extra good.
Combine two favorite easy meals into one delicious dinner.
Yep, wings can be ready in a flash.
Who doesn't love spaghetti, especially when you can make it in one pot.
This pasta and chicken dinner can be made with a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, making it perfect for busy nights.
A pasta dinner with your favorite pizza toppings is sure to make the kids happy too.
This cozy casserole baked with orzo pasta, veggies, and chunks of chicken breasts makes a deliciously simple weeknight chicken dinner.
Mini burgers that only need a little time and effort are a creatively easy dinner idea.
Shredded pork is smothered in a sweet and savory barbecue sauce.
Skip the work of mashed potatoes and load up those baked spuds with this meat and veggie filling.
Made with turkey sausage and ground turkey, all you have to do is boil the pasta after a busy day.
Everyone loves breakfast for dinner and you can even meal prep these ahead of time.
This hearty dish has only 10 minutes of prep time and is totally comforting.
And if you need more quick and easy dinner ideas, here are 20 of The Best Chicken Recipes for Busy Weeknights.
I tried and made One Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce for the first time and it was very tasty. Thanks for sharing they are all great and delicious recipes for dinner. They are easy to make and quick for family and friends.
I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the spaghetti and meat sauce recipe, Natalie!
Hello Briaane, all these recipes are very useful for me. I am going to trying all your recipes today itself. Thank you for sharing the information.
Great recipe roundup! I'm on the hunt right now for tonights dinner thanks! Thanks for linking up to Merry Monday! Sharing on FB! Have a great week!


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Ocean literature is considered one of the trendiest subcategories among Taiwanese literature. Series of researches centered on contemporary ocean literature had brought numerous discussions. While academic articles even dissertations draw attention to the theme, related education often stays elementary. How does this so-called trendiest subcategory of Taiwanese literature stand itself within high school, junior college, or university level? How does it shape readers' habitually routines? Does it alter any individual's thoughts into action?
This study was intended to search for possible responds to those topics. Based on circumstances and related restrictions, it centered its subject groups within Pingtong area. 668 designed questioners were distributed among high school and junior college level students. The outcome included preface, evaluation on marine education's past and present stages, analysis of cognition upon ocean literature, and conclusion.
Based on this study, compared to internet literature, ocean literature, rose around 1990, seemed not yet having obvious influences upon senior high school students. It showed in spite of the attempts our government undertook to strengthen the educational aspects and authorized portions of ocean literature, yet the ocean literature education, in this case, is still undergo its beginner stage.


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Many Old Buildings Survive
Many of the old buildings associated with the Gandy family and in particular Isaac are still standing in the village of Penketh, despite the fact that the population har grown considerably since Isaac lived there.
MAP OF PENKETH
The above map shows the position of Penketh on the northern bank of the Mersey River. Widnes is three miles to the west, and Warrington three miles to the east. Liverpool, the port for people travelling to North America, is about 12 miles west of Penketh. The Liverpool to Manchester railway line goes through the village, north of Greystone Heath. Isaac lived with mother Elizabeth, sister Elizabeth and brothers Peter and James in Ash Cottage, opposite the Heath in 1841, when it was inhabited by wild donkeys.
Number 5 Chapel Road today. Photo Peter Rutherford
The photograph below shows Greystone Cottage in Chapel Road, originally called Red Lion Lane after the Red Lion Inn. Chapel Road is named after the Methodist Chapel there.
Greystone Cottage. Photo Peter Rutherford.
Located along the lane from Greystone Cottage was another important part of the local shoemaking industry -the Penketh Leather Company, a tannery to supply the cobblers and shoemakers with raw materials for their trade.
The three cottages in Cobblers' Square named after a member of the Gandy family were located next to Greystone Cottage until their demolition in the late 1950's. The old tree in the square can be seen on earlier photographs. It could have been growing there when Isaac lived in Penketh. Ash Cottage today is shown in the photograph below.
Ash Lane Cottage Today. Photograph Peter Rutherford,


Take heaping plates of melt-in-your-mouth appetizers and a crowded living room of friends decked out in their favorite jerseys—you've got the makings for a great game day. But something's missing. You guessed it: the liquid refreshments!
No football-viewing venture is complete without sporty libations! Want to kick off your tailgating celebrations with a pre-game pick-me-up? Why not start the festivities with a spice-infused, gussied up and garnished Bloody Mary. Follow this simple (but tantalizing) recipe from Liquor.com to mix up your own batch of this classic hangover cure and feel fueled to talk smack and spout team pride.
Add vodka, tomato juice and remaining ingredients into a pint glass, fill with ice and stir to perfection!
Go traditional with a lemon wedge and celery rib, or jazz it up with pickled veggies of your choice (try green beans and asparagus,) pepperoncinis and green olives.
Combine 2 quarts of water with the lemon juice, honey and ginger in a large saucepan; bring to a boil. Let simmer for 5 minutes, then strain into a bowl. Once cooled, add the orange juice, pear nectar, bourbon (it's okay to be generous here) and lemons. Grab a glass and serve over ice.
Want to keep the party going after the game is over? Rather than lose your momentum, fuel up with a caffeinated cocktail. With only four simple ingredients, this Martha Stewart patented recipe for Irish coffee is simply sumptuous.
Directions: Whisk or whip together the cream and sugar in a medium bowl until stiff peaks form. Divvy up the coffee and liquor of choice among 4 coffee mugs and top with generous amounts of your homemade whipped topping.
Whether you're a die hard sports fan or just looking for an excuse to entertain, these intoxicating cocktails are sure to be the perfect addition to your game-day menu. Cheers!


