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Your guess can contain one number higher than 15, but it's better to stick with the numbers 1-15. Why? Nine out of ten delta numbers will be 15 or less. This means that at least half the time, there will be no delta number greater than 15 in a given six-number-pick. As there are more possible numbers greater than 15 than there are numbers less than 15, its just better strategy to focus your guesses on those cases where the odds are in your favor.


text: Q: backward selection In the procedure of backward selection, after dropping the variable with the largest p-value, should I do likelihood ratio test of the reduced model with the original model first, and then check the variable with the largest p-value again or should I directly look for that variable without the likelihood ratio test?

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AXE GIANT
"This tall tale is killer."
A.k.a. Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan
Director/Writer: Gary Jones / Writers: Jeff Miller & Jason Ancona / Cast: Amber Connor, Joe Estevez, Tom Downey, Kristina Kopf, Tim Lovelace, Jesse Kove, Clifton Williams, Victoria Ramos, Jill Evyn, Dan Haggerty, Chris Hahn.
Laughter Lines: "The courts have given you this one last chance to get your shit together, or your shit will get pushed in…in prison!"
Those of us outside the US who aren't familiar with Paul Bunyan, Wikipedia tells us that he's a legendary character of folklore – a giant man at the forefront of the lumberjack culture. Did he exist? The evidence seems to suggest not, but for the sake of low rent slasher movies, no American icon is safe from exploitation. See also Uncle Sam and/or Urban Legends: Bloody Mary.
This unmistakably awful production begins in 1894 with a group of loggers found axed to pieces by their leader, who is then assaulted by a deformed plaid-shirt wearing loon who looks like one of the mutants from the cheaper Wrong Turn sequels, who pushes him into a buzzsaw.
118 years later, a group of young offenders are packed off to the woods of Minnesota (though it looks a lot like California) on a program that allows them to avoid doing time (see Laughter Lines), led by amusingly macho Sergeant Hoke (Downey) and touchy-feely social worker "Ms K" (I never did get her name). The teens are known as STUMPS, or "Stupid Teenagers Under My Protection" as Hoke puts it, and number among them a drug dealer, hacker, and dangerous driver.
During a hike, one of the obnoxious ones decides to take home a souvenir in the shape of a horn from a skeletal ox carcass. This is later revealed to be from the grave of Paul Bunyan's only 'friend', Babe the Blue Ox. Again, if you're unfamiliar with the story, it's going to mean fuck all to you. But forest hermit, Joe Estevez, is on hand later to tell us that Paul Bunyan is the Axe Giant, left in a cave after his logger massacre blah, blah, blah, survived, blah, blah, grew bigger and bigger and now is a giant. Like, a TOTAL giant.
Once Bunyan appears, he starts to decimate the campers with his anchor-sized axe, traps them in a cabin and makes repeated visits to kill them until the usual few are left to drive away at about 10m.p.h. before they're eventually rescued by a bunch of NRA-type nutballs.
Strangely, Axe Giant starts out quite well, with some fun to be found at Sgt. Hoke's expense, and nice forest scenery, it's when the Victor Crowley-a-like Bunyan enters proceedings that craptastic CGI effects become too poor to handle, characters become really stupid (throwing a small stick at a 20-foot tall maniac is NOT going to defeat him), and extras look right at the camera.
Filmicly dreadful, but there's fun to be had if you can switch off your logic receptors and pretend computer generated effects are still in their infancy.
Blurbs-of-interest: Joe Estevez is also in Sigma Die!, The Catcher and Scar; Tom Downey was also in Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove, which was also directed by Gary Jones, as was Boogeyman 3; Chris Hahn was in ClownTown.
tagged with get your own ideas!, gore o'clock, Nu-di-ty, slasher, slasher films that aren't supposed to be funny but are funny, who finances this crap!?
I LOLed at this all the way! All The Way!
Especially Bunyan's "traumatizing" experience involving barbecue!

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using System;
using System.Threading;

namespace Cassandra.Serialization
{
    internal class DurationSerializer : TypeSerializer<Duration>
    {
        private static readonly ThreadLocal<byte[][]> EncodingBuffers =
            new ThreadLocal<byte[][]>(() => new [] { new byte[9] , new byte[9], new byte[9]});

        public DurationSerializer(bool asCustomType)
        {
            if (!asCustomType)
            {
                throw new NotSupportedException("Duration type is only supported as custom type (protocol v4)");
            }
        }

        public override ColumnTypeCode CqlType
        {
            get { return ColumnTypeCode.Custom; }
        }

        public override IColumnInfo TypeInfo
        {
            get { return new CustomColumnInfo("org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DurationType"); }
        }

        public override Duration Deserialize(ushort protocolVersion, byte[] buffer, int offset, int length, IColumnInfo typeInfo)
        {
            var months = (int)VintSerializer.ReadVInt(buffer, ref offset);
            var days = (int)VintSerializer.ReadVInt(buffer, ref offset);
            var nanoseconds = VintSerializer.ReadVInt(buffer, ref offset);
            return new Duration(months, days, nanoseconds);
        }

        public override byte[] Serialize(ushort protocolVersion, Duration value)
        {
            var lengthMonths = VintSerializer.WriteVInt(value.Months, EncodingBuffers.Value[0]);
            var lengthDays = VintSerializer.WriteVInt(value.Days, EncodingBuffers.Value[1]);
            var lengthNanos = VintSerializer.WriteVInt(value.Nanoseconds, EncodingBuffers.Value[2]);
            // Can be improved once the buffer pool is made available for serializers
            var buffer = new byte[lengthMonths + lengthDays + lengthNanos];
            var offset = 0;
            Buffer.BlockCopy(EncodingBuffers.Value[0], 0, buffer, offset, lengthMonths);
            offset += lengthMonths;
            Buffer.BlockCopy(EncodingBuffers.Value[1], 0, buffer, offset, lengthDays);
            offset += lengthDays;
            Buffer.BlockCopy(EncodingBuffers.Value[2], 0, buffer, offset, lengthNanos);
            return buffer;
        }

        private static class VintSerializer
        {
            private static long EncodeZigZag64(long n)
            {
                return (n << 1) ^ (n >> 63);
            }

            private static long DecodeZigZag64(long n)
            {
                return ((long)((ulong)n >> 1)) ^ -(n & 1);
            }

            private static int ComputeUnsignedVIntSize(long value)
            {
                var magnitude = LeadingZeros((ulong)(value | 1L));
                return (639 - magnitude * 9) >> 6;
            }

            private static int LeadingZeros(uint value)
            {
                var counter = 0;
                while (value != 0)
                {
                    value = (value >> 1);
                    counter++;
                }

                return 32 - counter;
            }

            private static int LeadingZeros(ulong value)
            {
                var counter = 0;
                while (value != 0)
                {
                    value = value >> 1;
                    counter++;
                }

                return 64 - counter;
            }

            private static int FirstByteValueMask(int extraBytesToRead)
            {
                return 0xff >> extraBytesToRead;
            }

            private static int EncodeExtraBytesToRead(int extraBytesToRead)
            {
                return ~FirstByteValueMask(extraBytesToRead);
            }

            private static int NumberOfExtraBytesToRead(int firstByte)
            {
                return LeadingZeros((uint)~firstByte << 24);
            }

