Aromatherapy - Many aromatherapists use eucalyptus oil for their remedies. The inhalation of the sweet-smelling oil helps relax the body. You can add a few drops of the essential oil to a hot bath. The steam and the aroma will help you calm down.
Relaxes Sore Muscles - Eucalyptus oil can be used in relaxing or therapeutic massages. Just add few drops of this essential oil to coconut or almond oil and apply on skin with a gentle rubbing motion.
Improved Hair Health - Eucalyptus oil improves shine, thickness, and overall health of your hair. However, too much use can actually reduce the shine and result in a greasy scalp. Most experts suggest using eucalyptus oil for the hair an hour or so before bathing, and then using a good shampoo to remove the residue, followed by a good conditioner.
Mix eucalyptus and olive oil and gently massage this warm oil mixture onto the scalp to stimulate blood flow to the hair roots and comb. Shampoo and condition normally.
Bad breath - Add to toothbrush: Simply add a drop of eucalyptus essential oil onto your toothbrush before brushing.
A study published in the Journal of Dental Research stated that, "eucalyptol typically acts as an antiseptic only when mixed with other extracts, like menthol."
Natural sunscreen - Eucalyptus oil has a natural SPF 3, and when combined with olive oil with SPF 8 it can make a natural moisturizing sunscreen.
Chemical-free moisturizer - Mix 3-5 drops of eucalyptus oil with 1 tablespoon jojoba oil olive oil or sweet almond oil and massage into the skin. This helps to rejuvenate and soften the skin. Great if you have dry, itchy skin!
Acne blemishes: Mix 1 drop eucalyptus essential oil with 3 drops of water. Soak a cotton swab in the blend and apply liberally to pimples and oily areas of the face. Make sure the solution does not get in the eyes, mouth or nose. Leave overnight for optimum results.
The above information is for general purpose only. Individual results may vary.


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Sting Videos Part Of Longtime Campaign Against Planned Parenthood
July 22, 2015 • The young anti-abortion activist who planned the recent sting videos on Planned Parenthood staff members has ties to larger group that oppose abortion.
Susan Cahill, owner of All Families Healthcare, stands in front of the first building in Kalispell, Mont., where she offered abortion services. After vandalism closed her last clinic down, Missoula became the nearest place for women in the Flathead Valley to find abortion services. Corin Cates-Carney/MTPR hide caption
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How Vandalism And Fear Ended Abortion In Northwest Montana
July 21, 2015 • When Zachary Klundt broke into All Families Healthcare he destroyed the only clinic providing abortions in the Flathead Valley of Montana. More than a year later, the clinic remains closed.
Undercover Video Targets Planned Parenthood
July 15, 2015 • Activists say the video of a Planned Parenthood official is evidence the group is selling parts from aborted fetuses, which is illegal. Planned Parenthood says tissue is donated for medical research.
The U.S. Supreme Court gave a reprieve to Texas clinics that provide abortion services. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
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Supreme Court Reprieve Lets 10 Texas Abortion Clinics Stay Open For Now
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June 30, 2015 • Abortion providers and foes react to the Supreme Court's action that will allow 10 abortion clinics in Texas to remain open until a state law that would close them can be fully reviewed by the court.
Supreme Court Places A Stay On Abortion Law In Texas
June 29, 2015 • If the Supreme Court refuses to hear the case, the stay will be lifted and a controversial 2013 law will take effect. The law places new requirements on abortion providers.
On July 9, 2013, opponents and supporters of a bill to put restrictions on abortion hold signs near a news conference outside the Texas Capitol in Austin. The bill was passed, but has been battled in the courts for two years; now, the law is set to go into effect July 1. Eric Gay/AP hide caption
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Texas Abortion Curbs Go Into Effect Soon, Unless Supreme Court Acts
June 24, 2015 • A controversial 2013 law, which will likely leave just nine clinics open in the state, is set to go into effect July 1. Abortion-rights supporters have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
Supreme Court Denies N.C. Appeal On State's Ultrasound Abortion Law
June 15, 2015 • The controversial 2011 law was previously struck down on the grounds that it reflected ideological, rather than medical, priorities.
Abortion-rights supporters (foreground) try to disrupt an anti-abortion march to the Texas Capitol during a Texas Rally for Life on Jan. 24 in Austin, Texas. Eric Gay/AP hide caption
Court Decision On Texas Abortion Law Could Hasten Clinic Closures
June 10, 2015 • A federal appeals court has upheld sweeping abortion restrictions in Texas that supporters say protect women's health. Opponents say the decision could leave just seven or eight clinics open.
Abortion Restriction Law Is Backed By Federal Court In Texas
June 9, 2015 • A federal appeals court has backed key parts of Texas' controversial 2013 law that critics say would put some clinics at risk of closing.
Idaho's Abortion Ban Is Unconstitutional, Federal Court Says
May 29, 2015 • The case was brought by Jennie McCormack and Dr. Richard Hearn. In 2011, McCormack was arrested and faced criminal charges after she ended her pregnancy.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin speaking to reporters in West Des Moines, Iowa, earlier this month. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
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Scott Walker: State's Ultrasound Law Isn't 'A Crazy Idea'
May 27, 2015 • Speaking about his state's law that requires an ultrasound before an abortion, the Wisconsin governor said he meets people all the time who are excited to show him ultrasounds of their grandkids.
Federal Appeals Court Blocks Arkansas Ban On Abortion After 12 Weeks
May 27, 2015 • The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has blocked an Arkansas law that bans abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The case was filed by two doctors on their own and their patients' behalf.
Kansas Becomes First State To Ban Second Trimester Abortion Procedure
April 17, 2015 • Kansas is the first state to ban "dismemberment abortions," the common second trimester procedure. This is the first medically-endorsed procedure to be banned since 2007.
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States Aim To Restrict Medically Induced Abortions
March 11, 2015 • One in four abortions is induced with medications rather than a surgical procedure. But the process faces a growing number of legal restrictions, including a law in Ohio.
States Fund Pregnancy Centers That Discourage Abortion
March 9, 2015 • A growing number of states are giving public money to crisis pregnancy centers. But the centers are unregulated, and abortion rights groups accuse them of coercing women with misinformation.
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Q: I would like to make my file an executable however it wont run unless its using python? I have a calendar build with tkcalendar and i want to make it an executable file that i can send for people to test out and give me feedback.
However i cant seem to run it unless i am using python.
I tried py2exe and pyinstaller
from tkcalendar import Calendar, DateEntry
from inputs import *
from quickstart import *
from Customization import *
from importlib import reload
try:
    import tkinter as tk
    from tkinter import ttk
    import datetime
except ImportError:
    import Tkinter as tk
    import ttk

Button_Light = ttk.Button(root,text='Light Style', command=Main_Body_white)
Button_Dark = ttk.Button(root,text='Dark Style', command=Main_Body_Black)
enter_button2 = Button(root, text="Make-Event", command=Create)

Button_Dark.pack()
Button_Light.pack()
enter_button2.pack()

So this code works 100% but it wont open unless in python. This code grabs many different modules and combines them to create the final result

I think because This code relies heavily on GUI and thats where the issue is happening.

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Still no luck But this might explain better. As you can see the code does run in cmd. But it dosent RUN the GUI part

A: Install the module pip install auto-py-to-exe, it is working for me, after installing type auto-py-to-exe in python prompt command line auto-py-to-exe window will appear. Put input() at the end of your python script and then select your script location, do not change output folder destination, after making executable open output folder, copy or cut the .exe application and paste it anywhere outside C drive. It'll work without using python. auto-py-to-exe window image attached for your reference.

A: First you need to make 1 folder and paste all files there:
Then you need to paste your folder to python directory where python install
to make sure to paste in the script folder
In My case python is install on this directory:
C:\Users\Hamza Lachi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Scripts

and then type this command:
pyinstaller -w -F '.\file_name.py'

It Will Converts python file into exe file
Why Exe Can't Run:
if you link files to python file that's why your python script is not working so you need to paste that files! in exe directory
For Example:
If You Link images so if script not working so you need to copy images in exe directory
SOLUTION
Copy all files in exe directory

