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Enhancer 4
The Enhancer Series, Book 4
By: Wyatt Kane
Narrated by: Chris Graves
Series: The Enhancer Series, Book 4
Categories: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Superheroes
4.5 out of 5 stars 4.6 (138 ratings)
Immortal Supers, Book 3
By: Kurtis Eckstein
He and his family thought their immediate problems were over after the defeat of the villainous hero Blaze Maddox, but his death was just the beginning. Danger is coming from all sides, and it turns out that Sam isn't the only one with a target on his head. As each disaster nearly destroys his world, Sam is presented with life-altering choices that not only affect him, but everyone in his life as well. However, one thing is quickly becoming clear - he isn't in it alone, and there is truly strength in numbers. But will everyone's help be enough?
By Courtney Long on 12-28-19
Ex Heroes 5
By: Jamie Hawke
Narrated by: Justin Thomas James, Carly Crawford, Jeff Hays, and others
My team of supers have proven themselves, taken down enemies greater than I could have ever imagined, and formed powerful allies. But now it's time to meet back up with old friends and family, to take the battle to new levels. And when that involves an invasion of Earth, my team of super-hot ladies and I are more than happy to do the job.
Entertaining story
By dexter on 01-09-20
By: Marco Frazetta
Narrated by: Chris Graves, Andrea Parsneau
I just wanted to be a comic book artist...instead I became a God. Hey dude, it's me, Eddie. You're not gonna believe me, but I gotta tell you all kinds of crazy things...I was scraping by in LA: dinner was regularly Taco Bell salsa packets, my love life consisted of freeze framing Scarlett Johansson action scenes, and my only hobby was drawing until my fingers bled. All that changed when I got my big break, an interview with the editor of the largest comics company in the world! But what I found there was a lot more than a job - a hell of a lot more!
Bringing your FanFic to life
By A. Hutto on 01-16-20
California Imperium
American Dragons, Book 5
By: Aaron Crash
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Steven Drokharis has built an empire that stretches across the United States and around the world. He seems unstoppable - a force of nature and a creature of wrath. But now, he'll have to deal with something deadlier than enemies...Dragonsoul allies. Exiled from America and on the run, Steven and his escort of beautiful women will have to unravel the secrets of the past to save their future.
Ok, but...
By Brett Garland on 12-11-19
Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
Ty Wilcox has leveled up. Unfortunately, so have his enemies. Ty is no longer the loser he had once been. He's gone from zero to superhero, all thanks to a device on his wrist that brings a hidden power out into the light. Before Ty came along, only a few of the devices existed. But a secretive villain has learned how to make them, and one of New Lincoln's most dangerous crime lords has a supply of them as well. And now, super-powered villains even stronger than Ty are stepping out of the dark.
A great series...
By plknj on 05-26-19
God of Magic 6
By: Logan Jacobs
Narrated by: Rebecca Woods, Daniel Wisniewski
Having uncovered a conspiracy within the Mage's Guild to use the all-powerful Shodra magic items to conquer the world, Gabriel and the Shadow Foxes have no choice but to break into the Mage's Tower and get them away from the forces of darkness. Easier said than done, especially when one of Gabriel's lovers is pregnant with his child, but nothing is impossible for Gabe as he continues to master his arcane abilities and become the God of Magic.
making vmagic and babies!
By Jeffrey Jay Lunsford Jr. on 01-15-20
Arcane Dropout 5
By: Edmund Hughes
Narrated by: Alex Ford
Back at Primhaven, Lee returns to the rhythm of life as an initiate mage. With Genevieve Laughton now serving as the school's Interim Lead Instructor, the rules and boundaries he'd grown so accustomed to ignoring are no longer so easily dismissed. The arrival of a new threat on Primhaven's doorstep also leaves Lee and friends contending with the frozen aftermath of one of Shay Morrigan's ancient enemies.
great but
Summoner, Book 8
As Gryff learns more about the Shadowscape and the god-like Archons that rule it, the stakes keep getting higher. The angel-monster Phi is still hellbent on destroying humanity, so Gryff and his friends must spread out to the far corners of Mistral to make sure she doesn't succeed. And then they must end her. Once and for all.
By Cece on 10-23-19
Wives Tales: Roxy and Jolene, Daelyn and Roberta
The Valens Legacy, Book 14.5
By: Jan Stryvant
Narrated by: Leland King
Each of Sean's wives takes a moment to share a tale of their past while sitting around having a drink. Contains the Valens Legacy novellas Roxy and Jolene and Daelyn and Roberta.
Great Backgrounds!
By Marcopolo on 12-13-19
Ty Wilcox is in for a rough day. He wants nothing more than the chance to recover from the aftereffects of a power-enhancing drug he had taken, but life has other plans. Superpowered villains are flexing their muscles with horrific results, and Ty has no choice.
There are lives at risk, and it's up to him to save them.
But if he wants to defeat the main villain for good, he has to figure out what the villain is planning, and his only source of information is a man in a coma.
He knows what he has to do. He just doesn't know if he can.
Warning and minor spoilers: Like the other books in the series, Enhancer 4 is an 18 plus book intended for mature listeners. It contains sex, violence, and nudity, but it's all very tastefully done. It includes very light gamelit elements, occasional bad language, and is set in a cyberpunk alternate future. Most of all, you will find an engaging superhero adventure story with a few unexpected twists.
The Enhancer series was written to entertain. If you're looking for a fun listen, you've come to the right place.
©2019 Wyatt Kane (P)2019 Grave Audio Productions
Bone Lord
Heresy of Dragons
Excellent Narration... Character Development
"I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review."
I've enjoyed the first three Enhancer books so much, and was excited to listen to this story. First off, it's different... I felt like the focus here was character development, which I appreciated. I also feel as though the author wanted to set the story up for something beyond one off action sequences, which gives me a lot of hope for the next installment. Yes... there's a major cliff hanger, which to be honest doesn't bother me, except knowing I'll have to wait for resolution. Writing was excellent, and characters were better explained so that I could relate to them.
Narration by Chris was excellent as always. Any book he's involved with goes straight on my wish list, as he brings so much to these projects. He seems to be a real fan of the genre, and brings a quality of enthusiasm that I really appreciate.
ShaneDD
The story and characters draw you in. Wyatt has a new and loyal fan. The only downside is that the stories are too short😎
Continues to entertain
Ty and his friends continue to try and stop all of the master's plans while trying to live day to day. Ty takes a new drug to try and increase his power while combating the Master's minions wreaking havoc. The narration is as solid as ever, and Chris Graves does a good job with all of the characters. I wish he would delve deeper into his technopath abilities and plan further ahead than what is immediately in front of him but it is a light episodic entry and should please fans of the prior three books. A solid entry that is building up Ty and his crew before venturing into the next big arc.
I was given a free review copy audiobook at my request by the narrator and have voluntarily left this review.
Many Interesting Characters, Bit of a Placeholder
The Enhancer is an interesting series, moreso than I originally expected. I appreciate characters with their own quirks and that seem to give off a feeling of autonomy. Certainly this series has them. I will admit to still having some frustration with the MC continuing to realize something is probably important to share yet deciding to put off sharing it with his partners. This wasn't as notable as in the previous book, so I am hopeful as more volumes are out. This particular book in the series doesn't advance the overall story much though. In fact, I think the book covers about a day in the world's timeline. It is still a nice visit with our superheroines though. :)
Narration is very well done, as expected by Chris Graves. I have listened to several of Chris's titles and have never been disappointed. I think his style is especially well suited for this genre. Give him a listen. Just don't start here, start this series with book 1 and enjoy Chris telling the tale, especially with Angie in book 1.
I received this audiobook for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
I received this book for free at my request in exchange for an unbiased review
I haven't read the first three, but after getting this book I will need to, This book was excellent and I am not entirely sure about some of the backstory but the dialogue and character development was quite good. I was definitely impressed enough to pick up the rest of the series when I can.
The narrator is also great, I have listened to a few books he has done and he never disappoints
Better than the last one
This one really had some great progress and good admissions and revelations by some key players. The story was great and I look forward to the next one.
Loved this addition to the story! So much fun to listen to! With the amounts of action, suspense, humor, and lovely ladies, how can you go wrong!
I can't wait for the next one, that cliffhanger was crucial!!
Josh Noneya
I enjoyed it. If you liked the rest of the series, then you will enjoy this one too.
Charles A.P. Wetherington
Well thought out Sci/Fi
Story opens well with excellent narration that is clear and accomplished with excellent vocal pressure. The author has caused each situation to flow into the next scene in a very smooth way.
I recommend this audiobook for ages 17 and older due to some adult situations.
I was given this audiobook for free and I freely give my rating and opinion
Tracie Poling
Another great installment
Another well written and well read chapter in Ty's life as a superhero. The story progressed nicely and can't wait to see what happens next.
I received this audiobook at my request for an unbiased review.
Norma Miles
Who wants to be a super hero?
Tempest's father, the Architect, has been found but is in a desperate and deteriorating state. Ty had taken another drug to try to level up and gained a new skill without her being able to control it. But certain of the Master's creature had also greatly increased their powers and were wreaking havoc in different areas of the city in terrible ways: it is up to Ty and Lilith to take them down. And they found out that the situation was even worse than they had thought.
This is an easy read episode of the Enhancer series which really needs to be read in order, from book one to understand the characters. That said, it would be possible to pick up the majority of the story with this book. There is the usual ratio of battling action as with most LitRPG books, but is different in that this also has interaction with the little people the bed is try to protect. There is nudity and a little sex, all conducted with 'the best possible taste.' Narration by Chris Graves is crisp and well suited to the text.
My thanks to the rights holder of Enhancer 4, who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy via Audiobook Boom. This is a quick, light, easy read, recommended to fans of comic books and super heroes. But start with volume one.
Nighteyes
yes please, can I have another?
there really isn't much to say at this point.
it's more of the same, for good or bad.
I find it a good thing, and likely so do you if you are considering book 4 of any series.
Chris does his thing and it's a pleasure to listen to ..
now by the book and get to it
Syed Sahaf
I've really enjoyed this series so far as the author continues to build on his original idea, only really gripe I have with this one is that feels like filler to me.


