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<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\Article;
use Spira\Core\Responder\Transformers\EloquentModelTransformer;

class  ArticleCommentController extends PostCommentController
{
    protected $permissionsEnabled = true;
    protected $defaultRole = false;

    /**
     * Set dependencies.
     *
     * @param  Article $parentModel
     * @param  EloquentModelTransformer $transformer
     */
    public function __construct(Article $parentModel, EloquentModelTransformer $transformer)
    {
        parent::__construct($parentModel, $transformer);
    }
}

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package com.tle.web.remoting.resteasy;

import com.dytech.edge.common.LockedException;
import com.dytech.edge.exceptions.InUseException;
import com.dytech.edge.exceptions.WebException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.tle.beans.item.ItemEditingException;
import com.tle.common.beans.exception.InvalidDataException;
import com.tle.exceptions.AccessDeniedException;
import javax.ws.rs.NotFoundException;
import javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response.ResponseBuilder;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.ExceptionMapper;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
import org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.jboss.resteasy.spi.UnhandledException;
import org.jboss.resteasy.spi.WriterException;

@Provider
public class RestEasyExceptionMapper implements ExceptionMapper<Throwable> {
  private static final Log LOGGER = LogFactory.getLog(RestEasyExceptionMapper.class);

  @Context protected HttpHeaders httpHeaders;

  @SuppressWarnings("nls")
  @Override
  public Response toResponse(Throwable t) {
    final WebApplicationException webAppException = mapException(t);

    Response response = webAppException.getResponse();
    final int status = response.getStatus();
    if (status >= 500) {
      LOGGER.error("REST API error", t);
    }
    if (response.getEntity() == null) {
      ResponseBuilder builder = Response.fromResponse(response);
      response =
          builder
              .entity(convertExceptionToJsonResponse(response.getStatus(), webAppException))
              .type(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
              .build();
    }

    return response;
  }

  public static WebApplicationException mapException(Throwable t) {
    final WebApplicationException webAppException;

    if (t instanceof WebApplicationException) {
      webAppException = (WebApplicationException) t;
    } else if (t instanceof WebException) {
      final WebException w = (WebException) t;
      webAppException = new WebApplicationException(w, w.getCode());
    } else if (t instanceof ItemEditingException
        || t instanceof InvalidDataException
        || t instanceof InUseException) {
      webAppException = new WebApplicationException(t, Status.BAD_REQUEST);
    } else if (t instanceof AccessDeniedException) {
      webAppException = new WebApplicationException(t, Status.FORBIDDEN);
    } else if (t instanceof LockedException) {
      webAppException = new WebApplicationException(t, Status.CONFLICT);
    } else if (t instanceof NotFoundException
        || t instanceof com.tle.common.beans.exception.NotFoundException) {
      webAppException = new WebApplicationException(t, Status.NOT_FOUND);
    } else if (t instanceof InvalidDataException || t instanceof InUseException) {
      webAppException = new WebApplicationException(t, Status.BAD_REQUEST);
    } else if (t instanceof UnhandledException) {
      Throwable c = t.getCause();
      if (c instanceof ClientAbortException) {
        return new WebApplicationException(t, Status.BAD_REQUEST);
      }
      if (c instanceof WriterException) {
        if (c.getCause() instanceof ClientAbortException) {
          return new WebApplicationException(t, Status.BAD_REQUEST);
        }
      }

      webAppException = new WebApplicationException(t, Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
    } else if (t instanceof java.lang.RuntimeException) {
      Throwable c = t.getCause();
      if (c instanceof java.io.IOException || c instanceof java.io.EOFException) {
        return new WebApplicationException(t, Status.BAD_REQUEST);
      }
      webAppException = new WebApplicationException(t, Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
    } else {
      webAppException = new WebApplicationException(t);
    }
    return webAppException;
  }

  public static ErrorResponse convertExceptionToJsonResponse(
      int status, WebApplicationException webAppException) {
    final ErrorResponse err = new ErrorResponse();
    err.setCode(status);
    String msg = webAppException.getMessage();
    // if we happen to be using an 'unofficial' HTTP code, just repeat the
    // exception message
    String statusCodeErr =
        Status.fromStatusCode(status) != null
            ? Status.fromStatusCode(status).getReasonPhrase()
            : msg;
    err.setError(statusCodeErr);
    if (webAppException.getCause() != null) {
      msg = webAppException.getCause().getMessage();
    }
    err.setErrorDescription(msg);
    return err;
  }

  public static class ErrorResponse {
    private int code;
    private String error;
    private String errorDescription;

    @JsonProperty("code")
    public int getCode() {
      return code;
    }

    public void setCode(int code) {
      this.code = code;
    }

    @JsonProperty("error")
    public String getError() {
      return error;
    }

    public void setError(String error) {
      this.error = error;
    }

    @JsonProperty("error_description")
    public String getErrorDescription() {
      return errorDescription;
    }

    public void setErrorDescription(String errorDescription) {
      this.errorDescription = errorDescription;
    }
  }
}


Melo et al. v. Drummond Company, Inc.
Plaintiffs allege that Drummond joined with a terrorist paramilitary group to drive suspected guerillas out of the areas of Drummond's Colombian mine operations. The paramilitaries killed hundreds of innocent civilians who lived in the area. The relatives of those murdered brought ATS and TVPA claims against Drummond and several of its officers.
No later than 1997, plaintiffs' evidence indicates that Drummond officials made an alliance with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia ("AUC"), the umbrella paramilitary group in Colombia. In 2001, the U.S. Department of State designated the AUC a terrorist organization. Plaintiffs allege that in exchange for Drummond's substantial financial support, logistical support, intelligence, and access to Drummond's extensive land surrounding its coal mine and rail road line in Cesar Province, Colombia, the AUC would drive any guerilla forces out of the area. The guerillas, mainly from the FARC, were harassing Drummond's coal shipments by attacking the rail line that transported Drummond's coal from its mine in La Loma to its port near Cienega. The AUC then engaged in its trademark scorched earth tactics and terrorized towns along the rail line and killed innocent civilians to ensure that even those remotely sympathetic to the FARC would not offer safe haven or cooperation. The murdered Plaintiffs' decedents in this case were all innocent civilians who were killed in the escalation of the civil war fueled by Drummond's support to the AUC.
Plaintiffs filed their First Amended Complaint on April 26, 2013. On May 30, 2013, the Drummond corporate Defendants and the individual Defendants filed separate motions to dismiss. Plaintiffs filed briefs in opposition to both motions. The Drummond corporate Defendants and individual Defendants filed reply briefs in support of their motions to dismiss.
While the dismissal motions were pending, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S.Ct. 746 (2014). In response to this, on January 15, 2014, the District Court issued an order directing the parties to show cause why a stay is not appropriate in light of the Daimler AG opinion. Plaintiffs responded by first noting that, because they had wrongful death claims based on diversity jurisdiction, their case would go forward regardless of any rulings, positive or negative, on their ATS and TVPA claims by the Supreme Court or the Eleventh Circuit. Plaintiffs further stated that while the issues of the Daimler case were irrelevant to their claims there were three cases pending in the Eleventh Circuit that could have a significant impact on their federal claims. All of these cases included an issue of the scope of the Supreme Court's ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S.Ct. 1659, 1669 (2013), that the ATS only extends extraterritorially to cases that "touch and concern" the United States.
Accordingly, Plaintiffs concluded that in the interests of judicial economy the parties would benefit from this Court's assessment of the impact of Kiobel on ATS claims, similar to theirs, and they would not oppose a stay. Defendants agreed that a stay was appropriate. Following the parties' filings, on February 4, 2014, the District Court stayed the case and "administratively terminated without prejudice" Defendants' Motions to Dismiss the First Amended Complaint. Over a year later, once the pending Eleventh Circuit cases had been decided, the District Court issued an April 20, 2015 show cause order on whether this case should be dismissed in light of those decisions. Plaintiffs filed a timely response.
Plaintiffs asserted, once again, that their wrongful death claims based on diversity jurisdiction were not impacted by this Court's ATS and TVPA decisions in the two recently decided Drummond cases because neither of those were based on diversity jurisdiction. Further, with respect to the TVPA claims against individual Defendants Drummond and Tracy, Plaintiffs asserted this Court had clarified various secondary liability standards and this case should now be assessed with respect to those standards following discovery. Plaintiffs also noted that with respect to their ATS claims, they should be permitted to obtain discovery to satisfy the new jurisdictional standard set by the Supreme Court in Kiobel,133 S.Ct. 1659 (2013). Plaintiffs concluded by noting that there was no pending motion to dismiss as the Court had denied Defendants' motion without prejudice, and if the Court was going to lift the stay, it should allow Defendants to refile any motion to dismiss and set a briefing schedule to resolve the never-addressed issues raised in the original, dismissed motion.
With no motion pending under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b), the District Court dismissed all of Plaintiffs' claims. Plaintiffs filed a timely Notice of Appeal. This case was stayed for most of the time it was on file. These 45 Plaintiffs are not associated with any of the prior Drummond litigation, and have yet to have discovery of their allegations. Facts are still developing as the testimony from Colombia's Justice and Peace process is ongoing.
The case was appealed before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and after briefing, the Court of Appeals issued a September 27, 2016 opinion - remanding the case back to the District Court and ordering the District Court to proceed with the litigation or to reinstate the dismissal - this time - articulating the basis and reasoning for the dismissal.


