Games. You want them, Itch.io sells them, and to facilitate that process it's put 606 of the things on sale.
I like that they've taken the polar opposite approach to Steam's shenanigans for their own summer sale, and surrounded the discounts with absolutely zero guff. I know some people buy into the badges and whatnot, but after years of Valve's bombarding me with cutesy treehouse animals, those avatars have started landing on the manipulative side of corporate fun. Read on for my picks from this refreshingly minimalist sale, which include the likes of heart-squelching rhythm action-game Thumper and soul-squashing robo-shooter The Signal from Tölva .I'll jump into some informed recommendations in a second, but it's worth taking a minute or two to scroll through the discounts and see if anything catches your eye. I'd never heard of Jump Gunners, for instance, but after seeing Mike Bithell describe it as "the beautiful child of Towerfall and Worms" I've grabbed it for the next time I have local multiplayer-inclined friends over.
Onto stuff I actually know is good! Thumper is going for 60% off at $8. It's a mesmerising rhythm-action game that'll make you feel both incredibly small and incredibly skilfull. You control a dimension jumping time-beetle as you jump and skid to the beat of a hellish soundtrack while psychedelic monsters and geometry consume reality. Well, that's my reading of it – Alec has his own.
The Signal from Tölva is 50% off at $10, and offers some of the best moody robo-wandering money can buy. It's sort of about shooting robots with laser-rifles and hacking them to be your friends, but it's really about exploring a bizarre and atmospheric husk of a planet while piecing together a sci-fi mystery. The devs recently released a free expansion, though Rich McCormick wasn't blown away by it.
"Rusty Lake Hotel is a murder mystery game set in a creepy hotel in which everyone is for dinner. That's the hook and it's such a good hook that even though I've finished the entire game twice I can't remember being annoyed by any of the puzzles. I probably was, but it didn't matter because I had to see what happened next.
I'll stop there, but I've obviously only scratched the surface of a sale that's 606 games deep. Feel free to do some digging for yourself.
Disclosure: Jim Rossignol was one of the people who made The Signal from Tölva, and also happens to be a co-founder of this website. I've never met him though, so my opinions are pure.
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the salary or wages paid to an employee:
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earnings loss benefits, income replacement benefits, supplementary retirement benefits and career impact allowances (formerly "permanent impairment allowances") paid under the Veterans Well-being Act (federal statute);
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Why the innocent end up in prison
By John Grisham
Queens House of Detention, New York. Prison. Bars. (Hans Neleman / Getty Images)
It is too easy to convict an innocent person.
The rate of wrongful convictions in the United States is estimated to be somewhere between 2 percent and 10 percent. That may sound low, but when applied to an estimated prison population of 2.3 million, the numbers become staggering. Can there really be 46,000 to 230,000 innocent people locked away? Those of us who are involved in exoneration work firmly believe so.
Millions of defendants are processed through our courts each year. It's nearly impossible to determine how many of them are actually innocent once they've been convicted. There are few resources for examining the cases and backgrounds of those claiming to be wrongfully convicted.
Once an innocent person is convicted, it is next to impossible to get the individual out of prison. Over the past 25 years, the Innocence Project, where I serve on the board of directors, has secured through DNA testing the release of 349 innocent men and women, 20 of whom had been sent to death row. All told, there have been more than 2,000 exonerations, including 200 from death row, in the U.S. during that same period. But we've only scratched the surface.
Wrongful convictions happen for several reasons. In no particular order, these causes are:
Bad police work. Most cops are honest, hard-working professionals. But some have been known to hide, alter or fabricate evidence; lie on the stand; cut deals in return for bogus testimony; intimidate and threaten witnesses; coerce confessions; or manipulate eyewitness identifications.
Prosecutorial misconduct. Most prosecutors are also honest, hard-working professionals. But some have been known to hide exculpatory evidence; encourage witnesses to commit perjury; lie to jurors, judges and defense lawyers; use the testimony of bogus experts; or ignore relevant evidence beneficial to the accused.
False confessions. Most jurors find it impossible to believe that a suspect would confess to a serious crime he didn't commit. Yet the average citizen, if taken to a basement room and subjected to 10 consecutive hours of abusive interrogation tactics by experienced cops, might be surprised at what they would say. Of the 330 people who were exonerated by DNA evidence between 1989 to 2015, about 25 percent gave bogus confessions after lengthy interrogations. Almost every one recanted soon after.
Faulty eyewitness identification. More often than not, those who witness violent acts have trouble accurately recalling the facts and identifying those involved. Physical and photo lineups may exacerbate the problem because police manipulate them to focus suspicion on favored suspects.
Jailhouse snitches. In every jail there is a career criminal staring at a long sentence. For leniency, he can be persuaded to lie to the jury and describe in great detail the confession overheard from the accused, usually a cellmate. If he performs well enough on the stand, the authorities might allow him to walk free.
Bad lawyering. Those accused of serious crimes rarely have money. Many are represented by good public defenders, but too many get stuck with court-appointed lawyers with little or no experience. Capital cases are complex, and the stakes are enormous. All too often, the defense lawyers are in over their heads.
Sleeping judges. Judges are supposed to be impartial referees intent on ensuring fair trials. They should exclude confessions that are inconsistent with the physical evidence and obtained by questionable means; exclude the testimony of career felons with dubious motives; require prosecutors to produce exculpatory evidence; and question the credentials and testimony of all experts outside the presence of the jury. Unfortunately, judges do not always do what they should. The reasons are many and varied, but the fact that many judges are elected doesn't help. They are conscious of their upcoming re-election campaigns and how the decisions they make might affect the results. Of those judges who are appointed rather than elected, the majority are former prosecutors.
Junk science. Over the past five decades, our courtrooms have been flooded with an avalanche of unreliable, even atrocious "science." Experts with qualifications that were dubious at best and fraudulent at worst have peddled — for a fee, of course — all manner of damning theories based on their allegedly scientific analysis of hair, fibers, bite marks, arson, boot prints, blood spatters and ballistics. Of the 330 people exonerated by DNA tests between 1989 and 2015, 71 percent were convicted based on forensic testimony, much of which was flawed, unreliable, exaggerated or sometimes outright fabricated.
Flawed testimonies
Brandon L. Garrett, a professor of law at University of Virginia, has studied nearly all of the trial transcripts from wrongful convictions later exposed by DNA-based exonerations.
"There is a national epidemic of overstated forensic testimony, with a steady stream of criminal convictions being overturned as the shoddiness of decades' worth of physical evidence comes to light," he wrote last year in The Baffler. "The true scope of the problem is only now coming into focus."
An excellent new book by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington, "The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist," chronicles the story of two of the most brazen experts ever allowed in a courtroom. Steven Hayne was a controversial forensic pathologist who once boasted of performing more than 2,000 autopsies in a single year. His sidekick, Michael West, was a small-town dentist who assumed the role of an expert in many other fields. Together they tag-teamed their way through rape and murder trials in Mississippi and Louisiana, accumulating an impressive string of convictions, several of which have been overturned. Some are still being litigated. Many others, however, seem destined to stand.
It's a maddening indictment of America's broken criminal justice system, in which prosecutors allowed — even encouraged — flawed forensic testimony because it was molded to fit their theories of guilt. Over two decades, elected judges permitted these two professional testifiers to convince unsophisticated jurors that science was on the side of the state.
The atrocities that occurred in Mississippi and Louisiana aren't specific to one time and place. The medical examiners, police officers, prosecutors, judges and others who hold sway over our criminal justice system around the country have largely failed to deliver justice. We must do better.
Tribune Content Agency
John Grisham is a writer best known for his legal thrillers. This piece was adapted from the foreword of "The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist."


