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Q: How to get all webs in Farm or WebApplication with one Linq to SharePoint query? Is it possible to get all webs in Farm or WebApplication with one Linq to SharePoint query?
Now my data context constructor takes only takes one argument, and that is one web. This way I need to loop though all webs, which feels clumsy and inefficient.

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1. In a Quartenary Economic environment, strongly dominated by the Information Sector (Bell, Machlup, Porat and others), the Information emerges as a distinguish and differentiate factor, source of competitive advantages for profit and non profit organizations, dealing with the Globalization of the enterprise activities, the Globalization of the whole Economy and the Societies.
2. In a four-sector Economy, (Post-industrial Society), the fourth sector is the Information Sector.
Before, in the Industrial Society, we had the total cost of production breakdown, listed as raw materials, labour and other costs, but, now, in the Pos-Industrial Society, we must have the total cost of production breakdown, listing, raw materials, labour, other costs, and the explicit cost of Information too.
So, the availability of the Information cost, allows going through the variety of Information Management issues, and support Information Systems Governance Best Practices.
3. At same time, the profit and non profit organizations became more and more Information Based Organizations (IBO) – that means that they get, produce, store, consume and use more and more Information as an important input for their production processes and Management activities.
4. In that way, we can see Organizations face to new problems: the Information emergence as an economic and valuable resource, and the lack (absence) of adequate solutions for Information Management and Control within Organization traditional Models.
5. Therefore, because it is urgent and necessary, according to the Organisation principles, we must find / fix stable solutions to align with Information Management and Control (including all the resources, in fact, consumed during the production, storage and distribution economic chain) with the Organizational, and Processual Business approach, that must be coherent and aligned with the emergency of the main Economic Resource in our days – the INFORMATION !
6. So it's inevitable to define, create and integrate a New Function within the traditional Organizational architecture, and adapted to the new way of doing business.
- Other resources combined in the Informational Process.
within a New Function(Information System Management) under the superior Governance Laws.
8. Adding and accordingly to the rational behaviour characterization, in any Organization Job Description we can see that everybody needs / consumes Information ─ than the Information System Participation rate (ISPr) is always positive (ISPr > 0).
9. Finally, we must analyse, debate and design for ISG (Information Systems Governance) what are the main objectives, functionalities and tasks to input to Information Management New Function(let's say how to get, to produce, storage and distribute the Information and what Quality grade for Information), and we must study and to propose new solutions, for the positioning of this New Function into the Organizational Models Architecture.
· To assume that Information Systems and Information Management are critical issues for the Organizations way of life and his sustainability.
· To assume that Information Systems Governance is a Management high expertise and must be directly attached to the Top Management responsibilities.
· To assume that Information must be seen as one of the most valuable Corporate resource.
· To assume that Information (nor Technologies) is the business core of his job.
· To assume that Information must be managed like a business.
· To develop all the tasks and activities in order to perform the Information Quality highest level.
· To focus on the Information Value Added the production and availability of the Information.
client / server model for all the individuals within the Organization.
· To push the Information System design and implementation in respect of the content executives truly need for their jobs fulfilment.
· To stimulate and control the cost/benefit principle in the production and Information availability processes.
· Making the difference between Data versus Information versus Knowledge.
· Denouncing the current identification (equivalence) between the courses contents and the marketing contents of Information Technologies products and their supplier speeches.
· Teaching lessons avoiding the Information Technologies supplier buzzwords.
· Splitting, scientifically, the Information Technologies issues from the Information Systems very ones issues.
· Developing a clear and rigorous characterization of Information Systems Management, the Information System for Management, the Information Management, CIO, CITO and the Information Systems Governance.
· Showing the big difference between Management Job and Typewriter (with a computer) Job.
· To demystify and to demythologize the Information Society and Knowledge Society concepts.
· To get that Information Technologies and piping Information Technologies, could be used in a good or bad way and they never will be the solution ─ they are and will be only tools.
· To assume that a plenty of the Information Technologies products are, only and really, absurdities, non-senses, utopias, chimeras, gadgets and fancy things.
· To conclude that there are no scientific evidences supporting the causality determination argument used to link IT, Productivity and the Organization Competiteveness.


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Across three soul surging originals, FiberRoot's spell-binding aesthetic and diverse palette complements Jennifer Cardini's label perfectly as it taps deep into most rudimental electronic foundations.
Here, 'Suddenly' sets the agenda: teaming up with OG maestro Dino Lenny, the title tracks hits with authentic blasts of Italo romance and rich analog craft.


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China says 'regular military supplies' delivered to Serbia
By Press Trust of India on 12:51 am April 12, 2022 No Comment
Beijing: China said Monday its military planes delivered regular military supplies to Serbia, in its first comments on an unusual operation in which six Chinese Air Force Y-20 transport planes landed in Belgrade early Saturday.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters the operation was part of the two countries' annual cooperation plan, does not target any third parties and has nothing to do with the current situation.
Zhao gave no further details.
The planes' arrival prompted heavy speculation they were carrying HQ-22 surface-to-air missiles under the terms of a previous deal signed between the sides. Serbia's defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic all but confirmed the delivery of the medium-range systems that was agreed to in 2019, saying on Saturday that he will present the newest pride of the Serbian military on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The veiled operation this weekend came amid Western concerns that an arms buildup in the Balkans at the same time as war is raging in Ukraine could threaten the region.
Serbia and China have long shared strong ties, partly out of a common disdain for Washington. Serbians nurture resentment over NATO's 1999 air campaign during the Kosovo conflict, in which the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was hit. NATO called the incident, which sparked violent demonstrations in Beijing, a mistaken bombing, an explanation China and many others have long rejected.
Despite claiming to be neutral, China has largely sided with Russia in the Ukraine conflict and many Serbians are sympathetic to Moscow. Although Serbia has voted in favour of UN resolutions that condemn the Russian attacks in Ukraine, it has refused to join international sanctions against its allies in Moscow or to outright criticize actions by the Russian troops there.
The apparent arms delivery to Serbia over the territories of at least two NATO member states, Turkey and Bulgaria, was seen by experts as a demonstration of China's growing global reach.
The weekend flights could be the largest overseas operation by the Chinese domestically developed large transport plane yet, displaying the country's strategic transport capabilities," the Communist Party newspaper Global Times said Monday, citing Chinese defense analysts.
The Y-20, which was first delivered to the People's Liberation Army Air Force in 2015, has been used in overseas missions before, including the dispatch of 105 members of the PLA honor guard to join the 2020 Russian Victory Day parade in Moscow, and in flights near Taiwan's air space aimed at testing the self-governing island's defenses and intimidating its democratic government.
There are fears in the West that the arming of Serbia by Russia and China could encourage the Balkan country to move toward another war, especially against its former province of Kosovo that proclaimed independence in 2008. Serbia, Russia and China don't recognize Kosovo's statehood, while the United States and most Western countries do.
China says 'regular military supplies' delivered to Serbia added by Press Trust of India on 12:51 am April 12, 2022

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Q: What benefits do GWT IDE plugins have considering that GWT is simply Java? Seen that writing GWT code is basically writing Java code, what does a GWT for an IDE exactly do?  For example there are GWT plugins for IDEA and for Eclipse (and maybe for NetBeans?) but do they do that I cannot do simply by using Eclipse or IDEA without the GWT plugin?

A: They add wizards, dialogs, editors, and other extensions to the IDE that help specifically with GWT tasks. For example, rather then creating a new GWT project from scratch using the command line, or creating an eclipse java project and then creating all the necessary files yourself, the plug-in adds a wizard that lets you type in the name of the project, and it creates all the necessary files for you.
Other additions can be large stuff like a local server, or minimal like a source code formatter. The sky is the limit with plug-ins.
I know the GWT adds a GUI editor to eclipse so you can drag and drop controls rather then manually entering them all.

A: I've only used the IDEA plugin myself.  I definitely would not want to give it up.  As others have said, you can create a GWT project and debug in hosted mode as easily as you would run any other application, but that's only the beginning.
IDEA also has several GWT-specific class creation options.  You can create a new UiBinder file, which will generate both the .ui.xml file and the Java file, and will already have the plumbing in place for creating the UiBinder object.  You can create a new GWT Remote Service, which will create the service interface, async interface, and implementation class for you.
The GWT plugin will also warn you about tons of probable errors right in the editor.  It will warn you if your service interface doesn't have proper matching methods in the async interface, and has an intention for fixing the problem.  It will warn if your service implementation class does not have an entry defined in the web.xml file (yep, with an intention available to automatically register it).  It will warn you if you have fields in your UiBinder class that aren't defined in the .ui.xml file, again with an intention to help resolve the issue with just a couple keystrokes.
On top of that, the code completion is excellent for everything including CSS attributes, Javascript, HTML, and the various XML files.