Defiance's latest patch is also the first to add brand new areas to the MMOFPS. The free expansion introduces an apocalyptical version of the Silicon Valley area in San Francisco, that has been overrun by a cult called the Pilgrims of the Guiding Light as well as The Grid. Meaning you, the protagonist, will have plenty to shoot at.
The DLC centers on the disappearance of the character known as Karl Von Bach, who vanished somewhere into Silicon Valley along with his Pilgrims. Players will need to investigate the valley throughout five new story missions in order to unravel its mysteries and find out the Pilgrims true purpose for being there.
In addition to the new story missions, players will be able to unlock new outfits and synergies, new weapon mods, and an expanded EGO cap. A new encryption trait can now show up on particular weapons and shields, producing a small bonus to damage or capacity. This encryption status can also be triggered manually through the use of the Salvage Matrix, but only once per item.
Other additions include new Invasions by the Grid, which if left unchecked, have no problem turning areas of Silicon Valley into their own personal hives.
More information can be found on the official announcement post here.
Defiance is the greatest game ever and I like to give free oral to overweight men at truck stops for fun and profit.
I never been to the new area of the map, don't have any plans to go until i reach 300ego maybe even 400ego. But great game, only problem atm is the key issue. Keys being so expensive now.
well at least is free…the game is fun at some point then it's kind repetitive just shooting around…the new map loses the essence of the open world…hope trion add some fresh content and new things to do in game because defiance have potencial.
I agree. The game is cool but it could be way better. When I played the missions I had to solo almost every mission. I mean if I want to play solo I'd play an offlien game. This is a mmo game and I expect to play with many other people together.
You must be online at the wrong times, because i play every day and even though i mostly play solo, there are people always around, mostly at arkfall misisons.


