In the spirit of the coming Halloween Holiday I thought I would share my hubby's name for me. Most Hubby's call their wives sweetie, honey, something cute and sweet. What does mine call me...Heat Vampire!
Now I have mentioned several times on here that I am a freeze baby. I am almost always cold. I have very low blood pressure (90/60) to the point of my doctor recommending I keep eating salt. Needless to say my blood does not move around my body easily. Because of this I am known for wearing a sweater and jeans in the middle of summer if the air conditioning is up too high. I keep blankets close at hand. I have a very nice sized heater for my office. My favorite way to warm up though...is to attach myself to my hubby. He is always warm. ALWAYS! He wears short sleeves shirts in the winter.
We go to one of the local football games, I am trying to crawl inside his coat with him. If my hands are cold I go looking for him to hold my hand for a couple of minutes. For the most part, hubby doesn't mind all of this. He does like to tease me though about being a heat vampire.
So far I have found being a Heat Vampire is not all that restrictive. I cannot be out in the cold for long...and any time spent out there means I need to have hot chocolate when I come inside. So far there is no aversion to garlic and I do love to worship the sun.
Sooner or later this Heat Vampire will be moving to friendlier climates...Arizona more than likely. But for now, I must go eat my popcorn with extra salt and put another blanket on the bed, hubby is out of town until Thursday!
Ha ha, that is funny Raven, because it describes my wife and I also! I am hot all the time, sleeping without any clothes, and she sleeps in sweat pants.
One of the best things about being pregnant was that I wasn't cold all the time!
I think AZ is great!! Yes, there are a couple of months where it is hotter than hell, but you can not beat January - ever! The funny thing about AZ is that when it turns cooler the locals (which I am becoming) become sissies! When it is in the 60's people are shivering!
I agree that a good snuggle is the very, very best solution to being cold. For now, my Thing 3 is still a great snuggler. He generates a great deal of heat, and has been known as "velcro boy" since he was born.
Sky - See I hate sleeping in clothes, they get all bound up and twisted. So instead I ut 8 pounds of blankets on the bed. Hubby just shakes his head and shoves them over to my side of the bed.
Bubbles - Lucky! I lived in Nebraska when I was pregnant and that wind ripped right through me making me shiver. Both of my girls are just like me, almost always cold. The youngest doesn't mind it as much. Because of this they also try to siphon heat off dad...I get priority though!
My girlfriend is always cold as well. it is one of the few things we do not have in common. Cheers and Try to Stay Warm!!


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* Rename "Mylyn Docs VEX" into "VEX"
This page described the process of simplifying the Mylyn project structure. Basically, all projects will be grouped below the Mylyn top-level project. The new structure becomes flat. Projects with overlapping committers should be merged into one (where possible).
The most significant simplification is the merge of a lot projects into TFI. This should greatly reduce the release overhead. They are all developed and released together today anyway. There is a significant However, separate documentation must be prepared given the old structure.
Although being declared as the "home" for documentation related projects at Eclipse.org, it currently servers two purposes: 1) parent for documentation related projects and 2) home for Wikitext, Htmltext and ePub. The overhead of maintaining a separate project just for having a "home" for documentation related projects feels wrong. The Mylyn project is about ALM and any software documentation related project is welcome in there. We really shouldn't maintain a separate parent project. There is no need for sub-projects to hide behind such an umbrella project.
Wikitext demonstrated that it's a successful project on its own with a vibrant community. It's used as a separate library and tool. Thus, it really should be a separate project that can produce releases on it's own.
It seems that R4E didn't manage to build an active and vibrant community. Code reviews are really successful at GitHub or in Gerrit. Mylyn Reviews integrates very well with Gerrit. R4E should be archived.
It's actually not a project but a component within Docs. However, it's not really clear who uses it actively. We should either archive it or discuss with the committers where to put it best.
Also a component within Docs. It's not mature enough to be a separate project. We should either move it back to the Incubator or archive it.
Difference between Mylyn Top Level project and the "Mylyn" project?
Can the new Task Focused Interface project use the "Mylyn" Bugzilla product?
Can the new Task Focused Interface project use the /mylyn URL and namespace?
Actually, no relocation of any Git repo necessary.
Can eclipse.tools.mylyn be renamed to eclipse.mylyn?
Individual project websites will be deleted.
Rename "Mylyn Docs Intent" into "Mylyn Intent"
Rename "Mylyn Docs VEX" into "VEX"


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Christina Vazquez
Published: December 10, 2013, 1:07 pm
Tags: Local, Florida, News
3 Miami officers shot; 2 suspects killed in shootout
3 Miami-Dade police officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries; 2 Miami officers complain of ear aches; 1 Hialeah officer injured
Photo from surveillance video taken during robbery at a Walgreens at West Flagler Street and 27th Avenue Tuesday morning. (Miami Fraternal Order of Police)
MIAMI – Six police officers suffered injuries early Tuesday in shootouts with two men, both of whom were killed.
The officers were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital. The first officer was shot in the abdomen and underwent surgery, said Miami-Dade Police Director J.D. Patterson.
"Thank God it was not a life-sustaining organ that was penetrated but he did have some internal injuries," he said.
The officer who was shot in the stomach was listed in stable condition, said Det. Alvaro Zabaleta.
The other two Miami-Dade police officers were shot in their arms. They were released from the hospital later in the morning, said police spokesman Javier Baez.
"We're very fortunate, very lucky that today was not another tragic day for this community," said John Rivera, president of the Dade County Police Benevolent Association. "We got to see today how mean the streets of Miami really are and how mean they're getting."
A robbery at a Walgreens at West Flagler Street and 27th Avenue led officers to the 2200 block of Northwest 27th Avenue, where the first officer was shot about 5 a.m. Investigators believe the suspect then took off in the officer's marked unit and abandoned it in Hialeah, said Maj. Nancy Perez.
Officers and two suspects then exchanged gunfire at Northwest 64th Street and 26th Avenue (pictured below) -- where the two officers were shot in their arms -- about 6:30 a.m., said Patterson. Dozens of bullets pierced the blue Volvo convertible the men were inside.
"It sounded like World War III out here," said Tracey Addison, who was getting off the MetroRail when she heard gunfire nearby. "They were shooting at the cops and the cops just shot the whole car up."
One of the suspects was killed and the other was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he died.
"We do believe that the gentleman that was in this car -- one of them -- was the in fact the person who took the police car and shot our officer," said Patterson.
It wasn't known whether both suspects had been at the scene of the first officer's shooting, or if one joined the other after the patrol car was abandoned, said Perez.
Friends identified one of the men as 27-year-old Adrian Montesano (pictured in mug shot). The Volvo was registered to his family.
"Any time an officer is assaulted by anybody, that person is dangerous," said Patterson. "To assault our officer -- and then to turn around and shoot our officer and then to flee in our officer's car -- makes this person dangerous."
"If they're brazen enough to shoot at law enforcement, they're brazen [enough] to shoot at anybody," added Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez. "Unfortunately, this is happening with more frequency."
Police haven't identified the officers or the suspects.
The two Miami police officers complaining of ear aches because of their closeness to gunfire during the second shooting were transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital as a precaution, according to a department spokesperson. A fourth officer from the Hialeah Police Department was injured by broken glass.
Police closed Northwest 27th Avenue from 24th Street to 20th Street as they investigated.
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The skills to protect their own personal data.
Data is now a valuable commodity. Modern technologies allow for huge volumes of data to be collected by companies on a daily basis. There are many legal responsibilities associated with collecting, retaining and processing such data. Data protection laws act to balance an individual's right to privacy with a company's ability to use that data. It is essential that the use of data is regulated to prevent against abuses whilst at the same time ensuring that companies can use data efficiently and effectively.
This Certificate in Data Protection will offer an in-depth analysis of the current data protection framework. The current data protection laws will be examined, together with the changes proposed by Regulation 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation). The law in this area is straightforward, however its application is less so, and especially as the data protection landscape is rapidly changing. Participants will be brought through the application of the law by experienced data protection practitioners and privacy consultants from private practice, the public sector and from large multinationals. This course will ensure that participants are equipped to deal with the new compliance issues that are ahead.
Course materials, including webcasts of lectures, will be released each week online. In addition, participation in online interactivity will be required. There will be three online interactive workshops to enable students to connect with expert contributors and to consolidate their knowledge. Students are also afforded the opportunity to interact with the expert contributors online each week. Participants are invited to have an open-minded approach to learning and are encouraged to interact and share knowledge with colleagues. Engaging online is a central element of online courses.
Workshops are a key feature of this course. These are designed to be interactive and involve working in groups on selected case study problems and analysis with an emphasis on the application of data protection law to common scenarios encountered in practice.
2,500 word assignment including case-study scenarios and multiple choice questions.
Individuals who have an interest in protecting their personal data.
The teaching faculty for this certificate comprises a fantastic array of data protection experts.
Course Times Blended learning: introductory lecture onsite and online; thereafter online Wednesdays with online workshops on Saturdays.


