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James Fenimore Cooper
American Entrapments: Taxonomic Capture in James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie
Antoine Traisnel
Novel (1 May 2016) 49 (1): 26–48.
...Antoine Traisnel This essay probes the complex entanglements of vision and capture in James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie . It argues that the economic model and epistemic regime of "capture" that emerges at the turn of the nineteenth century hinges on a taxonomic power—broadly defined as a method...
"Vaulted Over by the Present": Melancholy and Sovereignty in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Jonathan Elmer
Novel (1 August 2009) 42 (2): 355–359.
...Jonathan Elmer In 1826, Mary Shelley published The Last Man and James Fenimore Cooper published The Last of the Mohicans . Cooper's novel uses the themes of mourning and extinction as a way of imagining the sequential unfolding in space-time that twenty years later would be labeled Manifest Destiny...
The Consular Service and US Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne Abroad
Amanda Claybaugh
...Amanda Claybaugh It is a surprising fact of literary history that many of the most important nineteenth-century authors served, at some point in their careers, as US consul. The list of these authors includes James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, James Russell Lowell, William Dean Howells...
Willa Cather's Rewriting of the Historical Novel in Death Comes for the Archbishop
Enrique Lima
...Enrique Lima The historical novels of Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, and countless others have been interested primarily in exploiting the dramatic potential of historical events and the significant real and fictional personalities that took part in them. These writers are concerned...
The Right to Mobility in Adventure Fiction
Margaret Cohen
... (Summer 2001 ): 173 -202. Defoe , Daniel . Robinson Crusoe . Ed. Shinagel Michael. New York: Norton, 1994 . New York Mirror (1824). "Review of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot." In James Fenimore Cooper: The Critical Heritage . Ed. Dekker George and P. McWilliams John. New York...
Sympathetic Racialism
MARION RUST
Novel (1 August 2007) 40 (1-2): 190–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.040010190
... biological basis soon to be unequivocally posited for race (25). In contradistinction to much current work opposing male-authored to female-authored frontier romances, he argues that novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child and Catharine Maria Sedgwick progressively fos- tered racism, as...
Provincial Trading
Jon Klancher
..., Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In seven closely argued chapters, Rezek offers some important rethinking of the "provincial" as a literary category, how to conceive the transatlantic as more than a one-way traffic in cultural production in the nineteenth century, and why...
Experimenting with Public Opinion
Lucy Hartley
Novel (1 May 2017) 50 (1): 141–145.
... fictions by Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs, and James Fenimore Cooper are cast as "thought experiments on the new democratic reality" (20). The phrase "thought experiments" may be familiar to readers of Margolis's first book...
Emigrants and Entrepreneurs
Novel (1 November 2016) 49 (3): 546–549.
... floated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey in 1794. This too was a very bookish operation, one inspired by Thomas Cooper's Some Information Respecting America (1794), a rival to Imlay's book, which set out to undermine the appeal of Kentucky in favor of a part of Pennsylvania over which...
Written All Over the Face
Siân Silyn Roberts
... novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville in chapters 5 and 6, respectively, Lukasik considers why the discourse of genteel distinction persists through the antebellum period even after "civil- ity" has been theoretically democratized and physiognomy itself was being challenged by "more...
A Different Formalism
Samuel Otter
... of human cognition and action. Yet she does not explain whether her terms are appropriate for other writers in the period, known for their fascina- tions with subjectivity (such as Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Frederick Douglass) or with history (such as James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine...
Empiricist Fictions, Fictions of Empiricism
Edward Larkin
... strike Dalley's reader as a strange claim to make about a genre generally regarded as an alternative to the historical narratives produced by empirically oriented historians. Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, and other early novelists known for writing in the form were certainly interested in...
Is There An Early American Novel?
LEONARD TENNENHOUSE
Novel (1 August 2007) 40 (1-2): 5–17.
...: U of California P, 1957 . Is There An Early American Novel? LEONARD TENNENHOLJSE As scholars from Leslie Fiedler to Philip Fisher have demonstrated, James Fenimore Cooper's frontier fiction lends itself to allegorical readings about the founding of a nation at once masculine...
Maritime Novelism
Gretchen J. Woertendyke
... of Robinson Crusoe, James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot, and Milton's Paradise Lost. The opening chapter takes the mariner's craft, "the ethos performed and celebrated by sea adventure fiction" (Cohen 16), as that which is most perfectly realized in the "Compleat Mariner" figure of Captain...
The Geography of Violence: Historical Fiction and the National Question
SIMON EDWARDS
... . Calvino , Italo . "Manzoni's The Betrothed: The Novel of Ratios of Power." The Uses of Literature . Trans. Patrick Creagh. London: Harcourt, 1986 . 196 –212. Cooper , James Fenimore . The Deerslayer . 1841. New York: Penguin, 1987 . Cooper , James Fenimore . The Last of the...
What Kind of History Does a Theory of the Novel Require?
Jonathan Arac
... we feel to be deep facts about works that lay beyond Lukács's ken. I have no evidence that 192	novel | summer 2009 Lukács ever knew much of American literature beyond James Fenimore Cooper (whose work he discussed in The Historical Novel), and The Great Gatsby and Absa- lom...
"Out of the Medium in Which Books Breathe": The Contours of Formalism and the Golden Bowl
... such as Charles Brockden Brown and James Fenimore Cooper. Such pictorial incoherence came, in part, from a refusal to reconcile detailed observations of the American landscape with generalized, neoclassical notions of the aesthetic which led to implicit leaps from the quotidian...
Melancholy, Race, and Sovereign Exemption in Early American Fiction
... . Durham: Duke UP, 2005 . Cooper , James Fenimore . The Prairie . 1827. Ed. Blake Nevius. Harmonsdworth: Penguin, 1987 . Deleuze , Gilles , and Félix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia . 1972. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane Minneapolis: U of...
Terraforming for Urbanists
... terraforming urban ecology urban literature speculative fiction When we think of "the land" and its literary representations, what usually comes to mind are the rural landscapes of Thomas Hardy or Willa Cather, the wild landscapes of James Fenimore Cooper, the social meanings of land ownership in the...
Sheppard Lee and the Properties of the Novel in America
Leila Mansouri
... novel tradition. These critics could not share John C. Calhoun's joy that the United States "ha[d] been spared 'artificial and separate classes of society'" ("Fort Hill Letter," 1831, qtd. in Wilentz 377 ). They worried instead, as James Fenimore Cooper did, that their dispersed and democratized...


