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Peggy and Pip, a mother and daughter Chihuahua duo are looking for a new home thanks to the RSPCA.
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Tugz is one of the first dogs to arrive at Battersea is 2017
Tugz is one of the first dogs to arrive at Battersea this year.
Good news, bad news for Battersea dogs
I receive press releases every day, and this morning when I went through my emails, I spotted two which highlight the plight of too many dogs at this time of year. We know that Christmas can be a difficult time for dogs, and there are various reasons for that, the saddest being abandonment by their owner. For Rottweiler, Roger, and Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Tugz, this nightmare became reality.
Roger and Tugz were fortunate in as much as they were found and taken to Batersea Dogs & Cats Home, making them the charity's first arrivals of 2017.
Roger is a six year old Rottweiler who is partially sighted, and was found on New Year's Day
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Celebs and their canine companions gather to support The Mayhew
On Tuesday night at The Grand Connaught Rooms in London, The Mayhew Animal Home's Tinsel and Tails Christmas Fundraiser had plenty of glitz, glamour and of course gorgeous dogs.
James McVey from The Vamps and Stephanie Pratt were among the celebrities and their canine companions, who attended the star-studded event which honoured some of the incredible achievements The Mayhew has accomplished in 2016. The evening also aimed to raise money to ensure the charity's vital work continues in future.
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Battersea Brody seeks someone to cuddle and care for him
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home resident, Brody, loves cuddles and has a happy-go-lucky personality – in fact those who meet him find it hard not to fall in love with him. But despite his charms, Battersea staff face a challenge in finding the right home for this lovely five year old black Labrador.
Seeing Brody play happily with his human and canine friends, nobody would guess that Brody has a medical condition similar to arthritis of the spine. Brody's condition is called Lumbosacral Disease.
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RSPCA seeks home fit for a Princess
A German Shepherd who was abandoned in London is in the care of the RSPCA. Now named Princess, the dog is seeking a loving forever home. Poor Princess was left, tethered to a tree at the side of a busy road. A passer-by spotted black and tan German Shepherd Princess on the A2, a dual carriageway in Greenwich and summoned Inspector Anthony Pulfer.
Paul O'Grady helps find Battersea's loneliest dog a forever home
Greyhound Bud become known as Battersea Dogs & Cats Home's unluckiest dog after spending over 1000 days in the home - but thanks to Paul O'Grady, Bud's luck has changed for the better.
Battersea staff had been trying to find Bud a home for nearly three years, then the Corns family spotted him on the ITV series Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs, which is based at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.
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Trotty and Kenny celebrate at Battersea as their namesakes win olympic gold
Olympic fever has even gripped the residents of Battersea Dog & Cats Home! Yesterday, rescue dogs Trotty and Kenny, who were named after Olympic competitors, were delighted last night to watch their namesakes adding to their haul of medals.
The inspiration for Trotty and Kenny's names are British cycling couple, Laura Trott and Jason Kenny. The Team GB cyclists have between them won an amazing ten gold medals at the Rio Olympics.
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Rescue dog owner takes top science job at the RSPCA
Office dog Bridie is a constant reminder of the work of the RSPCA.
A woman who has dedicated her working life to animal welfare has started work as the RSPCA's Chief Scientific Officer along with her rescue dog Bridie.
Dr Julia Wrathall has worked for the RSPCA for more than two decades, including most recently as the head of the charity's farm animals department for 12 years.
Her new appointment sees her leading the RSPCA's four science teams at the charity's headquarters near Horsham, West Sussex, accompanied by her Irish Setter Bridie.
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Sweetheart Kira desperately seeks home
RSPCA staff can't understand why nobody wants to take lovable dog home…
Kira is affectionate, fun, and smart. But that doesn't seem to be enough to find this crossbreed a new home.
The two-year-old shar pei cross Staffordshire bull terrier (pictured above) arrived at the RSPCA's Block Fen Animal Centre, in March, Cambridgeshire, in September 2015.
Staff believe potential owners are put off by Kira's shyness around new people but have urged the public to give this sweet dog a chance.
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Value Merchants Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History
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History of Value Merchants Inc.
Value Merchants Inc.'s Everything's A Dollar subsidiary operated more than 250 discount stores throughout the nation going into the mid-1990s. Founded in 1944, the company grew modestly during the first couple decades of its existence. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, Value Merchants grew explosively. Its rapid expansion ultimately exposed weaknesses in the company, though. In 1993 Value Merchants filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company was still struggling to reorganize and recover in 1995.
Value Merchants Inc. was formerly known as the Wisconsin Toy Company. The name was changed in 1990 when Steven Appel became chief executive of the concern. He replaced Philip Cohen, who had served as CEO of the company since 1960 (his father had founded the organization). During the mid-1900s the Cohens built their enterprise into a successful U.S. toy wholesaler. Philip Cohen took the operation public in 1969--it was incorporated at that time as Wisconsin Toy Company--in a transaction that shifted ownership to a holding company, but he continued to successfully run the organization.
By the 1980s, in fact, Wisconsin Toy was one of the largest competitors in its specialized niche. Wisconsin Toy's annual sales were about $25 million by the early 1980s, about $800,000 of which was netted as income. In addition to its Milwaukee headquarters, the company had a sales office and showroom in New York City and maintained distribution centers in New Jersey and San Francisco. The company profited by purchasing large quantities of close-out inventory from a wide variety of toy makers, including major manufacturers in the United States and Asia. It sold the merchandise to U.S. retailers--including several major retail chains--who used the inexpensive items to promote foot traffic in their stores and boost sales of goods that had higher profit margins.
Until 1984 Wisconsin Toy sold its merchandise only at the wholesale level. Executives chartered a new course for the company in 1985. Rather than sell their goods to other retailers, who usually increased the price, they reasoned that they could sell directly to the public at wholesale prices. In 1985 Wisconsin Toy opened its first retail outlet--a Toy Liquidators discount store in Virginia. The success of that store prompted the company to open four more outlets in Indiana within a year and to plan launches of several more shops in 1986 and 1987. Cohen, who turned 68 in 1987, remained on the management team, but his role was reduced. In 1987 Leslie Mendelsohn was named president of the company. Mendelsohn, age 40, had served as an executive at Federal Wholesale Company, a West Coast toy wholesale company.
By June of 1987 Wisconsin Toy operated 50 Toy Liquidators retail outlets. In an effort to raise $15 million to $18 million of capital for expansion, Wisconsin Toy's parent company, Zilber Ltd., took the company public. Additional stores were acquired or built. Although sales and profits in 1986 remained at 1984 and 1985 levels, revenues bolted about 70 percent in 1987 and net income surged to a record $2.3 million. Although Wisconsin's wholesale operations continued to account for the majority of sales and earnings, the company was clearly headed in a new direction; away from wholesaling and toward the growing U.S. discount retail market. Because of its access to low-cost toys and other merchandise, Wisconsin Toy seemed well positioned to compete.
During the late 1980s Wisconsin Toy added 40 more Toy Liquidator establishments to its portfolio, bringing the size of its Toy Liquidators chain to 90 by 1990. In 1989 Wisconsin Toy generated $53 million in sales (fiscal year ending January 31) and earned nearly $3.6 million in net income. But while the company's growth during the late 1980s was impressive, it was a mere prelude to the expansion that would occur during the early 1990s. In 1989 Wisconsin Toy departed from its historic emphasis on toys. It purchased Everything's A Dollar Inc. (EAD), a chain of about 60 discount retail stores that had previously been a Wisconsin Toy customer. The shops were similar to Toy Liquidators, except that they sold all kinds of different merchandise ranging from shampoo and sunglasses to toys and mustard.
