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AJ's Army
The Quetta Cup ~ We're All AJ's Army!
The mission of AJ's Army is to help provide the long term financial and emotional support to the Quetta Family, as AJ focuses on his recovery from a severe spinal cord injury sustained on January 26, 2021 while playing hockey for the Bishop Feehan High School (Attleboro, MA) varsity hockey team.
With a quick engaging smile, it is immediately evident that AJ is a charming, bright young man. Flanked by two sisters on either side, AJ is known for his quick wit and sarcastic personality that friends simply describe as being "next level." AJ is full of energy, usually going warp speed and is always "up for anything."
For those of us who are very close to AJ, we see the truly kind-hearted young man that all of us dream our children will turn into. He is the spark who lights the flame of friendship with anyone he meets.
Although he always comes to practice with a smile on his face and an upbeat attitude, he is a fierce competitor that you will always want on your side.
AJ's other love is simply jumping on a boat and throwing a line in the water to fish. The one thing that rivals the passion AJ has for his sports is the love he has for his family and his friends.
It is important for AJ to know as we start this journey with him, AJ's Army will always be on his line!
New England Sports Village
1395A Commerce Way
During the 2021 Quetta Cup, the New England Sports Village in Attleboro announced it will rename its premiere rink the "AJ Quetta Rink." There will be a dedication ceremony in December.
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var logic = require('../bundle.js');
var test = require('tap').test;

test('simple logic OR', function(t) {
  var src = [
    'or',
    { expected: 7, operator: 'gt', value: 5 },
    { expected: 5, operator: 'eq', value: 5 },
    { expected: 5, operator: 'lt', value: 5 },
    { expected: 5, operator: 'lte', value: 5 }
  ];

  t.equal(logic(src), true);

  t.end();
});

test('simple logic AND', function(t) {
  var src = [
    'and',
    { expected: 7, operator: 'gt', value: 5 },
    { expected: 5, operator: 'eq', value: 5 },
    { expected: 5, operator: 'lt', value: 5 },
    { expected: 5, operator: 'lte', value: 5 }
  ];

  t.equal(logic(src), false);

  t.end();
});

test('check all handlers', function(t) {
  var src = [
    { expected: 1, operator: 'eq', value: 1 },
    { expected: 2, operator: 'neq', value: 1 },
    { expected: 5, operator: 'gt', value: 6 },
    { expected: 5, operator: 'gte', value: 5 },
    { expected: 2, operator: 'lt', value: 1 },
    { expected: 1, operator: 'lte', value: 1 },
    { expected: 'hello', operator: 'contain', value: 'hello world' },
    { expected: 'foo', operator: 'notContain', value: 'bar' },
    { expected: 'Hello', operator: 'startWith', value: 'Hello world' },
    { expected: 'world', operator: 'endWith', value: 'Hello world' },
    { expected: '...', operator: 'regexp', value: 'abc' },
    { expected: 'a', operator: 'includes', value: ['a', 'b', 'c'] },
    { expected: 'a', operator: 'nincludes', value: ['b', 'c'] },
    { expected: 1, operator: 'eq', value: [1] },
    { expected: 2, operator: 'neq', value: [1] },
    { expected: 5, operator: 'gt', value: [6] },
    { expected: 5, operator: 'gte', value: [5] },
    { expected: 2, operator: 'lt', value: [1] },
    { expected: 1, operator: 'lte', value: [1] },
    { expected: 'hello', operator: 'contain', value: ['hello world'] },
    { expected: 'foo', operator: 'notContain', value: ['bar'] },
    { expected: 'Hello', operator: 'startWith', value: ['Hello world'] },
    { expected: 'world', operator: 'endWith', value: ['Hello world'] },
    { expected: '...', operator: 'regexp', value: ['abc'] }
  ];

  src.forEach((item, i) => {
    var res = logic(['and', item]);

    t.equal(res, true, '#' + i + ': ' + item.operator, {
      res, item
    });
  });

  t.end();
});

test('check arrays', function(t) {
  t.equal(logic(['and', { expected: 1, operator: 'eq', value: [1,2,3] }]), false, 'every 1');
  t.equal(logic(['and', { expected: 1, operator: 'eq', value: [1] }]), true, 'every 2');
  t.equal(logic(['and', { expected: 1, operator: 'eq', value: [1, 1, 1] }]), true, 'every 3');
  t.equal(logic(['and', { expected: 1, operator: 'eq', value: [1,1,3], getResult: arr => arr.every(v => !!v.result) }]), false, 'custom result 1');
  t.equal(logic(['and', { expected: 1, operator: 'eq', value: [2,1,3], getResult: arr => !!arr[1].result }]), true, 'custom result 2');

  t.end();
});

test('check NaN', function(t) {
  t.equal(logic(['or', { expected: NaN, operator: 'includes', value: 'lalala' }]), false, 'includes is NaN');
  t.equal(logic(['or', { expected: NaN, operator: 'nincludes', value: 'lalala' }]), true, 'nincludes is NaN');

  t.end();
});

test('check includes', function(t) {
  t.equal(logic(['or', { expected: 'abc', operator: 'includes', value: ['xxx', 'abc', 'yyy'] }]), true, 'includes true');
  t.equal(logic(['or', { expected: 'abc', operator: 'includes', value: ['xx', 'xabcx', 'yy'] }]), false, 'includes false');

  t.equal(logic(['or', { expected: 'abc', operator: 'nincludes', value: ['xx', 'xabcx', 'yy'] }]), true, 'nincludes true');
  t.equal(logic(['or', { expected: 'abc', operator: 'nincludes', value: ['xxx', 'abc', 'yyy'] }]), false, 'nincludes false');

  t.end();
});

test('check undefined', function(t) {
  t.equal(logic(['or', { expected: 'abc', operator: 'neq', value: undefined }]), false, 'neq undefined');

  t.end();
});

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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti il Tiller Futsal nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 2011-2012.

Stagione
Il Vadmyra, neopromosso in Futsal Eliteserie, ha affrontato il primo campionato nella massima divisione locale nella stagione 2011-2012. La squadra ha chiuso l'annata al 3º posto finale.

Rosa

Risultati

Eliteserie

Girone di andata

Girone di ritorno

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Stagione 2011-2012 delle squadre di calcio a 5