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class AddGameActionIdToInvestigator < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_reference :investigators, :game_action, index: true, foreign_key: true
  end
end


Once we got all of the announcements out of the way, everyone was wondering when we would get our first glimpse of the always-popular Halloween Horror Nights commercial.
The Halloween Horror Nights commercial this year features Poltergeist, Halloween 4, and of course, Stranger Things. The commercial will be used on both the east and west coast.
Check it out above and let us know what you think!
Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news, photos and more from Halloween Horror Nights 2018!


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List of articles in category Y
Yoshida Educational and Social Services Foundation, Sri Lanka (Incorporation) Act	 19 November 1993
Young Men's Buddhist Association Mahiyangana (Incorporation) Act	 10 October 1980
Young Men's Buddhist Association, Colombo, Ordinance	 29 September 1927
Young Men's Buddhist Association, Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Act	 02 June 1961
Young Men's Buddhist Association, Galle Act	 23 January 1954
Young Men's Buddhist Association, Kadawatha (Incorporation) Act	 13 November 1992
Young Men's Buddhist Association, Maggona Law	 18 April 1974
Young Men's Buddhist Association, Maharagama (Incorporation) Act	 31 March 1998
Young Men's Buddhist Association, Matara Act	 24 March 1970
Young Men's Buddhist Association, Minuwangoda (Incorporation) Act	 10 August 1983

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


In 1977 we incorporated as Pearsons Glass Limited, moved to a larger site, and began the now continuous process of investment in the latest machinery and equipment. We have also concentrated on building and strengthening the manufacturing team, and have our own in-house specialists in finance, I.T, logistics, manufacturing, engineering and HR.
The manufacturing and processing is based in a 25,000 sq. ft. factory just a mile north of the world-famous Liverpool Pier Head, in a developing area of the city. The common factors which cover the hundreds of different jobs produced every week are their individual specifications, the attention to detail required and the short time scales allowed. We pride ourselves on the flexibility we have to achieve these aims, which is helped by the use of the most modern machinery available within the industry and our investment in staff training.
Processes include the traditional cutting, shaping, polishing, bevelling, drilling and sandblasting, as well as painting, printing, specialist laminating, UV bonding and toughening.
We deliver with our own modern fleet of vehicles throughout the UK.
Until the early 1980s, there was no one-stop location from which coloured glass artist could obtain their supplies, including ancillary items such as lead came and tools. Pearsons Glass were amongst the pioneers in setting up that facility. Having incorporated James Hetley & Co. and Bohle Art Glass into our company, we are now proud to be by far the largest supplier of these products in the UK.
We have a modern warehouse unit in Liverpool close to road and rail links, with a comprehensive stock of materials from which to choose for your projects and commissions. Because of our worldwide network of strategic manufacturers and partners we are able to acquire imported supplies quickly.
A programme of tuition courses for both professionals and hobbyists is available on site and we are increasingly developing our social media connections.
There is also a shop online facility easily accessible via this website, containing an extensive catalogue, and goods purchased are delivered either by our own fleet of vehicles or specialist carriers.
We are always on the look-out for enthusiastic, hardworking, motivated and talented individuals to join our team at Pearsons. If you feel you have what it takes and would be a great addition to our team, please send your cv and brief covering letter to lisab@pearsons-glass.co.uk.


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Sign the Letter
News »To Secretary Zinke, help veterans who are lawmakers reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund Op-ed by Washington State Senator John McCoy
To Secretary Zinke, help veterans who are lawmakers reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund
by John McCoy
Op-ed by Washington State Senator John McCoy
As I write, we find ourselves in another "fire season." This wasn't always the case in our beloved state of Washington. Now, tragically too many communities are at risk of being torn apart by flames every year. I only hope no one is harmed. I'm thankful for our first responders for the tremendous job they do protecting us. But every year when we don't have a substantial snowmelt we know what to expect. The scientific facts show our planet is heating up. We must do everything within our power to protect our natural wonders for future generations, and that takes a bipartisan effort.
Knowing that we are all in this together makes it easier to find common ground to make positive changes for everyone in our state. In my culture, leaders are often seen as peacemakers, not as dividers. I'm a Democrat, who worked in the White House during the Reagan years. Working together is how our democracy works best.
When given the opportunity to defend a citizens' clean energy initiative - 937 - from major rollbacks I embraced the challenge because I knew we would be successful if everyone worked together to reach a compromise, and we did.
If we don't protect our natural resources, we risk losing them forever. That's why I recently signed a letter with other lawmakers who are veterans, in support of the reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).
Veterans don't distinguish each other by what political party we are affiliated with, we all stand by and with our Constitution. That's why I'm proud to stand with over 45 bipartisan veterans who are lawmakers in support of the LWCF. Since its establishment by Congress in 1964, the LWCF has been a bipartisan commitment that safeguards our natural areas, water resources, and cultural heritage.
My culture holds a deep respect for nature. The cedar is our "tree of life" because we use every part of one if we cut it down, from making baskets to totems. Honoring nature has sustained our communities and way of life. Serving on the Environmental Committee I've worked to protect our cherished natural wonders.
Salmon is intrinsic to our culture. When it flourishes so does our environment. It's sustained future is in everyone's interest. Unfortunately commercial fishing, waterway contamination, habitat destruction, net-pen farming, and road culverts restrict fish habitats. I'm proud we recently passed legislation working across the aisle to phase our net-pen farming by 2025.
The LWCF has been a source of revenue for states and local governments, funding projects to protect habitats like many on the Snohomish River as well as helping to establish recreation areas and parks like Langus Riverfront Park.
Over the past 40-plus years, the LWCF program has provided more than $3.9 billion in grants funding projects in just about every county in the country. LWCF has provided funds for riverside development and upkeep. Sacagawea Heritage Trail, the Salt Creek County Park Renovation, Issaquah Creek/Lake Sammamish Waterways Acquisition, as well as the University Place Kobayashi Preserve have all been received grants from LWCF. The list goes on and on.
We enjoy kayaking, canoeing, swimming, picnicking, and just being able to relax in parks supported by LWCF funds. Over $12 million has been allocated to Washington State from the LWCF just since 2000. You've probably been to a park, nature reserve, beauty spot or veterans' memorial that has been funded with LWCF grants.
A Bureau of Economic Analysis study found that the outdoor recreation economy was growing at 3.8 percent. Outdoor recreation contributes $887 billion and supports 7.6 million jobs across America. Every $1 of LWCF funds invested results in a return of $4 in economic value.
On the national stage generations of Americans have visited National parks. For many, these trips are annual pilgrimages connecting families with our country's roots while creating lasting memories. Olympic, Mount Rainier, and North Cascades National Parks are assisted by LWCF funding. Our land is intrinsic to who we are as a people.
The LWCF is one of our most successful conservation programs because it draws on funds from offshore oil and gas royalties, not taxpayers, to expand, develop, and improve public lands for recreational areas, conservation, and the preservation of natural ecosystems.
But now the LCWF is in jeopardy of not being reauthorized even though the U.S. House of Representatives, passed H.R.6147 - Interior, Environment, Financial Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, of 2019, which provides some support for the LWCF. The problem is that the U.S. Senate has not completed its review of the legislation, and while Secretary Zinke has publically expressed his support for the fund, he has also proposed a 95 percent cut to the fund's budget.
LWCF needs reauthorization by Congress by September 30th. That's why our bipartisan letter is to Secretary Zinke. We believe a strong showing of bipartisan support from state lawmakers, who are also veterans, can help secure Secretary Zinke's support for reauthorization of the LWCF and thereby that of Congress.
My military brothers and sisters have banded together as lawmakers to stand with our country defending our public lands. We see this as a bipartisan issue. As the saying goes—if you don't stand for something—you'll fall for anything. We can't afford to lose our cultural heritage, our public lands, by falling for false promises.


