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Interview with Max Zavet from Emblem Corp
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Co-Founder/President, Emblem Corp.
Max Zavet
By Jason Gorber
Tell me about what you do. I'm a cannabis entrepreneur investor. I've been in the legal cannabis industry since 2012, investing and starting companies. I started Emblem Corp. that went public, and I helped to start other companies in the States that are public or are going public. I have a company called Robes Cannabis, and it's partnering up with Noah Shebib [known as 40] who's Drake's Grammy award-winning music producer, to come out with a brand called The Bull Rider. It's a very unique strain that Noah is a big champion and spokesperson for because it helps him deal with his MS and helps his creativity. The new business is very much about quality over quantity, high-end experience – boutique in a sense, artisanal in a sense that we don't want to appeal to everybody, but we want to appeal to that small percent[age] of the market that really appreciates the process and the beauty of the dried flower.
How do you see the industry changing? You're going to have more niche businesses, especially as different products come on-line, like edibles and extractions, vape pens, that kind of thing. I think you'll see more bifurcation where companies will start focusing on different segments of the market. Then you're going to have your conglomerates like Canopy and Aurora that are going to try to buy up those pieces. There's a market for everyone to play in, but I'm playing in that very specialized niche area.
What changes would you like to see come along, and how are you contributing to that change? We'd like to see more access and better distribution, especially in Ontario, where it's been limited to a license. Quebec's been extremely limited as well, where it's the public stores. We'd like to see a more robust model like they have in Alberta, with more options for delivery. More products will come on-line in the next year as regulations get passed, but, right now, they're still working that out. It looks promising, but we have a long way to go. The best way we can help is by being active participants in the industry and communicating with Health Canada and trying to take advantage of various stakeholder discussions. It is challenging, as governments don't think outside the box too often.
What do you see as the main challenges and roadblocks, not only for your company, but for the industry as a whole? Achieving less red tape, freer markets – those are our big roadblocks. More licensing! California has issued over 4,000 licenses. While some are temporary, at least they're creating a market and an industry and not a value for licenses. A similar approach needs to be taken in Canada where the value shouldn't be in the license; it should be in the business. I think there's only 150 licenses in all of Canada, and we're a similar size to California.
What is the biggest misconception about the industry? I think it's a weird industry because it's the illicit market that's been prevalent for so long. If you ask the hardcore cannabis advocate/user/consumer, his biggest conception of the industry is that cannabis is now corporate cannabis, and it's awful, which they're not too wrong about in terms of the quality of the product that's out there right now. I think it's a misconception that there can't be competition or companies that can achieve quality and still compete. It's a misconception that big cannabis has taken over, and that's it – that it's impossible to compete against these giants, and we're just going to pack up and still continue doing it illegally or go home.
Where do you see the industry in five years? I see a [more] dynamic and robust industry, for sure! People's attitudes will change towards cannabis, generally – become a bit more relaxed. I think as people realize that the sky isn't falling with cannabis legalization, then we can have more rational policies in place with respect to the whole supply chain. I am definitely optimistic, but hopefully the conservative government doesn't get elected or something (laughs).
Paris, Ontario
Written on: June 26, 2019
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Volley Brawl released into Software Center for Maverick, Natty for $2.99 (Update: Now with more gameplay video!) - OMG! Ubuntu!
I'm happy to announce that Volley Brawl is finally available for everyone to try!
All you have to do is open up the Software Center and navigate to the "For Purchase" section. It's priced at a comfortable $2.99.
It'll only knock you back the price of a pair of socks, and I believe that the Software Center sadly only accepts credit card payments (sorry, no PayPal!) at this point.
On Tuesday we we ran a competition giving away three copies of Volley Brawl to the top 3 new brawler ideas. Here are the results, as voted by you in the comments.
If you three winners could contact us via our contact form, that'd be great.
Those three characters, plus a few more, new levels and some other goodies will be landing in next month's content update. Updates will always be free for those who have purchased the game of course!
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Celebrating a 390-Year-Old Bonsai Tree
Boasting a full set of bright-green leaves
A Japanese white pine bonsai tree stands in the National Arboretum in Northeast Washington, boasting a full set of bright-green leaves and an impressively thick trunk, approximately 18" in diameter.
Thirty nine years after its arrival at the facility, and on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, the tree is being honored.
In 1976, as "part of a gift to the United States for its bicentennial," bonsai master Masaru Yamaki donated the topiary. For 25 years, it stood quietly among the rest of the collection in the Bonsai and Penjing Museum. But, in 2001, everything changed. Yamaki's grandchildren, Shigeru and Akira Yamaki, arrived unexpectedly to view the precious bonsai, which they had never before seen, and subsequently unraveled its awe-inspiring history.
This "botanical relic" is actually a whopping 390 years old and, according to the Washington Post, it has already surpassed its expected lifespan. But that's not even the most amazing aspect of its existence. Seventy years ago, it resided in Japan. More precisely — Hiroshima. And, 70 years ago, it survived the Hiroshima bombing.
The bonsai, which stood in Yamaki's nursery, was barely two miles away from the site of the blast and yet it, as well as all the members of the household, managed to survive the impact and the flying shards of glass from shattered windows.
The collection's caretaker, Jack Sustic, is responsible for the tree's well-being. This includes daily watering, inspecting for bugs, rotating with the sun, and occasional re-potting. According to Sustic, "Bonsai refers not to the type of tree but rather the manner in which it is cared for. It is the blending of art and nature...Bonsai is like a verb. It's not a noun; it's doing."