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Feb. 9, 2010, noon
From Ken Doctor's "Newsonomics": How paidContent found its niche
By Ken Doctor @kdoctor Feb. 9, 2010, noon
[Here's another excerpt from Ken Doctor's new book, Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get. Today, Ken's Q&A with Rafat Ali, who runs media-world must-read paidContent. —Josh]
Rafat Ali is founder, publisher and editor of ContentNext Media. Reuters described its success well: "ContentNext's flagship paidContent, founded in 2002, has quickly established itself as a must-read among executives in the media and digital media sector." PaidContent has indeed a daily stop for those involved in the business of news, media, and entertainment industries. In addition, the company runs parallel sites for the United Kingdom and India and around mobile content.
Q: PaidContent filled a niche no one had previously seen as clearly as you did. How did you see the niche, define it, and make sure you got it as focused as you could?
A: This was the depths of Internet recession in 2002 in New York City, and I was looking for a way to raise my profile, and this seemed like a good way to showcase my skills as an online journalist covering online media and the Internet. I was aiming for a new job with the likes of WSJ and CNET then. Of course, no one was hiring in those days, much less hiring an online journalist covering online media.
I was working for what then was Silicon Alley Daily, the online and email remnant of the magazine Silicon Alley Reporter. I joined it right after the print magazine closed, and online and the email newsletter remained. There, after a few months of working, I was the last man standing, sort of, as the company started to lay off other journalists, and I learned to do a lot more with a lot less, including editing my own stories.
The daily coverage meant I saw the trend: Online advertising had tanked, and a definite trend toward premium and subscription content online, with sites such as NYTimes.com, TheStreet.com, Salon.com and others experimenting with it. The idea — even then — was that this wasn't the only way in a downturn, but that it was essential to experiment with all sorts of revenue models, and having multiple legs meant overall some would work better than others as economic cycles came through.
As the economy came back, so did advertising online, and the paid content trend went on the backburner for most of the online publishers. The key for us was focus: covering the money flow for online media, where it went in and how it came out. As long as we were at the intersection of technology and how it affected the business models and financing of digital media, we were safe as a viable business. PaidContent began covering all the ways in which content gets paid for, and covering it across all sectors and geographies. That also meant defining "content" in as broad a manner as possible, across tradition and new media, entertainment and information sectors, with the focus being on content aimed at and generated by individual consumers.
Q: You've combined business coverage of entertainment and journalism businesses. What major idea should news publishers take away about the relevance of the entertainment business to their own business models?
A: Entertainment was the lowest-hanging fruit, and the first to be affected by the changes in digital media, as consumer consumption patterns changed. I saw and covered firsthand the decimation of the music industry with the advent of Napster and realized that this was going to happen to the news business very soon. Both these legacy businesses were built on the economics of scarcity, something that digital media did away with. Also, packaging as defined top-down didn't matter anymore in entertainment, as the remix culture took hold, and the same became true very soon for the journalism and news businesses as well. What is different is that great investigative journalism has a lot more civic value than great entertainment, and funding that requires a lot more creativity than publishers have displayed till now.
Q: What's the moment when the lightbulb went off on how the economics of this new digital business would be radically different from legacy publishing?
A: It would be clichéd to say it was the advent of blogging, but, for me, it was when Blogger.com launched in late nineties. That showed how easy it was to publish, and how it could be used to deliver news, opinion, and aggregation in a very efficient way. Also, a few years later, it was the advent of RSS feeds and newsreaders, and how news packaging as defined by publishers went away. It really defined how personalized interest areas defined by users would be the way going forward. Monetizing this age of dispersed media was very different, and was on a very different scale and margins, than legacy. The cost of experimenting with any of these innovations came down dramatically, and publishers had to learn how to do a lot more with a lot less, and at the same time, competing with a lot more sources online.
Q: What lesson in digital publishing do you wished you'd learned faster?
A: I underestimated the value of comments when I was building the business, back in 2002–2003, and adding community later became a lot more difficult for us down the line. For us, it was about giving the news as accurately and efficiently as we could, and my contention was that our expert readers could form their own conclusions and opinions on it. We did have pithy analysis and opinion occasionally, and continue to have it, but later on we learned that a heavy mix of all of it is what the users wanted. In some senses, we were top-down too, and that we should have rectified sooner. Also, blogging in a specific trade vertical means you will hit a scaling issue (getting big enough, fast enough) sooner or later, and that means building replicable models in other verticals (content niches) too. We also should have learned that lesson sooner.
From Newsonomics by Ken Doctor. Copyright 2010 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin's Press, LLC.
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In 2006 I had just finished 6 months of chemo for Stage 3B cancer.  It had been a long winter in Minnesota, and during my chemo treatments, I'd been inside for most of the winter, watching movies, reading, writing a little, and doing a lot of self reflection.  When spring came I knew I needed to get back outdoors in nature. I needed to get MOVING.
My husband and I decided to head west to Glacier – a park we'd wanted to visit for years. I was THRILLED!
Our first hike was through the Trail of the Cedars and on up to Avalanche Lake. We'd been hikers all our lives, but I now was dealing with the lingering side effects of chemo: neuropathy in my feet and legs that caused burning feelings, and sensations running up and down my calves that were similar to when you hit your crazy bone. Along with the neuropathy was the extreme fatigue that came with an experimental drug I was still on for another 6 months. I really wanted to do this hike, but didn't know if I could.
The climb along Avalanche Creek that winds through the Trail of the Cedars and then on up to the alpine lake at the creek's source was pretty difficult for me. I wasn't used to the altitude and over the long winter had lost any aerobic capacity I once had. I was breathing HARD, and my legs and feet were in pain. But I kept going a little at a time. People nonchalantly passed me practically skipping up the trail in flip flops! But i decided to take the advice I'd "heard" in the cedar grove… just keep going take it slow and easy.
I will always be extremely grateful for that week in Glacier. Both my husband and I think it's our favorite national park… the peace and solitude and awesome beauty transformed me – gave me back my life and gave me hope. That was ten years ago. I'm still cancer free and hiking whenever I can!


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Everything you always wanted to know about Canadian politics
While relief from our current political unpleasantries is still 14 months away, Canada is having its big election in about three weeks. (Fun fact: "Canada" is a French word meaning "dirty fries.")
Canada's 2015 campaign cycle was the lengthiest in its history: 11 weeks! This is in stark contrast to the U.S. election model, whose length is determined by capitalist television criteria, and can be summed up by the phrase, "As long as it sells frozen pizza rolls."
The Conservative Party is currently in power in Canada, followed by the New Democratic Party (actual slogan: "Ready for change." They have evidently been ready for change for a long time. The NDP was established in 1961.)
The third major party, and the one which was in power for fully two-thirds of the 20th Century, is called the Liberal Party (actual slogan: "Real change." I am fairly sure that, by law, a political party's slogan must contain at least one of the words "ready," "real" or "change.")
And sure, you've got your Independent Party ("Real independent") and your Green Party ("Real green"), but every country's got those. Canada, however, has the only Rhinoceros Party ("Real horny," I'm guessing.) It was established in 2006, and in only nine years has managed to not win any seats anywhere. It has promised not to keep any of its promises if elected, which nobody has to worry about them not keeping. If only we could get those kinds of assurances from American politicians.
If elected, the Rhino Party promises to:
Give lottery winners a Senate seat
Promote "higher education" by building taller schools
Nationalize Tim Hortons (a kind of Canadian Dunkin' Donuts)
Repeal the law of gravity
Canada has an Animal Alliance Party (hopefully they are allied with some meat eaters, which would certainly spice up the door-to-door campaigning), a Marijuana Party, and a Pirate Party. Yarr, dude, these do not appear to have slogans. Or voters.
Canadians have the reputation for getting along, and yet Canada not only has a Communist Party but a Marxist-Leninist Party as well. They could not agree on enough to merge the two! This is the political equivalent of building a combo Denny's/Coco's. Oh, Canada.
Best of all, in Canada, political parties get reimbursed by the government for 50% of their election expenses! I had always suspected Canadians had a sense of humor because of their flag, but that cements it.
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"A 30-year perspective (1975-2005) into the changing landscape of patie" by Kevin C. Floyd, Jorge L. Yarzebski et al.
BACKGROUND: The effects of lifestyle changes and evolving treatment practices on coronary disease incidence rates, demographic and clinical profile, and the short-term outcomes of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction have not been well characterized. The purpose of this study was to examine multidecade-long trends (1975-2005) in the incidence rates, demographic and clinical characteristics, treatment practices, and hospital outcomes of patients hospitalized with an initial acute myocardial infarction from a population-based perspective.
METHODS AND RESULTS: Residents of the Worcester, Mass, metropolitan area (median age, 37 years; 89% white) hospitalized with an initial acute myocardial infarction (n=8898) at all greater-Worcester medical centers during 15 annual periods between 1975 and 2005 comprised the sample of interest. The incidence rates of initial acute myocardial infarction were lower in 2005 (209 of 100,000 population) than in 1975 (277 of 100,000), although these trends varied inconsistently over time. Patients hospitalized during the most recent study years were significantly older (mean age, 64 years in 1975; 71 years in 2005), more likely to be women (38% in 1975; 48% in 2005), and have a greater prevalence of comorbidities. Hospitalized patients were increasingly more likely to receive effective cardiac medications and coronary interventional procedures for the period under investigation. Hospital survival rates improved significantly over time (81% survived in 1975; 91% survived in 2005), although varying trends were observed in the occurrence of clinically important complications.
CONCLUSIONS: The results of this community-wide investigation provide insight into the changing magnitude, characteristics, management practices, and outcomes of patients hospitalized with a first myocardial infarction.
Floyd, Kevin C.; Yarzebski, Jorge L.; Spencer, Frederick A.; Lessard, Darleen M.; Dalen, James E.; Alpert, Joseph S.; Gore, Joel M.; and Goldberg, Robert J., "A 30-year perspective (1975-2005) into the changing landscape of patients hospitalized with initial acute myocardial infarction: Worcester Heart Attack Study" (2009). Open Access Articles. 2119.


Here, SEA LIFE continue to exploit and consumerise animal life, turning beauty into a commodity to be gawped at and pointed at under blazing artificial light. In the SEA LIFE reality, animal lives are used as hotel window dressing, as spectacle, whose value is to decorate like living wallpaper. It is an out-dated and grotesque feature of their commercial ambition: to turn every aquatic being into a living commodity wherever profit can be gleaned.
Please help us end this myth!


