Disney rates Figment as "all ages". Figment is hands down my favorite ride in Epcot. The ride is nice and smooth, without any drops or crazy spinning. It is inside and not exactly brightly lit, but the dark isn't like an ominous dark at all… there is a 'jump scare' towards the end of the ride though that still makes me jump (and sometimes yell a little) even though I've ridden this a million times and expect it, so be on the lookout for that with young ones – the lights will go out then there will be a flashbang with lots of noise. But overall Figment is whimsical and fun and the littles usually love this ride. Of course, Little J has to be the exception to every rule, and he despises Figment. When he's being really annoying in the car I like to let my passive aggressive mom side out, and I start to sing the Imagination theme song. Drives him nuts!
Disney rates Living with the Land as "all ages". This is a leisurely boat ride through a variety of environments and greenhouses to learn about our planet and our agricultural history & current methods. The greenhouses are actual productive greenhouses that grow produce used around WDW. There is also a behind the scenes tour you can take (for a fee).
Disney rates Mission: SPACE for "kids, tweens, teens, adults". This is a thrill ride with 2 intensity levels. The Green Mission (for guests 40 inches or taller) is a motion simulator that does not spin… but the Orange Mission (for guests 44 inches or taller) spins and simulates the G-forces of an actual spaceship launch. Mission: SPACE is definitely not for the faint of heart weak of stomach. Big J and I love this ride.
Disney rates Nemo for "all ages". Hop aboard a clamobile and follow Marlin & Dory's route to find Nemo. View the coral reefs, watch out for jellyfish, and catch a ride on the EAC. Righteous! At the end of the ride, the animation gives way to Epcot's actual, real aquarium. Once you exit your clamobile, walk through the pavilion to watch the live animals.
Disney rates Soarin' for "kids, tweens, teens, adults". Disney also says this is a slow ride with small drops. Technically this is true, but it is not the whole story. Soarin' is designed to make you feel as if you are touring the world from a hang glider, soaring (get it?) among the natural and man-made wonders of our planet. While this is not a wild ride motion-wise, the subtle movement and the giant screen trigger my motion sickness something crazy. Keep in mind that roller coasters are totally my jam… yet Soarin' makes me queasy. This is such an iconic ride that I do recommend that everyone go on it at least once, but you won't catch me on it again.
Disney rates Spaceship Earth for "all ages". How can anyone not love a ride housed inside the iconic geosphere? This ride takes you all the way back to the beginning of recorded history then brings you forward through time again. I read a book that explained that Disney Imagineers met with leading experts in the various ages of history that are represented (like ancient Rome, or the Renaissance) to make the scenes as accurate as possible. If you're reading this… thank the Phoenicians!
Disney rates Test Track for "kids, tweens, teens, adults". I know it is probably getting old, hearing about how the wait line is as entertaining as the ride itself, but Disney knows what they are doing. When people are willing to stand around in line for an hour, the deserve to be entertained… and Test Track does not disappoint. While waiting, you get to design your own concept vehicle that will be put through the paces on the ride. Your design will be rated on: Capability, Responsiveness, Efficiency, and Power. Once you're buckled in you'll go through the paces, ending with a high speed lap around the outdoor elevated track. I can't lie, as cool as the updated queue is, the actual ride is nowhere near as fun as the older version. I feel more adventurous driving around the local interstate…..
Disney rates Frozen Ever After for "all ages". Frozen Ever After is the Maelstrom, redone. If you enjoyed the Maelstrom ride but love Frozen's soundtrack, this is the ride for you! Board a log boat for a leisurely ride through Arendelle, with Olaf, Anna, and Elsa along the way. There is not a single part of this ride that I find even remotely scary, and Little J agreed, yet for some reason in every picture I've seen from this ride, any child looks terrified.
Disney rates the Gran Fiesta Tour for "all ages". Inside the Mexico Pavilion's pyramid is the Gran Fiesta Tour. Donald Duck seems to have gone missing. Board your boat and follow Panchito the Mexican charro rooster and José Carioca the Brazilian parrot as they search for Donald. This ride combines Audio-Animatronics with videos of both live action people & places of Mexico and Disney animation.


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Q: Shell Script for formatted output 06/26/2017 23:40:40       CAUAJM_I_10082 [aspsun14 connected for IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL 55443.15215291.1]
06/26/2017 23:40:40       CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS    STATUS: STARTING        JOB: IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL MACHINE: aspsun14
06/26/2017 23:40:42       CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS    STATUS: RUNNING         JOB: IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL MACHINE: aspsun14
06/26/2017 23:49:19       CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS    STATUS: SUCCESS         JOB: IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL MACHINE: aspsun14        EXITCODE:  0
06/27/2017 23:40:23       CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS    STATUS: STARTING        JOB: IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL MACHINE: aspsun14
06/27/2017 23:40:24       CAUAJM_I_10082 [aspsun14 connected for IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL 55443.15236942.1]
06/27/2017 23:40:25       CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS    STATUS: RUNNING         JOB: IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL MACHINE: aspsun14
06/27/2017 23:48:19       CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS    STATUS: SUCCESS         JOB: IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL MACHINE: aspsun14        EXITCODE:  0
06/28/2017 23:41:36       CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS    STATUS: STARTING        JOB: IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL MACHINE: aspsun14
06/28/2017 23:41:37       CAUAJM_I_10082 [aspsun14 connected for IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL 55443.15258301.1]
06/28/2017 23:41:38       CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS    STATUS: RUNNING         JOB: IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL MACHINE: aspsun14
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I have a file having above content, I want the output like, job name then start time then End time
IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL 06/26/2017 23:40:40 06/26/2017 23:49:19
IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL 06/27/2017 23:40:23 06/27/2017 23:48:19
IOALPPRXXBD_ALPGLGENFAALL 06/28/2017 23:41:36 06/28/2017 23:48:47

A: Awk is very convenient for these things.
#!/usr/bin/awk -f

$5 == "CHANGE_STATUS" && $7 == "STARTING" {
    start[$9] = $1 " " $2
}

$5 == "CHANGE_STATUS" && $7 == "SUCCESS" {
    print $9,start[$9],$1,$2
}

$n is the n-th column. I just store the beginning date and print everything once I found the end date of the job.
(Save the code in an executable file and call it by passing the input file as argument.)
./script input.txt
If you absolutely need to embed it in a Bash script, just do something like:
awk '
    $5 == "CHANGE_STATUS" && $7 == "STARTING" {
        start[$9] = $1 " " $2
    }

    $5 == "CHANGE_STATUS" && $7 == "SUCCESS" {
        print $9,start[$9],$1,$2
    }
' input_file_or_whatever

but be careful with what you do with single quotes in the Awk script itself. It might get a little tricky.

