Graham's were settled by William & John Graham in 1820. Andrew James Symington joined the company in 1882 and developed its business. The Symington family succeeded to Graham's business officielly in 1970 and their descendents, James Symington run its business with his family.
Symington family kept three barrels of special 1882 vintage port and they opened one of those in 2014. They made 656 bottles only. 1882 was special vintage for them and as homage to Graham family, they named those wines their motto « Ne oublie ».
Wines are in special package this time. Ne Oublie has been bottled in an individually numbered, hand-made crystal decanter designed by Portugal's leading glass manufacturer Atlantis. Three sterling silver bands, moulded engraved by Scottish silversmiths Hayward & Stott adorn the glass. The decanter is presented in a bespoke presentation box handcrafted with the finest leathers by the quintessentially British brand, Smythson of Bond Street.
Outstanding and brilliant quality after 130 years.
Rare old vinrage port is watched by all over the world with interest.
1.5L Lalique bottle 1863 vintage port wine were sold at highest price ever at the auction held in Hong Kong on 3rd of November and which was authorized as the world record by the Guinness Book. There were big demand and the bottle were sold for HK$ 992,000 (£98,000), which was triple of expected price. There are quite few old vintage port. There are only Taylor's 1855 and 1865, and Graham's 1982. Many auction fans are interested in rare port wines now.
Wines can be kept for six to nine months since we keep them with crystal cap.
・An old vintage wine may have a smudge on its label, a scratch on the bottle, a cap sticker peeling off, a lower quantity than usual or a change in the color or flavor.


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import core.exception
import random

class fight:
	fight = None

	def __init__(self, player, enemy):
		self.player = player
		self.enemy = enemy

	@classmethod
	def startFight(cls, player, enemy):
		player.fight(True)
		cls.fight = fight(player, enemy)
		return cls.fight

	@classmethod
	def getFight(cls):
		return cls.fight

	def getEnemy(self):
		return self.enemy

	@classmethod
	def stopFight(cls):
		if cls.fight is None:
			return

		cls.fight.player.fight(False)
		cls.fight.enemy = None
		cls.fight = None

	def enemyTriesToAttackFirst(self, player):
		# The enemy tries to ambush the player. If he succeeds, he deals the
		# first damages
		# NOT IMPLEMENTED YET
		return None

	def attack(self, playerFirst=True):
		damagesToEnemy = None
		if playerFirst:
			damagesToEnemy = fight.getDamages(
				self.player._model['stat_attack'], self.enemy['stat_defence']
			)
			self.enemy['stat_current_hp'] -= damagesToEnemy

		damagesToPlayer = None
		fightFinished = False
		winner = None
		if self.enemy['stat_current_hp'] <= 0:
			self.enemy['stat_current_hp'] = 0
			fight.stopFight()
			fightFinished = True
			winner = self.player
		else:
			damagesToPlayer = fight.getDamages(
				self.enemy['stat_attack'], self.player._model['stat_defence']
			)
			self.player._model['stat_current_hp'] -= damagesToPlayer
			if not self.player.isAlive():
				self.player._model['stat_current_hp'] = 0
				winner = self.enemy
				fight.stopFight()
				fightFinished = True

		return {
			'damagesToEnemy': damagesToEnemy,
			'damagesToPlayer': damagesToPlayer,
			'fightFinished': fightFinished,
			'winner': winner
		}

	@staticmethod
	def getDamages(attack, defence):
		attack = random.randint(0, attack)
		defence = random.randint(0, defence)
		return max(0, attack - defence)

	@staticmethod
	def canFlee(fighter1, fighter2):
		return fighter1['stat_speed'] > fighter2['stat_speed']

class exception(core.exception.exception):
	pass

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EIGHT-week-old baby Luca fits in his father's palm for a picture taken to help raise funds for Hinchingbrooke Hospital.
The youngster, who weighed only five pounds, is one of the tiny bundles of joy who feature in Hinchingbrooke's Babies calendar 2012.
Proceeds from the calendar, put together by Bury photographer Anna Pasquale, will go towards the hospital's Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) and maternity ward.
Miss Pasquale, 45, first produced the calendar in 2004, and after a three-year hiatus has returned with another offering.
One of the babies from the original calendar, Tilly, appears in the latest version. Tilly was born eight weeks premature and received care from the SCBU team.
Her feet appear alongside her baby brother Toby's feet on the calendar's back cover.
Miss Pasquale, formerly Wiskin, said: "Most of the babies that appear in the calendar were born this year and some were born last year.
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As I head to Bandera to be with my family, and my Earth Day ATX family is on the way to theirs, I keep thinking of that evening. The table was beautiful. And so was my mother.
The last few weeks have been enormously challenging for most in the Austin environmental community. Coming changes bring deep concern. But they also bring urgency and a relevance of our work that perhaps we took for granted to some degree–and an increased importance in supporting each other.
When I think about the wealth of leaders and environmental organizations and companies here in town, and all the great work being done, I am deeply grateful for all of it. And I speak for the whole Earth Day team when I say that we are also thankful for the opportunity to provide a platform, a venue for all of that good work. We are blessed to be able to offer the Green Room free to environmentally focused groups and to come together with so many other organizations to host the 9th Annual Austin Green Holiday Party.
And as for Earth Day ATX 2017, it will be extraordinary because of all of you. Thanks Austin for giving us something great to celebrate this Thanksgiving.


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Q: How to load the HSQL DB once before running all junit in Java project My project is not Spring based .Its a java with Hibernate.Building tool - Maven.
I am loading data from one database to HSQL DB before running junits.
My DB util class:
public class DatabaseUtil {
    SchemaLoad schemaLoad = new SchemaLoad();
    DataLoad dataLoad = new DataLoad();
    boolean dataLoaded = false;

    static final String filename1 = "test1.txt";
    static final String filename2 = "text2.txt";

    void dbLoad() throws SQLException {
        if (!dataLoaded) {
            schemaLoad.cloneSchema(filename1);
            dataLoad.exportData(filename2);
            System.out.println("***********executed**********8");
            dataLoaded = true;
        }
    }
}

First Test Case:
public class TestCase {

    TrainRepository trainRepository = new TrainRepositoryImpl();
    DatabaseUtil databaseUtil = new DatabaseUtil();

    @BeforeClass
    private void setUp() throws SQLException {
        databaseUtil.dbLoad();

    }

    @Test
    private void positiveTestCaseForTrainRepo() throws Exception {

        //TestCases
    }

Second Test case:
public class TestCase1 {
AirRepository airRepository = new AirRepositoryImpl();
DatabaseUtil databaseUtil = new DatabaseUtil();

@BeforeClass
private void setUp() throws SQLException {
    databaseUtil.dbLoad();

}

@Test
private void positiveTestCaseForAirRepo() throws Exception {

    //TestCases
}

Both the test cases are running fine.But Its executing databaseUtil.dbLoad(); method on each junit.
My question is I need to load the database only once ie before start of first junit and need to set some indicator .The further junits need to check the DB instance If DB instance is there it should not load the data ie DatabaseUtil class need to be singleton.
All the junits are running through maven suffire plugin during mvn install phase.
Kindly help me to achieve this.