A: Yes, you can, however using a plugin for a given IDE, helps you by not needing to swap from the IDE to another tool ( for testing for instance )
Here's the demo of IDEA
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/training/demos/GWT.html
The same way you can also compile from the command line ( I do it sometimes ) or let the IDE help you by pressing a single button.

A: There also is a plug-in for MyEclipse that gives you a Matisse-like drag and drop Toolbox for GWT.
For Netbeans we have the GWT4NB plug-in, which offers among other things good debugging and code completion which works also for .ui.xml files.

A: Doesn't the GWT Eclipse plugin provide the debugging capabilities? GWT debugging in eclipse is the most useful tool ever.

A: OK ...

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*GWT RPC - With Google plugin, it does reduce the tedium verifying the interface RPC interface-async pair declaration.

*UiBinder. Each uibinder set is a pair of files: The ui template and the template bean. The plugin helps me verify the correspondence of uifields in the template and the template bean. Then there are @uifactory, @uifield(provided=true).

*You can declare another an "external" bean (a java code other than its template bean) using ui:with in the ui template. With that you pull in functions from the bean to provide values for your gwt widget attributes. The plugin provides me with auto-complete/verification of functions that are visible in ui:with bean.

*Of course, the plugin provides the compiler too, which compiles the java code into javascript.

*The debugger which works with the client-side. Imagine how the plugin works when we step the debugger on the client code which is compiled to javascript.

*The run config, which automatically fills in the blanks, the args and params. I would hate writing a gwt launch config by myself.
Without the plugin, GWT development would be rather tedious.


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G20 finance chiefs express concern over risks from 'intensified' trade conflict
By Francesco Canepa, Jan Strupczewski
FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) - Group of 20 finance leaders on Sunday said that trade and geopolitical tensions have "intensified", raising risks to improving global growth, but they stopped short of calling for a resolution of a deepening U.S.-China trade conflict.
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), gestures in front of Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, U.S. Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin, OECD's Secretary General Jose Angel Gurria Trevino, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and other delegates during a family photo of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan June 9, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
After fiery negotiations that nearly aborted the issuance of a communique, finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in southern Japan repeated tepid support for a rules-based multilateral trading system.
"Global growth appears to be stabilizing and is generally projected to pick up moderately later this year and into 2020," the G20 finance leaders said in a communique issued as the meetings in Fukuoka closed.
"However, growth remains low and risks remain tilted to the downside. Most importantly, trade and geopolitical tensions have intensified. We will continue to address these risks and stand ready to take further action."
It also said that G20 finance leaders had agreed to compile common rules by 2020 to close loopholes used by global tech giants such as Facebook and Google to reduce their corporate taxes.
The communique also contained pledges to increase debt transparency on the part of borrowers and creditors. Another priority is sustainable infrastructure development, an issue brought into sharper focus by concerns that China's massive Belt and Road infrastructure drive was saddling poor countries with debt they can't repay.
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However, the final language excluded a proposed clause to "recognize the pressing need to resolve trade tensions", which was dropped from a previous draft debated on Saturday.
The deletion, which G20 sources said came at the insistence of the United States, shows a desire by Washington to avoid encumbrances as it increases tariffs on Chinese goods. The statement also contains no admissions that the deepening U.S.-China trade conflict is hurting global growth.
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde emphasized that "the first priority should be to resolve the current trade tensions" while working to modernize international trading rules.
The IMF this week warned that, while growth is still expected to improve this year and next, the U.S.-China tariff war could cut 0.5 percent from global GDP output in 2020, about the size of G20 member South Africa's economy.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday said he did not see any impact on U.S. growth from the trade conflict and that the government would take steps to protect consumers from higher tariffs.
Mnuchin met People's Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Yi Gang on Sunday in the first meeting of high-level U.S. officials in a month, but it produced no immediate result. Mnuchin described the meeting as "constructive" and "a candid discussion on trade issues", but offered no further detail.
The PBOC said in a statement that the two finance officials "exchanged views on global economic and financial situation, G20 issues, as well as topics of mutual interest".
The Buenos Aires G20 summit in December 2018 marked the start of a five-month trade truce between the United States and China to allow for negotiations to end their intensifying trade war. But those talks hit an impasse last month, prompting both sides to impose higher tariffs on each other's goods as the conflict nears its first anniversary.
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The widening fallout from the U.S.-China trade war has tested the resolve of the group to show a united front as investors worry if policymakers can avert a global recession.
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The bickering over trade language has dashed hopes of Japan, which chairs this year's G20 meetings, to keep trade issues low on the various agendas at the finance leaders' meeting.
Mnuchin said that U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping would meet at a June 28-29 G20 summit in Osaka, but the meeting has not been confirmed by China.
The planned meeting was said by Mnuchin to have parallels with the two presidents' Buenos Aires meeting on Dec. 1, when Trump was poised to increase tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods.
Trump took that step in May and will be ready to impose similar 25% tariffs on a remaining $300 billion list of Chinese goods around the time of the Osaka summit.
At the Buenos Aires meeting, the G20 leaders described international trade and investment as "important engines of growth, productivity, innovation, job creation and development. We recognize the contribution that the multilateral trading system has made to that end," their communique said.
The leaders in that communique called for reform of World Trade Organization rules that they said were falling short of objectives and pledged to review progress at the Japan summit.
Reporting by Francesco Canepa, Jan Strupczewski, Christian Kraemer, Leika Kihara and David Lawder in Fukuoka and Stella Qiu in Beijing. Writing by David Lawder; Editing by Christopher Cushing, Kim Coghill and David Goodman


The presents a modern armless layout, these sleek chairs make certain to add color to any type of decoration. This sleek and calming easy chair is actually covered in an effortless hygiene polyester cushioning textile and is actually accentuated by conical legs. This office chair is actually perfect for any type of space in your house offering a simple relaxing seating remedy.


Your beard is an extension of your personality and it deserves the best care. Whether you're thinking of jumping on the beardwagon or you've been sporting your facial fuzz for a while, understanding the right tools, techniques and products to use are essential to getting your facial hair looking, feeling and smelling exceptional.
Our beard regimen has been developed with the finest ingredients and fragrances to deliver products that provide end to end care for your facial hair.
As you begin your journey towards growing an awe-inspiring beard, you may face a number of issues that can inhibit your ability to grow it to its full potential. For example, unfavorable weather conditions, dry skin and stress can cause dandruff which irritates the skin and hair follicles, acne-prone skin can make growing a beard a painful process and harsh chemicals in shampoos and soaps can contribute to brittle hair.
Therefore, the first step to sustained and healthy growth involves understanding the importance of essential oils. They provide nourishment, strengthen the roots and help your hair retain moisture. Look for natural ingredients and special blends that help alleviate specific issues that you face, such as patchy growth, dryness, itchiness, hair fall, etc.
During the course of a normal day your beard attracts everything from dust and pollution to errant food particles. Regular cleansing is therefore absolutely necessary to keep your facial hair and skin healthy and fresh.
Dry and coarse facial hair is a leading concern in the bearded community and washes and shampoos tend to aggravate this problem. Try to use products that condition your beard while you cleanse it or follow up your cleansing routine with beard hydration products such as butters, lotions, balms or light oils.
A rough beard will make you (and your loved ones) fall out of love with it very quickly. Besides keeping your beard clean it is equally important to keep it moisturised and soft. Depending on your beard style, skin type, hair quality and climatic conditions, the kind of products you will need to continually nourish your beard will vary. There is an abundance of products such as nourishing oils and beard conditioners viz. serums, butters and creams available to keep you beard hydrated and soft all day.
These products often come with supplemental benefits such as additional hold, UV protection and smoothening properties. As always, look for quality of ingredients and benefits tailored to your needs.
When all your hard work has paid off and the time comes for you to flaunt your glorious beard and moustache, try a little wax to spice up your look for the special occasion. This will elevate your look and make it versatile, polished and sophisticated.
Eat right: Have foods rich in iron, biotin, zinc. Spinach, oysters, eggs, liver, cinnamon, sweet potatoes are some of the foods that will aid in healthy beard hair.
Exercise: Resistance training is shown to increase DHT (dihydrotestosterone – hormone that aids beard growth) levels. So, hit those dumbbells and try to hit a body fat % between 10-15% for ideal DHT levels.
Sleep well: 8 hours of sleep every night helps regulate DHT levels and ensures you're healthy. A healthy body equals a healthy beard.
Grow a beard that makes your face oval: If you have a square/circular face, grow a beard with length. On the other hand, if you have a longer face, grow a beard that adds depth.
Avoid the neckbeard: Having a beard does not equal throwing away your razor. An unruly neckbeard can ruin the well-groomed look and needs to be maintained. Find a point placing two fingers horizontally above your Adams apple, and draw a U from the bottom of each ear passing through this point. Use a good trimmer or double-edge razor to get the neckline right.
Maintain the beard: Trim regularly, as some parts will grow faster and out-of-order than others. Trimming your beard can also get rid of existing split ends, reduce the occurrence of tangles and knots and help better define your jawline. If you're growing a beard, commit to taking care of it.
Includes Beard Growth Oil, Beard Shampoo & Conditioner (Wood-scented), Stubble Oil (Cedarwood), Beard Butter (Wood-scented), Moustache Wax (Wood-scented) and Beard Serum.


