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Weird Women, Strange Times: The Representation of Power Through Female Gender Portrayals in 19th and 20th Century Iberian Literature
Author(s): Neff, Rachel Anna
Advisor(s): Herzberger, David K
Examining the power dynamics present in the family unit, inverted portrayals of power dynamics with respect to socially constructed gender roles serve to deconstruct the idealized institution and, in turn, also reflect the political milieu of the nation. Starting with Valle-Inclán's "Tula Varona" (1895), we see how a failed courtship serves as the allegorical relationship between Spain and its colonies. Next, Unamuno's Tres Novelas Ejemplares y un Prólogo (1920) and La tía Tula (1921) illustrate how maternal relationships in the stories reflect a nation that is also reeling from political and economic instability. Third, the chica rara in Nada (1944) by Carmen Laforet, Primera memoria (1959) by Ana María Matute, and Julia (1970) by Ana María Moix reveals dysfunctional families. Through these unhealthy family relationships, each of the authors subtly critiques the ideal family that the Franco regime strategically used to reinforce its legitimacy. Fourth, the children who attempt to poison their female caregivers in the films De eso no se habla (1993), Cría cuervos (1976), and El verano de la señora Forbes (1989) reconstruct the metaphor of the nation as family by connecting an authoritarian government to the role of parent and the passive resistance to the children's behavior. Lastly, the novel La sombra del viento (2001) and the movie Biutiful (2010) show how families in contemporary fiction and film reflect the national trauma of the Spanish Civil War. The original contribution to the importance of gender and power with respect to the family as nation allegory demonstrates how the masculine portrayal of gender breaks the taboo of biological sex rather than overtly questioning the abuses of government and power.
Theory of Quantum Spin Liquids in Quasi 1-D Systems
Mohammadaghaei, Amir
Experiments of Constrained Distributed Optimization by Using UAVs
Xu, Jie
Computational Study of Cellular Budding at Different Physical Length Scales
Tsai, Kevin Yueh
Extended Hubbard Model: Studies on Quantum Information and Disorder
Spalding, Jon
Refuse Ecologies: Indigenous Posthumanism in Polluted Futures
Attebery, Stina


One of the most important things a drummer can do to help them to play faster, more efficiently and (perhaps most importantly) without injury, is to set up their drum kit correctly – the angle of the cymbals, stool height, distance between drums etc.
Too many drummers set their drum kit up according to how it looks rather than how it feels. This aesthetic way of thinking might be great for showmanship but might be causing you issues or even worse, injuries.
At the very least you might not be getting the true potential out of your instrument if the set up isn't working for you.
Just sit on your drum stool with nothing else in front of you. Ensure that the top half of your legs slope down a little from your thighs to your knees. This is how most drummers set their throne height but it's up to you. The lower the stool, the harder it is to work your legs generally though.
Place your feet on the floor out in front of you. You want your knees to be just above your ankles ideally. Notice how your feet angle out from from your body naturally. Your feet are not pointing straight forward but slightly out to the side. Place your Hi-Hat and Bass Drum pedals where your feet lay on the floor and at the same natural angle pointing out.
Yep. Pick up a pair of sticks and imagine playing on a drum kit. Take careful note as to where your sticks naturally and comfortably fall. This is going to be useful later on when placing your drums and cymbals into position. You want the placement of the drums to be where your sticks naturally reach. Not too close and not too far away.
The Snare Drum is the heart of the drum kit and so it is critical that you get it's position right. Place the Snare Drum between your legs and the pedals. Where did your sticks naturally fall when you did some air drumming earlier? Place the Snare Drum so that the end of your stick naturally falls onto it's center.
You want to be able to access the rim of the Snare so ensure that it is at least an inch higher than your knees. You shouldn't be playing lower than your knees!
Most drummers tilt the Snare Drum just slightly towards themselves so that not too much of the rim is struck. You can experiment with what feels comfortable for you.
The Bass Drum obviously attaches to the Bass Drum Pedal (DUH!). Notice how the Bass Drum is now angled pointing outwards, in line with the slightly angled pedal. Don't be concerned by the fact that your Bass Drum is not facing directly forward. It's more important to have it set up comfortably than looking "perfect".
The Rack Tom-Tom's are placed on the bass drum in front of you. Make sure that the High Tom is placed directly in front of the Snare Drum so that you can move between the Snare and High Tom in a straight line. If you have a Medium Tom then angle it pointing slightly towards you and at the same height as the High Tom. This will mean that the Medium Tom is not angled at exactly the same angle as the High Tom but that the two drums are now pointing directly towards you instead.
