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Q: Finds number which have same last digit from 2 different columns I have 2 columns of phone number and the requirement is to get the numbers which have same last 8 digits. ColumnA's numbers have 11 digits and columnB's numbers have 9 or 10 digits.
I tried to use SUBSTR or LIKE and LEFT RIGHT function to solve but the problem is the data is too big and i can't use that way.
select trunc(ta.timeA), ta.columnA
from table1A ta,
     tableB tb
WHERE substr(ta.columnA,-8) LIKE substr(tb.columnB,-8)
  and trunc(ta.timeA) = trunc(ta.timeB)
  AND trunc(ta.timeA) >= TO_DATE('01/01/2018', 'dd/mm/yyyy')
  AND trunc(ta.timeA) < TO_DATE('01/01/2018', 'dd/mm/yyyy') + 1
GROUP BY ta.columnA, trunc(ta.timeA)

A: You want to select from tableA, so do this. Don't join. You only want to select tableA rows that have a match in tableB. So place an EXISTS clause in your WHERE clause.
select trunc(timea), columna
from table1a ta
where trunc(timea) >= date '2018-01-01'
  and trunc(timea) < date '2018-01-02'
  and exists
  (
    select *
    from tableb tb
    where trunc(tb.timeb) = trunc(ta.timea)
    and substr(tb.columnb, -8) = substr(ta.columna, -8)
  )
order by trunc(timea), columna;

In order to have this run fast, create the following indexes:
create idxa on tablea( trunc(timea), substr(columna, -8) );
create idxb on tableb( trunc(timeb), substr(columnb, -8) );

I don't see, however, why you are so eager to have this run fast. Do you want to keep all data as is and run the query again and again? There should be a better solution. Splitting the area code and number into two separate columns is the first thing that comes to mind.
UPDATE: Still faster than the suggested idxa should be a covering index for tableA:
create idxa on tablea( trunc(timea), substr(columna, -8), columna );

Here the DBMS can work with the index only and doesn't have to access the table. So just in case the above was still a bit too slow for you, you can try with this altered index.
And as Alex Poole has pointed out in the comments below, it should be
where trunc(timea) = date '2018-01-01'

only, if the range you are looking at is always a single day as in the example.

A: You can try below using = operator instead of like operator
as your want to match last 2 digit
select trunc(ta.timeA),ta.columnA
from table1A ta inner join tableB tb
on substr(ta.columnA,-8) = substr(tb.columnB,-8)
and trunc(ta.timeA) = trunc(ta.timeB)
AND trunc(ta.timeA) >= TO_DATE('01/01/2018', 'dd/mm/yyyy')
AND trunc(ta.timeA) < TO_DATE('01/01/2018', 'dd/mm/yyyy') + 1
GROUP BY ta.columnA, trunc(ta.timeA)

A: It would be easier to help if you were more specific about your SQL environment, below is some advice on this query that would apply in most environments.
When dealing with large data sets performance becomes even more critical and small changes in technique can have a big impact.
For example:
Like is normally used for a partial match with wildcards, do you not mean equals?  Like is slower than equals, if you're not using wildcards I recommend looking for equality.
Also, you initially start with a (cross/cartesian product) join, but then your where clause defines very specific match criteria (matching time fields), if you need a matching time field make it part of the table join, this will reduce the number of join results which will significantly shrink the dataset that then needs to have the other criteria applied to it.
Also, having date calculated values in your where clause is slow.  It is better to set a @fromDate and @toDate parameter before the query, then use these in the where clause as what are then literals which then don't need to be calculated for every row.


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This post is a follow up to one I did a couple of days ago about TfL's plans, which are under consultation, to change the roundabout at the northern end of the bridge, in Westminster.
This morning I stood on Lambeth Bridge for forty minutes, from 8.25 to 9.05, analysing the motor traffic going towards Westminster (except motor bikes).
In that forty minutes 358 motor vehicles passed me and, whilst I wasn't counting them, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't a similar number of bicycles.
The thing is, every bicycle I saw had full occupancy - a bicycle designed to carry one, with one person riding it.
By comparison, most of the motor vehicles were hugely under capacity - in fact over half of the taxis/mini-cabs didn't have even a single passenger.
Car: 118 of which 81 (68%) only had a driver leaving all passenger seats unoccupied. Of the few cars with passengers, most appeared to be on the school run.
Van: 104, most with one or two occupants, and an unknown quantity of essential, heavy items to move..
Taxi/cab: 87 of which 49 (56%) were empty, bar the driver. 32 of the cabs with passengers had just one (84% of cabs with passengers had just a single passenger).
Lorry: 24, most with one or two occupants and, presumably, stuff to carry around.
Big coaches: 1, empty bar driver and his mate.
So, I'm not going to suffer any nonsense from TfL about putting in a cycle lane on Millbank roundabout affecting motor traffic capacity adversely. It's clear that a huge amount of the motor traffic straightforwardly needn't be there, and assigning it loads of space at the expense of clear, safe space for cyclists is a ludicrous thing to do given the CO2, health, pollution, economic etc. reasons to promote cycling, never mind its comparative efficiency in terms of space use..
I confess I don't have much of an issue with vans - they may drive like jeremy-hunts much of the time but plumbers and electricians and carpenters do have some heavy stuff to cart around and doing it in a Bullitt would be a heroic effort indeed. Ditto lorries apart from the obvious question about whether they should have restricted operating hours and if so when, and also the big issue of how big truckers are remunerated - the prevailing curse of piece-rates probably explains a lot of the awful driving behaviour of truckers who are really under the cosh when it comes to scraping a living.
Even taxis I could live with, if we were to assume that eliminating private cars would boost their trade and make them more densely utilised, while at the same time reducing on-street parking so providing more street space for cycle lanes or contraflows.
The villain is the private car, driven by its owner. Like 3/4 of the population I have one of those, and jolly handy it can be, too, but I would regard it as beyind the pale to bring it into a congested city centre with a comprehensive public transport network and the potential for cycling most middle-distance trips.
Banning them altogether (bar registered disabled) would permit one lane in every dual/triple lane road to be dedicated to bicycles with no harm to the remaining motors, indeed they would probably see improved journey times.
I was surprised that the private car category had the largest number of vehicles.
I'd be interested to find out how many miles taxis do while empty relative to the number of miles occupied (and what impact trips to the airport have on the proportionality). I was reading that taxis take up 37% of the road space to carry 1% of the population in, I believe, central London.


