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At Muchachos Singapore the firm belief is that it's what's on the inside that counts. That's why you'll find Cali-Mex burritos, tacos and quesadillas overflowing with the freshest ingredients and the feistiest flavours, all served to you with a big old smile. Muchachos Singapore was started by two best bros with a shared passion for Mexican food that makes people smile, and since its inception the restaurant has been doing exactly that. You'll find Muchachos Singapore on Cecil Street within Frasers Tower, and, truth be told, it's something of a Tanjong Pagar gem. To avoid missing out on the happiest Tex-Mex food in Singapore, reservations at Muchachos are essential.
Self service is good but the area is very small and noisy. Don't really recommend for big groups.
One of the few Mexican places with appetizing burritos that doesn't give you the greasy bloated feeling after your meal. Highly recommended! Get the burrito bowl if you don't want the wrap.
In the words of the team behind Muchachos Singapore, if you could wrap up joy, you'd find it in a freshly made tortilla. And if family had another name, you might just call it Muchachos. This sums up the vibe at Muchachos Singapore rather well as the friendly Tanjong Pagar cantina serves up homemade Tex-Mex fare with a welcome that's always warm. You'd be wise to arrive on Cecil Street with a hearty appetite as the Mexican burritos, tacos and quesadillas on offer are generous in every way.
Everyone will have their favourites at Muchachos Singapore because the Mexican menu is designed so you can fill your burrito, taco or quesadilla with whatever it is you fancy. The classic fillings go as far chicken, steak, pork, tongue, fish and veggies, each topped up with plenty of guac. But, for something a little special, try the California burrito, the Muchachos cheeseburger or some impossible to resist buttermilk chicken. When rounded off with a frozen margarita, it's not hard to see why Muchachos Singapore is so popular – not just with Tanjong Pagar locals but with the rest of the little red dot as well.


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The World's Youngest Country Is 'on the Brink' of Genocide, Says U.N. Commission
By Dominique Rowe
Updated: December 2, 2016 12:50 PM ET
The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan says that the country, which has been in a state of civil war for the duration of its three-year existence, is now "on the brink of catastrophe."
In a statement released on Dec. 1, the group said that following a visit in late November, it had observed the stage "being set for a repeat of what happened in Rwanda" in 1994 when 800,000 people were killed in a three-month period.
"There is already a steady process of ethnic cleansing under way in several areas of South Sudan using starvation, gang rape and the burning of villages," said Yasmin Sooka, the chairperson of the three-person commission.
"Everywhere we went across this country we heard villagers saying they are ready to shed blood to get their land back," said Sooka. Other "disturbing indicators" included an increase in hate speech, a deepening divide between the country's 64 tribes, and a crackdown on media.
The report said a picture had emerged showing "the presence of armed groups, displacement based on ethnicity, torching of houses, food insecurity and denial of freedom of movement."
Corpses reportedly lie scattered along main roads, the threat of starvation looms daily, and a mass exodus of people fleeing the country continues. An estimated 2.2 million people have fled South Sudan in the past 36 months, reports the BBC.
Sooka said the international community was "under an obligation" to prevent genocide.
This post and its headline originally misattributed the report to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refuges. The report was completed by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan. The post has been corrected.

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Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise Review (Switch) – Call Me by Your York
Deadly Premonition
Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise
Toybox Inc
How do you even begin to review a game like Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise? This is the kind of sequel that exists almost entirely in spite of the critical reception of the first game, which remains an adored cult classic regardless of its harshest critics.
Frankly, it's easy to see why – Deadly Premonition oozes unique charm and loveable jank, largely rising above its technical limitations and unintentionally goofy self-seriousness.
It's the kind of wonderful accident we live for in a time of homogenised action titles and toothless horror and going back to the well was always going to be welcomed but risky. The problem with following up something that was so unintentionally what folks wanted is how do you recapture that same feeling?
Can you Mr Magoo your way into another cult classic? Director Hidetaka Suehiro (here on out known as Swery) and local Aussie developers Toybox Games have certainly tried – and maybe that's the problem.
Haute Auteur
When gameplay footage from Deadly Premonition 2 first made its way to the public a few weeks back the response was…fascinating. Take a look around the discussions happening on Twitter or Reddit and you'll find countless fans all praising the shoddy framerate and stiff animations. This is inherently a part of the Deadly Premonition experience after all – the first game isn't beloved for its technical prowess so why would this one be?
Swery himself has weighed in on this issue, seemingly cutting it off at the pass by spurring on the apathetic response to the game's glaring technical shortcomings. On Twitter, he has pointed out to those raising concerns about the technical issues that we know what Deadly Premonition is.
I fuck with that, in all honesty.
I've spent the last few weeks deeply entrenched in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding, a game which itself largely defied a traditional critical narrative. Kojima crafted an experience that was outright hostile to some and stuck to it with the convictions of a mad scientist, something else I, of course, fuck with. I go back and forth on the merits of the auteur theory in media but ultimately this kind of single-minded, "art for the sake of art and not critical reception", conviction Kojima brings to his games is something I do admire and Swery is essentially embodying his version of this philosophy.