At nine o'clock Saturday evening Kayla Day was still on site at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, answering questions about her big singles win just minutes after suffering a crushing loss in the girls doubles final.
Hours earlier the 16-year-old Californian had staged an impressive comeback to defeat Bianca Andreescu of Canada 5-7, 6-1, 6-2, avenging her loss in the Orange Bowl final and with the win, earning her first appearance in a junior slam singles final.
But a tearful Day was devastated that she had double faulted on match point in a 4-6, 6-2, 13-11 loss to Ena Shibahara and Jada Hart.
"We had two match points and I messed both of them up," Day said. "It's happened to me before in singles, but I just feel I let my partner down."
That partner, Caroline Dolehide, did not agree.
"I do not [feel let down.]," said Dolehide. "We had a really good tournament and there are points in our careers that will turn around and this is one of them, for Kayla, and one of them for me. We had a really close match with them at Hard Courts and it's a heartbreaker to lose a tiebreaker like that, but we'll get them next time."
Reflecting on her singles match, Day was more upbeat, for obvious reasons.
"I was really tight in the first set, I think we were both tight, it wasn't a great set," said Day, who had lost to Andreescu 7-6(7), 6-4 in a rain-marred Orange Bowl final on clay last December. "But she was able to play better tennis than I was. I was kind of a mess."
Playing in front of a supportive crowd on the Grandstand, Day's nerves were understandable, and she found a way to retake control of the match, using her three-set Wimbledon semifinal loss to Anastasia Potapova of Russia as inspiration.
"I was like, I was at the semis at Wimbledon, so I've been here before, and that time I won the first, so I was like oh, the match isn't over," Day said. "So I started to be a lot more aggressive, I was in charge of a lot of the points and I started serving a lot better too."
Day evened the match quickly, needing just 31 minutes to take the second set, and despite a 10-minute heat break, Day kept the momentum on her side, going up a quick break on the 16-year-old Canadian. She gave the break back, but broke again and this time consolidated the break for a 4-1 lead. After a medical timeout for treatment to Andreescu's right hand, play resumed and after Andreescu held, Day survived a deuce game to take a 5-2 lead. With Andreescu serving to stay in the match, Day came up with a great forehand return to earn a match point, and she converted when Andreescu, who couldn't find the sweet spot on her racquet most of the match, hit a forehand wide.
"I was expecting her to play a little bit different," Day said. "I felt at Orange Bowl she was playing a little bit different, so she probably had a different game plan today. She was hitting a lot of heavy balls to my backhand and I was struggling with that a lot."
Day's opponent in the final will be 18-year-old Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia, who thwarted the first all-American girls singles final since 1992 with a 6-7(2), 7-5, 7-6(3) win over 2015 US Open girls finalist Sonya Kenin.
Kuzmova, who received entry into the tournament and a No. 13 seeding by virtue of her WTA ranking of 295, elected to play the last junior slam available to her prior to playing USTA Pro Circuit events in the United States and Australia this fall.
Trailing Kenin by a set and 4-2, Kuzmova fought back to even the set at 4-4, then break Kenin at 5-6, with the 17-year-old American double faulting on set point.
In the third set, Kuzmova really stepped up her serving, hitting 11 of her 23 aces while using that shot to save all four break points she faced. Kenin didn't face a break point in the final set, but she could not come up with the shots in the deciding tiebreaker that she had executed so well in the first one.
Kuzmova said the toughest spot in the match for her was when she lost the first game of the second set, but she was able to regroup and face the third set tiebreaker with confidence.
"When I lost first game of second serve when I serve, I was angry with myself because I do so bad mistakes," Kuzmova said. "I didn't want to lose that match. I just wanted to keep going, keep thinking it was my last chance to win the match."
Kuzmova, who has played singles in only one other junior tournament this year, the ITF Grade B1 European Championships, is already a US Open champion, having won the doubles title last year with Alexandra Pospelova of Russia. She has no personal experience with Day's game, having never played her before.
"I just know that she's lefty and has a good serve," said Kuzmova. "I'll have to get used to the different spin. I saw her play her second round, but just a couple of games, but maybe my coach was here, so maybe he'll tell me."
The boys final will feature another 2015 US Open junior doubles champion in Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada, who will play Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic, making his junior slam final debut.
Auger-Aliassime defeated top seed and ITF World No. 1 Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece 6-4, 7-5, coming from 4-1 down in the second set.
With two previous wins over Tsitsipas in the past year, Auger-Aliassime was not intimidated by the ranking of his opponent.
"Beating him twice I was, not expecting myself, but I knew I was able to win that match, go get that victory," said the 16-year-old. "I felt he was a bit tight and I'd seen him play against other opponents and today I felt he was more nervous, not letting his shots go. But one of the reasons was because I put pressure on him, he was always feeling a bit stressed, and I did my job well to keep him pressured."
Auger-Aliassime will be playing in his second junior slam final, having lost to Geoffrey Blancaneaux of France in the French Open this year after holding match points.
"I'm not relating this match to the French Open final," said Auger-Aliassime. "Obviously, the fact that I've been there, that I've played these kind of matches, it will help me. But it's a complete different thing. You put it aside, but I'm for sure never going to forget it ever. It was my first slam[final] as a junior, my first Roland Garros, I was so close. I try to laugh about it now, but obviously, it's been really tough all year to not think about it."
Kecmanovic, who turned 17 last month, defeated No. 7 seed Yosuke Watanuki of Japan 6-1, 6-4 in a semifinal played on Court 17.
"First set was relatively easy because the guy didn't play very well," Kecmanovic said. "He made a lot of mistakes, and I didn't do anything special, I just put the ball in court. In the second set when it was 2-1 and he broke me, he hit a couple of good returns in that game, and that was when he got some momentum, started playing better."
"It was break after break, but at 4-3 I managed to hold my serve, and especially at the end, I made four first serves that gave me the match."
Auger-Aliassime and Kecmanovic have not played before, but Kecmanovic knows Auger-Aliassime has a slight edge in experience in junior slam finals.
"Felix is a good player, he already made one final this year and almost won it," said Kecmanovic, who has been able to hit with Sunday's men's finalist and countryman Novak Djokovic when their tournament schedules permit. "It's going to be tough, I'm expecting a tough match and I'm going to be ready for it tomorrow."
Kecmanovic does have a big title on his resume, having captured the Orange Bowl title last year, beating Tsitsipas in the final.
"Obviously the win at Orange Bowl helps me," said Kecmanovic, who cited an improvement in his serve as a key to his results the past several months. "It's the same level as this one, so I know I can do it if I play my best. I think I have a lot more experience now, and I'm playing a lot better and I'm just in a better place than I was."
Like Day, Auger-Aliassime was back out on court after his singles semifinal match to play the doubles final, and he too came up short. Auger-Aliassime and partner Benjamin Sigouin, also of Canada, lost to Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar of Bolivia and Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves of Brazil 6-3, 7-6(4).
Aguilar and Alves had only partnered once before, last year in the Grade B1 in Bolivia and had lost in the second round. But this week, everything clicked, as they beat the No. 6 seeds and the No. 4 seeds before taking out the third-seeded Canadians.
"I think there's a really good chemistry with Felipe and me," said Aguilar. "We were pretty confident when we started and it ended it up well."
Auger-Aliassime and Sigouin had three set points in the second set, but Aguilar and Alves forced a tiebreaker. The South Americans got an early mini-break, gave it back, but got another one, and held serve the rest of the way.
"We just wanted the match to finish, honestly we were so tight," said Aguilar. "I think we played better than them in the tiebreak, because we were confident and going for our shots. At the end when we were 6-4 up, honestly, I just wanted them to miss. I was shaking, I didn't know what to do."
Aguilar got his wish, with Auger-Aliassime missing a second serve return, and a joyful embrace ended with both Aguilar and Alves on the ground.
Unlike the South Americans, the girls doubles champions have a long history together, with Hart and Shibahara frequent partners who have reaffirmed that commitment now that both are attending UCLA.
The rematch of last month's quarterfinal with Day and Dolehide in the USTA 18s Nationals, which Shibahara and Hart won 6-2, 2-6, 10-3, was even tighter, with neither team able to establish more than a one point lead in that 24-point match tiebreaker that decided it.
"We've had experience with the 10-point tiebreaker, not only in our semifinal match, but against Kayla and Caroline at Hard Courts," said Hart, who started at UCLA last March. "It was a little bit easier back then, but it was a big moment tonight and they came out playing strong. There was not much of a lead in the tiebreaker, always pretty close and once it got to the end, we were all pretty nervous. But I think we were able to handle our emotions and stay loose and stay focused for the last couple of points. We're happy that it went our way."
"They had match points, we had match points, it's just a really tough situation," said Shibahara, who starts her freshman year at UCLA this fall. "I think because we've played with each other so long, I think that showed through. There wasn't really a time when we miscommunicated, and because we're so used to each other, that really helped us win today's match."
Shibahara and Hart, who won the Hard Court title and received a women's main draw wild card as well as one into the Junior Championships, thought their experience in the main draw, where they lost to No. 7 seeds Sania Mirza and Barbora Strycova, was invaluable this week.
"I think that helped a lot for us to play the No. 1 doubles player in the world, Sania Mirza," said Shibahara. "That was a really fun match for us and it gave us a lot of confidence going into juniors."
That confidence was put to the test in the first round, when they drew top seeds Anastasia Potapova and Olesya Pervushina of Russia. After a clinical 6-4, 6-2 win, the Southern Californians were on their way.
"We played really well that match," said Shibahara. "Playing in the women's draw really helped us, especially against the No. 1 seeds first round. It helped us keep the momentum."
Hart and Shibahara's win in the first all-American girls final since 1992 was especially sweet.
"It's been more than two decades since that happened," Hart said. "To be able to represent America at the US Open is definitely an honor. I think we would have been happy either way with the result, but we're happy to be on top."
The schedule for Sunday's finals starts with the girls second on Grandstand after noon, with the boys final to follow, also on Grandstand. The matches should be streamed on ESPN3.
The girls singles draw is here and the boys singles draw is here.
The girls doubles draw is here and the boys doubles draw is here.
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Q: Compute the value of $\mathbb{P}_{0}\left[\tau\geq n\right]$ and $\mathbb{P}_{0}\left[\tau=+\infty\right]$ We consider the Markov chain $\left(X_{n}\right)_{n\geq0}$
  on $\mathbb{N}$
  whose transition matrix $P=\left(p_{k,l}\right)_{k,l\geq0}$
  given by
$$\forall k\in\mathbb{N}
  p_{k,0}=q_{k},p_{k,k+1}=p_{k}$$
with $p_{k}+q_{k}=1$
  and $p_{k}>0$
  for any $k\geq0$
 .
Assume that $\left(X_{n}\right)_{n\geq0}$
  is irreducible. Set $\tau=\textrm{inf}\left\{ n\geq1:X_{n}=0\right\}$
 (with the convention $\textrm{inf}\textrm{Ø}=+\infty$
 ); compute the value of $\mathbb{P}_{0}\left[\tau\geq n\right]$
  and $\mathbb{P}_{0}\left[\tau=+\infty\right]$
Give me some hints please. Thank you in advance.