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Q: Creating an array with large initial size in powershell The only way I know to create an array in powershell is
$arr = @(1, 2, 3)
However, this creating method is not convenient if I want to create an array with large initial size such as 10000.
Because I don't want to write code like this
$arr = @(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ... ,0) # 10000 0s in this line of code
Writing code like the following is not efficient.
$arr = @()
for ($i = 1; $i -le 10000; $i++) {
  $arr += 0
}

Because whenever += operator is executed, all of the elements in the old array would be copied into a newly created array.
What's the best way to create an array with large initial size in powershell?

A: In PowerShell you are correct in that += will destroy the old array and create a new array with the new items.
For working with a large collection of items i would highly recommend using the ArrayList type from .NET as this is not a fixed size array so PowerShell will not destroy it every time you add an item to it and i've found this to work better in my projects.
Using ArrayList also means that you don't need to start with 10000 items. Because PowerShell won't need to recreate your array every time, you can start with 0 and then add each item as it's needed instead of starting with 10000.
So in your script i would create an empty ArrayList like so
[System.Collections.ArrayList]$arr = @()

and then when you need to add something to it just call .Add() (You don't need to prepopulate the array with 10000 items, it will expand as you add items).
$arr.Add([int]0)

Your example using an ArrayList:
[System.Collections.ArrayList]$arr = @()
for ($i = 1; $i -le 10000; $i++) {
    $arr.Add([int]0)
}

A: Use New-Object in this case:
PS> $arr = New-Object int[] 10000; $arr.length
10000

Or, in PSv5+, using the static new() method on the type:
PS> $arr = [int[]]::new(10000); $arr.length
10000

These commands create a strongly typed array, using base type [int] in this example.
If the use case allows it, this is preferable for reasons of performance and type safety.
If you need to create an "untyped" array the same way that PowerShell does ([System.Object[]]), substitute object for int; e.g., [object[]]::new(10000); the elements of such an array will default to $null.
TessellatingHeckler's helpful answer, however, shows a much more concise alternative that even allows you initialize all elements to a specific value.

Arrays have a fixed size; if you need an array-like data structure that you can preallocate and grow dynamically, see Bluecakes' helpful [System.Collections.ArrayList]-based answer.
[System.Collections.ArrayList] is the resizable analog to [System.Object[]], and its generic equivalent - which like the [int[]] example above - allows you to use a specific type for performance and robustness (if feasible), is [System.Collections.Generic.List[<type>]], e.g.:
PS> $lst = [System.Collections.Generic.List[int]]::New(10000); $lst.Capacity
10000

Note that - as with [System.Collections.ArrayList] - specifying an initial capacity (10000, here) does not allocate the internally used array with that size right away - the capacity value is simply stored (and exposed as property .Capacity), and an internal array with that capacity (internal size that leaves room for growth) is allocated on demand, when the first element is added to the list.
[System.Collections.Generic.List[<type>]]'s .Add() method commendably does not produce output, whereas [System.Collections.ArrayList]'s does (it returns the index of the element that was just added).
# The non-generic ArrayList's .Add() produces (usually undesired) output.
PS> $al = [System.Collections.ArrayList]::new(); $al.Add('first elem')
0  # .Add() outputs the index of the newly added item

# Simplest way to suppress this output:
PS> $null = $al.Add('first elem')
# NO output.

# The generic List[T]'s .Add() does NOT produce output.
PS> $gl = [System.Collections.Generic.List[string]]::new(); $gl.Add('first elem')
# NO output from .Add()

A: Array literal multiplication:
$arr = @($null) * 10000

A: You could always do this:
$a = @(0..9999)
$a.length

This is nearly like what you are already doing, except that you don't have to
write out all the values.

