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Layla Stone
Unexpected Series
Lotus Adaamas Series
Marnak Series
Unexpected Enemy: Ch 1
Posted on November 29, 2019 by laylathewriter1
Chapter One – Unnatural Gifts
"Damn it. I'm going to need another project."
Lita stood over her nearly complete all-terrain hopper. In two hours, it would purr to life, perfectly polished without anywhere to go. In total, it had taken six months working after hours to build the flying race vehicle from scratch. Hoppers were like motorcycles without the wheels. They could move over the ground at high speeds, but hers was designed to fly anywhere from eight inches off the ground to the far reaches of space.
It should have taken a year to finish…
She was going to need another project.
Being nearly finished didn't make her blood gush with accomplishment, however. Instead, it felt as if she had eaten the last piece of a secret stash of candy.
Living on a giant Federation spaceship, there wasn't any entertainment to keep her occupied. Hence the after-hours project. Now that it was done, she had nothing. Worse, it wasn't like she could go to a local junkyard and cherry-pick an engine to bring back to life.
Being a female born and raised on Earth, she was used to more options.
Lita dropped her tan leather tool bag with a plop. The dark patch that was precariously dangling with one last yellow thread broke and slipped onto the metal floor. Lita bent down and picked up the patch and rubbed a thumb over her father's name.
Moving, she tucked the patch into a side pocket. The bag was soft and worn with black smudges on the bottom. The strong leather scent was gone, but the comfort it gave lingered.
She plucked out a Nebula green and a wrench. Adjusting her sitting position, she settled next to the back of the hopper's engine. She remembered the first time she had taken a wrench to a rusted first-series hopper that her father bought at an estate sale. She had been ten, and her father, knowing nothing about raising a child on his own, had brought her into his shop and taught her everything about rebuilding engines, power and torque, boosting performance, body paint, and fabrication.
Lita had brought the frame and parts for the hopper when she moved from Earth to the Garna star carrier, knowing she would need something to occupy her time. Garna was a massive spaceship, miles wide and long. Built to take on a rogue planet or stop a planet-sized war. It was by far the most dangerous ship in the Federation. Which was why Lita had joined the Federation. The best ship had to have the best mechanics, right? Well, she was it. The best.
In the months of living on the ship, she had found a perfect routine. After a fourteen-hour shift, she grabbed a few packets of food, a Nebula green, and moseyed back down to Level 4—the docking bay—to work on her hopper.
Lita reached back into her bag again and scooped up a handful of bolts, stuffing them into her pocket for easy access. Gripping her wrench, she felt the tip of her spine tingle expectantly. Turning, she saw Katie, a fellow mechanic, walking up between two small ships.
Katie had survived a massive, ship-wide disease. She was a little odd and seemed to get lost in her head more often than not, but Lita assumed that was not by choice. It was likely a mental scar of living through the death of her entire crew. Out of six thousand and change, only thirty-six survived. Katie, being one of them.
"Hey." Katie smiled. "I brought you a Nebula green, but it looks like you already have one."
Lita took the offered can with a grin. "I don't turn down Nebulas."
Katie raked a cursory look over the hopper. "Your hopper's coming along fast."
Lita nodded. "I should have paced myself better. In two hours, I'll be done, and looking for something to do."
"There's always work to be done on the ship."
"Eh, but that stuff's easy." And boring.
Katie rubbed the side of her thigh and shifted from foot to foot. "Well, if you get bored…Sands tasked me with fixing 533. He said it has a leak."
Lita nodded, remembering the spot, a dark blue liquid under 533's tail-end.
"It will probably take me a month to find the leak…unless you already know where it is?"
Lita grinned. "You're askin' for my help, and all you brought was a Nebula? I thought we were better friends than that."
"You said you were going to be bored. I was just saying, you could help if you wanted."
With a sheepish smile, Katie pulled a small box out of her pocket and opened the top, holding it far enough away that Lita couldn't touch it without reaching. "How about a trade? Tell me where the leak is, and I'll give you this."
The box was blue velvet, and Lita assumed the trinket inside was a ring or a necklace charm. "I'm not into trinkets."
Katie held the box closer. "It's a micro EMP with the electrical power punch of a nuclear bomb but cuts out at three feet. Super condensed."
Holy crap. What was sweet Katie doing with an EMP like that? If anyone knew she had one, her butt would be in front of the captain in a hot minute.
At the same time, Lita shivered from the rush of tingles that tickled under her skin. Even though she didn't know what she would use it for, her fingers itched to press the button.
"You sure it's condensed to three feet? If I take out a ship by accident, I'm going to be pissed." And sent to Debsa, the prison planet.
"Trust me, I got it a while back when I had a bad breakup with a cyborg. My sister, Adya, is close with our family doctor. She asked him to make something that I could use as protection." Katie handed over the box.
Lita took the deadly treasure with both hands. Hello, beautiful. Tucking the EMP into her pocket, she told Katie, "533 has a hyper fluid leak. It's not a seal, it's a bolt that got loose and savaged the insides."
Katie made a disbelieving face but didn't contradict her. Lita explained in detail where the leak was and how to get to it. "That's going to be a bigger job than a leak."
"What else do you have to do?"
"True," Katie said thoughtfully. "I don't know how you do it. It's like you have a telepathic link with the ships."
"I wish," Lita said with a sly grin. Although she was damn near omniscient when it came to anything with moving parts.
Getting back to her hopper, Lita leaned back until her spine almost touched the floor, then reached her fingertips out to catch the metal piece to be installed. Gripping the edges, she craned her neck to get a better view of a dark figure walking directly towards her.
"Sands," Lita whispered as she used her stomach muscles to pull herself back up.
Sands didn't interact with the crew. He usually sent their job assignments via their Minky pads and left it at that. A few times, she'd caught him working on another ship, but even then, he didn't make a habit of talking to anyone. Not that he needed to. He did an excellent job of communicating electronically. Still, Lita couldn't deny that every time she saw him—and his cybernetic arm—she gushed.
His arm was one-of-a-kind, and her fingertips itched to touch the rough and smooth cables. Whoever had done his work was an artful master because she had never seen anything sexier.
Katie sucked in a breath through her teeth. "He's not happy." The words were not an assumption, they were fact. Katie was a Hetten, a race that could read emotions.
"Bye. Thank you," Katie said as she turned on her heel and left like a terrified pet.
Lita debated if she should stand up or stay on the floor. Deciding to stay down, she took a few breaths to remind herself that she had done nothing wrong. Yet. The EMP would go off one day. She didn't have enough self-control not to push the button. But Sands didn't know that.
Sands stopped at the front of the hopper, giving it a long glance. Lita's nose caught a hint of something uniquely Sands. Warm beach, salty air, and sexy surf wax.
Restless from her physical reaction and the seconds of silence, she greeted him. "Hey, everything okay?"
His dark eyes moved from the vehicle to her. There was no expression on his face, just shrewd observance. "This hopper's all-terrain, right? Does that include high altitudes?"
"Yes," she answered slowly, wondering why he was asking.
"Space, too? You installed a teardrop canopy, right?"
"Yeah." Lita did not like where this was going.
"Good. I need to borrow it."
"It's not done," she said reflexively.
"You have a few body parts to put on, and it's done. I estimate it will take you two hours."
Lita didn't give him the confirmation, but he was right. Two hours, and she would have finished.
"Does your silence mean yes?"
Not even close. "I don't mean to question you, but what do you need it for?"
"A mission."
She waited for him to elaborate. He didn't, so she asked, "You need my hopper for a mission? A hopper that goes into space? Won't any of our other ships work?"
His face tilted. "If anything happens to it, I'll pay you for it. Plus interest."
"It's one-of-a-kind." He couldn't just pay her a few thousand keleps and say, "sorry," if he broke it.
A hiss followed by a loud snap echoed in the docking bay. Sands turned around for a second, and Lita followed his gaze. Like any mechanic worth their salt, she knew the sound of an engine starting. The guttural hum told her that it was a galleon ship, not one of the smaller ones like a transporter or sloop.
"Looks like they're loading up. I need you and your hopper to come with me. You can finish this on the 817 galleon." He reached down and gathered the remaining hopper parts.
He was taking her on an official mission? "Where are we going?"
He picked up a piece of the hopper and said, "You won't have time to pack, but you have time to clean out the break room's supply of Nebula green energy drinks. As far as I know, there isn't any stocked on the ship."
Lita's mouth dropped. He knew her favorite drink?
"Close your mouth and get moving. I'll come back for the hopper after I drop this off."