The Dark Sun Gwyndolin is one of the Bosses found in Dark Souls. This optoinal Boss can be found in Anodr Londo.
To gain entrance you either need the dark moon seance ring from the catacombs or you can kill Gwyneverre. If you kill Gwynevere you can just warp straight to the dark moon tomb to challenge Gwyndolin.
Follow the hidden path down to the fog wall. You can kneel here and join the Darkmoon Covenant which nets you a Blue Eye Orb and the Darkmoon Blade Covenant ring. The Orb lets you invade guilty player's worlds, and the Ring allows you to be summoned by Gwyndolin, no point really since you're about to kill him.
Little Blue Orbs - Similar to the Moonlight Butterfly orb attack but a little harder to dodge. Moderate to High damage depending on how many hit you.
Arrow Flurry - Easy to dodge shoots in a straight line towards you.
Its possible to defeat this boss without taking a hit: equip the dragon slayer bow and 25-30 arrows and the Hawk Ring(behind Anor Londo's blacksmith) after the boss warps for the first time you can find a spot where he wont fire at you but you can reach him with Melee - hide behind a pillar until he starts shooting either the big orb or the arrows. At which point, you'll want to start charging him while zigzaging around his attacks. You can try and avoid the small blue orbs but if you're caught they do a pretty decent amount of damage so just hide behind a pillar.
note: the big blue orb goes through the pillar so you must avoid them!
Ranged - basically the same except you don't have to run up too close so he doesn't teleport. Around 2 - 3 pillars away is good. Keep dodging while waiting for a chance to pop off a couple spells or arrows at him.
Hybrid - Players who play a hybrid of melee and sorcery will have an easy time with this fight if they cast Homing Soul Mass or Crystal Homing Soul Mass and charge Gwyndolin. At even low-ish levels of intelligence (26 or so) the Crystal Homing Soul Mass will do roughly 400-500 damage not to mention the two or three melee hits you should be able to get in before he teleports. After two teleports Gwyndolin should be dead.
Once he's dead you can proceed to the end of the corridor to find three chests, The one on the left is empty, the one in the middle has the mircale Sunlight Blade and the one on the right has the Brass Armor set.
*Spoilers* Dark Sun Gwyndolin created an illusion of a sister in order for her to help Gwyndolin guard over Anor Londo. This sister is Gwynevere, the princess you meet after defeating Ornstein and Smough. If you attack Gwynevere, she dies in one hit, disappears along with most of the enemies in Anor Londo, and as a result, Anor Londo falls into twilight. Also two new enemies replace the giant golden-armored knights in the room before the Ornstein and Smough boss fight. One of them is a girl with Balder armor the other is a guy in Dark Knight armor. Each drop 5000 souls a piece and end being a pretty decent farm. There is a trick to farming souls from them. Warp to the "Chamber of the Princess" then kill the two knights. Head up the stairs on the left and to the bonfire inside the castle killing the silver knights on the way. Now warp back to the "Chamber of the Princess". The two knights will not respawn unless the player warps to the Chamber.