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Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Title: All Tomorrow's Parties
Author: utopianbabie
Spoilers: Very vague spoilers for Ats season five: Destiny and The Girl in Question
Email: utopianbabie@hotmail.com
Beta: melpemone
A Drusilla Character Study
Step One: Open Word.
Step Two: Organise thoughts into a logical sequence.
Step Three: Fail miserably.
I love Drusilla, and I have some very definite reasons for it, so when I started writing this essay, I tried to organize it into some very definite categories - keeping in mind the different reasons that she appealed to me. However, as I started writing, I realised that it wasn't working - the categories were too rigid, and really pretty useless. Furthermore, it occurred to me that the idea of categories in relation to Drusilla was totally contradictory to her as a character, so I scrapped that idea, and instead, found myself jotting down a series of impressions that I got from her. Here's a few of them:
Insane, ethereal, pretty, mad, crazy, creepy, otherworldly, childlike, innocent, vicious, evil, sexual, obsessive, psychic, melodramatic…and the list goes on.
After reading through my list, I realized two things:
1. Our picture of Drusilla is built up on a series of impressions, either derived directly from her actions and behaviors, or her history and interaction with other characters.
2. Drusilla is a creature of contrasts.
So, let's start with number one. The more I thought about this idea, the more it seemed to fit the way I - and other people I've talked to about the character - perceive her. I think we tend to come away with not so much a complete picture of Drusilla, but a collection of impressions and imagery - which, a lot of the time, contradict each other.
Drusilla isn't an extremely developed character compared to many characters in the Buffyverse. Characters such as Spike and Wesley have gone through amazing transformations over the seven plus years of the series, while Drusilla hasn't changed all that much - her biggest departure from the norm was probably leaving Spike and going it alone. However, over the time she has been a part of the show, the writers have explored her character and we have received quite a bit of insight about her, especially considering that she is essentially a minor character.
So, our girl hasn't just been floating around the Buffyverse getting Miss Edith her dinner, but what has she been doing? Well, she's made a quite a few important appearances and a few not so important ones. But for the most part, she's been a pretty versatile character - she's helped move a lot of storylines along, and other times she's been around to draw attention to aspects of another character's journey.
For example, in Reunion (Ats, 2:10) and Redefinition (Ats, 2:11), she arrives with the sole purpose of revamping a newly human Darla, thus destroying (ironically) Angel's chances of saving his one time Sire.
She also acts as a symbol of Angelus at his most evil throughout both shows, and Angel himself backs this up in Lie To Me (BtVS, 2:07), when he admits that his treatment of Drusilla was by far the "worst" thing he did after he became a vampire. For Spike - at least up until season five - she acts as a benchmark to which he compares all his relationships with women. After all, she was not only his Sire, mother-substitute and partner in crime, but also his lover and companion for over 120 years.
While a lot of the time any foray into Drusilla's past or personality has been used to support another characters' story, such as Angel(us) in Becoming (BtVS, 2:21) or Spike in Crush (BtVS, 5:14) and Destiny (Ats, 5:08), these journeys do make her one of the most explored minor characters. One could argue that we are given a far greater understanding of Drusilla, than of other minor characters such as Tara, at least in terms of how much insight we are given into their history and motivations.
Drusilla has some very important relationships to some very major characters in both BtVS and AtS, and I think that this is one of the reasons that we have been given so much of her history – that, and the fact that there is just so much to work with; so many interesting aspects of her persona to explore. So, without further ado…
"Who's Drusilla? And don't lie to me."
"Pure Innocence", "most impious, murderous child" or "Some cheap queen of the damned"?
My first introduction to Drusilla was at the time of her entrance with Spike during School Hard (BtVS 2:03). Spike arrives in town, and lays on the tough guy act. Shortly thereafter, we are introduced to Drusilla and things start to get a little bit…well, weird. During this first introduction, a few things are made very clear, not only about Drusilla, but also about her relationship to Spike. Drusilla is clearly very important to Spike, and as soon as she enters the room he makes her his first priority, and she in turn expects this behaviour from him. With one, whiny "Spike? I'm cold." (School Hard (BtVS, 2:03)), she is instantly enveloped in his coat. For me, this exchange set up one of the strongest themes of the relationship between Spike and Dru - Spike as the giver, and Drusilla as the reciever. This exchange also lets us in on the fact that Drusilla is sick, apparently affected by some sort of vampiric ailment, and in need of Spike's TLC, which he provides without a thought.
As soon as Drusilla opens her mouth, we are introduced to the third and most prevailing characteristic of her - she is, as Spike tells Joyce in Lover's Walk (BtVS, 3:08), "Out of her mind," and the more she talks…and does…the more apparent it becomes.
DRUSILLA: (to Collin) Do you like daisies? Hmm? I plant them, but they always die. Everything I put in the ground withers and dies. (gazes at the sky for a beat) Spike? I'm cold.
SPIKE: (puts his jacket around her) I've got you.
DRUSILLA: I'm a princess.
SPIKE: That's what you are.
-- School Hard (BtVS, 2:03)
Drusilla's metal state and subsequent actions are an ongoing theme during her tenure in the Buffyverse, and the most prevailing impression that many people take away with them. Ask any fan of BtVS to give you their take on Drusilla, and ten to one, the first thing they will say will be 'insane' or 'crazy'. And Dru's…er…condition has certainly been a point of much discussion in both BtVS and Ats. In Destiny (Ats 5:08), Spike likens her disposition to that of a child, while Angelus prefers to think of her as "A bit dotty and brain addled". In What's my Line? Part One (BtVS, 2:09) Giles refers to her madness making her more dangerous than not having a soul does, and there is repeated reference to Angelus having made her this way.
There's no doubt that the abuse Drusilla suffered - at the hands of Angelus – is the main cause of her insanity. Drusilla wasn't exactly the most stable person before she met Angelus, as her visions were causing her a lot of stress and heartache; however, she wasn't what one would call insane. Angel tells us in Lie to Me (BtVS, 2:07) that he "Visited every mental torture on her [he] could devise." And there's no doubt that his abuse would also have been sexual in nature.
If you think about Drusilla's behaviour in relation to this, a lot of what she does is explained. For instance, she often has her version of panic attacks if things aren't following routine, such as in Surprise (BtVS, 2:13), when the poor arrangement of her flowers causes her to fly into a rage.
I've also always thought that her preoccupation with her dolls - especially Miss Edith - is reminiscent of the dissociative behaviour that some abuse survivors display. Drusilla often refers to Miss Edith, or talks about doing things for Miss Edith when she's distressed or wanting to avoid something:
DRUSILLA: Spike, come dance?
SPIKE: (snaps) Give us some peace, would you? Can't you see I'm working? (Drusilla pouts) Oh, I'm sorry, kitten. It's just this manuscript. Supposed to hold your cure, but it reads like gibberish. E-even Dalton here, the big brain, he can't make heads or tails of it.
DRUSILLA: I... I, I need to change Miss Edith. (bends over in pain)
Also, the dolls are more often than not blindfolded, especially when they're in the bedroom. Another trait that some abuse survivors exhibit are "maladaptive sexual behaviour" and "relationship problems, such as overly sexualized or overly conflicted relationships" (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence/html/nfntsconsequencevio_e.html#Psychological) And I'd say that Drusilla's relationship with Angel(us) is nothing if not maladaptive and overly conflicted.
This impression of Drusilla is not wrong, she is crazy and not a "nice, quiet kind of crazy" (Fredless (Ats, 3:05)) either. She's a vicious, evil kind of crazy and quite open about it too, but as we are taken deeper into the history of her character, she evolves into something more contrasted and complex. Although Drusilla is over 140 years old - turned into a vampire by Angelus in 1860 - many of her actions are childlike, such as playing with dolls and reciting nursery rhymes, and when we are first introduced to her in School Hard (BtVS, 2:03), she appears almost ethereally innocent. It's not until later on in the episode that we start to realise that she's not just a harmless, or slightly odd, character. She shows her affection for Spike by lovingly cutting open his cheek with a sharpened fingernail and licking up the blood. Later on, we are treated to an even darker portrait of her, when in – as many fans might agree – one of her most disturbing scenes, she feeds on Sheila with snakelike precision and ice cold detachment, right after admonishing her dollies for misbehaving.
Another notable trait of Drusilla's is her visions and psychic ability. More often than not, she seems trapped in her own world. She does indeed spend a lot of time lost in visions and memories, and yet, amongst her numerous flashes of prescience and sojourns into nostalgia can be found quite astute observations on the people and situations around her. While her madness, and flighty and poetic language, colour most of what she says, her words are relevant, and they usually foreshadow an event or give us insight into the future actions of a character. Dru doesn't talk much, but when she does, you can bet it means something.
DARLA: In a perfect world we'd be slaughtering the innocent. Laughing as we rain destruction on this whole miserable town.
DRUSILLA: I see such pretty fire.
DARLA: Fire. Conflagration. In a perfect world there'd be nothing left here but ashes.
DRUSILLA: (laughing) And pain. So much suffering. The flames are lovely. They dance, and the fire licks like a cat. And the screams, oh, it's like star music.
DARLA: That's nice, Dru. Now hurry up. We can't be late. --Redefinition (Ats, 2:11).
It's a pity Darla hadn't listened to Drusilla; if she had, they might not have found themselves on fire. This illustrates my point; the main reason as to why people disregard Drusilla as an unimportant or throwaway character is that they see her ramblings as poetic nonsense used to reinforce her madness and add a bit of colour to the script. And while the device of using poetic, heavily symbolic language to draw attention to her madness works well, it can mean she is thought of as just being there for decoration or shock factor.
In understanding Drusilla's character, one of the best insights we've been given is when the writers took us back in time and showed her to us in her human state. Not only did this give us more understanding in to why she is the way she is, but it also highlights some fascinating contrasts in her character. So, what better way to explore Drusilla's contrasted nature than to take the journey from her human self to her vampire self?
"I don't want to be an evil thing" – Drusilla's journey from Human to Vampire
In Lie to Me (BtVS, 2:07), Angel describes a human Drusilla as "…pure and sweet and chaste", and while these fundamentals may have been erased from her personality when he sired her, there are many aspects of Drusilla's persona that have carried over and become darker versions of themselves after she was turned, and these contrasts are one reason that I find her so interesting. There are many instances where we see aspects of the person Drusilla was before she was turned shine through. In Surprise (BtVS, 2:13), the Judge makes reference to the remaining humanity that Drusilla possesses, saying that she and Spike "…share affection and jealousy." And indeed, we are shown evidence of the apparent depth of her feeling for Spike on many occasions, such as her taking care of him after he is injured in What's My Line Part Two (BtVS, 2:10), and let's not forget that she's spent over 120 years of her death with him.
Another thing that Drusilla retains from her human state is her preoccupation with the spiritual; however differently it manifests itself now. When she was human, it was Catholicism that probably engendered this love of spiritual and ritual, and she was devout, but after she became a vampire things changed a little. She was still very interested in aspects of the spiritual, although as a vampire it's the occult that takes her fancy. For instance, we've seen her using tarot cards on numerous occasions, and her love of ceremonies still carries over, as seen in What's My Line Part Two (BtVS, 2:10) (where we seeing her immensely enjoying Spike's ritual words), and Reunion (Ats, 2:10) (when she chooses a traditional re-birthing for her dear Grandmum Darla).
For me, one of the most interesting characteristics of Drusilla – and another thing that was with her before and after she became a vampire - is her psychic ability. It is, I think, one of the best illustrations of how certain human traits have stayed with her after she was turned. In Becoming, Part One (BtVS, 2:21), we see a human Drusilla confessing to "Father" Angelus, and she describes the following vision to him:
"I had... I've been seeing again, Father. Yesterday, the men were going to work in the mine. I had... a terrible fright. My stomach all tied up, and I saw this horrible... crash. My mummy said to keep my peace, it didn't mean nothing. But this morning... they had a cave-in. Two men died."