            private static void EncodeVInt(long value, int size, byte[] buffer)
            {
                var extraBytes = size - 1;
                for (var i = extraBytes; i >= 0; --i)
                {
                    buffer[i] = (byte)value;
                    value >>= 8;
                }
                buffer[0] |= (byte)EncodeExtraBytesToRead(extraBytes);
            }

            private static int WriteUnsignedVInt(long value, byte[] buffer)
            {
                var size = ComputeUnsignedVIntSize(value);
                if (size == 1)
                {
                    buffer[0] = (byte) value;
                    return size;
                }
                EncodeVInt(value, size, buffer);
                return size;
            }

            public static int WriteVInt(long value, byte[] buffer)
            {
                return WriteUnsignedVInt(EncodeZigZag64(value), buffer);
            }

            private static long ReadUnsignedVInt(byte[] input, ref int offset)
            {
                var firstByte = input[offset++];
                if ((firstByte & 0x80) == 0)
                {
                    return firstByte;
                }
                var size = NumberOfExtraBytesToRead(firstByte);
                long result = firstByte & FirstByteValueMask(size);
                for (var ii = 0; ii < size; ii++)
                {
                    long b = input[offset++];
                    result <<= 8;
                    result |= b & 0xff;
                }
                return result;
            }

            public static long ReadVInt(byte[] buffer, ref int offset)
            {
                return DecodeZigZag64(ReadUnsignedVInt(buffer, ref offset));
            }
        }
    }
}

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Woman Reading, by Will Barnet, 1970.
with the whoosh of his full furry tail.
in this shadowed tango of wills.
only because I grew weary of trying to win.
to cause me to lose my place.
Just my book and I.
Shelly Blankman and her husband Jon are empty-nesters who live in Columbia, Maryland with their 4 cat rescues. They have two sons: Richard, 32, of New York, and Joshua, 30, of San Antonio. Shelly's first love has always been poetry, although her career has generally followed the path of public relations/journalism. Her poetry has been published by Ekphrastic: writing and art on art and writing, Silver Birch Press, Verse-Virtual, and Visual Verse.
Super poem. I love "nightly soundtrack of purrs" and "shadowed tango of wills" especially.
Excellent, that's all that need be said!


With Nokia releasing three models to get a hold on the android market with Nokia X, X+ and XL and if you are one of the users who is using one of these phones and was earlier using an Android or a Windows device you will have the big task of transferring all your data like music, photos, videos, audio files and contacts to your new nokia x, x+ and xl.
So here we have explained in a simple tutorial and showed you different ways in which you can transfer contacts to your new nokia X, X+ and XL.
We will be showing you how youc an transfer contacts using Email and also how you can use Bluetooth and Contact transfer App.
This is a very simple trick which will allow you to copy the contacts which you have saved on your SIM card.
Go to your Nokia X, X+ or XL homescreen and you will have to go into the People Hub with a contact icon for the app.
At the bottom of the screen you can find the Menu which can be seen as a three lined bar and you have to place your finger on it and swipe it up to reveal the menu options.
From the list you should tap on the Import/Export and you will be getting various options to help import contacts like – Import from SIM, Import from storage, Export to SIM card, Export to storgae, share visible contacts.
And you will also be getting an option to transfer or sync your contacts into your corporate or Outlook account so that next time you can directly transfer contacts from email.
If you earlier had a phone which has bluetooth then you can use an App called Contact Transfer App which is available on Store on your device.
Install the Contact transfer App to your Nokia X, X+ or XL device.
Turn on Bluetooth on your old device and also on your new device and launch the contacts transfer app.
The App will show a list of available phones to connect over bluetooth and you can find your old device in this list as well, tap on your old phone and wait for the app to connect.
The app will show the number of contacts available on your old phone and will ask you permission to transfer the contacts and the app will automatically either replace or add contacts which have the same first and alst names.
Tap on Continue and the transfer will start automatically without any problem and if youhave thousands of contacts it might take some time but if you have less contacts it will be finished fast.
Direct transfer from Gmail into Nokia X, X+ and XL is not availablea t the moment so we have to download the contacts list in the form of vCard into an SD card and from there you have to transfer the contacts into your device.
Open menu and tap on More, then from the options tap on Export all contacts in VCard format.
After you have download the file in vCArd format to your laptop or pc you have to connect your SD card being used on your nokia device to your laptop or pc and transfer the vCard file to it.
Tap on it and you will get a pop up box asking you if you want to use File editer or the Peoples App.
Tap on the People App to transfer the contacts form SD card to your Nokia X, X+ and XL device.
You will get another option to save the contacts on your phone memory or save it to your Outlook account.


Deliver a letter to Captain Aldis in Solitude.
Speak to Gorm when he's apart from the Jarl.
Deliver Gorm's letter to Captain Aldis in Solitude.
Jarl Idgrod Ravencrone governs Hjaalmarch from her seat in Morthal. She is gifted with visions that seem to occupy most of her attention; she is less concerned with governing a people than she is with attending to her visions and passing on the wisdom she gleans. Her administration is under scrutiny as a result, as you will find out when visiting Morthal. If you speak to Gorm, Idgrod's housecarl, inside of Highmoon Hall he will be very solicitous of Ravencrone and her visions. However, if approached while away from the jarl he will reveal that his concerns are not just about her safety, but rather the condition her gift has left her in. He believes that she may no longer be able to adequately act as jarl of Hjaalmarch.
Speak with Gorm while he is dining at Moorside Inn at 6:00 p.m., or while he is walking to and from Highmoon Hall. He will give you a letter to deliver to an Imperial Legion officer, Captain Aldis. Aldis can be found in Solitude at Castle Dour. Reading Gorm's Letter reveals that there is seemingly a plan in the works to remove Idgrod from power. Aldis, however, seems far less sanguine at the prospect of removing a sitting Empire-loyal jarl during wartime; but, he will take the information under advisement. He gives you 20 gold for delivering the letter.
Counts for assisting people for Thane of Hjaalmarch.
The only way Idgrod is actually removed from power in game is if the Stormcloaks take over Morthal.
If siding with the Stormcloaks, this quest needs to be started before The Battle for Fort Hraggstad and finished before the Battle for Solitude to avoid issues. Also, Season Unending can transfer Hjaalmarch to the Stormcloaks; if that happens, then this quest cannot be started until Hjaalmarch is reconquered for the Empire.
The related quest or objective may not appear in your journal.
If you complete the Stormcloaks quest Battle for Solitude, Aldis will no longer be part of the city and the quest marker will lead to a blank floor, where Aldis previously stood.
On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage FreeformMorthalB stage, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the quest using resetquest FreeformMorthalB.