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On the second day in New York, our plan was to take a helicopter tour to see Manhattan from the sky. However, we could not do that due to the weather conditions. It was a cloudy and rainy day. Therefore, we changed our schedule and decided to visit the Statue of Liberty, Hudson Yards/Vessel, and High Line.
Our hotel was very close to Liberty State Park where we took the boat to Liberty Island. The boat has two stops, Ellis Island and Liberty Island which are significantly important in the history of the US. During the beginning of the 20th century, Ellis Island was used as an inspection station for immigrants. Therefore, there is Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on the island now. We just spent a little time on the island and kept going to Liberty Island to see Lady Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from French people to the people of the US in 1886. The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess and holds a torch in her right hand. From ground level to torch, it is 93 meters. It is the most famous landmark in New York City.
We spent around 2-3 hours on the island to take photos and see the other places on the island. We really love this place because of the history and wonderful view of Manhattan. And then, we headed to Huston Yards/Vessel.
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Dilmore, others garner awards at O.C. McDavid Journalism Conference
News by Barin Von Foregger March 29, 2016
Four members of the Holmes Community College Growl student newspaper attended the 17th Annual O.C. McDavid Journalism Conference at the Mississippi Children's Museum on Thursday, March 24. Growl Editor Joshua Dilmore, a sophomore on the Ridgeland Campus, was recognized during the conference for winning a third place award in the Better Newspaper Contest for one of his opinion pieces, "Starbucks' supposed War on Christmas."
Dilmore, an English major, is also president of iCreate: Creative Arts Club, a tutor at the campus Writing Center, and recently won both a first and second place award in the 2016 Literary Contest.
Other Growl reporters in attendance were Miranda Burchfield, a sophomore from the Goodman Cam… pus, Wontavius Rimpson, also a sophomore from the Goodman Campus, and Taylor Vance, a sophomore from the Grenada Campus. District Director of Communications Steve Diffey and Public Relations Specialist/Student Publications Coordinator Mary Margaret Turner accompanied the students. The Growl, published five-six times per academic year, covers news from the college's nine-district area, while also including cartoons, editorials on current events, and more. Staff members also serve as writers/cartoonists for Holmes' new blog, the HCC Grid.
The conference began with a welcome by James Prince, III, president and publisher of Prince Newspapers, followed by an address from Gene McDavid, representing the McDavid family, and a presentation by Rick Anderson, a professional artist. R.J. Morgan, executive director of Mississippi Press Scholastic Association, gave a presentation on the use of drones to gather news, and following that, Sam Hall, Geoff Pender, Kate Royals, and Mollie Bryant from The Clarion-Ledger presented a panel on investigative journalism. The conference concluded with a few words from Mississippi Press Association Executive Director Lane Bruce and the presentation of awards for the Better Newspaper Contest Student Division. For more information about Holmes Community College's student publications, contact Mary Margaret Turner at (601) 605-3376 or mturner@holmescc.edu.
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Q: Ksqldb not showing streams only topics are listed..what is the reason for it Ksqldb not showing the created streams in cli ,but inly listing topics.
This has happened probably after restart.
I had faced this issue couple of times.