Good for him, and good for those that vibe with it.
With that firmly in mind though, it does make the actual process of reviewing Deadly Premonition 2 a little tricky. Game reviews exist to talk about those technical issues, to explore the way the game falls short or succeeds and wax poetic about why – so how do you do that when the game is, apparently, intentionally falling short? The subjectivity of critical games writing means we're likely going to see many answers to this question and if you don't fuck with mine, I can't entirely blame you.
I'm going to do my best to unpack why I feel the way I do about Deadly Premonition 2 and slap a score on it to reflect that. The score, and probably my criticisms, might not matter much in the grand scheme of Swery's unique outputs but they come from a place of good faith and genuine concern. So, let's pour a cup of sunshine and get into it.
Time is a Flat Circle
Deadly Premonition 2 builds on the foundations of the first game but doesn't necessarily improve them. This is still an open-world survival horror game with smatterings of third-person shooter combat thrown in for good measure. You'll still play as FBI agent Francis York Morgan (please though, just call him York, all his friends do) solving a string of insidious murders that may or may not link to the occult. Along the way, you'll explore a small American town, familiarise yourself with the eccentric locals and play some minigames for fun while managing your hunger, sleep and hygiene levels.
It's all here again and yet it's all slightly off. We can unpack why in a moment but credit where credit is due, the game does differentiate itself from its predecessor's original release with timeline shifts between each "Episode" of York's investigation. Everything in Deadly Premonition 2 is framed through retrospect as York recounts the 2005 investigation to another FBI agent, Aaliyah Davis, in a 2019 Boston apartment. The disparity between the two Yorks is startling and the presence of another whip-smart agent should, ostensibly, be fertile ground for something far more engaging than what we get.
Let's get the 2019 segments of the game out of the way now. Despite the marketing push around Aaliyah, these portions of the game feature barely any actual gameplay and even less agency for the new "protagonist". Your time spent playing as Aaliyah is essentially a poor man's adventure game as you'll be rooted to the spot seen in the reveal trailer and only able to choose which lengthy dialogue exchange you'll begin next. These conversations can last upwards of half an hour and contain barely a hint of the tongue-in-cheek charm you'd expect. Aaliyah and York will pontificate on the perils of drug addiction, gender politics and murder but in the kind of tone that makes it feel like a genuine attempt at dramatic dialogue and meaning.
Later Episodes change this up slightly but the Aaliyah portions of the game only ever serve to pad out an already stretched runtime and do a disservice to both characters in the process. Deadly Premonition wore its media influences on its sleeve and in these 2019 intervals, you can feel the subversive hero worship of a Logan or The Last Jedi seeping into the game. But while those pieces worked to say something about the diminished and disgraced legend at their centres, Deadly Premonition 2 merely dabbles in the aesthetics of introspection. York's mistakes aren't grave enough and Aaliyah's interrogation of him not insightful enough.
Paradise City Limits
Things don't fare much better during the 2005 investigation but there are at least glimpses of the game you'd want to follow up the first. Exploration is still the main thrust of things as you'll be tasked with darting around Le Carré to talk to locals, investigate sites, collect trinkets and animal skins, the usual laundry list of open-world odds and ends. There are some small activities littered across the map, though none held my attention for longer than a few tries with the exception of the awkwardly wonderful bowling mini-game.
Le Carré itself is sparsely populated, dead quiet and far too big – so fans of the series will likely feel right at home here. Fortunately, improvements have been made to traversal; York has access to a relatively speedy skateboard and a fast travel taxi service that whisks you to discovered locations for a small fee. The latter you'll be relying on a fair bit if you don't want to listen to poorly mixed grinding wheel sounds and repeated dialogue that stops when you hit a bump and starts again from the beginning afterwards.
Those animal skins I mentioned earlier feed directly into an upgrade system of sorts as you can take them to a shaman who will fuse them into various charms for York. These trinkets can offer health and stamina boosts, as well as improvements for your gun's power or capacity. That said, it's entirely possible to get through all of the game's combat encounters without these assists as enemy AI and scenario design is severely limited.
Stick 'Em Up
Combat is almost entirely segmented off from the main game in small pocket shadow universes which York must navigate to reach a crime scene. No matter where you enter these from (a farmhouse, a storage unit, a mansion) the small maze inside will always be the same drab corridors and furniture. There are no puzzles in here, just twisted paths with the occasional locked door or dead end. It's a disappointing lack of variety, especially when compared to the first game, and is exacerbated by the monsters you'll face within.
York's real-world gun (an animal tranquillizer) becomes an admittedly dope arm growth finger gun when he enters the "Singularity". This twisted and gnarled branch operates in the same way as a handgun would, but with the added bonus of a Focus Attack that can lock-on and expel golden light for extra damage. Especially in the context of Swery's original intentions for the first game to have no combat I adore this concept – a mystical finger gun is a great rebuttal to shooter culture.