The EAD concept was relatively simple. The company purchased huge lots of items at cut-rate prices. The goods were typically excess inventory or items that had run their course in the mainstream marketplace. The products were shipped to stores and sold, on average, for a small profit. The draw for customers was that virtually every item in the store cost one dollar. The concept was especially attractive to teenagers, who could walk into an EAD shop with five dollars and leave with a bag full of goods. But the dollar strategy had also proved increasingly popular with other segments of the value-oriented shopping population that were looking for low-cost gifts and household goods.
EAD stores were typically about 3,000 to 4,000 square feet in size. Most of them were located in large metropolitan shopping malls rather than the low-rent discount factory outlets in which Toy Liquidators were stationed. Neon lights or back-lit glass blocks near the entrance enticed buyers, and progressive decor and lively music inside facilitated an atmosphere of impulse buying. Indeed, the stores relied on high volumes of impulse purchases to squeeze a profit out of the low-priced goods. While the typical customer transaction was only a little more than $5, an average new store was projected to register more $1 million in sales during the first year of operation.
The EAD acquisition effectively doubled the size of Wisconsin Toy's swelling retail division. Moreover, the EAD stores seemed like a perfect compliment to Wisconsin Toy's existing operations. EAD provided a huge new distribution channel for the company's wholesale purchasing division and added a new dimension to its discount retail business. At the time, the dollar discount concept was just beginning to get popular and the potential of the industry seemed huge. Wisconsin Toy hoped to parlay its experience in the wholesale business into a leadership position in the rapidly growing industry. To do that, it would need to expand rapidly to sustain its lead over its discount retail peers.
To guide Wisconsin Toy's evolution into a large discount retailer, Wisconsin Toy's directors hired Wisconsin native Steven Appel, a self-described hard worker with average technical skills. Appel grew up in a working class household, married at the age of 18, and was a working father by the time he entered the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1960. Appel took on a full course load despite his responsibilities. To accomplish the feat, he learned to negotiate with his professors. At the beginning of each semester he approached them with a proposition: He would attend all classes and take all the exams if they would not require him to turn in homework assignments. If the professor refused, he simply dropped the class and added a different one.
Appel graduated in four years with a degree in accounting, a profession that his father had urged him to pursue because he had a friend that was a successful accountant. After graduation, Appel accepted a job as a staff accountant with Arthur Anderson & Co. His penchant for hard work served him well and he steadily progressed through the ranks. "For the first time in my life, I was exposed to the vastness of the world," Appel recalled in Business Journal-Milwaukee. "I also realized how much I could grow if I committed myself to a career with Arthur Andersen and, despite average technical skills, I believe my sheer desire helped form a strong work ethic and channel my interpersonal skills to achieve my goals." Appel's energy and drive was also evident in his personal life; he managed to qualify for the Boston Marathon at the age of 41 with a 26-mile time of three hours and three minutes.
By 1987 Appel served as managing director of Arthur Anderson's financial consulting services division. Among the companies he advised was Wisconsin Toy Company. Executives there were impressed by his work and eventually approached him about joining the company. Appel accepted and joined Wisconsin Toy in 1989 as chief operating officer. When Cohen officially retired as CEO in June 1990, Appel took the reins. By that time the Wisconsin Toy Company operated nearly 150 stores, including more than 60 EAD and 80 Toy Liquidators (some of the toy retail outlets were called Toys Unlimited). To reflect Wisconsin Toy Company's growing emphasis on retail and general merchandise, Appel changed the organization's name to Value Merchants Inc. in July 1990.
Under Appel's direction, Value Merchants intensified its expansion efforts during the early 1990s in an attempt to assume a dominant position in the discount bulk merchandise industry. It purchased the remaining 20 percent of the EAD chain that it didn't own and added 100 new stores during 1991. By the end of that year, Value Merchants held more than 200 EAD stores stretching from New York to Florida and as far west as Texas. By April 1992 Value Merchants owned 230 EAD stores and 110 Toy Liquidator establishments. It made further plans for growth, pursuing experiments with such new types of EAD outlets as a 9,000-square-foot superstore on the East Coast and downtown shops in Miami.
Value Merchants' financial figures mirrored the blistering growth rate. Although the company's debt load increased, sales doubled in 1990 (fiscal 1991 ending January 31) to a whopping $140 million. During 1991, moreover, revenues bolted to $235 million and revenues vaulted to a peak of $9.2 million. Investor enthusiasm sent the company's stock price rocketing to more than $34 per share.
Value Merchants continued to add outlets at a fast pace throughout 1992. By the end of the year, in fact, the company boasted a network of 540 locations in more than 40 states. That explosive growth, however, belied serious structural problems in the Value Merchants organization. In 1992 the company's financial performance began to slide as the profitability of its stores waned. It became apparent to investors that executives had tried to grow too quickly and had neglected to ensure that existing operations remained profitable. "Nobody held a gun to their head and said grow by 300 stores," noted one analyst in 1993 in the Business Journal-Milwaukee. "They obviously bit off more than they could chew." Value Merchants' stock price plunged to $7.75 per share in January 1993. Appel quickly squelched 1993 expansion plans and laid off workers at the company's Milwaukee headquarters.
Appel took responsibility for Value Merchants' problems, but he also pointed to some untimely setbacks that had rocked the company. The company, for example, had expected to have access in April 1991 to an $85 million financing package that would be used to fund store openings and infrastructure plans. When the money was delayed until August of that year, a severe cash crunch ensued. One result was that several stores opened late in the year and missed out on most of the important Christmas season. At the same time, Value Merchants invested heavily in advanced computer systems and new satellite distribution facilities designed to support its swelling national retail chain. Analysts noted that while such steps were perhaps necessary to manage the company's growth, the short time period involved required that the execution be flawless.
Although Value Merchant's revenues ballooned to $364 million in fiscal 1993, it posted a discouraging $8 million deficit. Worried investors pressured company executives to bandage bleeding balance sheets. But the company's problems only worsened. Appel responded by shuttering some unprofitable stores and working to increase the performance of the existing chain. The effort was insufficient. Faced with looming deadlines for payments to creditors, Value Merchants and its EAD subsidiary filed for bankruptcy in December 1993. The move allowed the company to keep cash flow from its Christmas sales while it worked to reach an agreement with creditors in 1994.
During 1994 Value Merchants jettisoned its original toy wholesale purchasing division and the remaining 84 Toy Liquidators outlets. Consolidated Stores Corp. bought the chain and Value Merchants used the cash from the sale to reduce its debt. The company also eliminated more than 150 EAD outlets. Entering 1995, Value Merchants consisted of a chain of about 265 EAD outlets, roughly half the number it operated during the peak of its expansion in 1992. Value Merchants eventually proposed an agreement with creditors during 1994 that would give them ownership of most of the company. "This plan is the culmination of an aggressive effort to improve the financial condition and future prospects of Value Merchants and to deal equitably with stake holders," Appel said in December 1994 in the Business Journal-Milwaukee. The long-term future of the discounter was still in doubt going into 1995.
Principal Subsidiaries: Everything's A Dollar Inc.
Related information about Value
Value can refer to:
Value (mathematics) -- the value of a variable in mathematics.
Value (personal and cultural) -- the principles, standards, or quality which guides human actions
Value (economics) -- the market or estimated worth of commodities
Value theory -- ethics
Value (marketing) -- the value of commodities from a marketing standpoint
Value (computer science)
Value (law)
Value (semiotics)
Value (colorimetry) -- a measure of lightness or darkness in color
Anthropological theories of value
Theory of value for more general discussions of economic value.
Progressive logic, that illustrates the value logic of civic morality.
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Q: Union of normal spaces Let $(X, \mathcal{T})$ a topological space and $X= \bigcup_{i \in I} U_i$ where $U_i$ are open for all $i \in I$ and $U_i \cap U_j = \emptyset$ if $i \neq j$, if each $(U_i, \mathcal{T}_{U_i})$ is normal then $X$ is normal.
I don't know how to start the proof. I know that I have to take $A,B \subset X$ closed, but I can't continue