Place your Floor Tom or Low Tom next to the Snare Drum, on the other side of the Bass Drum Pedal. You want both the Snare and Floor Tom to be the same height as each other and the Floor Tom to be positioned so that your stick naturally falls onto it's center. Again, that air drumming you did earlier on is really going to help you to position your drums comfortably.
The same rule apples for your cymbals. I would say that you shouldn't have them angled too flat and certainly not too angled. Just off straight allows great access to the edge of Crash cymbals without damaging them and the same goes for the Ride Cymbal as well. If you don't have a Medium Tom then you can set up your Ride Cymbal nice and low as most rock drummers tend to.
Make sure not to have your cymbals positioned too high or too far away from yourself as this can cause strain on your body as well as affecting your speed and technique. If you're on the drums purely to entertain the audience, look impressive and master showmanship then your cymbals will be miles away. This looks cool after all. If not, then position them where you can strike them comfortably.
The Hi-Hat needs to be high enough so that it's not too close to the Snare Drum. Your left hand should have room to move underneath your right hand. This is totally down to yourself.
Remember, it might take you a while to get used to your new drum set up if you've done a bit of moving around but you will get used to it eventually. Be patient and give your new efficient set up a chance. You'll never look back once you've changed, believe me!


Hence, if patients share their suicidal ideations in direct as well as remote ways, they must be taken seriously. For instance, adolescents born in the same household may experience the same environments and receive the same parenting style; however one adolescent might be active in the community and a helpful asset to his or her counterparts while the other might skip school, disrespect authority, and not do as well as his or her sibling. Alcohol Use Disorder Case Study This is a hypothetical example based on our experiences. She suffers from occasional petit mal seizures and is on medication. The bio psychological disorder of. Muscle strengthening: strengthening of quadriceps muscle. The therapist should be careful in deciding whether the client has fully achieved a mental status at a functional level.
A confession of their thoughts and plans must be treated as pleas for help. In the fourth section, the study will give an account on how the problems might have developed. Explain that the medical treatment plan must be followed as prescribed to be effective. Finally, the miracle question requires the client to hypothetically envision if a miracle happened and the problem was solved, what he or she would be experiencing Bliss, 2009. As a white who holds high social status in society, Sandra believes that blacks are poor, and such fears are confirmed by the fact that it is them who stole her car.
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Individuals with this condition have difficulty in social interactions including relationships. Levi should have very defined treatment Goals to motivate him throughout his recovery. First step is to make a journal to keep track of my smoking and exercise for the next six weeks. Second step is to exercise first thing in the morning, for week one, three times a week instead smoking a cigarette. Once my classmates were critiqued I no longer believed I was the only person perplexed in the counseling roles. Recovery occurred, but not quickly, and despite normalizing his life away from the prison, Mr F was unable to work at the prison. Steve has never had any problems at work, or any irritability.
Shonda: Continuous Schizophrenia: Paranoid Type — Final Introduction of the Disorder: The psychiatric diagnosis of Schizophrenia relates to the psychological disorder which typifies abnormalities in the expression of the realities of the world and the case of Shonda exemplifies this situation. He has tried multiple hobbies to occupy his mind but feels as if they are just ways of passing time as his life goes by. Characteristics of schizophrenia Patients with schizophrenia are know to show the following clinical signs - Hallucination - It is a condition when a person starts feeling some events which are actually not present in. Client was recently prescribed Ambien for sleep and Zoloft for his anxiety by a psychiatrist. It calls for the prevention rather than treatment of psychological disorders.
His daily plans, for example, involved sitting with his family watching television, walking the dog with his wife, and going out for drives or when they occurred watching rugby matches with his brother. Eat to lesson an unpleasant experience. Currently, there is no clear assumption on whether nature or nurture has more effect on adolescent development. This shows that he accepts his wrongful deeds and does not deny that he makes mistakes by fighting his wife. The force of his beating was such that he was briefl y knocked unconscious. Previously, he has never consulted a counselor or a therapist for any assistance with his problem.
He was walking a group of prisoners down a flight of steps in an isolated stairwell, when he slipped and fell. Unit 5 Assignment: Complete the first six sections of the template, plus your reference list, for the Unit 5 assignment. He sees his life slipping away in what has come to feel like an increasingly empty lifestyle. The treatment modalities for Sultana involve family counselling, individual psychotherapy and support group services. Most importantly, it builds trust. Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Treatment Paranoid Schizophrenia Description Schizophrenia is a mental disease which is typified by a disintegration of the mind in which emotions and cognitive awareness are diminished. Reestablish family relationships so that he does not feel so alone and has a support system to go through his illness with him.