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Q: Entity Framework One-Many TPH Mapping I'm using a data structure similar to this where type of animal is determined from a discriminator column in the table:
public class Farm {
    public int Id { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<Pig> Pigs { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<Cow> Cows { get; set; }
}

public class Animal {
    public int Id { get; set; }

    public int FarmId? { get; set; }

    public virtual Farm Farm { get; set; }

    public string Name { get; set; }
}

public class Pig : Animal {}
public class Cow : Animal {}

Mapping:
this.Map<Pig>(m => m.Requires("Type").HasValue((int) AnimalType.Pig));
this.Map<Cow>(m => m.Requires("Type").HasValue((int) AnimalType.Cow));

But I can't seem to map the relationship between the Pigs, Cows and Farm. I've tried this from FarmMap which gives a duplicate column mapping error:
this.HasMany(t => t.Pigs)
    .WithOptional(t => t.Farm)
    .Map(m => m.MapKey("FarmId"));
this.HasMany(t => t.Cows)
    .WithOptional(t => t.Farm)
    .Map(m => m.MapKey("FarmId"));

Mapping from each of the animals doesn't work either, it generates extra columns (eg. Farm_Id and Farm_Id1 - in addition to FarmId - one for each animal type).
this.HasOptional(t => t.Farm)
    .WithMany(t => t.Pigs)
    .HasForeignKey(d => d.FarmId)

Moving the navigation property from the Animal model to the inheriting models causes a single additional column to be generated - FarmId1 (so a little closer to what I want than the above 2!)
Is there any way to achieve this?

A: I'm no EF expert but from the Model-first approach I know that this would be mapped as a collection of Animal, you can then select Farm.Animals.OfType<Pig>()

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Theorie der Numerierungen I.Ju L. Eršov - 1973 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 19 (19‐25):289-388.
On Effective Topological Spaces.Dieter Spreen - 1998 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 63 (1):185-221.
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Domain Representability of Metric Spaces.Jens Blanck - 1997 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 83 (3):225-247.
Theorie Der Numerierungen III.Ju L. Erš - 1977 - Zeitschrift fur mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 23 (19-24):289-371.
Partial Horn Logic and Cartesian Categories.Erik Palmgren & Steven J. Vickers - 2007 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 145 (3):314-353.
Stability of Representations of Effective Partial Algebras.Jens Blanck, Viggo Stoltenberg‐Hansen & John V. Tucker - 2011 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 57 (2):217-231.
Turing L -Machines and Recursive Computability for L -Maps.Giangiacomo Gerla - 1989 - Studia Logica 48 (2):179 - 192.
Algebraic Theory of Quasivarieties of Heterogeneous Partial Algebras.Peter Burmeister - 2004 - Studia Logica 78 (1-2):129 - 153.
An Algebraic Approach to Canonical Formulas: Modal Case.Guram Bezhanishvili & Nick Bezhanishvili - 2011 - Studia Logica 99 (1-3):93-125.
On the Existence of Extensional Partial Combinatory Algebras.Ingemarie Bethke - 1987 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 52 (3):819-833.
Computability Over the Partial Continuous Functionals.Dag Normann - 2000 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 65 (3):1133-1142.
Partial Combinatory Algebras of Functions.Jaap van Oosten - 2011 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 52 (4):431-448.
Review of I. Hacking, An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic. [REVIEW]Branden Fitelson - 2003 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 9 (4):5006-5008.
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Cylindric Algebras.Leon Henkin - 1971 - Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co..


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Danny K. Davis & Lynn Jenkins
Compare the voting records of Danny K. Davis and Lynn Jenkins in 2017-18.
Danny K. Davis
Represented Illinois's 7th Congressional District. This was his 11th term in the House.
Lynn Jenkins
Represented Kansas's 2nd Congressional District. This was her 5th term in the House.
Danny K. Davis and Lynn Jenkins are from different parties and disagreed on 76 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
But they didn't always disagree. Out of 961 votes in the 115th Congress, they agreed on 228 votes, including 8 major votes.
May 22, 2018 — Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act
July 17, 2018 — Protecting Diplomats from Surveillance Through Consumer Devices Act
July 17, 2018 — Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018
July 17, 2018 — JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of 2018
June 26, 2018 — Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act
June 26, 2018 — Prevention of Private Information Dissemination Act of 2017
June 25, 2018 — Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch Act of 2018
June 25, 2018 — Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act
April 27, 2018 — McClintock of California Part A Amendment No. 112
Feb. 13, 2018 — To extend the Generalized System of Preferences and to make technical changes to the competitive need limitations provision of the program
Feb. 13, 2018 — Lexington VA Health Care System
Dec. 20, 2017 — United States and Israel Space Cooperation Act
Dec. 5, 2017 — Stopping Abusive Female Exploitation Act of 2017
Dec. 5, 2017 — Secret Service Recruitment and Retention Act of 2017
Nov. 6, 2017 — VA Management Alignment Act
Nov. 6, 2017 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish assistance for adaptations of residences of veterans in rehabilitation programs under chapter 31 of such title, and for other purposes
Oct. 11, 2017 — FITARA Enhancement Act of 2017
Oct. 11, 2017 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 324 West Saint Louis Street in Pacific, Missouri, as the "Specialist Jeffrey L. White, Jr. Post Office"
Oct. 3, 2017 — To reauthorize the National Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program, and for other purposes
Sept. 25, 2017 — North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act
Sept. 13, 2017 — Meadows of North Carolina Amendment No. 172
Sept. 13, 2017 — Lewis of Minnesota Amendment No. 167
Sept. 7, 2017 — Austin Scott of Georgia Part B Amendment No. 92
Sept. 6, 2017 — Grothman of Wisconsin Part B Amendment No. 39
Sept. 6, 2017 — McClintock of California Part B Amendment No. 25
July 26, 2017 — Griffith of Virginia Amendment No. 5
July 26, 2017 — Perry of Pennsylvania Amendment No. 4
July 17, 2017 — Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to a enter into a compact relating to the establishment of the Washington Metrorail Satefy Commission
July 17, 2017 — Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to amend the Washington Area Transit Regulation Compact
July 17, 2017 — Sergeant Joseph George Kusick VA Community Living Center
July 14, 2017 — McGovern of Massachusetts Amendment No. 43
June 23, 2017 — Accelerating Individuals into the Workforce Act
June 6, 2017 — Condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Manchester, United Kingdom, on May 22, 2017, expressing heartfelt condolences, and reaffirming unwavering support for the special relationship between our peoples and nations in the wake of these attacks
June 6, 2017 — Condemning the violence against peaceful protesters outside the Turkish Ambassador's residence on May 16, 2017, and calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice and measures to be taken to prevent similar incidents in the future
May 25, 2017 — Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse Act of 2017
May 19, 2017 — Probation Officer Protection Act of 2017
April 28, 2017 — Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes
Feb. 27, 2017 — To facilitate the addition of park administration at the Coltsville National Historical Park, and for other purposes
Feb. 6, 2017 — Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act
Feb. 6, 2017 — Bolts Ditch Access and Use Act
Jan. 30, 2017 — To remove the sunset provision of section 203 of Public Law 105-384 and for other purposes


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COMPUTE! ISSUE 126 / FEBRUARY 1991 / PAGE 94
Loom. (computer game) (Reviews) (evaluation)
by David T. Sears
On the barren island of Loom, the exiled Guild of Weavers plies its trade and works its magic, spinning threads that alter the present and the future. No children had been born to the Weavers for many years, until you, Bobbin Threadbare, arrived 17 years ago. Instead of being a welcome member of the Guild, you're an outcast, for your birth was an evil omen. Shadow will soon fall across the world and the age of the Great Guilds will be over. Unless, of course, you, the untrained and youthful Bobbin, can stop the cataclysm. Thus begins Loom, an unusually well-conceived and-implemented graphic adventure game from Lucasfilm.
Before actually playing Loom, you're advised to read the Book of Patterns, which contains spell descriptions and blanks to fill with the musical sequences that you discover throughout the game. Since much of the game concerns magic, knowing what could become available to you is an advantage. The spells, or drafts, as they're referred to by the Weavers, are found in objects around you and are noticeable to you when you carry your distaff. Drafts are easy to record and your distaff. Magic seems to work on most objects in Loom, and weaving drafts just to see what might happens is quite entertaining.
Unlike most other adventure games, Loom does not kill you every time you make a mistake. There's often more than one way to solve a problem, and the problems are not so convoluted as to be unsolvable, as in some other games. This simple combination alone makes Loom far less intimidating than virtually any other adventure game I've played. Because thought is rewarded with success, not death, thinking is encouraged, and the game feels more like a challenge than an insult. While this approach to game design makes Loom an excellent game for beginners, it's no less a game for the seasoned player.
The story that you participate in is told with devastating humor, and the supporting cast is quite lovable. Your role in the fiction allows you to become an offbeat hero, and the ease with which you become attached to Bobbin is surprising.
Graphics in Loom are limited in palette and low in resolution, ported directly from IBM EGA, but they're rendered fairly well in a cartoonish sort of 3-D. You move Bobbin by pointing with the mouse and clicking on the destination; the game moves the character for you. Animation is everywhere, but again, it's limited. Most figures move in a laborious, choppy manner, and when one or more are onscreen with Bobbin, there's an appreciable delay in all movement. Yet most of the animation is charming, and some of it's rather complicated. Despite being so graphically dependent, floppy disk access is moderate and holds up gameplay very little. The music in Loom is neither brilliant nor annoying, but it supports the actions of the characters well enough and can always be counted on to accompany plot developments.
Occasionally Bobbin is removed from your control; the game loads a lengthy animated sequence to which you're merely the audience. Much inside information is related this way, like Bobbin's own history and what can be done about the oncoming apocalypse, but these sequences are sometimes disturbing. At one point Bobbin's distaff is taken away, and he's imprisoned. Without the distaff Bobbin is powerless, yet I was unable to prevent its theft. While necessary to the plot, the sequence was extremely obtrusive, and the animation that depicted Bobbin's escape also proceeded without my intervention. For several minutes, I could only watch and wonder what would happen.
Despite my annoyance with some of the animation, I was delighted with Loom as a whole. I'm pleased to annouce that it's the first adventure game that I've been able to solve on the Amiga, and that's not because it's an easy game. It's because Loom is a sensible fantasy - engrossing, amusing, and a minor epic in its own right.


