Here's a posting about a free self-publishing class you may want to check out if you've got writing lying around and don't know what to do with it.
The class sounds fun and informative, and if you're not au fait with how you self-pub, the class is a cheap (free) way to learn.
2. Someone's stealing my work! Use Copyscape, and sign up for Google Alerts using identifiable snippets from your work. Your rights to your work are protected by the DMCA. If you find a site that's publishing your material without your permission, take action -- not only can you get their site taken down, you can also get them blacklisted.
3. Eliminate writer's block permanently.
5. Web-based software: Collaborate with others with a Writeboard. I use Basecamp for working with clients and writing students.
Aligns well with my use your brain and body post.
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know I'm a software junkie.
My own software du jour is Dreamweaver, it's indispensable for Web publishers.
When you write, you use words. However, thinking in words when you write is limiting because you're not using all of your brain power. Your right brain thinks in images -- it's non-verbal, and your memory is recalled via images, emotions, and body sensations.
When I coach writers, I encourage them to go beyond words.
How do you go beyond words? Start by paying more attention to your current emotion(s) and your body. First ask yourself what your current emotion is -- and it doesn't matter what it is. Is it boredom, excitement, irritation? Next try to locate the emotion in your body. If you've never done this before, this seems odd. Try. Where in your body do you feel the emotion: is it heaviness in your chest? Tightness in your throat? Fizziness in your head?
Whatever sensation you feel in your body, stay with it for a few moments, and wait. Just feel.
As the physical sensation/ emotion dissipates (emotion moves), you'll get an "idea" which is not an idea -- it's an impression. Write. You may see an image. Write the image.
This process takes longer to describe than to do. When you're in "flow" you're doing it unconsciously -- you're plugging into your entire body/ brain complex.
If we accept the idea that peptides and other informational substances are the biochemicals of emotion, their distribution throughout the body's nerves has all kinds of significance. Sigmund Freud would be delighted, because the idea that the body, in its totality, is also the unconscious mind, would be the molecular confirmation of his theories. Body and mind are simultaneous. I like to speculate that the mind is the flow of information as it moves among the cells, organs, and systems of the body. The mind, as we experience it, is immaterial, yet it has a physical substate that is both the body and the brain.
I'm a chocaholic, so I've got a chocolate habit. I've also got a book habit. Plant me anywhere, and I'll look for the nearest book shop.
Of course, my biggest habit is my Writing Habit.
Three times today, do a timed writing of five minutes. Just write wherever you happen to be. Start by describing three things you can see, and go on from there.
Do the five-minute, three-times-a-day timed writings for two weeks. This will help you to integrate writing into your day so that writing is just something you do; it'll go a long way to developing your Writing Habit.
During those two weeks, watch your own reactions. Your intuition is your creativity, and your intuition helps you in all your writing. Become aware of glimmers of ideas and feelings. What excites you? What time of the day do you most feel like writing?
At the end of three weeks, you will have developed a Writing Habit.
Copywriting (writing for business) is a great career for a writer, because it's customizable. You can work as many hours or as few hours as you please.
If you're working on a project of your own, such as writing a book, or are on a long-term contract for a client, you can cut down on the new clients you accept and can work fewer hours.
You can also ramp up your career at any time to attract new clients. The Internet makes getting new clients a breeze. You can live anywhere, and get as many clients as you happen to want. No meet and greets, no presentations -- just get the work and do the work.
That said, I know that getting clients is often a challenge for both new and established copywriters who aren't sure how to build a thriving business.
Therefore, I'm developing a one-on-one personal coaching program, using basecamp, for copywriters on how to build their business. I'll be announcing the program shortly.
If you love to write, you can turn your love of words into a full-time, satisfying career by writing for business.
Business writers (often called copywriters) write for others. They write advertising, Web content, product manuals, books -- anything and everything that a business wants.
Find out more in my instantly downloadable writing manual "First Steps in Your Copywriting Career: cash in on the demand for business writers".
Like all performers, writers get stage fright -- but we call it "page" fright.
* Rehearse. Do lots of pre-writing work, like clustering and free writing to build up the raw material for your mystery novel, or whatever it is that you're writing. The rehearsal phase can include rough drafts (I call them flash drafts) -- all the dialogue in a chapter for example, or all the settings, or character journals for all the main characters.
Modeling and rehearsing help you to write ANYTHING. Don't skimp on the rehearsal phase. It's a lot of fun, and low pressure.
If you hate marketing, you're crippling yourself as a writer.
Here's my new blog -- developed to help you to love marketing.
I love my Mac and use freeware apps every day. Where do I find this amazing stuff? On MacFreeware.com, often.
Nvu: free HTML editor -- great for fast HTML pages.
Word associating is a fun technique that you can use anytime to make your writing more lively, and to give yourself fresh areas to explore. You can use word associations to help you write ANYTHING.
When a piece of writing seems boring, consider using word associations to spark it up. When you select words and write a list of associations, you're maximizing your brain power.
Pick a file on your computer – this can be a letter, an email message, a story, an article --- anything. Choose any three words you've used in the document, and copy them to the end of the file. Now free-associate. I like to do this on paper, but it's up to you how you do it. Write 50 to 100 words of free associations. You can list the words, or use clusters.
You can free associate using tools like IdeaFisher, too.
Sometime before you get to the end of this process, you'll get an urge to write. Obey the urge.
Write at least 100 words of your inspiration. Note: your inspiration may seem unrelated to the themes that you were exploring in your word associations. That's fine --- it's part of the magic of this process. When you've finished writing your inspiration --- which may be as short as a couple of sentences or several pages long --- copy this into the original document.
Want to write more than you write now? If you're not writing much, it's not because you're lazy, or you lack motivation, or you don't have time management skills. It's because you lack a METHOD.
I discuss My How-To-Write-No-Matter-What Process in Writing for Online Cash -- the ebook writing manual is packed with tips like this to help you to WRITE.
Wood Allen said 90% of acting was just showing up. It's true about writing too. But what if you show up at the computer, and just sit there staring at the computer screen? On those days, you need a mechanical process to get you writing which doesn't take thought, inspiration, or prayer, and which you can use for both fiction and non-fiction.
I developed this process while writing copy for clients, and was delighted to find that it works for all kinds of writing, not just for copy. The process tickles your right brain/ subconscious into creative mode and is a stress-free way to get your writing done.
Try the process. It works, because it's mechanical. You don't need to wait until you're "inspired" and you can fit the steps in whenever you have a spare five minutes. I do a lot of this work on my Palm handheld when I'm out and about -- the process is very portable.
Try it. Please let me know how it works for you in the Comments to this post.
Increasingly, the new, new thing in media is getting paid for the homemade. Reflecting the surge in the popularity of user-created material, both online and traditional media companies are opening their wallets to make sure that the best of it finds its way onto their television shows and Web sites.


