It was probably the word "salad" that had put me off a little, because as you know, I'm a meat person and every time I peruse through a menu, my eyes will only stop for the word steak or salmon and at the least chicken. The restaurant describes the dish as Black radish, avocado, cilantro, jalapeño and yuzu vinaigrette. The "fine" gentleman decided to give me some time to make up my mind about my selections and asked if I would like to have some sparkling water. I have been to a good number of great restaurants in Houston with a similar price range, but not once did I get offered sparkling water that I didn't have to pay for.
The Table on Post Oak is a trendy, fresh American restaurant and bar, not easy to find, but without a doubt graces the admired Post Oak Boulevard in the Houston Galleria-area. It has that traditional classy feel from the moment you step inside, with beautiful deep colored tones, bold accents, gorgeous flower arrangements, and a setting for the tasteful and sophisticated as you are introduced to the airy dining upstairs. As a first timer, it's easy to feel a little intimidated by the attention paid to class, but if there is one thing I love about Houston, it's that no matter how fancy a place looks, there will always be someone wearing cowboy boots, so you won't have to be the worst dressed person at the party…typical Texas.
With only two choices of Tomato Cherry something and Table salad, I reconsidered the crab salad and finally decided that if I was going to give in and eat crab for the first time, I might as well do it in a decent place. As usual, I asked for the non-alcoholic drink options and settled for the Watermelon Agua Fresca. I have no idea what Fresca meant, but I knew I loved everything watermelon so I was sold. The drink is your typical watermelon juice, just a little softer…I wonder if they add a little water in it. Either way, it's still refreshing.
When the crab dish was placed in front of me, I didn't know what to do with myself. I had this deep fear of embarrassing myself if I had to spit it out. So I decided to start with the avocado and just a little crab. Why didn't anyone tell me that crab tasted a lot like fish? This is hands down the best salad I have ever had in my life! That little golden sauce you see around the salad is so tastefully tangy, and beautifully compliments the avocado with the "spiced to perfection" crab. Also, I think it helped a lot that the crab didn't come the way they usually serve crab meat…in a crab that looks like it's going to come alive and jump at you to avenge its death. I was beyond impressed!
For my entrée I settled for wait for it…Steak Frites…(lmao, I'm not even ashamed anymore). The restaurant describes it as grilled hanger steak, French fries and peppercorn sauce. I'm no food critic so I might not break down the food lingo for you to perfection but hanger steak is usually the most tender cut on the animal and very flavorful. I can't quite point out what flavors were used (good job recipe hiders) but I loved that it wasn't too salty or too predictable. It's one of those meats that you simply let the flavor fill your mouth. Here's a fun fact, I had no idea what to do with the peppercorn sauce, but I "winged it" and poured it over my steak and from what I'm googling right now, I nailed it!
Ah dessert…aka the main reason I chose to eat at this restaurant. The Crème Brûlée Vanille and Madeleines were everything I have ever wished for in a crème brûlée. I just love how it was topped off with a coating of melted and then hardened sugar, that you had to crack into to get to the gold. Such a simple miracle in a little bowl.
The Table at Post Oak has two levels. The first floor is more of a happy hour, socialize kind of situation and the second floor is more like the fancy wine and dine. I think of it as the kind of place you would meet the girl of your dreams over drinks and then propose to her over dinner in the same place you saw her for the very first time. The staff is amazing!!! Will, the Manager and the handsome gentleman that served me were so warm and welcoming. I came in feeling a little timid, I left feeling like I had been there 5 times. Truly a gem of the contemporary uptown community, a must try when in Houston.
Bar closes when restaurant closes.
Credit cards accepted. Full bar. Complementary valet parking.


Maintain Constant Eyes-On, uninterrupted supervision. NEVER leave a child alone near any body of water, not even for a second.
Never assume someone else is watching your child. YOU are the one who MUST watch your child.
Stay in touch! Keep all children who can't swim within arm's reach when water is nearby. Keep a telephone and emergency numbers close. Remember, CPR is an after-the-fact emergency procedure with an uncertain outcome.
The leading cause of distractions around the pool are an adult leaving to answer the phone, attending to something inside the home and helping someone else in or around the water. If you must leave, take the children with you.
There are so many other ways to have bonding time with your child. Teach children how to handle themselves in the water BEFORE encouraging them to play in it. A quick shower is a better alternative to letting your child sit in a tub full of water. You SHOULD NEVER leave your child during a bath. No distraction is worth the risk.


fruit, fruit and more fruit.
Well more than that but I did buy lots of fruit at the grocery yesterday so we'll be eating lots of it this week. That's okay because the little bit LOVES fruit. We got cherries, blackberries, cantaloupe, nectarines (smelled delicious at the store and that is the case Micah and I shared on at breakfast), and pineapple.
For lunch today I tried Mac and Cheese bites. I made it without the chicken (because I didn't have any thawed/cooked to throw in) and with the cheese I had in the fridge which wasn't cheddar so we'll see if the kids like them.
Update: Abby and Micah both really enjoyed them. Even Beau said they were yummy. After I told him I didn't use cheddar he said they'd probably be better with that. Best of all I have many leftover in the fridge/freezer for a couple more lunches.


I had a lovely weekend with a couple girlfriends that left me feeling so much sunnier. Stephanie and Anika came down to visit from Knoxville, TN. We'd worked together at Magpies Bakery and have formed a friendship that lasted after our time there together. I was so happy to have a weekend with them- a quiet weekend spent exploring Greenville and Spartanburg, SC. We wandered downtown Greenville on Saturday, stopping for margaritas at Guadalajara on Main Street and gelato at Luna Rosa Gelato Cafe. The intense summer heat gave us a pretty good beating by the time we made it to the West End. A quick stop at Trader Joe's for nibbly bits, wine, and pasta to make for dinner and another quick stop at The Bavarian Pretzel Factory for cheese and dessert. YUM! We spent the night eating good food, enjoying wine, and spending time catching up. Sunday morning we got up early, had a light breakfast and headed out the door to pick peaches at Fisher's Orchard in Greer, SC. I wanted to take them to a great diner for lunch, so we made our way to Stax Omega Diner in Greenville, SC and sat at the curved bar for a fantastic lunch. Drove around Spartanburg for a bit, then back to Luna Rosa for drinks (them) and gelato (me). Another stop at Trader Joe's, and the girls were on their way back home.


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The 2014–15 Polish Cup was the 58th edition of the Polish Volleyball Cup tournament.

Lotos Trefl Gdańsk won their first Polish Cup in club history after beating Asseco Resovia in the final (3–1).

Final four
 Venue: Ergo Arena, Gdańsk/Sopot
 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Semifinals
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Final

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Final standings

Awards

Most Valuable Player
  Mateusz Mika (Lotos Trefl Gdańsk)
Best Server
  Murphy Troy (Lotos Trefl Gdańsk)
Best Receiver
  Piotr Gacek (Lotos Trefl Gdańsk)
Best Defender
  Krzysztof Ignaczak (Asseco Resovia)

Best Blocker
  Piotr Nowakowski (Asseco Resovia)
Best Opposite Spiker
  Jochen Schöps (Asseco Resovia)
Best Setter
  Fabian Drzyzga (Asseco Resovia)

See also
 2014–15 PlusLiga

References

External links
 Official website

Polish Cup
Polish Cup
Polish Cup
Polish Cup

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Q: How to set a specific input method to emacs specific major-mode if I have a condition? I need to set Russian input method if I open a line from po-mode and only from po-mode. The line opens in txt-mode in which default is English.
Thanks.

A: Probably something like:
(setq default-input-method "russian-computer")
(add-hook 'po-mode-hook #'toggle-input-method)

You can manually toggle the input method with M-x toggle-input-method or C-\.
Get a list of available input methods with M-x list-input-methods.

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Lynn Riemer will be speaking to parents and students about marijuana and tobacco laws, drug trends, vaping culture and safety.
When – March 27, 2018, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Lake County Build a Generation, ACT on Drugs, and RMC Health.