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Yesterday Unhinged
The Flotsam & Jetsam of Yesterday
February 2, 2014 by Yesterday Unhinged
1014: An Introduction
Alfonso V of León. Date and artist unknown. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Hello, again. I wanted to take a minute to explain my new series in a bit more detail. It's called 1014, and will take a look at the world of the year 1014. It was born out of the impending over-coverage of World War I, in this year, the centenary of the conflict's buildup and commencement. I realized I'd never been through an anniversary of anything major. While the hailing and lauding of the Great War is well-deserved, what the hell happened in 1014?
In the series I plan to look at the key events, star players and major empires that shaped the world of 1014. It was an age of Viking conquest and exploration. Wars raged from the Balkans to the British Isles. Empires were rising and falling across the globe. I'll be posting on the 1000th anniversary of any of the key dates, though exact dates are often hard to come by. Otherwise I'll be posting two or three times a month on various topics from the period.
There's a lot to cover and I don't plan to do it alone. The idea for this series is that it will be a collaboration. I've got a few guest contributors with knowledge on some of the key events lined up. I'll also be looking to re-blog as much as possible. If you've got any info or content you'd like to share or would like to write a post, I'd love to hear from you. Whether it be a biography on Alfonso V of León, a study on farming techniques in medieval India or a post on siege warfare of the 11th century, I'm interested.
Emperor Zhenzong from the Song Dynasty. Artist and date unknown. From Wikimedia Commons.
We'll look at Basil II the Bulgar-Slayer, ruler of the Byzantine Empire. We'll look at Danish-ruled England and the battle for control there. Brian Boru, the greatest High King of Ireland battled Vikings for the fate of that island. The Christian kingdoms of Iberia were in the middle of their long, hard-fought Reconquista.
In the Americas, civilizations like the Maya, Toltec and Huari were beginning their slow declines while new ones stood poised to emerge. The Song Dynasty ruled in China, the Khmer Empire held much of Southeast Asia and the Chola Dynasty controlled Southern India. The Abbasid held sway over the Middle East, Persia and most of North Africa from their center of power in Baghdad. The Pecheneg, a Turkic people, ruled from the Caspian Sea to the Hungarian Border and the Rus were beginning to establish themselves in modern-day Russia. And Leif Ericson did or did not just "discover" the Americas, founding a settlement called Vinland.
Seal of Robert II of France.
I also want to look at daily life during the times, not just for the movers and shakers of the world, but for the common man and woman. Life was difficult then. A bad harvest could spell famine and disease and bad harvests were easy to come by. Warfare fought on the the whims of the powerful could spell death. Raid after raid was also a constant threat for all but a few. Children were lucky to live to adulthood and the women who bore them were lucky to survive.
Welcome to the year 1014, I hope you enjoy your stay.
If you'd like to help out in any way or have anything you'd like to share, write me at yesterday.unhinged@gmail.com
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So am I. I've got the general trends down, but gave a feeling I'll be learning quite a bit here.
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Q: C# : Why is the value of empno between single quotes even though the empno is defined as an integer? string sql = "select * from e where empno= ' " + datagridview.currentrow.cells(0).value.tostring() + " ' ";

Why is the value of empno between single quotes even though the empno is defined as an integer?

A: May i make a suggestion to make your code easier to read.
When working with string formatting, use interpolation rather than the '+' operator.
String interpolation provides a more readable and convenient syntax to create formatted string.
Example :
// Replace this line
string sql = "select * from e where empno= ' " + datagridview.currentrow.cells(0).value.tostring() + " ' ";

// By this one
string sql = $"select * from e where empno='{datagridview.currentrow.cells(0).value.tostring()}'";

