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Performing Arts at Kinver includes Music, Drama & Dance
(Dance is taught within the PE curriculum)
The Music room is a busy and a vibrant place for students to be at lunch times. Every lunch time there is something is on offer for all to get involved in. Clubs include, 'Kinver Sings'; a Choir club singing songs of all Genres, Guitar club; reading Guitar tab and playing solo and ensemble, Djembe Drum club and Keyboard/Piano club and after school 'Creating Music' Club'.
Students are supportive and mix across year groups; often older students help and mentor young students; supporting them in becoming more confident musicians.
The Music department also has a number of practice rooms that are available for students to book during lunch times.
Students enjoy performing at presentation evenings, Christmas concerts and at Kinver Country Fayre to name just a few.
At Kinver High, students are encouraged to learn new instruments and to continue learning instruments they have already started during Primary School. We privately hire instrumental staff to teach students in addition to our in house Music department who maintain a high teaching and performing standard.
Students who choose to play an instrument have instrumental lessons during the normal school day, in total they have 30 lessons across the academic year and are taught both individually and as a group. We currently offer music tuition for the following:
All Brass instruments,
Woodwind (Flute, Clarinet, Oboe and Saxophone),
Drum,
Electric and acoustic Guitar,
Piano,
'Music Theatre',
Music Vocal Training,
String instruments, please not string lessons are offered for free through the Invictus 'Big String Project'.
Drama is a growing area at Kinver High as it has recently been introduced to our curriculum.
Drama enrichment opportunities include being involved with the school production, recent productions include The Jungle Book, High School Musical and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Our students have also had the privilege to perform sections of these at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, to a large audience, as part of a very successful Invictus performance evening. We are looking forward to our next production of Little Shop of Horrors.
Watch the video below to see some of our talented students perform, The Greatest School
at our Open Day October 2020
Performing Arts within Invictus Education Trust
Kinver High is part of the Invictus Choir who have performed in venues across the UK and Germany as well as part of the BBC proms at the Royal Albert Hall. Last year our tour of Germany surpassed everyone's expectations and was received with acclaim wherever the choir performed. The Invictus Choir has an ethos of inclusivity, but at the same time seeks to be an elite opportunity.
The Invictus Dance Company was also recently involved with a production of Rosie Kays 5 soldiers. This was a fabulous show at the Forest Arts Centre in Walsall.
Rock Bands from across the Trust are featured on a bimonthly basis at the River Rooms in Stourbridge. This provides bands with a fabulous opportunity to perform on a large professional stage.
Lastly, but by no means least, we are also running the Big Strings Project. This is led by the Head of Strings from Birmingham Music Service. The BSP provides free string tuition for all Invictus students. Students are provided with a free instrument and senior players regularly attend National Youth Orchestra training weekends and perform at several concerts, most notably at Christmas time at Dudley town hall.
Invictus Performing Arts have created an atmosphere where the arts are thriving and is ever growing!


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Metro Redux Ranger Hardcore Playthrough - The Harder the Better
The Creator posted a topic in Video and Music Content
Greetings Locals of the Forum. One of my favorite series that i ever played, is the Metro series, and as someone who creates content over the internet, i wanted to share this series with you. I play on the hardest difficulty, most of the time, depends on how hardcore i want to play this game...and of course it comes with a lot of death. I will try to share with this community as much as I can, because i haven't been here for so long, and perhaps disappearing was a mistake. But as a military soldier, it is a problem to appear when it is impossible that is why everything is scheduled in advance. I hope you will stick around and stay tuned, and perhaps give me the power and will to continue with this. Here are the shared at the moment episodes, more to come in the future.
metro redux
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Need some help for metro 2033 in ch 4
anubist800 posted a topic in General Discussion
Hi AJSA community ! Once again i need your help guys. You see i play right know in metro 2033 for challenge and i must say i hit the wall but for real ! i'm in the beginning of chapter 4 the war and i'm just in normal mode and it's barely more i can chew. if i go stealth and i'm see , three bullet and i'm dead. If i charge in through force i'm dead either. Do you have some tricks guys please ? oh and don't worry for spoilers, at the states i am it dosen't really care anymore but for those who it matters get out of the topics. i warned you. XD But seriously thanks guys to give me of yours time to give me some tricks. i'm deseparate
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Metro Last Light Serious Review
GamerUrso posted a topic in Written Reviews & Previews
I know its a bit old but wanted to share it with you. My own Review of Metro Last Light. Enjoy Finally, one of the most anticipated sequel of the most popular First person shooters Metro 2033 is here. Will this games is going to be any good or should we all forget about it? Metro Last Light Serious Review Enter once again the world of Soviet Apocalyptic World of Metro Developer: 4A Games Publisher: Deep Silver Release Date: May 17 2013 Genre: First Person Shooter Modes: Single Player Available for : PS3,Xbox 360 , PC Finally, one of the most anticipated sequel of the most popular First person shooters Metro 2033 is here. Will this games is going to be any good or should we all forget about it? Story This game tells us about the story of Artyom, who after he launched the missiles and destroyed the home of the Dark once, he joins the Order and becomes a Ranger of the Metro. After The orders find one survivor of the dark they send Artyom to eliminate him. Unfortunately, before managing doing that he gets captured by the Nazis. Now he has to escape, he has to fight against Nazis and deadly monsters to find the dark one and find out that this particular Dark might be the last hope of humanity. Graphics Metro 2033 was a beautiful game with amazing levels and atmosphere. Last light offers the same and even better visuals and breathtaking level designs. You will visit creepy tunnels, ruined cities, catacombs, swamps and more. Every level has been designed with amazing detail, from character models of your allies and your enemies until the textures that had been used in various area surfaces. Anti-aliasing levels of characters models and environment are great. The atmosphere that they created is amazing. Although they put limited graphic options which can only be configured though config.ini. Some options might be the FOV change and the DirectX 9 ability. Sound Metro last light contains a variety of sounds from creepy ambient you hear while you go through a level. The well-made monsters roars make them really believable. The music is well suited with the background. The sounds that you hear from the residents in the towns are very realistic. The weapon fire sounds are really well made and sound realistic. They did awesome work in that sector of the game that immerse you in the creepy world of Metro. Gameplay Metro Last light brings us a lot of improvements in this Soviet-Post Apocalyptic game. One of the most problematic issues in Metro 2033 was the stealth mechanics. Which they work much better in the new installment by using the shadows so that enemies won't see you and having a clock where you can see how much oxygen you have and a blue light which indicates if people can see you or not. In addition, you can remove light bulbs and turn off the lights of an entire area after finding the main switch, which can make your life easier. After you approach an enemy you can either stub him to death or knock him out. This can help you a lot to get past without firing you gun at all. Other features that enchant the immersion of the game are the ability to charge your flashlight with a charger. Also there is the ability to clean your gas-mask from bugs and liquid dirt. Other improvement is the currency in the game. In Metro 2033 you were using your ammo as currency to buy weapons or other utilities, now you can use a special ammo for buying your equipment. You collect a different kind of currency which you can find it across the levels and enemies and you can spend them to buy new weapons and ammo. Also you can upgrade your existing weapons. You can add scopes and silencers on your weapon. You can find new weapons which really match the theme of the post-apocalyptic game. There is a big variety of rifles, machine guns and revolvers. There is a good variety of weapons you can choose, although the limited ammo you have you must really be careful how many ammo you spent and stealth is a better choice if you want to survive in this world. There is also a Weapon Menu which you can choose your secondary choice of arms. You can choose between throwing knifes, mines, grenade and fire grenade. You do that by pressing TAB and a circle menu in the middle of the screen comes out and by using you Mouse (PC) or analogue sticks (Consoles) you choose you weapon. This kind of menu is clearly intended for consoles users. You are using the secondary weapons by pressing C and whichever you have chosen it uses it. The only problem with this is you can't aim beforehand. For instance if you choose to throw knifes you have to aim before you throw it. This is difficult most of the times. Other problem is the weak melee knife. Instead of having it as a primary weapon in this game it approaches a more traditional way of having it on a button and using it. Although this feels a more modern game the range of the attack is very limited and very difficult to use it against other monsters. There are some new monsters around, from spider-scorpion kind of monster, fish monsters which you fight them in swamp area and this time around there are bosses, which offer challenges for even experienced players in high difficulty settings. One more interesting addition is when you fall into the water which you have to clearly avoid because if you do it and fall in, there are piranhas kind of monsters where they will eat you alive. The AI of the enemies is not bad either. Although sometimes they feel stupid and restarted where they can't see you when you are in front of them or they keep staring a wall. Overall they feel quite difficult in higher difficulty and enough challenging. Especially the monsters that charge you and try to avoid your bullets while moving towards you. This game immerses you deeply into the world of Metro but sometimes this experience can be ruined by the fact that the character doesn't speak apart from the loading screen. You can't see his reflection in a mirror or water. He is just 2 flying Hands. Although that doesn't ruin the experience of the game at all but it would enchant it even greater if it was there. Ranger Mode This particular mode as the developers said "as the game is meant to be played" offers a challenging experience for veteran players of Metro. With no hub or indicators on how much health or Ammo remains, or what to press to interact with the world but instead you have to react to the background sounds. Such as knife sound when you are near a enemy. In addition you have to watch your watch to see how much oxygen you have and the beeping sound comes out when you are nearly out of it. The difficulty increases but not so much with other enemies than with other monsters. Stealth here plays a bigger role than Rambo style and the ammo is very limited so that you have to make enough saving for you to survive. Although there is no way for you to see how many ammo you have, which make it very difficult job for the player. Conclusion Metro Last Light brings a lot of improvements both in gameplay and graphics. Offering you an immersion experience nothing like most game today have. Although some minor bugs, limited graphic settings and the fact they offer the ranger mode in a DLC for 5 more backs hurt the game slightly. But apart from all that, this game is a masterpiece and is recommended to all metro and Post-apocalyptic fans out there. Score: 9/10