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Not many people are lucky enough to find love in their teenage days and very few of them end up marrying their high school sweethearts. The journey of love is filled with some good times and tough times, but love has the power to help them sail through everything.
This is exactly what we can see in the most heart-warming love story of Jayaprakash, a Bengaluru resident and his high school love, Sunitha. This story starts back to the time when the two were schoolmates and became friends over the time. It was love at first sight for Jayaprakash and he never revealed his feelings to her. Soon after they passed out of school, they parted their ways as well and went to different cities for further studies.
Sunitha joined IBM in Bangalore, while Jayaprakash, after pursuing MBA, began working for a drama academy in Coimbatore. In a post, shared on Being You Facebook page, Jayaprakash talks about the time when they were in school.
Years passed by, the two of them got busy with their lives, but Jayaprakash could not forget his crush. Soon the odds got in his favour and 3 years later, destiny gave him the best birthday gift ever!
"On Saturday, August 27th 2011, I wanted to go home to Coimbatore and my friends agreed to drop me before heading to Tiruppur for shopping. We were near Krishnagiri when it happened. The window was down and I was sleeping in the back seat of Maruti 800 with my music plugged into my ears when I was woken up by a loud crash. Post that, I could feel my friend's tears on my arm as he begged me not to die on him. Later, they told me that my hair got badly entangled, and my face was out of the window as the car toppled thrice after hitting the divider. They gave the ambulance guy whatever they had, even the gold chain from my bag, and got me to Bangalore."
When Jayaprakash heard about the accident, he went to meet her and was broken to see her like in that situation. It was then he realised that he is in love and wants to marry her. To him, her accident, her surgeries, her looks, nothing mattered. And January 2012 onwards, he was there with her for all her surgeries and remained as her support in that phase.
On Jayaprakash's birthday in October 2012, Sunitha finally said yes to his proposal but she needed time for marriage.
"On January 26th 2014, I reached Bangalore at 1 AM and was exhausted. I saw her standing on the terrace with three roses to propose. I said yes. We got engaged on the same day. Marriage preparation began in earnest."
His feelings for her didn't change after so many years, and she was the same beautiful girl for her from high school. Later in 2014, she was ready to take a step forward in her life and get married to a guy who has shown immense love and support through her tough times. Despite their financial problems, the two tied the knot on March 3, 2014 and are living happily now with their two kids. The two talked about how they were told not to have kids as they would get Sunitha's looks.
"It was frenzy, the run-up to the marriage. There were many problems. Because of our financial situation, on the morning of our reception, I was in shorts sweeping the place. There were people who questioned why we needed a wedding now. They even asked her not to have babies because they'd have her face. People still look at her with pity and think I did a big thing by marrying her. The reality is, I married the love of my life and my life changed for the better. Today, we have two kids and wonderful mornings to wake up together."
"Post discharge, I moved to Tamil Nadu but soon came back home to Bangalore. It was then that a boy who had a crush on me since we were 17 met me and proposed. After January 2012, he has been with me for all my surgeries. To him, my accident, my surgeries, my tough childhood, nothing mattered. We got married in 2014. People even told me not to have babies because they'd have my face but we laugh these things off."
Jayaprakash and Sunitha's story makes us believe that true love exists. Love isn't about a face or imposed conditions or external beauty, it's a connection of souls. Nothing could stop them from their decision to spend their lives together. Its really an inspiration to everyone seeing their unconditional love.


MacBook Air vs Windows laptops: which is best?
Should you choose a MacBook Air or a Windows laptop? Read our MacBook Air vs Windows Ultrabooks advice to find out.
Why this was the case requires some explaining, but in essence where Apple is maker of both hardware and software, all Windows laptop builders make hardware to fit Microsoft's software. More important: they do so using a set of processors designed for them by Intel. Apple's great move in 2008 was to know what consumers wanted, and to insist that Intel made a CPU and GPU that would deliver. Right from the start the MacBook Air was not only thin and light, but it offered unsurpassed battery life without compromising on performance.
That Intel needed a push to create the components to make this possible is an irony. Because today it is Intel, in partnership with Microsoft, that is pushing Windows laptops makers to make thin and light, performance laptops. And doing so they are, with varying degrees of success. Here we'll compare the best Windows Ultrabooks with the latest MacBook Air. See also: should I buy a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro?
MacBook Air vs Windows Ultrabooks: what is an Ultrabook?
Intel owns the term 'Ultrabook'. It describes a thin and light, ultraportable laptop or laptop/tablet hybrid. You may see first-generation Ultrabooks that don't subscribe to all the standards that follow, but the latest definition of the spec requires these standards to be met before a laptop maker can call its wares an 'Ultrabook'.
2013, 4th-generation Core Ultrabooks must have 802.11ac Wi-Fi, as well as touchscreens and voice control. They must wake from sleep in under 3 seconds. Battery life must be independently tested at seven days on standby, nine hours running Windows and six hours playing back HD video. Intel Ultrabooks must have built-in security software, and be no thicker than 23mm at their widest point.
Key to all this is Intel's fourth-generation 'Haswell' Core processor family. One of the key strengths of Haswell processors is much-improved power efficiency, which Intel argues will give rise to a new generation of laptops that are even lighter and slimmer, as well as providing the key benefit of much longer battery life. That's certainly true of some of the Haswell laptops we've seen.
But one of the first big names to update its laptops with Haswell processors is Apple itself. This means the MacBook Air has remarkable battery life. Apple claims an increase from seven to 12 hours for the 13in version, but in our tests it lasted even longer. Our video-streaming test ran for 12.5 hours and we saw almost 14 hours for less-demanding work.
Sony took a more ambitious approach for its first Haswell laptop, the Vaio Pro. It can't match the battery life of the Air, but the size and weight of the carbon-fibre Pro represents a breakthrough in portability. At 1.06kg, the Vaio is almost a third lighter than the MacBook and, according to Sony, the lightest laptop of its type.
But if you compared only the best Sony and the best Apple you wouldn't get the full picture. So below we outline some general points. See how to buy a cheap MacBook Air.
You know Apple, and you know the MacBook Air. Apple makes quality products that last, and the MacBook Air is one of the best. The design and build quality are impeccable, thanks to the elegant-yet-sturdy 'unibody' aluminium casing. And with a maximum thickness of 17 mm and a weight of just 1.08 kg the 11in MacBook Air remains one of the lightest and most portable laptops currently available. The 13in model is hardly a beast, either.
The basic design of the MacBook Air has remained unchanged – which is hardly surprising as it set the template that legions of Wintel Ultrabooks have followed in recent years. And the performance is as good as it gets.
This Mid-2013 13in MacBook Air with a 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5-4250U scored 4602 points in our PCMark 7 test. The 2013 MacBook Air recorded 6770 GeekBench 2 points, too. That is one fast PC. The dual-core chip still includes Hyper Threading too, to process four concurrent threads, and will also dynamically overclock to twice its rated speed, 2.6 GHz in Turbo mode.
Since PCMark 7 also measures the speed of storage as part of the test suite, this better-for-less result could also be attributed to the upgrade in flash memory. There's now 128 GB as standard across both 11.6in and 13.3in models, and importantly this takes a new form-factor that bypasses any SATA bus. Instead it uses a direct PCIe connection, obviating the intermediary and unneeded SATA stage.
Memory for this generation and the last is 4GB as standard, configurable to order to 8 GB, and this is now low-power LPDDR3 SDRAM running at 1600MHz.
And battery life? We put the 2013 MacBook Air to the test in Windows 7 Home Premium, using the venerable MobileMark 2007 (Productivity) benchmark test. And here we recorded a runtime that comfortably exceeded the specified 12 hours, hitting a new record figure of 13 hours and 57 minutes. That is 14 hours of use for your laptop. FOURTEEN HOURS!
Allowing for times when you may be working the machine harder than the MS office and Adobe apps that comprise this test, even an eight-hour stretch between charges means you can yet charge your laptop for the morning, take to work and comfortably last the day without dependence on a mains charger. That's a staggering result.
But stats don't tell the whole story. The MacBook Air is a quality device that is a joy to use. And Apple's sales and aftersales support is famously good. It's not as though Apple won't be around to service your laptop in a couple of years. And you know they will have stock when you go down to the Apple Store. That's not the case for all Windows PC makers.
Oh, and statistics suggest that OS X products are a lot more secure than are Windows computers. So you may decide to save yourself the cost of security software.
Finally, for those of you saying: 'yes, but I need Windows', consider this. You can easily run Windows on a MacBook Air, but you can't run OS X on a Windows laptop. See also: which cables, adapters and accessories do you need for the MacBook Air?
Okay, so the MacBook Air is a known quantity. It comes in just a few SKUs and they are all great. That's good to know, but if you are looking for real choice you need to look to the Windows world. And that Ultrabook moniker should mean that you need have no worries about performance (even if build quality is still something of a pig in a poke).
As mentioned above new Windows Ultrabooks have to have touchscreens - and you won't find that on your MacBook Air. Now most people would consider a touchscreen unecessary on a laptop, but I can tell you from personal experience that when web browsing or using your PC as a media player the touchscreen is a real benefit.
Other variety in the Windows world includes form factor. The MacBook Air is a clamshell laptop, and that is the extent of your choice of portable running OS X. If you want a Windows portable you could choose from a range of clamshell laptops, convertible laptops that turn into slates, laptops that have detachable screens that become discrete slates, and slates themselves with desktop docking stations.
Variety of form factor is matched by variet of price. Ultrabooks tend toward the expensive, but you can pick up a Dell Ultrabook for around £600. That's £250 cheaper than the cheapest MacBook Air. You get what you pay for, but if your pockets are deep and your arms short that could be a major feature.
And finally, there are advantages to having a Windows PC. Windows is the OS run by most computers in the world, so you get the widest choice of third-party apps and more opportunities for peer support.
If you are looking for a thin and light laptop offering great performance and battery life, get a MacBook Air. Even if you need to run Windows. If you need a touchscreen, a hybrid device or you are short of funds, take a dive into the Wintel world. For more see which MacBook Air is best?