A concept can't really carry an entire portion of the game though and Deadly Premonition 2's combat scenarios are too long in the tooth and never all that difficult. Enemies are slow and beyond some minor inconvenient status effects don't present much of a challenge (including the handful of bosses). The melee options from the first game have also been removed leading to repetitive and lacklustre encounters bookending slow exploration sequences in Le Carré.
York's investigation is also shockingly short and you can easily burn through the main quest line before you know it. There are some side quests to complete for the townsfolk but Deadly Premonition 2 is unavoidably very light on content, even with the glacially paced 2019 segments. Still, York remains as charming as ever and a beacon of amusing light in an otherwise drab game. His newest companion, spunky pre-teen Patricia, is also genuinely funny and sharply written for the most part.
While the shoddy technical performance of Deadly Premonition 2 has become something of a badge of honour it's worth noting just how deep the performance issues run. My game crashed several times in completely different circumstances – mid dialogue, loading screen, middle of gameplay. Sometimes it was proceeded by audio bugs, other times entirely unpredictable. The game does auto-save but each of these crashes cost me at least half an hour of gameplay and is the kind of performance issue you can't hand wave away with a wink and nudge.
Blessings Thoroughly Disguised
Then, of course, there is the frame rate which sits somewhere between charming jank and genuinely frustrating roadblock. During the more intense enemy encounters the game essentially becomes a PowerPoint presentation, chugging beyond belief and rendering aiming a waking nightmare. During other less demanding moments, such as riding the skateboard down the main street, this can happen too. Even writing that out I know that for some it will just entice them more and again, I gotta respect that on some level. Technical performance isn't everything and what infuriated me is gonna amuse others, but it still stands that Deadly Premonition 2 is maybe the shoddiest game I've ever played on a Nintendo console.
Embargo restrictions and my ongoing battle with reviewing the un-reviewable keep me from too deeply diving into the story but there are elements that beg to be mentioned here. Again, sincerely critiquing something that is not presenting as sincere is difficult but Deadly Premonition 2 deploys some staggeringly offensive writing that doesn't fall under the protection of satire.
I noted in my list of things I wanted from a Deadly Premonition sequel was better queer representation, as that game's only gay character was a violent, sexually deviant, cross-dresser and unfortunately, Deadly Premonition 2 doubled down. Keeping things as vague as possible, the game's treatment of a trans character is genuinely upsetting and runs through a string of problematic tropes and trigger points. To say this game retreads the mistakes of the first on this front would be an understatement and it's an experience breaking story beat that throws the rest of the game off completely.
From a certain point on in the story, Deadly Premonition 2 starts to compact its representation issues until it hits on just about every offence you could imagine. Never mind the technical problems, that a Nintendo adjacent company decided this game was fit for 2020 social standards is baffling. In trading the Twin Peaks Americana tropes for True Detective style New Orleans charm, the game fully embraces a history of questionable Black media tropes while also making odd assertions about taking America back to a "better time". Meanwhile, the depiction of an intellectually disabled character is up there with the game's trans issues. It's a baffling meddling pot of insensitivities and was, for me, the breaking point.
Mileage is very obviously going to vary on a game like Deadly Premonition 2 and I genuinely believe that should be embraced. For all of my (gameplay) criticisms, there will be another for whom they are points in the game's favour and to them I say, have a blast. The shooting is janky, the combat repetitive and the open-world mechanics and survival elements entirely underbaked but if you're charmed enough by the world you're probably gonna love this.
That said, the game is plagued by unavoidably problematic writing and character work which for others, like myself, is too high a barrier to overcome. Those representation issues are very real and paired with the distinct dip in overall quality from the first game makes me question if Deadly Premonition 2 was even in on its own joke.
Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise was reviewed on Nintendo Switch using a digital copy provided by the publisher.
Two charming lead characters
Fun riff on shooter mechanics
Pop Culture references
Poor Technical Performance
Problematic Writing
Pop Culture references don't always land
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As Seen at 2017 Demo Day and PGA Merchandise Show
Top finds from the Golf Range Association of America editorial staff
If you missed out on the 2017 PGA Merchandise Show and the coinciding PGA Show Outdoor Demo Day– held on the 42-acre practice range at Orange County National Golf Center & Lodge in Winter Garden, Florida – we're giving you a glimpse at some of the items that caught our eye.
Other than the tee box, when was the last time you had a perfectly flat lie on the golf course? It's a rarity, so why should golfers practice and teachers teach on a range where every lie is perfectly flat? The answer is, they shouldn't. That's why the ToughLie 360 makes so much sense. It allows instructors to recreate uphill, downhill and sidehill lies on the practice range to help their students better prepare for on-course play.
Ping i200 irons
The drool-inspiring look of the Ping iBlade has now been brought to a more forgiving mold in the new i200 iron. A thin top line and more compacted head in the short irons give golfers that "players iron" look that they desire, while the design and weighting on the long irons make them more forgiving and useable for middle of the road handicappers.