The Crucible of Hyperion - Are you ready?
The number 22 has a very captivating story associated with it, that not many people are aware of. I find that it is very appropriate in describing what the Crucible of Hyperion is all about.
Dmitri Mendeleev, a man familiar with the Greek Mysteries, and a very noble man at heart.
Titanium takes its name from the word titan.
No animal strength or teeth or claws.
He gave us Fire. He gave us the ability to scratch out a destiny of our own, and be liberated from the complete control of the Gods..
His fate sealed, he surrendered to the furry of Zeus, knowing he had made the right choice.
Chained to a cliff, an eagle would eat his liver, only for it to be renewed. A terrible price did Prometheus pay.
remind us of the most powerful reason for our being.
This is the standard that every human must aspire to equal.
the power of giving people the tools to fight tyrants.


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Q: react native asyncStorage update same products number pieces im using async storage in my app to keep product name, color, size and number of piece.
i can't do that if it's same name, color and size i want to increase piece only. i couldn't think of it.. would you guys help me out
try {
      const jsonValue = await AsyncStorage.getItem('shoppingCart');
      let cartitem = [
        {
          ProductDescription: product[0].ProductDescription,
          ItemCode: product[0].ProductCode,
          ColorCode: colorPicked,
          ItemDim1Code: sizePicked,
          Qty1: piece,
          Price: price,
          keyForList: keyForList,
        },
      ];
      if (jsonValue !== null) {
        let newCart = JSON.parse(jsonValue).concat(cartitem);
        AsyncStorage.setItem('shoppingCart', JSON.stringify(newCart));
      } else {
        AsyncStorage.setItem('shoppingCart', JSON.stringify(cartitem));
      }
    }

A: Try it this way:

try {
      let existingCart = await AsyncStorage.getItem('shoppingCart');
      let cartItem = [
        {
          ProductDescription: product[0].ProductDescription,
          ItemCode: product[0].ProductCode,
          ColorCode: colorPicked,
          ItemDim1Code: sizePicked,
          Qty1: piece,
          Price: price,
          keyForList: keyForList,
        },
      ];

      if existingCart !== null {
        // We have a cart already, now we have to check if any item in cart is the same as our cartItem; existingCart should be kept as an array

        existingCart.forEach((product, index) => {
           if (product.ItemCode == cartItem.ItemCode &&
            product.ItemCode == cartItem.ColorCode) {
            // you can modify this condition by your needs
              existingCart[index].Qty1 += 1
            }
            else {
              // the item doesn't match any items, therefore we add it to the cart
              existingCart.push(cartItem)
            }
        })

      } else {
      // the cart is empty, therefore we put the first item in it
        existingCart = [cartItem]
      }

      // and we update the local storage with the cart
     AsyncStorage.setItem('shoppingCart', JSON.stringify(cartitem));

    }


I want to share the DIY Lemon and Oatmeal soap that the kids and I made together for Christmas gifts. I like to make useful gifts that have a purpose; soap is something I've always wanted to try so we gave it a go.
We made a "melt and pour" style of soap that's super easy to make with children – just have kids do all the chopping and zesting and prep work, then switch to an adult for the melting and pouring. Once the soaps have cooled then kids can pop them out of the soap molds and wrap them up.
We followed these easy instructions from AO Life on how to make melt and pour soap, and we used Stephenson Soap Base. Basically, all you do is (1) chop up the soap, (2) melt it in the microwave, (3) stir in some fixin's and (4) pour into the molds. Voila! Easy and pretty handmade soaps ready for gifting.
My kids did all of the soap chopping and also grated the lemon zest. We have these really great kid-friendly wavy cut choppers and kid-friendly graters and they work well for this project.
As you chop the soap, put it loosely into the molds so you can eyeball whether or not you are melting enough soap (or too much) for your available molds.
A little goes a long way with the fixins. Try starting with just 1 tsp. of ground oatmeal to your melted soap and then stir it in. You can always add more.
To easily remove hardened soap from your Pyrex measuring cup and mini spatulas just pour boiling water on them in the sink.
If you use lemon like we did, be sure to use the soap sooner rather than later to keep it fresh.
You guys, I took some really cute pictures of the kids using their kid-sized graters to grate the lemon and their kid-sized choppers to chop the soap. These photos were freaking adorable. Thing is, my phone was stolen on the CTA train and I lost all of those photos plus a bunch of other ones 🙁 Yeah. Big bummer.
Good news is that we hadn't yet gifted the soaps so I was still able to take photos of the finished soap photos. And this project was so easy that I'm sure we'll make it again soon so I'll update this post with cute kid photos when we circle back to this easy DIY.
Tell me in the comments – what kind of melt-and-pour soap would you like to make?


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H4 -v- The Secretary of State for the Home Department (anonymity order)
Special Immigration Appeals CommissionAnonymity Order
Case Number: SC/203/2022
In the Special Immigration
Appeals Commission
In the Matter of an Appeal Against
Deprivation of Citizenship
The Secretary of State for the Home Department
On the Appellant's application for an anonymity order pursuant to rule 39(5)(h) of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) Rules 2003 and for an order restraining publication pursuant to section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 ('the application');
On the Legal Representatives having been notified of the application on 10 January 2023 via email;
On considering the documents consisting of an Application Notice, Explanatory Note, Witness Statement of Anne McMurdie and Legal Submissions ('the documents') lodged in accordance with paragraph 28 of the Commission's Practice Note on Anonymity Orders and Related Measures ('the Practice Note');
The Appellant be granted anonymity in relation to the conduct of proceedings in the Commission and be known in these proceedings as H4.
Nothing may be published which, directly or indirectly, identifies H4 as an Appellant in these proceedings before the Commission.
There be liberty to apply on 48 hours' written notice to the Commission, to the Appellant, to the Secretary of State and to the Legal Representatives (as defined in the Practice Note).
This order continues until the OPEN judgment has been handed down in this appeal, or further order in the meantime, unless the Appellant indicates to the Commission, as soon as the OPEN judgment is circulated in draft, that she intends to apply for it to continue after the OPEN judgment is handed down, and applies to the Commission, before that judgment is handed down, for directions for the determination of any such application.


A 29-year-old has been charged with a string of offences including shoplifting and possesion of a bladed article.
> Two separate counts of vehicle interference in Parmiter Close and Howletts Close in Fairford Leys on Thursday, April 9.
> One count of possession of a bladed article in Briskman Way, Aylesbury; one count of vehicle interference in Drake Close, Aylesbury and one count of theft from a motor vehicle in Thomson Close, Aylesbury on Friday April 10.
Davey was also charged with three separate counts of shoplifting at Sainsbury's, Buckingham Street, on Thursday 2 April, the Co-operative on Hannon Road on Sunday, March 8 and Asda in Mandeville Road, on Sunday 7 December 2014.
Davey was remanded at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court on Saturday, April 11 to appear at the same court on Thursday, April 16.
PC Neil Anns from the local neighbourhood policing team said: "During the course of our investigation it became apparent that all of the victims in this case had left their vehicles unsecure.
"I appeal to motorists to please lock your vehicles and remove belongings when it is parked.


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Q: Show $\sum_{l=0}^\infty \sum_{i=0}^\infty x^{{2^l}(2i+1)}=\sum_{j=1}^\infty x^j$
Show $\sum_{l=0}^\infty \sum_{i=0}^\infty x^{{2^l}(2i+1)}=\sum_{j=1}^\infty x^j$ where $|x|<1$

Thus show it is the geometric series.
I know, I could just write out the sum and it would make sense, but is there a more formal proof for this equality?