A: void dbLoad() will be called each time.
then use a static variable to keep track
static boolean dataLoaded = false;

A: if you don't use spring you need to implement caching yourself. you have a few option. use static field with some kind of synchronization (in case you use/plan to use threads). other option is to switch to testng that gives you @BeforeGroup functionality so you can mark all your db tests and have your initialization run before.

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Q: How do you call a text UI (whiptail or dialog) within a Java application? There are two Linux command line programs (whiptail and dialog) that provide the ability to display a text UI to the user.  I would like to call one of these (preferably whiptail) from within my Java application so that the user can select an option from a predefined list.  The following SO questions were helpful to me in figuring out how to call a Linux command from within my code:
How to run linux commands in java code?
Want to invoke a linux shell command from Java
These give helpful tips on how to run a typical Linux command (e.g. "ls"), but my case is a little more complicated (I think) due to the text UI that I would like to have display to the user.
To give an idea of what whiptail does and looks like see this.

A: Start with ProcessBuilder.  Each parameter you want to send the command is a separate element in the command list, for example...
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(
                "whiptail", "--title", "Check list example", " --checklist",
                "Choose user's permissions", "20", "78", "4",
                "NET_OUTBOUND", "Allow connections to other hosts", "ON",
                "NET_INBOUND", "Allow connections from other hosts", "OFF",
                "LOCAL_MOUNT", "Allow mounting of local devices", "OFF",
                "REMOTE_MOUNT", "Allow mounting of remote devices", "OFF");
        pb.redirectInput(Redirect.INHERIT);
        // I tend to use pb.redirectErrorStream(true);
        // which sends the error stream to the input stream, but
        // then you'd need to still consume it to get the result
        Process p = pb.start();
        InputStreamConsumer errorConsumer = new InputStreamConsumer(p.getErrorStream());

        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        String option = input.nextLine();

        p.getOutputStream().write(option.getBytes());
        p.getOutputStream().flush();

        int exitCode = p.waitFor();
        System.out.println(exitCode);

        errorConsumer.join();

        System.out.println(errorConsumer.getContent());
    }

    public static class InputStreamConsumer extends Thread {

        private InputStream is;
        private StringBuilder content;

        public InputStreamConsumer(InputStream is) {
            this.is = is;
            content = new StringBuilder(128);
        }

        public String getContent() {
            return content.toString();
        }

        @Override
        public void run() {

            try {
                int value = -1;
                while ((value = is.read()) != -1) {
                    content.append((char)value);
                }
            } catch (IOException exp) {
                exp.printStackTrace();
            }

        }

    }
}

This is very basic, it simply executes the command, consumes it's output into a StringBuilder (to be retrieved later), waits till the command exists and displays the basic results.
Since I don't have access to whiptail, I can't test the code, but if the command is available in the default search path of the OS, it should work, otherwise you'll need to supply the path to the command as part of the first element in the command list