Conversely, during I Only Have Eyes For You (BtVS 2:19), she describes another vision:
DRUSILLA: There's a gate! It's opening!
ANGELUS: Incoming! I love when she does this.
SPIKE: What gate, pet? What do you see?
DRUSILLA: It's black. It wants her.
ANGELUS: Wants who?
DRUSILLA: The Slayer. It's time, Angel. She's ready for you now. She's dancing. Dancing with death.
To me, Drusilla's visions - before and after she became a vampire - are neutral, in that they are neither good nor evil - they just are. It's how she chooses to use the information provided that makes the difference, and this is why I find it so interesting. The purpose of Drusilla's visions never changed (if they had a purpose, that is. Perhaps they were intended to be like Doyle and Cordelia's visions. Perhaps our Dru was once destined to be on the PTB's payroll, before Angelus turned up. Wouldn't that be delightfully ironic?) However, with no soul and therefore no moral compass, Drusilla is bound to interpret these visions differently and act accordingly.
A further trait that she has retained from her human life is her relationship with family. When she was human, Drusilla was – we are led to believe – a beloved daughter who cared fiercely about her family, and how her actions affected them. Angelus used this devotion to his own advantage and to her demise, and interestingly, when she became a vampire, Drusilla carried with her a residue of love for her old human family - and not only that, but she developed a similar, stronger connection to her new family, Angelus in particular.
In a scene in What's My Line, Part Two (BtVS, 2:10) Drusilla asks Spike if she can "have" Angel, and the following exchange ensues:
DRUSILLA: The lamb is caught in the blackberry patch. (approaches Angel with Holy Water) My mummy ate lemons. Raw. She said she loved the way they made her mouth... tingle. Little Anne. (pours some on him) Her favorite was custard... brandied pears.
ANGEL: Dru...
DRUSILLA: Shhh! And pomegranates. They used to make her face and fingers aaall red. (more pouring) Remember? Hmm? Little fingers. Little hands. Do you?
ANGEL: (in pain) If I could...
DRUSILLA: (interrupts angrily) Bite your tongue! They used to eat cake, and eggs, and honey. Until you came and ripped their throats out. (pours the rest)
This is an obvious indication that she yet retains some feeling for her human family, because she is visibly upset when Angel tries to apologise. Nevertheless, it also shows that she cares deeply about her vampire family. At this point she doesn't seem to like Angel, let alone care deeply about him, however that's the point, she doesn't like Angel very much, she treats interlopers very seriously. Angel is not Daddy Angelus; he's an impostor who's taken away a member of her family – arguably the most important one – so she punishes him for it, at the same time taking the opportunity to make Angel pay for a few of Angelus' sins.
Of course, there are a lot of things that change completely after Drusilla is made into a vampire - for instance, where before she was "chaste" and obviously a virgin if she became a nun, after she becomes a vampire she is very promiscuous. Cheating on Spike whenever she feels like it and if The Girl In Question (Ats, 5: 20) is anything to go by, fun and games with Darla and anybody that crossed their paths was not a rare occurrence. Obviously, this stemmed from Drusilla being evil and having no inhibitions, however, one could argue that the abuse she suffered at the hands of Angelus went some way to causing this increased promiscuity; a behaviour some abuse survivors exhibit in later life.
Drusilla's relationships with characters such as Angelus, Spike and Darla go a long way to defining and developing her, and this is where we get most of the information about her. But what do these relationships tell us about our girl?
"We're a family again"
"Me mum says... I'm cursed. My seeing things is an affront to the Lord." – Human Drusilla, family and religion.
Canonically, we are given very little information about Drusilla's human family. We know that they were working class, Victorian, and Londoners. We are led to believe that they were a good Catholic family and that Drusilla was one of three sisters. We are led to believe that she was very concerned about their opinions, however, this wouldn't have been out of the ordinary for a young woman in the late 1800s, and she would have been very attached to her family, and therefore very affected by their opinions. The family was obviously very religious, and we are given evidence of this when she tells Angelus that her mother – quite cruelly, I've always thought – tells her that she is cursed and "…an affront to the Lord." Becoming, Part One (BtVS, 2:21). We don't get much information on her father, and she never mentions him - probably because Angelus took over that role so completely when he turned her.
Drusilla herself seemed to be the most religious of the family, and was probably considering becoming a nun long before she had to flee to the safety of a convent to escape Angelus. This devotion to religion seems to stem partly from her fear of her visions - she saw them as wrong and evil and probably became more and more devoted in an effort to make up for the 'sin' that she felt her psychic ability was.
"Snake in the woodshed!" – Drusilla and Angelus.
The relationship that Drusilla has with Angelus is her most complex. Angelus is Drusilla's sire, but he didn't turn her into a vampire until he tormented her to the point of madness and beyond. After turning Drusilla, Angelus effectively installed himself as a father figure in Drusilla's life and, in keeping with that relationship, she both loves and hates him at the same time. However, Angelus didn't just treat Drusilla as a daughter – although she did fill this role in their family dynamic willingly – she also became his lover, or more accurately his concubine, taking second place to Darla.
Angel mentions in Lie to Me (BtVS, 2:07) that Drusilla was an obsession of his, but as soon as Angelus turned her, he became an obsession of hers as well. During the last half of BtVS season two, when Angelus returns, we see Drusilla instantly reoccupy her roles, hang on his every word and do pretty much everything he asks of her, even if it involves upsetting Spike. Drusilla and Angelus' relationship was never equal - it's always a patriarchal in nature, and whether they're playing the father and daughter or they're shagging, Angelus is always "The Boss". However, Drusilla welcomes this - as a vampire she revels in his power over her… in fact, she hands it to him on a silver platter.
"It's not Daddy. It's never Daddy." – Drusilla and Angel.
Drusilla favours Angelus over all others, even Spike, and even when he is Angel she is still obsessed with him - and sometimes still loyal to him over Spike. For example, in What's My Line Part Two (BtVS, 2:10), Spike gets angry and tries to stake Angel, but Drusilla panics and tells him not to. Spike assumes that this is because she knows that they need Angel in order to perform the ritual; however, the jury's still out on whether that was the real – or only - reason she persuaded him to spare her Sire. It's not that she likes Angel, but she is preoccupied with him – however, it's a different kind of obsession, more conflicted. She wouldn't leave town when Angel asked her to (in School Hard (BtVS, 2:03)) for several reasons. Firstly, because she knew something was going to happen in Sunnydale, but also because she doesn't feel she needs to obey Angel, and more importantly because she still wants to be around him, whether he has a soul or not.
While Drusilla is slave-like in her devotion to Angelus, this devotion does not carry over to Angel. It's when Angel is ensouled that we see the complexities of the relationship really emerge. Drusilla seems to delight in tormenting Angel by dredging up the things he did to her when he was evil - in What's My Line, Part Two (BtVS, 2:10), she tortures him for apparently two different reasons, and for what we assume is hours, telling him he's been a "…very naughty daddy." She's apparently enraged at his disloyalty to their vampire family, but at the same time, she is angry about his treatment of her when she was a human. Drusilla is still drawn to Angel when he has a soul, but a flip occurs at least on some level, because now Drusilla is "The Boss", and Angel is the tormented.
"Look what I made, it's called Willy" – Drusilla and Spike.
While Drusilla spent over 120 years with Spike, and while the canon implies that they shared a love that was passionate to the point of obsession on both their parts (Joss himself called them the Sid and Nancy of the vampire world), this does not mean that Drusilla made Spike her first priority. The first thing to remember is that Drusilla had "belonged" to Angelus for 20 years before Spike came into the picture, and from what we know from the Angel/Darla arc in BtVS and AtS, a vampire's bond to their Sire is the strongest of relationships - "…being sired is reminiscent of the loss of virginity, and the resulting relationship carries with it an expectation of loyalty…" (Marinucci, M, 2003, p.70). Drusilla's was particularly strong, due to the events of her turning, and this meant that Spike came second to Angelus almost all the time. We are even shown this in Destiny (Ats, 5:08), when it's made clear that Spike always had to fight for Drusilla's affection, and that she revelled in the attention.
The second thing to consider is that Drusilla was Spike's Sire, so from the very beginning there is a powerful hierarchy at work… Spike may have been devoted to her, but she wasn't devoted to him, at least not in the early years. It wasn't until after Spike killed his first Slayer that Drusilla started returning Spike's affections with anything near the level of commitment that he gave her. This was probably in part due to Angelus' absence, which made room for Spike's increasingly powerful role within the family.
As the judge said, Spike and Drusilla shared affection, and they were together for over 120 years - however, Drusilla would choose others over him; she was often unfaithful and many a time she chose Angelus over Spike. This said, Drusilla is Spike's Sire, and she does not take kindly when his attention is directed elsewhere - a prime example of this is Drusilla's reaction to Spike's obsession, and later his relationship, with Buffy. This is where we see that even though she is willing to cast him aside, she expects nothing less than complete faithfulness from him.
"Don't be cross. I could be your mummy." – Drusilla and Darla.
Canonically speaking, Darla and Drusilla never had much of a connection until the end of Ats season 2, specifically the episodes Reunion (Ats, 2:10) and Redefinition (Ats, 2:11), when Drusilla turns the newly human – but terminally ill – Darla back into a vampire, and from this point on we get a better insight into their relationship. In the past, Drusilla would have most likely viewed Darla as an obstacle to Angelus' affection; however, according to the canon, her place as Darla's subordinate was an accepted position - she never challenged it, but did express her sadness at Angelus' head being "too full" of Darla for him to give Drusilla any proper affection. It is in Ats season two that their relationship evolves – now, they have a stronger bond, Drusilla is now Darla's Sire, and they have a common goal. Causing as much trouble to Wolfram and Hart as possible, and, if possible, turning Angel back into Angelus along the way.
Drusilla's siring of Darla did not introduce much of a power shift in terms of the hierarchical position of Sire and Childe, and this is probably due to the 140 years of Darla being in position as head of the family. In fact, Drusilla – who always seemed happiest following, rather than leading - slips easily back into her role of Granddaughter, letting Darla make the decisions, and even comfort her after the little fire incident.
As far as recs go, there isn't a huge amount of Drusilla-centric fic out there, but there is some and the stuff that's good, is really good.
Charm School is the best place I know for anything Drusilla related. They have a quality fiction archive and an interesting collection of small essays on different aspects of the character.
Blood Screaming is an excellent 'Fanged Four' site, with lots of useful information such as timelines, etc.
And for the Spike/Dru shipper in us all, Love Lies Bleeding is a fantastic site to go to for all your Sid and Nancy needs.
General Drusilla centred fiction.
Mare Nostrum by Rabbit - This fic is very dark and somewhat disturbing, but it's a wonderful take on Drusilla's insanity.
What It's like For a Girl by Evette - I like this fic because it shows four different aspects of Drusilla's persona - writing her as the widow, the daughter, the mother and the seductress.
And because her relationships are so important, my favourites:
Dru/Angelus – Preludes by Doyle - I love the darkness of this fic and I think it illustrates not only the relationship between Angelus and Drusilla really well, but also how Spike fits in to the who freaky deal.
Dru/Spike - Gifu by Jess Walker - Spike's POV, but still a wonderful illustration of the power they have over each other as well as the dynamics of their relationship.
Dru/Darla - Blossoms by Elisabeth - Drusilla is wonderfully well written in this story and the relationship between she and Darla isn't romanticised and very realistic.
Bad Poetry, Angsty Teen Archetypes, and the Great Rock & Roll Romance by Evette – Spike and Drusilla essay written for ship_manifesto.
The writing page at Charm School.
The Consequences of Child Maltreatment: A Reference Guide for Health Practitioners (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence/html/nfntsconsequencevio_e.html#Psychological)
Marinucci, M. (2003) Feminisim and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass. Open Court; Chicago.