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Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued a summary of its final report last week, which urged Canadians to find ways of reconciling with indigenous people who were harmed by their forced attendance at residential schools. News accounts of the unveiling of the long-anticipated report emphasized that the 94 points in the summary represent the start of a healing process for many Inuit individuals and communities.
The TRC report summarizes testimonies it received from over 6,000 First Nation, Metis, and Inuit survivors of residential schools, people who described their suffering from the emotional and mental abuse, physical and sexual harm, and deprivation and discrimination they had received while in the schools. Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the commission, said that the report makes 94 recommendations for governments at all levels to take action. He urged Canadians to accept them and to find ways of reconciling with the people affected by the abuses.
She urged Canadians to learn about the abuses that occurred in the institutions, "in order to better understand the lasting impacts and legacy that residential schools continue to have on a large percentage of this country's Aboriginal population." She said that Canadians must find ways of working together to heal from the abuses of the past.
The Makivuk Corp., which represents the Inuit of northern Quebec, also welcomed the report by the TRC. The document "opened the flood gate" on the concerns that have disturbed the Nunavimmiut residents who have survived the residential schools. The abuses of the past have been a major factor in producing the violence, unemployment, suicides, and other social dysfunctions, Makivik indicated on June 2.
Makivuk president Jobie Tukkiapik said that it is now time to change from "apology to action." He was referring to the apology issued by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2008, and said that it was time to start the recovery process. "Let's do it," he said.
Not all Canadian Inuit were included in the reconciliation process, however. The Inuit residential schools in Labrador had been established before the province of Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada in 1949, so Prime Minister Harper's apology omitted them. Separately, about 1,000 survivors of Inuit residential schools in that province have filed class-action suits against the provincial government, the Moravian Mission, and the International Grenfell Association.
He suggested that the history of the residential school system should be part of the curriculum in all Canadian schools, to ensure that this sort of thing never happens again. He condemned the ways the indigenous children in the residential schools were violently punished, abused from speaking their own languages, and neglected even when they were dying from tuberculosis and other diseases.
News stories three years ago described in some detail the horrors that the Canadian residential schools perpetrated on the indigenous peoples. The full report will be issued later in the year after it has been translated into other languages.


