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Steps were heard at the door, and Princess Betsy, knowing it was Madame Karenina, glanced at Vronsky. He was looking toward the door, and his face wore a strange new expression. Joyfully, intently, and at the same time timidly, he gazed at the approaching figure, and slowly he rose to his feet. Anna walked into the drawing room. Holding herself extremely erect, as always, looking straight before her, and moving with her swift, resolute and light step, that distinguished her walk from that of other society women, she crossed the few paces that separated her from her hostess, shook hands with her, smiled, and with the same smile looked around at Vronsky. Vronsky bowed low and pushed a chair up for her. .bvlgari rings replica.
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`In that case we must learn how to vaccinate for love, like small-pox.'
`I was in love in my young days - with a church clerk,' said the Princess Miaghkaia. `I don't know that it did me any good.'
`No; I think - all jokes aside - that to know love, one must first make a fault, and then mend it,' said Princess Betsy.
`Even after marriage?' said the ambassador's wife playfully.
`It's never too late to mend,' the diplomatist repeated the English proverb.
`Just so,' Betsy agreed; `one must make a mistake and rectify it. What do you think about it?' She turned to Anna, who, with a barely perceptible resolute smile on her lips, was listening to the conversation.
`I think' said Anna, playing with the glove she had taken off, `I think... if there are as many minds as there are heads, then surely there must be as many kinds of love as there are hearts.'
Vronsky was gazing at Anna, and with a heart sinking was waiting for what she would say. He sighed as after a danger escaped when she had uttered these words.
Anna suddenly turned to him.
`Oh, I have had a letter from Moscow. They write me that Kitty Shcherbatskaia's very ill.'
`Really?' said Vronsky, knitting his brows.
Anna looked sternly at him.
`That doesn't interest you?'
`On the contrary, it does - very much. What is it, exactly, that they write you, if may know?' he asked.
Anna got up and went to Betsy.
`Give me a cup of tea,' she said, pausing behind her chair.
While Betsy was pouring out the tea, Vronsky walked up to Anna.
`What is it they write you?' he repeated.
`I often think men have no understanding of what is dishonorable, though they're forever talking of it,' said Anna, without answering him. `I've wanted to tell you something for a long while,' she added, and, moving a few steps away, she sat down at a corner table which held albums.
`I don't quite understand the significance of your words,' he said, handing her the cup.
She glanced towards the sofa beside her, and he instantly sat down.
`Yes, I've wanted to tell you,' she said, without looking at him. `Your action was wrong - wrong, very wrong.'
`Do you suppose I don't know that I've acted wrongly? But who was the cause of my doing so?'
`Why do you say that to me?' she said looking at him sternly.
`You know why,' he answered, boldly and joyously, meeting her glance and without dropping his eyes.
It was not he, but she, who became confused.
`That merely proves you have no heart,' she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him.
`What you spoke of just now was a mistake, and not love.'
`Remember that I have forbidden you to utter that word, that detestable word,' said Anna, with a shudder. But at once she felt that by that very word `forbidden' she had shown that she acknowledged certain rights over him, and by that very fact was encouraging him to speak of love. `I have long meant to tell you this,' she went on, looking resolutely into his eyes, and all aflame from the burning flush on her cheeks. `I've come here purposely this evening, knowing I should meet you. I have come to tell you that this must end. I have never blushed before anyone, and you force me to feel guilty of something.'
He looked at her and was struck by a new spiritual beauty in her face.
`What do you wish of me?' he said, simply and gravely.
`I want you to go to Moscow and ask for Kitty's forgiveness,' she said.
`That is not your wish,' he said.
He saw she was saying what she was forcing herself to say, not what she wanted to say.
`If you love me, as you say,' she whispered, `you will do this, so that I may be at peace.'
His face grew radiant.
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She strained every effort of her mind to say what ought to be said. But instead of that she let her eyes rest on him, full of love, and made no answer.
`It's come!' he thought in ecstasy. `When I was beginning to despair, and it seemed there would be no end - it's come! She loves me! She owns it!'
`Then do this for me: never say such things to me, and let us be friends,' she said in words; but her eyes spoke quite differently.
`Friends we shall never be - that you know yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the most wretched of people - that lies within your power.'
She would have said something, but he interrupted her.
`For I ask but one thing: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer - even as I am doing now. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is painful to you.'
`I don't want to drive you away.'
`Only don't change anything - leave everything as it is,' said he, in a shaky voice. `Here's your husband.'
At that instant Alexei Alexandrovich did in fact walk into the room with his calm, ungainly gait.
Glancing at his wife and Vronsky, he went up to the lady of the house, and, sitting down for a cup of tea, began talking in his unhasty, always audible voice, in his habitual tone of banter, as if he were teasing someone.
`Your Rambouillet is in full conclave,' he said looking round at all the party; `the graces and the muses.'
But Princess Betsy could not endure that tone of his - sneering, as she called it, using the English word, and like a clever hostess she at once brought him around to a serious conversation on the subject of universal conscription. Alexei Alexandrovich was immediately carried away by the subject, and began seriously defending the new imperial decree before Princess Betsy, who had attacked it.
Vronsky and Anna still sat at the little table.
`This is getting indecorous,' whispered one lady, with an expressive glance at Madame Karenina, her husband and Vronsky.
`What did I tell you?' said Anna's friend.
But it was not only these ladies who watched them - almost everyone in the room, even the Princess Miaghkaia and Betsy herself, looked several times in the direction of the two who had withdrawn from the general circle, as though they found it a hindrance. Alexei Alexandrovich was the only person who did not once look in their direction, and was not diverted from the interesting discussion he had entered upon.
Noticing the disagreeable impression that was being made on everyone, Princess Betsy slipped someone else into her place to listen to Alexei Alexandrovich, and walked over to Anna.
`I'm always amazed at the clearness and precision of your husband's language,' she said. `The most transcendent ideas seem to be within my grasp when he's speaking.'
`Oh, yes!' said Anna, radiant with a smile of happiness, and not understanding a word of what Betsy had said. She crossed over to the big table and took part in the general conversation.
Alexei Alexandrovich, after staying half an hour, walked up to his wife and suggested that they go home together. But she answered, without looking at him, that she was staying to supper. Alexei Alexandrovich bowed himself out.
The fat old Tatar, Madame Karenina's coachman, in a glistening leather coat, was with difficulty bridling the left of her pair of grays, chilled with the cold and rearing at the entrance. A footman stood by the carriage door he had opened. The hall porter stood holding open the great door of the house. Anna Arkadyevna, with her quick little hand, was unfastening the lace of her sleeve, caught in the hook of her fur cloak, and with bent head was listening rapturously to the words Vronsky murmured as he saw her down to her carriage.
`You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing,' he was saying; `but you know that friendship is not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me - that word you dislike so... yes, love!...'
`Love...' she repeated slowly, in an inner voice, and suddenly, at the very instant she unhooked the lace, she added, `I don't like the word precisely because it means too much to me, far more than you can understand,' and she glanced into his face. `Good-by.'
She gave him her hand, and with her rapid, springy step she passed by the porter and vanished into the carriage.
Her glance, the touch of her hand, had seared him. He kissed the palm of his hand where she had touched it, and went home, happy in the realization that he had got nearer to the attainment of his aims that evening than during the two last months.
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Q: What is better in practice, using ==/!= or is operator? When checking a variable for being true, false, null, etc is there a performance difference in doing a check with the traditional logical operators like ==, != vs the is operator in C#? Outside of any potential optimizations are there any reasons against using is where == and != will do?
The is operator seems to work the same in instances with boolean and null values, but I'm curious about any possible drawbacks like performance or not well documented best practices against using is in place of ==, != which I haven't been able to find, thus prompting the question.
For example:
if (myObject == false)
{
  ...
}