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Tag: Zakhir Mohamed
BigDog Hated Durian
The late Zakhir Mohamed, or BigDog as he was popularly known, was very unorthodox. There was a time when he asked my wife and I to join him and wife for dinner at the Mohd. Yaseem Nasi Kandar restaurant at 1am.
I never knew who BigDog was until 2011 when I responded on my blog to Mat Sabu's claim that the policemen who died in the Bukit Kepong attack were British Dogs. BigDog, whose real name was Zakhir Mohamed, sent me a direct message on Twitter to introduce himself. I knew him as one of the top political bloggers at par with Rocky Bru, but never knew him in person. I was never an active blogger and had no following. Both BigDog and Rocky Bru were far up there with all the other top bloggers.
The friendship grew as we met more often, and the friendship turned from political into a personal one. BigDog was a true Johorean and an Anglophile. We had a common interests – Johor food, namely Laksa Johor (eaten the traditional way – with hands, not fork and spoon) and food of the Johor elite called Harissa eaten with garam lada and honey, as well as authentic British Fish and Chips (taken with with malt vinegar and minted mushy peas, not tartare sauce or ketchup with garden peas). BigDog could eat Laksa Johor every day at every meal for a week.
He was cordial with everyone. At LIMA 2011, he witnessed Lim Guan Eng boarding one of Royal Malaysian Navy's submarines, the KD Tun Abdul Razak, that took him on a 5-hour sail complete with a dive to dispel a rumour that was churned up by the opposition claiming that none of Malaysia's submarines could dive. BigDog managed a friendly banter with Guan Eng then. Other than always being seen with his best friend blogger Salahuddin Hisham, occasionally a third person in the form of former PPBM Supreme Council member, Tariq Ismail Mustafa would be there, and the conversation is never political.
He had the stamina to stay up and out late, something I do not have. There were times when he and I and a few others would yack away at his favourite spot -27 Scotts inside the Bangsar Shopping Centre far beyond closing time, leaving the manager as the only other person there waiting for BigDog to call it a day. These are called his menyanyah sessions.
I noticed that in every conversation, one name would always be mentioned as a side-topic: Kenit, the nickname given to his only child Noor Aishah Zaharah. Despite his boisterous facade, BigDog was a very doting father who would drive frequently to Johor Bahru to be with Kenit whenever possible. Those were the days when he had a banged-up Mitsubishi Pajero he called 'The Enterprise' after the famous fictional starship. Kenit was everything to him. Even when he was busy covering the state of Johor in the run-up to the 14th General Election, he would be with Kenit at virtually every meal time.
I used to laugh at him when he said he could not stand the smell of durian. He really couldn't stand the smell of the fruit and was very sensitive to it. At a berbuka puasa outing with a former deputy minister, he could smell the durians on display at another hall, 50 meters away. He even quipped how his grandfather must have hated him for leaving him with a durian orchard in Muar that he never bothered finding out its location. During durian season, he would call up his friends and neighbours to clear the fruit baskets outside his house that were filled with gifts of durians, and asked his maid to make sure that not one fruit was left before he could go home.
We all thought it was just him being an Anglophile and being disgusted with durian. One day, we were to have a meet up with another friend for lunch. He arrived early at the chosen location and to his horror found out that it served durian crepe. He quickly sent a Whatsapp message asking for a change of venue. All afternoon all he did was to drink warm water, glass after glass, and did not eat anything. His face was just blue. After the meeting, I think he went to the gents to throw up while my wife, Rocky Bru and I waited outside. Later, he found a bench and laid down. It took him more than an hour after before Rocky Bru could drive him back. He was hospitalised due to a heart attack triggered by the smell of durian. We knew then the reason behind his hatred for durian.
Scrolling back at the Whatsapp messages we sent each other, his last message to me was on my birthday five months ago asking if it was safe for him to visit my father's durian orchard which I am managing because he wanted to see the river behind the piece of land. I told him by August it should be okay. Soon after, he got really busy setting up a new portal called The Vibes, covered the Sabah state election, and was totally engulfed in his work.
Now, he is gone forever. His loud and piercing voice will no longer dominate the area outside 27 Scotts. His "pertunangan" posts on his social media will be missed, as will his "Tuan" at the beginning of his Whatsapp messages.
Rest in peace, Zakhir Mohamed. You no longer have to worry about durians. Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un. I shall miss you. Allow me to shed a tear or two quietly in remembrance.