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Hello. My name is John Alexander and I'm a Michigan Personal Injury Attorney. My law office is located in Bingham Farms, and we serve clients statewide, primarily Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
Today I want to talk to you about some of the benefits that you can get under your own insurance carrier if you have suffered a motor vehicle accident in Michigan and have sustained some injuries that require some home care.
One of the benefits by Michigan law that your insurance company has to give you is called attendant care services. What that means is in home nursing care such as washing, bathing, toileting, monitoring giving you meds. If someone has to do that for you, your insurance company has to pay that person anywhere from $11 an hour to $20 an hour. The person providing this care could be your own family member or it could be a professional.
The key to getting this benefit is to make sure your doctor orders attendant care and in the prescription slip that he'll write out have him put the number of hours needed, which could be anywhere from 2 hours, 4 hours, to 24 hours in serious head injury cases. Sometimes people require 24 hour monitoring. Again make sure your doctor orders these benefits. Attendant care services are available to you for your life if necessary. Michigan is one of the few states that offer life time medical care from your insurance company if you need life time medical care as a result of a motor vehicle accident in Michigan.
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Q: How does the Doctor recover his ethical subroutines? In the episode Equinox Part II, the EMH is operating on Seven of Nine, his ethical subroutines having been deleted. Shortly after, he appears on Voyager — presumably after being beamed over by Equinox's captain — and switches sides again. Why does this happen?

A: Equinox was one of the few episodes of Voyager to receive an official novelisation, in this case written by Diane Carey (who also novelised VOY: Endgame). In it we learn that before beaming the crew over to the Voyager, Captain Ransom downloaded the EMH's program from sickbay and put it onto a cartridge, with the ethical subroutines restored, which he gave to Marla Gilmore to give to Janeway to upload, presumably after they'd scanned it and found his program intact.

As Gilmore did as she was told, Ransom moved to another station. "Computer, give me access to the shield grid."
It worked. The computer was still functioning under the assumption that he was in command.
"Marla," he called at the last second, "here."
He tossed her a remote computer cartridge, especially encoded.
"That's Captain Janeway's doctor, with his ethical subroutines
  restored. When you get to Voyager, tell her the doctor over there is
  ours. Have her upload him back into their system. Her own EMH will be
  able to take back his sickbay."
Star Trek: Voyager - Equinox

A: The Ship's computer possesses diagnostic equipment for addressing faults in the EMH program. (Voyager episode The Swarm). They also probably contain the EMH's core essential functions such as ethical subroutines, medical knowledge, diagnostic skills and hand-eye coordination.

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10 Reasons to Feel Hopeful About Climate Change in 2019, Sierra Club magazine, January 2019
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Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein
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Missing Pathways to 1.5C, Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance (2018)
Equity and the Ambition Ratchet, Civil Society Review (2018)
Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance (2017)
Dirty Energy Dominance: Dependent on Denial (fossil fuel subsidies), Oil Energy International (2017)
Climate Emergency: World May Have Passed Tipping Points, The Guardian, November 27, 2019
World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency, BioScience, November 5, 2019
Rising Cities Will Erase More Cities by 2050, Studies Show, New York Times, October 29, 2019
UN expert condemns failure to address impact of climate change on poverty, report to the UN June 24, 2019
Blue Collar Workers: Let's Support the Green New Deal, https://systemchangenotclimatechange.org/article/blue-collar-workers-lets-support-green-new-deal (by Steve Morse, RC leader in Oakland, CA, USA)
Time to Panic, NY Times, February 2019
Ten Reasons to Feel Hopeful About Climate Change, Sierra magazine, January 2019
Global Commission Calls for a Food Revolution to Solve World's Climate & Nutrition Problems, Inside Climate News and The Lancet, January 2019
The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard?, November 24, 2018
Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe., November 20, 2018
10 ways to accelerate progress against climate change, VOX, October 2018
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040, October 7, 2018
What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like, VOX, May 8, 2018
When Will the World's Polluters Start Paying for the Mess They Made?, Climate Change News, May 2, 2018
Alaska's Permafrost is Thawing, The New York Times, Aug. 23, 2017
Well Below 2° C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes
2020: The Climate Turning Point
The U.S. Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History. Will It Walk Away From the Paris Climate Deal?, The New York Times
The world's biggest gamble, Johan Rockström & others
Recalculating the New Climate Math, Bill McKibben, New Republic, September 22, 2016
A World at War, Bill McKibben, New Republic, August 15, 2016
Znet: Africa's Human Existence Is at Severe Risk
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), "Climate Change in Africa – What Is at Stake?"
Oxfam International: Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People, and Poverty. 2009
"Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty," World Bank Group. 2016
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I'm using the latest Certbot with the Apache plugin, and judging from all the activity on the forum right now I think there are a lot of others in the same situation.
In your /etc/letsencrypt/cli.ini add preferred-challenges = http.
Test first with the command certbot renew --force-renewal --dry-run.
If no errors, run certbot renew --force-renewal.
This is tested and working on Ubuntu Server 16.04 and 18.04, which is a pretty typical use-case. I have the cronjob @daily /usr/bin/certbot renew --quiet (I think this is also pretty typical) and must have missed the earlier warnings about TLS-SNI-01 deprecation.
Hope this helps and thanks to the forum mods, who are probably very busy right now with all the new posts! If you test this method with different plugins and it works, please post a reply so others can find what works easily.
Action required: Let's Encrypt certificate renewals, What Domains?
In your /etc/letsencrypt/cli.ini add preferred-challenges = http .
Test first with the command certbot renew --force-renewal --dry-run .
If no errors, run certbot renew --force-renewal .
Thanks so much for this. Helped me though everything i had problems with. Thanks so much.
This addressed my concerns even tho all my renewals showed as using HTTP-01 I was worried something would go wrong down the line. Forced a renew and all appears to be ok.
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Pride Month: 5 African Queer films released between 2020 and 2021
Queer African cinema is a rich visual archive of queer existence, queer resistance, and the invisible or overt and heroic struggle surrounding queer life-building and survival. Here is a list of 5 documentaries and films you should watch.
Kylie Kiunguyu
In a 264 paged book titled 'Queer African Cinemas', Lindsey B. Green-Simms argues that queer films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability that many queer Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic practices contribute to imagining new hopes and possibilities.
In this selection of films, we focus on stories about stifled identity and expression, state-sanctioned discrimination, the power of the pulpit, familial and societal expectations, and what love looks like away from society's gaze.
These stories came forth at a time of global upheaval but depict the constant upheaval experienced by queer bodies. "Queer cinema can orient us towards a world where some expressions are not seen as denigrating to 'guardians of tradition', but are uplifting instead for those who bear witness to its beauty."
Documentary: The Legend of the Underground, Directed by Nneka Onuorah and Giselle Bailey (Nigeria 2021)
The Legend of the Underground is a glimpse at the lives of young Nigerian men who because of their non-conformity, face state-enabled discrimination. But despite the hostility, they must decide between fighting for their freedom of expression in their homeland or fleeing to the United States. Through their bold creative expression on social media, the young men challenge the bigoted notions of gender and the state of civil rights in Nigeria.
The film was showcased at the Tribeca Film Festival before debuting on HBO and HBO Max.
Documentary: There is Power in the Collar, Directed by Lodi Matsetela and Vincent Moloi (Botswana 2021)
As Botswana awaits a possible landmark judgment from its high court, seeking to decriminalize same-sex relations, we meet key players who are at the epicentre of the ruling. One of them is Chantel, a young lesbian who is an interesting blend of theologian and queer rights activist. She is striving to become an ordained reverend in the religiously conservative and homophobic country.
Her story and those of the other players help to interrogate different facets of how homophobia is propagated and the potential of using this power to reverse the tide.
Documentary: I Am Samuel, Directed by Pete Murimi (Kenya 2020)
Life, love, and acceptance in a country that criminalises same-sex relationships mean that Samuel has to constantly negotiate his right to exist authentically. Chronicling his life over five years the film shows how he manages his familial life in a traditional up-country home where his parents want him to marry and settle down, and the slight freedom he gains from living in the capital city. We see him balance his parent's expectations and his relationship with his lover Alex all against the backdrop of legalised discrimination.
It is a story of men, love, and resilience, on one hand, Samuel and Alex, who are deeply committed to each other, and on the other hand father and son who must adjust a lifetime of hopes and dreams.
You can watch the film on AfriDocs for free across Africa:
https://afridocs.net/watch-now/i-am-samuel/
Film: Walking with Shadows, Directed by Aoife O'Kelly (Nigeria, 2020)
Walking with Shadows is the adaptation of Jude Dibia's novel of the same name, which was the first Nigerian novel to focus on a gay protagonist. The plot is about a successful businessman who when outed by his co-worker has to come to terms with his sexuality and decide between keeping his family or accepting a life of possible loneliness and rejection. The protagonist in the story is purposefully representative of many Nigerian men who although living a typical life in line with societal expectations, are secretly struggling with who they truly are.
Short Film: Ìfé, Written and Directed by Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim (Nigeria, 2020)
Ifé is a 35-minute short film, produced in partnership with Pamela Adie's The Equality Hub, a Lagos-based organization focusing on the rights of female sexual minorities. It tells the story of ìfé and Adaora, two Nigerian women who fall in love over a three-day date. Ìfé is looking for someone to share her life with openly, but Adaora isn't ready to make the leap. When a critical secret is revealed, the two women have to decide how much they are willing to give up to sustain their new love. Unlike other visual projects, Ifé doesn't try to tackle larger societal biases or self-exploration and acceptance, it's a romantic comedy that shows what intimacy looks like for queer women when everything else exists on the other side of a safe space.
Watch the full film here:
Moffie, Directed by Oliver Hermanus (South Africa, 2019)
This period piece is set in 1981 when South Africa's white minority government was embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. A young white South African man must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality. This adaptation of André Carl van der Merwe's semi-autobiographical novel is triggering and brutal, depicting military dehumanisation in a particularly violent counterinsurgency unit.
It is also a prequel to Hermanus's 2011 film Skoonheid about a closeted Afrikaner man (formerly in the Defence Force) who becomes violent with another man.
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package com.ceph.rbd;