versus
if (myObject is false)
{
  ...
}

A: Looks like these two comparisons generate the same IL in this particular example which is comparing two booleans.
using System;
public class C {
    public bool Foo(bool input) {
        return input == false;
    }

    public bool Bar(bool input) {
        return input is false;
    }
}

Generated IL:
.method public hidebysig
    instance bool Foo (
        bool input
    ) cil managed
{
    // Method begins at RVA 0x2050
    // Code size 5 (0x5)
    .maxstack 8

    IL_0000: ldarg.1
    IL_0001: ldc.i4.0
    IL_0002: ceq
    IL_0004: ret
} // end of method C::Foo

.method public hidebysig
    instance bool Bar (
        bool input
    ) cil managed
{
    // Method begins at RVA 0x2050
    // Code size 5 (0x5)
    .maxstack 8

    IL_0000: ldarg.1
    IL_0001: ldc.i4.0
    IL_0002: ceq
    IL_0004: ret
} // end of method C::Bar

So if the generated code is the same I don't think there will be any performance difference between these two operations.

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After William died, a banker from Aberlour, James Fleming, leased the distillery until 1879, when his son, Thomas, formed 'Mackenzie & Company' together with James Fleming. Dailuaine pioneered the 'pagoda' roof design, conceived by Charles Doig. Many distilleries, such as Aberlour and Ardbeg followed suit.
Between 1884 and 1887 Dailuaine was rebuilt and expanded, becoming one of the largest distilleries in the Highlands at the time. Major alterations took place in 1960, with the addition of stills (six in total) and the replacement of floor maltings by a so-called 'Saladin Box'. The device (named after its inventor Charles Saladin) is a big, flat box which mechanically turns the germinating barley inside and allows air to pass through it. The Saladin was closed in 1983 when the distillery started to purchase its malt from one of the large 'industrial' maltings. Just like so many other distilleries in Scotland, Dailuaine was eventually absorbed by industry giant Diageo in 1998.
Only 2% of the production is marketed as single malt (sold by Diageo in the Fauna & Flora collection or by independent bottlers), the remaining part is destined for blends like Johnnie Walker. Dailuaine single malt is a robust, full-bodied, rich, after-dinner malt.

