Don't let the name fool you: most people who visit Death Valley come away feeling more alive than ever. This extreme arid environment covers 5,219 square miles, from valleys to mountain ranges to the area known as Badwater, which plunges to 292 feet below sea level directly below 11,043-foot Telescope Peak. The racetrack playa (featuring a dramatic 73-foot high rock formation near its center called "The Grandstand") is an extremely flat surface whose north end is only 1.5 inches higher than the south. Here you'll find the phenomenon of "moving rocks" – rocks that slowly move with no human or animal aid.
See it all from your car, bicycle or mountain bike (on established roadways only, please.) Visit between November and April and a ranger will be glad to take you on a guided tour of this dramatic region. The hiking possibilities are literally limitless – including the nearby Ubehebe Crater, a volcanic formation that's 777 feet deep – but it's best to brave this extreme region between October and May at the lower elevations. Along the way, you'll see unique wildlife and plant life that has evolved to survive this harsh climate, including beautiful wildflowers, the native creosote bush, bighorn sheep, coyote and the Death Valley Pupfish.
Depending on the season, you can find stylish accommodations at the nearby Furnace Creek Inn, a historic four-star hotel. For a more authentic experience, try the Furnace Creek Ranch, a three-star ranch-style property.
They say this ornate structure is built on both lies and an unlikely friendship. Visit Scotty's Castle for an unusual trip into eccentricity – and back in time. Despite its harsh surrounding, this ornate structure features a $75,000 pipe organ which is rumored to cover the entrance to a legendary gold mine. The castle is replete with hand-carved redwood beams, indoor waterfalls and luxurious leather furnishings.
The Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch Resort is situated in a lush oasis surrounded by the vast and arid desert of Death Valley National Park, California – just 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada and 275 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. This is one resort with two hotels – the historic, 4-diamond, 66 room Furnace Creek Inn and the more family oriented 224 room Furnace Creek Ranch.
After a long day in the desert, sit out on the walkway and watch the sun set over the valley floor before you retire to your comfortable, air conditioned room. Listen to the crickets as desert scenes surround you and you drift off to sleep in a comfortable room with twin, double or king-size beds.
Located 53 miles southwest of Goldfield (go west at Scotty's Junction off U.S. Hwy. 95). Built in the 1920s, visitors can tour the massive, multi-story Spanish-style stucco mansion that is filled with original furnishings and stories of Walter Scott's exploits. Daily living history tours by rangers in period costumes.


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Pierpaolo Donati (Budrio, Emilia-Romaña, 30 de septiembre de 1946) es un sociólogo y filósofo italiano. Padre de sociología relacional (en italiano sociologia relazionale) y profesor titular de sociología en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Bolonia. También es director del Centro Italiano de Estudios en Política Social y Sociología de la Salud (en italiano: Centro Studi di Politica Sociale e Sociologia Sanitaria) en la misma universidad.

Su pensamiento
Pierpaolo Donati propuso una teoría general para el análisis de la sociedad llamada sociología relacional. A través de su investigación, Donati muestra con investigaciones empíricas específicas cómo la sociedad puede ser conocida e interpretada como una relación social, y no como un simple producto cultural, o una mera comunicación, o incluso una simple influencia de la estructura social en la acción humana. (Estructura y agencia). Un capítulo autobiográfico de Donati está incluido en un volumen dedicado a algunos de los sociólogos vivos más importantes

Profesor Titular de Sociología en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Bolonia (1981-2016), ha producido numerosos trabajos teóricos y empíricos. Desde hace unos años, imaprte clase en el Master en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales, que coordina el Instituto Cultura y Sociedad (ICS) de la Universidad de Navarra.

Ha mantenido intensos intercambios científicos personales con varios sociólogos de renombre internacional, como: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Niklas Luhmann, o Margaret Archer.

Cargos y Asociaciones a las que pertenece o ha pertenecido
 Presidente de la Asociación Italiana de Sociología AIS (1995-1998).
 Miembro de la Junta del International Institute of Sociology IIS (2001-2005)
 Miembro de la Academia Pontificia de Ciencias Sociales (Desde el 22 de diciembre de 1997)
 Director del Observatorio Nacional de la Familia del gobierno italiano (2003-2012)
 Miembro del comité científico de la Biennale Democrazia.
 Asesor editorial de la revista "International Sociology" (1985-1996)
 Director de CEPOSS (Centro de Estudios de Política Social y Sociología de la Salud)
 Presidente del Curso de Grado en Sociología y Coordinador del Doctorado en Sociología en el Departamento de Sociología de la Universidad de Bolonia.
 Fundador y director de la revista "Sociologia e politiche sociali"
 Miembro del Consejo Asesor Internacional de la revista "Innovación", Viena, 1988-1996
 Miembro del Comité Científico de la Revista "Sociología", Instituto Luigi Sturzo, Roma (desde 1995-)
 Miembro del Comité Científico de la Revista Internacional de Sociología-Revue Internationale de Sociologie (IIS), Universidad de Roma La Sapienza (desde 2003-)
 Miembro del Comité Científico de la revista "Familia", Instituto Superior de Ciencias de la Familia, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, España (desde 2005).

Premios, galardones y reconocimientos
 Reconocimiento de la ONU como miembro experto distinguido durante el Año Internacional de la Familia (1994).
 Premio Capri San Michele por el libro "Pensamiento social cristiano y sociedad posmoderna" (Ave, Roma, 1997) (septiembre de 1997).
 Premio San Benedetto para la Promoción de la Vida y la Familia en Europa, IX edición (Subiaco, 9 de mayo de 2009).
 Doctorado honorario del Pontificio Instituto Juan Pablo II para el Matrimonio y la Familia, Universidad Pontificia de Letrán (Roma, 13 de mayo de 2009).
 Premio Mario Macchi 2009 otorgado por la Asociación Nacional de Padres de Escuelas Católicas (AGESC) por actividades sociales y culturales de gran interés innovador.
 Doctorado Honoris Causa de la Universidad Internacional de Cataluña (UIC Barcelona). (15 de noviembre de 2017)

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Pierpaolo Donati en la Pontificia Academia de Ciencias Sociales
 Sociologia e politiche sociali, FrancoAngeli Edizioni
 Pierpaolo Donati en la Social Trends Institute

Nacidos en Budrio
Sociólogos de Italia
Filósofos de Italia del siglo XX
Filósofos de Italia del siglo XXI
Profesores de la Universidad de Bolonia
Profesores de la Universidad de Navarra