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Publication: The Face, 2002
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in space
Thailand is the world's ultimate chill-out zone. but now they've banned music after 2am, cops patrol the beach and a weed bust will cost you £800. What now for the ultimate smoker's paradise?
The Canadian dude in shorts standing on Hat Rin beach with a didgeridoo stares into a horizon as straight as a blue Rizla, and says, 'When I first got here, I didn't like it. I thought Thailand was a rip-off culture. Then I went to the north and talked to the people more, started smoking loadsa opium and hanging with the Thais. Now I'm just taking it for what it is: an escape. It's easy to do nothing here. I can just smoke dope on the beach. All day. Heh...'
Then didgeri-dude looks at the American man sitting on Hat Rin beach with a guitar, for a second a beam of telepathic paranoia shoots between them.
'You don't work for Interpol do you?'
No, man. We just want to know whether you're feeling chilled. On a scale of one to, like, 10? Dude?
The Canadian grins a grin suggesting there's more than just gutrot Mae-Khong whiskey pickling cerebral cortex, a grin suggesting the number he's thought of just doesn't conform to any decimal standard whatsoever.
The Canadian dude has entered 'the zone'. He got out of the boat. We've lost this one: someone inform the parents. Ladies and gentleman, he is floating in space. Smoked-out and beach-bummed well into the fifth dimension, he is, in fact, exactly where most of mankind would now like to be right now.
Welcome to Thailand, man! Permasmiling locals, iridescent beaches, great big trees, no moody people and more drugs than you can shake Shaun Ryder at! Are you feeling chilled yet? You should be, because despite everything we endured - looming recession, planes demolishing skyscrapers, Anthrax: The Comeback Tour, suicide bombings, rightwing boneheads everywhere, impending thermonuclear war and not one but TWO hits for DJ Otzi - in 2001 culture got cryogenic its our asses like never before. Chilling out as a has never been so huge an industry, so popular a cultural pursuit, so widespread a collective impulse. Once, it just meant the post-coital cigarette of dance culture, the restorative power-napping that developed as a response to the energy flash of rave. But now, like just about every other aspect of dance culture it's lapsed into cliché. Once, chill-out meant embracing something: now it means rejecting everything, the active pursuit of nothingness. Given the unbearable shiteness of being alive during a time of massive global anxiety on a humanity-wide basis, the entire the world spent Christmas 2001 thinking it needed a proper vacation to get its smoke on and its head together.
Last years, megastore racks buckled under the weight of identikit chill-out compilations, Radio One launched it's late-night 'toke show' show for ardent weed smokers featuring, and if Afroman's 'Because I Got High' didn't articulate the non-thoughts of the Zombie Nation, then we're all Dutchmen. Which, given the amount of weed we're likely to be consuming following reclassification of Cannabis, you could easily mistake us for anyway.
We want to chill out, at a time when mass-long-haul tourism in the norm for rather than the exception, it seems like every man and his hammock has headed for Thailand's Costa Del Chill for New Year and rubbish British winter. Posh People (Kate, Jude, blah Sadie blah blah and Meg are all ardent fans), gap-year traveller and increasingly, normal folk of middle-England who've decided a fortnight in Torremolinos just doesn't cut it anymore.
On Hat Rin beach on the island of Kho Phang Nan - original setting for Alex Garland's dystopian traveller yarn The Beach - you can hear the phrase, 'pass us the skins and I'll roll a fat one mate,' in a billion languages, all of them vaguely slurred. Hat Rin was once thought to be the world's most horizontal place, the absolute last word in spliffcentricity for worldwide chillagers who want nothing more than good weed and zero stress for as long as their bugdets would carry them. For the past 20 years or so, Hat Rin's full moon party scene - which now comprises the any-excuse-for-a-do the half-moon, quarter-moon and black-moon (ie no-moon) parties - has provided the punctuation marks on a narrative of non-stop chillage.
Or so the legend goes. Today, you can stare along the stretch of sand bordered by rocks and a parade of bars of this arresting vista, and as far as the eye can see, dudes are chilling out with such commitment and intensity you'd swear someone had spiked the entire sea with hospice-strength temazepam. But it's not just e presence of a Seven-Eleven amid the multitude internet cafés, bars, shops and scooter hire centres that suggests this hippie utopia seem indicative of culture on the cusp of decline, a destination turning into a heavily-marketed imitation of its former, wilder, poorer, realer incarnation.
There are problems in paradise, and one of the problem is standing not ten yards form Canada's Mr Chill. It's dressed in hip-to-the-scene beachwear, wears a furtive expression and is trying very hard not to look the Thai copper the man so obviously is.
This year, sensing that the money lies not so much with the steady stream of young travelling folk but with affluent Western Family who demand more than just a beach hut and plentiful alcohol, Thai authorities imposed a 2am curfew on the soundsystems and beach parties in a move not unlike the regulation that did for Goa's fabled beach party scene. Weed prices are staggeringly low, while the penalties for possession as staggeringly high - in the region of 50,000 baht (about £800).
People come to Thailand for many reasons, and most reasons involve smoking. Not that Garry and Rich, from Cambridgeshire, had much by way of problem scoring in the time they've spent lolling around the well-travelled routes of Thailand's narco-tourist trail. A while back, they chucked in their jobs, bought £700 round trip flights and made directly for weed central, Thailand. 'We just thought fuck it,' considers Gary, hooking his hair behind a sunburt ear. 'Getting hold of gear is not a problem. In Koh Samui, literally every ice-cream seller is flogging opium, pills, weed, everything. Round here we haven't been approached once. It is here, but you've got to look for it.'
As it stands, they keep a vigilant watch over their narcotic activities, retain an edge of paranoia just uppermost in their mind just to the forefront. Truth be told, they already clocked that Thailand isn't the U-toke-pia they're hope it would be,
'We didn't think it was gonna be as tacky as this,' Gary laments. 'It's beautiful, don't get me wrong. But all the kiss-me-quick tack is coming out. I didn't expect it to be as westernised. I've heard Krabi and Koh Phe Phe are more chilled out. On Koh Samui it's just geezers larging it up everywhere and in the end, you're trying to get away form everyone else. The capitalist machine has already rolled in and set up roots to get money out of everybody. Pay for this pay for that pay for this. Some places you even have to pay a few Baht to get a bit of shitroll,' he adds.
Which may not be a particularly 'chilled' attitude, but is all the evidence you need to tell which way Thailand's service economy is headed.
Though here are plenty of tales of how there were once only three bungalows on this particular beach and rent cost 25 Baht per month, or how the island was run by gangs of dogs, or how and you had to sell your eyeballs for a bowl of green curry back in the day, not everyone you speak to in Thailand will tell you It's Not As Chilled As It Used To Be. Older heads will put some perspective on how the primitivistic party mythology of Koh Samui, Hat Rin and the billions of obscure, recommendation-only locations scattered around Koh Phan-Ngan now vastly obscures the actuality. Cyrus Irani, a thirtysomething, Camden-based promoter from, is part of a demographic of club, music biz, fashion and media types who've been evangelised Thailand's charms for some years now. Right now he's staying in a bungalow on Koh Samui
'Thailand's got a lot of the things that people in the UK go away to find,' he says. 'And you can probably count the destination around the world with the right elements on one hand. There are myths attached to the place. The real problem is that a lot of people who come here just can't chill, because there's that out there,' he says, gesturing through the palm trees and half a mile up the road to an explosion of neon strip bars, shops and 'attractions' set back from the shoreline. 'It's the curse of the Westerner,' he says. 'Every night, people are like, Shall we? Shan't we? Shall we?'
The tractor beam in question is called Chaweng, the island's principal tourist drag. Chaweng is Blackpool 6,000 miles around the globe. It's like Regent Street on Christmas eve, only without less peace and tranquility, an action painting of consumerism wrought in neon, lipstick and tattoo ink. It's conceivably the world's least chilled place, no matter how much cheap weed you're furtively toking. And, as you weave between hordes of Thai girls and ladyboys, past the Starbucks, the Seven-Eleven, the Burger King and into the Basil Fawlty Bar and observes marauding squads of British and Northern European geezers out on the piss and on the fuck, one image enters you head: Ibiza. A culture of raw free-marketeering leisure enterprise running on western money, lust, drugs and banging beats. It's not particularly the kind of place you take your partner to on hols.
It remains to be seen whether the Thai embrace of tourism - if only since country's 'Amazing Thailand' marketing campaign of 1998, back when Koh Pan-Ngan didn't even have an electric grid - destroys what remains of the mythic 'vibe', as it has on Hat Rin.
When you witness in the glint in the eyes of Cyrus's contemporaries - people like Electric Stew's Mo Morris - when they scan the territory, it's clear that the ideal seeding conditions exists for canny club operators to translate the Full-moon vibe of yore into the well-packaged rave experience, even if it is just for the party instead of the money.
'We've spoken to the Thai people who own the beach whether they run the full-moon parties with a view to bringing an English superclub or our own DJs,' says Irani. 'They're aware that there are a lot of Europeans and travellers. I'm never gonna make any money, but it would be great to come one or twice a year and party.'
It's not like big guns haven't caught the same aroma of opportunity, either. Ministry of Sound recently franchised operations in Bangkok. At least one record company is considering a first Thailand-themed dance compilation. Dude, where's my virginal Island paradise gone?
SO IF Thailand really is the New Ibiza - because long-haul travel is the new two-week Med package tour - then where is the new Thailand on the world map of hip chillability? Depending on who you speak to, the index runs like this: Thailand was the new Goa. Now Kerala is the new Thailand while the new Goa is said to be a practically untouched islet in the Aegean sea whose whereabouts the elite are sworn not to reveal, on pain of death by independent financial advisers. However, the new Thailand could just as well be Bahia in Brazil (major beach scene there), assuming Na Trang in Vietnam doesn't gets there first, or that place in Laos people keep going on about. Babylon exists: we just don't know where.
As for shaven-headed IT engineer Jimmy Crangle, 22, crouched on the rugs with a bucket of vodka and Red Bull outside Hat Rin's Drop In Bar on Saturday night, he couldn't particularly give a toss either way. Out here, people keep asking him if he sells weed (he doesn't). For him the principal redeeming of quality of Thailand is that it's not Glasgow, his home town. He's not bothered that the legendary psychotropic chilledness is now, for the majority of those who pass through on cheap Qantas and BA deals, about as authentic as the Louis Vuitton holdalls of Bangkok's markets. In front of him is an the assemblage of bindis, Thai pants, delirious faces and cryogenically relaxed Swedish, Iraelis, Germans, and British, the new internatiolist peace corps in front of him. Spliffs circulate, and the DJ drops a choice selection of underground chill-out cuts. You now the type: Blue's 'All Rise', House Of Pain's 'Jump Around' and, yes, DJ fucking Otzi.
Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?
'You can probably travel five miles up the hill to find the real Koh Pan-Ngan,' he says, whose on holiday for as long as he can 'but this feels like Ibiza to me. It's down to the fact that you can fly here a lot cheaper than before. The standard of living has gone up so much that you can live forever here for fuck all. 'Most of my mate will just got to Spain. They've a psychological thing about they can't go any further than a three-hour flight. I keep saying come over, they're like, 'och it's too far away.' Why spend the money and go to spain. Still, I hate to think what it's gonna be like in ten years.'
Jimmy reckons Thailand is being ruined. Anne, a 21 year-old kindergarten worker from Sweden, reckons so too. 'This place is where you learn you to travel. Everyone wants to chill out, yeah, but it's getting worse. Now there's a Seven Eleven and you see people going round with make-up up and skirts an high heeled shoes. When you got to Thailand you shouldn't have to worry about looking like that!"
No such consideration for wee bronzed dynamo Daniel from Melbourne, who, when he's not bombing between posses of girls, skinning up a spliff or untying his shorts, summarises his experiences of Thailand thus: 'Beaches: amazing. Drugs: amazing. Women: amazing. Parties: amazing. This place,' he bellows, lolling all over his mates, 'is amazing!'
The myths hold no fascination for Daniel; all that counts are the fantasies he'll be dreaming up tonight with the aid of another magic mushroom shake. Because dream creation is Thailand's singular business skill, conforming to whichever fantasies you care to project onto it. Somewhere in a palm-sheltered beach to the north of the island, chances are the psychedelians are lost in a vortex of THC and good vibrations. Right here, under the winking eye of McSevenElevenBucks on Hat Rin beach where the Drop-In bar's soundsystem blares the global beach life Top Forty, this feels like Paradise lost. The funny thing is, everyone's too chilled out to notice. But anyway, we should kick back, relax, reach for the Rizla, enjoy it while we can. Never mind Ministry of Sound. Interpol will be here soon. Just ask the man with the didgeridoo.