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X16 General Chat
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(new title): Hard decision, but the answer is pretty clear.
Created Aug 22
BruceMcF 20 posts
x16tial 13 posts
Scott Robison 9 posts
SolidState 7 posts
Snickers11001001
I think you guys are building up a nice mythos about the X8. For myself, I have YET to see detailed specifications. Oughtn't we wait a bit for the details?
I believe this to be very true. Switching RAM bank in X16 is the time it takes to write a value to a zero page address, i.e. 3 clock cycles = 375 ns @ 8MHz. Virtual RAM bank switching would
x16tial
You know what I really want? Just the VERA. I already made mention that we're already talking about a "VERA ecosystem", especially if both X8 and X16 are released, and @Birk reminded me:
By x16tial,
August 22, 2021 in X16 General Chat
2 minutes ago, BruceMcF said:
So it's not calling everybody stupid, it's calling everybody childish. Including David,
Maybe that was not what you intended ... in which case, I guess that's an oops for you.
That isn't what I intended, or should be inferred. The reference is that there's an answer staring everyone in the face. And this concludes me explaining the reference, how you take it is up to you!
Just now, Scott Robison said:
Only true if something else is ever introduced between the two.
No LC between a Lieutenant and a Commander in the chain of command doesn't instantly promote the Lieutenant to Lieutenant Commander.
Look, I am only putting it two steps below the Commander. I am not saying it deserved no more than Ensign rank.
Given tone of type, I'm not sure if I've hit a nerve or not. I don't *think* so but ... sorry if necessary.
I don't think calling it LX8 is useful as it does confuse people, even if the name is clever. Commander is a brand like Commodore was a brand. Lieutenant is a clever nickname like Speccy for Spectrum.
Really, given that Commodore is higher in rank than Commander, and made less capable hardware than the X16, perhaps calling X8 the Captain would make more sense.
In any case ... it doesn't matter. I know what you're talking about. Just sharing my opinion.
1 hour ago, x16tial said:
1 hour ago, Scott Robison said:
But, but, but ... goddamit, I'm calling it the LX8 to be clever. 8-)# ... Heck, if they sell them and I buy one, I'll keep on calling it the LX8, I think its just that clever.
It's pretty obvious that David is calling them the X16's and X8. The board even as "X8" on it. It would be silly to try to change it's official name, but the comment to call it the Lieutenant X8 was too witty to not give it some props.
Also, note that you have specified that the reference is to a campaign that insinuated that the left wing of the Democratic party were childish and the Democratic Leadership Council wing were the adults in the room. "It was a reference to a previous insult" makes it an even weaker excuse.
Sorry, incorrect. It's a quote from James Carville, consulting for the Clinton campaign, which caught on quite extensively and was a factor in his victory.
derived from a list he (James Carville) posted in the campaign war room to help focus himself and his staff, with these three points:
Change vs. more of the same.
The economy, stupid.
Don't forget health care.[62]
And "adult in the room" is a commonly used phrase meaning someone who makes a hard decision, usually reluctantly. As what would be required if the X8 were chosen to be the sole platform.
He wasn't insulting anybody, it was to his own staff, and was widely reported and acknowledged as such, as a rallying cry for the campaign. As in, "if we're not talking about the economy, we're doing something wrong". But if you see it as an insult, again, that's up to you. But we digress.
To the retro future! Whatever form it takes.
StephenHorn
Whether x16tial intended to insult isn't really the point, though. Personally, I read the title as an insult towards much of the community, and it seems I'm not alone in that assessment.
I can't even imagine how such a supposed reference is supposed to be contextual enough on a site like this for most people to read it any other way.
That's all I really want to say in this discussion.
Edited August 23, 2021 by StephenHorn
Well, all I can do is explain the intention and the reference, which has been done. It was a risk, that everyone wouldn't know the reference, but the intention and the reference has been explained: that a hard decision could be made, and there's a clear winning strategy on the other side of that hard decision.
You could... edit the title? You know, if you don't want to distract people who don't associate this website with politics, and thus gather the wrong impression.
Looks like I can still edit titles on posts I made many months ago. I feel confident that this is within your power.
So if someone makes a reference to a movie quote, the discussion is forever and always about movies? Puzzling, but I will change the title if I can.
Edit: done.
Edited August 23, 2021 by x16tial
1 hour ago, BruceMcF said:
But, but, but ... goddamit, I'm calling it the LX8 to be clever. Heck, if they sell them and I buy one, I'll keep on calling it the LX8.
I agree it was clever. That's why I posted I thought it was a great nickname about three minutes after the original post suggesting it. I don't feel the need to keep calling it the 68. LX8? Pidgin Roman / Arabic numeral hybrid? Anyone? {crickets} Or maybe I should just start calling it the LXVIII!
I'm sorry I've apparently stepped on toes or some such, as this reaction seems way over the top to innocent remarks on my part.
Edited August 23, 2021 by Scott Robison
SolidState
6 hours ago, Wavicle said:
Ah, okay. Those were only the board design files as far as I know. I was hoping the RTL for VERA had been published since it is the only bespoke "ASIC" in the X16.
What was posted was a complete standalone project. I have a copy of the following repos:
commanderx8 / x8-emu - emulator
commanderx8 / x8-rom - X8 ROM containing BASIC and KERNAL
commanderx8 / x8-fpga - FPGA image in Verilog
commanderx8 / x8-pcb - KiCAD files of schematic/PCB
I played around with it using an iCEBreaker board a few months ago. I can't remember if that board had enough I/O breakout to support everything. If it did then could create an X8 breakout board for the iCEBreaker ecosystem. I'm buried in another project so didn't pursue it much further. It looks like there's close to 100 people interested in an X8 board, so this might be one way to get them the hardware.
It's amazing how much work went into the X8 now I take another look at it. I don't understand why you wouldn't release it.
20 minutes ago, SolidState said:
Lot's of proof of concept prototype don't get released ... given that it was developed as a proof of concept for the envisioned CX16e, the work that went into it would have stood as good experience before tackling the more ambitious CX16e design.
The reasons to not release this one, or to not release it early, could easily be all of the reasons that have been discussed ... fracturing the CX16 programming ecosystem, cannibalizing the market for the CX16e, the LX8 release framing the later CX16 release and weakening its impact, etc. ... and they may have had some more that we haven't raised.
If the main argument for releasing it in advance of the CX16p crowdfund campaign was to help fund the project, then the better way to both obtain that funding and to ensure the success of the CX16p crowdfund campaign would be to just start crowdfunding the CX16p.
BTW, since FPGA's are well after my time (I checked out at the GAL and EPROM state machine stage), do you remember how much available flashROM is in the X8 project? Is it around the amount in the prior version of the board (128KB)?
do you remember how much available flashROM is in the X8 project?
The board uses a 16Mb (2M x 8 ) NOR FLASH
Edited August 23, 2021 by SolidState
7 minutes ago, SolidState said:
The board uses a 16Mb (2M x NOR FLASH
I think there was an 8 that emoji'd. I mean the simulated system ... my first guess would be some of that used for other system requirements, but as I say, FPGA is after my time ...
... if there are up to 128 16KB ROM banks that can be accessed, that could go a long way to relieving the very constrained 64KB system RAM.
FPGA is after my time
Me too From what I understand these are volatile devices, so it forgets all the "circuitry" when powered off. The serial FLASH is used to store the firmware/RAM image and it gets pulled into the chip on power up. The VERA board would be the same way and probably has an identical FLASH chip on it.
11 hours ago, SolidState said:
There was a discussion about the X8 files on this thread. It looks like the repos were made private, but I think there are some forks out there (the image was a render I did just now from KiCAD).
I got through the leaked board design and turns out this thing also has a microcontroller that handles host USB data communication and SPI lines to both the config flash and the FPGA. This is usually done to allow live configuration and config flash writing.
This is basically an FPGA dev board.
Don't get the hopes up there though, I'm pretty sure they are not going to include this or even the wi-fi module just to save the cost.
picosecond
8 hours ago, BruceMcF said:
I'm calling it the LX8 to be clever
Stop trying to make LX8 happen. It's not going to happen.
9 hours ago, x16tial said:
That isn't what I intended, or should be inferred. The reference is that there's an answer staring everyone in the face.
I missed the joke until you explained it, but the original title was obviously tongue in cheek.
"Some people are so touchy".
1 hour ago, a9m said:
It makes sense if it is a development board since they were, well, developing on it ...
... but if they don't include the wifi, I'm back to wanting to expand the USB dev tree to hub plus rs232 serial.
I agree that the X8 sounds like a threat to the X16, AND that that's no reason to kill or cripple the X8.
* 12 MHz, USB, and wifi? Where do I sign up?
It ain't going to have an expansion bus, or a different memory model, or a crippled clock, or anything different than what it is right now. And that's okay.
As for the X16. I've been coding on the emulator and I like those RAM banks. I REQUIRE at least 10 RAM banks for Core War (it uses a dynamic playing field taking up 80K RAM). I WANT to use ALL of those RAM banks for Traveller Trader (yes I could use files, but it already works as one gigantic 380K map so...). There is at LEAST one good use for those RAM banks, and at least two reasonable uses.
And I "need" every spare byte of VERA RAM, because sprites just take up so much space.
As a Neanderthal, I also do not fully trust flash drives to survive heavy use constantly. So when I'm running Ultima Retro II on the X8, I will be hearing tiny screams as the flash memory gets read and written to as the game churns through that gigantic map, fully expecting to waking up one morning and having it just be DEAD.
On the other hand, since the X8 is the Raspberry Pi / Game Console version of the X16, that's not a problem. When I'm playing Cloud Diver Saturn, it's just one file and there's no save game, no complicated map, just a lot of twitch, so that's perfect for the X8.
But if I want a machine for running The Seven Pirate Kingdoms of Gold, I'm reaching for the X16. Although I can't avoid saving state to disk there...
I do agree that the Yamaha and SNES and PS/2 aren't my cuppa. But they ARE David's cuppa. So.
i was thinking: isn't flash memory much slower when written? can it sustain the 12 Mz frequence ?
the vera fpga has proved to be capable to integrate at least the 65c02 cpu and a usb controller: wouldn't be a less controversial saving to use it to emulate an FM CHip in the X16?


On Friday the government announced the Employment Situation Report with only 38,000 new jobs had been created, against an expectation of a worst case scenario on 115,000 new jobs. Worse, prior job estimates continue to be revised lower, with material downward revisions in the previous 2 months data. Last month's non-farm payrolls were downward revised from 160,000 to 123,500, and the previous months revised downward again!
This was a devastatingly bad report, with almost nothing could be interpreted in a positive light.
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Q: PySpark dataframe - unable to compute max and min from a int column I am currently trying to fetch the max and min values from a timestamp difference's column within a PySpark DataFrame.
I've been able so far to compute the difference of timestamps between two rows (see this link for more details, it might be useful for some of us).
#The DataFrame tmp_df2 is as follow :
tmp_df2.show()

+----+---------+---+----------+--------------+---------+
|  id|    value|_c3| timestamp|prev_timestamp|time_diff|
+----+---------+---+----------+--------------+---------+
|7564|2.70412E7|  0|1498867200|          null|      NaN|
|7564|2.70412E7|  0|1498867800|    1498867200|    600.0|
|7564|2.70404E7|  0|1498868400|    1498867800|    600.0|
|7564|2.70405E7|  0|1498869000|    1498868400|    600.0|
|7564|2.70404E7|  0|1498869600|    1498869000|    600.0|
|7564|2.70403E7|  0|1498870200|    1498869600|    600.0|
|7564|2.70403E7|  0|1498870800|    1498870200|    600.0|

#Checking the column types gives the following result :
tmp_df2.dtypes

[('id', 'int'), ('value', 'double'), ('_c3', 'int'), ('timestamp',
'int'), ('prev_timestamp', 'int'), ('time_diff', 'double')]