Enjoy some Dole Whip soft serve at Disneyland.
Disney resorts are known for their magical atmosphere, warm weather, and delicious food offerings.
Over the years, the company's theme parks have also become much more accommodating to visitors with dietary restrictions, including vegans.
Many of Disney World and Disneyland's most famous treats, like Dole Whip soft serve and Mickey Mouse pretzels, are made with zero animal products.
It's often tough for vegans to find suitable dining options, but Disney World and Disneyland both offer a plethora of tasty treats made with zero animal products.
In fact, some of the theme parks' most famous foods, like Dole Whip soft serve and Mickey Mouse pretzels, are vegan-friendly — although you'll also want to check out the plant-based sausage at Magic Kingdom and meatless tacos at Frontierland, among others.
Below, see 16 meals and treats vegans can enjoy at Walt Disney World and Disneyland.
The Peter Pan Float from Storybook Treats in Disney World's Fantasyland is vegan — but only if you order it without the chocolate feather.
The float is said to taste like key lime pie.
The Peter Pan Float is made with lime-flavored Dole soft serve — a dairy-free frozen treat — and Sprite.
Epcot's Rose & Crown Dining Room offers a vegan version of a UK staple: bangers and mash.
A vegan twist on a UK classic.
According to Vegan Disney World, a blog about vegan and vegetarian dining options at Disney parks, the vegan take on the dish is not listed on the restaurant's menu, so you'll have to ask your server about it.
The meal comes with two brat-flavored Beyond Sausages, vegan mashed potatoes, onions, and mushrooms, all slathered in vegan gravy.
Mickey Mouse pretzels are vegan snacks available at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
Treat yourself to this famous snack.
Disney's signature Mickey Mouse-shaped pretzels are made without dairy and eggs, according to Milk Allergy Mom, a food and lifestyle blog.
Visitors can ask for the vegan version of the tacos at Rancho del Zocalo Restaurante in Disneyland's Frontierland.
The tacos come with rice and beans.
According to HappyCow, the soft tacos are filled with onion, red and green bell peppers, yellow squash, zucchini, and carrots.
All margaritas at Rita's Baja Blenders in Disneyland are vegan-friendly.
Of course, you must be 21 or older to enjoy these frozen treats.
Like most margaritas recipes, the ones served at Rita's Baja Blenders do not contain animal products, according to PETA.
Dole Whip is one of the most famous sweet treats offered at Disney's parks.
This frozen dessert is especially refreshing on a hot day.
Dole Whip is a dairy-free soft serve that is certified vegan. The original version is pineapple-flavored and made with non-dairy creamer, sugar, and natural flavoring and coloring.
You can find this treat at a number of locations in Disney parks around the world.
River Belle Terrace in Disneyland serves a number of delicious meals, including the vegan BBQ Tofu dish.
Vegans can also enjoy a side of tater tots.
The tofu comes with baked beans and seasonal vegetables.
If you ask, chefs can whip up some fresh vegan Mickey Mouse-shaped waffles for you.
Start your morning with these fluffy treats.
According to PETA, any location in the park that sells Mickey Mouse waffles can make them vegan upon your request.
Epcot's Japan Pavilion offers kakigōri: a sweet, frozen vegan treat.
Order it without any sweet milk topping.
Kakigōri is a Japanese shaved-iced dessert. At Kabuki Cafe in Disney World, visitors can order the frozen snack in rainbow, strawberry, melon, cherry, and tangerine flavors, all of which are vegan without the sweet milk topping.
Messy Melvin's Vegan Specialty Burger at Hungry Bear Restaurant in Disneyland's Critter Country is a filling meal.
Grab some napkins and dig in.
The sandwich features a vegan patty topped with stewed vegetables and is served with french fries or slaw.
If you like spicy foods, check out Lao Che's Peppers at Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar in Disney World.
The shishito peppers come with a sesame dipping sauce.
Visitors can find this snack at Disney Springs in Walt Disney World.
Head to Tomorrowland at Disneyland for Alien Pizza Planet's penne pasta with vegetable tapenade.
Make sure you ask for vegan cheese.
According to PETA, Alien Pizza Planet, formerly Redd Rocketts, offers multiple vegan options. Make sure you also ask for vegan cheese, or no cheese, if you see it listed on the menu.
Tomorrowland is also home to The Galactic Grill, where guests can get a tasty veggie wrap.
A photo of Wicket's Wicked Veggie Wrap.
The Wicket's Wicked Veggie Wrap is vegan if you order it without pesto aioli and cheese.
The Boysen Apple Freeze at Maurice's Treats in Fantasyland will help keep you cool on a hot day.
Quench your thirst with this cool, slushy beverage.
Featuring frozen apple juice and boysenberry with passion fruit foam on top, the Boysen Apple Freeze is a slushy, vegan beverage that's perfect for hot days strolling through Disneyland.
According to the Disney Food Blog, the Boysen Apple Freeze is made with frozen apple juice and boysenberry flavoring and topped with passion-fruit foam.
The Pixar Pier Frosty Parfait is another frozen treat that'll keep Disneyland visitors cool.
Take a break with this refreshing dessert.
The slushie is made with dairy-free lemon soft serve and a blue raspberry swirl, topped with a maraschino cherry.
The plant-based slaw dog at Casey's Corner on Magic Kingdom's Main Street is loaded with toppings.
Fill up on this meatless sausage.
According to Vegan Disney World, this spicy plant-based sausage is topped with cooling slaw and vegan BBQ aioli, making it a great treat to enjoy while viewing Cinderella's castle.


But while celebrating Halloween on a Monday puts our week off to a busy start, luckily it calms down after that, and we can return to a pretty typical weekly meal plan. On an average week, I prepare 3-4 meals "from scratch". They don't have to be fancy, but three or four nights a week, I cook dinner using real food ingredients, like lean meats and seasonal vegetables. It doesn't have to be difficult, but it does take a little organization to find your own meal planning groove.