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Gymboree Group said it plans to start closing all of its Gymboree and Crazy 8 branded stores, according to the filing.
The filing does not say exactly how many Janie and Jack stores will be saved. There were 149 stores at the time of its first bankruptcy. The company operates more than 900 stores in total, according to the latest filing.
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Biden Taps Campaign Manager Who Advocated for AR-15 Confiscation
Military/Guns Politics Top Stories
By Pluralist / March 15, 2020
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is hiring the architect of Beto O'Rourke's failed primary campaign, tapping a vocal advocate of AR-15 confiscation to lead him to victory in the general election.
Jen O'Malley Dillon will be Biden's new campaign manager, according to the Washington Post. While Biden has advocated for banning — but not confiscating — so-called assault weapons, Dillon led O'Rourke's campaign as it adopted some of the most radical anti-gun policies in the Democratic field.
The longtime Democratic strategist also publicly backed the former Texas congressman when he called for the confiscation of AR-15s and other popular firearms in the wake of the El Paso shooting.
"My son is 17 months old, which shouldn't fucking matter," she tweeted in response to a September interview in which O'Rourke reiterated his call for AR-15 and AK-47 confiscation. "But thinking of that baby with shrapnel is [sic] his face almost broke me. GET EVERY ONE OF THOSE GODDAMN GUNS OFF OUR STREETS."
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The Biden campaign did not return a request for comment.
The addition of Dillon to Biden's campaign raises new questions about where the former vice president stands on the issue of gun confiscation.
Upon receiving O'Rourke's endorsement, Biden said the former congressman would lead his administration's gun-control efforts. The Democratic frontrunner has tacked far to the left on Second Amendment issues as he consolidated support from his former rivals. In September, he told CNN he did not believe it was legal to force Americans to turn in firearms they legally owned. On Tuesday, when confronted by an autoworker about his embrace of O'Rourke's mandatory buyback proposal, Biden denied that he supported confiscation and then cursed out the man and threatened to fight him.
"You're full of shit," Biden told the Michigan worker. "I have a shotgun, I have a 20-gauge, a 12-gauge. My sons hunt. Guess what? You're not allowed to own any weapon. I'm not taking your gun away, at all."
When the worker told Biden not to put his finger in his face, Biden said, "Don't tell me that pal or I'll have to go outside with you."
O'Rourke's embrace of confiscation came as his campaign floundered in the single digits in September. The hardline position on gun control failed to boost O'Rourke in the polls, however, and he dropped out in November. After the O'Rourke campaign ended, Dillon became a campaign adviser for Biden.
What Jen O'Malley Dillon means for Joe Biden
While Biden and Dillon appear to have conflicting views on confiscation, it is not clear how the difference will affect the campaign moving forward. Dr. Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, told the Washington Free Beacon that campaign managers often shift their positions in accord with their candidate's views.
"No one can say for sure but here's what I've learned from watching a thousand campaigns," he said. "The managers who survive and prosper are those who adjust their views to fit the candidate, and not the other way around."
Campaign staffers do not always adjust their own views. In June, Biden embraced taxpayer funding for abortion despite supporting the Hyde Amendment for four decades. Campaign advisers claimed credit for pulling their candidate further to the left, despite the fact that voters overwhelmingly support the ban on federal abortion funding.
Biden's campaign has cultivated an image of the candidate as a moderate in his run against Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent, but he has staked out radical positions on gun control despite stopping short of confiscation.
He has supported a ban on future sales of so-called assault rifles and a voluntary buyback. He also called for a sales ban on all guns except theoretical "smart guns" — which are not currently available for sale anywhere in the United States — a ban on guns and magazines that hold "multiple rounds," as well as a national gun registry.
Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said Dillon is unlikely to make Biden's gun-control positions much worse because the candidate had already moved so far to the left.
"I don't think Beto's former campaign manager can move Biden to be any more extreme on anti-gun-rights policy," he said. "Biden's differences with Beto are so minor that they still destroy our Second Amendment Rights."
Mark Oliva, spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said Biden has already done enough to alienate gun owners with his policies and "by bringing Robert Francis O'Rourke [in] as his gun control sheriff."
"Joe Biden's antipathy toward gun rights is evident," Oliva told the Free Beacon. "Voters, and our industry, have every reason to be suspicious of Joe Biden's anti-gun platforms. He's yet to offer a single idea to hold criminals accountable, but he's adopted far-left positions on gun control."
(Reporting by Stephen Gutowski)
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This year, 2016, marks 40 years since the CAPS mission – to prevent child abuse in Elkhart County – officially began. In the coming weeks, we'll be sharing a few stories about some of the people who were there at the beginning, working to ensure that all kids have a safe, healthy and happy childhood.
"It was something I think the public was just beginning to become aware of, so we had a lot of education to do to make people aware that child abuse was actually a problem in our community and really a problem everywhere," Abbott said. His initial research found 238 potential cases of child abuse involving more than 600 children in the previous year.
The question had come from a small group of concerned citizens including Ruth Gattman, a registered nurse and member of the AMA Women's Auxiliary. Abbott brought his findings to the third meeting of the group in 1973 and started working with the group to find – or create – resources in the community to prevent children from being hurt. They had to make new connections in health care, law enforcement, schools and other child-serving professions to figure out what the whole picture of child well-being looked like.
"It made us work that much harder, I think, because we had a lot of learning to do," Abbott said.
In those early days, Abbott and the rest of the group worked to build support for their mission in the community. They attended public meetings, sat down with business leaders, and introduced themselves at existing nonprofit and government-funded agencies and organizations.
"There was no money then, for anything," Gattman said. The group gradually found that, while certain entities worked with families and children, there was no organized effort to ensure the safety of children.
In 1974, Congress passed the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, which for the first time established federal guidelines for keeping children safe from various forms of abuse and neglect. Now Abbott and his fellow investigators and advocates had a nationally recognized cause.
Eventually, the group caught the attention of the local United Way chapter, which formally enlisted them to complete their work. United Way brought a few local business leaders on board to examine what could be done, including Charles Owens, an executive at Miles Laboratories, who led the newly anointed Child Abuse Task Force.
When the task force formally finished its work in 1976 with a recommendation to the then-named Child Health Society to hire the county's first child abuse prevention program coordinator, Abbott's job wasn't quite finished. He applied for and was named to that position in early 1977, a position that launched a career of more than 30 years at the agency that would become CAPS.
In his time as President/CEO of CAPS, Abbott oversaw the growth of child abuse prevention programs from unfunded volunteer-led efforts to federally and state-funded, research-backed programs that serve hundreds of families per year. Every one of CAPS's current programs began under Abbott's direction.
Abbott retired in 2009, but it's still child abuse prevention and community education on the issue that is the core of the work here at CAPS: What is abuse and how to report and prevent it.
"Those things continue to be important, even today, so that people know if they see something, what to do to get it reported," Abbott said.


