Referência: SILVEIRA, Tiago Cantuário da.The Role of John Milton's Paradise Lost in delineating the epic through fantasy in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. 2015. 45 f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Licenciatura em Letras Português-Inglês) - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, 2015.
Resumo: No campo da Literatura, é comum encontrar trabalhos literários que interajam entre si, criando uma relação de intertextualidade. Baseado nisso, nossa pesquisa propõe analisar o papel de Paraíso Perdido de John Milton (1820) na formação épica da trilogia Fronteiras do Universo, de Philip Pullman (2007). Para entender esse papel, analisamos como alguns personagens da trilogia reencenam a queda do homem e como a imagem de Satanás na trilogia parece responder à mesma imagem em Paraíso Perdido. Para realizar esse trabalho, analisam-se passagens dos livros e também ideias presentes em "Tradition and the Individual Talent", de T.S. Eliot (1982) e em The Theory of the Novel, de György Lukács (1983). Como possível resultado, espera-se descobrir que a intertextualidade entre Fronteiras do Universo e Paraíso Perdido não é apenas uma questão de inspiração e que Fronteiras do Universo pode ser visto como um Épico contemporâneo à nossa geração.
Abstract: In the field of literature, it is common to find literary works that interact among themselves creating a relation of intertextuality. Based on this, our research proposes to analyse the role of Paradise Lost by John Milton (1820) in the delineation of the epic intent of the trilogy His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman ([1995-2000]2007). To understand this role, we analyse how some characters in the trilogy re-enact the fall of man and how the image of Satan in the trilogy seems to respond to the same image in Paradise Lost. To achieve this, we analyse passages from the books also in views of the ideas in "Tradition and the Individual Talent" by T.S. Eliot (1982) and The Theory of the Novel by György Lukács (1983). As a possible result we expect to find that the intertextuality between His Dark Materials and Paradise Lost is not only a matter of inspiration and that HDM might be seen a contemporary epic for our generation.


The English language is growing & 90ways is on the case.
An extension of the newly-minted root term "blog" (itself a contraction of the "weblog") which describes, in the broadest sense, the world ('sphere') of those who blog (the "bloggers"), i.e. those who post their personalised reportings/musings/opinions on small slices of private space on the World Wide Web and hope others will read.
It is just as well that this term was coined, to address a real need to describe the voluminous activity being indulged in by those who blog, the bloggers, and the virtual space they inhabit. Of course, it tries to convey the idea of a separate and distinct zone, nay, even a world that is the domain of the bloggers. Also implied are suggestions of a distinct etiquette and form governing this particular sphere. But, very importantly it conveys a sense that this is a space of some importance, with its own airwaves and hubbub, its own angst and free-minded thinking -- a whole new universe with its own lifeforms with their own diverse activities.
Of particular note would be that this term recognizes this republic of independent thinkers who hitherto might not have access to traditional media, which are controlled by large conglomerates, with which to proliferate their opinions and thoughts. But, as denizens of the blogosphere, they are able to find a channel of expression which is not considered frivolous and even, increasingly, is being taken seriously.
A hijacked suffix denoting the primary importance or core nature of the word preceding it. Descended from the American compulsion to define the world as they define themselves: "All about me."
Like human knowledge in general and the greenhouse effect in particular, the English language is changing at an ever-accelerating rate that guarantees, at the very least, an unrecognizable landscape (in this case, wordscape) just a few generations hence. Nanotechnology is upon us, the glaciers are melting, the sky is falling, and we have developed the ability to construct entire species of words from mere suffixes. -Centric is the most egregious example. No longer reserved for the red-hatted ladies clutching afternoon stemware, -centric has moved beyond our beloved ec-centric to include such overstuffed new-biz terms as consumer-centric, business-centric, linear-centric (a geometric impossibility), culture-centric, the dreary list is endless. And, in all cases, these -centricities have supplanted perfectly descriptive adjectives that are entitled to journeyman status. Fact is, the use of -centric is designed to provide the writer or speaker with a cloak of mystery and newfound perspective. I immediately think, "I'd best determine if this word comes complete with definition and work it into the next available PowerPoint presentation."
The etymological future of -centric is uncertain. Its natural path would be a transition from suffix to commonly recognized adjective, but first it's got to go through the evolutionary process of losing its tail -- also a natural path, which took homo sapiens several thousands of years.
From the Kentish verb To Chav meaning to steal or appropriate, now used as noun referring to "poor white trash" living in counties of southern England.
Aged between 14 and 18, Chavs all seem to dress the same, as if in a tribal way, to be both a group together and to isolate themselves from the other people around them. Chavs share a taste for Burberry baseball caps, shiny tracksuits and expensive sneakers, worn with a white wife-beater vest under puffy, hooded jackets. In summer shirts are discarded as skinny white boys with crew-cuts waddle aggressively through shopping malls and precincts across the land, showing their undernourished torsos to young members of their clan, at the same time offending old ladies with their bare teenage physiques. Beer cans are gripped in hands as cigarettes nestle between their fingers. They hawk and spit on the ground. When a group of Chavs is stationary for a time, be it in a bus station or by a fast-food restaurant, their lumps of spit accumulate to form a nauseating mine-field.
Occasionally swear words gush forth, often directed at people trying to get past the Chavs or at bus drivers/mothers with buggies/people on their way to work; all of whom conflict with the Chavs' nihilistic and directionless hanging about in public places. Chavs stay on foot, prowling and occupying public areas, until they are old enough to qualify for a moped or car license.
The way of the Chav is a growing lifestyle trend, and they are increasing in number. The make-up of British society and its people is changing, and the Middle Classes are outraged at the erosion of the "traditional values" of work, family and respect. Chavs will one day be the new majority in British Society. At the moment, "Chav" is a term of vindictive derision. Yet, the balance of society is tipping and the Chav may become the norm in British towns and cities. Already, Chav fashion is entering the mainstream. Hip journalists and pop stars are claiming affiliations to this perceived underclass. In time, they will flourish, and the term Chav will no longer be a negative one, but a name of pride and acceptance.


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The Heart's Haven
by Jill Barnett
Jill Barnett's very first title, The Heart's Haven, won the Persie Award for Best First Book. The lawless, gold-hungry town of San Francisco is no place to raise a family, but Hallie Fredriksen has little choice after her mother's sudden death. Her father's call to sea takes him away for months at a time, and there is no one but Hallie to raise her headstrong sisters and impish twin brothers. The young Fredriksen clan is a handful, but the last person Hallie needs involved is Kit Howland, the arrogant and handsome whaling agent who is her father's good friend…and her own secret crush. But Kit has been burned by love and thought himself immune to feelings of the heart, until he is face to face with the most unlikely beauty, who captures his heart with her spirit and laughter. He refuses to trust his feelings, refuses to forget the past and step into the dangerous territory of love and desire. Then fate makes them an instant family, binds them as husband and wife in wild town full of danger, and where their battle of wills and love is as treacherous as the stormy sea and as thrilling as the rush for gold.
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When All Architecture Is Green Architecture
by Keith Goetzman
Tags: environment, business, building and design, architecture, sustainability, urban planning, U.S., international, Europe, Robert Stern, Yale Environment,
There's a lot of talk about sustainable architecture—but one day in the not-too-distant future, sustainability will be an integral part of the practice rather than a special feature. And as usual in green thinking, Europe is leading the way. Both points are the contention of Robert Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, speaking to Environment: Yale magazine:
"I don't think sustainability is a design aesthetic, any more than having electricity in your building, or telephones, or anything else," says Stern. "It's an ethic, a basic consideration that we have to have as architects designing buildings." American architects, designers and builders are "in an early, slightly naive phase" in coming to terms with sustainability, he says, and "we have to get everybody's attention." But they will catch up fast enough, Stern argues, so that "in 10 years we're not going to talk about sustainability anymore, because it's going to be built into the core processes of architecture." Advertising sustainability, he says, will be like an architect getting up in front of a room to "proudly proclaim how his buildings didn't fall down."
Source: Environment: Yale
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Beautiful And Abundant
Growing The Best Onions E-Handbook