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PR Week has just celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Annual Internal Communications Conference, where the great and the good working in staff motivation and engagement came together to hear the latest developments. As you would expect, the line-up was jam packed with cutting edge insights, case studies and practical solutions on everything internal communications (IC).
One of the great reasons to attend a conference like this is to get an indicator of what the next couple of years could hold. Among the '5 great reasons', and '6 steps to engagement' tips, were some clear future trends and directions. Social media quickly became prominent throughout many discussions. And three clear themes were evident to driving today's successful IC strategies - 'purpose', 'storytelling' and 'value'.
While social offers a multitude of ways to build two way communication, there was wide appreciation of the fact that it's easy and often tempting to try to spread resource too thinly. Achieving at best very little and at worst a negative reaction.
This trend was named 'Social by Design'. It focuses around having meaning in what we are trying to say or do, and making whatever we post or share remarkable - something people want to share or comment on. The importance of effortless participation was also highlighted - if we make it difficult or ask too much it simply won't happen.
I wish I had a pound for the number of mentions of 'purpose' and 'stories', but what became clear was how they are integral to the success or failure of IC initiatives.
IC will be all the more effective if employees understand both the purpose of the business and their role within it, so that they can understand how to connect the two. Remember the corporate ambition is the 'stick of rock' that runs throughout a business, allowing people to align themselves around it.
Of course, narrative is still king, and stories are what bring the values of a business to life. In an age where corporate value sets are increasingly generic or interchangeable, or sometimes wilfully obscure, stories are the evidence of the values. Stories are personal, unique and specific to the individual and therefore the business.
While stories give insight, information gives data. Coca-Cola described stories as 'data with soul' and while that may be a bit trite for some palates, it supports the point that we are now well and truly beyond 'IC as information exchange' stage. IC only has a place if it's making a difference, the time has passed when it existed as a means of passively moving information from A to B.
These days, no one communicates in a linear fashion. This is evident in how we use phones and tablets on the way to work to using skype at our desks or at home. IC campaigns have to respond to this and understand new behaviour, acknowledging that sometimes we need to act as 'disruptors' to ensure message cut-through. Face-to-face communication is one of those ways to stand-out. Conversations are about people, technology is just the enabler and however much social becomes a cornerstone of lC nothing will replace the immediacy and power of communicating face-to-face.
The idea that one size doesn't fit all rang out loud and clear. Termed 'the communication of waves' by Paul Osgood from Philips, it was clear that we need to consider message and medium as one. It was interesting to see how customer-driven comms techniques and methodologies are at long last being adopted internally. We're now recognising that employees are people in the same way that customers are, and reacting to the way that they consume media and messaging.
This leads rather neatly on to the next trend - 'moving images are moving business'. The idea that people are not only consuming video but are using it as a means to communicate internally is becoming a reality. A simple example is staff filming a problem on their PC and posting it for IT Support to see. On an extreme scale we heard about how business can cease to engage if it doesn't understand how its employees behave. Forex Traders at a UK bank turned to Bloomberg and FT for news about their own business due to a void in communication.
Demonstrating return-on-investment is key to any long-term IC success and measurement was discussed at large throughout the conference. As comms methods become ever more sophisticated, so must the measures. Measuring the immediate impact of our communications on perception and understanding is vital - lots of small percentage shifts across an extended period will aggregate to deliver significant change over time.
Here's a final thought, if you needed convincing about the power of effective IC within an organisation and why we should measure that effectiveness - return to shareholders has been 47% higher from companies that communicate well with their employees and in turn outperform their competition 1.7 times.
Quite simply, companies that communicate effectively achieve better results.
If you are interested in how we can help you bring your IC campaign to life with face-to-face communication, get in touch today.


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choosing between active and passive voice, and The SEC's A Plain English Handbook.
1. Use the active voice with strong verbs.
4. Bring abstractions down to earth.
8. Keep the subject, verb, and object close together.
9. Keep your sentence structure parallel.
Change the following sentences from the passive voice (where the subject is acted upon) to the active voice (where the subject performs the action).
1. An investment was made by me.
2. A decision was made by the board to exclude the press and wear Hawaiian shirts when voting on important matters.
3. Holdings among rate-sensitive stocks were reduced by the portfolio manager.
4. In preparation for next month's meeting, a shirt with yellow flowers and a green background was purchased by Roger Chillingworth.
5. We are now permitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission to combine mailings of certain materials.
1. I made an investment.
2. The board decided to exclude the press and wear Hawaiian shirts when voting on important matters.
3. The portfolio manager reduced holdings among rate-sensitive stocks.
4. In preparation for next month's meeting, Roger Chillingworth purchased a shirt with yellow flowers and a green background.
5. The Securities and Exchange Commission now permits us to combine mailings of certain materials.
Many thoughts can be expressed either with verbs (such as "recommend") or with nouns linked to weak verbs (such as "make a recommendation"). Choosing the verb rather than the noun usually produces a more concise, emphatic sentence.
A noun derived from a verb is called a nominalization. In the sentences below, change the nominalizations to verbs.
1. Waldo made a search for the hidden profit.
2. "So, now, do you stand in agreement with me, then?" the governor asked the legislature.
3. I came to the realization that the Fund's performance is a reflection of the maximum sales charge of 5%.
4. We have the expectation that the global economy will continue to make a recovery.
1. Waldo searched for the hidden profit.
2. "So, now, do you agree with me, then?" the governor asked the legislature.
3. I realized that the Fund's performance reflects the maximum sales charge of 5%.
4. We expect the global economy to continue to recover.
Use personal pronouns (such as "I," "we," and "you") to avoid abstractions and to speak directly to your reader.
It is our belief that, based on an assessment of the accounting principles used and a review of the significant estimates made by management, as well as an evaluation of the overall financial statement presentation, our audits provide a reasonable basis on which recommendations are made.
After assessing the accounting principles used, reviewing the significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the financial statement, we believe our recommendations are reasonable.
We believe our audits support our recommendations for the following reasons: (1) We have assessed the accounting principles used; (2) we have reviewed the significant estimates made by management; and (3) we have evaluated the financial statement.
1. There is a frequent nonconcurrence in perspectives between the committee chair and the speaker.
2. A cacophonous manifestation of tempers erupted between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
3. Your financial adviser should not be held accountable in the event you experience a decline in investment income or a net loss in total assets.
1. The committee chair and the speaker frequently disagree.
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee started shouting at each other.
3. Don't blame us if you lose money.
1. In the eventuality that you encounter unexpected and otherwise unforeseeable problems, please apprise me of the situation.
2. It is expected by the board that the governor will assume the duties and responsibilities of a stockbroker subsequent to his departure from office.
3. In order to make progress in improving your writing skills, it is imperative that you devote yourself to the study of the principles of good writing.
1. Let me know if you have any problems.
2. The board expects the governor to become a stockbroker after that person leaves office.
3. To improve your writing skills, you must study the principles of good writing.
As a rule, it takes fewer words to say what something is than to say what it is not.
1. My nose is not unlike a red, red rose.
2. You may not receive these dividends unless you are the primary beneficiary.
3. Whose woods these are I do not think I do not know.
4. Not often does the S&P 500 Index decline by more than 5% in one day.
5. Not many investors enjoy wildly fluctuating markets.
1. My nose is like a red, red rose.
2. You may receive these dividends only if you are the primary beneficiary.
3. Whose woods these are I think I know.
4. Rarely does the S&P 500 Index decline by more than 5% in one day.
5. Few investors enjoy wildly fluctuating markets.
The period provides a critical pause, a moment of reflection, an opportunity for your hard-working reader to ponder your meaning, admire your insight, bask in your brilliance, and absorb your wisdom.
The period is a marvelous device. Use it often to punctuate your thoughts.
1. According to Nancy Smith, Director, Office of Investor Education and Assistance, three people, Ann Wallace, from the Division of Corporation Finance, Carolyn Miller, formerly of Siegel & Gale and now with the SEC, and William Lutz, author and Professor of English at Rutgers University, poured their hearts and minds into the plain English handbook that inspired me to create these exercises, which you are enjoying as well as finding useful, I hope, and so all of the credit and none of the blame goes to them.
2. It's a simple process: After the portfolio managers find companies with the dual attraction of dependable earnings growth and attractive valuations by focusing on their long-term underlying worth, they ascertain the underlying worth of those companies by carefully comparing the value of their corporate assets with their potential returns before determining if a company's stock is mispriced relative to that underlying worth. Even people who are a few sandwiches short of a picnic should be able to understand it.
1. Nancy Smith, Director, Office of Investor Education and Assistance, acknowledges three people: Ann Wallace, from the Division of Corporation Finance; Carolyn Miller, formerly of Siegel & Gale and now with the SEC; and William Lutz, author and Professor of English at Rutgers University. They poured their hearts and minds into the plain English handbook. According to Smith, all of the credit and none of the blame should go to them. I agree. In fact, their effort inspired me to create these exercises, which I hope you are enjoying as well as finding useful.
2. It's a simple process: First, the portfolio managers find companies with the dual attraction of dependable earnings growth and attractive valuations. They do this by focusing on their long-term underlying worth, which they ascertain by carefully comparing the value of corporate assets with potential returns. Then they determine if a company's stock is mispriced relative to that underlying worth. Even people who are a few sandwiches short of a picnic should be able to understand it.
Readers cannot make sense of your sentence until they see how the subject relates to the verb and the verb relates to its object, so keep those critical parts within sight of each other.
1. Tropical colors, you may not think, and gray hair, which our board members have, go well together, but they surprisingly do.
2. Management, anticipating reform in health care, decreased what people in the business like to call "exposure" to things like pharmaceuticals.
1. You may not think that tropical colors and our board members' gray hair go well together, but surprisingly they do.
2. Anticipating reform in health care, management decreased exposure to pharmaceuticals.
Once you establish a pattern, you must stay with it. Your reader expects consistency. If Benjamin Franklin had said, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a young man (or woman) healthy, wealthy, and a stockbroker," we wouldn't be quoting him today.
1. She was healthy, wealthy, and an athlete.
2. For additional information about this fund, you may call the Securities and Exchange Commission at 1-800-SEC-0330, or what you might want to do is access other information about the fund on the Commission's Internet site at http://www.sec.gov.
3. Our governor can beat up your governor, eat more than your governor, and he talks louder than your governor.
1. She was healthy, wealthy, and athletic.
2. For additional information about this fund, you may call the Securities and Exchange Commission at 1-800-SEC-0330, or you may access the Commission's Internet site at http://www.sec.gov.
3. Our governor [Jesse Ventura] can beat up your governor, eat more than your governor, and talk louder than your governor.