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Music can be plaintive, peaceful, bitter, aggressive—but most of all it can be loud. Very, very loud. Think about the best concert you ever attended. The music was delightful and immersing, but on the way back home you couldn't manage to get that ringing out of your ears. Now, imagine the stress performance places on the musicians themselves, wailing away every night for legions of adoring fans, all the while standing next to mammoth speakers blaring for hours at a time. Yup, it can get loud out there, which can cause significant hearing damage over time for the performers. Yet these musicians managed to create immensely popular, long-lasting music, which in some cases seems like a miracle. Rock and Roll may not be noise pollution, but it sure can hurt.
One of the all-time greatest musicians and songwriters, Neil Young has left an indelible mark on the world of music, twice elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has created over thirty unique albums and contributed to countless more, all the while retaining an unusually consistent quality. With acclaimed protest songs (e.g. "Ohio"), plaintive ballads ("Heart of Gold"), and hard rock masterpieces ("Cowgirl in the Sand"), he has enjoyed unbelievable popular and critical success. Through it all, he has suffered from tinnitus, a common affliction for rock stars, that involves a persistent ringing in the ears, more often than not connected with some degree of hearing loss. In fact, his obsession with softer, acoustic music in the '90s may owe itself to this hearing condition.
A pioneering force in heavy metal's early history, Ozzy has become one of the most successful musicians of all time. In addition to his acclaimed career, with and without Black Sabbath, he also helped to revive the concert extravaganzas of recent by establishing Ozzfest, one of the most thriving concert series of all time. However, due to years of metal and, let's say, an 'alternate lifestyle,' the Wizard of Ozz has suffered significant hearing loss. Watch an episode of "The Osbournes," and you'll know what I mean.
With accolades ranging from Oscars to Grammys and Golden Globes, you could say Phil Collins owns an impressive array of trophies. After forming Genesis, a seminal band of the '70s and '80s, Collins enjoyed a long lasting, greatly rewarding solo career. Unfortunately, this year he announced that he would no longer tour, citing a hearing condition that has plagued the performer for years. That said, I believe "Tarzan" has the greatest soundtrack ever, and on this issue I will not budge.
Evidently, not only the musicians themselves are susceptible. Martin, of course, was catapulted to worldwide fame as a producer for The Beatles. Exhibiting heavy influence on the group, Martin has been referred to by various sources as the "Fifth Beatle." Of course, he shares this 'distinction' with about twenty other people. Aside from working with the world's greatest rock band, Martin also produced hits by many distinguished artists, including Elton John and America. Like Collins, Martin was recently forced to retire because his ears lost the precise touch that made the producer famous.
Critics may not necessarily believe that he is a great artist, but nobody can deny the massive influence will.i.am has exerted over the musical world, both as a founding member of The Black Eyed Peas and as a producer. He has released highly successful albums, such as Monkey Business and Elephunk, and in the latter utility has produced artists as distinguished as Michael Jackson, Rihanna and Britney Spears. According to will.i.am, every silence is interrupted by a painful ringing, which drives him to create music at all hours of the day.
Who? PETE TOWNSHEND! You know, that guy who composed the first rock opera, made smashing one's guitar a cultural phenomenon, and wrote some of the most timeless songs, such as "My Generation," "Won't Get Fooled Again," and "Pinball Wizard." A penchant for being the world's loudest band gave all four members of The Who lifelong battles with hearing loss, an issue most problematic with Townshend. The loud music, in conjunction with pyrotechnic equipment demolishing acts, such as their infamous performance on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, has given the rock star a debilitating case of hearing loss. Despite this difficulty, he, like every other member of this list, has persisted, continuing to play extravagant live shows.
Who else but history's most legendary deaf composer? Whereas most members of this list have dealt with frustrating inconveniences, Beethoven was completely shut off from the world of noise by 1814, although he continued creating masterpieces, such as his Ninth Symphony. Historians have debated endlessly over the cause of his deafness, pointing to potential culprits such as the high amount of lead in his body, and his ritual of dousing himself with frigid water to remain awake. Why he lost his hearing may remain a mystery; however, his music will live on forever, heard and enjoyed by every new generation.