This was really happening? She was going on a mission? Feelings bubbled, and she wasn't sure if it was excited squiggles or nervous needles in her stomach.
"Lita. The break room. Now."
Right. The Nebula greens. Half-turned, she paused and asked, "Where are we going? Just wondering if I need to grab anything else from the break room like…a handful of knives."
Sands grabbed another part from the floor. "Your bolt gun and welding knife will do more damage than a disposable utensil. We're going to the Outworlds."
The Outworlds…where nightmares lived and thrived. It was forbidden.
A smile tickled her lips. If they were crossing the lines, this was a bigger mission than he was letting on. "I can do some damage with a disposable knife. You sure you don't want me to grab some?"
Sands did not look like he appreciated her joke. The cyborg stood there, arms full of metal parts, holding her gaze, his jaw set.
Trying to look properly chastised, she said, "I'm going to the break room."
"You do that."
Chapter Two – I'll Show You Mine
Sands was waiting for her near the hopper. Her baby was locked down with magnetic tip-toe tethers.
Lita leaned over and picked up her tool bag and then blew out a breath. "I'm ready."
Sands scanned her from her feet up and said, "We'll see."
She suppressed an eye roll, and Sands unlocked the dolly and pulled it towards the idling ship. The heavy, textured, grey ramp was down. The angle was steep, and Sands pulled the dolly up as easily as if it were a hover dolly instead of one with wheels. It smoothly glided up and into the receiving bay that transitioned into the cargo bay.
Lita wasn't one to stare because she'd worked alongside males before, but Sands had a presence. Not a bulking maelstrom of testosterone with a cleft chin and hydraulic grease on his cheek, but a quiet, unstoppable ocean current that refused to explain where he went or why.
A male like that hadn't been born that way. He became that way. And she wondered if she'd ever hear that story.
Maybe in the confines of the mission, he might do more than ask questions or send her work orders. Perhaps…they could have a real conversation.
One could only hope.
Inside 817, she saw the well-organized straps and packs for emergencies. But there was a wall, ten feet directly in front of the ramp, that shouldn't be there.
"You modified the receiving area."
"You asking or telling me?" he said, not stopping as he moved forward.
Both. "Why would you build a wall?"
"Because I needed it."
At that, she rolled her eyes even though he couldn't see her.
At the far back of the cargo bay, he stopped and locked the wheels of the dolly and then leaned on the tongue, resting his flesh and blood arm on the top handle part. His shirt was black with a Federation logo, but the sleeves were missing. The small frays she saw meant that he'd likely cut or ripped them, and she liked him even more for the bold, rebellious display.
"I assume you have everything you need to complete the hopper, right?" His chin shot out, pointing to her tool bag.
"Yep. And when I finish, I will make sure it's good. There's enough room to run the engine."
Sands scanned the bay and said, "Yeah, it shouldn't be an issue, considering you put in a belirium core instead of alloric."
Why was he acting like he knew everything about her personal project?
And why was he insulting her engine core? "Belirium's better," she said, looking at the engine and picturing all the hard banks and dives it would be able to do. A mechanical masterpiece.
"Alloric has more power."
"It does," she said, agreeing with him as she ran her fingertips over the polished metal. A condescending smirk flashed on her lips before she remembered that she needed to be polite to her boss. "But I built her to have three hundred sixty-degree torque on a dip. Better torque, better agility. Can't get that kind of responsiveness with an alloric booster."
Sands stepped next to her, and she saw him nod before adding, "You would've had the same control if you'd installed hydraulics in the handles."
There were hydraulics in the handles. But he was talking about negative-z drive hydraulics. "Yeah z-hydraulics would work for a while, but the pressures would change in higher altitudes, and the hopper would stall."
"The odds would be minimal if you did it right."
If she did it right? Did he want to get slapped with her wrench? "Two point five percent chance of a stall, even when I do it right. I've built enough hoppers to see it happen." Lita crossed her arms and waited for Sands' undoubtedly stupid reply.
Sands held her eyes for a moment too long before saying, "I've never built one before. But I've been a crank since I was twelve."
"I've been cranking since I was ten."
"Those two years don't give you more time as a crank. I'm older."
Lita had never had this long of a conversation with Sands before, and now, she understood why the male didn't converse often. He was a condescending prick.
Lita grabbed a piece of the body from the floor, lifted it up, not aligning it to the hopper yet. "I have a young face. I'm older than I look."
The corners of his lips pulled back in a slow, sexy grin. The way his face lifted, and his eyes brightened, it made her want to blush. Damn him. The boss was hot.
"I checked your file. You're not older," he said.
Did he? Was he looking at her age or for something else? "You looked into my file to see how old I am?"
"I noticed your age, but I looked at your work history."
When he didn't add anything else, she chuckled. He was impressed. As he should be.
"I looked up your work history, too." She didn't think to check his physical section where it listed his age, race, or other things she thought were irrelevant to a person. She wanted to see his experience, to find out how good of a crank he was.
The grin faded to a moderate smile, but his tone was lighter than when he was talking trash about her engine. "You shouldn't have been able to access those kinds of details."
She shrugged, thinking about his entry exam. He'd maxed out the test, like she had. But his history said he was a cargo ship crank. That was all. "I noticed you have a lack of experience in planet-side jobs."
Sands' lips pressed together for a moment. She didn't see anger, but withheld amusement.
Her tool bag sang out with a favorite song from Earth, bringing attention to her non-Federation communication device tucked securely in her possession. She called her device Burns because the artificial intelligence—AI—running inside needed a good name.
Sands peered at her bag. "What's in there?"
Lita didn't answer as Burns stopped and then started to sing again.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd assume you were hiding something," he said with an underlay of warning mixed with relaxed curiosity.
Taking the opportunity, she pointed at her tool bag and said, "I'll show you mine, if you show me yours, pretty boy."
His head came forward. "What did you call me?"
Oops. "Are you going to worry about that? Or do you want to know what's in my goody bag?"
His eyes narrowed as if he suddenly realized something about her. "You go first."
She laughed. "I don't think so."
"I'm your boss."
"Yes, you are. But if you want to see my little treasures, then you are going to have to show me what you're working with." She zeroed in on his metal arm with her gaze, marveling at the unpolished shades of grey and dark grey.
Sands pursed his lips and then held his cybernetic arm in front of his body. "Crescent wrench," he said as his metal hand turned unnaturally back inside his arm, and a crescent wrench flipped out. His arm didn't have a solid casing. Instead, it was cables and rods shaped like an arm, but in a functional and artistic way. She loved it. Needed to touch it.
That part of her that lived and breathed mechanical things woke up and took notice of Sands' closeness. Lita watched the cogs move, and her inner need came alive. Her blood started to buzz, and she felt a flutter low in her belly. Early on in life, she'd felt like she had two souls. The Terran one and then the other. The other side had an uncontrollable need to possess everything mechanical. If it had moving parts, her dark side wanted to touch it and take it apart.
Sands continued, "Flathead screwdriver, and a ten millimeter. Pretty much…I can rebuild a battleship with these."
Despite her coiled intensity, she laughed. Stopping shortly after realizing there was more inside that arm. She could do the math. Those four things didn't take up that much room.
Sneaky male was holding out on her. Which was exactly what she planned to do to him.
Setting the bag down, she took a knee and opened the top. Reaching in, she pulled out Burns and stopped the song by declining the call as she held the black metal ball up with her fingertips. "I call him Burns. He's like a walkie-talkie in that he can talk to his identical twin back on Earth. This is how my sister and I call each other."
"Why not use the Minky pad for a quantum face-to-face call?"
Because every call and message was logged by the Federation. There was no such thing as privacy when you signed up for ten years of service. Telling him that wouldn't go over well, so she said, "I don't like having to hold or tip up a Minky pad to talk to my sister. This hovers around me while I work." Lita took out her necklace from under her black t-shirt. "It has a GPS chip in it, with endless range. It's more functional."
He nodded then used his chin to point at the bag. "What else did you smuggle in?"
Lita didn't bother hiding her smile. Reaching in, she said, "Reikett-powered welding knife, multi-purpose crescent wrench, socket mapper, powder adhesive, 3D molder, and a power jack."
Sands rubbed his bottom lip. "Those aren't tools to rebuild, those are tools to fix carnage."
"You could say that."
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Der Hohlfuß (lateinisch Pes cavus oder Pes excavatus) ist eine angeborene oder erworbene Fehlstellung des Fußes.