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With the wall and floor established and an antagonist/protagonist relationship realized it was important to address the room "décor" that will tell the rest of the story and provide supporting information about the characters and events.
Gorman is an alchemist whose abilities in game are basically defined by his grenades rather than his swordsmanship. If we look at the figure this is also clearly on display where the blade is held up defensively to keep opponents at bay while his right arm is flung back in preparation to throw, causing the cape to wave dramatically and revealing the arsenal slung on his belt. The grenades are the real threat and the basis of the stance of the model.
In the game, Gorman carries smoke bombs, impractical here as he is making his presence clearly known (not hiding), bombs which create instant rust and the dreaded blinding black oil. The use and effects of both of these could definitely be incorporated into the scene with clever use of paint and a few fun tricks. Used correctly they should also add a sense of power and gravitas to our protagonist.
Having conceptually established the criminals as being dangerous and well equipped, it made sense to include a light warjack in their personal armory - certainly useful in most aspects of their shady daily business. Having a firepower heavy warjack in a warehouse full of goods and at close quarters seemed less than completely sensible so I grabbed a Talon (mercenary light warjack) armed with a Stun spear and boasting a shield it seemed to make a great logical bodyguard/enforcer/labor 'jack.
It was also a target that Gorman could believably shut down in his own special way.
you can see that it is still in pieces here as I "mocked up" the pose and arrangement.
SO: How to wreck a Warjack in a believable Gorman-esque fashion.
close to the final pose - time to cut a bit and fine tune.
Note the extra light being suggested around the lower window and coming from through the doorway as well as directly under the thrice acccursed lamp..... Now the painting was really ready to begin!
Cya next time to show you some really cool paint tricks!


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Proposed genetically modified salmon farm needs assessment, says enviro minister
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says a plan by AquaBounty Technologies to create the first GM food animal in the world that could make it to supermarket shelves would face strict requirements
by Kevin Bissett, The Canadian Press
An aquaculture farm. PHOTO: Sam Beebe/Ecotrust
CHARLOTTETOWN—The federal government says a proposal to produce the world's first genetically modified salmon for human consumption in P.E.I. will face environmental assessment.
In a letter to a group of environmental lobby groups, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says any plan by AquaBounty Technologies to grow its AquAdvantage salmon at Rollo Bay, P.E.I., would be subject to strict requirements.
"Should AquaBounty wish to manufacture or grow out the AquAdvantage salmon at this site, a new notification will be required pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999," McKenna wrote.
That's welcome news to Mark Butler of the Ecology Action Centre, an environmental group based in Nova Scotia.
Butler said he wants to see a scientific assessment of the environmental risks before genetically modified salmon is produced for sale in Canada.
"This is the first GM food animal in the world that looks like it could make it to supermarket shelves and there is yet to be an assessment of commercial production and what it means for wild salmon," he said Wednesday.
Butler said his group and others, including the Living Oceans Society, Earth Action PEI and Ecojustice, are worried about the risk of genetically modified fish escaping and breeding with wild Atlantic salmon.
"You can't put the genie back in the bottle. You will then have wild fish with the genetic material from other species in them, something that would never happen in the wild," he said.
In June, the P.E.I. government approved AquaBounty's request to begin construction at the proposed land-based facility at Rollo Bay, prompting opponents to seek clarity from the federal government.
Officials with AquaBounty did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday.
AquaBounty's AquAdvantage salmon contains genetic material from ocean pout and Chinook salmon and is intended to grow to adult size quicker than conventional Atlantic salmon.
Canadians unwittingly ate 4.5 tonnes of genetically modified salmon between April and June
Canadian regulator approves sale of fast-growing, genetically modified salmon
Groups call for hearings on proposed P.E.I. salmon factory
Monsanto settles suit over genetically modified wheat
Canadian automakers enjoying success in U.S., but NAFTA talks cast dark clouds
U.S. utilities vie for Canadian hydro and wind power

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Weekend sold out at DP World Tour Championship
Thursday, November 17th, 2022 8:01pm
By ARN News Staff
www.europeantour.com
The DP World Tour Championship has sold out of general admission tickets for the weekend for the first time in its 13-year history.
Major Champions Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and Matt Fitzpatrick are all teeing it up at the fifth Rolex Series event of 2022, as the DP World Tour season comes to a conclusion at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
Free general admission tickets are still available for Friday, November 18 as well as limited premium experience tickets for the weekend.
No general admission tickets will be available at the door.
We have sold out of general admission tickets for this weekend, Sat 19 and Sun 20 November for the first time ever!
Free general admission tickets are still available for tomorrow. Don't miss your chance to catch the live action by registering on https://t.co/VCYXpHtUfg
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— DP World Tour Championship (@dpwtc) November 17, 2022


Genial bar staff who always remember your name, classic pub fare and a little bar counter which opens straight onto the street make for an inviting and relaxed hangout on Parkhurst's busy 4th Avenue. Describing itself as a 'pint-sized pub' the Taphouse is a somewhat calmer alternative to Parkhurst's more infamous boozy hangouts and serves great bar snacks.
Open 16:00–23:00, Fri, Sat 11:00–02:00, Sun 11:00–21:00. Closed Mon. Kitchen closes an hour before.


"The dentists here are the best that you will find anywhere", reviews Ian from Florida, USA after getting a Full Mouth Reconstruction here at Dentzz.
"I haven't had any pain at all, and would recommend Dentzz to anybody!" – Brian from Australia shares his review.


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London hosts Search Engine Strategies event
Featured IT & Technology
February 15, 2008 July 27, 2015 2 min read Chris Bolwig
Search Engine Strategies, a leading conference on search engine marketing and optimization, will take place in London next week.
London (eNewsWire) 15 February 2008 – Search Engine Strategies (SES) will be holding a conference and expo in London between 18th and 21st February at the Islington Business Design Centre.
Hundreds of exhibitors and experts are expected to come attend discuss the latest developments in search marketing technology.
Attendance at SES London was up by over 50% last year as search marketing continues to become one of the most talked about areas in Internet marketing.
Search Engine Strategies is a leading global conference and expo series that educates attendees on search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO) and online advertising strategies and tactics.
Delegates will have the chance to network with one of the largest gatherings of search engine marketing professionals, in addition to attending the most comprehensive SEM/SEO learning opportunity in the UK or Europe.
The line-up of speakers includes experts in a wide range of Internet marketing fields as well as representatives from search engines themselves. Guest speakers include Mike Grehan, Kevin Ryan, Nick Carr, Kristjan M. Hauksson and Dr. Ralph Wilson.
A number of highly-specialised sessions on search engine marketing will be offered, such as 'Dynamic Websites: Beyond the Basics'. Guest speaker Kristjan M. Hauksson, director of a leading Scandinavian Internet marketing company, and his colleagues will discuss a wide range of SEO tactics used in dynamic websites, including page titles, metadata, page headings, content, keyword embedded URLs, page rank and sitemaps.
The Search Engine Strategies conference and expo is geared towards online marketers, business owners, executives, webmasters and SEM/SEO and general web technology professionals.
For further details on SES in London, including a full programme and list of speakers, visit: www.searchenginestrategies.com/london
For more information on Nordic eMarketing and its expertise in search marketing visit: www.nordicemarketing.com
Property market moving from Spain to Morocco
Vertbaudet has got everything for dressing babies and children for ceremonies and special occasions