Foresight GCQuad
The Foresight GC2 launch monitor become the gold standard for function and affordability in the golf industry with it's highly accurate Stereoscopic camera system with HMT. Over the last couple of years, it has been the most utilized launch monitor device at green grass, off-course and for simulators. The camera functionality was so impressive, that competitors now offer their own camera-base technologies. Now, the company releases the new GCQuad, which improves on the previous model by utilizing four high-speed cameras to provide highly accurate ball and club data. The new design features a hitting zone that's six-times larger than its predecessor.
Callaway Big Bertha Epic driver
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FlightScope X3
The new FlightScope X3 launch monitor uses Fusion Tracking Technology that combines the usage of radar and high-speed cameras. The new design allows for precise short game and chipping usage, as well. It can also be integrated with FlightScope's FocusBand to measure neuroactivity during the golf swing; the BodiTrak mat to measure weight distribution during the golf swing; and MySwing technology that generates a fullbody 3D rendering of the user's swing.
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Wilson Triton driver
As the winning design on the first-ever golf-equipment-engineering reality TV show, "Driver vs. Driver," the Triton had a lot of eyes on it. Particularly those of golf's rule making body, the USGA. When initially released, the Triton was deemed to be non-confirming by the rules of golf, which prompted Wilson to make some minor adjustments to the design. In the picture above, one of the drivers is the conforming model and one is non-conforming. Can you spot the difference? The conforming model (on the right) has the rear flange shaved off. In the original design, the extended piece on the rear of the driver was a no-no. However, after hitting both models, the performance was unnoticeably impacted.


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The length of the forewings is 10–11 mm. The forewings are grey brown with a light pattern and suffusion of light scales. The hindwings are brown.

Etymology
The species is named after Zurvan, a Zoroastrian god.

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Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 2008
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Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 ? 28 July 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.[1] Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation in composition for diverse instrumentation, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France.
Revered for their intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty, Bach's works include the Brandenburg concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Partitas, the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Mass in B Minor, the St. Matthew Passion, the St. John Passion, the Magnificat, The Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue, the English Suites, the French Suites, the Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo, the Cello Suites, more than 200 surviving cantatas, and a similar number of organ works, including the celebrated Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
While Bach's abilities as an organist were recognized and highly respected throughout Europe during his lifetime, he was not particularly well-known as a composer. His adherence to Baroque forms and contrapuntal style was considered 'old-fashioned' by his contemporaries, especially late in his career when the musical fashion tended towards Rococo and later Classical styles. A revival of interest and performances of his music began early in the 19th century, and he is now widely considered to be one of the greatest composers in the Western tradition.
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VBR #06: 'Don't Start The Night Before', with guest Michele Stephens
Yea, I uploaded this one roughly 12 hours late, but it's still Monday so guess what? It counts.
Some scheduling conflicts two weeks back—as well as some heat-induced illness this weekend—ended up affording me the buffer time I had made for myself, but it's fine. Also yes, Two Hearted played it's part in the aforementioned illness that left me bedridden for a 12 hour spell post-canoe trip. I digress...
This marks the first episode I had to record fully from my end. Typically, that would bother me to no end, but I've come to terms with the fact that I will undoubtedly have to contend with recording limitations on the guest end if I continue on with the project at the pace that I've been going thus far. It's simply not realistic to expect every guest to have the means or know-how to record locally. This isn't WTF and I'm okay with that.
P.S. Almost immediately after publishing this evening, Maria Gironas (guest on episode 3) made me aware that some of my automation on the theme song track was screwy at the beginning. At this point, my Macbook decides the 90°+ in my office is no longer bearable and locks up before I can bounce a fix. Fun! Thank you for looking out, Maria.
Our good friend Michele Stephens swings through to chat about tour PR, the lifeblood of her career in music. As a tour publicity pro at Epitaph Records, she lends her expertise and drops some hints about what not to do when trying to cover the alternative music scene's biggest roaming festival, Warped Tour. Naturally there is some talk about Troye Sivan, My Chemical Romance, and Cute Is What We Aim For to be had, for Michele is a pop lover through and through.
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In 1893, the same year that Henry Ford built his first car, the doors opened on the first Carnegie library. Not particularly newsworthy at the time--outside of the small town of Fairfield, Iowa, that is--the library event can be seen, in retrospect, as a watershed for democracy in America. Over the next three decades, the Carnegie "free library" program endowed the construction of 1,688 public libraries in 1,419 communities across America--half of all public libraries in the nation. More than just repositories for books, these edifices represented a historic opportunity for everyone, regardless of his or her station in life, to directly benefit from the true wealth of nations--knowledge.
In the only comprehensive history of the libraries that Carnegie built, journalist and historian Theodore Jones revisits these national treasures. He helps us rediscover an important part of who we are as a people. An enthralling read for American history buffs and a valuable resource for preservationists and restoration architects, Carnegie Libraries Across America explores all major historical, social, and technical apexes of the subject.