A: The key point is that if $V \subseteq U_i$ is open in $U_i$ (i.e, with the topology $\tau_{U_i}$), then $V$ is open in $X$. (why?)
Suppose $A, B \subseteq X$ are closed and disjoint. By definition of the subspace topologies then, $A \cap U_i, B \cap U_i$ are closed in $U_i$ for each $i \in I$. Then since $U_i$ are normal we have disjoint $V_i, W_i$ open in $U_i$ such that $A \cap U_i \subseteq V_i$, $B \cap U_i \subseteq W_i$.
Then $V_i, W_i$ are open and disjoint in $X$ for every $i \in I$, and then notice that $V = \cup_{i \in I}V_i$ and $W = \cup_{i\in I}W_i$ does the trick of separating $A$ and $B$.

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Alicia Keys Is Down To Battle Beyonce And Rihanna In Another Verzuz, Who Y'all Got?
Posted on December 15, 2021	 - By Natasha Decker
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During her recent Drink Champs interview, Alicia Keys said she's down to go hit-go-hit with either Beyoncé or Rihanna in a Verzuz battle.
Fans of the musical battle series might remember that Alicia Keys was declared the winner of a Verzuz challenge she did against John Legend in June 2020.
"I was there at the inception of Verzuz," Alicia said of the night her husband Swizz Beatz and Timberland, the series' creators, first went track-for-track on Instagram Live.
"I do personally think I do need another Verzuz. I think we gotta do it," she added before gauging the room's opinion on who she should go up against.
While those in the background suggested names like Mary J. Blige, Elton John, Erykah Badu, Mya, Mariah Carey and Sade, Alicia seemed most excited at the possibility of vocally going hit-for-hit against two out of all the powerhouse names that came up.
"That's a good one," Alicia said after both Beyoncé and Rihanna's names were mentioned. "Me, Bey or Rih."
The full two-hour-long video is actually a really good interview to watch if you have the time. View it down below.
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Keys made news recently for being candid about her attraction to husband Swizz Beatz, MADAMENOIRE reported. Apparently, it wasn't love at first.
"I wasn't with it. He just wasn't my vibe," the "I'm Ready" singer told Complex. "Like, he's pretty loud. He's pretty over the top. He loves a lot of attention. Everywhere is like a bunch of people, the brightest colors, the biggest chains, the biggest cars. The whole thing. I can write music in 10 minutes, the show-off s***. I was just like 'Eeeeeeewwww.'"
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Apollo and Leucothoe, by Picart (1730, c.)
Picart, Bernard (1673-1733)
"Night scene in interior, with Apollo, in the guise of the old woman Eurynome, caressing Leucothoe's chin; in ornate frame, with heads of Diana and Apollo, printed from a separate plate" (Description from The British Museum, London, UK, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1914-0214-233, Archived in: https://web.archive.org/web/20210507151538/https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1914-0214-233)
According to the myth of Leucothoe, Apollo falls in love with the young woman. He transforms himself into Leucothoe's mother (Eurynome) and enters her room to seduce her. After the encounter, Clytie, who was in love with Apollo, tells Leucothoe's father about the affair. He then buries the young woman and eventually Leucothoe turns into a sunflower.
The image is reminiscent of the scene of Areúsa and Celestina. Since in this case Apollo is portrayed as both an old woman and a man who seduces the young woman, it is a curious case of a suitor and Celestina in a single character.
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Museum number: 1914,0214.233
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Dimensions: 25,8 × 17,8 cm
Picart, Bernard (1673-1733), "Apollo and Leucothoe, by Picart (1730, c.)," CelestinaVisual.org, accessed January 22, 2022, https://en.celestinavisual.org/items/show/3308.