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Cubs' first Draft pick to come in third round
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CHICAGO -- The 2016 Draft will take place tonight through Saturday, beginning with the Draft preview show on MLB Network and MLB.com tonight at 5 p.m. CT. Live Draft coverage from MLB Network's Studio 42 begins at 6 p.m., with the top 77 picks being streamed on MLB.com and broadcast on MLB Network. MLB.com's exclusive coverage of Day 2 begins with a live Draft show at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, with exclusive coverage of Day 3 beginning at 12 p.m. on Saturday.
MLB.com's coverage includes Draft Central, the Top 200 Draft Prospects list and Draft Tracker, a live interactive application that includes a searchable database of over 1,500 Draft-eligible players. Every selection will be tweeted live from @MLBDraftTracker, and you can also keep up to date by following @MLBDraft. And get into the Draft conversation by tagging your tweets with #mlbdraft.
Here's how the Draft is shaping up for the Cubs, whose first selection is the 104th pick in the third round.
Complete 2016 Draft coverage
In about 50 words
"We all feel the challenge that we have to identify some guys and we have to develop some guys so there are pitchers that the Major League team can go down and get," said Jason McLeod, the Cubs' scouting and player development director.
The Cubs don't have a selection until the third round, because they signed free agents Jason Heyward and John Lackey, but it's not as if a team can't find good talent there. Jake Arrieta was a fifth-round selection in 2007, Jason Hammel was a 10th-round pick in '02 and Kyle Hendricks was an eighth-round pick in '11.
The pitchers in the Minor League system who the Cubs are excited about include Carson Sands, Justin Steele and Dylan Cease. All were high schoolers taken in the fourth, fifth and sixth rounds, respectively, in 2014. Since Theo Epstein took over as president of baseball operations in October 2011 and brought McLeod to the team, the Cubs have not had a pitcher they drafted and developed reach their big league team.
"It's something that keeps us up at night," McLeod said. "We're happy with some of the progress guys have made who are in Double-A now, some of the high school picks. We also haven't taken a pitcher in the first round. We haven't taken that college pitcher.
"When you look at Major League rotations, out of the drafted players, almost half of them come out of the first round. That's not excuse making at all. We have to be better developing these guys."
First-round buzz
The Cubs do not have a first-round pick, but will make their first selection in the third round.
Under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, each pick in the top 10 rounds comes with an assigned value, and the total for each of a team's choices covers what it can spend without penalty in those rounds. Any bonus money in excess of $100,000 given to an individual player selected in rounds 11-40 also counts against a team's bonus pool.
The amounts rise each year in accordance with Major League Baseball's revenue growth, and increased by 4.62 percent this year compared to 2015.
Any team going up to 5 percent over its allotted pool will be taxed at a 75 percent rate on the overage. A team that overspends by 5-10 percent gets a 75 percent tax plus the loss of a first-round pick. A team that goes 10-15 percent over its pool amount will be hit with a 100 percent penalty on the overage and the loss of a first- and second-round pick. Any overage of 15 percent or more gets a 100 percent tax plus the loss of first-round picks in the next two Drafts.
The Cubs have the lowest bonus pool at $2,245,100. The assigned value for the Cubs' 104th pick is $573,900.
"It's a challenge for us this year, because we have the lowest pool money," McLeod said. "It's our mindset, it makes it fun, it makes it challenging. Believe me, we're ultra competitive. We want to beat every team rounds three through 10. That's how we look at this."
The Cubs are on the lookout for pitching, pitching and more pitching. The last pitcher who the Cubs drafted and raised in their system to reach the big leagues was lefty Eric Jokisch, an 11th-round pick in 2011. He appeared in four games with the big league team in '14 and was claimed off waivers by the Marlins in April.
As cliche as it sounds, McLeod said they will take the best player available.
"I think there will be a focus on pitching, but we won't try to create it or invent something out of nothing," McLeod said. "Day One will be interesting. Usually, I'm all suited up and I get to come out and talk about how excited we are about our first pick. This year, we might be sitting there in shorts and flip flops pulling names off the board.
"It'll give us the opportunity to spend that whole evening [on Thursday] preparing for the next day. Our mindset is to take it as a big challenge."
Recent Draft history
It isn't that the Cubs haven't been selecting pitchers in the past in the Draft. Of the 42 players the team has picked in the first 10 rounds since 2012, 30 were pitchers. The organization does emphasize versatility - Kris Bryant is a perfect example of that -- so McLeod is on the lookout for the best athlete.
Video: Cubs prospect Almora flashes the leather in Iowa
Rising fast
Albert Almora, the Cubs' first-round pick in 2012, was having a solid -- and injury-free -- season at Triple-A Iowa. Almora's progress was slowed because of injuries but he was promoted to the big leagues on Tuesday after Jorge Soler was injured, and made a great defensive play and also collected his first hit and RBI in his first big league start Wednesday against the Phillies.
"The defense is something that stands out," Cubs Minor League roving hitting instructor Andy Haines said. "Being a hitting guy, you're watching the offense, but you watch him play center field and the plays he makes [are amazing]."
Ian Happ, the Cubs' first-round pick last year, was doing well at Class A Myrtle Beach, where he's back playing second base, the position he played in college. The ninth player selected overall, Happ played outfield last season at Class A South Bend.
Matt Szczur was a standout athlete at Lower Cape May (N.J.) Regional High School, playing football, baseball and track and field. The Dodgers selected him in the 38th round of the 2007 Draft, but he opted to attend Villanova University instead and went there on a football scholarship.
At college, Szczur played wide receiver, running back, wildcat quarterback and was a return specialist on the football team. He starred in the 2009 Division I national championship game, totaled 270 all-purpose yards and scoring two touchdowns to earn MVP honors. A consensus All-American in football, he also played center field for the Wildcats' baseball team.
Video: CHC@STL: Szczur plates two with a line-drive triple
The Cubs selected Szczur in the fifth round of the 2010 Draft, and at that time, he still had one year of eligibility remaining to play football and two years of baseball at Villanova. He received a $100,000 signing bonus plus an additional $500,000 if he declined to attend the NFL combine and make a written commitment to baseball before February 2011. Szczur then played for Class A Short Season Boise, and in January 2011, he signed a $1.5 million contract with the Cubs.
Szczur risked his athletic career in 2009 when he donated bone marrow to a 15-month-old Ukrainian girl he did not know who was battling leukemia. Now, he's playing with the Cubs.
Cubs reliever Justin Grimm also was selected by the Rangers in the fifth round in 2010.
In The Show
The Cubs began this season with three of their last four first-round picks on the Opening Day roster, including Kyle Schwarber, Bryant and Javier Baez. Baez was on the 15-day disabled list because of a bruised left thumb.
Szczur is the only other Cubs Draft pick who made the Opening Day roster.
The Cubs' recent top picks
2015: Ian Happ, 2B, Class A Advanced Myrtle Beach
2014: Kyle Schwarber, OF/C, Cubs (60-day disabled list)
2013: Kris Bryant, 3B, Cubs
2012: Albert Almora, OF, Cubs
2011: Javier Baez, IF, Cubs
Carrie Muskat has covered the Cubs since 1987, and for MLB.com since 2001. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings. You can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat and listen to her podcast.
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Q: Sitefinity 5.3 displaying Culture info at the end of URL I recently upgraded a website to Sitefinity 5.3. For some reason, when I try to edit a page  in the backend, it throws a '500 - Internal server error' . On close inspection, I see that the culture appears at the end of the URL instead of the usual position after the base URL. E.g.  The URL shows as
http://www.mywebsite.com/my-page/Action/Edit/en
instead of the usual
http://www.mywebsite.com/en/my-page/Action/Edit
Any  idea why this happens?

A: As far as I know it always has been on the end of the url.
Is it working when you put the culture at the other position?
Regards,
Daniel

A: Yosief,
That only occurs in the backend. If you load up the translated front-end page, you will notice that the translation appears before the page alias.
Thanks - Chris

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News Feed Russian and NATO top brass hold first talks over past years
Friday, 3 March, 2017 - 14:00
Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee General Petr Pavel have held negotiations on NATO's initiative for the first time after the relations with Russia were frozen, Russia's Defense Ministry reported on Friday.
The alliance made a decision to unilaterally freeze relations with Russia in April 2014.
"On March 3, 2017, on the initiative of the NATO side, Chief of Russia's General Staff - First Deputy Defense Minister Army General Valery Gerasimov has held a telephone talk with Chairman of the NATO Military Committee General Petr Pavel. This is the first high-level military contact after the NATO Council made a decision on the freeze of relations with Russia," the ministry's press office said.
During their talk, the sides discussed the issues of security, the prospects of restoring military interaction, the prevention of incidents and the participation of the alliance's representatives in international events held by Russia's Defense Ministry.
"The Chief of Russia's General Staff drew his interlocutor's attention to the existing concerns related to the considerable buildup of the North Atlantic alliance's military activity near Russian borders and the deployment of the system of the NATO united forces' forward stationing," the ministry said.
Russia's military chief also informed the NATO general about the key international events and military exercises the Russian Defense Ministry planned to hold in 2017.
"The sides confirmed the need of mutual steps aimed at reducing tension and stabilizing the situation in Europe. Army General Gerasimov and General Pavel agreed on continuing such contacts," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Source: TASS.
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Q: Grails war fails to deploy java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError and SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings My application works fine when i use grails run-app but when a try to run using the war file with run-war i get the following errors:
I already tried some solutions proposed here on stack but none of them solved the problem.
and the package/class that are being showed on the trace are from one of my domain classes :

nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf

gneellaan = package and Ecf = domain class
|Running Grails application
Error |
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
Error |
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/C:/grails-2.4.2/dist/grails-plugin-log4j-2.4.2.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
Error |
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/C:/Grails/gneellaan/target/work/tomcat/webapps/gneellaan/WEB-INF/lib/grails-plugin-log4j-2.4.2.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
Error |
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
Error |
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.GrailsSlf4jLoggerFactory]
2014-10-23 14:28:08,255 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR context.ContextLoader  - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'grailsApplication' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:340)
    ... 4 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gneellaan.Ecf
    ... 5 more
2014-10-23 14:28:08,257 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR context.GrailsContextLoaderListener  - Error initializing the application: Error creating bean with name 'grailsApplication' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'grailsApplication' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:340)
    ... 4 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gneellaan.Ecf
    ... 5 more
2014-10-23 14:28:08,258 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR context.GrailsContextLoaderListener  - Error initializing Grails: Error creating bean with name 'grailsApplication' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'grailsApplication' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:340)
    ... 4 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gneellaan.Ecf
    ... 5 more
Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.context.GrailsContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'grailsApplication' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gneellaan/Ecf
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:340)
    ... 4 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gneellaan.Ecf
    ... 5 more
Error listenerStart
Context [/gneellaan] startup failed due to previous errors
The web application [/gneellaan] registered the JDBC driver [org.h2.Driver] but failed to unregister it when the web application was stopped. To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered.
The web application [/gneellaan] registered the JDBC driver [com.mysql.jdbc.Driver] but failed to unregister it when the web application was stopped. To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered.
The web application [/gneellaan] appears to have started a thread named [Abandoned connection cleanup thread] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
|Server running. Browse to http://localhost:9091/gneellaan
|Server running. Browse to http://localhost:9091/gneellaan

A: Right - its' a classpath problem, and the Slf4j messages are ignorable warnings. There's a big difference between java.lang.ClassNotFoundException and java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. ClassNotFoundException by itself is easy - there's no jar file or directory in the classpath containing that class or resource. Fix the classpath, or add the missing library to it, and move on.
But NoClassDefFoundError (which will cause a ClassNotFoundException) is a lot harder to fix. It indicates that the named class was found but when loading it, a dependency that it has wasn't met. This should be relatively rare when using Grails, Maven, Gradle, etc. which integrate dependency management, and determine what the dependencies of your dependencies are and include those. But when we configure the lookup to not recurse through the dependency graph, or exclude one or more jars that we think are safe to exclude, this can happen.
I'm guessing that gneellaan.Ecf is your class - there's exactly 1 result for that in Google, and it's this question (it's technically two words, but I'm still calling it a Googlewhack). If it was a 3rd-party library, you could use a site like http://mvnrepository.com/ to determine dependencies (e.g. http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.hawt/hawtio-util/1.4.27). But you have the source, so it shouldn't be too hard to find the cause. If there's a lot going on in that class, try commenting out what you can , Make sure everyting still compiles, but remove what you can.