Writing in a taut journalistic style, Jones introduces us to Andrew Carnegie, robber baron, philanthropist, veritable Horatio Alger character, and explores his motives in endowing the construction of libraries on such a massive scale. He takes us inside the library fund where we meet the decision-makers and learn the criteria by which they judged who was a fit beneficiary of the Carnegie largess and who was not. And with the help of original documents, including letters of petition by schoolteachers, bankers, and civic leaders from across the United States, he provides valuable insights into life in turn-of-the-century American towns and the values and aspirations of their citizens.
And, of course, there are the buildings themselves. Jones tells the stories of many of the most notable Carnegie libraries and the various uses they have been put to over the years. In exploring the impact they had on public architecture in America, he recounts the furious battles waged by factions within the architectural community over the design of the libraries. Using nearly 100 superb reproductions, including many never-before-seen postcards and photographs, he identifies the differing architectural styles represented in various Carnegie libraries, and considers the ideological implications of each. Jones also supplies a complete directory listing the location, date of construction, and current use of each library.
Carnegie Libraries Across America is your guide to treasures to be found in hundreds of communities throughout the United States.
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June 9, 2020 Dean Boerner, Bisnow San Francisco Bay Area
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into a Marin real estate company, an attorney connected to the matter confirmed Tuesday.
The probe is focusing on Novato, California-based real estate company Professional Financial Investors following owner Kenneth J. Casey's recent death, according to Eric Sternberger, a partner at Ragghianti Freitas, who was hired to advise on transfer of ownership.
The news was first reported by Law.com. Investigators opened up a non-public, fact-finding inquiry into Casey and his two companies on May 28, Sternberger said, adding that he was hired to represent the companies by Casey's ex-wife.
"Understandably, the news of this inquiry has been devastating to investors and their families; many of which rely on the income from their investments for their basic necessities," the law firm said in a statement. "These investors are in the forefront of our minds and their well-being is our primary focus."
The SEC declined to comment. PFI declined to comment to Bisnow, deferring instead to Sternberger.
In the letter, which Sternberger reportedly sent to PFI noteholders and other investors in a PFI fund company, he said the audit elicited "legitimate questions involving the structure and investment history of Mr. Casey's companies."
In response, the companies asked the SEC to conduct a fact-finding inquiry into Kenneth J. Casey and his companies' three decades of real estate investments, Sternberger reportedly said in his letter.
"Everyone deserves answers on their investments, but to be able to give meaningful and complete answers it requires the analysis of a large and complex amount of data, which we are working through with the SEC," the law firm statement said. "To find the truth, we are and will continue to cooperate fully with the inquiry to ensure the timely completion of their work on behalf of the investors."
A May 15 obituary in the Marin Independent Journal reported Casey's death was unexpected but did not specify a cause.
PFI has 900 apartment units under management and 600K SF of warehouse space between Marin and Sonoma counties, according to Law.com, which linked to a company website that now appears to be down.
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Rehoboam took over for Solomon and immediately had some choices to make.
1. Man's will or God's will? - Rehoboam had his own will and showed that was his choice by going to Schechem to be made king.
2. Man's counsel or God's counsel? - Unlike his father, who asked God for wisdom, Rehoboam only sought advice from men.
3. Man's reward or God's reward? - Rehoboam was more interested in the approval of his peers and the temporal reward of material things than in God's approval and the reward of strong relationships and God's blessing.
All of us must daily choose our path. "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death" - Proverbs 14:12!


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public class Task03IfArrayHasASymbol {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
		char[] array = { 's', 'g', 'd', 'y', '@', 'r', 'k', 'g' };
		System.out.println("Enter the symbol you'd like to check: ");
		char ch = sc.nextLine().charAt(0);
		int index = -1;
		for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
			if (array[i] == ch) {
				index = i;
			}
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		System.out.println((index == -1) ? "The array doesn't contain the symbol you entered" : ("The index of the element is: " + index));

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Progestogens prevent preterm birth when used in singleton pregnancy in which the mother has had a prior spontaneous preterm birth or in which cervical length is short. The strength of the evidence supporting its use for these indications is moderate and low, respectively.
This manual is written for midwives and doctors at the district hospital who are responsible for the care of women with complications of pregnancy, childbirth or the immediate postpartum period including immediate problems of the newborn.
This guideline has been written within a conceptual framework which places the woman and her baby at the centre of care, appreciating that all postnatal care should be delivered in partnership with the woman and should be individualised.
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Chestertown supervisor Craig Leggett gave the annual State of the Town address on Jan. 9 in Chester Town Hall. Some of the accomplishments mentioned were preparing a 2017 budget that is under the spending cap, installing a new biomass wood pellet boiler in town hall, and starting work on an economic development initiative.
CHESTERTOWN | Town of Chester Supervisor Craig Leggett outlined 2017 highlights in his annual State of the Town address, including passing a budget that was below the cap and the installation of a new biomass boiler in town hall.
As part of the town's organizational meeting on Jan. 9, the supervisor mentioned the adoption of the 2018 budget that was below the tax cap and held the tax levy to 2 percent.