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Q: How do we find out why priority inheritance happened in VxWorks? We have one task who State is Ready+I . Can we find which task is it waiting for to release all semaphores? This is pre-6.0 vxworks

A: If you can get a backtrace from the task, you should see it blocked on some kind of system entity, e.g., a semaphore.  You can look at the arg list printed in the backtrace, and then use semShow from the C shell to get information about that semaphore.  Other system synchronization entities offer similar *Show routines.
Presuming that the entity supports the concept of an "owner", semShow should display the TID of the owner.

A: Under the older, Tornado-based systems, the WindView tool will allow you to see the relationship between tasks over time. WindView can show all your task state transitions, interrupts, semaphore operations, etc.
For newer, Workbench-based systems, the same tool is now called System Viewer.
WindView/System Viewer is the deluxe way to investigate any problem you are having with task states and how they got that way.

A: If I understand your question, you have a task that is inheriting the priority of some other task and you are having trouble identifying this other task.  I don't recall if the i WindSh command prints the inherited priority but if it does that might give you a clue about which of the pended tasks you should look at.  Once you've narrowed it down to a couple tasks you should be able to use the tw command to print information on what object a task is pended upon.
On a side note, why are you concerned about priority inheritance?  After all priority inheritance isn't a problem, rather it is the solution to priority inversion.

A: If your task is READY+I, i don't think it is waiting for semaphores anymore. It is waiting to access the CPU. You must have a higher priority task running that is preventing your READY+I task from running.

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Branded FMCG business with exciting plans for the future. They manufacture a range of instantly recognisable products and due to a promotion, they now seek an National Account Executive to manage customers within the Symbol & Convenience Channel working alongside the Senior National Account Manager.
To work as part of a small business unit, developing and sustaining profitable sales for the company within your portfolio of accounts.
You will be given a range of smaller National/Regional accounts, managing the P&L and supporting the Senior Team with other National Accounts when needed.
You'll be developing and implementing a strategic plan for a designated sector. You need to work cross functionally with other areas of sales will be supported by a strong commitment to team working.
Planning, formulation of your account portfolio, looking at strategy in line with the company plan, sector and customer needs.
Building of account plans in line with brand/channel strategies by product, volume and revenue identifying promotional and development costs.
Developing account propositions in conjunction with Trade and Consumer Marketing.
Identify customer needs and tailoring propositions to meet these needs – category approach to product range and development program – agree, implement and evaluate with customer.
Communicate all areas of activity to Field Sales Team (where relevant) and to all other relevant personnel.
Confident presentation style, well organised and comfortable working with data / analysis.
Minimum of 2 year's experience within an FMCG Account Manager position, confident, articulate looking for a move into National Accounts.


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János Kornai
János Kornai, until 1945 János Kornhauser, (born 21 January 1928) is a Hungarian economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states.
(1928-01-21) 21 January 1928
School or
Institutional economics[1]
Theory of two-level planning
Shortage economy
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Kornai studied philosophy for two years at the Pázmány Péter University (now called Eötvös Loránd University) in Budapest. He gained his knowledge in economics on his own, and holds a candidate degree in the field from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He wrote that he chose to become an economist after reading Marx's Das Kapital.[2] He started working on Szabad Nép, the Hungarian Communist Party newspaper, and rose to the rank of editor of news related to the economy, but after a few years of work, he was fired for lack of Communist convictions in April 1955.[2]
From 1958 onward Kornai received many invitations to visit foreign institutions, but he was denied a passport by the Hungarian authorities and was not allowed to travel until 1963, after political restrictions had begun to ease.
From 1967 until 1992 he was a Research Professor at the Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He became a corresponding member (1976), then a member (1982) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Kornai joined the faculty of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, in 1986 and was named the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics in 1992. He retired from Harvard in 2002. In the same year, he became a Permanent Fellow of Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study. He is a Distinguished Research Professor at Central European University, and since 2011 also as a professor emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest.
He was a Member of the Board of the Hungarian National Bank (central bank) until 2001. He has authored many economics-related books and papers.
In the late 1950s, he was among those who initiated the use of mathematical methods in economic planning. He elaborated the theory of two-level planning with Tamás Lipták and directed the first large-scale, economy-wide, multi-level planning project. Professor Kornai's early work Overcentralization (1953) created a stir in the West and conveyed for the first time his disillusionment with communist central planning.
His 1971 book Anti-Equilibrium criticizes neoclassical economics, particularly general equilibrium theory.
His 1980 book Economics of Shortage is perhaps his most influential work. In it, Kornai argued that the chronic shortages seen throughout Eastern Europe in the late 1970s and which continued during the 1980s were not the consequences of planners' errors or the wrong pricing, but systemic flaws. In his 1988 book The Socialist System, The Political Economy of Communism, he argued that the command economy based on unchallenged control by a Marxist–Leninist communist party leads to a predominance of bureaucratic administration of state firms, through centralized planning and management, and the use of administrative pricing to eliminate the effects of the market. This leads to individual responses to the incentives of this system, ultimately causing observable and inescapable economic phenomena known as the shortage economy. Kornai is highly skeptical of efforts to create market socialism.
His later works, including The Road to a Free Economy (1990), Highway and Byways (1995), Struggle and Hope (1997) and Welfare in Transition (2001), deal with macroeconomic aspects and the interaction between politics and economic policy in the period of economic transition in the post-Soviet states. He later led a comprehensive research project, Honesty and Trust in the Light of Post-Socialist Transition at Collegium Budapest.
Kornai is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[3] In 2016 he was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.[4]
In 2007 Kornai published a book of memoirs, By Force of Thought, covering his research and the social and political environments in which he did his work. A new ten-volume edition of Kornai's major works began to appear in Hungarian from a Bratislava publisher in 2012.[5]
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Q: Assembly - what should be the output I am an absolute beginer when it comes to assembly. I try to figure out what should be the output of the following:
Jan dd 255,256
Feb dw 16, 17, 18, 19
Mar db 8, 9, 10, 11

Sub edi, Mar - Feb
mov ebx, Jan[edi]
add bl, Mar

So the Sub edi, Mar - Feb will subtract first elements from Mar and Feb arrays giving value of -8 at edi... But then what will be moved to Jan[edi] ?? And what will be added to Mar?
Could you give me an answer to that exercise WITH explanation. And please forgive me lack of basic assembly knowledge.

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Sub edi, Mar - Feb will subtract first elements from Mar and Feb arrays

It cannot do that. The assembler is not allowed to compute it at assemble time (the stuff in memory is variable, so the result, well, varies), and there is no instruction that can "double-subtract". What it actually does is

*

*as assemble time, compute the difference between the address Mar (which is an address, it is not a bunch of numbers, just the place where they start) and the address Feb. There are 4 words in between, size 8 in total, so the assembler will emit the machine code for sub edi, 8.

*at run time, 8 will be subtracted from edi.

What's in edi though? Well who knows. But now it's 8 less. mov ebx, Jan[edi] which incidentally means mov ebx, [edi + Jan], so hopefully edi is something sensible, 0 or 4 would make the most sense.