Symptome und Beschwerden
Druckstellen an der höchsten Stelle des Spanns, an der Fußsohle des Ballens und den Zehen, was zu Fußschmerzen und zu Schwierigkeiten beim Gehen führen kann. Die Zehen sind stark gekrümmt und versteift. Am Ballen und am äußeren Rand verschleißen die Schuhe leicht. Verstauchungen kommen häufiger vor.

Ursachen
Ein Hohlfuß ist meist angeboren, familiär. Andere Ursachen dafür sind Lähmungen, Friedreich-Ataxie und Nervenschäden der Fußmuskeln. Auch eine Schwäche der Fußmuskeln und der Bänder kann die Ursache sein. Manchmal ist der Hohlfuß ein erstes Anzeichen einer Muskelschwäche bzw. Muskelerkrankung.

Folgen und Komplikationen
Der unsichere Gang und das leichte Umknicken des Fußes begünstigen Stürze und Verstauchungen.

Behandlung
Einlagen können das Fußgewölbe stützen und den Vorfuß entlasten. Schuhe mit einem hohen Schaft geben dem Fuß Halt und verhindern das Umknicken. Meist sind orthopädische Schuhe nötig. In schweren Fällen ist eine Operation möglich.

Siehe auch
 Fuß
 Deformität (Fehlstellung)
 Einlage (Orthopädie)
 Senkfuß
 Knickfuß
 Spreizfuß
 Plattfuß
 Spitzfuß
 Hallux valgus
 Klumpfuß

Krankheitsbild in Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie
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Q: Display matplotlib image on HTML page using Django I have a wordcloud generator that I have working in a Jupyter notebook. I would like to build a front end for it so you can paste the text in a text box, click submit and it displays the wordcloud. Basically what this chap has done here.
I am looking for some help in ammending my code so that instead of displaying the wordcloud in the Jupyter notebook, it will render the image of the wordcloud on an HTML page. I am using Django to build the front end.
This is the code I have which generates an image of my wordcloud in my Jupyter notebook.
from wordcloud import WordCloud
from PIL import Image
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import nltk
# sun only once -> nltk.download('punkt')
#nltk.download('wordnet') -> only do this once
from nltk.stem.porter import PorterStemmer
from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer
ps = PorterStemmer()
wnl = WordNetLemmatizer()

def stem(string):
    stemstring = ""
    nltk_tokens = nltk.word_tokenize(string)
    for word in nltk_tokens:
        if word in dontstem:
            p = word
        elif word == 'printing':
            p = 'print'
        elif word == 'e-mailing':
            p = 'email'
        elif word == 'e-mails':
            p = 'email'
        elif word == 'e-mail':
            p = 'email'
        elif word == 'installation':
            p = 'install'
        #If the lemmatized word ends in a 'e' then lemmatize instead of stem as stem cuts the 'e'.
        elif wnl.lemmatize(word).endswith('e'):
            p = wnl.lemmatize(word)
        elif wnl.lemmatize(word).endswith('y'):
            p = wnl.lemmatize(word)
        elif wnl.lemmatize(word).endswith('er'):
            p = wnl.lemmatize(word)
        elif wnl.lemmatize(word).endswith('ing'):
            p = wnl.lemmatize(word)
        else:
            p = ps.stem(word)
        stemstring += p + ' '
    return stemstring

#We use a srt.split() to only count whole words as we don't want to count words inside words. This can happen below.
def count_substring(string,sub_string):
    count=0
    for word in string.split():
        if word == sub_string:
            count+=1
    return(count)

#As we have a phrase which can be made up of two words we use this counting method as it is unlikely that the phrase is contained in another word.
def count_substring_phrases(string,sub_string):
    count=0
    for i in range(len(string)-len(sub_string)+1):
        if(string[i:i+len(sub_string)] == sub_string ):
            count+=1
    return(count)

#The function for counting all the words
def countWords(string, phrases, stopWords, dostem):
    newList = {}
    for p in phrases:
        if count_substring_phrases(string,p) > 0:
            newList[p] = count_substring_phrases(string,p)
            string = string.replace(p,'')
        else:
            pass

    if dostem == True:
        string = stem(string)

    for word in string.split():
        if word in stopWords:
                pass
        #Hack to exclude any word under 4 characters.
        elif len(word) < 2:
            pass
        else:
            count_substring(string,word)
            newList[word] = count_substring(string,word)

    return(newList)

MyData= dict(countWords(text, phrases, stopWords, True))
wc = WordCloud(scale=10, max_words=100).generate_from_frequencies(MyData)

plt.figure(figsize=(32,18))
plt.imshow(wc, interpolation="bilinear", aspect='auto')
plt.show()

Here is my views.py file. As you can see I can get the value fron the form field and send it back to the page. What I need to do now is get the value from the form field, run it through the wordcloud function, generate the image of the wordcloud then send that back to the page so I can display it.
from django.shortcuts import render
from wordcloudgen.forms import CharForm
from wordcloudgen.wordcloud import *

def cloud_gen(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = CharForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            text = form.cleaned_data['post']
            phrases = ''
            stopWords = ''

            args = {'form':form, 'text':text}
            return render(request, 'wordcloudgen/cloud_gen.html', args)
    else:
        form = CharForm()
        return render(request, 'wordcloudgen/cloud_gen.html', {'form':form})

I would think that I need to change something in the wordcloud code around here:
MyData= dict(countWords(text, phrases, stopWords, True))
wc = WordCloud(scale=10, max_words=100).generate_from_frequencies(MyData)

plt.figure(figsize=(32,18))
plt.imshow(wc, interpolation="bilinear", aspect='auto')
plt.show()

and then add something to the view to call the wordcloud function, save the image it outputs somehow and then pass it to my args variable so I can call it on the HTML template with something like {% image %}.
Notes: For now some of the arguments in the countWords function are hardcoded to empty strings. Right now there is only one input field in the form which will be for the text when I have everything working I will then go and add in inputs for all the other arguments and options, sizes of the graph to output etc.
Thanks

A: I found out what I wanted to do here.
I changed my Views.py file to the following:
from django.shortcuts import render
from wordcloudgen.forms import CharForm
from wordcloudgen.wordcloud import *

import io
import urllib, base64

def cloud_gen(request):
   if request.method == 'POST':
       form = CharForm(request.POST)
       if form.is_valid():
           text = form.cleaned_data['post']
           phrases = ''
           stopWords = ''

           MyData= dict(countWords(text, phrases, stopWords, True))
           wc = WordCloud(scale=10, max_words=100).generate_from_frequencies(MyData)

           plt.figure(figsize=(32,18))
           plt.imshow(wc, interpolation="bilinear", aspect='auto')

           fig = plt.gcf()
           buf = io.BytesIO()
           fig.savefig(buf, format='png')
           buf.seek(0)
           string = base64.b64encode(buf.read())

           uri = 'data:image/png;base64,' + urllib.parse.quote(string)

           args = {'form':form, 'text':text, 'image':uri}
           return render(request, 'wordcloudgen/cloud_gen.html', args)
   else:
       form = CharForm()
       return render(request, 'wordcloudgen/cloud_gen.html', {'form':form})

On my template page I can then display the image using the following:
    <img src="{{ image }}">

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Commands, Questions and Statements to practice.
The above downloadable handout is intended for high school students and adults at Pre-intermediate (A2) and Intermediate (B1) level. It is a useful material for practising Reported Speech (Indirect speech) in English, and can be used for honing your students' Writing skills.


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De taiwanmerel (Turdus niveiceps) is een algemeen in bossen voorkomende lijster uit het geslacht Turdus. De soort komt voor in Taiwan. De vogel werd lang beschouwd als een van de vele ondersoorten van de eilandmerel (T. poliocephalus).

Kenmerken
De vogel is 23 cm lang. De taiwanmerel ziet eruit als een typische lijster. Het mannetje is zwart van boven met een witte kop en keelstreek. De buik is donker oranje, naar boven toe overgaand in bijna zwart. Het vrouwtje is doffer gekleurd met donkerbruin en een licht grijsbruine kop. Vergeleken met de eilandmerel vertoont deze soort een veel sterkere seksuele dimorfie.

Verspreiding en leefgebied
De vogel is endemisch op Taiwan en komt voor in het centrale bergland. De leefgebieden liggen in natuurlijk bos op hoogten tussen de 1000 en 2500 meter boven zeeniveau.