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Koenigsegg will try again for a Nürburgring lap record
By Stephen Edelstein	 April 14, 2016
Last year, Swedish carmaker Koenigsegg announced plans to set a lap record at the Nürburgring, the treacherous German racetrack that has become a yardstick for production cars. But speed limits imposed by the track's management nixed that plan.
The speed limits were lifted last month, so Koenigsegg will try again. Preparations will begin soon, but that doesn't mean a record-breaking lap will actually be attempted this year, a company blog post said. Koenigsegg still needs to find a driver and a car to use in the actual record attempt, apparently.
"We won't be doing a lap record in the immediate term, but we will be there [emphasis original]," the blog post stated. Koenigsegg knows its cars will be spotted at the track, and doesn't want people to make assumptions about what it is doing during what is expected to be months of prep time. The company has tried to be as transparent as possible when it comes to the Nürburgring, hoping this will help further legitimize any records it sets.
The speed limits that put an end to Koenigsegg's previous record attempt were put in place after a crash during a race in March 2015 that killed a spectator. They restricted cars to 155 mph on certain sections of the track, but this turned out to only be a temporary measure. Track operator Capricorn made some safety modifications, including more barriers and new restrictions on where spectators can stand, and lifted the limits.
However, that means Koenigsegg essentially has to reset its record attempt. The company originally planned to set a record with the 1,341-horsepower One:1, but now all seven copies have been sold to customers. Koenigsegg says it will announce which car it will use at a later date, and is in the process of picking a driver too. Factory test driver Robert Serwanski will be on hand, but likely won't make the record attempt.
The time Koenigsegg will have to beat is 6:57, set by the Porsche 918 Spyder in 2013. McLaren has claimed its P1 lapped the Nürburgring in under seven minutes as well, but has never released an actual time.
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Sofia Vergara is a married lady! Adele breaks records with new album 25!
Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are married after tying the knot during a star-studded ceremony […]
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Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are married after tying the knot during a star-studded ceremony in Florida on Sunday. The Modern Family star and Magic Mike hunk exchanged vows in front of 400 family and friends at the luxury The Breakers resort in West Palm Beach. According to Entertainment Tonight, guests were asked to check their cell phones and cameras at the door before entering the wedding ceremony….Among the guests, The Modern Family family, & Reese Witherspoon…
Adele's new album 25 is out BUT will not be available for streaming on all digital music services, including Spotify and Apple Music, a music industry source said on Thursday. It is available via iTunes and has sold over 900k…in the first day Adele's representatives declined to comment on the decision, which follows a similar move by U.S. country-pop artist Taylor Swift over her 2014 album "1989." 25 is expected to sell over 1 million units this week….
2015 American Music Awards were last night… This year Hosted by J-Lo… The show featured performances by Selena Gomez, Carrie Underwood, Coldplay, Justin Bieber (who dances around in water) and fellow Canadian The Weekend (who danced around Fire) , not to mention Demi Lavota doing a duet with Alanis Morrisette… Big winners included: One Direction, Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt, Ariana Grande, & Nicki Minaj… The best moment of the night- Celine Dion performing an emotion tribute in honour of the Paris Victims…
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Posted on December 24, 2020 by Steve Dawson
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When you're renovating your house, a roomy estate car is pretty much ideal. That's why I had mixed feelings when I handed over the keys to the enormous Skoda Superb and replaced it with the slightly smaller Octavia. Still, with a 640-litre boot to play with, it isn't like I've replaced an aircraft carrier with a midget submarine. In fact, with the rear seats in place, the Octavia's boot is only 20 litres smaller than that of the Superb.
All of which has already proved useful as I shuttle between my house (which now looks as though it has been hit by a meteorite), the recycling centre (which now looks like my house used to) and B&Q (which looks empty). It's a good test for a car that has a lot to live up to.
Last month I wrote that the Superb was one of the few cars I would buy with my own money, but I could have said much the same of the old Octavia. I spent many an hour working out my ideal specification for the previous-generation vRS 4×4 and even longer trying to find a way to afford such a thing. So when the opportunity to live with the new Octavia came up, I jumped at it. We've already sampled it in small doses, but now I get a chance to find out whether all the strengths it displays on a quick drive are backed up when it's parked on your driveway.
But first, a whistle-stop tour of the car we're sampling. It's an SE-L First Edition estate, which means it comes with LED headlights, electrically folding mirrors and chrome touches around the windows, roof rails and grille. As standard, it also gets 17-inch alloy wheels, but 'our' car comes with optional 18-inch wheels. Inside, we've got a huge boot, part-leather upholstery and dual-zone climate control, as well as a 10-inch touchscreen and heated seats, which have come in very useful since the weather turned. Other natty features include the digital instrument cluster, which is very clear and concise, and the keyless entry.
We've gone for the most frugal diesel engine on offer – the 2.0-litre TDI with 114bhp and a six-speed manual gearbox. These days, that sounds pretty meek for a 2.0-litre engine, and the 10.4-second 0-62mph time is nothing to write home about. The promise of between 55.4 and 62.8mpg, however, is more tempting.
To be honest, though, I'm more struck by things the Skoda doesn't come with. For the time being, at least, this is the highest rung of the Octavia ladder, yet there's no reversing camera. It doesn't even come with full leather upholstery, which seems a bit mean, especially when you consider the price of this car. Anyway, all of this means that the Skoda has a lot to live up to, and the early signs are mixed. The good news is the cabin still feels just as solid as before, and the interior space has been most welcome when the car is being used as a builder's van. The bad news, however, comes mainly from the gearbox, which seems to offer some very long, very strange ratios. It works perfectly well, but the point at which you want to change from third to fourth is around 30mph, and the point at which you want to change from fifth to sixth is approximately 50mph. As they're common speeds in this country, I find myself with the unpleasant choice of staying in a lower gear at a slightly noisy, but very responsive 2,000rpm, or changing up to a gutless 1,100rpm.
On the other hand, the economy has been mightily impressive on a long run, and the trip computer suggested an average of about 66mpg, and brim-to-brim statistics largely back up those figures.
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Date arrived 10th September 2020
Fuel economy 55.4-62.8mpg (WLTP combined) 65.3mpg (on test)
Early signs suggest the Octavia is going to be outrageously frugal.
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Winnipeg couple says CFS taking their baby with no explanation