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Nearing the end of a decadelong fund-raising campaign, Columbia University announced yesterday that it had raised $2.74 billion -- more than double the initial goal in 1990.
The sum is one of the largest ever raised by a university. Last year, Harvard announced that it had raised a record $2.6 billion in a five-and-a-half-year campaign.
''We are closing off a very important chapter in Columbia's history,'' said Columbia's president, George Rupp, yesterday, calling the campaign not only an important tool in competing for top students and teachers, but a symbol of the university's ''forward momentum'' as well.
Columbia's campaign is also one of the longest by a higher education institution. Started in 1990, when Michael I. Sovern was president, it spanned the tenures of two presidents, two development officers and two alumni chairmen.
The original intention was to raise $1.15 billion over five years, but the campaign, aided by a strong economy and booming financial markets, went so well that the university decided to extend it for five years and to double the goal.
Of the money raised so far, about $800 million has gone into Columbia's endowment, with $250 million dedicated to financial aid, $275 million to new endowed professorships, and $275 million to research and other programs.
Columbia has also used $370 million for new buildings including a student center, a dormitory and a business and law building -- and for the refurbishment of others, including the library.
The campaign has helped Columbia ratchet up its annual fund-raising to more than $300 million a year, which the university says has moved it to about 5th place from 11th among universities.
Columbia has received about 300,000 donations, some from repeat contributors. But the bulk of the money came from fewer than 400 gifts of $1 million or more, which accounted for $1.6 billion, or about two-thirds of the total.
There were two gifts of more than $50 million: $85 million in two parts from the businessman and philanthropist John W. Kluge ($60 million for minority scholarships and $25 million to subsidize junior faculty salaries) and $50 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the School of Public Health.
Six of the gifts were between $25 million and $50 million, and 29 gifts between $10 million and $25 million.
''It's a fairly typical pyramid for a large, private research university,'' said Richard K. Naum, Columbia's vice president for development and alumni relations.
The numbers announced yesterday represent totals collected through Sept. 30, although the ''Campaign for Columbia,'' as it is called, does not officially end until Dec. 31.
''We're not out of the ballgame yet,'' Mr. Naum said.
Since Sept. 30, the university has received a pledge of $10 million for graduate fellowships and a $12 million pledge for the law school, which did not appear in the tabulated figures.
The university has already collected most of the $2.7 billion, but about $350 million of the total includes pledges for gifts that will come in over the next five years.
Stephen Friedman, the chairman of Columbia's board and a graduate of its law school, said that the campaign had been helped by the strong economy and financial markets and also by New York City's new vitality.
Mr. Friedman, Columbia's chairman, noted that Columbia could use more fund-raising, because its endowment per student is still below that of Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Stanford.


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Isabela Kastilská ( Isabel de Castella i de Molina,  Izabel Kastilha, 1283 Toro – 24. července 1328) byla královna aragonská, sicilská a valencijská a také vévodkyně bretaňská.

Narodila se jako starší dcera kastilského krále Sancha IV. a jeho choti Marie z Moliny. Již v útlém dětství byla roku 1291 v Sorii provdána za mladého aragonského krále Jakuba II. Vzhledem k nevěstině věku nedošlo k naplnění sňatku, což Jakubovi po tchánově smrti roku 1295 usnadnilo anulaci sňatku a změnu politického kurzu. Isabela se roku 1310 v Burgosu stala druhou manželkou budoucího bretaňského vévody Jana III., svého vrstevníka. Manželství zůstalo bezdětné.

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Rockets hit Lviv in western Ukraine, Biden calls Putin a 'butcher' By Reuters
© Reuters. Silhouette of a Kyiv territorial defence member with a Kalashnikov rifle in his hands, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 25, 2022. REUTERS/Mikhail Palinchak
By Natalia Zinets
LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Rockets struck the outskirts of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday for what appeared to be the first time since Russia's invasion, and Russian forces took control of a town where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live.
Intense fighting raged in several parts of Ukraine, suggesting there will be no swift let-up in the month-old war, and U.S. President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "butcher" after meeting Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
The Kremlin was cited by Russia's TASS news agency as saying such comments would further damage prospects for mending Russian-U.S. ties.
After more than four weeks of fighting, Russia has failed to seize any major Ukrainian city and the conflict has killed thousands of people, sent nearly 3.8 million abroad and driven more than half of Ukraine's children from their homes, according to the United Nations.
Moscow signalled on Friday it was scaling back its military ambitions to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the east
But two rockets hit the outskirts of Lviv, some 60 km (40 miles) from the Polish border, a city that so far have escaped the heavy bombardment and fighting that has devastated some Ukrainian cities closer to Russia.
Regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyy said five people had been wounded and residents were told to head to shelters after three powerful blasts in mid-afternoon. Reuters witnesses saw black smoke rising from the northeast side of the city and Lviv's mayor said an oil storage facility had been hit.
Russian troops seized Slavutych, a town where workers at the nearby Chernobyl plant live, the regional governor said.
He said Russian forces had fired into the air and thrown stun grenades to disperse residents who unfurled a large Ukrainian flag and shouted "Glory to Ukraine" in protest. Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
Slavutych sits just outside the so-called exclusion zone around Chernobyl, which was the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986.
Ukrainian staff have continued to work at Chernobyl after the plant was seized by Russian forces soon after the start of the Feb. 24 invasion, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has expressed alarm about the situation if workers are unable to rotate.
In the encircled southern city of Mariupol, Mayor Vadym Boichenko said the situation remained critical, with street fighting in the centre. Mariupol has been devastated by weeks of Russian fire.
In an address to Qatar's Doha Forum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy compared the devastation in Mariupol to the destruction inflicted on the Syrian city of Aleppo by combined Syrian and Russian forces in Syria's civil war.
"They are destroying our ports," Zelenskiy said, warning of dire consequence if his country – one of the world's major grains producers – could not export its foodstuffs. "The absence of exports from Ukraine will deal a blow to countries worldwide."
Speaking via video link, he also called on energy producing countries to increase their output so that Russia cannot use its oil and gas wealth to "blackmail" other nations.
BIDEN IN POLAND
Biden saw Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov in the Polish capital Warsaw in his first face-to-face meeting with top Ukrainian officials since the start of the war.
Biden described Putin as a "butcher" after touring a food kitchen for Ukrainian refugees.
Biden's visit to Poland was his final stop on a trip to Europe that has underscored his opposition to the Russian invasion, his solidarity with Ukraine and his determination to work closely with Western allies to confront the crisis.
"We are waiting for President Biden to close the sky over Ukraine. Ukrainian warriors can protect our country on the ground, but we can't close the sky," said Alla Dyachenko, a chemist from Kyiv who fled to Poland with her daughter.
NATO has ruled out a no-fly zone over Ukraine, fearing it would lead to direct clashes with Russian forces and a Europe-wide escalation.
Zelenskiy pushed late on Friday for further talks with Russia after its defence ministry said a first phase of its operation in Ukraine was mostly complete and that it would now focus on the Donbass region bordering Russia, which has pro-Moscow separatist enclaves.
Russian-backed forces there have been fighting pro-government forces since 2014.
Reframing Russia's goals may make it easier for Putin to claim a face-saving victory, analysts said.
Moscow has until now said its goals for what it calls its "special military operation" include demilitarising and "denazifying" its neighbour. Ukraine and its Western allies have called that a baseless pretext for an unprovoked invasion.
The United Nations has confirmed 1,104 civilian deaths and 1,754 injuries in Ukraine since the invasion but says the real toll is likely higher. Ukraine says 136 children have been killed.
Russia's defence ministry said 1,351 Russian soldiers had been killed and 3,825 wounded, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday. Ukraine says 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed. Reuters could not independently verify the claims.
LAID WASTE
Footage from Mariupol, home to 400,000 people before the war, showed destroyed buildings, burnt out vehicles and shell-shocked survivors venturing out for provisions. Residents have buried victims in makeshift graves as the ground thaws.
"It's scary, I don't know how we're going to survive," an elderly woman resident said, declining to identify herself by name. "We're lying there, hoping they won't bomb us. Look at how many dead bodies we've buried around the building."
To the north, battle lines near the capital Kyiv have been frozen for weeks with two main Russian armoured columns stuck northwest and east of the city.
The Russian defence ministry said its troops had seized a dug-in command centre in a Kyiv suburb and captured more than 60 Ukrainian servicemen. Reuters could not immediately verify this.
A British intelligence report said Russian forces were relying on indiscriminate air and artillery bombardments rather than risk large-scale ground operations, a tactic the report said could limit Russian military casualties but would harm more civilians in Ukraine.
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Q: Having issues handling multiple JSON files I currently have a file that has multiple jsons that are not in a list or separated by commas (kind of like
{id: 1, attributes{height:1, length:2}}{id: 2, attributes{height:4, length:1}}).
I am trying to upload them to dynamoDB using .put_item(Item=json.loads(...)) from boto3, so I need to get it in the right format. I am currently using jsonFileReader = jsonFileReader.decode().replace('}{', '},{') to get the jsons in the right format, however, this makes them into a string (confirmed by using the type function), so I can not do a for loop on it and pass it to the .put_item function this way. How can I turn it into a list from a string so I can pass it in the for loop?