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Blithe Spirit (play)
Title: Blithe Spirit (play)
Subject: Noël Coward, Clifton Webb, 63rd Tony Awards, Present Laughter, Blithe Spirit (film)
Collection: 1941 Plays, Plays Adapted Into Films, Plays by Noël Coward
Margaret Rutherford (Madame Arcati), Kay Hammond (Elvira) and Fay Compton (Ruth)
Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward. The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying and temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles's marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.
The play was first seen in the West End in 1941, creating a new long-run record for non-musical British plays of 1,997 performances. It also did well on Broadway later that year, running for 657 performances. Coward adapted the play for film in 1945, starring Rex Harrison, and directed a musical adaptation, High Spirits, on Broadway in 1964. It was also adapted for television in the 1950s and 1960s and for radio. The play enjoyed several West End and Broadway revivals in the 1970s and 1980s and was revived again in London in 2004, 2011 and 2014. It returned to Broadway in February 2009.
Roles and original cast 3
1970s and '80s 4.1
2000s 4.2
Critical reception 5
Adaptations 6
Notes and references 7
The title of the play is taken from Shelley's poem "To a Skylark", ("Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! / Bird thou never wert").[1] For some time before 1941 Coward had been thinking of a comedy about ghosts. His first thoughts centred on an old house in Paris, haunted by spectres from different centuries, with the comedy arising from their conflicting attitudes, but he could not get the plot to work in his mind.[2] He knew that in wartime Britain, with death a constant presence, there would be some objection to a comedy about ghosts,[3] but his firm view was that as the story would be thoroughly heartless, "you can't sympathise with any of them. If there was a heart it would be a sad story."[2]
After his London office and flat had been destroyed in the Blitz, Coward took a short holiday with the actress Joyce Carey at Portmeirion on the coast of Snowdonia in Wales. She was writing a play about Keats, and he was still thinking about his ghostly light comedy:
We sat on the beach with our backs against the sea wall and discussed my idea exclusively for several hours. Keats, I regret to say, was not referred to. By lunchtime the title had emerged together with the names of the characters, and a rough, very rough, outline of the plot. At seven-thirty the next morning I sat, with the usual nervous palpitations, at my typewriter. Joyce was upstairs in her room wrestling with Fanny Brawne. There was a pile of virgin paper on my left and a box of carbons on my right. The table wobbled and I had to put a wedge under one of its legs. I smoked several cigarettes in rapid succession, staring gloomily out of the window at the tide running out. I fixed the paper into the machine and started. Blithe Spirit. A Light Comedy in Three Acts. For six days I worked from eight to one each morning and from two to seven each afternoon. On Friday evening, May ninth, the play was finished and, disdaining archness and false modesty, I will admit that I knew it was witty, I knew it was well constructed, and I also knew that it would be a success.[4]
Charles Condomine, a successful novelist, wishes to learn about the occult for a novel he is writing, and he arranges for an eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to hold a séance at his house. At the séance, she inadvertently summons Charles's first wife, Elvira, who has been dead for seven years. Madame Arcati leaves after the séance, unaware that she has summoned Elvira. Only Charles can see or hear Elvira, and his second wife, Ruth, does not believe that Elvira exists until a floating vase is handed to her out of thin air. Elvira is louche and moody, in contrast to the more strait-laced Ruth. The ghostly Elvira makes continued, and increasingly desperate, efforts to disrupt Charles's current marriage. She finally sabotages his car in the hope of killing him so that he will join her in the spirit world, but it is Ruth rather than Charles who drives off and is killed.
Ruth's ghost immediately comes back for revenge on Elvira, and though Charles cannot at first see Ruth, he can see that Elvira is being chased and tormented, and his house is in uproar. He calls Madame Arcati back to exorcise both of the spirits, but instead of banishing them she unintentionally materialises Ruth. With both his dead wives now fully visible, and neither of them in the best of tempers, Charles, together with Madame Arcati, goes through séance after séance and spell after spell to try to exorcise them. It is not until Madame Arcati works out that the housemaid, Edith, is psychic and had unwittingly been the conduit through which Elvira was summoned that she succeeds in dematerialising both ghosts. Charles is left seemingly in peace, but Madame Arcati, hinting that the ghosts may still be around unseen, warns him that he should go far away as soon as possible. Coward repeats one of his signature theatrical devices at the end of the play, where the central character tiptoes out as the curtain falls – a device that he also used in Present Laughter, Private Lives and Hay Fever.[5] Charles leaves at once, and the unseen ghosts throw things and destroy the room as soon as he has gone. (In the David Lean film version, the ghosts thwart Charles's attempt to escape, and his car is again sabotaged; he crashes and joins them as a ghost, with Elvira at one arm and Ruth at the other.)
Roles and original cast
The original West End cast was as follows:
Charles Condomine – Cecil Parker
Ruth Condomine, his second wife – Fay Compton
Elvira Condomine, his first wife and ghostly presence – Kay Hammond
Madame Arcati, a medium – Margaret Rutherford
Doctor Bradman, a friend – Martin Lewis
Mrs Bradman, his wife – Moya Nugent
Edith, a maid – Ruth Reeves
The play was first produced at the Manchester Opera House in June 1941, and then premiered in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre on 2 July 1941,[6] later transferring to the St James's Theatre and then the Duchess Theatre, for a total of 1,997 performances.[7][8] It was directed by Coward; sets and costumes were designed by Gladys Calthrop.[9] During the run Beryl Measor took over as Madame Arcati and Irene Browne took over the role of Ruth.[8] When the play transferred from the Piccadilly to the St James's in 1942, Coward took over the role of Charles for a time.[10] The run set a record for non-musical plays in the West End that was not surpassed until 1957 by The Mousetrap.[11]
The Broadway premiere was on 5 November 1941 at the Morosco Theatre in a production staged by John C. Wilson and designed by Stewart Chaney. In the cast were Clifton Webb as Charles, Peggy Wood as Ruth, Leonora Corbett as Elvira and Mildred Natwick as Madame Arcati. The play transferred to the Booth Theatre on 18 May 1942; it ran for a total of 657 performances.[12] Coward starred as Charles in a wartime UK touring company, beginning in September 1942, with Joyce Carey as Ruth, Judy Campbell as Elvira and Molly Johnson as Madame Arcati.[13] Dennis Price covered for Coward when the latter was taken ill.[14] Another wartime touring company, run by ENSA, toured the Far East in 1945, headed by John Gielgud, who directed, and played Charles.[15]
1970s and '80s
In July 1970, the play was revived in the West End at the Globe Theatre, starring Patrick Cargill as Charles, Phyllis Calvert as Ruth, Amanda Reiss as Elvira and Beryl Reid as Madame Arcati; it ran until January 1971.[16] It was then revived by the National Theatre in 1976, in a production directed by Harold Pinter, starring Richard Johnson as Charles, Rowena Cooper as Ruth, Maria Aitken as Elvira and Elizabeth Spriggs as Madame Arcati.[17] Another London revival played in 1986 at the Vaudeville Theatre, starring Simon Cadell as Charles, Jane Asher as Ruth, Joanna Lumley as Elvira and Marcia Warren as Madame Arcati.[18]
Blithe Spirit was revived on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre on 31 March 1987 in a production directed by Brian Murray. It starred Richard Chamberlain as Charles, Judith Ivey as Ruth, Blythe Danner as Elvira and Geraldine Page as Madame Arcati. It ran for 104 performances. Page, who received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress, died of a heart attack during the run;[19] Patricia Conolly succeeded her in the role.[20]
In 2002 the play was given a short production at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York, with Daniel Gerroll, who also directed, as Charles, Patricia Kalember as Ruth, Twiggy as Elvira and Dana Ivey as Madame Arcati.[21] The piece was back in the West End at the Savoy Theatre in 2004, in a production directed by Thea Sharrock, starring Aden Gillett as Charles, Joanna Riding as Ruth, Amanda Drew as Elvira and Penelope Keith (succeeded by Stephanie Cole) as Madame Arcati.[22]
A Broadway revival played in 2009 at the Shubert Theatre.[23] Michael Blakemore directed, with Rupert Everett as Charles, Jayne Atkinson as Ruth, Christine Ebersole as Elvira, Angela Lansbury as Madame Arcati and Simon Jones as Dr Bradman.[24] The New York Times found the revival somewhat uneven, calling the opening performance "bumpy", but praised Lansbury's performance.[n 1]
Sharrock directed a revival of her production of the play, which started as a UK tour[27] and then moved to the Apollo Theatre, London. It ran there from March to June 2011, with a cast including Robert Bathurst as Charles, Hermione Norris as Ruth, Ruthie Henshall as Elvira and Alison Steadman as Madame Arcati.[28]
A West End production, directed by Blakemore, opened at the Gielgud Theatre in March 2014, with Charles Edwards as Charles, Janie Dee as Ruth, Jemima Rooper as Elvira and Lansbury as Madame Arcati, and Jones as Dr Bradman as in Blakemore's 2009 Broadway production. It ran until June.[29] A revival, again directed by Blakemore with most of the West End cast (including Lansbury at age 89) except Charlotte Parry as Ruth, toured North America from December 2014 to March 2015, visiting Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington D.C..[30][31]
After the first performance in Manchester, the reviewer in The Manchester Guardian thought the mixture of farce and impending tragedy "An odd mixture and not untouched by genius of a sort".[32] After the London premiere, Ivor Brown commented in The Observer on the skill with which Coward had treated his potentially difficult subject; he ended his notice, "But here is a new play, a gay play, and one irresistibly propelled into our welcoming hearts by Miss Rutherford's Lady of the Trances, as rapt a servant of the séance as ever had spirits on tap."[33] The London correspondent of The Guardian wrote, "London received Mr Noel Coward's ghoulish farce with loud, though not quite unanimous acclaim. There was a solitary boo – from an annoyed spiritualist, presumably."[34] The Times considered the piece the equal not only of Coward's earlier success Hay Fever but of Wilde's classic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest.[35] There were dissenting views. James Agate thought the play "common",[36] and Graham Greene called it "a wearisome exhibition of bad taste".[37]
When the piece had its first West End revival in 1970 the play was warmly though not rapturously praised by the critics,[37][38] but by the time of the next major production, in 1976, Irving Wardle of The Times considered, "Stylistically, it is Coward's masterpiece: his most complete success in imposing his own view of things on the brute facts of existence,"[39] and Michael Billington of The Guardian wrote of Coward's influence on Harold Pinter.[17] In 2004, Charles Spencer of The Daily Telegraph wrote, "With Hay Fever and Private Lives, Blithe Spirit strikes me as being one of Coward 's three indisputable comic masterpieces. [It is] the outrageous frivolity with which Coward treats mortality that makes the piece so bracing."[40]
Blithe Spirit was made into a successful film in 1945, adapted by Coward and directed by David Lean. The cast included Rex Harrison as Charles, Constance Cummings as Ruth, Kay Hammond as Elvira and Margaret Rutherford as Madame Arcati.[41]
An American television adaptation was broadcast in 1946, with Frank Lawton as Charles, Marian Spencer as Ruth, Betty Ann Davies as Elvira and Beryl Measor reprising her stage role of Madame Arcati.[43] Coward directed a 1956 American television production, in which he also starred as Charles, with Claudette Colbert as Ruth, Lauren Bacall as Elvira and Mildred Natwick as Madame Arcati.[44] A British commercial television adaptation in 1964 was directed by Joan Kemp-Welch, with Griffith Jones as Charles, Helen Cherry as Ruth, Joanna Dunham as Elvira and Hattie Jacques as Madame Arcati.[45] Another American television TV production was presented in 1966 on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, with Dirk Bogarde as Charles, Rachel Roberts as Ruth, Rosemary Harris as Elvira and Ruth Gordon as Madame Arcati.[46]
BBC Radio's broadcasts of the play include a 1983 version with Paul Eddington as Charles, Julia McKenzie as Ruth, Anna Massey as Elvira and Peggy Mount as Madame Arcati.[47] In December 2008 a BBC radio adaptation was made by Bert Coules, with Roger Allam as Charles, Hermione Gulliford as Ruth, Zoe Waites as Elvira and Maggie Steed as Madame Arcati.[48] In December 2014, an adaptation of the play by Sean O'Connor was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of an episode of The Archers, with the characters from the series playing the roles in Blithe Spirit.[49]
The play was adapted into a musical, High Spirits, in 1964, with book, music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray. It had a Broadway run of 375 performances, starring Edward Woodward as Charles, Tammy Grimes as Elvira and Beatrice Lillie as Madame Arcati. It had a three-month West End run in 1964–65, with Denis Quilley as Charles, Jan Walters as Ruth, Marti Stevens as Elvira and Cicely Courtneidge as Madame Arcati.[50]
^ The production won several awards. Lansbury won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress.[25] The play won the Drama League Award for Distinguished Revival of a Play.[26]
^ Nightingale, Benedict. "Coward's high-flyer lays an egg", The Times, 19 June 1997, p. 37
^ a b Payn, p. 89
^ Hoare, p. 321
^ Coward (1954), p. 211
^ Lahr, p. 71
^ "Piccadilly Theatre: Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward", The Times, 3 July 1941, p. 2
^ Day, p. 83
^ a b "Theatres", The Times, 29 June 1942, p. 6; and 8 October 1942, p. 6
^ Gaye, p, 22
^ Coward (1994), unnumbered introductory page
^ "Noel Coward telegram to Agatha Christie found in bureau", BBC News, 4 August 2011, retrieved 2 May 2012
^ Gaye, p. 1543
^ "Theatres", The Times, 21 September 1942, p. 8
^ "Theatres", The Times, 5 August 1943, p. 6
^ Morley, pp. 459–473
^ "Theatres", The Times, 23 July 1970; and 14 January 1971, p. 10
^ a b Billington, Michael. "Familiar spirits", The Guardian, 7 July 1976, p. 8
^ "Blithe Spirit", The Guardian, 1 February 1986, p. 12
^ "Geraldine Page is Dead", The New York Times, 15 June 1987, p. A1
^ Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Geraldine Page, 62, Dies; A Star of Stage and Film". The New York Times, 15 June 1987, retrieved 2 August 2010 (subscription required)
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^ Johns, Ian. "Coward's ghostly panto suits the festive spirit", The Times, 23 November 2004
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Varanus bangonorum est une espèce de sauriens de la famille des Varanidae.

