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Full Game Release June 6
Or get the preview version now on Steam Early Access...
Launch preparations are nearly finished... and we've set a date for the full release of Lifeless Planet!
Lifeless Planet will be available to purchase from Steam and all other leading digital retailers on June 6th 2014. The game will feature English text and voice overs along with full text and subtitled localization into German, Russian, French and Spanish languages.
Selected UK retailers will also be stocking physical copies in stores the same day with further releases to follow throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
Please note the beta build on Steam right now includes levels 1-6 of the 20 levels that will be in the final version of the game. It is also being offered at a discount off the retail launch price AND by purchasing the Early Access build, you will automatically get the full release for no extra cost on June 6!
The English version is up now, but more subtitled versions are coming soon, along with a Mac build. After you play the beta, please post any bug reports or suggestions in the Steam forums or at feedback.lifelessplanet.com.
Thanks for supporting Lifeless Planet... now prepare for liftoff!
Posted by David Board at 12:01 PM
Bobby May 1, 2014 at 2:40 PM
Cannot wait!
Welcome! Pay beta steam!
Creatorzen May 24, 2014 at 10:40 AM
Hi I really like the concept and the the look and gameplay of this project, however I've encountered quite a few issues in the Early Access version and here they are:
1. Playing with the Xbox 360 controller the "Resume Game" button doesn't want to light up when I turn the game on, so I have to use the mouse instead.
2. I'm stuck in the tunnel.
a. After getting to the catacombs, at first there was just no light, simply pitch black. I saw the table that evaporates into pixie dust, but from there I couldn't do anything.
b. After turning off the high graphical effects suddenly I could see where I was. I went down the tunnel, didn't actually see the table, but saw the pixie dust, but when I got to the room in the end there was a netted door and a bunch of barrels, but there was nothing I was able to do.
3. This game is buggy, but I hope that's temporary. I was really looking forward to subtitles and trying to play this game on Russian, but I guess I'll just wait for the full release. Love the atmosphere, though.
David Board May 26, 2014 at 12:17 AM
Hi Michael, thanks for playing and sorry you had trouble with it. A couple other users reported this lighting issue and the solution in their case was to enable discrete graphics on their laptops. You may not be able to play the game without a good video card and the latest drivers. More info/tips on the help page. Thanks again for playing and providing feedback!
Shadow June 6, 2014 at 3:53 AM
Hi mate,
Congrats on finally getting there, im looking forward to getting into the game.
as a kickstarter backer, do i get a steam key to use at this time?
cheers mate.
David Board June 6, 2014 at 12:53 PM
Yes, you should've received a Steam key in the last month. Message me on Kickstarter if you can't find it.
Congratulation on the successful and punctual release of your game!
MrTimske June 7, 2014 at 4:29 AM
LOL this KILLS my addiction to Borderlands! Absolutely Amazing, got lost for 5 hours ;).I hope this becomes BIG so you guys can ad more content.
I'm guessing there's an FPS Lock. Is there a workaround?
Just a quick question,
Did the system requirements change from the early access to the full release, because i am trying to play the game on a laptop and the early access was great, but the full release is kind of lagy even in all settings low
David Board June 9, 2014 at 9:18 PM
The hardware specs change for more hdd space for the full version, but not otherwise. Laptops will struggle without dedicated graphics. If you have a dedicated graphics card, be sure to set up LifelessPlanet.exe to run using the dedicated card in your graphics card settings...
Such a great game. I love it a lot and am already a huge fan. Only thing is I wish you sold more merchandise for it because I would love to buy a T-shirt or something related to the game besides stickers. Everything about the game is beautiful.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Just finished it and I want to say it beautiful. I am so glad you made this. And I am so glad to have experienced it. Bravo!
MrTimske June 10, 2014 at 8:30 AM
I'm so glad you made this and i found it. Thank you.
Is there any chance to get this extended? or perhaps another story...
MrTimske June 10, 2014 at 8:53 PM
Humm what if that wasnt the Home he was lookin for. what if it was another deserted Planet....;)
Chris June 22, 2014 at 3:59 PM
"Full Release". My ass....just bought it. While I love the game play concept, theme, design...the execution is poor as hell. I love indie games and am well ready to excuse the lack of polish in many areas due to limited resources...but game breaking bugs where you CANNOT continue? Shame on you for allowing people to pay money for this at this point.
David Board June 22, 2014 at 7:20 PM
Hi Chris, let me know where you're getting stuck so I can help with a solution.
Chris June 24, 2014 at 11:09 AM
Ok. So here is what was happening. I would die..fall off a cliff or something. So it tries to restart me, but it restarts me somewhere that the camera cannot see. It's like my character is INSIDE the rocks or something..or on the other side from camera view. I can hear him moving about. I can fire my jetpack...but the camera never actually moves and if I fool around enough I might eventually die again. Not sure if it's a camera tracking option or a character placement problem or what. But like I said, had to quit and restart the previous stage and make it through without dying. It hasn't happened in later stages, so I haven't been having that problem since then. Again, the game design/concept/style is bang on...BUT...for a commercial release..meaning someone paid money for it, that type of thing is just really, really annoying. I know you probably felt you had to get full release out in time for game conference, but I don't think it should have quite launched yet. I wasn't part of kickstarter and was not familiar with all the beta versions of the game. I know that you have been in communication with your kickstarter community and many of them were well aware of the state of the game, so I can see how it's possible to take the view that your players all knew of the problems, but many of us were not around during that phase. I would love for you to make enough money to make more like this full time because I feel like your game design/concepts are in line with mine and I really enjoy it. I don't want to see a full launch screwed up because of bad game play bugs.
In summary, the bug hasn't happened in the last several stages/scenes, but not sure it it will still occur earlier in the game.
David Board June 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM
Hi Chris, thanks for the detailed report. Yes, this was a nagging bug that I still have not ever seen myself (or any of my testers), but it has happened for some users. I believe it only affected the "Chasm" level and I also believe we fixed it for good with last Thursday's 1.2 update.
These types of bugs are really hard to troubleshoot when I simply can't ever repeat it myself. Even if it were to happen once for me, I wouldn't know if I fixed it later or if it just never happened again. So I'm not 100% certain it's gone now, but we made several changes to the code hoping to resolve it.
Kickstarter and early access were very helpful to me since I was the sole developer on this project--yes the entire game design/development was just me from beginning to end. Now... that right there is a fair subject of criticism. I only appreciate now (after three years of working so hard, long days, nights, weekends) how ambitious this project was. I wish I'd had a bigger QA team, but my resources were very limited, and (understandably) few Kickstarter backers wanted to spoil the end by playing betas, especially of the later levels.
I wasn't in full control of the release date, honestly, but at the end of the day I take responsibility for the state of the game. Thankfully there weren't more bugs than there were, and for most people bugs (including this one) weren't an issue at all.
The E3 event actually didn't have anything to do with the release date. I only got invited to E3 by Microsoft (to announce the Xbox One version) a few weeks before E3 and had to really scramble to even make the event. The release date for the game had been set much earlier. The bad part of that week was that I was out of the office the week after launch, so... I hired a programmer to help with bug fixes. I released the first patch myself on day two, and we released the second patch last week. There are a few lingering bugs, but I believe there are no more game-breaking bugs (at least to the extend that is possible on PCs).
I'm glad you are liking the game and I hope you don't read all this as one big excuse--it wasn't a perfect launch, but I have been trying hard to be responsive and proactive. I absolutely plan to do more games in the future, and this experience (good and bad) has been extremely educational.
Thanks again for the feedback and I really do appreciate your understanding.
Howdy comrade,
Your game is amazing and the story is SUPERB. That being said, there was one part, which I found suspicious: the Soviet scientists torturing the poor girl to learn her garden's secrets (?) Generally, Soviet people had a strongly developed sense of justice and it is very dubious they would behave so unethically and unscientifically, especially after witnessing the Nazi atrocities just a few decades earlier ("Dr." Mengele comes to mind in this context).
David Board July 17, 2014 at 11:44 AM
Hi Yaroslav! Thanks so much for your feedback. I'm really glad you liked the game. My thinking with this part of the story was not that the Soviet people in general would take this action, but a few desperate and unethical individuals. I tried hard with this story not to paint in broad brushstrokes, but instead tell a human story. The Russians in the story made mistakes, but because they were human, not because they were Russian. At least, that's what I intended... I have no doubt my story was flavored by my perspective as an American. But that's also what has been interesting to me in creating this game: learning more about Russian culture and values from nice people like you. Thanks again for the feedback!
Lifeless Planet hits Full Beta!