Sometimes I wonder what ever happened to the world.
I met an old man wandering the wastes a while back, it might have been a week or a month ago – it's hard to gauge time since the Change came. This old man said that before the Change the world was full of green growing things. He said the sky was blue rather than the sickly gray-green I've known my entire life. Frankly I think he's nuts. There's no way the world could be like he described; millions of people, living trees, animals everywhere. He described this thing called a tiger that he saw in something he called a zoo. That thing sounded terrifying, even worse than the Abominations that come through the rifts. There's just no way that something that terrible, that could eat a man no less, was kept where people could visit it. It would have been shot on sight. I think he sniffed too many fumes from one of the mutant pits and just hallucinated the creature and the whole damn story.
This is the way of the world: endless pain and horror. The Change, or so they tell me, destroyed the old world and altered the very surface of the planet making it into this dead gray plain. The air is filled with gray dust lifted from the desiccated ground by random whirlwinds. Every so often the air shimmers and is torn asunder by forces we do not understand. Arcs of electrical energy lick the ground whenever a rift appears and if the energy builds enough, things appear. We call them Abominations. They are all different in appearance but always have some resemblance to some creature born of the depraved combination of insect and sea creature. The other thing they all have in common is an unquenchable bloodlust for humans. Anyone insane enough to remain in view of a rift will quickly become a smear of blood on the muzzle of an Abomination. I heard that once, years ago, some guy managed to kill an Abomination. Frankly I don't see how he could have done it. I've seen people attack them with blades, sticks even once with an explosive device they found in the rubble of an old building. The Abominations shrug off anything we do to them. Their skins are harder than steel. I think it was just a tall tale some guy made up to make folks feel like there was at least some chance. What smart person would believe there was even the slimmest possibility we could survive and destroy an Abomination.
So this is my world. It's a place of pain, terror and an early death. The fact that I've made it to the ripe old age of 13 is a miracle; and I'm the second oldest person in our little tribe.
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Cellebrite Signs $7.9 Million Deal with Law Enforcement Agency in Asia
April 14, 2020 | Cellebrite
Tysons Corner, Va., April 14, 2020 – Cellebrite, the global leader in Digital Intelligence Solutions for public and private sectors, signed a $7.9 million deal with a national law enforcement agency in Asia. The three-year deal for Cellebrite's Premium services, training and certification, is designed to provide the agency with a fully integrated solution to access, manage and analyze actionable data throughout their investigative workflow. This includes training their force on the latest techniques and best practices for accessing and analyzing data from mobile and computer devices and cloud data sources.
"Cellebrite continues to grow with strong demand across all major geographies for digital intelligence solutions," said Alon Klomek, General Manager, International at Cellebrite. "This deal in Asia with a national law enforcement agency will make sure they hold the most sophisticated digital intelligence tools in the market to fight crime and make communities safer. Our agreement further solidifies Cellebrite as the leading partner for homeland security (HLS) and law enforcement stakeholders in the region – and in markets around the world".
As background, in January 2020 Cellebrite announced it had acquired BlackBag Technologies, an industry leader in computer forensic acquisition and analysis solutions. This expanded Cellebrite's portfolio of Digital Intelligence solutions to all aspects of a digital investigation, enabling investigators to generate a complete intelligence picture.
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Bring Me The Horizon have revealed that they are beginning the writing process for the follow-up to There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let's Keep It A Secret.
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The pride of the bird population? Not many birds can say they nest in a Stainless steel birdhouse. Who knows this might start a new trend in the housing industry. Thanks to our local bird friendly resident Jack Sichewski the polished sparkling structure will stand out for many years and require no maintenance.


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Ethics part of all courses in Catholic University's new business school
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Catholic University of America in Washington is spinning off its current economics and business curriculum from its School of Arts and Sciences and fashioning a new business school with the idea of infusing ethics into all course offerings.
In 2014, graduates will receive their degrees from the new School of Business and Economics, the university's 13th school. This year's business and economics graduates will still receive degrees from the School of Arts and Sciences.
The action to create a new school was taken in a December vote by the university's board of trustees, following three years of evaluating and planning. The new school's creation took effect Jan. 1, and it was announced Jan. 8.
Enrollment in business courses has jumped from 300 to 450 since 2008, according to Andrew V. Abela, an associate professor of marketing who is currently chair of the university's Department of Business and Economics and will slide over to the new business school.
"We have very small classes, and we want to keep it that way," Abela, a native of Malta, told Catholic News Service in a Jan. 8 interview at Catholic University.
"There's something about the program that the students find appealing," Abela said. He believes it is the correlation of societal institutions with the economy and the application of natural law within the curriculum.
Natural law and Catholicism are "right at the heart of what we're teaching," he said.
In Abela's view, if the society is not moral, the economy will not act morally either, and he sees the family unit as key, too.
"At the root of the failings of 2008 and the economic decline, at the root of all that is a moral decline. ... A society that isn't living morally is not likely to prosper for very long," he explained. "The single biggest example of this is the family. ... If you don't have a strong family, kids don't grow up to be disciplined and they're not productive contributors to the economy."
While he applies that principle to the U.S. economy, Abela said it fits the situation as well in Europe, which has seen a series of debt crises in European Union member nations.
"The decline of the family (in Europe) is so much greater" than in the United States, he added. "It's difficult to see how they can dig themselves out of the hole that they are in."
Since the U.S. economy took a tumble in 2008, business colleges have offered ethics courses because there has been "an increased concern with ethics" but most courses are an add-on to the curriculum, Abela said.
At Catholic University, ethics is a part of every course in the program, he added. For example in a marketing course, students learn how to be" a good marketer -- where 'good' is understood as both effective and ethical," he explained.
Abela had worked in advertising, marketing and consulting before joining the Catholic University faculty 10 years ago. "I found that whenever I was teaching, I was happiest," he said.
The new business school will carry over degree programs it offered as a department.
In addition to undergraduate degrees in accounting, economics, international business and business administration, the school offers graduate programs. One is in accounting. Another is an integral economic development management program, which focuses on management skills and the role of family, community and societal institutions in development.
"If you don't have strong families, then it's hard to have sustained economic development," Abela explained, adding that society also needs a strong "rule of law, clear property rights, strong local institutions," such as churches, clubs and citizens groups, for successful development.
A third graduate degree is a master of science in business analysis. Abela described it as a "crash course" in business for the history major or English major who needs a job but doesn't want to be, say, a historian.
The program uses CEOs as mentors; among them is Bill Pulte, the father of 14 who started Pulte Homes. A number of local Washington CEOs and senior executives also mentor students.
The program also brings business leaders to speak on campus, like John Abbate, who owns 25 McDonald's franchises in California. They illustrate for all Catholic University students that "one can be a successful person and a highly moral person," Abela said.
The new business school also offers an interdisciplinary graduate program in international political economics.
Photo: New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan acknowledges the applause as he gives the May 12 commencement address at The Catholic University of America in Washington. (CNS photo/Ed Pfueller, Catholic University of America) (May 14, 2012)