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«Йогануті» () — американський комедійний фільм-хоррор, знятий Кевіном Смітом. Світова прем'єра стрічки відбулась 24 січня 2016 року на Санденському міжнародному кінофестивалі, а в Україні — 28 липня 2016 року. Фільм розповідає про двох 15-річних дівчат з Манітоби, які після провальних спроб потрапити на вечірку старшокласників об'єднуються з мисливцем за головами для боротьби з стародавнімі силами зла.

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 Гарлі Квін Сміт — Коллін Мак-Кензі
 Лілі-Роуз Депп — Коллін Коллетт
 Джонні Депп — Гай Лапойнт
 Джастін Лонг — Йогі Байєр
 Остін Батлер — Хантер Каллоуей
 Адам Броуді — Ічабод
 Наташа Лайонн — Табіта
 Гейлі Джоел Осмент — Адрієн Аркан
 Ванесса Параді — місіс Моріс
 Тайлер Поузі — Гордон Грінліф
 Джейсон Мьюз — поліцейський
 Кевін Сміт — The Bratzis
 Кевін Конрой — канадський бетмен
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Millis is a town located in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 7,902.
For geographic and demographic information on the village of Millis-Clicquot, please see the article Millis-Clicquot, Massachusetts.
Millis was first settled in 1657 and was officially incorporated in 1885.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 31.8 km² (12.3 mi²). 31.5 km² (12.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.90% water.
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 7,902 people, 3,004 households, and 2,162 families residing in the town. The population density is 250.9/km² (650.0/mi²). There are 3,066 housing units at an average density of 97.4/km² (252.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.94% White, 0.71% African American, 0.14% Native American, 1.14% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.24% from other races, and 0.84% from two or more races. 0.94% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 3,004 households out of which 37.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.3% are married couples living together, 9.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.0% are non-families. 22.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.62 and the average family size is 3.12.
In the town the population is spread out with 26.9% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 33.6% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 93.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 90.1 males.
The median income for a household in the town is $62,806, and the median income for a family is $72,171. Males have a median income of $51,250 versus $35,556 for females. The per capita income for the town is $27,957. 2.9% of the population and 3.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 2.8% of those under the age of 18 and 2.3% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
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what I saw. It's worth a look on a Sunday morning.
I caught a couple of episodes before it disappeared, and thought it was kind of interesting. I'd like to read a review at some point; one full review of all the episodes would be fine with me.
I caught two and a half of these while it was still on US TV. I liked it. To me, the most interesting character was the AI secretary, but whatever. The issues that are raised seem that they're farther in the future than the storyline assumes, but I can accept that, as well.
OK… a whole lot of nothing said, there. Anyway. I would prefer per-episode reviews for the show.


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Organ transplantation has become a routine and blessed part of health care. The precious gift of vital organs can save lives, give meaning in death and provide comfort to families and friends during profound loss.
Unfortunately, House Bill 1637, which just passed the House, may inadvertently make it harder for dying patients -- particularly those who choose not to donate their organs -- to enforce their end-of-life decisions.
HB1637 is part of a larger, nationwide struggle. A critical shortage of transplantable organs has led to increasingly determined efforts by transplantation specialists to enlarge the so-called donor pool.
Organ donation is an "opt-in" system, requiring individuals to clearly state their desire to become a donor. HB1637 moves us much closer to an "opt-out" system, where it's presumed all dying patients may be organ donors unless they leave specific instructions to the contrary.
But the truth is not everyone wants to become an organ donor. A Virginia Department of Motor Vehicle study showed that when people were given a choice to opt in or opt out of organ donation, 31 percent registered as organ donors but 45 percent specifically refused. The proposed Washington law would make it harder for people who choose not to donate to enforce their decisions.
The law would create an organ donor registry to record names of people who want to donate organs. No corresponding registry is included that would record names of people who choose not to donate.
An even more worrisome problem is that the new law would give organ procurement agencies authority to override living wills, authorizing them to keep patients alive by machines if they might be good donors.
Unless specifically revoked, a decision by parents to make their child a potential organ donor would remain in place throughout that person's life, even though he might be unaware of the decision.
Under the proposal, if a person's organ donation instructions are not available when she is near death, organ procurement staffers need only make "reasonable" efforts to ascertain the potential donor's wishes, and they are shielded from liability if they get it wrong. Without potential consequences, will organ procurement agents work as hard as possible to find out a patient's wishes if he might be a "refuser?"
While family members are usually the ones who hear a patient's last wishes before she can no longer communicate, this law would require two witnesses to verify that conversation, one of whom cannot be a family member. At the time of death a hospital employee or unrelated individual would have equal authority as a family member in a donation decision.
The proposed law's worthy intent is to increase the supply of organs for people who need them, but as we rush to help potential organ recipients, let's not neglect the needs and rights of dying patients who do not wish to become organ donors.
HB1637 should be fixed to protect patient rights by preserving our "opt-in" system, and creating corresponding protections for people who "opt out."
Donor registries should be required to identify people who choose not to donate as well as those who would allow it. The law should mandate that all Washington state living wills specify whether a decision to forgo life-support can be overridden by an organ procurement agency if the person decides to become a donor. Parental decisions regarding a child's organ donor status should automatically expire at 18.
The Department of Motor Vehicles should be required to give people equal opportunity to refuse organ donation, as well as to consent. When potential donors are unable to express their wishes, health care workers should not be granted equal or greater authority than families in that intensely personal decision.
Many doctors and patients worry that the drive for transplantable organs erodes the quality of end-of-life health care and fosters a perception of dying patients as a means to that end, rather than as precious individuals living their last, sacred moments.
We all want organ transplantation to save lives. But a dying patient is more than a bundle of organs awaiting the harvest.
Let's take care that every patient whose organs are donated at death actually wanted it that way.