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The work related to the grid of the shrine of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her) continues, and day after the other the servants of the al-Abbas's (p) Holy Shrine, take a step forward in implementing its work
The work related to the grid of the shrine of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her) continues, and day after the other the servants of the al-Abbas's (p) Holy Shrine, take a step forward in implementing its work, which is witnessing clear, tangible and visible progress, with its two manufacturing lines of the remaining parts, and the other line by installing the manufactured parts on the wooden structure, which is located in the hall of the department of manufacturing grids and doors of the holy shrines, belonging to the al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine.
Among the manufacturing parts that have been completed recently, is the poetic craved frieze, which is located on top of the knotworks, and it is one of two inscription bands as the grid contains a previously completed Qur'anic band, and a poetic one, separated by a decorative part.
The head of the department of manufacturing grids and doors of the holy shrines at the al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine; Mr. Nadhem al-Ghurabi, told Al-Kafeel Network: "The poetic band consists of (28) pieces that surround the grid on its four sides, with two pieces above each knotwork, on which are written the rows of the poem of the poet Ali al-Saffar al-Karbala'i, by the master of Arabic calligraphy, Dr. Rawdhan Bahia, in the thuluth script."
Al-Ghurabi continued: "Each piece of the poetic carved frieze is 5mm thick, 16cm high and 30cm long. The calligraphy will be colored with pure gold and its base is green enamel."
He concluded: "The band, like the rest of the parts, has the advantage of the installation method that is a technical and modern method, as it is hidden and makes it appear with the rest of the parts as one piece with each other on the one hand, and with the other parts of the grid on the other hand."
It is mentioned that the works of the grid of the shrine of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her) are carried out according to a work plan drawn up for this purpose, and its executive joints are distributed according to the design prepared on most of its parts and pieces, whether they are metal or wood, and any part that is completed by installing it on the wooden structure.
Holy Shrine of Lady. Zaynab
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Home Current Lebanon calls on US to help solve Gulf crisis | USA News
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Saad Hariri, Lebanon's prime minister, has called on the US to help solve the dispute between Qatar and the four Arab states that have imposed a blockade on Qatar.
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Egypt cut diplomatic and transport ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing it of supporting "terrorism". Qatar rejects the allegations as "baseless".
"We believe that dialogue is the best way [for] improving the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Qatar," Hariri said during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
INSIDE STORY: Will there be direct talks to end the Gulf crisis?
"I believe that maybe the United States also could help in solving this issue in the Gulf."
Hariri said that he believes the Kuwaitis, who are mediating in the crisis, "have made some progress".
The US and UK have urged the Saudi-led groups to end the blockade.
Separately on Tuesday, Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah, Qatar defence minister, said the blockade imposed on his country must be lifted before Qatar could engage in dialogue.
READ MORE: Get all the latest updates on the Qatar-Gulf crisis
On Friday, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said his country is ready for dialogue to resolve the crisis, but stressed that any solution must respect Qatar's sovereignty.
"We are open to dialogue to resolve the outstanding problems [so long as Qatar's] sovereignty is respected," Sheikh Tamim said in his first televised address on since the four Arab states cut ties with Qatar.
Hariri and Trump also discusssed Lebanon's efforts to protect its borders against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters other armed groups.
Trump called the Lebanese Shia armed group, Hezbollah, a threat to the entire Middle East.
He added that he was not a "fan" of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and pledged to prevent his government from carrying out any more chemical attacks.
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The fourteenth meeting of the ITER Council concluded on Thursday, 19 June, after two days of deliberation and discussion. Hosted by the ITER Organization in its Headquarters building in Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France, the meeting brought together representatives from the seven ITER Members: China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States. Under the chairmanship of Robert Iotti (US), the Council reviewed the progress of ITER construction and manufacturing. The ITER Organization reported on the arrival of components and the Council agreed on necessary changes to meet the challenges of construction and assembly. The Members discussed the current status of their activities and procurements as well as the need to finalize an updated schedule. Click here to view the photo gallery of the Fourteenth ITER Council. Read the Press Release in English and in French.
Arnaud Devred, head of the ITER Superconductor Systems & Auxiliaries Section, has been selected to receive this year's Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE Award for Significant and Sustained Contributions in the field of Applied Superconductivity for his 'many and significant contributions to the field of large scale applications.' The award recognizes researchers and technologists who have made "contributions in the field of applied superconductivity over a period of time of more than twenty years based on novel and innovative concepts proposed by the individual, the authorship or co-authorship of a number of publications of significance in the field of applied superconductivity and the presentation of a number of plenary and invited talks at major national and international conferences and meetings in applied superconductivity, including the Applied Superconductivity Conference," it says in the recipient's letter signed by Martin Nisenoff, chair of the Awards Committee. Previous recipients in the field of large-scale applications of superconductivity include: Henri Desportes, the late Hironi Hirabayashi, Yukikazu Iwasa, Peter Komarek, Daniel Leroy, Alfred D. McInturff, Joseph V. Minervini, D. Bruce Montgomery, Romeo Perin, the late John Purcell, Lucio Rossi, William B. Sampson, the late John Stekly, Herman H. J. ten Kate, Alvin Tollestrup, Bernard Turck, Martin N. Wilson and Akira Yamamoto. Throughout his carrier, Arnaud worked for large international projects—some successful, like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some less successful, like the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) where he started his career in the project's Central Design Group based in Berkeley, California, US. Despite its cancellation, the SSC experience permitted him to meet Maury Tigner and John Peoples, 'two remarkable physicists who became my mentors and inspiration,' Arnaud recalls. On 1 August 2007 Arnaud joined the ITER Organization, taking over a job which has been 'the most challenging in his life.' Looking back over the past seven years he recalls many crises, but "most of them were eventually resolved at the technical level, through sometimes long and protracted negotiations with the Domestic Agencies and/or with the help of external experts.' A particularly difficult problem arose when the team observed electromagnetic and thermal cycling degradation on early conductor samples for the central solenoid, which led to a crash program supported by extensive analyses and frontier imaging techniques. 'The program was successful and a straightforward industrialization solution was found and implemented that will ensure stable performance of the central solenoid coil with a suitable operating margin.' Another challenge for Arnaud and his team was the fact that in the pre-ITER world, the production of superconducting niobium-tin (Nb3Sn) strands was only 15 tonnes/year approximately, while ITER's magnets would require ~650 tonnes. The ITER Organization oversaw a ramp-up of world production to 100 tonnes/year over the last four years and the successful entry into the market of three new suppliers in China, Korea and Russia. Conductor production is now well underway: Nb3Sn strand production for the toroidal field coils (~500 tonnes) is nearly finished, toroidal field conductor production is two-thirds complete and all other production is in the series phase. In total, more than 100 conductor unit lengths have been completed, well ahead of coil winding, thereby requiring the setup of dedicated storage facilities. 'I would like to share this prize with my colleagues here at the ITER Organization and in the Domestic Agencies, as I believe it is our collaborative work that is rewarded with this prize. In my understanding, it is a recognition that—in spite of all the ITER constraints and difficulties—there is always a way to move forward and succeed.' The prestigious award—a medallion made of niobium—will be presented to Arnaud in a special ceremony on 10 August during the Applied Superconductivity Conference held in Charlotte, North Carolina, US.
The Chinese Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) has successfully accomplished a full-scale qualification prototype for one of the key components of ITER's magnet feeder system—the vacuum vessel that will provide thermal insulation to the components at the very end of the feeders inside of the Tokamak gallery. The ITER superconducting magnet system consists of 18 toroidal field coils, 6 poloidal field coils, a central solenoid (6 modules), 18 correction coils, and finally a coil supporting structure. Leading away from the magnets, 31 superconducting magnet feeders will provide connections to the power supplies, the cryogenic plant, and the magnet control and safety units. Each feeder is made up of an in-cryostat feeder, a cryostat feed-through, and the coil terminal box/S-bend box (CTB/SBB) assembly. At the end of the feeders, within the Tokamak gallery, are the critical CTB/SBB boxes where electrical power and cryogens are relayed through the warm-cold barrier of the cryostat to ITER's powerful magnets that operate at currents from 10 kA to 68 kA. A protective vacuum vessel will provide thermal insulation for hundreds of encapsulated cryogenic components that are part of the boxes such as a 80K thermal shield, high temperature superconducting current leads, superconducting busbars, cryogenic coolant circuits with control/safety valves, cold sensors and signal cables, and cold mechanical supports (see diagram). The CTB/SBB vacuum vessel is thus the largest (8m×1.3m×1.5m) and heaviest (18 t) feeder component. The final weight of a fully loaded CTB/SBB, vacuum vessel included, is 27 tonnes. In order to meet ITER's stringent quality requirements, the Chinese manufacturer conducted a series of welding trials and assessments and submitted as many as 82 quality documents to the ITER Organization. A number of experts and certified third-party inspectors were invited by the ITER Organization to witness different stages of key welding processes as well as vacuum leak checking, non-destructive testing, and large component measurements. The successful realization of the full-scale qualification CTB/SBB vacuum vessel prototype is a significant accomplishment within the scope of the Magnet Feeder Procurement Arrangement. The experience gained in this prototype qualification has laid a solid foundation for the high quality series production ahead. The qualified component will now be used at ASIPP to provide the necessary vacuum environment for the downstream cryogenic qualification tests of the 80K thermal shield and the high temperature superconducting current lead prototypes, as well as the full-size mockups of the S-bend busbars with high voltage insulation.
 Construction of the European Extremely Large Telescope has officially begun in the Atacama desert in Chile, marking the first step in a true mega-project that could offer us answers to some of the most profound questions in science. The event this week, the blasting of the top of Cerro Armazones — 3,000 metres high until Thursday, a few less now — was far less dramatic than many of the onlookers at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal facility 25 kilometres away had hoped for, but it was a significant first step in taking the E-ELT from the drawing board to reality. The function of the blast was to loosen many thousands of tons of rock from the summit in order for the earth movers to begin clearing a flat, circular area for the foundations of the telescope. This really is just the first small step in a massively ambitious project to build the E-ELT that will take at least a decade to finish. The science case for the E-ELT is quite easy to make, even to non-astronomers. While some of the great telescopes now in space and on the ground are designed to observe technical subjects such as the geometry of galaxies or the formation of stars, the E-ELT pitches itself as the telescope that will allow us to directly look at other planets around other stars. The E-ELT science team reckon they have a good chance of being the first to directly observe little blue dots like Earth, if they exist. Read more on Euronews website.
The World Cup is an opportunity to take a look at how popular football games affect JET's experimental schedule: JET's peak power demand is over one percent of the UK supply — albeit for very short periods — so the supply from the grid is limited to 575 megawatts, and JET's two flywheels are used to top up if necessary. But at some times, JET is not allowed to take any power from the grid at all. This happens when there are other major energy consuming events — such as halftime in a major football final, or in the ad-breaks in a popular TV show — times at which millions of people will switch on the kettle or go to the toilet, which creates an electrical load on the water pumping system. In fact JET power supply engineers are in regular contact with the grid, who advise every day the times at which pulses should be avoided — for example the fifteen to twenty minutes around sunset when lots of people turn on their lights. The engineers also monitor the frequency of the electricity supplied by the grid throughout the day: if the frequency falls much below the regulation 50 Hz they know the grid is under load and so they will recommend to the Engineer In Charge that pulses not be run. Read more on EFDA website.
In this three-minute time-lapse video, nine years of Wendelstein 7-X assembly (2005 to 2014) are condensed into three-minutes. The fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, in Germany, comprises five large and almost identical modules that were pre-installed and then assembled in a circle in the experimentation hall. Pump-down of the machine began in May. Read more about Wendelstein 7-X on the IPP website.
See the progress of the JT-60SA project — one of the three projects being developed under the Broader Approach Agreement — in this new clip filmed on-site in Naka, Japan. The clip shows that the six year assembly of JT-60SA is moving forward: the heart of the machine, the vacuum vessel, is now being built. Implemented by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and the European Domestic Agency for ITER, F4E, the advanced superconducting JT-60SA (super advanced) tokamak will be used to quickly identify how to optimize plasma performance for ITER and will study advanced modes of plasma operation suitable for DEMO. A first plasma is foreseen for March 2019. You can watch the video here or read the news released on F4E's Media Corner.
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District of Columbia health regulators ordered a D.C. hospital to stop delivering babies after several dangerous choices by hospital staff put patients at severe risk. United Medical Center had its license to deliver babies and operate a NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) restricted because of several dangerous events, according to the Washington Post.
One of the reported instances involved failing to prevent HIV transmission from a mother to a newborn, apparently not screening properly, and a complete failure to treat the baby with antiretroviral medications at birth. This is particularly disturbing because the transmission of HIV is preventable and the screening, assessment and treatment for the baby are well-established patient safety rules. By well-established, we mean that this has been the standard of care for at least 25 years. Standard of care is the rules hospitals and doctors follow to keep patients safe.
We have represented many children with birth injuries like cerebral palsy, but it has been many, many years since we have had a medical malpractice case involving the transmission of HIV from the mother to the baby in D.C. This is because the transmission of HIV is preventable and the treatment is so well-known and established.
Another documented violation of the rules involved a patient with preeclampsia, a potentially fatal high blood-pressure condition in pregnant women.
It's pretty clear there is a system failure at this D.C. hospital; and hopefully the District health regulators caught this and acted in time to prevent harm to patients. Unfortunately, the District and the hospital are not releasing any information voluntarily - again putting patients at risk. If you were going to the hospital wouldn't you like to know about medical mistakes so you could know what to ask, what to look for to keep yourself and your family safe?
The D.C. Department of Health and hospital management aren't talking or disclosing any of the safety violations (and how they plan to fix them). But thanks to the Post for uncovering this important information and hopefully making a D.C. hospital safer.
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does it look sick, or is all that crusty stuff normal?
what kind of lighting should it be getting, thanks!?
Re: Is this cactus sick?
Yes, but if it's just from being dry or sunburned I can't tell. The best thing would be to try propagating it from the healthy looking growth.
It's very similar to a Christmas cactus and requires the same care.


The Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef - In the interest of contributing to the world wide phenomenon initiated by The Institute For Figuring, In Stitches Collective is facilitating the creation of a Sydney Coral Reef. We invite you to participate in this woolly celebration of the intersection of higher geometry and craft, a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world.
The reef was inspired by geometric models of hyperbolic space, originally developed by mathematician Dr Daina Taimina in 1997, using the art of crochet. Until that time most mathematicians had believed it was impossible to construct physical models of hyperbolic forms, yet nature had been doing just that for hundreds of millions of years. It turns out that many marine organisms embody hyperbolic geometry, among them kelps, corals, sponges and nudibranchs. The IFF reef not only looks like an actual coral reef, it draws on the same underlying geometry endemic in the oceanic realm.
The Crochet Coral Reef is a collective and collaborative experience created by The Institute For Figuring (IFF) directors Margaret and Christine Wertheim (www.theiff.org). The project not only draws attention to the beauty and fragility of the coral reef (an ecosystem system most vulnerable to the effects of climate change), but also links communities through science, mathematics, art & craft.
One suggestion is to use plastic bags instead of yarn as another method of recycling them. the gooseflesh blog has a plastic bag yarn tutorial on how to reuse plastic bags as yarn.


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Michael Gene Myerson (born 1940) is an American writer and member of the Communist Party of the USA, best known for serving as president of SLATE (1961–1962) and co-authoring the memoir of Ware Group member and CPUSA counsel John J. Abt (1993).

Background

Michael Gene Myerson was born in 1940 in Washington, DC, the son of Seymour (died 1987) and Vivian Myerson (1911–2011).  His father came from a Yiddish-speaking, Orthodox, Rumanian Jewish home in Chicago, who spent his life under the name "Mike."  His mother's parents came from Ukraine and Lithuania. He has two brothers, Alan and Mark. During World War II, they were living in Washington, DC, where his father was an architect for the War Production Board and his mother an interior decorator.  (He describes himself as a "child of a blacklisted set designer" during McCarthyism,) whose mentor was CPUSA executive committee member Gil Green.)  In 1945, his family left Washington because his parents were both communists and moved to Los Angeles.  (During the 1970s, his parents claimed that the police had harassed them at their home in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles.  In 1977, his father sued the Los Angeles Police Department and in 1982 won an out-of-court settlement for $27,5000.)

Career

In 1958, Myerson arrived as a sophomore at the University of California-Berkeley, where he took part in the Free Speech Movement.  Almost from his arrival, he was on the executive committee of SLATE, an early New Left free speech organization based at Berkeley.  In 1961, he became SLATE president through 1962.  Shortly thereafter, he graduated and was kicked off campus.

In 1962, Myerson became chairman and executive of the United States Festival Committee Inc. to the Communist World Festival in Helsinki, Finland, cited in a 1962 article in the Harvard Crimson, and became embroiled in some controversy when he claimed that this festival was "Communist-dominated."  Myerson was member of the National Student Association (NSA) on its left-wing, unlike Tom Hayden and Al Haber, who were more centrist.  In 1963, he joined a study ground he called a "W.E.B. DuBois Club" or "Marxist study youth group and equated with "Labor's Youth League... an arm of the Communist Party" and also state "to be in the Young Communist League was not to be in the Communist Party...  I think it was an age thing."  He helped for an "Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination" in the San Francisco Bay area to support the NAACP and CORE.  Harry Bridges' daughter participated.  In 1964, he protested the presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater as well as US President Lyndon Baynes Johnson for his position on the Vietnam War.

Myerson became a "Vietnam expert" based on a popular pamphlet he wrote on the war.  In 1965, he organized a delegation to an Anti-Vietnam War Congress in Helsinki.  There, a delegation from the National Liberation Front (NLF) from North Vietnam invited him to visit, based on his pamphlet.  In August 1965, he traveled there with three other Americans:  Harold Supriano, Christopher Koch, and Richard Ward.  After that, Myerson went on a six-month tour of the US and spoke out against the Viet Nam War.

In 1966, Myerson left the Berkeley area in 1966 and went to New York City, where his older brother lived.  That year, he described himself, as a "non-Communist, pro-American, and pro-human" in The Chicago Defender.  In 1967, he appeared in a photo a Daily Worker photo with Tom Hayden, Stanley Aronowitz, Juan Angel Silen, Paul Krassner, and H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin).  In 1969, he was associated with an allegedly communist-affiliated Tri-Continental Information System.  In 1970, he described much of these events in the book These are the Good Old Days.

In 1977, Myerson was a member of the central committee of the CPUSA as well as executive director of the US Peace Council, an affiliate of the World Peace Council.