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Q: java8, optional.orElse() not working but optional.orElseGet() work This is my code:
return repository.findFirstByFxDateAndTransCurrAndCrdhldBillCurr(
            LocalDate.parse(request.getDate()), request.getTransactionCurrency(), request.getBillingCurrency())
            .orElse(getCurrencyExchangeRateFromApi(request));

it not work, but I update .orElse to .orElseGet
return repository.findFirstByFxDateAndTransCurrAndCrdhldBillCurr(
            LocalDate.parse(request.getDate()), request.getTransactionCurrency(), request.getBillingCurrency())
            .orElseGet(() -> getCurrencyExchangeRateFromApi(request));

It's work perfectly, I don't know the reason, is that bug of java8 ?
I try to run again many times, nothing change, but I try to write an small example, optional of String instead of from repository, it's ok too.

A: In .orElse(getCurrencyExchangeRateFromApi(request)), getCurrencyExchangeRateFromApi(request) is always executed (regardless of whether the Optional is empty or not).
In .orElseGet(() -> getCurrencyExchangeRateFromApi(request)), getCurrencyExchangeRateFromApi(request) is only executed if the Optional is empty.
If by "not working" you mean you are getting an exception, perhaps there is a problem with your getCurrencyExchangeRateFromApi(request) method.

A: Just as Eran mentioned, there is a difference between orElse and orElseGet, no matter what the Optional is the method directly invoked in orElse will be executed while the orElseGet will invoke the supplier if and only if the optional is null.
Here is a small demo:
public class TestOptional {
    public static void main(String... args) {
        Optional<String> val = Optional.ofNullable("Hello");
        String s = val.orElse(test());
        System.out.println(s);
        s = val.orElseGet(() -> test());
        System.out.println(s);
    }

    public static String test() {
        System.out.println("Hello world");
        return "hi";
    }
}

Output:
Hello world
Hello
Hello

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module.exports = function (sequelize, DataTypes) {
  var Accesorio = sequelize.define(
    'Accesorio',
    {
      id: {
        type: DataTypes.BIGINT(11),
        primaryKey: true,
        autoIncrement: true,
        comment: 'ID accesorio',
        validate: {
          isNumeric:true,
        }
      },
      objetoCodigo: {
        type: DataTypes.STRING(50),
        allowNull: true,
        defaultValue: null,
        comment: 'Codigo de Objeto'
      },
      relacion: {
        type: DataTypes.STRING(50),
        allowNull: true,
        defaultValue: null,
        comment: 'Relacion'
      }
    },
    {
      instanceMethods: {
        retrieveAll: function (onSuccess, onError) {
          Accesorio.findAll( { } )
          .then(onSuccess).catch(onError);
        },
        retrievePag: function (initial, offsetPage, limitPage, currentPage, onSuccess, onError) {
          Accesorio.findAndCountAll( {
            offset: initial,
            limit: offsetPage
           } )
          .then(onSuccess).catch(onError);
        },
        retrieveById: function (accesorioId, onSuccess, onError) {
          Accesorio.find( { where: { id: accesorioId } }, { raw: true })
          .then(onSuccess).catch(onError);
        },
        add: function (onSuccess, onError) {
          var objetoCodigo = this.objetoCodigo;
          var relacion = this.relacion;

          Accesorio.build({
            objetoCodigo: objetoCodigo, relacion: relacion
          })
          .save().then(onSuccess).catch(onError);
        },

        updateById: function (id, onSuccess, onError) {
          console.log(this.id, this.objetoCodigo, this.relacion);
          Accesorio.update(
            { objetoCodigo: this.objetoCodigo, relacion: this.relacion },
            { where: { id: this.id } }
          )
          .then(onSuccess).catch(onError);
        },

        removeById: function (accesorioId, onSuccess, onError) {
          Accesorio.destroy({ where: { id: accesorioId }})
          .then(onSuccess).catch(onError);
        }
      },
      timestamps: true,
      paranoid: true,
      createdAt: 'fechaCrea',
      updatedAt: 'fechaModifica',
      deletedAt: 'fechaBorra',
      underscore: false,
      freezeTableName:true,
      tableName: 'Accesorios',
      comment: 'Accesorios registradas',
      indexes: [
        {
          name: 'idxObjetoCodigo',
          method: 'BTREE',
          unique: false,
          fields: ['objetoCodigo']
        },
        {
          name: 'idxRelacion',
          method: 'BTREE',
          unique: false,
          fields: ['relacion']
        }
      ]
    }
  );
  return Accesorio;
};

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The timestamps on topic-titlebars, and in posts, are both given in "GMT" eg, "Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:33:45 GMT" But UTC is the usual 'standard/default' time given in all other areas of the interface.
bzimport set Reference to bz59919.
In particular it should be using mediawiki's localization functions (So you know, it works properly in non-english languages), not RFC2822 format.
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/flow/cards/709, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.
This was working, but now Flow content is displaying timestamps in a fixed M/D/YYYY format, and in Pacific timezone.
Well, in no-Js "mode", this still works.
However, it looks like there is no JS support for formatting date/times, at all.
Is this about simply the hover behaviour when i hover over "3 days ago" or something else? Please clarify so I can work on this bug.
Is this about simply the hover behaviour when i hover over "3 days ago"
(But note that the "exact" timestamp is the only one available, after 1 month. I.e. There is no more hover behaviour, after 1 month.
Quiddity added a subscriber: Hhhippo.
Both here and on enwiki, the absolute timestamps I see on mouseover are in my local timezone (UTC+1) and in 12 hour format. My preferences on both wikis are set to show server time (UTC), and all other timestamps (including the example given in the preferences) are in 24 h format, so I'd much like Flow to behave the same.
We confirmed this problem on Portuguese Wikipedia. I have set my preferences to UTC, but I'm seeing the timestamps in local time (UTC-3).
He7d3r added a parent task: T70136: Flow: Timestamps for new posts, often show "negative seconds ago", at first.
Confirmed that this uses the user's timezone preference in non-JS mode, but uses the user's system timezone in JS mode.