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The House GOP's health-care proposal would expand savings accounts, provide tax credits for buying insurance, and allow people to purchase coverage across state lines. Just don't ask how much it costs.
That Republicans have failed to offer a single, comprehensive replacement bill for Obamacare has become a running joke in Washington over the last several years: They voted to repeal the law—in whole or in part—dozens of times, yet they've never kept their many pledges to replace it.
Contrary to the common criticism from Democrats, however, the GOP's failure to back up its talk with action hasn't stemmed from a lack of ideas. Republicans have plenty of ideas for how to overhaul the health-care system—they've just never been able to agree on enough of them to pass a plan through Congress.
On Wednesday, party leaders will try again, by unveiling a proposal that, for the first time, represents a consensus position of the House Republican conference over how the nation's health-care laws should work if the GOP ever succeeds in repealing the Affordable Care Act. The long-awaited proposal doesn't pick sides in the intra-party debate over health policy so much as it tries to piece together a hodgepodge of ideas that have circulated among conservative think tanks and campaign platforms for more than a decade, including those offered by John McCain in 2008, Mitt Romney in 2012, and several candidates who ran this year.
Republicans are releasing the plan on Wednesday in a 37-page report written by a task force appointed earlier this year by Speaker Paul Ryan—the fifth in a six-part rollout of the party's "A Better Way" agenda. And while the report may be the party's most detailed official policy pronouncement on health care in many years, it is not a piece of legislation, and it will not come to a vote this year.
Indeed, the plan is more like an Impressionist painting: The closer you look, the fuzzier it appears. There's no estimate for how much it would cost, how generous the tax credits would be, how many people it would cover, or how many people would be forced off of Medicaid or their Obamacare exchange policies. "It is a framework," a House GOP leadership aide told reporters on a background conference call held to preview the plan on Tuesday. All of those questions, the aide said, would be "litigated" by the committees that actually translate the framework into legislation next year. "We would expect healthy job growth. We would expect premiums to drop," the aide said, without being more specific.
One thing is clear, however: Republicans are recommitting themselves to the full repeal of Obamacare just a few weeks after a pair of GOP lawmakers, Representative Pete Sessions of Texas and Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, released a proposal that scraps its mandates but maintains its underlying structure so that people who like their current plans can keep them. "Obamacare simply does not work," the GOP report declares. "It cannot be amended or fixed through incremental changes." The new proposal does envision "a transition period" to minimize disruption to the marketplace and allow people time to find new plans if states choose to do away with the exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act. But beyond a one-time open enrollment period, the specifics of how this would work are, again, hazy.
The plan would reinstitute some of the popular consumer protections in Obamacare, like a ban on insurance companies discriminating based on preexisting conditions, a cap on lifetime coverage, and allowing adult children to stay on their parents' plans until age 26. But in a few cases, exceptions could apply. Republicans also wade into a less popular aspect of Obamacare by proposing to cap the kind of health insurance plans that can be excluded from income taxes. The concept is the same as the one that led Democrats to enact the so-called "Cadillac tax" on expensive policies in the Affordable Care Act—a levy that they agreed to repeal at end of last year. But while a cap on exclusions targets the same high-cost insurance plans, Republicans argue that it's a "fundamental departure" from the Cadillac tax that would better account for low-income workers and areas that have a higher cost of living.
If there's a surprise in the plan, it's that Republicans included elements of Ryan's controversial proposals to overhaul Medicare and Medicaid, which were not mentioned when the speaker outlined his agenda at the beginning of the year. The House leadership aide said that over the last few months, a consensus emerged among lawmakers that they could not propose to fix the health-care system without touching the main drivers of federal spending and debt—entitlement programs. The inclusion of those reforms will probably cheer conservatives who have called on Republicans to be more aggressive, but they may set up a clash with Donald Trump, who has campaigned against Ryan's ideas in the past.
That is nothing new. Most of, if not all, of the House GOP's agenda presents a contrast with Trump—both in its substantive details and in the existence of substantive policy at all. But as with the other proposals, Republicans are waiting for Trump's election to do the truly hard work of filling in the details, rounding up the votes, and trying to pass their health-care plan into law. Without a President Trump, that long-awaited Obamacare replacement bill gets another few years to sit on the shelf.


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Tod's background in product design gives him a solid understanding of the design process which he applies to his work as a UX Designer at Cyber-Duck.
Starting his career in education, transitioning into UX was a natural progression for him as UX embodies many elements of teaching including being adaptable and being a creative problem solver.
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La rue Pierre-Lescot, anciennement rue Jean-Saint-Denis, est une ancienne voie de Paris, située dans l'ancien  (actuel ). Elle ne doit pas être confondue avec l'actuelle rue Pierre-Lescot, située dans le quartier des Halles.