I am then trying to compute the min and max of the time_diff column using the following :
from pyspark.sql import functions as F

tmp_max = F.max(tmp_df2.time_diff)
print(tmp_max)

Column<max(time_diff)> #I am expecting the actual max value instead

tmp_min = F.min(tmp_df2.time_diff)
print(tmp_min)

Column<min(time_diff)> #I am expecting the actual min value instead

Any help will be greatly appreciated on the topic.
Thank you :)
# & Last but not least
spark.version
'2.3.0.2.6.5.0-292'


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Holder: Obama recognizes Supreme Court's authority
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"Attorney General Eric Holder made clear Thursday that the Obama administration recognizes the authority of federal courts, including the Supreme Court, to rule on whether the 2010 health care reform law or any other laws passed by Congress are constitutional.
The declaration by Holder came in a letter to a federal appeal's court that had ordered the government to respond by Thursday in a legal and political spat over the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.
The attorney general personally met the deadline with a three-page, single-spaced letter– following the specific instructions of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing a challenge to the health care law.
Holder's letter affirmed the government's stance that federal judges indeed have the authority to decide the fate of the 2010 Affordable Care Act — and any other law Congress passes.
"The power of the courts to review the constitutionality of legislation is beyond dispute," Holder said.
His personal involvement in crafting the response signaled the issue's hot-button importance within the administration four days after Obama made controversial remarks that advised the Supreme Court not to take an "unprecedented" step by overturning the health care reform law.
Obama and the White House have since attempted to clarify the president's initial comments, which were in response to a reporter's question about the Supreme Court's three days of hearings on the health care law last week.
However, Holder's letter made clear that the substance of Obama's remarks were in line with the administration's recognition that the high court has the power of judicial review.
"The President's remarks were fully consistent with the principles described herein," concluded Holder's letter.
The dispute involving the court and the executive branch has highlighted the political dispute over whether the health care law will survive various legal challenges, including the pending Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of a key provision. The high court's ruling, expected in June, would take precedence over any other courts hearing similar appeals.
The outcome of the health care cases in an election year could have a lasting impact on Obama's re-election chances as well as the credibility of the federal courts, which are supposed to be beyond politics.
On Monday, Obama said he was "confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically-elected Congress, and I just remind conservative commentators that for years, what we've heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint, that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a dually constituted and passed law."
Some conservative critics interpreted those remarks as a challenge to judicial authority, suggesting Obama was putting political pressure on the high court.
A day after the president's initial remarks, the three Republican-appointed appellate judges held a hearing on a challenge to the health care law from physician-owned hospitals.
Judge Jerry Smith, a Reagan appointee, was especially tough on a Justice Department lawyer defending the law and specifically mentioned the Obama remarks from the day before.
"I'm referring to statements by the president in the past few days to the effect, and I'm sure you've heard about them, that it is somehow inappropriate for what he termed 'unelected' judges to strike acts of Congress that have enjoyed — he was referring to, of course, Obamacare — to what he termed broad consensus in majorities in both houses of Congress," Smith said.
"That has troubled a number of people who have read it as somehow a challenge to the federal courts or to their authority or to the appropriateness of the concept of judicial review," Smith continued. "And that's not a small matter. So I want to be sure that you're telling us that the attorney general and the Department of Justice do recognize the authority of the federal courts through unelected judges to strike acts of Congress or portions thereof in appropriate cases."
Government lawyer Dana Lydia Kaersvang appeared initially taken aback, but replied such authority has existed for centuries.
Nevertheless, Smith and Judges Emilio Garza and Leslie Southwick then ordered the Justice Department to submit by noon Thursday Texas time a three-page, single-spaced letter addressing whether the Obama administration believes courts do indeed enjoy that power.
In a sign of the political nature of the imbroglio, Smith's phrasing in open court of the law as "Obamacare" used a term coined by opponents of the law.
Holder's letter Thursday offered repeated deference to the power of the federal courts. He said the Justice Department "has not in this litigation, nor in any other litigation of which I am aware, ever asked this or any other court to reconsider or limit long-established precedent concerning judicial review of the constitutionality of federal legislation."
Legal analysts say the administration is walking a fine line in trying to tamp down criticism from legal and political circles.
"There are two things going on, of course," said Thomas Goldstein, a prominent Washington attorney, law professor, and publisher of SCOTUSBLOG.com. "First, Holder (in the letter) says that we have an argument courts can't hear this case. Second, if you can hear the case, you certainly have the power to invalidate part of the statute as constitutional. But (he says) you shouldn't do that lightly."
The last part of Holder's letter "is how they are framing the president's point — that the courts need to give the elected branches deference," Goldstein added. "It's a respectful letter, but it has an element of, 'What are you talking about, the president never said that.' "
The specific issue before the appeals court was a provision in the health care law restricting doctor-owned hospitals from expanding their facilities. The challenge was brought by an East Texas spine-and-joint hospital, and the case is separate from the cases being considered by the Supreme Court.
After his initial remarks Monday proved controversial, Obama sought to clarify them Tuesday.
"The point I was making is that the Supreme Court is the final say on our Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it, but it's precisely because of that extraordinary power that the court has traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our duly elected legislature, our Congress," Obama said. "And so the burden is on those who would overturn a law like this."
The imbroglio continued Thursday, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, using a Rotary Club speech in Lexington to tell Obama to "back off" and let the courts do their work without political interference.
"The president crossed a dangerous line this week. And anyone who cares about liberty needs to call him out on it," McConnell said. "The independence of the court must be defended. Regardless of how the justices decide this case, they're answerable, above all, to the Constitution they swore to uphold. The fact that this president does not appear to feel similarly constrained to respect their independence doesn't change that one bit. So respectfully, I would suggest the president back off."
Even Obama's former Harvard Law School professor and mentor, Laurence Tribe, said the president "obviously misspoke," telling the Wall Street Journal that "I don't think anything was gained by his making these comments and I don't think any harm was done, except by public confusion."
Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney faced skeptical reporters Thursday just before Holder's letter arrived at the appeals court.
Carney said it was "preposterous" to suggest Obama does not respect the power of courts to rule on the constitutionality of legislation.
"It is kind of ridiculous to believe that the president wasn't talking about the context of the (health care) case, but I completely concede that he did not describe the context when he took the question and answered it on Monday," Carney said.
Two years ago, Obama attracted similar outcry when he criticized the high court's conservative majority for striking down a campaign finance reform law, giving corporations greater power to spend in federal elections.
Some conservative legal sources privately expressed disappointment in the appeals court's order this week, saying it appeared punitive and petty to demand the Justice Department defend a position it had never disputed in court.
"It was like he (the judge) was giving a homework assignment to an unprepared student," said one right-leaning lawyer, who opposes the health care law. "It has the effect of putting the judiciary on the defensive, and could give rise to concerns the courts will look at the law from a political, not constitutional, perspective."
The Supreme Court held three days of oral arguments on the health care last week. The justices have not, and by custom will not, comment on pending appeals.
Their written opinions, due in the next three months, will be the final word on the Affordable Care Act's constitutionality, particularly the "individual mandate" provision that requires most Americans to have health insurance by 2014 or face a financial penalty."
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Q: Connected sum is well-defined for surfaces, proof? EDIT: So my question is distinct from the question asked here because I am asking an easier question. Why should we have to invoke something as powerful as the "Annulus Theorem" to show that the connected sum is well-defined here?
Define the connected sum of two surfaces $\Sigma_1$, $\Sigma_2$ to be the surface we get by taking away a small disk from each of $\Sigma_1$, $\Sigma_2$ and sewing the two boundary components together. The surface we get is denoted by $\Sigma_1 \# \Sigma_2$.
Is it possible someone could provide a concise but complete proof that for orientable $\Sigma_1$, $\Sigma_2$ this operation is well-defined, i.e. the resulting surface doesn't depend on which disks are removed from $\Sigma_1$, $\Sigma_2$ or how the boundaries are glued?
I had searched a bit, but out of the two sources I looked at, one simply asserted that the operation was well-defined, which does not seem to be obvious at all, and the other one simply gave some vague "intuition" as to why the statement should be true.