A: If $|x| < 1$,
$$\sum_{i=0}^\infty x^{2^l(2i+1)} = x^{2^l} \sum_{i=0}^\infty x^{2^{l+1} i} = \frac{x^{2^l}}{1 - x^{2^{l+1}}}.$$
Now, intuitively, if you sum the first $L$ terms you get the geometric series except for terms where the power of $x$ is divisible by $2^{L+1}$.  So, you would expect the $L$th partial sum of the double sum to be equal to:
$$\sum_{l=0}^L \sum_{i=0}^\infty x^{2^l(2i+1)} = \frac{x}{1-x} - \frac{x^{2^{L+1}}}{1 - x^{2^{L+1}}}.$$
You can now either prove this by induction, or observe that it's in the form of the result of a telescoping sum, so it's sufficient to show
$$\frac{x^{2^l}}{1 - x^{2^{l+1}}} = \frac{x^{2^l}}{1 - x^{2^l}} - \frac{x^{2^{l+1}}}{1 - x^{2^{l+1}}}.$$
Then, once you have this result, it's easy to take the limit as $L \to \infty$, again assuming $|x| < 1$.

A: Rewrite your LHS as
$$
\sum_{\alpha\in A}x^{\alpha}
$$
where
$$
A:=\{2^l(2i+1)\;:\;l,i\in\Bbb N_0\}
$$
and observe that
$$
A=\Bbb N
$$
where $\Bbb N$ and $\Bbb N_0$ are natural numbers starting from $1$ and $0$ respectively.


In unexpected ways, corporate law in the early Republic provided African Americans with rights to religious integrity that they were denied in other venues. As black congregants developed legal expertise, they built powerful and long-lasting religious institutions. Yet these rights were fragile, as the legal rules governing such institutions also sustained dissent and fracture.
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was incorporated in Philadelphia in 1796, setting the stage for subsequent battles over legal and spiritual autonomy for black congregations. Such battles were conducted through legal means. Over the two decades following its incorporation, Bethel's leaders built and increasingly powerfully defended their church against attempts by the central Methodist Church denomination to assert control. In an era when increasing racism and aggression imperiled free blacks, church corporations were uniquely empowered to protect African American religious institutions.
Repeated encounters with law produced both victory (against the white Methodist denomination, which was forced to recognize Bethel's independence) and defeat (against breakaway members from Bethel, who founded another church nearby and who successfully sued Bethel leaders for theft and trespass). The resulting plurality belies a unitary "black church," even as it is evidence of great resilience and creativity.
William & Mary Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3, Pg. 385, 2015.
Gordon, Sarah Barringer, "The African Supplement: Religion, Race, and Corporate Law in Early National America" (2015). Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law. 1575.


Steps from Lincoln Square amenities. This 3-bedroom, 2-bath beauty has been renovated over the past few years. Updated kitchen, hardwood floors, 2-car garage, deck, 3 nice sized bedrooms and 2 full baths. Home is a true beauty. New Roof 2016.