Répartition
Cette espèce est endémique de l'île de Mindoro aux Philippines.

Étymologie
Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur des Bangon.

Publication originale
 Welton, Travers, Siler & Brown, 2014 : Integrative taxonomy and phylogeny-based species delimitation of Philippine water monitor lizards (Varanus salvator Complex) with descriptions of two new cryptic species. Zootaxa , .

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Saurien (nom scientifique)
Varanidae
Faune endémique de Mindoro

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Изюмовка — (до начала XIX века Тамгаджи́; , ) — село Кировского района Республики Крым, в составе Первомайского сельского поселения (согласно административно-территориальному делению Украины — Первомайского сельсовета Автономной Республики Крым).

Население
Численность населения:

● 2001 год — 1068 чел.

● 2014 год — ↗1128 чел.

Всеукраинская перепись 2001 года показала следующее распределение по носителям языка

● Русский — 65.73%

● Крымскотатарский — 24.06%

● Украинский — 8.24%

● Другие — 1.41%

Динамика численности

 1805 год — 106 чел.
 1864 год — 296 чел.
 1889 год — 562 чел.
 1892 год — 581 чел.
 1902 год — 857 чел.
 1915 год — 585/27 чел.

 1926 год — 736 чел.
 1939 год — 715 чел.
 1989 год — 1131 чел.
 2001 год — 1068 чел.
 2009 год — 1264 чел.
 2014 год — 1128 чел.

Современное состояние
На 2019 год село занимает площадь 122,8. В Изюмовке числится 11 улиц, 429 дворов и 1240 жителей. В селе находится винзавод ОАО «Старокрымский», торговая марка «Золотая Амфора», сельский клуб, отделение почты России, мечеть Тамгаджы джамиси. Изюмовка связана автобусным сообщением со Старым Крымом, райцентром и соседними населёнными пунктами.

География
Изюмовка — село на юге района, в самых восточных отрогах Внутренней гряды Крымских гор, на левом берегу реки Чурук-Су, высота центра села над уровнем моря — 234 м. Село входит в своего рода агломерация долины Чурук-Су — на западе смыкаясь со Старым Крымом и на северо-востоке — с Первомайским. Райцентр Кировское — примерно в 25 километрах (по шоссе), ближайшая железнодорожная станция — Феодосия (на линии Джанкой — Феодосия) — около 22 километров. Транспортное сообщение осуществляется по региональной автодороге  Симферополь — Феодосия (по украинской классификации — ).

История
По данным, полученным в результате работ археолога Александра Гаврилова, Изюмовка была основана на месте двух опустевших селений — христианского и мусульманского. Христианское — видимо, Чурук, или Чуруксу, упоминающееся в «Ведомости о выведенных из Крыма в Приазовье христианах» А. В. Суворова от 18 сентября 1778 года, где имеется запись о выведенных из селения Чуруксу 46 греках и 40 армянах. Мусульманское — Тамагаджи, которое в Камеральном Описании Крыма… 1784 года записано, как Тюпетжик, в последний период Крымского ханства входивший в Арабатский кадылык Кефинского каймаканства.

Видимо, крымские татары покинули деревню ещё до присоединения Крыма к России, поскольку уже в 1784 году в опустевшем селении поселились отставные солдаты Изюмского гусарского полка, вначале давшие поселению название Изюмская слобода, которое со временем превратилось в Изюмовку. По другой, менее распространённой версии, название произошло оти фамилии владельца имения Чурук в те же годы — генерал-поручика Владимира Изюмского.

После присоединения Крыма к России (8) 19 апреля 1783 года, (8) 19 февраля 1784 года, именным указом Екатерины II сенату, на территории бывшего Крымского Ханства была образована Таврическая область и деревня была приписана к Левкопольскому, а после ликвидации в 1787 году Левкопольского — к Феодосийскому уезду Таврической области. После Павловских реформ, с 1796 по 1802 год, входила в Акмечетский уезд Новороссийской губернии. По новому административному делению, после создания 8 (20) октября 1802 года Таврической губернии, Изюмовка была включена в состав Байрачской волости Феодосийского уезда.

По Ведомости о числе селений, названиях оных, в них дворов… состоящих в Феодосийском уезде от 14 октября 1805 года, в российском селении Изюмовка числилось 106 воинских поселян без учтённых дворов, а на военно-топографической карте генерал-майора Мухина 1817 года деревня Изюмовка обозначена с 30 дворами. После реформы волостного деления 1829 года Изюмовку, согласно «Ведомости о казённых волостях Таврической губернии 1829 года», отнесли к Учкуйской волости (переименованной из Байрачской). На карте 1836 года в деревне русская Изюмовка (Тамгаджи) 32 двора, как и на карте 1842 года.

В 1860-х годах, после земской реформы Александра II, деревню приписали к Салынской волости. Согласно «Списку населённых мест Таврической губернии по сведениям 1864 года», составленному по результатам VIII ревизии 1864 года, Изюмовка (Тамагаджи) — казённое русское село с 52 дворами, 296 жителями и сельской почтовой станцией при речке Чурюк-Су. На трёхверстовой карте Шуберта 1865—1876 года в деревне Изюмовка обозначено 53 двора. На 1886 год в деревне Изюм при речке Куруксу, согласно справочнику «Волости и важнѣйшія селенія Европейской Россіи», проживало 447 человека в 62 домохозяйствах, действовала школа. По «Памятной книге Таврической губернии 1889 года», по результатам Х ревизии 1887 года, в Изюмовке числилось 82 двора и 562 жителя.