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April 21, 2015 Jon Baker
What's Up in the Sky - April
At any moment of the day, countless awe-inspiring celestial events are unfolding in the sky. With a universe of options, it can be hard to pin down what to observe, what to look into or what to remember. This column takes a peek at what's happening in the sky and in the world of astronomy in general to provide a quick list of highlights that can jumpstart your own explorations.
What to observe:
April 22/23 – Lyrid Meteor Shower
Right now one of the oldest meteor showers on record is taking its annual turn in the skies. The Lyrids, which are caused by the Earth's passage through debris left behind by Comet Thatcher, are set to peak in the wee hours of April 22nd/23rd with an average hourly meteor count between 10 and 20. Especially favorable for the northern hemisphere, the Lyrids appear to radiate from a point near the bright star Vega in the Lyra constellation. However, observers should actually look at a dark patch of sky about 90 degrees away from the radiant point to see the most meteors. To view the Lyrid meteors, which have been known to briefly leave behind glowing dust trails, all you need is your naked eye and a good place to lie down under an open sky.
Hydra Constellation
April is an ideal time to view the massive Hydra Constellation, which winds its way across southern skies as a celestial incarnation of the water snake. As the largest and longest of the 88 constellations, Hydra covers a 1,303 square degree area in the sky. Defined by 17 stars, it is visible from 83° South to 54° North. In terms of stars, its brightest is Alphard (Alpha Hydrae), which is a barium-rich giant star with an orange hue and an apparent visual magnitude near 2. The constellation also offers R Hydrae - a pulsating variable star that experiences intense changes in magnitude; Epsilon Hydrae - a multiple star system that includes a spectroscopic binary; Gamma Hydrae - a yellow giant; V Hydrae - a carbon star that is one of the reddest visible stars; and U Hydrae - a carbon star that can be seen with the unaided eye. Even though Hydra is not as packed with observing targets as one might expect, it still has several notable deep sky objects. One of the easiest to spot is Messier 48, an open cluster that can be seen as a hazy patch with the naked eye or resolved into dozens of brilliant stars with a pair of binoculars. Messier 68 is a stunning globular cluster with a round appearance that puts on a great show in a larger telescope. The constellation also contains Messier 83. Known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, this deep sky treat is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies. Home to six known supernovae, this active galaxy gloriously displays its spiral arm structure when viewed through a moderate to large telescope. Beyond the Messier catalog, Hydra also boasts an intriguing planetary nebula known as the Ghost of Jupiter. This feature has a bluish hue and can be easily examined through a telescope.
What to look into:
April 25 - Astronomy Day
Promoted and organized by the Astronomical League, Astronomy Day is scheduled for April 25th, and events are being planned around the country to celebrate. Boasting roots that go back to 1973, Astronomy Day has been held in the spring and fall each year since 2007. With a theme of "Bringing Astronomy to the People," organizers describe the day as a grass roots movement with a mission to expose as many people as possible to the wonders of astronomy. Astronomy clubs, observatories, planetariums, schools and more will mark the day by holding a variety of events. For more information or to view a list of scheduled events, visit www.astroleague.org/al/astroday/astroday.html or check with your local astronomy club.
Global Astronomy Month
Astronomers Without Borders' Global Astronomy Month is in full swing and a bounty of activities are available to enjoy. An online highlight for this week is the rescheduled Messier Marathon, which begins at 18:30 UT on April 22nd. During a traditional Messier Marathon, observers haul equipment into the field in an attempt to find as many of the 110 astronomical objects detailed in the famed Messier Catalogue as possible in one night. In this online event, The Virtual Telescope Project will do the heavy lifting for you. To access the marathon, visit www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/. Astronomers Without Borders organizes Global Astronomy Month each April to emphasize its motto - "One People, One Sky." For a complete list of GAM 2015 programs, visit http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/gam2015-programs/program-schedule-2015.html.
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Gardening club takes place in the Spring and Summer terms.
This year Garden Club entered both the District in Bloom and Harpenden in Bloom schools' competitions and thanks to the skills and enthusiasm of our club members, we have been successful in a number of categories.
In the Harpenden in Bloom competition, we gained a Gold medal for the most creative planter and a Gold award for the sunflower with the most heads – ours had 65!! In the District competition, we were awarded runner up in the Vibrant Veg and we were the winner of the Scrapyard Scarecrow.
We also have a wonderful new shed, which has been funded by a private donation. This is much larger than our old shed and will enable us to store equipment efficiently and also to start some plants off earlier in the year, whatever the weather, helping to enhance our garden even more.
None of this could happen without our dedicated team of parent helpers, who have given so much time and enthusiasm to help the children develop a love of gardening.


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Q: Model with custom table doesn't save, in Laravel 3 I have an eloquent model, that is using a custom table, coming from the user table.
Like so...
class Appointment extends Eloquent
{
   public static $table = null;
   public function __construct()
   {
      parent::__construct();

       // Here I load the custom table, from the user table
      // Pull the prefix of the table, and append
      // This works perfectly fine for viewing the data
      static::$table = Auth::user()->tenantTable()."_appointments";
   }

   public static $connection = 'tenant-data';
   public static $timestamps = true;

I can pull, and view the data perfectly fine with this setup.  So every user, has their own appointment table.
However, if I change anything and then use eloquent save() method.  I get a recursive call, that never ends.
What do I need to change in laravels save() method to get this to work?
And do I have to change it in the core?? Or can I override the save() method in the current model?  And if so, how?

A: I'm almost just guessing but did you try to change the order of your constructor commands? First set the table dynamically and then call parent constructor?