Hi. I've worn skirts to hike in warm, wet and winter weather. I made my own waterproof overskirt and use either a cotton or wool base skirt depending on weather. I find knee length best and use legwarmers or base layer leggings to keep warm when needed.
The struggle is to find the right kind of skirt and I would like one made from either lightweight or heavier duty fabric used in shorts or trousers so could dispense with overskirt for all but very bad weather conditions. Currently cannibalizing a pair of shorts I've never worn.


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Home News Worldwide Hotels snaps up Singaporean asset for S$276.2m
City View Holdings, a subsidiary of hotel chain Worldwide Hotels, has snapped up a prime commercial property in Singapore for S$276.2m (US$201.9m), with preliminary plans to develop the site into a hotel.
The Golden Wall Centre sits on a 2,251.9 sq.m. plot of land in the Beach Road/Ophir-Rochor Corridor, according to a statement from advisor Edmund Tie & Company.
The corner site has high visibility along the main thoroughfare of Rochor Canal Road, as well as Short Street and Albert Street.
"With its strategic city fringe location, prominent triple frontage and proximity to the arts, heritage and cultural districts, Golden Wall Centre is ideal for a hotel development," said Swee Shou Fern, senior director of investment advisory at Edmund Tie & Company.
Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has indicated that a hotel development with a plot ratio of 4.88, reflecting an 11,007 sq.m. gross floor area, could be allowed.
The property has access to the Downtown and North East underground lines, situated on the doorstep of the Rochor underground MRT station and near the Little India MRT interchange.
Allianz RE nabs stake in Singapore's Ocean Financial Centre for S$537.3m

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This kit is also tempting, love it.


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Saturday May 7, 2011 8:57 AM (EST+7)
UN urges Israel not to withhold Palestinian funds
Read more: Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, unity, reconciliation, Hamas-Fateh conflict, Fateh-Hamas conflict, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu
UNITED NATIONS, May 6 (Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday that Israel should not withhold tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority following its unity deal with Hamas.
The Secretary-General ... noted that Palestinian unity is a process which is just beginning now, and thus, it would be best to assess it as it moves forward, the UN press office said in a statement summarizing Ban's telephone call with Netanyahu.
He also urged Israel not to stop transferring tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, it said.
Israel on Sunday blocked the transfer of $105 million in customs duties and other levies it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, following a deal to reunite the two rival wings of the Palestinian independence movement.
Palestinians see reconciliation between the secular Fateh and Islamist Hamas as crucial for their drive for an independent state in territories Israel captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Israel has condemned the unity pact as a tremendous blow to peace.
Ban said it was urgent to overcome the impasse in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Continued drifting will not serve the interests of both parties.
(Ban) said he was convinced that realizing a negotiated two-state solution as soon as possible is in the best interest of both the Israeli and Palestinian people, the statement added. He said he hoped Israel will make decisive moves towards a historic agreement with the Palestinians.
He reiterated that the United Nations has consistently supported the idea of Palestinian unity under the leadership of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Eric Walsh)


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Q: Spring data Mongo DB retrieving data : @Document VO returns null I am trying to retrieve data from mongodb via spring framework.
At first I made return type Map<String, Object>, but I decided to change to User value object.
Below is the class for User VO
@Document(collection = "user")
public class User {

    @Id
    @Field(value="id")
    private String id;

    @Field(value="name")
    private String name;

    @Field(value="password")
    private String password;

    @Field(value="professional")
    private String professional;

    @Field(value="email")
    private String email;

    @Field(value="gravatar")
    private String gravatar;

    @PersistenceConstructor
    public User(String id, String name, String password, String professional, String email, String gravatar) {
        super();
        this.id = id;
        this.name = name;
        this.password = password;
        this.professional = professional;
        this.email = email;
        this.gravatar = gravatar;
    }

    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(String id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    public void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
    }

    public String getProfessional() {
        return professional;
    }

    public void setProfessional(String professional) {
        this.professional = professional;
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public String getGravatar() {
        return gravatar;
    }

    public void setGravatar(String gravatar) {
        this.gravatar = gravatar;
    }
};

and Here is @repository to retrieve data
@Repository
public class MongoMemberDao implements CommonDao<String, Map<String, Object>, Exception> {

    @Autowired
    MongoTemplate template;

    final String COLLECTION_NAME = "user";

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> read(String key) throws Exception {
        Query findQuery = new Query();
        findQuery.addCriteria(Criteria.where("id").is(key));
        return template.findOne(findQuery, Map.class, COLLECTION_NAME);
    }

    public User readByDocument(String id) throws Exception {
        Query findOneQuery = new Query();
        findOneQuery.addCriteria(Criteria.where("id").is(id));
        return template.findOne(findOneQuery, User.class, COLLECTION_NAME);
    }
};

read method returns fine, but readByDocument does not(returns null not User instance). I read official document. But I do not get any clue of it.
FYI, The parameter Query looks same for both.
Query: { "id" : "system"}, Fields: null, Sort: null

*

*I want to know why readByDocument returns null
Thanks.
---- Edit
Follow is my Database Config
@Configuration
public class MongoConfig extends AbstractMongoConfiguration {
    private final String MONGO_URL = "127.0.0.1";
    private final Integer MONGO_PORT = 27017;

    @Override
    protected String getDatabaseName() {
        return "tfarm";
    }

    @Override
//  @Bean
    public Mongo mongo() throws Exception {
        return new MongoClient(MONGO_URL, MONGO_PORT);
    }
}

And I added this to WebApplictaionInitializer implement.

A: For current solution
I found follow on official site

*

*A field annotated with @Id (org.springframework.data.annotation.Id)
will be mapped to the _id field.

*A field without an annotation but named id will be mapped to the _id
field.

*The default field name for identifiers is _id and can be customized
via the @Field annotation.