Situation
Cette voie était située dans le quartier Saint-Honoré. Au moment de sa suppression dans les années 1850, elle commençait place de l'Oratoire et finissait rue Saint-Honoré. Elle était parallèle à la rue du Chantre. Avant l'aménagement de la place de l'Oratoire aux , ces deux rues aboutissaient au sud sur la rue de Beauvais (ou de Biauvoir).

Origine du nom
Cette rue rend hommage à Pierre Lescot (1515-1578), l'architecte du palais du Louvre, situé au bout de la rue au sud.

Historique
La rue existait déjà en 1267. Elle était alors située en dehors de l'enceinte de Philippe Auguste. Elle est incorporée à Paris lors de la construction de l'enceinte de Charles V dans la seconde partie du .

Elle était à l'origine nommée « rue Jean-Saint-Denis », probablement en référence à Jean de Saint-Denis, chanoine de la collégiale Saint-Honoré toute proche.

Elle est citée sous le nom de « rue Jehan Saint Denis », dans un manuscrit de 1636 dont le procès-verbal de visite, en date du , indique qu'elle est .

Le , la rue est rebaptisée « rue Pierre-Lescot », à la demande des riverains qui considéraient que le nom précédent était associé aux prostituées qui fréquentaient la rue.

Dans les années 1850, il est décidé d'achever le projet de réunion du Louvre et des Tuileries et de prolonger la rue de Rivoli à l'Est de la rue de Rohan. Les Grands Magasins du Louvre (actuel Louvre des antiquaires) et la cour Khorsabad du musée du Louvre sont construits à son emplacement.

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Articles connexes
 Liste des anciens noms de voies de Paris
 Réunion du Louvre et des Tuileries
 Transformations de Paris sous le Second Empire

Voie de Paris disparue
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Home » Lifestyle » Influencer reveals body dysmorphia put her off trying wedding dresses
Influencer reveals body dysmorphia put her off trying wedding dresses
'I can't stand to look at myself': Influencer breaks down in tears as she reveals her body dysmorphia made her dread picking out her wedding dress
Massachusetts's Mikayla Nogueira, 24, has over 14 million followers on TikTok
In a series of videos, she opens up about her battle with body dysmorphia
The makeup guru said she realized she had the condition at school
A makeup influencer has posted a series of candid videos revealing her harrowing battle with body dysmorphia and how the mental health condition put her off trying wedding dresses.
Hailing from Massachusetts, 24-year-old Mikayla Nogueira, who has racked up more than 14 million followers on her TikTok account where she posts glam tricks and tips, details in a clip how she developed the condition as a child and how it still plagues her to this day.
As she sits in front of the camera with no makeup on and struggling to hold back tears, she explains: 'Today I'm going to be picking out my wedding dress, and these are not happy days.
'There is absolutely a reason why I have put this off. I'm not looking forward to this day. I haven't been, and that's a weird thing to say. I feel like, growing up, little girls, they look forward to a day like this, right? But I feel like it's different when you have body dysmorphia and an eating disorder, and you're really insecure.'
Makeup influencer Mikayla Nogueira revealed her destructive battle with body dysmorphia and how the mental health condition had put her off trying wedding dresses
Mikayla says she can trace the roots of her body dysmorphia back to her childhood
Body dysmorphia is a mental health condition where a person obsessively worries about flaws in their physical appearance.
Sufferers develop compulsive behaviors and routines, such as excessive use of mirrors or avoiding them completely.
These obsessions and behaviors cause emotional distress, and have a significant impact on people's ability to carry on with their day-to-day life.
In this way, the condition is closely related to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Experts estimate that body dysmorphic disorder affects about 2.4 per cent of adults in the U.S. overall, with the condition usually developing around the age of 12 or 13.
Mikayla says she can trace the roots of her body dysmorphia back to her childhood.
In another clip, she reveals how at school she hated getting changed in front of the other girls for gym class and resorted to using a private cubicle instead.
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Despite her struggles, Mikayla did end up going to a bridal store to find her perfect wedding dress. She revealed the ones that didn't make the cut
She said that she didn't find the experience as bad as she thought it would be as the associate helped put her at ease
While applying bronzer, she added: 'I always felt like there was something wrong with me.
'All the girls would just change in front of each other and I would have to go in a private, separate room because I couldn't.'
The beauty pro says that although she has forged a career on social media, she still doesn't feel like she's worthy of being called an 'influencer' because of the way she looks.
'I wish that I could be like all these f***ing TikTok influencer baddies. Still to this day I don't feel like I fit in as an influencer in general,' she said.
'I'm not like the f***ing beauty standard in any way. I hate taking selfies for Instagram because I can't even stand to look at myself. I don't mean to be negative, that's the reality I'm living in. It's something I'm working on.'
Despite her struggles, Mikayla did end up going to a bridal store to find her perfect wedding dress.
Mikayla got engaged to her partner, Cody, in November 2021. The couple are pictured
The couple (pictured again) are set to tie the knot in less than six months' time
She said that she didn't find the experience as bad as she thought it would be as the associate helped put her at ease.
Giving praise to the store employee, the bride-to-be said: 'She made me feel so comfortable, she was so friendly, we had very similar personalities.
'I did feel like a princess I won't lie. I felt pretty good.'
Mikayla uploaded a clip showing her friends and family waiting as she tried on a number of dresses before landing on the perfect one, which she didn't reveal.
Thousands of viewers have left comments offering words of encouragement to Mikayla after she revealed her struggles.
'Body dysmorphia is so difficult. I feel the only way I can cope is to disassociate from my body and act like what I see in the mirror is not me,' one person said.
Another added: 'I completely understand where you're coming from girly.
'Clothes shopping in general is always so hard for me. I suffer from body dysmorphia and an eating disorder.
'So I completely understand where you're coming from. But you are gorgeous!'
Mikayla, who got engaged to her partner, Cody, in November 2021, is set to tie the knot in less than six months' time.
Body dysmorphia: The mental health condition that sees sufferers obsess over their flaws
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a mental health condition where a person obsessively worries about flaws in their physical appearance.
Experts estimate that the disorder affects about 2.4 per cent of adults in the U.S. overall, with the condition usually developing around the age of 12 or 13.
BDD can vary in severity from person-to-person and from day-to-day.
For some, concerns around appearance may make it difficult for them to go out in public or see other people.
For others, they need to uphold what they perceive as a perfect look.
BDD may also cause other problems such as feelings of shame, guilt and loneliness.
People with the condition may isolate themselves to avoid situations where their appearance may cause them anxiety or awkwardness.


Maronda Ann Beard Steffen, 59, of Shallotte, NC, formerly of the Bladen Union Community, died Wednesday January 30, 2019. She was born November 30, 1959 in Newport News, VA to Daniel L. Beard, Jr. and Minnie Ann Smith Beard. Having several vocations, her most favorite was serving as an Administrator in the Mental Health System for group homes. As a young girl she made her profession of faith in the Central Baptist Church of Hampton, VA. She is survived by her father and mother, Daniel and Minnie Ann Beard; brothers, Daniel L. Beard III and Jonathan Terence Beard; nieces, Stephanie Beard, Jacquelyn Beard and Emily Beard and; nephew, Daniel L. Beard IV. A graveside funeral service will be held Saturday February 2, 2019 at 12:00 noon at Bladen Union Baptist Church Cemetery, with Reverend Gary Lucas officiating. A visitation will be held one hour prior to the service, from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon, in Bladen Union Baptist Church. Arrangements by McNeill Mackie Funeral Home of St. Pauls.