The Caribbean Community CARICOM, has released a statement in relation to the ongoing political turmoil in the South American country of Venezuela.
The regional body further abides by the principle that the sovereignty of countries should be respected and implores foreign powers not to use military force in the ongoing political crisis, which could destabilize the situation even more.
They also offered their leaders' offices as a means of providing peaceful dialogue and arbitration between the parties.


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Q: ElasticSearch delete in Java I'm trying to delete all records with "lastRefresh" fields older that 1 hour from the current time in ES. I am getting a parse error in SOAP UI (HTTP 400, SearchPhaseExecutionException), but it does not make sense to me. I have verified that my date code is working, but being new to ES, I'm sure I made a rookie mistake somewhere... Below is my code in Java and what I get from the debugger to try and test in SOAP UI.:

    RangeFilterBuilder range = FilterBuilders.rangeFilter(LAST_REFRESH_FIELD);
      DateTime expiredLimit = DateTime.now().minusHours(1);
      range.from(0);
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      DeleteByQueryRequestBuilder deleteRequest = elasticClient.prepareDeleteByQuery(INDEX_NAME);
      deleteRequest.setQuery(query);
      DeleteByQueryResponse response = deleteRequest.execute().actionGet();

      if (response.status() == RestStatus.OK)
      {
         result = true;
      }
      else
      {
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      }

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  "filtered" : {
    "query" : {
      "match_all" : { }
    },
    "filter" : {
      "range" : {
        "lastRefresh" : {
          "from" : 0,
          "to" : 1429129890507,
          "include_lower" : true,
          "include_upper" : true
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

A: Problem is I neglected to remember that I am using Zulu time (UTC), and I am in the Eastern Time Zone.  I was testing with bad data...


Paused Evolution service, and tried to activate again. They said no-longer available. Now I have to sign in to an lesser service and start a new contract!!!What is the point of me putting one on hold and them charging me for something they no longer offer!
Then don't sign on. Check out what Hughes has to offer. ViaSat isn't the only game in the woods.
Jason, I'd like to investigate the details of what happened and see what we can do for you. Please email me at exedelistens@viasat.com with your account and contact information. Please reference your post in your email.
I am having the same issue! This is so unfair. I have talked with excede few times - and no one seems willing to help. If I had known I would lose the evolution plan, I would not have put in on vacation pause. Not at all happy with exede/wildblue.
Joanne, sorry that happened! Please email me at exedelistens@viasat.com with your account and contact information. Please reference your post in your email. We'll see what options we have available.
I emailed you and I haven't heard anything back --- any luck in helping me with my service issues???
That is not like them to not get back to you still a week later, usually they get back to you with in a day or two at most. I have see where they might have missed the email or some reason it didn't show up on their end. Might not be a bad idea to sent them a new email with your info again just to make sure they have it and didn't get lost. Put your name or vacation hold issue in the subject line to make sure they can find it. Again sorry that is unusual to not hear back over a week later.