So I changed my VO like...
@Document(collection = "user")
public class User {

    @Id
    private ObjectId _id;

    @Field(value="id")
    private String id;

    @Field(value="name")
    private String name;

    @Field(value="password")
    private String password;

    @Field(value="professional")
    private String professional;

    @Field(value="email")
    private String email;

    @Field(value="gravatar")
    private String gravatar;

    @PersistenceConstructor
    public User(String id, String name, String password, String professional, String email, String gravatar) {
        super();
        this.id = id;
        this.name = name;
        this.password = password;
        this.professional = professional;
        this.email = email;
        this.gravatar = gravatar;
    }

    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(String id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public ObjectId get_id() {
        return _id;
    }

    public void set_id(ObjectId _id) {
        this._id = _id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    public void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
    }

    public String getProfessional() {
        return professional;
    }

    public void setProfessional(String professional) {
        this.professional = professional;
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public String getGravatar() {
        return gravatar;
    }

    public void setGravatar(String gravatar) {
        this.gravatar = gravatar;
    }
};

Added ObjectId. In alternative, just removing @Id annotation works fine too. However
@Id
@Field(value="id")
String id;

will not work. Thanks for help.


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What's the etymology of sound' in 'sound in damages, tort, contract'?
OED:
6. to sound in damages: in legal use, to be concerned only with damages. Also to sound in tort, to sound in contract, etc.
1780 M. Madan Thelyphthora II. 153 There is not one [change] which does not sound in damages, as our lawyers speak.
Which homonym and false cognate listed in Etymonline (below) fits 'sound'? Is this actually a third?
v1: early 13c., sounen "to be audible, produce vibrations affecting the ear," from Old French soner (Modern French sonner) and directly from Latin sonare "to sound, make a noise," "to sound," from PIE *swene-, from root *swen- "to sound." From late 14c. as "cause something (an instrument, etc.) to produce sound." Related: Sounded; sounding.
v2: "fathom, probe, measure the depth of," mid-14c. (implied in sounding), from Old French sonder, from sonde "sounding line," perhaps from the same Germanic source that yielded Old English sund "water, sea" (see sound (n.2)). Barnhart dismisses the old theory that it is from Latin subundare. Figurative use from 1570s. 2. How did 'sound' (v. 1 or 2) semantically shift to mean 'to be concerned only with'?
A couple of examples from English judges
Contract Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (2018 8 ed) p. 93.
...The law simply imposes an obligation on the party who made the request to pay a reasonable sum for such work as has been done pursuant to that request, such an obligation sounding in quasi contract or, as we now say, in restitution.
Anson's Law of Contract (2016 30 ed). p. 180.
In the Investors Compensation Scheme case: [...]
The exclusion from assignment clause, 'Any claim (whether sounding in rescission for undue influence or otherwise)' was interpreted as if it had read, 'Any claim sounding in rescission (whether for undue influence or otherwise)'. This construction meant that only claims for rescission, and not for damages, against the building societies were excluded from the assignment.
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I'd suggest "resonates" followed by a common-law restriction. For example, a claim was resonant for money damages rather than compensation in kind, etc. – Pat W. Apr 20 at 15:48
One possibility is that legal use of sounding arose by working backward from the notion of a case's being "heard" by a court for purposes of resolving a particular claim. Here is the first part of the entry for hearing in Black's Law Dictionary, fourth edition (1968):
HEARING. Proceeding of relative formality, generally public, with definite issues of fact or of law to be tried, in which parties proceeded against have right to be heard, and is much the same as a trial and may terminate in final order. [Citations omitted.] Synonymous with trial, and includes reception of evidence and arguments thereon. [Citation omitted.] It is frequently used in a broader and more popular significance to describe whatever takes place before magistrates clothed with judicial functions and sitting without jury at any stage of the proceeding subsequent to its inception, and may include proceedings before an auditor. [Citations omitted.]
A hearing, understood broadly, is thus a proceeding at which any suit or claim is brought to a magistrate or judge for adjudication. It is no great stretch, then, to suppose that sounding is the aspect of a claim that, under law, merits a hearing by a magistrate. Here is the entry for "sounding in damages" in Black's Law Dictionary:
SOUNDING IN DAMAGES. When an action is brought, not for recovery of lands, goods, or sums of money, (as is the case in real or mixed actions or the personal action of debt or detinue,) but for damages only, as in covenant, trespass, etc., the action is said to be "sounding in damages." [Citations omitted.]
In other words, when a plaintiff brings a case to court for a hearing on the subject of damages, the plaintiff's action "sounds" in the hearing in relation to the subject that the law narrowly deems appropriate for that action. A suit for trespass, for example, would sound in damages (the appropriate compensation for the tort of trespass under law) but would not sound in replevin (recovery of lost goods) because a suit for trespass is not the appropriate action to file if the outcome desired is restoration of unlawfully taken property. The hearing is strictly attuned to the sounding that makes sense in connection with the type of compensation sought.
A second interpretation of sounding arises from a broader notion of "wholeness." This sense of the sound as an adjective receives considerable attention in Noah Webster, A Dictionary of the English Language, volume 2 (1832), which bundles the legal definition of sound in the company of numerous other definitions related to being entire, unbroken, healthy, and nondefective:
SOUND, a. ... 1. Entire; unbroken; not shakey, split or defective; as sound timber. 2. Undecayed; whole; perfect, or not defective; as, sound fruit; a sound apple or melon. 3. Unbroken; not bruised or defective; not lacerated or decayed; as a sound limb. 4. Not carious; not decaying; as, a sound tooth. 5. Not broken or decayed; not defective; as, a sound ship. 6. Whole; entire; unhurt; unmutilated; as, a sound body. 7. Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; having all the organs complete and in perfect action; as, a sound body; sound health; a sound constitution; a sound man; a sound horse. 8. Founded in truth; firm; strong; valid; solid; that cannot be overthrown or refuted; as, sound reasoning; a sound argument; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles. 9. Right; correct; well founded; free from error; orthodox. 2 Tim. i. "Let my heart be sound in thy statutes." Ps. cxix. 10. Heavy; laid on with force; as, sound strokes; a sound beating. 11. Founded in right and law; legal; valid; not defective; that cannot be overthrown; as, a sound title to land; sound justice. 12. Fast; profound; unbroken; undisturbed; as, sound sleep. 13. Perfect, as intellect; not broken or defective; not enfeebled by age or accident; not wild or wandering; not deranged; as, a sound mind; a sound understanding or reason.
Nevertheless, having made a case for the adjective sound as, in legal settings, being allied with notions of rightness and freedom from defects, Webster tucks an explanation of the expression "to sound in damages" under an entry for the verb sound in the sense of emitting audible noise or vocalization:
SOUND, v.i. [1.] To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a particular effect. We say, an instrument sounds well or ill; it sounds shrill; the voice sounds harsh. "And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound." Dryden. 2. To exhibit by sound or likeness of sound. This relation sounds rather like a fiction than a truth. 3. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published. "From you sounded out the word of the Lord." 1 Thess. i. To sound in damages, in law, is when there is no specific value of property in demand to serve as a rule of damages, as in actions of tort or trespass, as distinguished from actions of debt &c. Ellsworth.
It thus appears that Webster, after all, finds the origin of "sounding in damages" not in notions of legal wholeness or rectitude, but in the emitting of something audible. In this respect, an interesting comment posted beneath this answer by EL&U site participant Steve may be pertinent:
I've always thought "sound" in this context is related to the engineering practice of striking something to test its integrity. Something "sounds in damages" means "if tested, will resonate with the remedy of damages". Cf. "Sound/unsound reasoning".
There are indeed several senses of sounding that involve testing the depth or validity of a thing being measured or assessed. But it remains to be demonstrated whether sounding in the legal sense arose from these operations.
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The connection to hearing is no doubt a desirable aspect of the metaphor, but I've always thought "sound" in this context is related to the engineering practice of striking something to test it's integrity. Something "sounds in damages" means "if tested, will resonate with the remedy of damages". Cf. "Sound/unsound reasoning". – Steve May 23 at 9:26
It seems @SvenYargs missed a remote possibility:
Compare reconstructed Proto-Germanic *sundraz "separate, isolated, alone", reflected in English sunder, asunder, sundry, German sondieren, sondern, besonders, absondern., etc. Since our sounding did not make the list, I am less than convinced by my own idea, on phonetic grounds.
It makes sense semantically, at least. Not only are claims for restitution isolated from the main case (at least where the criminal/civil distinction holds, though these may be combined through adhesion), but after holding a claim for damages there might be an incentive to separate the claimed property from the losing party.
Legalese is known to conserve archaic features of language to the point that it becomes incomprehensible. Unless this turn of words was a recent creation, the similarity to modern meanings of sound may be coincidental, or formed by analogy if the original meaning had been all but forgotten.
In the same wane, he preposition in may hold additional information. Ger. Sühne "repenance, atonement" is cognate to sound "whole, healthy" (and Ger. gesund "healed, healthy", gesamt "summed, completed"), indeed, via *swono. In that sense, a connection to sound "sono, noise" at the root level is thinkable, as verbalized appology, ie. repanance. And if we seek and claim damages it is thinkable to repay in damages, though this is fickle.
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Q: Play Framework REST API call I'm new to Play framework, and trying to use JavaWS to make a call to a RESTful API. I've been struggling a lot with it. This is what I have so far:
This code is based on the JavaWS documentation (which I found quite confusing), and is meant to make the request. I think it works by returing a completion stage of an 'ok' result which contains a string that is the result of converting the response to text.
import javax.inject.Inject;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import play.mvc.*;
import play.libs.ws.*;
import java.util.concurrent.*;