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require 'spec_helper'
require 'clandestine/safe_authentication'

module Clandestine
  describe SafeAuthentication do
    let(:safe) { double('safe') }

    describe '#authenticate' do
      context 'correct password' do
        it 'yields safe' do
          SafeAuthentication.stub(:authenticated?) { true }
          SafeAuthentication.authenticate(safe, 'password').should eq true
        end
      end

      context 'incorrect password' do
        it 'raises error' do
          SafeAuthentication.stub(:authenticated?) { false }
          error = $stderr
          $stderr = StringIO.new
          expect {
            SafeAuthentication.authenticate(safe, 'password')
          }.to raise_error SystemExit
          $stderr.string.should eq "Invalid password!\n"
          $stderr = error
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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The day started out cold. Cold enough to wear long undies, pants, a long sleeve shirt, my fleece, AND my rain coat as a wind breaker. I wanted a hot breakfast but really didn't want to mess with an egg dish so I made oatmeal, which even now I remember as being really good that morning.
I took my time getting going, in the hopes that the sun would make an appearance and warm things up a bit…which it did. This was the day I had decided to bushwhack to Rocky Lake. Based on the name and the topo maps I was expecting the lake to have cliffs on the south shore. I packed a trail lunch and everything I needed for a hike into Aaron's day pack.
I had a plan. I would paddle over to Paddle Lake through that little stream. I would go ashore near the small creek that runs from Paddle into Rocky. I would follow the creek to Rocky and hope to find a game trail heading in the correct direction. Once there I would go to the base of the cliff and create a small memorial to Aaron in a place almost no one would find. I would leave a note in the see-thru water bottle Aaron had bought to go to the BWCA. I would cover the collapsible bottle with rocks in the form of a cross. Years later, Anna and I could come back and visit the memorial. Decades later she could take her kids here. I know this goes against the Leave-No-Trace ethic but I was pretty sure I could find a place where no one would ever find it…and I really hoped if they did, they would understand based on the note. That was the plan anyway.
It started out well. The stream between lakes turned out to be a piece of cake. There was a decent place to land the canoe just west of the creek that leaves Paddle. My topo GPS provided reassurance that the creek and the massive ridge were exactly where they were supposed to be. After a bit of tough bushwhacking I even found a moose trail heading in the right direction which made traveling through the brush a little easier. That was until the trail headed into a dense thicket. I decided I could find a better way than the moose so headed up the ridge. It was steep but from a distance appeared to have less undergrowth than the thicket. Less under growth, yes…but what I soon discovered is that fallen branches and downed trees on the steep terrain were even worse. I made my way back down the ridge and noticed that just the other side of that thicket was a wide open area. The moose had known exactly what they were doing when they laid down that trail. "Never doubt the moose," was the first lesson of the day.
The trail took me right to Rocky Lake. The creek kind of petered out at that point and where it would have entered the lake there was a beaver dam of sorts. I made it! Proud of myself I headed west along the southern shore. For a while at least, there was a trail to follow. I began to notice something unusual. Rocky Lake had no rocks. I'm not talking just a few rocks…none. Where I had expected a cliff was really just a very steep ridge. The trail I was on ran between the dirt shore and the ridge. Eventually the trail took a 90 degree turn straight up the ridge. Not what I was hoping for so I headed back.
That was when life hit me between the eyes. There were no rocks. Getting to the point of being up in that tree had been so difficult I knew my daughter and I would not be back. My perfect plan for an Aaron memorial was not going to happen. But I realized, that was the point wasn't it? So often we plan. We build things up in our head until everything is perfect. But then life happens and the end result doesn't match the dream. Just like the plans you have for your brilliant son with the pale blue eyes and wide smile. If life is only about matching our dreams perfectly we are all setting ourselves up for a life of disappointment. But standing there in that tree I realized it is about the journey. The experience is the goal. This special journey wasn't about coming to grips with the many dreams that won't come true. It turned out to be about embracing the experiences that did. It wasn't about the decades I wouldn't get with Aaron, it was about the 10 years I did get. So I stopped to enjoy the view from the tree.
With a new understanding I made my way back across the beaver dam and found the moose trail again. Plans had changed. I would head back to camp and make lunch there. I followed the trail as best I could but ended up losing it eventually. That was OK too…part of the journey. The GPS would get me back to the canoe. As I fought through the underbrush I thought of all the little plans that had changed on this trip. I wasn't staying in the site I had planned…but I loved the new site. I was base camping instead of on a loop…but I was really enjoying not having to break camp every day. It is good to plan, but it is better to be flexible.
I loaded the canoe with plenty of dry firewood and paddled back to the campsite. As I paddled back through that little stream it was a bit more challenging going against the current but still easily accomplished. I was surprised when another solo paddler was coming through the stream the other direction. I hadn't seen another solo traveler let alone one headed into a dead end lake with no campsites. The truly unusual part of this encounter wouldn't be revealed until the last day.
Lunch was cheese and crackers back at the campsite. I enjoyed my meal while watching a parade of paddlers go by. It was a very busy day on Canoe Lake. The four guys from the site next to mine had gone but were replaced in very short order by another group who then left for a day trip.
Lunch completed I decided to go for a paddle of my own. I paddled close to that neighboring site trying to glimpse why they had chosen that site over the great site I had. I was staring at the site pretty intensely so I failed to see the new occupants paddle up. I felt pretty sheepish scoping their site so I paddled back to the west. I decided to go pick up the wood that had gotten wet that first day when I tipped the canoe. It was dry now and easy to reach. It felt like another symbol of my new found interest in being flexible.
That night was Jamaican Chicken and applesauce. Again the problem of portions made for two and only one camper. Given all the wood I had I was able to keep a nice fire going for quite a while. I did my journaling that night on the logs around the fire rather than in the hammock.
My last decision of the day was another change in plans. I decided it felt right to leave a day early. The next day, Sunday, would be my last full day in the Bdub. I would paddle out on Monday and take my time getting home.
I took my time getting going that morning. I was still full from dinner the night before so decided to go fishing before breakfast. I wanted to check out the east end of the lake. While paddling that direction I decided to troll the deep diving Rapala shad that had worked on Alder. I had only made it a short distance when I thought I hit a snag. Much to my surprise it was a walleye…a real, honest to goodness, BWCA walleye. Now, for many fishermen that may not solicit quite the same response, but for my friends and I the walleye has proven to be an elusive species. Even when we target them specifically we fare poorly. So this was a real treat and quite unusual. The fish went on the stringer and I began to contemplate a fish fry for breakfast.
Trying the trolling technique some more I managed to hook into a couple of bass but no more walleye. When I finally did get hungry enough to head in I decided that one walleye does not a fish fry make. I released the one from the stringer and felt good as I watched him swim down out of sight.
Back at the site I decided I would attempt biscuits and gravy for breakfast. While the rest of the meals I had tried were all rated "Easy to Prepare", this one was rated "Chef It Up". This sounded like a good challenge. Right from the beginning I ran into trouble. Attempting to mix the dough in the bag proved to be problematic. I tried to remedy the mixing problem by using a plastic yellow spoon. Given that yellow is Aaron's favorite color you can imagine my disappointment when the spoon snapped in half. I soon made it worse by deciding what was needed was my hand in the bag. Yeah, I got the ingredients to mix but now half of the biscuits were stuck to my fingers. Out of the mess I managed to get 3 small globs of mix into the pan. The gravy was considerably easier. The biscuits turned out great and the gravy was excellent. However, given how much of the biscuit mix ended up in the towels used to wipe my hands, it is no surprise that I finished the meal still a little hungry. The package had indicated the meal would be filling. For me filling required the addition of a Powerbar.
After cleaning up breakfast I found myself with no plans. In the lull I had an Aaron attack. That is what I call the episodes I have when I can't hold back my emotions. This trip was supposed to give me closure with Aaron. My ceremony at the falls was supposed to be a turning point. All it got me was one day without an Aaron attack and now they were back. I quickly realized how flawed that plan had been. You can't set a date for the end of the grieving process. Aaron attacks were here to stay and I learned that was just fine. Once the Aaron attack had subsided I hemmed and hawed over what to do. It seemed like such a waste to do nothing with my last full day so I decided on a day trip. I packed a lunch and headed over to Crystal Lake for some fishing. Worst case, if the fishing was awful I would head over to Spaulding Lake and go bushwhacking in a search for the mine that is there.
On the portage over to Crystal I played around with the Bungee-Dealy-Bobs I had brought and found a great way to make the portaging even easier by securing gear to the canoe.