The Motown singer claims cash and other items went missing during her elderly brother's discharge from the Detroit Medical Center's rehab facility.
Martha Reeves is pointing fingers at a Detroit medical facility that recently treated her elderly brother, saying some of his belongings were missing when he was discharged.
The Motown singer and former politician filed an incident report Friday with the Detroit Police Department.
She told the Free Press her eldest brother, Benny Reeves, had been recovering from a broken hip at the Detroit Medical Center's Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan on Mack Avenue. When he was discharged Thursday, his wallet — which included credit cards, Social Security identification and $152 in cash — was missing, she said.
The wallet had been in a box with other belongings, which was packed after he was admitted to the facility on Jan. 12, she said.
The hospital is investigating, a DMC spokeswoman said.
"To be robbed like this is obscene," said Reeves, a former Detroit City Council member and the voice behind hits such as "Dancing in the Street."
Reeves said "about five or six" hospital staffers were in her brother's room the morning he was discharged, helping to pack his items into plastic take-home bags.
It's not clear when personal items such as a wallet may have been brought to Benny Reeves' room. Martha Reeves was traveling Wednesday afternoon to a Louisiana concert appearance and could not be reached.
The 80-year-old Benny Reeves broke his hip on Jan. 10 and was admitted to Detroit Receiving Hospital before transferring to the rehab center.
Benny Reeves is a longtime singer who has performed with a host of local groups through the decades, including a brief stint with Motown's Contours in the early '60s. He also worked as a warehouse supervisor with the Detroit Department of Transportation.
April 15, 2019, 8:37 p.m.
April 15, 2019, 8:55 p.m.


Boring is one of the more challenging of turning operations. Even with a solid carbide boring bar, get much beyond a 6:1 overhang and chatter begins to rear its ugly head. Poor surface finish is assured, as is rotten tool life, accuracy problems, and enough racket to have everyone in the shop wondering about the price of hearing aids.
You might try tipping the bar above centre a bit. Wrapping the shank in a brass, aluminum, or lead sleeve can have a positive effect. So-called heavy metal bars are another approach, although these are less rigid than carbide, despite their damping effect. Feeding faster helps at times, as does slowing the spindle, but the fact remains that, quite often, none of these things help and deep bores are a real pain in the neck.
A number of cutting tool suppliers recognize this problem and have brought their own unique technology to bear. Each of the following solutions is said to reduce or eliminate chatter in hole depths up to 10xD, sometimes deeper. Each uses a proprietary anti-vibration mechanism within the boring bar shank. And each is fairly expensive compared to the steel or carbide bar you're currently using. As you'll see, however, the investment is likely an easy pill to swallow.
Silence is Golden: Sandvik Coromant's Silent Tools have been around for more than four decades, says product specialist Kevin Burton. The damping mechanism was developed and patented in 1967 by an engineer working at Teeness, a nail manufacturer in Sweden. Sandvik Coromant partnered with the company, and eventually purchased them outright. Since then, the Silent Tool line has expanded beyond deep hole boring to include milling cutters, and the company is in the process of releasing its Bluetooth-capable CoroPlus bars with remote setup and monitoring capabilities. "There's also our -4C series, which we designed specifically for applications where cutting forces are high, such as threading and grooving," says Burton.
If you're thinking these sound like a bunch of me-too products, not so fast. Each solution has its merits, and each company has put significant work into developing the best technology possible. It's up to the end user to evaluate which works best for their applications, hopefully with the support of a knowledgeable support person.
Unlike older boring systems that need to be tuned based on length and material, this new generation of "quiet" bars come pre-tuned; there's no adjustment needed. Some have ends that can be trimmed slightly, but for the most part they should be left as is, so as to avoid damaging the internal mechanism. "If you see fluid leaking out the end, you know you went too far," laughs Eichelberger.
Each of these systems offers replaceable heads. Coolant through is common, and should be used whenever possible. Some support depths up to 14xD. Steel, carbide, and carbide-reinforced versions are available. Bar sizes range from 16 mm (0.63 in.) to ones larger than a redwood—Sandvik Coromant's Burton mentions a bar one-metre in diameter (39.3 in.) and roughly 10 m long, used to cut bores for cargo ship drive shafts.
Click image to enlargeNor are they limited to boring. Grooving and threading are also common applications, and as already mentioned, anti-vibration bars are routinely used for milling deep pockets and tall shoulders, especially with nickel-based alloys and other challenging materials.
Without such a device, vibration spreads through the tool holder and beyond, causing problems with surface finish and tool life. But it's the productivity gains that may best justify the relatively high cost of these systems—everyone agrees that higher feedrates and faster spindle speeds are possible when the bar isn't squealing like a hurt animal.
There's no reason to wait for the squealing to start, however. Great productivity increases and surface quality improvements are possible even for overhangs as short as 4xD, making these bars valuable contributors to virtually any boring operation. "We've seen feedrates of 0.2 mm/rev (0.008 ipr) and surface speeds of 200 m/min (650 sfm) in 4140 and 13-8 PH with no problems whatsoever," says Guruswamy.
Setup is easy. Each manufacturer provides reference flats or an electronic leveling device to help the operator achieve perfect centreline. "We've had some people set them above centre because they're trying to compensate for deflection, but we recommend that you set them exactly on centre," says Burton.
Everyone also agrees that the method by which these boring bars are mounted is equally important; a split sleeve is highly recommended to avoid the bell-mouthing that may otherwise occur when using two or three set-screws to clamp boring bars in place.