It is important to know how much product to use for two reasons. One, so your product is as effective as you need it to be. Two, so you don't wash it all down the plug hole or have a super moisturised and radiant pillow!
So I thought it would be helpful to provide you with a list of what I recommend and use myself. So here goes…..
This depends on what type of cleanser you are using but, since I only recommend my clients use oil based balms that is what I'm going with!
If you are going for a manual exfoliator (the scrubby type) then I would suggest no more than blueberry sized blob.
If you are using an acid exfoliator/toner then get that cotton pad soaked by about ¾ and use both sides of it. One side for your up strokes and the other to work your way back down the face and neck. I tend to use this on my décolletage as well. Anything to avoid the crepe chest!
Ok so I have to confess that I am a bit of a mist junkie. I use them ALL the time. My skin can dehydrate if you look at it the wrong way. If you are new to this I would suggest a good couple of pumps/spritz. However, you can use these throughout the day, sitting at your desk, anytime you feel you need a little boost of moisture. Mists are particularly useful when you are flying and want to avoid leather face when you land!
There is a lot chat at the moment in beauty circles about the effectiveness of eye creams. I have to confess it is certainly not something I use religiously but I do understand for those with concerns about this are it is an essential piece of kit. Take it easy though, 1 pine nut for both eyes is more than enough. I'll pull together another post on eye cream and the alternatives you can use btw.
Serums are the most treasured part of my own personal routine. I LOVE them. Without them I genuinely feel sad (I know….. first world problems. I am aware.) I tend to use 1 pump in the morning and 2 at night.
Most oil products come with a handy pipette. I would suggest 4 drops. This obviously depends on whether you have a big face… (which I do btw). What you are looking for is good coverage with a little slip (certainly no drag) but not super slick!
I read the best ever analogy about moisturiser from the greatest beauty blogger I know (bow down to the legend that is Caroline Hirons!). Oils and serums are like medicine when you are sick, moisturiser is like the duvet you wrap around yourself after you've taken the medicine! I would suggest trying a 20p sized blob and see if that will cover your neck as well. DON'T FORGET THE NECK LADIES. If itsenough not add a 5p blob to cover your neck as well.


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Visit the LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Model Display at LEGOLAND as We Bid it Farewell! Print
Join LEGOLAND® Parks to Celebrate the Tribute to the Live-Action Movies Before it Departs
ISKANDAR PUTERI, 14 November 2019 - Come seek the Force at the LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland model display at LEGOLAND as we say goodbye! For 5 years, millions of LEGOLAND guests around the world have enjoyed experiencing the iconic saga by seeing scenes from each of the seven live-action STAR WARS™ movies replicated in 1:20 scale using more than 1.5 million LEGO bricks.
"Since opening in 2014, the LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland model display has been popular for children and their parents," said Kurt Stocks, General Manager at LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort. "We are thrilled we were able to bring this generational experience to our guests and hope those who have yet to see it, or want to revisit with their friends, will come experience it before it leaves us in December and we prepare to build new memorable experiences for guests."
The LEGO Star Wars™ Miniland model display has taken park guests through scenes featuring eight planets: Naboo, with its capital city, Theed and the Royal Palace, home to Queen Amidala; Geonosis, where Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker battle three ferocious creatures in the Geonosis execution arena; Kashyyk, where the Droid Army's amphibious assault on the home planet of Chewbacca and the Wookiees is depicted; Mustafar, where the fateful duel between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker takes place; Tatooine, where you'll find the Cantina where Luke and Obi-Wan Kenobi first meet up with Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon and his co-pilot Chewbacca; Hoth, where the Empire sends massive walkers to attack the Echo Base and while Luke's snowspeeder has crashed, the young Jedi is seen using his lightsaber to single-handedly bring down a giant AT-AT; Endor, the forest moon which is home to the Ewoks and these small but resourceful creatures join forces with the Rebel Alliance to destroy the shield generator and prevent completion of the second Death Star; and Jakku, it is on this desert planet where Resistance pilot Poe Dameron receives a map to Luke's location and Stormtroopers commanded by Kylo Ren raid the village and capture Poe before she escapes in a stolen TIE fighter with Finn.
The individual film scenes were selected in close consultation with Lucasfilm Ltd. and drawings of the figures, spacecraft, vehicles, landscapes, etc. were taken as the basis for the detailed construction blueprints. STAR WARS sounds, actions and lighting effects help to make the models more lifelike.
The LEGO Star Wars™ Miniland model display is leaving LEGOLAND Parks on 31st December 2019, so be sure to catch it before it's off to a galaxy far, far away!
About LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort
LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort brings together a LEGOLAND® Theme Park, Water Park and Hotel in one LEGO® themed location. It is a family holiday destination with more than 70 hands-on rides, slides, shows and attractions, and designed for families with children aged 2-12. It's the first of its kind in Asia and offers adventure, education and fun for action-packed day trips or short break destination. LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort was presented with the Innovative International Theme Park award by the Brandlaureate International Awards Singapore 2018. The resort was also named one of the top 10 amusement parks in Asia by TripAdvisor®. Having bagged these achievements and many more unstated, LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort seeks to continue to expand and bring new additions to the Resort, to ensure that it remains the crown jewel of Malaysia.
SEA LIFE Malaysia is the first SEA LIFE to open in Malaysia, lying adjacent to other existing ventures of Merlin Entertainments – LEGOLAND® Malaysia Theme Park, LEGOLAND® Water Park and LEGOLAND® Hotel. Located at the heart of Iskandar Puteri, the unique and interactive sea aquarium provides visitors with a fun and educational underwater experience. Through compelling storytelling and up-close interaction, SEA LIFE Malaysia aims to engage and inspire kids to learn about the oceans throughout its 11 different habitat zones.
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Keeping Traditions Alive at LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort this Lunar New Year January 02, 2020
Go on Magical Quests this Holiday Season at LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort's Enchanted Forest November 28, 2019
Visit the LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Model Display at LEGOLAND as We Bid it Farewell! November 22, 2019
Ministry of Education Endorses SEA LIFE Education Program October 26, 2019
Brick-Or-Treat is Back with an Augmented Reality Twist at LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort September 30, 2019
LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort Offers Annual Pass for the Same Price of Day Ticket at MATTA Fair 2019 September 05, 2019
LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort Offers Annual Pass for the Same Price of Day Ticket at MATTA Fair 2019 August 22, 2019
LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort Celebrates World Friendship Day With LEGO Friends July 12, 2019
SEA LIFE Malaysia is now officially open at LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort June 28, 2019
SEA LIFE Malaysia, an Up-Close Ocean Experience, Through Magical Storytelling, Interactive Displays And Hands-On Encounters May 25, 2019


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New Gym Opens in Meridian
Jeremy J. Ford
"I feel like the way we lay the gyms out, and what we design, we have something for everyone," Paul Kirkley, the owner of Fitness Depot which is a new gym that's opened up, in the Bonita Lakes Mall.
"I want all genders, all races, all shapes and sizes. Any interests, I want everybody as a member.
Now opening their 6th location across Mississippi, Fitness Depot caters, to all levels of fitness.
"Whether you just want to come in and work out for just 15 minutes, whether you want to do nothing but cardio. Whether you want to work out in the dungeon, or you want to come over here in the functional training cross fit area. Or you want to just, regular do fitness training. We have something for everyone and plenty of it," says Kirkley.
Fitness depot offers an array of amenities including child care, vitamin supplements and a bar offering smoothies and coffee.
"Also in the section here, we are in the functional training area. We have one of the largest racks, of any cross fit gym in the south. 100 ft of turf of sleds, just outside of us here we have the walking track. Nine laps is a mile. And then also we have tons of cardio. Almost 75 pieces."
Fitness Depot plans to accommodate all of your fitness needs.
"And our name says it all. We are fitness depot. When I created it in 2010, I wanted a name that can go anywhere and have all levels of fitness and be the name that was the center for that."