I applaud Boulder City Council's recent attempts to bring groups with divergent opinions together through facilitated discussions. One such group, the Twin Lakes Stakeholder Group, was formed to discuss and possibly agree upon a land-use designation for two parcels of land located on Twin Lakes Road in Gunbarrel. This group consisted of representatives from Twin Lakes Action Group (TLAG), a grassroots community organization, and the owners of the properties, Boulder County Housing Authority (BCHA) and Boulder Valley School District (BVSD).
3. Mixed-Density Residential (MXR: 6-18 units per acre) — the land-use change requested by BCHA and BVSD.
TLAG entered the discussions asking for Open Space with no development. BCHA and BVSD started by assuring the group that 12 units per acre is the highest density they would build (despite having design plans drawn up for 18 units per acre), because, in their own words, "building any higher density on the land would be irresponsible for any developer."
Per City Council, the group's first order of business was to define studies needed to make an educated decision about the best use of the land. Instead, BCHA issued proposals to vendors before the facilitated discussions even began. Over TLAG's objections, BCHA chose the cheapest and least in-depth bids from contractors who focus on construction.
During the six three-hour-long meetings, BCHA and BVSD focused on the need for affordable housing, not the appropriateness of building on this particular site. TLAG, on the other hand, presented hours of scientific data showing the unsuitability of building on this land — including hydrological concerns; the fact that the land is a wildlife corridor and hunting ground for dozens of species; and the inconsistency of building 12+ units per acre when the surrounding area has an average density of 4.3 units per acre.
What was the end result of the discussions?
TLAG's concerns were noted, not addressed or answered. BCHA and BVSD's only response to concerns was to say they are responsible developers. TLAG was willing to discuss maintaining the current land-use designation of 2-6 units per acre if a wildlife corridor was added and buildings were capped at 1-2 stories. This compromise maintains the residential look and feel of the surrounding areas and allows the landowners to build affordable housing to meet the needs of up to 120 families.
In contrast, BCHA and BVSD flipped 180 degrees, claiming they already compromised down from 18 units per acre and 12 was the absolute bottom of their range due to cost of building. This directly contradicted a Feb. 11, 2013 memo from Frank Alexander (director of BCHA) to the county commissioners, which recommended purchasing the land with general funds because the very low price ($470,000 for 10 acres) allows them to build at a lower density (5 units per acre) "which is a reasonable size for a Low Income Housing Tax Credit financed project, and fits within the current proposed zoning." This argument should be the same for BVSD, since they received their land as a dedication in 1963 (to be used as a school or park) for $10.
Facilitation failed to end with a compromise. It is now up to City Council, city Planning Board, county commissioners, and county Planning Commission to make a decision.
What is a real compromise? The Boulder Valley Comprehensive Staff is recommending a Medium Density (MD) land-use designation of 6-14 units per acre. Where is the compromise?? Why did TLAG participate in facilitated discussions, just to have its participation and the community's interests ignored?
1. Require in-depth studies to evaluate the feasibility and appropriateness of building on this land — which was step #1 in City Council's motion for facilitated discussions.
2. If those studies come back assuring construction won't cause hydrology problems or impact the diverse wildlife, then enforce a real compromise: throw out both land-use change requests, Open Space and MXR/MD. Instead, vote to maintain the current land-use designation of LDR with the addition of a wildlife corridor and a height cap of two-story buildings.
This is a true compromise — everyone gets some of what they want, but not all of what they want.
Lisa Sundell is a board member of Twin Lakes Action Group. She lives in Gunbarrel.


Corporate involvement augments program that rescues troubled kids.
George Bernard Shaw said, "In heaven, an angel is nobody in particular." But things are different here on Earth. And in Peoria, some angels are doing very special work with some of the most challenged youths in Illinois.
"You can't save everyone; you've got to recognize that at the outset," explains Guardian Angel Home Program Coordinator Jim Kleine. "We deliver a number of services, but our primary goal is to provide a safe haven for kids who have come from very bad situations. For us, 'success' means having a child return safely to his community, rather than going to another institution or entering the criminal justice system."