Echte lijsters
Endemisch dier uit Taiwan
IUCN-status niet bedreigd


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One of my favorite things about it is that you see mustangs ande camaros everywhere, whereas the challenger is rare so you can guarantee that it will attract attention. While there are five sets of seat belts in the Dodge Challenger, you'll probably want to stick to four. Another factor was headroom. Braking performance is a pleasant surprise, especially for such a heavy car, and ConsumerGuide says that the "brakes provide sure-footed stopping control. Fairly quiet ride except for rpm range where Borla exhaust is resonating but sounds so sweet.
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The voice-command system was very accurate, and the Kicker audio system delivered finely detailed sound. The navigation system is slow to calculate routes or respond to voice command inputs. Just expect frequent, expensive trips to the gas station. Its retro-cool design made people, mostly gray-bearded guys, look over and grin. And the horsepower burbling out of the engine leads to some interesting moments in car control, such as feathering the gas pedal in a turn to help the Challenger SRT8 keep its nose pointed in the right direction.
The Challenger looks perfect on a sunny day with the California coast in the background. Not the most advanced engine, though, the car takes a big efficiency penalty, in terms of fuel economy and its associated gas guzzler tax. And as cool as the outward car looks, its electronics interface leaves a lot to be desired.
Witness the standard keyless, push-button start. The voice-command system let us dial contacts by name through the standard Bluetooth phone system, and proved very accurate, if slow, in recognizing street address inputs for the navigation system.
But this navigation system is far from the best-looking we've seen, and, although hard-drive-based, takes a long time to perform route calculations or respond to voice commands. When trying to enter a destination using the map on its small screen, we found the slow response of the cursor very frustrating. The look of the interface graphics on the touch screen was a little cartoonish, with big bevels and bright colors, and the buttons were not intuitively organized.
It took us a while to find the audio settings screen. For example, instead of residing on the steering wheel, the voice-command button is on the right side of the touch screen, far away from the driver.
On the positive side, Dodge complemented the unit's bezel-mounted USB port with a dedicated iPod cable in the car's console, which meant we didn't have a cable hanging off the dashboard.
We were very pleased with the responsiveness of the iPod interface. The navigation system's hard drive also has space for music. The hard-drive library uses a similar interface to that of the iPod library. The Bluetooth phone system offers a useful set of features, most notably downloading a phone's contact list and letting you dial by name with voice command.
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Sarah loves the business of design. She began her career in advertising and later co-founded the wedding planning and design company, Spread Love Events with her sister. She grew up watching her grandmother and mother tend to their gardens, artistically bringing the outdoors into their homes. The delicate scent of lily of the valley brings memories of picking posies with her grandmother for tea parties. Her memories also include the roses that adorned her mother's nightstand, freshly snipped from the garden. These rituals established a connection with flowers that Sarah transformed into her next creative venture. Today, designing and creating in her home and garden is a peaceful escape from Sarah's life as a busy mom of three boisterous boys. Her home has been featured in House and Home's 100 Best Rooms feature and Western Living magazine.
Cindy was raised on her family's Fraser Valley farmstead. There, she was fascinated by the changing seasons. She noticed how nature always delivered its bounty in the form of beautiful flowers, garden-fresh edibles and even the odd baby chick. After traveling the world for her airline career, she settled on Vancouver's North Shore to raise her two kids with her husband. Today, Cindy's oasis from her busy life is her modern farmhouse, which was featured on the cover of Canada's Style at Home magazine. She still celebrates each season, bringing in bunches of flowers and branches to beautify her home.
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Among the people interviewed is retired LAPD officer and former Simpson family friend, Ron Shipp, who testified against O.J. during his criminal trial.
Experts in the new Investigation Discovery docuseries Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence continued to examine a theory in Monday's third and fourth installments that O.J. Simpson's son, Jason, may have killed Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.
The six-part true crime series premiered Sunday and wasted no time introducing an alternate version of June 12, 1994, to that of the one which gripped the nation following the double homicide.
Narrated by Martin Sheen, the latest episodes, "Person of Interest" and "About the Alibi," revolve around LAPD forensic psychologist Kris Mohandie, Rhode Island police Sgt. Derrick Levasseur and Dallas-based private investigator William Dear, examining Dear's Jason theory.
In the third episode, among the clues Dear (author of O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It) says he has obtained are journals he claims belonged to Jason.
The investigators consult with a handwriting expert and a forensic psychologist in an effort to try and confirm who filled out the notebooks and what that person might be capable of doing if they had the rage which is suggested in the writing. The law enforcement experts also went over a taped deposition that Jason gave when his father was sued by the Goldman family following his acquittal.
Among the people interviewed in "Person of Interest" is retired LAPD officer and former Simpson family friend, Ron Shipp, who testified against O.J. during his criminal trial.
Shipp is adamant O.J. was the perpetrator behind the double homicide and tells the series' investigators there was no need for the police to look into Jason as a suspect.
"How much evidence of Jason do you see at the scene? How much evidence of Jason do you see at the Bronco? How much evidence of Jason do you see at Rockingham (O.J.'s home)? Zero," Shipp said.
The investigators also interviewed a former employer of Jason's and a criminal defense investigator who worked with the "Dream Team" in an attempt to better understand the subject of Dear's theory.
In "About the Alibi," the investigators try to reach Jason by phone, but are unsuccessful. They also look into where Jason was the night of the murders and try to determine if Dear's theory is sound.
Included in the materials the investigators go over is Jason's alleged timecard from the night Brown and Goldman were killed and more of Jason's taped deposition from his father's civil case.
In both episodes, the investigators talked with people who knew Jason in the past and discussed his supposed tempter. However, neither person wanted to shown on camera or identified.
Dear also revealed he hired another private investigator to obtain more information about Jason's life now, which struck a chord with Mohandie.


March 14th...3.14 (159265359) is Pi Day and like so many years before, I love to bake a pie, whether it be sweet or savory. Today, wishing spring would come back, I made a Strawberry~Rhubarb Pie. It wasn't so much about the filling, but the pie crust. Recently, I did an on-line class with American Test Kitchen on pies and especially, "Fail-Proof Pie Crust." Isn't that what makes a great pie? Anyway, I was intrigued by a new ingredient, vodka. I had heard people say they always used it in their dough, but never tried it for myself.
My mom made good pies and her crusts were most always made with shortening, not butter, although a few times, I knew she used lard. When I was first married, I used only shortening; the recipe from The Betty Crocker cookbook, but then I took a pastry course at the CIA and learned it was butter that made the best pate brisee. Of course, you had to be careful not to overwork the dough and form gluten! I developed my own recipe that I've used so many times before on my blog, incorporating vinegar, large egg, and baking powder to give a Never-Fail Pie Dough that even with over working, it's still flakey. However, the use of vodka stilled "called my name" and after making up pie dough today, I will never go back to anything else!
Place the butter and shortening on separate plates and chill in the freezer at least 30 minutes. Also, in a 1-cup measure, add cold water and ice cubes and allow to chill.
Note: You don't need a fancy vodka, but you should be storing it in the freezer!
In a food processor, mix 1 1/2 cups flour, sugar and salt and pulse a couple of times to incorporate. Take the butter and shortening out of the freezer and scatter on top of the dry ingredients. Pulse until no uneven clumps exist. Add 1 cup flour and pulse 4 to 6 times.
Do not add the liquid to the food processor, but rather transfer this mixture to a large bowl. Pour the water and vodka over the surface and use a rubber spatula to stir until the dough sticks together.
Divide the dough in half and wrap the 4-inch disk with plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour or up to 2 days.
Allow the dough to sit for 10 minutes before rolling out. Makes enough for a 2-crust pie.
Lots of fruits and berries will be coming our way over the new few months of Spring/Summer; give this dough a try and see how wonderful it is. Enjoy!
Recommend this recipe! No worries about the dough tasting alcoholic!!
Vodka in pie crust!!! wow..that sounds amazing and the pie looks sensational!
Most pie dough recipes call for using chilled water, but using the Vodka (which is 60% water/40% alcohol) it doesn't contribute to forming gluten which is what can make a pie dough tough! This recipe is amazing!
Well, we don't have Pi Day in the UK because we write our dates differently and don't have a fourteenth month! We're missing out! I have heard much, of late, about strawberry and rhubarb and admit it isn't a combination that appeals to me, but after seeing it so often I think I must try it this year, after all, I'm always telling people "don't knock it 'til you try it"!
Agree about the vodka! I used to keep shot glasses in the freezer too, and beer mugs! Vodka pie crust is new to me, but I used to make a delicious pasta with vodka and tomato sauce.
This is very interesting, never heard of using vodka before. I also was wondering if you would taste it in the crust. My hubby tried beer in a pizza crust once, but I didn't like the smell, we do not drink so to me the smell is a big thing also.
Your pie looks delicious! Can't wait for the rhubarb and strawberries.
Since Vodka is tasteless, no you don't taste the alcohol at all! However, it makes the best, flakey crust I've ever made.
You welcome; it really is worth trying!
Interesting! I can barely handle buying Vodka to make my vanilla. Ha! What is the science behind it? Behind adding the vodka to the recipe not my aversion to purchasing it.
The science behind it is that Vodka is only 40% water and it's water that causes gluten to form. By cutting down on the water, but still needing liquid, the result is a very flakey dough!
Really? Vodka? Now, I trust your baking skills to the max, so I may just work up my nerve to try this! Just WOW!
You won't regret it. I had some leftover scraps that I used for a mini-quiche two days later and it was still flakey!
Strawberry rhubarb pie is my favorite.
Good excuse to bake Pie for sue!
Hi Susan! I tried the vodka pie crust recipe from ATK a couple of years ago. I guess I'll have to try it again, since it's been awhile. I'm glad you liked the results. Your pie looks absolutely amazing. Wish I could share a slice with you and we could talk recipes.
Never had that type of pic before but it looks amazing.
I sure do love pie. I will be giving this recipe a try. That is when winter passes us by.