После земской реформы 1890-х годов деревня осталась в составе преобразованной Салынской волости. По «…Памятной книжке Таврической губернии на 1892 год» в Изюмовке, входившей в Изюмовское сельское общество, числился 581 житель в 22 домохозяйствах. Перепись 1897 года зафиксировала в селе 1088 жителей, из которых 1017 православных. По «…Памятной книжке Таврической губернии на 1902 год» в деревне Изюмовка числилось 857 жителей в 85 домохозяйствах. На 1914 год в селении действовало земское училище. По Статистическому справочнику Таврической губернии. Ч.II-я. Статистический очерк, выпуск пятый Феодосийский уезд, 1915 год, в деревне Изюмовка Салынской волости Феодосийского уезда числилось 140 дворов с русским населением в количестве 585 человек приписных жителей и 27 «посторонних».

После установления в Крыму Советской власти, по постановлению Крымревкома от 8 января 1921 года была упразднена волостная система и село вошло в состав вновь созданного Старо-Крымского района Феодосийского уезда, а в 1922 году уезды получили название округов. 11 октября 1923 года, согласно постановлению ВЦИК, в административное деление Крымской АССР были внесены изменения, в результате которых округа ликвидировались и Старо-Крымский район стал самостоятельной административной единицей. Декретом ВЦИК от 04 сентября 1924 года «Об упразднении некоторых районов Автономной Крымской С. С. Р.» Старо-Крымский район был упразднён и село включили в Феодосийский. Согласно Списку населённых пунктов Крымской АССР по Всесоюзной переписи 17 декабря 1926 года, в селе Изюмовка, центре Изюмовского сельсовета Феодосийского района, числилось 178 дворов, из них 144 крестьянских, население составляло 736 человек, из них 728 русских, 5 украинцев, 1 армянин, 1 болгарин, 1 еврей, действовала русская школа I ступени (пятилетка). Постановлением ВЦИК «О реорганизации сети районов Крымской АССР» от 30 октября 1930 года из Феодосийского района был выделен (воссоздан) Старо-Крымский район (по другим сведениям 15 сентября 1931 года) и село включили в его состав. По данным всесоюзной переписи населения 1939 года в селе проживало 715 человек.

С 25 июня 1946 года Изюмовка в составе Крымской области РСФСР, а 26 апреля 1954 года Крымская область была передана из состава РСФСР в состав УССР. После ликвидации в 1959 году Старокрымского района село переподчинили Кировскому. Указом Президиума Верховного Совета УССР «Об укрупнении сельских районов Крымской области», от 30 декабря 1962 года Кировский район был упразднён и село присоединили к Нижнегорскому. 1 января 1965 года, указом Президиума ВС УССР «О внесении изменений в административное районирование УССР — по Крымской области», вновь включили в состав Кировского. В те же году был упразднён сельсовет, поскольку на 30 декабря 1962 года он ещё существовал, а в указе «О внесении изменений в административное районирование УССР — по Крымской области» от 1 января 1965 года Изюмовский сельсовет уже не значится. По данным переписи 1989 года в селе проживал 1131 человек. С 12 февраля 1991 года село в восстановленной Крымской АССР, 26 февраля 1992 года переименованной в Автономную Республику Крым. С 21 марта 2014 года — в составе Республики Крым России.

Персоны, связанные с селом

 Вадим Охотников — инженер, изобретатель, писатель-фантаст.
 Осеева, Валентина Александровна — детская писательница. После смерти мужа переехала в Москву, а дом продала Перфильевой А. В.
 Перфильева, Анастасия Витальевна — писательница.

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Over its 65 year history, Reliant Motor Company produced over half a million cars, selling in seven different countries. It was the second largest car company in Britain for over two decades and therefore a significant part of the motor industry throughout the twentieth century.
Reliant's early years
The British motor company Reliant was founded in 1935 when Tom Williams and E.S. Thompson built a prototype vehicle in a private design office in Tamworth, Staffordshire. Williams had recently been working for Raleigh, a motorcycle company; hence the first Reliant model had many attributes of a motorcycle, most notably the single wheel at the front and the driver's seating position being astride the engine. After the prototype received positive reviews from local traders, the first Reliant factory was set up in Tamworth, where vehicles were made until the outbreak of the Second World War, during which the company was devoted to engineering parts for various government departments.
Reliant's post-war development
The manufacture of Reliant vehicles restarted soon after the war ended. New models, including a van seating four passengers - the famous Reliant Regal - were unveiled and quickly became popular. Significantly, unlike in the early years of production, Reliant vehicles were now powered by their own engines rather than by those made by the hugely successful Austin Motor Company. Reliant continued to prosper during the latter part of the 20th century, mainly due to the hugely successful Reliant Robin - which was produced from 1973 until the company's closure in 2001 - as well as the company's sports car range.
The Reliant Sabre and Reliant Scimitar
Reliant began to manufacture high performance sports cars in 1961. The first model was the Sabre, a two-door convertible. Just three years later, the Sabre was replaced by the Scimitar, production of which continued for 22 years. The earliest version of the Scimitar, the SE4, used the same Ford engine as the Sabre, yet it could now achieve a maximum speed of 117mph. Reliant focused as much on the elegance of the car's appearance as its performance; perhaps why the Scimitar is so desirable today. The Scimitar SE4 was followed by the SE5 in 1968, which came equipped with a new body design and interior. In terms of performance, the SE5 model had a 0-60mph time of 8.5 seconds and could surpass 120mph. A final model - the Reliant Scimitar SE6 - was released in 1975. It targeted the high-end market, being more luxuriously fitted than previous models. Unfortunately, due to difficulties caused by a change in the engine that was provided by Ford, the Scimitar struggled to sell in the 1980's and its manufacture eventually ceased in 1986.


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Isku (826) (tidigare 60 och 829) var en experimentell finländsk robotbåt som byggdes för den finländska marinens räkning år 1970. Konstruktionen kombinerade bestyckningen från en robotbåt med skrovet från ett landstigningsfartyg. Sjömålsrobotarna togs dock senare bort och fartyget har använts som testbedd för olika sjötekniska lösningar.

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Q: What kind of bean should I use to provide access to a pool of objects in EJB? At a high level, I have a MemcachedPoolService class that has two methods: getClientInstance() and returnClientInstance(client). As expected, getClientInstance() returns an instance of a MemcachedClient (spymemcachced) to the caller, and returnClientInstance(client) returns a MemcachedClient back to the pool. MemcachedPoolService needs to be available to other @Stateless services (injected) that all need access to Memcached.
Currently I have MemcachedPoolService marked as a @Singleton, but I'm getting the following error when more than one client tries accessing the app:
[0m[31m16:54:22,968 ERROR [org.jboss.as.ejb3.invocation] (http-/0.0.0.0:8080-10)
 JBAS014134: EJB Invocation failed on component MemcachedPoolService for method public
 net.spy.memcached.MemcachedClient com.apexlab.cache.MemcachedPoolService.getClientInstance():
 javax.ejb.EJBTransactionRolledbackException: JBAS014373: EJB 3.1 PFD2 4.8.5.5.1 concurrent
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What would be the best way to set up my MemcachedPoolService (and my web app in general) for a production environment to avoid getting the concurrent timeout exceptions?

A: First and foremost, MemcachedPoolService is a stateless service, and hence if you are not doing any db updates that require consistency (Thats why it is @Singleton anyway, otherwise you would use @Stateless), then simply mark the class as
@Singleton
@Lock(LockType.READ)
public class MemcachedPoolService{}

or
@Singleton
public class MemcachedPoolService{

  @Lock(LockType.READ)
  public void myPossibleMultiAccessMethod(){}
}

if thats not an option, then:
@Singleton
public class MemcachedPoolService{

  @AccessTimeout(Integer.MORE_THAN_5000_MILLIS)
  public void myPossibleMultiAccessMethod(){}
}


The Great Bicycle Shop has several different types of bike available to hire for a half day (during business hours), full day (keep overnight), three day, or we can negotiate a longer term if needed.
Rental bikes are a great way to get outdoors, try out a bike that you might be considering for purchase, or show your out-of-town guests around our beautiful town.
If you are considering a bike for purchase, we'll take up to a full day's rental fee off the price. This is a great way to try it out before you commit.
We have Thule car racks available to rent if needed.
Tallahassee has many off-road trails, along with multi-use and paved bike trails. If you need any help planning your ride, let us know and we'll do our best to point you in the right direction.