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Heat the whipping cream and 1/4 cup sugar to just below boiling. While the cream is heating, whip the yolks with the remaining sugar, the lemon juice and the lemon zest until the yolks are fluffy, pale and doubled in size. Temper the eggs with the warm cream by adding a few drizzles of cream to the whipped yolks, stir and add in a few more drizzles until most of the cream has been added.
Pour the yolk mixture into the cream pan and return to medium low heat. Cook slowly until the custard thickens and stir often with a wooden spoon; test the thickness by running your finger across the back of the spoon. If the line holds, it is ready.
Remove from heat and set in an ice bath until cooled. Cover and let the custard steep in the refrigerator overnight if you have time; otherwise just until the custard is chilled. Strain the custard and place in the ice cream maker, process according to manufacturer directions.
While the ice cream is churning, mix up the jalapeno sugar. In a small Cuisinart, add the chopped jalapeno and the tablespoon of sugar, chop and blend until the jalapeno is super fine. Add this sugar jalapeno mixture to the ice cream maker during the last 5 minutes of churning. Continue to process as directed.
Homemade ice cream is best enjoyed within the first few days of making it.
Seriously, how is Dave not 100000 metric tons? You are a food wizard, dear lady. Just warning you, I plan to sneak into your place and nibble on leftovers while you slumber. Why? Because I'm hungry. Is it creepy? On a scale of 1-10, I'm definitely a 12. Achievement Unlocked: Gluttonous Scoundrel.
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112 pages, 140 col photos
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Q: Upload XML File to ASP.net Page, Bind Specific Node to GridView (C#) I am trying to create an ASP.net/C# web page that contains a GridView, and the ability for a user to upload an XML file to that page and bind the grid to a node in that XML. The XML file must be read into memory--not saved to the server first--which has prevented me from modelling this on many online examples which presume an uploaded file is physically sitting on the server when it's accessed.
The simplified test XML file looks like this, and I do have some latitude to alter or expand it if necessary:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <root>
    <Grids>
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The client needs to be able to click on a FileUpload control, browse to a local XML file, and have the grid reflect the data in the node named "GridView" above. I can't figure out how to extract just that node from the XML data. If I create a cut-down, poorly formed XML file with that node as the root, it works, but I don't want to do that as I plan on expanding this in the future.
Below is the salient portion of the 'import' code I have at the moment. It's not optimal – I got here through trial and error so there's probably a lot of garbage in here. When I run this, I get a single-cell grid that just contains the text "Grid_Id" rather than the tabular data I need (although even that's broken at the moment).
protected void btnImport_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
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            if (FileUpload1.HasFile)
            {
                string fileExt = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(FileUpload1.FileName);
                if (fileExt == ".xml")
                {
                    using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(FileUpload1.FileBytes))     // Using FileBytes because I can't save file to server
                    {
                        XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument();
                        document.Load(stream);
                        stream.Position = 0;
                        string xmlFile;
                        using (StreamReader inputStreamReader = new StreamReader(FileUpload1.PostedFile.InputStream))
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                        DataSet dataSet = new DataSet();
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Ultimately I'd like to create a more generic component that will allow us to any save grid data to a user's desktop and push that 'snapshot' back in to the grid at a later date. Thanks in advance for any guidance (this is my first post)!

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Obama to the Castro regime: Do whatever you want
President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro in Havana on March 21. (Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press)
ON FRIDAY, President Obama unveiled a Presidential Decision Directive trumpeting further overtures to the Cuban government designed to make the thaw he announced on Dec. 17, 2014, "irreversible." That would imply "regardless of results" — which so far have been paltry, at least in terms of freedom and prosperity for Cuba's long-suffering people. Indeed, Cubans are "worse off now than how they imagined their future" when normalization began, opposition journalist Yoani Sanchez noted recently.
The Castro regime has arrested almost as many peaceful opponents so far this year (8,505) as it did in all of 2015 (8,616), according to the nongovernmental Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation. The ranks of the repressed include dissident lawyer Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo, who was thrown in prison Sept. 23. His law firm was also ransacked and documents were taken. Havana's municipal government has just banned new licenses for private restaurants and instructed existing ones that it will start enforcing onerous taxes and regulations more tightly. It was, Reuters reported, "a new sign that Cuba's Communist-run government is hesitant to further open up to private business in a country where it still controls most economic activity," following similar retrenchment in agriculture and transportation last year.
The economy is stagnating due to the Castro regime's perennial mismanagement and cutbacks in aid from Cuba's chaotic patron, Venezuela. In July, Cuba's economy minister warned that fuel consumption would have to be cut by nearly a third in the rest of the year, along with restrictions in state investments and imports. Cuba's cash crunch helps explain why sales of U.S. goods (those permitted under long-standing humanitarian exceptions to the embargo) are running well below what they were before the thaw. Some 89,000 Cubans have fled to the United States since the policy began.
Havana's response to Mr. Obama's latest olive branch was to demand more concessions. Mr. Obama's directive "does not hide the purpose of promoting changes in the political, economic and social order," top diplomat Josefina Vidal asserted. Shortly thereafter, Ms. Vidal led a large nationally televised rally at Havana University to protest the "genocidal" embargo, part of a broad anti-U.S. propaganda campaign timed to coincide with Mr. Obama's announcement.
An optimistic view of these developments would be that the administration's strategy is working: Frightened by the prospect of freer business activity, and ideologically challenged in the absence of a Yanqui enemy, Cuba's leaders must clamp down on the former and invent the latter — and round up the usual dissident suspects. That may be true; but recent events also show the tension between the president's twin goals of doing business with the Cuban government as a legitimate equal and relieving the misery of the Cuban people, which is caused by their government. Even on the ideological defensive, the Cuban regime retains the capacity to resist change and to punish citizens who seek to bring it about.
We have never opposed a thaw in relations, only Mr. Obama's decision — contrary to his earlier promise — to exclude from the process all those Cubans who have been bravely fighting for increased freedom. Now Mr. Obama is giving the regime a green light: No amount of repression can derail his policy. That is a strange and unfortunate message.
The Post's View: Obama gives the Castro regime in Cuba an undeserved bailout
The Post's View: The U.S. snubs Cuban dissidents
Jennifer Rubin: Cuba trip: More evidence of Obama's contempt for human rights
Richard Cohen: Obama's visit to Havana does nothing to help the Cuban people
Charles Krauthammer: Obama's ideological holiday in Havana