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United States v. Harmon - 474 F. Supp. 3d 76 (D.D.C. 2020)
The MTA never defines money. When a statute does not supply a definition, a court generally gives a statutory term its ordinary meaning. The term money, as detailed below, commonly means a medium of exchange, method of payment, or store of value. Bitcoin is these things.
Defendant, Larry Dean Harmon, is charged with three counts related to his alleged operation of Helix, an underground tumbler for bitcoin, a form of virtual currency. As described in the indictment, Helix enabled customers, for a fee, to send bitcoins to designated recipients in a manner that was designed to conceal and obfuscate the source or owner of the bitcoins. This service, which was located on the Darknet- a collection of hidden websites accessible only to anonymized users-was allegedly advertised as a way to mask drug, gun, or other illegal transactions from law enforcement. Helix was used to exchange approximately 354,468 bitcoins, the equivalent of approximately $311 million in U.S. dollars. A federal grand jury indicted the defendant for conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, Count One, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h). Count Two, for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1960(a), and Count Three, for engaging, without a license, in the business of money transmission, as defined in D.C. Code § 26-1001(10), in violation of the District of Columbia's Money Transmitters Act (MTA), D.C. Code § 26-1023(c). Defendant now moved to dismiss, for failure to state an offense on both Counts Two and Three.
Should the defendant's motion to dismiss be denied?
The court held that after examination of the relevant statutes, case law, and other sources, the Court concluded that bitcoin qualifies as money under the MTA and that Helix's business, though, was receiving bitcoin to send to another location or person in order to mask the original source of the bitcoin. Under the relevant authorities, that qualifies as money transmission. Also, as described in the indictment, it was an "unlicensed money transmitting business" under applicable federal law. The court then denied the defendant's motion to dismiss his indictment for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, in violation of 18 U.S.C.S. § 1960(a) and engaging, without a license, in the business of money transmission, as defined in D.C. Code § 26-1001(10), in violation of D.C. Code § 26-1023(c) of the District of Columbia's Money Transmitters Act (MTA).