A: Could something like this work for you?:
import json

# get file data
raw_data = open("multi_json.json", "rt").read()

# make it look like an array of objects
array_string = "[" + raw_data.replace("}{","},{") + "]"

# convert to object list with json
object_list = json.loads(array_string)

# then do whatever you want with your list of objects.

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The Walking Dead: A
by drnanamom
Carl: "Who are we?"
It's the season finale and we have come back to the same question that always threads through this story. If this happened to you, who would you be? Would you become what you needed to be to survive? If you couldn't, would that mean the end of you? How would you deal with the monsters both outside and within? It seems impossible to tell who is a 'good' person anymore.
If Terminus is any indication, it is only the people in your tribe. Everyone else is fair game – literally. I think what is different in our group is that they still want to be good people. Rick is shocked at his own behaviour and Daryl is upset that he was even associated with Joe and his gang. Maggie and Glenn's group just walked into Terminus, happy to be fed and looking for others like them. It's a good bet that the food was drugged and from the skeletons heaped behind the fence our group ran past, it was probably people they were eating.
The flashbacks to the prison were painful. The opening scene with Glenn and Maggie so relaxed and happy was heartbreaking. Hershel was there, a ghost trying to bring peace to Rick and Carl. It was so sad to watch them all hope while you knew that it would all come crashing down. The Rick and Carl from before the attempt at farming have returned and have kept them alive. As Rick says, it is his monster that has protected himself and Carl. It was interesting to watch him accept that part of himself. Perhaps by doing that, he will have more control over it.
Does that mean that all survivors must also be monsters? Is that why Terminus is still there? Frankly, I prefer the violent monster of Rick to the cool cunning of Gareth. Even with monsters, there is a line. Joe and his crew were all monster and probably were before the apocalypse.
There was a lot of foreshadowing and clues in this episode. The snare for the rabbit was a metaphor for the trap that Terminus set. The constant chatter about food also spoke to possible shortages that might call for desperate measures. There was also a lot of talk about, and illustration of, human monsters. It is interesting that the threat is shifting from walkers to other survivors. I know that there was a lot of conjecture that the people at Terminus were cannibals. The skeletons seem to prove that and the train cars with people in them seem to support it but I'm not sure how you would get an entire village to agree to it and be so calm when people arrive. If Rick and the group were just meat, it would have made sense to kill them. It would be less trouble although maybe they needed fattening up. But why would you take people's things if you were going to incorporate them into your group? I still haven't bought the cannibal thing completely, but that might just be because I find it abhorrent.
So where are the lines of monstrous behaviour now? Raping women and young boys is obviously over the line. Killing humans is not anymore, or even letting them die to save yourself. As time goes on, the line slides. Is eating humans over the line? If they are bad? If there is no more food? Maybe it is okay if you only do it until the first crops come in or you find some livestock.
Finally, as predicted, our whole group is still not together. We have no Tyreese, Carol, Judith or Beth. They may be at Terminus in another car or they may be still to come in various ways. While I didn't find this the best of the season finales, at least there is quite a set-up for next fall. We probably need the Terminus people to be monsters if our group is going to destroy them, but it would be so much more interesting if they are actually good people and our group, albeit unintentionally, are the monsters this time.
I wasn't fond of the explanation for Michonne's actions. It would have been enough that her partner insisted on staying at the camp even when she had argued it was dangerous.
I enjoyed the reunion of Rick and Daryl. I found it unusual that Rick didn't ask any questions when Daryl said that Beth was just gone.
Carl cleaning his gun on a colouring book was a nice metaphor. Not to mention Patrick playing with Legos. Patrick was doing what Rick hoped Carl would do, but Carl is alive and Patrick is dead.
The Ringleader, the Archer and the Samurai. They sound like comic book heroes.
Things I could live without: The poor guy being ripped apart by walkers as Carl watched. Rick stabbing the guy over and over again after taking a chunk out of Joe's throat.
Hershel: "Ever since I gave Glenn my watch, it's right now to me."
Rick: "Yeah, it's always the same, isn't it? We don't get to know until we know."
Joe: "Shit, and I was thinking of turning in early on New Year's Eve."
Daryl: "You want blood, I get it. Take it from me, man." (Have I mentioned that I love Daryl?)
Rick: "He's mine."
Rick: "You being back with us here, now, that's everything. You're my brother."
Michonne: "I was gone for a long time."
Carl: "I'm just another monster, too."
Written on the wall in the room full of candles: "We first, always." (That seems to be the motto of any group of survivors).
Rick: "They're gonna feel pretty stupid when they find out."
Ford: "Find out what?"
Rick: "They're screwing with the wrong people."
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Freeman Monday, March 31, 2014 at 11:23:00 PM EDT
Again! This show has another episode that inspires me to keep watching. It's like I'm in an abusive relationship or something, geez. The scene with Rick and Joe's gang was amazing. I had to watch it again. I was so uneasy and horrified. And then when Rick snapped I didn't know whether to cheer or be upset. I don't care what anyone says, Andrew Lincoln is a great actor. He looked like an uncaged animal. That scene was just brutal between Rick tearing out a dude's throat then repeatedly shanking a guy and Daryl curb stomping the other guy to death. And Carl's face while he watched was haunting. Obviously Rick and Carl have the same monster inside them, and Carl's just scared to show it because he knows it will let down his dad. I knew there was more to him brawling with Tyreese than simply testosterone. At least on his part.
I had hoped way back when in the Nebraska episode that Rick was gonna become truer to his comic book counterpart. But I think this episode is more of a clearer indication that Rick isn't taking anymore mess from anyone anymore. From him sniffing out Terminus and reacting immediately and planning ahead with the gun bag. I also loved how Daryl didn't even miss a beat and had his bow up and ready to go once Rick acted. Their brotherhood is one of my favorite things on the show.
Jess Lynde Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 7:18:00 AM EDT
I had a lot of the same reactions as Freeman. Particularly to the throwdown with Joe's gang. It was pretty much the reaction Scott Gimple said they were going for on The Talking Dead: I was mentally cheering when Rick head-butted Joe and went after him, but then he ripped out his throat and went hardcore on the attempted rapist, and I thought "Whoa. I'm not sure how I feel about this." Ultimately, it seemed necessary, but in the moment I was so shocked that it went that far. I do like that it seems to have brought Rick to a place of peace with both the man and the monster within, and I agree that it was good to see him get back to the guy from 'Nebraska' (a slightly more aggressive version). But I'm haunted by the look on Carl's face as he watched. That one still has a way to go to make peace with himself, and find the balance between young man and monster.
I really liked the focus of the episode being back on Rick, Carl, and Michonne, with a nice dash of Daryl on the side. And I'm relieved that no one I care about has died, as of yet. Whew.
I also loved the flashbacks to the prison, because they underlined the full scope of Rick's transformation this season. And I was just really happy to spend a little more time with Hershel again, and to see everyone somewhat happy.
Billie Doux Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 9:00:00 AM EDT
I kept thinking that Rick was going to die in the season finale because they seemed to be signaling it, but it's obvious now that they were signaling that Rick had to change. What he did was shocking, but it made sense. And that last line was great -- except I kept hearing Riddick saying it, with the F bomb. Am I really comparing Rick to Riddick? That's actually pretty cool.
Another great season of reviews, Doc. I'm so glad you review this show for us. You always bring up stuff I was thinking, and take it further.
Unknown Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 6:42:00 PM EDT
i thought the finale lacked a big final punching scene, it just felt like another episode with a cliff hanger. Not to say the episode wasn't good, but i felt like they could have done much better.
I also didn't like the flashbacks, they felt out of place for me, they did serve their purpose, but i mean they really didn't fit the mood.
All in all, this season of the walking dead has been mediocre. The whole series would have been better if Darabont stayed. But with AMC firing two show runners for the walking dead so far, i wouldn't say the show is in good hands, especially not with AMC.
Treerox Monday, September 29, 2014 at 11:16:00 AM EDT
I've just re-watched this season in time for season 5. All I can say is that I found this season good, probably cause I don't over-analyze each episode and go with the flow.
Lamounier Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 5:02:00 PM EDT
This was a good season finale in what has been, for me, the best season of this series thus far. The writers made the right call to deal with Joe's gang on the first half of the episode. That was a very tense scene and frightened me more than any other scene The Walking Dead ever did. There's something very disturbing about rape / attempted rape scenes, and having a child be the victim is taking it to a whole new level of disturbing. I agree with Daryl, a lot of people would've done what Rick did (maybe not so cruelly, but still).
Of course Terminus was a bad place. I'm very naïve. That was a good set up for season five. I thought Rick's final line was "they're screwing with their own people" and I tried to make sense of it for minutes. Then I read the review and the actual line makes much more sense.
I really like Michonne's relationship with Carl. And Rick's "you're my brother" made me say "aw" out loud, that moment between the two of them was very much earned.
The flashbacks didn't do much for me, but I loved seeing Hershel again.
Remco Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 7:38:00 PM EDT
Hm, I don't know. Cannibalism sounds so useless. It's a lot of trouble to capture people: they are some of the smartest prey imaginable. And as a food shortage measure it also doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since it would be much more efficient to just eat the food that your human food is eating until slaughter. So just go vegetarian.