He also said the town went through a state audit and was found to be in "good shape" with only minor policy adjustments to be made.
Leggett also mentioned the biomass wood pellet boiler, which was installed and went online in November.
The $600,000 project is being paid for mainly through grant money.
During a ribbon cutting ceremony in November, speakers praised the project for local sustainability, using fuel pellets produced in New York state. The biomass boiler became the primary heating source for town hall, with the existing oil-fuel boiler remaining as a back-up system.
At the same time, the town acquired a 104 acre forest tract named the Cunningham Community Forest.
Leggett praised the Cunningham family, which sold the property to Chester for only $65,000, and the Peckham family, which donated $50,000 toward the purchase price.
Leggett mentioned an economic development initiative started in the spring, which includes gathering information that will be used to identify and select specific projects for the town.
The Chester Town Board also held its first ever regular board meeting at the Pottersville Firehouse on July 11.
Leggett said the board would continue to have two meetings per year in Pottersville - one in the spring and one in the fall.
Word of Life Bible Institute president Roger Peace said when contacted Jan. 10, the institute would provide a meeting space in the event the fire hall was unavailable for a town board meeting.
Other accomplishments highlighted in Leggett's address include: Updating the town's employee handbook; improvements to the Pottersville Water District water; completing the Dynamite Hill timber harvest four months earlier than projected and removing 21 tons of Eurasian milfoil out of Loon Lake.
Some of the goals Leggett outlined for 2018 include developing a five-year budget plan; establishing a Friends Lake Aquatic Plant Control District; continuing to upgrade the Pottersville Water District supply system and updating zoning ordinances, and making progress on broadband expansion to unserved areas of the town.


It's me again, GOP, your old friend Tony. Look we've had some good times together. We met when I was a young man, it was coming up on Y2K and it was a crazy time for everyone.
I liked your ideas of personal freedom, lower taxes and a strong military. I also grew up in the right wing stronghold of San Francisco (sarcasm).
What happened to you? You preach fiscal sense but you spend out money like it's going out of style. All of this bull about "conservative values" really doesn't do it for me. I don't care what people want to wear or what they believe, and we should be defending that right instead of alienating them.
This has all gotten way out of hand. Until you get your head together and stop seeing crazy people we need to go on a break.


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He graduated from the Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest and then he studied Law at the University of Bucharest. In 1944, after the Royal Coup that overthrew Ion Antonescu's dictatorship and took Romania out of the Axis, Paleologu took part in the Romanian committee of the armistice with the Allies and, between 1946 and 1948, worked for the Romanian Royal Ministry of External Affairs. After the Communists regime was established, he was under surveillance by the Securitate, and he lived hidden and under a false name in Campulung until 1956, when he began working as a researcher at the Romanian Academy in the Institute of Ancient Art History.
In 1959, Paleologu was arrested and sentenced to 14 years of forced labour. In prison, he met many other important people in Romanian culture such as Constantin Noica and Alexandru Ivasiuc. He was freed in 1964, and he worked at the same Institute in the Theatre section. He was the literary secretary of the Constantin Nottara Theatre of Bucharest and, in 1967, he became member of the Romanian Writers' Union. Between 1970 and 1976 he was a writer for the Cartea Romaneasca publishing house.
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he was named ambassador of Romania to France (starting February 1, 1990), but he was replaced in June 1990 because he was a sympathiser of the Golaniad movement of University Square (he was the self-styled "ambassador of the hooligans" - ambasadorul golanilor), as well due to his pro-monarchist views.
He later became a member of the Civic Alliance Party, founded by Nicolae Manolescu and he was elected a senator for Arges during the 1992 election. He was a National Liberal senator for Vrancea (on Romanian Democratic Convention lists) following the 1996 election, and reelected for Bucharest during the 2000 suffrage (serving until 2004).
In the years after 1989 he admitted in a book of interviews with historian and novelist Stelian Tanase that during the communist period he eventually ended up collaborating with the Securitate and asked Romanians to forgive him.
Spiritul si litera. Eseuri critice, 1970
Bunul-simt ca paradox. Eseuri, 1972
Simtul practic. Eseuri si polemici, 1974
Treptele lumii sau calea catre sine a lui Mihail Sadoveanu, 1978
Ipoteze de lucru. Studii si eseuri literare, 1980
Alchimia existentei. Eseuri si portrete, 1983. Second edition revised, 1997
Souvenirs merveilleux d'un ambassadeur des golans (Minunatele amintiri ale unui ambasador al golanilor), Editura Ballard, 1992; Editura Humanitas, 1993
Sfidarea memoriei, 1995 (a dialogue with Stelian Tanase)
Despre lucruri cu adevarat importante, 1997. Second edition 1998
Interlocutiuni, 1997
Politetea ca arma. Convorbiri si articole mai mult sau mai putin politice, 2000
L'Occident est à l'Est, 2001
Breviar pentru pastrarea clipelor. Convorbiri cu Filip-Lucian Iorga, 2005
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State AGs to Step Up Enforcement Against Tech Companies?