Here's the links to server files.
Server Phoenix Dynasty Online !
The client link is dead. If anyone can find it somewhere or have it please upload it up. I love to see this MMO get its section. Since that Serverfiles already had 90% translated.
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Re: Anyone up for setting up Phoenix Dynasty Online?
Yeah look like the English client didn't work, but there's an 90% translated patch for the client now. When I first setup PDO it was around 50% translated.
Hmm yeah I read your last post from another threads. You said about tuan VM files.
[VM] Phượng Vũ Thiên Kiêu - Phoenix Dynasty Online - Free servers and guide!!!!
Have you try to apply that 90% English translated patch to tuan's client? I think tuan mentioned about 8xxx version for his files. But im not sure about it. If you still had the VM and client from tuan can you do a quick apply patch to its client?
That's the English patch that had 90% translated.
I will wait for your results.
If you can't connect with tuan's client after you applied the english patch. Maybe you need not to apply FWClient.exe and play.exe just incase those two have different IPs from them. I haven't setup PDO for more than 10 years+ lol im not sure IPs need to change from them or not.
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Im launching the client ok with English patch on win 8.1 but my VMware couldn't setup that 192.168.1.201 do you know how? Im using VMware 12 pro but always getting ''The subnet IP and subnet mask are mismatched. When im trying to use 192.168.1.201 also I''m on NAT.
There's a configuration files which you can change the IP for the client to connect to esIP.configs is the ones.
Can you help me setup that 192.168.1.201 on my VMware? Without it, it seems like the client did not connect to the server.
Confirmed the English patch does worked for the client. After you patched it and start with FWClient and it will says English instead of Chinese.
But right now I just need to figure it out how to add this 192.168.1.201 IP to my VMware then I can connect to the server and enjoy this Phoenix dynasty online with 90% English Patched translation.
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Really? Cool man. We might get a section for this MMORPG. It seems this MMO has been lack of tools. Only a GM tool included with taun's VM but still in Chinese languages. So, source of files might bring more hopes.
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I see an older sourse files but better than nothing.
@woot, you have try all compatible mode? If so, then this MMO is too old for modern Windows. I have seen a YouTube video first time gameplay for this MMO and the game was glitches. Hmm since you have setup most of tuan's VM servers files successfully. Are you using VMware or virtualBox? I still can't see to costum assigned that 192.168.1.201 IP to my VMware, maybe I will try it on virtualBox later. If you know how can you take some VM pictures that you setup?
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Finally, I got it working but I can't see to make an account.
Haha I got how this funny Chinese launcher worked now. I've managed to make an account but the game just prompted me Your graphics card does not support 3D hardware acceleration, so the game will stop running. UPGRADE your graphics card drivers or contact the graphics card manufacturers haha. I think it won't launched on win 8.1 either. I will test it on Windows XP pro sp3 on one of my dual cores PC later.
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VIDEO: DePaul Student Robbed By Group Of Teens!
A DePaul University student was robbed at gunpoint Thursday night by a group of teenagers at the school's Lincoln Park campus, Chicago police said.
The robbery occurred in the 900-block of West Belden Avenue before midnight, police said.
The student told police he was walking near the school's Commons building when three male teenagers, who seemed to be in their late teens, stopped him and demanded money. One of them apparently flashed a gun at the victim, while the others grabbed the victim's cash,The teens then all ran off after the robbery. The student was not hurt but this incident did spark a community alert from the university.
According to DePaul's public safety report, earlier this month another student was robbed in the middle of the afternoon in the same spot. She was not hurt.Police said no one is in custody.


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SIMS Learning Gateway (SLG) Acceptable Usage Policy
This Policy applies wherever access to the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls SLG management system interface is provided.
This policy applies whenever information is accessed through the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls SLG, whether the computer equipment used is owned by King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls' or not. The policy applies to all those who make use of King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls SLG Service.
Objectives of King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls SLG Usage Policy
This Policy is intended to minimise security risks. These risks might affect the integrity of King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls' data, the authorised SLG User and the individuals to which the SLG data pertains. In particular these risks arise from:
the intentional or unintentional disclosure of login credentials to the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls SLG system by authorised users;
the wrongful disclosure of private, sensitive, and confidential information;
exposure of King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls to vicarious liability for information wrongfully disclosed by authorised users.
2. Data Access
This Policy aims to ensure all relevant aspects of the Data Protection Act (1998) and Fair Processing Policy are adhered to.
This Policy aims to promote best use of the SLG system to further the communication and freedom of information between King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls and Parents/Guardians.
SLG Usage Policy Rules
1. Authorised SLG Users
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls' SLG system is provided for use only by persons who are legally responsible for pupil(s) currently attending the school. Access is granted only on condition that the individual formally agrees to the terms of this Policy. Letters are sent to parents of girls on joining the school issuing a username, with clear instructions for requesting a password. Passwords are only sent to email addresses known to the school. Records are kept of the parents usernames and who has been issued with passwords.
2. Personal Use
Information made available through the SLG system is confidential and protected by law under the Data Protection Act 1998. To that aim:
users must not distribute or disclose any information obtained from the SLG system to any person(s) with the exception of the pupil to which the information relates or to other adults with parental responsibility;
users should not attempt to access the SLG system in any environment where the security of the information contained in the SLG system may be placed at risk e.g. a cybercafé.
You must assume personal responsibility for your username and password. Never use anyone else's username or password. You must always keep your individual username and password confidential. These usernames and passwords should never be disclosed to anyone. Passwords and usernames should never be shared.
The system requests that you change the password on first use to one that is only known by you. The SLG conditions must be followed when setting a password.
If a password is forgotten, please email data@kechg.org.uk from an email address known to the school, we will reset your password and email a new password out to you. Should both the username and password be forgotten, please email as above. The username will be sent out by post, and the password by email.
Questions, Complaints and Appeals
SLG users should address any complaints and enquiries about the SLG system to King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls by email: data@kechg.org.uk or telephone: 0121 444 2150.
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls reserves the right to revoke or deny access to the SLG system of any individual under the following circumstances:
The validity of parental responsibility is questioned
Court ruling preventing access to child or family members is issued
Users found to be in breach of the SLG usage policy
If any child protection concerns are raised or disputes occur the school will revoke access for all parties concerned pending investigation.
Please note: Where SLG access is not available, King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls School will still make information available according to Data Protection Act (1998) law.
Users are liable for any potential misuse of the system and/or breach of the Data Protection Act that may occur as a result of failing to adhere to any of the rules/guidelines listed in this document.


Blake Bortles' NFL career is at a crossroads. The former No. 3 overall pick needs to sign with the Rams if he wants a chance at redemption.
At this precise moment in time, Blake Bortles is closer to being a starting quarterback in the AAF than the NFL. The Jaguars decision to release him does give him an opportunity to find a fresh start somewhere else. The best way for Bortles to revive his failing career is to sign with the Rams and learn under Sean McVay.
The good news for Bortles is that the Rams are interested in his services. They like him enough to bring him out to the West Coast for a visit. The former UCF star will spend time with McVay and the Rams on Monday.
Clearly, the Rams aren't interested in signing Bortles to replace Jared Goff. Instead, they want him to be an upgrade over Brandon Allen as their backup quarterback. Earning a second-string job for a team with legitimate Super Bowl aspirations represents the best case for Bortles at this juncture of his career.
The opportunity with the Rams is much greater than getting the chance to hold a clip board while Goff leads the offense to Super Bowl glory. McVay is arguably the best offensive coach in the NFL. He's already proven he is capable of turning a quarterback's career around. It's easy to forget how awful Goff was in his rookie season before McVay arrived. The fact that McVay was able to coach Goff into becoming a Pro Bowl quarterback should give Bortles a lot of hope.
It's not as if Bortles is entirely devoid of talent. His film shows that he has more than enough arm strength to be a starter in the NFL. There are, however, legitimate questions about his accuracy and decision-making. McVay can help him with both things.
The first thing he can do for Bortles is to clean up his mechanics. In Jacksonville he really struggled with his footwork. Misplaced steps lead to errant throws. If Bortles can become more consistent with his sets, it's very likely his accuracy will improve significantly.
The decision-making may be more challenging to fix. Bortles has already started 73 games in the NFL. The chances that he's going to suddenly become an excellent reader of opposing defenses at this point in his career are pretty low.
McVay's scheme can help in this regard though. The Rams feature a passing game that relies heavily on play action. Typically, those reads are much easier for quarterbacks to execute at a high level. That's one reason why Goff's statistics have taken such a giant leap forward. McVay and his coaching staff don't ask him to make a ton of complicated reads against defenses that are fully set up to defend the pass.
The team that Bortles signs with this offseason will have a great influence over whether or not he ever gets the chance to become an NFL starter again. Signing with the Rams won't assure him of that opportunity, but they'll give him the best odds to get his career back on track.


About this journey The average travel time between Toulouse and Bayonne is 5h04 minutes. The quickest route is 4h15 minutes. The first train leaving Toulouse is at 05:59, the last at 20:16. There is an average of 10 trains a day between Toulouse and Bayonne, leaving approximately every 1h15 minutes.


Event Management and Caterer Fizz is celebrating its place on the highly select accredited list for Royal Museums Greenwich, and is now booking events for RMG's five outstanding historic venues.
Fizz will present its 2018 Christmas packages for the Queens House, National Maritime Museum, Old Royal Observatory and The Planetarium at this week's Christmas show.
Steeped in history, these venues have been the scene of spectacular winter parties through the centuries: the Queens House offers stunning Palladian architecture commissioned by a King who knew how to party; the National Maritime Museum delivers drama and capacity for up to 1000 guests; and at London's only Planetarium all events include a fascinating 'journey to the stars'.
Clients hosting their events with Fizz at Royal Museums Greenwich are guaranteed an event to remember in a spectacular and unique setting all easily accessible from central London that can begin with a Thames Riverboat reception.
Enjoy these images from Fizz events which showcase these remarkable locations to see how Fizz meld history with a unique setting for the ultimate party. Fizz is well known for its flair and creativity; so for Fizz clients, the sky is truly the limit!