Note: This was originally a post to the Seattle PHP Meetup mailing list, but I'm reproducing it here to generate a discussion about the topic with people outside the meetup.
I write a lot plugins for WordPress, and I like to make them object-oriented, even though WordPress itself is mostly procedural. I think it helps keep them clean and organized, and I also do it as a way to improve my programming skills. I'm having trouble understanding the correct way to implement OOP in this kind of procedural context, though. No matter what I try, it feels like I'm doing it wrong.
The first method I've tried is just create the kinds of mutable objects that I'm used to seeing in general PHP classes, and in other WordPress plugins. As an example, I'll use a stripped down version of a class that creates a custom post type for destinations on a road trip.
It has methods to register the new post type with WordPress, and save it's data when the post is created/updated. Since I'm hooking into an existing procedural application, I'm mostly just doing my domain logic and then calling procedural API functions to let WordPress do the heavy lifting.
To register the new post type with WordPress, there isn't any kind of PostBase class that I can extend; I just call register_post_type() and pass in data that specifies the attributes of the new type.
Similarly, when saving data I don't have an object representing a row in the database, so even though I have this concept of a "road trip destination", I don't have an object that I can assign properties to and then call $this->save(). Instead I just pass data to update_post_meta().
In a real world plugin, the majority of methods — like createPostType() in the example — aren't really affecting the state of their object, they're just interacting with the API, and I'd never want multiple instances of them, so it feels wrong to use them like objects.
This feels more correct because I'm not instantiating an object that doesn't really represent the concept of a road trip destination. Instead, the static methods just provide a stateless way of interacting with the API. That's really all the non-static methods were doing, even though they written as stateful objects.
But, I have a nagging suspicious that this is Very Wrong. It kind of feels like using object-oriented syntax to write procedural functions.
So my question is, is it appropriate to use static methods in this way? If not, what would be the right way to do it? Is it futile to even try using OOP in a context like this, where the parent application is procedural? Or is this just the best approach possible given the inherint limitations of the situation?
Posted on September 11, 2012 by Ian Dunn.	This entry was posted in Standards and Best Practices, WordPress and tagged API, Custom Post Types, Mutable Objects, Object Oriented Programming, Object State, Organization, Procedural Programming, Static Methods. Bookmark the permalink.
Re: So my question is, is it appropriate to use static methods in this way?
My latest approach (https://github.com/iandunn/WordPress-Plugin-Skeleton) doesn't use static methods nearly as often as I discussed in this post, but it does still use them when a method is not tied to an object's state.
It seems to me that if a method can be static (i.e., without causing a fatal error by accessing stateful information), then it should be, because that properly classifies it. Defining it as an instance method when it has no need to act on a specific instance would be inaccurate, even if it is slightly less verbose.


It takes three days to drive from New York to Los Angeles. Heck, it even took Jesus three days to rise from the dead. But design a typeface in three days? Impossible.
Or is it? Our friends over at ADC sponsor Monotype recently put that to the test, in an experiment called Font Marathon. Two of their typeface designers were sequestered in a studio for 72 hours, each one tasked with creating a brand new typeface from start to finish. While this sounds like an exercise in sadomasochism, don't worry: the fonts have been made available to the world for purchase, with all proceeds going to Room to Read, a global non-profit organization that promotes literacy.
ADC chatted with Monotype's Nadine Chahine, the typeface designer who came up with the idea of the Font Marathon, as well as Jim Ford and Toshi Omagari, the two brave souls who took the marathon head-on and lived to tell the tale.
Where did the idea for the Font Marathon come from?
Nadine: Back in November I spent a whole weekend dedicated to designing a full new Arabic typeface. The resulting design, because of the speed required, was of a style that I might not have managed to do if I had not gone for very intuitive solutions. I shared the progress during the whole weekend over social media and the process was so much fun that I proposed that we do this with our designers at Monotype and our bosses accepted.
Nadine: The designer has full freedom and the only restriction was the time to finish: Monday morning to Thursday at lunch time.
Did each designer have any support or help?
Nadine: No, they worked individually, but we thought it would be great to have both of them working in the same room so they could exchange feedback with each other. We had colleagues drop in to take a look, but the designs are by Jim and Toshi only. We did, however, have the production — final font generation and QA — taken care of by our engineering team. This is part of how we do things at Monotype so we kept it that way.
How much preparation happened before the clock started ticking? Did you already know what you wanted to create, or were you starting from scratch?
Jim: Not a lot of preparation, although I did have a good idea of what it would look like. I started with a moodboard, collaged from calligraphy and brush lettering samples that demonstrated these tall, condensed forms. Other than that, I made a sketch and some notes on how to construct the typeface. Having a rough blueprint to begin with, made the execution pretty straightforward.
Toshi: I spent a lot of time coming up with the idea before the marathon. Luckily I could find the idea of uni-width word, but since it required a lot of automation I had written a Python code that does everything except drawing. During then I was also looking for a style that goes well with the idea, and concluded that the reversed stress Roman was the least best. I had everything I needed beforehand, and executed it in three days.
Creating a production ready font in 72 hours in a monumental task. How confident were you with your ability to pull this off?
Jim: I was pretty confident about it, although there were a few times when I felt the pressure of the clock and the camera.
Toshi: It really is a challenging task. While not all styles can be done in three days, some require less time to finish than others do, such as those with less detail, monospaced design — because you don't need to kern it — or unicase, a style whose uppercase and lowercase proportions are the same. Also you will need to skip a lot of glyphs that are normally considered mandatory. I thought three days was enough as long as I used these strategies, but I wanted a little more to avoid being too predictable.
How would you describe the font you created?
Jim: Esca is an ultra-condensed unicase design with touches of calligraphy and brush lettering. Its upbeat, sensual, and I love the vibrant pattern that it creates. Esca is useful in sizes upward of 18 point, and it packs a lot of fun characters per line. I see it as useful for posters, album covers, packaging, logos, headlines and title sequences. Its something that I¹ve wanted as a graphic designer, and I would totally use it.
Toshi: Cowhand is a reversed-stress typeface that sticks to the same width. Lowercase exists to fill the glyph set, but all-cap setting is where the magic happens. I want to see it used for display purposes like posters or magazine spread.
Jim: The people. It was cool to experience the font marathon and its surroundings as a group; commuting, working, eating and laughing together. Nadine, Toshi and myself were on the same schedule all week, and other friendly faces were in the mix, so the company was most memorable.
Toshi: I spent a lot of time finding a good name for the typeface. It was unexpected since I had my perfect idea scrapped immediately, but also great fun discussing with everybody to discover a good name. Steve Matteson, our type director, said it seemed to be taking longer to name a typeface than to make it!
When it was all over, what did you learn about yourself during Font Marathon?
Toshi: I was thinking that a font made in only a few days would be simply a lesser version of what I normally do. That is true in many respects, but there were fun solutions that I improvised purely because of the time frame, where I would've otherwise been too careful or pedantic to approve. Nadine says that you may come up with intuitive solutions in such a limited time, and it was interesting to see them happening to me too.
Jim: I was more in it for the team-building experience; getting to know my colleagues better and seeing what we could produce in the same room. I think relationships are more important than fonts. But it was nice to also make a typeface while we were there! So I learned the value of sharing more of this time and process with my peers.
Will this experience influence your future projects?
Jim: I¹m not sure. They tend to all have different variables. One thing I know is that thinking and planning ahead leaves less decisions to make in execution. That¹s where designs tend to slow down and take longer, to resolve all the details and questions. I like the exercise of making quick decisions and committing to them, then running with them. This typeface was not on my to-do list a few weeks ago, and now it has a story. I won't forget it.
Would you suggest this type of thing as a method of exploration for others?
Toshi: It's a fun exercise but an unlikely scenario in practice. I'd suggest it to those who like challenges and to push their limit. And if you think typeface design can be that easy, I hope you will also try and see it's not.
Would you run this "marathon" again?
Jim: Yes. This is my favorite part of type design: the early stages of exploration, and those first few days making an idea come to life. I¹m curious to try a joint project next.
Toshi: Maybe in my spare time, but not in my company time unless the same setting is given. If a client approaches me and asks to make a typeface in three days because I've done that in the past, the answer is no! (laughs).
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Have you ever wondered how the characters in famous Disney movies and cartoons would like in real life? Their animated faces look like as if they can't exist in real life. Their faces are full with beauty and perfection, so could they even represent how a real face would look? Does an animated face even have the ability to look like a human face? Well, it looks like they can, and wow they all look extremely resembling. Avalonis, an artist, tried to make real-life Disney characters by putting together features from people in real life as references. A Disney face may have someones eyes, another persons nose and someone else's mouth. It's not an easy task to do. And she did some to complete perfection.
The characters you see above from left to right are :Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, Mother Gothel, Tiana, Charlotte La Bouffe, Esmeralda, Frollo, Quasimodo.
Avalonis said there was a lot of photo changing and feature manipulation in the faces. A lot of time was spent trying to make them perfect, and that's no surprise because it can quite the task to find which real-life face has the perfect feature. She worked and worked until she got the perfect features for all the Disney characters and made them look like real people. Some faces she got everything perfect, and in some she had problems because of quite a few Disney characters are "ridiculously proportioned".
This is not an easy task, a lot of these Disney faces pull off beauty to perfection and have features that a human face would be unable to have. The artist deserves high praise for researching and going through probably thousands of faces to get each and every proper feature for each face. Here are all the Disney character's faces she recreated into real life faces. Which ones do you think she did perfect on and which ones are not so perfect? Have a look below, this is the complete compilation of the artistic masterpiece.