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El cuclillo de isla del Coco (Coccyzus ferrugineus) es una especie de ave cuculiforme de la familia Cuculidae endémica de la isla del Coco, situada en el océano Pacífico y perteneciente a Costa Rica.

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Campanula exigua is een eenjarige plant uit de klokjesfamilie (Campanulaceae).

De plant is endemisch in Californië. De soort komt hier voor op enkele brandgevoelige hellingen van het Mount Diablo State Park.
De plant groeit op rotsige en kiezelige grond. Enkele stengels met een melkig sap dragen slechts spaarzaam kleine bladeren. Aan het eind van elke stengel groeien klokvormige, helder blauwviolette bloemen.

De plant komt voor in het zogenaamde chaparralecosysteem. Het is een van de weinige planten die het goed doen op bodems met serpentijn daarin.

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 Taxon: Campanula exigua Rattan; in: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program; Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]; National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland; [17 February 2012]

Exigua
Plant uit het Nearctisch gebied
Endemische plant uit Californië


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From the shortest story, that is 'Knowing Jajima' to an exquisite story that is elaborately charactered 'Misty Moments', the reading takes you through a series of assorted emotions that have precisely carved in its required place and thus depicted in the characters. Besides the story and the title itself, I actually grew fondness towards a few characters - Moni of Misty Moments, Kaku of Conjugal Bliss, Monisha and her tryst with the Mumbai Monsoons, that had the rained aroma of the wet mud breathe again into the lives of Rajdeep and his wife, or that unaccountable promise of Kasturi's little son to his Jajima and a few more not mentioned here - they all were my co-travelers in the journey of reading through the 'Nesting of Thoughts'
Since it is a collection of short stories, the duplication of names of the character, appearing in different stories, may overlap the hang-over of the character that was first read in the early stories Example : Siddharth, Moni - Moni is repeated in three stories. So the characters may over-lap in the recess of the reader's mind that could affect the independent flavor of the respective stories.
My most favorite was the 'Misty Moments' , though I felt the reference to the death ceremony were more frequently brought to the reader's notice, but then I also felt it was required since it was central to the story's plot.
It has nothing to do with the quality of the writing, but the least favorite was the 'Conversation', I felt it needed a little more conviction to the climax of the story - the twist was not as satisfyingly savoring as the twist that was effectively brought out in 'Hi..", although the contents of the story are wide apart ..
The earthiness and nativity in the stories, the deception and the intensity of gratitude and loyalty, the weaving of the contemporary and regional lifestyles as a backdrop of the storyline, the fledgling and the evolving relationships have all been hatched and the characters brought out in the story with such vividness which makes the reader sail through the imagery effortlessly.
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At the age of just 25, Monica Lewinsky achieved a level of infamy you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy.
Lewinsky took up unpaid White House internship for White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta in the summer of 1995, when she was 22.
By 1998, the whole world knew her name after it came to light that she'd had a sexual relationship with Bill Clinton , the then-49-year-old president of the United States, between 1995 and 1997.
Clinton arguably somehow won back the forgiveness of the American public.
As for Lewinsky, and as is often sadly the way, it was her name and reputation which was dragged through the mud.
It's taken 20 years – and the #MeToo movement – for Lewinsky to come out fighting.
And despite all the bullying levelled at her, she's managed to retain a sense of humour.
When Adam Grant , a psychologist and New York Times bestselling author, asked Twitter "What's the worst career advice you've ever received?" she had the best response.
Her reply simply read: "An internship at the white house will be amazing on your resume."
Obviously the trolls came out to play, but plenty of others were HUGELY impressed by Lewinsky's wit and fast response.
"You win the internet, Monica," one fan wrote.
"I'm glad my mother taught me during the impeachment that I shouldn't be cruel to you. I learned about the imbalance of power turning sexuality into something terrible as a teenager because of you and I'm a lot wiser as a woman."
As another admirer put it: "This is maybe the best reply I've ever seen on Twitter. Anyone have a better one? Please reply."
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For light-duty jobs at multiple work sites mobile truck mounted cranes are the preferred equipment. Mobility and ease of use are the hallmarks of a good truck mounted crane, like the ones sold by Grove. One of their newest truck mounted cranes is the TMS800E, a 70 ton workhorse ideal for freight yards, residential construction, land-based salvage operations, etc.
Kato Works Ltd. is a Japanese crane manufacture that's been in business since 1895. Back in the early days the company specialised in railroad locomotives for Japan's unique and rugged geography. By 1938 they had expanded to include all sorts of industrial equipment including some of the world's toughest cranes.
Among Kato's current stable of rough terrain cranes the SR-300L is the lighter of the two with a 30 ton lifting capacity. It's built for reliability and easy transport that lets you accomplish your high lifting needs safely and effectively. Kato cranes are known for their long-lasting durability even in the harshest of conditions.
In the truck-mounted class, Liebherr's 60-ton LTF 1060-4.1 mobile crane provides great performance in a compact and easy-to-maintain package. This four-axle machine is incredibly road friendly while its high capacity telescoping boom gives you lots of options on the job site. The icing on the cake is the fact that the LTF 1060-4.1 is ready to go as soon as it reaches its destination.
When it comes to versatile AT cranes, Terex-Demag has set the standard with the 1,200 ton capacity AC 1000. This crane is the largest easy-rigging mobile crane that can still be driven on the highway even with its monstrous 50m boom still attached. The nine-axle carrier has been engineered with latest technology to make this feat possible.