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Iran vows to use 'smart' bomb on enemies
AP: Iran vowed Sunday to use a new 2,000-pound "smart" bomb against its enemies and unveiled mass production of the new weapon, state television reported. Associated Press
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran vowed Sunday to use a new 2,000-pound "smart" bomb against its enemies and unveiled mass production of the new weapon, state television reported.
The government first announced development of the long-range guided bomb Thursday, saying it could be deployed by the country's aging U.S.-made F-4 and F-5 fighter jets.
"We will use these (bombs) against our enemies when the time comes," Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on state television Sunday.
Iran often announces new weapons for its arsenal, but the United States maintains that while the Islamic Republic has made some strides, many of these statements are exaggerations.
The broadcast included a brief clip of a fighter jet apparently dropping one of the bombs, which destroyed a target on the ground.
The defense minister continued his threats as state television showed him unveiling a mass production line for the weapon in Tehran.
"We will use this weapon where we want to … hit enemy's strategic and defense targets," Najjar said. "This will be used against our enemies, against those who violate our land and air space."
Israel said the claim underlines its concerns over Iran's arms buildup.
"All countries of the Middle East, Israel included, are concerned about expansionist Iranian policies, and about their aggressive military arms buildup," Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said. "There is no doubt that the regime in Tehran poses a very real threat to the peace and security of the region as a whole."
The United States and Israel accuse Iran of developing nuclear bombs, a charge Tehran denies. Iran's president has said Israel should be wiped off the map and Israel considers Iran its main enemy.
Emanuel Winston, a Middle East analyst at the Houston-based Freeman Center for Strategic Studies, said Thursday that Iran's smart bomb claim sounded "plausible" but said that it would be less dangerous than a missile development program given the limited range of the country's aircraft.
Najjar was more aggressive, saying the bomb "remarkably increases Iran's defense capabilities."
Iran launched its own arms development program during its 1980-88 war with Iraq in response to a U.S.-led arms embargo. Since 1992, the country has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, and missiles.
Earlier this month, Iran said it had started industrial-scale production of its own fighter jet, known as Azarakhsh or Lightning, to upgrade its elderly air force, much of which dates from before the 1979 revolution.
Iran last year test-fired a "ultra-horizon" missile, two powerful torpedoes and a Fajr-e Darya missile capable of avoiding radars and hitting several targets simultaneously using multiple warheads during large military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf.
Associated Press writer Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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Modern cars come with a lot of fancy technology ranging from vehicles that "talk" to you to self-driving mechanisms that ease the strain of driving. However, there is one new technology that has not received the attention it deserves and is ideal for use in the stop and start traffic we normally seen on roads in Dubai and many other cities across the world.
Auto-hold brakes are simple to install and use but make a tremendous difference to the hassle of getting through a lengthy traffic jam. When auto-hold brakes are used all you need to do is lightly touch on the brake pedal to stop the car from moving when you are stuck in traffic. A light on the dashboard indicates that the system has been activated and when you press on the accelerator, the brakes are automatically released.
This is a bit different from hill-hold assistance, in which case the brakes are held for just a few seconds when the vehicle is on an incline to prevent it from rolling back.
For those who regularly spent their time stuck in traffic, switching between the accelerator and the brake can become quite a chore and auto-hold brakes will make commuting a whole lot easier.
Mercedes has used this technology in some of their models and many more manufacturers are slowly adopting this feature. It will likely become a feature that all customers will expect as a standard option.
Early versions of auto-hold brakes worked only with automatic transmissions but modern versions work with manual gears as well. Most such units work in tandem with the electronic stability program and anti-lock brakes, so they are not too difficult to install, but all models having them will also need to have an electronic parking brake.
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Irene Elaine Recktenwald Oyer, of Hornell
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HORNELL-Irene Elaine Recktenwald Oyer, 71, of Hornell, died Sunday afternoon (Oct. 4, 2015) at her home, with her loving family by her side.
She was born in Hollywood, Calif. on Nov. 2, 1943, during the World War II era, and was the daughter of the late James A. and Irene E. (Blasco) Recktenwald. She was raised by her grandparents, the late Charles and Abigail Recktenwald of Hornell. Besides her parents and grandparents, she was also predeceased by her sister, Mary Ann and her stepmother, Kathryn.
A graduate of Hornell High School, Irene also attended Alfred State College and was employed for over 30 years at Wegmans in Hornell as a pharmacy technician.
She was an active woman throughout her life with a passion for her family and community. She truly adored her four grandchildren, attending all their sporting events and school functions. Irene was a member of the Hornell American Legion, the Hornell Moose Lodge and the AZB Sorority. She enjoyed traveling and RV camping and wintered with her husband in Florida and often visited Gettysburg, Pa. For her 50th wedding anniversary, she and her family shared a week long ocean cruise in July to Turks & Caicos and the Bahamas.
Her loving family includes her husband of 50 years, Richard "Dick" Oyer, who she married at St. Ann's Church in Hornell on June 19, 1965; her two sons, Rick (Lisa) Oyer of Hornell and Chris (Elena) Oyer of Victor; her four grandchildren, Matthew, Nicholas, Nathan and Weston; her two brothers, James Recktenwald of Minnesota and John Recktenwald of Virginia; her sister, Lynn Connery of Texas; also her beloved aunt, Mary Dahill of Rocky River, Ohio; and her nieces, nephews and cousins.
The Bishop & Johnson Funeral Home, Inc. in Hornell is honored to serve the family of Irene R. Oyer.
Calling hours are 3-7 p.m. Wednesday at the Bishop & Johnson Funeral Home, Inc., 285 Main St., Hornell, where the AZB Sorority will hold a memorial service following calling hours at 7 p.m. Friends are invited to meet her family at St. Ann's Church in Hornell where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday. Private interment will be at St. Ann's Cemetery, Hornell.
In lieu of flowers, those wishing may contribute in her memory to either the Hornell Area Humane Society, 7649 Industrial Park Road, Hornell, N.Y. 14843 or to the Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester, 1048 University Ave., Rochester, N.Y. 14607. Envelopes for memorial contributions will be available at the funeral home.
Online condolences or remembrances of Irene are welcomed at www.bishopandjohnsonfuneralhome.com.
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Kent and Literature: The Stories of our Story
Talk at the Kent Archaeological Society Annual General Meeting, University of Kent. May 18th 2019.
First a word of clarification and justification. For those who might have looked at my CV, beyond being a council member and trustee of the KAS, and a member for almost three decades now, and despite having been born and brought up in this county, it's apparent there is little clear connection between what I intend to talk about today and my professional life. Since 1990 in one way or another I have dealt with China, as a diplomat, in business, and then as an academic. What qualifies me to speak about the literary history of this county? Well, nothing – beyond perhaps the most important thing, which is a deep personal interest in this subject. The fact therefore that I am not paid, or rewarded in any tangible way for what I am going to speak about today shows I really do care about it and am interested in it.
There is however also another reason. In fact, it was through the insights of a friend from Taiwan that I started to think much more about what this county's literary history is, and how to make sense of it. Before that, like many other people, I had been vaguely aware of there having been a lot of prominent writers who lived or worked in this place, and specific locations which were sometimes associated with them. Dicken's Rochester, for instance, springs to mind as the very obvious example, or Marlowe's Canterbury. It was only when showing this Taiwanese friend the memorial to Ian Fleming on the coast at Dover that they pointed out something that has stayed with me since. Fleming after all created a character who really does have global reach. `007' is a phenomenon well known in China, Japan and throughout Asia. Yes, this is mostly to do with the hugely popular and successful film franchise. But with no books by Fleming, these films would have never been made. And while there are scenes in his work that clearly occur in places like the Sandwich golf club, where the evil Goldfinger plays a high stakes round of golf with James Bond, in fact in the whole set of films only one scene was actually ever filmed here – in the docks at Dover in the 1971 `Diamonds are Forever'. Fleming, however, clearly lived in Kent – for two years for instance at the Bishop's Palace in Bekesbourne – and, ever more clearly he died here. And yet, as my Taiwanese friend pointed out, why wasn't there a much more solid commemoration of him than the very underwhelming slightly hidden iron figure at the tiny Dover beach sea front and a couple of plaques on pub and house walls?