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A Winnipeg couple is looking for answers after being told their baby would be seized by Winnipeg Child and Family Services when he is born.
"Just the fact that my baby's going to be born and taken away right away — nobody should have to go through that," said David Nault. "We didn't do anything wrong. It's just not fair."
David Nault and Paige Nippi said they were excited to discover they were pregnant, but after a visit two weeks ago from a CFS staff member, they were told the child would be seized.
Nippi said they were told there wasn't enough information on the couple to determine if they were fit parents.
Nippi's first daughter, from a pregnancy at age 15, is currently in the care of her grandmother, Nippi's mother.
"She's still in my life, and I'm still her mom. The reasoning is because I've never fully parented her on my own is why they said they were taking my son away," said Nippi.
Nault said the couple has moved to a better neighbourhood near a hospital in anticipation of the baby. They have both taken prenatal and parenting classes and asked their family for advice.
The couple has even decided on a name — Mason.
A court record check on the couple came up clean, and the couple said there are no substance abuse or mental health issues.
Nault has held a full-time job for years, and his boss is trying to help him.
Jerome Munz owns Fire Safe where Nault works.
"He has had no problem having people aid him in being a better parent," said Munz. "I don't think there should be an issue with the support network that he does have."
The parents have purchased books, toys and a crib, and family members have also brought gifts in anticipation of the baby.
"You look over and there's his crib and his dresser," she said. Adding it hurts "just knowing he's not going to be able to come home."
Nippi was scheduled to be induced on Wednesday.
Winnipeg CFS would not comment on the case directly but did release a statement, saying, "In our legislation, child safety is paramount. An agency will only apprehend a child when there are serious concerns that a child may not be safe in the parents care."
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Visitors were more successful in the 7th round of 2017/18 Champions League. Seven matches were played yesterday and today (Barceloneta will host Hannover tomorrow). Visiting teams achieved five wins.
Olympiacos recorded its sixth win, this time in a big derby in Group A. The Greeks can make plans for their trip to Genoa, where Final Eight will be held. After the 7th round, and a win in a "hot pool" in Berlin, Pro Recco, a technical host of F8, is atop of Group B. Title-holder Szolnok disappointed their fans, with a new defeat, this time in all-Hungarian battle.
The match of the day in Group A was a "replay" of 2016 Champions League final and 2017 CHL quarterfinal, in which Olympiacos took a revenge against Jug for defeats at two Final Six tournaments. The Greeks rushed to a 4:0 lead (10th minute). Their flying start decided an outcome. 2017 champion Jug managed to come back after the shocking start. The Croats reduced the gap to one, three times (4:3, 5:4, 7:6), but the hosts didn't let them level the score. Paulo Obradovic, who moved from Jug to Olympiacos six months ago, netted two minutes by the end to set the final score – 8:6.
Olympiacos maintained a 5-points advantage ahead of closest rival Dynamo, that was outstanding this evening. Dynamo visited Budapest, where it beat OSC, that is now another step farther from the Final Eight. Dynamo, that won Russian cup a few days ago, played one of its best games this season. The Moscow-based team earned a 6-goals lead already in the 19th minute (7:1) and there was no way back for OSC. Dynamo won 10:5.
Last game of the round was played on Thursday when Barceloneta hosted Hannover. The match brought a big battle and a last-minute drama. Both teams had their ups and downs. In the second half of the encounter, Barceloneta was in front for most of the time, but a gap was never larger than 2. goals Three and a half minutes Barceloneta went 12:10 up. But, it the next action Darko Brguljan netted his 6th goal in the match (the first from a penalty shot) for 12:11. Estrany leveled the score at 12:12 (0:49 on the clock). Twenty seconds before the end, Barceloneta earned an extra-man attack 20 seconds. Josip Vrlic decided everything, hitting the target just five seconds before the final buzzer. The Spaniards won 13:12 and they climbed into the 4th place of the table, they continued to go toward the Final Eight, while Hannover has slim chances after the loss in Barcelona.
All-Hungarian battle offered a thrilling finish and a new defeat of the title-holder (after the unsuccessful visit to Berlin). Еger, as a visitor, beat Szolnok water polo players. It was a hard and a nervous battle, with a lot of twists and turns. In the 10th minute, Eger earned its first lead (4:3), but with three unanswered goals, Szolnok went 6:4 up. The hosts entered the final quarter with a minimal lead (8:7). Early in the fourth period, Serb Strahinja Rasovic netted twice and Eger went in front again (8:9), with 5:17 remaining on the clock.
The water in the pool in Szolnok was boiling. Younger leveled the score – 9:9, Angyal scored for 9:10 (3:57 by the end), but 15 seconds later Zalnaki returned to equal terms once more (10:10). Fourteen seconds before the final whistle, Angyal hit the back of the net for the third time this evening and Eger collected all three points (11:10). Szolnok lost the first game in the Champions League at home in club's history. It debuted in Preliminary Stage in 2014. After 16 wins and one draw, the moment for the first defeat came.
Spandau wasn't able to make another big surprise, like beating Szolnok two months ago. The Germans were defeated in their pool, by mighty Pro Recco. The Italians controlled the game, played in Berlin, from the beginning. They were 8:4 up early in the third period. The visiting team had a 10:6 lead three and a half minutes before the end, but then Spandau "woke up". The hosts scored three goals in a row in a span of fewer than three minutes. They came very close to Recco (9:10). The Germans had the last attack in the match, they even gained a man-up situation in the final 12 seconds, but Recco managed to save a victory.
Jadran achieved a new win as a guest. The champion of Montenegro defeated Sabadell (10:8). Jadran led 6:3 at halftime, but the hosts managed to equalize early in the fourth period (8:8). They didn't go further. Jadran water polo players added two goals till the end for important three points to keep their Final Eight hopes alive.
In an encounter between teams that have no chances to reach the final tournament, Steaua demolished AZC. The Romanians led 13:0 at the beginning of the fourth period, at the end they won 15:4.
Olympiacos Piraeus: Genidounias 2, Obradovic 2, Fountoulis 2, Moruikis, Gounis.
Jug Dubrovnik: Renzuto Iodice 3, Macan. Fatovic, Jokovic.
OSC Budapest: Seman 2, Salamon, Erdely,Kovacs.
AN Brescia: Paskovic 2, Rizzo 2, Muslim 2, N. Presciutti 2, Vukcevic 2, Guidi, Nora, Janovic.
Partizan Belgrade: M. Jankovic 3, Lazic, Tomic, Manojlovic, Radanovic, Radonjic, Aksentijevic.
CNABarceloneta: Vrlic 3, Munarriz 3, Mallarach 3, Fernandez 2, Famera, Tahull.
Waspo Hannover 98: Da. Brguljan 6, Real 3, Corusic, Preuss, Estrany.
Szolnoki VSK: Zalnaki 3, Younger 3, Batori 2, Prlainovic, Mi. Cuk.
Eger: S. Rasovic 3, Angyal 3, Hosnyanszky 2, Lorincz, Cuckovic, Harai.
Spandau 04: Dedovic 2, Gielen 2, Negrean 2, Stamm 2, Ma. Cuk.
Pro Recco: Di Fulvio 2, Mandic 2, Molina 2, Alesiani 2, Echenique, Figari.
Steaua: Dj. Filipovic 3, Chovieanu 3, Murisic 3, Gheorghe 2, Buljubasic 2, Delgado, Teohari.
Astrapool Sabadell: Muller 3, V. Cabanas , Bustos, G. Lopez Escribano, S. Cabanas, Carillo.
Jadran Carine Herceg Novi: Draskovic 3, Spaic 2, Ukropina 2, Dj. Radovic, Merkulov, M. Petkovic.