import static play.mvc.Results.ok;

public class MyClient implements WSBodyReadables, WSBodyWritables {
    private final WSClient ws;

    @Inject
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        this.ws = ws;
    }

    public CompletionStage<Result> index() {
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}

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A: @rkj had it right:

inject @Inject WSClient ws; in your controller and then pass ws instance to >MyClient class and access it from there. MyClient client = new MyClient(this.ws);

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The Santa Rosa center has served victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse and elder abuse for over 10 years.|
EMILY WILDER
How to reach the Family Justice Center
Operating hours: 8:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m.
Call 707-565-8250, where you can receive resources over the phone or schedule an in-person visit at the center's physical location, 2755 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95403.
After hours, call the 24/7 YWCA domestic violence hotline at 707-546-1234 or the Verity sexual assault hotline at 707-545-7273
Nestled away in a nondescript Santa Rosa building, behind dark tinted glass and a series of locked doors, a collective of organizations works to support, protect and build up Sonoma County's most vulnerable.
The Family Justice Center, located near Mendocino Avenue and Chanate Road, has served victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse and elder abuse for over 10 years.
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The center's services have only become more crucial in recent years. Though domestic violence reports dropped in Sonoma County during the pandemic, international research suggests otherwise, with local advocacy groups arguing that increased fear of consequences explains the downturn in reporting.
At the end of National Crime Victims' Rights Week on Saturday, the center is hosting a resource fair in its parking lot to raise awareness for vital resources it and other agencies provide to the community.
Everything about the Family Justice Center — its location, its design, its approach — is "victim-centered," according to Executive Director Marsha Lucien.
Launched in 2011 by the District Attorney's Office Victim Services Division , the center began in an effort to consolidate resources for survivors of violence, who often struggled with barriers to access. Before the center's inception, Lucien said, it was estimated that people would have to visit 23 different locations to seek the services now provided in one building.
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The District Attorney's Office collaborates with numerous government agencies, nonprofits and community organizations to staff the Family Justice Center — all of them working pro bono for any resident of Sonoma County.
Among those operating out of the building are the YWCA, which provides the center's system navigators, who connect people with the right resources; Redwood Children's Center, for child victims; Verity, for sexual assault survivors; Council on Aging, for victims of elder abuse; Catholic Charities, which handles immigration matters; and the county's homeless outreach team, which helps coordinate emergency and long-term housing for people escaping violence.
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The Day it Snowed in Vietnam
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Carols played in the mess hall and the calendar read "December 24, 1969," but it didn't feel like Christmas Eve. We were tired from a long day of flying many missions picking up infantrymen and recon patrols from field locations, bringing them back to the big airfield at Phan Thiet for the Christmas cease-fire. Gunship helicopters had escorted us because they were usually needed, but today not a shot had been fired in either direction. Soldiers on both sides of this war were glad to allow the cease-fire to start one day early.
It had been a hot day, and even in the evening, after the withering sun had dipped below the horizon, we sat sweltering in tee-shirts in the pilots' hooch. The air was somber. The usual discussions of recent close calls and superior airmanship were subdued by the subject on everyone's mind, but nobody would talk about: the recent loss of four pilots and four crewmen. We joked about the cease-fire and wondered how long it would last. One man predicted that the base would be hit with mortars just before midnight. It seemed there was nothing to celebrate. One pilot tried to change the mood and proclaimed "We have to do something happy! Let's sing Christmas Carols!" But nobody started singing.
Mike Porter, my copilot, finally blurted out, "Let's take up a collection for the Project Concern hospital!" I thought back to the first time I saw the Project Concern hospital at Dam Pao; I was copilot for Ted Thoman. A medic showed us a baby in desperate need of medical care, suffering from convulsions and dehydration. Flying that Huey helicopter at top speed, Ted soon had the baby girl and her parents at the hospital at Dam Pao. That "mission" made me feel good; it had been the only mission, so far, that was not part of making war. The memory was vivid because only hours before we had extracted a recon team under fire. The bullet holes in the aircraft had been counted, but not yet patched.
Mike shook my shoulder to wake me from my reverie. "Hey Jim, let's ask to fly the Da Lat MACV mission tomorrow to take money that we collect tonight." Under his crewcut blonde hair, Mike's boyish face lit up, and I had to remind myself that he was among the older Army helicopter pilots; he was 22. Mike's excitement was contagious--I jumped up, said "Great idea, let's go ask!" and almost ran out the door. We stopped at the crew chiefs' hooch and asked Bascom if he would like to fly tomorrow. He and Dave quickly agreed, also wishing to escape the prevailing sadness.
Major Stringer, the company commander, was in the operations bunker. I explained our plan but he answered: "We don't have the Da Lat MACV mission. In fact, there are no missions; there's a cease-fire tomorrow . . . remember?" I pleaded the cause: "Please, Sir, could you call battalion and see if some other company has Da Lat MACV?" MACV, the Military Assistance Command Vietnam was the US Army unit of advisors to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. One or two US advisors were assigned to small military compounds in almost every large village. A MACV mission usually meant flying the province Senior Advisor around to visit the villages. MACV missions were a respite from the tension and danger of combat assaults or recon team missions, but had their own risks of weather, wind, and being without gunship escort. Flying near the beautiful city of Da Lat, up in the cool mountains, was an additional treat.
The CO picked up the phone and then started writing on a mission sheet form. He handed it to me and said, "Da Lat MACV helipad, oh seven thirty; We took the mission from the 92nd." He opened his wallet, and handed me some money. "Here. Good luck!" When we reached the gunship platoon hooch three pilots looked on sadly as one man raked a pile of money across the table towards himself. We made our sales pitch about the hospital. The lucky gambler pushed the money towards us and said: "Here--take it! I'd just lose it all back to these guys anyway, Merry Christmas!"
Similar responses began to fill our ammo can with money of all denominations as we roamed among hooches and tents, collecting money from men whose generosity made me believe in the Christmas spirit again. At one stop, a pilot gave us a gift package of cheese. Food! We could take food! We decided to make another pass through the company area, asking for cookies, candy, and other foodstuffs. As we left one hooch with our arms full, the men inside began singing "Deck the Halls," and soon those in other buildings were competing. Christmas Eve had arrived in this tropical land of heat and war and death!
When we reached the mess hall, the cooks were still there, preparing for Christmas Day. To our question the mess sergeant replied: "Do you have a truck with you? We have a surplus of food because so many guys went home early." One pilot went to get the maintenance truck while the rest of us sorted cans and cartons of food. We then drove to the infantry mess hall where we accepted four cases of freeze-dried foods. The medic at the dispensary gave us bandages and dressings.
We tied down the huge pile of booty in the Huey. After returning the truck, the four pilots walked together back to our hooch. One looked at his watch and said, "Hey guys! It's midnight, Merry Christmas!"
My alarm clock startled me out of a deep sleep. A check with my wristwatch verified the time, but something was wrong. There was no shouting, no rumble of trucks, no roar of propellers and rotors.
Mornings had always bustled with the sounds of men and machines preparing for the daily business of war, but today there were no such sounds. I thought to myself, "Is this what peace sounds like?" In the shower building, Mike and I talked about what our families would be doing today on the other side of the world. As all short timers do, I reminded Mike that in just two weeks I would be going home, my year in Vietnam over. My wife promised me another Christmas celebration, with decorated tree and wrapped presents. I would be meeting another Mike for the first time, my son, now only a few months old.
After breakfast, the others went to the flight line while I called for a weather briefing. When I reached the helicopter, Mike was doing the preflight inspection and had just climbed up to the top of the Huey. Together, we checked the main rotor hub and the "Jesus nut" that holds the rotor on the helicopter. Everything was fine; we were ready to fly.
We took off and headed for the mountains. It always felt good to fly with this crew; we were a finely tuned team. The rugged and muscular Lee looked every bit like the cartoon cowboy he chose for his nickname "Bad Bascom." He was the crew chief of this Huey and did all the daily maintenance on it; it was his "baby." With Mike as copilot and Dave as door gunner, we had taken that helicopter into and out of many difficult situations, from landing supplies on a windy mountain top to extracting recon teams from small clearings while taking enemy fire. The radio call sign of the 192nd Assault Helicopter Company was Polecat; we were Polecat Three Five Six and proud of it. This day was beginning to feel even better because we were going to use our combat skills for a mission that seemed so unrelated to war.
