Year after year, Nvidia's pro-grade Titan X has traditionally been the fastest GPU in the outfit's lineup, since it's targeted at AI and deep learning applications rather than button mashing in the basement. Well, that changes now with the Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, an upgrade to last year's model that sees it ripping past the Titan X in sheer horsepower.
Granted, this only means we're likely to see the Titan get upgraded later in the year to compensate for its uneven place in the hierarchy. Until then, however, this gaming GPU will hold the crown as the fastest in Nvidia's fleet, all while retaining the consumer-friendly price that made it a huge hit among gamers and VR enthusiasts.
The Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti boasts 3,584 Nvidia CUDA cores and a massive 11GB frame buffer that runs at an unprecedented 11Gbps. It does that while leaving plenty of room for overclocking, too, so you can push the performance numbers even further. Superior heat dissipation comes courtesy of a new high-airflow thermal solution that uses vapor chamber cooling, so you don't have to worry about overheating while enjoying high-resource VR content and 5K HDR gaming. Its manufactured on a FinFET process, which uses 12 billion transistors to deliver dramatic increases in both performance and efficiency.
Slated to go on sale March 10th, the Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti is priced at $699.


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Iraqi Crackdown on Sadr Militia in Basra Spreads to Other Shiite Areas
Clashes between US-backed Iraqi forces and rival Shiite militias have spread to several areas around Iraq. At least fifty-five people have died and more than 300 have been wounded since the Iraqi government launched an offensive against Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in the southern city of Basra. Fighting has been reported in several areas of Baghdad, as well the towns of Kut and Hilla. Earlier today, at least three Americans were wounded when rocket fire hit the Green Zone in Baghdad, the second time in three days. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has given Sadr loyalists in Basra a Friday deadline to hand in their weapons. On Tuesday, Sadr aide Hazim al-Araji vowed a national civil disobedience campaign in response to the crackdown.
Hazim al-Araji: "If the Iraqi government will not respond to the demands of the Iraqi people, the second step will be staging a civil revolt. If the government will not respond, the third step will be issued soon."
The offensive could end Sadr's seven-month-old ceasefire, seen as a major factor behind the recent drop in violence in Iraq.
Workers Sue KBR for Toxic Exposure in Iraq
In other Iraq news, nine former employees are suing the war contractor KBR for knowingly exposing them to toxic chemicals without adequate protection. The workers, all US citizens, say KBR falsely assured them a chemical strewn across their work site was only a mild irritant. It turned out to be sodium dichromate, known as highly cancerous. KBR is seeking a dismissal through the Defense Base Act, which limits employee lawsuits against war contractors. But KBR's own previous tax-dodging could undermine its attempt. Earlier this month, the Boston Globe revealed KBR has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in the Cayman Islands. Lawyers plan to argue KBR's foreign tax status excludes it from protection under federal law.
Supreme Court Weighs Plight of US Prisoners Challenging Iraqi Sentences
In Washington, the Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in the case of two US citizens seeking to challenge their transfer to Iraqi military custody. Shawqi Ahmad Omar and Mohammad Munaf are being held at Camp Cropper near the Baghdad airport. An Iraqi court has convicted Munaf of kidnapping Romanian journalists in a case widely seen as a sham. Munaf's lawyers say the judge had been prepared to dismiss the trial until two US military officials intervened and told him to order the death penalty. Munaf's death sentence was recently overturned, but he could face more charges. Omar, meanwhile, was detained by US forces at his Baghdad home. He's been accused of harboring insurgents.
Palestinian Authority Denies Israeli Influence over Security Force
In Israel and the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government says it's authorized a new deployment of 600 Palestinian police officers to the West Bank town of Jenin. Palestinian Authority officials say Israel is not deciding where to base Palestinian forces. Previous involvement of Israel and the US in Palestinian security operations has led to allegations of attempts to widen the Palestinian factional divide and provoke civil war.
US Suggests Ending Public Debate on Israel-Palestine at UN
Meanwhile, at the UN, the Bush administration is suggesting the Security Council and other bodies end public debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict. On Tuesday, US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told the Security Council that discussion has become futile.
US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad: "If these types of meetings do not contribute to that effort, or worse, if they fuel the tensions that impede constructive engagement, then we need to ask ourselves whether the public format of debates in New York truly help create the environment necessary to facilitate the pursuit of the two-state solution."
The UN General Assembly annually passes resolutions calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
Charities: Afghan Donor Money Wasted on Salaries, Profits
In Afghanistan, a coalition of charities on the ground says a large part of international aid is being wasted and exploited for donor gain. In a new report, the Agency Co-ordinating Body for Afghan Relief, known as ACBAR, says as much as 40 percent of aid to Afghanistan is being sent back to donor countries in the form of corporate profits and consultant salaries. Some foreign contractors in Afghanistan make as much as half a million dollars per year. The average consultant salary is $200,000, 200 times the annual take of an Afghan civil servant. The report also faults donor countries for failing to meet their pledged donations. The Bush administration has disbursed only half its $10.4 billion commitment to Afghanistan.
US Says Nuclear Parts Mistakenly Sent to Taiwan
The Pentagon has admitted to mistakenly shipping nuclear parts to Taiwan. On Tuesday, military officials said four fuses for nuclear missiles were accidentally sent in the fall of 2006. Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said the fuses were returned without incident.
Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne: "Upon learning of the error, the US government took immediate action to acquire positive control of the components and arranged for their safe and secure recovery to the United States. These items have now been safely returned to the United States."
The disclosure comes six months after the Pentagon admitted to mistakenly flying a B-52 bomber loaded with five nuclear warheads across part of the United States. Each of the five nuclear warheads has about ten times the destructive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Joseph Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund says the latest incident shows the US has "too many nuclear weapons with too little control over them."
Defense Minister's Comments Reignite Colombia-Ecuador Row
Ecuador's Foreign Minister is accusing Colombia of ratcheting up tensions that had seemingly eased following this month's Colombian attack on a FARC base in Ecuador. More than twenty people were killed in the cross-border bombing, including civilians. On Sunday, Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said Colombia would carry out further attacks wherever FARC rebels are based. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Isabel Salvador called the threat "aggressive" and "warlike."
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Isabel Salvador: "The declarations of the Colombian defense minister are absolutely aggressive, absolutely warlike, and not just in respect to Ecuador, but to the entire continent. To say, to affirm that they are going to continue carrying out these types of missions wherever that may be is nearly a declaration of war from them."
Lebanon to Boycott Arab League Summit
Lebanon has announced it's boycotting the upcoming Arab League summit in Syria. Information Minister Ghazi Aridi says Lebanon is protesting Syrian interference in its internal politics.
Lebanese Information Minister Ghazi Aridi: "The Council of Ministers has decided that Lebanon will not take part in the Arab summit in Damascus that is scheduled for March 29 and 30 and will also not participate in the preparatory meetings before the summit. This is a regrettable precedent that has been imposed on us, and Lebanon did it for the first time since the date when Arab Summits started."
Saudia Arabia and Egypt are also expected to boycott the Arab Summit.
Chavez: McCain a "Man of War"
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has weighed in on the US presidential race. On Tuesday, Chavez said he fears a McCain presidency could be more dangerous than President Bush's, calling a McCain "a man of war."
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: "McCain also seems to be a man of war. He said yesterday that Bush has been very tolerant with Chavez, imagine that. [McCain] has traveled to Iraq to offer up more weapons and more
dollars and more war."
Chavez went on to say he hopes for reconciliation between the US and Venezuela after President Bush leaves office.
Supreme Court Rejects World Court Jurisdiction
Back in the United States, the Supreme Court has ruled the International Court of Justice has no jurisdiction over the US judicial system. In a six-to-three decision, the Court said neither President Bush nor the World Court can order Texas to reopen the death penalty case of a foreign national. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer said the decision contradicts the Constitution, which calls international treaties "the supreme law of the land."
Scientists: Global Warming Behind Massive Antarctic Ice Collapse
In environmental news, scientists are blaming global warming for the collapse of a massive chunk of ice in the Antarctic. The British Antarctic Survey says the area is about seven times the size of Manhattan. It began breaking off in late February after being there for perhaps 1,500 years. Scientists say the rest of the Wilkins Ice Shelf is maintained only by narrow beams of thin ice and may collapse entirely.
Tobacco Company Funded Lung Cancer Study
And the New York Times has revealed the cigarette company Vector helped fund a widely publicized 2006 study that claimed more than three-quarters of lung cancer deaths could be avoided through CT scans. The Weill Cornell Medical College study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers were supported by a charity called the Foundation for Lung Cancer, itself almost entirely underwritten by more than $3.6 million in grants from Vector. Vector owns Liggett Group, which makes five different brands of cigarettes.