import com.ceph.rbd.jna.RbdImageInfo;
import com.ceph.rbd.jna.RbdSnapInfo;
import com.sun.jna.Pointer;
import com.sun.jna.Memory;
import com.sun.jna.Native;
import com.sun.jna.ptr.IntByReference;
import com.sun.jna.ptr.LongByReference;
import com.sun.jna.ptr.PointerByReference;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Arrays;

import static com.ceph.rbd.Library.rbd;
import com.sun.jna.NativeLong;

public class RbdImage {

    private Pointer image;
    private String name;

    public RbdImage(Pointer image, String name) {
        this.image = image;
        this.name = name;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the name of the image
     *
     * @return String
     */
    public String getName() {
        return this.name;
    }

    /**
     * Return the pointer to the RBD image
     *
     * This method is used internally and by the RBD class
     * to close a RBD image
     *
     * @return Pointer
     */
    public Pointer getPointer() {
        return this.image.getPointer(0);
    }

    /**
     * Get information about a RBD image
     *
     * @return RbdImageInfo
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public RbdImageInfo stat() throws RbdException {
        RbdImageInfo info = new RbdImageInfo();
        int r = rbd.rbd_stat(this.getPointer(), info, 0);
        if (r < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed to stat the RBD image", r);
        }
        return info;
    }

    /**
     * Find out if the format of the RBD image is the old format
     * or not
     *
     * @return boolean
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public boolean isOldFormat() throws RbdException {
        IntByReference old = new IntByReference();
        int r = rbd.rbd_get_old_format(this.getPointer(), old);
        if (r < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed to get the RBD format", r);
        }

        return old.getValue() == 1;
    }

    /**
     * Create a RBD snapshot
     *
     * @param snapName
     *        The name for the snapshot
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public void snapCreate(String snapName) throws RbdException {
        int r = rbd.rbd_snap_create(this.getPointer(), snapName);
        if (r < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed to create snapshot " + snapName, r);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Remove a RBD snapshot
     *
     * @param snapName
     *         The name of the snapshot
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public void snapRemove(String snapName) throws RbdException {
        int r = rbd.rbd_snap_remove(this.getPointer(), snapName);
        if (r < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed to remove snapshot " + snapName, r);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Protect a snapshot
     *
     * @param snapName
     *         The name of the snapshot
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public void snapProtect(String snapName) throws RbdException {
        int r = rbd.rbd_snap_protect(this.getPointer(), snapName);
        if (r < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed to protect snapshot " + snapName, r);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Unprotect a RBD snapshot
     *
     * @param snapName
     *         The name of the snapshot
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public void snapUnprotect(String snapName) throws RbdException {
        int r = rbd.rbd_snap_unprotect(this.getPointer(), snapName);
        if (r < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed to unprotect snapshot " + snapName, r);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Tells if a snapshot is protected or not
     *
     * @param snapName
     *         The name of the snapshot
     * @return boolean
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public boolean snapIsProtected(String snapName) throws RbdException {
        IntByReference isProtected = new IntByReference();
        int r = rbd.rbd_snap_is_protected(this.getPointer(), snapName, isProtected);
        if (r < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed to find out if snapshot " + snapName +  " is protected", r);
        }

        return isProtected.getValue() == 1;
    }

    /**
     * List all snapshots
     *
     * @return List
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public List<RbdSnapInfo> snapList() throws RbdException {
        return snapList(128);
    }

    /**
     * List all snapshots
     *
     * @param initialBufferSize
     * 		   Initial size of the byte buffer holding snapshot names
     * @return List
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public List<RbdSnapInfo> snapList(int initialBufferSize) throws RbdException {
        IntByReference maxSnaps = new IntByReference(initialBufferSize);
        RbdSnapInfo[] snaps;
        int snapCount;

        do {
            snaps = new RbdSnapInfo[maxSnaps.getValue()];
            snapCount = rbd.rbd_snap_list(this.getPointer(), snaps, maxSnaps);
        // -34 is -ERANGE
        } while (snapCount == -34);

        if (snapCount < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed to list snapshots", snapCount);
        }

        /*
         * Before clearing the backing list (well, just the name strings)
         * we'll disable auto sync so that junk doesn't repopulate the info
         * struct.
         *
         * FIXME: this is dumb, and I'm not exactly sure how to fix it, though
         * it does work. Note that this should be fine as long as you don't
         * re-use the RbdSnapInfo as a parameter to another native function.
         */
        for (int i = 0; i < snapCount; i++) {
            snaps[i].setAutoSynch(false);
        }

        rbd.rbd_snap_list_end(snaps);

        return Arrays.asList(snaps).subList(0, snapCount);
    }

    /**
     * Write data to an RBD image
     *
     * @param data
     *         The to be written data
     * @param offset
     *         Where to start writing
     * @param length
     *         The number of bytes to write
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public void write(byte[] data, long offset, int length) throws RbdException {
        if (length < 1) {
            throw new RbdException("There should be at least one byte to write");
        }

        int r = rbd.rbd_write(this.getPointer(), offset, length, data);
        if (r < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed writing " + length + " bytes starting at offset " + offset, r);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Write data to an RBD image
     *
     * @param data
     *         The to be written data
     * @param offset
     *         Where to start writing
     */
    public void write(byte[] data, long offset) throws RbdException {
        this.write(data, offset, data.length);
    }