I decided to climb higher than usual in the smooth morning air. As we left the jungle plains along the coast, the green mountains of the Central Highlands rose up to meet us. On the plateau, a thick blanket of fog lay like cotton under a Christmas tree. It spilled over between the peaks in slow, misty, waterfalls. In the rising sunlight the mountain tops cast long shadows on the fog. The beauty and serenity of the scene were dazzling. Had I noticed this before I think I had, but today the gorgeous scenery wasn't a backdrop for the unexpected horror of war.
The mess hall had been quiet. The airfield was quiet. The radios were quiet. We weren't even chattering on the intercom as we usually did. Our minds were all with different families, somewhere back home, thousands of miles away. Everything was quiet and peaceful. It felt very, very, strange. Was this the first day of a lasting peace, or just the eye in a hurricane of war?
As our main rotor slowed down after we landed at Da Lat, a gray-haired Lieutenant Colonel walked up to the Huey. "Merry Christma, I'm Colonel Beck. We have a busy day planned, my men are spread out all over this province, and we're going to take mail, hot turkey, and pumpkin pies to every one of them!" He handed me a map that had our cross-stitched route already carefully drawn on it. The colonel's distinguished look turned to a big grin as he added, "Oh--would you guys like to have some Donut Dollies with us today?" Four heads with flight helmets were eagerly nodding "YES" as the two young ladies got out of a jeep.
Donut Dollies were American Red Cross volunteers, college graduates in their early twenties. Although no longer distributing donuts like their namesakes of World War II, they were still in the service of helping the morale of the troops. At large bases they managed recreation centers but they also traveled to the small units in the field for short visits. For millions of GI's they represented the girlfriend, sister, or wife back home. Over the Huey's intercom, Colonel Beck introduced Sue, with the short, dark, hair and Ann, a brunette, the taller one.
Soon we were heading towards the mountains with a Huey full of mail, food, Christmas cargo, and two American young women. For the soldiers who had been living off Vietnamese food and canned Army rations at lonely, isolated outposts, these touches of home would be a welcome surprise. As we approached the first compound Colonel Beck, by radio, told the men on the ground that we were going to make it snow. Sue and Ann sprinkled laundry soap flakes out of the Huey as we flew directly over a small group of American and Vietnamese soldiers who must have thought we were crazy. Several of them were rubbing their eyes as we came back to land. I will never know if it was emotion or if they just had soap in their eyes.
The three Americans came over to the Huey as we shut it down. Ann gave each of them a package from the Red Cross and Sue called out names to distribute the mail. After 15 minutes of small talk, Colonel Beck announced, "We have a lot more stops to make" and got back into the Huey. The soldiers stood there silently, staring at us as we started up, hovered, and then disappeared into the sky.
At the next outpost, Colonel Beck left us so he could talk privately with the local officials. The crew and I didn't mind escorting the Donut Dollies. It was easy to see how happy the soldiers were to talk with them. I wondered how Sue and Ann were feeling. Their job was to cheer up other people on what was probably their own first Christmas away from home; if they were lonely or sad, they never let it show. Throughout the day, the same scene was replayed at other small compounds. Some soldiers talked excitedly to the girls, while others would just stand quietly and stare, almost in shock to see American women visiting them out in the boonies.
Finally, with the official MACV work finished, we were above the hospital at Dam Pao. Mike landed us a few hundred feet from the main building. Several men and women came out, carrying stretchers. They showed surprise that we were not bringing a new patient, and then joy when we showed them the food and medical supplies. Mike opened the ammo can full of money and said, "Merry Christmas from the Polecats and Tigersharks of the 192nd Assault Helicopter Company." One of the women began to cry and then hugged Mike.
A doctor asked if we would like to see the hospital. He talked as we carried the goods from the Huey to the one-floor, tin-roof hospital building. "Project Concern now has volunteer doctors and nurses from England, Australia, and the USA. We provide health services to civilians and train medical assistants to do the same in their own villages. We try to demonstrate God's love, so we remain neutral. Both sides respect our work, and leave us alone."
One of the women described a recent event. Two nurses and a medical assistant student were returning from a remote clinic in the jungle when their jeep became mired in mud. Many miles from even the smallest village, they knew that they would not be able to walk to civilization before dark. A Viet Cong foot patrol came upon them, pulled the jeep out of the mud, and sent them on their way.
There were homemade Christmas decorations everywhere; most made on the spot by patients or their families. Inside, the hospital was clean and neat, but stark; there were few pieces of modern equipment. The staff lived in a separate small building.
As we moved into one ward, a nurse gently lifted a very small baby from its bed, and before I could stop her, she placed him in my arms. He'd been born that morning. Although they had expected complications, the mother and baby were perfectly healthy! As I held the tiny infant, I started to tell the others that I would soon be meeting my own baby son, but the words got stuck in my throat. So I just stood there, marveling at the warmth and hope in that tiny new human being nestled peacefully in my arms. Would this child grow up in peace, or would this tiny life be snuffed out by a war that had already claimed thousands of Vietnamese and Americans? Would the deaths of my friends this past year help ensure for him a life of peace and freedom, or had they died in vain?
The staff invited us to stay for supper with them, and I could tell the invitation was sincere. However, the sun was getting low, and I didn't want to fly us home over eighty miles of mountainous jungle in the dark. I also would have felt guilty to take any food, even so graciously offered, from the most selfless people I had ever met. As we started the Huey, the doctors and nurses were about fifty feet away, still talking with Colonel Beck. The Colonel took something out of his wallet and gave it to of one of the men with a double-hand handshake. He then quietly climbed on board.
There was no chatter on the intercom as we flew back to Da Lat. Mike landed the Huey softly. I asked him to shut down and got out quickly. Then we all stood there silently; I wanted to hug Sue and Ann, but I knew Donut Dollies were not allowed to hug. Instead, we all exchanged warm handshakes and Christmas wishes. Colonel Beck thanked us for taking him to the hospital. We, the crew of Polecat 356, got back in and flew away and out of the lives of our new-found friends.
Silence also marked the flight back to Phan Thiet. I thought of my family and friends back home and couldn't wait to see them. I also thought about the good friends I would soon be leaving behind, and other good friends who would never go home to their families. I reflected on the rare nature of the day. I would always be able to remember Christmas Day in Vietnam as very special. Here, in the midst of war, trouble, and strife, was a time of sharing, happiness, love -- and peace.
Epilog: I attended the 1993 dedication of the Vietnam Women's Memorial to place letters of remembrance from the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association. As friendly and helpful as 24 years earlier, other Donut Dollies were eager to help me find Sue and Ann, identified from a photograph I had taken at Dam Pao in 1969. One Donut Dolly finally exclaimed: "That's my sister!" and led me to Ann. I collected on a long-overdue hug. Sue and I talked by telephone a few days later. I felt good to learn that Christmas Day in Vietnam was also special to them.
Project Concern International, 3550 Afton Road San Diego, CA 92123 is still doing similar humanitarian work in Asia and several US cities.
Copyright 1995-2004 Jim Schueckler
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This year's Titans' Cup was a resounding success. Our athletes gained strength and confidence. The Titans' Cup Organizers would like to send our heartfelt thanks to all volunteers who helped to make this tournament a memorable experience for all athletes and coaches. We would like to thank all who raised sponsorships and contributed to the fundraising activities for the Titans Cup in cash or in kind. As a club, we are pleased to report we raised $1,525.00 through sponsorships and $420.00 through the fundraising on the Saturday. This is quite a remarkable figure, given the short planning time of the tournament, and we do thank everyone who helped. These funds will be used to offset the cost of the tournament and to fulfill the sponsorship and fundraising goals of the club.
Running a tournament successfully takes many hands, and we certainly had our share of volunteers. The set up and take down of equipment, fundraising tasks and minor officiating were all accomplished smoothly, and we sincerely thank those who helped to make this happen. It is particularly heartening to have seen so many parents who are new to the club and sport to have stepped forward. A special thanks go out to the Gordon and Gonzales families, who participated heavily in both the fundraising and the volunteer time during the tournament, and to Mikhail Prokoptsov, who would have stayed at the officials table all weekend had we not insisted that he take a break.
This year, we have celebrated the 15th year of this event and we welcomed 10 teams from Ontario, and Quebec. The objective of this tournament was to emphasize skill development, team play, tactics, and play time in a competitive environment. Having FUN is our main theme!