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You should definitely take advantage of the many restaurants on or near campus, but use these tips and tactics to make sure you stay within a budget.
Set a budget for all meals that aren't included in your campus dining plan.
Be careful when purchasing an all-inclusive campus dining plan. It's highly unlikely that you'll be eating every meal in your school cafeteria, so it could be wise to take the money you would have spent on the most expensive meal plan and use it elsewhere. In general, plan for around 14 meals a week in the dining hall.
Sign up for discount lists. Email services such as Groupon send out daily coupons for your area, many of which include restaurants. Not only can you save as much as 50 percent on your meals, but you and your friends won't have to figure out where to eat. The coupon will decide that for you.
Look for weekly deals. Many off-campus dining options have one or more days a week with some kind of special (such as 25-cent wings). If you're going to partake in one of these meals, make a reservation or arrive early, as the restaurant is likely to bring in big crowds looking to save a few dollars.
Go to the grocery store regularly. Grocery shopping is usually cheaper than eating out. Your refrigerator doesn't need to be overflowing with groceries, but keep some food handy: There will be nights when you don't feel like going out to get your meals. Together with friends, organize a potluck.
Invest in a coffee machine. If you start your day off with a cup of coffee, make your own. Going to the local coffee shop every morning adds up quickly.
Purchase a water filter. Bottled water, like coffee, can be expensive. A water filter and a water bottle should keep you covered at all times, whether you're in your dorm or at class.
Do some research online. Websites such as Yelp or Restaurants.com compile user reviews for all parts of the country. See what other people have to say, and you should be able to find the cheapest and best restaurants in your area.
Set a budget for off-campus dining. Set a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly budget for all meals that aren't included in your campus plan, and stick to it. Students run into trouble when they haphazardly spend money without having a firm grasp on how much they can spend while staying within their means.
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Granado v. Commonwealth
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Eliseo Granado was convicted of driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Granado filed a notice of appeal. On the deadline for filing a written statement of facts, Granado filed a proposed written statement of facts in the circuit court clerk's office, but the clerk's office did not include the original proposed written statement of facts in the contents of the record submitted to the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals denied Granado's petition for appeal, concluding that the statement of facts was not timely filed and was not part of the record to be considered on appeal, and therefore, the record was insufficient to address the assignments of error raised by Granado. Granado then filed a demand for review by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals. The panel denied Granado's petition. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that the Court of Appeals erred by ruling that there was no statement of facts in the record for its consideration because that the statement of facts was timely filed in the circuit court and was properly part of the record.
PRESENT: Lemons, C.J., Goodwyn, Mims, McClanahan, Powell and Kelsey, JJ., and Russell, S.J. ELISEO GRANADO, JR. OPINION BY JUSTICE S. BERNARD GOODWYN September 8, 2016 v. Record No. 150936 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA In this appeal, we consider whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying a petition for appeal on the basis that there was no timely written statement of facts in lieu of a transcript in the record. BACKGROUND Eliseo Granado, Jr. (Granado) was convicted of driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated in violation of Code § 18.2-266 in the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake. The circuit court entered its order on June 24, 2014. On July 18, 2014, Granado filed a notice of appeal to the Court of Appeals of Virginia. On August 18, 2014, the deadline for filing a written statement of facts pursuant to Rule 5A:8(c), Granado filed a proposed written statement of facts in the clerk's office of the circuit court. On August 20, 2014, a revised version of the proposed statement of facts signed by Granado's counsel and signed "Seen and agreed" by the Commonwealth was submitted to the circuit court, and it was signed by the circuit court judge on August 22, 2014. The circuit court clerk's office did not include the original proposed written statement of facts filed on August 18, 2014, which had not been signed by the circuit court judge, in the contents of the record submitted to the Court of Appeals. On February 6, 2015, the Court of Appeals entered a per curiam order noting that the statement of facts contained in the record was apparently submitted to the circuit court on August 20, 2014, and entered by the circuit court on August 22, 2014, although pursuant to Rule 5A:8(c), the statement of facts was due to be filed by August 18, 2014. Thus, it concluded that the statement of facts was not timely filed and was not part of the record to be considered on appeal. In its order, the Court of Appeals held that because there was no timely filed transcript or written statement of facts in the record, the record was insufficient to address the assignments of error raised by Granado, and it denied Granado's petition for appeal. Subsequently, on February 9, 2015, the circuit court clerk's office transmitted an amended record, which included the proposed statement of facts filed on August 18, 2014, to the Court of Appeals. On February 19, 2015, Granado filed a demand for review by a three-judge panel, notified the Court of Appeals of the new document in the amended record certified by the circuit court clerk, and argued that the newly included document proved that his statement of facts was timely filed. He also argued that the circuit court's failure to send the unsigned August 18, 2014 statement of facts to the Court of Appeals in the originally forwarded record was not a valid basis for denial. On May 14, 2015, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals denied Granado's petition for appeal for the same reasons as it stated in the February 6, 2015 per curiam order. Granado appealed to this Court, and we granted the following assignment of error: The Court of Appeals of Virginia erred when it denied the Petition for Appeal without reaching the merits of the issues raised in the Petition, because the Court of Appeals incorrectly ruled that Granado's Statement of Facts was not part of the record. 2 ANALYSIS Granado argues that the Court of Appeals erred by denying his petition for appeal on the basis that the record was insufficient for it to evaluate his assignments of error. He claims that the Court of Appeals based its decision on the erroneous conclusion that no statement of facts had been timely submitted to the circuit court, and thus, the signed statement of facts in the case file was not properly part of the record. He also contends that the original version of the statement of facts filed on August 18, 2014 was properly added to the contents of the case record by an amendment to the record certified by the circuit court clerk, and it should have been considered by the three-judge panel as proof that a statement of facts was timely filed within the period prescribed by Rule 5A:8(c). Further, he notes that the August 20, 2014 version of the statement of facts was signed by the circuit court judge, certifying compliance with Rule 5A:8. The Commonwealth claims that the Court of Appeals properly denied the appeal because Granado failed to include a timely filed statement of facts in the record, based upon the contents of the record as originally certified by the clerk of the circuit court. It adds that the clerk of the circuit court was not allowed to amend the record on appeal to add the proposed written statement of facts filed with the circuit court on August 18, 2014, without the Court of Appeals awarding a writ of certiorari that ordered the circuit court to forward the missing document. Granado's appeal concerns the interpretation of the Rules of this Court, so we review the Court of Appeals' decision de novo. LaCava v. Commonwealth, 283 Va. 465, 469-70, 722 S.E.2d 838, 840 (2012). Rule 5A:7(a)(1) states, in relevant part, that the record on appeal from a trial court should contain "the documents and exhibits filed or lodged in the office of the clerk of the trial court." Rule 5A:7(a)(7) states that the record on appeal should include the transcript of any proceeding 3 or "a written statement of facts, testimony, and other incidents of the case when made a part of the record as provided in Rule 5A:8." Rule 5A:8(c) provides the requirements for a party to enter into the record a written statement of facts in lieu of a transcript to provide an authoritative account of the events at trial for the Court of Appeals' review. It states, in relevant part: A written statement of facts, testimony, and other incidents of the case becomes a part of the record when: (1) within 55 days after entry of judgment a copy of such statement is filed in the office of the clerk of the trial court. . . . ; and (2) the statement is signed by the trial judge and filed in the office of the clerk of the trial court. Rule 5A:8(d) provides, in relevant part, "At any time while the record remains in the office of the clerk of the trial court, the trial judge may, after notice to counsel and hearing, correct the transcript or written statement." The initial record before the Court of Appeals included the document filed on August 20, 2014, which was signed by the circuit court judge, but not the version of it filed on August 18, 2014, which was not signed by the circuit court judge. After rendering its first denial of Granado's petition for appeal, the Court of Appeals received an amended record that contained the August 18, 2014 version of the statement of facts. The amended record was received before the three-judge panel proceeding. Because the August 18, 2014 version of the statement of facts was filed with the circuit court clerk, it was properly contained within the record. Rule 5A:7(a)(1) provides that the record on appeal from a circuit court to the Court of Appeals should contain "the documents and exhibits filed or lodged in the office of the clerk of the trial court." The fact that this document was never signed by the circuit court judge prevents it from being considered as an authoritative 4 account of the events at trial in lieu of a transcript, but it does not prevent it from being contained within the record transmitted by the clerk of court. Further, while the Court of Appeals did not award a writ of certiorari pursuant to Code § 8.01-675.4 ordering the circuit court to transfer the proposed written statement of facts filed by Granado on August 18, 2014, no such writ was required because such writs are only necessary after a petition for appeal has been granted. Code § 8.01-675.4 provides, "The [Court of Appeals] may, in any case, after reasonable notice to counsel in the appellate court, award a writ of certiorari to the clerk of the trial court and have brought before it, when part of a record is omitted, the whole or any part of such record." In Godfrey v. Commonwealth, 227 Va. 460, 465, 317 S.E.2d 781, 784 (1984), while evaluating the companion statute to Code § 8.01-675.4 that addresses writs of certiorari in appeals to this Court, we held, "After the record has been transmitted to this Court pursuant to Rule 5:15 and an appeal has been granted, the record on appeal cannot be enlarged except by our award of a writ of certiorari under Code § 8.01-673." (Emphasis added.) Thus, a writ of certiorari is necessary for this Court to request materials missing from the record only after a petition for appeal has been granted. Because the language in Code §§ 8.01-673 and 8.01-675.4 is substantively the same, the ruling from Godfrey informs the proper interpretation of Code § 8.01-675.4. See, e.g., Lahey v. Johnson, 283 Va. 225, 231, 720 S.E.2d 534, 537 (2012) "Because [the two statutes at issue] clearly address the same subject matter, we construe them together under the 'in pari materia' canon of construction." (quoting Evans v. Evans, 280 Va. 76, 83 n.2, 695 S.E.2d 173, 176 n.2 (2010)). Because Granado's appeal had not yet been granted, the Court of Appeals was not required to award a writ of certiorari before it could consider the contents of the amended record 5 certified by the clerk of the circuit court, which included the proposed written statement of facts filed on August 18, 2014. A trial judge has the power to correct a written statement at any time while it remains in the office of the clerk after notifying counsel and providing an opportunity for a hearing. Rule 5A:8(d). Thus, as long as a proposed written statement of facts was timely filed and the notice and hearing requirements are satisfied, this correction power allows a trial court to enter a revised version of a timely filed statement of facts. The August 20, 2014 version of the statement of facts amounted to a request that the circuit court correct the version filed on August 18, 2014, after it was reviewed and amended to the satisfaction of the Commonwealth. The amended statement of facts was seen and agreed to by both parties, so both parties had notice of the proposed change and, because there was no disagreement with the version signed by the judge, there was no need for a hearing. The circuit court exercised its power to correct the proposed statements of facts filed on August 18, 2014 by signing the August 20, 2014 version. Therefore, the statement of facts signed by the circuit court judge was timely filed in the circuit court, complied with the requirements of Rule 5A:8, and was properly part of the record as an authoritative account of the events that occurred at trial in lieu of a transcript. The Court of Appeals erred by ruling that there was no such statement of facts in the record for its consideration. CONCLUSION In summary, for the reasons stated, we will reverse the Court of Appeals' decision and remand the case to the Court of Appeals with the direction that it review Granado's petition for 6 appeal considering the statement of facts entered by the circuit court on August 22, 2014 as a timely and authoritative written statement of facts in lieu of a transcript. Reversed and remanded. 7
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A: Here's the right way to approach this problem.
First write the code so that the exception handling is CORRECT. Always correctness first.
Then set reasonable, customer-focussed performance goals. Then test your program. Then, if you haven't met your goals, use a profiler to find the slowest thing. If the slowest thing by some bizarre coincidence happens to be your correct exception handling, only then should you even consider what the performance cost of exception handling is.

A: I agree with recursive, but you may want to look at a nice explanation:
http://www.programmersheaven.com/user/pheaven/blog/175-Do-trycatch-blocks-hurt-runtime-performance/
Basically, there is no problem using try..catch, but, I tend to limit what I have in them as I think it is bad practice to depend on them rather than doing what you can to ensure exceptions aren't thrown, as exceptions will be expensive, so, check that that string is not null before getting the length of it.

A: I agree with the above but you shouldn't put your entire code block in a try catch and let it catch a formatexception or null reference. You should write code for these and handle them on your own.
I don't know how many times I've seen:
try {
 Request.QueryString["id"].ToString();
}

Obviously a null reference if id is null, so check if it's null, don't try/catch it.