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Candidates for the position of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights
On February 29, 2016, interviews conducted with the aim of selecting applicants for the position of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights were completed. As a result of the interviews, the Government Commission selected five out of 12 candidates based on the highest scores. The candidates for the position of the judge representing Georgia at the Strasbourg Court were interviewed by the Government Commission specially established for this purpose which was headed by the Minister of Justice. We will try to give a brief description of the process of selection of the candidates.
The Government Commission
By Ordinance No. 623 of December 14, 2015, the Government of Georgia approved the Procedure of Selection of Candidates for the Position of the Judge of the European Court of Human Rights to Be Selected from Georgia. A Government Commission was set up in accordance with the ordinance. The Commission included:
Thea Tsulukiani, Chairperson of the Commission, Minister of Justice;
Khatuna Totladze, Deputy Chairperson of the Commission, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Shalva Tadumadze, Parliamentary Secretary of the Government of Georgia;
Mamuka Vasadze, First Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Georgia;
Eka Beselia, Chairperson of the Human Rights and Civil Integration Committee of the Parliament of Georgia;
Vakhtang Khmaladze, Chairperson of the Legal Issues Committee of the Parliament of Georgia;
Mzia Todua, Deputy Chairperson of the Supreme Court of Georgia;
Ucha Nanuashvili, Public Defender of Georgia;
Zaza Khatiashvili, Chairperson of the Georgian Bar Association;
Irakli Burduli, Dean of the Law Faculty of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University;
Ana Natsvlishvili, representative of the Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary.
In accordance with the aforementioned ordinance, the members of the Commission assessed the candidates independently and gave them scores. On the basis of the scores given by the Commission members, each candidate was given an average score.
Selection of candidates
As a result of the interviews, the Government Commission selected five candidates (Alexander Baramidze, Nana Mchedlidze, Giorgi Badashvili, Anna Dolidze and Eva Gotsiridze) out of 12 based on the highest scores. The following applicants failed to make it to the top five candidates: Giorgi Papuashvili, President of the Constitutional Court; Konstantine Korkelia, Permanent Representative of Georgia to the Council of Europe; Irakli Adeishvili, former judge of the Tbilisi City Court; Maka Stevenson, Head of the Department of Equality at the Public Defender's Office; Nikoloz Legashvili, lawyer of NGO Article 42 of the Constitution; and Luiza Khitarishvili, Head of the Department of International Relations and Euro-Atlantic Integration at the Ministry of Defense of Georgia. According to Paragraph 6, Article 7 of the Government's ordinance, at all stages of selection, the identity of the participating candidates, the documents they have submitted to the Commission, the test results, and interview assessments, as well as the decisions and protocols of the Commission, are public and should be published. In spite of this, the aforementioned documents are yet to be published, and the Ministry of Justice has only publicized the scores given to Giorgi Papuashvili. Judging by the significance of the position of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, it is interesting to review the candidates' biographies, the more so that, by the decision of the Commission, some of the worthy candidates who have worked in the area of human rights for years failed to make it to the top five candidates.
Eva Gotsiridze
Eva Gotsiridze has been a member of the High Council of Justice since 2013. In spite of open protest of the civil society, she supported the election of Levan Murusidze to the Tbilisi Court of Appeals on December 25, 2015. According to her, the main argument in favor of Mr. Murusidze was that he was supported by the judicial corps. Before being elected to the Court of Appeals, Levan Murusidze was a judge of the Supreme Court and took part in the examination of the high-profile case of the murder of Sandro Girgvliani, as well as in the case of Sulkhan Molashvili, the former head of the Chamber of Control.
It should be noted that the ECHR found that the State of Georgia had violated the European Convention in the Girgvliani case. As for the case of Molashvili, on March 11, 2014, the applicant and the Government of Georgia concluded a friendly settlement in the ECHR. The Government of Georgia was made obligated to pay EUR 20,000 for the benefit of Sulkhan Molashvili, and the Government also acknowledged a violation of articles of the Convention, including the right to a fair trial, in relation to the applicant.
Eva Gotsiridze also made harsh statements about the developments related to the legal proceedings on the case of Rustavi 2. Along with other non-judge members of the High Council of Justice, she noted that the assessments of the court decision and the concrete judge, including those made by the non-governmental sector, caused enormous damage not only to the independence of the judiciary, but also to other principles of democracy and to the sustainability of public institutions. In her opinion, it is acceptable to restrict freedom of expression in order to protect the authority of the judiciary, and both the judiciary and the media understand freedom in a vulgar fashion. It should be noted that the non-governmental sector criticized her statements about freedom of expression that had been made in the context of the case of Rustavi 2, while in some cases she made incorrect references to the practice of the ECHR in connection with this issue. Eva Gotsiridze obtained a Ph.D. in international law in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 2006.
Alexander Baramidze
Alexander Baramidze has held the position of the First Deputy Minister of Justice since the 2012 parliamentary elections. It should be noted that the Government Commission for the selection of the judge representing Georgia at the Strasbourg Court was headed by Thea Tsulukiani, Minister of Justice. In the years 2011-12, prior to being appointed the deputy minister, Alexander Baramidze provided the Georgian Dream political coalition with legal services. In 2004-2011, he worked as a lawyer in the Andronikashvili & Partners law firm. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University in 2002. Prior to that, in 1993, he had graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the same university.
Anna Dolidze
Anna Dolidze was appointed the Deputy Minister of Defense of Georgia in May 2015. In parallel with participation in the competition for the position of an ECHR judge, on February 25, 2016, she was also nominated by the President of Georgia for the position of a judge of the Supreme Court of Georgia. In spite of this, she was interviewed as an applicant for the position of an ECHR judge on February 29, 2016, and made it to the top five candidates. In 2004-06, Anna Dolidze served as the Head of the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA). She holds a Doctorate in Law from Cornell Law School. Ms. Dolidze has cooperated with various international organizations since 2007. According to members of the United National Movement, her cooperation with Russia Justice Initiative – which filed complaints against the State of Georgia in the ECHR, arguing that Georgia had deliberately killed Russian citizens during the bombardment of Tskhinvali – raises questions. Anna Dolidze has explained that she did cooperate with the said organization, though she did not work on the aforementioned cases.
Nana Mchedlidze
Nana Mchedlidze holds an M.A. in law from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and an LL.M. in human rights law from the University of Warwick. In 2007-2008, she also obtained an LL.M. in international public law and European law from Utrecht University.
In 1995-2000, Nana Mchedlidze worked in the Georgian Young Lawyers Association. Later, in 2001-2007, she was the Head of the Human Rights Department at the Constitutional Court of Georgia. In 2008-2009, she became a legal expert of UNDP Georgia, and in 2009-2012, she served as a specialist of law in the same organization. Since 2012, Nana Mchedlidze has worked as a researcher on the European Court of Human Rights at the Tbilisi City Court. She also works at the Legal Department of the U.S. Embassy to Georgia.
Giorgi Badashvili
Information about the biography of Giorgi Badashvili is not available on the Internet. The Government Commission has not published the biographies of the competition participants. As we learned from the hotline of the Ministry of Justice, Giorgi Badashvili has worked as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights for eight years. It should be noted that the Chairperson of the Government Commission, Thea Tsulukiani, also worked as a lawyer of the ECHR in the years 2000-2010.
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For our final Halloween week recipe, I wanted to make these awesome Spooky Spider Soaps! They are a great make to do with the little ones and make great party favours, treats or just look great in your bathroom!
I love these because they are super customisable and you really can make them your own using dried botanicals and just ordinary pulses. Plus, embeds are a great way to encourage little ones to use their bar right down to the last bit!
10ml of a spooky Fragrance, Try Pumpkin Nectarine Fragrance!
Melt your soap base in the microwave using short 10/15 second bursts.
Once your base has melted, divide 200g into another jug.
Half of this will be coloured, whereas half will be left clear in order to allow users to see the embeds! Add your colourant to one half of the mixture until the desired effect is achieved, we have gone for a spooky green but other colours will work too, it's all personal preference!
Pour your coloured soap into your moulds as a base layer. Spray this with your alcohol in order to remove any bubbles. This will also help to create a film that will allow you to carefully pour your next layer on top without the two blending.
Once a film has formed (sometimes you need to wait a minute or two for your mixture to cool slightly get creative and add your embeds. You can also add your botanicals in any way you want to, we dropped a few into the base layer before it set, or you can add now the film has formed to keep it central.
Pour the clear soap base onto the top of your embeds. If it has started to harden you can simply remelt it! Depending on the effect you want you can add some botanicals on to this level as well. Make sure you give it a spritz with your alcohol again to get rid of any bubbles, this will make it as clear as possible so you can see the contents of your soap the best.
Wait for your creations to harden, I like to leave them overnight and then pop them out of your moulds! Now get spooking!
That's it for Halloween week this year! From now on I am going to get into full-on Christmas mode so get ready for the festive cheer! If you've liked these recipes please subscribe to our blog, share pictures of your creations and comment!
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His full name is Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. After he was famous as an author, he got the nickname Bitter Bierce due to his sardonic view on human nature. When he became a critic, "Nothing Matters" is his motto.
Bierce made a satirical lexicon on his complication of The Devil's Dictionary. His famous short story is "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".
Bierce always tried to encourage the young authors to create great work even though he gained a reputation as a searing critic. The fiction writer W.C. Morrow and the poet George Sterling were encouraged by Bierce. Find out another writer in Ally Carter facts.
Let's find out his style of writing. He often applied the theme of war, impossible events, dark imagery and limited descriptions in most of his stories. Therefore, he was very unique.
Since he wanted to experience the Mexican Revolution, Bierce traveled to Mexico in 1913. However, he disappeared without a trace when he traveled with the rebel troops until this present day.
Bierce was the son of Laura Sherwood Bierce and Marcus Aurelius Bierce. Even though his parents were very poor, he was encouraged to write and read. There were 13 children in the family and Bierce was the tenth child.
Talking about his early life, Bierce was raised by his parents in Kosciusko County, Indiana. For his early education, he went to high school at county seat, Warsaw.
When he was 15 years old, he decided to leave the house and worked at a small Ohio newspaper as a printer's devil.
Bierce had a military career too. He was a soldier in Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment at the beginning of American Civil War. His experience during the war can be seen in his stories. One of them is "What I Saw of Shiloh". It was inspired from his experience at the Battle of Shiloh. Get facts about Alvin C York here.
If you want to read the famous short stories of Bierce, you can check One of the Missing (1888), The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (1891), The Haunted Valley, The Boarded Window (1891), The Eyes of the Panther (1891) and many more.
Are you interested with facts about Ambrose Bierce?