A few long overdue changes put in place today.
A new gold making blog born from the JMTC forums. Not crazy about the green on black layout but the content is well written and informative.
A very clean layout with quick, well thought out, informative posts.
A fantastic WoW finance resource with posts that range from gold making tips to diary style gold ledger updates and some WoW finance theorycrafting.
A more recent entry with a focus on inscription and the profits to be made from this popular profession. Good advice to be had here even if you're not a scribe.
This blog is long overdue for a WoWenomic call out as it has been around for several years. Very similar to the Just My Two Copper style with short informative posts centered around gold making tips. Some good advice in the archives as well.
Our 'Rotating Blog Roll' has, well, rotated. Lots of new blogs added and a few older ones removed. Give these new listings a look. As always, you can find the full blog roll listing on our Resources page. If you'd like your blog included in a future roll, just let us know.
We added a category for 'WoW Blog Listings and News' and another for 'WoW Status Updates'. The former will provide readers with a few quick links to get WoW news and blog headlines and the latter allows readers for even faster access to WoW server status and game updates directly from Blizzard.
The changes here are too numerous to list individually so we'll sum it up by saying that all the classes now have at least one link (thank you to those that made suggestions), other sections have been expanded and a few links were moved to more appropriate categories. Finally, in response to the many requests we've received for details on our real-world finance reads, we added a few more links to some of the real-world finance resources enjoyed most by the WoWenomics team.
If we overlooked your (or your favorite) blog, let us know. We'd love to add you. The only reason that additional blogs are not listed is because we've not yet been made aware of them or, in at least a few occasions, because our Resident Typing Monkey was drunk.
We will spend the next seven days focused on a single aspect of WoWenomics as voted on by our readers in our recent poll. The selected topic this time was gold making tips. Later today we will publish our first article in this series.
Please note that, while we will continue this series for seven consecutive days, there may be a few additional posts not related to generating WoW income due to the impending Blizzcon event and probable announcement of the next WoW expansion. We will also be reporting on both of these issues as appropriate.
I'm off on vacation for about ten days. I may not have an opportunity to post during this time and will most likely not have contact with the rest of the WoWenomics team regardless (which is the vacation part of the vacation no doubt). At any rate, you might enjoy looking over a few of our older posts during our absence.
Enjoy the reads and be sure to also check the comments if the subject interests you. Quite often the comments take the discussion to the next level.
And don't forget to cast your vote as to what you'd most like us to focus on upon our return.
We'll see you in a week or two after some sunshine and copious amounts of beer.
Upon our return from vacation we will be conducting one week of focused WoWenomic analysis. This poll is your chance to vote on what sort of posts you are most interested in reading for the week. During this time we will focus exclusively on the types of posts chosen by our readers.
While traveling over the past week or so I was away from WoW. I had hoped to have at least limited access to the game but, as it turned out, I didn't even have access to a computer. Shocking, I know. At any rate, I returned late last night and logged in for just a bit to find that, while there were no sweeping changes to the WoW economy, I felt overwhelmed with the feeling of being out of the loop and uninformed. We've mentioned here before that information is the single greatest tool of both the WoW and the RL trader and this theory certainly proved itself true as I was hesitant to buy or sell in any significant quantity after being gone for just one week.
Luckily, the WoWenomics team provided their daily data updates to me via e-mail so there was no loss of information. Over the weekend I'll crunch the numbers and review with the team and we should have an analysis post up early next week. I'll also be taking a look around the blogosphere for items to highlight for the weekend Loot Council post so feel free to e-mail or post in the comments your suggestions of posts we should take a look at. Early next week we also hope to update the site a bit- rolling our blog roll over and updating the resources page. Be sure to let us know (if you haven't already) of any sites that should be added to (or removed from) the resources page.
Also, thank you to everyone that e-mailed with concern as to our whereabouts. In hindsight, perhaps our last post was a bit fatalistic to start a vacation with but we assure you that no one from the WoWenomics team is leaving the game just yet. That said, there will be several more absences this summer as I, personally, have a lot going on. So, unless I can convince one of the other team members to do the posting for a short time (hint, hint!) there may be other WoWenomic outages during the warmer months.
So, for now, back to the game. I'll be taking a closer look at the economy over the next day or so and familiarizing myself with any market movements. I can't imagine how a longer break would have affected me. Has anyone out there ever taken a break and felt out of the loop upon return? I imagine I'll deal with it by sticking to the markets I'm most familiar with over the next couple of days. How do you deal with missed play time? Any tips for getting back in the loop faster?


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ASEAN Calls for Code of Conduct in South China Sea
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the South China Sea in this U.S. Navy picture taken October 29, 2015.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is calling for enforcement of a 13-year-old Code of Conduct in the South China Sea.
The call comes less than two weeks before the yearly ASEAN summit. The meeting opens in Kuala Lumpur November 21.
China's development of islands in the South China Sea has increased tensions between China and ASEAN member countries. Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam also have territorial claims to the area.
In 2002, ASEAN member states agreed to a document known as the "Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea." Its language calls for peace and security in the waterway. Other parts of the declaration express support for the respect of international law and freedom of navigation.
The sixth part of the declaration states that ASEAN members should protect the environment and support marine research. That part finishes by asking all to assist in search and rescue operations and to fight crime in the South China Sea.
The territorial dispute will take time to resolve said Kung Phoak, a political science professor from Cambodia. He said a code of conduct could decrease tensions. The measure could also prevent conflicts.
I'm George Grow.
Jim Dresbach reported this story for VOANews.com. George Grow was the editor.
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conduct - n. the way that something is directed; the way someone acts
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Q: how to set client side variable nodejs I am working on a script that requires client side variables.
However I am having huge issues making this possible.
I am wondering would I use const, var or let for a client side variable.

A: const
use it as much as possible, you can always use it except when you need to change the value of this variable
let
use this when you cant use const, you can re-assign a value like this:
let age = 7; // declaration
age = 6; // re assignment

but keep in mind, u can not redeclare like this:
let age = 7; // declartation
let age = 6; // another declaration (will yield error)