In 1992, Myerson left the CPUSA along with Herbert Aptheker, Angela Davis, Gil Green, and Charlene Mitchell. In 1993, CPUSA counsel John J. Abt published his memoir, Advocate and Activist : Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer, co-written with Myerson.  In 1994, Myerson accused CPUSA leader Gus Hall of living a "good bourgeois life" including "an estate in fashionable Hampton Bays."  In 1997, a New York Times obituary for Gil Green named Myerson as a "family friend."  Myerson also sorted Green's papers.

Personal life

On November 2, 1961, Myerson married Diane Burke; they divorced in 1966.

Legacy

James W. Clinton wrote a whole chapter on Myerson in Loyal Opposition (1995).

Myerson also appears in Phillip Abbott Luce The New Left (1966), David Allen's The Dream of the New Left (1995), and Anthony Ashbolt's A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area (2015).

Works

Books
 These are the Good Old Days:  Coming of Age as a Radical in America's Late, Late Years (1970)
 Memories of Underdevelopment: The Revolutionary Films of Cuba (1973)
 Watergate: Crime in the Suites (1973)
 Nothing Could Be Finer (1978)
 The ILGWU:  A Union That Fights for Lower Wages (1972–1983?)
 Advocate and Activist : Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer (1993)

Articles
 "The Legacy of Clinton Jencks," Monthly Review (2020)
 "A Portrait of Gil Green," Monthly Review (2021)

See also
 John J. Abt
 Gil Green (communist)
 Communist Party of the United States of America
 SLATE
 New Left

References

External links
 2014 Oral History

20th-century American writers
American political activists
Members of the Communist Party USA
1940 births
Living people


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// Copyright Paul Dardeau, SwampBits LLC 2014
// BSD License

package com.swampbits.tataille.test;

import com.swampbits.tataille.ControlId;
import com.swampbits.tataille.ControlInfo;
import com.swampbits.tataille.DisplayEngine;
import com.swampbits.tataille.Rect;
import com.swampbits.tataille.CheckBoxHandler;
import com.swampbits.tataille.ListSelectionHandler;
import com.swampbits.tataille.PushButtonHandler;

/**
 *
 * @author paul
 */
public class TatailleTester {

   private static final int BUTTON_WIDTH = 120;
   private static final int BUTTON_HEIGHT = 33;
   private static final int LABEL_HEIGHT = 30;
   private static final int LEFT_EDGE = 25;
   private static final int TOP = 15;
   private static final int LBL_CUSTOMER_WIDTH = 65;
   private static final int LBL_CUSTOMER_HEIGHT = LABEL_HEIGHT;
   private static final int EF_CUSTOMER_WIDTH = 200;
   private static final int EF_CUSTOMER_HEIGHT = 30;
   private static final int CK_DELIVERY_WIDTH = 100;
   private static final int CK_DELIVERY_HEIGHT = 30;
   private static final int CK_RUSH_WIDTH = 100;
   private static final int CK_RUSH_HEIGHT = 30;
   private static final int LIST_WIDTH = 130;
   private static final int LIST_HEIGHT = 270;
   private static final int LISTVIEW_WIDTH = 325;
   private static final int LISTVIEW_HEIGHT = LIST_HEIGHT;
   private static final int BTN_ADD_WIDTH = BUTTON_WIDTH;
   private static final int BTN_ADD_HEIGHT = BUTTON_HEIGHT;
   private static final int BTN_REMOVE_WIDTH = BUTTON_WIDTH;
   private static final int BTN_REMOVE_HEIGHT = BUTTON_HEIGHT;
   private static final int BTN_ORDER_WIDTH = BUTTON_WIDTH;
   private static final int BTN_ORDER_HEIGHT = BUTTON_HEIGHT;
   private static final int LBL_ORDERTOTAL_WIDTH = 65;
   private static final int LBL_ORDERTOTAL_HEIGHT = LABEL_HEIGHT;
   private static final String VALUES_DELIMITER = ",";

   private final DisplayEngine m_de;
   private ControlId m_cidCustomerLabel;
   private ControlId m_cidEntryField;
   private ControlId m_cidCheckDelivery;
   private ControlId m_cidCheckRush;
   private ControlId m_cidListBox;
   private ControlId m_cidListView;
   private ControlId m_cidAddButton;
   private ControlId m_cidRemoveButton;
   private ControlId m_cidOrderButton;
   private ControlId m_cidOrderTotal;

   public TatailleTester(DisplayEngine displayEngine) {
      m_de = displayEngine;
   }

   public void run() {
      ControlInfo ci;
      int windowId = DisplayEngine.ID_MAIN_WINDOW;
      int controlId = 0;
      int x = LEFT_EDGE;
      int y = TOP;

      m_cidCustomerLabel = new ControlId(windowId, controlId++);
      ci = new ControlInfo(m_cidCustomerLabel);
      ci.rect = new Rect(x, y, LBL_CUSTOMER_WIDTH, LBL_CUSTOMER_HEIGHT);
      ci.text = "Customer:";
      m_de.createStaticText(ci);

      x += LBL_CUSTOMER_WIDTH;
      x += 10;

      m_cidEntryField = new ControlId(windowId, controlId++);
      ci = new ControlInfo(m_cidEntryField);
      ci.rect = new Rect(x, y, EF_CUSTOMER_WIDTH, EF_CUSTOMER_HEIGHT);
      m_de.createEntryField(ci);

      x += EF_CUSTOMER_WIDTH;
      x += 20;

      m_cidCheckDelivery = new ControlId(windowId, controlId++);
      ci = new ControlInfo(m_cidCheckDelivery);
      ci.rect = new Rect(x, y, CK_DELIVERY_WIDTH, CK_DELIVERY_HEIGHT);
      ci.text = "Delivery";
      ci.helpCaption = "check if this order is for delivery";
      m_de.createCheckBox(ci);
      m_de.setCheckBoxHandler(m_cidCheckDelivery, new CheckBoxHandler() {
         @Override
         public void checkBoxToggled(boolean isChecked) {
            System.out.println("delivery: " + (isChecked ? "yes" : "no"));
         }
      });

      x += CK_DELIVERY_WIDTH;
      x += 20;

      m_cidCheckRush = new ControlId(windowId, controlId++);
      ci = new ControlInfo(m_cidCheckRush);
      ci.rect = new Rect(x, y, CK_RUSH_WIDTH, CK_RUSH_HEIGHT);
      ci.text = "Rush";
      ci.helpCaption = "check if this is a rush order";
      m_de.createCheckBox(ci);
      m_de.setCheckBoxHandler(m_cidCheckRush, new CheckBoxHandler() {
         @Override
         public void checkBoxToggled(boolean isChecked) {
            System.out.println("rush order: " + (isChecked ? "yes" : "no"));
         }
      });

      x += CK_RUSH_WIDTH;
      x += 15;

      m_cidOrderTotal = new ControlId(windowId, controlId++);
      ci = new ControlInfo(m_cidOrderTotal);
      ci.rect = new Rect(x, y, LBL_ORDERTOTAL_WIDTH, LBL_ORDERTOTAL_HEIGHT);
      ci.text = "0.00";
      ci.helpCaption = "total cost of order";
      m_de.createStaticText(ci);

      x = LEFT_EDGE;
      y += EF_CUSTOMER_HEIGHT;
      y += 15;

      m_cidListBox = new ControlId(windowId, controlId++);
      ci = new ControlInfo(m_cidListBox);
      ci.rect = new Rect(x, y, LIST_WIDTH, LIST_HEIGHT);
      ci.values = "Cheeseburger,Chips,Drink,French Fries,Grilled Cheese,Hamburger,Hot Dog,Peanuts";
      ci.valuesDelimiter = VALUES_DELIMITER;
      ci.helpCaption = "list of items available for order";
      m_de.createListBox(ci);
      m_de.setListSelectionHandler(m_cidListBox, new ListSelectionHandler() {
         @Override
         public void listItemSelected(int selectionIndex, String selectedValue) {
            System.out.println("list item: " + selectionIndex + ", '" + selectedValue + "'");
         }
      });

      x += LIST_WIDTH;
      x += 30;

      m_cidListView = new ControlId(windowId, controlId++);
      ci = new ControlInfo(m_cidListView);
      ci.rect = new Rect(x, y, LISTVIEW_WIDTH, LISTVIEW_HEIGHT);
      ci.values = "Qty,Item,Price";
      ci.valuesDelimiter = VALUES_DELIMITER;
      ci.helpCaption = "list of items on order";
      m_de.createListView(ci);

      y += LISTVIEW_HEIGHT;
      y += 30;

      x = LEFT_EDGE;

      m_cidAddButton = new ControlId(windowId, controlId++);
      ci = new ControlInfo(m_cidAddButton);
      ci.rect = new Rect(x, y, BTN_ADD_WIDTH, BTN_ADD_HEIGHT);
      ci.text = "Add Item";
      //ci.isEnabled = false;
      m_de.createPushButton(ci);
      m_de.setPushButtonHandler(m_cidAddButton, new PushButtonHandler() {
         @Override
         public void pushButtonClicked() {
            System.out.println("add item clicked");
         }
      });