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'Billions' Star Damian Lewis To Be Feted At BAFTA's 2018 Britannia Awards
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Billions star Damian Lewis is to be feted at the 2018 British Academy Britannia Awards – BAFTA's biggest event outside of the UK.
The British actor and producer will receive the Britannia Award for Excellence in Television at the event, which takes place on October 26 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
He joins the previously announced honorees including Steve McQueen, Cate Blanchett and Kevin Feige.
Lewis recently completed production on Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in which he plays Steve McQueen. Earlier this summer, he played Toronto mayor Rob Ford for the upcoming political drama Run This Town and has appeared in features such as John le Carre spy thriller Our Kind of Traitor and Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert as well as TV dramas Band of Brothers, Homeland and Wolf Hall.
"Damian's ability to completely transform himself into iconic characters on screen ranging from King Henry VIII to Bobby Alexrod is a testament to his genius. With his unforgettable performances he consistently draws audiences in and takes us on a gripping journey deep into the human psyche." said BAFTA Los Angeles Chairman Kieran Breen. "We are delighted to celebrate his achievements and honor him with the Britannia Award for Excellence in Television at this year's ceremony."
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The way we think and behave are all taught schemes of behavior, even though we are sometimes not aware of it. Making excuses for not doing or even doing something is such a kind of habit. What is the main reason for doing so? Behind every failure and negative event or emotion lie fears, most of the time. And what are fears? Only the thought repeated continuously in our mind. But, if we want to live our lives consciously and take charge of it, we should seriously consider fear as a threat that stands behind our making excuses.
The first step to letting your fears disappear is accepting them, just like every single negative emotion. It might be hard at the start, but it is releasing. Everything begins in our head, and so dread do. Just remind yourself that they are something abstract and appreciate yourself enough to prevent yourself from such thinking. Besides, it is essential to know that they might be present in most of our lives, and accepting them will help us build the confidence necessary for our health and socializing with others.
In order not to get lost on a journey to the life you have always wanted, it is essential to set goals for it will help us go in the right direction. Don't get too ambitious and extreme because they can exhaust you or may be too high for your current situation. Assess the momentary conditions and go step by step, even planning it, until you succeed in achieving it. This is a proper precaution to prevent yourself from specific failure or feeling miserable.
Sometimes things get complicated, and you may find yourself lost in the maze searching for solutions, so it is the top priority to have your steps planned. Therefore, it is easier to go back on the right track where things are simplified and organized. But, don't get discouraged if you don't manage to accomplish all the steps, it is also right to take a risk sometimes and improvise because ideas show up when you don't chase them!
Mistakes do not define us, they are not who we really are. Mistakes exist to show you what you have done wrong and, actually, to let you know you are doing something wrong. Words do not teach, experiences do. As with fears, as soon as you accept your mistakes as part of the trip, you will be thankful for they have shown you which way to go to reach the final destination.
It is good to have love and support from the people you care about, but be careful whom you reveal your intentions and plans to. Teach yourself to observe different situations and other people's behavior and actions, for experiences of others or our own means a lot more than a word or piece of advice. Also, find people with similar experiences because they can save you from unnecessary complications and be wasting time.
Comparison to other people's lives is destructive and hostile, and it is not suitable for our self-image and health. It can only lead you backward. Instead, focus on positive things for they will get you out of the place where you have been stuck and learn to accept yourself just the way you are. It is never too late to work on your self-worth. Successful people never compare anything to other, they only compare themselves to what they have been or done yesterday.
Give up all those things that waste your energy and focus on the joy of doing the things you love! Weaknesses are just another side of the medal and the sign that tells us to look for the things we are good at because you get entirely different results. The key to success is the enthusiasm you feel about the things you haven't even reached yet! But, that is what true happiness is, isn't it? Because you may sometimes take valuable stuff in your life for granted without realizing it.
It is important to cherish compassion and not be too stern with yourself. Learn to forgive yourself even if you did your best and still haven't succeeded. It will help you take away the obstacles you meet on your way and teach you to adopt more and go with the flow. Find that balance of not making excuses and not being too hard on yourself.
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Q: After I have used my subroutine 2 - 4 times. A message saying "Press any key to continue..." I am using Small Basic, and I am rather new to programming. Here are my subroutines:
Sub MoneyClasses
    If CurrentJob = "Cleaner" Then
        Money = Money + 1
    ElseIf CurrentJob = "Farmer" Then
        Money = Money + 3
    ElseIf CurrentJob = "Factory Worker" Then
        Money = Money + 5
    ElseIf CurrentJob = "Teacher" Then
        Money = Money + 10
    ElseIf CurrentJob = "Shopkeeper" Then
        Money = Money + 20
    ElseIf CurrentJob = "Doctor" Then
        Money = Money + 30
    ElseIf CurrentJob = "Soldier" Then
        Money = Money + 25
    ElseIf CurrentJob = "Officer" Then
        Money = Money + 45
    ElseIf CurrentJob = "General" Then
        Money = Money + 100
    ElseIf CurrentJob = "Supreme Leader" Then
        Money = Money + 10000
    EndIf
EndSub

Sub Work1
    MoneyClasses()
    Energy = Energy - 10
EndSub

Sub Sleep1
    Energy = Energy + 10
    Money = Money - 1
EndSub

Sub Stats1
    TextWindow.WriteLine(" ")
    TextWindow.WriteLine("You have " + Energy +" Energy.")
    TextWindow.WriteLine("You have " + Money +" Won.")
    TextWindow.Write(" ")
    TextWindow.Read()
EndSub

Sub Menu
    TextWindow.WriteLine("Current Job = " + CurrentJob + "")
    TextWindow.WriteLine("Name = " + Name + "")
    TextWindow.WriteLine("1 - Work")
    TextWindow.WriteLine("2 - Sleep")
    TextWindow.WriteLine("3 - Show Stats")
    TextWindow.WriteLine(" ")
    TextWindow.Write("What to do?: ")
    PlayerInput = TextWindow.Read()
    TextWindow.Clear()
EndSub

Yeah, I have absolutely no idea what is wrong. It's probably a minor error.
I should also mention that the game is not fully finished yet, and by that I mean that I am not even halfway done. Just making the "basics".

A: "Press an key to continue" is the message that pops up when your program completes. My best guess is that after you call your subroutines the two times advertised your program is done. Without a looping mechanism to get the ball rolling, the program exits.
I would suggest placing a label at the top, before the sub-routine calls and a goto at the bottom jumping back up to top. Something like this:
top:
'Your Program code
Goto top