Associated British Engineering has reported a pre-tax loss for the period ended 3 April of £962k, compared to a pre-tax loss of £621k last time.
The Company said that some of this loss has been caused by the development of the Pz series of diesel engine.
Revenue for the period to 3 April was £1.04m, down from £1.8m.
The basic loss per share increased to 46.8p, from 29.9p.
The Company confirmed that it is unable to recommend a dividend on the ordinary shares for the period (2016: £nil per ordinary share).


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Q: DocuSign API to find domain users I have 1700 users who have registered to DocuSign using the company domain. These users are not part of the account. I am looking for an API to get more information on these users such as when they last logged in. I see there is an API available for getting users that are part of the ACCOUNT.
Users: List
GET /v2/accounts/{accountId}/users
As people who directly registered with my company domain email address don't have an account, I am not able to use this API. Let me know if there is any other API to get this information.

A: There's no API that will give you this information. I'd suggest that you contact DocuSign support (or ask your DocuSign Sales Rep, if you've been working with one) for assistance -- it may be possible for them to provide this type of information for you.


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Mangaluru, Aug 16, 2016 : The platinum jubilee celebration of Archbishop of Bengaluru Dr Barnard Moras was held at his native place Kuppepadavu here on Tuesday August 16. The solemn Eucharistic celebration was held at the church of Immaculate Heart of Mary Kuppepadavu grounds, presided over by Dr Bernard Moras with the bishops of Karnataka region and priests.
It was followed by the felicitation programme presided over by Dr Aloysius Paul D'Souza, bishop of Mangaluru.
Bishop Aloysius Paul D'Souza (bishop of Mangaluru), bishop Peter Machado (bishop of Belagavi), bishop Francis Serrao (bishop of Shimoga), bishop Robert Miranda (bishop of Gulbarga), bishop Lawrence Mukkuzhy (bishop of Beltangady), bishop Mar Antony Kariyil (bishop of Mandya), bishop Henry D'Souza (bishop of Ballari), and bishop Geevarghese Mar Divannasios (bishop of Puttur) Oscar Fernandes, member of parliament, Blossom Fernandes, Msgr Jayanathan, vicar general of Bengaluru archdiocese, Msgr Francis, chancellor, Ramanath Rai, forest and district in-charge minister, Abhaychandra Jain, MLA and former minister, J R Lobo, MLA, Mangaluru South, M P Noronha, secretary DPP of Mangaluru diocese, Msgr Antony Swamy (vicar general of Bengaluru archdiocese), Ivan D'Souza, MLC and chief whip, and Vincent, DC of Madikeri were present on the stage.
Msgr Denis Moras Prabhu felicitated the Archbishop thanking God for His gift of life, and also presented a brief profile on him and his great achievements.
Felicitating the Archbishop on behalf of bishops of Karnataka, Dr Peter Machado, bishop of Belagavi shared his experiences and unique moments with the archbishop at Belagavi, and said, "He is a man of tremendous stamina, he taught me to pray specially Rosary, and he loved the poor and needy and was generous to them. He is a powerful leader, right Archbishop for the right time in the history of Bengaluru archdiocese."
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There was even a sardonic note in the laugh of one of the exhibitors when I mentioned the award. "Oh that," he said, throwing his eyes to the ceiling of the great glass exhibition hall.
It did seem a trifle wishy-washy of the awards committee, who individually spend several hours a day deciding what should go in their magazines, not to be able to pull out a single designer from the pack for this award.
Only the group's pertinacious organiser, Karin Beate-Phillips, held the proverbial trumpet aloft. "This is the first ever UK contingent to win a group prize at an international trade show," she insisted as she propelled me toward another gathering of bemused young British designers.
The popularity of the group at the ICFF was an indication that there was little in its vicinity that compared in terms of new, fresh, raw, experimental furniture design. The Brits offered an array of impressive and not-so-impressive designs, but always refreshingly unkempt, eclectic and innovative. Blue's aluminium stools and chairs displayed by Allermuir and Make Design's one-piece molded birch plywood tables were good examples.
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Neither are deals struck at ICFF. At a discussion "selling design downtown and beyond", Sabrina Schilcher, a designer and the owner of one of New York's high-design downtown stores, Salon Moderne, described the fair as a place to test reactions rather than do business. "People look at your new products; you approach people and explain what you're doing, and it gets very good press," she says.
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Moss's store has since made quite a name for itself. According to House Beautiful editor Louis Oliver Gropp, it has "outpaced MoMA as New York's greatest design curator". Evidence perhaps, that with a little willfulness, inspired design can be brought to the public via retailing.


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Q: Is it possible to emulate a limited form of intesection types in Haskell with ConstraintKinds? Recently, I came up with the idea that one could potentially emulate "intersection types" in Haskell. Specifically, I mean intersection of "interfaces", as they are usually conceived in OOP languages. For instance, to use some pseudo-code for a language with interfaces and intersection types to see what I mean:
interface HasName {
    val name: String
}

interface HasAge {
    val age: Int
}

-- An object of type HasName & HasAge can call the methods of both
type HasNameAndAge = HasName & HasAge

-- For example:
val myObject: HasNameAndAge = ...
val example = "My name is: ${myObject.name}. My age is ${myObject.age}"

I am looking to do something similar with Haskell typeclasses. My approach was to replace interfaces with elements of kind * -> Constraint in Haskell (so, for instance, single parameter type classes):
class HasName a where
  name :: a -> String

class HasAge a where
  age :: a -> Int

Now, given such type classes, the idea is that elements of types of the form exists a. C a => a (where c :: * -> Constraint) correspond to implementations of the "interface" C. Given such an identification, we can easily construct non-anonymous intersection types by appending constraints, for instance:
{-# LANGUAGE ExistentialQuantification, RankNTypes #-}

-- The intersection of HasName and HasAge:
data HasNameAndAge = forall a. HasNameAndAge ((HasName a, HasAge a) => a)

-- Example:
data Person = Person {
    personName :: String,
    personAge  :: Int
}

instance HasName Person where
    name = personName
instance HasAge Person where
    age = personAge

myObject :: HasNameAndAge
myObject = HasNameAndAge (Person "Nathan" 27)

The issue is, trying to generalize this and make this generic in a list [* -> Constraint] of interfaces that an "object" implements, I am having trouble getting GHC to deduce what it needs to get this to work properly. This is my latest attempt:
{-# LANGUAGE
   ConstraintKinds,
   KindSignatures,
   ExistentialQuantification,
   DataKinds,
   TypeFamilies,
   TypeOperators,
   RankNTypes,
   AllowAmbiguousTypes,
   TypeSynonymInstances,
   FlexibleInstances,
   MultiParamTypeClasses,
   FlexibleContexts,
   UndecidableInstances
#-}

import Data.Kind

class Elem (x :: * -> Constraint) (xs :: [* -> Constraint]) where
instance Elem x (x ': xs) where
instance Elem x xs => Elem x (y ': xs) where

type family All (cs :: [* -> Constraint]) a :: Constraint where
  All '[] x = ()
  All (c ': cs) x = (c x, All cs x)