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Under is 7-3 in Wildcats last 10 games as a favorite of 13.0 or greater.
Under is 12-5-1 in Wildcats last 18 games as a home favorite.
Under is 8-1-1 in Wildcats last 10 games as a home underdog of 0.5-6.5.
Over is 4-1-1 in Wildcats last 6 games as a favorite of 7.0-12.5.
Under is 5-1 in Ducks last 6 games as a road favorite of 0.5-6.5.
Over is 5-2 in Ducks last 7 games as an underdog of 13.0 or greater.
Under is 20-8 in Ducks last 28 games as a favorite of 7.0-12.5.
Under is 5-2 in Ducks last 7 games as a road favorite.


Reader HD is just another Googe Reader client optimized for Honeycomb/ICS tablets. The user interface is inspired by Gmail for Honeycomb/ICS and Google Reader web version. It is simple, clean, and clear but full featured.
If you need more information please contact the developers of Reader HD (Age of Mobile), or check out their product website.


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Ionic & Vue - Full Tutorial + App
Ionic and Vue can be used together to build real native mobile apps with Vue.js code. In this tutorial, we'll build a complete Ionic + Vue app from scratch.
Ionic allows you to build beautiful native mobile apps for iOS and Android with web technologies. To be precise: Ionic is a suite of good-looking web components and another tool, called "Capacitor" (also by the Ionic team) turns your web app into a native mobile app.
That means, that you now only need a web app - and what better way of building a highly reactive web application than with Vue.js?
That's exactly what's happening in this tutorial (see video at the top).
This video tutorial shows you how to build an Ionic + Vue app from the ground up.
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Aussie freestyle skiers excel to new heights at PyeongChang
FREESTYLE SKI: Milestones and more were par for the course for Australia's freestyle skiing athletes at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
Sixteen Australians were in action across aerials, moguls, ski cross and ski slopestyle, and the Aussies were setting records before stepping on the snow.
Aerials Olympic gold medallist Lydia Lassila became the first woman to compete at five Winter Olympic Games, the achievement followed two Winter Olympic Games where she claimed medals, becoming Olympic Champion in 2010 before she won bronze at Sochi 2014.
In Moguls, the 2018 Games marked the first time Australia had four men and four women at an Olympics. In doing so, Australia and Canada were the only nations to have full representation at the Moguls competition.
Moguls athletes got Australia's 2018 Olympic Winter Games campaign underway and the women were up first. On Olympic debut, 19-year-old Jakara Anthony was exceptional as she claimed fourth in the super final. Three-time Olympian Britt Cox was fifth.
"The whole thing's been a massive learning experience for me and I'll definitely be taking all the experience that I had here going into Beijing 2022," Anthony said.
Madii Himbury progressed from the second qualification round and finished 20th, while fellow debutant Claudia Gueli finished 23rd.
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A day later and in the men's moguls, Matt Graham put Australia on the medal tally with a stunning silver medal winning performance. Graham was consistently consistent through qualifying and finals, and put down one of the best runs of his life to finish second behind Canada's Mikael Kingsbury.
"It was amazing putting down that final run which was my best run of the night. I knew when I saw the score I was going to be on the podium," Graham said.
Olympic rookie James Matheson finished 14th while teammate Rohan Chapman-Davies finished 22nd. Having flared up his ACL injury during training, Summers chose not to risk further injury and did not line up for the event.
"Wasn't an easy decision that's for sure," Summers said.
"Definitely emotional. As soon as I made the call everybody in my team told me 'you've made a smart decision and you've reduced your risk for getting yourself right for world championships next year.'"
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At the Aerials, all eyes were on five-time Olympian Lydia Lassila and her final Olympics performance.
The 36-year-old narrowly missed the final and finished 14th.
"This is an outside sport and you can't control a lot of things and tonight I just couldn't control the speed," Lassila said.
With an Olympic career spanning nearly two decades, Lassila said she was disappointed with her final Winter Games performance.
"It's a feeling of loss in a way ... you've lost an opportunity but that's sport and you've got to reflect on the good and happy moments that I've had with my kids, my family, my friends -- life is good," she said.
Results were mixed in the women's event, with Laura Peel and Danielle Scott advancing to the finals and Samantha Wells exiting at the qualifying round, finishing in 17th place.
In the Super Final, Peel attempted a Back Double Full-Full where she over-rotated and then back-slapped on her landing. She finished fifth.
"My goal was to make the top six, the Super Final, and I did that," Peel said.
"We did our best out there. I had a huge group of supporters in the crowd so I was definitely feeling the love."
Needing to be in the top nine to progress from Final 1 to Final 2, Scott backslapped while attempting a Back Full-Full to finish the competition in 12th.
In the men's event, David Morris secured a start in the final after finishing the second qualification round in second place.
He performed a Back Full – Double Full – Full, to claim 10th overall.
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Morris was pleased with the jump he put down but the field produced high scoring jumps. The leader, Guangpu Qi of China was awarded 127.44 for his execution of the same trick.
"We tried our best, it is what it is. Tenth is a pretty sweet result and I'm happy with that," Morris said.
"We're in an Olympic final so that's awesome and this competition is top class so even to be here is quite the privilege."
In the days leading into the men's ski slopestyle, dual Olympian Russ Henshaw struggled to walk up stairs, but that didn't stop the 27-year old from putting down two solid runs.
Having injured his knee less than a month ago, Henshaw said he was happy just to make it to the start gate.
He finished 19th in qualifying, putting him out of contention for a place in the final.
"Just being in that start gate about to drop, to get there after all I've been through over the last two weeks was a surreal feeling in itself," Henshaw said.
There were mixed results at the Ski Cross after Anton Grimus fractured his collarbone and Sami Kennedy-Sim advanced to the small final and finished eighth overall.
27-year-old Grimus suffered a crash during his seeding run and went into the finals with a sore shoulder. He went on to finish fourth in his round of eight heat.
Dual Olympian Sami Kennedy-Sim recorded her best result of the 2017/18 season.
"That was a solid battle and it's a step up for me and the best result that I've had all season," Kennedy-Sim said.
"To be one of the top girls in the world, that's sick and I hope that I can get other kids to come and have a crack, it's super fun!"
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Australia's oldest Olympian Frank Prihoda celebrates his 98th birthday
AOC: Celebrating his 98th birthday today is Australia's oldest Olympian, Frank Prihoda. Born in the Czech Republic, the 1956 Winter Olympian, fled his native country to live in Australia where he proudly wore the green and gold of his adopted country...
AOC Welcomes Olympic Games Hosting Changes
The AOC has welcomed key changes approved by the IOC at its Session in Lausanne today, that increases the flexibility for electing future Olympic and Paralympic Games hosts.
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Q: DirectX 11: Draw calls amount Is there a way to see the amount of draw calls in runtime?
Maybe there is a simple directX method for that?
I've thought about making a variable that just hold the amount of times I call Draw() or DrawIndexed() but that seems a little "stupid".
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

A: This is not stupid to keep a counter to track your call counts. And no, there is nothing simpler than that.
You have D3D11_QUERY_PIPELINE_STATISTICS for queries, but it is not exactly the same, it is lower level, for the draw call count, the code side user counter is what you are looking for.