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Ninth Day Of Creation
Leonard Crane
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Rawley was momentarily startled when the figure in white appeared at his side. He looked up and saw a doctor, a large fellow with a name tag that read, Dr. J. Price.
"Are you Rawley?"
"There's a phone call for you. Somebody by the name of Richard Kirby?"
Rawley got up. "Where can I take the call?"
"There's a phone at the end of the hall."
Rawley took a few steps down the hall and stopped. He suddenly remembered that he had paced the hall earlier, and he had not seen any phone then. In fact, when he had called Kirby about Cassie it had been from the hospital lobby. The view before him now — he could see a bare wall and a low table with a pot-plant on it at the end of the hall, and that was all — seemed only to confirm what he already knew. There was no phone.
But before he could turn to question the doctor, Rawley felt his head pitch forward as a powerful blow was delivered to the back of his skull. Immediately he slumped to the floor. He saw lights reflecting off the shiny linoleum, felt the painless thud as his head bounced on the floor. And then, as if the scene of a movie he had been watching was over, the world closed down to a point of light… and went out.
Something woke her.
Cassie turned her head, listening through the darkness. She was still in shock. She still hoped it would all turn out to have been some terrible dream. Yet here she was, in a strange bed — in the hospital, she remembered — the world cold and eerie and foreign to her now. And dark.
Her brain struggled to make sense of her surroundings. She remembered the sound that had woken her — assigned it meaning in the context of the limited information she had of the room around her… Someone had disturbed the plastic over her door.
"Richard? Is that you?"
No one answered.
Cassie raised herself up on the bed and tilted one ear toward the door. Then the other. But all she could hear was the pounding of blood in her ears. Her breathing too, was affected. Her lungs were making a horrible rasping sound that frightened her. Then she heard it. A footstep, somewhere nearby.
Someone was in her room.
She stopped breathing and listened. Why hadn't the person answered her? Why hadn't they —
She heard the door creaking, as though someone were closing it. The latch clicked shut. Slowly, the footsteps came across the floor. She turned her head in their direction.
"Who's there!"
Silence… Whoever it was had stopped at the side of the bed. Cassie felt intensely afraid, her memories of what had happened on the bridge suddenly rushing back in a torrent to overwhelm her. In a moment of panic she put out her hand quickly — and touched something. She recoiled in terror, letting out a startled cry, before realizing that it had only been the plastic of the oxygen tent around her that she had touched. But now she could no longer be certain of what was happening to her. She was confused. Was her mind playing tricks on her? Had she imagined all of it?
Her breathing became harder. She began to sense things on her skin — her arms, her legs — that she knew immediately were manifestations of her own childhood fear of the dark. But her knowing it did not help to shake off the feeling that something unwelcome was about to take place.
In her panic she barely noticed the sound of the plastic being lifted around her. And then the smell. It was overpowering. It filled the darkness around her. Then it was inside her, flowing through her nose, her mouth.
A pungent chemical odor. It made her want to heave.
Cassie Kirby had time to yell her husband's name just once before the soft padding closed over her face. It was only then, in her last seconds of awareness, that the empty blackness had manifested hands out of her fear, powerful hands that clapped about her head. She understood too late the meaning of the chloroform that engulfed her, forcing on her its paralyzing command to sleep. Her own hands clawed uselessly at her attacker's, until it seemed the bed was rolling slowly end over end, and she found herself spinning, falling, plunging through an endless void.
"So you feel I would be wasting my time contacting him directly?" Montoya said.
"I'm sorry," Kirby told her. "I misread the situation. In fact, I've misread a lot of things about Dan."
He had been explaining to her how unlikely it now seemed that Rosen would ever consider relinquishing his profit margin on TPL, even at Montoya's request. The idea no longer seemed to fit with the naive image Kirby once held of Rosen as a closet do-gooder, ready to help the world by sharing with it his successes.
Up ahead, the Crown Victoria was pulling past the awning at the hospital entrance.
"Fear not, doctor," Montoya assured him. "There's a saying Miguel likes to remind me of every now and then, just to keep me on my toes. It's something my critics have taken to heart, but no doubt it applies to your Mr. Rosen as surely as it does me."
"What saying is that?" Kirby asked.
Montoya smiled. "That there's more than one way to skin a cat, Mr. Kirby."
Rawley groaned and rolled over. His head felt as if it had been put through a vice. He propped himself up and tried to see where he was. It was dark. He went to move and knocked over a bucket that clanged on the floor. Then he noticed a strip of light beneath his hands — a door. Reaching over his head he found a handle. Twisted it… The door swung open and he fell out into the hallway. The ceiling lights above him seemed incredibly bright. They hurt his eyes.
Slowly Rawley got to his feet. He concentrated on trying to bring the clock on the wall into focus. Ten past six. He had been out for less than ten minutes.
With a start, he remembered Cassie.
"Oh… Shit!"
He made his way quickly to her room. But when he got there her bed was empty.
Rawley cursed himself and ran back toward the elevators, his head still pounding. He hadn't been out long, which meant that Cassie and whoever had slugged him might still be in the building. After all, it wasn't that easy to just walk out of a hospital with someone who didn't want to leave.
One of the elevators was already waiting when Rawley got there. He jumped in and jammed his finger repeatedly on the button for the first floor. "Come on! Come on!" he said.
Slowly the doors closed.
Montoya and Ramirez followed Kirby into the elevator. Her six bodyguards climbed in after them, taking care not to box her in. The three drivers had remained with the cars. Ramirez had sent them around to the parking area on the south side of the building, where they were to wait near the emergency entrance until further notice.
Kirby reached over and pressed the button for the seventh floor. The elevator started up.
Montoya was impressed by the evident luxuriousness of the Mercy Hospital complex. As she walked through the hospital lobby she had found herself dwarfed by huge potted plants. The brightly-colored paintings adorning the walls and the rich carpeting conveyed more the atmosphere of a five-star hotel than a hospital interior. It was a pointed reminder to her of how far her country still had to come.
She noticed that her host had fallen silent, and leaned toward him. "If the physicians here are half as good as the interior decorators, Dr. Kirby," she joked, "then I'm sure your wife is in good hands."
It pleased her that she was able to make him smile.
The moment the doors opened on the seventh floor Kirby sensed something was wrong. He had a clear view of the hall and he could see that Rawley was no longer sitting outside Cassie's room. The others filed out of the elevator and followed him down the hall. When they reached the door to her room his uneasiness turned to confusion.
"I don't understand…" he said looking around. "She's supposed to be in here."
He was trying not to appear overly alarmed, but it was difficult. The others, who knew nothing about the episode on the bridge, were not in a position to appreciate his concern.
"Don't worry, doctor," Ramirez told him with a broad smile. "We shall find her. How far could she get?"
Rawley huffed as he ran through the lobby and out the main entrance of the hospital. It was dark outside. Directly across from him was a water fountain which divided the road in two. He crossed over to it, still out of breath and cupping the back of his head with one hand. He said, "Jesus, that hurts."
He looked up the road. Turned, looked down toward the other end. Cassie was nowhere to be seen. "Damn. Damn. Damn!"
He crossed back again, jogging down to the corner of the road to check out the parking lot on the south side of the building. Crawling up the street in front of him was a minivan. It attracted his attention because it was moving so slowly. He tried to make out the face of the driver and the passenger in the front seat, but it was too dark.
The driver of the minivan pointed to the parking lot. Rawley looked over his shoulder and saw two dark green Navigators with their lights on parked near the emergency entrance. A Crown Victoria was waiting with them. Rawley dismissed them — whoever had nabbed Kirby's wife didn't need three cars to do it. And he hadn't stuck around.
She was gone.
He shook his head and started to turn back. As he did the van accelerated up the road, passed him, and pulled up outside the main entrance. He saw five men jump out. Now he got a better look at them in the entrance lighting. They were Latino. Mexicans, he guessed. The two largest men who jumped out each carried a long canvas bag with leather handles. The bags sagged under their own weight.
Rawley was immediately suspicious. Keeping his distance, he followed the five back inside as the van sped off up the road.
Instead of remaining in a group, all five men immediately dispersed themselves throughout the lobby, one of them stopping at the information center. Rawley hoped to casually eavesdrop while picking up a visitor's guide at the desk. But then he noticed one of the other men watching him and he decided to keep walking. He went across to the gift shop and pretended to read a magazine. They were up to something. He was sure of it.
The young woman behind the desk looked pleasantly surprised when she saw him. Velarde smiled and leaned across her counter. "I was wondering whether you happened to notice a group of impeccably-dressed men passing through here just now. About six of them, black suits?"
"You mean Mr. Kirby's group?"
"That would be right, yes." Velarde looked about. "Could you tell me which way they went?"
"I believe his wife is on the seventh floor."
"His wife? You mean Cassie Kirby?"
Puzzled by his apparent surprise, the woman asked him whether he was a friend of the family.
"Yes," Velarde said. "Yes, of course. She's my sister. The seventh floor? You're sure?" He pretended to be in shock.
"Hold on. I'll check." The woman got out of her chair and yelled across to someone at Inpatient Admitting. "What floor did they put Cassie Kirby on?"
A moment later someone yelled back that she was in, "Room Seven Oh Four."
Velarde glanced back at the door. He saw Oro come inside after having parked the van. Without needing to signal them, all his men now moved across to the elevator.
"If you like," the woman said, "I can have somebody show you — "
"No, thank you," Velarde said already moving to join the others. "That won't be necessary."
EMBOSCADA!
"Perhaps we should return to the lobby," Ramirez suggested. "Make inquiries?"
Ramirez had been growing steadily more impatient by the minute. Their group of nine had scoured the floor and still there was no sign of the doctor's wife. Currently they were standing at the opposite end of the hall, away from the elevator.
Kirby shook his head. The concern for his wife showed on his face. "I don't understand it," he said.
Montoya turned to Ramirez. "Miguel, why don't you call the front desk." She went over to a table by the wall. On it was a hospital prospectus which she picked up and handed him. "You should be able to find the number in here."
Ramirez found the number inside the cover. He took his phone from his pocket and sighed at the irony of having to make an overseas call just to reach someone in the lobby. "Teléfono satélite," he mumbled.
He dialed the U.S. country code, and then the number on the wall. The number didn't go through, he got static instead. He realized the building was soaking up his signal and looked around for a window. He saw one at the end of the corridor.
"I'll be back in a moment," he said waving the phone in the air.
He walked down the hall and, when he got to the window, tried again. This time the number went through. As he waited for the phone to pick up, a bell announced the arrival of the elevator.
Ramirez turned toward it.
The phone picked up. "This is Lorraine at the information desk. How can I help you?"
"Yes. I'm up here on the — "
Ramirez froze. Stepping out of the elevator in front of him was a figure in a black ski mask. In his hands he carried what Montoya's chief of staff instantly recognized as the weapon of terrorists — a Kalashnikov rifle. Several more similarly-armed figures began pouring out into the hall. Ramirez could not believe his eyes. Despite all his years preparing for such an event he had never thought it might happen outside Mexico.
The lead gunman stopped when his eyes met Ramirez. For a split second they stared at each other. Without intending to, Ramirez momentarily glanced back down the hall to his side, toward Montoya. And in an instant he understood his mistake. He had betrayed her whereabouts.
In the fraction of a second Ramirez had left to make a move, he already knew he had squandered any chance of saving himself. He had time only to warn her. "Emboscada!" he screamed out.
Ambush.
Then he was being lifted from the ground, the first of three rounds slamming through his rib cage. The phone flew from his hand as he struck the window, a shower of glass engulfing him as he realized his last moment of conscious thought.
Emboscada.
Kirby was stunned by the sight of Ramirez crashing through the window at the end of the hall, his legs tossing wildly in the air as he slipped from view.
Montoya's bodyguards began yelling all at once. Before Kirby could figure out what was happening, they had drawn their arms, three of them bearing snub-nosed machine guns. As they ran forward to shield Montoya she screamed out. "Miguel!"
In the confusion, someone grabbed at Kirby's arm. He was flung to the back of the group along with Montoya, and found himself pressed into a doorway. He caught a glimpse of their attackers as one of the gunmen came around the corner at the end of the hall. He came out low, sliding on his back along the floor. He surprised two of Montoya's men. As they aimed down at him, a second gunman came out high. The sound of gunfire erupted throughout the hall. In the exchange that ensued, the first gunman and the two bodyguards were fatally wounded. The surviving gunman drew back around the corner, leaving the corridor momentarily clear.