We were sent this article today from two different people, so we're guessing it would seem we are destined to write about it. Perhaps the senders would like for us to put in our two cents about it, after all we live here and know pretty much if what the writer speaks about is actually true or not.
The Article is titled Best Place to Retire on a Budget and it was on Yahoo finance yesterday. And guess where the best place to retire on a budget is? Well it's not Panama. Here's the full article. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/best-place-retire-overseas-budget-163750049.html Read the article then come back to the blog and read what we have to say.
You know we could easily dissect this article to pieces but let's not do that just yet. Instead we have to take this hyperbole on in a different way. Cuenca is just getting too much publicity and when something gets too much publicity it becomes not that great anymore; look at Panama and Costa Rica, both countries have been totally lost in the hype and publicity.
This means those people who are relocating to Cuenca need to be responsible expatter's. It's up to you to keep Cuenca affordable, don't you think? People are not going to stop hyping up Cuenca because it is what's trending right now.
So, at this point, you're probably wondering what a responsible expatter is. So let's talk about this a little bit. Bear in mind, we are not talking about tourists on vacation, but those who actually move to Cuenca to live. There is a BIG difference between the two.
A responsible Expatter is someone who does not accept over-inflated, over-priced gringo rents just because they are cheaper than North American or European rents. The more gringos that go around saying how cheap rents are, the more the prices will i-n-f-l-a-t-e like a bubble.
The number one thing to remember is to NOT compare Ecuador's rental prices to the United States for the very fact that Jane Doe in the US makes about Five times as much as Carlos Doe from Ecuador. If the average Ecuadorian monthly stipend is $350 to $500 dollars a month, that means they can barely afford to rent at $200.Thank goodness food and utilities are both inexpensive because the average family would be unable to survive in their own country!
The rents are not cheap here. The $400 a month furnished apartment referred to in the article is just a tiny studio or small one bedroom tourist trap. There is not very many of them. We've seen these little hovels; they are centrally located and clean but who would live in such a tiny tourist trap for keeps? Most people do this for a very short period, i.e. tourism.
The fixed price lunch of $1 is not alive here in Cuenca—not sure what restaurant they are referring to. We have seen $1.50 almuerzo but even that is far and few between anymore. Most north Americans and Europeans would not call four ounces of white rice, fat on a bone, and a bowl of soup "lunch", even if you could find it.
Comfortable year round climate? Yeah if you come from Alaska, Canada, or Minnesota the 62 to 65 degree houses might just be comfortable. But if you're coming from Texas, California, Florida, or South Carolina, think again, it can get downright cold in Cuenca. The seasons don't change much; there's two seasons here, a rainy season and a less rainy season; expect 30's to 40's for the low and the highs in the 60's and sometimes 70ish during the day, in the local winter season. Inside your home or condo it will be a constant 62 to 65 degrees, unless, you want to budget for extra electric heating costs. A lot extra.
As of this writing, taxis are NOT $1.50 anymore unless you're only going a mile or so. Expect to pay $2.50 to $4, or more, for a four to five mile taxi ride. From when we first landed here to today we have witnessed and noticed the gringo inflation already happening with the taxis and some of the fixed food prices.
UPDATE JULY 2014 - All TAXIS in Cuenca must have meters now. Do not get into a taxi without a meter or you will be gringoed. Most cab fares are now at what they should be! Be careful some of the drivers are rigging their meters and some drivers start the taxi fare at $1 when it supposed to be like $0.47 cents.
Keep in mind that the locals say that Cuenca is the MOST EXPENSIVE CITY IN ECUADOR. Does anyone wonder why that is? Do you really think it's because of the orchestra? How many times can you go to the orchestra in one week? Two? Three? And then what? Wanna go to a play? Do you understand Spanish? Hmm.
Don't misunderstand, we're not trying to deter anyone from coming to Cuenca but we are trying to let you know what Cuenca is really like today. We live here; we know what is going on today through our living experiences. These articles never change they keep hyping the same things about Cuenca and they keep talking about the same prices for rents and other services as if it was 2009. Prices have changed over the course of two years and unless we become responsible expatter's they will continue to grow out of proportion in a very small amount of time. Is that what you want? We don't think it is.
We feel with responsible expatting it will keep prices in Cuenca at a more even keel rather than growing into an inflation bubble, which has happened within the last couple of years in Cuenca, not other parts of Ecuador. Would you consider yourself to be a responsible expatter? If yes, then what are you waiting for, Cuenca welcomes you with open arms.
For more GREAT information on how to be a responsible expatter and really live on a more local budget than don't miss our DIY Cuenca Landing Guide.
My wife and are greatly appreciate the time and efforts of your blog, it's full of great information, and happy that you tell it the way it is.
We have targeted your city as the place we want to live...hopefully sooner than later, we aren't retired yet – just sick of what is taking place in the US.
Agreed with the idea that it is up to us be responsible and not ruin the place for the locals or the expats. When can you build us a bed and couch?
Hey there Howell & Sharon. Nice hearing from you. Thank you for your supportive comments. We like hearing that we're making a difference somehow in other people's lives in a positive way. If we can just appreciate a different perspective and see the good in it, then we can make decisions that, as you say, are good for everyone.
What a great article. You provide a great service to all of us who are planning on heading to Ecuador in the future.
For everyone who reads this blog I want to say that the best money I've spent in years was for Frank and Angie's guide to Ecuador. It's really worth the investment.
Glad to know from people that they feel they've received real value.
When you say that "inside your home or condo it will be a constant 62 to 65 degrees," do you mean at night was well? Because if so, that won't be much of a stretch for me. I live in Prescott, AZ, 5,200 feet high, where in the winter I keep my thermostat between 65 and 68 most days.


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Land, Gold and Women is a documentary about the conditions of typical women in rural Pakistan. It chronicles the traditional use of ritual gang rape as a method of social control. Central to the film are the stories of Mukhtar Mai, and Dr. Shazia Khalid.  The documentary was first broadcast on 5 March 2006.

Mai and Khalid
Mukhtar was an illiterate woman from a poor farming family. A more highly placed family perceived a slight by her younger brother, who was believed to have been interested in a daughter of a more high-class family. A tribal council ordered Mukhtar to report to the other family, to apologize for her brother. When she arrived, she was taken captive, and gang-raped for several days.

Shazia Khalid was working as a medical doctor in an isolated region of Pakistan. When she was raped, she found that she could not get officials to initiate an inquiry.

Reception
The documentary was awarded a gold medal at the New York Film Festival in 2007.

References

Canadian documentary television films
Documentary films about violence against women
Gang rape in Pakistan
2006 documentary films
2006 films
British documentary films
Documentary films about Pakistan
Films about rape
Women in Pakistan
2000s Canadian films
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Once you know the dates of your time abroad, you will want to begin planning to put your domestic matters in order.
Before leaving for a global education experience, students must be sure to have their local (campus) address removed from all university records; otherwise their mail will go to their last campus address. Be sure to leave the correct permanent address or an alternate address on file so that any correspondence and/or financial aid checks will be sent to the correct address. Local and/or permanent address changes can be done on Wolverine Access. Students can use Wolverine Access from any computer at the campus computing sites or the computers in the LSA Building lobby.
For some students, the first opportunity to vote coincides with their time abroad. Just because students are not in the US at election time does not necessarily mean they cannot cast their ballot. Before students can vote from abroad, however, they must be registered to vote at home. Students should check with their local city or town hall to obtain information on procedures for voting by absentee ballot or online, including timing. Some states, including Michigan, will not let students vote absentee unless they have already voted in one election (at any level) or unless they registered to vote in person. Students should remember to make note of their party, ward, district, and voter registration number (if one is used). If necessary, a student's absentee ballot can be notarized at a US embassy or consulate. For relevant online information, see www.fvap.gov.
January 1 and April 15, they may need to make special arrangements for getting their paperwork filed. Students can file from abroad if they make arrangements with their families to send them the necessary documentation. Persons temporarily living abroad may normally request an extension on the deadline for filing federal income tax, usually until June 15.
The best advice is for students to contact the American Consulate or Embassy in the host country for information on their tax obligations. They may have 1040 forms and may even be willing to help students with questions.
If students are likely to be required to sign any official or legal document while overseas, they should arrange to give "power of attorney" to someone who can make decisions on their behalf. This must be done in writing and should clearly outline in detail the specific duties that the person chosen will execute on a student's behalf. Take this to a notary public and have it notarized.


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var fs = require('fs')
var tag = require('./')

var argv = minimist(process.argv.slice(2), {
  alias:{host:'H'}
})

if (argv._.length < 2 || argv.help) {
  console.error(fs.readFileSync(__dirname+'/help.txt', 'utf-8'))
  process.exit(1)
}

if (argv.version) {
  console.log(require('./package').version)
  process.exit(2)
}

tag(argv._[0], argv._[1], argv, function(err) {
  if (!err) return
  console.error('Error: %s', err.message)
  process.exit(3)
})


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Apple Will Reportedly Overtake HP As Leading All-In-One PC Vendor
By Oliver Haslam | May 5th, 2021
Apple's newest iMac will help it leapfrog HP as the world's leading all-in-one (AIO) computer manufacturer. That's according to industry sources cited by a new DigiTimes report.
Apple's refreshed iMac is now available for pre-order and will be available to customers in the middle of this month.
The DigiTimes prediction comes from the belief that the current chip shortages are causing resources to be pushed towards more premium machines – including those produced by Apple. That, in turn, means the iMac.
The sources pointed out that high-end AIO PCs such as the iMac are only seeing limited impact from component shortages, but entry-level to mid-range products priced between NT$15,000 (US$536.51) and NT$30,000 have been hit much harder. Several ODMs have already halted their production for many AIO PCs because of component shortage, but iMac production remains unaffected, the sources said.
DigiTimes notes that HP is the current market leader in terms of AIO machines having shipped 925,000 units in the final quarter of 2020. By comparison, Apple reportedly shipped 860,000 units while Lenovo took third place with 731,000 units. With that in mind Apple wouldn't need such a huge swing in sales to take top spot.
The new iMac comes with Apple's M1 chip inside for the first time and features an all-new design in seven different colors. All of those things are sure to help drive sales.