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Johnson in 1985
Robert Glenn Johnson, Jr.
(1931-06-28) June 28, 1931 (age 88)
Wilkesboro, North Carolina, U.S.
1960 Daytona 500 winner
6-time Winston Cup Series Owner's Champion with Cale Yarborough (1976, 1977, 1978) and Darrell Waltrip (1981, 1982, 1985)
Named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers (1998)
International Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee (1990)
Motorsports Hall of Fame of America Inductee (1991)
NASCAR Hall of Fame Inductee (2010)
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career
313 races run over 14 years
6th - 1955 in NASCAR and 1961 (Grand National)
1953 Southern 500 (Darlington)
1966 American 500 (Rockingham)
First win
1955 Hickory Motor Speedway
1965 Wilkes 400 (North Wilkesboro)
Robert Glenn Johnson, Jr. (born June 28, 1931), better known as Junior Johnson, is a former NASCAR driver of the 1950s and 1960s. He won 50 NASCAR races in his career before retiring in 1966.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he became a NASCAR racing team owner; he sponsored such NASCAR champions as Cale Yarborough and Darrell Waltrip. He now produces a line of fried pork skins and country ham. He is credited as the first to use the drafting technique in stock car racing.
He is nicknamed "The Last American Hero" and his autobiography is of the same name.[1] In May 2007, Johnson teamed with Piedmont Distillers of Madison, North Carolina, to introduce the company's second moonshine product, called "Midnight Moon Moonshine".
↑ "Information". johnsoninfo.weebly.com. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
Official website for Junior Johnson
Oral History Interview with Junior Johnson at Oral Histories of the American South
CanadianDriver.com Article on Junior Johnson
Junior Johnson Biography
Daytona 500 winners
Seven-time
Four-time
Cale Yarborough
Three-time
Bobby Allison
Two-time
Lee Petty
Robert G. Johnson, Jr.
Marvin Panch
Tiny Lund
Fred Lorenzen
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Buddy Baker
Geoff Bodine
Derrike Cope
Ernie Irvan
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Sportspeople from North Carolina
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Last year I made an attempt at setting goals instead of making resolutions. You can see my post about goals for 2013 here. I am taking a look back at the year to see how close I came to my goals.
Pay off our remaining non-mortgage debt. We were able to accomplish this goal on February 13th. In April we got the opportunity to be on the Dave Ramsey radio show and do our "Debt-free Scream" live with Mr. R and Miss E.
Learn how to manage a budget and actually live by it. We're getting better at this but we still have room for improvement.
Fitness Goals - I will say that I didn't reach any of these goals.
Get back into a regular workout routine. The move and adjustment to a new schedule made it difficult to get back into a regular workout routine.
Lose the remaining 45 pounds and reach my goal weight. Regulating my thyroid made maintaining, much less losing, weight a challenge last year.
Now, I am not making excuses for not meeting these goals (as you'll see in my goals for 2014) I fully intend to work at these this year.
Read my Bible through in a year. Although I didn't meet this goal, I did make it halfway through, which is further than I would have gotten if I hadn't set the goal.
Read at least 6 other nonfiction books. I was able to get through one book last year and I started a couple of others. Seeing my failure at this goal makes me all the more determined to do better this year.
Develop a weekly/monthly cleaning routine. Got nowhere near meeting this goal.
Declutter, simplify, and organize my home. One of the blessings of downsizing ( we went from a 1400 sq. ft. house to an 850 sq. ft. one) is the need to declutter, which I have begun doing. As far as the simplifying and organizing, I still have a long way to go.
Start a regular filing system for family paperwork. We finally purchased a filing cabinet and I have begun working at developing a filing system for our family.
Your turn: How close did you get to accomplishing your goals for 2013?


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Q: optimizing MySQL for traffic analytics system background :
I've developed a URL shortener system like Bitly with same features , so the system also tracks clickers info and represent as graphs to the person who has shorten the link as analytics data.
currently I'm using MySQL and have a table to store click info with this schema:
visit_id (int)
ip (int)
date (datetime)
country
browser
device
os
referrer (varchar)
url_id (int)  //as foreign key to the shortened URL

and for now , just the url_id field has index
The system should represent click analytics in the time periods the user wants, for example past hour, past 24 hours , the past month , ...
for example to generate graphs for past month , I do following queries:
SELECT all DAY(date) AS period, COUNT( * )
                        FROM (

                        SELECT *
                        FROM visits
                        WHERE url_id =  '$url_id'
                        ) AS URL
                        WHERE DATE > DATE_SUB( CURRENT_TIMESTAMP( ) , INTERVAL 1 MONTH )
                        GROUP BY DAY( DATE )

//another query to display clicker browsers in this period
//another query to display clicker countries in this period
// ...

issues:

*

*for a shortened link with about 500,000 clicks , it takes about 3-4 seconds to calculate just the first query , so for total queries about 10-12 seconds which is terrible.

*lots of memory and CPU is needed to run such queries

questions :
1- how to improve and optimize the structure , so the analytics of high
   traffic links will be shown in less than 1 second(like bitly and similar web apps) and with less usage
   of CPU and RAM ? should I make an index on the fields date,
   country, browser, device, os, referrer ? if yes , how to do
   that for the field date because I should group clicks some times by
   DAY(date), sometimes by HOUR(date), sometimes by MINUTE(date)
   and ...
2- is MySQL suitable for this application? assume at maximum my application should handle 100 million links and 10 billion clicks on them totally. Should I consider switching to an NoSQL solution for example?
3- if MySQL is ok , is my database design and table structure proper and well designed for my application needs? or you have better recommendations and suggestions?
UPDATE: I made an index on column referrer but it didn't help at all and also damaged the performance and I think that's because of the low cardinality of this column (also others) and the big resulting index size related to the RAM of my server.
I think making index on these columns would not help to solve my problem, my idea is about one of these:
1- if using MySQL, maybe generating statistics using background processing for high traffic links is better instead of calculating lively at the user request.
2- using some caching solution like memcached to help MySQL with high traffic links.
3- using a NoSQL such as MongoDB and solutions like Map-Reduce which I am poorly familiar with and haven't used ever.
what do you think?

A: You can simplify your query to something along these lines. I expect MySQL will generate a simpler execution plan.
SELECT date(date) period, count(*) clicks
FROM visits
WHERE url_id = 3
  AND DATE > DATE_SUB( CURRENT_TIMESTAMP( ) , INTERVAL 1 MONTH )
GROUP BY period;

If returning results on high-traffic links in one second is a hard requirement, you might need to upgrade your hardware.
Expect to need an index on each column used in a WHERE clause. You might benefit from some multicolumn indexes; {url_id, date} is a candidate.
Test at scale, if that's at all possible. (It's usually possible, although it might take some time.) Use EXPLAIN to see what MySQL is doing with your queries.
You don't have to query browsers, countries, and everything else all at one time. When I was running web development, I rarely looked at countries--they weren't relevant to the niche I was working in. Also consider other asynchronous UI technologies.
PostgreSQL has a better optimizer. It might work better than MySQL. Test it.