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In The Making: Karl Toomey
by Karl Toomey
Karl Toomey is a multi-disciplinary designer on a many-pronged creative path. Recently he's worked with clients such as Google Creative Labs, Shift and Japan Rail, while also maintaining a steady stream of side projects under his alias ktooms. Here he tells us how he got where he is today — and of the events and collaborations that helped him along the way.
I tend to think of myself as having a playful approach to design, so it's perhaps quite fitting that the names of the first three agencies I ever worked at were Jelly, Angry and Synth Eastwood. I started my career in 1998 when instead of going directly to college after my Leaving Cert, I took the scenic route and began work experience with a newly opened studio called Jelly. I hadn't done art in school, had never seen a Mac and wasn't familiar with Dublin City at all — so working in their third floor Temple Bar studio was an exciting and educational time for me.
Microwaved Lunches
Jelly created upbeat identities and communications for a unique mix of clients — from international fashion brands to local musicians and cultural venues. To begin with, my role mostly involved delivering QuarkExpress files to printers on zip disks (!), dropping transparency slides in to be drum-scanned (?) and making highly-questionable microwaved lunches for the team.
Aside from daily client work, Jelly also helped co-found, design and launch several magazines including Noise, Volta and GI (Gay Ireland) — all sadly gone now. For GI, the studio created a billboard campaign featuring regional GAA players snogging which, as you might imagine, caused quite a stir at the time. As a young designer, this bold entrepreneurial spirit made a big impression on me and it's something I'll always be grateful for.
GI billboard campaign (Jelly, 2001
Small but Big
Skipping forward to 2005, I applied for a job with Angry (which eventually morphed into Aad). Run by Scott Burnett, Johnny Kelly and later Renate Henschke, Angry was a small studio with a huge amount going on. On the one hand, it was a busy design agency with commercial clients, but also a popular fashion label stocked in shops around the world. On top of that, the studio ran a weekly DJ night called Monkey Tennis and (perhaps my favourite of all) we held a yearly pop-up Christmas market selling products and spreading good cheer (via free, turbo-charged mulled wine). When I think back on it, by simultaneously being an agency; shop; label and event-organiser, Angry was very much operating in 2005 in the same way that a lot of today's multi-faceted businesses strive to do.
Working there and being part of this brilliantly industrious group, infinitely expanded my concept of what design was and of how and where it could be applied. Be it a book, a t-shirt, a set of weighing scales or an entire building, I learnt so much about instilling ideas, objects and communications with a sense of inventiveness, generosity and joy — all values I still hold close today.
Funny Business (ktooms, 2017
Creating a 'thing' together
In 2007, while working at Angry (and greatly encouraged by them), I co-founded an arts group called Synth Eastwood. Each of the six founding members had different skillsets (design, music, VJing, film, production, photography) and we were keen to bring these together as a kind of party/performance 'thing' (we never quite landed on a satisfactory description of what that 'thing' was).
Our main aim was to put on events and activities that put audience participation at their core. These included group exhibitions and musical releases, interactive installations for kids, film screenings with demos and Q+As, and hybrid party/performances where attendees could control the music and visuals. It was an exciting time that saw us staging projects both at home in Ireland and also in several cities around Europe.
Synth Eastwood (2007 – 2013
One of my favourite aspects of Synth Eastwood was that there was no in-between agency or production company. We DIY'd everything ourselves: from coming up with the concept to building the installations and designing and handing out the flyers... right down to cleaning up the venue when the show was over. Aside from creating a great sense of community with our audiences and camaraderie amongst our team, it also helped us develop a keen understanding of what worked and what didn't. We began to gain insights that fed back into how we designed the overall experience and how we crafted the interactions and communications. Everything had to connect and make sense together to make any sort of impact.
The Right Route
Looking back now, I can clearly trace some themes between these early experiences and what it is that I do today. In the same way that both Jelly and Angry had healthy appetites for extra-curricular projects, I too now manage to maintain a slow, drip-feed of side projects under the name ktooms. Part research and part entertainment, these side projects are my way of playfully exploring how technology impacts our world.
Cold Hands, Warm Hearts (ktooms, 2017
Similarly, just as Synth Eastwood worked towards creating rewarding experiences, these days, I help organisations imagine new ways to engage their audiences. It's a direction I'm really enjoying — another step along a scenic route that I'm happy to follow.
A selection of Karl's side projects can be seen at ktooms.com/
Jelly was set up by two ex-In Dublin Magazine designers, Fionán Healy and Maurice Redmond
AAD and wove have both emerged from Angry studio.
Renate Henschke is a production and costume designer.
Synth Eastwood was founded by Dave Darcy, Simon Cullen, Charlie Doran, Davey Ahern and Al Kennington.
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Lingering smoke smell is one of the most invasive odors and can be extremely difficult to remove. The thing about smoke smell is infiltrates every corner of every space it comes into contact with.
You might notice smoke smell on the pages of book, on the lining of your curtains and even on your freshly cleaned carpets. There are plenty of remedies hanging around your home.
Place items in a ziplock bag with potpourri or dryer sheets. Leave sealed for 1-2 weeks.
Wash items down with baking soda (not recommended for books – obviously).
The problem with stubborn smoke smell odors and these home remedies is that it will take time, lots and lots of time. Oh and don't forget the energy.
OdorZout All-Surface Granules can solve your problem overnight.
Just sprinkle lightly (seriously, very lightly) on the flooring of the room with the lingering smoke sell. Make sure there is good air flow by turning on a fan or opening the windows. Leave overnight and then vacuum up. Simply by sprinkling lightly on the floor throughout the affected room, OdorZout All-Surface Granules will pull the odor from everything in the room including the walls and ceiling.
Be advised, depending on how bad the smoke smell is, it may take multiple overnight applications to completely rid of the smoke smell from the space. One bottle of 850 grams (32 ounces) will provide one application for approximately 1000 sq. ft.
For items that can be laundered, add 1-2 teaspoons of OdorZout Laundry Additive Powder to your washing machine along with your regular detergent.
It not only works in the home but in your car as well. Stop your friends from having to plug their nose and get rid of that lingering smoke smell once and for all.
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#ifndef RODSUPLODADTHREAD_H
#define RODSUPLODADTHREAD_H

// Qt framework headers
#include <QThread>
#include <QString>
#include <QStringList>
#include <QProgressDialog>
#include <QFileInfo>
#include <QDir>

// Kanki iRODS C++ class library headers
#include "rodsconnection.h"

// application headers
#include "rodsmainwindow.h"
#include "rodsobjtreemodel.h"

class RodsUploadThread : public QThread
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:

    // Constructor initializes the upload worker thread and sets its parameters for execution,
    // requires a rods conn pointer, file paths list and dest coll path.
    RodsUploadThread(Kanki::RodsConnection *theConn, QStringList filePaths,
                     std::string destColl, std::string rodsResc);

    // Constructor initializes the upload worker thread and sets its parameters for execution,
    // requires a rods conn pointer, base path for recursive upload and dest coll path.
    RodsUploadThread(Kanki::RodsConnection *theConn, std::string baseDirPath,
                     std::string destColl, std::string rodsResc);

signals:

    // Qt signal for initializing a progress bar display, it signals out
    // the initial message text, initial value and maximum value.
    void setupProgressDisplay(QString text,int value, int maxValue);

    // Qt signal for updating the progress bar display, it signals out
    // the current message text and current progress value.
    void progressUpdate(QString text, int progress);

    // Qt signal for setting the progress bar display in marquee mode,
    // it signals out the current text message.
    void progressMarquee(QString text);

    // Qt signal for reporting errors to ui, it signals out a message,
    // an error string and an error code.
    void reportError(QString msgStr, QString errorStr, int errorCode);

    // Qt signal for requesing a rods object tree model refresh,
    // at a given index (after upload complete, signals ui).
    void refreshObjectModel(QString path);

private:

    // Overrides superclass virtual function, executes the upload
    // work in a thread instantiated with the thread object.
    void run() Q_DECL_OVERRIDE;

    // Makes a bill of materials list for the upload, i.e recursively reads
    // the local directory for files and directories paths.
    void makeBillOfMaterials(const QString &dirPath, QStringList *filePaths);

    // pointer to the rods connection object
    Kanki::RodsConnection *conn;

    // bill of materials for the upload
    QStringList filePathList;

    // destination rods collection path
    std::string destCollPath, basePath, targetResc;
};
#endif // RODSUPLODADTHREAD_H

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Q: Is there a way to simulate the presence of basic hardware (mouse, display) on GitHub Actions? I'm currently working on a Python project that relies on PyAutoGUI to take control of the mouse. I set up an ensemble of tests to run on my machine before pushing any new change to GitHub, but I would also like to set up a workflow on GitHub Actions to build and test my application on push.
But, as you can imagine, my problem is that the environment in which the tests are run on GitHub Actions has no screen nor mouse. My scripts only need to access the screen resolution (width, height = pyautogui.size()) and to perform simple actions (e.g. pyautogui.click('left'), pyautogui.scroll(...)). My tests don't actually require any window to pop-up to perform actions on them, just to be able to run these simple functions.
Currently, it seems that the issue is the lack of display:
[...]
    import pyautogui
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.13/x64/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyautogui/__init__.py", line 249, in <module>
    import mouseinfo
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.13/x64/lib/python3.7/site-packages/mouseinfo/__init__.py", line 223, in <module>
    _display = Display(os.environ['DISPLAY'])
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.13/x64/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 681, in __getitem__
    raise KeyError(key) from None
KeyError: 'DISPLAY'

as the DISPLAY environment variable does not exist (or perhaps is equal to :0 due to the lack of display). I am not sure that the mouse is an issue yet, since it does not go beyond the display step, but I expect it to be problematic as well.
Does anyone know a way to simulate the presence of a screen and mouse on a GitHub Actions runner? Or any workaround?

A: After many attempts, I finally managed to get it working. I don't know anything about X servers, so it pretty much feels like a miracle.
To anyone interested, it simply comes down to installing and running xvfb with Python. Here's the critical part of my workflow:
[...]
    - name: Install
      run: |
        sudo apt-get install xvfb
        pip install -r requirements.txt
        pip install .

    - name: Run tests
      run: |
        xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x8" python -m unittest discover -s tests

Python simply needs to be run on the same command as xvfb-run, and that's it. This sets the DISPLAY variable appropriately and solves the PyAutoGUI import that relies on it. Then, the mouse-related actions from PyAutoGUI execute without any problem, mouse or not.
Thanks for putting me on the right tracks.
Cheers.


Judy Chicago is a feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. Her goal has been to create a place for female-centered imagery and to overcome the erasure of women's achievements in art and society.
Emily Marie is a glass blowing artist. She entered her first live glass blowing competition at Champs, winning a gold medal in the qualifying round and moving on to take fourth place in the Masters' Final.
Betye Saar is an American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. She is also a visual storyteller who has gained international notoriety for her work in printmaking, collage, and installation art.
Joyce J. Scott is a sculptor, jeweler, printmaker, installation artist, performance artist, and educator. She is a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, who's diverse and adventurous body of work blurs the boundaries between fine art and craft.
Mariam is a visual artist, mouth painter, speaker and advocate for people with spinal cord injury. Mariam's story is about reinventing herself and living life without limitations.
Tehmina Durrani is one of Pakistan's most high profile women's rights activists and successful writers. Her bestselling first book My Feudal Lord was a pioneer in surmounting the hitherto unbroken silence of Muslim women since the 14th century.


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O Clube de Futebol Os Sanjoanenses (Sanjoanense, crioulo cabo-verdiano, ALUPEC ou ALUPEK: Sanjoanensi) é um clube poliesportivo da vila de Porto Novo, na Ilha de Santo Antão, em Cabo Verde. Há no clube departamentos que incluem futebol e atletismo.

Fundado em 4 de fevereiro de 1984, o clube Os Sanjoanenses venceu o único título insular, em 2002, e o único título da taça, em 2005. Retornou em 12 de novembro de 2016, após uma temporada jogando contra o Santo André.

O Clube tem a sua sede na Ribeira das Patas, em Santo Antão, e o seu nome está associado a São João Baptista, patrono da Igreja Católica local.