A: I am not sure what are you trying to achieve but, yes you can override parent ( eloquent's on your case ) save method.
class Appointment extends Eloquent{
   public function save(){
      //Do your own save stuff
      ....
      // call Eloquent's save function to finish
      parent::save();
   }
}


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Found in suitcases at Newark Airport: 19 pounds of bushmeat
By Tomás Dinges/The Star-Ledger
NEWARK -- The screen of a Newark Liberty International Airport X-ray machine displayed red glowing images, tell-tale signs of a curious but surprisingly common luggage item. Bushmeat.
Nineteen pounds of organic material, the meat of antelope and cane rat, were seized in late April along with various fruits and dairy products packed in three suitcases belonging to a U.S. citizen traveling from Uganda. He was bound for Philadelphia but found himself delayed.
Don Ryan/The Associated Press
Bushmeat is meat butchered from wild species, legal or illegal and including antelope, pictured above, elephant, monkey, and rodents. Federal law prohibits the entrance of bushmeat to the United States. Authorities consider it to be a potential carrier of zoonotic, or animal-to-human, viruses like Ebola, HIV or monkeypox.
"This gentleman was carrying a lot of stuff," said the chief agricultural specialist of the Customs and Border Protection service, Basil Liakakos. "He had no clothes, only food," in the suitcases.
It was the sixth seizure of bushmeat since October, said Liakakos, totaling over 41 pounds. Last year, similar seizures weighed in at 88 pounds, he said.
Previous interceptions of bushmeat in passenger luggage have included a small monkey head, but the most frequently seized items are small bats, said Elmer Camacho, spokesman for the Customs and Border Protection service.
Federal law prohibits the entrance of bushmeat to the United States. Authorities consider it to be a potential carrier of zoonotic, or animal-to-human, viruses like Ebola, HIV or monkeypox, said Shelly Diaz, spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cane rat was banned in June 2003, after the African rodent species were found to be responsible for an outbreak of monkeypox.
Methods to prepare the meat are often inadequate, "We do have evidence that the hunting and slaughtering process can transmit these diseases, so it's not impossible that eating it can cause it," said Diaz.
The traveler, whose name was not released by authorities, was also carrying forty passion fruits, six avocados, fifty-two eggs and thirty-nine green bananas. He failed to declare his cargo to customs authorities and was fined $300 dollars and released. The cargo was destroyed.
"We have other people who bring food in as couriers, but this was not the case," said Liakakos.
Bushmeat is meat butchered from wild species, legal or illegal and including elephant, monkey, antelope and rodents. It is increasingly being commercialized and is a favorite of certain ethnic groups, consumed throughout Cameroon, Nigeria and the Congo River Basin. Cane rats and other species also are eaten throughout West Africa, said Richard Schroeder, the assistant director of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University. It doesn't surprise him people are trying to carry bushmeat into New Jersey, given concentrated populations of Africans.
"It's people interested in preparing certain dishes and who miss those foods," he said. "At a very basic human level, this is food from home."


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Civil Code Section 1717: Victorious Defendant In Case Involving Promissory Note Entitled To Fees, Even Though Foreclosure Contemplated Further Action—Prevailing Party Status Established Where Plaintiff Allowed Foreclosure Remedy To Lapse
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The interesting (and fun) part of this blog is reviewing unpublished decisions that actually confront very challenging issues arising from the array of procedural twists that can (and do) occur in civil litigation.
The next one deals with a situation where a prevailing party was found because a plaintiff lost under a promissory note and then failed to timely pursue foreclosure remedies under an equitable mortgage—establishing defendant as the prevailing party under Civil Code section 1717.
In Penna v. Ergur, Case Nos. A117629, A118491, & A118699 (1st Dist., Div. 2 Sept. 29, 2009) (unpublished), defendant executed a promissory note with a fees clause in favor of plaintiff, but no trust deed was signed (even though the parties contemplated that it would be secured). Plaintiff sued to recover under the note, and defendant brought a cross-claim for fraud and negligent performance of contract. Defendant's cross-claims were dismissed in an unconventional procedural context, but plaintiff's note/common count claims went to trial. The trial court held the note was an equitable mortgage such that defendant's one action rule/security first defense was well taken. Importantly, the trial court also denied a motion to amend to allow plaintiff to foreclose on the mortgage, finding that the failure to allege this earlier was prejudicial given the dismissal of defendant's cross-claims. Defendant moved to recover fees as the prevailing party, with the trial court awarding him $85,230 fees out of a requested $116,000 in fees and costs.
Plaintiff appealed.
Presiding Justice Kline, on behalf of a 3-0 panel, affirmed the fee award.
The appellate panel found that plaintiff's note/common count action was "on a contract," while defendant's cross-claims were tort claims not encompassed by Civil Code section 1717. Because defendant defeated exposure under the note, he achieved his litigation objectives so as to be the section 1717 "prevailing party."
Plaintiff's most interesting argument, based on Estate of Drummond, 149 Cal.App.4th 46 (2007), was that defendant did not prevail because further litigation on the contract was contemplated (namely, that plaintiff could foreclose upon his equitable mortgage). However, the appellate panel rejected this argument because plaintiff had lost his right to foreclose through prior rulings by the trial court. Given the foreclosure remedy was no longer available, defendant had prevailed under the note and was entitled to fees. (See Estate of Drummond, supra, 149 Cal.App.4th at 53 [a party can prevail even under a procedural dismissal without prejudice where the other side cannot obtain relief under the contract, for example, based upon a statute of limitations bar].)
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Man those look good - The background makes them look extra festive.
Thanks for the info - patience is not a virtue for me! Maybe my box of RJ churchills will arrive before the sampler and make the world right again.
Mine were supposed to arrive yesterday but have been sitting in New York since the 22nd. Has anyone run into this kind of delay before?
Where are you living at? I'm new as well to this site and from the Bitterroot. I was wondering if there were any others from MT on here.