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Warner Bros is closing a deal to acquire Harker, a spec script by Lee Shipman & Brian McGreevy for a re-imagining of Bram Stoker's Dracula that will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. The filmmaker's latest is the Liam Neeson-starrer Unknown, which will be released February 18 by Warner Bros. Harker will be produced by Appian Way partners Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran, in a coproduction with Mad Hatter Entertainment. That label's Michael Connolly will also be involved as a producer.
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So we have the producers and director from Orphan (a rather "blah" movie) teaming with the co-producer of How to Train Your Dragon and a couple of new screenwriters for a re-imagining of Dracula? Something tells me this is going to be crap. Like Dracula 2000 level of crap.
Ha! Very possible. I know I'm not alone in that I'm getting very tired of this genre. It's a good genre, but they are beating it to death. Dracula is classic for a reason, so why try to re-envision it for an audience that is getting bored. At the very least, let's try some new stuff.
I partly blame Twilight (and Interview With a Vampire). Of course they've been riding this money train for a long time now. But I would like to see them reclaim the myth/legend from the Twilight franchise and bring vampires back to their proper image. Of course, I actually really like 30 Days of Night and how the vampires were in there, so not everyone might agree with some of the imaginings of vampires that I might like.
I'm actually looking forward to Underworld 4 as well.
They do need to start giving it a rest though. With the advancements in technology, why not do a modern take on Frankenstein if they want to stick with those classic monsters?
Underworld and 30 Days of Night are actually the two movies that I bring up most when giving examples of changing the standard Vampire formula around. I love the Underworld series and am looking forward to Beckinsale's return.
'partly blame Twilight'. I don't think you have to 'partly' blame them. You can almost completely rest the blame on their shoulders for the recent deluge in the vampire genre.
Ya there's something fundamentally wrong about Vamps that don't burst into flames in the sunlight. To a degree we can all blame Anne Rice for castrating vampires and making them less scary but when you really think about it she was onto something with them feeling strongly. Dracula was taken back with grief from losing Elizabeth so many years ago and he just wanted to be reunited with her.
I do prefer the more visceral incarnations of vampires. I'm hopeful that the Fright Night re-imagining helps to usher that in but to me it feels like they're taking a piece of childhood and saying it's not good enough.
Crazay just summed up why I only said "partly" there. Some of the blame has to be placed on Anne Rice. Sorry, Interview With a Vampire was an enjoyable movie and all, but it definitely started to ball rolling in making vampires more...effeminate (for lack of better word). Twilight just took it to a whole other level.
On that note, I take that to mean you actually liked 30 Days of Night as well, Dark? That movie seems to get a lot of crap, which I don't understand. I really enjoyed.
I also do really enjoy the Underworld franchise as well. Definitely VERY much looking forward to Kate's return.
On a side note, have you ever seen Night Watch or Day Watch? Not a vampire movie per se, though it does have vampires in it. But if you're a fan of Underworld, I think that might appeal to you as well. For me it was kind of a blend of Underworld meets Constantine.
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Since Dracula was a love story with a very deep twist in it, there really isn't that same effect in todays world. You couldn't show intercourse back when Dracula was made, so how did they get around it? Vampires bite people. Today who cares?
Twilight brought it a little further by the "perfect girl" fantasy, you have two guys chasing one girl and she gets to choose OH JOY! and Dracula will be the same. Even if they try to tie in horror it wont work.
Lets face it, vampires are at the point where they are all making up ideas just to keep it alive. Buffy and Angel were cool, but this new stuff is sad excuses.