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Q: Is force applied over time? I am confused on what force is as a whole.
I understand a force is a push or pull, but is this push or pull over a certain time interval? If not, how could a force be applied if there is no time interval?
To be more specific, when a force is in an equation (say for example the equation of work W=(F)(d)), does F mean average force or instantaneous force?

A: It might be more correct to say that a force is a pushing or a pulling. It is meaningful to talk about how big a force is at a particular instant: it's how hard am I being pushed or pulled on right now? Think about slowly compressing a spring. The spring pushes back with a certain amount of force that increases the more you compress it. We define a variable (force) to describe how much it's pushing back at any particular moment, not just how much it pushed back on average over a period of time.
All measurable forces last for a nonzero amount of time. The whole event of getting pushed by an impact or pulled by something you're holding on to isn't a force at all, but an impulse, which is what your intuition is reaching for when you're trying to think of what the mathematics of "a push or a pull" should be like.
The equation $W=Fd$ is a special case of a more general equation that requires more complicated math. It holds only if force is constant across the displacement $d$. Therefore the force at any given moment across that distance must be the same as the time-averaged force, and the distance-averaged force.

A: From page 160 of Physics for Realists, a force is the ability of one body to change the impetus (momentum) of another. With this definition, there doesn't really have to be a time interval specified. The same amount of force could be applied for 2 seconds, 10 seconds, or even indefinitely. Time doesn't affect the amount of force, but it does affect the amount of change the force has done over time.
With the formula for work, this is the force applied over a distance. So the force is being done constantly throughout that distance.

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Is force applied over time?

$$F= ma = m\frac{dv}{dt} =m \frac{d^2x}{dt^2 }$$
Acceleration requires a change in velocity over time and velocity requires a change in position over time. So a force is the result of a change applied over time. In a static system where the sum of forces is equal to zero, the time a force is applied is irrelevant. For work done, the time required for the force to move an object a given distance is also irrelevant. In dynamics, a force applied for a given length of time is called an impulse.

A: When force appears in an equation, such as the equation for work, it typically refers to the average force over a certain time interval, as this is a more practical concept in many real-world situations. However, in some cases, such as when studying the motion of objects at very high speeds or when analyzing the behavior of objects at very small scales, it is necessary to consider the instantaneous force.
In general, it is important to keep in mind that the concept of force and its application in equations can depend on the context and the level of detail required for a particular problem.
To your second question, force depends on time if it varies with time. If it is constant, then the duration over which the force is applied is sufficient.