var
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Grant Hoey – Apartment Master, has been a property investor for over 25 years and with that seen many ups and downs of the market. That coupled with his qualification in financial planning and 12 years' experience mentoring clients makes him a market leader and someone worth taking note of if you are thinking of investing in Auckland apartments.
Grant talked in detail at his annual event on Sunday of the importance of knowing your market. He himself spent 6 months learning the intricacies of the Auckland apartment market before making his first purchase. It is important to know the value of what you are buying.
In the past investors have shied away from apartments. As New Zealanders we have always loved owning property but often can't get our head around owning apartments which typically have a small floor size and are governed by a body corporate. We are accustomed to free-standing quarter acre properties in the suburbs. Times have changed and with shortage of residential property apartments are an ideal solution.
Many people these days choose to live in central Auckland. Students, of course, have long lived in the city, but now we have professionals who want the city lifestyle; families who want more leisure time by not having homes to maintain and long commutes; and retirees who want to downsize. Auckland city has grown massively in popularity as a place to live.
People often wonder if the market has peaked and a property down turn is imminent. It was great to have Tony Alexander, Chief BNZ Economist, speak at Grant's event and share his thoughts on this. Tony concluded the current prices are here to stay. The factors what would need to be present to cause property prices to drop don't exist and are not likely to in the foreseeable future.
There is a significant and growing housing shortage. This is particularly evident in Auckland where the population is growing by 800 people per day. Building constraints mean it is not possible to keep up with this demand. There are high costs associated with developing and building; plus, there is a shortage of skilled labour to carry out new construction. Perhaps investing in Auckland Apartments is something to consider.
Each year Grant forms an exclusive group of people who wish to work under his guidance to invest in Auckland apartments. Grant gets great pleasure helping others on their path to success. Here are some examples of deals Grant's clients have done.
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If you've ever set up Shopify abandoned cart emails, you know that it can drive you bananas knowing that they will only be sent to shoppers who add their email and click continue. What about all the shoppers who added your products to their cart, but got distracted before they entered their email?
They just fall through the cracks!
If you use Klaviyo for your email marketing, you're in luck, because there's a way to send abandoned cart emails to anyone who adds a product to your cart — and it's easier than you might think.
I talked with James Corr from OnlyGrowth this week to learn more about how to do it. James became a Shopify expert and founded OnlyGrowth in 2015, and he's been solving problems for Shopify merchants and helping grow businesses ever since.
A client recently asked James to set up a new abandoned cart workflow that included only those who wouldn't have otherwise received an abandoned cart email. That workflow now has a 68% open rate and a 20% click through rate. Some pretty great results! Put shortly, he knows what he's doing.
*** Note that in order for this to work you have to already have Viewed Product tracking installed.
To do that, visit this Klaviyo help page and search Viewed Product Metric.
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It's my second sinking today
June 4, 2018 Pauline Hawkins Features
Harry Arnold of Waterway Images looks back with fondness and humour at life on the canals in decades gone by.
RETURNING to Norbury Junction is always nostalgic, as this is the place where in 1965 I first gave up a 'real job' and moved on to the canals full-time at Shropshire Union Cruises Ltd. First living on a boat then with our expanding family in the old top lock cottage, by the dry dock, down what we then called 'the arm'. Soon, as the business expanded, becoming manager.
Part of the expansion was being among (not) the first to build the now common modern box-construction steel hulls. Certainly, to market them under the Cutlass brand name. At Norbury recently for the canal festival, another veteran of the period reminded me of an interesting incident. Not however concerning a hull we built.
Other yards soon jumped on to the steel-hull bandwagon which, with respect, any competent welder could build. One of our friends, who owned the BCN tug Spitfire, replaced it by having a steel boat built at his engineering company. The employee who did it subsequently became a well-known boatbuilder.
Fired with enthusiasm, he reckoned that he could mass-produce small (30ft) cruiser-style hulls in the family factory; a good idea, but somewhat ahead of its time. More importantly, his two brothers decided that building the prototype caused too much disruption to normal production. Some may remember the company for their Snipe boat trailers. So, he asked us if we would sell this hull.
This didn't take long as one of our regular moorers, the late John Moss, liked it and we completed it as a very nice small craft attractively named Wind In The Willows. Looking ahead, John went on to own the ex-FMC Dragon and – involved with IWA – did much to promote the canal in Stone, for which I subsequently presented him with the association's Richard Bird medal.
The boat was so small that, when completed, we moved it on rollers to the edge of the wharf, ready to launch the following morning. John Stothert, the late owner of the company – who I will be ever-grateful to – had a friendly chatty personality. Unfortunately, it hid an impetuous nature and a great ability to 'bodge' jobs which others who worked with him will testify to.
It had been a long day, everyone was tired, when John rushed over and said let's launch it now, we can easily push it in. I immediately said no and firmly stated that I would not be involved. But he was the boss. I left for our cottage on the other side of the basin and watched from the bridge opposite. They pushed Wind In The Willows in and within minutes I then saw it sink. There was no weed-hatch cover on and Norbury basin was deep then.
I had to go back and take charge of the situation by first ringing our nearest crane company, Longton Crane Hire in Stoke-on-Trent. The crane eventually arrived and we carefully lifted the boat, pumping out in the process. I said to the crane driver: "I bet this is an unusual job for you". To my amazement, he replied: "It's the second today." One of the Johnson Brothers (Wedgwood) boats that shuttled along the Caldon Canal with pottery had turned over that morning and he had refloated that.
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Compare and contrast the two pictures of the same location – the wharf at Norbury Junction – the top one was taken in March 1965, the one below it during the 2018 Norbury Canal Festival. PHOTOS: Waterway Images
BOATS were not the only things sunk off Norbury wharf during this period. John Stothert's latest edition new Jaguar saloon – seen in the top photograph above – also had a ducking. His wife Jenny had left it parked at right angles facing the canal, trapping in the firm's van which one of our staff needed.
He reversed the car, parked it, and sat in the van. To his horror he watched the car slowly pass before his eyes on its way into the canal. It was an automatic and he hadn't set the parking brake correctly. It was lunchtime and I was again crossing the bridge opposite and heard just a 'tink' as the back bumper clipped the wharf edge.
I repeat, it was deep then, and the car was virtually submerged. Incongruously, through the back window, clothes and bank notes could be seen floating around. Jenny had been to both the laundry and the bank for the wages. After recovery, my wife Beryl spent quite a few hours drying bank notes in our gas oven. As for the car, which went back to the factory – unlike Wind In the Willows – it was never the same again.
Pauline Hawkins
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The B+ Movie Guide: The New List (Part XV)
I gave Colin a giant list of 500 movies, and he finished it. Of course I'm gonna come up with another list.
This one is for everyone, though. Not specifically for Colin. This is raw material for everybody, should they choose, to go out and see more movies. Not all of them are essential. Most of them are just awesome. I told Colin that once he finished this list, I'd give him another one that was more fun than work. Geared toward cool stuff that he'd enjoy.
I went through and found 1,000 more movies that I think either need to be seen (leftover "essential" films) or are just really great and would be enjoyed by most who see them. Here they are:
Pinky (1949)
Elia Kazan movie. About a light-skinned black girl who falls in love with a white doctor. And about how she takes care of a dying woman, who grows to respect her and ends up leaving her property to her after she dies, and the woman's relatives fighting against it in court. Because racism. It's actually less over the top than you'd think. You can't argue against Elia Kazan. He had a good touch when it came to these sorts of films. This was his follow up to Gentleman's Agreement. It got a bunch of Oscar nominations, and I think "issue" films from this era should be seen, because it's fascinating seeing how Hollywood deals with these types of issues (when they do).
Noir melodrama. Max Ophuls. James Mason and Joan Bennett. Bennett thinks her daughter accidentally killed an ex-boyfriend who was hounding her and covers it up. Mason is a crook who sees this and decides to blackmail her. However, pretty soon, he actually falls for her and realizes that Bennett's daughter didn't do anything. So instead, he actually ends up helping them out. It's a really good noir. I like it when genres overlap. Also, James Mason is the best.
John Wayne. His first Oscar nomination. It's that story of — he's the officer who the men hate because he puts them through hell, but then they realize that he was actually preparing them properly for battle, and that he's responsible for keeping them alive. And over the course of the film, more and more is revealed about Wayne's character. It's… really good. I don't want to ruin it, but Wayne is terrific here, and the film is really good. This got a bunch of Oscar nominations that year. But really it's just a great war movie with a terrific John Wayne performance.
The Set-Up (1949)
Noir boxing movie. A washed up boxer's manager takes money for a dive, because he figures the boxer can't win anymore anyway. He doesn't even tell the boxer about the set-up. The boxer, meanwhile, refuses to give up, and prepares to beat his much younger opponent, and the manager gets nervous, wondering what's gonna happen if he actually wins. It's really good. Robert Wise directs. Robert Ryan is the boxer. Great noir.
The Small Black Room (1949)
Powell and Pressburger. David Farrar (who you'll recognize from Black Narcissus), is a bomb-diffuser who is in constant pain from an injury and is an alcoholic. (Actually, you'll see a lot of similarities to The Hurt Locker here.) So he's going around diffusing these bombs, not caring if he dies. It's a really good drama. A very underrated movie by the two of them. Oh, and Farrar's girlfriend is played by Kathleen Byron, who was Sister Ruth. Highly recommended.
The Stratton Story (1949)
Baseball movie. Starring Jimmy Stewart. The first half is basically him falling in love with June Allyson and getting into baseball (Agnes Moorehead plays his mother and Frank Morgan is his mentor). But really what it's about is him losing his leg and deciding he's not gonna let that ruin his career. So he goes back out there and learns how to pitch on a wooden leg. I love these sports movies. And I love that Jimmy Stewart is playing a baseball player. Plus he plays a dude with one leg. How can you not be intrigued by this?
Thieves' Highway (1949)
Noir. Jules Dassin. Who directed quite a few classic noirs. This is also a truck driving noir. Guy starts driving produce loads in order to get revenge for the crippling of his father-in-law. Trust me when I say all of these driving movies are worth seeing and are riveting. Did you like Wages of Fear? They're all like that. And they're all gonna be on here, because they're great. Just see them. Trust me.
Too Late for Tears (1949)
This was my first introduction to Dan Duryea. Man, is he great. Arthur Kennedy and Lizabeth Scott are driving home from a party one night and stumble onto some money. Money that was meant for Dan Duryea. Meanwhile, he follows them and meets her the next day (the scene where he first comes into the apartment and sees her is incredible), and tells her she owes him the money. Meanwhile, Kennedy has hidden the money, because they agreed to leave it there until they're sure no one will come to claim it and it is safe to use. Basically, she wants to spend the money, because she wants that kind of life, and he is overly cautious. And you throw Duryea in the mix — it's just a great movie. A noir, Duryea just killing it — trust me when I say you'll fall in love with Dan Duryea the more you see him, especially with this movie.
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
This is similar to Sands of Iwo Jima. Except with air force bombers instead of marines. Gregory Peck is the officer the men hate because he's really strict, and etc. etc. Also really good and highly recommended. Peck was nominated for this, and Dean Jagger won Supporting Actor for it.
Under Capricorn (1949)
This is specifically going on here. This is a Hitchcock movie that's a straight drama. No thriller, nothing tense about it. Not even like Rebecca, which has a mystery element to it. This is straight drama. And I think that's interesting. I also really enjoyed it. I think everyone should see it because it's Hitchcock and you shouldn't just see the typical ones. Joseph Cotten goes and meets his childhood sweetheart, Ingrid Bergman, only to find out that she's an alcoholic. I actually did like this quite a bit. I think it's underrated because people will dismiss it simply because it's not like everything else Hitchcock did. I think everyone ought to see this.
Armored Car Robbery (1950)
Heist movie. A bunch of guys rob an armored car outside Wrigley Field. And it goes horribly wrong, and we see the aftermath of the robbery, as everyone is looking for them. TERRIFIC noir, directed by Richard Fleischer.
The Baron of Arizona (1950)
This list exists because of films like this. I love this movie. I don't how much I can stress the word love. It is GREAT. No one knows this exists, and it is one of the best movies you've never seen. Sam Fuller directs this. Vincent Price stars. Price plays a con artist who spends years forging documents and creating an entire backstory that basically will give him legal status as the man who owns the state of Arizona. No joke. That's the movie. Based on a real guy. Movies about cons are always good (they're like trial movies). This one is great. Trust me on this. Everyone needs to see this movie. You won't know how much you're missing out until you see this. This is one of the great underrated films of all time.
Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Noir. Two cops work the night shift. We follow them as they do their job and pal around. They both have a thing for the dispatch operator, and we follow them as they move into her building and try to make moves on her. Only she's not interested in cops. And we follow as they arrest a violent criminal who swears revenge, building to a thrilling climax. The great thing about this is how laid back it is for the first half. And it's only 90 minutes long. But the first half is really laid back and fun, and then it gets to the crime stuff for the last half. Really well done.
Born Yesterday (1950)
Judy Holliday won an Oscar for this (beating Bette Davis and Anne Baxter for All About Eve, and Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard. Eleanor Parker was the other nominee, and she'll be on here in a minute). You should see it so you can decide whether or not she should have over those others, and also because this is a great movie. She's a gangster's moll (Broderick Crawford is the gangster) who is to be tutored so she can be taught proper behavior and manner of speaking. William Holden is the tutor. It's really great. It's a comedy, and Holliday is terrific here. George Cukor directs. You should see this one.
The Breaking Point (1950)
This is basically the noir version of To Have and Have Not. (It is, though. Based on the book. I'm guessing it's more faithful than Hawks' version.) Michael Curtiz directs. John Garfield stars in his second to last movie. You get to see Garfield in the middle of his blacklisting. Patricia Neal is also in this. It's worth seeing. It's good, and you at least know the story, so you can watch it for other stuff besides the plot.
Broken Arrow (1950)
Great western. Colin knows about this. He remembers seeing this for the first time. Jimmy Stewart is a guy who makes peace with the Apache, and Cochise. And it's about him brokering a peace between them and the whites so the mail can get through their territory. And he marries an Apache girl. But of course there's the bad Indians who still want to kill the whites, and the bad whites who still want to kill Indians. You know what it's like. The movie looks great, and is really worth watching.
This is the Eleanor Parker movie I mentioned up there. It's a prison film. She's a girl who gets thrown in prison and ends up getting hardened by the experience. We see what life in prison is like, with the sadistic guards and the other prisoners. Prison movies are like trial movies and con movies — always watchable. This one is really good. It's all women. Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Jan Sterling, Jane Darwell, Hope Emerson got nominated for Supporting Actress for this (playing the giant bull-dyke guard who likes to pick on Parker). It's really good. You should see this.
I really liked this one. Another noir. This is the era of the noirs. A bunch of gamblers take a guy for a bunch of money, but very slowly, they start to get hunted down and killed. Charlton Heston is the main guy. This is really worthwhile.
Another noir. Loved this one. A mental patient breaks out and holds a bunch of people hostage in a basement bar. And the entire movie is a standoff. Cops outside, him and hostages inside. Terrific, terrific movie. Only 75 minutes. You should watch all of these noirs. These are cinema.
D.O.A. (1950)
CLASSIC noir. Edmond O'Brien has been poisoned and is gonna die. The opening scene is him walking into a police station and reporting his own murder. And the rest of the movie is how he got there and him figuring out who did it to him. Of the many noirs that will appear on this list, this is one of the most essential.
This entry was posted on September 10, 2015 by B+ Movie Blog. It was filed under Movies and was tagged with B+ Movie Guide, Film, Movies.