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This item, 1997 New Holland 4630 Tractor, is part of the auction Yates County Hwy NY #15948.
Tires are tread, lights work, and windows are in excellent condition. Trailer appears to have been serviced before retired, follows nicely behind the tractor. A/C cutout was made during its time in service and some boards are bowed.Dents and dings are present, rear door handle missing.Ladder is not included with this sale.
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Former TAAC-South Cdr Promoted. Maj. Gen. S. Lee Henry, the former commander of Train, Advise, and Assist - South, has been selected to command the 36th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army National Guard. He was recently promoted to MG. See "The 36th Division holds Change of Command at Texas State Capitol", DVIDS, July 15, 2017.
Ambassador to Afghanistan Nominated - Finally. John Bass, currently the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, has been nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. The post has been vacant for several months. Bass has also seen service in Iraq - so he is somewhat familiar with nations in the midst of conflict. Bass has been the ambassador to Turkey since fall 2014. He is a career Senior Foreign Service officer. See "White House to Nominate John Bass As U.S. Envoy to Afghanistan", Radio Free Europe, July 21, 2017. View his official bio at DoS.
ANDSF and the "New" APPS. The Afghan Personnel and Pay System is an automated system that generates payroll information for the Ministry of Finance while integrating authorizations, personnel record management and payroll functions into one system for the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces. According to a press release by RS HQs . . . this is a new system. I don't know; seems like we have been rolling out this new system for about three years now. I could be wrong. Read "ANDSF gets new personnel, pay system", Resolute Support, July 21, 2017. Read more about the Afghan Personnel and Pay System.
More Troops to Afghanistan? Maybe Not? It is hard to get a read on President Trump as he is so unpredictable. A recent quote by Trump during a visit to the Pentagon is revealing. When asked if he would send more troops to Afghanistan he replied "We'll see. And we're doing very well against ISIS. ISIS is falling fast." Ummmm. Not sure what to say about that . . . so I will just leave it right there. For more see "Trump suggests that more U.S. troops might not be needed in Afghanistan", The Washington Post, July 20, 2017.
Afghan Girls Robotics Team. They won the silver in the U.S. in the First Global robotics competition. Lots of press coverage on this. Congratulations! The girls initially had some perplexing visa problems (denied twice by the State Department for no apparent reason - of course) but that got fixed.
'Fatemiyoun Division' - Iran's Afghan Shi'a in Syria. Iran has sent thousands of Afghan Shi'a to fight on its behalf in support of the Assad regime. Many of them are on the front lines after undergoing minimal training and the unit has suffered extremely high losses. Read more in "Iran Aims to Boost Prestige of Beleaguered Afghan Proxy Force in Syria", Radio Free Europe, July 15, 2017.
3rd ID HQs to Deploy. About 250 Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia are heading to Afghanistan. Many of the Soldiers will work at Bagram Air Field where they will function as the U.S. forces national support element in Afghanistan. Read more in "About 250 3rd ID Soldiers prepare for Afghanistan", Savannah Now, July 21, 2017.
SOSi Lands Another Afghan Contract. SOS International has won a $9 million contract to provide information dissemination and counter-misinformation services to Resolute Support. Read more in a news release by GOVCONWIRE, July 21, 2017.
Justice and Human Rights. Dr. Sima Samar, Chairperson of the Afghan Human Rights Commission, provides her perspective on what has gone wrong in Afghanistan and has recommendations on what the international community needs to do next. See "Afghanistan: This War Cannot Be Won With Bombs", Deutsche Welle, July 18, 2017.
Poppies - Not Just the Taliban. Many observers believe that the poppy trade in Afghanistan is controlled largely by the Taliban - not so much. Franz J. Marty, a freelance journalist in Afghanistan, writes up on who the poppy growers are in "Afghanistan's Opium Trade: A Free Market of Racketeers", The Diplomat, July 19, 2017.
MSF Back in Kunduz. Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) has reopened a small medical clinic in Kunduz. The new clinic is not at the same location as the trauma center destroyed by a USAF AC-130 in 2015. (Radio Free Europe, July 22, 2017).
UN Report: Increase in Civilian Deaths. Civilian loss of life in Afghanistan due to the conflict has risen when compared to last year. Read "UN reports increase in Afghanistan civilian deaths", Deutshe Welle, July 17, 2017.


San Francisco - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Francisco International Airport intercepted a Chinese national as she attempted enter the country using an altered Singaporean passport on Tuesday.
The female passenger arrived on a flight from Hong Kong. An alert CBP officer noticed that the subject's passport appeared to have been tampered with, and referred her for a secondary inspection. Closer scrutiny of the passport revealed that some security features of the document were changed, while others were missing.
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A Brief History of "Lil" Rappers in Hip-Hop
From Lil Troy to Lil Wayne, no trend in hip-hop has been as pervasive as the "Lil."
Jake Krez
As far as rap names go, there are good ones, bad ones, and then there are the "Lils."
A prefix that's almost as old as the industry itself, the 'Lil' has enjoyed a longer shelf-life in hip-hop than almost every other trend, save for microphones. A constant in the game that has permeated sounds, sizes, and geography, the 'Lil' stands as one of the most successful and oft-used names, a name that has outlasted all its counterparts (Grandmaster, MC, Young, etc.).
So how did three small letters end up becoming one of the most sustained and far-reaching trends in hip-hop history?
'Lil' by itself is a fairly common nickname in a variety of cultures, which shouldn't really be breaking news to anyone but does explain a bit why there doesn't appear to be one quantifiable locale for the moniker.
Some research will show that Lil Troy, the Houston rapper famous for the single "Wanna Be Baller," was the first nationally recognized rapper to don the tag way back in 1988. From there, the prevalence of Lil really follows the arc of hip-hop as it manifests itself in NYC in the late '80s and early '90s before popping up in places like New Orleans, the Bay Area, and Los Angeles.
In fact, if my reporting is correct, some of the first artists to step out with Lil in front of their names were Lil Bruce from the Bay Area (1989), Lil Mac from New Orleans (1990) and Lil Fame of M.O.P. out of NYC (1992). It's interesting to note that there didn't seem to be much outside influence on the prefix either, it having materialized organically in several different places around the country.
While many will point to the signings of Lil Kim and Lil Cease to J.U.N.I.O.R. Mafia in 1995 as the true beginning of the Lil craze, it was very much already a trend—although few if any before that found the kind of commercial success either Kim or Cease did with the name. In many ways, Kim deserves to be looked at as the first and biggest Lil because she was the most popular and successful artist to ever sport Lil at the time. And in that vein, it's interesting to note that, in the first really popular acts with this trend happened to be based in NYC, perhaps the result of marketing instincts from labels that had to have seen the popularity of similarly-named acts across the country in less-developed scenes.
Of course, the question that often comes up with artists utilizing the 'Lil' is when it is appropriate to drop the prefix and presumably become a "Big." Most in their mid-20s now remember Lil Bow Wow, who dropped the 'Lil' when he got the call from BET as the most obvious removal of the title. While he and Lil Romeo aren't exactly the first names that we think of when talking about this subject, they are good examples of younger artists growing out of the name.
Upon his release from jail, Boosie dropped the front end of his name to re-brand as Boosie Badazz, mainly, I believe, because no one wants to call a 33-year-old man 'Lil' anything. It's something Lil B may have to start pondering soon at 26, and a thought that might make sense to Lil Jon and Lil Zane, among others.
While Boosie certainly needed a new branding effort after leaving prison, it's also hard to make the switch, especially in the era of social media and personal branding. At the end of the day, dollars and cents speak, and I'd leverage a bet that Wayne isn't dropping the 'Lil anytime soon, especially when he's established other nicknames for himself (like Weezy).
A sign of endearment in a way, sometimes it's simply not worth the effort to try to escape the intonations of the name you started your career with. For his part, Lil Herb recently did just that, doubling down on his signing to Cinematic Music Group by following through with his new stage name, G Herbo. His counterpart, Lil Bibby, has yet to follow suit.
As with all things hip-hop, though, even the Lil phenomenon can be pimped to an agenda as we've seen with satirical, tongue-in-cheek rapper Lil Dicky who reached for the lowest hanging of fruit when exploring monikers to begin his rap career. It makes sense too, as the Lil has permeated popular culture and largely overtaken 'MC' and 'Young' as the pre-eminent and most widely used prefix in hip-hop, something further evidenced by the fact that it popped up in so many places with such frequency from such an early point in time. Anything in rap music seems to have a shelf life before it is pimped to the whims of mainstream media and it appears as though the Lil has ultimately jumped the shark.
The well was seemingly running somewhat dry of Lils moving into the second decade of the 2000s. Interestingly enough, though, the region to pick that picked up the batton happened to be one of the only cities not to have a huge prevalence of the namesakes since DJ/Producer Lil Louis in the late '80s and early '90s, Chicago.
A lesser realized phenomenon of the Drill scene's rise to fame has certainly been the rise of acts like Lil Durk, Lil Reese, Lil Herb, Lil Bibby, Lil Mouse and more, who have given rise to the Lil once again. Kept almost strictly to the Drill side of things, the Lil movement of the Midwest is real and appears to have at least some sort of staying power. The juxtaposition of the image that the word Lil conjures against the kind of gritty street-centric music these acts creates is one that has been a below the surface constant throughout.
More recently, though, the rap nickname appears increasingly endangered as artists have chosen to go with something closely resembling or literally their government name as we've seen with a new generation of acts like Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Dave East or Mac Miller.
And so the future of the Lil appears as unknown as it ever has. But if we have learned anything from the past 30 years, it's that Lil is one part of hip-hop we probably won't see go away anytime soon.
A Brief (Notable) History of Lils in Hip-Hop:
Lil Troy (1988) — Houston
Lil Bruce (1989) — Bay Area
Lil Louis (1989) — Chicago
Lil Mac (1990) — New Orleans
Lil Jon (1991) — Atlanta
Lil Fame of M.O.P. (1992) — NYC
Lil 1/2 Dead (1992) — Los Angeles
Lil Vicious (1993) — NYC
Lil Keke (1993) — Houston
Lil Italy (1993) — Bay Area
Lil Cease/Lil Kim (1995) — NYC
Lil Wayne (1995) — New Orleans
Lil Flip (1997) — Houston
Lil Wyte (2000) — Memphis
Lil Scrappy (2002) — Atlanta
Lil B (2004) — Bay Area
Lil Mama (2004) — NYC
Lil Reese (2010) — Chicago
Lil Durk (2010) — Chicago
Lil Bibby (2012) — Chicago
Lil Skies (2012) — Pennsylvania
Lil Snupe (2013) — Philadelphia
Lil Dicky (2013) — Pennsylvania
Lil Uzi Vert (2014) — Philadelphia
Lil Yachty (2015) — Atlanta
Lil Baby (2015) — Atlanta
Lil Xan (2016) — California
Lil Pump (2016) — Miami
Lil Peep (2017) — Pennsylvania
Lil Mosey (2018) — Washington
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A Brief History of Rapper vs. Record Label Diss Tracks
From Lil Wayne vs. Cash Money to Dr. Dre vs. Ruthless Records, some of hip-hop's best diss tracks have been aimed at labels.
Mask Off: A Brief Introduction to Alter-Egos in Hip-Hop
From Slim Shady to Lil Boat to Quasimoto, hip-hop has a long history of artists with multiple personas.
Hip-Hop Lyrics Embracing Acts of Terrorism, a Brief History
Whether it's a reference to the Twin Towers, Al-Qaeda or bombs exploding, hip-hop and terrorism remain forever linked.
Rappin Max: A Brief History of Hip-Hop & Comic Books
The Dharma of Dope: A Brief History of Eastern Thought in Hip-Hop
An introductory glimpse into the boundless influence of Eastern thought on hip-hop culture.
A Brief History of Frank Ocean, Master Rapper
One of today's most acclaimed voices can out-rap many of your favorites.
A Brief History of Rappers Releasing 2 Albums in 1 Year
Is it a good idea to release two albums in one calendar year?
Pop That: Is Hip-Hop's Fascination With Molly Over?
Hip-hop don't rap about Molly no more.
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Partitioning the risk of tuberculosis transmission in household contact studies.
Household contact studies of tuberculosis (TB) are a common way to study disease transmission dynamics. However these studies lack a mechanism for accounting for community transmission, which is known to be significant, particularly in high burden settings. We illustrate a statistical approach for estimating both the correlates with transmission of TB in a household setting and the probability of community transmission using a modified Bayesian mixed-effects model. This is applied to two household contact studies in Vitória, Brazil from 2008-2013 and Kampala, Uganda from 1995-2004 that enrolled households with an individual that was recently diagnosed with pulmonary TB. We estimate the probability of community transmission to be higher in Uganda (ranging from 0.21 to 0.69, depending on HHC age and HIV status of the index case) than in Brazil (ranging from 0.13 for young children to 0.50 in adults). These estimates are consistent with a higher overall burden of disease in Uganda compared to Brazil. Our method also estimates an increasing risk of community-acquired TB with age of the household contact, consistent with existing literature. This approach is a useful way to integrate the role of the community in understanding TB disease transmission dynamics in household contact studies.
McIntosh AI, Jenkins HE, Horsburgh CR, Jones-López EC, Whalen CC, Gaeddert M, Marques-Rodrigues P, Ellner JJ, Dietze R, White LF. (2019). Partitioning the risk of tuberculosis transmission in household contact studies. PloS one, 14(10)