Títulos
 Liga Insular do Santo Antão: 1
2001/02
Taça do Porto Novo: 1
2004/05

Futebol

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Woody Allen makes La Scala debut directing comic opera
The controversial film-maker was greeted with applause at a news conference ahead of the weekend premiere of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi.
Woody Allen (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Woody Allen has said he always has "a warm and affectionate following in Europe" as he prepared for his directing debut at La Scala opera house in Milan.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/woody-allen-makes-la-scala-debut-directing-comic-opera-38274763.html
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article38274760.ece/c6363/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_b25af86b-bdd9-45d5-8e19-ebd8aa23308c_1
Allen was greeted with applause at a news conference ahead of the weekend premiere of Puccini's comic one-act opera Gianni Schicchi, with the prolific film-maker as director.
Unlike in Hollywood, the 83-year-old's acceptance in Europe appears largely untouched by allegations of sexual misconduct that have been revisited amid the MeToo movement.
Woody Allen speaks at a press conference at La Scala (Luca Bruno/AP)
In the US, Amazon Studios terminated an agreement to distribute his latest film, A Rainy Day In New York, but the film will be released in the autumn across Europe.
Two of the film's stars have said they would donate their salaries to charities fighting sexual abuse.
Alongside the La Scala production, a cinema museum in the Italian city is showing a retrospective of 28 Allen films.
After Saturday's Gianni Schicchi premiere, Allen said he plans to travel to San Sebastian, Spain, to work on his next film. The cast includes Christoph Waltz.
Christoph Waltz (Matt Crossick/PA)
Allen said his work "resonates with Europeans in a way that they relate to".
"I know when I started making movies 50 years ago, or almost 50 years ago, for whatever reason, I always had a very warm and affectionate following in Europe," he said.
"And even when films of mine were not as well received in the United States, always in Italy, France and Germany, all over Europe, they received my films well.
"Maybe when I grew up, I was an addict for European films, I watched them all the time. Maybe through some process of osmosis my films resonate with Europeans."
Gianni Schicchi, which he first staged in Los Angeles, is being performed alongside Salieri's First The Music, Then The Words, directed by Grischa Asagaroff. Most of the performers are students from La Scala's academy.
Allen said he was persuaded by Placido Domingo to direct opera, but it took him a long time to come around.
I have a weakness for people who live on the margins of society and slightly outside of the law Woody Allen
"I didn't know if I had any ability to do this sort of thing. I had done cinema and not even that much stage work. I found it to be a very enjoyable experience," Allen said.
The director said he has long enjoyed listening to opera, but usually sees only the first two acts of a production due to early-morning filming schedules.
"What I always wanted was an evening of just third acts, so I could see all the third acts I missed over the years," he said.
He said he would have preferred a different ending for the opera, based on an incident in Dante's Divine Comedy, which sees the title character condemned to hell for profiting from a ruse.
"I have a weakness for people who live on the margins of society and slightly outside of the law, so have I have great affection for Gianni Schicchi," Allen said.
"I would not put him in hell at the end of the movie. I would retire him with a good pension and let him go off and lead a very happy life in the country."
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has said she meant no disrespect when asking a reporter to reveal his ethnicity.
A federal judge has ordered R Kelly to be held in a Chicago jail without bond on sex-related charges.
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has returned to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.


It's difficult to overstate how revolutionary the dungeon crawler Ultima Underworld was when it came out in 1992. At a time when Doom players couldn't even look up or down, Underworld featured inclined, multi-tiered levels with platforms, bridges, and even swimmable water. But it was more than just an amazing technical achievement. The game world felt more "alive" than any I'd previously encountered, with monsters who were sometimes more hospitable than my fellow humans, and a host of surprises, like the goblin toilet that dropped me to the level below when I used it.
I've wanted more ever since, so when Underworld Ascendant turned up on Kickstarter, and being developed by a team headed by the designer of the original, I immediately threw money at it. And now we can finally get a look at how things are going.
It's a "prototype trailer," so the gameplay on display isn't fully optimized, and some of the graphics are placeholders. The objective, as narrator Tim Stellmach explains, is to illustrate how a stealth-oriented approach to the game can work. "Another player, say, one who has deadly fighting skills, might simply go toe-to-toe with the Shadow Beast to defeat it," he says in the video. "A player steeped in rune magic might use spells to overcome it. Another player might use a mix of stealth, fighting, and magic skill."
I found the voiceover to be a little off-putting—the original Underworld featured a silent protagonist—but Otherside explained that it's included "only as a narrative piece to explain what the player might be thinking. There will not be player VO in the final game, as it's a true role-playing game and we don't intend to speak for the player." That's not really a surprise, given the open-ended nature of the game, but it's still nice to have it confirmed.
Otherside founder and CEO Paul Neurath and Design Director Joe Fielder recently put in an appearance on the PC Gamer Show with Tom and Wes, chatting about topics ranging from great stealth games to the recently-announced Far Cry Primal. Watch it here.


While engaging outside resources for your organization certainly has its benefits, you need to be careful not to fall into the pitfall of over-reliance on these lean resources. Believe it or not there can be too much outside help. Watch the video to find out what happens when you rely too much on outside help and why it matters on your lean journey.


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Q: How to rotate a 1D line graph array in python/numpy by angle? I'd like to rotate a line graph horizontally. So far, I have the target angle but I'm not able to rotate the graph array (the blue graph in the blot).
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = [5, 6.5, 7, 8, 6, 5, 3, 4, 3, 0]
y = range(len(x))
best_fit_line = np.poly1d(np.polyfit(y, x, 1))(y)

angle = np.rad2deg(np.arctan2(y[-1] - y[0], best_fit_line[-1] - best_fit_line[0]))
print("angle: " + str(angle))

plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6))
plt.plot(x)
plt.plot(best_fit_line, "--", color="r")
plt.show()

The target calculations of the array should look like this (please ignore the red line):

If you have some advice, please let me know. Thanks.

A: This question is very helpful, in particular the answer by @Mr Tsjolder. Adapting that to your question, I had to subtract 90 from the angle you calculated to get the result you want:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import transforms

x = [5, 6.5, 7, 8, 6, 5, 3, 4, 3, 0]
y = range(len(x))
best_fit_line = np.poly1d(np.polyfit(y, x, 1))(y)

angle = np.rad2deg(np.arctan2(y[-1] - y[0], best_fit_line[-1] - best_fit_line[0]))
print("angle: " + str(angle))

plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6))

base = plt.gca().transData
rotation = transforms.Affine2D().rotate_deg(angle - 90)

plt.plot(x, transform = rotation + base)
plt.plot(best_fit_line, "--", color="r", transform = rotation + base)

Follow-up question: What if we just need the numerical values of the rotated points?
Then the matplotlib approach can still be useful. From the rotation object we introduced above, matplotlib can extract the transformation matrix, which we can use to transform any point:
# extract transformation matrix from the rotation object
M = transforms.Affine2DBase.get_matrix(rotation)[:2, :2]

# example: transform the first point
print((M * [0, 5])[:, 1])

[-2.60096617  4.27024297]
The slicing was done to get the dimensions we're interested in, since the rotation happens only in 2D. You can see that the first point from your original data gets transformed to (-2.6, 4.3), agreeing with my plot of the rotated graph above.
In this way you can rotate any point you're interested in, or write a loop to catch them all.

A: Arne's awnser is perfect if you like to rotate the graph with matplotlib. If not, you can take a look a this code:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

def rotate_vector(data, angle):
    # source:
    # https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/57226/how-to-rotate-the-plot-and-find-minimum-point
    # make rotation matrix
    theta = np.radians(angle)
    co = np.cos(theta)
    si = np.sin(theta)
    rotation_matrix = np.array(((co, -si), (si, co)))
    # rotate data vector
    rotated_vector = data.dot(rotation_matrix)
    return rotated_vector

x = [5, 6.5, 7, 8, 6, 5, 3, 4, 3, 0]
y = range(len(x))
best_fit_line = np.poly1d(np.polyfit(y, x, 1))(y)

angle = np.rad2deg(np.arctan2(y[-1] - y[0], best_fit_line[-1] - best_fit_line[0]))
print("angle:", angle)

# rotate blue line
d = np.hstack((np.vstack(y), np.vstack(x)))
xr = rotate_vector(d, -(angle - 90))

# rotate red line
dd = np.hstack((np.vstack(y), np.vstack(best_fit_line)))
xxr = rotate_vector(dd, -(angle - 90))

plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6))
plt.plot(xr[:, 1]) # or plt.plot(xr[:, 0], xr[:, 1])
plt.plot(xxr[:, 1], "--", color="r")
plt.show()