Cannot start because the required game data is missing or damaged. Please try reinstalling the game. 85262c58:29f00e76:00000000:00000000"
After readind a few coments and posts i tried to use the validator, but this is what pops up "hashes for version 1.48.90.1020 not found on server".
SO, the validator finally worked. this is what it said.
I HAVE ABSOLUTLY NO IDEA WHAT IT MEANS. HELP.
After I installed Get Famous and the latest update the game worked once and then after that it keeps giving this error whenever I try to start the game.
I tried reinstalling both the pack and the update, starting the game without the pack and update.
I also tried moving the sims 4 folder from the EA subfolder to the desktop.
Open that folder and delete the file GameVersion.
Now start your game again.
Don't tell people to delete "GameVersion" or "Default" file. Tell them to update the game. That's better solution.


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Q: user not defined for onAuthStateChanged in Firebase with custom hook I built a custom hook to get a user from firebase:
export function useAuth() {
  const [currentUser, setCurrentUser] = useState<any>();

  useEffect(() => {
    const unsubscribe = onAuthStateChanged(auth, async (user) => {
      if (user === null) {
        setCurrentUser(null);
      } else {
        const u = await getDoc(doc(db, "users", user.uid));
        const name = u.data().name;
        setCurrentUser(user === null ? null : { ...user, name: name });
      }
    });
    return unsubscribe;
  }, []);

  return currentUser;
}

In my components I use it as:
const currentUser = useAuth();
useEffect(() => {
    const localScore = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("score"));
    setPush(!(localScore[currentUser.name] === tasks.length));
                                  // ^ TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'name')
  }, []);

I think I get the error, because when the components gets rendered the first time, there is no currentUser. But I load the component after the user logged in (what sets the user), thus I am confused.
I think I need to await the user somehow, but how?

From the comments:
I moved my onAuthStateChanged to a context, but this is checking the login state only once and is not updating:
const AppContext = createContext(null);

export function AppWrapper({ children }) {
  const [currentUser, setCurrentUser] = useState<any>();

  useEffect(() => {
    const unsubscribe = onAuthStateChanged(auth, async (user) => {
      if (user === null) {
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  }, []);

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    <AppContext.Provider value={currentUser}>{children}</AppContext.Provider>
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export function useAppContext() {
  return useContext(AppContext);
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function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
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    <>
      <AppWrapper>
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Rapper Gunna In Fulton County Jail On RICO Charge
The Feds say they were pushing more than just P.
Source: Fulton County PD / Fulton County Sheriff's Department
Gunna is in custody in Fulton County Jail and facing RICO charges. The Atlanta rapper was named in the indictment, along with Young Thug, that came down on Monday (May 9) accusing his YSL label of participating in a myriad gang racketeering crimes.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Gunna, born Sergio Giavonni Kitchens, 28, was booked into the Fulton jail on early Wednesday morning (May 11).
Young Thug Allegedly Handed Drug Pill While In Court
Lil Wayne, Future And More Named As Potential Witnesses In YSL RICO Trial
Waka Flocka Flame Talks YSL & TakeOff With Shannon Sharpe
Gunna is facing one count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Per the 88-page indictment, the Young Stoner Life label and its affiliates are a gang (Young Slime Life) involved in crimes like drug dealing and murder, amongst others. Besides Young Thug, Gunna was the most prominent and successful artist in the crew. His latest album, DS4Ever, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard.
The indictment names 28 defendants with 56 counts related to gang and conspiracy activity. Some of the felonies Gunna is accused of include receiving stolen property and drug possession with intent to distribute.
Gunna and Thug were arrested back in 2017 for drug possession after a traffic stop. The former was hit with a misdemeanor but Thugger was indicted for drug charges that are still pending.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said these charges are being pursued due to the violence it is allegedly causing in the community. She also readily admitted that social media has been "wonderful tool" in assembling the case against the defendants. For the more serious charges, some defendants are looking at life in prison.
We're not sure about Gunna, yet, but don't expect Young Thug to be out on bond anytime soon, if ever.
Gunna Newsletter RICO


You may step out of line!
You absolutely have to watch this video! It shows a little girl who – unlike all the other mini ballerinas – does not dance the choreography she was taught, but dances to her heart's content.
_ like to accept a subordinate role to others.
Have you been able to relate to one or more of these statements? How do you feel about it? Be perfectly honest and admit if you are not overly excited about it.
_ you feel not taken seriously.
It does not matter with which of the points you resonate, but you should definitely do something about it. To be able to please everybody is an illusion.
_ secondly, … why would you do that?
_ Is it your duty to make the world a happier place?
On the contrary! You should be mindful of your OWN happiness and take care that you do not stand in the way of your own felicity. ONLY YOU can do that! And ONLY YOU are responsible for it. What are you waiting for! The little ballerina shows you how it is done!