"Retirarse!" one of Montoya's men yelled. "Retirarse!" He pulled Montoya from the doorway and pushed her down the hall. Kirby followed as they retreated.
A few steps down they regrouped in a passageway which connected the two halls on either side of the elevator block — Montoya, Kirby, and two bodyguards. Two others fell behind them as the hall was stormed, leaving one man trapped in a doorway as he returned fire.
"Who are they?!" Kirby yelled.
Montoya strained to see into the hall. "What happened to Miguel?"
"He's dead!" Kirby shouted. We need to find a way out of here, he thought. Now!
There were two exits in the hall from which they had come, one at either end. But now they were cut off from both of them. Kirby turned and looked down the passageway in which they were standing. It opened onto the second hall. And on the other side of it, he saw, lay another corridor, stretching away from them. He could see frightened hospital employees running to the end of it, vanishing into a doorway on the left. A stairwell.
But to get to it they would have to cross the open hall. It was risky. But any moment now the gunmen were sure to figure out that Montoya had nowhere else to go. If one of the terrorists should simply turn around and circle the elevator block Montoya would be cut off…
Kirby grabbed her hand and set off down the passageway.
They hadn't reached the end of it when he looked up into a convex mirror. It was mounted near the roof in the opposite corridor, and in it he saw the reflection of one of their attackers. The man was about to collide with them at the corner. Kirby didn't even have time to think. He let go of Montoya's hand, grabbed at a red fire extinguisher mounted on the wall nearby, and swung it around his body with all his might as he came around the corner.
The heavy metal cylinder plowed through the gunman's weapon, snapping the curved magazine out of the Kalashnikov and bringing the dumbstruck figure in the ski mask to a sudden stop. Before he could recover, Kirby swung the end of the fire extinguisher up beneath his chin and knocked him out cold.
Montoya paused just long enough to spit on her would-be assassin before they crossed over into the corridor. Kirby started down to the end, but Montoya resisted.
"My men!" she said stopping to look back.
Her armed guards had been reduced in number from six to only three, all of them pinned within the passageway across the hall. One remained at the far end, covering the corridor from which the attack had initially come, the other two hovered just opposite them at the corner of the passageway.
"There's no time," he tried to tell her.
"No!" she yelled back. "We stay!"
"Don't let them cross!" Velarde screamed to Oro. "She's cut off!"
He turned and ran back to the stairwell behind them. He had seen Montoya cross to the other corridor and knew there had to be another stairwell to which she was headed. If he could get down to the next floor and across to the same spot, then he could cut her off.
The elevator came to a stop on the sixth floor. Rawley was surprised by the appearance of a nurse who held the doors open and told him that he had to get out.
"Don't go up!" she said. "They're shooting at each other on the next floor!"
"Who are?" he said getting out.
She ran back down the hall. "Take the stairs back down," she yelled. "Use the stairs!"
Had the group he'd seen downstairs been a street gang? If so, what were they doing in a hospital? No. He discounted that idea. They'd seemed too old to be gang members.
Rawley took the nurse's advice and headed for the nearest exit. There was nothing to be gained from getting in the way of someone with a gun, especially now that he had lost his. But as he opened the door to the stairwell he was pushed to the ground by someone leaping off the stairs past him. It was someone in a ski mask. As he fell, Rawley was surprised at the sight of the gun the figure was carrying as he burst through the door and disappeared quickly down the hall.
It was a Russian assault rifle.
"Here!" Montoya yelled to Kirby. "Come with me."
Plaster exploded into white puffs of powder as bullets struck the wall in the corridor separating Montoya from her men, preventing them from crossing it to join her. Kirby saw her turn away and enter a nearby room. She grabbed at a tall rack on rollers that was loaded with large white cylinders. They were stacked horizontally to the level of her chest.
"Give me a hand!" she said as Kirby followed her in.
They pushed it out into the hall. It was heavy, but it moved easily on the rollers.
"Hurry!" Montoya yelled.
They spun the rack around, prepared to push it out into the open corridor where it would provide cover for Montoya's men. Kirby saw bright red lettering at the top of the cylinders: O2 it read. Oxygen. For a moment he hesitated, reluctant to put the cylinders into the line of fire. But they were heavy, their thick metal casings more than enough to provide protection against a direct hit.
They gave it a last shove, and sent it out across the floor, toward Montoya's bodyguards. Two stray bullets sparked as they ricocheted off the cylinders, one of them whizzing over Kirby's head and only narrowly missing Montoya herself. Kirby grabbed Montoya's hand as the rack of oxygen cylinders bumped lazily into the wall near her men. "Let's move," he said. "We have to go!"
The others were gesturing emphatically for her to leave. "Fugarse!" they yelled. Go!
They turned and headed for the stairwell that Kirby had seen earlier. The corridor through which they ran turned out to be a walkway connecting the main building to a satellite structure containing the stairwell. Through a wall of glass at the end of the walkway could be seen the scaffolding that had been visible from the street. The pipes stretched up the side of the building like metal webbing, reflecting the hospital lights. Kirby came to the stairwell door, shoved it open, and then heard the heavy-footed sounds of somebody climbing the stairs. A figure appeared. A masked figure climbing toward them.
Kirby pushed Montoya back through the doorway and closed it. They were trapped. There was nowhere to go. Instinctively, he reached over and picked up a chair that sat against the wall. He jammed one of the thin metal legs through the handle of the door. Kirby hadn't even let go of the chair before the door rocked violently. The gunman was trying to get it open, but the chair straddled the door frame like a giant spider that refused to budge.
A scream reverberated through the walkway, causing both Kirby and Montoya to flinch involuntarily as one of her bodyguards slumped to the floor. A second went to help him and was cut down a moment later. Montoya crossed herself as the last man tried to get across the hall using the rack of cylinders as cover.
A shot tore through the stairwell door. Then another, partially dislodging the chair.
Kirby guessed that he had only seconds to come up with a plan.
"The window," he said picking up another chair. "We can get down to the street."
At the far end of the corridor two gunmen appeared. They fired at Montoya's last man, trying to pick him off as he crouched behind the tanks of oxygen.
Kirby swung the chair through the windowed wall, the glass bursting outwards in a crash! into pebble-sized pieces. This time Montoya did not need to be encouraged to move. She hurriedly followed him out onto the scaffolding. A series of short vertical ladders connected the various levels.
They started down.
The wood around the door handle blistered under the barrage of bullets and the chair finally fell free.
Velarde pulled the door back and leaped into the walkway. To his right he recognized Oro and another of his men as they tried to advance up the hall. One of Montoya's men was crouching behind cover with his back to Velarde. But Velarde ignored them all, turning his attention to the window instead. All he cared about now was Montoya.
"What's he doing?" Oro yelled. "Where the hell's he going?"
He had just watched Verlarde turn his back on them and climb out the window when he could have taken a shot. What was he doing? He appeared to be leaving them behind.
"Bastard!" the other man said suddenly standing. There were only two of them now, three including Velarde. Oro watched as his companion emptied the magazine of his rifle in a fit of fury at the remaining member of Montoya's detail. As the rounds slammed into the metal cylinders, flying off in every direction, a bullet took the nozzle off one of the tanks. The big cylinder shot sideways out of the rack spewing white vapor, and pouring liquid over the floor as it bounced around the hall. The surviving bodyguard seemed to take this as a sign to make a run for it, and he bolted for the stairwell.
The other two immediately gave chase. But Oro's feet slipped out from under him as he ran across the huge pool of steaming liquid spreading along the walkway. He felt it splash into his face and hands as he hit the floor. It bit like fire. Like acid, he thought in a moment of panic.
As he began screaming, he leveled his gun at the receding figure ahead of him. And with vengeance in his heart, he pulled the trigger.
The air above them shook violently as a ball of fire erupted out into the night from the seventh floor, dislodging the scaffold frame from the side of the building.
"Jesus!" Kirby said as the rigging was momentarily silhouetted against an orange sky. And in that fleeting moment his eyes had registered something else — the outline of an arm, a rifle. Someone was pursuing them. Coming down through the darkness two floors above them. Coming for them.
"Keep moving," Kirby yelled to Montoya. "We've got company!"
Rawley was searching the sixth floor for the gunman who had run into him when he heard the explosion and saw a burst of light fill the walkway. Shards of sparkling glass rained down past the windows. At the end of the corridor he saw an armed figure climbing down through the rigging outside the window.
He ran to the end of the walkway and looked down.
The figure had descended another level and ran across to the next ladder, pausing midway just long enough to look down over the side of the scaffold, then hurrying on. Rawley glimpsed someone else moving far below him. And beneath them all, a dimly-lit helipad — a huge red circle painted on the second-story roof of the hospital's west wing.
They appeared to be descending toward it.
Rawley turned, headed into the nearby stairwell, and started down.
Montoya surprised Kirby with her agility. They were able to stay ahead of their pursuer all the way down through the piping. It wasn't until they reached the bottom of the structure that Kirby suddenly had to rethink their escape. Because they hadn't come out at street level. They seemed to be on the roof of the second floor.
Broken glass and lengths of piping which had broken loose from the scaffolding littered the roof. But there was also what appeared to be the top of a stairwell, a small windowless concrete shed at one corner of the roof. He could see a door.
Above them, they heard the gunman jump from a ladder and land noisily on the cross beams one floor up.
"Get to the door," Kirby told Montoya as he picked up a length of piping. "I'll follow you."
She looked at him, nodded, and headed off across the roof.
He waited beneath the ladder in the shadows, gripping the bar tightly in his hands. Listening for any sound on the landing above him. But it was quiet. No movement at all.
He looked across and saw Montoya reach the door. She struggled with it, but it remained shut. Locked. She quickly abandoned the effort and made her way to the edge of the roof, looking for a way off. But in doing so she had made herself an easy target.
Kirby heard a creak above him, and in his mind he saw a rifle being steadied as it followed the Mexican president across the roof. He couldn't wait there any longer. He started up the ladder, his heart pounding. When he reached the next level, he lifted his head cautiously above the footboards. As he did so he felt a dull metal object press into the side of his throat.
"I don't think she's going anywhere. Do you?"
Kirby looked up and saw the masked figure above him motioning for him to come up. "You can drop that now," he said.
Kirby let the pipe slip from his hand. It clanged as it bounced off the concrete below them.
He climbed up.
"What were you going to do? Hit me over the head with it?"
"I'm not a cold-blooded murderer, if that's what you mean," Kirby said. It was a pointless gibe under the circumstances, but he no longer felt in control of himself. He was filled with anger.
"A cold-blooded murderer? Is that what I look like to you?" Kirby's captor shook his head. "I think you must be confusing me with someone else, doc." With that, he suddenly lashed out, striking Kirby square in the side of the head with the butt of his gun.
Kirby saw a flash of white light, and toppled backwards.
He was struggling to get back up, aware of shouts below him, shots ringing out in the darkness. Slowly, Kirby pulled himself to his feet. He looked down to the roof and saw that it was empty. Montoya had vanished.
He climbed unsteadily down the ladder again, and went out across the roof to the stairwell door. It was open now, its lock shot away. Quickly descending the stairs, he came out in a corridor at street level. Going through an outside door he found himself in a parking lot.
Kirby heard Montoya yell "Pig!" as three more shots rang out nearby.
He ran out into the middle of the lot and saw two of Montoya's drivers lying on the ground. A third was trying to crawl away.
Montoya was being pushed into one of the Navigators. She resisted, managing to distract her abductor long enough for the injured driver to draw an ankle gun and get off a shot. It struck his target in the side of the chest, but failed to stop him from getting Montoya into the car. He then climbed in beside her and seconds later the car roared out of the lot. It almost hit a pair of uniformed ambulance men who came running out of the building.
Kirby directed them across to the wounded driver as he checked the other two men. But they lay motionless, unable to be helped. One of them, the driver of the car Kirby had arrived in, still held the keys to the Navigator in one hand.
On the spur of the moment Kirby grabbed them and ran back to the car. He jumped in and put the key in the ignition. The engine turned over.
He spun the wheel and headed out of the lot.