Documentation : String Interpolation


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type ConsoleWriter struct {
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func NewConsole() LoggerInterface {
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func (cw *ConsoleWriter) Init(config string) error {
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func (cw *ConsoleWriter) WriteMsg(msg string, skip, level int) error {
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		return nil
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		cw.lg.Println(msg)
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Rugby league hero.
Jason Taylor has experienced a career of many highlights and many disappointments but says he wouldn't change a thing. The tough times made the successes that much more enjoyable.
He is now regularly booked as an MC for award presentations and product launches. In his keynote presentation Jason draws on personal experiences and observations from his sporting career while speaking with humour and feeling.
Stepping from key player to coach, he is the current coach of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
12 Seasons: A veteran of 12 seasons, and holding a career that has included 276 first grade games across four clubs, (Western Suburbs, North Sydney, Northern Eagles and the Parramatta Eels), Jason retired at 30, after the 2001 Grand Final whilst holding the title of the highest pointscorer in the history of Rugby League.
Coach: 2006 beckons to be just as exciting for Jason Taylor as he has recently been appointed coach of his beloved Parramatta Eels. Since retiring, as well as enhancing his media profile with Channel Nine and their rugby league coverage, he has been honing his coaching skills. As a result, his appointment from assistant to head coach has given this gifted player a chance to demonstrate that his talents can grow from star player to head coach.
Awards: Jason Taylor was the Western Suburbs Rookie of the Year in 1990 moving to Player of the Year in 1991 and played for NSW in the State of Origin team in 1993. Moving to the North Sydney Bears in 1994, Jason went on to become North's Player of the Year two years in row and won the prestigious Rothmans Medal for the best and fairest player in the ARL competition. In 1998 he received the Dally M Captain of the Year Award.
Records: Jason broke both the goal kicking and point scoring records at North's as well as setting a new mark for consecutive first grade matches, playing 194 games in succession, missing only two games through injury, in his twelve year career.
At Parramatta, Jason not only broke the NRL all time pointscoring record but also broke Mick Cronin's record of the most goals scored by an individual. Jason's 2001 team set a new record for the most points scored by a team in one season and they also won the Ken Stephens Award for service to the games both on and off the field. Parramatta Chief Executive, Denis Fitzgerald at the Parramatta presentation night, described Jason Taylor as the most professional player he had seen in 17 years at the helm. In season 2001 he became the highest point scorer of any player in the history of rugby league.
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For an entertaining function, Billy Moore and Jason Taylor provided just the ticket. Well dressed, well spoken and terrific blokes to boot. Thoroughly enjoyable and made our Celebrity Lunche ... keep readingon a satisfying day for all concerned. Blacktown Workers Club Limited
Your role as Master of Ceremonies in the Legends Room was greeted with universal praise, and added significantly to the enjoyment of the evening.
National Rugby League Limited
You did an exceptional job. Your presentation was flawless and a highlight of the launch. Even though you were only allowed a very limited preparation time, you were very polished in your delivery and related a real belief in what you were saying.
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Thanks for being with us at the Franchise meeting. It is no surprise to me why you are so successful at your career. Your 8 all with 2 minutes to go will stay with me forever.
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Basically, pertains to the set of rules that every website owner should follow in order to enhance their site. Web masters do this with two goals in mind. The first would be seeing an improvement of the site's search engine results ranking. At the same time, the optimization process also creates an improved overall experience for the users. This is because SEO also seeks to make site navigation easier and faster by streamlining the structure and content of the website.
This description may seem complicated for SEO beginners. Put simply, the primary purpose of doing SEO is to get your website to appear in the top position of search engine results. This is so that your potential customers can find you with ease.
SEO has become one of the fundamental internet marketing tools. In this globally competitive market, some may say that it has already become indispensable in terms of creating an online presence. More importantly, SEO helps you achieve your business' full potential.
Getting Ahead of the Competition – This is a concrete advantage of website optimization. Imagine there are two websites selling the same product or service. The one most likely to have the most customers will almost always be the one that performs better in search engine rankings.
Improved Functionality – More than improved rankings, SEO is also about making your site better. Great SEO practices will naturally lead to increased functionality of your site and an improved user experience.
Increased Social Media Promotion – The best kind of publicity is one that naturally occurs since you did not have to pay for it. It is worth noting that SEO is closely tied to increased social media presence. This happens because most users will often share your site's content voluntarily if they find it satisfactory. That is why sites appearing on the top search engine results are most likely to have a stronger social media presence.
These are just a few of the reasons why SEO is an absolute necessity for your website. Keep these in mind as you strive towards better rankings.
It is crucial for business owners to understand the importance of basic search engine optimization (SEO). It is essential in terms of internet marketing. It is simply something you cannot do without, especially if you want your brand to makes waves online.
This article will discuss the best internet marketing tips that anyone can use. In particular, it presents SEO as the fundamental internet marketing tool.
Contrary to popular belief, the goal of SEO fundamentals is not to cheat the search engines. Rather, Effective SEO should help you better communicate your content so that the search engines will recommend your website in the results. More importantly, it should seek to provide users with a seamless experience.
Both these things will eventually put your website in the position wherein it can be easily found by people in need of it.
In order to illustrate this point more clearly, let us imagine your site as a sandwich. The social media promotions, links, and paid ads all act as its bread. The website's info architecture, relevant content, and its content management system, however, act as the filling. Without it, you would have no sandwich to speak of. This is where SEO comes in, to ensure that your sandwich is appetizing in order to attract customers.
This is the next question that comes to mind once you have an idea of how SEO works. Website owners need to understand that search engines work by finding websites and web content most relevant to their users' searches. This, then, is what your SEO team should strive for – relevance.
There are a number of ways to do this. For instance, you can focus on improving your site's responsiveness and overall performance. This is vital as it greatly affects user experience. A well-performing site generally creates a positive user experience.
However, we recommend that you first focus on developing relevant content. Contrary to popular belief, content development does not mean arbitrary keyword stuffing in articles. You just need to ensure that your content is of high quality and easy to read. Consider using titles and subheadings to great effect.
This article presented some of the basic ways to do search engine optimization for your website. Having a clear understanding of how it works is a crucial element of any internet marketing plan.