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"Link In Bio" is a slow knife
For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram's increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly control commerce on its platform? If Instagram users could post links willy-nilly, they might even be able to connect directly to their users, getting their email addresses or finding other ways to communicate with them. Links represent a threat to closed systems.
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Harvesting the Blood of America's Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
The number of collection centers in the United States has more than doubled since 2005 and blood now makes up well over 2 percent of total U.S. exports by value. To put that in perspective, Americans' blood is now worth more than all exported corn or soy products that cover vast areas of the country's heartland. The U.S. supplies fully 70 percent of the world's plasma, mainly because most other countries have banned the practice on ethical and medical grounds. Exports increased by over 13 percent, to $28.6 billion, between 2016 and 2017, and the plasma market is projected to "grow radiantly," according to one industry report. The majority goes to wealthy European countries; Germany, for example, buys 15 percent of all U.S. blood exports. China and Japan are also key customers.
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Сергій Миколайович Єсюнін (2 серпня 1968, Глухів, Сумська область) — український історик, краєзнавець, музеєзнавець, журналіст. Дослідник історії, архітектури та культури міста Хмельницького та Поділля. Провідний науковий співробітник Хмельницького обласного краєзнавчого музею. Кандидат історичних наук (2011). Заслужений працівник культури України (2009). Член Національної спілки краєзнавців України (2000). Член Національної спілки журналістів України (2005). Почесний краєзнавець України (2019).