      x += LIST_WIDTH;
      x += 30;

      m_cidRemoveButton = new ControlId(windowId, controlId++);
      ci = new ControlInfo(m_cidRemoveButton);
      ci.rect = new Rect(x, y, BTN_REMOVE_WIDTH, BTN_REMOVE_HEIGHT);
      ci.text = "Remove Item";
      //ci.isEnabled = false;
      m_de.createPushButton(ci);
      m_de.setPushButtonHandler(m_cidRemoveButton, new PushButtonHandler() {
         @Override
         public void pushButtonClicked() {
            System.out.println("remove item clicked");
         }
      });

      x += 150;

      m_cidOrderButton = new ControlId(windowId, controlId++);
      ci = new ControlInfo(m_cidOrderButton);
      ci.rect = new Rect(x, y, BTN_ORDER_WIDTH, BTN_ORDER_HEIGHT);
      ci.text = "Place Order";
      //ci.isEnabled = false;
      m_de.createPushButton(ci);
      m_de.setPushButtonHandler(m_cidOrderButton, new PushButtonHandler() {
         @Override
         public void pushButtonClicked() {
            System.out.println("place order clicked");
         }
      });

      m_de.run();
   }

}

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require "ubuntu_upgrader/version"

module UbuntuUpgrader
  # Your code goes here...
end


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Q: submitLoginForm() does not send the data to the authentication server - MobileFirst Cordova client I am trying to write a cordova hybrid application test application on MobileFirst platform. In my challenge handler, I have included a code to send a login information to my authentication server using submitLoginForm() java script API.
I check using wireshark if any auth request to my authentication server is getting generated, but it does not.
Can you please help me identify the issue with my code?
I can see the alert until Inside handleChallenge3, but does not see the alert for Closing Challenge Handler.
One more thing, I am trying to use isCustomResponse() API just to see what kind of challenge/response is coming to my challenge handler, but it seems not to be getting triggered. Has this been deprecated in MobileFirst Platform 8?
Thanks
var LtpaAuthChallengeHandler = function(){
      LtpaAuthChallengeHandler = WL.Client.createWLChallengeHandler("LtpaBasedSSO");

      LtpaAuthChallengeHandler.isCustomResponse = function(transport) {
        alert ("Inside isCustomResponse");
        return true;
      };

      LtpaAuthChallengeHandler.loginResponse = function(response) {
        alert ("Inside loginResponse");
        LtpaAuthChallengeHandler.submitSuccess();
        alert ("After loginResponse");
      };
      // handleFailure
      LtpaAuthChallengeHandler.handleFailure = function(error) {
         // WL.Logger.debug("Challenge Handler Failure!");
          if(error.failure !== null && error.failure !== undefined){
             alert(error.failure);
          }
          else {
             alert("Unknown error");
          }
      };

      LtpaAuthChallengeHandler.handleChallenge = function(challenge) {
        alert ("Inside handleChallenge");
        var msg = "";
    alert ("Inside handleChallenge1");
        var options = {
          "headers"     : {},
          "parameters"  : {
            "username" : "admin",
            "password" : "admin",
            'login-form-type' : 'pwd'
          }
        };
    alert ("Inside handleChallenge2");
        var loginUrl = "<URI for forms based auth of auth server>";
    alert ("Inside handleChallenge3");
        LtpaAuthChallengeHandler.submitLoginForm (loginUrl, options, LtpaAuthChallengeHandler.loginResponse);

        alert ("Closing Challenge Handler");
      };
    };

A: Once the credentials have been collected from the UI, use WLChallengeHandler's submitChallengeAnswer() to send an answer back to the security check.
isCustomResponse() is not applicable from MFP 8.0.
Refer to the Authentication and Security topic here.


Spotify is gaining popularity at a very fast pace and I would not be surprised to know if it has completely replaced the default music player on your desktop and smartphones. But one thing that I am sure you might be missing on Spotify is a sound equalizer.
Sound equalizer is one of the very basic features of a music player but still after tons of updates, it continues to remain absent on Spotify. However as Steve Jobs once told, "There's an app for that", so today I am going to show you how can get sound equalizer for Spotify across all your devices using third-party software/apps.
First let's have a look at how we can get the equalizer for Spotify on Windows.
Getting the equalizer for Spotify on Windows is simple enough. All you need to do is to download and run the installer of Equalify and install the package. The installer can be run without the admin access but then you will have to provide the path to Spotify Windows user profile manually. Running the installer as administrator will take care of that on its own.
After the application is installed, restart Spotify. You will not notice any change until you play the first song after installing the package. Once you have done that, you will see a small EQ button next to the search box.
Click on the button to expand the equalizer. You can now edit the bands manually or choose from one of the many presets available. The option to save a manual setting is also available.
Note: If your sound card configuration supports sound enhancements, you can use it to modify any sound that's coming out of your speakers or headphone. This can help you not only with the Windows Spotify application, but also the web based player that Spotify has started rolling out.
After configuring it on Windows, let's now have a look at how we can get the similar feature on Spotify app for Android and iOS.
When I was doing my research work for this article, I came across many online posts which claimed that Spotify introduced the equalizer feature in one of its latest app update on Android. But when I tried it on my own, I didn't find the feature. Further when I read the comments, it seemed that I was not alone whose app was missing it. But now I know a way we can get it working and that's by installing the Equalizer app.
There are many equalizer apps available for Android that can modify the sound, but the best thing about this eponymous app is that it integrates seamlessly with the Spotify app. After you have installed Equalizer, navigate to Spotify settings and select the option Sound settings. Once you select the option, the equalizer app will open up and you will be able to change the sound settings. The app comes in both free and pro versions, and the only limitation of the free version is that you cannot save the manual settings you do on the equalizer.
Surprisingly the iOS version of Spotify has a built-in equalizer but there's no button or option using which you can access it. To open the equalizer you will have to draw a weird gesture while the song is playing and it's very hard to explain that in words. This video should do a better job of it.
Don't worry if you don't get the equalizer in the first few attempts, I too failed quite a few times before I got it working. This built-in equalizer is very basic and lacks presets and the ability to create one manually.
So that was how you can get the equalizer for Spotify on Windows, and on iOS and Android. Though it'd have been better if it was available natively, this tool worked quite well in my tests. Try it out and enhance your music listening experience on Spotify.


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#include <stdbool.h>
#include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>

typedef void *SOSDataSourceFactoryRef;
//typedef void *SOSAccountRef;

// XXX Need to plumb these from security to secd.   If we can.

typedef SOSDataSourceFactoryRef (^AccountDataSourceFactoryBlock)();

bool SOSKeychainAccountSetFactoryForAccount(AccountDataSourceFactoryBlock factory);

bool SOSKeychainAccountSetFactoryForAccount(AccountDataSourceFactoryBlock factory)
{
    return false;
}

#if 0
SOSAccountRef SOSKeychainAccountGetSharedAccount(void);

SOSAccountRef SOSKeychainAccountGetSharedAccount(void)
{
    return (void*)0;
}
#endif

typedef struct _OpaqueFakeSecAccessControlRef *SecAccessControlRef;

CFTypeRef kSecAttrAccessControl = CFSTR("accc");

extern SecAccessControlRef SecAccessControlCreateFromData(CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFDataRef data, CFErrorRef *error);
extern CFDataRef SecAccessControlCopyData(SecAccessControlRef access_control);

SecAccessControlRef SecAccessControlCreateFromData(CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFDataRef data, CFErrorRef *error) {
    return NULL;
}

/*! Creates Access control instance from data serialized by SecAccessControlCopyData(). */
CFDataRef SecAccessControlCopyData(SecAccessControlRef access_control) {
    return NULL;
}


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Lovén avlade lantmästarexamen vid Alnarp 1948. Han var godsförvaltare vid Sätuna säteri 1949–1991. Lovén invaldes i Skogs- och Lantbruksakademiens jordbruksavdelning 1979. Han blev riddare av Vasaorden 1974.

Källor

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Svenska lantbrukare under 1900-talet
Ledamöter av Kungliga skogs- och lantbruksakademien
Riddare av Vasaorden
Personer inom Sveriges näringsliv under 1900-talet
Näringslivspersoner från Stockholm
Födda 1920
Avlidna 2012
Män


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Q: Этот код выдает ошибку "return 'outside function Что нужно исправить? graph = {}
graph[ "you"] = [ "alice", "ЬоЬ", "claire"]
graph["bob"] = ["anuj", ]
graph["alice"] = ["peggy"]
graph["claire"] = ["thom", "jonny"]
graph["anuj"] = []
graph["peggy"] = []
graph["thom"] = []
graph["jonny"] = []

def person_is_seller(name):
    return name[-1] == 'm'

from collections import deque
search_queue = deque()
search_queue += graph [ "you"]
while search_queue:
    person = search_queue.popleft()
    if person_is_seller(person):
        print("Да це продавець манго")
        return True
    else:
        search_queue+=graph[person]
return False

A: Удалить два return'а. Оставить только первый.