-- The type of "objects" implementing all interfaces cs.
data AbstractType (cs :: [* -> Constraint])
    = forall a. All cs a => AbstractType a

-- An example object of type HasName & HasAge.
myObject :: AbstractType '[HasName, HasAge]
myObject = AbstractType $ Person "Nathan" 27

-- Instances needed for every "interface" to get this to work.
instance Elem HasName cs => HasString (AbstractType cs) where
  name (AbstractType x) = name x
instance Elem HasAge cs => HasAge (AbstractType cs) where
  age (AbstractType x) = age x

-- Example:
myObject :: AbstractType '[HasName, HasAge]
myObject = AbstractType $ Person "Nathan" 27

example = do
  print $ age myObject
  putStrLn $ name myObject

It seems that I need to do a little more prodding to make GHC accept the instances I want at the end here. When I try compiling the above, I get errors like:
* Could not deduce (HasName a) arising from a use of `name'
      from the context: Elem HasName cs

Intuitively, HasName should hold for AbstractType cs whenever HasName is in cs, since AbstractType cs is an existential type with the constraint All cs a. For instance, All '[HasName, HasAge] a = (HasName a, HasAge a), however, I am unsure of how to convince the GHC typechecker of this fact.
I am also getting errors like:
* No instance for (Elem HasName '[HasName, HasAge])
    arising from a use of `name'

So it appears that either my implementation of a type-level elem is incorrect, or GHC just can't test equality between terms of kind * -> Constraint, so I am not sure if what I am trying to do is even possible with current versions of GHC.

A: Depends on what you want to do with that list, but one solution is to just flatten it away, and instead of using Elem to look up the constraint as a tag, use evidence that the desired constraint is implied by the intersection.
To do that, you'd make All take a [Type -> Constraint] and return a Type -> Constraint, so that you can partially apply it:
type family All cs where
  All (c ': cs) = c :/\ All cs
  All '[]       = T

-- Top: trivial constraint.
class    T a
instance T a

-- Meet: conjunction of constraints.
class    (c1 a, c2 a) => (c1 :/\ c2) a
instance (c1 a, c2 a) => (c1 :/\ c2) a

Then store the dict for that conjunction of constraints in your existential type:
data Some c where
  Some :: c a => a -> Some c

type Abstract cs = Some (All cs)

And finally, define instances for Some using a quantified constraint, namely, "Some c is in the class of types that { have a name, have an age, … } if c a implies that a is also in that class, for all types a". In other words, c must be a subset of HasName.
instance
  (forall a. c a => HasName a)
  => HasName (Some c) where
  name (Some x) = name x

instance
  (forall a. c a => HasAge a)
  => HasAge (Some c) where
  age (Some x) = age x

Then your example works directly:
myObject :: Abstract '[HasName, HasAge]
myObject = Some (Person "Nathan" 27)

example = do
  print $ age myObject
  putStrLn $ name myObject

If you need to do more complex manipulations of the instances, and keep information about each constraint separately, then you can use the constraints package to explicitly store a dictionary value Dict (c a), or multiple {Dict (c1 a), …, Dict (cn a)}, instead of just the constraint c a => …. An implication constraint can then be reified as a value c a :- HasName a, which you can obtain from an instance of Class (for superclass constraints) or :=> (for instance constraints) depending on what you need it for.

A: Just having a class with instances for when c is an element of cs is not enough.  GHC actually needs access to the dictionaries associated with these constraints in order to do any computation with them, but the class you wrote doesn't provide that.  What you need to do is extend the class with a function that captures this context.  Something like this:
{-# LANGUAGE TypeApplications #-}

class Elem (c :: * -> Constraint) (cs :: [* -> Constraint]) where
  withC :: All cs a => (c a => a -> x) -> a -> x

instance {-# OVERLAPS #-} Elem x (x ': xs) where
  withC f a = f a

instance Elem x xs => Elem x (y ': xs) where
  withC = withC @x @xs

(EDIT NOTE: Weirdly, GHC doesn't require that we put in the OVERLAPS pragma here, but if we don't include it, then we can never actually use this type class.  Thanks to @dfeuer in the comments for figuring this out!)
This withC function says that if we know that all of the constraints in cs are satisfied by some a, then surely this particular c is satisfied.  Therefore, if we have a function from a -> x that requires the constraint c a, then we can convert an a into an x.
With this, we can then write the HasName and HasAge instances you want:
instance Elem HasName cs => HasName (AbstractType cs) where
  name (AbstractType x) = withC @HasName @cs name x

instance Elem HasAge cs => HasAge (AbstractType cs) where
  age (AbstractType x) = withC @HasAge @cs age x

This all type checks (although it is a little annoying that we have to do some explicit type annotations).

As @dfeuer points out in the comments, we can make the Elem class even more general by changing the type of withC as follows:
{-# LANGUAGE AllowAmbiguousTypes #-}

class Elem (c :: * -> Constraint) (cs :: [* -> Constraint]) where
  withC :: forall a r. All cs a => (c a => r) -> r

instance {-# OVERLAPS #-} Elem x (x ': xs) where
  withC r = r

instance Elem x xs => Elem x (y ': xs) where
  withC = withC @x @xs

Note that for this to type check, we need to enable AllowAmbiguousTypes because the a type in withC is otherwise impossible for GHC to deduce at this point.
This seems great and is definitely more general (we can recover the old behavior by simply considering the specification that r is a function type a -> x), but having to specify the type of a is a little cumbersome.  Consider our new instances for AbstractType:
instance Elem HasName cs => HasName (AbstractType cs) where
  name (AbstractType (x :: a)) = withC @HasName @cs @a name x

instance Elem HasAge cs => HasAge (AbstractType cs) where
  age (AbstractType (x :: a)) = withC @HasAge @cs @a age x

We now need to capture the type of x in the pattern so that we can provide it to withC.


A Marine reservist has been charged with child abuse, and is accused of imposing military training on a 14-month-old baby.
A Marine reservist has been charged with child abuse, and allegedly imposed military training on a 14-month-old child.
Lance Cpl. Devin Heintzelman and his fiancee each face three criminal charges in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after police say his fiancee's son was found with bruises on his head, arms, back, hips, buttocks and thighs, WJAC reported.
Police said Heintzelman was attempting to use military training on the infant and tried to get him to perform push-ups and sit-ups, according to the report.
"He acted more or less like a drill instructor of sorts, trying to get the child to do push-ups and calisthenics, having him lead off with his left foot all the time rather than his right foot," Altoona police Lt. Jeffrey Pratt told WTAJ.
Heintzelman and his fiancee admitted to spanking the baby when he cried or fussed, WJAC reported, and one witness alleged that Heintzelman hit the child with a paddle for drooling on himself when the child was 8-months-old.
Heintzelman and his fiancee are charged with aggravated assault of a victim less than 6 years old, simple assault against a victim less than 12 years old and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the report.
Heintzelman enlisted in the Marine Corps in June 2014, and works as a motor vehicle operator with 2nd Platoon Truck Company, 25th Marines, according to spokeswoman 1st Lt. Stephanie Leguizamon.
It is reported that Heintzelman currently is away at reserve training and will turn himself in to police when he returns in two weeks.