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Amber Flora Thomas Reads at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference 2018
Amber Flora Thomas reads "Self Portrait with Teeth," published in Third Coast Magazine (2017); "Moment in Which the Self Moves Under Song," forthcoming in Ecotone (2018); and "The Old Horse" from Connotation Press (2016), at the 2018 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference. All three poems appear in Thomas's new book, Red Channel in the Rupture.
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Amber Flora Thomas is the recipient of several poetry awards, including the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize, Richard Peterson Prize and Ann Stanford Prize. She is the author of Red Channel in the Rupture (2018), The Rabbits Could Sing (2012), and Eye of Water (2005), selected by Harryette Mullen for the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Zyzzyva, Callaloo, Orion Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, and Crab Orchard Review, and in NER 39.3.
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Edgar Kunz Reads at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Edgar Kunz reads "After the Hurricane" (originally published in the Indiana Review) at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Kunz is the author of Tap Out (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems have appeared in AGNI, New England Review 36.4, Ploughshares, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Best New Poets 2015 & Best New Poets 2017. He lives in Oakland, California, and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Salve Regina University.
http://www.nereview.com/files/2017/11/Edgar-Kunz-Bread-Loaf-2017-1.mp3
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Rick Barot Reads at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Rick Barot reads "Girl Carrying Ladder," first published in Bennington Review, and "The Grasshopper and the Cricket," first published in Threepenny Review.
Barot, poetry editor for New England Review, has published three books of poetry: The Darker Fall (2002), Want (2008), and most recently Chord, (2015) recipient of the University of North Texas Rilke Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. Chord was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Barot has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer. He lives in Tacoma, Washington and directs the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University. In 2016 he received a poetry fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
http://www.nereview.com/files/2017/11/Rick-Barot-Bread-Load-2017.mp3
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James Longenbach Reads at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Author James Longenbach reads from his five-part poem "Crocodile" at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. "Crocodile" appeared in the New Yorker and is now part of his newly published collection, Earthling (W. W. Norton).
Longenbach is the author of four other poetry collections, six works of criticism, and numerous essays and reviews. His most recent books are The Virtues of Poetry (Graywolf, 2013), The Iron Key (Norton, 2010), and The Art of the Poetic Line (Graywolf, 2007). He currently serves as the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester.
http://www.nereview.com/files/2016/10/Longenbach-crocodile.mp3
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Finding Courage
Holly March and Anna J Stewart
Finding the courage to follow your heart can involve a lot of soul searching. Holly March and Anna J Stewart discuss the importance of this inner strength in romantic storylines.
Holly March ~ Courage Is An Acknowledgement of Fear
Bravado is being totally unaware of your own mortality. Bravery is being aware of the risks, but still acting. Courage? Courage is being afraid and aware of your own mortality, and still not giving up.
No weapons, no friends, no hope. Take all that away, and what's left?
This quote encapsulates Buffy and courage for me. That season was dire. I cannot rewatch it, I tried, I got two episodes in before the sobbing started and just noped out of there. It's what the show decided to do, what most Season 2's do now, take away the friends and powers and see how the character reacts. Show them fully humbled and that they do not give up. But courage is not just for people who are fighting against demons and gods and hoardes of Nosferatu vampires. That is why I snapped up the chance to write this.
Get ready, people, we're diving into diversity again.
It does not take bravery for someone to come out to their family. It takes courage. Bravery discounts the depth of fear and understanding of what might happen. It takes courage to face that level of rejection and still say the words. It is not "brave" for a person in a wheelchair to go to prom. They know they will be mocked and pitied by some, and they have the courage to want the experience with their friends anyway.
Both physically and mentally disabled people loathe the buzzfeed stories about how brave we are being to live our daily life. It suggests that we are show pieces. Oh look, how brave, this person is doing something anyone else might do and I'm going to feel good about myself because phew, I'm not disabled. Awwww… how brave.
I'm being good. No expletives.
It takes courage for a black American to leave their house at the moment, since any time might be the time they become a statistic. In early June a lesbian and her bisexual girlfriend were brutally beaten after refusing to make out for the edification of teenage boys. Courage is required every day, and even if you are not marginalized by our broken society, even if you are privileged enough to not fear the police or have to use public transport, you still have to have courage. That or total insouciant obliviousness.
So to get relevant, what I am trying to suggest is that as writers we need to be sure we are not sensationalizing courage. Brave is already nearing a dirty word because of the way it is used. Courage is the last beating heart that says 'do not give up'. Courage is what keeps you querying after hundreds of rejections. You understand that.
So put it in your characters. Acknowledge not only the fear of rejection your heroes feel, but also the courage they take in their daily life. If you are writing someone with PTSD then leaving the house, leaving their bed, takes courage. It is more than reacting badly when fireworks go off, you know? Layer that through your book. Courage is always there and always needed. Bravery got them the PTSD in the first place, but it is courage that keeps them alive.
It is very rare to have a character wholly without courage. Even the survivor who abandons their friends usually comes back to save them later [Insert Any Movie Ever]. Even a character who believes themselves a coward usually has the courage to keep living. And believe me, that takes courage, in any day and age. Suicide comes when our courage finally fails, and while there is nothing to despise in that, there is certainly something to grieve.
As I have said before, one of the things that has kept my courage aflame on bad nights is reading romances. Never let anyone tell you writing romances is silly or unimportant. You are a life-saver.
So I know I am repeating myself, but there is no better example of courage than in Alyssa Cole's spy series Loyal League. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the Underground Railroad, and constant danger from frighteningly relevant killers, her heroines and heroes are in dire peril at all times and nothing is more evidence of their courage than their ability to learn to trust. Bravery would get them killed, but courage keeps them in character in the face of pain, punishment, and danger. They are required reading, to be honest, and until everyone has read them I will keep bringing them up!
Kira Solomon in Seressia Glass' Shadow Chaser series is brave and even shows prideful bravado here and there (she's arcing, it's all good) but it is dogged courage that keeps her going after the worst happens. It is courage that lets her learn to allow hero Khefar touch her body and heart. Amid all the chaos of her urban fantasy life, it is the quiet moments in between battles that show the most courage.
Anyone taking a shot every time I say 'Courage' had better go have a large glass of water and some toast.
Courage can be confiding a shameful secret (Shira Glassmen's First Mango) or taking a huge step despite what your social mien might think (Maisey Yates' Unexpected), or believing that the hot guy really does like you and taking that chance (Ana Hannah's The Bigger They Are), or just going out of your comfort zone (Sorcha Rowan's Scorchers: Four Erotic Tales).
Books by authors like Bernard Cornwall are about acts of bravery. Romance has always been about courage. And we can have both, as so many authors are now proving. My sister swears by Giles Kristian, especially his Lancelot. I highly recommend Manda/MC Scott's Boudicca series, even if the ending (#HistorySpoilersDontCount) is rather harrowing, especially if you are an indigenous Briton.
Showing courage is the same as showing weakness. It allows you to delve into your character's heart and show them vulnerable but determined. It is uplifting to a reader and inspiring too. So write your own issues. Make use of that "write what you know" adage and include your insecurities, your disabilities. So long as you are not taking advantage of another's marginalisation, showing courage can only be a good thing. Somewhere there is a reader who will pick it up, misty eyed, and say 'this is so me'. They will feel heard, and they will not feel alone, and their own courage will flare with hope.
The girl who hates her natural hair. The enby who was worried about coming out. The kid who knows they'll always be in a wheelchair. The asexual who loves but worries they are frigid because society is so focused on sex. These people need characters with that quiet courage. Everyone needs them.
And they need you to have courage too. You do not have to write the charge of the Light Brigade for your characters to be heroes. They do not have to be spies (but seriously, read those books). They just have to show their human ability to brace themselves against rock bottom and push up with all their strength. And they need you to have the sheer guts to bare yourself and pour your reality into your words. It'll hurt in the writing, and hurt in the editing, but it could make someone smile who hasn't smiled in a long time.
I would never write myself, a modern woman with various conditions who does nothing but write and sleep and play games. Who wants to read that? But I am writing my struggles with autism into a shapeshifter. I have written my fear of not being needed into a housekeeper in medieval Marrakech.
Not everyone has had to slay their vampire boyfriend, is what I'm saying, but a lot of people know what crying over a relationship feels like.
Writing a character who takes a breath and carries on takes courage and will help inspire it in others.
And remember, in the words of Kiru Taye: "...if I worried about other people's opinions I would never write or publish anything."
Holly March writes medieval and fantasy romance. You can find out more about Holly on Twitter and at MarcherWitch.com
Anna J. Stewart ~ Defining Courage In A Romance Novel
Courage: the ability to do something that frightens one; strength in the face of pain or grief; mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.
When I first volunteered to write this article, I had a pretty clear idea in my head as to what constitutes courage. Images that came to mind included a solitary figure standing in front of a line of tanks. An individual leaping across an expanse between mountains. A firefighter walking into the fire. A soldier fighting for his or her country. The physical placement of oneself in an uncomfortable, dangerous, or precarious situation and, even more important, being willing to accept whatever consequences that come with it. The more I thought about it, however, the more I realized just how limiting those thoughts were. Especially when it comes to the heroes and heroines in our stories.
One of the questions posed for me to answer is what is the definition of courage in a romance novel. The easy answer, again, was to talk about how a hero or heroine serves in an honorable, noble, and dedication position such as a soldier, police officer, or a D.A. seeking justice for victims. You display courage by creating people/characters who put themselves on the line for the greater good. But as I dug deeper into my own thoughts, I came back to a lesson I learned a few years ago at a writing workshop given by Mary Buckham; it's a lesson I put to use in every book I write and one I apply to every main character. What decision does my hero and/or heroine make at the end of the story that they never would have made at the beginning? The making of that decision, whether the outcome is good or bad, is, at its essence, courage.
How often have you, not as a writer or reader, but as a human being, wished you could go back and made a different choice? A choice that, at the time, you made because it was the easy way out. The least invasive path forward. The least conflicted. I know I have. Dozens if not hundreds of times. I'm not a big risk-taker. I never have been. Probably the biggest risk I've ever taken is when I decided I was meant to be a writer. A nice, safe, solitary profession that until I make the choice to put myself and my work out there, would serve as a lovely little cubby hole of protection. In hindsight, courageous? Maybe. Depending on your definition. But for me, courage in my characters comes down to them taking actual action in making a change in their life; a change they might not want to make or one they're cornered into making. A stepping out of their current life and into a new one.
Putting our characters directly in the path of a challenge that is literally their worst nightmare is part of our job. I'm not just talking about a towering inferno or a plummeting elevator. Situations like this, of course, demand a bit of courage if the character is going to survive. I'm also talking about the emotional fortitude it takes to rise above the fear, above the potential consequences, and take that step toward change. A step that, once it's taken, the character, hero or heroine, can never go back. Falling in love, splaying themselves open, exposing themselves in a way they might never have before, takes a courage I don't think a lot of people recognize. But we as writers do. Scratch that. We as romance writers do. Surrendering to that which can cause you such pain? That's terrifying even as it can be exhilarating. It's also a call some people cannot bring themselves to answer.
Can one have a satisfying reading experience if a character lacks courage? An interesting question, no? I'm not sure if I have a correct answer to that. I'm not sure there is one. The snarky, super-girl power believer in me wants to chime in and say absolutely not, but that's not making allowances for, in the words of Jane Austen, "for differences in situations and temper" (apologies for the paraphrasing, Ms. Austen). One person's courage does not always match another's. What some of us would automatically do someone else might not be capable of—either physically or emotionally. And we, as writers, have the responsibility to make those circumstances clear. Rising to the challenge of the story—whether it's chasing down a killer, going up against the town council to win water rights, or whether it's taking the chance on falling in love, is the real courage found within the pages. And one I hope readers enjoy reading.
Anna J Stewart's novel Holiday Kisses is available through Harlequin. You can find out more about Anna on Facebook and Twitter and at AuthorAnnaStewart.com.
Who do you think conveys courage the best? What are your favourite courageous scenes or examples of moments in a favorite book or movie when a character has demonstrated courage? Tell us in the Comments or on social media using #Courage and #AmWriting
Anna J Stewart