    /**
     * Write data to an RBD image
     *
     * @param data
     *         The to be written data
     */
    public void write(byte[] data) throws RbdException {
        this.write(data, 0, data.length);
    }

    /**
     * Read from an RBD image
     *
     * @param offset
     *         Where to start reading
     * @param buffer
     *         The buffer to store the result
     * @param length
     *         The amount of bytes to read
     * @return int
     *          The amount of bytes read
     */
    public int read(long offset, byte[] buffer, int length) {
        return rbd.rbd_read(this.getPointer(), offset, length, buffer);
    }

    /**
     * Resize an RBD image
     *
     * @param size
     *         The new size for the RBD image
     * @throws RbdException
     */
    public void resize(long size) throws RbdException {
        int r = rbd.rbd_resize(this.getPointer(), size);
        if (r < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed to resize the RBD image", r);
        }
    }

    public void flatten() throws RbdException {
        int r = rbd.rbd_flatten(this.getPointer());
        if (r < 0) {
            throw new RbdException("Failed to flatten the RBD image", r);
        }
    }

    /**
	 * List children of a snapshot
	 *
	 * @param snapname
	 *         Name of the snapshot on RBD image
	 * @return
	 *         List of children with each element in the list in pool/image format
	 * @throws RbdException
	 */
	public List<String> listChildren(String snapname) throws RbdException {
		// Set the snapshot to read from
		int r = rbd.rbd_snap_set(this.getPointer(), snapname);

		if (r < 0) {
			throw new RbdException("Failed to set snapshot name to " + snapname, r);
		}

		try { //try-catch block for un-setting snapshot

			// Length of the buffers containing names of snapshot children is unknown at this point. Use a buffer of size 1024 to list snapshot children. If the
			// buffers are not large enough, use the actual buffer sizes from the response to set up the correct sized buffers and list the snapshot children
			// again

			int initialBufferSize = 1024;
            int childCount;

			LongByReference poolBufferSize = new LongByReference(initialBufferSize);
			LongByReference imageBufferSize = new LongByReference(initialBufferSize);

			byte pools[];
			byte images[];

            do {
                pools = new byte[(int) poolBufferSize.getValue()];
                images = new byte[(int) imageBufferSize.getValue()];
                childCount = rbd.rbd_list_children(this.getPointer(), pools, poolBufferSize, images, imageBufferSize);
                // -34 (-ERANGE) is returned if the byte buffers are not big enough
            } while (childCount == -34);

			if (childCount < 0) {
				throw new RbdException("Failed to list snap children", r);
			}

			List<String> poolImageList = new ArrayList<String>();

			if (childCount > 0) {
				// Gather pool names and image names
				String[] poolNames = new String(pools).split("\0");
				String[] imageNames = new String(images).split("\0");

				if (poolNames.length != imageNames.length) {
					throw new RbdException("Mismatch between number of pools and images, pools = " + poolNames.length + ", images = " + imageNames.length);
				}

				// Construct "pool-name/image-name" for each child
				for (int i = 0; i < poolNames.length; i++) {
					poolImageList.add(poolNames[i] + '/' + imageNames[i]);
				}
			}

			return poolImageList;
		} finally {
			// Un-set the snapshot
			rbd.rbd_snap_set(this.getPointer(), new String());
		}
	}
}

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Most people know that most of my life I have not been able to wear heels. Then after another surgery and breaking my foot last year I can now wear heels and I DO, everywhere and all the TIME. I do not care what I am doing or where I am going, give me a pretty pair of heels and I am as giddy as child with a new toy.
These polka dot patent leather Kate Spade pumps are available at www.neimanmarcus.com for $298.00 Talk about cute! Can you tell I've been stalking the Neiman Marcus site.
I think this Gucci Ribot Medium Tote is ME! I can see me using this bag all the time and looking extremely fabulous at horse shows while sporting this bag around the show arena. It's made of washed calfskin with gold hardware, look closer at the buckle, it's two HORSE heads!!!!! This is beyond a want, it's a NEED!!! It should be no surprise that it's available at www.neimanmarcus.com by Gucci, $1,700.00 and in the Fall Collection.
Feel free to ship them directly to me. Size 9, thanks!
For a whopping $2,609.00 all these items could be mine!
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Tag: books with recipes
Estelle: Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan
July 5, 2013 July 9, 2013 7 Comments
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan ( web | tweet )
Publication Date: July 2, 2013
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Target audience: Adult
Keywords: bakery, London, romance, friendship
Format read: eBook from Publisher via NetGalley! (Thanks!)
Summary: When Issy is laid off from her job, she decides to take the plunge and open up a bakery — a dream she has had since she was a little girl learning how to cook with her grandfather. The opportunity brings many challenges, friendships, and realizations into her life.
Cupcakes, London, and a gal following her dreams? If it sounds like a cute novel, then it is a cute novel. Really.
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe introduces us to Issy, who after being forced to leave her easy-peasy job as an office assistant decides to challenge herself by opening her own business. She's part of a family of bakers and decides to let her passion become her job: opening a cozy cupcake cafe in a space that hasn't had the most luck with clientele in the past.
I really appreciated Issy's see-sawing when it came to making this commitment. It's never an easy thing to take a chance, step out of your comfort zone with the realistic knowledge that it might not all work out. But I'm so glad that she did because the people who come into her life end up making the experience that much more special and important. Pearl, her sassy assistant with cute kid Louis, and even the banker who gives her a loan, the totally cute Austin.
Colgan gives us a really detailed look at Issy's life — not only her budding business but also her sick grandfather, disasterous romance with her ex-boss, and sweet best friendship with Helena (determined to find her own John Cusack). Sometimes a bit too detailed though. The pacing definitely dragged at points, especially when the reader became privy to everyone's thoughts in the book. (There were so points where I thought this book could have been cut into multiple volumes — so much going on in everyone's head!)
Also. The dialogue? Hilarious and witty. I wish there had been a little bit more of it to break up the long paragraphs but Colgan is seriously on to something.
As if Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe doesn't make your mouth water enough, the author was sweet enough (ha!) to include some yummy sounding recipes throughout the novel. I never felt more like baking in my life. Seriously, though, it was nice (and inspiring!)Â to read a feel-good story about a character in her 30s working her tail off to get what she wanted. Go Issy!
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NT Fracking Given the Green Light
Victorian Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe has been kicked out of Parliament on Monday for wearing a white T-shirt with the words 'Black Lives Don't Matter in the Beetaloo' while chanting the slogan.
The Gunnai, Gunditjmara and DjabWurrung Senator used her time in Senate to protest Labor and Liberal voting to give $50 million in public money to gas and mining corporations to set up exploratory drilling in and around the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin.
That is despite a lack of consent from the 60 or so First Nations communities living in the area and evidence that drilling could add 13 per cent each year to Australia's total carbon emissions.
The gas-rich area, Empire Energy has been given the green light to frack is approximately 500km south-east of Darwin and roughly the size of two Tasmania's.
Unlocking the gas which is a fossil fuel, mostly made up of methane and a key driver of climate change would be counter to the recent global climate pact to move away from fossil fuels.
Thorpe said the major parties were beholden to donations from fossil fuel companies which had lied to the basin's Traditional Owners about the likelihood of environmental damage.
"If you really really care, you would listen to the Traditional Owners of the NT who don't want their country fracked … and to protect sacred sites and the environment," she told parliament on Monday.
"Vote like black lives depend on it because they do."
Blak lives don't matter in the Beetaloo. Today we tried to stop public money being used to frack and destroy the Beetaloo, like Traditional Owners asked us to. The Government voted it down and most of the Labor party didn't even turn up to vote. Shameful! pic.twitter.com/XWJms5NF1b
— Senator Lidia Thorpe (@SenatorThorpe) November 29, 2021
Labor and Liberal voting to give $50m public money to party donors for a climate-wrecking project to frack the Beetaloo that no-one wants is unethical, wasteful and a danger to our children's future. What is it about the word NO that this Government doesn't understand?
— Senator Dorinda Cox (@dorinda_cox) November 29, 2021
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The Northland Community & Technical College women's basketball team has claimed the first MCAC / U.S. Marine Corps Team-of-the-Week honor of 2019 for their role in helping head coach Shannon Nelson earn her 200th win with the Pioneer program.
The "MCAC / U.S. Marine Corps Team-of-the-Week" honor is an awards initiative sponsored by the United States Marine Corps to be conducted over the 2018-19 academic year in the Minnesota College Athletic Conference, recognizing service to community, outstanding performances and strong leadership in MCAC athletic programs.
Northland dealt Mesabi Range College a 75-43 setback in late December to close out 2018, and in doing so, provided their mentor with her milestone win. Nelson and Northland will look to pick up win #201 on January 4 or 5 when they take on two NJCAA Division II programs in Gogebic Community College and Dakota College-Bottineau during the NCTC Classic held in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. The Pioneers are currently 8-2 on the year and ranked No. 3 in the NJCAA Division III poll.
Under Nelson, several former players have moved on to four-year programs at the NCAA and NAIA level, including ShaRon Miller, a Blaine, Minnesota product and former Northland All-America selection, currently competing at NCAA Division I Grand Canyon University. Miller is averaging 10.5 points per game and 5.8 rebounds a contest for GCU. Nelson and Miller led the Pioneers to two NJCAA National Tournament appearances in the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons. Miller noted the impact that Coach Nelson had in her development and opportunity to pursue NCAA Division I basketball in this interview from last season.
Congratulations to the Northland Community & Technical College women's basketball team and head coach Shannon Nelson for earning 200 wins at the helm of the Pioneer program and the MCAC / U.S. Marine Corps Team-of-the-Week honor to open up 2019.
This release sponsored by the U.S. Marine Corps.
The Marine Corps defends the people of the United States at home and abroad. To do that, we make Marines who win our nation's battles and return as quality citizens.