There are a set of questions about why it should matter where a writer lived or how places which really exist figure in their work. Writers of fiction deal with empires of the mind. So this talk could be about the reimagination of Kent as a place with characteristics, history and idiosyncrasies as they exist in fictional works – Kent as an imagined place, and how it contrasts with the real one we all live in. Even here, we will start to need to make a few intellectual strategic decisions. Chaucer is world famous as the author of the Canterbury Tales. One would assume there could not be a more direct link between a work of fiction and a place than the naming of it in its title. Even so, for those who read through the immense unfinished `fragment' that Chaucer left, Kent as a place does not figure much. It occurs purely as background, an assumed location where these varied characters happen to be when telling their stories about other places and other worlds. The Knight's Tale, the infamous Miller's Tale, the Tale of the Wife of Bath have no link to Kent. In the early 1970s, the great Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini before his brutal murder in 1975 rendered some of these stories into a film – part of his `Trilogy of Life'. Tellingly, his choice of locations ranged from Wells in Somerset, to the streets of London. Kent only really figured when the beautiful small church on Romney Marsh at Fairfield appeared – a stark priestly figure walking across the grass away from the church. The Pilgrims Way, the road on which these imaginary speakers told their imaginary tale is arguably as much a work of fiction as Chaucer's – not a place at all, more a creation of Victorian Ordinance Survey mapmakers and the poet Hilaire Belloc.
On the other extreme Dicken's Kent seems to be a place with great solidity and tangibility. You can visit it, spend time in it, and find commemoration plaques on buildings in places like Rochester where you are informed that these were the locations where events that never actually happened occurred! The power of Dickens to have influenced and in some cases remoulded the physical world he lived in is remarkable. In effect he created a myth of Kent, just as he is often accused of creating the myth of Christmas. And yet here too there are other questions about his link to the physical space of Kent we can ponder. The place where he did most of the writing for the final years of his life, Gad's Hill, in Higham, is now a private school, and sporadically open. The chalet he apparently most liked writing in is now stuck in a public garden, looking adrift and forlorn in Rochester High Street. Did it matter that he was physically here when he wrote the final books of his life? Would those books have been different if they had been written elsewhere? Is there some meaning we can draw from his being in this place, rather than any other? I don't think these questions ever get asked much – but they should be. Instead, we seem to be invited to perpetually celebrate Dicken's Kent, without any clear idea of what this really means, and whether this place bears any relationship to the one we all happen to be living in.
My core argument will be that just as archaeologists at a new site are almost always confronted with disparate and varied bits of evidences, seldom very coherent, and never very complete, and have to come up with some kind of interpretative narrative, in a very different context, but in a very similar way, the vestiges, material and otherwise, that writers have left on the landscape and in the memory traces of Kent are lying around us, and yet so far haven't been rewarded with a proper analytic and synthesising framework to make sense of them. We can certainly tour in these places, and see them as sightseeing resources, and give them sporadic attention. But my submission is that the utterly remarkable literary history of this county deserves far more than that. The story of it and its literature is no less than the story of the English language and its literature. Some of the earliest written documents, as the magnificent exhibition of Anglo Saxon books at the British Library earlier this year showed, came from the centre of learning that was Canterbury after Augustine's mission here. The earliest laws were written down here. This is therefore the longest literary tradition in the English speaking world. How odd therefore that Kent is so silent about the words and the world of words that it has been such a central location to.
Working out clear parameters for what we are looking at when we speak of literature and links with people and places is not easy, I understand. Someone just having been born here – as the Tudor poets Philip Sydney from Penshurst and Thomas Wyatt from Allington Castle were, means little. Their works are indifferent to or silent about Kent, and focus on placeless emotions and courtly love themes. Ben Jonson, their near contemporary, had no particular link to Kent, but wrote one of the great poetic celebrations of hospitality `On Penshurst,' which is extremely specific in its celebration of the joys and honour of being a guest at that great Medieval house. With his inimitable elusiveness, Shakespeare haunts our landscape as he does so many other places. He may as a member of the King's Players have come to Chilham to act in the castle gardens under the patronage of the Digges family who owned it then. He may have had a hand in the play about the infamous murder in `Arden of Faversham' – the 2016 Oxford edition claims not Thomas Kyd but he wrote most of the work. The nature of his links to Kent is speculative, however well informed, with little solid documentary evidence. The most we can say is that the county figures in his work, with the epic scene between Edgar and a blinded Duke of Gloucester on Dover beach in King Lear and Falstaff's encounter with robbers on the road close by to where Dickens lived in Higham in Henry the Fourth Part One being two of the most celebrated examples. These from quite early on became engrained in the collective unconscious of this region. Generation after generation learned them at school, to the point where we came to think they almost happened. There is even a Shakespeare Cliff on our coast, proving Oscar Wilde's saying that more often than not life imitates art, rather than the other way around. In this way, they became part of our identity.
There are two writers who occupy a very unique place in any attempt to make sense of the literary history of this county. For both of them, ironically, English was not their native language. One of them is buried close to here. Joseph Conrad's journeys, as a recent study had made clear, means that he is a figure who left traces around the South Asian region and the world, and in his native Poland/Ukraine. His works are located in venues running from Australia to Latin America, to Indonesia and the Malayan Peninsula. The most celebrated of them, `The Heart of Darkness', while mostly occurring in the Belgian Congo, begins in Kent – though in the estuary waters by Gravesend where Marlow the storyteller, perhaps Conrad's alter ego, announces the famous lines: `This too has been one of the dark places of the earth.' He is referring to the conquest by Caesar, and how it occurs as part of a history of subjugation and enslavement, in Britain. The line haunts the rest of the book. Conrad's own life in Kent occurred after his retirement from being a seaman, and some years based in London. Addington, Pent Farm and then finally Oswalds in the village near Canterbury of Bishopsbourne were all places he and his family rented. They seem utterly unimportant in his work, for sure. The account of his son Borys Conrad, who was accused of fraudulently using his father's memory to make financial gain after his death, implies these locations were simply ones that Conrad lived in and which he had no deep connection to. And yet despite this, for anyone effected by the haunting quality of Conrad's prose, a language which happened to be his third after Polish and French, standing by the buildings that he actually produced these works in is an oddly unsettling experience. Pent Farm (see below – photo on the left) is the place he wrote Heart of Darkness. It is not an easy place to find, hidden in the lanes as one drives down from Canterbury to Folkestone. One of the truly great visionary works of modernity was produced here, and yet the site itself is eerily silent and unmarked. On a still day, as it was when I visited, it seems fitting and appropriate that a work like this was produced here, though I have no easy way of explaining why – beyond the fact that the quietness of this place must have allowed Conrad the peace to concentrate on producing his great work, and that atmosphere has lasted to today. This, indeed, is one of the dark places of the earth, not so much because of what happened here, but because of what someone imagined while here!
The other writer wrote not in English but in German, and his story is even more puzzling. Uwe Johnson died aged 49 in 1984. At the time of his death, in a sea facing house in Sheerness, he was so little known and isolated that his body lay undiscovered for a fortnight. And yet, with the publication of his `Anniversaries' in a stupendous English translation for the first time in New York last year, he is being rediscovered. His work even more than Conrad's has no tangible link with Kent at all. It is set in New York, the city in which Johnson had lived before coming in 1975 to the small Sheppey town, and then in pre-war Germany. No one knows quite why a writer called by figures like Heinrich Boll and Gunther Grass in his own life time one of the greatest German writers of the modern era did move to provincial Kent. What is clear is that alongside Joyce's `Ulysses,' Proust's `Remembrance of Things Past' and Musil's `The Man of No Qualities', `Anniversaries' ranks as one of the great works of 20th century modernism, shifting between pre-war German history and then the remaking of the protagonist's life in New York from 1967 to 1968. And while Joyce's work is very much set in Dublin, Proust's in Paris and Combray, and Musil's in Vienna, the difference is that Johnson's works shifts between multiple locations and territories. It is itinerant and peripatetic. That is part of its power. And once more, on a winter's day coming to the house in which he wrote this tremendous work, in this most unexpected of places, itself has a huge emotional power. His was one of the great heroic lives of the modern era. It is commemorated by the smallest of plaques.