A: In .net, try/catch only incurs an overhead if an exception is actually thrown.  So don't worry too much about the performance implications of having code inside the try.  Just don't throw exceptions as a form of flow control.


Sinn Féin spokesperson for Health Pat Sheehan is calling on the Belfast Trust to assist a West Belfast man suffering from a severe form of epilepsy who is seeking access to medicinal cannabis.
The West Belfast MLA said: "Today I facilitated a meeting between the Belfast Trust and the family of Patrick McMahon.
"Patrick suffers from a severe form of epilepsy called Lennox Gastaut Syndrome which causes multiple seizures on a daily basis.
"As a result of these seizures Patrick has sustained a number of serious injuries in falls including broken bones, lacerations and burns.
"Patrick's doctor believes he could benefit from a cannabis based medicine called Epidiolex, which is available via a compassionate access programme. However, Patrick is facing difficulties in accessing it.
"At today's meeting I expressed the urgency of Patrick's situation to the Belfast Trust and sought further clarification on what can be done to ensure he receives necessary treatment.
"I will continue to support Patrick and the McMahon family in their efforts to secure the care he needs."


In collaboration with Smartfish Group, I designed and illustrated a package that combined the fun and quirkiness of both the Woodchuck and the Gumption brands into one cluster chuck of a package. All four seasons collide together in this variety pack that was used year-round to feature seasonal ciders and select brews. Two window openings in the box show which rotational ciders were featured as animals enjoy life in a landscape that celebrates Woodchuck's Vermont roots!


There are now 252 photos of Ohio historical signs with the tag "remarkableohio" posted on Flickr (click here for the background on this story). Since there are 1205 signs, most with two sides, this means that over 10% of them are now tagged and mapped on Flickr!
I thought I would be posting 4 more signs yesterday, but it turns out that one of my signs was an imposter. It took me half an hour to figure out why this sign was not listed on the Ohio Historical Society's website. It turns out that if you look closely at the top, you'll see it's not actually an Ohio Historical Society sign at all! It was posted by the Kent Historical Society to commemorate Kent's participation in the underground railroad movement. It's a neat sign and surely worthy of recognition and reading, but it's not an OHS sign.
My involvement in blogging started with reading other people's blogs. One of my favorites blogs is Alvin Trusty's. Back in March 2007, he wrote about his new interest in geo-tagging and a project he started to document all the historical markers in Ohio.
The idea is for people to take digital pictures of Ohio historical markers (like the one above) and upload them to Flickr with the tag "remakableohio." Anyone going to Flickr who enters the tag "remarkableohio" will see all the historical markers on one map. Best of all, you can zoom in to read any of them.
This is not only cool, but handy if you grew up as I did with an historically interested mom who wanted to stop and read every sign and an historically indifferent dad, who was the driver and sped up past every sign. As a result, I've read the first few words of lots of these signs, as we drove by at high speed!
This project is open to the public, but according to Alvin's research in the Flickr help files, your signs will only show up on the public map if you upload 5 acceptable photos. At that point, your account will be approved for public searching.
Last weekend, I entered my 5th and 6th remarkableohio photos, so the photos I've taken are now visible to the public. The signs I photographed were in downtown Cleveland on Wade Oval, in downtown Zoar, and in downtown Xenia. The map is sadly devoid of signs in Northeast Ohio, so go to the Ohio Historical Society's website to find out if there are any markers near you and get those camera clicking!


Thug-Vagrant provides a Vagrant configuration file (Vagrantfile) and shell script to automate the setup of a Thug honeyclient in a virtual machine. The need for this project comes from the lengthy and somewhat difficult installation procedure of Thug which can be discouraging.
This will download (only the first time) a virtual disk, it will create a new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS VM on the fly and start it using VirtualBox. Then Thug and all of its dependencies will be installed on it. And that's it!
You can then login into the machine by typing "vagrant ssh" or using an SSH client (e.g. PuTTY) and connect to localhost:2222 — username: vagrant, password: vagrant. Once inside the VM, you will find Thug in the /opt/thug/ directory and the main script located at: /opt/thug/src/thug.py. If you want to stop the machine type "vagrant halt" (on the outer terminal, not inside the machine).
Every time you want to start the honeypot VM a simple "vagrant up" issued inside the thug-vagrant directory is enough!
Box "precise32" downloaded but doesn't work.
Hi Stepan, can you open VirtualBox and see if the machine is there? If yes, just delete it from the GUI. And then run `vagrant up` inside the thug-vagrant folder again. Good luck.
The problem was in the VirtualBox version! With VirtualBox 4.3.* doesn't work but with VirtualBox 4.2.* works fine (in my case VirtualBox 4.2.12).
It works for me with VirtualBox 4.3 though. But since you've solved it, everything is good.
This is excellent, my friend! I did find that in Win 7, I had to open cmd as Administrator before typing the command vagrant up. It works very well, though! Thank you!
Great news 🙂 Let me know how it goes. Another suggestion is to also take a look at Docker after Vagrant. There is even a Docker container for Thug around.
Please include flex as required package otherwise yara build will fail.


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Q: Greatest number of occurrences of the pattern 4213 in a permutation. Statistic St000750 in the FindStat database is a map $\operatorname{St000750} \colon S_n \rightarrow \mathbb N_{\geq 0}$ given by

The number of occurrences of the pattern $4213$ in a permutation.

This is the number of length-4 substrings such that the first number is largest, the second is third-largest, the third is smallest, and the fourth is second-largest. For example, the permutation $\pi = 563214$ has $\operatorname{St000750}(\pi) = 6$ occurrences of this pattern:
$$5324, 5314, 5214, 6324, 6314, \text{and}\ 6214.$$

I'm interested in computing$$
   a(n) = \max \{ \operatorname{St000750}(\pi) : \pi \in S_n\}
$$
By brute-forcing $0 \leq n \leq 9$, I get that

*

*$a(0) = a(1) = a(2) = a(3) = 0$,

*$a(4) = 1$,

*$a(5) = 3$,

*$a(6) = 6$,

*$a(7) = 13$,

*$a(8) = 24$, and

*$a(9) = 40$.

Moreover, this sequence does not appear in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
However, an analogous sequence for the pattern $132$ is A061061, with a simple formula: $A061061(n) = \max\{A061061(k) + k\binom{n-k}{2} : 1 \leq k < n\}$.
Is there a way to compute this sequence which is better than brute force? If not, how can you construct a better upper bound than $a(n) \leq \binom{n}{4}$?

A: You can solve the problem via integer linear programming as follows.  Let binary decision variable $x_{p,v}$ indicate whether position $p\in\{1,\dots,n\}$ takes value $v\in\{1,\dots,n\}$.  Let integer decision variable $y_p$ be the value in position $p$.  Let $Q=\{q\subset \{1,\dots,n\}:|q|=4\}$ be the $4$-subsets of positions. For $q=\{q_1,q_2,q_3,q_4\}\in Q$, let binary decision variable $z_q$ indicate whether the values taken by the four positions in $q$ match the pattern 4213.  The problem is to maximize $\sum_{q\in Q} z_q$ subject to linear constraints
\begin{align}
\sum_{p=1}^n x_{p,v} &= 1 &&\text{for $v\in\{1,\dots,n\}$} \tag1 \\
\sum_{v=1}^n x_{p,v} &= 1 &&\text{for $p\in\{1,\dots,n\}$} \tag2 \\
\sum_{v=1}^n v\cdot x_{p,v} &= y_p &&\text{for $p\in\{1,\dots,n\}$} \tag3 \\
y_{q_3} + 1 - y_{q_2} &\le n(1-z_q) &&\text{for $q\in Q$} \tag4 \\
y_{q_2} + 1 - y_{q_4} &\le n(1-z_q) &&\text{for $q\in Q$} \tag5 \\
y_{q_4} + 1 - y_{q_1} &\le n(1-z_q) &&\text{for $q\in Q$} \tag6 \\
\end{align}
Constraint $(1)$ assigns each value to exactly one position.
Constraint $(2)$ assigns each position to exactly one value.
Constraint $(3)$ enforces $x_{p,v}=1 \iff y_p = v$.
Constraints $(4)$, $(5)$, and $(6)$ enforce $z_q=1 \implies y_{q_3} < y_{q_2} < y_{q_4} < y_{q_1}$, as required by pattern 4213.
I confirmed your values of $a(n)$, and the next three are $a(10)=62$, $a(11)=96$, and $a(12)=138$.
The linear programming relaxation appears to yield upper bound $\binom{n}{4}(1-1/n)$ for $n \ge 5$.

A: Proposition 3.1 in the paper On Packing Densities of Permutations  by Albert, Atkinson, Handley, Holton, and Stromquist proves that the packing density of the $1342$ pattern (the limit of $a(n)/\binom n4$) is between $0.19657$ and $\frac29$, with an explicit upper bound of $\frac{n^2(n+1)^2}{108}$ on $a(n)$. This is also an upper bound for the $4213$ pattern, which is symmetric to it.  Theorem 4 in Sliacan and Stromquist's Improving bounds on packing densities of 4-point permutations improves the bounds on the packing density to the interval $$[0.198836597,0.198837287]$$ almost but not quite solving the problem. It doesn't look like anyone's finished it off since then.
I'm going to keep my earlier answer, which shows an upper bound of about $0.77\binom n4$, below, just because what else am I going to do with it.