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Shooting Stars In Toronto
By Carly Beath
Indie popsters Stars will be shooting a new video in Toronto tomorrow and Thursday and they want you to be in it. If you missed the Joel Plaskett shoot we told you about earlier this year, you've got another shot at your 15 minutes of fame (or at least becoming known among your acquaintances as "the one who was in a music video"). Aspiring extras should send photos and contact info to [email protected] for their chance to hobnob with Stars.
The video will be for a track off their fourth studio album, In Our Bedroom After The War, which comes hot on the heels of their remix release Do You Trust Your Friends?, released in May. The new album has been for sale as of last week—but only online.
Such close release dates weren't originally planned. In Our Bedroom After The War was set to be unleashed on September 25th (which is when the physical version will be made available), but in an era when album leaks are a case of "when" rather than "if," they thought, "Why wait?" The band's Toronto-based label, Arts & Crafts, had the album ready for fans to purchase a scant four days after it was finished.
Usually, only promotional copies (the ones that cause leaks to spring) would be sent out so soon after an album is ready. But, as Arts & Crafts put it on their website, "We believe that the line between the media and the public is now completely grey. What is the difference between a writer for a big glossy music magazine and a student writing about their favourite bands on their blog?" (Torontoist would argue that bloggers are actually more awesome, but that's just us.) With a quicker and easier distribution method in the internet and a new media landscape, there's no need to follow the old model.
The band and label are hoping with this bold, innovative move "that given a clear, legal alternative to downloading music for free, you will choose to support the creators." In other words, you can't use your eagerness to hear the album as an excuse for downloading a free copy, because the free and for-purchase copies are available at the same time. Your love for a band is no longer a twisted justification for stealing from them.
It may not seem like a big deal, but in such a rapidly changing industry, it really is. The music business is in need of new ways of doing things if it wants to save itself, and the speedy release of In Our Bedroom After The War is the kind of idea that fits the bill. If other labels are smart, these short lead times will become the standard—thanks to Canada's Soft Revolutionaries.
Photo by A. De Wilde.
Filed under Do You, Joel Plaskett, music video, new media, The War, arts, bloggers, business, Canada, crafts, Ideas, Indie, music, Stars, Toronto, war


Haftendorn, Clemens, Franziska Holz and Christian von Hirschhausen (2012): "The End of Cheap Coal? A Techno-economic Analysis Until 2030 using the COALMOD-World Model." FUEL, Vol. 102, pp. 305-325.
Daniel Huppmann and Franziska Holz (2012): Crude Oil Market Power – A Shift in Recent Years? The Energy Journal, Vol. 33 (4), pp. 1-22.
Ruud Egging, Franziska Holz, and Steven A. Gabriel (2010): The World Gas Model: A Multi-Period Mixed Complementarity Model for the Global Natural Gas Market. Energy, Vol. 35 (10), pp. 4016-4029.
Security of Energy Supply in Europe: Natural Gas, Nuclear, and Hydrogen? Editors: F. Lévêque, J.-M. Glachant, J. Barquín, C. von Hirschhausen, F. Holz, and W. J. Nuttall. Edward Elgar Publ., August 2010.
RESOURCES: International Energy Resource Markets under Climate Constraints – Strategic Behavior and Carbon Leakage in Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas Markets (2012 – 2015). Joint project with the Potsdam University's Chair of Economic Policy, Funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the research program "Economics of Climate Change"
NAMAs / Green Growth in Kazakhstan, 2011 – 2013, Work Package Perspectives of the Kazakh Energy Resource Exports and Consumption until 2050.


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LHC hits goal of high-energy collisions
After two false starts on Monday morning, Cern physicists achieved their aim of circulating and colliding beams in the Large Hadron Collider at 3.5 TeV.
By Karen Friar for From both sides | March 30, 2010 -- 11:36 GMT (04:36 PDT) | Topic: Tech Industry
Shortly after 1pm in Geneva, the physicists brought both the beams circulating in the particle accelerator into collision. They have already observed these collisions in one of the detector sites, Atlas.
The scientists are stablilising the beam in the three other detectors (Alice, LHCb and CMS) before going ahead with collisions there.
"This is a significant step forward for particle physics and for our knowledge of the early universe," said Cern's director general, Rolf Heuer. "It shows what one can do, and it will show what one can achieve scientifically in bringing knowledge forward."
At the moment, there are not many collisions in Atlas being observed. The next step is to raise the number of collisions, Cern said.
(ZDNet UK staff writer Tom Espiner is in Geneva to report on the 'first physics' experiments in the Large Hadron Collider. I'm posting this blog report for Tom as he's out of reach of an internet connection. )
More from Karen Friar
Iran-focused malware tampers with business databases
Security agency points out flaws in EU's 'right to be forgotten' plan
Hundreds of Brits' details exposed in claimed Amazon UK hack
iPad Mini and new iPad look headed to EE's 4G network


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Brant Daugherty (nascido em 20 de agosto de 1985) é um ator americano. Ele é mais conhecido por seu papel como Noel Kahn na série Pretty Little Liars. Ele também atuou por alguns pequenos papéis em séries de televisão e escreveu um livro. Brant nasceu e cresceu em Ohio. Ele freqüentou a Columbia College Chicago.

Brant também interpretou o personagem Danny Foster no filme Oranges, filmado em Wisconsin e dirigido pela brasileira Elen Santana.

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