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package pl.pkk82.filehierarchyassert;

import org.junit.Test;

public class FileHierarchyAssertHasCountOfSubdirsRegexTest extends AbstractFileHiearchyAssertTest {

	@Test
	public void shouldSuccedForOneLevelPath() {
		givenFileHierarchyAssert(NameMatcherType.REGEX);
		whenHasCountOfSubdir(8, "dir\\d");
		thenAssertionIsSucceeded();
	}

	@Test
	public void shouldSuccedForTwoLevel() {
		givenFileHierarchyAssert(NameMatcherType.REGEX);
		whenHasCountOfSubdir(4, "dir\\d", "dir\\d2");
		thenAssertionIsSucceeded();
	}

	@Test
	public void shouldSuccedForTwoLevelCombination() {
		givenFileHierarchyAssert();
		whenHasCountOfSubdirsRegex(4, "dir\\d", "dir\\d{2}");
		thenAssertionIsSucceeded();
	}

	@Test
	public void shouldFailWhenInvalidCount() {
		givenFileHierarchyAssert();
		whenHasCountOfSubdirsRegex(5, "dir\\d", "dir\\d2");
		thenAssertionIsFailed().hasMessage(String.format("\nExpecting:\n <%s>\n <%s>\nto contain:\n <5> directories\n" +
								"but contains:\n <4> directories\n <%s>\n <%s>\n <%s>\n <%s>\n",

						preparePath("dir1", "dir12"),
						preparePath("dir2", "dir22"),

						preparePath("dir2", "dir22", "dir221"),
						preparePath("dir2", "dir22", "dir221", "dir2211"),
						preparePath("dir2", "dir22", "dir221", "dir2211", "dir22111"),
						preparePath("dir2", "dir22", "dir221", "dir2211", "dir22111", "dir221111"))
		);
	}

	@Test
	public void shouldFailWhenNoDirectory() {
		givenFileHierarchyAssert(NameMatcherType.REGEX);
		whenHasCountOfSubdir(1, "dir1", "dir1\\d", "dir111");
		thenAssertionIsFailed().hasMessage(String.format("\nExpecting:\n <%s>\n <%s>\n" +
						"to contain a directory with a name matching to:\n <dir111>,\n" +
						"but they contain:\n <no directories>\n",
				preparePath("dir1", "dir11"),
				preparePath("dir1", "dir12")));
	}

	private void whenHasCountOfSubdir(int count, String... path) {
		try {
			fileHierarchyAssert.hasCountOfSubdirs(count, path);
		} catch (AssertionError e) {
			handleAssertionError(e);
		}
	}

	private void whenHasCountOfSubdirsRegex(int count, String... path) {
		try {
			fileHierarchyAssert.hasCountOfSubdirs(count, NameMatcherType.REGEX, path);
		} catch (AssertionError e) {
			handleAssertionError(e);
		}
	}
}

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Q: How do automatically discard duplicate messages in activemq I have a configuration in my activemq broker to not forward the messages to .DLQ queue.
       <destinationPolicy>
            <policyMap>
              <policyEntries>
              <policyEntry queue=">">
                <!--
                    Tell the dead letter strategy not to process expired messages
                    so that they will just be discarded instead of being sent to
                    the DLQ
                -->
                    <deadLetterStrategy>
                        <sharedDeadLetterStrategy processExpired="false" />
                    </deadLetterStrategy>
                </policyEntry>
              </policyEntries>
            </policyMap>
        </destinationPolicy>

But still am getting the messages to store in .DLQ queue.

When I tried to view the messages those stored in .DLQ I can see some additional attributes shows the below reason
dlqDeliveryFailureCause java.lang.Throwable: duplicate from store for queue://xxxxxx
Is there any way to discard the duplicate message to not send to .DLQ queue in activemq.