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Annette Bailey, assistant director for electronic resources and emerging technology services for University Libraries at Virginia Tech, has been named a 2013 "Mover & Shaker" by the national publication, Library Journal.
The journal named 50 professionals to the list, selecting Bailey because of "her commitment to librarianship and creating open source technology that benefits library users worldwide."
Bailey developed LibX, an open source browser extension tool that allows library patrons search library resources such as catalogs and databases directly from the Web. Without the extension, users looking for Web-based resources often miss scholarly and library-owned materials. Bailey developed the tool with Godmar Back, associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering.
LibX began in 2005 as an open source Firefox browser extension. It has since expanded to include more functions as well as accommodate other browsers. LibX supports more than 1,000 libraries worldwide in six languages, with around 250,000 users.
"Annette has a compelling vision for emerging technology in libraries within the context of user-sensitive Web environments," Tyler Walters, dean of University Libraries, said. "She has developed path-breaking technologies and has galvanized employees to participate in the design of new electronic workflows. She is an asset to our team and to Virginia Tech."
Bailey hopes to continue developing tools that help patrons find the resources they need. "I am dreaming of technology that reflects our users," Bailey said. "I think the technology is still emerging to help our users when and where they most need us."
LibX earned Bailey and Back the 2007 LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award from the American Library Association. They also won a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in 2006 for LibX and another in 2008 for LibX 2.0.
Bailey earned her bachelor's degree from North Carolina State University and her master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Buy Tropical Rare Seeds Online. Fresh seed collected from Africa and sent from the UK for the garden, greenhouse and conservatory. We have a variety of flower seed, herb seed, cactus seed, palm and yucca seed.
Visit the Farmer's Pantry for a farmers market the whole family will enjoy. Pick your own apple orchards and also raspberries and cherries in season.


TACO BELL SURVEY & FEEDBACK is the platform between the customers and company where the customers can praise or criticize the services and menus served. Tell The Bell is an online feedback survey designed by Taco Bell to allow them to manage customers comments across all of their restaurant chains.
If you haven't visited a Taco Bell restaurant then you must check them out online at TacoBell.com. If you finish the survey you have a chance to win $500 cash prize for the participant. Take benefit of Mcdvoice Survey also.
Taco Bell offers a wide range of Tex-Mex food founded on March 21, 1962; 56 years ago at Downey, California by Glen Bell. Today Taco Bell is serving different Tex-Mex foods which also includes their famous taco, nachos, quesadillas, burritos, as well as specialty items along with several value items.
They already have a total location for more than 7000 restaurants where more than 175,000 employees are working in those locations to served 2 billions of customers.
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16 digit survey code is also present on your TacoBell survey receipt.
Your age must be over 18 years old to enter the sweepstakes.
No purchase or payment is required for you to enter or win.
One entry per person/email address per Entry Period, regardless of method of entry.
Open tellthebell.com which is the official website of the survey.
Enter the 16 digit code that you can get from the receipt.
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Answer all of the questions about the experience that you feel when you visit the Taco Bell store.
Try to answer all of the questions honestly.
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Aug 8, 2013 Substantial potential for energy efficiency improvement exists in the cement industry and in individual plants. Still, a relatively large potential for improved energy management .. Table 8. Energy efficiency measures in dry process cement plants . .. powder in horizontal ball mills or in vertical roller mills.
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Jun 8, 2016 Diesel-powered, mechanized, mining equipment. Grinding technology: SAG High Pressure Grinding Rolls. Energy Consumption: Energy Recovery from SAG Mill Ball Mill Circuits. Industrial Ultra-fine dry crushing.