American champion Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) and British challenger Tyson Fury (27-0, 19 KOs) fight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for Wilder's WBC heavyweight championship. The fight could set up a match for the undisputed heavyweight title with Anthony Joshua, considered by many to be the best heavyweight of the moment.
Deontay Wilder is a -170 favorite at most sportsbooks. Bettors would have to wager $170 to win $100.
Tyson Fury's odds are +140, meaning you would need to bet $100 to win $140. Anthony Joshua, for his part, picked Wilder to win the fight for the same reason bookmakers picked Wilder — Tyson Fury's long layoff.
The Wilder-Fury fight is a battle of unbeaten fighters and a battle of champions, though Fury vacated the WBA, WBO, IBO, and lineal titles were stripped from him following concerns about PED use, personal issues, and the cancellation of two title rematches with Klitschko. To win the titles he vacated, Tyson Fury defeated longtime champion Wladimir Klitschko ("Dr. Steelhammer").
The odds at most sportsbooks began at -110 or -120 for Tyson Fury, but his odds have risen steadily as bettors backed the American. Deontay Wilder is 33 year old, 6'7″ in stature, and in the 225-lb to 230-lb range. Wilder is known for his speed and power, though a certain lack of form due to a late start in the boxing game.
Tyson Fury is 30 years old, 6'9″ in height, and in the 255-lb to 260-lb range. He is more plodding fighter, but able to absorb blows and dominate smaller fighters. Fury's defeat of Wladimir Klitschko was convincing, ending a 22-fight and 11-year win streak by the champion.
If a fight ending the longtime reign of a Hall of Fame heavyweight champion can be said to be unimpressive, it was, as both fighters jabbed and held through most of the fight. Fury did enough to win the decision, while Klitschko seemed to lack energy in the fight.
Tyson Fury is known for his colorful personality and outrageous pre-fight barbs. He adopted the self-styled nickname "Gypsy King", after the legendary bareknuckle brawler Bartley Gorman ("King of the Gypsies"), whom Tyson Fury is distantly related to.
Fury's father, who is of Irish Traveler origin, fought under the name Gypsy John Fury in the 1980s. John Fury named his son after Mike Tyson. Given his defeat of Klitschko, Tyson Fury is seen as one of the stiffest tests for Deontay Wilder yet.
The question entering the Wilder fight is whether Tyson Fury agreed to the fight too soon after his comeback. It is only his third fight since taking off a year and he is fighting the biggest puncher in the division. Of course, Fury's lateral movement and strong jab kept Klitschko off-balance, so his chin is proven.
Deontay Wilder, though he has fought 13 more fights than his British adversary, is considered to have had a less impressive list of opponents. Wilder started boxing at age 20, which is considered a late start in a sport where most skilled boxers log long amateur careers in their teens.
Three years after his first fight, Deontay Wilder competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze medal. Wilder made his pro debut later that year. The native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama fought most of his early matches in southern arenas to smaller crowds — often defeating lesser known and less-respected opponents.
Despite a raw quality to his boxing style, Wilder brought a combination of punching power and hand speed which made him a contender almost immediately. When he defeated Bermane Stiverne at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in 2015, Deontay Wilder became the first American heavyweight champion in 9 years.
In his title defenses, Deontay Wilder has defeated Eric Molina, Johann Duhaupas, Artur Szpilka, Chris Arreola, Gerald Washington, Bermane Stiverne (rematch), and Luis Ortiz. Though several of those boxers were undefeated at the time of their match versus Wilder, most were lightly regarded.
The fight with Luis Ortiz, a former Cuban amateur fighter and undefeated knockout artist in the pros, gave Deontay Wilder some of the credibility he craved. The two unbeaten fighters boxed hard for 10 rounds, but Wilder took control in round 5 with a knockdown. He knocked Ortiz out in round 10, though all three judges had the fight 85-84 in favor of Wilder at that point.
Since then, the buzz has been for Deontay Wilder to fight Anthony Joshua in a unification bout. Talks between the two fighters have commenced and broken down on a couple of occasions. Instead, Anthony Joshua knocked out Wladimir Klitschko, while Wilder signed to fight the only other undefeated fighter of stature, Tyson Fury.
To defeat Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder needs a better start than he had against Gerald Washington and Luis Ortiz. In the Washington fight, Wilder started slowly and lost the first four rounds. He started slow in the Ortiz fight, though he took control in the second half of the match. If he gets behind Tyson Fury early, it could give confidence to the former champion, who sometimes likes to taunt his opponents.
At any point, Deontay Wilder can knock out an opponent, so it should be an intriguing battle of undefeated champions at the MGM Grand on Saturday night.
It was a satisfying match which ended in a draw. Each judge came to a different conclusion, while two had wildly different evaluations of the fight. Alejandro Rochin had the match 115-111 for Wilder. Robert Tapper had it 114-110 for Fury. Phil Edwards scored the bout a 113-113 tie, so the fight ended in a split draw.
Unlike the GGG-Canelo fights, few analysts seemed to have problems with the way the judges scored the fight. It was a contrast of styles with close rounds that could have been interpreted different ways. Many thought Wilder needed a knockout entering the 12th round. Few will disagree with a judge who gives the nod to the fighter who scored two knockdowns, though. As for bettors, the Las Vegas bets end in a push, so gamblers who made money-line bets get their stakes back.
Both fighters seemed pleased with the results, as each built their standing in the sport and both felt they won. Tyson Fury outboxed Deontay Wilder through large stretches of the fight and left a mouse under Wilder's left eye, but Wilder knocked down Fury in the 9th and 12th rounds.
Wilder almost knocked out Fury with the 12th round knockdown, as Fury got to his feet at the count of 9. Fury did more than survive the 12th round knockdown, as he rose to his feet and gave Wilder spirited action. Boxing analysts already are calling the 12th round a round-of-the-year candidate.
With a nice contrast of styles and both fighters having legitimate arguments for having won the fight, a rematch is in order. CompuBox punch statistics had Deontay Wilder landing 71 of 430 shots (17%) and Tyson Fury landing 84 of 327 (26%). Fury landed more punches and a better percentage, but Wilder had the bigger punches and the two knockdowns.
Despite some chatter in the days leading up to the fight, both boxers admitted they liked and admired each other before the fight. After the bout, the two hugged in the center of the ring and spoke glowingly of each other.
Deontay Wilder collected a $4 million purse for Wilder-Fury I, while Tyson Fury was paid $3 million up front. Both will collect more from their percentage of the pay-per-view receipts.


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Q: USB controllable digital output ports at >100kHz I need to control 8 digital output pins over a USB connection at a minimum of 100kHz.
What solutions exists that allows me to do that? Preferable a COTS module if possible.
I am thinking something like a FTDI USB-to-serial, and a serial byte to parallel output pin IC. But I am unable to find any ready made modules for this.
(As a side note, would a simple arduino doing serial to parallel conversion be fast enough for my purpose?)

A: FTDI is a possible solution if you're ready to write a software which will work with it by D2XX Driver. Also it's relatively expensive.
Another cheap solution is to take any available MCU with hardware USB and write a simple firmware.
If you have any questions about 2nd option - feel free to ask.

A: Considering you have a normal PC in the background, the only useful choice is to use some memory on the hardware. Store your bit-pattern to memory, then let a controller spit it out in regular intervals. Other than that, your process might be interrupted even for milliseconds of time. Maybe if you could give a bit more detail, we could offer a "better" solution.