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How to Spend 48 Hours in Bamenda
City Chemist Junction | © Tony Vinyoh
Tony Vinyoh
Writer16 July 2018
The sweeping view from Up Station introduces you to a town that is welcoming, friendly and rapidly growing. Crowning the most prominent hills are the town's oldest churches. One thing you won't uncover easily is the grit that has given this town its reputation as the birthplace of political dissent. From great places to visit to the best experiences to have, let's discover how to spend 48 hours in Bamenda, Cameroon.
Morning: Let's see where we're heading
The Germans administered Bamenda Province from their Fort Up Station in the late 19th century, and it is now home to two courts and the Senior Divisional Officer of Mezam. The main descent reveals a city waking up to its activities; there's a bench to your right where you can sit and soak it all in.
The easiest road to the town's eternal waterfalls branches to your right after Handicraft Centre. It can be seen from many spots in Bamenda, but few people have gone up close. Grab an early victory with a walk to both waterfalls. The second waterfall provides another fantastic view of the town right up to St John the Baptist Catholic Church. Use the same road back to Handicraft Centre afterwards, and reward yourself with a sumptuous breakfast and another view.
Stroll down Finance Junction, where you'll instantly recognise the headquarters of the Cameroon Baptist Convention with its sand bay, which has saved many lives by trapping cars that experience break failure. Walk through the compound to see old missionary houses, new buildings and the headquarters of the biggest private healthcare provider in Cameroon. You can also shop for artefacts at the Baptist Centre Hall. Pa Ngwa and James have been selling wood and bronze sculptures, handcrafted jewellery and tools for over 30 years in front of the Baptist Centre Hall. Use the back gate to the new Nkwen Baptist Church and one of the oldest primary schools in the country, established in 1947. You'll find the old church, two stone graves and the old school gong.
Pro tips: Wear trainers or comfortable shoes. Carry your camera if you've got one, or a fully charged phone, as you won't be able to resist taking pictures. Don't hesitate to ask for directions, as people will be glad to help. The rocks at the waterfall are slippery, so be careful if you dare climb.
Station is the best place from which to see Bamenda town | © Amcaja / WikiCommons
Afternoon: Walk through Commercial Avenue and ride to Bafut
Commercial Avenue is the heart of Bamenda. Shops, banks, restaurants, the grandstand, Bamenda Main Market and Congress Hall lie along this busy street. You can get there by okada (bike) or taxi. At T-Junction, take a taxi to Bafut. Ask for directions to the Bafut Fon's Palace. The palace has been the home of the fon (king) of Bafut for over 400 years, and his wives and royal family members live in more than 50 houses around the Achum Shrine. Traditional ceremonies and rites are performed at the shrine, which is said to hold a sacred object.
Feeling a bit hungry after all the walking and riding? Head over to the terraces at Saddle Hill Ranch for lunch. Here, you'll eat the best of Cameroonian, European and American dishes. You'll enjoy rich green surroundings, and if you're up for it, horse riding, biking and swimming. It's great place to stay.
Pro tip: Taxis and clandos (sedans that work as transport vehicles) can take up to eight passengers at a time. Even the driver shares his seat. You can pay for double seats for comfort, or hire a taxi.
The spiritual core of the Bafut Palace is the scene of rites and ceremonies | © Colibryus (Bruno Trédez) / WikiCommons
Evening: Dine in town
You can choose between many places along Commercial Avenue. Dreamland, White House, International Hotel and Century are all very close to each other. Century is very popular, and here you can eat the town's favourite dishes, like achu, fufu and njama njama, eru and pepper soup. They also serve fresh salad and play pleasant, soft music.
Pro tip: Try the balcony at International Hotel and watch the sun go down over a beer, whiskey or a bottle of wine.
Saddle Hill Ranch, Bafut | © Whimsy Baba
Night: Too many options, not enough hours
For a calm evening watching green hills and the evening traffic below, stay at International Hotel. At the right time, hit the hotel's Revolution Nightclub. Out on the street, Njeiforbi is buzzing with night revellers. Up at T-Junction, Bonanjo is filling up with people and Candy Shop opposite is ready for business. If eating at 5am is your thing, celebrate the sunrise with hot pepper soup at Bonanjo. Ride to Chairman's Pork (near the home of the Chairman of the Social Democratic Front, Cameroon's main opposition party) at Ntarinkon to kill your hangover.
Pro tip: Legend demands that you eat early-morning fried spaghetti and eggs at Mami Loveline. Join the queue at Mobile Nkwen.
Morning: Start fresh, take it easy
Start your day with local coffee and breakfast at PresCafe on Commercial Avenue. Breathe in Bamenda's fresh air with a seat outside and buy some local crafts. Ride to Spee Arts Gallery to see the work of the late master Sunday Nzante Spee. Bamenda's most famous artist trained many students at his workshop, which is now run by his son Kari Nzante.
Pro tip: Buy colourful bracelets and necklaces from the vendors along Commercial Avenue. They're made with beads, plastic and cowries and can be customised to add your name or a message.
Commercial Avenue is busy on weekdays and Saturdays | © Tony Vinyoh
Afternoon: Eat achu at Mile 4 and climb a tree
You haven't really been to Bamenda if you've not experienced its famous achu spots. Mile 4 is the best place to go for achu (pounded cocoyams with a traditional yellow soup) served with abundant meat. After a heavy meal, relax over a drink and chat with locals. Continue to Mile 6 to enjoy a drink in a tree bar at Asa-Neh Resort. The place rents out a well-equipped tree house.
Pro tip: Good palm wine is sold just around the corner, and there's always a lively crowd at the bar below.
Achu can be a bit tricky to eat for the uninitiated | © Kewan M Fombong
Evening: Discover Le Biberon
There are many bars at Foncha Junction, but Le Biberon will give you the best local experience with its crafted design, great music and light dishes. Here, you can enjoy pepper soup, mushroom salad, chicken and organic vegetables.
Pro tip: It's the best place in town for a date, with good food and great music.
Evenings spent at this bistro will stay with you | © Tony Vinyoh
You'll be tempted to spend all your evening at Le Biberon, especially if you've got great company, but Chambo has been around for ages and its terrace and grill are worth trying. If you don't mind loud music, Njeiforbi will make your head ring; Aruna is a great fish restaurant. You can also hop on a bike to New Road Junction and visit one of the biggest bars in the country at Dreamland Nkwen. On Saturday evenings the place is so busy it looks as if beer is free. Drinks at the top floor are more expensive. For an intimate experience, try Bonapriso, a couple of minutes away. Eat Mami Stella's delicious tilapia with a good view of the road.
Pro tip: While you're jumping and dancing, remember to find out if there's a curfew.
Bamenda Falls | © Tony Vinyoh


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Justice Minister announces changes to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme
Date published: 09 June 2020
Justice and the law
Justice Minister, Naomi Long MLA today announced the removal of the same household rule contained within the Northern Ireland Criminal injuries Compensation Scheme 2009.
This change in legislation allows access to the Scheme for victims of abuse and violent crime who were previously prevented from applying for criminal injuries compensation because of the longstanding rule.
The same household rule applied from 1 March 1969 to 30 June 1988 to all victims of abuse or a crime of violence inflicted by a family member living under the same roof. The legislation was amended in 1988 but at that time was not made retrospective.
Naomi Long said: "The same household rule was unfair and I recognise the impact this had on all victims whose applications were refused simply because they lived with their attacker.
Amending the same household provision will bring the Northern Ireland Criminal Injuries Scheme into line with the GB Scheme in relation to treatment of victims of same household abuse and allow more victims of crime to access compensation.
The payment can never fully compensate for the injuries suffered, but it is recognition of the pain and suffering of victims who experienced abuse and violence perpetrated by members of their own household."
The removal of the same household rule from the Northern Ireland Criminal Injuries Scheme also ensures compliance with a ruling made by the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland in November 2018
New and past applicants refused an award under the pre-1988 same household rule will still need to meet all the remaining eligibility criteria within the 2009 Scheme.
The time limit for applications to be received is two years from the passing of this amendment.
Further information on applying for compensation can be found at: www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/compensation-criminal-injuries
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is a Government funded scheme designed to compensate blameless victims of violent crime in Northern Ireland. The payment can never fully compensate for the injuries suffered, but it is recognition of public sympathy for the pain and suffering caused.
Compensation Services administer the Scheme on behalf of the Department of Justice and determine all claims.
On 23 November 2018 the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland delivered a judgment on a Judicial Review overturning the 'same household' rule contained at Paragraph 7 of the NI Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2009.
From today (9 June 2020), the change to the legislation will mean that anyone previously denied compensation under the same household rule, or put off from coming forward because of it, will be able to make a fresh application.
The same household rule applied from 1 March 1969 to 30 June 1988 to all victims of abuse inflicted by a family member living under the same roof; this includes physical as well as sexual abuse.
As the first statutory Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme commenced on 1 March 1969, there is no provision for someone who was a victim before this date to make a claim for compensation.
The time limit for applications to be received is two years from the date the amendment passed. This time limit may, however, be waived if we consider that there is a good reason for the delay and it is in the interests of justice to do so.
All media enquiries should be directed to the Department of Justice Press Office via email on press.office@justice-ni.x.gsi.gov.uk
The Executive Information Service operates an out of hours service for media enquiries between 1800hrs and 0800hrs Monday to Friday and at weekends and public holidays. The duty press officer can be contacted on 028 9037 8110.
Ministers call for views on strategies to end abuse and violence 10 January 2022
Long launches consultation on a stocktake of policing oversight and the Police Ombudsman's Five Year Review 21 December 2021
NI Prison Service Covid-19 measures revised to keep vital system safe 20 December 2021
Justice family brings HOPE to families at Christmas time 16 December 2021