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Q: How was the transformer reduced in this Thevenin equivalent circuit? Below is an example of a one-port network and how to find its output impedance by using Thevenin model:

I can understand that Vi is set to zero since it is an independent source. But how was the coupled coils or transformer with 1:a ratio is reduced to the third circuit diagram? I mean how was a^2*R1 and a^2*L1 was obtained? Only the ratio 1:a is given not the inductance.

A: The transformer is presumed to be ideal with a magnetization inductance of L1 hence, when Vi is set to zero, the impedance on that side of the ideal transformer is R1||sL1.
That impedance is transformed by the turns ratio squared (\$a^2\$) to the secondary output side hence it becomes: -
$$a^2(R_1 || sL_1)$$
Given that it is in series with R2 it should now be clear.


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Q: what is wrong with this simple regex? I am stuck in a dump:
import re
print re.search('return[^$]+',
                'return to the Treasury of $40 million\nnow!').group(0)

The above regex only prints return to the Treasury of, but I expected it to include $40 million.  What I understand from regex is that I am asking it to take every thing until the end of the line.
I do not want to use .*, I want endline delimiter to go until the end of line from some point.  If I remove $ from search string it prints the full string.  Why is endline delimiter matching with dollar sign??

A: return[^$]+

will match a string "return" followed by any character that is not '$' one or more times.
This is because [ ] mean character group and inside [ ] the special characters are threaded as simple characters.
Thus it matches only until the the dollar sign.
Why not use:
return.+$

this is exactly what you want.

A: Why don't you want to use .*?
The regex you have will match any string that starts with "return", then one or more characters that are not the "$" character. Note that this will NOT look for the end-of-line marker.
return.*$ will match everything up to and including the end of line marker. You may (but probably not) need to make the .* a lazy matcher if you are dealing with multi-line input.

A: import re
text = 'we will return to the Treasury of $40 million\nunits of money.'
re.search(r'return.*$', text, re.MULTILINE).group(0)

# prints 'we will return to the Treasury of $40 million'

You need to include the multiline flag, then $ will match at newlines.


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'I've taken all the hits he can deliver and I'm getting better.' Joe Biden slams Donald Trump as impeachment trial looms, saying he 'savaged my surviving son' and vowing to beat the president
Vice President Joe Biden pointed out Tuesday night that he's taken the most heat from President Trump and his Republican allies
'I have been the object of his affection now more than anybody else on this stage,' Biden said. 'I've taken all the hits he can deliver and I'm getting better'
Biden called it 'irrelevant' that he and his son Hunter Biden have become central characters in the impeachment, with the Senate likely to acquit Trump
The ex-veep said that while Republicans 'savaged my surviving son' he would not hold a grudge - but he would beat Trump in November
By Nikki Schwab, Senior U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com
Former Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed on the Iowa debate stage Tuesday that he's taken the most heat from President Trump and the Republicans of the 2020 hopefuls - and his poll numbers are only going up.
'I have been the object of his affection now more than anybody else on this stage,' Biden said at the CNN debate in Des Moines. 'I've taken all the hits he can deliver and I'm getting better,' he added, pointing to his strong showing in recent polls.
Biden was also asked if it was going to be difficult to run against Trump, who could see the Senate vindicate him in an impeachment trial - due to start next week - where the ex-veep and his son were central characters in the president's alleged plot.
The 2020 hopeful said it was 'irrelevant' and said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right to act, as Trump had 'in fact, committed impeachable offenses.'
'This Republican Party, they've gone after - savaged my surviving son, gone after me, told lies that your networks and others won't even carry on television because they're flat-out lies,' Biden said. 'And I did my job, the question is whether he did his job. And he hasn't done his job.'
Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed that he's taken the most heat from President Trump and the Republicans - and his poll numbers are only going up
Joe Biden reminded the debate audience that President Trump (pictured) and Republicans had 'savaged' his surviving son, who's become a central character in the president's impeachment
Former Vice President Joe Biden (center), standing alongside Sens. Elizabeth Warren (left) and Bernie Sanders (right), pointed out that he's been the object of Trump's affection - and has still remained a viable Democratic frontrunner
The House of Representatives impeached Trump last month over a scheme to hold up $400 million in military aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the country's president to announce he was investigating Joe and Hunter Biden.
Biden has been a consistent frontrunner in the 2020 campaign - though Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg have sporadically leapfrogged him in polls.
Trump also pressured the Ukrainian leader to look into the origins of the 2016 Russia investigation.
Hunter Biden, whose older brother Beau died of brain cancer in May 2015, had served on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which Trump and his allies have tried to characterize as corrupt.
That corruption carried over to Joe Biden, Trump has suggested, because Hunter only got the gig because of nepotism.
Biden said at the debate that it 'doesn't matter whether he's gone after me.'
'I have to be in a position that I think of the American people,' he said. 'I can't hold a grudge.'
Biden said the job of the next president of the United States would be to 'not only fight, but heal.'
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But he pointed out that by him winning he could also splinter the nation a greater deal.
'Notwithstanding that there's going to be more division when he's defeated by me next time,' Biden said.
Biden argued throughout the debate that he would make it out of the Democratic primary race because he had the broadest coalition.
'And by the way, I have overwhelming support from the African-American community, overwhelming. More than everybody else, number one,' Biden said. 'Number two, working class people, where I come from in Pennsylvania, and places I come from in Delaware, have great support.'
'I have support across the board,' Biden said.
Biden said he was especially keen to fight Trump on an economic message.
'And I'm not worried about taking on Donald Trump at all,' he added.
Biden continues to hold an eight-point lead in national polling, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average. The most recent Iowa poll, from Monmouth, has Biden up by six points. Though another recent poll, from the Des Moines Register, had Sanders up by three.
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Joe Biden slams Donald Trump as impeachment trial looms, saying he 'savaged my surviving son'