Ukraine is among the group of leading countries regarding the number of educated people. In terms of the number of scientists and engineers per capita, Ukraine belongs to the first 25% of leading countries. The ranking of Ukraine in the Human Development Index of the United Nations is much higher than average. In the report of the World Economic Forum on Global Competitiveness, Ukraine ranks the 19th position among 60 countries in terms of mathematical and scientific education. In addition, it belongs to 30% of countries with the most amounts of the highest grades in intermediate school.
Ukrainian climate is very favourable for conducting any business (there are no tornadoes, tsunamis, droughts, dangerous insects, and natural disasters).


The system would allow managers to monitor employees' performance by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees could be dismissed on the basis of a computer's assessment of their physiological state.
This story is a bit beyond my ability to believe. I noticed that it sits on a Times Online website yet I'm still thinking, "no way!".
But the scary question is, what next?


SNIST Placements: The Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, [SNIST] Hyderabad placements has a good reputation and most of its students are top-notch companies. The College also brings in a lot of Guest Lectures and Industrial Visits to benefit the students during the time of placements.
Placement Cell: The Placement Cell conducts a lot of personality programmes to improve the soft skills of the students. The Cell also has tie-ups with many reputed companies. Lots of mock interviews are also conducted by the cell for the benefit of the students.
Click here for Placement Preparation according to best companies.
Medha Servo Drives Pvt. Ltd.
Vega Conveyors & Automation Ltd.
Integra Micro Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Not to bluff a lot about placements ,I can be candid and say that around 95% of the eligible students get placed every year from our college.Top MNC's visit our college to recruit us .Companies like WIPRO,INFOSYS,ACCENTURE,CTS,TECH MAHINDRA,CAP GEMINI are in tie up with our college and visit our campus to recruit us after conducting their corresponding tests. Not only these companies but also a lot more visit our campus .
The average package offered to an individual is Rs.3.5lakh per annum which is good for a fresher in today's competitive world.There are quite good opportunities for MBA students apart from the B.Tech. students . Someone or the other always visit our campus to take away students offering industrial internships,project training and what not .Even our college takes the students out for industrial visits once in every semester .
We get placements during our fourth year. Companies like Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, deloitte, Cap gemini comes to college for campus selection.
Packages varies like from Rs 2.75 lakhs/annum to Rs 3.35 lakhs/annum. 50-60% of our batch gets selected in our campus placements.
Alumnis give suggestions and advices to us and encourages us.
Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology (SNIST) is known for its quality and talented students. The institute attracts the cream of student community. It believes that the true potential of such students cannot be realized through academics alone. The institute helps to promote managerial skills and core values in the students, all of which cumulatively help to groom the students into balanced individuals.SNIST is in built by highly committed and quality conscious visionaries who are dedicated to making a positive and profound impact on the way education is imparted in the country. The goal of the Institute is to develop students into integrated personalities with a blend of Academic & Extra Curricular abilities. We have placements in two phases. In the first phase top hiring companies like Infosys, Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS), WIPRO,DELL come for placements. Almost 80 percent of the students get selected during this phase then for the remaining students there is second phase. In the secon phase companies like Capgemini,TCS,Intergraph,IBM ,I-gate etc come for hiring.There is a placement cell in the college that takes care of placement phases. The figures of 2011-15 batch is as follows: 690 students have been selected in various companies. Out of which Infosys hired 226, CTS hired 98 and WIPRO 232.There are other companies which hired students in considerable numbers. Internships are made available through the college alumni that are spread across the world.SNIST has contacts with top corporate companies that make it esay for students to get news regarding internships.
There will be some internships. Sreenidhi was offered placements by companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Deloitte, Capgemini, Accenture and a lot of companies.
The alumni of this college are placed in very well paying its companies. The packages start from 12 lakh onwards.
As I am the M.Tech 1st year studying, now I am in 2nd sem of 1st year.