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Jul 25, 2017 | Turna Ray
This article has been updated to clarify that genetic counseling through Genome Medical will cost $149, but counseling is also offered as part of Sema4 and Admera's apps at no additional charge.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – At the launch of the first online genomics marketplace in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood yesterday, Jay Flatley said that on his way over from the hotel, he downloaded two new genomics apps ― one that would allow him to explore how DNA impacts his sleep patterns and another that would tell him if he had any traits inherited from Neanderthal ancestors. He had his results in 10 minutes.
Flatley, executive chairman of sequencing instruments provider Illumina, has been trying to crack the formula that would integrate genomics into people's daily lives for around a decade. He believes he's getting pretty close with Helix, a company that encourages consumers to visit its online shop of genomics interpretation apps and "crack your code."
Back in 2009, Illumina launched the first whole-genome sequencing service targeting the consumer market, but the analysis cost $48,000, required a blood sample, and after two to three months, the raw data were delivered through an iMac interface.
Consumers didn't take to that service, but in subsequent years, the price of sequencing dropped to a level that allowed the technology to be broadly scalable, the accuracy of genomic interpretations improved, and mobile phones got more powerful. "At that time, we had probably only sequenced tens of human genomes," recalled Flately, who is also chairman of Helix's board. "Now, we've sequenced hundreds of thousands of human genomes."
Two years ago, there was a "Eureka moment," and Illumina, Warburg Pincus, and Sutter Hill Ventures invested $100 million into Helix, envisioning a service that would be very different from every other iteration of a company that had tried to capture the consumer market in genomics. The company would perform sequencing, so there would be greater depth and breadth of genomic data on each customer compared to what can be gleaned from microarrays, the technology the first-generation consumer genomics companies like 23andMe and others use.
Instead of bombarding consumers with everything they could glean from their DNA data at once, the idea was to create an ecosystem that they'd keep returning to throughout their lives to learn different things from their genomic sequence as the need or interest arose. "Choice matters," Helix CEO Robin Thurston said. "When somebody might need these products might be at very different times in their lives."
But in order to entice consumers to keep coming back to their DNA data, participation had to be easy (customers give a spit sample instead of blood), the cost of entry had to be low, and the results would have to come quickly, some cases in real time. "We wanted to build an ecosystem of application developers, and one that captured the imagination of those developers," Flatley said.
Within the app marketplace, consumers can get their exome sequenced for $80 from Helix, but then pay for apps, developed by a dozen partner companies, that interpret their DNA data in the context of their health, fitness, nutrition, recreation, family, and ancestry. For example, like Flatley, consumers can pay $29.99 to download an app from Insitome that tells them which traits they may have inherited from Neanderthal ancestors, such as skin pigmentation, the ability to repair sun damage, learning capabilities, and torso shape. For $24.99, they can download SlumberType from Exploragen, and find out how their DNA might impact sleep patterns.
"We believe there are going to be killer apps in the consumer space," Flatley said. "We don't know what those exactly are yet, but we're convinced that over the next couple of years we're going to discover what those applications are."
Currently, in the health category, Admera is offering two apps for inherited cholesterol ($124.99) and diabetes testing ($149.99), and for women who are starting to think about family planning, Sema4's CarrierCheck app enables screening for 67 conditions for $199. Both of these offerings involve physicians ― not customers' own doctors but licensed practitioners from an independent third party network ― who evaluate the customers' health histories before they can get their results through the apps.
Physician involvement ensures that these products don't raise red flags at the US Food and Drug Administration, which generally does not allow direct-to-consumer marketing of health-related genetic tests without premarket review. The FDA, however, decided a few years ago to allow DTC marketing for carrier testing when providers follow certain requirements, and the agency also authorized 23andMe's ability to directly sell to consumers a handful of tests for gauging disease risk.
Other options in the app marketplace include an ancestry product from National Geographic, which worked closely with Helix to test out the app-based strategy; a variety of apps for weight management, meal planning, and fitness based on DNA information; a DNA-based taste profiling app for wines from Vinome; and a product from DotOne that lets customers create a personalized scarf based on 33 SNPs.
If customers have questions about the results they received through any app, for $149, they can receive genetic counseling through Genome Medical, a telemedicine network for genetic counselors and physicians. Customers of health-related apps offered by Sema4 or Admera can receive genetic counseling at no extra cost through a third party network.
Detractors of the DTC genomics model have long worried that without expert intermediaries to help consumers put genomic interpretations into context in terms of their lifestyle, family history, and other medical factors, that they could forgo treatment or insist on unnecessary treatment.
Studies have shown that genomic information doesn't negatively impact consumer behavior. In fact, some studies suggest that genomic information doesn't impact behavior at all, which is something Helix is hoping to change with greater access to counseling and future apps that will have an educational component. "We absolutely believe it's our role to help educate the market," Thurston said. "We need to tell the story about the marketplace and why leveraging your DNA on a daily basis is important."
Detractors of the consumer genomics industry have also questioned the science underlying testing that falls in the recreational category, for example, tests that claim to identify one's taste profile for wines or identify one's genetic response to exercise. In this regard. Thurston said that Helix vets the scientific underpinnings that app developers base their tests on and evaluates the claims they're making about the product.
"After the product is built, we go back through the process to make sure that it really did the … things they said they were going to do," said Thurston, though he didn't detail the criteria the company uses to decide when an app passes muster in terms of clinical validity and utility.
The app developers have to detail the scientific publications underlying the genomic claims they are making about their tests. For example, DNAFit last year published a study in Biology of Sport where it claims to show that when an individual is matched according to genotype to the most appropriate training modality, it results in more impactful resistance training. However, within DNAFit's MuscleBuilder app, the company also tells customers that "environment and how often you exercise plays a large role in athletic and fitness potential. Individual genetic variants play a very small role."
Similarly, Vinome provided Helix with data showing that its algorithm could match people's DNA-derived taste profiles with the wines they might enjoy. Despite criticism that this type of testing lacks scientific basis, Helix is satisfied that Vinome is presenting the data underling its service truthfully after vetting the available research.
"Not everything in genomics has to be serious," said James Lu, Helix co-founder and senior VP of applied genomics. "Not everyone is interested in knowing their cancer or cardiovascular risk. … A big part of the education of the general population is going to be about making genomics more accessible to people and make them understand it better in the context that they care about."
Later this year, Invitae, Mayo Clinic, Geisinger, WellnessFx, Kindara, Precis.ly, and HumanCode will also launch offerings within Helix's app marketplace.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated some aspects of Russia's foreign policy agenda with Africa in speech delivered on November 9, when receiving letters of credence from new foreign ambassadors including six from Africa. The six new African ambassadors are from Burundi, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Mali and Somalia.
The credentials ceremony usually takes place twice a year. The previous ceremony was held on April 20. The ceremony marks the official beginning of the ambassadors duties in the Russian Federation.
Delivering his speech at the ceremony, Putin said Russia was ready to restore cooperation that included developing investment and deepening trade as well as increasing humanitarian assistance with African countries.
"I hope that your efforts to develop relations between the countries you represent and Russia will help to activate political dialogue, strengthen trade and economic ties, and expand humanitarian contacts," he told the gathering.
With Burundi, Putin pointed out that Russia's relations with the Republic of Burundi have always been friendly and would be discussing several cooperative projects in the oil and gas sector and in mining. Russia also wished for an early restoration of internal political stability and national accord in Burundi.
Russia seeks to develop ties with the Federal Republic of Somalia, noting significantly the government's efforts to achieve national reconciliation and harmony and to rebuild the economy and social sector.
"We support political dialogue with the Republic of Chad, all the more so as your country currently holds the African Union presidency. We look forward to President Idriss Deby's visit to Russia and are preparing for this occasion concrete agreements in trade, the economy and humanitarian areas," the Russian leader told the Ambassador of the Republic of Chad, Mbatna Bandjang, at the ceremony.
Russia has been cooperating with the Islamic Republic of the Gambia based on the principles of friendship and mutual respect, as a result valued the Gambian partners' desire to expand bilateral ties in all different areas.
Russia and Equitorial Guinea have had excellent relationship. "In developing our friendly relations with the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, we place great importance on cooperation on geological exploration, extraction and processing of hydrocarbons, including development of offshore fields," Putin said assertively.
With Mali, Putin noted "we are developing partner relations with the Republic of Mali in the political, trade, economic, cultural and other areas. In June this year, Russia supported the UN Security Council resolution to extend the mandate of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali.
Obviously, Kremlin's long term goals include developing all-sided cooperation with African countries but those goals have struck pitfalls. Policy experts have suggested that Kremlin has to substantiate its African policy agenda with consistency, activeness and support, and enhance participation in the economic development of Africa. At the same time, Russia needs to look at simplifying access to its market for African countries.
In his opinion, cooperation with the African countries may be developed on a bilateral basis as well as on a multilateral basis, through BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and the Republic of South Africa) in particular.
He noted further that the Russian authorities would support national companies aiming to work on the African continent. But so far, Russia has not publicly pledged any funds toward implementing its business projects and other policy objectives in Africa.
As already well-known, towards the Africa's development, China has offered $60 billion, Japan $32 billion, India $25 billion so also investment funds have come from the United States and European Union.
As well Russia should. Africa has been left to wither by the West who sanction instead of help.
BRICS expanded to All Africa is smart. BRICA would be a more humane and wise anagram.
IF Russia is serious, their plan will be as nuanced as a Chinese plan.
If not, it will be pro-Russia as a US plan.


Location of Taihe on a map.
Taihe is a city found in Heilongjiang, China. It is located 45.76 latitude and 130.85 longitude and it is situated at elevation 197 meters above sea level.
Taihe has a population of 345,033 making it the 9th biggest city in Heilongjiang. It operates on the CDT time zone, which means that it follows the same time zone as Harbin.


This year, YWAM Myrtle Beach invited university students to be apart of a week long outreach at Myrtle Beach over Spring Break! Here is a testimony from a student from Liberty University who joined us this week to see what the Lord would do through her!
I had no idea, not even an ounce of imagination that what my team and I experienced at the Youth With A Mission Myrtle Beach base during our Spring Break would be as glorious as it was. We walked in and saw the supernatural in our everyday living! Our Mighty King delivered every person on our team, and as a family we experienced the powerful presence of God through morning worship sessions at the base, afternoon worship sessions at the boardwalk, and through the people we led to Christ on the boardwalk. Truly, God released a His Holy Spirit onto every single person on our team. It was such an honor to serve alongside great men and women of God at the Myrtle Beach base. Their prayers, encouragement, and obedience to the Holy Spirit, I believe, had much to do with why we experienced glory after glory all in a matter of a week. Personally, it meant a lot to me to be able to use my gifting of Dance on the boardwalk, at the Coffeehouse Shop, and in the Nursing Home. God moved so wonderfully wherever I danced unto Him.
The greatest lesson I learned from the incredible week we had at the YWAM base is that if we walk everyday attentive to the Holy Spirit's leading, we can see fruit (whether that be someone coming to Christ, someone receiving encouragement, someone rededicating their life to Christ, etc.) every single day. One week at the YWAM Myrtle Beach base changed my life forever. Now, I am praying about doing a Discipleship Training School with them after I graduate Liberty University next year!