It took Kirby less than thirty seconds to realize the futility of his effort. It was dark, and the second Navigator had already disappeared into the traffic. Finding it now seemed unlikely. He was about to give up and turn the car around when it dawned on him that Montoya's visit to the hospital had been entirely unpremeditated. No one could have known about it in advance. Her attackers had to have followed her to the hospital. Perhaps even all the way from the airfield. If that was true, then in all probability the escape route involved an element of backtracking to the point where they had first begun trailing her. That suggested the other car was headed back to the freeway, moving south.
Kirby searched for the freeway entrance to the I-5, but could not find it. Frustrated, he rummaged through the glove compartment for a map and came up empty-handed. Then he noticed the LCD display he had seen on the drive in to the hospital. The electronic road map. But the screen was blank; he switched it on.
Orange road markings began filling out across the screen. But instead of a single red dot at its center — as he had seen earlier — an extra one had appeared toward the left corner of the screen. The two red markers flashed in unison every two seconds or so.
Now Kirby recognized what he was looking at. He had been correct earlier when he'd assumed the dot at the center of the screen was the position of the car he was now driving. But what he had missed was the presence of a second signal. And he had missed it for the simplest of reasons — the two red markers had merged in the center of the screen. Montoya was almost certainly emitting a signal from a device she was carrying on her. A belt buckle, a wristwatch. Something she took everywhere she went. The display was more than a road map. It was a tracking device, presumably meant to help coordinate her whereabouts while on the road.
Kirby turned the car around, found the entrance to the freeway two blocks down, and roared up the on-ramp. His first priority now was keeping that signal from moving off the edge of the screen.
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Havin' a Ball - An Opera Ball Part 2
09/20/2017 09:54 am ET Updated Nov 14, 2017
In these viralized, volatile times, to view the Arts as a bridge between Man and Mankind is a way to consider all aspects of art as positive and essential. Art provides physical manifestations we can explore so as to better understand it and ourselves - together. The Arts are inextricable extensions of ourselves, reflecting us in Time and Place. Let us protect Art as a sublime form of Free Expression, for, even if extreme, it can be exist without implicit destruction or direct cost to others.
In this "Havin' a Ball - an Opera Ball" article (click here for Part 1), I'd like to spotlight another friend of mine, Indy-area fashion blogger/stylist Laura Walters of Style Riot, to help illustrate the deep purpose behind the material and fashionable aspects of dress-up events that exist to support Arts non-profits such as the Indianapolis Opera, where I currently serve as board and committee member. We are keeping Arts support fresh, and through that, we are keeping it relevant.
This year's Indianapolis Opera Ball, Un Ballo in Maschero (A Masked Ball) takes place on November 4, and looks to its tandem IO production, the iconic La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, for inspiration. The drama and passion that resonated with audiences when Traviata was first performed in Venice in 1853 still speak to us today, for indeed, a good love story - and boatloads of drama - never go out of style!
How do we pull olde worlde Arts support into the new millennium?
As I noted in my previous Ball article:
Attendance at a Ball is no longer relegated to the staunch and starched, where prim patrons float about amongst ghosts of Balls past. The Ball has morphed into a multi-generational, dance and laughter imbued night out with the added bonus of having purpose – fun for a cause. And the look? High cost, low cost, brand-new, vintage, traditional, arty or edgy, perhaps costumed for added panache – the fashion freedom we enjoy today helps create essential, auto-biographical glimpses into the personal style story of each wearer. We may sometimes wear our hearts on our sleeves, but we can always tell a little story about ourselves….
Listen in now, as Laura shares her thoughts on fashion, personal style and dressing up for an Opera Ball. As she reminisces of her childhood dress up days, I am reminded of my own daughter's magically expressive, self-dressing ways. It inspired a blog post I wrote back in '13, "Rainbows in Her Head - My Daugher the Self-Dresser," for you see, I too believe that dress up play - and, yes, even fairy wings - help put some solid, life-long lift into our steps....
How does fashion - what you actually are wearing - speak for you?
Since I was little, fashion has always been my creative outlet. I didn't realize it as a young girl, I just knew I loved dressing up and adorning myself in pretty things. Once I began to settle into my own skin, I discovered the profound gift of self-expression through fashion. Instead of feeling the fear of standing out, I began to run towards it, at a maximum speed. I began to have fun - because fashion IS fun - and whimsical, theatrical, impactful and profound. I began to see dressing as an art. To appreciate the art behind a garment and the art in wearing it as well. As a way to creatively express to the world who I am, what I think and how I want to be perceived. It's an incredible thing to find your voice through clothing. Becoming a wardrobe stylist was not just about a career, but a true extension of my being. Fashion is as important as breathing. To help others understand it's impact and to feel incredible in what they wear, finding their voice and style along the way is at the heart of what makes me feel fulfilled, inspired and keeps my creative heart beating.
What does arts support in this millennium mean to you and how can you/we keep it fresh and relevant?
I moved back to Indianapolis after six years away. In that time I lived in Chicago and Los Angeles. Those six years were crucial in my development, in learning to understand the impact Arts and culture can have on a city. Returning to Indianapolis with this renewed outlook fed a need to submerge myself in local culture. Much to my surprise and delight, I found Indianapolis had a thriving scene that was continuing to grow. How exciting! When one peels back the layers of a city on the creative rise, overwhelming amounts of talent, ideas, impactful programs, passion, love and unity are right there - people working diligently to have their creative voices heard.
Creative placemaking, Art programs, Art institutions, public instillations and interactive art opportunities are at the forefront of any arts movement. Bringing Art to the people is such an impactful way to raise awareness. Creating fun, unique opportunities for those who are curious about Art and its relevance is crucial to help Arts growth. Listening to the talent of a city, supporting their efforts, creating platforms for which they can showcase their work - these are the ways to feed the creative pulse of a city.
How do we bring a traditional Opera Ball into the 21st c?
By celebrating exactly what an opera ball was from the beginning. I don't believe in modernizing everything. Sometimes I believe the beauty truly lies in the history of its origin. When I think of the costumes, the stage actors, the opera houses, the parties in the past, I find myself whirling around in such a beautiful and romantic dream. I love the idea of celebrating the opera as it once was, long ago.
Let us work – and play – to support our Arts community: Join us at the Opera Ball. Our Opera Ball. Watch for the 3rd Opera Ball article, out next month, featuring my next guest fashion blogger!
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Superman Actors Tom Welling & Tyler Hoechlin Unite For 'Crisis On Infinite Earths' BTS Photo
Superman actors Tom Welling and Tyler Hoechlin meet up in a new photo from the set of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
The CW's next annual crossover will be an adaptation of the famous Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline and like the source material, the 5-part event will unite multiple versions of DC Comics heroes from alternate universes. Among the many faces joining Crisis on Infinite Earths are Superman actor Tyler Hoechlin and Smallville alumn Tom Welling, who reprises his role as Clark Kent eight years after the series concluded.
Details on what role Tom Welling's Clark Kent will play in Crisis on Infinite Earths are currently unknown, aside from the fact that fans will finally learn what he's been up to since taking on the Superman mantle. However, a behind-the-scenes photo from the set of Crisis on Infinite Earths, posted by Lois Lane actress Elizabeth Tulloch, features Superman actors Tom Welling and Tyler Hoechlin on the famous Kent farm.
First Official Look At Superman Actor Tom Welling In 'Crisis On Infinite Earths'
Check out the post below to see Superman actors Tom Welling and Tyler Hoechlin in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
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A post shared by Elizabeth Tulloch (@bitsietulloch) on Sep 30, 2019 at 11:13am PDT
Are you excited to see Tom Welling's Clark Kent and Tyler Hoechlin's Superman meet? Do you think Smallville fans will finally get to see Tom Welling don the Superman suit? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!
Tyler Hoechlin Addresses Rumors He's Replacing Henry Cavill As Superman On The Big Screen
Crisis On Infinite Earths will span two quarters and consist of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman. The Arrowverse crossover will launch with three episodes in December before concluding with two additional episodes in January.
In addition to the regular cast members of each Arrowverse series, Crisis will also feature appearances by Tyler Hoechlin as Superman, Brandon Routh as Clark Kent/Superman and Ray Palmer/The Atom, LaMonica Garrett as the Anti-Monitor, Jon Cryer as Lex Luthor, Tom Cavanagh as Pariah, Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane, Cress Williams as Black Lightning, Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne, Johnathon Schaech as Jonah Hex, Erica Durance as Lois Lane, Tom Welling as Clark Kent / Superman, Ashley Scott Will as Huntress, and Burt Ward in an undisclosed role.
Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for the latest news on Tom Welling and Tyler Hoechlin's Superman in Crisis on Infinite Earths!
Source: Elizabeth Tulloch
New 'Titans' Photos Show Off Aqualad And The Original Team
DC Universe has released eight brand new images from the upcoming fourth episode of the second season of Titans entitled, "Aqualad".
"Aqualad" will explore the dynamic among Dick Grayson/Robin (Brenton Thwaites), Donna Troy/Wonder Girl (Conor Leslie), Hank Hall/Hawk (Alan Ritchson), Dawn Granger/Dove (Minka Kelly) and Garth/Aqualad (Drew Van Acker) and how four years prior, their tight-knit family dynamic developed only to have their personal feelings bleed more into their work only to be exacerbated by the arrival of a new villain.
These new images give fans a new look at Drew Van Acker as Aqualad as well as a couple of new looks at the original team united together for action. In particular, we get our best look at how the Aqualad suit translates onscreen in live-action form.
You can check out the rest of the gallery for "Aqualad" by clicking "Next".
Here is the official synopsis for season two:
In Season 2, following the aftermath of their encounter with Trigon, Dick reforms the Titans. Under his supervision in their new home at Titans Tower, Rachel, Gar and Jason Todd train together to hone their hero abilities and work together as a team. They are joined by Hank Hall and Dawn Granger aka Hawk and Dove and Donna Troy aka Wonder Girl. Although these original Titans attempt to transition into a regular life, when old enemies resurface everyone must come together to take care of unfinished business. And as this family of old and new Titans – including Conner Kent and Rose Wilson – learn to co-exist, the arrival of Deathstroke brings to light the sins of the old Titans which threaten to tear this new Titans family apart once more.
The series stars Brenton Thwaites as Robin/Nightwing, Anna Diop as Starfire, Teagan Croft as Raven, and Ryan Potter as Beast Boy. Newcomers for its sophomore outing include Joshua Orpin and Esai Morales playing Superboy and Deathstroke, respectively, while Chella Man and Chelsea Zhang have also joined the cast as Deathstroke's children Jericho and Ravager. Natalie Gumede has signed on to play Mercy Graves and Game of Thrones star Iain Glen is on board as Bruce Wayne.
Titans season two is now airing on DC Universe.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico's health insurance exchange has selected an Idaho official to run the online marketplace as it prepares for the next round of enrollment.
The exchange's board of directors voted Friday to hire Amy Dowd as its chief executive officer. She's been executive director of Idaho's insurance exchange since last year.
The board is finalizing a contract with Dowd and it is uncertain when she will start.
Interim CEO Mike Nunez has been running New Mexico's exchange since it was created last year. He receives an annual salary of $185,000.
During the first round of enrollment that ended in March, New Mexico used a federally operated exchange for individuals and a state-run computer system for small businesses.
New Mexico hopes to switch to the state-run exchange to enroll individuals this fall, but questions remain whether the state system will be ready.
Despite problems with the federal exchange, nearly 35,000 New Mexicans signed up for insurance plans offered by private insurers through the online marketplace, according to figures through mid-April from the state insurance superintendent's office. In addition to that, about 17,000 individuals signed up for coverage off the exchange, such as dealing directly with insurers and their brokers.
Idaho took a similar approach to New Mexico in launching its exchange by relying on the federal online system for handling eligibility and enrollment until a state-based system was ready.
Before Nunez was selected to temporarily run the exchange, he served as executive director of the New Mexico Health Insurance Alliance, a nonprofit public corporation established by the state in 1994 to provide access to insurance for small businesses and some individuals.