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Rouhani: New Blood For the Old Regime (Part 2/2)
By Reza J.
Rouhani's win shows the supreme leader's hunger for a new domestic and foreign policy agenda. This is the last of a two part series. Read part one here.
First of all, the election result in Iran shows that main power brokers believe in a need for change on the domestic and foreign policy level. There are two reasons that explain why Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, did not decide to change the election result, as he did in 2009. These two reasons also explain the new agenda in Iran.
Khamenei, in his speeches before the vote, acknowledged Iran's economic problems and blamed Western nations for imposing sanctions. Before that, he claimed that sanctions would make Iran more powerful and independent. However, the supreme leader is now of the opinion that Iran's foreign policy needs a change. After two years of fragmented demonstrations inside Iran (from 2009 to 2011), Khamenei is aware that he needs to reestablish the government's legitimacy in the eyes of Iranians.
Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president-elect, is the person who can achieve that with support from the reformist camp. In the post-election period, the response from Iranians confirms that those who want political change are hopeful due to Rouhani's win. With the election outcome, Khamenei has presented a softer image of the Iranian regime to the international community.
The supreme leader is certain about Rouhani's loyalty. If the president-elect steps out of line, he will most certainly face the same destiny as incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On June 17, 2013, it was announced in Iran that Ahmadinejad was to appear before a criminal court on unspecified charges leveled by a conservative rival. The fact that an Iranian president will face a court room is an unprecedented move and serves as a warning to Rouhani.
Search for a Different Image
After the last experience of a reformist president in power for eight years, the public are aware of the limitations of presidents in Iranian politics. Despite this, after Rouhani was elected, different organizations, political figures, and ordinary people proposed their demands regarding economic and political issues. One Iranian blogger who lives outside of Iran wrote on his Facebook page: "People should not take the elected government as an opposition and expect him to topple the system." Likewise, Mohammad Khatami, the former reformist president of Iran, warned people to have logical demands from the new president and allow him start to enact changes step by step.
It is clear that some change will come to Iran, however, especially since it is apparent that the supreme leader has a new agenda. Jack Straw's remarks regarding meetings between France, Germany, and the UK with Iran about its nuclear program in 2003, are significant to understand possible changes under the Rouhani adminstration. At the time, Straw was Britain's foreign secretary, while Rouhani was Iran's top negotiator. According to Straw, when nuclear talks were going to end without any agreement: "[Rouhani] worked the phones to the president and, crucially, to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, to gain greater freedom of manoeuvre."
This is exactly what the president-elect can do: he will ask for greater freedom of maneuver. Rouhani is not like Saeed Jalili, Iran's current top negotiator, who just does what he is told. The incoming Iranian president cannot influence the nuclear negotiation process because Khamenei must confirm the top negotiator from the Iranian side, but he will be able to start new relations with the international community.
What Rouhani can do is change the tone of Iran's foreign policy and its image around the world. He is not the only effective political figure for doing that as the Revolutionary Guard and other high-ranking clerics have crucial roles in the process as well. As aforementioned, the other important Iranian figures are also ready for this shift, but another crucial element is needed to open the world's doors to Iran.
The response that Rouhani will receive from the West, especially from the United States, is determinative in this case. Iranian politicians cannot forget when the reformist President Khatami proposed a "Dialogue of Civilizations," as Iran voluntarily halted some parts of its nuclear program. But in response, the Bush administration added Iran to the so-called "Axis of Evil."
Rouhani has already started to treat the damaged image of Iran amongst the international community. In his first news conference, the president-elect insisted that it was not possible to halt Iran's nuclear program but notably added: "We are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks." The policy of continuing the nuclear program is exactly what Iran did during the Ahmadinejad administration. But his rhetoric on the topic was completely contradictory to the new political tone that Rouhani uses. President Ahmadinejad's statements about the nuclear program were always aggressive towards the West.
Another difference between Rouhani and Ahmadinejad is that the president-elect experienced all kinds of extremes, radical drives, and fundamentalist rhetorics after the revolution when he was younger — when he held commanding positions in the Iran-Iraq war, and later when he was a close figure to former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. After following radical actions like suppressing people after the revolution, chasing and harassing intellectuals, terrorising political activists, and attempting to establish Islamic law in Iran, fundamentalists from Rouhani's generation have realized they can't rule the country by those means anymore.
After the Iran-Iraq War, and during Rafsanjani's administration, there was a shift in Iranian policy to allow more open relations with the international community, while the domestic political arena was also relaxed. However, this development reached its peak when Khatami was in office. After which, President Ahmadinejad destroyed all the achievements of his two predecessors. Now, Rouhani will go back to the drawing board and return Iran to the pre-Ahmadinejad era — albeit having to adhere to the principles of the Islamic Republic.
More Freedom?
With regard to domestic policies, the president-elect will have an agenda somewhere between Ahmadinejad and Khatami. Rouhani will open the cultural space more than was the case during the last eight years, but not exactly to the extent as during Khatami's two terms in office. While Iran's conservatives hold control of the Majlis, Rouhani does not want his minister of culture to face impeachment, as occurred with Khatami's minister.
With other issues such as political prisoners or the house arrest of the Green Movement's leaders, Rouhani cannot make the crucial decisions at all. As the president-elect said in his first news conference, the judicial system should decide the fate of political prisoners, and it is known that Khamenei is the only person who makes decisions concerning the Green Movement leaders.
Nevertheless, Rouhani can negotiate about these issues and raise the topic in meetings with high-ranking politicians. Today, all power brokers in Iran are eager to bring tensions with rivals to a détente. Iran's power brokers want domestic political hostility to subside, and to reach an amicable conclusion with the international community.
However, Rouhani's concrete agenda isn't apparent yet. Only when he is inaugurated in August will it be clear how much freedom the president-elect wants and what Khamenei gives.
*[Note: The author of this article wishes to remain anonymous and has used a pseudonym.]
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Fair Observer's editorial policy.
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From a spider's web
The piano keys are black and white
But they sound like a million colours in your mind
I could tell you to go to war
Or I could march for peace and fighting no more
How do I know which is right
And I hope he does when he sends you to fight
Because the line between wrong and right
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The Inaugural Yaris Club Sport Challenge
Better Believe It: An Unlikely Toyota Indulges Its Racing Cravings
Benson Kongwriter
The Toyota 7. The Celica GTO. The Toyota-Eagle MKIII GTP. The Corolla WRC. The GT-One. The Supra GT500. Over the past five decades, those were but a few of the race-prepped production machines representing the Big T in motorsport around the globe. The mission was always simple: Go big or go home. When the dust (and dirt) settled, some campaigns finished better than others.
As of this writing, there's a vacant space where Toyota's sports/sporty car would sit, and the company's overall racing spirit has dimmed. So we were certainly intrigued when we were invited to get behind the wheel of its newest race car at a real track. This wasn't some glorified a ride-along. Even more intriguing was the car, a highly unlikely candidate stripped down and fitted with the requisite racing car parts.
How unlikely? If you guessed the Yaris, you get a gold star. We're about to embark on the "Yaris Club Sport Challenge," contested in both the real and virtual worlds, thanks to the still-fresh release of the latest version Gran Turismo 5 for the Sony PlayStation3. This could get interesting.
The Arrival - Day 1
My media colleagues and I assemble at Toyota's sizable campus south of L.A. in Torrance, California, before heading north to our destination: Willows Spring Raceway in Rosamond, California, a one-way trip of 100 miles according Google's computer-generated route. To help get us in the proper state of mind, we were offered three- and five-door Yaris hatchbacks to drive on the ride up, given printed directions, and sent on our way.
Based on my manual five-door's 36-highway mpg rating, 100 miles would hypothetically burn slightly less than 3 gallons of gasoline. But this is Los Angeles. For the next two and a half hours, I would be stuck on some of Southern California's most congested tarmac with thousands of other beleaguered motorists. The locals call it Monday.
The tortoise-like freeway speeds left plenty of time to get reacquainted with the Yaris' interior. It's still difficult to get accustomed to the car's centrally located instrumentation and the expansive empty, gray dashboard in plain forward view. The five-door liftback's design and compact dimensions guarantee excellent all-around visibility; the at-times-uncomfortable driver seat positioned me high enough above the beltline to feel like I was piloting a Sienna minivan. Countless foot pedal depressions and gear changes later, I finally arrived in Rosamond.
The inaugural Yaris Club Sport Challenge has two parts. The first involves driving a race-prepped Yaris around the Streets of Willow going clockwise, using a truncated layout in which the famous bowl and high-speed blowpass were removed from the equation. The second portion asks us to get behind the steering wheel again, but this time we'd be locked into some virtual PS3 action. In the interest of fairness, the unique GT5 course would be created the same day as the actual competition. The computer-generated Yaris, branded as a Vitz (its Japanese market name), would be modified to a predetermined performance level supposedly representative of reality.
Like Formula 1 or NASCAR, hard numbers would determine our final order. The media members would set lap times in the specially prepared Yaris, then in its digital iteration in GT5. The winner would have reeled off the lowest combined times.
By now, it's probably courteous to introduce the other members of the party, who were:
Bernard Antolin - Acquire magazine
John Bradley - Wired
Jo Garcia - Playboy.com
Anthony Huang - Gear Patrol
Sean Klingelhoefer - Super Street
Shane Satterfield - Gametrailers/Spike TV
Peter Tarach - Modified
Jason Weigandt - Racer X Illustrated
Lang Whitaker - Antenna
It was going to be entertaining to see how the event would unfurl. And speaking of NASCAR, pro racer Joey Logano was in attendance, along with pro motocross riders Justin Brayton and Davi Millsaps, all recording times of their own. If we weren't star-struck enough, Washington Redskins coaching legend/racing entrepreneur Joe Gibbs was also present with sons J.D. and Coy. Plus, a small platoon of photographers and video production people kept pointing their electronics at us. No pressure...
The (Real) Cars
A quick glance at the Yaris Club Sport Challenge racer's spec sheet reveals modifications that look innocent enough.
Alterations to the 1.5-liter inline-four are limited to a K&N air filter and a Toyota Racing Development sport exhaust muffler. The build team estimates the mods are good for an extra 10 horsepower at the flywheel, bumping the output to 116 horsepower. Not earth-shattering by any means, but more than adequate for the task at hand.
TRD was tapped again for the suspension, and it delivered a complete kit with sport shocks/struts, springs, and a new rear anti-roll bar. High-friction Carbotech XP8 brake pads were fitted to the calipers, and near-slick Goodyear Eagle RS DOT tires enveloped the 15-inch Kosei K1 TS wheels.
While the tires undoubtedly played a significant role in how the Yaris responded on the track, the weight savings had a say, too. Gutting the interior contributed a near-200-pound reduction, dropping the car's weight to approximately 2100 pounds. The cabin had no sound deadening, no extra seats, and was devoid of consumer frivolities. Interior mods included a single Sparco seat facing a quick-release NRG Innovations steering wheel, an eight-point rollcage, full Simpson harness, and Autopower Industries window net. In case any driver should encounter open flames, an Emergency Suppression Systems fire system could be called into action.
Outside, the red, orange, and yellow livery on white and black paid tribute to the dearly departed automotive graphics designer Rollin "Molly" Sanders, who was responsible for the original schemes on Toyota's IMSA racecars from the 1980s and 1990s, including the Toyota-Eagle MKIII Grand Touring Prototypes.
The vehicle numbers - 20 and 98 - also have significance. The No. 98 was inspired by the late-1980s Celica run by All American Racers for the IMSA GTO class. The No. 20 is Logano's number of choice when he's doing battle in NASCAR's Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series.
The Buildup
A critical difference between the amateur and professional race car driver is an intense amount of practice, practice, and more practice. In an effort to prepare us for the task ahead, we were implored to repeatedly lap the Streets of Willow. Good idea, because it was the first time I'd ever been there. We'd each get to build familiarity in a lightly modified Toyota Celica GT-S, last available in 2005 and equipped with the six-speed manual transmission. As part of the Willow Springs racing school fleet, these Celicas have endured countless miles and drivers. Although my Celica's odometer read just short of 9000 miles, these cars haven't led easy lives.
In addition to lapping the track, we were to get seat time in the GT5 sleds, which consisted of PS3s rigged with high-definition and 3D-capable screens, seats, and full-on wheel and pedal controller setups. The last Gran Turismo game I had experience with was GT3, almost 10 years ago. Now that I think about it, I probably should have spent more time in the sled.
Somewhere between shuffling between the Celicas on the track and observing GT5 practice sessions, we experienced what it was like to rotate a car a complete 180 degrees (apparently very easy work for Hollywood stunt drivers). I lost count of how many laps I did on Streets. The mental fatigue meant I was now driving around the track on autopilot, and likely was not doing an exceptionally good job. But by the end of the day, I thought I had a pretty good handle on where the apexes were.
The Shootout - Day 2
Day two was showtime. It was the first time any of the media drivers would climb into one of the race-prepped Yaris machines, and yours truly was called to be one of the first to help rubber in the track. As I strapped myself into the No. 20 car, my initial grogginess was immediately replaced by uncertainty. That and weather-related chilliness.
Back when I was just driving to Rosamond in the street-legal Yaris, I had noted the stock seating position felt a bit high. Now the racing Yaris' Sparco seat had me lower to the floor, which presented a new issue. I could barely see over the hood. Plus, there was limited visibility out of the driver side window due to the window net. On my first recon lap, I fiddled with the seat's sliding rails, and attempted to get used to the car's powerband and handling. Because of the modifications and short wheelbase (96.9 inches versus the Celica's 102.4 inches), this Yaris' lower polar moment of inertia had the back end much more willing to wrap around on demand. It was a lot more agile, and lively, than the Celica.
Thankfully, this was just a practice session, with each media participant getting exactly 10 minutes to get a feel for the equipment. On my second lap out, I spun exiting the skidpad that leads onto the main straightaway, and all it took was a momentary lift of the throttle for the warming, slick-like tires to snap back at me. I noticed that if I jammed on the ABS-less brakes with the steering wheel even slightly turned, I'd get the sudden sensation that I was about to go sideways. I was having difficulty getting rev-matches done quickly. I was apexing too early too often, with the Yaris wanting to cut more sharply into the corners with more entry speed because, well, it could. I wasn't staying on what power was available long enough, and at the end of the practice session I was angrily doubting my ability to turn the wheel .
After my 10 minutes were up, I sampled the new GT5 track that was going to be used in the virtual competition, but was already more than preoccupied with how the No. 20 Yaris drove. Knowing I'd be the first to set a lap time that day, I had no benchmark, nor did I want one.
Soon, I was called out to the tarmac again. I was given instructions to take a warm-up lap, two flying laps, and a cool-down lap, with the lowest time entered as my personal best. I would follow the identical routine in GT5. No one would learn their cumulative time until the very end.
The Finishing Order
When the checkered flag falls, the final order is all that matters.
Order - Name - GT5 Time - Track Time - Composite Time
1. Joey Logano - 1.35:395 - 1.17:00 - 2.52:395
2. Sean Klingelhoefer - 1.34:114 - 1.18:57 - 2.52:684
3. Peter Tarach - 1.36:938 - 1.17:54 - 2.54:478
4. Justin Brayton - 1.38:634 - 1.18:16 - 2.56:794
5. Davi Millsaps - 1.38:550 - 1.18:80 - 2.57:350
6. Benson Kong - 1.37:814 - 1.21:05 - 2.58:864
7. Anthony Huang - 1.38:470 - 1.20:40 - 2.58:870
8. John Bradley - 1.39:005 - 1.23:27 - 3.02:275
9. Jason Weigandt - 1.41:531 - 1.20:90 - 3.02:431
10. Lang Whitaker - 1.40:371 - 1.23:80 - 3.06:171
11. Bernard Antolin - 1.45:992 - 1.29:16 - 3.15:152
Upon closer analysis, it was my GT5 time that managed to keep me squarely in the middle of the rankings. After having a laugh with Anthony Huang over the 0.006-second gap between our composite times, we took our hats off to Sean Klingelhoefer for landing on top of the media pile. Showing his driving prowess, Peter Tarach's fastest lap was immensely impressive, just a half second off of Logano's time. All-in-all, I felt satisfied with my times, in both the virtual and real worlds.
The Wrapup
So what did I learn? The Yaris has taken a lot of flack over the years for not being a terribly exciting car, and rightly so. But the Club Sport Challenge version was something else. It was fun, demonstrative, and above all, challenging. I'm not saying that all those reading should go out and immediately acquire their own Yaris racecar; there are a multitude of other options out there. But without a doubt this was one drive I'll definitely remember.
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First Test: 2011 Mazda2
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Comparison: 2011 Ford Fiesta SES vs 2010 Honda Fit Sport vs 2010 Toyota Yaris vs 2010 Nissan Versa 1.8 SL
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Devils' Advocate
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Is Ultimate really the Ultimate?
Rayhan Hussain, Kabir Sawlani, Editor-in-Chief, and Abby Stockmal, Editor-in-Chief|February 28, 2019
The newest installment of Smash Brothers hit the market in December and has pleased many gamers.
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It is out. It has been four years since the previous release of Super Smash Bros. On Friday, December 7, 2018, the new installment of Super Smash Bros. was released. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is what it was called. A sequel to an icon both on these grounds of Hinsdale Central and in the history of gamers worldwide.
Super Smash Bros. started as a game released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999. The roster consisted of twelve characters you could use to fight, however, the sequel to this copy called Melee was the version that gained popularity and is still being played today. Super Smash Bros. Melee was released in 2001 on the Gamecube and was replaced by Super Smash Brawl in 2008 for the Wii console. After a decade of waiting the newest version was released for the Nintendo Switch.
Any version of Smash Bros. can be found in various different gaming competitions to this day and can even be played at Gaming Club on Thursdays in either Room 300 or 303. Evidently, Super Smash Bros. has developed a cult following that has culminated in a large fanbase and tournaments held by every middle school edge lord's favorite league, Major League Gaming.
When you actually sit down to play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Nintendo Switch, the game starts off with an intro sequence that I'm sure is really cool, but I and everyone I know skips it. The start menu then gives you six options for how to play, ranging from story-mode to brawl, the most popular of which seems to be brawl. Once there, you are given a roster consisting of both new and old characters, including Princess Daisy from Mario and Ken from Street Fighter.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate can be played in the standard format of two Joy-Con controllers for a full range of motions and attacks and can be played with a singular Joy-Con to allow for easy two-player action.
"It's a great game, especially for anyone who isn't already into fighting games and easy to learn," said Jason Fu, junior.
The wonderful chaos that Super Smash Bros. is iconic for is nevertheless present in the updated Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and stems, ultimately, from the clash of the different player styles: that of the casual yet frantic button smasher who picks the characters they've heard of before, and the dedicated gamer who knows the best combos and also knows how to pick the strongest character for any situation.
All this fun comes at a price. The game by itself costs $59.99, which alone is an average, fair amount when compared to other Nintendo Switch games. The Nintendo Switch itself, on the other hand, is $299.99. An Xbox One, another game console, can be found for $199.99 at GameStop. Coming along with the Switch is the small stigma against a console meant for children being played by a high schooler.
That being said whether you decide to buy a Switch is entirely up to you and if someone calls you out for it, who cares? If you enjoy the more casual games that you can play on the Nintendo Switch, such as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, then perhaps it justifies purchasing a Switch.
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5G Phones: The next generation
Is the Mercedes-Benz A-Class worthy of an A grade?
Apex Legends or Fortnite: Which do Devils prefer?
A flashback on the past decade's fashion trends
Top 10 albums of the 2010s
Gallery: Fashion of the last decade
Humans of Hinsdale: Winter break edition
Top five Christmas movies to watch this holiday season
To Jeep or not to Jeep
Meet Angel, the comfort dog
Balancing a semi-professional gaming career with a high school lifestyle
Questions raised after Iranian general's assassination
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The follwoing howto was composed from this howto on ThinkWiki.
Use the QSample program to create a fingerprint.
Enter your username as your "User Id"
The QSample program will create a <username>.bir file in the current directory. The username should match your username on the system. If not, rename the file.
Now we have to create a PAM directory to store the bir files, but the directory name needs to include a slightly modified Module ID of the fingerprint reader that is output when running the /opt/bioapi/bin/BioAPITest command.
PS. The ThinkWiki site shows you more configurations for PAM and the reader. You can enable and disable the reader for lots of different services and programs.
If you own a DELL Latitude D620 and the fingerprint-reader is not or only sporadically detected switch the internal USB-HUB to USB2.0 support. It seems that the USB1.1 support does not properly work with the linux kernel. You may notice that you can find the device in /proc/bus/usb/devices but not in the lsusb list and you may notice some courious kernel errors.