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China hopes for cooperation, better relations under Biden
BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday expressed hope the Biden administration will improve prospects for people of both countries and give a boost to relations after an especially rocky patch, while getting in a few final digs at former Trump officials. "I think after this very difficult and...
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US to join global coronavirus vaccine program
GENEVA (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci says U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday will order the United States to support projects to deploy COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics to people in need around the world. Fauci also says the United States will cease reducing U.S. staff counts at the World...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — World leaders welcomed into their ranks the new U.S. President Joe Biden, noting their most pressing problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, require multilateral cooperation, an approach his predecessor Donald Trump ridiculed. Many expressed hope Biden would right...
TOKYO (AP) — Global shares mostly rose Thursday on optimism over the new U.S. administration that earlier set off a rally on Wall Street. Hopes are high that President Joe Biden's administration will mean more support for the struggling U.S. economy, starting a recovery that's crucial for the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Lani Muller doesn't have to visit a doctor's office to help test an experimental COVID-19 vaccine — she just climbs into a bloodmobile-like van that parks on a busy street near her New York City neighborhood. The U.S. is rightly fixated on the chaotic rollout of the...
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Like 8,000 flying trapeze artists passing in midair, the Biden and Trump administrations swapped out senior leadership of the federal government on the fly as Joe Biden was inaugurated as the nation's 46th president. Biden announced the dozens of career civil servants who would be leading federal agencies,...
Analysis: Biden issues call to unity that comes with urgency
WASHINGTON (AP) — As newly inaugurated leaders often do, President Joe Biden began his tenure with a ritual call for American unity. But standing on the same Capitol steps where just two weeks ago rioters laid siege to the nation's democracy, Biden's words felt less like rhetorical flourishes and more...


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Q: What is the difference between an Abstract Class and a Mixin? I just found an article on a framework in Java that apparently allows it to support Mixins and something called Composite Oriented Programming (which for all I know might even be the same thing...)  I've also heard of/worked with AOP, and I'm not sure how it differs from this either...

A: At a language-agnostic level, a mixin just adds functionality to a class, and is more for programmer convenience and to avoid code duplication.  An abstract (base) class forms an is-a relationship and allows for polymorphism.  One reason why inheritance is overused is that it's an easy way to implement mixins without writing any boilerplate in languages that don't really support them.  The problem is that you're declaring a polymorphic is-a relationship as a side effect, making your API more confusing and possibly adding ambiguity.  Hence, newer languages like D and Ruby support mixins as native features, allowing a convenient way to add a bunch of functionality to a class without declaring a polymorphic is-a relationship.


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Q: Bluemix IoTF connection error - Python Friends,
I have created a device in IBM Bluemix IoTF, generated authentication tokens and everything is set. I am trying to connect and send messages to this device using Python (ibm-iotf library) and the program has been created. But when I run the program, I am getting the following errors. Please help.
2016-03-21 11:04:15,786 ibmiotf.device.Client WARNING Unable to encrypt messages because TLSv1.2 is unavailable (MQTT over SSL requires at least Python v2.7.9 or 3.4 and openssl v1.0.1)

[Errno 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

2016-03-21 11:04:16,446 ibmiotf.device.Client ERROR Unexpected disconnect from the IBM Internet of Things Foundation

2016-03-21 11:04:16,446 ibmiotf.device.Client INFO Messages published : 0, life: 1s, rate: 1/0.00s

2016-03-21 11:04:16,446 ibmiotf.device.Client INFO Messages received : 0, life: 1s, rate: 1/0.00s

A: Per the documentation: The IoT Platform requires TLS v1.2. We suggest the following cipher suites: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384, AES256-GCM-SHA384, ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 or AES128-GCM-SHA256.
Ensure you have Python version and Open SSL 1.0.1 which provides support for TLS v1.2