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Infiniti shows bold new sports sedan
Detroit Motor Show - Infiniti boldly proclaims that its new Q50 sedan "stretches the boundaries of what a sports saloon can be."
Replacing the G37 (which is also available as a sedan overseas) and with formidable competition out there from the likes of BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi, the new Japanese sedan is really going to have to shift those boundaries.
Measuring 4782mm in length and 1824mm in width, the Q50 fits between the BMW 3 Series and 5 Series in terms of size.
Its design is interesting to say the least, particularly with that large 'double arch' grille, but overall it's likely to prove a little less controversial than those complicated curves on the new Lexus IS.
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The US-market Q50 will give customers the choice between a powerful petrol engine and a more frugal petrol-electric hybrid.
The former option is a 3.7-litre V6, credited with 245kW and 364Nm. The hybrid model mates a 3.5 V6 petrol motor to a small lithium-ion battery for a total system output of 268kW.
The European market (and presumably SA too) will have additional engine options, with Infiniti's 175kW/550Nm 3-litre turbodiesel springing to mind a no-brainer in this regard. Full details will be announced at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
Both engines are mated to a seven-speed automatic gearbox, and though standard models will be rear-wheel driven, there will be an all-wheel drive option.
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A revised fully-independent suspension set-up underpins the driver enjoyment factor, as does a world-first Direct Adaptive Steering system, which allows for independent control of the vehicle's tyre angle and steering inputs. This is said to make the steering more responsive. The system has four settings, allowing the driver to change both the steering effort and the steering gear ratio.
Other innovations include a more advanced Active Lane Control system and what Infiniti calls a fully-customisable digital environment. The system works with the vehicle's advanced i-Keys to recognise the vehicle settings (driving position, heating and cooling, audio, navigation and telematics) for up to four different drivers.
Another nifty system is the Infiniti InTouch system, designed to effortlessly synchronise car and driver. Here the most frequently used applications (such as navigation) are directed to the upper screen while other content will be seen on the lower display screen.
The new Q50 goes on sale in the US around midyear and while it has been confirmed for South African introduction, no timeline has been given as yet. -IOL Motoring Staff
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Two nonprofit groups advocating for those with Huntington's disease (HD), HD Reach and the North Carolina Chapter of the Huntington's Disease Society of America (HDSA-NC), have announced a second daylong educational event for people with HD, their families, and caregivers. This year's NC HD "Hope for Health, Hope for Life" will be at held the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, on April 2.
Jimmy Pollard, a caregiver and the award-winner author of "Hurry Up and Wait," a guidebook for HD caregivers, will be the event's keynote speaker. Other featured presentations will include the latest developments in HD treatment and care from doctors and researchers at Wake Forest University Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center, plus information sessions directed at young patients and at caregivers, and panel discussions. The sessions will be moderated by Dr. Mary Edmondson of Duke University, the medical director of HD Reach.
The full-day event, which begins with registration and breakfast at 8:30 a.m., will take place at the Elliott University Center on the UNC-G Campus, with free parking and meals provided. HD Reach and HDSA are supporting the event, with the aid of an unrestricted educational grant from Teva and Angels of the Abbey.
HD is an inherited, progressive, and degenerative brain disease that causes involuntary movements, cognitive deterioration and behavioral instabilities. It currently affects an estimated 30,000 people in the U.S., including 1,000 North Carolinians (with another 5,000 at potential risk). Because HD is an autosomal dominant inherited disease, if one parent carries the faulty gene, each child has a 50 percent likelihood of inheriting the disease, regardless of gender. People at potential risk can attend genetic testing and family planning programs offered by the HDSA.
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