Kent was a place of centrality to Conrad and Johnson through living here. But there is a Kent literary history which is more about marginality – a place on the edges or away from the great all-demanding centre of London. Somewhere to come to to get away. For the poet T S Eliot, his trace on the local landscape is through one line, in the Wasteland, and one place – Margate: `On Margate sands/ I can connect/ Nothing with nothing.' His stay in the town recuperating from what sounds like a nervous breakdown and the emerging marital problems with his troubled first wife Vivian is particularly ghostly. He was there perhaps a month in the early 1920s. At that time Margate was still a favoured resort for those seeking the fresh sea air and its medicinal and therapeutic qualities. He stayed in the Albermarle Hotel. That is now long gone, its site occupied by flats. But there is one place that he was physically in which still exists– the sea shelter now on the northern edge of the beach. There, according to records, he sat covered in a blanket in the morning meditating. The hut stands today, largely unchanged. Efforts to commemorate it and make more of it have been limited, though it has been listed. At the wrong time of the year or the day, the enjoyment of going there is impacted on by the distress of seeing the plight of homeless people huddle under the shelter. Sometimes needles from drug usage are spread across the floor. An artist of a different genre and nature, Tracy Emin, herself a native of this town, has celebrated its harder edged qualities in her art. The tragic local writer David Seagrove wrote movingly in the 2000s of what these seaside towns with their experience of highs and lows now mean – before his own sudden demise in an apartment opposite Canterbury West station in 2009. When we stand in Margate in the places where we think Eliot stood and reflect on the immense impact of `The Wasteland', a poem that starts appropriately for our purposes today with a quote from Joseph Conrad, it is not so much connecting nothing with nothing, but connecting this place with any proper understanding of its true role in inspiring the words that Eliot put on the page that is so difficult.
Eliot's connexions with Kent do not end there. The premier of his verse play, `Murder in the Cathedral' was held in the Chapter House in Canterbury – again an event unmarked today. M R James, the great Victorian writer of haunted tales, was born in Kent before moving for most of his career to Cambridge. His tales were tighter, more fraught and impactful than the now less well remembered `Ingoldsby Legends' by the Reverend Richard Harris Barham. But the stories of both have a high incidence of landscapes and places where hauntings and the atmosphere left by the memory traces of past trauma are strong. For them, it is indeed manifestly the case that `this too has been one of the dark places of the earth.' But perhaps the most powerful rendition of this spectral, haunting quality of the Kent city and rural landscape can be found not in a work about the past, but in Russel Hoban's dystopian masterpiece from 1980 of the future – `Riddley Walker' – a work which, much like that of the more orthodox, Canterbury educated W Somerset Maugham, or even of the great Dickens, tests the reader by renaming places. Canterbury for Hoban is Cambry, a place devastated a millennium or so in the future by a nuclear attack. Kent is a ruined place, tribes drifting across it attacking each other. The sole remnant of the great civilisation of the past is a Punch and Judy kit and a scratchy image of the myth of St Eunice which becomes the centre of a new religion. As Hoban has his protagonist declare, `every thing is about every thing' – an antidote to the sentiments of Eliot quoted just a moment ago where nothing connects. The challenge in this devasted world is finding the link but the link somehow can, and must be found.
The finding of the link is what we have to do when we look at this truly remarkable literary history – one of the most powerful not just in Britain, but in the whole world. There are many more fragments we could attend to: the life of Christopher Marlow, schoolboy in this city, and whether his great invention of iambic pentameters really were the making of Shakespeare who came after him; the slow jaunts through Kent by figures like Daniel Defoe, who certainly critically wrote of the place in one of his many, many works, but much less certainly may have lived and written Robinson Crusoe in a small village here – either the Hartley in West Kent, of the same place in the East. William Hazlitt, great essayist and contemporary of Coleridge and Wordsworth, was the son of a unitarian minister in Maidstone, and spent his first decade or so there. But even in the work of figures like the damaged but massively influential American poet of the mid twentieth century, Robert Lowell, we find explicit mentions in some of his sequences while he was based here in the late 1960s and early 1970s of the disintegration of his own relationship at the time both with himself, and his wife. Perhaps the most striking of all these forays into our county was a car tour that Samuel Beckett, the Irish writer, took around the western part of the county in the 1930s, where the greatest absurdist writer of the last century was struck by the absurdness of names like Snodland and the difference between the spelling of Trotiscliffe and the way the word was said.
The most haunting of all links, however, are the visits here by Jane Austen, as a published but largely marginal writer in the early 19th century. Austen, as the bicentenary of her death only two years ago attested to, is a truly global figure. Her work is known in Japan, America, Australia, and in China. There are vibrant appreciation societies of her in all these places. And while she is linked with her native Hampshire, spent much time in Bath, and is buried in Winchester, Kent was of major importance in her work. Largely itinerant while alive, her situation meant that she often came to Kent to stay with her elder brother, a man who had been adopted by a wealthy family in Godmersham near Ashford and changed his name from Austen to Knight by act of parliament in order to inherit the estates of the noble house here. Austen is a truly global figure, and yet the very real traces of her life in this county, something commemorated every time one looks at the back of the ten pound note and sees her face, and the sketched outline of Godmersham Place, is only accessible to those that really look. Goodnestone Park, near Canterbury, was another of her haunts, and she most probably was here when she wrote `Pride and Prejudice.' But Rowling's, the house in which she may have done this, the one she stayed at near Goodnestone, is now a private residence. Beyond worthy occasional openings of its gardens to the public, the great manor of Godmersham, in the library of which she must have written Mansfield Park, is off limits except to optometrists who are members of the society that now owns the place and who hold training courses there. Austen stayed in coaching inns in Dartford, and probably in Sittingbourne – and attended functions which she rated as somewhat dreary in Ashford. Of course, the issue is that in her writings, because of their focus on manners and human behaviour, any sense of an external, physical landscape is minimal to non-existent.
Kent has mattered not just to adult fiction, but in the writing for children. This is the city where Mary Tourtel created Rupert Bear; E Nesbit lived and worked throughout Kent and holidayed in Yalding, producing a short children's novel, `The Wouldbegoods' which is clearly physically based in the area. She is buried here, on Romney Marsh. Clive King set his massively popular 1960s tale about a prehistoric man being discovered by children at the bottom of the garden, `Stig of the Dump', in a Bromley house he had lived in near the end of the war and seen the impact of bombing on. Even H G Wells, as much a writer for children as adults, spent almost a decade in Folkestone, on the hills looking over the Channel just a stone's throw from where Agatha Christie, a few years later in the 1920s, would spend time in the Grand Hotel penning `Murder on the Orient Express.' Well's home is marked, but is now a retirement house. It was here where `The War of the Worlds' was produced – a work that also has had global impact.
Forgotten for many years, but now making a significant comeback, the poet David Jones, who fought in the first world war alongside other natives of Kent, Siegfried Sassoon (who schooled in Sevenoaks), Edmund Blunden (from Yalding) and Sidney Keynes (an old boy at Dartford Grammar School) produced work which associated him with the Wales of his father. He himself was born in Bromley, then part of the Kent county area before the borders were redrawn in the latter part of the century. For Jones, the hybrid nature of British identity and history, reaching back to the Roman occupation and even before, into the deep history of British native religions and oral traditions, produced a truly remarkable fragmented quality in his work – work which is best read aloud to capture the amazing richness of its texture and sound. In much of his poetry, and in particular his complex masterpiece `The Anathemata', the British landscape inscribed with so many marks of human intervention and invention, and with the traces of different kinds of comings and goings, is the true protagonist, and humans simply supporting actors on it. This landscape deserves to be attended to, read, understood, on its own terms – a landscape which in Kent is so densely marked and so immensely difficult, and yet rewarding, to interrogate and make sense of. At some points, in for instance the wonderful work from the late 1960s, `The Sleeping Lord', Jones simply produced questions – asking perpetually but not producing anything like a culminating statement. Kent as a question, prompting, stimulating, almost mystical in its elusive qualities, is perhaps not a bad way to see the interface between lived experiences of writers in this space and the physical remnants that they have left and their writings.
It is just strange that there is no specific place that can commemorate this and give us the chance to think more about what this history means. Dublin and Edinburgh have splendid museums of literature, celebrating and making clear their heritage in this space. Kent's efforts are almost half hearted and sporadic. With tourism so important to our economy, how very odd that we are not branded as a place with such a massive literary heritage. Even when we leave this place, in Dover, the location which I started with my story of Ian Fleming and the underwhelming statue there, we still leave not just a physical territory, but one entwined with words, where the words almost bid us goodbye. The Victorian critic and poet, Matthew Arnold, not remotely connected to this county, set his great declaration of the loss of faith at the dawn of high modernity not in the streets of London, or the other grand metropolitan centres of central, or northern Britain, nor the places of learning like Cambridge and Oxford, but on Dover Beach:
`The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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Q: How do I keep the current devise session from being destroyed automatically when navigating from page to page? I've looked through the posts about devise's current_user, but none of them solve my problem.  I can access current_user from my rails 3 views (erb files), but can not access it in the controller.
<%= current_user.name %>