These are the things I hate. The New York Yankees (who have ruined baseball), Wonder Bread, T.V. evangelists and, of course, gardening.
It started weeks ago, when Blue Eyes was planning her "garden" on her postage-stamp, sunless lawn. This ruined a perfectly good "Pardon the Interruption," show, with my favorite wise guy, Tony Kornheiser. Some things are sacred.
She was planning flowers for the house, which have to be changed every year, for some reason. I don't know baby's breath from orchids and have never understood the attraction of these often colorful weeds. She constantly offers to provide flowers for my (brand new) deck. I always decline, knowing they will never get watered, will die, and I will never hear the end of it.
That is just the start.
On three successive Saturdays, we will visit Home Depot, Lowe's, The Green Thumb and any other business will sells seeds or plants. If I can get away with it, I will sit in the car and avoid the whole thing. But we both remember the story of the woman who was kidnapped from a Rockland grocery store. If she wants me to tag along, she always brings that one up.
Once we have decided who has the best plants, seeds and flowers at the best prices we (she) will make a final decision, after another tour of Home Depot, Lowe's and the Green Thumb. Decisions are not final. Maybe the available plants will have wilted in the meantime. More visits to Home Depot, Lowe's and the Green Thumb are always possible.
The plants, seeds or flowers will be delivered to the mini-mansion of Blue Eyes.
Then, she will check her supply of potting soil, fertilizer, compost, and manure. If anything is missing or running low, we will make still another tour of Home Depot, Lowe's and the Green Thumb. The bags will be heavy and I will be required to make the trip and schlep the bags to the car, then to the garage, then to the wheelbarrow and finally, weeks later, to the planting site.
Once the various ingredients are assembled in the garage, it is planting time. This is also the signal for the black flies to start their Memorial Day parade.
I learned everything I had to learn about gardening when my poor, sainted father tried to grow grass on Perham Street in Boston, in a tiny lot surrounded and dominated by huge trees. Only a few isolated beams of sunshine ever made it to the ground. That did not stop my father from seeding, watering, rolling and weeding the dirt in a doomed attempt to grow grass. When it did grow, it sort of looked like Donald Trump's Dairy Queen comb-over and quickly perished. That never stopped my father.
But Blue Eyes never gives in.
Of course, I must run her wheelbarrow, and then dig the hole, which is never quite deep enough, or wide enough. Fertilizer, manure and potting soil must be mixed to the correct chemistry. Next plant. Next flower.
Since the Blue Eyes mini-mansion has not seen the sun since World War I, the health of these plantings is always tenuous. (It reminds of the barren Perham Street lot) Since a brook runs under the property, there is always plenty of water and an endless supply of the biggest slugs you have ever seen. They will eat more of this year's tomato plants than she ever will.
This is a fruitless (pun intended) task, but one that is performed every year. Every year I tell her that Hannaford sells perfectly good tomatoes at a far lower price than the cost of the plants, manure, compost, potting soil, fertilizer, bug spray and the rest. If you pay yourself an imaginary minimum wage for digging, planting, watering and killing slugs, you are way behind.
"You say that every year," Blue Eyes said.
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Note for Rent Supplement Customers: If you are applying for Rent Supplement you should contact the Department of Social Protection's representative, (formerly known as the Community Welfare Officer) at your local office. You will find the contact details by choosing the relevant office from the list below. Please note that in some areas new Rent Supplement applications are processed by a central Rent Unit. You can view the list of central Rent Units to see if your area is included.