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Darren Sonnier - I hit a 9 iron that flew in the cup without hitting the green!! my first one..


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José Baptista de Sousa
Historian, essayist and academic researcher, Licenciatura (BA+) in History (1994), MA in History from the University of Buckingham (2000), with the thesis Almeida Garrett and Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Interaction 1800-1850, PhD in History from the University of Buckingham with the thesis Holland House and Portugal, 1793-1840.
Researcher at CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Nova Univerity of Lisbon) since 2000, Head of the Library and Historical Archive of INATEL Foundation from 2008, member of the Board for the Celebrations of the Centenary of the Death of Eça de Queirós headed by Prof. Carlos Reis (2000) and researcher at the Services of Investigation on Portuguese Literature and Culture, National Library (2000-2002).
Recent publications include:
"«Anti-Slave Trade Cruzader»: Lord Holland's Contribution to the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Impact on the Anglo-Portuguese Political and Diplomatic Relations." Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies, 27 (2018): 163-98
Holland House and Portugal, 1793–1840: English Whiggery and the Constitutional Cause in Iberia. London: Anthem Press, 2018.
"Lord Holland's Portuguese Library" / José Baptista de Sousa and John Clarke, Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies, 26 (2017): 93-105.
"A «Portuguese Garden» in Kensington" / José Baptista de Sousa and John Clarke, Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies, 25 (2016): 123-46.
"Extract of a Journal of a Journey to Portugal in 1804-1805 by Lord Holland." / José Baptista de Sousa and John Clarke, Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses 23 (2014): 251-63.
"«Lisbon declared for Doña Maria»: convidados e habitués portugueses da Holland Housa nos anos de 1802-1838." Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses 21 (2012): 73-103.
Almeida Garrett (1799-1854), Founder of Portuguese Romanticism: A Study in Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Interaction. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.
Três diários de viagem em Portugal em 1808-1809 / Lord and Lady Holland, John Allen; ed., trans. and notes José Baptista de Sousa. Lisbon: Caleidoscópio and CETAPS, 2011.
"Critics to Enthusiasts: the Hollands Discover Portugal."/ José Baptista de Sousa and John Clarke, Portuguese Studies 21.1 (2005), 70-89.
"De Westminster a São Bento: a a aprendizagem do parlamentarismo em Almeida Garrett." Actas do I Congresso Internacional de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses. Lisbon: Centre of Anglo-Portuguese Studies, 2003. 367-81.
Damião de Góis: humanista português na Europa do renascimento / Carlos Reis, Luís Costa Dias and José Baptista de Sousa. Lisbon: National Library, 2002.
Eça de Queirós: a escrita do mundo Carlos Reis, Luís Costa Dias, Irene Fialho and José Baptista de Sousa. Lisbon: INAPA, 2000.
Garrett Político: catálogo da Exposição / Carlos Reis, Luís Costa Dias and José Baptista de Sousa. Lisbon: National Library, 1999.


Kānuka has a tough time bursting through to the public spotlight. It's often overshadowed by its cousin mānuka – stealing the limelight with headlines about its remarkable medicinal honey. But kānuka is an incredibly impressive plant in its own right that stands apart from its fellow tea-tree.
While mānuka can be found in both New Zealand and Australia, our kānuka species are endemic to NZ and found nowhere else in the world. What's more, there are 10 different species of kānuka in New Zealand, and many are very rare and critically endangered. There is a geothermal kānuka (Kunzea tenucaulis) found only in the geothermal areas around the Taupo volcanic zone, a kānuka found only on Great Barrier island (K. sinclairii) a kānuka found only on Three Kings Islands (K. triregenesis) and one found only on the tiny Motouhora/Whale Island in Bay of Plenty (K. salterae).
Kānuka also have a critical role to play in the New Zealand environment, helping shift the ecosystem toward a mature old-growth forest dominated by plants such as kauri and rimu. After an environmental disturbance such as a fire or landslide, mānuka or kānuka are usually the first trees to arrive on site – thriving in this stressful, high-light environment that would kill many other plants. Where both species arrive, the smaller mānuka ultimately passes the baton on to kānuka which overtops it and grows into the canopy. Here it slowly senesces, providing shelter to the next generation of mature podocarps and broadleaved species. Recent work has found that the forests raised underneath a kānuka canopy are more likely to grow into future kauri forests, whereas forests raised underneath tree fern canopies are more likely to become future podocarp forests.
Kānuka is also an important medicinal remedy, used to treat a wide range of ailments. Along with mānuka, it is known as "tea tree" since Captain Cook used the leaves on his travels around the country to make tea. It has similar properties to mānuka tea, but has a distinct flavour, with different species of kānuka having a slightly different taste (See: A Guide to Native New Zealand Tea Plants). The bark was boiled and the decoction drunk to treat diarrhoea, dysentery and venereal disease. The oils from the leaves and bark have a range of anti-microbial properties, and kākāriki have been observed chewing up the leaves and bark and preening themselves with the oils – apparently as a defense against parasites. Kānuka oil is currently being commercially produced by a number of different groups around the country and sold for its cosmetic and health benefits.
The wood too was used for a range of different tools by both Māori and Pākehā, as adzes, beaters, paddles, weapons, clubs, spades and marine piles. Elsdon Best spoke to a number of Maori spear-makers who believed it was the best timber for making spears – stronger and more durable than those made from tawa or mānuka.
How do you tell the difference between mānuka and kānuka?
Kānuka grows into a tall tree around 15m in height whereas mānuka rarely grows more than 8m.
Kānuka leaves are a bright olive green colour whereas mānuka leaves are often duller and darker.
Kānuka bark is lighter coloured and flakes off in long leathery strips, whearas mānuka bark is dark and comes off in thin flakes.
Kānuka flowers and capsules are much smaller (around 4 – 5mm) whereas mānuka are larger (around 10 – 12mm).
Brock et al. (2018). Pioneer tree ferns influence community assembly in northern New Zealand forests.
de Lange, P. J. (2014). A revision of the New Zealand Kunzea ericoides (Myrtaceae) complex.
Wyse et al. (2018). New Zealand forest dynamics: a review of past and present vegetation responses to disturbance, and development of conceptual forest models.