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2012 International Conference: Give and Take
There's still time to join us for the North Lands Creative Glass 2012 International Conference. Taking place on Saturday 8, Sunday 9 September, the programme explores conceptual and stylistic exchanges over time, between different cultures and media.
You can still book a place through our website or email info@northlandsglass.com or call 01593 721229
The full programme:
9.15 Welcome, opening remarks
9.30 'Postmodernism' – Keynote Presentation. Jane Pavitt is Head of the History of Design Programme and Dean of the School of Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Former Research Fellow at the V&A, she was responsible for many exhibitions. Her presentation will outline the thinking behind the V&A's 2011 exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 in relation to 'Give and Take', the conference theme. Postmodernism was the first exhibition to explore the international impact of the style on art, design, architecture, film, video and performance.
Spanning a broad range of subject areas including fashion, craft, graphics, furniture and product design, the exhibition research aimed to uncover the histories behind the conception, making, dissemination and reception of postmodern artefacts and images. It explored the complex and often controversial debates within these design disciplines in the 1970s and 1980s. She will explain the research processes behind the exhibition, exploring postmodernism's potential to foster interdisciplinarity, and the continuing legacy of postmodernism for design today.
10.30 Morning coffee
11.15 'Interventions in Nature'. Angela Jarman says: ' My work has always been influenced by the natural world, and the biological aspects within it. I'm trying to create pieces which have a sense of beauty, but which also have a quality about them which makes them slightly strange and disturbing, a lurking sense of unease, something uncomfortable, sinister.' In her lecture Angela will offer an insight into her work, her sources of inspiration and her thoughts about glass as a material.
12.15 In a change to the advertised programme, Rupert Faulkner who is Senior Curator, Japan, in the Asian Department of the V&A will speak about the current V&A display 'Kitty and the Bulldog: Lolita fashion and the influence of Britain'. The display explores the way in which British fashion – notably Victoriana, Punk and Gothic – has influenced the development of Japan's 'Lolita' style, a cult fashion movement whose defining feature has been its preoccupation with cuteness, or 'kawaii'. Rupert's publications include Japanese Studio
Crafts: Tradition and the Avant-Garde (1995), with an exhibition of the same title. He is often a jury member at domestic and international ceramics competitions.
13.15 Lunch
14.30 'African Aesthetics: Beauty and Ugliness from Sub-Saharan Perspectives'. Ever since the early 20th century, when the European avant-garde started to show interest, African art has been increasingly appreciated in the West for its aesthetic qualities. But how do Africans themselves evaluate their artistic expressions? What counts as aesthetic quality in the eyes of the original producers and users of the masks and figures that have so fascinated the West? In this lecture we will be considering African conceptions of beauty and the ways these are realised in works of art.
Attention will be given to the relationship between aesthetics and ethics as well as to the religious function of beauty in African cultures. The discussion will also focus on the reverse of beauty, addressing the contexts in which intentionally ugly art forms function in traditional Sub-Saharan African societies. Wilfried van Damme teaches World Art Studies at Leiden Univerisity and African Art at Ghent Univeristy. He is an Extraordinary Professor at Tilburg University.
15.30 'Give and Take'. Jacqueline Poncelet will talk about the need to Give and Take in the context of public art commissions. She will give examples from the different projects she has undertaken over the last 14 years. No two projects have been the same. They have varied in every possible way from the size of the project, the materials, the context, the relationship to the commissioning parties and the time taken to complete each one. The only constant has been the need to Give and Take.
16.30 Tea and Lybster Harbour – for demonstrations of traditional skills and 'Glass Games' events
18.00 Opening of the Scottish Glass Society Exhibition.
20.00 Dinner and Conference Party
9.15 'Fashion loves Art: A Passionate Affair'. Remember Yves Saint Laurent's brightly coloured Mondriaan dresses of 1965 and the 'OpArt' mini dresses of the 1960s? They are vivid illustrations of the centuries-long love affair between fashion and art. Couturiers are past masters at capturing the contemporary 'Zeitgeist' in their designs, while artists have frequently used clothing as a way to give all-round expression to their aesthetic ideas. Madelief Hohé, Curator of the exhibition 'Fashion loves Art: A Passionate Affair', will explore some of the major themes in the show. From the 19th century, contemporary art has been strongly influencing fashion. She will discuss the reasons why that development has played so important a part in shaping identities and, specifically, how it is related to the increasing influence and freedom women now enjoy in society. Madelief Hohé is an art historian, author and curator of the Fashion and Costume Department at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in The Hague. There she has curated a number of exhibitions and has been responsible for the related publications.
10.45 'Conceptual Mingling in the Space of Glass'. Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend says: 'Painting and firing of glass is a very old craft usually associated with stained glass, religious architecture and a narrative tradition. What greater, relatively obscure field of historic convention to transgress! I have always been a painter dealing with the "space of glass" no matter what permutations the work has taken. My conceptual approach to painting on glass is a paradoxical one, a hybridization of unlikely methods, styles, and imagery that reflect on the complexities of life. There is the thought that at a certain point the contradictions portrayed in the work cease to be perceived as conflict and create a logic of their own. This presentation will reveal intention, sources and (probable) meaning in my glass constructions and paintings.'
11.45 'Glass Games' events and demonstrations
14.30 'I am in motion'. Paul Marioni says: 'I have a surrealist's attitude and work with the medium of glass for its distinct ability to capture and manipulate light to create an illusion. Most of my work has been figurative and about human nature: what we do, why we do it, how we ornament ourselves, our heroes, historical moments, humour, sexuality, exotic and/or lost cultures, and a constant questioning. My work is often and purposefully left open to interpretation. I don't want to tell the viewer what to think, but rather cause them to think. Science is used to explain, I believe that art is meant to evoke and engage.'
15.30 Summing-up by Tina Oldknow.
15.45 'Glenfiddich'. Glenfiddich Distillery is a Speyside single malt whisky distillery owned by William Grant & Sons. Founded in 1886 by William Grant, whose ambition was to create the 'best dram in the valley', 120 years later the distillery is still owned and run by the fifth generation of the same family. Glenfiddich malt, in its distinctive triangular bottles, is sold in 180 countries worldwide. Since 1970, the Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards have honoured distinguished writing and broadcasting on food and drink in the UK and, from 2002, Glenfiddich has funded an international Artist-in-Residence programme with participants from all parts of the world. Bert Macor will discuss the distillery's history and dedication to craftsmanship, concluding his talk with a tasting. Dutchman Bert Macor is the Senior Guide of the Glenfiddich visitor centre, and a passionate ambassador and connoisseur of malt whisky. He owned a wine and whisky shop in the Netherlands and has lived in Scotland since 2006.
16.30 Concluding remarks
The 2012 Conference is sponsored by Corning Incorporated, USA
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A Passion for Glass
Don't miss A Passion for Glass forthcoming National Museum of Scotland exhibition featuring works from the private collection of North Lands Directors Alan J Poole and the late Dan Klein.
20 May 2011 – 11 September 2011
National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
A dazzling selection of work from one of the most comprehensive collections of modern glass by artists from across the globe is set to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland. The exhibition A Passion for Glass, opens on Friday 20 May.
The works form part of a collection of modern glass recently gifted to National Museums Scotland by Alan J Poole and the late Dan Klein, world authorities in the field of 20th century studio glass. The studio glass movement began in the mid 20th century following the development of small-scale furnaces that enabled makers to create individual pieces in a studio environment rather than a factory. Dan and Alan were instrumental in setting up North Lands Creative Glass – an internationally recognised centre of excellence established in Lybster, near Caithness in 1996 to stimulate a growing interest in the possibilities of glass as an art form.
The entire collection comprises over 250 pieces and 140 objects from over 100 different makers will be shown as part of the exhibition – the first time that objects from this former private collection will be shown to the public. All of the makers were living and working in the UK or Ireland when their work was acquired.
The objects on display in A Passion for Glass span more than four decades, from the 1960s up to 2009 and show the changes in styles and techniques over that time. The exhibition will also use a number of the objects on show to explain many of the processes involved in studio glass-making, from pâte de verre and blown glass to engraved and cast glass.
Rose Watban, Senior Curator, Applied Art and Design at National Museums Scotland said;
"Dan and Alan had strong links with Scotland so we were delighted when we heard of their intention to donate their private collection to National Museums Scotland. This is a collection of great international significance and includes some exquisite works by a raft of exceptionally gifted makers from across the world. We're confident that our visitors will enjoy the first showing of these beautiful works."
The exhibition is supported by the Patrons of National Museums Scotland.
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North Lands glass collection
You can now see selected pieces from our collection of contemporary glass. We'll be adding to the section as we photograph and catalogue more pieces. We think there are some wonderful works there and hope you enjoy them too.
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FD LABEL-FILE-IN.
01 LABEL-RECORD-IN.
05 NAME-IN PIC X(20).
05 ADDRESS-IN PIC X(20).
05 CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN PIC X(20).