I've noticed that gdm has a listening tcp and tcp6 sockets on random ports. Application which is opening them is gnome-session. I understand that gnome needs to use sockets in order to work but why are they tcp and tcp6? They probably there for remote access, is it possible to switch them off?
I also have a live USB with kali a bit older version 4.13 and I don't see any open tcp connection from gdm.
I also noticed the ports change from time to time. Makes me slightly uncomfortable.


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Q: Get a JSON object from a HTTP response I want to get a JSON object from a Http get response:
Here is my current code for the Http get:
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {

    HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpGet request = new HttpGet(params[0]);
    HttpResponse response;
    String result = null;
    try {
        response = client.execute(request);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

        if (entity != null) {

            // A Simple JSON Response Read
            InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
            result = convertStreamToString(instream);
            // now you have the string representation of the HTML request
            System.out.println("RESPONSE: " + result);
            instream.close();
            if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 200) {
                netState.setLogginDone(true);
            }

        }
        // Headers
        org.apache.http.Header[] headers = response.getAllHeaders();
        for (int i = 0; i < headers.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(headers[i]);
        }
    } catch (ClientProtocolException e1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e1.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }
    return result;
}

Here is the convertSteamToString function:
private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {

    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    String line = null;
    try {
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line + "\n");
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        try {
            is.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

Right now I am just getting a string object. How can I get a JSON object back.

A: Without a look at your exact JSON output, it's hard to give you some working code. This tutorial is very useful, but you could use something along the lines of:
JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject("yourJsonString");

Then you can retrieve from this json object using:
String value = jsonObj.getString("yourKey");

A: The string that you get is just the JSON Object.toString(). It means that you get the JSON object, but in a String format.
If you are supposed to get a JSON Object you can just put:
JSONObject myObject = new JSONObject(result);

A: For the sake of a complete solution to this problem (yes, I know that this post died long ago...) :
If you want a JSONObject, then first get a String from the result:
String jsonString = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());

Then you can get your JSONObject:
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(jsonString);

A: You need to use JSONObject like below:
String mJsonString = downloadFileFromInternet(urls[0]);

JSONObject jObject = null;
try {
    jObject = new JSONObject(mJsonString);
}
catch (JSONException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    return false;
}

...
private String downloadFileFromInternet(String url)
{
    if(url == null /*|| url.isEmpty() == true*/)
        new IllegalArgumentException("url is empty/null");
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    InputStream inStream = null;
    try
    {
        url = urlEncode(url);
        URL link = new URL(url);
        inStream = link.openStream();
        int i;
        int total = 0;
        byte[] buffer = new byte[8 * 1024];
        while((i=inStream.read(buffer)) != -1)
        {
            if(total >= (1024 * 1024))
            {
                return "";
            }
            total += i;
            sb.append(new String(buffer,0,i));
        }
    }
    catch(Exception e )
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }catch(OutOfMemoryError e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

private String urlEncode(String url)
{
    if(url == null /*|| url.isEmpty() == true*/)
        return null;
    url = url.replace("[","");
    url = url.replace("]","");
    url = url.replaceAll(" ","%20");
    return url;
}

Hope this helps you..

A: Do this to get the JSON
String json = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());

More details here : get json from HttpResponse

A: This is not the exact answer for your question, but this may help you
public class JsonParser {

    private static DefaultHttpClient httpClient = ConnectionManager.getClient();

    public static List<Club> getNearestClubs(double lat, double lon) {
        // YOUR URL GOES HERE
        String getUrl = Constants.BASE_URL + String.format("getClosestClubs?lat=%f&lon=%f", lat, lon);

        List<Club> ret = new ArrayList<Club>();

        HttpResponse response = null;
        HttpGet getMethod = new HttpGet(getUrl);
        try {
            response = httpClient.execute(getMethod);

            // CONVERT RESPONSE TO STRING
            String result = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());

            // CONVERT RESPONSE STRING TO JSON ARRAY
            JSONArray ja = new JSONArray(result);

            // ITERATE THROUGH AND RETRIEVE CLUB FIELDS
            int n = ja.length();
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                // GET INDIVIDUAL JSON OBJECT FROM JSON ARRAY
                JSONObject jo = ja.getJSONObject(i);

                // RETRIEVE EACH JSON OBJECT'S FIELDS
                long id = jo.getLong("id");
                String name = jo.getString("name");
                String address = jo.getString("address");
                String country = jo.getString("country");
                String zip = jo.getString("zip");
                double clat = jo.getDouble("lat");
                double clon = jo.getDouble("lon");
                String url = jo.getString("url");
                String number = jo.getString("number");

                // CONVERT DATA FIELDS TO CLUB OBJECT
                Club c = new Club(id, name, address, country, zip, clat, clon, url, number);
                ret.add(c);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        // RETURN LIST OF CLUBS
        return ret;
    }

}
Again, it's relatively straight forward, but the methods I'll make special note of are:

JSONArray ja = new JSONArray(result);
JSONObject jo = ja.getJSONObject(i);
long id = jo.getLong("id");
String name = jo.getString("name");
double clat = jo.getDouble("lat");

A: There is a JSONObject constructor to turn a String into a JSONObject:
http://developer.android.com/reference/org/json/JSONObject.html#JSONObject(java.lang.String)

A: If your api is response is a java object, then the string that you got from Outputstream should be in json string format such as
{\"name\":\"xyz\", \"age\":21}

. This can be converted to JSON object in many ways, out of which one way is to use google GSON library.
 GsonBuilder builder = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting();         Gson gson = builder.create(); <javaobject> = gson.fromJson(<outputString>, <Classofobject>.class);

A: One can do it without Gson also, using Jackson, which implements Json Tree Model.
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode jsonNode = mapper.readTree(responseString);

A: 1)String jsonString = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
2)JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(jsonString);

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The plotter is a Raymarine es hybrid touch and was new last year, there is a Raymarine i70 multi display for wind depth and boat speed, also new last year, and a Raymarine ST 6002 control head for the autopilot powered by a Raymarine SPX10 core pack and driving a Simrad HLD 350 hydraulic ram on the quadrant. The self- steering is a Windpilot, (the wind bit is under the cushion in the aft cabin as its easily damaged by the wind in winter). There is an old Autohelm radar which works but is too old to talk to the plotter, and also an ST60 multi repeater at the chart table. There is an independent stand alone GPS at the chart table and a Navtex.
This Ovni 35 Sonate looks immensely solid, set for long distance cruising ,and they do have a great reputation.
When I photographed the internals, she had been put to bed for the winter, with everything meticulously stored, even the wheel detached and brought down below.
I got the feeling I was on a larger boat with the way she was laid out. A good-sized galley with a double sink and a chart table that would look in place on a 40-footer. The Cockpit is spacious and the deck solid.
All in all, I got the feeling that she was well cared for.
This Ovni 35 Sonate has been personally photographed and viewed by Ian Sawkins of Boatshed Scotland. Click here for contact details.