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Final Order Cutoff for Wednesday 9th September
Head over PREVIEWSworld for the preliminary Final Order Cutoff list of all the new comic books and graphic novels due out in four weeks time - Wednesday 9th September (or later in the case of some graphic novels, etc.).
FINAL ORDER CUTOFF
If you'd like to confirm a pre-order for anything on this list, please email us before 10am on Saturday 15th August. This is the best way to guarantee your new comic books on day of release.
Please disregard the Monday due date listed on the PREVIEWSworld page - this is for US accounts only, the UK date is earlier than that.
STOP PRESS!
TMNT THE LAST RONIN #1 (OF 5) has new additions to the creative team and a new release schedule. As such it has been removed from FOCs for this week.
Kevin Eastman will now be joined by brothers Esau and Isaac Escorza known for their work in Heavy Metal.
TMNT The Last Ronin #1 will reappear for FOC in the first week of October, with a new release date of Wednesday 28th October.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1027
Written by: Various
Cover Art by: Andy Kubert (wraparound cover A)/Various (10 different variants, plus a blank)
Light the Bat-Signal, because Detective Comics #1027 is here! In honor of Batman's first appearance in Detective Comics #27, this special, book-size celebration brings you the biggest names in comics as they chronicle the most epic Batman adventures Gotham City and the DC Universe have ever seen!
The World's Greatest Detective has a mountain of cases to crack: Who murdered Gotham's most corrupt police officer? What does The Joker's annual visit mean for Bruce Wayne? And most importantly, what WayneTech mystery will sow the seeds of the next epic Batman event? All this and more await you within the pages of the biggest Batman issue of them all!
Detective Comics #1027 includes stories by these writer/artist teams:
Peter J. Tomasi, Brad Walker, and Andrew Hennessy
Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez
Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
James Tynion IV and Riley Rossmo
Kelly Sue DeConnick, John Romita Jr., and Klaus Janson
Marv Wolfman, Emanuela Lupacchino, and Bill Sienkiewicz
Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham
Tom King and Walter Simonson
Scott Snyder, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado
Dan Jurgens and Kevin Nowlan
Mariko Tamaki and Dan Mora
Plus pinups by:
José Luis García-López
Jamal Campbell
Jim Cheung
RISE OF ULTRAMAN #1 (OF 5)
(W) Kyle Higgins, Mat Groom (A) Francesco Manna, Michael Cho (CA) Alex Ross
In darkness there lurks Kaiju - terrifying and unfathomable monsters. Between Kaiju and the rest of us stands the United Science Patrol! But who are these enigmatic defenders, and how do they perform their miracles? Shin Hayata and Kiki Fuji have spent half a lifetime trying to find out - and their quest is about to drive them toward a decades-old dark secret and put them on a collision course with a mysterious warrior from beyond the stars!
Kyle Higgins (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), Mat Groom (Self/Made) and Francesco Manna (AVENGERS) reimagine the classic origin of a pop culture icon!
CYBERPUNK 2077 TRAUMA TEAM #1 (OF 4)
(W) Cullen Bunn (A/CA) Miguel Valderrama
New series based on the highly anticipated game!
Nadia, an assistant EMT for a privately-owned business known as Trauma Team International, is the sole survivor of a failed rescue mission turned shootout.
After she agrees to continue work for an upcoming extraction mission, Nadia and her new team find themselves in an even more dangerous and life-threatening situation.
Featuring the incredible creative team of writer Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, Uncanny X-Men) and illustrator Miguel Valderrama (Giants)!
HOTLINE MIAMI WILDLIFE #1 (OF 8)
BEHEMOTH COMICS
(W) Frederico Chemello, Maurizio Furini (A/CA) Alberto Massaggia
Presenting a new, monthly comic series based in the multi-million unit selling indie video game franchise, Hotline Miami!
This oversized first-issue features an original spin-off story in the Hotline Miami universe told from the perspective of a new character, Chris, and his struggle to deal with a coming war, his tendency towards self-destruction, and the mysterious pseudo-patriots of 50 Blessings.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE ORIGINAL GN HC
(W) Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North (CA) Scott Newman (A/CA) Albert Monteys
Kurt Vonnegut's classic adapted in graphic novel form for the first time!
With Kurt Vonnegut's seminal anti-war story, Slaughterhouse-Five, Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!) translate a literary classic into comic book form in the tradition of A Wrinkle in Time and Fight Club 2.
Billy Pilgrim has read Kilgore Trout and opened a successful optometry business. Billy Pilgrim has built a loving family and witnessed the firebombing of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim has traveled to the planet Tralfamadore and met Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
Slaughterhouse-Five is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be a fallible human.
DARK NIGHTS DEATH METAL TRINITY CRISIS #1 (ONE SHOT)
Written by: Scott Snyder
Art by: Francis Manapul
Cover Art by: Francis Manapul
With Superman freed from his New Apokolips prison, the classic Trinity lineup is reunited and ready to rock!
Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman amp up their power to launch an assault on Castle Bat, and that's just the warm-up act!
Three walking nightmares are hidden deep inside the fortress - but these Dark Multiverse versions of the Anti-Monitor, Superboy Prime, and Darkseid hold the key to humanity's survival.
The Justice League have to face down their old nemeses, but will round two be the end for our heroes?
BILL & TED ARE DOOMED #1 (OF 4)
(W) Evan Dorkin (A) Roger Langridge (CA) Evan Dorkin
The official prequel to Bill And Ted Face The Music!
After defeating the evil dictator De Nomolos in Bogus Journey in 1995, things aren't looking as excellent as they should for either Bill and Ted or Wyld Stallyns. There's tension in the band and worry at home. Bill and Ted's obsessiveness with writing the one song to bring peace to the world is affecting their playing and their relationships with their families. The band is losing favour with fans and the future isn't shaping up as they were all led to believe it would from past (and future) events. Desperate for a solution Bill and Ted burst in to announce their great idea to revive the band's fortunes: A world tour to spread the love - and the rock, and the love of the rock - to the world.
HEAVY #1
(W) Max Bemis (A/CA) Eryk Donovan
Bill may be dead, but he's got a job to do.
Welcome to the Big Wait, where folks who don't quite make the cut go to work off their debt. Everyone in the Wait's got a job. Bill is a Heavy, whose job is policing the multiverse, making sure bad eggs get what's coming to them. He's on track to earn his Climb and reunite with the woman he loves... until he meets his new partner: the worst dude of all time.
Heavy is The Punisher for neurotics; Inception for the impatient; Preacher for... well, it's a lot like Preacher. Max Bemis and Eryk Donovan bring you a story about the existential purpose of dumb boys with big guns.
EMPYRE AFTERMATH AVENGERS #1
(W) Al Ewing (A) Valerio Schiti (CA) Jim Cheung
The end of EMPYRE begins a new age for the Marvel Universe!
In the aftermath of the cosmic conflict, the forces gather one last time... but why? And at whose bidding?
New bonds will be forged, new families will be founded, and there's a new role waiting for Earth... but new destinies bring new dangers - and new enemies!
Welcome to the new Marvel Space Age, true believer - hope you survive the experience!
EMPYRE FALLOUT FANTASTIC FOUR #1
(W) Dan Slott (A) Sean Izaakse (CA) R. B. Silva
The fate of all future Kree/Skrull Wars is placed in the hands of... Reed Richards and his family, the Fantastic Four.
This is NO standard issue of a Marvel Comic, True Believer.
Two MAJOR TURNING POINTS for THE ENTIRE MARVEL UNIVERSE will take place here!
Also in this issue... The Profiteer returns, but is she here for revenge... or justice?
And a special appearance by the most ominous cosmic character of them all, The Unseen!
WEB OF VENOM WRAITH #1
(W) Donny Cates (A) Guiu Villanova (CA) Kyle Hotz
Since his appearance in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, one thing WRAITH has made perfectly clear is that he's hunting KNULL, the God of the Symbiotes.
Now, in the wastelands on the outskirts of the cosmos, he'll have his chance to face him...
ICE CREAM MAN PRESENTS QUARANTINE COMIX SPEC #1
(W) Maxwell Prince (A/CA) Martin Morazzo, Chris O'Halloran
In the early days of the pandemic, the team behind ICE CREAM MAN launched an online-only series of mini-comics set in the ICM universe. These strange little ditties were meant to tide folks over while the industry was on pause.
Now, collected in everyone's preferred format (a floppy comic book!) are all six issues featuring brand-new cover art and bonus stories by guest creators.


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Q: Signal handlers not working across different process groups I am using execp under a child created using fork for which I have set new process group and have set it has foreground process group using tcsetpgrp
Here is my code for main
int main()
{
    signal(SIGINT,SIG_IGN);
    signal(SIGTSTP,SIG_IGN);
    pid_t pid=fork();
    if(pid==-1)
    {
        perror("Error in forking");
    }
    else if(pid == 0)
    {
        signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_IGN);
        setpgid(getpid(),getpid());
        //check denotes if process needs to be run in background or not
        if(!check)
        {
            tcsetpgrp(STDOUT_FILENO,getpgid(getpid()));
            tcsetpgrp(STDIN_FILENO,getpgid(getpid()));
        }
        signal(SIGTSTP, tstphandler);
        signal(SIGINT,inthandler);
        if(strlen(token)>0)
        {
            execer=execlp(token,token,args,(char*)NULL);
            if (execer==-1)
            {
                printf("Error in execution);
            }
            exit(0);
        }

    }
    else
    {
        //processes is a data structure which contains pid of
        //processes and current status :- 0 = running in background
        //, 1= dead , 2 = stopped in background , -1= in foreground.
        if(check)
        {
            processes[pid_counter].pid=pid;
            processes[pid_counter].dead=0;
        }
        if(!check && strlen(token)>0)
        {
            processes[pid_counter].pid=pid;
            processes[pid_counter].dead=-1;
            waitpid(pid,&status,0);
            tcsetpgrp(STDOUT_FILENO,globalpgid);
            tcsetpgrp(STDIN_FILENO,globalpgid);
            processes[pid_counter].dead=1;
        }
    }
}

and these are my handlers
//SIGINT handler
void inthandler(int sig)
{
    printf("int handler\n");
    int i;

    for(i=0;i<=pid_counter;i++)
    {
        if(processes[i].dead==-1)
        {
            kill(processes[i].pid,SIGKILL);
            break;
        }
    }
}

//SIGTSTP handler
void tstphandler(int sig)
{
    int i;
    for(i=0;i<=pid_counter;i++)
    {
        if(processes[i].dead==-1)
        {
            processes[i].dead=2;
            kill(processes[i].pid, SIGSTOP);
            break;
        }
    }
    tcsetpgrp(STDOUT_FILENO,globalpgid);
    tcsetpgrp(STDIN_FILENO,globalpgid);
}

My problem is that these signal handlers are not being called from child processes. They are being called with their default action but not with my declared handler.