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Why QAnon Matters
Posted byJ. Michael Jones August 4, 2018 August 4, 2018 Posted inBlog
Honestly, I had never heard of this particular conspiracy network until this week. Yes, I had heard about the ridiculous "Pizza-gate" story, which some of my evangelical friends and family had sent me (presenting it as the truth) just prior to the 2016 election. They wanted to show me how Hillary was the devil… I suppose. I had also heard about the Seth Rich (see here) conspiracy stories, where, rather than a random act of murder, he was supposedly killed by the DNC to cover something up. God bless his parents for having to live through his death and then the nut jobs who wanted to capitalize on his most unfortunate circumstances. Then there was the Sandy Hook "staged" slaughter. That last one really breaks my heart.
I first noticed the Q or QAnon shirts and signs in the crowd at the Trump rally in Tampa. I didn't know what it was about, but I was quite curious. I read about it on Wikipedia that night (see here). Since then, several news organizations have done stories to explain it.
I joked about this at first, thinking how nutty or gullible you would have to be to believe in something like that. I was thinking about the characters, Lloyd and Harry, from the movie, Dumb and Dumber.
But then I started to think about a conversation I had with a patient of mine. She told me the story about her son, a driver for Federal Express. He was delivering a package to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma on April 19th, 1995. What terrible luck, as he was in the building when it was destroyed by Timothy McVeigh's horrible bomb. He was in his early thirties (if I remember the details correctly) and had two kids. His head was blown off. Nonetheless, on that day, 168 people (many children themselves) died a horrible death.
The year I was talking to this man's mother was about 1998, so the wound was still fresh in her soul. She told me how she started to study Timothy McVeigh's life (see here), just to try and make sense of all of this evil. There was no making sense of it. But she did learn a lot about the man. He was taken with right-wing, white supremacists ideology and several conspiracy theories, including those very much like QAnon. Those try to suggest that there is this hidden (or deep state) government that is evil and trying to control our lives. The evangelical followers, of course, try to tie this to the Eschatology of Hal Lindsey.
I mentioned to that lady that day that I was currently (in 1998) in a big dispute with my kid's youth pastor at our church in Stewartville, Minnesota. This youth pastor was passing out copies of a poorly written conspiracy book to the kids, written by one of his friends. That book told stories about black helicopters watching us and taking Christians to internment camps. It also told how the Clintons being the anti-Christ. and connecting it to Y-2K. If I remember right, this deep state was hauling off the Christians in secret to be executed, or something like that (I've heard so many of these crazy stories that I can't keep them straight). I was totally livid! I called the senior pastor late at night to voice my outrage, and tried to pull my kids from that church (they were old enough to dive and make their own choices). Some parents thought I had been blinded by liberalism, not seeing what was going and the end was really near. I wanted to vomit.
When I shared that information with this woman–and later regretted doing so–she was move to a state of panic-laced tears. "You must stop them!" She said. "This is how all this evil started … with stupid, silly lies!"
I am nonpartisan. I have heard conspiracy stories coming from the left as well (embellishments of the Tump crime family, as if it needed embellishments). My dream is not that everyone would be a Democrat. My dream is that everyone would know the truth and that truth would set them free to love others. I am trusting the Democrats to save this country in this time of history, but they too must watch their souls that they don't become "party first" as the Republicans have.
Reflecting on this, I am now deeply concerned about this QAnon group. It is evil. It will lead to violence… it always does. God help us. We need to be like this poor mother, taking these things seriously, very seriously.
(sorry about any typos, I did not have time to proof-read)
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In the video, both Whelan and Stolpman credited Isaac Kappy for talking about pedophilia rings as an inspiration for others to go public with similar allegations. Whelan also directly addressed Kappy asking him to "help the people on the ground level of this happening." Kappy is a minor actor and QAnon enthusiast who was among the conspiracy theorists claiming on videos that Hollywood celebrities like Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were involved in pedophilia rings. As a result, searches on YouTube last week for Hanks and Spielberg were momentarily dominated by videos of the wild conspiracy theories. Kappy's allegations were too extreme even for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who hosted Kappy on Infowars and asked him to restrain his wide-ranging accusations by avoiding "getting into names," a precaution possibly linked to the defamation lawsuits Jones is currently battling for his own conspiracy theories.


California Will Authorize Higher Fees to Register Weighing and Measuring Devices: Why Are Some Industries Exempt While Others Victimized?
On Wednesday, April 16, the California State Assembly's Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee considered Assembly Bill 1623, introduced by Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada (D-Vacaville) on behalf of the California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association (representing California's Sealers of Weights and Measures) to increase the maximum fees that counties can charge for registrations of measuring devices used in commerce, such as scales. The bill also established the authority of counties to assess fees for the registration of additional devices.
State law (Business and Professions Code Section 12001 et seq.) authorizes counties to check devices to insure they are accurate when consumers are charged based on weights and measures.
Assemblywoman Yamada and the California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association argued that the legislature had not increased the fee caps since 2008 and that the current fee revenues did not fully compensate counties for the cost of administering their programs for ensuring accurate weights and measures. No evidence was cited at the hearing to show the extent of this problem, however.
A few other things bothered me about the hearing and betrayed the fundamental weaknesses of the California State Legislature.
First, Assembly Bill 1623 met with opposition from car rental companies, including Avis, Budget, Enterprise, and Hertz. Lobbyists representing these companies claimed that counties rarely checked the odometers of the state's approximately 300,000 rental cars because most odometers are tamper-proof and because consumers rarely sign contracts to be charged based on mileage. They also claimed that the California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association was unable to provide an example of a consumer complaint about faulty odometer measurement in a rental car.
The committee agreed to strike the proposed increase in the maximum device registration fee charged for rental car odometers. That eliminated the formal opposition to the bill, and it passed unanimously.
But who are the other parties who will be stuck with the fee increases? No legislator inquired about them or speculated about the burden such fee increases would have on other industries.
Nor did any legislator ask which industries are most notorious for inaccurate weights and measures, and therefore might deserve a disproportionate burden of the fee increases because of the need for extra government inspection and enforcement of those industries.
Only car rental agencies were exempted, because they had lobbyists with clout opposing the bill unless the committee amended the bill to exempt their devices.
I'm not going to blame the major car rental corporations for hiring lobbyists to get special breaks on paying government fees, but I do blame the legislators (including the committee Republicans) for not seeking more information to determine the effects of the bill.
I guess it's possible that the members of the Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee already know the details of Business and Professions Code Section 12001 et seq. and who pays these device fees and which industry is most likely to scam consumers with inaccurate weights and measures, but I doubt it.
A county seal on a Weight Watchers scale.
For example, does Weight Watchers have to pay these fees for each electronic scale it uses? (They are entangled in some way with California regulations for measuring devices.) If so, how much will this Assembly Bill 1623 cost Weight Watchers? Has Weight Watchers ever had a consumer complaint for inaccurate scales that prevented a member from reaching "lifetime goal" and thus becoming exempt from membership fees? If not, why shouldn't the legislature exempt Weight Watchers from the fee increases?
After the committee approved the bill, Assemblywoman Yamada emphasized that even these authorized fee increases STILL would not be quite enough to pay for the program.
The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me – you know, someone has likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.