The number of $213$ patterns (like $132$ patterns) in a permutation of length $n$ is at most $\frac{2 \sqrt 3 - 3}{6} n^3$, and we can use that to bound the number of $4213$ patterns.
Let's divide the possible $4213$ patterns into two types:

*

*Ones in which the first number comes from the first quarter of the permutation, and the rest come from the last three quarters. There are $\frac n4 \binom{3n/4}{3}$ substrings of this form, but we'll bound the number of them that form $4213$ patterns.

*All others. There are $\binom n4 - \frac n4 \binom{3n/4}{3}$ substrings of this form, and to get an upper bound we'll just assume that all of them form $4213$ patterns.

For the first type, if the substring forms a $4213$ pattern, its last three numbers form a $213$ pattern, so there can be at most $\frac{2\sqrt3 - 3}{6} (\frac{3n}{4})^3$ ways to choose those last three numbers; $\frac{2\sqrt3 - 3}{6} \frac n4 (\frac{3n}{4})^3$ patterns overall.
So this gives us an upper bound of $\binom n4 - \frac n4 \binom{3n/4}{3} + \frac{2\sqrt3 - 3}{6} \frac n4 (\frac{3n}{4})^3$. Asymptotically, this is $(\frac{27\sqrt3 - 22}{32} + o(1)) \binom n4$, or about $0.77\binom n4$.

A: The corresponding OEIS sequence now exists: A342646. Bert Dobbelaere calculated a(13) - a(15): 192, 264, 354


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Q: QFile seek performance It appears that QFile when working with a regular file (not a special Linux I/O device file) is random access, meaning that a seek operation has constant-time complexity O(1).
However, I haven't been able to confirm this. In general, when jumping to a specific position in a file (for writing or reading), does std::fstream and QFile provide constant-time running time complexity?

A: The short answer is "yes, for practical purposes".  The long answer is...  It's complicated.
Seeking on a file stream ultimately calls lseek() on the underlying file descriptor, whose performance depends on the kernel.
The running time will depend on what file system you are using and how large the files are.  As the files get larger, random seeks require chasing more levels of "indirect" indexing blocks.  But even for files up to 2^64 bytes, the number of levels is just a handful.
So in theory, seeking is probably O(log n); but in practice, it is essentially constant for a modern file system.