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BOOKS/ART Local man releases sketches by famous artist uncle
Cuban American painter Gustavo Ojeda (1958—89) is best known for lush and meditative urban nightscapes that brought him recognition in the 1980s downtown New York art scene. He exhibited works alongside artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and David Wojnarowicz before dying from AIDS-related complications in 1989—just two weeks shy of his thirty-first birthday.
Now, Ojeda's nephew Gabriel Ojeda-Sague (a Chicago resident) and Erich Kessel Jr., are co-editors of An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979—1989, which (re)acquaints people with more than 200 of Ojeda's sketches.
Windy City Times: You have an interesting background: You're currently at the University of Chicago and you've written about Cher, pornography and even jazzercise. [Ojeda-Sague laughs.] What compelled you to tackle the works of your uncle?
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague: It all feels outside of the [usual] stuff I do, like poetry. I always grew up with my uncle's works around me. There's this interesting situation where a lot of his work fell out of circulation after his death; his works ended up in family members' houses but not in places like museums, so I was immersed in his work.
As I got older, I got more and more interested about why his work fell out of circulation and what it would take to bring it back into circulation. My uncle's longtime partner was Lester Edelstein—who I also considered my uncle. Lester died in 2016 and left Gustavo's sketchbooks and paintings to my brother and myself. At this point, I knew that I really wanted to do something. I'm not [well-]versed in the world of art, but I am in the world of books—so I wondered how I could bring Gustavo's works back into circulation.
Around 2015, Lester introduced me to the sketchbooks. He didn't think they were very special, but I was so impressed by what was in them. The paintings were very impressionistic landscapes of New York City, but the sketches were these decontexualized, haunting faces of people on public transport. So then it became a major project for me.
WCT: I get the title [which comes from how critics viewed Ojeda's works]. There is a sense of quiet in his works.
GO-S: Yes. The title was never something he used about his works but, for me, there's something quiet—but there's something more than quiet. It was said that there's almost an energy moving beneath the painting—even when it seems like there's not a lot going on. I was using the phrase "an excess of quiet" to describe his works, so I thought that'd make a great title. [Laughs]
WCT: There's something you wrote in the intro that resonated with me: "Growing up near his paintings, I felt that they had something charging beneath them."
GO-S: Yeah. When I was a kind, I saw the kids as almost spooky; there was something imposing about the nightscapes. I saw them as spooky yet calming. They had a real presence that almost seemed a non-presence. It was like something that initially seems simple but is more complex the more you look at it.
I also realized what was making him quite a popular artist at this time. One of the paradoxes about him is that he was a big artist in the '80s New York art scene but most of the other artists were more pop art, like Warhol and Basquiat and Haring. Gustavo's works look more traditional at first, but there's something beyond those traditional impressionist works. When you look at these sketches together, there's something meditative and unsettling at the same time. It looks impressive how the drawings bleed across the pages.
WCT: The sketches span 1979 to 1989. Do you see a progression or evolution in the sketches from the beginning to the end of the decade?
GO-S: Sure. I would not say it's exactly a clean arc, but there's some obsession and it becomes more refined. The works are not arranged chronologically and the dates are not given to the reader, but I can say that the works from '79 to '81 [feature] Spanish parks and traditional figure drawings, like nudes. Once he comes back to New York, he became more interested in the urban landscape. His most productive year was probably 1984, when he was making the nightscapes that would make him famous. But during the mid-'80s, he's also doing all of these facial sketches. It's funny that they both happen at the same time, as the nightscapes don't feature people.
Once we cross the mid-'80s, he developed his style a bit more but stays with relative themes. However, the drawings get a little less simple. A friend of his told me that what Gustavo would not look at his subjects on public transport because he didn't want them to know he was drawing them, so he would just look out and they were done quickly.
He got sick in 1987 and his productivity lowered significantly, and he passed away in 1989. It's unclear to me where his work would have gone if he had lived longer, but I can tell you that his paintings moved to daytime urban landscapes. What I like about this book is that some of the sketches are really technically impressive—and others are not.
I also wanted to keep in how much erasing there was with the sketches—the screw-ups and do-overs. With some, you can see extra lines and blurring. One of the things Soberscove [Press] did well was that it really shows the extra marks; that was a way of [conveying] a tactile sense of the works to the reader.
WCT: You mentioned contemporaries such as Basquiat and Haring. Do you feel that your uncle—with all his talent—was underappreciated?
GO-S: During his time, I don't think he was underappreciated. He was never a celebrity artist, like Haring or Basquiat. When [Ojeda] died, my grandparents—Cuban exiles who don't speak English—took over, in a sense, and they weren't able to keep up with bringing his work out into the world. Gustavo was very productive and very charming; once he and his friends died, there was a real loss of the foundation of what kept his work going—and my family was not able (or possibly willing) to keep up things. Lester archived Gustavo's works and there were a couple well-received retrospectives. I think Gustavo's works fell out of renown.
So Gustavo wasn't underappreciated at the time [when he was alive] but he was kind of an odd figure. He had a very successful career. I'm trying to bring some attention to his works because I feel they still offer a lot—and there's a lot that people haven't seen.
WCT: Ultimately, what would you like people to take away from this book?
GO-S: Good question… I think what I'm trying to do is show people a really tender but yet obsessive practice that artists had during this time. It was private and personal, but I'm trying to bring out [Gustavo's] image and renown.