works in the erb.
@user = current_user

does not work in the controller.  What am I missing?
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I am getting nil as value.  It turns out I am able to use
 @user = current_user

in my index controller, but some how once it goes to a different action (like create) the session is destroyed.
So the real question now is:
How do I keep the current user signed in when going from page to page?

A: Finally figured out what the problem was:  needed to get a fixed rails.js file from
https://github.com/fermion/jquery-ujs/blob/master/src/rails.js
Many thanks to @Patrick Connor link to his answer
Devise session immediately expiring on .js call [AJAX]


Of course, of course, of course, the week I have a ton of photos to share, I really don't want to talk about my week, but here we are. Even though I share a lot of my life on my site, there are some really, really personal things that I do try to keep off of the internet.
This week, one of those things happened. It's a situation that I'm still emotionally and mentally dealing with and will be for a long time, but I will be sharing a how-to post eventually (I haven't decided when yet) on how I'm handling the situation and how others can handle it as well. I plan to write the post today while everything is fresh, but it won't come out for a bit, just to give the dust some time to settle.
With that being said, let's jump back to last Friday. I mentioned in my last recap that it literally took all day just to write that post. I kept drifting away and coming back to it. I really just needed a day to not do anything. My day did get a lot better though! In the evening, I met up with three friends for Mexican. We spent over three hours just eating, drinking, and talking. Catching up with these girls is so much fun!
Saturday started out a bit rough, but it turned out to be a relaxing, and decent mental day. I could feel my anxiety grasping at me in the morning, so I just made some hot chocolate, sat at the table listening to the rain, and closed my eyes while I took deep breaths. I really just needed a moment to pull myself together before the anxiety came over me.
I didn't do much on Saturday either. I cuddled with Coby for a long time, watched Spy, and took a nap! It was a bit of a late nap, though, so I ended up staying up until around midnight. Later on, before going to sleep I did a one-hour mediation by Rasa Lukosiute. It was excellent!
I was dragging on Sunday! I had to work super early, so needless to say, I just wasn't in the best mood. You know those days where you just can't deal with people? That was one of those days!
This smoothie was really symbolic for me. I know that sounds weird, but here's a little fact that I've never shared here before because it's just a little difficult to talk about. I was pregnant. Back in the fall (mid-October) I got the news. Unfortunately, I miscarried on November 3rd.
That was one of the most difficult and heartbreaking moments of my entire life. If you've ever experienced this, you know how awful it is to go through. I would have been due around July 3rd. Because it was Mother's Day last Sunday, my mom stopped into my work and brought me a smoothie because I was "almost a momma." I held myself together all day until that happened. I cried.
But anyway, after work, I stopped and grabbed Chinese food for my mom and me. We ate and watched movies for the afternoon. Later on, I got a bit of work done, read in a bubble bath, and I was in bed early!
Sunday night I fell asleep to a lucid dreaming meditation. Unfortunately, nothing good came out of it. I ended up having just a really, really awful nightmare that messed with my head the following day.
Because I was feeling so messed up mentally, I headed straight outside for a long walk. I felt a lot better when I was done. It was a little rainy, warm, and the woods made me feel like I was in a rainforest.
Later on in the day, my friend, Kendra and I went out to a really neat store called 2nd & Charles. It's mostly new and used books, but they also sell CDs, records, collectibles, etc. I was so glad she told me about this place. It was so neat. The location used to be a Borders, but it's been sitting empty for years.
After 2nd & Charles, we headed to the mall and just walked around. Neither of us bought anything all day, and that's quite an accomplishment. We just walked and talked! It was so hot out and after all that walking, I felt so gross, but it was nice to get active doing something so fun!
The babies are getting so big!
Tuesday was just one of those days… for my readers who know me! I worked until 3, showered, crawled into bed by 4:30 and went to sleep! It wasn't an easy mental day and it just got the best of me.
Thankfully, my day went much better on Wednesday. Work went well, I learned a new awesome anxiety method, and I felt so motivated and productive.
For lunch, I had chicken, brown rice, green beans, peas, and corn.
Thursday was just a work-on-the-patio kind of day!
I started my day with a long, long walk listening to manifestation videos and podcasts. I followed the techniques and I'm not going to lie… things got weird. During my walk and while following the techniques, there were two different times that two pairs of birds swooped down right in front of me. Didn't think anything of it.
Then back near the spot in the picture above, instead of birds, there was a squirrel just watching me. Just staring.
Same spot again. This time it was a cat. It was watched me and then would walk about 10 feet before stopping and watching me again, waiting for me to catch up. It did this over and over again until it stopped in a yard, watched me pass by, and then disappeared. It was such a strange, but incredible experience.
Unfortunately, the rest of the day was when it all went downhill.
I'm skipping all that, though!
You can burn pumpkin spice whenever!
My darling you are a momma, you're a momma to an angel baby. Nothing changes that, I can't imagine how painful that must have been but I'm here if you need anything!
pumpkin spice is for all the time!