A: Duplicate from store messages can occur when there is high contention on the queue-- usually from a large number of consumers with high prefetch and page size on the queue.
The broker is paging in messages as fast as possible for each consumer. The queue's dupe detection then filters these dupes out and pushes a copy to the DLQ as a way to inform you that you have contention.
I added a new config flag in (5.17.x) that disables the messages from going to the DLQ and instead adds a counter so you are able to observe when this occurs.
set: sendDuplicateFromStoreToDLQ="false"
In 5.18.x, "false" will be the default value.
The "fix" is to lower the contention on the queue by tuning the consumer count + prefetch + pageSize settings settings so this occurs less frequently -- or (ideally) not at all


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Editorial: Legislature plays with people's lives
Medicaid delay is politics at its worst.
· May 22, 2014 4:13 pm
Leaders of the Utah Legislature are playing power politics with the lives of the politically powerless. To call it disgraceful is an understatement.
Already months behind the curve, and several other states, in implementing the expansion of Medicaid as called for under the Affordable Care Act, House Speaker Becky Lockhart and other top Republicans continue to drag their feet. As a result, some 111,000 Utah residents will continue to go without health coverage for maybe a year and a half.
If, that is, they ever get it.
Lawmakers' latest obstructionist act was to say Wednesday that the Legislature isn't interested in using a special session to approve even the watered-down version of Medicaid proposed by Gov. Gary Herbert and being negotiated with federal officials. Any vote may not come until after the November elections, or even in the next regular session next January.
Add in the time it would take even an efficient, motivated bureaucracy to put the policy into practice, and it could be late 2015 before households with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid under the old rules and too low to buy coverage in the federal, tax-subsidized marketplaces would have access to the kind of health care that the citizens of every civilized nation on earth are assured.
While the lawmakers fiddle, people's lives burn.
An indeterminate number of our fellow Utahns — relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers — will get sick, stay sick, miss work, miss school, decline and die because the only way for elected officials to be taken seriously in this state is to take firm and heartless stands against anything offered by the federal government in general and President Obama in particular.
In a reasonable society, Herbert's compromise plan would be rejected out of hand. Here, it's the best we can hope for.
Instead of simply expanding Medicaid, pumping millions of federal dollars into the state's economy and creating thousands of jobs, the governor wants to follow an alternate path. It is a hybrid plan that would focus on ensuring that health insurance companies will continue to receive their cut even as families in need will have to grovel just a bit more, through an additional layer of bureaucracy tasked with assessing people's worthiness for receiving what they need.
A new study from the Utah Health Policy Project, demonstrating that two-third of those who will continue to live in the health care gap are working and trying to make ends meet, should make a difference in the way our leaders look at this issue. But it won't.
The fact that Utah lawmakers are making life-and-death decisions — for others' lives — out of a need to deprive Obama of a success is bad enough. The fact that they seem equally determined to frustrate Herbert's plans is just abominable.


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Over the past several years our children have studied, explored, and enjoyed delving deep into science concepts using the Apologia Young Explorer series by Jeannie Fulbright. I like the author's tone in which she writes directly to the kids, how there are hands on experiments and 'try this' areas throughout the chapters, the biblical worldview and young earth creation focus throughout each text, and the depth that each book in the Exploring Creation series provides – not just lots of surface level ideas.
We also utilize Apologia's corresponding science journals, especially for our upper elementary aged kids, with great success. The upper level journals provide note taking spaces, copywork, vocabulary crosswords, and cut apart booklets or lapbook type sheets for each chapter – all of which help our kids to develop more focused attention and to solidify and review the science concepts being studied.
For a few of the books, I have found it beneficial to create a notebook just with our youngest learners in mind. Please hop over to Hubbard's Cupboard and take a peek! They love having a notebook designed just for them that they can use to engage with the science concepts at their own level as their older siblings work in the Apologia journals.
The notebooks can be used fully, in conjunction with the Apologia books (our first choice =) ), or pick and choose a few pages to print and use to support and enhance your own theme/science learning!