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Elias's youth is influenced by the adult world's drive for personal material gain. Over the next decades, he expands his parents' original real estate empire into the diversified multi-divisional, multi-national corporation that he leaves to his son, Burton.
Upon his forced return from traveling and working with oppressed third world people, Burton learns increasingly more about the true nature of his deceased father as he undertakes the challenges of leading the company in a new direction.
Michael, a young musician known as "Blue Eyes," falls hopelessly in love with a girl with jet black hair, green eyes, pale skin, and blood red lips. But the girl is not the angel she appears.
She is, in fact, a vampire.
He swears he would give his life to be with her forever, but, apparently, he has never heard the old adage, "Be careful what you wish for." The beautiful vampire grants his request and sets him on a path that brings them head to head with an evil as old as the dawn of the civilized world. Together, they must battle this evil or be destroyed themselves.
A vampire tale unlike any other, told through the eyes of the fledgling vampire himself. Midnight Blue takes you on a roller coaster ride full of thrills, laughs, heart ache, and triumph.
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Dare to journey through the bloody mind of a madwoman, or escape, if you can, from an underground military compound, where secret experiments may land you on the menu.
Perhaps you'd like to see what the witches in Salem are doing this Halloween, or what really happened to Hansel and Gretel. Scared of clowns, vampires or puppets? Sit down and curl up with this unique collection of horror stories. You'll sleep with the lights on for weeks.
Vampires and shapeshifters
What's not to like?
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Rule the Night has been destroyed. They find a place to hide at Gina's sanctuary, La Sang Rouge, in Indianapolis. An ancient Vampire club is found and must be investigated, its members and leaders eliminated before they themselves are destroyed. Luke discovers a human, Cara, who escaped from a Vampire in bloodthirst. She is taking her revenge, seeking and killing the same evil Vampires that Luke and his friends seek. The two are drawn to each other and find it impossible to resist their growing attraction, despite their differences and Cara's hatred for all Vampires.
They get help from an unexpected source, a secretive group of shifters even Vampires thought were a myth. Without help from these creatures, they may all be destroyed.
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Young adult pirate adventure!
Thirteen-year-old Sam Every has traveled back in time to the Golden Age of Piracy to face Captain Jem Slayer, master of the dark arts. Deceived into handing Slayer the ultimate weapon, the Sword of Zel-Kar, Sam has lost his hands, sliced off in his first clash with the evil pirate.
But all is not lost.
Sam's friends have found their way back in time, and with the help of the pirate hunter, Benjamin Hornigold, have rescued him from the island where Slayer marooned him. Now, aided by a new band of rogues and a mystery friend, Sam must rise above his injuries and find the strength to again face Slayer before it is too late—before the future is forever shattered.
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children's Fantasy
It's 1967 and Mary's family has moved into a huge Victorian mansion. She loves her gigantic new house, especially her room. But then she begins to meet the house's other residents. Mrs. Murray was murdered in Mary's new house. At first she tries to scare the new residents away, but there seems to be a force connecting the ghost to Mary. Even the stranded Brownies, the little people who live between the walls, feel that connection. When Mary becomes deathly ill, the Brownies and the ghost team up to try to rescue her, only to encounter a witch and her evil dragons and minions. Time is running out. They must rescue Mary from a fever-induced dream world before she is trapped there forever.
Young adult urban fantasy
Explore the mysteries of New Orleans' French Quarter during Mardi Gras, through the eyes of three seventh graders as they search to reconnect with their parents and avoid a nasty set of bad guys. Left alone and homeless in Haiti, Jean Benoit is sent state-side by an orphanage to live with foster parents and attend Catholic school as a social outcast. His new-found friend Oscar, known as Walmart, is mocked by fellow students as an overweight under-achiever whose mother abandoned him in Wal-Mart. The boys are befriended by Bella, an American Indian, who lives with her adoptive parents. Her birth parents are dead, but they left her a legacy she soon discovers as she begins to shape-shift. Jean receives a gift from his dead father, too. It's a magic amulet pursued by a voodoo witch named Odette, her brother Bocor, and her son, Natas. Jean has no idea how to use it. He must learn on the fly, on a wild race around New Orleans, on a train to Little Haiti, Miami and back, to the cemetery in the swamp, as the three friends try to find his mother before the black magic users get to her, or them.
INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALIST!
Praise: The trouble with "how to" books on creativity is that they usurp creativity. Not so with this very insightful guide for YA writing. If it doesn't become a standard or even a classic among reference books, it will be an oversight. Janet Schrader-Post and Elizabeth Fortin-Hinds have all the marinated smarts and credentialed experience to pull this off, and they do! No dictated wisdom from on high here, no grafted creativity, THE YOUNG ADULT WRITER'S JOURNEY is accessible, motivational and a clear map that leaves plenty of room to discover for anyone wanting to explore their creative side.-Thomas Sullivan, Pulitzer-nominated author of THE PHASES OF HARRY MOON https://thomassullivanauthor.com/
Finally, an all-inclusive book on young adult fiction must-do, don't do and how-to. If you want to write a young adult novel, you need to read this book first. Coauthored by an award-winning YA author and an acquisitions editor, both experts on kids and what they like to read, this encyclopedia contains all you need to start or improve a career as a YA fiction author.
From an examination of the market, genre and its sub-genres, to mechanics and the business, everything is at your fingertips. This amazing writer's resource is written in a relaxed and interesting style, with plenty of contemporary references and examples for clear understanding and easier application.
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Young Adult coming of age
PRAISE FOR THE WEB PAIGE CHRONICLES: "Web Paige Chronicles offers a refreshing and empowering role model for young adults. By eschewing this iGeneration's stereotypical malaise in favor of positive curiosity with technology, Iasiello folds practical cybersecurity guidance into a relatable story." -Scott Schober, author of Hacked Again
Emilio Iasiello is a cyber-security expert who has written a modern and realistic coming-of-age book that either boys or girls will enjoy. It helps them learn to deal with such modern problems as cyber bullying, hacking, sexting, online predators and more. Though the main characters are junior high aged, older readers will enjoy this quick read, and learn a great deal about safely negotiating modern technology. Highly recommended for schools and parents to share with their tweens and teens--or their cyber-leery friends.
Wilhelmina Evangeline Beatriz Paige is better known as "Web" to her friends because of her seemingly endless knowledge of computers. Always eager to lend a hand, she takes pride in helping the "technically-challenged" in her neighborhood as part of her "pay-it-forward" philosophy. But when her closest friends become the targets of cyber bullying and online predators, Web realizes that safely navigating the Internet is more than just using strong passwords and antivirus protection. By helping those who can't help themselves, Web embarks on a journey through which she learns things from not only her friends, but also strangers, adults, and most importantly, herself.
Vagrant--award-winning YA fiction!
finalist in science fiction!
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Logan Hall is a Vagrant, one of the disenfranchised living beneath the mega city of New Washington. The Vagrants have to hide from the Company who is rounding all of them up and shipping them to newly discovered planets to work in the mines. That's what happened to Logan's father.
Shayna is one of the privileged. She has a chip, a credit disc, and lives in a shiny stainless steel and glass high-rise above ground. Shayna is allergic to corn so she is one of the few above ground people who is not stoned on Sopore. Sopore is a drug found in genetically altered corn. It's in almost all food. The Vagrants know about Sopore and avoid it.
These two teens from wildly differing environments meet by accident and fall in love. Logan will stop at nothing to rescue his friend Raj, captured and sent to the moon. Together, he and Shayna will follow his dream of finding his father who was sent to work in the mines of Gliess 67.
author Stone Wallace
goes gangsta noir!
Ex-con Johnny Darrow is released from prison intending to go straight. But when he returns to the mean streets of his old neighborhood he quickly discovers that circumstances are against him. Unable to find honest employment and saddled with a reckless younger brother determined to pursue a criminal career as a means to escape his environment, Johnny soon finds himself drawn into a scheme with his gangster pal, Frank Lisanti, which, if successful, will provide him with the cash to solve his problems. However, returning to crime proves a dangerous maneuver as Johnny quickly becomes enmeshed in a web of murder and treachery with his brother becoming the pawn in a deadly game between two boyhood friends turned adversaries. Now on the run, Johnny must somehow extricate his brother from the clutches of Lisanti and his murderous mob while keeping himself free from police capture.
Young Adult Apocalyptic fiction at its finest!
A fast-paced young adult novel that will appeal to even reluctant readers, male as well as a broad female audience.
It's a post-apocalyptic world where water covers much of the planet, magic rules, zombies walk and werewolves roam the wilderness.
When Mikey LoPinto is bitten by a werewolf and infected with the werewolf virus, Riko Light and Mikey set out to find a cure. They meet a strange boy named Oz who leads them on a journey threatened by cannibals, witches, demons and zombies.
Oz and Riko find themselves falling in love while the clock runs out on finding a cure for Mikey, and Oz fights off the deadly spell cast by his mother's Satanic Bible.
Historical horror!