FD LABEL-FILE-OUT.
01 LABEL-RECORD-OUT.
05 LEFT-LABEL-OUT PIC X(20).
05 BLANK-OUT PIC X(15).
05 RIGHT-LABEL-OUT PIC X(20).
05 BLANK-A-OUT PIC X(5).

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS PIC X(3) VALUE 'YES'.

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100-MAIN.
OPEN INPUT LABEL-FILE-IN
OPEN OUTPUT LABEL-FILE-OUT

PERFORM UNTIL ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS = 'NO'
READ LABEL-FILE-IN
AT END
MOVE 'NO' TO ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS
NOT AT END
PERFORM 200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD
END-READ
END-PERFORM

CLOSE LABEL-FILE-IN
CLOSE LABEL-FILE-OUT
STOP RUN.

200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD.
MOVE NAME-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO BLANK-OUT
MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT
WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT.

This produces:
*IAN HENDERSON       1309 SPRINGBANKDETROIT     MI 48024
*JANET LEASA         12700 GRATIOT SWARREN      MI 48077
*COREY HAYES         400 BRUSH ST.  DETROIT     MI 48024
*SCOTT TOKLEY        2003 INDIAN RD.TAYLOR      MI 48075
*JUDY FISHER         2200 WOODWARD ADETROIT     MI 48025
*SHAWN MITCHELL      510 HOLLYWOOD PDETROIT     MI 48025
*MARCUS PILLON       1450 JOY RD    DEARBORN    MI 48077
*BRIAN GUENETTE      456 TRUMBULL STDETROIT     MI 48024
*KIM MIKA            456 LAFAYETTE SDETROIT     MI 48024
*KYLE THOMPSON       1617 MAPLE RD. WARREN      MI 48056
*SUE DONALDSON       11 CASS AVE.   DETROIT     MI 48024

My second attempt:
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. MAIL-LABEL.
*
******************************************************************
* This program prints duplicate side by side mailing labels.
******************************************************************
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
FILE-CONTROL.

SELECT LABEL-FILE-IN
ASSIGN TO 'MAIL-LABEL.SEQ'
ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL.

SELECT LABEL-FILE-OUT
ASSIGN TO 'MAIL-LABEL.RPT'
ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL.

DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.

FD LABEL-FILE-IN.
01 LABEL-RECORD-IN.
05 NAME-IN PIC X(20).
05 ADDRESS-IN PIC X(20).
05 CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN PIC X(20).

FD LABEL-FILE-OUT.
01 LABEL-RECORD-OUT.
05 LEFT-LABEL-OUT PIC X(20).
05 BLANK-OUT PIC X(15).
05 RIGHT-LABEL-OUT PIC X(20).
05 BLANK-A-OUT PIC X(5).

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS PIC X(3) VALUE 'YES'.

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100-MAIN.
OPEN INPUT LABEL-FILE-IN
OPEN OUTPUT LABEL-FILE-OUT

PERFORM UNTIL ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS = 'NO'
READ LABEL-FILE-IN
AT END
MOVE 'NO' TO ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS
NOT AT END
PERFORM 200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD
END-READ
END-PERFORM

CLOSE LABEL-FILE-IN
CLOSE LABEL-FILE-OUT
STOP RUN.

200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD.
MOVE NAME-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT
MOVE NAME-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT
WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT

produced:
*DETROIT     MI 48024               DETROIT     MI 48024
*WARREN      MI 48077               WARREN      MI 48077
*DETROIT     MI 48024               DETROIT     MI 48024
*TAYLOR      MI 48075               TAYLOR      MI 48075
*DETROIT     MI 48025               DETROIT     MI 48025
*DETROIT     MI 48025               DETROIT     MI 48025
*DEARBORN    MI 48077               DEARBORN    MI 48077
*DETROIT     MI 48024               DETROIT     MI 48024
*DETROIT     MI 48024               DETROIT     MI 48024
*WARREN      MI 48056               WARREN      MI 48056
*DETROIT     MI 48024               DETROIT     MI 48024

What I need to end up with is something like:
*IAN HENDERSON                      IAN HENDERSON
*1309 SPRINGBANK ST.                1309 SPRINGBANK ST.
*DETROIT     MI 48024               DETROIT     MI 48024

*JANET LEASA                        JANET LEASA
*12700 GRATIOT ST.                  12700 GRATIOT ST.
*WARREN      MI 48077               WARREN      MI 48077

*COREY HAYES                        COREY HAYES
*400 BRUSH ST.                      400 BRUSH ST.
*DETROIT     MI 48024               DETROIT     MI 48024

*SCOTT TOKLEY                       SCOTT TOKLEY
*2003 INDIAN RD.                    2003 INDIAN RD.
*TAYLOR      MI 48075               TAYLOR      MI 48075

What's wrong with my code?

A: Normally, I wouldn't give this much help for homework but, since you've put a fair bit of effort into it already and you're unlikely to find many of us dinosaurs here, I'll help you out.
Your problem is here (ignore the things in parentheses on the right, they're just comments to help you out):
200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD.
    MOVE NAME-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT
    MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT                (overwrite)
    MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT         (overwrite)
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT
    MOVE NAME-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT
    MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT               (overwrite)
    MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT        (overwrite)
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT
    WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT                           (only wrote one line)

This is the paragraph that processes one record. What you are doing here is putting three things into both the left and right output sections (so that the first two are being overwritten).
What you need is a toggle variable to select whether you're processing a left value or a right value, and the ability to store the left data so you can output them both when you process the right data, something like:
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
    01 ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS     PIC X(3) VALUE 'YES'.
    01 DOING-LEFT                 PIC X(3) VALUE 'YES'.
    01 LEFT-NAME-IN               PIC X(20).
    01 LEFT-ADDRESS-IN            PIC X(20).
    01 LEFT-CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN     PIC X(20).

Then modify your record processing code thus (check the IF syntax, it's been a while since I cut any COBOL code):
200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD.
    IF DOING-LEFT = 'YES' THEN
        PERFORM 201-PROCESS-LEFT-RECORD
    ELSE
        PERFORM 202-PROCESS-RIGHT-RECORD.