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Q: Interpretation of linear regression interaction term plot I am interested in looking at the relationship between plant productivity, temperature change and plant biomass change.
I have run a linear model in R using the below equation for this with plant productivity as an interaction term.
Plant biomass change = temperature change * plant productivity
The interaction is statistically significant (p-value = <0.01). I have plotted the estimated coefficient for temperature change from model above against the plant biomass figures and wanted to check I'm interpreting it right!

I think (hope) the plot tells me how the effect of temperature on biomass change changes as productivity changes.
The graph shows me the temperature coefficient becomes less negative as plant productivity increases. I interpret this to mean that temperature has a negative effect on the biomass change in plants with lower productivity.
Is my interpretation correct?

A: That interpretation seems correct and that's an interesting way to graph it.
What I usually do is have one IV on the x axis, the DV on the y axis and several lines for the other IV.  Then I make the same plot with the IVs switched.  That might be more interpretable.

A: Not quite sure I follow your argument. If both predictor variables in your model are assumed continuous, then the model summary should report an estimated intercept (b0), an estimated coefficient for temperature change (b1), an estimated coefficient for plant productivity (b2) and an estimated coefficient for the interaction between temperature change and plant productivity (b3).  The summary of the model output will report these values in the column titled Estimate - since I don't know what they are, I called them b0, b1, b2 and b3. Thus, the expected (or average) plant biomass change can be expressed as:
Expected plant biomass change = b0 + b1*(temperature change) + b2*(plant productivity) +
                                b3*(temperature change)*(plant productivity).

Because the model includes an interaction term, the effect of plant productivity on expected plant biomass change actually depends on temperature change. You can see this by re-arranging the above equation:
Expected plant biomass change = [b0 + b1*(temperature change)] + [b2 + b3*(temperature change)]*(plant productivity).

The intercept and slopes describing the relationship between plant productivity are given by:
Intercept: [b0 + b1*(temperature change)]

Slope:      [b2 + b3*(temperature change)]

For example, if the temperature change is zero degrees (Celsius?), then:
Expected plant biomass change = b0 + (b2 + b3)*(plant productivity).