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'Mantra' – bringing visibility to Burien through the Arts
Sep 3, 2014 | Arts, Burien News, Business, Entertainment, Featured Stories, Headlines, History, Life, Politics
by Shelli Park
Recently, the B-Town Beat had the opportunity to host the French artist, 'Mantra.'
Mantra is a self-educated artist who hails from Metz, France. Sam Sneke, one of the organizers of the Beat, and the curator for the Art Alley, was contacted by Mantra prior to a visit to the States to see if there were any art opportunities here for him while he was in town. We were very excited to add international flair to the dynamic walls in the Alley! Mantra collaborated with Sneke on the southeast portion of the main art wall. In addition, Mantra created his own piece on the wall behind Burien Press.
I told John White about the new alley art and he was quick check out what was happening. He had recently had a conversation with Guy Harper, another Burien arts supporter, about putting a mural on the West wall of the building in Olde Burien occupying the Northwest corner of 152nd at Ambaum. The wall was seriously dilapidated and a sore subject for local businesses, particularly Phoenix Tea.
John shares: "I was stunned at the talent of this spray-can-man from France"
After seeing Mantra's work, John knew that this was an amazing opportunity for the Olde Burien wall. Because Mantra had a limited time here in the States organizing the event had to happen quickly. John created what he calls a "decision stakeholder's wheel" which included business owners situated close to the mural site. He divided the stakeholders into two categories, primary and secondary, and visited each about the impending project, including them in the decision- making process. The main stakeholders were contacted including the Burien Arts Commission and the building owner. Approval was given by both. John built the 16′ x 12′ plywood canvas at his home and hauled it up to the wall. All of this was accomplished in four days.
Roger Gee, of Yellow Van Handyman, generously donated his time and skills on Saturday (Aug. 30), to attach the giant canvas to the wall in anticipation of Mantra beginning the project.
The question remained: What would the subject be? Many ideas were entertained, but the defining moment came when John visited with Virginia Wright, owner of Phoenix Tea. Virginia suggested an Osprey as the subject. She said that she can sometimes see them flying over Olde Burien from the window of her shop as they hunt on Lake Burien.
Mantra was very pleased with the subject when it was shared with him, as he enjoys painting natural subjects. His website states: Mantra translates, in a contemporary way, the legacy of Parietal art. A sort of tribute to surrounding nature.
Mantra began to paint the mural early Sunday morning. The mural very quickly developed, drawing people to the site to watch the artist in action. Mantra completed the work in one day.
Since the completion of the mural, Phoenix Tea and Burien Food Mart have seen an increase in business as a direct result of the mural. This is but a small example of what the Arts can do for a community.
Mantra has a growing reputation in Europe. His work can be seen in Vienna, Paris, Annecy, Brussels, Luxembourg, Trier and Wiesbaden. He has participated in a number of European exhibitions and events. We are fortunate to have his work represented in not one, but three locations in Burien.
There is an opportunity to discuss the power that Arts and Culture can bring to Burien on Sept. 27 at the Economic Development Dialog, a community ideation session hosted by the city of Burien. I want to bring visibility to this very important element to Burien's economic development action plan.
Not everyone connects with the Arts in a personal way, but everyone can benefit from the presence of Arts and Culture in Burien. It has a positive impact on the local economy. When a city invests in bringing Arts and Culture into play for economic development, everyone benefits.
Many studies have been done showing the power of the Arts on local economies, most notably by Americans for the Arts. Here is the link to download and read for yourself the incredible dollar amounts generated by having a strong Arts and Culture presence in a community:
http://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/reports-and-data/research-studies-publications/arts-economic-prosperity-iv/download-the-report
It would be amazing to build on this momentum of new art in Burien to establish this as a city which draws cultural tourists and bring their wallets with them, supporting local businesses.
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Doddie Weir dies, aged 52, after a battle with motor neuron disease
Doddie Weir in action for Scotland – Doddie Weir dies, aged 52, after a five-year battle with motor neuron disease – Tom Hevezi/Getty Images
Former legend of Scotland and Sports Telegraph Columnist Doddie Weir OBE has died at the age of 52 after a five-year battle with motor neuron disease.
Since his diagnosis in 2016, Weir has tirelessly fought for more research and funding on neurodegenerative disease, raising millions through his charity, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation; the "5" is reminiscent of former Lock's famous Scotland shirt.
Weir's achievements and service have been enshrined in recent years; Scotland and Wales now compete for the Doddie Weir Cup – including in their Six Nations ties – while the former padlock also has his entry in the Scottish Register of Tartans.
Over the course of a glittering career which peaked with the Lions' tour of South Africa in 1997, Weir made 61 appearances for Scotland in the back row and won the Premiership with Newcastle Falcons in 1998. After his tenure in the Northeast, Weir returned to his homeland, making nearly 100 appearances for Border Reivers between 2002 and 2005 before his retirement, after which he successfully transitioned into the after-dinner talk.
Following his 2017 diagnosis, Weir was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 New Year Honors for services to rugby union, motor neurone disease research and the community in the Scottish Borders.
Doddie Weir and Gregor Townsend – PA
In the same year Weir was announced as the recipient of the annual Helen Rollason Award, presented during the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year awards show.
Scotland's lock was selected by fellow Scot and Telegraph columnist Sir Ian McGeechan for a tour of South Africa with Lions in 1997. While Weir's tour ended prematurely with injury, his swap for the broadcaster John Taylor during Lions media training declined in folklore tour. When asked for his answer to a hypothetical question about being caught in a nightclub after tour curfew, the 6ft 6ins Weir simply replied, "Identity Wrong."
Weir, born in Edinburgh and educated at Daniel Stewart's and Melville College in the Scottish capital, has made a name for himself as an athletic forward and dynamic loose operator. Before moving to Newcastle, Weir won six Scottish titles with Melrose RFC at the Borders.
Weir is survived by his wife, Kathy, and three sons, Hamish, Angus and Ben. Just two weeks ago, flanked by his four family members, a wheelchair-bound Weir delivered the ball on the Murrayfield pitch ahead of the Autumn Test between Scotland and the All Blacks.
A Weir family statement signed by Doddie's wife, Kathy, read: "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband and father, Doddie.
"Doddie was an inspirational force of nature. His inexhaustible energy and drive, and strength of character fueled him throughout his rugby and business career and, we believe, enabled him to battle the effects of MND for so many years.
"Doddie brought that same energy and even more love and fun into our lives together – he was a true family man. Whether working together on the farm, on holidays or celebrating occasions with extended family and friends, Doddie was always at the center of the action. We are lucky to have shared our lives with him and we cherish all those memories: his love and warmth, his support and advice, his wit and his terrible jokes. It's hard to put into words how much we will miss him.
"MBD took so much from Doddie, but never his spirit and determination. He fought MND so bravely, and while his battle may be over, his fight continues through his foundation, until a cure is found for all who are afflicted with this devastating disease.
"Hamish, Angus, Ben and I would like to thank everyone for your support and for respecting our privacy during this difficult time."
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Why do designers blog? I'm not asking this rhetorically, and I'm not asking it in a pejorative fashion, like "Why do designers waste their time with blogging anyway?" I'm posing a serious question about what people are trying to achieve with their blogs, and how what they post actually helps them to accomplish these goals.
I'm certainly not here to suggest that designers and other creative professional shouldn't be blogging. There are a lot of great reasons to do it. It sharpens the focus of your work, improves your writing skills, keeps you on top of new technologies and online marketing tactics, and helps you to find and land new clients.
It's the last of these items that really raises questions for me. We take it as almost sacrosanct that a blog is an important part of a well-rounded marketing plan, and my own experience with the fd2s blog supports this notion. Many of the blogs run by working designers, however, seem to be much more focused on topics that I would categorize as "how the sausage gets made" than on issues that would appeal to end-user clients. In other words, posts about tools, techniques, and resources of interest to other designers, rather than posts about topics like how good design can reduce shopping cart abandonment, or how corporate graphic standards have evolved to reflect the growth of social media.
This certainly isn't a dig at these kinds of sites. In fact, many of the blogging designers whose sites I regularly visit fall into this category some or all of the time, including big names like Brian Hoff (some of the time) and Chris Spooner (all of the time). These examples, and many others like them, are well-established, long-running blogs, and their owners continue to devote a lot of time to them, so obviously they are working on some level.
The designer/blogger actually does a lot of work as a subcontractor to bigger agencies/studios or other freelancers, as opposed to working directly with the ultimate client. In this case, the designer's prospective clients are people who understand and appreciate this industry content.
End-user clients don't fully understand, or even have an interest in, the blog's content, but they recognize it as something that establishes the designer as a leader in their field, giving them a lot of credibility.
The blog isn't about marketing at all, but is instead a vehicle to network, share information, satisfy a personal creative desire, and/or possibly make a little money from affiliate links.
I started this post with a question. And since it is, as I said above, an honest question, I'm not going to end the post with a pronouncement or a recommendation. Instead, I'm going to restate the question: Why do you blog? If you're one of the many designers who posts largely about "inside baseball," does one of the three explanations above explain your logic? Or is there something else driving your strategy?
And if you're someone who does write posts aimed at end-user clients, how is that working? Feel free to share a link so that we can see how you do it.
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Ooh! What is that smooshy yarn?! Is that Malabrigo Merino Worsted or Rasta? One time I thought I lost this camel mixed yarn I had bought at Art Yarns in downtown SF. I for the life of me couldn't figure out where the hell it was. I had like half a beanie done that was mostly worked upon at a Stitch 'n Pitch game. It wasn't until we had moved that I actually came across it and I swore I had looked in that area or bag a couple of times. I had linked to you a few days ago. You inspired me to want to knit next From Another Place Crop Top as I had totally fallen in love with yours. I linked to that post last Sunday ^__^.