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Kathy Pham is a product leader, computer scientist, and serial founder who has held roles in product management, consulting, software engineering, data science, and leadership in the private, non-profit, and public sector. Her work has spanned Google, IBM, Harris Healthcare Solutions, and the federal government at the United States Digital Service at the White House, where she was a founding product and engineering member. She has founded Women in Product Boston, the Cancer Sidekick Foundation, Team Curious, and Unite for Sight Southeast.
Kathy is a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab where she leads the Ethical Tech Working Group and focuses on ethics in technology, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, engineering culture, and computer science curricula. She is also a Senior Fellow at digital HKS, faculty affiliate at the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Fellow in Residence at the Mozilla Foundation partnering with Omidyar Network where she co-leads the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. Through her fellowship with digital HKS, she launched Product and Society.
Kathy serves on the advisory boards of the Anita Borg Institute and the "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" initiative. She is actively involved in leadership with ProductTank and Women in Product. She also advises startups, conferences, and non-profits on hiring, building teams, and community inclusion.
Kathy has been recognized as First Lady Michelle Obama's Guest to the State of the Union Address, a finalist in the StarCraft II After Hours Gaming League, an inductee of the Georgia Tech Greek Hall of Fame, and worldwide champion at the Imagine Cup Technology Competition.
Kathy holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) and Supelec in (Metz, France). Her work has been featured in Wired, Politico, TechCrunch, NPR, VentureBeat, Nguoi Viet, and the Huffington Post.
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Data used to investigate how we can understand the fundamental differences and commonalities in a set of aromatic blends (mixes of spices, herbs, and other aromatic ingredients). The data set combines sensory analysis with gas chromatography for aroma profiling, as well as meta-information including ingredients and geographical and cultural aspects.
Table 1. Overview of the manufactured pastes.
Sensory map – Using the so-called projective mapping to characterize the samples. These measurements are collected in a matrix of dimension 29 x 52 (26 x 2 coordinate axes).
Sensory descriptors (Words) - In addition to the normal projective mapping, there are also a number of descriptors/words, that sensory evaluators have attached to the samples. After grouping and stemming of the original set of descriptors, this set of data consist of a matrix with 29 rows and 113 columns.
Aroma profiling - Through headspace sampling, GC-MS analysis was used to obtain an aroma profile for each paste. The aroma profile consisted of the relative integrated peak area (relative concentration) of 122 compounds and is called Odor chemicals (Appendix 2). The compounds found with available sensory descriptors are collected in a smaller matrix (29 x 25 named Odor descriptors).
Meta-data - name, recipe (or rather the fraction of each ingredient, but called recipe here), provides an approximate assessment of cultural identity of each recipe and base (oil, aqueous, dry, fermented and dairy). The details of these are given in Appendix 3.


I would attribute my weakness for pink and green to those formative years spent in ultra-preppy New England. These brilliant leaves are being shed by a maple tree that is, tragically, on its way out. Regardless, I can't stop picking them up off the ground.
I recently took a short but inspiring bookbinding class in upstate NY. It was hosted and organized by J. Morgan Puett, of Mildred's Lane and The Mildred Complex(ity), and it was taught by one Leon Johnson. He, along with his wife Megan O'Connell, and son Leander, are the founders of Salt & Cedar, a letterpress studio located in the Eastern Market district of Detroit. They produce custom design work and printed matter – an extremely prosaic way of saying that they are extraordinary designers and thinkers. They also appear to have created a modern day salon of sorts, encompassing performance, food, film and more. This scarified hunk of beeswax is one of Leon's tools. Bookbinding uses waxed thread as a means to hold together the sets of pages, which are called signatures. You can buy prewaxed thread, but most serious bookbinders prefer to wax their own. I was told that this piece, which, at the time I saw it only measured about 3.5″ x 2″ x 3″, began as quite a large block. Figure one or two pounds. It wasn't just the beeswax that caught my attention. It was also the way Mr. Johnson used it to wax the thread. When someone is so accomplished at their craft/artform, they do things with complete ease and confidence, and a kind of artful rhythm. A ritual motion that is part of them, unlike the halting actions performed by relative neophytes.
Just what it says: a few signs to liven up a hot humid Monday.
Chromatography is a broad range of testing methods which helps separate or analyze complicated mixtures. Malolactic Chromatography is a specific test used in winemaking which aids in determining the presence of malic acid and lactic acid, and hence gauge the stage of fermentation for a particular wine. It is both complex and simple. If you wish to know more, there is a wealth of information available on the Interwebs. Thanks Jennifer and Andrew of Eminence Road Farm Winery for drawing my attention to the accidental beauty of this test.
Garlic scapes are crazy and curvy, not to mention tasty. If you aren't sure what they are, let me explain: scapes are the young flower stalks that emerge on hardneck garlic in early to mid summer. They get snipped off so the plant can direct more of its energy towards the bulb still in the ground. They are a fresher, milder version of mature garlic. That nature can produce these swirly beauties is astonishing. Some VERY generous friends dropped off an enormous bag of these the other day. Before whirring them into parsley, almond, lemon pesto, they had their moment in front of the camera. Karl Blossfeldt sure had the right idea when he turned to nature for inspiration.