Біографія
Народився 2 серпня 1968 року в місті Глухові Сумської області.

У Хмельницькому мешкає з 1972 року. Від 1995 року працює у Хмельницькому обласному краєзнавчому музеї, від 2006 року — провідний науковий співробітник.

Досліджує історію Поділля та Південно-Східної Волині, історію населених пунктів краю, військову історію. Захистив дисертацію на тему «Міста Подільської губернії у другій половині XIX — на початку ХХ ст.». Автор численних нарисів, статей і книг про історію Хмельниччини, видатних особистостей, архітектурних пам'яток, історичних подій тощо. Має понад 180 праць з історії та краєзнавства у наукових та науково-популярних збірках та понад 900 статей у періодичних виданнях. Друкувався та друкується у Хмельницьких обласних та міських газетах «Подільські вісті», «Є-Поділля», «Моя газета», «Пульс», «Поділля-спорт», «Погляд», «Проскурів», «Проскурівський телеграф» та ін. 2005 року став засновником та основним автором краєзнавчої сторінки «КраЄвид» у Хмельницькій обласній газеті «Є-Поділля». Проєкт діяв до серпня 2014 року, налічував 235 випусків «КраЄвиду».

Видання
 Хмельницький футбол: історія, події, статистика. — Хмельницький, 2000. — 80 с.;
 Місто Хмельницький: історія, події, факти. — Хмельницький, 2004. — 112 с.;
 Вулиці міста Хмельницького. — Тернопіль, 2005. — (Серія Вулиці міст України) — 118 с.;
 Проскурів-Хмельницький: подорож у часі. — Хмельницький, 2006. — 60 с.;
 Історія міста Хмельницького: документи і матеріали. — Хмельницький, 2006. — 80 с.;
 Тихомель: початок нового літописання. — Хмельницький, 2007. — 24 с.;
 Болохівська земля. — Хмельницький, 2008. — 32 с.;
 Місто Хмельницький: історія, події, факти (видання друге, перероблене і доповнене). — Хмельницький, 2008. — 126 с.;
 Прогулянка Проскуровом. Історичні нариси. — Хмельницький, 2008. — 160 с.;
 Незнане Поділля. — Городок: Бедрихів край, 2012. — 156 с.;
 Плоскирів: давня історія. — Хмельницький, 2015. — 62 с.;
 Міста Поділля у другій половині ХІХ — на початку ХХ ст.: монографія — Хмельницький, 2015. — 336 с.

У співавторстві видано:
 Орловський Михайло Якимович (1807—1887): вибрані праці. (упорядник разом з А. Трембіцьким). — Кам'янець-Подільський, 2007. — 276 с.;
 Хмельниччина справжня. Фотокнига (один із авторів текстів). — Хмельницький, 2007. — 156 с.;
 Історичні пам'ятки Деражнянщини (у співавторстві з О. Кохановським). — Хмельницький, 2009. — 48 с.;
 Путівник. Хмельницька область (один із авторів текстів). — Київ: Богдана, 2010. — 320 с., іл.;
 Туристичні маршрути Хмельниччини. Туристичний путівник.(один із авторів текстів). — Хмельницький: Поліграфіст-2, 2013. — 176 с., іл.

Особлива заслуга Єсюніна полягає в тому, що завдяки віднайденим історичним джерелам, вдалося «збільшити» вік Плоскиріва (Проскурів, сучасний Хмельницький), й тепер найдавнішою згадкою про місто є 1431 р.

Єсюнін брав участь у створенні багатьох музеїв Хмельницької області: меморіального Юхима Сіцінського в селі Мазники Деражнянського району, банківської справи «Промінвестбанку» у Хмельницькому, Південно-Західної залізниці та Бориса Степановича Олійника у Деражні, музею-діорами Пилявецької битви в Старій Синяві, музею історії села Копачівка Деражнянського району, музею історії локомотивного депо Гречани та ін.

Єсюнін — лауреат багатьох премій з історії та краєзнавства: обласної премії імені Юхима Сіцінського (2000), міської премії імені Богдана Хмельницького (2005), міської премії імені Михайла Орловського (2007), регіональної премії «Скарби землі Болохівської» (2008). Нагороджений Почесною відзнакою Хмельницького міського голови (2006), відзнакою Хмельницької обласної державної адміністрації «75 років Хмельницькій області» (2012).

Дійсний член Центру дослідження історії Поділля Інституту історії України НАН України, член Національної спілки краєзнавців України, член Національної спілки журналістів України. Рішенням Президії правління Національної спілки краєзнавців України від 4 червня 2013 року за значний внесок у розвиток краєзнавчого руху в Україні нагороджений Грамотою.

Указом Президента України № 708/2009 від 4 вересня 2009 року Єсюніну присвоєне звання «заслужений працівник культури України».

2007 року, за дослідницьку працю з вивчення історії Хмельницької єпархії,  Єсюнін був нагороджений грамотою Блаженнішого Володимира, Митрополита Київського і всієї України, Предстоятеля УПЦ. У травні 2012 р. за заслуги перед Українською Православною Церквою нагороджений орденом Почаївської Ікони Пресвятої Богородиці.

Краєзнавець є широко відомим у Хмельницькому та області. На журналістській акції 2010 року, що була своєрідним народним визначенням «почесних хмельничан», Сергію Єсюніну також дісталось це неофіційне звання за внесок у дослідження історії Хмельницього та Поділля.