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Musk to personally review SpaceX launch procedures
October 6, 2020 8:51 am Robert Zimmerman
Capitalism in space: As a result of the spate of launch aborts in the past few weeks, the head of SpaceX, Elon Musk, is now planning a personal review of the company's launch facilities in Florida next week.
Musk would like SpaceX to increase its cadence such that it can reach 48 launches in 2021, which would more than double the company's previous record for total number of missions in a single year. Technical scrubs like the ones this week would prevent this. Achieving frequent launches will require smooth operations.
"We're doing a broad review of launch site, propulsion, structures, avionics, range & regulatory constraints this weekend," Musk tweeted. "I will also be at the Cape next week to review hardware in person."
This review aligns with the company's entire strategy regarding rocketry. Instead of accepting such aborts as the cost of doing business, Musk wants to review procedures to see if launches can be made more reliable.
Musk's statement that they want to be able to do 48 launches next year is most intriguing, as it suggests, based on their manifest of launches, that they are going to launch a lot of Starlink satellites.
Michael Mangold
We'll redouble our efforts!
Elon will fix the problem by walking around carrying one of his flame throwers, with ignition flame only alight for the time being, in his hand hanging down at ass hight, asking everyone:
"- Whom should I fire?"
From Kathy Lueders an hour ago:
We're now targeting NET early-to-mid November for launch of @NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the @Space_Station. The extra time will allow SpaceX to resolve an unexpected observation during a recent non-NASA launch attempt. More: https://go.nasa.gov/2Iie87G
From the link:
"… additional time for SpaceX to complete hardware testing and data reviews as the company evaluates off-nominal behavior of Falcon 9 first stage engine gas generators observed during a recent non-NASA mission launch attempt."
Sounds as if they are still working on the GPS mission scrub issues.
Small edit: "spate of launch aborts"
sippin_bourbon
Is it just me or does this decision indicate a possible systemic issue, as opposed to just a faulty sensor, or bad pump.
Robert Zimmerman
Andi: Fixed. Thank you.