201-PROCESS-LEFT-RECORD.
    MOVE NAME-IN TO LEFT-NAME-IN.                      (just store it)
    MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO LEFT-ADDRESS-IN.
    MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO LEFT-CITY-STATE-ZIP.
    MOVE 'NO' TO DOING-LEFT.                           (and toggle to right)

202-PROCESS-RIGHT-RECORD.
    MOVE LEFT-NAME-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT.               (first line, both sides)
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT.
    MOVE NAME-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT.
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT.
    WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT.

    MOVE LEFT-ADDRESS-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT.            (second line, both sides)
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT.
    MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT.
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT.
    WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT.

    MOVE LEFT-CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT.     (third line, both sides)
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT.
    MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT.
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT.
    WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT.

    MOVE 'YES' TO DOING-LEFT.                          (toggle back to left)

Then, at the end, after the file has been fully read, you need to detect if you've populated the left data (i.e., there was an odd number of input lines). This will be the case if DOING-LEFT is set to 'NO'.
I'll leave that to you but it involves moving the left data and populating the right data with spaces, in a manner very similar to 202-PROCESS-RIGHT-RECORD above (nudge, nudge,wink, wink).

And, now that I've had a good look at the desired output, it appears you actually need two copies of each address on both the left and the right. Are you sure that's the way you want to do it since it's a pretty unusual requirement for a mailing label program?
In any case, I'll leave all that code in above since it's a good way to do the one-each method of mailing labels but the code you seem to need is much simpler, a very slight variation of the 202-PROCESS-RIGHT-RECORD paragraph.
Forget all the extra working storage I mentioned, and just change 200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD to:
200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD.
    MOVE NAME-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT.
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT.
    MOVE NAME-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT.
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT.
    WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT.

    MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT.
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT.
    MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT.
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT.
    WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT.

    MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT.
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT.
    MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT.
    MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT.
    WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT.

A: I think your second attempt was nearly correct. As Paxdiablo pointed out in
his answer, the problem you have is overwriting data.
If I understand your problem correctly, you read in a single record
containing a complete address (Name, Address, City-State-Zip) and have to
print out two copies of it side by side.
Notice that for every line you read, you need to print 3. Also notice that you
only have one output record buffer. This means you can only process one output line at a
time. The solution is to move each address component into the left and right hand side
of the ouput line, output the line and then move on to the next address component. Since
there are 3 address components, you end up printing 3 lines for each one read.
Try modifying paragraph 200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD as follows
200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD.
MOVE NAME-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT
MOVE NAME-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT
WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT

MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT
MOVE ADDRESS-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT
WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT

MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO LEFT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-OUT
MOVE CITY-STATE-ZIP-IN TO RIGHT-LABEL-OUT
MOVE SPACES TO BLANK-A-OUT
WRITE LABEL-RECORD-OUT

This takes one input line, produces 3 output lines. You might want to output
a fourth blank line to separate addresses (as illustrated in your sample output - I will
let you figure out how to get that done).
I think Paxdiablo's solution solved a slightly different problem
where you would be printing one copy of each address but printing addresses 2 across.
BTW... Despite the number of disparaging "drive by" comments your question got, COBOL
is still actively used in some segments of this industry.

A: Your question is already well answered about the overwrites, but I would add two things that will greatly improve your Cobol code in readability and maintainability.
You are using a Cobol '74 meme here with the ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS variable and moving 'YES' and 'NO' literals to it.  This is very brittle and prone to breakage.  A much nicer, less brittle, more readable approach is to use the conditionals that Cobol provides, also known as 88's:
  05 Filler          Pic x(1) Value 'Y'.
    88 More-Records           Value 'Y'.
    88 No-More-Records        Value 'N'.

You can test it with:
 Perform until No-More-Records

And trigger it with:
 Set No-More-Records to true

This does several things for you.

*

*Nobody will ever accidentally maintain one of your literals to 'no' instead of 'NO' or otherwise munge up your source code.  This can be a real problem on older systems that make assumptions about upper/lower case for their users and their attached terminals.

*Nobody can move 'BOB' to your flag because you didn't give it a name, you made it filler. They have to go way out of their way to assign to that variable instead of using the condition names.  And if they are capable enough to go that far out of their way, they are capable enough to know why they SHOULDN'T do it.

*It gives your loop control and file control checks meaningful names.  Granted, ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS 'YES'/'NO' is pretty meaningful, but in true production code you will encounter many different conditions, often with unusual names and twisted logic behind them, sometimes 'YES'/'NO' isn't as clear as it could be.  Giving a nice, 30 character long condition name is much easier for the programmers that will follow you to do maintenance.
The other thing you do is use the paragraph numbering system.  It was a poorly though out idea back when graph paper flow charts were all the documentation you had and source control was not yet a twinkle in anyones eye.
100-MAIN.
200-PROCESS-ONE-RECORD.

It doesn't really buy you anything, and it comes with several downsides.
With modern source control, changes to all the other paragraph numbers that are not germane to the specific change you are making will stand out like a sore thumb.  (Assuming anyone ever renumbers their paragraphs when their logic changes, which they never do)
It encourages really crappy paragraph names.  Consider this, perfectly valid under the paragraph numbering system:
  100-Read-File
  200-Read-File
  300-Read-File
  110-Write-File
  210-Write-File
  310-Write-File

We obviously have three different files, or at least three combinations of files and read types, but absolutely no indication of what is different by the paragraph name.  It is also prone to the cut&paste error where someone copies a paragraph, renumbers it, and doesn't fully change the content to hit the new file or set the new conditional flags for the separate file, thus creating subtle and hard to find bugs.
A much better approach is:
  Read-Master-File
  Read-Transaction-File
  Write-Master-File
  Write-Transaction-File
  Write-Log-File

That is easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Remember you write source code for other humans to read, the compiler will take any sort of crap, but your maintenance is 90% of a programs lifecycle and that means other people* will spend ten times as much time trying to understand what you wrote as you spent writing it.  Make it easy for them.

*

*Very often, this will be you, but you will not recognize the code you wrote six months ago...