Примітки

Джерела та посилання
 Журналісти та громадські активісти обрали «почесних хмельничан» // «Проскурівський телеграф»
 Лауреати обласних премій Хмельниччини. Бібліографічний покажчик / Упр. культури Хмельн. облдержадмін.; Хмельн. обл. наук. бібліотека ім. М.Островського. — Хмельницький, 2004. — с.23-24
 Хмельницький в іменах. Прозаїки, поети, журналісти / В.Дмитрик, Є.Семенюк. — Хмельницький, 2006. — с.48
 Указ Президента України № 708/2009 «Про нагородження працівників культури і мистецтв Хмельницької області»
 Управління культури, туризму і курортів Хмельницької обласної державної адміністрації. Єсюнін Сергій Миколайович
 Комунальний заклад культури «Хмельницький обласний краєзнавчий музей». Єсюнін Сергій Миколайович

Українські історики
Українські краєзнавці
Журналісти
Персоналії:Хмельницький
Заслужені працівники культури України
Персоналії за алфавітом
Народились 2 серпня
Народились 1968
Уродженці Глухова
Члени НСЖУ
Члени Національної спілки краєзнавців України


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You can't take five steps in most cities without stumbling across the smell of freshly brewed coffee or latterly roasted beans, their intoxicating bouquet tempting you to get jazzed up on eddying caffeine at every turn.
Piccolos, cortados and flat whites jostle for the title of smallest and dullest drink on hipster menus across the capital; Chemex, Keep Cup and Aeropress accoutrements mock coffee noobs at every point of sale; and the newest frappamochawhipacino threatens to lull you into a sugary coma with even the merest glance.
With the recent surge in popularity of cold brew coffee (very coarse grounds steeped in cold water for 24 hours then strained), we now have more ways than ever to neck our daily cup of joe.
But never ones to let a chance for heady intoxication slip them by, the folks at Bulleit bourbon have added to our java addiction with The Gentlemen's Agreement, a coffee-infused, sumptuous libation flavoured with gutsy whisky and sweet orange. HELLO.
Taking its cue from the most special of specialty coffees, The Gentlemen's Agreement plays on the rich spice notes from the bourbon barrels, highlighting them with nutty, roasted coconut and warming nutmeg. The slight citrus lift at the back of the palate is accentuated by the floral orange water.
Of course, coffee cocktails are nothing new: the Irish whisky, though naff by association, is a veteran sup, as is the more elegant espresso martini, both favoured largely for their sweet, creamy palate. But what makes The Gentleman's Agreement so exciting is the focus on the beans themselves – no frou frou cream needed here.
Start by making the coconut and nutmeg syrup. Combine the coconut chips with the sugar and water in a sealable container and stir well until completely dissolved. Generously grate the nutmeg into the syrup and stir well. Leave to develop for two hours. Strain well and set aside until needed.
Add the bourbon, brewed coffee, coconut and nutmeg syrup and orange blossom water to a cocktail shaker along with two ice cubes, and shake well until fully combined.
Add ice to the glass, and pour over the cocktail. Serve.


A change is a very natural phenomenon and it occurs to every individual on this planet earth. In human beings, changes occur, but a very few people put their foot forward and by moving out from their comfort zone to achieve something that they might not have even dreamt off. According to Lao Tzu "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
Change is the basic essential step for every individual, and in holy books, it has been mentioned that everything around us changes like if we sow a seed in an earthen pot then it keeps on changing itself and blooms into a tree which gives us fruit. Today the things have changed as this word Change used to carry so much weight that it has been lifted. The other factor that can be attributed is that the people have started changing their mindsets. Change to people in our times is not what it used to be from our present, a frightening thought and a challenging path that could be taken only if it was our last chance to survive.
Recently a worldwide survey was conducted and it revealed that 78% of people from the age group of 18 to 70 years wanted to change the fundamental aspects of themselves. To be more specific these people wanted to move towards more positive, and be more open, extrovert, and more agreeable. Many authors and psychologists do believe that people are seeking new things, at any age these days because they are seeking joy, and have the desire to live their lives, not just exist between the grind of earning their bread and butter. By doing this it makes people happy and they are willing to learn new skills and take up few challenges. And that's the main reason why people do not dread the word Change any more, with an increase in life expectancy people, Also change is not the taboo in our society anymore. Earlier if people did something drastic with their looks or life, they would be laughed at.
An earlier midlife crisis would be a whisper doing rounds in the society. Now as the times have changed there is nothing critical about Change. In fact, as things have changed as people admire those people who embrace the change and move forward in life. The desire for change comes from within, as they are seeing life in different perspective. At the same time, 97% of us want to be more conscientious and feel more motivated. The two qualities that can not be ignored are being positive and looking inwards. Change always comes by taking micro-steps.
Today the rules of reinvention have changed, whether you want to end procrastinating or become more sociable, its possible to change the very basic idea of who you are. If you want to reinvent yourself then with strong will power you need to take action. Do something big as age is no bar to chase your dreams or your self. It just takes the willpower and discipline to achieve the impossible. Its all about moving away from your comfort zone. .One should always reinvent oneself by having faith and belief in oneself, boost up your mastery, lose the fear of disappointment make more friends have courage and plan. Also be willing to let things go ageing is a process of opening rather than closing doors. Crush your regrets and start anytime.


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Q: How do I read in a file and designate the first line as a root to a binary node? Ok. I am working on a 20 questions style game and I can't get my program just to read the first line of the read in file and build the binary tree from there. The file is being read in but it goes straight to the last entry in the read in file.
    public class Questions(){
      File file = new File("input");
      Scanner INPUT = null;
      try{
        INPUT = new Scanner(file);
      } catch(FileNotFoundException e){
      }
      while(INPUT.hasNext()){
        String line = INPUT.nextLine();
        root = new BinaryNode<String>();
        if(line.length() - 1 == '?'){
          return;
        }
      }
    }

A: I didn't go over the entire code, but this jumped out at me right away...
while(INPUT.hasNext()){
  String line = INPUT.nextLine();
  root = new BinaryNode<String>(line);
  if(line.length() - 1 == '?'){
    return;
  }

Here you just keep re-assigning the root over and over again with a new BinaryNode<String> with the current line. You'll never end up with anymore than one string at the end. You should have a structure of nodes that provides an insert(...){...} of some sort so that you can build the structure.
You also should be doing...
if(line.charAt(line.length() - 1 == '?'){...}

The way you have it now, its asking if the length of line is equal to ?, that's not what you want.
Edit: (based on comment)
A structure, say a list, would have a node member as the root. Assuming the list is doubly linked the nodes would have a prev and next reference to the previous and next nodes in the list. When you insert into that list it would check if root == null. If true root would be set with the data, prev and next would be set to null. If false you would iterate up the list until there was a null at next, you would then store a new node there and so on.
Yes, you could still keep the files separate if that's what you're asking. The questions are still nodes of string type, so that's no problem, you just need a way to store more than 1 of them.