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Johannes Caroli Färla, död 4 maj 1378, var en svensk präst och domprost i Linköping.

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Johannes Caroli Färla var son till Carl Björnsson Färla. Han var från 10 maj 1351 till 1 juli 1353 canonicus i Uppsala och kyrkoherde i Lagga församling och Östuna församling. Den 20 mars 1356 var han kansler hos kung Magnus Eriksson och var då även domprost i Linköpings församling, Linköping. Färla omnämns även som domprost och kansler 18 juli 1359 och 6 december 1360. När kungen flydde till Norge lade han ner ämbetet och följde efter 1371. I ett brev utfärdat av honom 14 oktober 1375 nämns han åter som domprost. Färla avled 4 maj 1378 och begravdes i Uppsala domkyrka.

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Equine enthusiasts can bid on and purchase horse tack and other horse-related items on eBay. Browsing buyers can enter more general keywords like "horse tack" in the eBay search bar, while those interested in specific items such as saddles or harnesses can enter keywords associated with the particular item, the manufacturer of the item, the color of the item, and the condition of the item. To compare the price and condition of items, go to the eBay search results page and check the boxes next to the auction listings you are interested in. Then click compare. Because horse tack listed on eBay auctions will vary in quality and condition, it's best to bid on items that include a photograph in the description.


Zambia is one of the three targeted countries in Africa that will benefit directly from the project. At the national level, Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) of Zambia will be the partner farmers' organisation that will lead in implementation of plans.
In Zambia, as in other Southern African countries, large scale farmers account for a significant share of farm output, about 20% of grain production and nearly 40% of marketed surplus of grain. Farm sizes for smallholder farmers in Zambia is between 2 and 5 hectares, but there is a growing population of 'emerging farmers' with farm holdings ranging from 20 to 50 hectares. Hence, smallholder farmers in Zambia face significant competition.
Over 95% of smallholder farm households in Zambia are engaged in crop production while only 29% undertake livestock farming.
Though successfully piloted for grains in 2003-05, the WRS in Zambia remains under-utilised because of uncertainty regarding enforceability of rights of holders of the receipts and the regulatory framework for the system.
Scaling up access to the recently established Zambia Agricultural Commodity Exchange (ZAMACE) is a priority for Zambian stakeholders. Currently, most of the trade on ZAMACE continues to be limited to its use to facilitate food aid procurement.


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Hitting the Season off Right
Elly Haushalter, staff writer
The boy's volleyball season is setting in place. The team won their 8th game against Carlisle on April 19th. They won three sets to one. Their current record is 4-4 making them ranked 3rd Mid-Penn Commonwealth League. Carlisle is currently ranked 5th in the Mid-Penn Commonwealth League.There are seven teams in the Mid-Penn Commonwealth League.
In the beginning of the week the boys also won their game against the team ranked second in Mid-Penn Commonwealth League, Central Dauphin. They won three sets to one.
Quinn Williams, a junior, said "We have a[n] experienced team, where a lot of guys have been playing for a while. We are a scrappy team. We have made great improvements in the past couple years." Williams is a second team Mid-Penn Commonwealth all-star.
When asked what the team can work on, Williams said, "We need to work on starting off well in games, lots of games we don't have a very good first couple points which puts us behind in the second half."
Williams said their goal this year is to at least win districts.
Patrick Mcnutt, a senior, said "I am looking forward to districts". When asked what the team did well and what the team needs to work on, Mcnutt said that they have scored many points this year but still need to win more.
David Paroda, a senior, said "We have been doing well this year but we still have work to do." Paroda also said "were excited for the future of state high boys volleyball, big things are coming."
The boys volleyball team has had a successful start to the year. Their next home game is May 4th against Maplewood.
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David Paroda, a senior, Andy Vanden Heuvell, a junior, John Bristol, a junior, and Quinn Williams, a junior, play against Chambersburg. The boys beat Chambersburg in a dominant three sets to zero. Williams said "we are a well rounded team".
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I fly for an international airline, and am often in Shanghai, LA, and soon Beijing.
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"Heaven has blessed thee with a fertile genius, and steel'd thy soul with fortitude"
— Johnstone, Charles (c.1719-c.1800)
"Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but Gold and Silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight."
— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
"There was the great king Aldrovandus, and Bosphorus, and Capadocius, and Dardanus, and Pontus, and Asius,--to say nothing of the iron-hearted Charles the XIIth, whom the Countess of K***** herself could make nothing of"
Faulkland has "steeled my husband's heart against me, heaped infamy on my head, and loaded my mother's age with sorrow and remorse"
— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
"If the unfortunate Mr. Arnold sees his error, can you be so unchristian as to endeavour at steeling his wife's heart against him?"
"Did not your master Plato maintain, that all the art of man, that all philosophy could not extract from the human mind what nature had not implanted there; as all the operations in chemistry are incapable of extracting from any mixture more gold than is already contained in it?"
— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
"He therefore had been little used to any woman but his sober and sensible grand-mother's two cousins who were pretty enough, but had no great charms of understanding; a sister rather silly, and the incomparable Harriot, whose wit was as sound as her judgment solid and sterling, free from affecta...
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Q: Print High Resolution Image in C# I am printing image 2349 x 3600 pixels.  I have resized image but printing is blurred not clean.  Please looke at code -
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;