Posted on September 12, 2018 by Jerri-Lynn Scofield
By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans.
The Wall Street Journal published an article Monday, States Loom as a Regulatory Threat to Tech Giants, examining the emerging stance state attorneys general are taking on regulating US companies that dominate the internet:
State officials are raising risks for companies such as Facebook Inc.,Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google as the states begin piecing together a coordinated legal strategy for confronting the firms over alleged antitrust violations and data-privacy abuses, and over what some Republicans say is a suppression of conservative speech.
Tensions have been simmering for months, but they surfaced publicly last week when the Justice Department said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions would meet with several state attorneys general later this month to discuss a "growing concern" that the companies are hurting competition and "stifling the free exchange of ideas" on their platforms.
CNBC reported the text of the full statement by Department of Justice (DoJ) spokesman Devin O'Malley last week in Sessions getting serious about tech company crackdown, will meet with state attorneys general:
"We listened to today's Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Foreign Influence Operations' Use of Social Media Platforms closely. The Attorney General has convened a meeting with a number of state attorneys general this month to discuss a growing concern that these companies may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms."
The CNBC account highlighted Trump's calls for the breakup of tech companies:
Last month, Trump said Facebook, Twitter and Google were "treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful." He's also said the companies could be engaging in antitrust behaviors, without offering evidence for the claims.
And the WSj account noted that the Federal Trade Commission has started to investigate the industry.
State AGs Can Drive Independent Enforcement Agendas
AGs in many states have considerable authority to drive independent enforcement agendas. Take the example of the tobacco industry, which I discussed in States Launch New Joint Probe into Company Sales and Marketing Practices for Opioids:
In 1998, following many years of investigation and litigation, 46 state AGs entered into a Master Settlement Agreement with the four largest tobacco companies– Brown & Williamson, Lorillard, Philip Morris, and R.J. Reynolds. As part of that settlement, the companies agreed to pay out more than $200 billion over 25 years, as well as to make significant changes in the way they sold and marketed their products. They also agreed to disband their lobbying organizations, to fund anti-smoking efforts, and to make public information provided during the discovery process.
Such separate priorities may also extend to areas in which the federal government regulates extensively, such as securities law (or at least did in the not-so-distant past), as I discussed in this post, Mary Jo White Leaves Behind a Weakened SEC for Trump to Weaken Further:
During the administration of President George W. Bush, state attorneys general used state authority to prosecute securities and financial transgressions. Notably, former New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer relied on authority provided by the state's 1910 Martin Act, which predates the federal securities law, to take legal action actions against insurance firms for brokerage practices, hedge funds for improper trading practices in mutual fund shares, and investment banks for conflicts of interest that distorted the investment research they provided, to name some of the most significant initiatives. Spitzer's successors as attorney general, current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and current Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, have not had the impact that Spitzer had when he was lauded as the Sheriff of Wall Street.
Another New York regulator, Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New York's Department of Financial Services used the threat of denying a NY state banking charter to force tougher terms on settlements in which the Eric Holder/Loretta Lynch DoJ and other federal regulators had rolled over (see this post by Yves for a summary: Wall Street's Nemesis, Benjamin Lawsky, to Resign in June.).Other states, such as California, have their own expansive statutes– though now-US Senator Kamala Harris demonstrated when she served as California's AG that she more interested in virtue-signalling than taking scalps.
Crusading state AGs are not just Democrats. As I wrote in New EPA Lawsuit Policy Advances Trump's Deregulatory Agenda, Scott Pruitt– who recently stepped down as EPA administrator:
has been a longstanding bugbear of environmentalists. In his previous role as attorney general for the state of Oklahoma– a major producer of oil and natural gas– he either filed or joined lawsuits that sought to stymie the modest pro-regulatory environmental and climate change agenda the EPA previously espoused.
Like-minded Republicans AGs often joined him in these efforts.
So, What's On the Agenda for These AGs?
The most immediate threat to the tech industry might arise in the area of antitrust enforcement– which, shall we say, has not been a major priority for recent administrations, although the European Union has investigated and fined Google over competition concerns. Yet as recently as the Clinton administration, Microsoft was a target of an major antitrust action instigated by multiple state AGs in conjunction with the DoJ
Over to the WSJ again:
The [Sessions meeting ] announcement—released amid last week's congressional hearings into the practices of Facebook and Twitter—shed little light on who was raising the concerns or what remedies might be under consideration. But recent comments by several of the state attorneys general suggest they are actively exploring an antitrust investigation and hope to enlist Washington.
"I think the companies are too big, and they need to be broken up," Republican Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said Thursday in a radio interview.
There is some evidence that party politics are driving this potential enforcement initiative:
Republicans' allegations that the tech companies suppress conservative voices has bubbled up for months in conservative media and was amplified by Mr. Trump late last month. Democrats have said that is the issue—more than antitrust policy—behind the coming Justice Department meeting, with Republicans hoping to stir their conservative base ahead of November elections
All the attorneys general who are expected to attend this month's meeting in Washington are Republicans, with Democratic officials saying they have yet to be invited.