Unlike Rocky Lake, Crystal Lake lives up to its name. The water is crystal clear. I didn't think that boded well for fishing but I was here to just enjoy a new lake so that was fine by me.
I tried casting in the shallow area around the portage without much luck. Remembering the success with trolling that morning I headed out for deeper water. Given the clear water I could make out a rock ledge that ran parallel to the shore. I trolled with the lure just on the deep side of the ledge. I paddled just fast enough to see the vibration in the tip of the rod from the action of the lure. I didn't have to paddle far when the lure got hit by a bass. Bass may not be good eating but they sure are fun to catch.
So it went all along the northern shore of the lake. Release a bass, paddle a bit, catch a bass. And they were fighters. I had several come out of the water. Then as I trolled along I watched the pole get slammed. Ooooo, this was going to be fun. The canoe spun around and followed the bass. After a fun fight I landed one of the biggest bass I had ever caught. The only reason I quit fishing is that I got tired of pulling treble hooks out of bass. All in a lake that wasn't supposed to have many fish at a time of year when other fishermen were lamenting how slow things had gotten. I mentioned this in a post on BWCA.com when I got back and someone pointed out they thought I had a little help from a special angel that day.
With the need to fish out of my system I decided to just explore. There was a campsite just the other side of the portage to Spaulding Lake that I was pretty sure would be empty. I decided to head there for lunch. It was a further paddle than I had figured but eventually I found the site. No sooner had I pulled the canoe ashore when a couple came walking into the site from a trail to the portage. Seems they had the same idea about lunch. I let them have the fire ring while I settled in down by the lakeshore.
Lunch was to be hummus and pitas. I had a powdered hummus mix and some packets of olive oil but what I didn't have was…plain water. In my haste to leave I only grabbed one water bottle. It was full and plenty of fluid for a day trip but I had flavored it with orange drink. So a slight change in plans…I would be having "Orange-Hummus" for lunch. It actually tasted fine.
As I was packing up the couple came down to the lake and said they were heading out too. They pointed out that it was 4:00. I had no idea it had gotten so late. That time of year I knew I didn't have time to push on to Spaulding so I headed back.
When I got back to Canoe Lake I noticed that other site I wanted to check out was open so I decided to stop. Most of the site was OK, maybe even nice. The great part of the site was the landing. It is low and sandy. I still like my site better but I could see why the guys opted for it that first day. The best part of stopping there was the big pile of firewood. I was wondering where I was going to get wood with darkness setting in and here it was. So I loaded some of it into the canoe and headed over to my site.
When I got back I decided I wanted to see some pictures of Aaron. I had purposefully brought my old cell phone along and kept it off to save the charge. I wanted it because it was filled with pictures of Aaron. So I scrolled through hundreds of photos. The one that stopped me dead in my tracks was the one from his last Christmas. He was laying on the new Thermarest I had gotten him. It was supposed to be for this trip. Instead, in two weeks he would be gone. Yup, mourning is a process and it will not have an end. Eventually, I came back to the present. Given the late lunch, dinner was a snack of cheese and crackers. I also had a hot chocolate and roasted some marshmallows.
That night was beautiful. After the campfire died and I cleaned up I headed down to the lake. The air was still and the moon was full. A beaver swims by. I feel compelled to offer a prayer of thanks. I know that is where healing lies. I have to be thankful for the years I got with Aaron and not ache for the years I don't.
When a second beaver swims past I decide to play a game Aaron and I would often play in the hospital. In the hospital version we would go for a walk in the facility and find a window with a view and some chairs. We would then make a backstory for what we observed. "The two guys working at the construction site on a Sunday must be spies. In fact, there must be a secret spy lair hidden beneath the porta-potty. They must be watching for aliens who are interested in the power substation next door." So I played "Back Country Back Story". "The second beaver was the son and the first beaver was the dad. The son had big ideas on how to take the science of beavering to the next level but the dad would have none of it." I smiled as the beavers swam out of sight.
After sitting and listening to that babbling creek across the lake I realized for the first time I had the entire lake to myself. That afforded me a unique opportunity. I could yell and no one would hear me. So I yelled to God and I yelled to Aaron. My words skipped across the lake and echoed back to me. The words were of love not anger. Even in a post-Aaron world there could still be things to be thankful for like still waters, a full moon, a lake all to myself, and memories of a son that I will forever cherish. This was a good last night.
Packing up was bittersweet. It always is on a Bdub trip but this was a little worse than usual. I attributed part of the trepidation to not knowing if leaving a day early was the right thing to do. More on that in a moment. Camp came down and packed up relatively quick. That hammock system sure is easier to pack than it is to set up. Of course, packing is always easier when the empty space in the food bucket can be used.
The winds picked up as I pushed off. I am a little over sensitive when it comes to winds on a canoe trip. My friends and I once tried to tackle big winds on Saganaga and lost. The good news is that I was headed directly into the wind most of the time. Yeah, the going was a little slow but I was OK with that on this final day. The only time I had to tack in order to avoid big rollers was on the middle section of Alder. The rest of the way I just had to stay focused and the Bell tracked great. I learned to read the pattern of the wind on the waves ahead of me and take corrective action before things got tough. It was actually a fun challenge but it didn't allow for much free thinking during the whole trek out.
The portages went well too. I learned not to attempt a deep squat with a heavy pack. I had done that on the way in and tweaked my knee to the point where it still hurt months later. That is another of the little things you take for granted when there are fellow travelers on a trip = someone to help lift the heavy bags onto your back.
If you have hung on this long I hope you will indulge this one last spiritual detour. I mentioned earlier that I had worked things out with God prior to starting this journey. If you are wondering how an engineer father can ever forgive his God for the death of his son after he endured a horrible disease, here it is: I have come to believe that God does not reach down and give little boys cancer nor does he remove the cancer cells that nature places there. I think God whispers to us in order to help us get to the best possible place. I think he whispers to parents, doctors, even the kids themselves to help as much as he can, but we are limited to our own technology. To view it any other way would be to admit that God intended for Aaron to get cancer, or even if he didn't give it to him, chose to not remove the cancer even when hundreds (maybe more than a thousand?) people prayed. Some have suggested that God has a plan that I can't understand…and they are right. I simply cannot fathom a plan that has a ten year old die, one who would have saved others as a cardiovascular surgeon. So my God doesn't have that kind of plan. Instead, he watches and he whispers and he cries with us and that brings sense to all this and gives me peace.
As those 22 paddlers headed for Canoe Lake I wondered if God had whispered to me that leaving a day early was the right thing to do. I wondered if God whispered to those other four campers that first day to have them leave the western site for me. I wondered if he whispered to others so that I might have the falls and the lake all to myself when I needed it most. I have my opinion…but I will leave you to yours.
Concentrating on the paddling as I was, and taking on a headwind, I noticed that East Bearskin is really a long lake and I chose the outfitter at the absolute opposite end of the lake from the portage. The lake wasn't nearly that long on the way in, I was sure of it! I did finally make it and the wind badgered me all the way to the point I stepped from the canoe for the last time. Needless to say the outfitter was a bit surprised to see me. I was surprised when I walked up to the lodge and passed that other solo paddler I had met going into Paddle Lake. I finished up at East Bearskin Lodge by taking a shower and settling up.
My first meal prepared by someone else who was also willing to do the dishes was at My Sister's Place. Great burgers…a bit expensive…but a really good burger.
The big detour south of Grand Marais was gone so that saved some time. I stopped in at Betty's for a piece of pie.
I took my time getting home and that included staying at a hotel in Superior for the night. I found it funny that when I stopped at a store to pick up some supplies the mosquitos there were awful in comparison to what I had just faced in the Bdub.
The rest of the drive home was uneventful so I hope you aren't still reading this hoping for a grand finish. My epiphanies are almost so obvious as to be clichés: -You can't find God in a video game. -Never doubt a moose. -Life will not turn out as you planned so being flexible and enjoying the journey are keys to finding peace. -Life is short. We already know this so why don't we act on it? -You cannot set a time limit on grieving. -It was time to focus on my daughter after more than a year of focusing almost entirely on my son.
Again, all of these seem so obvious now. Yet without this trip alone into the wilderness I am certain I would still be searching for these truths. Thank you for reading this. Thank you for your patience. I hope you find something of value here. Maybe you had always wanted to know just how rocky Rocky Lake is. Maybe you will vow to get your kids into nature. Maybe you just give them a hug. This trip was good for my soul and I sincerely hope that in some small way the read was good for yours.