In China, 4th Century AD, a new evil is emerging in the war-torn north. It strikes terror in the heart of all those unfortunate enough to encounter it, even those who survive. Seven brothers, Buddhist monks with special gifts, are determined to stop the rise and dominion of the blood-thirsty demon and his minions. Witness the evolution of the ultimate predator, Xiang Shi . . . Vampire.
Science Fiction horror!
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Facing a terror of unknown origin and a mutinous executive officer, Hansen must find a way to keep his people alive long enough for them to discover how to defeat their enemy…an enemy that reduces its victims to moon dust.
fantasy/Paranormal suspense
The Witch of Appalachia series, book 4
A ceremony set in an Irish castle, surrounded by charming hamlets and rolling hills and ocean. What more idyllic setting could a Celtic Wizard want on her wedding day? Cathleen O'Brien returns to her mother's ancient family home, O'Brinnion Keep, for the much anticipated marriage to her love, Jason Tate. Among the swirl of wedding dress, colorful flowers, and gifts, a curse, laid on her family years before, has found her where she is most vulnerable.
Her parents protected Cathleen throughout her life from the dark oath sworn by Arcon Fearsome, the Necromancer, Lord of the Dead. They captured him in their own youth, while in service to the Green Mother. He swore revenge as they dragged him from the Council chambers to his imprisonment on the fourth plane. Now, mere days before her marriage, the Necromancer is the uninvited guest and he brings gifts of fear and death.
Cathleen and her mother must call on the powerful Teacher to help destroy this Dark Lord before his curse can be fulfilled. But as in life, death can take surprising turns and in the end we all stand alone.
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A former Dale Carnegie Trainer tells you how to love a job you hate!
Are you one of the 48% of employees worldwide who don't like their jobs? Do you feel constantly stressed at the office? Or maybe you're just feeling "blah" about your job and want to bring some life back into your workplace.
If you talk to anyone about their careers or jobs these days, most of the time you won't hear positive stories or excitement. You'll probably hear words like "busy," "stressed," "exhausting," and "mind-numbing." And with the good old 40 hour workweek becoming a distant memory for many of us, this reality is just plain sad.
Joy to You and Me (At Work!) helps turn these situations around by giving the reader easy tips they can implement quickly to start making a positive difference in the workplace. Being joyful isn't just a "fluffy-cutesy-nice" thing to do each day - it actually increases productivity and is good for any company or organization. The book helps anyone learn how to:
Be a more joyful person
Bring joy to co-workers
Bring joy to customers
Bring joy to networking
This fun, easy-to-read guide shows people of all ages and personalities how to make a difference immediately to make not only themselves happier, but to spread that happiness throughout the workplace – and beyond!
By sharing stories from the author's 25+ years of making a joyful difference in the workplace and examples from truly kick-ass companies, Joy to You and Me (At Work!) is a life changing, fun read for anyone who wants to improve their work life.
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What if Bigfoot are shifters? Living as humans most the time, as shifters they could change to Bigfoot when they wanted, needed, to hunt. That might explain why they're so elusive.
Ali's mother died just months before, she never knew her father, and she is placed with the Patton's, a young but loving couple who were willing to take a nearly 18-year-old teenager into their home, and on their annual camping trip.
Curious and independent, Ali decides to explore and stumbles across a Bigfoot at Salt Fork State Park. The Bigfoot seems to stare right at her before a deer ran in front of him, causing the Bigfoot to chase and kill it.
But what had she really seen? Maybe it was a bear. Who would believe her anyway?
Then there was this big, incredibly good-looking guy at school the next day. He gazed at her and smiled—and for some reason made her remember how that Bigfoot had stared at her. This guy scared her too. He made her nervous with his sexy good looks and piercing eyes, and especially when he asked her out. No way was she ready for a guy like this. Should she stay away from him and be the shy, lonely girl she'd become since her mother's death, or take a chance?
Jake's family is worried. The human girl saw him. Will she tell and force them to leave? Jake needs to get close to her and find out what she saw so he can convince her she's wrong. But can he deny the attraction he feels for her? While making sure his family is safe, can he also keep her safe, from himself?
Ellen at the 30th Annual bigfoot conference in ohio
with James "bobo" fay and cliff barackman
from "finding bigfoot"
Ellen with Cliff
Ellen with Bobo
Like a little steam with your regency romance?
Nancy Gideon writing as Lauren giddings!
Nancy Gideon's debut romance, written as Lauren Giddings
Sassy, Sexy and Sinister, and finally back in print!
Dark Paranormal thriller
from the author of The Witch of Appalacia Series!
Love's Prey!
Tricia Cooley's dream is to escape her life in the Black Hills forever and follow her love of art into the Chicago galleries, but her exotic beauty draws the attention of any man seeing her on or off the Sioux Reservation. Her fantasy becomes a nightmare when the one man she trusts turns her into a killer and escaping means running for her very life.
While Tricia tears blindly through the night, the scent of death fills the air with sweet allure to a rogue band of shapeshifters. Her clan's powerful shaman, Shadow Stalker, knows these Hunters are in pursuit, and that their leader, Dream Slayer, finds Tricia as irresistible as his lust for power.
Jackson Wolf, a Keeper of The People, is sent to protect her from the beasts that shadow her. His growing feelings challenge his discipline, just as they are forced to battle a pack of wild shifters.
Tricia must unleash the warrior within herself if she is to survive the diabolical scheme to kidnap and turn her into a sex slave for a demonic shaman.
Available now from wise words publishing!
Ric Wasley's historical mystery
Candle in the wind
A Dawes family Mystery
The year is 1863. After two years of battles, the Civil War has evolved into a bloody slaughter with scarcely a town or home on both sides untouched by the tragic loss of its young men. President Abraham Lincoln has just announced the first order of "Draft" in the history of the American Republic.
After Jeptha enlists, Fiona Dawes finds herself working their farm with her five-year-old daughter Bridget on a thin spit of sandy peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic from the rocky coast of Massachusetts.
Like so many women of her time, she struggles to keep the farm running. When her husband is reported missing--presumed dead, Fiona knows in her heart he is still alive. She decides to take her daughter and leave the farm to look for her beloved husband, but something sinister is brewing. Someone means to not only take their land, but see them dead.
From Massachusetts to New York to Gettysburg and through the war torn South, Fiona searches for her husband, making friends and enemies along the way.
Fans of history, mystery, and romance are certain to enjoy, "Candle in the Wind."
From "The Stephen King of Manitoba"
(Western Report Magazine)
At the Midnight Hour beware of what lurks in the shadows.
Clear Vista, California is a picturesque town overlooking a tranquil bay on the Pacific. Quiet. Friendly. It's a great place for children to grow up.
That is, if they grow up.
But an unusual number of children in Clear Vista don't live long enough to grow up. A car accident. A hit-and-run. A tumble down the basement stairs. A suicide. So many tragedies fill the plots in the local cemetery, Resurrection Gardens. The worst is the disappearance of the eight-year-old Loewen twins, Heidi and Holly. When their bodies are found in the cemetery's tool shed, the horrified townspeople are desperate to find the predator that has come into their midst.
Under mounting pressure, Police Chief Braden Powell searches for the culprit, but he soon finds himself investigating a string of additional deaths. Adults this time. All parents of lost children. They're definitely not murders, but they're definitely not natural, either. Is the town of Clear Vista just unlucky, or is something far more sinister moving over the horizon?
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FOREWORD for Secret Santa Anthology
Oh, the Horror! The Horror!
I've been a fan since my older sister used to wake me up so I could sneak down to watch Creature Feature when I was in elementary school! Funny, I never could seem to get back to sleep . . . While my main writing focus is the paranormal, my passion for the darker side of the scary spectrum was resurrected while working on Indie horror film, In The Woods, helping with the screenplay, writing a novelization, AND having a guest role as "Bar Extra"! That endeavor put Dean Koontz, Stephen King and Justin Cronin into my "Must Read" rotation and convinced me to watch (through my fingers) movies such as Cabin in the Woods, The Others, and Woman in Black.
Tell-Tale Publishing has an eye for the macabre and for authors who know how to wield a Poe-worthy pen. I've enjoyed being one of the judges in their yearly Halloween talent search (two of the winners are in this edition!). I'm always thrilled to be thrilled by something new in the genre, and this collection fits the bill. Quick, blood-curdling reads to curl up with on a dark night, taken a deadly sip at a time, like a fine, hoarded vintage to savor and appreciate when the nights grow cold and the wind howls. That was the wind . . . wasn't it?
Cheers! Happy reading, and don't forget to leave the nightlight on!
Nancy Gideon, award-winning, bestselling author of the "Touched by Midnight" vampire series and the "By Moonlight" and "House of Terriot" shapeshifter series
FOREWORD for The Keeper's Secret Anthology
Whether it's history itself getting lost in the stone silence of a lighthouse or the time flow of medieval armor clashing from the grave into the now of your mind, this year's honor roll of top stories from Tell-Tale Publishing will put you up in your chair and set your pulse racing. But that's what you want . . . isn't it?
There will be thoughtful dilemmas to keep you pondering, moral choices and choices for the oldest of reasons –love--and above all the test of love versus fate. Nowhere will fate be more exquisitely tangled than in the tale of a young woman trapped between the terror of sexual abuse and the unknowns in the magical world of a Jinn. And just as you think you've felt it all from the rescues and would-be rescues each twisted with karma, steel yourself for one more. Because the perfect ending might be a perfect day whose ironies will jolt you as you stare into the psychological mirror.