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Shocking footage shows the moment an Uber driver drags a man down Baddow Road in Chelmsford
Uber has also responded to reports that its drivers are operating illegally in the city
A horrifying video has captured the moment a man was dragged by a car down a busy Chelmsford road in the middle of the night.
The footage shows an Uber driver proceeding down Baddow Road while a passenger hangs from a rear door before falling onto the ground.
Prior to this, a group can be seen shouting while standing next to the car, with one person being shoved just before the driver makes off.
Witnesses to the shocking incident, which took place at around 12.35am on Sunday (January 7), saw the light-coloured Toyota Prius pull away from a group of people with one man half inside the car.
Screams erupted from the group as they watch the unknown man hauled along the asphalt before he falls free of the moving vehicle which does not appear to stop.
It is unclear whether the man, who was dressed in a white shirt and dark coloured trousers, was either a passenger or injured as a result of the incident.
Cab driver Afzaal Nasir saw and recorded the altercation while parked in the taxi rank close to Pizza Express.
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Commenting on the video, he said: "The Uber driver almost drove over a guy.
"And two guys in black jackets near the car are taxi marshals trying to diffuse the situation.
The footage was captured by another taxi driver (Image: Afzaal Nasir)
"And the driver was under no threat."
Mr Nasir, who is a licensed taxi driver, claims it is not the first time he has witnessed dangerous road practices by Uber drivers.
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He has also slammed the organisation for operating in Chelmsford despite not being licenced to do so by the city council.
"They are not paying anything to the local council and the local community is not getting anything," he added.
"They are working in Chelmsford illegally and coming all the way from London."
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Mr Nasir is not the only taxi driver in the area to slam the operation of Uber in Chelmsford.
Terry Michel, 48, drives for and is one of the owners of Station Cars based in the city centre.
"They are not licensed in Chelmsford – they shouldn't be out here in the suburbs - they are Transport for London vehicles," he said.
"Chelmsford can be a vibrant and lively town but some people sadly are in the bad habit of getting an Uber."
While Mr Michel, who moved from Chelmsford to Witham several years ago, believes that Uber fares can at times be "reasonably priced", he feels that the surcharges implemented are unacceptable.
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"It's legal but it's immoral," he added.
"Their whole system is flawed.
"I know the roads in Chelmsford, every single turn, but these Uber drivers don't know Chelmsford.
"They cause mayhem – it worries me."
The vehicle involved in the altercation is believed to be a Toyota Prius (Image: Afzaal Nasir)
Despite the assertions of witnesses that the man dragged along the road had done nothing wrong, a spokesman for Uber has claimed otherwise.
The taxi company's communications representative has alleged the man seen falling from the vehicle was actually attacking two people in the back of the car.
It has also been asserted that the driver pulled away for the safety of passengers and himself and has since reported the matter to the police.
Turning to the allegations made by Mr Nasir and Mr Michel about Uber operating in Chelmsford, the spokesman said: "Uber abides by the same rules and regulations as all other private hire operators.
"It's common industry practice for drivers licensed in one jurisdiction to carry out trips in other jurisdictions as long as they are pre-booked and dispatched from the operator's license they are registered to.
"Uber only partners with licensed private hire drivers and while councils can have different policies, the fundamentals are the same.
"All private hire drivers in the UK have to go through an enhanced DBS background check, the same background check all black cab drivers go through."
Essex Police have since launched an investigation and are appealing for witnesses to the incident to come forward.
A force spokesman said: "Officers were called by a taxi driver reporting a man had attacked a passenger with a bottle causing a cut to his arm.
"The taxi driver managed to drive off before calling police and the victim was taken to hospital for treatment for his injury."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Chelmsford Police Station on 101 quoting incident 34 of 07/01 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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A dramatic drop in bank foreclosure activity in 2016 brought the national level of foreclosure filings down to a level unparalleled since 2006. According to ATTOM Data Solutions filings dropped month on month in 2016, despite the traditional push in the final quarter of 2016 from banks to clear out legacy foreclosures, predominantly for loans originating between 2004 and 2006. The average time to foreclose also increased to a record breaking 803 days. However Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Hawaii were top among 12 states that defied the national trend, reporting rising foreclosure filings in 2016.


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Yachts Editor's Letter: It's About Time
Editor's Letter: It's About Time
A story of a yachtsman who made the decision to spend his life on the water.
By Patrick Sciacca
The Krogen 44 Sweet Ride. Courtesy Jeff Merrill Yacht Sales
Christopher Bruce bought his Kadey-Krogen 44 with the idea that he'd work for one more year, retire and then go for a full-time life at sea. One hiccup: His boat arrived. He simply couldn't stand the thought of looking at her in a slip and waiting a whole year to really use her. So he did what any hardcore, yacht-owning cruising enthusiast would do: He called it a day on the work thing, just one week after her delivery. A year. A week. Same difference, really.
He's been full-time aboard Sweet Ride for the past two years, averaging about 1,000 engine hours every 365 days. (Some owners don't reach that milestone during their entire ownership.) Christopher, along with his fiancée, Alexandra Boelte, and their sea cat, Mr. Anderson, have logged 12,000 nautical miles along the Eastern Seaboard and in the Bahamas.
We were standing on his vessel's foredeck as an early summer sun chased away an overcast, chilly morning at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island. Sweet Ride and 37 other Kadey-Krogens were gathered there for the builder's 40th anniversary rendezvous.
"He simply couldn't stand the thought of looking at her in a slip and waiting a whole year to really use her."
The yacht's proud bow pointed at open water and toward her next adventure. Looking back at his vessel and reminiscing about past voyages, Christopher's smile was wide. He wore it like a well-tailored suit.
But perhaps there was a twinge of guilt during those early cruising days, since Christopher took on consulting work after first singling up lines with Alexandra and Mr. Anderson. The feeling soon passed. Work began interfering with his schedule, so this adventurer fully embraced retirement, trading his business cards for boat cards that show his vessel's name and photo, his email address and, of course, a picture of Mr. Anderson.
Sweet Ride has Kadey-Krogen's onboard office option, but when I popped in for a look, it seemed part entertainment center and part library. When I asked where he was off to next, he flashed me a Cheshire Cat grin. Maybe he'd stay put. Maybe cruise up to Maine. He mentioned a long-term plan to venture deeper into the Bahamas. Perhaps Turks and Caicos?
Time is a commodity. Time is relative. Time is fleeting. If we play it right, like Christopher did, it becomes an infinite asset spent at our discretion.
Photo by Tom Serio. Tom Serio
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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently embarked on a key project that dramatically impacts the campus core. By renovating the Belk Plaza, several key guiding principals established within the Campus Master Plan were addressed, such as: Strengthening our Collegiate Experience and Creating Memorable Places. This central open space has functioned as an organizing element from the early beginnings of the University's growth. It has provided necessary open space for students and activities and provided the needed space between the first campus buildings. With this project, the heart of the academic core was renovated and redefined to meet a number of key goals, such as strengthening the pedestrian experience, creating a memorable central space for the campus and providing a sustainable design which provides for lower maintenance. The McAdams team provided conceptual design, schematic design / design development, construction documents and construction phase services.


Last night I was able to try some cool glass object photography. All it takes is some white/black poster board, a studio light, and a tripod. It is amazing how what your eye sees is different than what the camera captures.


Partez à l'aventure d'un océan à l'autre et voyagez de Dublin aux falaises de Moher et à Doolin. En route vers la côte ouest rugueuse de l'Irlande, vous traverserez la région du Burren avec ses paysages de roches calcaires, puis le long du Wild Atlantic Way. Passez du temps aux falaises de Moher pour visiter le centre d'accueil des visiteurs et explorer les sentiers de randonnée. Profitez ensuite de votre temps libre à Doolin, un petit village réputé pour sa musique irlandaise traditionnelle. Une boisson chaude gratuite est incluse pendant votre voyage.
Cette visite des falaises de Moher vous emmène dans le village rarement visité de Doolin, où vous avez du temps libre pour explorer.
Faites-vous chercher à votre hôtel dans le centre de Dublin, puis quittez la ville en autocar de luxe tout en écoutant les commentaires de votre guide.
Votre itinéraire passe par le Burren, une région rocheuse connue pour son paysage calcaire, et le long des routes du Wild Atlantic Way. S'étendant le long de la côte ouest de l'Irlande, la route empruntée par la route prend la direction des falaises de Moher, site du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO.
Arrêtez-vous pour visiter les falaises vertigineuses qui dominent la mer et suivez les sentiers pour trouver les meilleurs points de vue. L'admission au centre d'accueil souterrain des falaises de Moher et son présentoir sur le bord de l'Atlantique sont inclus.
Si vous voulez voir la merveille naturelle de la mer, faites une promenade en bateau autour des falaises à vos propres frais. Ensuite, retournez à votre autocar pour vous rendre à Doolin. Le village est souvent appelé le foyer de la musique traditionnelle irlandaise et vous aurez du temps libre pour visiter les pubs et les restaurants où jouent souvent des groupes et des musiciens.
Rendez-vous avec votre guide à l'heure convenue et retournez à Dublin. Votre excursion d'une journée se termine à 19h30.
We saved this for the last day of our amazing vacation to Ireland and let me tell you, this was the pinnacle! We loved going to the Cliffs! It was amazing to climb up there, so be prepared to hike. Our day was misty, but I think it just enhanced the experience. We also had a great time in Doolin. Stopped at a pub and had a great lunch/early dinner. Overall I can't brag on this tour enough.
I had a very pleasant experience in this tour. The Driver, Brian, who also was our guide was very good and helpful. Everything was very well organized and timely. I had a wonderful trip. I'll highly recommend this tour to anyone.
This trip to any Visitors to Ireland.
The cliffs are otherworldly and definitely worth seeing. Due to some issues, we were rerouted to the Burren and it was interesting. However, we stopped at 5 other hotels to pick up passengers, wasting 1.15 hours in the morning. The toilet on the day long bus tour was not working and we had to make several rest stops. The wifi didn't work either. It was a double decker bus and the top level swayed horribly.
There were a number of issues with this tour. First, while our driver was very friendly, he was a driver, not a tour guide, so most of the time we spent on the bus was in silence. Tour details stated we would have a professional guide. When we moved to a new area I think we passed through 4, he told us a little about it, but in total that was probably 20 minutes of the 9 hours we spent on the bus. We were on the bus 9 hours because we had to take an alternate route going because of construction and had to backtrack an hour coming back to Dublin because of an accident, which obviously could not have been foreseen and avoided. The bathroom on the bus was out of order and we only stopped once going and once coming back and the coming back leg of the trip was 5 hours. Because we were behind we only got 1 hour at the Cliffs, with no suggestion of the best way to spend the time, before heading to Doolin for lunch. We stopped for 45 minutes at a hotel on the edge of town, so we didn't really get to go into Doolin at all, which was very disappointing because we really wanted to see the town. Tour details also stated that complimentary morning tea was included, but we didn't get anything until our one stop at a gas station halfway to the Cliffs, and we had to pay for our purchases ourselves.
The view overlooking the Cliffs themselves was breathtaking, so please understand that it was this tour and not the destination I have issues with. I recommend that anyone who is interested in traveling to the Cliffs of Moher from Dublin consider renting a car and making a 2 day trip of it, stopping in some of the little towns on the way to and from to truly experience the culture, which you can't do through the window on a bus.