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This is a three or six hour session which, consists of coverage of wedding party portraits, the ceremony and the dance. This is all inclusive package gives you access to view all images and the ability to select 200 images. Brian will charge $0.50 per mile for travel mileage to get to the site.
With this package Brian with journey alongside your adventure. You select the destination and I accompany you on either a hike, mountain bike excursion and anything in between. Brian will charge $0.50 per mile for travel mileage to get to the site. Brian is an avid mountain biker, hiker and Sedona local. Trust Brian Burke to capture your adventures in Arizona.
Brian has experience in capturing the most important events. Brian has covered high school graduation ceremonies, theater performances and the 24th Sedona International Film Festival as well as various award ceremonies and fundraising events. Brian will charge per hour of coverage on this photoshoot. Brian is able to cover any event from birthday parties to dances and everything in between.
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Gestoos is a computer vision AI software platform that understands and responds to natural human behaviour, from explicit hand gestures to implicit behaviours and movement.
Gestoos is bringing its technology to three main verticals, digital signage, automotive and consumer electronics.
All three verticals represent big market opportunities. We have been exposed to gesture recognition technologies in the past that have not quite made a difference in terms of market adoption. So the question for us was, is now the right time, is Gestoos able to get it right, should we invest?
We researched the space, had numerous sessions with the team and we were able to have a clear yes to all three.
Right time for gesture recognition?
We see a huge surge of human-machine interaction, not only in digital signage but increasingly so in consumer electronics and we anticipate will be pervasive in automotive. We believe voice will play a huge role and bots will need to get very sophisticated to understand language correctly, NLP startups are flourishing and the battle to get language and voice right is clearly there. But will voice be enough? We believe there will be a bimodal approach to human-machine interaction. Voice will be relevant in some instances but gestures could be much more intuitive and efficient in others. Under that scenario, voice will be a feature but gesture will be too.
When it comes to automotive in particular, we see a big market not only in interacting with devices, but also in understanding what goes on inside the car. Passenger monitoring will be very relevant as cars become more autonomous but security needs to be balanced.
Never before have we been so exposed to interaction with devices, so the timing in our view is absolutely right.
Can Gestoos get it right?
This is where us venture capitalists need to get our thinking hats on and evaluate the company based on past performance but most importantly on ambition and understanding of where the market is going.
There are certain common traits we will look for in any company: best in breed team with a think big mentality, deep understanding of the technology, ability to execute, clear understanding of where the round takes them and what they want out of the investor.
The team comes from a very strong background in computer vision and AI. Their core team in Barcelona decided to redomesticate the company in the US so they could really build a big company and attract US talent to complement their skillsets. The round has allowed them to get on board a CEO, serial entrepreneur with very strong experience building SaaS businesses based in San Francisco and a senior Sales Director coming from the consumer electronics also based in the US. We typically see companies taking longer to make this move or only doing it after securing a round. Gestoos, however, understood much sooner what they needed to hire the right talent and get the company they wanted. Being in the US puts them closer to big players in the consumer electronics and automotive space, being in Barcelona gives them access to PhD talent in computer vision and great engineers at very competitive costs.
One of the key questions for us was to understand if the technology could scale, if it could work with any device, if it needed big computing power and whether it could provide the right level of accuracy to be commercially viable and especially in certain verticals such as automotive. These are the key traits that we valued from Gestoos to win in this market.
Flexibility: Gestoos technology is based on shape recognition and can track any shape in motion. This technology vs. skeleton recognition provides better detection of any shape and is very robust to occlusions. It is sensor agnostic and can work with any data capture device.
Low resolution requirements: Only needs a few relevant pixels to recognize key shape patterns, proves accuracy in far range and works with low cost sensors.
Low computer requirements: Can be embedded in very low cost CPUs thanks to their efficient algorithms.
Machine Learning: Compared to other companies in this field, Gestoos machine learning technology offers a more flexible and agile solution through incremental semi-supervised learning. Their method first learns from a small amount of labeled data (supervised phase) and in a second phase it exploits the learned model to extract relevant information. In this way they are more efficient extracting false positive data and providing a higher level of accuracy.
Understanding they would be able to execute on the automotive sector was one of the most relevant aspects of our investment thesis. We wanted to make sure they could deliver on their promise of signing a very important automotive deal. Negotiations were long and tough but the team proved they were able to do it and this gave us the comfort we needed, both on the strength of the automotive vertical but also on the team closing a complex agreement.
If we can try and mitigate execution risk, this is always great news for us as investors, but clearly another area that gives us comfort is to have a team understand what the journey looks like. A seed round takes them to a certain point and they have a clear understanding of exactly when they will need to raise again and what they will need to have achieved to do a good next closing. Having this mentality helps us help them because we know what we need to focus on to get to the next level. Gestoos also appreciated our hands on approach and our aim to work with them to get to the next goal post. Having that same understanding and alignment has made it much easier to work with the team. They made it very clear from day one they wanted us as investors and they valued what we could bring in terms of access to our portfolio companies and tapping into our network both of international VCs and other corporate VCs very relevant in their verticals.
When all of the above happens, the third question is easily answered.
Welcome Gestoos to the Kibo family. We are excited to see what your amazing technology can achieve in the coming months!
Partner @KiboVentures. Love to work with great entrepreneurs. Crazy about my family and my soccer team.