Thanks to Bollywood, item numbers have gained huge popularity in contemporary cinema. Even some Pakistani film-makers have jumped onto the bandwagon because of the cultural similarities between the audiences of the two countries.
According to Jami, the main issue is that no one else seems to have a problem with the concept. "Item numbers are one of the reasons misogyny has increased in conservative countries like India." Jami has provoked Pakistan's film fraternity into re-thinking over item numbers and what they do for cinema as a whole.
Nonetheless, Sarmad believes this debate should cover more than just item songs. "It's not even only about item numbers. I have a problem with everything that's done in films and TV to merely objectify someone," he asserted.
As far as Jami's statements go, Beyg said he didn't have the right to tell anyone what not to do. "Everyone has the right to express themselves the way they want and I can't tell someone not to put in item numbers, even though I don't agree with them. Regarding what Jami said, I think he gave a very generic statement because it's not about item numbers but rather selling vulgarity," said the Jawaani Phir Nahi Aani helmer.
"So a dance number purposefully done is not the issue, but if the film-maker's sole purpose of it is selling the film, then there is a problem. Jami mustn't generalise and put all film-makers in one category but highlight other forms of vulgarity as well.
Lollywood veteran Syed Noor has a contrasting opinion on the matter. "I am in support of item numbers because when a girl dances in the rain, the audience enjoys it. It increases the recall value of the song and the film itself," thedirector said at a recently held panel discussion. He was of the opinion that item numbers were an old phenomenon, citing the original Zaalima Coca Cola Pila De song by Noor Jehan as an item number.
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Divya Narendra
American businessman (born 1982)
Narendra in 2011
(1982-03-18) March 18, 1982 (age 40)
The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Harvard University (AB)
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Divya Narendra (/nəˈrɛndrə/; born March 18, 1982) is an American businessman. He is the CEO and co-founder of SumZero along with Harvard classmate Aalap Mahadevia. He also co-founded HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) with Harvard University classmates Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss.
Divya Narendra was born in the Bronx, New York and raised in Bayside, Queens, the eldest son of immigrant doctors from India, Sudhanshu Narendra and Dharamjit Narendra Kumar, of Sands Point, New York.[1][2][3] Narendra graduated from Townsend Harris High School in Flushing, Queens before attending Harvard University in 2000, from which he graduated in applied mathematics in 2004.[1][4][5]
SumZero[edit]
SumZero is an investment community founded by Divya Narendra and Aalap Mahadevia.[6]
ConnectU[edit]
Main article: ConnectU
ConnectU (originally Harvard Connection) was a social networking website launched on May 21, 2004,[7] that was founded by Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Narendra in December 2002.[8] Users could add people as friends, send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.[9][10] In November 2003, the Winklevosses and Narendra approached Mark Zuckerberg about joining the HarvardConnection team, who later turned Harvard Connection into Facebook, leading to several lawsuits.
On February 6, 2004, the Winklevosses and Narendra first learned of thefacebook.com while reading a press release in the Harvard student newspaper The Harvard Crimson.[11] According to Gao, who looked at the HarvardConnection code afterward, Zuckerberg had left the HarvardConnection code incomplete and non-functional, with a registration that did not connect with the back-end connections.[10] On February 10, 2004, the Winklevosses and Narendra sent Zuckerberg a cease and desist letter.[12][13] They also asked the Harvard administration to act on what they viewed as a violation of the university's honor code and student handbook.[14] They lodged a complaint with the Harvard Administrative Board and university president Larry Summers; however, both viewed the matter to be outside the university's jurisdiction.[15] President Summers advised the HarvardConnection team to take their matter to the courts.[16]
In popular culture[edit]
Narendra is portrayed by Max Minghella in The Social Network (2010), a film directed by David Fincher about the founding of Facebook. Narendra is of Indian ancestry, while Minghella is of Italian and Chinese ancestry. Narendra said that he was "initially surprised" to see himself portrayed by a non-Indian actor but also said that "Max did a good job in pushing the dialogue forward and creating a sense of urgency in what was a very frustrating period."[17]
^ a b Chhabra, Aseem (2010-10-15). "Facebook Wars: Facebook was his idea!". Bangladesh Abroad.
^ "Phoebe White, Divya Narendra". The New York Times. 2017-06-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
^ Ravindran, Shruti (2010-10-10). "Facebooked". bazpur, uttrakhand, Indian Express.
^ Fowler, Geoffrey (2010-10-11). "Creative license of 'Social Network'". Wall Street Journal.
^ "Divya LinkedIn".
^ "Interview with Divya Narendra, CEO of SumZero". Archived from the original on 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
^ Bombardieri, Marcella (2004-09-17). "Online Adversaries: Rivalry between college-networking websites spawns lawsuit". The Boston Globe.
^ Pontin, Jason (2007-08-12). "Who owns the concept if no one signs the papers?". The New York Times.
^ Cassidy, John (2006-05-15). "Me Media: How hanging out on the Internet became big business". The New Yorker.
^ a b McGinn, Timothy (2004-05-28). "Online facebooks duel over tangled web of authorship". The Harvard Crimson.
^ O'Brien, Luke (2007-12-03). "Polking Facebook". 02138 Magazine.
^ Glenn, Malcolm (2007-07-27). "For now, Facebook foes continue fight against site". The Harvard Crimson.
^ Stadtmiller, Mandy (2010-09-15). "Facebook's worst enemies". The New York Post. Archived from the original on 2010-10-09.
^ Hale, David (2004-10-06). "Facebook faces litigation over design concept". The Daily Orange. Archived from the original on 2010-11-20.
^ Sharif, Shirin (2004-08-05). "Harvard grads face off against thefacebook.com". The Stanford Daily. Archived from the original on 2010-06-18.
^ Maugeri, Alexander (2004-09-20). "TheFacebook.com faces lawsuit". The Daily Princetonian. Archived from the original on 2012-07-24. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
^ Divya Narendra on being a Wildcat, The Social Network and his suit against Facebook Archived 2010-11-15 at the Wayback Machine. North by Northwestern. Retrieved on 2012-09-16.
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by Monica Whitlock, Land Beyond The River Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Land Beyond The River books, Along the banks of the river once called Oxus lie the heartlands of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Catapulted into the news by events in Afghanistan, just across the water, these strategically important, intriguing and beautiful countries remain almost completely unknown to the outside world. In this book, Monica Whitlock goes far beyond the headlines. Using eyewitness accounts, unpublished letters and firsthand reporting, she enters into the lives of the Central Asians and reveals a dramatic and moving human story unfolding over three generations. There is Muhammadjan, called 'Hindustani', a diligent seminary student in the holy city of Bukhara until the 1917 revolution tore up the old order. Exiled to Siberia as a shepherd and then conscripted into the Red Army, he survived to become the inspiration for a new generation of clerics. Henrika was one of tens of thousands of Poles who walked and rode through Central Asia on their way to a new life in Iran, where she lives to this day. Then there were the proud Pioneer children who grew up in the certainty that the Soviet Union would last forever, only to find themselves in a new world that they had never imagined. In Central Asia, the extraordinary is commonplace and there is not a family without a remarkable story to tell. Land Beyond the River is both a chronicle of a century and a clear-eyed, authoritative view of contemporary events.
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by Ann Hagedorn, Beyond The River Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Beyond The River books, Beyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad. From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you can see five bends in the Ohio River. You can see the hills of northern Kentucky and the rooftops of Ripley's riverfront houses. And you can see what the abolitionist John Rankin saw from his house at the top of that hill, where for nearly forty years he placed a lantern each night to guide fugitive slaves to freedom beyond the river. In Beyond the River, Ann Hagedorn tells the remarkable story of the participants in the Ripley line of the Underground Railroad, bringing to life the struggles of the men and women, black and white, who fought "the war before the war" along the Ohio River. Determined in their cause, Rankin, his family, and his fellow abolitionists—some of them former slaves themselves—risked their lives to guide thousands of runaways safely across the river into the free state of Ohio, even when a sensational trial in Kentucky threatened to expose the Ripley "conductors." Rankin, the leader of the Ripley line and one of the early leaders of the antislavery movement, became nationally renowned after the publication of his Letters on American Slavery, a collection of letters he wrote to persuade his brother in Virginia to renounce slavery. A vivid narrative about memorable people, Beyond the River is an inspiring story of courage and heroism that transports us to another era and deepens our understanding of the great social movement known as the Underground Railroad.
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by Sharon Kay Penman, The Land Beyond The Sea Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Land Beyond The Sea books, From the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sharon Kay Penman comes the story of the reign of King Baldwin IV and the Kingdom of Jerusalem's defense against Saladin's famous army. The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as Outremer, is the land far beyond the sea. Baptized in blood when the men of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem from the Saracens in the early twelfth century, the kingdom defined an utterly new world, a land of blazing heat and a medley of cultures, a place where enemies were neighbors and neighbors became enemies. At the helm of this growing kingdom sits young Baldwin IV, an intelligent and courageous boy committed to the welfare and protection of his people. But despite Baldwin's dedication to his land, he is afflicted with leprosy at an early age and the threats against his power and his health nearly outweigh the risk of battle. As political deception scours the halls of the royal court, the Muslim army--led by the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, Saladin--is never far from the kingdom's doorstep, and there are only a handful Baldwin can trust, including the archbishop William of Tyre and Lord Balian d'Ibelin, a charismatic leader who has been one of the few able to maintain the peace. Filled with drama and battle, tragedy and romance, Sharon Kay Penman's latest novel brings a definitive period of history vividly alive with a tale of power and glory that will resonate with readers today.
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by Karolyn Smardz Frost, I Ve Got A Home In Glory Land Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download I Ve Got A Home In Glory Land books, It was the day before Independence Day, 1831. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be "sold down the river" to the slave markets of New Orleans, young Thornton Blackburn planned a daring—and successful—daylight escape from Louisville. But they were discovered by slave catchers in Michigan and slated to return to Kentucky in chains, until the black community rallied to their cause. The Blackburn Riot of 1833 was the first racial uprising in Detroit history. The couple was spirited across the river to Canada, but their safety proved illusory. In June 1833, Michigan's governor demanded their extradition. The Blackburn case was the first serious legal dispute between Canada and the United States regarding the Underground Railroad. The impassioned defense of the Blackburns by Canada's lieutenant governor set precedents for all future fugitive-slave cases. The Blackburns settled in Toronto and founded the city's first taxi business. But they never forgot the millions who still suffered in slavery. Working with prominent abolitionists, Thornton and Lucie made their home a haven for runaways. The Blackburns died in the 1890s, and their fascinating tale was lost to history. Lost, that is, until a chance archaeological discovery in a downtown Toronto school yard brought the story of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn again to light.
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Budapest, March 11 (MTI) – Government borrowing next year will be restricted to investments and will not be used to run the state, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday.
This is the only way to balance the budget, Orbán said at an event organised by the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MKIK).
Orbán said Hungarian economic policy aimed at lifting growth to above 3 percent and an attempt would be made this year to reach this threshold.
"Bureaucrats will be put to work on the economy," Orbán said.
The prime minister insisted that wage hikes must only be paid for with real money.
Noting the European Union's censure of Hungary's unified voucher system, he said a solution was for employers to convert vouchers into cash payments from Jan. 1, next year. Salaries are taxed in two ways: payrolls are fully-taxed while vouchers are partially-taxed, he said. Converting vouchers into cash will make the system more transparent and it is the only way to raise wages at a faster clip than economic growth, the prime minister said. But the state will not be obliged to pay pensions on the part of wages that enjoyed a tax preference that applies to vouchers.
At the same time, Orbán said he was alert to the danger of companies creatively reclassifying basic wages and putting a larger part into the preferentially taxed category.
On the subject of fostered work, Orbán said there were around 200,000 people unable to join the workforce even as fostered workers. By 2017, however, the Hungarian economy will have the capacity to generate the resources to fund a job for everyone. For those who are in no condition to work in the fostered work scheme, a new one will be created with even lighter requirements. He said as a result of the fostered work scheme, fewer people are in prisons and children have better parental role models.
Addressed the issue of young people taking up jobs abroad, he said it was impossible to prevent "the brave and enterprising" from trying their luck abroad. The issue was rather whether they would come home. This requires an adequate economic policy, he said.