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S Chand: Publishing giant in the education content business
The newly listed S Chand is staying future-ready by balancing its core strength of publishing with investments in edutech startups
By Paramita Chatterjee, Forbes India Staff
Published: Jun 7, 2017 07:39:35 AM IST
Updated: Jun 7, 2017 09:59:36 AM IST
Based in Delhi, I track developments both in corporate and economy sectors. In a career spanning since 2003, I track developments pertaining to M&A, PE/VC, startups and healthcare. Prior to joining Forbes, I have had stints with The Economic Times, Businessworld, India Today and Indian Express. I am also a guest faculty at The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (Dhenkenal) where I deliver part-time lectures to young aspiring journalists and teach them the practical side of reporting and editing. And when not working, I love to travel and spend time with my fawn Labrador.
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Himanshu Gupta (left), MD of S Chand Group, with brother-in-law Dinesh Jhunjhunwala, who is executive director
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Himanshu Gupta has a particular fondness for his schooldays. Reason: The third-generation entrepreneur and managing director of publishing house S Chand Group grew up studying textbooks published by his family. "What's exciting was that I knew in advance about all the books that would be launched in the market," says Gupta, 38, as he settles down for a chat with Forbes India in the conference room of his south Delhi office which is stacked with board games and textbooks ranging from history and science to literature.
The excitement, however, did not spur any early interest in Gupta to join the company, founded by his grandfather Shyam Lal Gupta in 1939 in a nondescript bylane of old Delhi's Chandni Chowk as a part of a nationalistic effort to publish Indian authors in colonial times. (It was later managed by Gupta's father, Ravindra Kumar, and uncle Rajendra Kumar.)
"Although publishing has been our bread and butter, I was not too serious about the business in the initial years," recalls Gupta, who had brief flings with diverse entrepreneurial ventures after passing out from school in 1996. "While in college [he is a commerce grad from Delhi University], I started something in herbal cosmetics. Then there was the dotcom era in which I created a website [focussed on education]. Finally I discontinued both and couldn't escape the family business."
Gupta joined S Chand in early 2000, taking on a leadership role in 2006 after his father's retirement. In the decade since, he has grown into the position, working closely with his brother-in-law Dinesh Jhunjhunwala, who is executive director. Together, they have adopted diverse strategies to stay ahead of competition. "While I am more aggressive, Dineshji is calm, composed and extremely mature. We operate as a team and that always helps attain bigger goals," says Gupta.
The most recent achievement is that the Rs540-crore company, after eight decades of operation ("Seventy-eight years to be precise," says Gupta) made its debut on the bourses in April 2017; S Chand launched its IPO (to raise Rs325 crore) and an offer for sale by existing shareholders, including Everstone Capital, took the total issue size to Rs728.5 crore. The private equity firm invested `260 crore in lieu of 32.27 percent in the company in two tranches—Rs200 crore in 2012 and Rs60 crore in 2015. In the IPO, it sold 21 percent of its stake to garner Rs423 crore and it currently holds about 10 percent in the company.
"This [the listing] is just one of the milestones," says Gupta. Jhunjhunwala concurs. "In order to stay relevant in a business that's there for so long, you have to keep devising new strategies," says the 56-year-old, who married Gupta's cousin (Rajendra Kumar's daughter) in 1983.
Jhunjhunwala joined S Chand in 2010. At that time, it was a family-owned, traditional business house that published books on various subjects, with special focus on math and science, and even the Wren & Martin for English grammar. "We were always strong in publishing. But we realised if we have to stay ahead in the race, we have to gradually shift our focus from ownership to management," says Jhunjhunwala, who drew from his own entrepreneurial experience to help grow the venture. "I lived in Hong Kong and prior to joining S Chand, I was a part of a family business where we would assemble watches," he says.
From 2011, Gupta and Jhunjhunwala expedited the process of hiring talent from the market to ramp up various divisions within the company such as sales, finance, marketing and mergers and acquisitions. Gupta calls it "a phase when we wanted to consolidate". "Earlier, we were doing it ourselves… we were providing quality academic books to students. Then, we started looking for companies with similar product portfolios and customers."
The education publishing sector in India is largely fragmented and, according to S Chand's estimates, there are about 10,000 publishers in the country today. S Chand is the second-largest player in the market after Navneet Education Ltd, which is also the first Indian publishing company to list on the stock market in 1984.
Navneet has a presence in both the publishing and stationery businesses with a combined revenue of Rs931 crore. S Chand, however, in 2016, emerged as the leader in educational content with a strong presence in the CBSE/ICSE-affiliated and state board schools.
In the unlisted space, S Chand's peers comprise both multinational companies such as Oxford University Press and Macmillan Publishers and domestic players, including Orient Blackswan and Ratna Sagar.
"In India, customers prefer to take more products from different people rather than more products from the same publisher," says Gupta. As a result, different brands enjoy strong positions in different categories. S Chand's strategy to acquire some of the brands that have top-of-the mind-recall in the market helps strengthen its position and spread its wings into the regional market. "We had a lot of width… but not depth. Acquisitions helped us focus on both," says Gupta.
The defining moment for S Chand came in 2012 when it received funding from Everstone. That made it easier for the company to embrace the inorganic route to expand its operations in the regional market.
S Chand made its first acquisition by buying out Vikas Publishers along with its imprint Madhuban for Rs150 crore in 2012. Subsequently, two key acquisitions were made: One was Delhi-based publisher New Saraswati House that has a strong grip on textbooks in Sanskrit, French and Indian regional languages. The acquisition was completed in two tranches, in 2014 and 2016. Most recently, in December 2016, S Chand acquired a 74 percent stake in Kolkata-headquartered Chhaya Prakashani, which has a significant presence in the West Bengal board.
"We backed S Chand in its vision of consolidating the fragmented education content business, which it has done very well through strategic acquisitions… it is now a pan-India leader," says Deep Mishra, managing director at Everstone Capital, who is also on the board of S Chand. "We have worked together with them to put structures, teams and processes in place for the next level of growth and have been shoulder to shoulder to ensure a smooth IPO," he adds.
Today, with a major push toward digital media in education, the company is busy carving out strategies to make itself future ready. "Although these are early days for education in the digital market and not too many academicians are currently trained to adopt the medium on an immediate basis, we are bracing for balancing between our core, print, and the future, digital," says Samir Khurana, group head, strategy & investments, at the S Chand Group. The company's current investment in edutech startups is around $5 million. It has invested another $10 million in in-house digital products and services. Its portfolio companies, where it has minor investments, include Testbook, an online test preparation platform for competitive exams, Smartivity Labs which designs activities for children, OnlineTyari that helps students prepare for government exams, and home tutoring service FlipClass.
This puts S Chand on the right path, say experts. "In the publishing space, one of the biggest triggers is the imminent shift to digital. Companies which are investing in this direction will be ahead of the curve. The other driver is the quality of content; companies that are investing on the content and digital side will have a competitive edge," says Raja Lahiri, partner at Grant Thornton India.
The men at the helm of S Chand are keeping their eyes on the ball. "We want to make sure products are available on time to our customers. Besides, our focus is to try to create a differentiator in the books we publish. We strive to create different designs and work on our presentation," says Gupta.
It helps that the company has "seven decades of experience in the industry," says Deepak Jasani, head–retail research at HDFC Securities. "There is a positive brand equity enjoyed by S Chand in the education content space considering the distribution and marketing depth that it has developed." However, the stock is a tad expensive, he adds. "The negatives include low return ratios, regulatory changes, growing digitisation, seasonality and a history of inorganic acquisitions some of which are yet to pay off," says Jasani.
Going forward, the journey is about strengthening its presence in the K-12 segment. In 2012, the company saw 50 percent of its business coming from higher education. But the shift has been to K-12, accounting for 70 percent of the business in 2016.
"The change in strategy is deliberate. Education has undergone a makeover. Today, people coming from lower income groups also want to enrol their children in English-medium schools," says Gupta. In India, there are over 1.5 million schools of which 20 percent comprises private unaided schools. "In the years to come, K-12 will witness maximum growth in the country," says Gupta.
(This story appears in the 23 June, 2017 issue of Forbes India. You can buy our tablet version from Magzter.com. To visit our Archives, click here.)
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DOL Begins Process for Changing Overtime, Persuader Rules
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 1:36 PM - Maggie Murphy - ABC News -
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has begun to take action on two Obama-era regulations that were consistently opposed by ABC.
In a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announced he will issue a Request for Information (RFI) in order to collect information from the public on the overtime rule. The RFI will likely act as the first step in issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, a process that would change or rescind the rule permanently.
The overtime rule, which was blocked in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District Court in of Texas in November, 2016, would have doubled the current minimum standard salary level for exemption from $23,660 to $47,476 annually and automatically increased it every three years.
On June 12, DOL issued a new notice of proposed rulemaking to rescind the "persuader" rule, officially named the "Interpretation of the 'Advice' Exemption in Section 203(c) of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act."
Comments on rescinding the persuader rule, which ABC and its members have opposed since it was first proposed in 2011, are due August 11.
The final persuader rule never went into effect. On Nov. 16, 2016, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas permanently blocked the DOL's persuader rule. In finding the rule unlawful, the court maintained employers' right to obtain advice from labor relations experts.
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Back in July of 2012, Jordan Osborne could hear a lot of commotion coming from his neighbor's home. He investigated the disruption, discovering 21-year-old Justin Williams arguing over World of Warcraft. Williams attacked Osborne, who had asked him to keep it down. He choked him, then stabbed the young man in the chest.
Anthony Graziano, 19, was accused of attempted murder, intimidation, and aggravated arson after he attacked two local synagogues in New Jersey. He used a Molotov cocktail to attack the houses of worship, and the jury claimed violent video games led him to complete this attack.
Crystian Rivera, 14, of Oklahoma, was arrested after he murdered his 9-month-old sister, Linda. Linda was crying while the older boy was playing Call of Duty: Black Ops, which messed him up in the game. He shook her violently, then tossed her back into her bed.
The Raynham Incident occurred in 2010, after two youths lit fire to a garage and an apartment building using homemade Molotov cocktails. The 12-year-old involved claimed Grand Theft Auto influenced the attack.
Julien Barreaux, 20, of Cambrai, France, was playing a competitive match of Counter-Strike when he was killed by a knife in-game. He then spent seven months hunting down the individual, and ultimately murdering him.
Kim Yoo-chul and Choi Mi-sun, a South Korean couple, met through online gaming, and even had a child together. Sadly, the two were more obsessed with their virtual child instead of their real child. The baby died as a result of their neglect.
Will and Josh Buckner, who became known as the Cocke County Snipers, killed a motorist and wounded another with sniper rifles. The two claimed they were recreating something they had seen in Grand Theft Auto 3.
Hu Ange, 21, from China, was given around 50,000 yuan ($7,353) in order to start a seafood business. Instead, the young man spent all the cash on an online game. He needed more money, though, so he poisoned his parents for their income and inheritance.
Ionut Savin, 15 grew addicted to Counter-Strike not long after picking up the game. He missed over 200 days of school. His mother then cut off his internet connection to get him out of the house, so he stabbed her 17 times, stole her cash, and ran off to a local internet cafe for a few hours of game-time.
Gevin Allen Prince, 15, was arrested after he murdered his great-grandmother back in 2011. She told him to stop playing so many video-games, so he grabbed his samurai sword and attacked her. Police responded, so he shot them with a pellet gun. The officers tasered and arrested him.