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Q: Logging Throwable in main() Catching Throwable is unadvisable for reasons outlined in different posts. However, would it make sense to have a main structured like below? If the Throwable line is removed, then errors would not be logged.
public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        launchMyApplication();
    } catch (SomeCheckedException e) {
        //recover if you can, log it if you can't
    } catch (Exception e) {
        //recover if you can (unlikely), log it if you can't
    } catch (Throwable e) {
        //Don't try to recover, but log it
        logger.error("Oops: {}", e);
    }
}

A: Implementing this way will only handle throwables thrown on the main thread.
The best way to solve this issue is to use Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler().


Another view of the ongoing evolution of Mernda on the north west corner of Plenty and Bridge Inn Roads. The Cockerell Forge was established by John Cockerell (brother-in-law of Moses Thomas) in the early 1850s, and operated for just over 100 years. Thanks to Tanya for the video.
The changing face of the Bridge Inn Hotel, Mernda, in it's 150+ years of evolution. Thanks to Tanya for the video.


I have custom user roles in Netsuite and need to be able to give specific Avatax permissions to those roles.
Within this menu you will want to edit both the Classic Centre and Accounting Centre AVATAX lines.
Within the Center Tab Edit screen there is an Audience sub-tab.
This is where customers control who can and cannot see the Avatax Centre tab within Netsuite.
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Iran disbands morality police
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TEHRAN : Following three months Anti hijab protests which erupted over the death of a 22 year old woman activist Mahsa Amini, the Iranian government has disbanded the dreaded "morality police".
Iran's state IRNA news agency on December Sunday quoted Mohammad Jafar Montazeri as saying, "the morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary."
The controversial morality police patrols were established in 2006 under hard-line President Mahmud Ahmadinejad to enforce the country's Islamic dress codes, particularly the requirement to wear the hijab, or female head covering.
The squads of men in green uniforms and women in black chadors initially issued warnings, but soon began arresting women for alleged violations.
Montazeri was quoted the previous day as saying parliament and the judiciary were "working" on whether the law requiring women to wear the hijab in public should be changed. He added that "the results will be seen in a week or two."
As per reports, the anti hijab protests which took ugly turn following the death of Amini's in September in Iran results in killing of nearly 200 people.
The United Nations and Iranian rights groups put the figure at more than 300, as the national protests have evolved into one of the most serious challenges to the theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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Libby, known as Lickety-Split Libby's Exhibit in AKC registration, is an 8 ½ year old Labrador Retriever. Luckily, Libby is a field trial lab who only weighs about forty pounds. She came to live with our family in July 2007 when her previous owner discovered she had crossed eyes, which hindered her field trial work.
Libby is a bundle of energy and absolutely loves flyball! She began training for the sport in July 2007 and competed in her first tournament in November 2007. Libby recently reached 30,000 points which earned her a Grand Championship title in NAFA. She is the first dog on Pawmetto Pack to receive this title. Libby's fastest time is a 4.6, but she consistently runs a 5.0 when her handler passes correctly.
Libby has no other hobbies because to her there is nothing else! She lives with a senior Golden Retriever, a prissy Greyhound, and an aggravating German Shepherd puppy. She is owned by Kristen Hudson and has a dad – Mark Hudson, brother Matthew, and a sister Katelyn. This crazy little lab came from field trial championship lines. Her small vision impairment helped her get to a sport she lives for. Libby runs the same speed the last heat of a tournament as she does the first. If she had a complaint it would be that the tournaments are not long enough!


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Paul Rudnick on Everybody in New Jersey Being Arrested for Fraud
In hilarious essay collection "I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death and New Jersey" (HarperCollins, $24), the playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick goes from exploring the meaning of growing up in Piscataway to his disastrous first encounter with Broadway and the rollercoaster ride of writing blockbuster screenplays for Hollywood.
Rudnick writes about his mother and two aunts, the formidable Klahr sisters, with their tough survival instincts and their joy at great one-liners, a family where "culture was revered, but not practiced." He chronicles his Jersey high school life in the early 1970s, where drugs were the state hobby and every second girl was named Debbie, and recounts with both horror and wit of moving to New York right at the explosion of the AIDS epidemic. Rudnick takes a hysterical look at making films with such legends as the producer Scott Rudin and the director Barry Sonnenfeld, and reveals the roots of his brilliant comic timing as coming from his no-nonsense family and the Garden State.
Rudnick, 52, is the author of numerous comic plays and screenplays, including "Jeffrey," "I Hate Hamlet" and "The Addams Family." Rudnick met with freelance writer Dylan Foley at a café near his Manhattan home.
Q. How would you describe your mother and her two fierce sisters?
A. They were very funny. They did it both knowingly and unknowingly. They had a rhythm that was like a Marx Brothers' comedy act. Comedy was their balance wheel and a good wisecrack was sacred in their homes. They became a force, especially in my world. I just hung on for dear life.
Q. How did growing up in New Jersey shape your sense of humor?
A. New Jersey was a great place to grow up. It keeps you humble. When you grow up in New Jersey, you are growing up in a punch line. I found that wonderfully endearing and healthy, for it meant you could never put on airs. You were from New Jersey, you'd better be proud of it and you better accept it because someone was going to use it against you sooner or later. If you are from New Jersey, you are going to have to defend yourself sometime and you are going to enjoy defending yourself. My favorite New Jersey headline, which I read online after the latest corruption sweep of all the mayors, was "Everyone in New Jersey has been arrested." It made me so proud to be from from New Jersey. I thought, "Oh, good for us."
When I went to California for the first time, it reminded me so much of New Jersey. It's a real car and mall culture, and so is New Jersey. Piscataway is famous for several things, including being the location of the Trojan Condom factory. I think the Trojan factory was finally seduced away by the glamour of Trenton. They also tested the first bar codes at a strip mall nearby. I also grew up looking at the bridge over to Trenton that says "Trenton Makes, the World Takes." That's New Jersey poetry.
Q. You have a series of fictional diary entries from Elyot Vionnet, an older gentleman not above using murder to enforce good manners with people who abuse their cell phones and steal cabs from other New Yorkers. Where did he come from?
A. Elyot burst forth. Ten of the 15 essays in my book are nonfiction. I was trying to be as rigorous as I could be and to do the fullest justice to the people I was writing about. Elyot was the id, the derangement of fiction. Elyot plays by no rules and can say whatever he wants, and can be as judgmental as he wants to be. I felt he was an appropriate balance to the nonfiction in the book. Elyot was a product of style rage and manners rage. It has happened to me more than once that a beautifully dressed young woman carrying an oversized coffee drink in one hand and a cell phone in the other comes towards me, oblivious to everyone and everything. I know she's going to slam into me and I try to dodge the bullet. I wind up drenched in coffee and she looks at me like it's my fault. That's where Elyot comes in. Would it be all that tragic if the woman died? You know those stickers that they put on illegally parked cars? You want to put these stickers on these people's foreheads.
(This interview was originally published in the Newark Star-Ledger in September 2009)
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One World One Heart is a wonderful Event to meet new people. This is the second year I have participated, and love meeting new friends. Please go by Lisa "Oceandreamer" Swifka's website to see all of the participants.
I apologize for being a little late getting my post up this year. I will be randomly drawing a name for the collage below on February 12th. Please leave a comment if you'd like to be entered in my drawing, and be sure I have a way to contact you in case you are the winner.
THIS IS SO CHARMING! WELL DONE!
Your collage is very beautiful and you can tell you put your heart into it. Just lovely. Thanks for your generosity.
Would love to have your Art! Please add me to your drawing and make sure to visit my blog.
It is so beautiful. Count me in thank you.
Please add me to your giveaway drawing. i love it!
I would love to be entered into your drawing! And if you haven't done so yet, stop by my blog and sign up for mine.
What a treasure for whoever wins this! Please count me in for the drawing. It's gorgeous!!!
Your work is wonderful. I looked around your etsy shop. Great brooches!
Wonderful prize. Please enter me in your drawing and visit my blog if you get a chance at #795.
This is so beautiful Rande. I would be honoured if my name is chosen.
terrific collage! please come enter my giveaway too!
Oh your art is so gorgeous! Please enter me in your giveaway.
Your work is lovely! Please enter me in your draw.
Please enter me and do run over and enter mine.
Your collages are really great.I had a browse through your blog and I will certainly drop by more often to have a look at what you have been making(your boxes are so lovely!!), and ofcourse I would love to be in the draw for your generous giveaway.It is work that will inspire me to no end.