Tickets include dinner and the concert.
Jeff Keele Band has been together for approximately 8 years. All Band members are local Carbon County Born members. They Love to support and contribute to their home town.
They are Carbon Counties favorite home grown band, whenever they play they have a sold out crowd.
They started out as a cover band, playing the hottest Country and Rock songs. Then Jeff decided to start writing his own songs. 2 years ago they recorded their own album "Hot Black Coffee" all the songs are written by Jeff Keele, and by Brian Sherman.
The Next year they went back to the recording studio and recorded their second album "West Bound".
Once again the songs are written by Jeff and Band members.


Who's the old scag sitting next to him?
Methods:In this series,coronary heart disease was proven by clinic,electrocardiogram and selective coronary arteriography (SCAG).
But Alan Wapner, an Ontario council member and head of the SCAG Transportation Committee, said the project has a long way to go before final approval.
Results: The total MMSE score increased significantly,while each factor score of SCAG decreased significantly after treatment.
Methods: In this series,coronary heart disease was proven by clinic,electrocardiogram and selective coronary arteriography (SCAG).
Method:11 patients with AD and 10 patients with MID were tested by mini mental state examination (MMSE) and Sandoz clinical assessment geriatric (SCAG) before and after treatment.


As promised, here's a quick look at the reviews I'll be posting over the next couple of weeks – books in genres ranging from Middle Grade to Thrillers to Military SF to Epic Fantasy, as well as a couple of audiobooks.
Coming on Monday, PJ Strebor's third novel in the Hope Island Chronicles series, starring Nathan Telford: "Silent Running". Really enjoyed this one, so shift it (and the previous books) onto your radar.
Also coming up, Steven Poore's excellent 'Heir to the North' – we are enjoying a literary age in which independently or self-published work is just as good as traditionally published, and the opening novel in Steven's "Malessar's Curse" is a prime example.
"The Rain Never Came" is one of the novels that has stayed with me – it's cautionary, leans toward the tragic, and is slightly experimental.
"The Killing Lessons" is one of the best, most terrifying and nail-biting (even though I don't bite my nails) Thrillers I've ever read (and listened to). Blew me away.
"The Red Wolf Conspiracy" was brilliant. I'm kicking myself that it's taken me so long to read it. Absolutely loved it.
Gail Z Martin is building an excellent series around two brothers and their unusual gifts – I really enjoyed "Scourge", and "Vengeance" was an excellent sequel.


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HOW TO LIE AND ALWAYS GET AWAY IT
By tomisule834
There was a time when it was commonly said that a gentleman's word was his bond. There was a time when lies were a taboo. There was a time where people could leave their goods at a market square and return to find everything intact. In the times we live in, it seems that honesty is a thing of the past, or a virtue for a very select, and almost extinct few.
It is sad that we live in a time where more people lie about who they are and what they have just to gain acceptance. People create false reputations and pretend to be larger than life to gain large followings from people who could not care less if something terrible were to happen to them tomorrow.
With lies having colour codes to determine its morality (white lie for example), it seems that everybody needs to lie to get ahead, or make peace, or avoid trouble or consequences of their actions.
There was a time when "I love you" was said only between lovers who were determined to spend to spend the rest of their lives together and praises were sung only to the deserving and not to the highest bidder.
There was a time when the word honour and integrity was valued above possessions; when who you were was more important than what you had.
It appears that ambition, and a desperate need to succeed at all costs has enslaved us. Thanks to technology, lies are easier to create and validate. It is amazing how much effort and resources people have invested in lies and fake identities.
If you want to learn how to lie and always get away with it, tell the truth! A lie is like a sink hole which only gets bigger, because it takes more lies to cover it up, causing the liar to sink deeper and deeper till there is no way out.
We all make mistakes, but we should always be honest about them. Honesty will earn you trust, build your brand, grow your business and bring you relationships that will stand through trials and falsehoods.
Be the person people can count on, be a leader who influences people to do the right thing. Be the parent who the kids learn honesty from their actions, not just their words. BE the last person on earth that is still faithful, honest and kind, the one who speaks the truth even when there is no reward.
No lasting successful business, marriage, friendship, is possible without honesty. Divorces, backstabbing friends, ruined businesses, bankrupt and broke individuals and people who die with no one shedding real tears at their funeral often have one thing in common; they lied and thought they could get away with it.
Choose today to live a life where your words can be trusted, where is truth is more important than a quick pass or any seeming gratification you will get at the time. Choose to live a life of honour integrity, contentment and morality. It will not be easy, but it is a decision with great benefits and guaranteed rewards.
Grow to become the best and truest version of yourself every time, and influence those around you to do the same. Let us begin a revolution, to become an honest generation, to become people of truth who can be trusted.
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William Wycherley (baptised 8 April 16411 January 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.