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Events.com secures $100M capital investment from Global Emerging Markets (GEM) to accelerate global expansion and growth
Event technology leader Events.com announced today that it has secured a capital commitment of $100 million in the form of a Share Subscription Facility (SSF) from Gem Global Yield LLC SCS (GGY).
The SSF will accelerate the company's growth strategy via acquisitions, partnerships, and organic initiatives. Under this tailored agreement, Events.com will have the ability to draw down up to $100M following an equity exchange listing.
Events.com recently acquired several companies, including the world's leading artificial intelligence and machine-learning event discovery company, an event sponsorship technology company, and a large industry-leading ticketing company. These acquisitions set a course for expansion and a major launch in 2023. The company will also announce a fourth acquisition soon and is looking to acquire additional companies.
"We are delighted that GEM has committed $100 million to Events.com," said Mitch Thrower, Co-founder and CEO of Events.com. "GEM's financing is a proven catalyst for the companies who are fortunate to partner with them. In addition to this financing, two major trends are converging in our favor: first, the massive recovery of the event sector as the world gets back together, and second, the continued growth of the experience economy. People increasingly value experiences above purchases. We're here to help people experience the most meaningful moments of their lives with the best technology available."
"We are proud of what we have accomplished, especially during the past few years," said Stephen Partridge, President, and Co-founder of Events.com. "During the most challenging times for the event industry, Events.com has supported its clients, protected participants, and has continued to achieve major product enhancements, including the successful integration of several acquisitions. This funding from GEM will help further our growth as we prepare to scale and continue to lead the industry forward. The accelerated launch of the Events.com platform and the unfolding of the Events.com story will redefine our sector, for this, we are both grateful and proud."
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Q: index.jsp in war file under Tomcat I am trying to run simple web app on my local tomcat - the app is basically what you get when you crate "web application" in IntelliJ, so the directory structure is "vanilla". I am literally not touching either index.jsp or web.xml.
I am doing this under Maven, so here is my pom file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.testapps</groupId>
    <artifactId>Test_App_1</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>war</packaging>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.6.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <webXml>web\WEB-INF\web.xml</webXml>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