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His colleague Stephen Collins added that "over the past couple of years members of the army council have been observed in the precincts of Leinster House, notably at times when Sinn Fein was under pressure to deal with the fall-out from republican abuse claims" (e.g. Mairia Cahill's allegations last year).
This has clear historical echoes, of course. Gerry Adams likes to compare the Provisional IRA to the old IRA of the War of Independence, and himself to Eamon De Valera. One major difference – and there are many others – was De Valera's reluctance to have anything to do with an oathbound, anti-democratic secret organisation like the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
Even if the hurdles of continuing paramilitary structures (and let's not forget the continuing violence and gangsterism of elements of the UVF and UDA) and welfare cuts can be overcome in resumed inter-party talks, there is a huge backlog of issues yet to be tackled by a NI Executive that has all but ceased to function as a decision making regional government in recent years. Look at the promised things that have not been done by the Executive since it took office in 2007: implementation of a strategy to deal with the North's endemic curse of sectarianism; a strategy to deal with the past; implementation of an economic strategy; tackling the social housing crisis; progress on contentious parades; a Bill of Rights; a Single Equality Bill: an Irish Language Bill; a renewed Civic Forum – the list is a long one.
Maybe a new independent monitoring commission to oversee another attempt at winding down the paramilitaries (I personally believe the loyalist paramilitaries continue to pose a greater threat to the Northern peace process than what's left of the IRA), plus an extra slice of 'laundered' British exchequer money to take the edge off the welfare cuts, might square the circle and get the ancient enemies back into government together again. Even those of us who have spent a large part of our lives working in, reporting on and occasionally trying to make a bit of peace in Northern Ireland get weary with the endless sectarian shenanigans of the North's politicians. But what's the alternative? An eventual slide back into mayhem.
P.S. Dubliners with a concern for the North might be interested in a series of lunchtime public talks at Liberty Hall (1-2 pm) in November and December at which people from the Belfast's working class loyalist communities – voices rarely if ever heard on a Southern platform – will speak. The series – 'Our Friends from Belfast' – will be opened by the leader of the small left-of-centre Progressive Unionist Party (and former UVF prisoner), Billy Hutchinson, on Thursday 19 November. He will be followed by the East Belfast Irish language activist, Linda Ervine, on 26 November: the author and historian of the First World War, Philip Orr, on 3 December; gay rights activist and PUP Belfast City councillor, Julie Anne Corr, on 10 December; and the East Belfast playwright Robert Niblock on 17 December.
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Dev had no problem dealing with the RC Church though – nor any problem with the physical & sexual abuse of children in State-funded, Church-owned institutions; nor any problem with the incarceration of girls and women who were pregnant outside of wedlock. He did rouse himself to (some) action though on learning of the baby-trafficking that was part and parcel of these institutions.
Using the words "Fianna Fail" and "courageously" in the same sentence is a truly surreal moment for me – I never thought I'd see such a sentence!


Our adventurers entered the town of Phandolin, unsure of what to expect. The scene before their eyes was that of a town that had been built overtop of an older one. The previous version of Phandolin was rubble and desolate buildings. While the current version was built up along a main road and had one goal in mind, to dig as deep as needed. The party turned their cart over to the Amber Rock Consortium. The reception gnome paid them their fees, and let them know about the layout of the town and the goings on of recent note. Under his breath he informed them that a group of mercenaries called the "Red Brands" had recently taken up "security" of the town. They didn't do much aside from bullying the townsfolk and getting drunk under the guise of protecting the townsfolk.
We're in full swing over on our Twitch channel! We're airing Princes of the Apocalypse every Tuesday night at 7:30PM!
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Well, something really really exciting happened this weekend. In a whirlwind of excitement, we decided to stream our biannual D&D fest as a pilot. We loved it so much, we decided to open our private game to the world!
We hope to catch you live! We'll be picking up in the middle of our Curse of Strahd campaign.
The gentlemen depicted above are the current party we are using for our Princes of the Apocalypse campaign. Sean (of Caecilius Ras fame from our Curse of Strahd campaign) caught the DM bug, and after a successful two-parter (if you can call mercilessly murdering the player characters at the end successful) he decided to dive in on a full fledged campaign.
All three miniatures are by Dark Sword Miniatures. At roughly twice the price of your standard Reaper mini (my usual go to), these probably aren't suitable for bulking out your collection... but for splurging on a Player Character, they are, in my opinion, second to none.
Continuing on from the Grell post earlier, Gibbering Mouthers are both one of my favorite weird, grotesque, uniquely D&D bad guys! Gibbering Mouthers babble endlessly, driving creatures who can hear them insane. Also, their brains float around inside their mass. Love it! Just like the Grells before, these little beauties come in the Wrath of Ashardalon boardgame.
Review: Much of what I have to say here is already covered in the Grell review. Bottom line, the Wrath board-game is worth picking up, even for just the miniatures. The game itself is based on 4th edition, which works best as a board game anyway, in my humble opinion. These are clean plastic sculpts that require no assembly. Quite happy with them!
I wanted them to look grotesque so I painted them in fleshy tones, and applied spot gloss to make things look sickly wet. Love dropping them on the table!
The road wound on and on, and with each step the weight on Weiland's shoulders seemed to increase. Thinking back to the events of the past couple of weeks, he could not believe all that had passed. The siege had been brutal. Had it not been for the Half Orc Grim, an elf monk named Komi, and Naal the half elf wizard defending the gate, his city would have certainly fallen. Many lives had been lost; none so devastating as the priestess Eole. Everyone had loved the priestess for her heroism, but none more than Weiland's own commander, Xavier Frostclaw.
He woke to have his bandages replaced, Trajek had come to realize over the course of the past week that things in his life would have to change, there would not always be a next time, and while his hold on life was not so tenuous as in days past, the Old Druid's message was clear. From here on out he must adapt, or die.
Trajek Gloomhammer began his adventures as a soldier. As orcs are naturally drawn to combat there was plenty of opportunity within the tribe to prove oneself and setting off to sell his sword proved fruitful. Being a half-orc made work easy to find and his skill at arms made that work easy to do. It also provided an ego that was not easily deflated.
We ran almost all the way to Vallaki. As we entered the town, it was bustling. Nothing like the cities of Faerun, although it looked like many of the villages and towns that Anghar and I passed through. Defeated and depressed but with life going on. War torn but with some smiles and perhaps hopes left. As we entered my eyes were drawn to a circus wagon that said "Rictavio's Circus". Ava and Driessa seemed concerned by it, but it was not of consequence to me. We traveled to the Blue Water Inn.
I had the first good night of sleep last night in the same place where we killed a vampire spawn, probably one of Strahd's creation. It seems that there is some good in this world after all and it does my heart good. That is even after seeing the procession of dead that we witnessed the night before. Apparently, if we die here our souls cannot travel on. Now, normally this would concern me but I worship Kelemvor, Lord of the Dead, and I am sure his power over the dead is greater than any pathetic vampire. I will laugh in the face of Strahd if I die when Kelemvor shows him true power.
My sister posted the above on Twitter, and it basically embodies how much I love playing D&D with my family better than anything I could say about it!
Ahhh, the Grell. Since I first encountered these sightless, alien creatures, I had a bizarre fascination with them! In fact, the next few articles will cover some of the more alien monsters in D&D! If you've not used one before, just go read the wiki article- as a DM if it doesn't spark some cruel inspiration, then I don't know what will!
Review: I bought the Wrath of Ashardalon boardgame long before my triumphant return to 5th edition D&D. The game itself is pretty darn fun for some easy co-operative dungeon crawling action... but for $50 it truly delivers a boat load of excellent plastic miniatures- 42 to be exact. Came for the game, stayed for the minis. Highly recommended if you need to kickstart your miniature collection!
Caecilius' Journal Barovia is an unjust and dark reality. It is worthy of a righteous mission and the glory that will bring. The heroes of Faerun accomplished a task fit for gods, but they had the backing of the people and an environment they knew. Almost all answered the call. What would they do in a place such as this. When the world itself is the trap of a devil. When the people are too broken to try and assist.
We stopped to help a young girl. She was surrounded by cultists and being prepared for a sacrifice. The cultists were pathetic. They were sent by a woman in Vallaki to make this sacrifice to Strahd. To appease his need for blood. So the girl, Ursula, and a captured cultist explained. I do not kill captives, but I made sure to break his leg before I left him. I told him perhaps the devil will pity him as he hobbles and crawls toward the castle.
As we left the burning mansion of Ireena's former home, I decided to go and speak to the priest. My companions and I were quick to cleanse his son of the curse that afflicted him, but we didn't engage the only holy man we've come across. I have questions and I think only he can answer them. No one joins me, and that is perhaps for the best.
As I enter, I find the priest, Danovich, over the body of his son performing burial rites. I make my presence known, but quietly let him continue. He finishes and addresses me without looking.
"I am sorry for you loss. From what you say, he fought. There is honor in that and I am sure it pleases your god." The man hesitated and looks up at me with a pained face.
Breathing heavily and weary from their fight with the goblins, the party debated what to do with the captives. Trajek wanted to use them as meat shields while the adventurers investigated the rest of the cave, Finbin wanted to be done with them and off the treacherous and evil things. Eventually, Finbin caved to the large half-orc's wishes under the assumption they would set the captive wolves on a chase after the goblins on the way out. Finbin hated goblins, and felt sick at the thought of leaving any alive. To him they were the embodiment of pure filth and conniving ways, always trying to weasel out of challenges in life. Trudging on through the dim cave, they came to the locked room. Looking around, the party noticed the sluice which had been used against them and paused for a moment to watch it fill. Breaking their pause, a voice called out.
The party continues on the road towards Vallaki. The road snakes around a mountainside, and a sprawling valley becomes visible below and to the west. There they see a deep, misty valley filled with pine trees and a large lake. As they travel, they reach a T-intersection, with a road heading east and up the Pillar Stone directly to Castle Ravenloft. The road leading to the castle is partially paved with cobblestones as if it was once well used, but like all of Barovia, has now fallen into despair.