Early life
Wycherley was born at Clive near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, although his birthplace has been said to be Trench Farm to the north near Wem later the birthplace of another writer, John Ireland, who was said to have been adopted by Wycherley's widow following the death of Ireland's parents. He was baptised on 8 April 1641 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, son of Daniel Wycherley (1617–1697) and his wife Bethia, daughter of William Shrimpton. His family was settled on a moderate estate of about £600 a year and his father was in the business service of the Marquess of Winchester. Wycherley lived during much of his childhood at Trench Farm, one his paternal family's properties, then spent some three years of his adolescence in France, where he was sent, at fifteen, to be educated on the banks of the Charente.

While in France, Wycherley converted to Roman Catholicism.
He returned to England shortly before the restoration of King Charles II, and lived at Queen's College, Oxford where Thomas Barlow was provost.
Under Barlow's influence, Wycherley returned to the Church of England.

Thomas Macaulay hints that Wycherley's subsequent turning back to Roman Catholicism once more was influenced by the patronage and unwonted liberality of the Duke of York, the future King James II.  As a professional fine gentleman, at a period when, as Major Pack wrote, "the amours of Britain would furnish as diverting memoirs, if well related, as those of France published by Rabutin, or those of Nero's court writ by Petronius", Wycherley was obliged to be a loose liver. However, his nickname of "Manly Wycherley" seems to have been earned by his straightforward attitude to life.

Wycherley left Oxford and took up residence at the Inner Temple, which he had initially entered in October 1659 but gave little attention to studying law and ceased to live there after 1670. Nor did he reside in London continuously. He was serving in Ireland in 1662 as a soldier with the Earl of Ancram's Regiment of Guards; during 1664–65 he was attached on a diplomatic mission by Sir Richard Fanshawe in Madrid, and claimed to have fought in the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665.

First two plays
Pleasure and the stage were his only interests.  His play, Love in a Wood, was produced early in 1671 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It was published the next year.  Though Wycherley boasted of having written the play at the age of nineteen, before going to Oxford, this is probably untrue.  Macaulay points to the allusions in the play to gentlemen's periwigs, to guineas, to the vests which Charles ordered to be worn at court, to the Great Fire of London, etc., as showing that the comedy could not have been written the year before the author went to Oxford.

That the writer of a play far more daring than George Etherege's She Would If She Could—and far more brilliant too—should at once become the talk of the court was inevitable; equally inevitable was it that the author of the song at the end of the first act, in praise of harlots and their offspring, should attract the attention of the king's mistress, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland. Possibly Wycherley intended this famous song as a glorification of the Duchess and her profession, for he seems to have been more delighted than surprised when, as he passed in his coach through Pall Mall, he heard her address him from her coach window as a "rascal" and a "villain", and the son of a woman such as that mentioned in the song. His answer was perfect: "Madam, you have been pleased to bestow a title on me which belongs only to the fortunate."  Seeing that she received the compliment in the spirit in which it was meant, he lost no time in calling upon her, and was from that moment the recipient of those "favours" to which he alludes with pride in the dedication of the play to her. Voltaire's story (in his Letters on the English Nation) that the Duchess used to go to Wycherley's chambers in the Temple disguised as a country wench, in a straw hat, with pattens on and a basket in her hand, may be apocryphal, for disguise was superfluous in her case, but it shows how general was the opinion that, under such patronage as this, Wycherley's fortune as poet and dramatist was now made.

Whether Wycherley's experiences as a sea-borne officer, which he alludes to in his lines "On a Sea Fight which the Author was in betwixt the English and the Dutch", occurred before or after the production of Love in a Wood is a point upon which opinions differ, but probably took place not only after the production of Love in a Wood but after the production of The Gentleman Dancing Master, in 1673. Macaulay claims that he went to sea simply because it was the "polite" thing to do so—because, as he says in the epilogue to The Gentleman Dancing Master, "all gentlemen must pack to sea".  This second comedy was published in 1673, but was probably acted late in 1671. In The Gentleman Dancing Master the mingling of discordant elements destroys a play that would never in any circumstances have been strong.

His military service in the Third Anglo-Dutch War is known. He was commissioned "Captain-Lieutenant" in a company of the Duke of Buckingham's regiment of foot on 19 June 1672. He was sent on an expedition that ended in his company being deployed on the Isle of Wight to pre-empt any Dutch landings in July 1673. He was promoted to Captain proper on 26 February 1674 but resigned on 6 March and returned home. His time was plagued by difficulties obtaining pay and supplies for the troops, some of whom, after his departure complained of having had "ill-usage" from their captain.

Last two plays
It is, however, his two last comedies, The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer, that sustain Wycherley's reputation. The Country Wife, produced in 1672 or 1673 and published in 1675, is full of wit, ingenuity, high spirits and conventional humour. The play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time. The title itself contains a lewd pun with regard to the first syllable of "country". It is based on several plays by Molière, with added features that 1670s London audiences demanded: colloquial prose dialogue in place of Molière's verse, a complicated, fast-paced plot tangle, and many sex jokes. It turns on two indelicate plot devices: a rake's trick of pretending impotence to safely have clandestine affairs with married women, and the arrival in London of an inexperienced young "country wife", with her discovery of the joys of town life, especially the fascinating London men.