▪ 確信買入 --> 買入 --> 沽售 --> ??
信義玻璃 0868 go go go !
保利協鑫 3800 go go go !
417的業績亦比我預期差, 但其核心盈利PE 仍比116,590 低得多, 因此我覺得此水位是有支持的.
Your guy always sold when drop and bought when price up, that is totally a trend follower rather than a value investment. If you have confident in the company, you should buy when drop. If you don't have confident, then why buy it when price up?
我個人覺得熱門股需要一段時間才會重新上路,現時都是少買為妙, 零售股剛開始比番人留意. 這裏開始有人講 375, 448, 178, 可惜已經比人慢了15-30%.
大前提一定要該股票基本因素不變, 好似一些基金洗倉就要小心例如比亞迪, 330 and 3800.
One of the best example, China Life in the first day trading was about $5-$6. Not long later, it jumped to $28 and then adjusted back to $23. But, the fundamental not change, so kept until over $40 in 牛市3期 when PE went to abnormal price (over 30), then sold it. Without any cut loss and buy back, you can earn 8x.
金融海嘯後, 市場越來越難打, 作為散戶, 根本無法知道企業嘅真正價值, 唯有盡力了解FA, 再輔以TA. 見佢跌, 例如跌到5%左右, 就要思考係自然調整, 定係買入時嘅假設係錯, 再跌到8%-10%, 斬; 再跌多啲都唔走, 真係變長揸. 散戶資金有限, 多極, 咪又係百幾二百萬, 與其死坐, 不如移去其他機會. 仲有, 當長揸一隻唔知幾時見家鄉嘅股票, 對投資心理會有相當大嘅負面影響, 例如, 買中隻股票, 你都寧願賺少啲都要走.
如果2628一上市就買, 2007年10月30日前放, 梗係成功嘅價值投資者啦; 如果係錯誤了解佢嘅價值, 以為佢3年後見$100 (2007年好多人&專家, 包括林森池都係咁講), 當之後$40開始買, 買到今年 (假設買果個人依然相信中國人口紅利&全國最大保險公司), 而家點呢?
實不相瞞, 我由2009年開始月供2628, 越供越唔對路, 供到舊年第3季停供, 今年年頭走晒, free留返D錢出來, 尋找其他機會.
Can someone with good FA skill comment on (0086-SHK), it is dubious why Francis Leung's private fund invested 19% of SHK, what is he after? Will UA Finance (China)(Whole subsidary co. of SHK) become the growth engine (another form of load shark), if so, will profit be multifold?
2. 小注買入熱炒行業好似868,2128,8207等,搏等運到,但買入時間好重要,要比別人早,追入就not my cup of tea.
73 closely related to 682, see greatsoup.


text:
A Stillness of Strangers:
Ewan Whyte's Entertainment
David Swartz
Ewan Whyte, Entertainment
Ottawa: Exile Editions, 2015.
Ewan Whyte's first volume of poetry, Entrainment, demonstrates masterful craftsmanship and maturity. It contains 28 poems, some of which span a couple of lines ("Graffiti for the Palatine") while others run for as long as four pages ("Guiraut Riquier: The Last Troubadour"). The collection as a whole is tightly knit, yet without a systematic philosophy. It's poetry for the sake of poetry, or so it seems at first glance. Though well planned and meticulously chiselled, it rolls along like a train to nowhere.
What lights up the pages of Whyte's book is his personality, his attitude and idiosyncratic style, his razor-sharp concision, biting irony and humour. In fact, Ewan succeeds as an original poet by way of humour. He creates a comic effect by exaggerating the distance between ourselves and others while at the same time presenting a common ground. Characters overlaid with Quixotic humour include the writer himself. But there is something more going on, the idea that the commonplace is worthy of poetry, and full of beauty and symbolism, too.
Most significantly, the poet reveals how we confront ourselves through others, that is, through strangers. In "Landscape from the Back of a Train" Whyte writes:
Unrecoverables spouting madness
Things outside us that are somehow not so far away as that.
Here he draws attention to the deep connection between internal and external reality. In poems such as "On Trying to Sit Alone on a Bus or the Medusa of Caravaggio (For Hisako)," Whyte provides us with a rare insight into human nature through his reactions to a stranger he encounters on a train:
A self-possessed gaze into a firing squad will get me
Some solitude. I notice on the edge of my blurred stare,
A hideous passenger hovering between the two remaining
Seats; I wish I could instantly drool to affirm my solitude;
After a minute's indecision he sits beside me;
I can smell alcohol through the stench of his body odour.
He is a transsexual incorporation of the Medusa of Caravaggio
His blonde dreadlocks flopping around his shoulders…
In five minutes, he is in an open mouthed snore…
Dramatic portrayals like these are unforgettable. Other memorable impressions include "Bag Jesus on a Dirt Road," where the new saviour wears plastic bags, preaching on a mound of garbage, or "Street Preacher on an Overpass" where:
in accidental parody of his modelled hero,
he pauses now and then, perhaps trying to think
of something profound to say, before he
continues with his garbled "TV preacher" style epithets–
but it is just the gesture of his elevated form
in space which is the essence of a monumental
religious act.
Inventiveness, resistance and pithy original impressions illuminate Whyte's poetry, as does the uncanny resemblance between the profane and the sacred ("You're about as hot as Jesus in lingerie"), between ourselves and others.
The Huygens entrainment phenomenon refers to the seventeenth-century Dutch physicist's observation that two pendulum clocks would fall "into synchrony" when hung on the same wall. For Whyte, Entrainment is a poetry of awareness and impression, resistance, sardonic irony and edge which envisions how things normally separate from one another are actually subtly related. When taken to the extreme as it is in Whyte's book, this subtle relation becomes comical, while providing insight and transparency with respect to the poet's role in society as a bridge between the one and the many, or oneself and the other. In the poet's experience, distance is nearness. Despite people's incommensurable differences, we're all parts of the same person and the best way to imagine our integration within the larger whole is to see ourselves confronted by what we fear most on the very same page.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, David Swartz has resided in Lisbon, Portugal since 2013, where he teaches English at the New University of Lisbon.
12015David SwartzEwan WhyteExile Editions


text:
S. Korea to travel to Pyongyang for World Cup qualifier via Beijing on match's eve
By Yonhap
Published : Oct 10, 2019 - 19:52 Updated : Oct 10, 2019 - 19:55
The South Korean men's national football team will travel to Pyongyang for a World Cup qualifier against North Korea via Beijing on the eve of the match, the sport's governing body here said Thursday.
The Korea Football Association (KFA) announced the itinerary for the Taeguk Warriors for the World Cup qualifying match scheduled for next Tuesday. Coached by Paulo Bento, South Korea will fly to Beijing on Sunday and stay there overnight, and then fly to Pyongyang on Monday.
The KFA said it had proposed crossing the border by land, before settling on the Beijing route.
The KFA also said North Korea has yet to grant visits by South Korean pool reporters and broadcasting crew. North Korea's football federation told the KFA, through the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), that authorizing travel by anyone other than football players was outside its jurisdiction.
Earlier Thursday, the unification ministry in Seoul said the highly anticipated match was unlikely to be broadcast live, citing lack of progress in relevant discussions. (Yonhap)


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