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Weekly poll: Are the Poco X4 GT or Poco F4 tempting you?
DarcellC June 26, 2022 Phones
The Poco F1 is a smartphone legend – it brought a flagship chipset and capable hardware all around at a price of just €300 after a small discount. Does the new Poco F4 embody the same spirit? Or is the Poco X4 GT a better successor? Let's have a closer look.
We'll start with the Poco X4 GT. It brings the new and exciting Dimensity 8100 chipset and costs €300 for an 8/128GB unit with early bird discounts applied. This price will be valid from Monday (June 27) to July 7, after that it will go up to €380. The 8/256GB unit is €350 with the discount, €430 without it.
Poco X4 GT early bird pricing
What makes the Dimensity chip so exciting? We have only tested a couple of phones with it so far and they are not common (at least not outside of China). But from what we've seen so far, the chipset is faster than the Snapdragon 870 (in multi-core CPU tests and especially GPU tests) and can hold its own against even the Snapdragon 888. That's great for a mid-range chip.
The X4 GT is equipped with a 144Hz display, a 6.6" LCD, a 5,080mAh fast charging battery (67W, 0-100% in 46 minutes) and even brings back the 3.5mm headphone jack. Some of you may wish it had an AMOLED display or that it also had a microSD slot. Also, the 64+8+2MP camera is nothing special, but there is only so much we can ask from a €300 phone.
Poco X4 GT key features
The Realme GT Neo 3 is one of the Dimensity 8100 phones that we've tested. The version with 80W charging starts at €600, the 150W one at €700. This is with 8/256GB and 12/256GB memory, respectively, but still it's twice the cost of the Poco. Anyway, the GT Neo 3 does have an AMOLED display (120Hz), a better camera (50MP 1/1.56" sensor in the main cam with OIS) and faster charging (even the 80W version does 0-100% in 32 minutes). To be fair to the Realme, it also had early an early bird discount of €50.
The other 8100-powered phone is the OnePlus 10R. This one isn't available in Europe yet and the Poco has not announced plans to bring the X4 GT to India at this point. But the 10R is very similar to the GT Neo 3, so the same considerations apply.
The Motorola Moto G200 5G can be found in the €300-400 range and it has a larger 6.8" 144Hz LCD. It is powered by the Snapdragon 888+ and brings a 108MP (1/1.52") main camera. The 5,000mAh battery only charges at 33W, so it will be slower.
Realme GT Neo 3 • OnePlus 10R • Motorola Moto G200 5G
Do you have any interest buying in the Poco X4 GT? Vote below or using this link.
Moving on to the Poco F4. This comes more than a year later than the F3, but feels more like a mid-season upgrade. Really, what has changed? Poco upgraded the main camera to a 64MP 1/2" sensor (up from 48MP 1/2") and added OIS (the first on a Poco). Also, the 4,500mAh battery now charges faster – 14 minutes faster, according to official numbers (0-100% in 38 minutes with the supplied 67W charger).
The 6.67" AMOLED display is mostly the same – FHD+ resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, 1,300 nits peak brightness and HDR10+ support. This year, however, it also features Dolby Vision.
Poco F4 key features
With that covered, the Snapdragon 870 chipset is the same – a chipset that made its debut in January 2021. The memory configurations are mostly the same, save for the addition of a 12GB of RAM option (overkill, perhaps?). Poco could have brought back the 3.5mm jack like it did with the X4 GT, but it did not.
The Poco F4 will start at €350/₹24,000 for a 6/128GB unit. This is again an early bird offer for the June 27-July 7 period. After that the base model will go up to €400/₹28,000. And yes, the F4 will be available in India as well (launching on Flipkart).
Poco F4 early bird pricing
Let's have a quick comparison. The official store no long offers discounts on the Poco F3, but you can shop around and find it for under €400. The F3 is not worth it unless it is noticeably cheaper than the F4 since the newer model starts an Android version ahead.
The Xiaomi 12X is €500 on Mi.com and offers a more compact design (6.28" 120Hz AMOLED display), the same Snapdragon 870 and a better main camera – 50MP 1/1.56" with OIS. Plus, the 4,500mAh battery charges at 67W (0-100% in 39 minutes).
Xiaomi Poco F3 • Xiaomi 12X
The Realme GT Neo 3T is €430 and has a larger 6.62" display (120Hz AMOLED), plus the same Snapdragon 870. However, the camera setup is less impressive (64MP 1/2" main cam, but without OIS). It does have a larger 5,000mAh battery with 80W charging, though.
The Motorola Edge 20 Pro has a 6.7" 144Hz AMOLED display and a Snapdragon 870. It brings a much better camera setup – 108MP (1/1.52") main, 8MP 5x periscope (with OIS) and 16MP ultra wide. The 4,500mAh battery with 30W charging is not particularly impressive, though. Still, with some shopping around you can find it for €400-500.
The Samsung Galaxy M53 5G is ₹26,500/€420 for a 6/128GB unit (or less if you don't go through Samsung.com). It is powered by a Dimensity 900 chipset and has a 6.7" 120Hz AMOLED display. The main camera lacks OIS, but it does have a 108MP sensor. As for the battery, it is large and slow – 5,000mAh, 25W.
Realme GT Neo 3T • Motorola Edge 20 Pro • Samsung Galaxy M53
Do you think that the Poco F4 can be your next phone? Vote below or using this link.
PS. We have both the Poco X4 GT and the Poco F4 at the office, so expect our reviews soon.
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Queen: Brian May joins We Will Rock You cast for Bohemian Rhapsody charity performance
Queen guitarist Brian May joins cast members of the "We Will Rock You" musical for a virtual video performance of the band's 1975 classic, "Bohemian Rhapsody", in an effort to raise funds for the UK charity Acting For Others.
Created by Sabrina Aloueche (Scaramouche in London) and Alex Bourne (Khashoggi in London), the video began as a small project – with Aloueche recruiting performers and Bourne mixing and editing the video – that grew to feature over 50 cast members, creatives and musicians from the long-running musical, which opened on London in 2002.
"Together, and with the help of a few friends, a three-week project has resulted in a beautiful statement that music, whether live or recorded or in isolation, really does bring a community together!," says Aloueche. "Because of this, they'd like to shine a light and raise some awareness for a wonderful charity whose incredible work has helped many individual actors in this industry especially during these tough and uncertain times: Acting For Others."
The non-profit organization provides financial and emotional support to all theatre workers in times of need through its 14-member charities; for more information and/or to donate directly, visit actingforothers.co.uk.
Queen's fourth album, "A Night At The Opera", delivered the group's groundbreaking classic, "Bohemian Rhapsody", earning the band their first No. 1 UK single and first US Top 5 record.
The song's continued popularity through the years inspired a 2018 film of the same name that won four Academy Awards last year – including Best Actor to Rami Malek for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury – and earned more than $900 million dollars at the box office to become the highest-grossing music biopic in history.
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We all know that the Philippines is an adventurer's paradise, but do you know how the city of Manila got its name, or what makes the country's rice terraces so special? Here are five interesting fun facts about the Philippines that you might not know of this tropical island country.
The Puerto Princesa Palawan river is arguably the most famous river of the Philippines. It runs under spectacular caves that travellers can kayak through for an unforgettable experience. But did you know that the Palawan river is the second largest subterranean river in the world after Mexico's Sac Actun river. In 2012 it was deemed as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature.
When you think of coconuts you probably think of Hawaii. But it turns out that the Philippines is one of the world's leading producers of coconuts. In 2016, they harvested and exported roughly 16 million tons of the fruit. That'll make anybody go cuckoo for coconuts!
Manila is known for its bustling city life and dense urban core, but do you know how the city got its name? Nila refers to a flowering mangrove tree and the phrase May nila translates to "the place where there are nilas." Because these beautiful trees were wildly abundant in the Manila region, that's how the city got its name. Next time you're there, see if you can spot a nila.
Nothing compares to the rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras. But did you know that they have remained untouched by urbanization due to their rocky and uneven terrain, making them some of the oldest rice fields in the world (built over 2000 years ago!)? Fittingly, the Philippine Cordilleras won the title of a protected UNESCO World Heritage Site, forever to remain stunning and beautiful until the end of time.
The Philippines is one of the island nations with the most volcanoes in the world. Its most famous volcano is Mount Pinatubo. When it erupted in 1991 it released enough sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to drop temperatures globally by 0.5 °C. If there was ever a need for a sulfuric acid eruption, it'd be now more than ever.
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Q: insert query into oracle database
Possible Duplicate:
How to handle a single quote in Oracle SQL

My Senario:
I want to save the query(not result set) in the database.
I am using Java as the front end;
My Table(Querytab) has the following Fields:
sno VARCHAR2(1024)
QUERY VARCHAR2(4000)

The problem is when I insert a query which has conditions
e.g insert into querytab values('100','select * from querytab where sno ='100'');
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended
Problem is: The Queryvalue gets terminated when it finds the '
How to solve this.
Thanks in advance.

A: To insert single quotes, you need to escape them. Escaping is done by simply duplicating them:
insert into querytab
(sno, query)
values
('100','select * from querytab where sno = ''100'' ');

This is explained in the manual:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/sql_elements003.htm#i42617

A: Use PreparedStatement to escape the string.
Something like this:
sql="insert into querytab values (?,?)";
PreparedStatement ps=conn.prepareStatement(sql);
ps.setString(1,"100");
ps.setString(2,"select * from querytab where sno ='100'");
ps.executeUpdate();

A: try this,
insert into querytab values('100','select * from querytab where sno =100');


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Q: GET UUID from PUBNUB hereNOW() using Pubnub V4 I am trying to retrieve UUIDs of devices connected to 'my_channel'.
I was using pubnub-3.16.4.js and I was able to get the UUID array using "Here Now".
Now I upgraded to pubnub.4.1.1.js, I followed the example on this site
https://www.pubnub.com/docs/javascript/presence-sdk-v4
when I use Here Now function I do get a response, which includes all state and UUIDs information.
Object {totalChannels: 1, totalOccupancy: 2, channels: Object}
channels:Object
    mychannel:Object
        name:"my_channel"
        occupancy:2
        occupants:Array[3]
            0:  Object
                state:null
                uuid:"000000003d425f88"
            __proto__:Object
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                state:null
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But what I need is only UUID array, which the sdk example shows.
Any idea how get only UUID array, or is there an easy way to retrieve the UUIDs from the above response?
Thank you.

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pubnub.hereNow(
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        includeState: false
    },
    function (status, response) {
        // handle status, response
    }
);

See full Node SDK hereNow docs for full parameter details and sample code.


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