Seattle DJC.com local business news and data - Construction - Goodfellow Bros.
Chad Goodfellow has become CEO of Goodfellow Bros., a heavy-civil construction company in Maple Valley. Goodfellow was president for eight years, and is a fourth-generation owner in the company's 97-year history. He replaces Steve Goodfellow, who continues as board chair. The company also announced new division presidents: Lane Shinnick (Washington state), Joe Correy (Oregon) and Ed Brown (Hawaii). Each has been with Goodfellow for about 20 years.


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In Practical Boat Owner's March 2017 issue, author Peter K. Poland has published a 5-page article on the various 34-36ft cruisers that will sail in the 2018 Golden Globe Race. Captain Istvan Kopar is featured in the article speaking about his Tradewind 35, Puffin.


God the Father made a pretemporal covenant with the Eternal Son (Psalm 110; John 6:38, 17:2; Eph 1:3, 4; Heb. 6:16-17; Heb 10:5) to redeem His people by effectually calling and supernaturally drawing them to Him (John 6:37, 44, 63-65; 15:16, Acts 13:48; Rom. 8:29; Eph. 1:4). Christ himself was chosen to be our Savior before the creation of the world (1 Pet. 1:20; Ephesians 1:4) and accomplishes this for His people in last times by taking on their flesh, fulfilling the demands of the law for them in His life, death and physical resurrection. The Holy Spirit applies the life-giving work of the Son to the same by raising them from spiritual death, opening their blind eyes, unplugging their deaf ears, disarming their natural hostility and granting them new spiritual affections unto faith through the means of the preaching of the gospel (Ezek 36:26; Rom 10:17; 12:3; 1 Cor. 12:3; 2 Cor 4:13; Eph 6:23; Phil 1:29; 1 Thess 2:13; Heb 12:2). He then counts the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto those united to Him through faith.
Due to the fall, the natural condition of human beings is that of total depravity which means that apart from a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit applying the work of Christ, no person would naturally submit to the humbling terms of the gospel. The will, affections, mind and body are enslaved to sin until Christ sets us free (Ps 51:5; Matt. 15:19; Rom 7:14-15; Eph 4:17-19; John 8:36; Rom. 6:22). The result of depravity is that the natural man is impotent to respond in faith to God (Rom 8:7, 8; 1 Cor 2:14). Only the work of the Holy Spirit through the preaching of the Redeemer as revealed in Scripture (John 20:31; Rom 10:17) infallibly results in His people's response of faith (Eph 2:8-9; Titus 3:5). The grace of God restores fallen human affections by softening the heart and illumining the mind so that all distorted views of God are corrected (Eph 2:4-6; 4:17-24; Phil 2:12-13). In other words, it is grace itself that makes us humble and willing to respond in faith - Our certain response is, therefore, grounded in the initiative and regenerating work of God, not in any natural capacity.
Since He knows His sheep by name, God's love for his sheep is both intensive and particular, not a general love. When He sees that His lamb is lost He goes off in search of it until He finds it. He then scoops it up in his arms, puts it on His shoulders and carries it home. He does not merely go out and stand at a distance calling to any old stray sheep, hoping in vain that it wants to come home with Him. No, God calls us by name (since His sheep know his voice) and He mercifully does what is best for us. To those who do not follow Him Jesus said, "you do not believe because you are not part of my flock. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." (John 10:26, 27) In other words, He saves His loved ones, not with an ineffectual, passive love but with an active love which accomplishes that which he set out to do and actually gets the job done.
Of particular note the apostle John speaks of our spiritual resurrection (John 5:21 & Eph 2:5). The text (John 5:21) shows Jesus Himself clearly exercising sovereignty on whom He will grant the spiritual resurrection: "For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will." Ephesians 2:5 likewise says we were dead in sins until God, who is rich in mercy, "made us alive together with Christ." Paul's word for "made us alive" or "quicken" is the Greek term Paul uses for regeneration with Christ. In both these instances we must conclude that the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit causally precedes and enables man's response of saving faith to God's call.
Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, Martin Luther (who considered this doctrine the heart of the Reformation), John Calvin, John Owen, the Puritans of the 17th century, Augustine, George Whitefield, and some contemporary pastors and theologians such as Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Piper, Wayne Grudem, R.C. Sproul, Michael Horton, J.I. Packer, James Montgomery Boice, and signatories to the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.