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Odd things in the Library
Ian Stewart	Uncategorized	 September 19, 2007 1 Minute
My love/hate relationship with the public Library continues. By necessity really; I have to keep going back there to return my books, and what? I'm supposed to leave there empty-handed? Still though, the Library can be an odd place. Let's take last night for instance.
Last night, while my son and I sat in the not-quite-a-café in the foyer across from the security desk I couldn't help but notice them getting agitated. A few minutes later the head security guard walks by, wearing heavy duty disposable plastic gloves, carrying a large plastic bag at arms length. He's making his way towards the exit at a sort of "I'd like to look calm, I hope I look calm" pace. What was in the bag? I never found out. But the junior security guard followed behind and I heard him remark to another colleague, "Well, we've never seen that before."
The kid's section was completely empty last night, except for one guy. A grown man, maybe fifty. He was sitting at one of the kid's sized study tables right in the middle of the the section, reading out loud from an over-sized children's Bible. And I need to emphasize he was reading as loud as he could possibly read. Like he was reading a sermon in a church. Earlier, he walked by and grumbled menacingly and frankly, just plain weirdly, at my son and I.
Lastly there's me. Sometimes my reading interests strike me as odd. Am I the only person out there checking out The Selected Poems of Herman Melville alongside Seth Godin's famous marketing book Unleashing the Ideavirus? Does that set off alarms somewhere in the bowels of the Culture League HQ? Alert! Alert! A reader with conflicted reading tastes—good God, he reads marketing books!—is leaving the downtown library! Send out the dogs! Save Melville!
Maybe not. But I'd actually kind of like to go to the Culture League HQ. I bet they have a cool library.
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Mihaela Lica says:
This really sounds like a story from The Twilight Zone…
The thing that doesn't leave my mind is: what was in THAT bag?
And you were not even curious enough to ask!
EegahInc says:
"Does that set off alarms somewhere in the bowels of the Culture League HQ?"
You know, I've actually wondered about this, about who keeps track of library records. Awhile back I kept a list of every book I checked out for about a year and a half. When I went back and reviewed it, the list was so schizophrenic that I was sure I had to be on the government's watch list for potential madmen.
Most libraries have policies that nobody should keep track. The databases are often designed to simply erase records of what's been taken out, once you've returned it. Librarians tend to take a dim view of censorship or government monitoring of what you're reading. That's not to say that the government doesn't secretly do it anyways, but it's a verboten idea to most library folks.
I imagine that the members get to wear capes.
Ian Stewart says:
I'd like the Caped Culture League (are we talking capes and monocles or superhero capes?) to find out what was in that bag. And, clearly, they have our library records (although Elliot does know his Library business so maybe you should listen to him instead of me).
…Although, I do suspect that the U.S. Government does keep track of this stuff. Luckily, I'm Canadian. Our government is so thoroughly occupied with selling beaver pelts to Europe and laying track for steam engines that they can't be bothered to inspect Library databases.
Clemens says:
Actually, Ian is right. The US gov't DOES want to have access to library patron records as part of the misnamed Patriot Act. So far, librarians have refused to cooperate. I even did a post about it last year on Not Mayberry.
You lucky Canadians. Well, when global warming eats up most of our coastline, and moves the wheat belt several hundred miles north, we are all going to pack up and come your way. (Or we could just reinstitute the draft).


Usually, we use web browser to browse through web pages on the internet. Although its primary intended to access the World Wide Web. Most people believes that browser are only meant for browsing internet. If you have connection for internet, it's useful to have browser installed, or else it's useless to have browser. Today, I am going to show Web browser other functionalities which you never knew. Web browser can also be used to explore your computer as window file explorer. You can browse through your drive files using the web browser just as you browse through files in FTP.
You may now be wondering that web browser explorer is not so impressive, If it's possible to browse through my computer using default window explorer, then why should I be checking alternative method using the web browser. After reading below advantage of the web browser as the explorer, you may understand how it can be useful. Do note that you can only view the files, and if you attempt to run it by clicking on the file, the browser will prompt you to download it.
You can display files in your drive in order list even though the drives are hidden.
Hidden Folder and Files can be viewed directly without changing view settings in Folder Options.
Using Web browser trick, you can directly check whether your drive have any virus (Only if your technical sound). Since the viruses files are mostly hidden in drives and unfortunately, folder option setting to change hidden setting also gets corrupted due to viruses, so this will be useful in such condition.
In some computer mostly in school and offices, window explorer are disabled so that they cannot browse through files in the drive of that computer, In this case this trick of browser may work.
It supports Firefox, Opera and Chrome. Internet Explorer also works but will redirect you to default window explorer.
Note: To view hidden and protected operating system files are only possible using Opera and Chrome. Firefox doesn't shows windows protected hidden operating system files.
Oh,yaa! It's awesome,but does not work well with images!!!


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package demoapp.dom.domain.actions.Action.associateWith;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;

import org.apache.causeway.applib.annotation.Action;
import org.apache.causeway.applib.annotation.ActionLayout;
import org.apache.causeway.applib.annotation.MemberSupport;

import demoapp.dom.domain.actions.Action.associateWith.child.ActionAssociateWithChildVm;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;

//tag::class[]
@Action
@ActionLayout(
    describedAs =
            "@Action " +
            "@ActionLayout(associateWith = \"favorites\", sequence = \"1\")"
    , associateWith = "favorites"                               // <.>
    , sequence = "1"                                            // <.>
)
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class ActionAssociateWithVm_makeFavorite {

    private final ActionAssociateWithVm actionAssociateWithVm;

    @MemberSupport public ActionAssociateWithVm act(final ActionAssociateWithChildVm childVm) {
        actionAssociateWithVm.getFavorites().add(childVm);
        actionAssociateWithVm.getChildren().removeIf(x -> Objects.equals(x.getValue(), childVm.getValue()));
        return actionAssociateWithVm;
    }
    @MemberSupport public List<ActionAssociateWithChildVm> choices0Act() {     // <.>
        return actionAssociateWithVm.getChildren();
    }
}
//end::class[]


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There is also a google map of places where Mass is said in the old rite in Argentina according to the provisions of Summorum Pontificum. (i.e. not the SSPX chapels in Argentina but regular chapels either diocesan or religious.) Una Voce Argentina also has news of Masses celebrated in that country.
Unless these sources are all completely bogus, they do scotch one rumour that seems to be taking hold. I have seen bald assertions in various places that there are no old rite Masses in Argentina except those of the SSPX. That is wrong.
It may be that Cardinal Bergoglio was not personally enthusiastic about the usus antiquior but as a Jesuit who exercised authority, it seems that he was loyal enough to implement Summorum Pontificum. Let us pray for him as he enters the world of papal liturgy which may be a different experience from the liturgy celebrated in many places in Argentina. Let us pray especially that he be given the grace of state as he begins his ministry as the successor of Peter.
H/T Defénde nos in proelio and the comments box of Holy Souls Hermitage.