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News Sports Memphis Tigers Business Music Obituaries eNewspaper Legals
Orlando shootings unfolded 'like a rolling thunder'
Greg Toppo, USATODAY
The 911 call came early Sunday, as the shooting began.
The caller was a 29-year-old man, pledging his allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group. He praised Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and, armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle, a handgun and what Orlando Police described as "an unidentified device," he engaged police in a gun battle outside the Pulse, one of the city's most popular gay nightclubs.
Across Orlando for nearly two weeks, revelers had been celebrating Gay Pride month — citywide, a week-long "Gay Days" festival had ended days earlier. One of the largest gay pride events in the world, it advertises itself as "America's favorite LGBT vacation experience," promising advertisers and sponsors access to more than 180,000 gay and lesbian travelers who converge on Orlando from all 50 states, Europe, South America and "dozens of other countries around the world."
Saturday night was Latin Night at the Pulse, and though closing time was fast approaching, about 320 people were still inside dancing and drinking early Sunday.
One of them was Brand White, 30, of Orlando, who was with his cousin when shots rang out. "We are dancing and all of a sudden it just started like a rolling thunder, loud and everything went black," he said.
White was shot in the shoulder. Hours later, he couldn't recall leaving the club or how he got to the hospital. His cousin was unaccounted for.
Brandon Wolf and one of his friends were in the bathroom when they began hearing gunshots, perhaps 20 of them, getting closer.
"All I heard was gunfire after gunfire," Wolf told the Orlando Sentinel. "Eventually, I thought you were supposed to run out of ammunition. But it just kept going and going." They ran.
Orlando shooting at Pulse nightclub
Brett Rigas said he and his partner were dancing when they heard the shots. Rigas, shot in the arm, hid behind a bar. Five minutes later, authorities came in and told everyone to put their hands up and run out. As he left, Rigas said, he saw bodies.
The shooting soon became a hostage situation, police said, with a SWAT team summoned as police got updates from patrons trapped in the club. A few escaped through the back of the club, while others were trapped inside. Police from multiple departments — including a bomb squad — arrived at the scene and spent hours monitoring the situation.
Finally, before 5 a.m., police conducted a controlled detonation and used an armored vehicle to break through a wall at the nightclub. Eleven Orlando Police officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect, who was shot and killed. They rescued at least 30 hostages.
Orlando Police Chief John Mina initially estimated the death toll at more than 20, but after police were able to get access to the scene, Mina said 50 were dead and 53 hospitalized, by far the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Brevard County (Fla.) Sheriff Wayne Ivey, who took in the scene first-hand early Sunday, called it "one of the most horrific things I've ever seen."
A federal law enforcement official told USA TODAY that the suspect had been identified as 29-year-old Omar Mir Seddique Mateen.
He'd actually been on law enforcement's radar years earlier — FBI Special Agent Ronald Hopper said agents had investigated Mateen in 2013 and again in 2014 regarding terror threats, but that in both cases authorities found insufficient evidence to pursue charges.
Three horrific hours: Inside the Orlando nightclub massacre
Islamic State linked to worst mass shooting in U.S. history
Hopper confirmed that Mateen had been interviewed by federal authorities three times in connection with two investigations during the past three years. In the most recent case, the FBI reviewed Mateen's alleged contacts in 2014 with Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, an American suicide bomber from Florida who died in Syria the same year. Hopper said the case was closed when investigators determined that Mateen's contacts were "minimal.''
In a 2013 investigation, investigators interviewed Mateen twice about "inflammatory comments'' the gunman made to a co-worker about possible ties to international terrorism. That case also was closed when authorities were unable to "verify'' the comments.
Mateen was not under investigation at the time of the shooting, a status that allowed for his purchase of a handgun and an AR-15 rifle which were used in the assault.
New York-born, Mateen lived in Fort Pierce, about 120 miles south of Orlando on Florida's Atlantic coast, and worked for the security firm G4S. His parents lived nearby, in Port St. Lucie.
He'd attended public school in Stuart, Fla., and earned an associate's college degree in criminal justice technology from Indian River State College in 2006. He'd been married for about two years, then divorced. He had no criminal record. His family said he had a 3-year-old son.
Mateen's father, Seddique Mir Mateen, maintains a Facebook page that prominently cites an organization called Durand Jirga. He incorporated it in Florida in November 2010 as a religious, charitable organization, and it is still listed as active in Florida records. Durand Jirga is an apparent reference to the Durand Line, the boundary that was established between Afghanistan and Pakistan in 1893.
The elder Mateen told NBC News on Sunday that the attack "had nothing to do with religion." He said his son harbored anti-gay sentiments — he'd evidently gotten angry a few months earlier after seeing two men kiss in downtown Miami.
A former Fort Pierce Police officer who once worked security with Mateen said the 29-year-old was "unhinged and unstable."
Daniel Gilroy said he worked an early shift shift with G4S at PGA Village, a golf resort, for several months in 2014-15. Mateen took over from him in afternoons and he said Mateen frequently made homophobic and racial comments. Gilroy said he complained to G4S several times, but said the employer did nothing.
Gilroy quit after he said Mateen began stalking him via multiple text messages — 20 or 30 a day, he said. Mateen also sent Gilroy 13 to 15 phone messages daily. "I quit because everything he said was toxic and the company wouldn't do anything," Gilroy said Sunday. "This guy was unhinged and unstable. He talked of killing people."
By contrast, Eleanora Dorsi, a resident of the club, told The (Stuart, Fla.) News that Mateen was "very polite" and "always a gentleman."
Officials with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Mateen had bought the guns legally within the last few days.
In the wake of the shootings, police departments across the USA said they would beef up patrols near locations frequented by the LGBT community, including a planned vigil this week in Boston for victims of the Orlando attacks and a planned gay pride event in Washington, D.C. In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti said police in Santa Monica arrested a heavily armed person who was headed to a gay pride parade there.
Mateen's father apologized for the attacks on behalf of his family, saying: "We weren't aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole country."
Aside from his son's anti-gay sentiments, the elder Mateen expressed bewilderment over the crime.
"I don't know why he did it. He is dead, so I can't ask him. I wish I knew."
Contributing: Kevin McCoy, Kevin Johnson, Alison Young, Steph Solis, USA TODAY; Chris Bonanno, Bob Gabordi, Florida Today; Anthony Westbury, Nicole Rodriguez, The (Stuart, Fla.) News; Elliott Jones, Indian River (Fla.) Press Journal; and the Associated Press. Follow Greg Toppo on Twitter: @gtoppo
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This is what I have, any help appreciated.
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In the example I have been working on I wanted an arrow that faces right then on rollover smoothly rotates to point down. Here's the code:
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Research and conservation in Marina el-Alamein in 2016 (Polish-Egyptiac conservation mission)
Research and conservation in Marina el-Alamein in ...
title: Research and conservation in Marina el-Alamein in 2016 (Polish-Egyptiac conservation mission)
author: Czerner Rafał, Bąkowska-Czerner Grażyna , Grzegorek Wiesław, Zambrzycki Piotr
Journal title: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Title of volume: Research
pages: 85-106
10.5604/01.3001.0012.1770
https://pam-journal.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=175149
abstract in english: Activities undertaken by the Polish-Egyptian conservation mission to Marina el-Alamein in 2016 included research and conservation in the public district of the ancient town as well as in private houses. Work focused foremost on research, conservation and exhibition of monuments of the central town square, especially the remains of a peristyle adjacent from the east, and the southern portico of the square itself. Research and conservation continued also in the area north of the central square concentrating on the remains of public baths dating from the Hellenistic period and, on the south, on the remnants of Roman baths in use from the 2nd to the 3th century AD. Maintenance conservation was carried out in private houses, in both baths complexes and in the eastern and southern area of the central square.
keywords in english: Marina el-Alamein, ancient town, archaeology, ancient Egypt, Roman baths
affiliation: Wydział Filozoficzny : Katedra Porównawczych Studiów Cywilizacji
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Hidden New Jersey: Was Santa Claus born in Morristown?
Today, as many New Jersey children awake to the delight of toys around the Christmas tree, my own thoughts return to the excitement I felt for the visit that Saint Nick would make to my house.
Little did I know that the red-jacketed, white-fluffy-bearded big guy with the bag full of goodies is actually from Morristown.
It's no secret that our concept of Santa Claus was cemented in the public eye by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Few people realize that Nast lived in Morristown for many years, on Macculloch Avenue.
Like many New Jerseyans today, Nast was a transplant. Born in Germany, he and his family moved to New York when he was a child, and it was there that he became famous for his politically-inspired drawings. This was before the large-scale use of photography, and good illustrators were essential for magazines to cover the stories of the day. Early in his career, he covered the wars in Italy for publications in New York and London, which made him the logical choice to cover the Civil War for Harper's Weekly.
He was a noted voice railing against the corruption of the Boss Tweed political machine that ruled the city after the Civil War, so much so that Tweed's representatives attempted to bribe him to leave the country. Instead, Nast moved his family to Morristown in 1872 and commuted to New York to continue his work at Harpers. His unrelenting attacks so infuriated the electorate that Tweed and his crew were voted out of office, with Tweed eventually convicted and sent to prison.
While crusading for what he felt was right and fair, Nast drew likenesses that have become ingrained in American culture: Uncle Sam, the Democratic and Republican mascots, and, of course, Santa Claus.
Nast's house is privately owned and not open for tours, but the nearby Macculloch Hall Historical Museum maintains the nation's largest collection of his works. Contributed by his family, the Nast archive includes rough sketches, watercolor and oil paintings, and proofs and drawings in pencil and ink. Students of the artist can also make an appointment to view his personal papers and photos.
I'm still trying to figure out whether Nast actually lived in Morristown when he drew Santa for the first time, but I'm not sure it really matters. Like many other notable people we New Jerseyans claim as our own, he lived here for a bit, and that's good enough for me.
Although I live near San Francisco now, I was born in Morristown. In his illustrated version of "A Visit From St. Nick," when the children are hanging their stockings the tiles around the hearth are the tiles in the Macculloch Ave. house. And when Santa is up on the roof, the various church spires of Morristown are there behind him. If you Google Thomas Nast images, I think you can find both of these examples of Santa Claus also being a Morristown native.
How appropriate that Virginia writes in with such a great fact about Santa in Morristown! Thank you for sharing this information with us, and thanks for reading Hidden New Jersey.
I grew up in Morristown and I can remember learning about Thomas Nast as a child. We were always told he "invented" Santa while he lived in Morristown.
Excellent! Just the confirmation we needed. I will now claim Santa Claus among noted New Jerseyans.


Among the most frequent questions we get at Bobsled Marketing from businesses located outside the united states is about the tax consequences of selling their goods on Amazon. Individuals or businesses that are established outside the US should understand whether they have to pay US federal income tax, state income taxation, and state sales taxes.
Want to hire us? We help manufacturers to cultivate their reach and earnings on the Amazon market.
* For brands that are already found in non-US markets, what sort of US thing, if any, if they set up if intending to start & promote goods in america on Amazon.com?
* Are non-US entities / people selling on Amazon ONLY, subject to US income taxation? How about state sales taxation?
* Can that alter if the manufacturer also determines their own ecommerce shop?
* How can you find that the US taxation system changing from the future when it comes to non-US brands participating in e-commerce?
03:05 – if non-US businesses set a US legal entity (corporation, LLC, etc) to begin advertising on Amazon?
06:12 – what kinds of taxes are firms selling on Amazon needed to cover?
08:36 – The 3 branches of the US legal system and the way they inform tax legislation & Stewart's interpretation of whether employers should be paying US federal income, state income, and state sales taxes.
09:40 – The way the interpretation of"Engaged in a Trade or Business" influences brands selling Amazon.
20:57 – VAT vs US State sales tax – a reasonable comparison?
The two State sales taxes and VAT are consumption taxation. However they do differ in a few important ways.
22:40 – The best way to consider US federal income taxation as soon as your organization is established in a high-tax authority, for example some European nations.
24:08 – Stewart's prognosis on the taxation system for e commerce.
26:45 – What are the taxation consequences based on the sort of US legal entity that's set up – a Corporation, or LLC?
I hope this interview answered a few of the burning questions that you have in case you are a non-US business or person looking to offer your new products on Amazon.com. In case you've got a query for Stewart, add it in the comments section below. You might also find him ustax.bz at which you are able to ask for a consultation.


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