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Snowy reads for the holidays
Some wintry reads for the whole family to enjoy.
With winter in full swing and Christmas on the horizon, a wonderfully wintry snowfall would be the perfect addition to our days, however, as we well know, snow at Christmas is a rare treat!
In lieu of this, we've shared some of our favourite snowy reads with you.
Parsnip by Sue Porter
A perfect pop-up book for younger children, Parsnip tells the story of a cute little lamb, born on the top of a snowy hilltop and taken down to the farmhouse to warm up.
Once recovered, little Parsnip sets off on a journey through the snow to find her mum, and meets some other animals along the way.
The book is beautifully illustrated and the pop-up pages help to tell the story and spark imagination.
Little Polar Bear by Hans de Beer
When Lars, the little polar bear, goes hunting with his dad for the very first time he returns home exhausted. Whilst asleep he doesn't hear the ice cracking and, unbeknownst to him, he slowly drifts away from his dad and the North Pole. Upon waking up, Lars' adventures truly begin.
Not only does the book have wonderful illustrations, it's also a great way to teach children about polar bears and their snowy habitats.
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Perhaps one of the most popular of the snowy books, The Snowman is a story for the generations. First published in 1982, the book and film have had an impact on young and old ever since. The book follows the adventures of a boy who builds a snowman in his garden; when he wakes up in the night he discovers that his snowy creation has come to life and they set off on a magical journey together, starting in the house and ending with a visit to Father Christmas!
Though a book without words, the story runs clearly through the illustrations. You can use the book to discuss what is happening on each page with your child, which will encourage them to use their imagination and be creative!
The Winter Hedgehog by Ann Cartwright and Reg Cartwright
First published in 1991, The Winter Hedgehog follows the adventures of a little prickly hedgehog; curious about winter and feeling very brave, the smallest hedgehog ignores his mother's warning about the dangers of winter. He refuses to join his family as they hibernate, instead choosing to leave the cosy home and experience winter: good and bad! When spring arrives, the little hedgehog returns home, wide-eyed with experience from his adventures.
These are but a few suggestions for wintry reads. There are many more you can choose from; other suitable suggestions can be found on our Recommended Reading List.
Even though it may not be snowing outside your window, you could huddle around one of these books with the family and create your own winter wonderland!
Engaging children in literature through film
Watching a film based on a book enables children to consider the attitudes and perspectives of others, and analyse the differences and similarities in structure.
Wonderful winter reads
Now the festivities are over, here are a few favourite winter reads to keep you entertained.
"Share your good with others. Kindness, love and appreciations are the greatest gifts you can give."
17 February marks Random Acts of Kindness Day so we've had a look at some acts of kindness in our favourite books.
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at September 2018 (Ministry of National Security)
based on an estimated national population of 402,000 at September 2018 (from United Nations figures)
(2014 - Fox Hill, containing maximum security block, remand centre and medium and minimum security units)
1998	 1,401	 485
2000	 c 1,400	 c 470
Ruling Could Stop Children Going To Jail
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Bahamas' prison inmates to make 'tourist-related souvenir products'
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Pre-trial/remand prison population: trend
The table below gives an indication of the recent trend in the pre-trial/remand prison population. The final row shows the latest figures available.
It consists of the number of pre-trial/remand prisoners in the prison population on a single date in the year (or the annual average) and the percentage of the total prison population that pre-trial/remand prisoners constituted on that day.
The final column shows the pre-trial/remand population rate per 100,000 of the national population.
Number in
pre-trial/remand
c. 38.4%
It should be noted that the number of pre-trial/remand prisoners fluctuates from day to day, month to month and year to year. Consequently the above figures give an indication of the trend but the picture is inevitably incomplete.
The pre-trial/remand population rate is calculated on the basis of the national population total. All national population figures are inevitably estimates but the estimates used in the World Prison Brief are based on official national figures, United Nations figures or figures from other recognised international authorities.


I act for a wide range of business and public sector bodies from all over the world and remain committed to finding quick creative and cost effective solutions for all my clients.
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package de.SweetCode.SteamAPI.method.methods;

import de.SweetCode.SteamAPI.SteamHTTPMethod;
import de.SweetCode.SteamAPI.SteamHost;
import de.SweetCode.SteamAPI.SteamVersion;
import de.SweetCode.SteamAPI.SteamVisibility;
import de.SweetCode.SteamAPI.interfaces.IEconMarketService;
import de.SweetCode.SteamAPI.method.SteamMethod;
import de.SweetCode.SteamAPI.method.SteamMethodVersion;
import de.SweetCode.SteamAPI.method.option.options.KeyOption;
import de.SweetCode.SteamAPI.method.option.options.SteamIDOption;

import java.util.Collections;

public class GetMarketEligibility extends SteamMethod {

    public GetMarketEligibility(IEconMarketService steamInterface) {
        super(
            steamInterface,
            "GetMarketEligibility",
            Collections.singletonList(
                SteamMethodVersion.create()
                    .method(SteamHTTPMethod.GET)
                    .hosts(SteamHost.PUBLIC, SteamHost.PARTNER)
                    .version(SteamVersion.V_1)
                    .visibility(SteamVisibility.PUBLISHER)
                    .add(new KeyOption(true))
                    .add(new SteamIDOption(true))
                .build()
            )
        );
    }

}


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require 'spec_helper'

describe Spree::OrderPopulator do
  let(:order) { FactoryGirl.create(:order) }
  let(:variant) { FactoryGirl.create(:variant) }

  subject { Spree::OrderPopulator.new(order, "USD") }

  context "voucher" do
    it "builds a voucher" do
      expect {
        subject.populate(variant.id, 1,
                         ActionController::Parameters.new({vouchers_attributes: [
                           number: '1234',
                           original_amount: 10,
                           currency: 'USD']}))
      }.to change {
        order.line_items.map(&:vouchers).flatten.size
      }.by 1
    end
  end
end


The Diablo Highway Real World Kit is now available from Learn Engines. The entire kit can be purchased for a comprehensive experience or tailor the activity to your class by purchasing individual labs.
Case History: Diablo Highway is the second in the Case History forensic science series. (The acclaimed Murder at Old Fields is the first). Case History features comprehensive forensic science lab activities based on actual crimes that occurred in the not-recent past.
Diablo Highway contains nine lab activities for middle and high school students based on the double-murder of Hazel Frome and her daughter Nancy that occurred in March 1938 on a desert road in Southwest Texas. Diablo Highway is objective-based learning that compels the application of science through real-world problem solving.
The Frome murders prompted sensational nationwide news coverage as much because of the gruesome details of the murders as for the identity of the victims: two women of style and wealth, mother and daughter, traveling in their luxury car un-escorted through some of the most inhospitable terrain in America - the West Texas desert. This crime has never been solved.
In conducting the Diablo Highway lab activity based on the Frome Murders, students will learn some of the tools and techniques of modern forensic science, such as Firearms Identification and Blood Typing, and apply this knowledge to solve this long-cold case.
The combination of the virtual lab activities and the real-world lab activities, makes Diablo Highway, and the other cases in the Case History series, "blended" learning activities. They provide the best of both the virtual and the real worlds for teachers and students in a richly rewarding and flexible educational experience. Based on a teacher's preference and schedule, combinations of these real and virtual labs can be taught to fit the time available.
The Diablo Highway Virtual Lab features "touchable" 3D models of the control samples and the crime scene evidence.