A final letter from me, your husband of over 37 years. When I met you in November 1976, I was a man who had for years been drinking and basically partying all the time. I know now that if you had not come into my life at that time I would probably not be here now and definitely have never made it 20 years in the Navy. It was only you, without saying a word to me, who made me slowly change.
To this day I do not know why you stuck with me for those first few years. Maybe you saw something I did not see in me. You gave me self confidence to buckle down and make a career out of the Navy. When we married and I brought you to Texas; my family fell in love with you just as I had. When you came to California where we started our life together in San Diego you turned our modest little one room apartment into a home.
For three years we lived there and all was fine. Then July 1, 1983, I had to leave you while I deployed for seven months on the USS Ranger. I still remember me getting in a taxi and heading for the base. You standing outside by the front of the apartment waving goodbye. That was the hardest thing I had ever done, leaving you alone in a new country and culture you had not gotten used to yet.
Those seven months away from you seemed like seven years. Your constant letters and packages kept coming and kept up my spirits. As you know, we lost a lot of people on that Westpac due to many accidents and a terrible fire on board which killed 18 of my fellow shipmates. It was my first time away from you and through your letters, my morale was lifted until finally I made it back to you.
Then after being home only a few months, I left for Denver to go to school for Intelligence Specialist for five months. Once again you persevered alone and even started your own self employed job at California Plaza. There your hard work was noticed by everyone. So much so that all the offices wanted you to do their office cleaning. What a great and wonderful worker you were and still you took care of me and our home.
When I returned from Denver it was only months later when I was transferred to the USS Constellation for almost five years, with two more six month deployments and numerous two month cruises. Still you stood by me through all the time away.
Finally I got transferred to North Island and I thought we could finally have some time without me leaving. All was fine until Iraq invaded Kuwait. After only being with you for 18 months, I was sent for seven months to Bahrain and prepared for all out war with Iraq. I knew you were scared for me, but I was more worried about you. Your packages to all of us in the war zone, especially the coffee, were helping all of us in Joint Task Force 163. We used your care packages to keep up the war effort.
After the war I went back to North Island but not for long. The Navy decided I needed to go to the USS Long Beach for my last three years. Once again I was gone more than home and still your strength sustained me until I finally retired on July 1, 1994. Thanks to you, I made it.
Finally we were able to travel together to Texas, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas and Florida. You supported me while I went to college and got my degree in criminal justice. After many security jobs, I finally got hired by Correctional Alternatives in 2000. After 9/11 I quit that job and worked as a TSA officer. Once again you supported me in whatever I decided to do.
After going back to C.A.I. to work it happened. You had a stroke on May 3, 2004 which you fought through and recovered from completely within two months. Being ever the fighter, you went back to work and all was well for almost three years. That's when I noticed you were having trouble walking. At Balboa Hospital you were initially diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, your ability to work quickly taken away. We had the disease under control for four years.
In August 2011 a drastic change occurred and your ability to think clearly and do many tasks were being attacked. It's as if a terrorist had invaded your brain and was slowly wreaking havoc. It affected every part of your mental and physical abilities. Through many hospital stays and then at home, you kept fighting this horrible disease which after all was said and done, was not Parkinson's, but Lewy Body Dementia, a most horrible and cruel disease.
After it took your ability to move, think and speak clearly, it made its final attack. Throughout this entire ordeal you fought and never quit. But on Dec. 19, 2016, they put you in Hospice Care at home. The last three weeks of your life I prayed like I had never prayed in my life. I was by your side through it all and learned what true love was. When the Angels came for you on Jan. 8, 2017, I felt their presence. I finally knew your pain and suffering were over. God had called you home to a place where there is no pain, confusion or sorrow.
This letter is to let you know I miss you every hour of every day and will love you unto eternity. May God bless and keep you, my loving wife until we are together again when God calls me to reunite with you. Heaven now has another Angel. Thank you for enriching my life for the last 40 years.
My love to you until then.


For about 18 months now I've been using an app which I would be pretty lost without, it has to be said. There are times when I need to take a note of something, make a list or I'm lying in bed late at night and a great idea comes to me that I want to remember in the morning. That's when I whip out my iPhone and open Simplenote.
Simplenote is very unique compared to the standard official Apple application, Notes, in that it syncswirelessly between your iPhone, web app or any supported desktop app on your computer. No having to connect to iTunes to sync up notes taken in Notes.app. More than that, you can share notes between family and friends, restore backups of notes, apply tags, etc.
I've been using Simplenote in conjunction with JustNotes on both of my Macs, meaning I have my notes wherever I am and they sit neatly and quietly in my menubar, not asking for any space in my dock. There are several desktop applications which support Simplenote syncing, for Mac, Windows and aswell as extensions, scripts and plugins.
Simplenote for iPhone and iPad is free on the App Store [iTunes link]. You can also upgrade to a Simplenote Premium account which removes ads and gives you more added benefits including Dropbox sync, ability to edit notes in list view (iOS) and RSS feed. I'm currently subscribed as asPremium user, costing $19.99 per year.


Rose Quartz - Rose Quartz is the stone of unconditional love. One of the most important stones for Heart Chakra work, Rose Quartz opens the heart to all types of love - love of self, love of family, love of friends, romantic love. Because it is a type of quartz, Rose Quartz does have a high energy, but its vibe is also calming and soothing. Rose Quartz opens the heart to compassion for self and for others, and raises self-esteem. Rose Quartz eases guilt and balances emotions, lowering stress and bringing peace. Use Rose Quartz to enhance positive self-affirmations. The soothing energy of Rose Quartz fosters empathy, reconciliation, and forgiveness of others. Lowering stress and tension in the heart, Rose Quartz clears out anger, jealousy, and resentment of others, and allows healing of heart issues and dis-ease associated with holding on to such negative emotions. Known as a romance stone, Rose Quartz can be used to attract love. Put a piece of Rose Quartz by your bedside table, or in the relationship corner of a room or home to attract new love or to add trust and re-commitment to existing relationships. Rose Quartz adds loving energy to relationships, bringing calm and peace. The comforting and soothing energy of Rose Quartz can also help heal a broken heart, allowing release of pent-up emotions and grief. Rose Quartz also helps release unexpressed feelings about others. Rose Quartz allows the user to open to and accept love from others, and to recognize the unconditional love of the Universe. Use Rose Quartz to bring calm and harmony during times of increased stress or crisis. Rose Quartz may also be used to balance all of the chakras and to remove negative energy and replace it with love energy. Physically, Rose Quartz is used to heal ailments of the thymus, heart, and lungs. Rose Quartz is also known to help heal breast cancer and is an excellent support stone for most other types of cancer as well.


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Original script logo Phase 45 from the 70's! the Phase 45 only has two phase stages, this means that is has a "lighter" sound than it's bigger brother, the phase 90. The pedal is original except for the installed 9V connector jack making this a very pedalboard friendly killer sounding vintage pedal for a modest price!


If you are ever invited to a real country noontime dinner in the South, jump at the chance to see what the fuss about soul food is all about. What could be the value of two days extensive labor in addition to the growing and harvesting procedures of the hosts?
The day before guests arrive, like the preacher's family or other important company, the cook bakes a 12 egg pound cake, makes 36 fried dried apple pies, and two cobblers, blackberry or peach according to the season.
Then garden bounty is collected. A peck of peas and one of okra, a half dozen medium sized squash, and an apron full of string beans are harvested, washed and put in a cool place for the next day's preparation.
Another peck of roasting ears is put aside until needed. Fresh onions and potatoes are dug and placed in a basket on the shady back porch. Sprigs of dill, parsley, and some of mint are washed and saved in jars until needed to garnish prepared dishes.
Very early the day of the event, the cook rises to prepare the meal. She shells and washes the peas, puts them in the water where slices of bacon have been boiling and turns the heat down to simmer. Okra must be cut, covered with corn meal and fried. Squash is sautéed with onion, then given enough water to tenderize. The green beans have to have the strings removed and snapped. It also is simmered with bacon to give it the distinctive soul food flavor.
Part of the fresh corn will be boiled on the cob, so all that is needed is shucking, checking for insects, and removing corn silks before dropping into boiling water, minutes before serving. The rest of the corn is cut in tiny layers, then scraped to get every drop of the starchy liquid, then poured into a skillet sizzling with the bacon fat left from breakfast. Fresh red potatoes are quartered, dropped with skin on into salt water and boiled until tender. They will be served with the string beans and garnished with parsley.
Sliced tomatoes, green onions, and cucumbers are gathered, washed, and placed in cut glass bowls. The tea is strained from its tea pot and diluted with water and separated into pitchers, one straight and another sweetened generously with sugar.
Corn meal measured from the large bin where it has been stored since it came from the grist meal, is measured into a large bowl, mixed with a couple of eggs and an equal amount of freshly churned buttermilk and poured into another sizzling skillet of bacon fat and cooked in the hottest part of the oven. Then pan of yeast rolls rising since breakfast wait to pop into the oven after the cornbread is removed.
The fried chicken came from two young fryers, chased by younger members of the family and dispatched with a quick stroke of the ax, picked, gutted, and cut up. They were fried with a coating of buttermilk and flour and set aside until gravy could be stirred up in the resulting fat and crispy bits left in the pan.
When guests arrive, the adults are ushered into the dining room around the 12 foot long table. The children wait impatiently, hoping a drumstick will be left when their turn comes. That is the way I remember dinner at Granny's house.
Now I call a half dozen friends about 3 hours before the evening meal, ask them what they would like to prepare for a covered dish supper, open a refrigerated spiral sliced ham, pop open and toss a bag of green salad, and stick a package of Sunbeam rolls in the oven. Put a couple of bags of preseasoned frozen vegetables in the microwave, and open a jug of Milo's artificially sweetened tea. Put out paper plates and napkins, plastic cutlery and cups on a plastic tablecloth, pull out a chair, and relax.
Curb Market Day – Do you remember this time?
Pork chops, mashed taters, turnip greens, corn on the cob and cornbread!
Peas, butter beans, squash, fried okra, fried cornbread, potato salad, and of course,sweet tea.
Fried chicken, mash potatoes,green beans and cornbread.
Purplehull peas, turnip greens, pickled beets, cornbread and a big bowl of boiled mashed potatoes. All that went with mom's fried chicken and thickening gravy. Homemade cake or a pie for dessert with sweet tea or milk for us kids. Now I'm hungry!
Bob Wilson, This is for you.
And never refuse to sit down with a true Southerner's table when invited . At least accept a drink . To refuse is taken as an insult . Back in the depression folks had little to eat and to refuse meant you didn't want what they offered because it wasn't to your liking .
And "dinner" is always the noon meal, especially on Sundays, casually it might be called lunch; it is always "supper" at night.
Grew up eating tHese at my grandmothers on Suunday. Wonderful.
"True Country Dinner In The South" and I didn't see Sweet Tea mentioned or do I need to be corrected?
Sweet tea is mentioned in the original article. Right after she talks about the sliced tomatoes and cucumbers. She talks about straining the tea from the teapot and pouring it into two pitchers. One straight and one sweetened with plenty of sugar.
lemin rolls. dont knowthe recipe. does anyone?
Pinto beans, fried potatoes, fried salt pork, fried okra, buttered cornbread, green onions and sweet tea. My grandmother always cooked her beans in rain water gathered in a barrel.
I know that meal. I can see it on the wood stove cooking. I can hear the screen door being swung open in reply to the announcement that "it was ready and if you don't come on it's going toooooooo get cold"……I can see the pleased look of my grandmother as she looked at her table that she had prepared for those she loved.
The first meal described is exactly as I remember it, only my Grandmother added cream or purple hull peas as they were a favorite of mine. Then we all gathered around a big round table . Oh for the days!
Alabama, I remember having a delicious fried cat fish dinner.
Recipe Wednesday: How to can the perfect corn. . .