public Bitmap resizeimage(Bitmap bitmap)
{
    Bitmap result = new Bitmap(850, 1101);
    using (Graphics grap = Graphics.FromImage(result))
    {
        grap.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
        grap.InterpolationMode  = InterpolationMode.Bicubic;
        grap.SmoothingMode      = SmoothingMode.HighQuality;
        grap.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;

        grap.DrawImage(bitmap, 0, 0, 850, 1101);
    }
    return result;
}

I tried everything from changing bitmap size, quality of graphics but still image blurred.
I used microsoft office 2007  and resized image and printed it , it was so clear.
How I can get exact printing quality as I got  in microsoft office 2007.
Please help.
Here is code before drawing -
PrintPreviewDialog printpreview = new PrintPreviewDialog();

PrintDocument printdocument = new PrintDocument();

printdocument.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = "EPSON L100 Series";
int horizantal_dpi = printdocument.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.PrinterResolution.X;
int vertical_dpi   = printdocument.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.PrinterResolution.Y;

decimal final_width_dpi  = (((int)printdocument.DefaultPageSettings.PrintableArea.Width  * horizantal_dpi) / 100);
decimal final_height_dpi = (((int)printdocument.DefaultPageSettings.PrintableArea.Height * vertical_dpi  ) / 100);

printimagaprint = new Bitmap((int)final_width_dpi, (int)final_height_dpi);

//set resoultion
printimagaprint.SetResolution(horizantal_dpi, vertical_dpi);

Graphics g = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(printimagaprint);
g.DrawImage(bitmap, 0, 0, printimagaprint.Width, printimagaprint.Height);

printdocument.PrintPage +=new PrintPageEventHandler(printdocument_PrintPage);

//printdocument.Print();
printdocument.DocumentName = textBox1.Text;
printpreview.Document = printdocument;
printpreview.ShowDialog();

A: Try matching the printer resolution before printing.
printDialog.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = GetTargetPrinter();

int horizontal_dpi = printDialog.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.PrinterResolution.X;
int vertical_dpi = printDialog.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.PrinterResolution.Y;
Decimal final_width_dpi = (((int)printDialog.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.PrintableArea.Width * horizontal_dpi) / 100);
Decimal final_height_dpi = (((int)printDialog.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.PrintableArea.Height * vertical_dpi) / 100);

printImage = new Bitmap((int)final_width_dpi, (int)final_height_dpi);

// Set Resolution
printImage.SetResolution(horizontal_dpi, vertical_dpi);

Graphics g = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(printImage);

And please try to provide more descriptive code. I am just making assumption for now.


Le meeting du premier trimestre aura lieu le 28/03 à partir de 18h, ouverture des portes à 17h30.
Titre de la présentation (en anglais) : Web Application Access Control Design Excellence.
Abstract: Access Control is a necessary security control at almost every layer within a web application. This talk will discuss several of the key access control anti-patterns commonly found during website security audits. These access control anti-patterns include hard-coded security policies, lack of horizontal access control, and "fail open" access control mechanisms. In reviewing these and other access control problems, we will discuss and design a positive access control mechanism that is data contextual, activity based, configurable, flexible, and deny-by-default - among other positive design attributes that make up a robust web-based access-control mechanism.