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This copywriting course is limited to a maximum of 12 delegates to ensure that our experienced trainer has the time to assist you with any personal complex points that may arise during the day.
We ask delegates to bring along a short piece of recent copy (no more than 50 – 250 words) to discuss and review during the course. Don't forget to bring along your own laptop, tablet or notepad to use during the course!
This course is aimed at anyone who produces copy for both the sales and marketing aspects of copywriting and content communication, for example; newsletters, web content, blogs, mailshots, direct mail, advertisements, sales letters, brochures and social network postings.
This course will begin by looking at the principles of copywriting and how the writing process can help you to create compelling copy. We'll examine how our tone of voice and having a clear picture of our audience contributes to creating the right message and helps you to connect directly with them. We'll also critically examine both good and bad examples of sales and marketing copy. During this hands-on practical course, delegates will have an opportunity to analyse their own copy and see how the editing process can really enhance their writing skills. We'll also look at some of the different forms of media and the challenges and opportunities they represent. Finally we'll examine the importance of clear and concise communication and how we need to appeal to the emotions of our audience.


Yay!!! Winter isn't just coming it has arrived! Well, it has at Chez Viiperi! Over the weekend I winterised home and originally I was planning not to Christmas it up just yet but then I remembered that Tannenbaum opened this weekend and there would be plenty of winter and holiday items to show you!
Also featured is an updated mainstore release from hive. The Fir Trees have texture change and snow and off option. I love that these trees break up the all white winter scene with some evergreen colour!
Are those famously Special SJW Snowflakes?


Kate is a scientific officer for farm animals at RSPCA Australia in the organisation's science and policy team, specialising in poultry and pigs. She has a degree in animal science, and a PhD in poultry behaviour and welfare.
Kate represents the RSPCA on national animal welfare issues, and is responsible for providing high-quality evidence-based information, advice and comment on farm animal welfare issues to government, industry and the public, and is involved in the development of RSPCA policies and Approved Farming Scheme Standards.


Here's my question, is it bad to have a cage installed (and proper seats, harnesses) before replacing the rear quarter panel and rear facia?
I'm sure it's probably best to have all the work done at the same time, but unless there's a real reason for it or the cost isn't as high as I'm anticipating, it would be nice to split it up into two jobs.
I wouldn't see why it would matter, you should be able to do them at different times as $$$ permits.
Complete all of your steel body panel replacement/fabrication BEFORE you do any cage or safety installation. All a cage will do is make body panel replacement much more difficult AND really screw things up if you find the chassis/body is bent or twisted.
By "complete" I mean do all the metal work, not bondo or finish work. Once all the body metal work is done, then start your fabrication for the cage and other safety upgrades.
Yes, there may be a case that you have to remove or trim some body panels but this is MUCH easier than working around a cage or other type of modifications that could/will be in your way.
two different ways of looking at this, thanks for comments! I'm gonna start looking around here in Orange County to see what it would cost me to get it all done at once. Anybody have any suggestions.... I've heard that South Coast Performance (I think that's what it's called) is pretty good.
If anybody else cares to share some more advice I'd certainly welcome it!
Yes, there may be a case that you have to remove or trim some body panels but this is MUCH easier than working around a cage or other type of modifications that could/will be in your way.Agreed!!


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Q: Can't select list object by class My jQuery is a little rusty, hence this noob question:
I have this unordered list,

which I populate from a JSON-object:
function updateChecklists(){
    requestAllForms = $.get("/list-all-forms");

    requestAllForms.promise().done(function(data){
        $.each(data,function(key, val){
            $("
" + val.name +"
").appendTo("#list-all-forms");
        });
        $('ul').listview('refresh');
    });
};

However, when I try to get the click event from a link with the class checklistObject in the list, nothing happens...
$(".checklistObject").on("click", function(){
    console.log("click on list object!");

});

How can I get that function to fire?

A: Depending on when you are creating the event handler those object may or may not exist and so the event isn't being attached properly. You could either wait until after they are created to add that event handler or use an event delegate and change your code to be something like:
$('#list-all-forms').on('click', '.checkListObject', function() {
    console.log($(this), "click on list object");
});

Which will work before and after your items are added to the DOM.
Or as mentioned in the comments, something like this: Event binding on dynamically created elements?

A: Are you sure you're adding the jQuery listener after the elements are there? If not, the selector will just add a click listener to nothing. If you want to load list items later to the list, you can do event delegation.
$("#list-all-forms").on("click", ".checklistObject", function() {
    console.log("click on list object!");
});


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Hogan Lovells (UK)
Eduardo is a partner in the global Privacy and Information Management practice of Hogan Lovells and an internationally recognised expert in privacy and data protection law. He is a dually qualified English Solicitor and Spanish Abogado based in London. Eduardo is also the author of The Future of Privacy (DataGuidance, 2013), a ground breaking book where he anticipates the key elements that organisations and privacy professionals will need to tackle to comply with the regulatory framework of the future. Eduardo advises some of the world's leading companies on the adoption of global privacy strategies and is closely involved in the development of the new EU data protection framework.


anyone else remember that movie that came out about 6 years ago called "Doubt"?
a part of the human condition that seems to inspire the most shame in us.
creativity is a living entity that grows and changes often faster than we do.
idea I'm working with and see it through to the finish?
paradox that doubt can actually help us build our self-confidence?
confident I become as a writer.
will only make us stronger.
I'm Not A Distracted Writer... I'm Just Not Working On My Dream.
Do You Have a Publishing a Book Dis-ease?
Will Writing Help You Get Your Dreams?
Do You Have a Writing Idea?
I even have doubts about mt doubts!


Agnetha was a telephonist for a car firm while performing with a local dance band, led by Bernt Enghardt. The band proved popular, and she had to choose between her job and her musical career. Soon, producer Karl Gerhard Lundkvist, a relative of one of the band's members, heard a demo of the band, but he was only interested in signing her.