$250.00 should include two remotes with nunchucks partly because the Wii is supposed to be a family console and a family has more than one person!
The remotes are probably very expensive: Bluetooth wireless, 3D motion detection, 3D spacial coordinates, speaker, and memory. Yet $60.00 for the pair is expensive. They should sell these things at a loss if it comes to it.
November 19th launch. It's very odd that they are launching after the Sony PS3 (although only by a few days). It may be a brilliant move since Sony will spend tons of money for advertising and perhaps all the parents remember is that there's a new gaming console coming out. Also as it they both come out the press will be all over it comparing and contrasting the two (more free advertising).
The article complains that the photo viewer is useless, and perhaps he's right. However, since it's connected to the internet, if they allow you to plug into sites like Flickr.com it would be brilliant. My mom might be interested in buying a $250.00 device to see pictures of her grandson on TV. We will have to see, there no hint that this capability will be available.


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No Coverage for a Multi-District Class Action Litigation Where All Claims Were First Made or Related Back to Claims First Made Prior to the Policy Period
Applying Michigan law, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has held that an art gallery's professional liability insurance policy does not afford coverage for a multi-district class action litigation because some of the claims asserted were first made before the policy period and the remaining claims related back to those uncovered claims. Park West Galleries, Inc. v. Ill. Nat'l Ins. Co., 2013 WL 6095482 (E.D. Mich. Nov. 20, 2013).
The art gallery purchased a miscellaneous professional liability policy for the claims-made-and-reported policy period of October 31, 2008 to October 31, 2009, with a retroactive date of October 31, 2008. Prior to the policy's inception, the art gallery had been named as a defendant in four separate class actions alleging that the gallery acted wrongfully in connection with the sale and appraisal of certain artwork. After the policy incepted, customers filed several additional class actions lawsuits against the gallery based on similar allegations. Ultimately, six of the class actions were consolidated into a multi-district class action litigation. Following a settlement of the multi-district litigation, the art gallery sought defense and indemnity coverage for the six consolidated cases from the carrier.
In the coverage litigation that followed, the court first considered the applicability of an exclusion in the policy for claims "arising out of any wrongful act which occurred prior to the retroactive date." The insurer argued that the exclusion applied because the named plaintiffs in each of the six underlying class actions alleged wrongful acts that occurred prior to October 31, 2008. The court rejected this argument, reasoning that putative class members other than the named plaintiffs could have alleged wrongful acts that occurred after the retroactive date, such that the exclusion did not relieve the insurer of its duty to defend.
The court nonetheless held that a number of other terms and conditions in the policy barred coverage for the six consolidated cases. First, the court concluded that two of the consolidated cases were filed prior to the policy's inception date and therefore were not first made within the policy period. Second, the court held that, although the named plaintiffs in the third action did not file suit until after the policy incepted, the same group of plaintiffs had sent pre-inception correspondence to the art gallery stating that 1. they were not able to resell the paintings they had purchased from the gallery "at a good price"; 2. that they wanted to settle the matter "in a fair way"; and 3. that they had retained attorneys and would likely be suing the gallery for damages. Because the court determined that this correspondence constituted a "claim"—defined by the policy as a "demand for money or services, including a suit, arising from your wrongful act"—the court likewise concluded that the third case asserted a claim that was first made outside the policy period.
Finally, the court held that the three remaining cases fell within an exclusion in the policy barring coverage for any claim "first made against you prior to, or pending as of, the first inception date, or relating to the essential facts, circumstances or situation underlying such claim." The court observed that the term "relating to" is generally "interpreted very broadly in this context." Applying this broad definition, the court determined that the three remaining cases involve "similar issues of fact and law" as the other, uncovered cases—as is required for consolidation into a multi-district proceeding. Accordingly, the court held that the related claims exclusion precluded coverage for the final three cases.
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