"This was the first Mac I purchased on my own, and the only one I ever purchased new at full retail price before becoming a dedicated low-end Mac buyer through eBay auctions and local sellers. I paid $1,299 for my iMac G3 just 4 months before the $300 price-drop on this model - and the surprising release of the iMac G4 flat panel (grrrr . . . bad luck)."
Although a bit disappointed at first, Dan's old-fashioned CRT iMac G3 has proven to be a wise investment with no hardware failures in a decade of operation. It served him well as his workhorse for seven years (through college and beyond) and has been outfitted with several peripherals and upgrades over the years. It is currently running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger as a back-up machine, and finally took a back seat in 2008 to a 1.42 GHz eMac G4 purchased for just a fraction of the original price tag of the iMac G3, while providing several times the performance.
Dan's main production machines include the above-mentioned eMac and an off-lease 12" 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 acquired in January 2011. Both are running Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard. The eMac has been maxed out with 2 GB of dual channel DDR PC-3200 RAM, significantly boosting Leopard performance, and is connected to a 22" AOC 1080p HD monitor via mini-VGA-to-VGA connection. It is also running in extended desktop mode courtesy of Screen Spanning Doctor. The PowerBook gets along just fine with the 768 MB of RAM it was configured with, although maxing out at 1.25 GB would be ideal.
"In April 2009, about a year after purchasing the eMac, I had purchased an off-lease mint-condition Hi-Res 15" 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4, and then sold it in December 2010 for roughly what I paid for it initially in 2009! The sale was prompted out of desire for a Sony Playstation 3 60 GB backward compatible launch console. I had also been eying a 12" PowerBook. Due to the amazing resale value of the Hi-Res PowerBook G4, I was able to nearly have both items without adding any additional cash and have not regretted it since!"
"Needless to say, 'slightly downgrading' (while gaining amazing portability with a 12" unit) was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Although I really enjoyed the additional features of the 15" Hi-Res (especially the stunning 1440 x 960 screen), the 12" 'Book runs much cooler, and the portability has proven to be a worthwhile tradeoff for the extra power (in addition to gaining a PS3 in the process). I can't see myself moving to an Intel Mac in the near future, but at some point I plan on upgrading to either a 17" Early 2008 MacBook Pro with a 1920 x 1200 matte display or a 17" Early 2011 MacBook Pro, which can still run Snow Leopard and is also equipped with Thunderbolt."
Dan's other Macs include a 400 MHz Pismo PowerBook, which he currently uses as a wireless file and print server, along with a few project machines.
Dan enjoys creative, instructional, and informative writing. He is working on a series of fantasy novels as a side project, plays various recreational sports (golf, skiing, bowling, etc.), and has been an avid gamer since the days of the Atari 2600, owning countless games and a wide variety of handheld and home game consoles since.
He was an 8-year member of Sony's (former) Gamer Advisory Panel, providing insight and advice to developers and enthusiasts alike. He is also a member of the Vintage Mac Consultants Association, an alumni member of Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity, and a 2003 graduate of The Ohio State University, possessing a Bachelor of Science in Consumer Affairs with a Minor in Economics.
He says, "Most notably, I am a Mac Fanatic!"
Why a Mac? "I love everything Apple and Macintosh related, and Macs allow you to you feel more connected to your machine and workflow due to the 'personality and attitude' given to them through unique design and an attractive interface. I began using Apple computers in the mid-80s with an Apple IIc+."
"My late father (and Accredited Public Relations entrepreneur) George Bashur, was in journalism, graphic design, and the PR business throughout his entire professional career, and he always used a Mac, since they were tools of his trade. I had the privilege of using his numerous machines growing up (beginning with an LC and a Performa 476, followed by a Power Mac 6100/66 DOS Compatible, a Beige G3 266, and several others). Needless to say, Dad's collection of Macs and peripherals gave me much of the inspiration I have today for the Mac. As I began to learn more and more about the hardware, upgrades, Mac OS, and the applications Dad used, it gave me an incredible thirst for knowledge that I could only quench through an incredible amount of research and hands-on learning."
Besides my passion for Macs, gaming, and writing, I also appreciate repurposing older technology that was once too costly for the average user but has become accessible due to its age. My Sony LocationFree base stations are a testament to that. I own two of them, with a total of five devices connected. Although they once would have cost over $500 combined, I purchased the units for less than $50 each shipped to my door - a savings of more than 80%! Why replace something if it works just fine and still has a purpose or can be reused for a different purpose? Those LocationFree base stations can still utilize analog connections to send an acceptable picture over the Internet to my PowerBook or PSP. It's certainly come in handy at places with WiFi to help entertain our children by bringing up my connected devices (including my digital cable DVR),"
Maybe you own an older Mac that's just sitting around that you were thinking about letting go of and buying a brand new model. Think about what its capable of without any upgrades, and then think about what some used software that is now a fraction of its original cost, coupled with potential upgrades, adapters, or additional peripherals, could unleash. If it's cost effective and can still meet your needs. go for it! Low-end Macs and low-end accessories cost much less than new, and you can still be just as productive, while investing that money into other passions. For me, that other passion happens to be gaming, and by being a low-end Mac user, I am able to have the best of both worlds!"
Dan Bashur has been writing for Low End Mac since July 2009 and also has content published on projectgamers.com, a website dedicated to the use of Sony's PSP. Updates to this site will be on the way soon, and new Project Gamers articles will be posted within Apple, Tech, and Gaming under Sony Handheld News going forward. The upcoming release of the PlayStation Vita will surely reinvigorate Sony's handheld gaming business and will give us plenty to talk about for years to come!
12" PowerBook G4 to the Rescue Once Again, 2013.01.28. With the much larger MacBook Pro in for service, it was a joy to rediscover how useful this old PowerBook remains.
Remembering the Hi-Res PowerBook G4, 2012.10.29. The last generation of PowerBooks had high resolution screens, potent graphics, and dual-layer SuperDrives.
$90 USB 2.0 Blu-ray Drive Also Works Inside a Mac mini, 2012.09.05. The Blu-ray drive inside this USB 2.0 enclosure transplants easily into a pre-2009 Core 2 Duo Mac mini, where it works like a charm.
Xbox 360 and PS3: A PowerPC G5 Saga, 2012.08.27. Oddly, as Apple was leaving PowerPC behind, Sony and Microsoft were preparing to adopt IBM's G5 technology for their next generation gaming consoles.
2005 iBook G4: Going Out with a Technological Bang, 2012.07.26. The last generation iBook G4 had several technologies absent in earlier versions, giving it strong value even today.
Blu-ray No Longer a 'Bag of Hurt' for Macs, 2012.07.10. Dan Bashur looks at the first internal Blu-ray drive for the MacBook Pro and likes what he finds.
Mac Pro on the Way Out or Changing with the Times?, 2012.05.22. No other desktop Mac offers a wide range of expansion options, but is that enough reason for Apple to keep the behemoth powerhouse Mac Pro around?
17" MacBook Pro on the Way Out or Changing with the Times?, 2012.05.15. No other MacBook rivals its expansion options, but is that enough reason for Apple to keep the largest MacBook Pro around?
Unicorns of Pismo Lore: 1 GHz G3 and 900 MHz G4 Upgrades, 2012.04.16. Although 550 MHz G4 Pismo upgrades are still available and 900 MHz G3 were rare, the holy grails of Pismo upgrades are PowerLogix 1 GHz G3 and 900 MHz G4 upgrades.
Bridging Gaps with New Macs, Old Macs, and iDevices, 2012.04.06. Dan Bashur has found the ideal bridge Macs for newer and older technologies - a Power Mac G4, a MacBook Pro, and now an iPad.
Pismo: The Next Generation, Part 1, 2012.03.20. Restoring a failing PowerBook G3 and finding a new purpose for it with the next generation of Mac users.
Long Lasting Mac Value: Tiger and Snow Leopard, 2012.02.20. Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.6 stand apart by providing lots of support for older Macs and older Mac software.
My Intel Mac Big Bang, 2012.01.27. Over the past month, Dan Bashur has moved from G4 Macs to a Core i7 MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt and OS X Lion.
Flash Continues to Lose Ground as HTML5 Gains Steam, 2011.11.08. With Apple, Microsoft, and Sony dropping Flash support in their browsers, the HTML5 future means unexpected blessings for PowerPC Mac users.
Letter to the Jobs Family and Apple, 2011.10.06. "One of the greatest influences in my life has been Steve Jobs and the company he created."
Linux on a PlayStation 3 or Not: My Personal Struggle, 2011.08.25. The PS3 was originally designed to support a second operating system, such as Linux, but firmware 3.15 disabled it. Is it better to install Linux on your PS3 or have up-to-date firmware?
OS X Lion and the Post-PC Era: Yay or No Way?, Part 4, 2011.07.20. With iOS, Apple has created an excellent platform for content consumption, but will Lion make content creators happy?
OS X Lion and the Post-PC Era: Yay or No Way?, Part 3, 2011.07.15. Lion sounds wonderful, but I'm productive, comfortable, and happy running an older Mac with an older version of OS X.
OS X Lion and the Post-PC Era: Yay or No Way?, Part 2, 2011.07.14. Unifying the Mac and iOS experience while making Lion a flat-out 64-bit operating system paves the way for Apple's future.
OS X Lion and the Post-PC Era: Yay or No Way?, Part 1, 2011.07.13. Mac OS X 10.7 is going to change a lot of things, but are the changes for the better or worse for current Mac users?
Adobe Flash Has Left PowerPC Macs Behind, 2011.06.10. While Flash 10.2 supports a 2002 Pentium 4 and a 2001 version of Windows, the latest version leaves every PowerPC Mac out in the cold.
Thunderbolt's Potential, Yet Target Display Mode Is Broken on 2011 iMac, 2011.06.08. Thunderbolt has unlimited potential, yet it prevents the 27" 2011 iMac from using Mini DisplayPort input as earlier models did.
PowerBook G4 to the Rescue of a Die Hard Pittsburgh Penguins Fan, 2011.05.09. NHL GameCenter Live specifies a 1.6 GHz G5 minimum, but game 7 against the Tampa Bay Lightning was watchable on a 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4.
Handheld Gaming in 2011: Apple vs. Sony and Nintendo, 2011.01.31. Apple's iOS platform has become a big player for casual gaming, but new models from Sony and Nintendo should strengthen their markets.
It's a Good Time to Buy a Used Mac, 2010.12.22. Prices on late model G4 PowerBooks are better than ever, and there are some real bargains on Core Duo Intel models as well.
Office 2011 for Mac: Do You Want It? Do You Need It?, 2010.10.26. Microsoft Office 2011 brings Outlook to the Mac and much improved compatibility with the Windows version of Office.
iLife 11: Another Nail in the PowerPC Coffin, 2010.10.21. With the release of iLife 11, Apple has left even the newest PowerPC Macs behind.
Better Audio Output from Macs without Digital Audio, 2010.10.06. With the right hardware, any Mac with USB or FireWire can output multichannel and digital audio.
Digital Audio Output: Apple's DVD Player vs. VLC Player, 2010.10.04. Configuring your Mac for digital audio output with DVD Player is a convoluted process. The free VLC Player makes things much simpler.
Tech Changes, and So Does Life, 2010.09.15. Dan Bashur reflects on the birth of a daughter, the loss of his father, and bumps in the road of life.
iPad Gaming Potential, 2010.03.11. Two years of developing games for the less powerful iPhone and iPod touch has prepared developers to unleash the iPad's potential.
The iPad as Your In-between Mac, 2010.03.09. Apple's iPad will have a place as the in-between Mac that can do a lot of the light duty tasks typically done on a notebook.
Buying a Mac for Less and Spreading Apple Joy, 2010.03.03. Compare a $300 netbook and a used, top-end, maxed out iBook with OS X. You can go Mac at netbook prices and have the full Apple experience.
Using Front Row on Macs That Don't Support Apple's Remote, 2010.02.02. Two hardware solutions for remotely controlling Front Row on Macs that were never designed to work with the Apple Remote Control.
Mini VGA to S-video Adapter a No Go for eMacs, 2009.11.24. You might think that Apple's Mini VGA S-video adapter is a cheap way to connect your eMac or G4 iMac to your TV. You would be wrong.
DVI-to-Mini DisplayPort Converters: A Ray of Hope for the 27" iMac, 2009.11.13. The new iMac accepts DisplayPort input, but it won't work with the usual DVI-to-Mini DisplayPort adapters. It requires a more expensive converter.
How to Connect Some VGA Macs to Analog HDTVs, 2009.10.16. Using the Sabrent VGA to Component Video Converter to connect some VGA Macs to a 1080i high-def TV with no digital input.
Re-imagining the Mac Cube for the Intel Era, 2009.10.07. The Power Mac G4 Cube was one of Apple's most beautiful computers. Here's how Apple could resurrect the concept - and succeed this time.
Teaching an Old iMac Some New Tricks, 2009.10.02. Using a G3 iMac as part of your home entertainment center with remote control, audio out to your stereo, and video out to your TV.
Blu-ray Playback in Mac OS X: Will It Ever Happen?, 2009.09.30. Today's Macs have the power to support Blu-ray, but not the software. And as far as PowerPC Macs are concerned, we'll probably never see Blu-ray playback.
5 Best Sub-$1,000 Mac Notebooks for Gamers, 2009.09.25. Good Mac 'Books for gaming start below $300 and cover the G3, G4, and Intel eras.
The Best Sub-$1,000 Mac Notebooks for Gamers, 2009.09.25. We have a tie for the best Mac gaming notebook below $1,000, and also four 'Books that almost made the cut.
Apple and Gaming: Today's Reality and Tomorrow's Dream, 2009.09.15. By creating a way to play iPhone/iTouch games on Macs and/or Apple TV, Apple could become a dominant player in portable and home-based gaming.
5 Best Desktop Macs for Gaming for Under $1,000, 2009.09.10. You can have a decently configured gaming Mac for as little as $300 - and the ultimate for under $700.
The Best Desktop Mac for Gaming and 3 Runners Up, 2009.09.10. The ultimate desktop gaming Mac for under $700 plus three low-end budget contenders.
MacBook with 'Snow Leopard' Trumps $1,000 Windows Notebooks, 2009.08.28. If you're on a $1,000 laptop budget, hunt up a MacBook. If you need 17 inches, hunt for a PowerBook or early MacBook Pro.
Emulation on a Mac, 2009.08.12. Whether you're emulating an older Mac, a Windows PC, or a game console, emulation software provides the tools you need.
Gaming on a Pismo PowerBook, 2009.08.07. Apple's Pismo PowerBook G3 has plenty of processing power, but its deficient when it comes to graphics power and video memory.
Gaming on an Aluminum PowerBook, 2009.08.04. There are quite a few high-end games from the late PowerBook era that run quite well on the later, faster G4 PowerBooks.
The Last PowerBooks Have Plenty of Life Left, 2009.07.31. Introduced in 2005, these were the last PowerBooks before Apple went Intel, and they remain useful in the age of Leopard.


Whether it's Jamal Khashoggi or 37 people at once.
The president* committed another impeachable offense in the pages of the Washington Post Wednesday.
He asked the American prince to call in a favor from his Saudi counterpart.
It's all happening at the agency that administers to public lands.
The Trump administration* is breaking new ground on the United States Census.
Eastern Washington, heading into the Idaho panhandle, has been an extremist Rivendell for decades now.
The Pragmatic Center and The Left are occupied, along with plenty of other lanes. Even the former VP himself doesn't seem to know where to stand.
The president autographed a kid's arm.
Fox News is playing on loop in the background, reassuring him that all his critics are lying enemies of the state. What could go wrong?
From playing underneath his dad's desk to bicycling through Manhattan, Kennedy Jr.'s life was on always on public display.
In the '90s, JFK Jr. founded a revolutionary magazine, which covered politics like it was pop culture. Was it a glimpse of the future?
Through Iran-Contra and a whole lot else, Republicans vowed to never let Watergate happen again.
Float like a butterfly, jab like a bunny.
Here's another subject for discussion during the impeachment hearings.
Donald Trump is the inevitable product of movement conservatism and the Republican Party that's hosted it for 40 years. Never Trumpers need to clean their own house.
It's just the latest plank in a sprawling, detailed policy platform.
After the release of the redacted Mueller report, calls for the House to impeach Trump have grown even louder. This is what the presidential candidates are saying.
For years, the media's adaptation to the era of mass murder failed to take into account its own role in this replicating American tragedy. That's beginning to change.
Like, say, Donald Trump, American president.
It is purely a function of the times in which we live.