The Plain Dealer, based on Molière's Le Misanthrope, was highly praised by John Dryden and John Dennis, though it was equally condemned for its obscenity by many. The title character is Captain Manly, a sailor who doubts the motives of everyone he meets except for his sweetheart, Olivia, and his friend, Vernish. When Olivia jilts him and marries Vernish, he attempts to gain revenge by sending a pageboy (who, unknown to him, is a girl in disguise and is in love with him) to seduce Olivia. When the truth of the page's identity is discovered, Manly marries her instead.

Wycherley had no title or wealth, but had by 1675 already recommended himself by his two well-received comedies and had been admitted to the inner court circle, sharing the conversation and sometimes the mistresses of King Charles II, who "was extremely fond of him upon account of his wit". Charles had determined to bring up his bastard son, the Duke of Richmond, like a prince, sought as his tutor a man as qualified as Wycherley to impart a "princely education", engaging him in 1679 and it seems clear that, if not for Wycherley's marriage, the education of the young man would actually have been entrusted to him as a reward for having written Love in a Wood.

Wycherley's efforts to bring to the Duke of Buckingham's notice the case of Samuel Butler shows that the writer of even such plays as The Country Wife may have generous impulses, while his defence of Buckingham, when the duke in his turn fell into trouble, show that the inventor of so shameless a fraud as that which forms the pivot of The Plain Dealer may in actual life possess that passion for fair play which is seldom believed to be an English quality. But among the "ninety-nine" religions with which Voltaire accredited England there is one whose permanency has never been shaken — the worship of gentility. To this Wycherley remained as faithful to the day of his death as Congreve himself. And, if his relations to that "other world beyond this", which the Puritans had adopted, were liable to change with his environments, it was because that "other world" was really out of fashion altogether.

First marriage
It was after the success of The Plain Dealer that the turning point came in Wycherley's career. The great dream of all the men about town in Charles's time, as Wycherley's plays all show, was to marry a widow, young and handsome, a peer's daughter if possible — but in any event rich, and spend her money upon wine and women. While talking to a friend in a bookseller's shop at Tunbridge Wells where he was staying at the spa during the spring of 1678, Wycherley heard The Plain Dealer asked for by a lady who, in the person of the countess of Drogheda (Letitia Isabella Robartes, eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Radnor and widow of the 2nd Earl of Drogheda), answered all the requirements. They secretly married on 29 September 1679, for, fearing to lose the king's patronage and the income therefrom, Wycherley still thought it politic to pass as a bachelor.

However the king was displeased when he came to know of Wycherley's secret marriage. Wycherley lost the appointment that was so nearly within his grasp—lost indeed the royal favour for ever. He never had an opportunity of regaining it, for the countess seems to have really loved him, and Love in a Wood had proclaimed the writer to be the kind of husband whose virtue prospers best when closely guarded at the domestic hearth. Wherever he went the countess followed trim, and when she did allow him to meet his boon companions it was in a tavern in Bow Street opposite to his own house, and even there under certain protective conditions. In summer or in winter he was obliged to sit with the window open and the blinds up, so that his wife might see that the party included no women.

She died, however, by July 1685 and left him the whole of her fortune but the title to the property was disputed; the costs of the litigation were so heavy that his father was unable (or otherwise unwilling) to come to financially aid him. He was thrown into the Fleet Prison where he remained, being finally released by the liberality of James II. James had been so much gratified by seeing The Plain Dealer acted that, finding a parallel between Manly's "manliness" and his own, such as no spectator had before discovered, he paid off Wycherley's execution creditor and settled on him a pension of £200 a year. In 1689, while his father was still alive, he fled back to Shropshire after the accession of William III displaced James II. He feuded with his father over his debts but eventually achieved a settlement to pay off £1,000 of these, enabling him to return to London.

Later life
Other debts still troubled Wycherley, however, and he never was released from his embarrassments, not even after succeeding to a life estate in the family property at Clive after his father's death in 1697. He took a mortgage of £1000 from lands there to pay further debts and continued to live in London, only calling on the estate to collect rents.

At the age of seventy-four, in poor health, and by special licence dated 20 December 1715, he married young Elizabeth Jackson, who was mistress of a cousin, Captain Thomas Shrimpton, who had collusively and somewhat coercively introduced her to Wycherley. Wycherley was said to have done so in order to spite his nephew, the next in succession, knowing that he would shortly die and that the jointure would impoverish the estate. Wycherley died at his lodging house, having returned to the Catholic Church before his remarriage, in the early hours of 1 January 1716, and was buried in the vault of St Paul's, Covent Garden on 5 January.

There was a lawsuit by the nephew to overturn the validity of the marriage but it was upheld on the grounds Wycherley was sane at the time of the marriage. Three months after Wycherley's death, she married Shrimpton.

Legacy
The scandalous language and content of Wycherley's plays restricted their publication and performances for nearly two centuries, and over most of that time the original versions were replaced with bowdlerised versions, such as the adaptation of The Plain Dealer by Isaac Bickerstaffe and a cleaned-up and bland version of The Country Girl by David Garrick. These are now forgotten curiosities.

William Wycherley may have coined the expression "nincompoop" (certainly, the word occurs in The Plain Dealer). The Oxford English Dictionary also cites Wycherley as the first user of the phrase "happy-go-lucky", in 1672.

Voltaire was a great admirer of Wycherley's plays, and once said of them:

Composer Malcolm Arnold (and librettist Joe Mandoza) turned The Gentleman Dancing Master into a one-act opera in 1952. It was originally intended as a television opera but was rejected as too racy. It was recorded in 2020.

Bibliography
 William Wycherley Edited with an Introduction and Notes by W C Ward, part of Mermaid Series Includes biography of Wycherley, together with the following written in play format Love in a Wood or St James's Park, The Gentleman Dancing Master, The Country Wife and the Plain Dealer.

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