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The Stars in My Eyes- Chapter 1/3
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The Stars in My Eyes-Chapter 1/3
A/N: I already have two stories in-progress but I just feel the need to get this one out of my system. I hated the last episode of Gossip Girl, so this is just a way of venting my frustration. All the events in the last episode have happened; this is just my way of how I would like to see it go down. Enough said. Here's chapter 1 of 3.
What the fuck had he just done? Had he really just slept with Vanessa Abrams? He actually hated the bitch; he had just been so forlorn after seeing Blair with Nate. But that was no excuse to do this, he actually felt disgusted with himself at the moment.
He rolled over on his side and bumped into another body. So the bitch was still here, he needed to get rid of her immediately. He jumped out of bed.
"You need to get out of here instantly. What happened last night was a mistake."
Vanessa propped herself up on her elbows, the sheet covering her slipping past her shoulders and exposing her. Chuck shuddered in revulsion. She grinned back at him. "What's the matter with you? Last night, everything was fine and if you really did want me gone, we wouldn't have had sex three times last night."
"I only had sex with you because Blair wasn't available." He sneered. "But let me tell you right now, how much I regret it. I forgot how much I hate you and this all started because we were trying to make Blair and Nate jealous. Remember?"
Vanessa grabbed the sheet back and covered herself; she hadn't expected him to be so angry. "Okay. Let's forget what just happened here and figure out a way for you to get Blair and for me to get Nate."
"What is it that you have in mind?" He asked.
Vanessa smiled. "The same thing that we have been doing. We'll pretend that we're a couple and it will make them insane with jealously. Eventually. I'm sure they'll be going to Serena's party next week and we have to make sure that we're there too."
Chuck tried to think, but his mind was blank. "Serena's party?"
She sighed. "Yeah, Serena is throwing a party for everybody that's a senior and will be going to college. We're both seniors and so are Blair and Nate, so we just have to pretend to be a couple until they both realize that they don't want to be with each other but rather with us."
He weighed his options, but found that he had none other than this scheme. "Fine, I'll do it. But there will be no sex under any circumstances. Are you sure that you didn't drug me last night, because that's the only way that I would sleep with you."
She rolled her eyes at him. "Very funny, Bass. You know it's not like I wanted to sleep with you either, I was just depressed about Nate."
Chuck sauntered back over to her. "We're in agreement then. Let's go break them up."
Blair smoothed her white skirt down her legs as she sat down. She still couldn't get the image of Chuck and Vanessa kissing out of her mind. She knew she shouldn't be mad since she was back with Nate. But she still couldn't help feeling a little betrayed. He had just come to her a few weeks ago saying that he still wanted her, but now everything was so fucked up again. They just couldn't get it right.
Chuck Bass was her past, and Nate Archibald was her future. If she was honest with herself, she would admit that she wished it was the other way around. She had to stop thinking about him and his dark brooding eyes, sensual mouth, and incredible body that he hid under his three piece suits or she was bound to go insane.
She was lost in her thoughts, until she felt Nate shaking her. "Blair, have you heard anything that I've been saying?"
Blair looked at him. "I'm sorry; it's just been a long week. What were you saying?"
"I was just asking you if you thought getting back together was the right thing to do."
She looked down at her hands as she answered him. "I don't really know, Nate. Let's be honest with each other, we both know that we don't feel any real passion for each other. But I think that's what we both need right now, we need to be in a relationship that's safe and comfortable."
He pushed his bangs off his forehead before asking, "Are you still in love with Chuck?"
"Yes." She admitted without preamble.
"Then what are we doing, Blair? You're in love with Chuck and I really don't know how I feel about Vanessa. So what are we doing together? Why aren't you fighting for Chuck?"
She stood up and walked over to the window. "Those are all very good questions, Nate. And the answer is I'm tired. I'm so physically exhausted from fighting for Chuck, he wants me one week and then the next he doesn't. I can take his mood swings anymore and he's hurt me too many times to count. I just want to feel good about myself for once and we're friends Nate, so what's the big deal?"
He stood up and followed her to the window, and wrapped her in his arms. She leaned her head against his shoulder. "Okay, Blair. I can see your point, but I have one condition."
"Name it."
"If one of us wants to end this relationship, then there are no arguments from the other. This will never work otherwise."
Blair turned around and smiled at him. "You've got yourself a deal, Archibald."
"So what is the point of this party tonight, S?" Blair asked her, as they were sitting around sipping some lattes.
"It's just something that I thought would be really fun for us seniors, kind of like a going away party before college."
"Sounds like it could be interesting. Who's coming?" She asked the question innocently, but she had an ulterior motive for asking.
"You, Nate, Dan, Penelope, Iz, Hazel, and a whole bunch of kids from school." Serena glanced at her quickly before continuing, "And Chuck is going with Vanessa."
"What? They're dating?"
Serena cursed herself for opening her big mouth. "Yeah, apparently they are. I'm sure it's nothing though, Blair."
Blair bruised her lip because she was biting it so hard. "I thought he hated her." She said in a small voice.
Serena reached over to grasp her hand. "I thought that you were over him, B. I mean, you were with Nate again, aren't you?"
She looked down at the floor. "It's never going to happen, Serena. I am never going to be able to get over Chuck. The thing with Nate is more of a friendship. We're just going to be there for each other."
"When you see him tonight, make sure you look you're best, so Chuck knows what he gave up."
Blair shook her head. "No, I can't do that. It's time that I tried to forget Chuck Bass but that doesn't mean I'm not going to humiliate that bitch."
The party was in full swing when Blair and Nate arrived. She scanned the guests to see if Chuck was there. She didn't see him, and she sent up a little prayer of thanks at that. Maybe he would decide not to show. She had promised herself that she wasn't going to dress up for him, but she was lying if she told herself she didn't. She had chosen to wear a Herve Leger bandage dress, and Blair knew that she looked good. The dress was a cool grey slate color that brought out her eyes and it was skintight. Every time she moved, you could see all of her curves and she was actually hoping that she could parade in front of Chuck to show him what he was missing out on.
Nate had been speechless when he saw her tonight, and Blair took that as a sign that she looked pretty damn good. Not everything made Nate Archibald speechless. She grabbed a flute of champagne off a waiter's tray and hesitantly brought it to her lips. Truth be told, she wasn't that big on champagne but she had a feeling that she was going to need a lot of liquor to get through tonight.
Nate had gone over to Dan and so she was left all alone, still scanning the crowd for Chuck. Her eyes finally found him. He stared back at her with so much intensity that she thought she would melt on the floor in a puddle. He was on the second floor, and he looked amazingly well in his suit tonight. Chuck had his usual suit on but he had paired with a purple bowtie. Blair felt a smile come to her lips, she actually loved his bowties, they were just so Chuck.
They still were staring at each other, and she felt the familiar heat begin to creep back into her body. He could get her aroused with just a simple look, and she knew it would never be like that with anybody else. His eyes scanned down her dress and she saw him swallow past the lump in his throat. He obviously liked what he saw.