Kevin Wilkins, founder of TrepWise, speaks Tuesday (March 15, 2016) during a presentation at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.
It pays for a business to be agile, even if it's so big that its leaders might think they can't change directions as quickly as a startup. Change isn't just recommended; it's often essential.
"Intrapreneurship," or using startup practices within a large organization, was the central theme from Kevin Wilkins, founder of Trepwise, an advisory firm that helps business and nonprofits scale through innovation and thinking like an entrepreneur. He spoke Tuesday (March 15) at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.
They were "married to their problem. They lost site of the customers and lost site of trends going on. The problem changed," Wilkins said.
Wilkins cited the successful Skunk Works team at Lockheed, a team of employees who were allowed to operate without the constraints of company bureaucracy and try innovative ideas and products. Their output included the Blackbird, the high-speed reconnaissance aircraft.
Other companies tried similar approaches that didn't succeed because their work was not woven into the company structure. Such innovation can't take place in isolation, Wilkins said. Employees who are given creative freedom must still be part of the formal company structure.
Entrepreneurs who gain traction usually do so by incorporating customer feedback into their product or service. And Wilkins said they remain viable by repeating a constant cycle of build-learn-revise.
This "constant iterative process" should be in place to "make sure you have your hand on your customer," he said.
Wilkins cited a Google survey of its employees that found that "psychological safety" was critical, more than anything else, to building an effective team. Put another way, the workplace must be a climate where employees are encouraged to make suggestions and rewarded when they are implemented.
"Is it safe to have a 'great idea' that might not be a great idea?" That type of environment is essential to having the right people in the right chairs doing the right jobs," he said.


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Q: PHP 5.5.27 Opcache not working on Apache 2.4 CentOS 7 I've using PHP 5.5.27 installed on Apache 2.4 on CentOS 7. Opcache is showing on a phpinfo() page as:

Opcode Caching: Disabled

Yet below opcache.enable shows 'On'. I verified the proper php.ini is being used (/etc/php.d/opcache.ini) and it shows that it is loading up above in the list of loaded config files. I tried replacing zend_extension=opcache.so with the full path to the file, but that didn't work either. I even restarted apache after each of the changes.
I feel like I must be missing something simple, but I have no idea what it is.

A: Turns out I had zend_extension=opcache.so in my /etc/php.ini file as well as in the /etc/php.d/opcache.ini. Removing it from /etc/php.ini fixed the issue. Guessing that either it couldn't find the path, or didn't like that it was listed twice.


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5 NASCAR Drivers on the Brink of Superstardom
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Tony Stewart. Jeff Gordon. Jimmie Johnson. All four are huge stars within the NASCAR stratosphere, and they've been on top for the better part of the past decade. But as with any sport, there will be turnover at the top, not only in the standings but also in the race for sponsorship and merchandise sales. The stars have already seen it with the addition of Danica Patrick to the Sprint Cup level, as she has immediately taken a huge chunk out of media coverage and promotion. But Patrick aside, there's a deep crowd of drivers who are closing in on the same level of fame. They're quietly (for the most part) building solid resumes, either with a mid-pack Sprint Cup team or decent team in Nationwide or Camping World Trucks, and...
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Today, I am hosting Ali Lynn from Perception Trainers, as my guest blogger. I completely love her blog about Gratitude and she graciously allowed me to share it here, with you. Enjoy.
I am sure that you have heard a sentiment similar to this one a thousand times in your life just like I have and may even write it off as being cliché at this point. That is totally understandable.
Now you may have heard this sentence said in a way that was meant to make you feel badly about complaining. You may have been lectured on how much we have, how rich we really are, how there are people out there starving and dying and we get upset about our iphone breaking or not being able to get a clear internet connection. This is true, there is huge suffering in the world and if you live in a modernized society you are most likely not faced with physical threat on a daily basis. If you are on the computer reading this right now it is probable that you are not seconds away from ceasing to exist due to lack of nutrition or being tortured.
The problem is that most of us "feel" like these life threatening things are happening to us. Let me explain.
Your body has one stress response and one stress response only. There are not different chemical reactions for emotional stress, physical stress, mental stress or spiritual stress. Your body reacts in absolutely the same way when faced with a pack of hungry wolves that want to eat you as it does when you really wanted that promotion and did not get it. It reacts the same way to you almost getting in a car accident as it would if your house were burning down.
This cycle of stress would not exist for us in the same way if we were living out in the wild somewhere. In nature threats to our survival would be our main source of stress, and those threats would come, be very intense, and then go allowing us to rest and recover.
It seems that from the moment we open our eyes in the morning to the moment we fall asleep at night we are continually in a position to have something stressful happen to us.
Our bodies were not designed to have this much stress all the time.
The stress hormones are produced at a risk every time. Adrenaline will give you the boost of energy that you need in order to run from a bear, but it will also cause joint inflammation and damage if it is produced too often. The body has to decide if the risk of long-term damage to the body is worth the ability to have super human speed to run away from a threat.
This constant influx of stress causing situations is not only physically harmful, but mentally harmful as well.
Perceiving stress all the time actually tunes your awareness to look for stressful situations. The reason that your mind does this is to protect you. If you can see a stressful situation coming, you will generally have a better chance of reacting in a way that is life preserving. Thus with this you are setting yourself up to see more and more stress, to be more and more stressed until you get to the point where missing a green light can throw you over the edge.
7. This causes you stress.
We have a vicious cycle of stress begetting stress.
So what do you do when you are in this cycle? How do you get out?
Why does gratitude help? It is because getting yourself to think about and speak out loud all of the things that you are grateful for will change your vibrational state.
You are emitting a vibration at all times. This can actually be measured! When you are in a state of stress, fear, shame, guilt and or anger, the vibration that you are emitting will be a low, dense one. This vibration will attract similar low vibrations because like a radio you will be tuned to that low vibrational "station." You will notice all the other things that align with your low vibration thus continuing the low vibration within yourself.
When you actively step into gratitude, you are raising your own personal vibration.
You are choosing to change the radio station from stress to things you are happy about. By getting yourself in a state of gratitude, you will be in the vibration of gratitude. This is a higher, lighter frequency. Not only will it feel better to be here, it will also switch your awareness from all the things in your life that are causing your stress to all of the things that are going well, that make you feel good and connected to abundance.
Remember that the world can be viewed through several difference lenses. When you take the time to actively choose to view your life thought the lens of gratitude you will most likely find that you have more and more to be grateful for. Your stress levels will diminish because you will now be perceiving all the of things that are going well in your life. You will stop the vicious cycle of stress and place yourself in a much lighter, brighter state.
Next time you are feeling overwhelmed, sit with a pen and paper and list at least 10 things you are grateful for. Then sit with each item for a moment. Hold it in your mind and feel what it feels like to have this thing. What does it feel like to be grateful for it? Why are you grateful for it? How does it make you feel to have this item in your life? Do this for every item on your list and see how it transforms your state of being.
We all have things that we can be stressed about, and we all have things to be grateful for. Choose to focus on that which you wish to create more of in your life, be grateful at every opportunity.
Ali Washington is a Registered Nutritional Counselor, Yoga Instructor, Trained Life Coach and published author. After deciding that she was not only going to be an anorexia survivor but someone who thrived post recovery, she knew that helping others to see their bodies as miraculous gifts rather than enemies was going to be a large part of her work here on earth. Ali loves to work with clients one on one because providing that safe space for others to open and discover more about who they really are and what they have to offer is the most rewarding work she can think of. If just one person starts to view their body in a more positive light and feels more empowered to make the life choices they want to through reading her story, then she will sleep soundly knowing it was all worth the effort.