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Unbound,Library of lost books by Anupama Kundoo: LIberty and the idea of Limitlessness
Anupama Kundoo is unanimously recognized for her low environment impact architecture and the socio-economic context of the projects. Her projects intensively exude experimentation in architecture and use and research of varying materials.
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Unbound: Library of lost books is a bookless library, in the form of a pavilion with an animated program of reading.
Project – Unbound: The Library of lost books
Location Plaça de Salvador Seguí
Architect Anupama Kundoo
To mark the 300th anniversary of Barcelona, Spain, International architects in collaboration with local schools were invited to explore various concepts of Identity, Freedom, Diversity, Democracy, Memory, and Europe. Seven interventions designed by various architects were proposed in open, public spaces in the city exploring the above-mentioned concepts which could be subsequently recycled and relocated to other locations.
The term 'unbound' represents the idea of liberty and limitlessness. Books within the same theme are distributors and generators of knowledge. They traverse distances being passed down from libraries to different users to writers and publishers. They carry within stories that are not limited to a certain context or culture but are synonymous to all. Today, books are becoming more obsolete with upcoming virtual publications and stories.
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Thus the concept of liberty was explored in the form of three umbrella-like structures with vacuum bound books creating canopies in the form of tree shades. The structure caters to the ephemeral nature of public spaces and provides an oasis to read, listen to stories, and for a free exchange of books. It uses the physicality of the books to convey the message 'Liberation is lightness' and encourages the people to read.
"The concept of liberty has been explored in this project by creating a space that celebrates the act of 'reading' an abode that symbolizes the expression of freedom and space where knowledge is free."
– Anupama Kundoo
Books made of paper are at the environmental cost of reduced trees. Books today are facing extinction with its growing transition in its physicality and materiality towards a more virtual outlet even though the act of reading continues. The pavilion makes use of obsolete books that are stored away in warehouses and eventually pulped as a building material. Once the pavilion is dismantled and declared redundant, the books used to build it can be distributed or be made available to the public, free of cost to commemorate the event. The project essentially aims to bring back obsolete books facing their end in
Circulation through using it as a building material
Liberation through preserving it at the time of the dismantling of the structure and making it available for free exchange in the public realm.
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The structure itself creates a juxtaposition within between 'lightness' and 'liberation' creating a sense of enigma. The structure is a 'lightweight pavilion' that uses 'heavyweight books'. Thus the open-air pavilion transcends the physical attributes of books liberating it of its form to bring the focus on the stories and content of the book. This further acts as a generator of awareness about the importance of reading and books; and the knowledge which empowers one towards progress as a society.
The pavilion is envisaged in the shape of a tree with three canopy structures with differing heights which are supported by a trunk or central member. The structure carries forwards the concept of the design by making use of steel tubular sections of various diameters by the load they carry which flank the central member on all sides just like the branches of a tree. The structural arrangement is achieved in the form of interlocking tubes which further helps in supporting the cantilever with minimum use of materials.
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Tubes of a smaller diameter are fitted into the larger diameter which creates a large overhang or cantilever.
'The penetration of tubes is enabled through precise laser cut apertures in the larger diameter tubes. The subsequently smaller diameter tube penetrates the larger tubes twice to establish a triangulated geometry in the joints and strengthen them.'
The three trees around which the pavilion is built have different diameters and spans i.e. 8m, 9m, and 10m respectively but to achieve ease in fabrication, the same radial assembly of the tubular steel was employed, that was meeting at the same distances and angles.
'While keeping the same profile of the structural component, the proportionate distribution of load is adjusted by reducing the number of radial support assemblies. The largest tree has 7 radials, the medium tree has 6 radials and the small tree has 5 radials. The span of the canopy above remains thus similar and the identical profile assemblies for different tree spans are thus justified.'
The trunk of the trees is supported by concrete bases which are supported by 5, 6, and 7 poles by the varying tree spans. These bases are also used as sitting spaces by the public. These bases are pentagonal, hexagonal, and heptagonal in shape resulting out of the different repetitions of assembly.
'These varying pentagons symbolize the diversity of expressions of an idea resulting from similar units and scales'.
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These radially placed assemblies are further connected through a web of cables that balance the opposing thrusts on either side. The canopy of the structure consists of vacuum packaged books which are assembled as modules and attached to the canopy using cable wires.
By taking forth the idea of liberty and freedom in not only the design of the pavilion but the structural nuances as well, the pavilion fulfills the social, cultural, and contextual intentions at Plaça de Salvador Seguí whilst being flexible and versatile enough to be installed in any other public space. The project has been thought of right from its inception i.e bookless library and questioning the standard notions of a 'reading space' right to its dismantling i.e. distribution of the books that are used as building materials.
The project comes around in a full circle making efficient use of the existing resources and materials as well as recycling them with minimal waste generation.
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Author Rajshri Jain
Rajshri Jain is a final year architecture student and you will usually find her devouring books and poetry in cafes over warm cups of coffees and conversations. She is always wondering and wandering about spaces, places and cities and its relation with memories, cultures, history and people.
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MiLB es Divertido, 33 Clubs Unveil Spanish Rebrands for 2018
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 Wednesday, March 21, 2018 5 min read Chris Creamer
As part of "Copa de la Diversión" ("Fun Cup"), Minor League Baseball has spent today rolling out all-new name, logo, and uniform packages for 33(!) teams; presumably as a way to drive me mad a mere 24 hours after Major League Baseball unveiled 120 new caps.
In case you were wondering what this is all about… from MiLB.com, "Copa de la Diversión" is a season-long event series specifically designed to embrace the culture and values that resonate most with participating teams' local U.S. Hispanic/Latino communities."
The program will encompass 160 games over the entire season, with an actual three-foot-tall "Fun Cup" traveling to each of the 33 cities.
In announcing the program, MiLB said, "To distinctively launch this new initiative, and visually celebrate the diversity that defines MiLB communities nationwide, MiLB and each participating team will create culturally relevant on-field personas that honor the local U.S. Hispanic/Latino communities."
The 33 team names:
Las Vegas Reyes De Plata (Las Vegas 51s): Silver Kings, a reference to mining in the area
Los Cucuys De San Bernardino (Inland Empire 66ers): El Cucuy is the Spanish equivalent of The Boogieman
Stockton Caballos (Stockton Ports): Caballos translates to "Horses," a reference to ranching in the area
Lake Elsinore Storm: The team will wear "Hispanic heritage-inspired" hats
Rancho Cucamonga Temblores (Rancho Cucamonga Temblores): Earthquakes
Omaha Cazadores de Tormentas (Omaha Storm Chasers): Another literal translation, and a really awesome-sounding one at that
El Paso Chihuahuas: Same name, different hats
Kane County "Los Cougars" (Kane County Cougars): Not much need to explain, though the team does: "The Cougars' moniker remains as it already represents the entire Kane County region: a fierce North, Central and South American wild cat found everywhere from Canada to Argentina."
Abejas de Salt Lake (Salt Lake Bees): A direct translation
Mariachis de Nuevo México (Albuquerque Isotopes): A completely new identity, and a great one: the name celebrates a traditional Mexican musical style and the logo features Catrin, the male version of Catrina, who was born as a protest symbol of social inequality in Mexico and who has come to represent the Day of the Dead
Memphis Música (Memphis Redbirds): The Spanish name highlights the musical note featured in the Redbirds' Creamer-award winning identity
Petroleros de Tulsa (Tulsa Drillers): A rough translation—the name in Spanish and English both reference people who drill for oil
Round Rock Chupacabras (Round Rock Express): A reference to the dreaded, legendary creature of Latin American origin who drinks the blood of goats (keep him away from Hartford)
San Antonio Flying Chanclas (San Antonio Missions): From the team's website: "The club honors the matriarch of the Latino family, the Abuelita, and her symbol of strength, discipline and love with its on-field persona for this special series of events. The chancla has long been symbolic of the Abuelita as she maintains the structure and order of la familia."
Corpus Christi Raspas (Corpus Christi Hooks): Named for a delicious frozen treat favored in Texas
Charlotte Caballeros (Charlotte Knights): A direct translation
Greenville Energía (Greenville Drive): You need "Energy" to have "Drive"
Rápidos de Kannapolis (Kannapolis Intimidators): Rápidos translates to "fast ones," a reference to Dale Earnhardt Senior, the inspiration for the original team name
Tortugas de Daytona (Daytona Tortugas): Since the name is already in Spanish, the reordering of the words in the team name is more a celebration of Spanish grammar
Winston-Salem Rayados (Winston-Salem Dash): Per the team, "The name recalls the pinstripes worn from previous Winston-Salem teams, and the term 'Rayo' also loosely translates to 'Bolt,' the Dash's mascot."
Cangrejos Fantasmas de Chesapeake (Bowie Baysox): Ghost Crabs. (This is amazing.)
Brooklyn Jefes (Brooklyn Cyclones): The team says it best: "The name Jefes, or bosses, was chosen as a nod to the air of confidence that is synonymous with the people of Brooklyn."
Pawtucket Osos Polares (Pawtucket Red Sox): The name means polar bears, a reference to the team's logo
Toros de Durham (Durham Bulls): A direct translation
Lehigh Valley Tocino (Lehigh Valley IronPigs): The team that built an identity on bacon (or tocino, in Spanish) goes back to its roots
Cielo Azul de Oklahoma City (Oklahoma City Dodgers): The name "Blue Sky" incorporates Dodger blue and the blue skies of OKC, and is a reference to Fernando Valenzuela, who looked to the sky while pitching.
Hillsboro Lúpulos (Hillsboro Hops): A direct translation
Monarcas de Eugene (Eugene Emeralds): Monarchs, like the butterfly. Per the team, "The focus of the new brand revolves around the multi-national ethnicities that make up our Latino community. The Monarch butterfly performs one of the most spectacular journeys and has become a subtle and beautiful symbol for the migrant community."
Visalia Toros (Visalia Rawhide): Bulls, which relates to rawhide
Everett Conquistadores (Everett Aquasox): A reference to the exploration of the Pacific northwest
Sacramento Dorados (Sacramento River Cats): California is the Golden State, and dorado means gold. A luchador mask in the logo represents a team ready for battle
San Jose Gigantes (San Jose Giants): A direct translation
And… a CAP GIVEAWAY! Thanks to the Inland Empire 66ers we're giving away one brand new Los Cucuys de San Bernardino cap! (see above) Simply follow us on Twitter (or Facebook/Instagram) and RT/Share the contest post to be entered, we'll draw a winner Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT.
Here's all the images I had assembled for the post, presented here without commentary! Click any to zoom in and get a closer look.
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J. Corliss
L. Margulis
R. P. Hall
D. L. Nanney
T. Fenchel
The Trypanosomes of Mammals
J. Corliss, C. Hoare
Malaria Parasites and Other Haemosporidia
J. Corliss, P. Garnham
A newly revised classification of the protozoa.
N. D. Levine, J. Corliss, +13 authors F. G. Wallace
The Journal of protozoology
The present scheme is a considerable revision of the Society's 1964 classification, and it is hoped that the present classification incorporates most of the major changes that will be made for some time, and that it will be used for many years by both protozoologist and non-protozoologists.
Aquatic Oligochaeta of the World
J. Corliss, R. Brinkhurst, B. Jamieson
Reduced Status. (Book Reviews: The Ciliated Protozoa. Characterization, classification, and guide to the literature)
The Freshwater Snails of Taiwan (Formosa)
J. Corliss, Gary L Pace
Practical methods in electron microscopy
J. Corliss, A. Glauert
Methods in Cell Biology, Vol. 6
J. Corliss, D. Prescott
The Problem of Homonyms among Generic Names of Ciliated Protozoa, with Proposal of Several New Names*
Thirty-five genera of ciliated protozoa have been given names preoccupied by the generic names of other animal organisms, and replacement names are proposed in accordance with provisions of the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature.
Biodiversity and Biocomplexity of the Protists and an Overview of Their Significant Roles in Maintenance of Our Biosphere
The present review article reminds readers that far from complete knowledge of protistan taxonomic and phylogenetic interrelationships, as well as of their ecology, physiology, biochemistry, and molecular and evolutionary biology, hinders rapid progress in better understanding of their multiple roles in sustaining today's biosphere.