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At least your convention will never be as disappointing as Dashcon.
When you've gone to enough conventions, you're bound to have an experience that just doesn't live up to the hype. Maybe you don't know anyone or no one is asking for commissions. Then to make matters worse, everyone around you is gushing about the 'GREATEST CON EVAR' while you're sitting alone drowning your sorrows in a cold pizza from the cafe. It's the sad reality, and sometimes can't be helped. But often it can!
We here at ProudToBeAFurry.org prefer to look on the bright side of things, but sometimes looking for the positive first involves dealing with the negative. So over a few articles, we will be going over conventions that can go bad– not just attending, but also disappointing experiences that artists and dealers might have. But we'll also tell you how to avoid them, and what you can do to improve your con-going experience!
In the few years I've been going to conventions, I've had experiences that ran the gamut from truly epic to "Why am I even here?" In the moment it may have felt like there was nothing I could do to turn the experience into something positive, and sometimes there are things that can't be helped. But more often than not there was something that I could do to actually make things better for myself. Sometimes we need to change our perception of what to expect at a convention to make all the difference.
Have you ever been to a convention where you just don't know anyone? In a world of furry social media where it feels like we know practically everyone, it can be a humbling experience to come to a furry convention and not know a single person! It can also be a very boring one. Not knowing anyone at the convention means that you're probably not going to have anyone to talk to when you want, to share stories, or to wander through the Dealer's Den with. It can be one of the most difficult and even heartbreaking issues that will instantly bring a convention into the realm of being a dud.
No one wants to be the furry sitting all alone at a convention. But when your friends are all hundreds of miles away, what can you do? The default answer that most people will give you is "Make some friends!" or "Go volunteer!" But that's not always easy, especially for introverts and shy people. It gets worse when you check your social media only to watch people you follow having the time of their lives. So what can you do?
First things first, put the phone away. Many of us have become conditioned to check our social media regularly, even when we're at a social function. When you put the phone away, you don't know what the people you follow are doing! For all you know, they might have gotten into a sewing competition. This helps you focus on your own experience, rather than what others are doing. With the phone away, you also notice more around you. You may hear an open conversation to join, or you could spot someone interesting you'd like to talk to. One thing is for sure, you certainly become more approachable without your eyes on the screen.
Fursuits are a prominent, flashy, and cuddly portion of the fandom. On Twitter, pictures of fursuits get dozens if not hundreds of likes. At conventions, their presence is only more noticable! Many interesting panels and events are even focused on fursuits. Sometimes it can even feel like everyone around you has gotten their own fursuit, or are planning to get one. Then when they have it, they're swept away in some sort of mystical adventure full of parties and fawning furries.
Sometimes your con experiences are just flat!
But it can easily feel like you're the odd-fur out when you don't have a fursuit at a convention, especially when you have many fursuiting friends. To the non-suiter, it can appear as though fursuiters not only get easy and immediate attention, but get invitations to all the best parties and enjoy some sort of 'secret fursuit club'. Some people believe that they must have a fursuit in order to go to a convention, and that not having one means that the convention will not be fun.
However, fursuits are not the end-all of conventions. Most convention goers don't even have a fursuit, or don't want one, yet still manage to have a good time. The misconception that fursuits are essential for conventions likely comes in part from stories of shy people being able to come out of their shell due to fursuits. If you're shy, and don't like to show your face, there are also other options. Many dealers have items that will cover your face, such as bandanas with animal faces, or other inexpensive half masks.
There are also many other things to consider about fursuits at conventions in general. Fursuiters have a difficult time attending long panels due to the heat, and often need to leave long events early. They may also tire easily due to the stress of fursuiting, and spend most of their time relaxing rather than being at any non-existent club meetings. When you're in a fursuit, it can be difficult to attend gaming events or to be truly social with other people, and could make it difficult to connect with friends. There are positives to fursuiting, but don't forget about the negatives before you consider them to be essential.
Excitement turns into frustration and frustration turns into anger. Where has everyone gone? Didn't they promise that they would hang out with you? What's more important than connecting with friends and enjoying a good time? Before you know it, you've fallen into the Broken Promises Zone. Nothing is coming together, everyone is scattered to the four corners of the convention, and the convention is completely ruined.
Plans can really make a small convention go smoother. Larger conventions are a completely different beast. When considering plans, don't just focus on one person or one event. Large conventions have many things going on at any time, and you're more than likely to have more than one friend hanging around. Keep your schedule flexible, with plans penciled in rather than trying to etch them in stone. Your friends have their own plans as well, and try as you might to get them to sync, many times they just won't. And that's okay! If you keep your plans open, you may just find yourself swept off into something just as cool that you didn't even anticipate.
Editor's Note: After nearly twenty years of going to conventions, I've found this Herding Cats aspect of it causes the most frustration, and the most hurt feelings. But I've also found that the best approach is to do your best to come at it without expectations. Instead of finding The Perfect Friend™ to go to an event with, go with whoever's right there at that moment. Panels run long. Dinner lasts until midnight. People's phone batteries die.
Attend the convention you are actually at, not the one in your head, and you will open up a whole new world of possibilities.
Conventions are hyped up a lot on social media. It always seems like furries are having the time of their lives! But when you don't have the same experiences, it can really put someone off of conventions entirely. It can be difficult to admit, yet sometimes we need to adjust our own perceptions of conventions so that we can enjoy them better. Only then can you really figure out what makes conventions the most fun for you.
There are other things that can ruin a convention though! Stay tuned for further articles as we cover things you can't control, as well as issues that may ruin a convention for dealing.
In the meantime, what are some of your own dud convention experiences that required you to change your own perception? How did it work out for you? Leave them below in the comments!


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2 NASCAR teams in traffic incidents on way to Kansas
- Oct. 17, 2019 01:25 PM EDT
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Two NASCAR teams on their way to Kansas Speedway were involved in separate traffic incidents that damaged race cars.
JTG Daugherty Racing owner Tad Geschickter said Thursday the team transporter for Ryan Preece's No. 47 Cup Series entry caught fire while traveling to Kansas. He said both drivers are fine and the team is "assessing the damage of our trailer and race cars." The location of the incident was not immediately specified.
The JTG announcement came roughly 12 hours after Kaulig Racing's truck was in an accident in North Carolina.
The Kaulig truck went off the right side of the road, through a guardrail and down an embankment, then overturned and came to a stop in a wooded area. Both truck drivers were transported to a hospital for evaluation, and the team said Thursday both drivers had been released.
Ross Chastain is scheduled to drive the Xfinity race at Kansas on Saturday for Kaulig.
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You won't die and it'll probably get better.
The majority of people who post here have problems with sleep and most people find that with time their sleep gets better.
I know it's scary, frustrating as I had the same. My sleep is better than it was at 3 months, it's still not great and there are ups and downs.
3 months is too early to say what will happen with you, it's still quite possible to recover.