What is machine learning, and how does it work? And what are AI, deep learning, and neural networks? Here's a primer with everything you need to know.
There's no doubt that the age of AI has arrived, and it's here to stay. A cursory glance at the headlines on any given day are enough to support this idea; they are constantly filled with news of self-driving cars, AI-powered machine translation, learning cybersecurity systems, and more. Google, Facebook, and almost every other Silicon Valley giant are pouring funds into AI research.
Amidst all of this fervor, however, very few are stopping to discuss what artificial intelligence actually is. This makes it difficult to join the conversations surrounding AI and understand the excitement behind the technology. So here, we're going to break down the basics of AI and machine learning and how they work.
To start, let's take a step back and consider artificial intelligence (AI) as a whole. There's a great deal of conflicting information about what is and isn't artificial intelligence. Simply put, artificial intelligence is the idea of creating a machine or system capable of emulating human intelligence.
If that definition sounds vague or even somewhat subjective, that's because it is. There is no one decisive interpretation of what constitutes "human-like intelligence," or how a machine should exhibit it. Fifty years ago, products like Microsoft Excel might have been considered AI for their ability to calculate complex math problems. The target for what we consider to be AI is constantly moving, as the term "AI" can refer to a broad range of ideas and technologies, from ad targeting on Facebook to smart manufacturing equipment.
Today, AI is often used as a synonym for machine learning, a subset of AI that has recently seen a rapid increase in technological progress and user interest. Traditionally, computer systems were programmed with a strict set of rules, and could not operate outside of those rules. Those systems are often referred to as If-This-Then-That programs. Machine learning systems, however, are designed to continually learn and adapt beyond their initial programming input. This allows machine learning systems to understand and perform tasks of a complexity far greater than is possible for any traditional system.
Take language, for example—a deeply human enterprise that has, in the past, been notoriously difficult for machines to comprehend. Researchers have long worked to create a computer system that can use and understand language in a human-like fashion. The problem is that human languages are massive and vastly complex systems, the precise rules of which researchers even now are still trying to ascertain. How can we possibly encode a program with every single rule of a system when we don't even know all of the rules ourselves?
Machine learning is helping us make huge strides in understanding this problem. Humans may not know all the rules of language, but we still learn them all starting in infancy, merely from continued exposure. Machine learning has made huge leaps forward in natural language processing by taking the same tack with computer programs: instead of trying to teach a program every single rule manually, it can be exposed to a sufficiently large corpus of language and eventually learn the rules itself.
This, then, is why machine learning is so often associated with "big data." Machine learning programs typically require large datasets to learn from in order to be accurate and precise. If a dataset is too small, the model can develop a skewed and inaccurate understanding of the problem.
Does Your Machine Need Supervision?
There are two ways to approach machine learning: supervised learning and unsupervised learning. In supervised learning, the algorithm is initially fed pre-labeled training data. For example, if you wanted to train a supervised model to correctly identify different kinds of fruit, you would first feed it a dataset of fruit that have already been identified. By seeing the fruit paired with the correct labels, the model learns what categories of fruit exist and how to recognize them. It can then use this information to identify unlabeled fruit in the future.
In unsupervised learning, on the other hand, there is no training data. You would simply feed the model an unlabeled dataset of fruit and let it determine on its own how to categorize the fruit, be it by shape, color, size, or any other characteristics. Rather than labelling a given fruit an "apple," the model would then cluster together fruit with similar characteristics that it has determined most likely belong in the same group. As one might guess, unsupervised learning models are trickier to extract value from, but they are capable of handling large and more complex problems with little information up front.
Not all machine learning systems are strictly supervised or unsupervised—rather than a binary, this is often a scale, where systems may lean more heavily on one approach or the other but make use of both in some way or another.
This brings us to another set of terms that are thrown about liberally but rarely defined: neural networks and deep learning.
Neural networks are a type of machine learning that string multiple functions together. The type of neural network most commonly applied at present (and certainly the type most commonly discussed) is deep learning. Deep learning also strings multiple functions together, but it does so in hierarchical layers, allowing for a greater level of complexity in its analyses.
To illustrate how this works, we can return to our fruit classifier. The first layer of a neural network intended to classify fruit would be a fairly simple model that would learn to recognize very simple features, such as the edge of a shape. The next layer would then use the output from the previous layer to recognize more complicated features, such as how those edges fit together into corners. In this way, the neural network can use successive layers of increasing complexity to approach even very large problems in a highly nuanced and detailed fashion.
The development of techniques such as deep learning have allowed for a new generation of AI; one that can function at levels of competency and even intelligence that could only have been dreamed of even a decade ago. These are the computer systems that are driving cars and defeating human champions in games like Go. Humans have dreamed for decades of creating intelligent machines, but it was not until the advent of machine learning and its associated techniques that research could not only leap forward, but do so in the continuous and sustained manner we see now. It's critical to start learning the basics of AI and machine learning because these technologies are reshaping every human enterprise, and they're not slowing down anytime soon.
At SparkCognition, we employ machine learning for cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, natural language processing, and more. For more information, visit https://www.sparkcognition.com/ or contact us at sales@sparkcognition.com.


Take a Look at the Mutton Bustin' Rides at Thursday's Rodeo.
Night number two at the Angelina Benefit Rodeo provided more spills and thrills, and that was just in the Mutton Bustin' competition. 12 youngsters from Lufkin, Diboll, Huntington, Apple Springs, and Bronson took their turns at riding sheep. There were several great rides that garnered 80+ points, but, in the end, it was 8-year-old Camdyn Solorzano of Lufkin who took home the trophy with a ride of 85 points.
Andrez Montalvo of Diboll had a ride of 84 points, closely followed by Jaydon Clary of Lufkin, Dawson Hunt of Lufkin, Halle Walker of Huntington, and Marissa Flowers of Huntington, all of whom had 80+ point rides.
Other riders for the night were Brittin Bostin, Evangeline Chala, Parker Day, Jason Flower, William Haglund, and Addison Hennigan.
Take a look at all the rides in the video above.


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Q: FIrefox/Thunderbird storage locations By default, Firefox and Thunderbird save their files to ~/.mozilla and ~/.thunderbird.
I am wondering if there's an environment variable I can set, to have either of them save their data to a different location. I want to have multiple instances of them available, each with their own settings for server and application testing. I can do this with the-no-remote option and Profile Manager of each, but I was wondering if I could totally keep the testing profiles separate from my main configuration.
This would also enable me to keep the profiles in source control if I so desired.

A: Firefox and Thunderbird do not have a built-in method of doing this, so your best bet would be to use individual profiles (via the Profile Manager) or some other means.
mauilion is correct, though, that you can (ab)use symbolic links to acheive similar results, but you can only do that between individual sessions - it would be a very bad idea to modify the location of ~/.mozilla while Firefox is running! (Trust me, I tried that. Firefox wasn't happy about that.)

A: Figured it out. If I change $HOME, thunderbird respects the change. I start the new instance up with a script like
#!/bin/bash

OLDHOME=$HOME;
export HOME=/home/moo/work/test

mkdir $HOME/.mozilla $HOME/.thunderbird;
ln -s .mozilla mozilla;
ln -s .thunderbird thunderbird;

/usr/bin/thunderbird -no-remote;

export HOME=$OLDHOME;

A: Not sure about environment variables. However, you could do some clever work with linking.
Say you wanted the files in /opt. As root: mv /home/$user/.thunderbird /opt/thunderbird, then link it back in with ln -sfn /opt/thunderbird /home/$user/.thunderbird.
You could also do this with an NFS mount or any number of other options.  You can also make a mountpoint in /etc/fstab that mounts some remote directory or some local partition to /home/$user/.thunderbird.