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Two 25-year-old American entrepreneurs leave the States to launch a Groupon clone…in France?
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I'm pretty sure I know what you're thinking: Huh? Wtf ? Why would any Americans in their right mind want to leave the happiest business place on earth to launch anything in France?! Maybe the wine?
Ok, maybe you're not thinking that. But it doesn't change the fact that 25-year-old American entrepreneurs Anton Bernstein and Joshua David hopped the Atlantic to launch Groupon clone Lookingo specifically in France. And no, they don't speak the language (yet !).
One year ago, even before Google officially started going gaga for Groupon, Bernstein and David started getting interested in the Groupon phenomenon. But when they actually started considering what possibilities they had to do something similar in the States, the idea seemed somewhat doomed; Groupon was already pretty much dominating the market and all niche-oriented newcomers seemed destined to remain small. And so the team decided they would start conquering markets void of Groupon clones (uh, good luck).
The first market they went to was Australia, which apparently they had never even been before. But what's not to like about a nice, big English-speaking market? Plus, there were practically no Groupon clones in sight and online ad space was undervalued, unlike in the US. And so the dynamic duo launched Ouffer – which has saved their users some 8 million Australian dollars, according to the site's counter.
After Ouffer took off, Bernstein and David started looking around for the next market to attack. Despite a few recent Groupon clones – like Bon-Privé and Dealissime – the French market seemed relatively untouched and online advertisement was once again undervalued. But what really sold the deal was Smart&Co.
For anyone who doesn't know Smart&Co, it's the company behind gift package success Smartbox. The founders had been looking for a way to enter the hot daily deal market, which is fairly similar to a lot of the gift packages on Smartbox: trips, spas, restaurants, etc. So once they met up with Bernstein and David, the decision to team up and launch Lookingo seemed more or less obvious.
First off, Smart&Co put €2.5 million into the project right off the bat. Just for the sake of comparison, French competitor Bon-Privé raised €1.5 million in the beginning of the year. But better yet, Smart&Co already has established relationships with some 4,500 restaurants – since they are behind OpenTable-like platform Lafourchette – as well as a number of hotels and spas from running the site Weekendesk. But the icing on the cake is that Smart&Go already has 2.5 million registered users. Therefore, it probably won't take much for Lookingo to catchup to Groupon, who has 3 million users in France.
Lookingo has now been online for 3 months and has already published 150 deals. And the company's 30 employees are now preparing to conquer Europe.
When I asked Bernstein about the experience, he mentioned that he was pleasantly surprised by the "budding" French tech community – entrepreneurs and investors alike. Plus, the fact that the French are very web 2.0 savvy with 20 million people on Facebook is another huge plus. But on the downside, France is nonetheless comparatively more expensive in terms of taxes and salaries. And from Bernstein's experience, the French market is ever-so-slightly slower to adopt new and innovative ideas.
But still, just because there may be Italians moving to Silicon Valley and getting $101K funding with ex-Youtubers in just 19 days doesn't mean that 25-year-old Americans can't score €2.5 million to launch Groupon clones in France.