On January 11, Ilim Group representatives met with packaging manufacturers from Northeast China (Liaoning and Heilongjiang provinces) in Dalian (China).
The event was attended by more than 50 representatives from 29 packaging plants. The event was organized by Ilim Group and Suifenhe Sanxia Economic and Trade - Ilim's partner and distributor of its products.
The meeting covered global trends in the packaging market and key investment projects aimed to increase Ilim's product volumes through 2023.
At present, Asia is the world's biggest consumer in the P&P market. RISI analysts state that the shortage of P&P products in the region reaches approximately 30 mln tons (mostly market pulp and packaging materials). The growing demand and persisting shortage of resources will lead to further import growth. By 2023, the Chinese P&P market will have grown by 10 mln tons – primarily driven by packaging and tissue.
In his speech Timofey Sokolenko, Senior Vice-President, Sales & Supply Chain Management, remarked that Ilim had been working in the Chinese market for 22 years.
"Over this period Ilim has exported more than 20 mln tons of products to our Chinese partners. By 2023, we plan to increase our exports to China up to 2.4 million tons per year. Implementation of a large scale investment program will increase production capacity of Ilim's two largest Siberian mills by more than 1 million tons. It will both increase production output and improve the quality of our products."- said Timofey Sokolenko.
For instance, KLB Line Rebuild will deliver 100,000 incremental tons of KLB per year, while the New KLB Line Construction in Ust-Ilimsk will have a capacity of 600,000 tons of packaging products per year.
"In the Chinese market, Ilim Group has gained a reputation of a manufacturer of high-quality products and a reliable supplier. Over the last 10 years of cooperation, we have become not only partners, but also battlefield friends who trust one another. I believe that further development of our joint business will lead us to great success", – commented Guo Shiming, CEO of Suifenhe Sanxia Economic and Trade.
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Two solar flares have been detected by the Flamsteed VLF receiver. – M1.7 on 20 November at 12:41UT and M3.5 on 21 November at 15:30UT. Both have been verified using data from the internet including stunning video footage.
Adrian had kindly let me know in advance that he was unlikely to attend and sent his apologies. Our main topic of conversation was therefore going to be about the newly acquired VLF equipment housed in Clive's garden observatory, known as "the shed".
As usual I began the meeting with a roundup of news and although we had relatively little information at the time, suggested that the Radio Group might like to be involved in Stargazing Live. I don't think they needed much persuasion and I am delighted that since then Mike and I have received many offers of help from Flamsteed Members covering all aspects of astronomy.
We talked briefly about our hopes and aspirations and I assured the group that we have the full support of the Royal Observatory, in particular the Education Department. This led to a discussion about the relationship between radio and visual observation of the Sun. Given my particular interest I didn't want to push this topic but everyone seemed keen to embrace the concept of using both to make radio findings less abstract.
This encouraged us to consider which other heavenly objects we could study and present visually as a way of promoting future findings. The Moon was the strongest candidate although someone sensibly asked how this was possible. It was explained that as our nearest neighbour is inert, we would be receiving radiation reflected from the Sun. Jupiter was also suggested, followed by other objects more distant. As this subject is to an extent being researched by Adrian, we decided to pause and resume the conversation when he is next able to be with us.
And so our attention turned to Clive and any findings he had made using the VLF equipment. He looked somewhat apprehensive until I offered words of encouragement knowing he had plenty to tell us. With the various pieces of equipment connected on the vast table, we traced the sequence of receiving a signal with the VLF Loop Arial, through the Very Low Frequency (VLF) Receiver and discussed how the data is stored in the UKRAA Controller. Connected to a PC we were able to see how the specialist software was able to interrogate the stored information and display it in a number of different ways.
The two graphs presented as part of this report show characteristic peaks and troughs but one spike in particular was of interest on both sheets. Recognising these as the result of possible solar flares, Mike reached for his iPad and within moments was able to confirm that activity had indeed been recorded on the same dates at corresponding times. This caused great excitement as it meant we, or rather Clive, had recorded verifiable data. As though that we not enough, Mike then produced dramatic recorded video footage of both events bringing them vividly to life.
We agreed that combining our findings with other visual material, such as video, would be a good way of tying together physical events on the Sun. This would supplement other more obscure information showing Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SID). Both events recorded here show the characteristic shark fin shape of a flare related to SID, though the event on 20 November is clearer than that on 21 November, possibly because the latter event occured close to sunset.
To quote Clive's analysis of the data "the data for the 20th Nov clearly shows the characteristic shark fin shape of a flare related SID. Its negative excursion (as opposed to the positive excursion I've seen published) is, I believe, due to the relatively close proximity (approx 540km) of the Ramsloh transmitter. At this distance the ground wave is still dominant. However, in data for the 21 Nov, the SID is not as easy to interpret. The overall shape of the event matches that of the X-ray flux data from the GEOS satellite, but in a positive excursion from the "normal" trace. As I hope you can see, a small negative excursion does however occur, superimposed on this positive excursion co-incident with the flare peak recorded by the satellite. Could this anomaly be due to the fact that normal day time conditions are coming to an end as sunset occurs at the transmitter site?". An interesting debating point.
To round the meeting off I read from the BAA's spiral bound book, Observing Guide to the Sun. This relatively inexpensive publication is packed with information and contains advice for both indirect (VLF) and direct (VHF) radio observation. The text lists wavelengths and parameters for observing specific regions of the Sun together with particular events.
This revived the conversation earlier regarding Adrian's work and use of the satellite dish. Roger had read that it was advisable to paint the surface of this matt black as white reflects radiation from the Sun to the focal point. As a result the LNB can heat up and give distorted or false readings. Roger kindly offered to paint the dish for us. Those gathered around the table then broke off to form smaller informal discussion groups before leaving.
My thanks to everyone involved for yet another very productive meeting. To Clive Inglis for bringing the VLF equipment to the ROG for us to see and to Mike for finding the videos that confirm our data. I would also like to thank the UK Radio Astronomy Association for making the equipment available for purchase and for their advice and enthusiastic response to our work.
VLF receiver data showing small 'shark fin' dip at the time of the M3 solar flare.


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Voters ditched Labour over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and not Brexit, says poll
2 min read 13 December 2019
Voters were three-times more likely to fail to back Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership than they were over Brexit, according to a new poll.
The results of the survey challenge claims by some figures in the Shadow Cabinet that the party ended up with its worst result since 1935 due to the fallout from the EU referendum.
Opinium asked voters why they had not backed Labour in their election day poll, with the "leadership" coming out on top at 43%.
Their stance on Brexit only turned off 17% of potential voters, and their economic policies 12%.
And among those who did vote for Labour in 2017 but did not in 2019 it was broadly the same story, with 37% citing Mr Corbyn, while only 21% said it was over their stance on Brexit.
For those who defected to the Conservatives this time around, leaving the EU was a higher factor at 31%. But the issue still trailed well behind the party's leadership, which polled at 45%.
This is despite Mr Corbyn reacting to a historic defeat by defending his campaign, and instead blaming Brexit.
He told the BBC: "I have pride in our manifesto that we put forward, and all the policies we put forward, which actually had huge public support.
"But this election was taken over ultimately by Brexit and we as a party represent people who voted both Remain and Leave.
"My whole strategy was to reach out beyond the Brexit divide to try and bring people together, because ultimately the country has to come together."
And his shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told Sky News: "We just couldn't get through the Brexit argument basically."
He added: "I think on the policy issues we won the argument but we literally couldn't break through Brexit."
In the aftermath of the election and the loss of 59 seats, Mr Corbyn has agreed to step down as Labour leader.
But he has vowed not to quit straight away.
On the timetable for his exit he said: "The National Executive will have to meet, of course, in the very near future and it is up to them.
"It will be in the early part of next year."
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