Although it's too soon to say where these preliminary discussions between the DoJ and the the state AGs may lead, I want to draw attention to another development– the weakening of the hold of corporate Democrats on the direction of the party. David Sirota published an interesting piece in Monday's Guardian, Yes, let's wipe out Trump. But take neoliberal Democrats with him, too.
Sirota's piece wasn't especially concerned about Big Tech per se, and focused on a percolating progressive policy agenda. He mentions regulation, but only as it affects financial firms and pharmaceutical companies and where so far, corporate Democrats have successfully insulated their paymasters from any significant increase in legal liability.
But if progressives start to wield greater influence on the Democratic side– and Republican AGs follow through with a tougher approach to enforcement– the future might shape up to be a less comfortable operating environment for US internet companies. Or at least we might hope.
This entry was posted in Banana republic, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators on September 12, 2018 by Jerri-Lynn Scofield.
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TS September 12, 2018 at 8:31 am
I can understand antitrust and data-privacy violations but with regard to "stifling the free exchange of ideas" on their platforms, what legal statutes are being violated even if these companies were found to be supressing conservative speech?
T S September 12, 2018 at 8:34 am
Mark September 12, 2018 at 1:46 pm
The OLG Munich recently decided that Facebook violated the right to free speech of a politician by deleting her post. Facebook gave their community rules as a reason for the deletion. The court ruled that Facebook could not rely on their rights a privat entity to do as they please in their own place (Hausrecht in German) but rather had to uphold the right to free spreech granted by the German constitution. This is a new interpretation of the law by a significant court and possibly transfers some of the burden ususally only placed on the state (uphold free speech) unto a privat company. The reason given is that Facebook is a controlling, monopolistic entity in the realm of social interaction and has therefore more responsibilties. The OLG Munich is the highest court in its court-district, Southern Bavaria, only below the federal court (BGH) and the ruling sets a binding precedent in its district and serves as an interesting opinion for the rest of Germany. Mind you precedent is of a lot less important in Germany than in the case-law US system and there are many differing rulings out there.
I suppose the arguments for supressing conservative speech or something like that might go a similar route in the US.
source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180907/00455240595/german-court-tells-facebook-it-cant-delete-comments-even-though-german-law-says-it-must-delete-comments.shtml
PS: Please excuse the rambling source it is the only one in English I could find; also take my reasoning regarding the court ruling with a pinch of salt since I am not an attorney. At least the apparent confusion between forced deletion on one hand and forced non-deletion on the other hand mentioned in the source is easily explained. Free speech has its limits and violating those is in some cases a criminal offence, e.g. criminal insults, incitement to violance against people, etc.. A recent law in Germany requires sites like Facebook or Twitter to take obvious cases of such posts down, instead of waiting for the police or prosecution to act. This is worthy of a discussion in itself but it still leaves room between what Facebook arbitrarily deems acceptable based in its guidelines and what is acceptable under free speech in Germany, and here the court made their ruling.
DHG September 13, 2018 at 9:49 pm
Tech holds the power even over the government, not going to happen. If they pull the plug the whole ball of wax tumbles down.


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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
Penelope Lively's quotes
I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
You learn a lot, writing fiction.
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.
I rather like getting away from fiction.
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think.
Marge Simon
People have accepted the medias idea of what feminism is but that doesnt mean that its right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism there is an array of opinions.
We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.
If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
Orison Swett Marden
You never grow out of high school sadly.
If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.
Alain Wertheimer
I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.
Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of Chinese chatrooms - and there were a lot of conversations in which Chinese netizens were saying things like, 'served them right.' That was definitely not the official Chinese government policy - which condemned the terrorists.
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.
Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast intimidates the brave degrades the great.
Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you blow up the Great Wall of China, and then what? But when you're in love with your characters, the smallest action becomes an important action.
Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song. Thank God for country music.
I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.
Marc-Andre Grondin


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Businessman organizes fake assassination plot to get police protection
in Europe, World News
A Turkish businessman, running a paper company in Istanbul, has conducted a fake assassination plot against himself to convince the police to give him legal protection.
Maks Gerşon applied to the police, saying that his life was in danger after a gunman shot at his car.
Police units that checked CCTV footage in the area found that an unidentified man got off a pickup truck and approached Gerşon's car before shooting at his window.
But the police got suspicious after the man showed he was acting comfortably and using a silencer. They identified the man after discovering the number plate of the pickup truck.
The "assassin" confessed that he was paid by the businessman to shoot at the car when he was not inside it. Gerşon is now facing a charge of "constituting a crime."
Prince of Liechtenstein holidaying in Bodrum
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by design researchers". The discussion took place in an innovative format - a 'live' discussion of topics proposed by a series of moderators throughout the day, to which invited discussants as well as the general public commented at length. Li Jönsson was a discussant, and Ramia Mazé moderated the first session.
Link to view the entire event archived online.