She felt her feet moving towards him, but what she saw next stalled her. She saw Vanessa sneak up behind him and kiss him. Blair felt a sinking feeling in her stomach, but she found that she couldn't look away from the scene. Chuck finally broke the kiss and looked back at Blair, but she needed to get away before she embarrassed herself. So she turned around and fled to find an entrance to get away from him and Vanessa.
Chuck saw what was happening and flew down the stairs to stop her from leaving. He caught up with her just at the entrance.
"Blair."
"Hello, Chuck." She noted that her voice was calm, and she was happy for that at least. But on the inside, she was feeling anything but calm.
He placed his hands on her hips. "You look absolutely beautiful tonight, Blair."
She moved away from his touch. "Thank you."
He stared at her for a few moments, but when she didn't say anything else he started to feel exasperated. "Are you even going to talk to me?"
Blair lifted her eyes to his. "What is there left to say?"
Chuck ran his hand up to her arm. "There's plenty. There always will be between us."
"Alright, Chuck. You want to talk, then tell me what the hell you're doing with Vanessa. I thought that you hated her."
He sighed; this was not what he wanted to talk about. "I did hate her, but I kind of feel differently now. I guess I just got to know her and the rest of it kind of snuck up on me. I really like her though, Blair."
She felt a fury at his words; she always thought that he would only feel that way about her. But it looked like now that he was into Vanessa. Blair had a sad smile on her face. "If this is what you want, then I'm happy for you Chuck." She turned away from him but he grabbed her arm.
He had a defeated look on his face. "I can't do this anymore, Blair. I do hate Vanessa. I really hate the bitch."
"What are you talking about? You just told me that you were falling for her."
"Well, I lied. It wouldn't be the first time, would he?" Chuck asked. "I was only with Vanessa to try and break you up with Nate. It was all a plan, we thought that we would make you guys jealous and that would be the end of your fling. I can't pretend to be with Vanessa anymore, it's physically making me ill."
Blair couldn't find the words to even speak; she was so shocked by his admission. She felt a hopefully fluttering in her stomach.
Chuck cupped her face. "I'm sorry for the whole mess with Bart, Jack, and all of the rest. But I'm better now, I have gotten over it. I only want one thing now."
"What's that?" She asked breathlessly.
He smoothed his fingers over her cheek. "You. I want you, Blair. That's all I ever wanted and I don't think I'll ever want anybody but you."
She couldn't help the smile that spread over her face and the giddiness that crept into her heart. She wrapped her arms around his neck. ""That's what I want too. I want you so much, Chuck. Ever since that night in your limo, I haven't been able to get you out of my mind and I don't want to."
He smiled back at her. A true smile, the smile he only shared with her. "That's exactly how I feel too, Blair." A frown spread across his face. "What about Nate?"
She shook her head. "Nate and I had an agreement, that's all. We just wanted to be there for each other, but we're only friends. That's all we'll ever be."
Just as he dipped his head to kiss her, Vanessa crept up behind him and threw an arm around his neck.
Chuck pushed Blair to the side and then threw Vanessa off of him. "Get the fuck off me." He spat in her face.
Vanessa pretended to look hurt, but then quickly composed her features. "You told her, didn't you?"
Blair grabbed his hand and held on to it. "Yes, he told me. I just want to tell you myself, to stay the hell away from my man. Do you understand me?"
Chuck grinned at her words, but turned serious again when he heard what Vanessa said next.
Vanessa turned to Blair to speak. "He told you? Did he tell you everything? Did he tell you what happened last week?"
Blair gulped nervously; something else was going on here that she didn't know.
"Don't Vanessa! Don't ruin this for me!" Chuck shouted.
Blair let his hand slip out of her grasp, and he knew that he was fucked.
Vanessa placed a triumphant smile on her face. "Chuck fucked me last week. Not once, or twice, but three fucking times. What do you have to say about that?"
Blair felt her legs give out, and felt the acute pain that threatened to overtake her. But she was surprised that she was still standing. She felt tears ran down her face but made no attempt to stop them. She turned weakly around to face Chuck. "You slept with her? Her voice broke, and she knew that is was the beginning of the end for them. Once again.
A/N: Okay, so what do you think? Should I continue? Let me know. Please review.
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Bla-bla I like you should continue!!! http://images.fanpop.com/images/emoticons/grin.jpg
kikibass OMG! that was soooo good! i hope thats how it would of happened!, i hate vanessa so much, its makes me sick to even think of her and chuck lol:P plzz keep going with this its really good! update soon :D
Yankeesam32935 Bla-bla: Thank you. I think I will.
Yankeesam32935 kikibass: I am just so annoyed with what happened on the show that I felt like I had to write this. I think we all hate Vanessa now! There will be an update on the weekend some time and I happy to hear that you are loving it!!!!
GGLover_1 I hated Chunessa on the last episode also, so i totaly agree with chuck calling her a bitch so many times in this episode. She is a bitch! God how i hated her, i think by writting this you are showing how you really feel about it and how most of us do, and i love it! ahah :P "I can't do this anymore, Blair. I do hate Vanessa. I really hate the bitch." yay <3 "Chuck fucked me last week. Not once, or twice, but three fucking times. What do you have to say about that?" that bitch!!!!!!! so, i'll keep reading, it's really cool! Bia
Yankeesam32935 Bia, Thanks again for your comments. It might be obvious but I really hate Vanessa the bitch! It totally disgusted me that Chuck slept with her, it was just so out of character for him. So the main point of this story, is to show the revenge that Blair and Chuck get on her. V is going down. -Sam
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Chair Tales S02E11- Meet The Parents
It's the morning after the Love in Limo incident. Blair and Chuck are still in New York at a hotel suite where they stayed the night. Blair would be meeting with Dan and Serena that morning to go back to Connecticut. Chuck had told Blair that he was staying in New York for a week or so on business and that she should go home with Serena and Dan and he'd see her when he got back home. She'd agreed and told him that things would be different when they were finally reunited at home, things would be better. He said he couldn't wait to put the past behind them...
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KENTWOOD — Yet more evidence of the permanence of the so-called New Economy is nearing readiness for occupancy at 4079 Park East Court in Kentwood.
The 18,000-square-foot building is the new corporate headquarters of ITS, a Grand Rapids-based firm that terms itself a technology integrator.
ITS, which will celebrate the 17th anniversary of its founding this year, specializes in networking through voice, data and wireless systems. ITS is a distributor for Ameritech, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, Marconi Communications, Siemens and Fujitsu. The operation also is a Nextel Diamond Dealer.
ITS' president and CEO, Robert Sweezie, said in a statement that constructing "the new technology center demonstrates a significant commitment ITS is making in West Michigan.
According to ITS, the new headquarters, being constructed by Rockford Construction Co., is a contemporary structure designed to allow employees to show what they can do both literally and figuratively.
The building will feature 8,000 square feet of common space made airy with windows and open space. Its glowing skylight will catch drivers' eyes from I-96 and East Paris.
Providing some visual relaxation for employees in the fast-paced technical office will be landscaping featuring trees and ponds.
The firm's chief financial officer, Leo Filipowicz, said the building will foster free-flowing communication.
He said the design also includes a state-of-the art network operations center with multiple monitors that show real-time network activity, allowing support staff to see problems and alarms when they occur, and likewise to monitor ordinary use minute-to-minute.
"This will increase ITS' capabilities to revolve their customers' technical problems quickly," he said.


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