« So Excited! I'm Howelling!
Earlier in the day, Kara and I watched the 49ers dominate the Falcons… But you already knew that.
After the game, we decided to drive on down to Monterey for dinner.
This Krupp Brothers Syrah holds a special place for us. It was part of a wedding gift to Kara and me from Jan and Dr. Jan Krupp of Stagecoach Vineyard. We have been sitting on this wine since the Summer of 2010… Waiting for the perfect occasion… With the 49ers headed to the Super Bowl, we figured that this was as good a time as any.
Nose: Tasty blackberry on the nose, with tons of black pepper.
Taste: Wow! What a fun play between the savory notes of leather, tobacco, forest floor, and clove as well as the big fruit of cranberry, orange, and fig. This wine is super silky and refined, but has the structure to go another 10+ years.
Score: This wine was fantastic! The only problem was that the bottle ran out of wine too quickly. 93+ amazing points from the Krupps and their Stagecoach Vineyard.
Kara and I split a Caesar Salad.
This Sausage and Peppers Pizza was all mine!
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I've loved every wine I've had made with Stagecoach fruit!. Special vineyard!
Is that a Cesar salad or a lettuce leaf?
I did not know that about Viognier and Syrah. Thanks for the info, Jeff.
One man's lettuce leaf is another man's salad.


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Bob Steele's 45-year professional career spans professional journalism and ethics, academia and the military. He spent nearly 20 years guiding the journalism ethics program at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, FL, working with journalists across the country and around the world. He consulted for dozens of news organizations and he helped guide the process of evaluating and rewriting the NPR News Code of Ethics. He has been frequently interviewed by news organizations including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News, and CNN. From 2008-2014 Bob was a distinguished professor in journalism ethics at his undergraduate alma mater, DePauw University, teaching first-year seminars on values and storytelling, as well as journalism ethics classes and leadership ethics seminars. He also served as director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics.
Bob graduated from DePauw in 1969 with a degree in economics. Right out of college he enlisted in the Army and served as a Signal Corps Officer in Vietnam in 1971-72. He then received his M.S. degree in television-radio from Syracuse University and spent nearly a decade as a television reporter and newsroom manager in Maine and Iowa. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa writing his dissertation on journalism ethics.
In 2010, the Society of Professional Journalists honored him as a Fellow of the Society, the highest honor SPJ bestows upon a journalist for extraordinary contributions to the profession He also was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Journalism from DePauw in 2007 and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Emerson College in 2006. In 1972, he received a Bronze Star for Meritorious Achievement while serving in Vietnam.
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I'm on the bus. Where else would I be as I usually blog on my bus ride.
It's chilly. Probably only for half an hour. I live in hope of cooler weather these days.
Seriously why do we women have to go through this menopause thing?
I'm grumpy anyhow, I don't need menopause ha ha.
Let me recreate the world. I'd get rid of menopause and periods!!!


When I first decided to write the Chaysing Trilogy, it was in the summer of 2012. It was more of a challenge to myself—to see if I can even write a novel. Slowly, the story for Chaysing Dreams started to develop in my mind, and I began to take notes. To be honest, I had no idea what I was doing.
Finally, when I finished the rough draft of the manuscript, I sent it to couple of my good friends and my sister. I wanted to see if they even liked the story. After reading it, they encouraged me to pursue this further. They felt that I had something really, really good, and I need to look at my options for publishing it.
Again, I had no idea what I was doing. So, I went through the manuscript some more (probably a hundred more times), and hired an editor. After this process was done, I decided to self-publish since I had no patience to wait around for the traditional publishing. I heard sometimes trying to publish traditionally may take years. Nope, I didn't have time for that. I was just trying to get the story out to see what people thought about it.
Chaysing Dreams was published in August of 2013 and the sequel, Chaysing Memories, was posted in April of 2014. Still naïve about the literary world, I forced myself to find out about reviews and different ways to market.
You can imagine my shock when the reviews started coming back for my books and majority were five star ratings! Then, I was further surprised when both books became Amazon best sellers. Literally, I remember staring at my computer screen in awe, completely stunned.
Last week, I received an email from Readers' Favorite for the International Book Award Contest. On a whim, I had submitted both books, never expecting anything out of it. From what I understand, they get submissions from all over the world. Honestly, I wasn't even going to click on the link on my email to see who made the finalist list. Why would a small time author like me get noticed?
Curiosity got the best of me. I think I was more interested to see if I recognized any authors or books on that list. When I saw my name "Jalpa Williby" listed five times, I sat there for few moments, wondering if I was reading it right. Finally, when my brain registered that Chaysing Dreams was a finalist in three categories and Chaysing Memories in two categories, I began screaming. My poor husband ran up, thinking something was wrong. Even my dog started barking, wondering what the hell was going on.
Sure enough, Chaysing Dreams is a finalist for Romance Suspense, Romance General, and General Chick Lit. And Chaysing Memories is a finalist for Romance Suspense and General Military. Apparently, they only pick an average of six books per category. On September 1st, the list of winners will be released. But in the meantime, I'm just ecstatic to say that both of my books are finalists for the prestigious award.
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Audio: Bupa's Simon Davis talks to 3AW's Ross & John about people's favourite sounds
Do you have a favourite sound? Bupa Hearing audiologist Simon Davis spoke to 3AW's Ross and John about what we like hearing.
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As Bupa expands its hearing operations in to Queensland and South Australia following a successful two-year trial at six clinics in Victoria, Bupa Hearing audiologist Simon Davis spoke to 3AW's Ross and John about people's favourite sounds
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Q: What do you use for search form? get queries or route params? I'm building up a search form, but i don't know if it's better to use the classical get queries or to create a custom url that can match with my router.
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*Url: http://mysite.com/search/?q=query+param&p=2

*Advantage: No js required, analytics search tool friendly

*Disadvantage: Not seo friendly

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*Url: http://mysite.com/search/query+param/2

*Advantage: Seo friendly

*Disadvantage: js required, need to urlencode, must implement extra analytics code

A: I don't know if there is a definitive answer yet on which is best, but most people have been using /term/definition/term/definition in the URLs for a while because that USED to be the best for SEO.  However, Google (and the other guys) have made some progress.  Check out this  Google Webmaster Blog entry - it seems that they have a bit more intelligence when doing search items.
My general rule is I use get parameters for actual searching, and URLs for categories (or browsing) - I believe this is the most intuitive.  And, like it looks now... the search engines are being better equiped to index and search URL parameters anyway.

A: You can use a custom route definition in your module config:
'search' => array(
  'type' => 'Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\Segment',
  'options' => array(
    'route' => 'search[/:query][/:page]'

You can then parse the query parameters using the params() action helper in your controller:
$query = $this->params()->fromRoute('query');
$page = $this->params()->fromRoute('page');

In your views you can use the url() view helper to build urls with the same route definition:
$this->url('search', array('query' => 'test', 'page' => '1'));

Just use a GET request. There is no need for a POST request here.
Hope that helps!
Best regards,
Jurgen