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Chile negotiates free trade area with seven countries
Gathered in Melbourne, Australia, representatives from eight countries are analyzing the possibility of implementing a free trade area in the Asia-Pacific region and facilitating the work by entrepreneurs and emergent sectors in the region.
Thursday 18 March, 2010 | Business, Daily life, Tourism
The eight potential members of the TPPA have a total population of 470 million inhabitants
Versión en Español Chile negocia zona de libre comercio con siete países
As of Monday 15 March representatives from eight countries, including Chile, have been meeting in Melbourne, Australia as part of the first round of negotiations for a Transpacific Strategic Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
The alliance was initially signed by Chile, New Zealand, Brunei and Singapore in June 2005 and now the United States, Australia, Vietnam and Peru, all members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum (APEC), have been added as candidates to join the agreement.
In a press conference Australian Foreign Trade Minister Simon Crean affirmed that this first round of talks, which concludes on Friday, marks a milestone and will open the door to the goal of creating a free trade area in the Asia-Pacific Region.
In this first of four meetings planned for this year, issues like the obstacles that entrepreneurs and emergent sectors in the area face will be discussed, including services, e-commerce and renewable energy, with the intention of reaching an agreement prior to the summit of APEC leaders that has been planned for 2011.
In addition, the representatives of these eight countries will simultaneously work on 16 work tables that will deal with issues like access to industrial-textile markets, access to agricultural markets, rules of origin, facilitation of trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and technical obstacles to trade.
The eight potential members of the TPPA have a total population of 470 million inhabitants and a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of US$ 17.7 trillion.
When asked about the creation of this free trade area, former Chilean Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley explained that the measure is aimed at "clinching FTAs (Free Trade Agreements) that converge so we can have a free trade area," in addition to stressing that the creation of a free trade zone in the transpacific area "will support the idea that the world financial crisis is ending and will mean the creation of thousands of jobs."
It should be noted that since recovering democracy in 1990, Chile has experienced an economic liberalization that is unparalleled in the world, which has produced financial dividends that have been recognized by important international institutionsand media outlets.
Likewise, at the beginning of the year the country confirmed its admission into the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), also known as the club of rich countries. This economic solidity will also allow the country to more swiftly deal with the devastating consequencesof the mega-earthquake that hit the central-southern region last 27 February. In addition, expectations of attaining development by 2018 are also maintained.
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I say this as someone who's never been to one, but Super Bowl media day seems pretty silly. Days before one of the biggest games of their lives, the Giants and Patriots spoke to women in bikinis, and answered questions about King Kong and stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Anyway, the point is that guys from both teams were asked to weigh in on a wide range of topics, and Rich Cimini of ESPN took the opportunity to get Brandon Jacobs talking about his old teammate and close friend, Plaxico Burress. Burress, who will reportedly attend the game on Sunday, is a free agent after playing one pretty okay season with the Jets.
Jacobs, when asked, suggested that Burress had his heart set on returning to the Giants when he returned from prison this summer, but couldn't turn down the Jets' far superior offer. Now, though, Jacobs thinks Burress is turned off after a year of feeling underutilized on a team fraught with locker room drama.
"I don't see him back with the Jets next year at all," said Jacobs, who speaks with Burress regularly. "I don't know what he's thinking, but I don't see that. They've got a lot of things going on over there, and I don't know if he wants to be part of that."
"I don't see him there due to (the limited) success he had last year, and I don't think it had anything to do with him," Jacobs said. "And I'll leave it at that."
A return to the Giants would seem unlikely, given Burress's public criticism of both Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning. So, if you take Jacobs at his word, it seems reasonable to expect Burress to play somewhere outside of New York for the first time since he joined the Giants in 2005. Jacobs could have the wrong impression, though, and it'd be forgivable. He's probably got some other stuff on his mind.


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From now on, this is my fight! (Strike The Blood Review)
OP 1 - Strike The Blood (Kishida Kyodan & The Akeboshi Rockets)
OP 2 - Fight 4 Real (Altima)
ED 1 - Strike The Soul (Yuka Iguchi)
ED 2 - Signal (Kanon Wakeshima)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Being too similar isn't a good thing, but sometimes if it works out fine, then its all good. This is the case with "Strike The Blood", its similarities to "To Aru Majutsu No Index" are a little bit too striking (a spear that negates everything, a loli teacher, an island made for demons...?), and you can tell right from the start. Still, if you enjoy similar plots or genres, you'll enjoy this one. To be more frank, if you like stuff like "To Aru Majutsu No Index" or "Campione", "Strike The Blood" will seem right at home. Its seem-less blend between action, harem, and lore about the supernatural is done particularly well, with some really nice segments to back all of it up. A good mix between everything (fan service included) makes this one quite enjoyable, though there is a lack of good characters. It doesn't matter though, if you're a fan of the action harem genre, "Strike The Blood" is one that you'll like.
A vampire should always do what he must...
Well if there's one thing that "Strike The Blood" does very well...its the songs. The first opening theme is "Strike The Blood" by Kishida Kyodan & The Akeboshi Rockets, a group that I personally haven't heard from in a very very long time (since the times of HOTD). What can I say? Its excellent, both as an opening that's fitting for this anime and a song by itself. The rock, the singing....everything is just amazing. I can say that much about the first ending theme as well, "Strike The Soul" by Yuka Iguchi. Its...surprisingly good, with its serious yet catchy tune, and some really sexy singing from Yuka Iguchi herself (she usually does cute-sy stuff...not my thing).
The second opening theme is pretty damn good as well, "Fight 4 Real" by Altima. We all should know Altima by now since they make some of the best anison songs around, "Fight 4 Real", while not really their best song, is still pretty up there in terms of standard. "Signal" by Kanon Wakeshima is the 2nd ending its alright, though to be honest, its my least favorite among the 4 songs.
While I didn't really like it at first, it quickly grew on me. "Strike The Blood"'s overall world is an interesting one, and one cannot deny that there are MANY cool concepts here. The story is split into many different arcs, and while the first few arcs are more for introducing new characters, the later arcs are a lot more interesting, so its worth sticking through all the way. The characters aren't anything too special, except for a small few, most are just stereotypes. The action however, is what helps "Strike The Blood" score, because its pretty damn cool AND fantastic. With a big mixture of many different powers, most fights are both visually impressive and interesting, and dare I say, that there are a lot of fights in "Strike The Blood". Action lovers will feel at home here, that's for sure. As for fan service...its quite mild for the most part, so there's not much to worry about. At its best, its only about "Index" level.
Presenting to you...vampiric urges!
The story focuses on Akatsuki Kojou, another generic loser of a high school student, just like any other...until 3 months ago, where he undergo some huge changes in his life and became the fourth progenitor, also known as the strongest vampire in existence. Even though he knows this, he keeps himself in check, and continues living a regular life, though he has to take control of his vampiric urges, which kicks in every time he gets turned on. However, living a normal life as the fourth progenitor was a little bit too much to ask for, when a middle school girl named Himeragi Yukina stepped into his life. She claims to be his observer, and even moves next to his apartment, all for the sake of "observing" him. On that very night, when they went out together, an explosion happens in the island, and Himeragi goes to investigate, only to find a holy executioner and his homonculous. Overwhelmed, she was about to face defeat when Kojou steps in and gets his ass kicked, awakening his familiar...
"Strike The Blood" starts off slow and gets better towards the end, a trend that many animes seem to follow. With an ending like the one we received...its quite safe to assume that there would be more, because what we got seemed really underwhelming. If we do get to see more though, the potential is there, there are a lot of possibilities for more crazy situations.