So find that chair and open this book. You won't be putting it down for a while.
Thomas Sullivan
USA Today best-selling author of CASE WHITE
from the queen of horror!
From the author of The Forest of Bleeding Trees and other macabre fare, Patricia Mattern, comes yet another chilling tale that will have you up until way past your bedtime!
Marley and Tom are the perfect couple. To see them, you may not even notice that while Tom is human, Marley is a dhamphir, a half vampire. They're just a friendly couple who want a home in the country, filled with laughing, happy children.
Unfortunately they are unable to have any children of their own, so they decide to adopt. After all, there are so many children who need good homes.
They begin to adopt homeless, needy vampire orphans. What children could possibly be more in need of a loving home? In a short time they are delighted to wind up with a baker's dozen. But these rescued kids come with their own baggage: sires, enemies and dangerous secrets that threaten to tear their new family apart.
Will this blended group become a truly happy, loving, integrated family? Will they be able to survive their differences and the dangers lurking around every dark corner? Find out for yourself why Tom and Marley love their sometimes distrustful and always dangerous children, and why they will do anything to keep their family together.
HOrrific young adult fun!
The sequel to dead friends walking
Two friends rush off to Pennsylvania when they find out their friend who was treated for the virus ends up dead. They hope to find a way to save their best friend, who just received the same treatment in a hospital of NJ, but in their attempt they end up trying to survive another zombie attack.
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Two different families escape from the political tyranny of their respective homelands, the Josephsons from Sweden and Matias and Kurt Bauman, brothers from Germany and Austria Hungary, with the aid of a Viennese opera diva, Sophie Augusta Rose, and Jean Guenoc, a former Jesuit priest, family friend and protector and partisan of the French underground.
Their journey brings them to America in the throes of the industrial revolution during the 1890s and early 1900s. Ingrid and Olaf Josephson settle on a small wheat farm in North Central Minnesota to raise their children, Newt and Julie.
Among the Jewish entrepreneurs forced to leave Germany and Austria-Hungary, Matias and Kurt Bauman re-establish their transportation company in Chicago, Illinois.
In search of a secret list of insurgent social democrats, the bounty hunter assassin, Luther Baggot, tracks his victims to the American heartland. Following the murder of their mother and father, Newt, Julie, and their friends, Aaron and Beth Peet, hide from the killer in a Northern Minnesota logging camp. Believing the children have taken possession of the list, Luther tracks them down.
Fleeing to a central Minnesota town, the four young people come across a remote business location of Bauman Enterprises and meet Matias Bauman, who had been a friend and former political collaborator with Newt's and Julie's parents. He takes them all to Chicago where a different world opens up to them as they are thrust into the turmoil and violence of an urban society and economy careening into the new century.
Praise for The Revolutionist
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The Revolutionist
Robert Tucker
Tell-Tale Publishing Group LLC
http://www.tell-talepublishing.com
9781944056452, 600 pages
Set in the early 20th century, this is a story of loss, love and redemption that is based on true stories.
The Josephson family, recent immigrants from Sweden, have a dairy farm in Minnesota. The parents, Olaf and Ingrid, were part of the social democratic, or socialist, movement in Europe. The right-wing Prussian government would like to wipe socialism off the map, which is why the Josephson's are in America. The parents are visited by Luther, a bounty hunter sent by Prussia. He really wants a list of social democrat members that the Josephson's supposedly have. The parents are killed by Luther's shotgun, forcing their teenage children. Julie and Newt, to flee to a lumber camp up north.
Along with a couple of friends who got involved, Julie and Newt survive for almost a year in the lumber camp (Julie does her best to impersonate a boy). The make the acquaintance of Matias Bauman, who knew the Josephson parents, and was forced to leave Europe for similar reasons. He takes the group to his mansion in Chicago. The labor and socialism unrest in Chicago is growing, along with the horrible treatment of workers by the employers.
Julie's "job" is to hand out socialist pamphlets on the street, while Newt is something of a rising star in Bauman Enterprises. Luther has not forgotten about the Josephson children. He is nearby, just waiting for a chance to kill everyone involved. Does he succeed? Who is still alive at the end?
This is an excellent novel. The author does a wonderful job with the historical research (industrialist J.P. Morgan is one of the characters). The story itself is also well-done. It is very much worth reading.
Paul Lappen, Reviewer
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Horror/paranormal thriller--Now Available!
During an ill-fated girls' night out, still reeling from the loss of her husband, Live Bestte meets a mysterious, old woman who promises to return her husband to her – for a price. It isn't until the reanimated corpse of her late husband has begun terrorizing the hills and hollows around Julian, West Virginia, tearing flesh from bone, that Liv learns the price is her soul.
Now Liv is racing against time to find a way to satisfy this debt without sacrificing herself. And she soon learns that the only way she might escape her grisly fate is by offering up her daughter, Tegan, in her place.
But is it already too late for Liv? Is Liv's fate sealed by family history? When Liv is about to make an ill-fated decision, it is Liv's younger sister, Abby, who stands in her way, despite the fact that Abby was the first victim of the resurrected thing that was once Conner Bestte - Liv's late husband.
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Disa is in love with Arys, but he's in love with Carina. Out of heartache and rage she murders them on their wedding night and vows they will never find happiness together. Now the two souls are about to reunite. Disa makes a pact with the Red Demon to destroy Carina's soul so she can never be with Arys again. On his deathbed, the sorcerer who raised Carina tells her she's in grave danger and only the Black Knight can protect her. But she has no idea who the Black Knight is or where to find him, and she's being evicted so has bigger problems.
Randolf, known as The Black Knight, is a powerful warrior and possesses strong magic, but he is plagued by dreams of a woman pleading with him to find her. After yet another dream, restless and frustrated, he goes to a local inn where he encounters Carina. She's familiar but he doesn't know why. Not then. Will their souls reunite before Disa carries out her diabolical plans?
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When GRACIE CASTLE agreed to be a surrogate mother to twins, she never expected to become their full-time mom. Thankfully, that's when she discovers she inherited a large Texas ranch from a grandmother she's never met. Clueless but desperate, she's managing to hold her own until the babies decide to make an unexpected appearance.
Enter WHITMAN LOVETT, III a wealthy businessman who needs to lease three thousand acres of the Castle Ranch. He expects an easy deal, with the Castle Ranch in financial straits. He isn't expecting to deliver a baby calf in a rainstorm or Gracie's twins at the ranch. But Gracie and the babies manage to get under Whit's skin and into his heart. The very thing he doesn't want.
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Detective Ted Peterson's investigation of a suspicious death case leads him to suspect Lexi Collins and her boyfriend Adam. What he discovers is that they're extraterrestrials. Now he's without backup and caught up in the conflict between two alien races secretly inhabiting the earth. One race, the Dabih, is abducting women and running experiments. The other, the Mira, seem friendly toward humans – especially their attractive leader Sindri - but can Ted trust aliens to help him find the Dabih and rescue the kidnapped women before it's too late?
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In a world of magic and mysticism, peace and prosperity reins in the Akuwa and Piripiri kingdoms, however, something brews in the midst, and the wily witch doctor, the Sangoma, sees it in his visions, and will do anything to quell the threat. Even reintroducing the ancient art of purification. Princess Nia of the Piripiri tribe faces this bloody destiny, but her mother, Queen Zandile has other ideas. In the Akuwa Kingdom, bastard born Xolani befriends a water dragon, the Nyaminyami, and attempts to protect his tribesmen, and in due course, the kingdoms, from natures recoil at the rites of passage.
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This is Gary! He's had a bit of a rough life having been rescued from Romania then re-homed and attacked by the other dog in that home but despite all this he's a lovely, happy, playful boy and his training is coming along nicely (recall is good and the other basics are getting there). Given that history he is ideally suited to being the only pet but he has done OK living with our dog (just a couple of small arguments!).
His only real issue is fear around new/unfamiliar people especially in his own home, we are managing this by having people over and introducing him slowly which is starting to improve things but having somewhere to easily close him off to visitors until they are settled would make things easier (once people are in and sat down he does OK). He is fine with other dogs for the most part but if they try and play too rough he can freak out given his previous experience.
Absolutely fine with children, he loves playing with our 10yr old and once he gets to know you he's great fun and lovely on a walk.


The President gave the charge in a statement to congratulate Adams, National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), on his investiture as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, today.
Buhari, according to the statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, commended the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111, on the appointment of a new Aare Ona Kakanfo, to assist him in the arduous task of leading the illustrious Yoruba people.
The President urged Adams to bring quintessential courage, wisdom and astuteness to bear on his new office for a more secured life for the weak, vulnerable and voiceless in the country.
He also prayed that the almighty God grants him a favourable reign.