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At Defense One's Cocktails & Conversation hosted during the week of AUSA's 2018 Annual Meeting, join our conversation with key leaders who are shaping the U.S. Army today and tomorrow. We will examine how U.S. Army field commanders in the Pacific are adapting to the president's National Security Strategy for near-future threats, and how Army staff is planning for the threats farther over the horizon.
5:00PM Guest Arrival & Networking
Lieutenant General Gary J. Volesky, Commanding General, ICorps, U.S. Army
Major General Charles Flynn, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7, U.S. Army, and former U.S. Army Pacific Deputy Commanding General
Closing Remarks and Networking
Major General Charles Flynn
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7, U.S. Army, and former U.S. Army Pacific Deputy Commanding General
Lieutenant General Gary J. Volesky
Commanding General, ICorps,


The main focus of my work is on self-development with a view towards finding meaning in our lives, in our relationships, and in the world. My aim is to facilitate individuals' life journeys, accompanying them in learning to love their questions. I work with people who have gone through all sorts of human crises, shining light on critical events as a potential for growth. Mostly, we live with much untapped potential - I aim to help clients free some of this potential, take hold of their power, enliven their daily lives, and find calm, courage and confidence for the future.
After training as an architect and product designer, and living and working in other countries, I moved to London in 1996, to start a family. After my own life crisis and consequent search for meaning, I trained as a Biographical Counsellor with the Biography and Social Development Trust. The Diploma Course in Biographical Counselling was accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) in 2009. I have more recently completed further training in Visual Arts and Sculpture which brings creative energies into my counselling practice. I believe that the artist in each of us is always able to develop our humanity further, throughout our lives.
I am certified, and have been working with private clients under supervision since 2005. I am a registered member of the BACP, and a member of the Professional Association for Biographical Counsellors (PABC), and abide by their Professional Codes of Ethics.


Spring's the season of rebirth – the weather warms up, snow starts melting, and a new class of Affinity district council delegates is elected.
The election process starts with nominations. If you, or someone you know, would make a great representative for our members, your first step is to submit nomination papers. This generally happens in January.
Nominations are followed by elections where Affinity members vote for the delegates who'll represent their district.
Following the elections, delegates meet together in their district councils and they elect the Affinity Board of Directors from their ranks. The election process wraps up with our Annual General Meeting, where we introduce the new Board. This generally happens in April.
Our delegates serve 3-year terms, so each year it's likely only a third of our delegates will come up for re-election.
The rules for how we run and the reports on how we're running.


More than two decades after the original Evil Dead launched the humorous horror trend, a remake of Sam Raimi's cult classic is at the top of the box office again. The more straight-forward Evil Dead, written by Diablo Cody and produced by original star Bruce Campbell, scared up $26 million in ticket sales and rose right to the top of the box office.
It was followed closely by the recurring hit The Croods and then G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Olympus Has Fallen, starring Angela Bassett and Gerard Butler, hung on to the top five, followed by Tyler Perry's Temptation in sixth place. That film has earned $38.4 million in two weeks, giving Perry a legit hit in the adult drama genre despite a bashing by critics.
Next week, Snoop Dogg and Katt Williams' Scary Movie 5 will fight it out with Jackie Robinson biopic 42, starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford, for first place.


— First, to answer a couple of questions on Bryan Walters. He is definitely still practice squad eligible, thanks to the new rule that allows a team sign two practice squad players who have earned two accrued seasons of free agency credit. Seattle has used neither of those two spots, so it could sign Walters. So that could be something that happens in the next day or so. However, indications are that Walters is also looking at what else may be out there in terms of a spot on a 53-man roster. And it's remembering that practice squad players come and go pretty frequently — the practice squad lineup you see today could look pretty different pretty quickly.


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Orphans / Arabesque
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Oct 24, 2019 (updated Nov 22, 2019)
I never thought of Coldplay as a bad band and this pair of new singles... definitely ain't bad at all. "Orphans" is undoubtedly the lead single off this album as it's the most pop-oriented of the two. It has a catchy enough hook and the bass grooves are silky smooth, but, as a whole, it's nothing mind-blowing. The adventurous "Arabesque", however, gives me just a little more hope for "Everyday Life". It's a direction I sincerely hope will make its way into future projects and that saxophone solo is just glorious!
Orphans: 8
Arabesque: 10
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Arbitration and mediation are private processes. As a private process, the parties can tailor the process to suit their needs, their budget and the complexity of the matters at issue. It is one of the few forums in which the parties may judge shop.
Mediation is a process where the parties strive to consensually resolve their dispute with the assistance of the mediator, who assists the parties in coming to resolution and dealing with the underlying issues in the dispute. It is an excellent process where the parties have or expect to have ongoing dealings with each other. Arbitration on the other hand is where the parties have their dispute resolved for them by the arbitrator.
The arbitrator may be an expert in their field, a retired judge or, an individual selected by the parties to make the decision after providing the parties an opportunity to pursue their respective cases and meet the case of the other. The arbitrator makes the decision according to law, similar to a judge, and with the powers of a judge. The decisions of the arbitrator can be registered with the Court for enforcement.
With my experience in this forum, and as a deputy judge I can effectively advocate for my client, or act as an arbitrator, mediator or neutral in aid of resolving or deciding the dispute.