My daughter chose her wild west theme. She wanted to be a sheriff for her fourth Birthday! So I started Building away and made her wild west town that included a saloon, sheriffs office, jail and a bank. I loved making her horses and the post for them. The cattle chute was a big hit. I made it out of old pallets the kids loved coming out of the chute with a bucking bronco! Just a fun overall DIY birthday party! I Made her watering hole and Chuck wagon food table. I also added tee pees and a canoe and paddles. Most of the large stuff I built with scrape wood I had and plywood. I did a lot of bargain shopping for all the western stuff. We had so much fun!! I Loved making the menu for the tables and the Cake Stand out of a pistol with an old tin pan as the topper.


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Misi, a 4-month-old cheetah, and Cash, a 3-month-old yellow lab, were best friends from the start.
This adorable duo is being raised at the Columbus Zoo in Columbus, Ohio as part of the zoo's commitment to cheetah conservation.
With only 10,000 cheetahs left in the world, the species is in "deep, deep trouble," says Suzi Rapp, vice president of animal programs at the zoo.
Rapp and her team discovered some years ago that their resident cheetahs benefitted from having canine companions. Because cheetahs are naturally shy and skittish, pairing them with dogs increased their confidence and well-being.
What One Piece of Advice Would You Give Your Children?
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Can Princess, the German Spitz dog, hypnotize humans?
Adorable 10-year-old Chow Shepherd tripawed dog is finally all cancer free!!!
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In yesterday's outfit post, I gushed about the incredible pair of ankle boots I was wearing. And today, I'm absolutely thrilled to be offering you the chance to win a pair of your very own! Called the Madison Boots, they're made by one of my new favorite companies, a footwear and leather goods line called Trask. Inspired by the independent spirit of the great American west, Trask provides beautifully crafted shoes, boots, sandals, and accessories for women and men who appreciate artisanal quality and timeless style. This season the women's collection offers stylish riding boots, booties and flats that strike the perfect balance between form and function. I'm being completely serious when I tell you guys that I'm in awe of the craftsmanship of these boots. They feature soft, burnished leather that is zipped up and topped off with a beautiful buckled harness strap. And their chunky, lightly distressed heel gives off a 70s bohemian vibe that I adore. They're crazy comfortable too – and for someone who rarely wears even the slightest heel anymore, that's saying a lot. The attention to detail that these shoes were clearly given is evident, and I couldn't be happier to be teaming up with Trask to give away a pair to one of you.
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