So here is what I am doing:

*

*Building this "project" under maven: mvn compile install

*I am copying app_name.war file from my local repo into tomcat webapps directory

*Running tomcat: catalina start

*I can see that my application IS THERE in manager, but when I try to enter it (or when I just type http://localhost:8080/app_name) the 404 error occurs.

What I am doing wrong? Am I not understanding some basic concept or missing some basic thing? Should I somehow explicitly INCLUDE this index.jsp into my .war file somehow? If so, how do I do that under IntelliJ? I am literally just trying to run this "vanilla" application and I am under the impression, that index.jsp should be a part of this .war file and it should be displayed "automatically". And when I do it manually, so I will just create some TestDirectory in webapps folder, copy the same index.jsp file and place it in that directory, and then acces it http://localhost:8080/TestDirectory - it automatically displays this index.jsp file as it should.
Sorry for, probably, dumb question, I am really new to this and I couldn't find a solution.

A: remove maven-war-plugin ,after that  build and redeploy and test in server

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Saqib Mahmood named in England's Pace Programme
Lancashire bowler Saqib Mahmood has been named in England Cricket's 2017 Pace Programme.
Mahmood will join Paul Coughlin, George Garton and Matt Taylor in a two-week training camp at the High Performance Institute for Sport at North West University's Potchefstroom campus from January 26 to February 10
James Fuller, Jamie Overton, Reece Topley and Mark Wood have also been added to the programme that will head to South Africa as part of England cricket's Pace Programme.
Kevin Shine, the ECB's lead fast-bowling coach, said: "We have made a few changes to the group originally selected, and I think it's left us with a really nice balance.
"Tom Helm has gone to England Lions which is fantastic – exactly what we want to happen, and I'm sure he'll benefit from the chance to play red-ball and white-ball cricket out in Sri Lanka.
"But in addition to the four young bowlers we selected with Tom in the autumn, we'll have three more experienced guys who are all on their way back from injury – and the chance to come out and work with us outside in South Africa in the superb facilities in Potchefstroom works well both for the players and their counties.
"Jamie Overton and Reece Topley are both recovering from stress fractures that they suffered last summer, and Mark Wood will also be able to continue the work he's started at the Performance Centre in Loughborough.
"That gives us a real focus as well. Woody and Saqqy have been picked for the North-South series in the UAE in March, and James Fuller will also be with us in South Africa ahead of joining the Lions for the one-day section of their Sri Lanka trip in March.
"For Reece, Jamie and the other guys, they're working towards the start of the county season – and with counties tending to go away earlier to start their pre-season programmes now, the time on the Pace Programme will help to ensure they hit them well-prepared."
The Pace Programme has been running since October 31, with the four bowlers originally selected – Coughlin, Garton, Mahmood, Taylor and Helm – splitting their time between their counties and the Performance Centre in a six-week training block.
They will begin their return to bowling programme at the Performance Centre in January, along with Overton, Topley and Wood, before heading to South Africa, where the availability of outdoor training provides obvious benefits.
Shine developed the programme – previously called the Potential England Performance Programme – more than a decade ago. "The aim is to reinforce the physical and technical foundations required for international fast bowling," he explained. "It allows us to work with our best young fast bowlers in a winter training block. Previously we'd only had short camps of between two and four weeks, but now we can do physical training work before Christmas and join that up with the bowling block in the New Year, so effectively we have a five-month training period."
Shine will be joined in Potchefstroom by Pete Atkinson, the ECB's national lead for strength and conditioning, and the staff will be completed by Alan Richardson, the former Worcestershire seamer who is now the bowling coach at Warwickshire, and the Essex lead physiotherapist Chris Clarke-Irons.
"We're delighted to have Richo and Chris coming out with us this year," Shine added. "We always like to have an input from the counties, both because it's very beneficial to us, but also so we can work with the county coaches and they can see what we're trying to do."
Pace Programme, January/February 2017: Paul Coughlin (Durham), James Fuller (Middlesex), George Garton (Sussex), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Jamie Overton (Somerset), Matthew Taylor (Gloucestershire), Reece Topley (Hampshire), Mark Wood (Durham).


When else can you really wear an elegantly deconstructed Fashion Neck Ruffle but the premiere of a film set during the era of Peak Fashion Neck Ruffle? For what it's worth, I'd like the dress no matter what, because I have a personal weakness for the Fashion Ruffle. But I think it extra works for an event celebrating a Mary, Queen of Scots/Elizabeth II project. I'm just rather irked that none of the men in this film appear to have shown up wearing a reinvented velvet doublet.
Behold a Feline Heidi Klum!
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import requests
from secondguard.utils import BASE_URL
from pathlib import Path
import os

# For testing only
# Limited to 1 INSECURE pubkey, rate-limiting shared across all users
TESTING_API_TOKEN = "SG-XXXX"

# TODO: move test to own directory?
key_dir = Path(__file__).absolute().parent.parent

with open(os.path.join(key_dir, "insecureprivkey.pem"), "r") as f:
    PRIVKEY_STR = f.read()
with open(os.path.join(key_dir, "insecurepubkey.crt"), "r") as f:
    PUBKEY_STR = f.read()

def _fetch_testing_pubkey(url=BASE_URL + "static/rsa_kek.pub"):
    return requests.get(url).content.decode("utf-8")