Cole "JediCole" Houston is something of a familiar sight on the ALL-CON show floor over the past twelve years. Starting in 2005 he and Mrs. JediCole (as A Piece of the Action Collectibles) were the first vendors at ALL-CON. In fact that year they were the only vendors. The following year APOTAC was back and brought the first game show, Geek Match Game, to the show with them with daily rounds. In the years that followed Cole's participation with the convention led many to believe he is actually one of the owners, but he gets to just enjoy the show and doing what he loves most at ALL-CON - Giving away prizes!
"It's a Prize!" can often be heard resonating from game show rooms as over the years the co-founder of the Game Shows Track would continue to bring more and more game shows, as well as talk shows, panels, and other fun to ALL-CON. Over the years he would become head of the growing Game Shows Department (which he dubbed Games and Theory and himself Group Captain) and continues to shepherd the track to this day. With a record number of shows in 2017, there will be no shortage of "entertainment with benefits (prizes)" at ALL-CON XIII.
In addition to ALL-CON, Cole Houston has parlayed his near-lifetime as a convention fixture (having been everything from an attendee to a vendor to a producer to a vendor over more than a quarter century) into Convention Awareness Project - Texas. This comprehensive convention site helps fans, vendors, artists, and more keep track of conventions of fan interest in the Lone Star State year after year.
But why stop there? He is a podcaster with nearly a decade and over 1,000 hours of content behind him and his own network, The JediCole Universe. From VaderCast to Amazing Comicast to The United States of Geekdom, Cole would eventually found the JCU, producing and co-hosting its two flagship podcasts, Hey Kids, Comics! (with perennial ALL-CON favorite Andrew Farmer) and The Rantcor Pit (with DFW-based artist Eddie Medina). Just over two years ago he and Eddie took their show to a whole new level when they were invited to join Deep Ellum on Air (now Watch On Air Live), and thus The Rantcor Pit Live was launched with twice monthly episodes streaming live from Dallas, TX.
Ever one to have more irons than fire, Cole also contributes his flagship shows to the Cinelinx network, published two volumes of collected "You Are Here" comic strips (with co-creator and artist extraordinaire Bobby Blakey), has contributed articles to three volumes of The Star Wars Super-Collector's Wishbook, and been the "Voice of Strip - The Dallas Webcomic Expo" most of its existence.
Finally, JediCole is an avid collector of Star Wars action figures past and present (no surprise there) as well as other toys and collectibles and had hosted panels on collecting as well as podcasting at various conventions. He has hosted game shows and exhibitions at many other conventions over the years and made official appearances at many DFW are comic and collectibles shops representing The JediCole Universe. Be sure to ask him for the limited edition trading cards he enjoys handing out if you catch him in a quiet moment over the ALL-CON weekend!


The original thread was deleted? Come on. It was only a joke to mess with the "just install linux" troll.
I've often found myself fantasizing about Linux in bed.
If you were working on the Dell support line and had a woman phoning you confused as to what Ubuntu was would you recommend she continue to use it?
This is old news, literally. The article is from 2009.
And what steps has Linux taken to address this? It's as relevant today as it was back then.
" Madison Area Technical College (MATC).".... no comment.
It's so sexist you have to type "man" to learn anything about tools.


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Q: Linq to SQL DataContext usage I am creating an ASP .Net website and would like to use Linq to SQL class for my datalayer then have another project which would service the datalayer. Im fairly new with Linq to SQL.
The structure i have is an Interface which lists all the CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations i need for each table in the database in a separate Interface.
I then have another class which implements the Interface were i write all my code to get, update, delete data etc i.e.
Public Function GetCustomers As Iqueryable(of Customer)
Dim Service as New StoreDataContext
Return From c in Service.Customers select c
End Function

What i noticed was i was always writing Dim Service As New StoreDataContext in all my methods in order to do anything with my data.
This then led me to think and create a property in each class which initialises the property with a datacontext. To go one step better i thought to create a MustInherit class so all the classes would then inherit this class and any changes need to be made could be done at one stage rather than going into all the classes
Public MustInherit Class MyService

    Public ReadOnly Property CurrentDataContext As StoreDataContext
        Get
            Return New StoreDataContext
        End Get
    End Property

End Class

My customer class would look like
Public Class CustomerSer
Inherits MyService
Implements ICustomer

Public Function GetCustomers As Iqueryable(of Customer)
Return From c in CurrentDataContext.Customers select c
End Function

As you can tell the function above is using CurrentDataContext which is being Inherited from the class created.
Questions:

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*Is this ok or would there be some flaw in this design?

*Do i need to close this service at any stage or in my class?

Thanks

A: You should create a new data context each time because you want to be sure when Submit Changes occurs. This follows a software engineering pattern called Unit Of Work, where you open a context, do a bunch of work to the tree of entities and then hit submit. Do that all in one method so that it is nice and clear for anyone in the future to understand what is going on.
If you move the create into a property, it is not as clear where the submit changes takes affect. You could have one method open it, another make some changes, a third then do Submit Changes and then another do some more changes that are not then submitted, which will be difficult to detect.
I know that this looks like boilerplate, isn't DRY (Don't repeat yourself) but is still good programming practise.
Here's a nice explanation in more detail about using Submit Changes by Scott Guthrie.


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Q: One-to-Many Spatial Join in QGIS I am trying to join attributes from 2 shapefiles. 1 shapefile is a polygon layer indicating police precincts and the second is a point layer with crime statistics for each police station. The police station and the police precinct are the same.
The police station layer that contains the crime statistics has roughly 40 points per police station. See attached police station image
.
I want to join this layers table to the police precinct layer (See attached precinct layer image)

The trouble I am having with this, is that when i use the Join by location tool, it only takes the first 17 records from the police stations layer and appends the data to the existing 17 police precincts.
I need it to append all 40 crimes points to the precincts layer without creating 40 polygons that lie ontop of oneanother. Just 1 polygon with multiple crime records.
Does anyone know how to do this in QGIS?

A: If I understand this correctly, you don't need a spatial join. Use Project > Project Properties > Relations. Use 'Precincts' as the parent and 'Stations' as the child. Use "Station" and "COMPNT_NM" as the join fields.
Edit:
If you then use the identify features tool and click on a precinct, you will get a form pop up with all the attributes for the precinct plus a list of all the associated crimes. See the documentation for further details

A: Another approach would be a Virtual Layer.
From the menu, go to Layer | Add Layer | Add/Edit Virtual Layer and [Import] your layers.
Assuming polygon layer name is precinct and point layer is station, following query will create a new virtual layer (polygon) :
SELECT precinct.*,
       station.Station,
       station.Type,
       station.Crime_ca_1,
       station.2005-2006
FROM precinct CROSS JOIN station
ON st_intersects(precinct.geometry, station.geometry) = 1

In the above example I had stopped at the field 2005-2006 (as station.2005-2006) but please add all required fields following comma(, ).
After checking the result please save this layer as new Shapefile.


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BROOKLYN Borough President Howard Golden has a lot of people wondering if he's going to step down early to keep an arch-foe from getting a shot at his job.
Golden, who has served as beep for nearly a quarter-century, has to pack it in on Dec. 31, 2001, because of term limits.
There are at least three serious would-be successors: Deputy Borough President Jeannette Gadson, City Councilman Ken Fisher and state Sen. Marty Markowitz.
Golden has endorsed Gadson and enjoys a good relationship with Fisher. But the last guy Golden wants sitting at his desk is Markowitz, who challenged him in 1985.
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