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Electronic Thesis/Dissertation
Enthusiastic Sensations: Religious Revivals, Secular Bodies, and the Making of Modern Sexualities in Early American Culture Open Access
Abstract of DissertationEnthusiastic Sensations: Religious Revivals, Secular Bodies, and the Making of Modern Sexualities in Early American CultureEnthusiasm operated as a charge of disordered religiosity throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic; it also indicated gender, sexual, and bodily deviance. Enthusiastic Sensations analyzes the ways in which religious revivalism and "enthusiasm" were linked to sexual depravity in the religious, political, and popular literature of early America. This connection between sex and enthusiasm was not simply a way of controlling bodies, as previous scholars of religion, gender, and sexuality have argued; rather, sexualized accounts of enthusiastic experiences—supernatural voices, visions, and ecstasies—offer new ways of understanding gender and sexuality in the context of the eighteenth-century Anglophone Atlantic. Religious revivalism and anti-enthusiastic skepticism remade sensorial orders by producing and regulating bodily pleasures. This regulation of bodily pleasure also made normative ability a central component of modern sexuality, rendering religious excess forms of sensorial and mental disability. My work recasts sexuality and religion in early American culture, first claiming that revivals produced "revival sexualities" in their emphasis on emotional and physical feelings of conversion, and secondly demonstrating how writings against "enthusiasm" produced secular bodies that sought to manage religious excitements.Enthusiastic Sensations engages methodological and theoretical questions of the history of sexuality about how scholars analyze "sex" or "sexuality" in history. Eve Sedgwick argues in Epistemology of the Closet that "the distinctively sexual nature of human sexuality has to do precisely with its excess over or potential difference from the bare choreographies of procreation." My work asks how religious "excesses" offer new sites of studying the history of sexuality, and it argues that eighteenth century debates over "true" religion, enthusiasm, sexuality, and the order of the senses established a framework through which early American literatures such as Franklin's Autobiography and Charles Brockden Brown's gothic fiction sought to build and manage secular bodies. I demonstrate this argument through engagement with literary texts of the early Anglophone Atlantic, including Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, along with less widely known spiritual autobiographies and religious tracts, circulated journals, pamphlets, and newspapers. In particular, my research draws on critical and satirical writings regarding evangelical movements. While such works are unreliable documents of events, critical writings are useful because authors use humor to point out modes of sensuality unacknowledged by religious practitioners.. I balance these critical accounts by attending to the writings of individuals who claimed transformative religious experiences, particularly as they wrote accounts of God's dealings in their diaries, dream journals, letters, and sermons. I primarily read these sources in historical context, within philosophical and theological debates over "enthusiasm," and the rise of Protestant revival movements in the eighteenth century. In short, the dissertation engages queer theoretical debates over the analytic category of sexuality by reading literary texts in religious and historical context to argue that religious revivals and their critics produced revival sexualities and secular bodies.
Larson, Scott M.
Transgender Studies
Religious Enthusiasm
History of Sexuality
McRuer, Robert
Kosek, Joseph K
Committee Member(s)
Murphy, Teresa
Anker, Elisabeth
DeWispelare, Daniel
Heap, Chad
https://scholarspace-etds.library.gwu.edu/etd/0z708w436
Larson_gwu_0075A_13389.pdf 2018-01-16 Open Access


An OEM-styled stand down to the nosing and front rails.
The traditional look of the API 1608 console requires an OEM-style stand like the Pro-Series made by Sterling Modular. We not only make stands but also offer console "buckets" and patch bays to fully complement your console.


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
	package="com.jamesgiang.aussnowcam"
	android:versionCode="11"
	android:versionName="3.3"
	android:installLocation="auto">
	<supports-screens
		android:smallScreens="true"
		android:normalScreens="true"
		android:largeScreens="true"
		android:xlargeScreens="true"
		android:anyDensity="true" />
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" android:targetSdkVersion="11"/>
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:name=".Launch" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="orientation" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity android:name=".MainPhone"  android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="orientation" />
		<activity android:name=".MainTablet"  android:label="@string/app_name" />
		<activity android:name=".BOMClient"  android:label="@string/app_name" />
        <activity android:name="com.google.ads.AdActivity" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation"/>
    </application>
</manifest>


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Q: C++, overloading the operator*= reduces the performance I Created a struct of three integers and overloaded the operator*=,
then created a vector of size 100000000 and filled it with 0 and 1 randomly.
Then tested two versions of a function that sums up the elements multiplied by 2.
When I use the function that uses the overloaded operator*= I got almost a 60% overhead.
Any guess what is happening?
Tested on:

*

*Windows 10

*Visual Studio 2019 (MSVC 14.29.30133)

*Project Configuration: Release x64 (O2, Whole Program Optimization enabled).

Thanks
Check main, without_overloading and with_overloading functions.
#include <random>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>

/*
I took the code for calculating times from this post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17432502/how-can-i-measure-cpu-time-and-wall-clock-time-on-both-linux-windows/17440673#17440673
*/
//  Windows
#ifdef _WIN32
#include <Windows.h>
double get_wall_time() {
    LARGE_INTEGER time, freq;
    if (!QueryPerformanceFrequency(&freq)) {
        //  Handle error
        return 0;
    }
    if (!QueryPerformanceCounter(&time)) {
        //  Handle error
        return 0;
    }
    return (double)time.QuadPart / freq.QuadPart;
}
double get_cpu_time() {
    FILETIME a, b, c, d;
    if (GetProcessTimes(GetCurrentProcess(), &a, &b, &c, &d) != 0) {
        //  Returns total user time.
        //  Can be tweaked to include kernel times as well.
        return
            (double)(d.dwLowDateTime |
                ((unsigned long long)d.dwHighDateTime << 32)) * 0.0000001;
    }
    else {
        //  Handle error
        return 0;
    }
}
//  Posix/Linux
#else
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
double get_wall_time() {
    struct timeval time;
    if (gettimeofday(&time, NULL)) {
        //  Handle error
        return 0;
    }
    return (double)time.tv_sec + (double)time.tv_usec * .000001;
}
double get_cpu_time() {
    return (double)clock() / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
}
#endif

//=================================================================================
const size_t size = 100000000;

struct vec {
    int x, y, z;
    vec& operator*=(int rhs) {
        x *= rhs;
        y *= rhs;
        z *= rhs;
        return *this;
    }
};

void without_overloading(std::vector<vec> const &points) {
    double wall0 = get_wall_time();
    double cpu0 = get_cpu_time();

    vec sum{ 0,0,0 };
    for (size_t i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
        sum.x += points[i].x * 2;
        sum.y += points[i].y * 2;
        sum.z += points[i].z * 2;
    }

    double wall1 = get_wall_time();
    double cpu1 = get_cpu_time();

    std::cout << "Wall Time = " << wall1 - wall0 << std::endl;
    std::cout << "CPU Time  = " << cpu1 - cpu0 << std::endl;
    std::cout << sum.x << " " << sum.y << " " << sum.z << std::endl;
}

void with_overloading(std::vector<vec> &points) {
    double wall0 = get_wall_time();
    double cpu0 = get_cpu_time();

    vec sum{ 0,0,0 };
    for (size_t i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
        points[i] *= 2;
        sum.x += points[i].x;
        sum.y += points[i].y;
        sum.z += points[i].z;
    }

    double wall1 = get_wall_time();
    double cpu1 = get_cpu_time();

    std::cout << "Overloading Wall Time = " << wall1 - wall0 << std::endl;
    std::cout << "Overloading CPU Time  = " << cpu1 - cpu0 << std::endl;
    std::cout << sum.x << " " << sum.y << " " << sum.z << std::endl;
}

int main() {
    std::srand(std::time(nullptr));
    std::vector<vec> points(size);
    for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
        points[i] = { rand() % 2, rand() % 2, rand() % 2 };
    }

    without_overloading(points);
    with_overloading(points);
}


At the heart of lush greenery between Rance and sea, our family welcomes you to the Haute Flourie, a charming house, which has been inhabited for a time by René Duguay Trouin, a famous corsair from St-Malo..
We will share with you our guest rooms, our beautiful Brittany and particularly its Emerald Coast.
From the Cape Frehel to the Bay of Mont Saint Michel, you will be delighted by the wealth of heritage, local flavors and the beautiful scenery.
Not to mention the restaurants we have dug for you..
But shhh ... we will not say more … Come relax in this peaceful, family friendly, to enjoy a good breakfast at home.