As Peter suggested, you can choose several representative values for temperature change and then plot the corresponding lines obtained by substituting those representative values in the expressions of the above Intercept and Slope. Those lines would describe how the expected plant biomass change varies as a function of plant productivity.
To decide which representative values of temperature change to consider, you can plot the distribution of temperature changes observed in your study. If that distribution looks approximately normal, you can choose the average temperature change (m), as well as m - sd and m + sd, say, where sd is the standard deviation of that distribution. If the distribution is unimodal but skewed, you could replace m with the median and sd with the interquartile range of the distribution.
Plotting lines with different intercepts and slopes would allow you to see how the effect of plant productivity on expected plant biomass change depends on particular, representative values of temperature change. It's possible that some slopes will be positive, while others will be negative. In that case, you can note that the effect changes direction, etc.
Addendum:
If I understand @gung correctly, I think what you did was to re-express the first equation I wrote like so:
Expected plant biomass change = [b0 + b2*(plant productivity)] +
                                [b1 + b3*(plant productivity)]*(temperature change)
and then plot b1 + b3*(plant productivity) versus productivity to see how the rate of change in expected plant biomass change varies as a function of plant productivity. What is not clear to me though is how you computed the confidence band around b1 + b3*(plant productivity)? Did you compute the standard error (SE) of b1 + b3*(plant productivity) and then computed pointwise confidence bands via the formula b1 + b3*(plant productivity) +/- 1.96 SE? (The SE should take into account the correlation between b1 and b3). Or perhaps you used a critical value from a t-distribution instead of 1.96, with degrees of freedom given by the residual degrees of freedom?


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The Mix Enforcement Project is an expression of the second research theme: the policy cycle in the EU and its Member States. The Mix Enforcement Project researches issues of shared regulation and enforcement regimes along both the public-private and the European-national axes. The goal of the project is to gain more insight into the variables that determine which enforcement instruments are best suited to achieve a given set of enforcement goals.
Two subthemes are used to cover the broad subject-matter of the Mix Enforcement Project. The first part is concerned with the relationship between public and private regulation, for example the way in which governments stimulate selfregulation or co-regulation by private actors, combined with public 'command and control' legislation.
A number of research reports have been published in the last few years which were initiated with the objective of mapping the causes of failed supervision. Examples are: Icesave (research by UvA), Baby Jelmer (the Dutch Ombudsman, researching the position of one of the health care regulators), and Environment Service IJmond (failed supervision by the Environmental Inspectorate of Rijnmond, which has gone to court). These reports usually conclude that supervision in that specific area has failed (to a greater or lesser degree) and needs to be adapted, thereby increasing the need for more supervision. At the same time these reports prompt others to scrutinize supervisory authorities. This increases the need for more accountability: the authorities need to clarify how they deploy their resources and whether they work effectively. Results must be measurable.
Moreover, the resources available to supervisory authorities and enforcement agencies have decreased significantly due to the financial crisis. Supervisory authorities are also looking for ways to decrease the costs of regulation. This has led to alternative enforcement strategies, in which public and private cooperation is pivotal in the use of enforcement instruments (see Ottow, 'De Markt Meester?' Inaugural Speech UU, 2007). On the other hand, there are sectors in which private enforcement regimes have been replaced or supplemented by public enforcement strategies. These 'mixed regulatory strategies' are meant to enable enforcement authorities to achieve better results, often with fewer means. The research in this subtheme will, amongst other forms, include the mapping of these 'alternative' forms of regulation. Both theory-generation and the case-study method will be applied in different policy sectors (such as the financial sector or healthcare) to discern which factors contribute to an optimal mix of regulation and enforcement instruments.
Which enforcement strategies can be identified?
What kind of enforcement mix (public/private) is used?
Which factors are of influence, and which instruments have been chosen?
Which conditions can be identified to effectuate these instruments?
What lessons can be learned from the shift from private to public (a reverse shift)?
What lessons can be learned for policy makers in general?
Level 1: Supervision and enforcement is carried out by national authorities, but with the clear influence of European law.
Level 2: Networks of national authorities have been created which exert (informal) influence on each other's national practices.
Level 3: European supervisory authorities have been created, with binding (or non-binding) powers. In some cases, there is even a transfer of powers from the national to the European level.
Which forms of shared enforcement can be identified?
Which goals of regulation are relevant?
How is 'governance' incorporated in shared enforcement?
How does this shared enforcement work from an institutional / safeguarding point of view?
Image source: European Parliament, license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.


The 6th Annual Stafford Fall Wine Festival will be held October 14th and 15th at Manahawkin Lake Park, Manahawkin, NJ. Sample dozens of wines from some of New Jersey's leading wineries while enjoying the beautiful lake-front setting. Unique crafters, vendors and food will also on hand. Guests are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets to sit and enjoy live music Saturday from local favorites Funk Shway & The Dojo Birds; on Sunday crowd-pleaser Acoustic NRG will perform. Although the festival is rain or shine, in the event of extreme weather a cancellation decision will be made the evening prior and posted on the event Facebook page.
Tickets are $12* in advance, $15 at the gate. Under 21 years of age and designated drivers are free. Discounted advance tickets can be purchased by visiting https://stafford2017winefest.eventbrite.com.
The Stafford Township Fall Wine Festival is sponsored by WJRZ 100.1 and sister station WRAT 95.9 and is funded in part by a grant from the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders, explore more at oceancountytourism.com.
The festival will offer sampling from some of New Jersey's leading wineries; participants include Cava Winery & Vineyard, Coda Rossa Winery, Cream Ridge Winery, DiMatteo Winery, Monroeville Vineyard & Winery, Plagido's Winery, Wagonhouse Winery, and Villari Vineyards. Dozens of varieties of wines will be available for sampling; each paid admission includes a commemorative wine glass to use for the tasting and guests can purchase favorites by the bottle or case during the event.
The wine festival is being held in conjunction with the Stafford Township Recreation Department's Fall Festival, which takes place on Saturday, the 14th in the park from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. The Fall Festival is a full day of free entertainment, family fun events, food and vendors. The festival is a highly anticipated day in the township. According to Recreation Director Betti Anne McVey "We have lots of activities for children and families, including the Halloween costume parade, scarecrow making area, hayrides, and at dusk we will have a bonfire and family movie." On Sunday the Stafford PBA will host a classic car show at the park to complement the wine festival.
For more information about the Stafford Township Fall Festival, call the Recreation Department at 609-489-0910.


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What's on TV for Wednesday, May 26
By Emily Price
Tonight is the finale of "The Masked Singer"!
(Image credit: Sebastien Le Derout/Unsplash)
The Masked Singer finale is tonight! We'll get to see performances from the final three players as well as see who they all actually are once they're unmasked and a winner is crowned! The Los Angeles Dodgers are taking on the Houston Astros, and Carol receives a second chance at life when a new heart becomes available on a new episode of Chicago Med.
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Tonight on the season finale of The Masked Singer, all three remaining singers will perform and all three will be unmasked, but only one singer will be awarded the Golden Mask Trophy in the Season Five finale.
Watch at 8pm EDT on FOX
On a new episode of Chicago Med, Carol receives a second chance at life when a new heart becomes available. Ethan and Dean find themselves in hot water with an old patient.
Watch at 8pm EDT on NBC
Tonight the Los Angeles Dodgers are taking on the Houston Astros. Tonight's game is being played from the home of the Astros, Minute Maid Park.
Watch at 7:30pm EDT on ESPN
Guy's Grocery Games
Tonight on a new episode of Guy's Grocery Games, Hunter Fieri puts his dad, Guy, through Triple G boot camp when a few guests drop in to pay the Fieris a visit and play along with action-packed Salute the Troops games.
Watch at 9pm EDT on Food Network
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Food writer Stephen Satterfield embarks on a vibrant and powerful culinary journey that celebrates the courage, artistry, and resourcefulness of the African American people.
Watch anytime on Netflix (opens in new tab)
Emily Price
Emily is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. She's exceptionally passionate about what she does and her tech background coupled with my work as a television news producer helps her bring to the table a unique set of skills that you won't find anywhere else. You can keep up with what she's watching now on Twitter @emily
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