A long-term residential treatment facility for boys aged six to 18, the Guardian Angel Home in Peoria, Illinois, is run by the Catholic Charities Diocese of Peoria. (The on-grounds school functions scholastically as part of the Peoria School District.) The home primarily takes boys referred by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services-young men who often have been abused or neglected, and who usually present significant mental health, emotional and behavioral issues.
To meet their social and emotional needs, the Guardian Angel Home provides a structured environment that focuses on therapeutic relationships. The home delivers a host of services, such as food and shelter; individual, family, and group counseling; independent-living preparation; and medical and dental services. According to Kleine, though, one element provides a particularly positive influence on the boys.
"The teachers are with them all the time. And they do a fantastic job. Before they got here, most of these kids experienced school as a crowded, anonymous battleground. Here they have a teacher, a teacher's aide, and at most eight children in a class. That close attention is very beneficial.
"Behavior isn't the only issue. Most of the boys are way behind academically too. That's understandable; when survival itself is an issue, studies take a backseat. So, not only do our teachers handle kids who have been preconditioned against school, but they also have to teach material from all of the grades to kids of every age in mixed classrooms. That's very difficult."
Guardian Angel lead teacher Karen Lune cites the program's comprehensive approach as its most beneficial feature. Equipped with a battery of resources and substantial support, the home does provide a safe learning environment. According to Lune, though, another unique element really helps.
"We have an adopt-a-school partner-the Peoria office of AECOM. Their employees are active in our students' lives. We pair each child with an employee, first as pen pals. They write back and forth every two weeks and, over time, develop a pretty close relationship. The pen pals also visit us every other week. Though primarily educational, the pen pal program also gives the kids a sense of belonging, a connection to someone who cares about them. Many of these kids have never had that."
The local office of AECOM joined Peoria's district-wide adopt-a-school program in 1995. A global architecture and engineering firm with more than 43,000 employees, AECOM fully supports the Peoria office's involvement in the program. And according to AECOM's Guardian Angel point person, Assistant Project Engineer Kerri Borlin, the employees love working with the kids. "We were lucky to be assigned to the Guardian Angel Home. The school only has about 16 kids, so we can really get to know them."
Borlin continues, "The company purchases tickets to send the boys to a play at the Peoria Civic Center each fall, and to the symphony in the spring. Our read-aloud volunteers visit the classroom regularly, and our pen pal volunteers bring treats and presents for Christmas and Valentine's Day parties. We also host the students at our office. Every Halloween we bring them in for a tour. Everyone-kids and employees alike-dresses up and the kids trick-or-treat at each cubicle. We treat them to a potluck lunch with their pen pals, and then send them back to school with huge bags of candy. But the big event is the year-end celebration at a Chiefs' game."
"The Peoria Chiefs are a minor league baseball team in the Chicago Cubs franchise," explains Guardian Angel pen pal Jim Ash, a senior project landscape architect with AECOM. "Before the game, we take the kids to Bradley Park for a picnic. We always go on free-peanuts-and-hot-dog day so the kids can have as much as they want. They really love that. But the most important thing, by far, is the time we get to spend together."
"These events all involve spending time-something these kids really need," adds Ash. "Society has basically written them off. But if you give them a little time and attention, you'll find they're just normal kids. That's the most important lesson I've gotten from this program: never give up on a child.
"I visited my new pen pal-a kid dealing with a lot of issues-at the last Valentine's Day party. During the party, the kids were learning origami. Although I'm pretty deft with pencil and paper, origami is beyond me. But my kid did it like an artist. Then he taught me how to do it. I got as much out of that visit as he did."
An eight-year veteran of the program, Ash applauds Borlin's coordination efforts and the work of the Guardian Angel team. For both sides, though, the greatest benefit of the program is the intense personal involvement.
"This isn't a blind donation or a hollow gesture," explains Lune. "The AECOM folks are really involved. And they really care about the kids. Whenever we need something, Kerri and AECOM are always willing to help. It's a great partnership."
"These are normal kids," Kleine adds. "They just weren't dealt the same cards most of us got. Even though we're not always successful, we can reach a lot of these kids. And we'll always keep them safe."
Arthur Schurr is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, NY.
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Would love to have contact with anyone that lived or worked at Guardian Angle from the time I was there in 1992-1995. Would be nice to have a reunion and see how everyone is doing.
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Hey how ya been man.
had good friend ricky cant remember last name best thing my dad ever did for me.
I am looking for records on my father, Edwin Hausammann and his siblings, Genevieve, James, Marshall, Elizabeth and Joseph Hausammann who were placed in Guardian Angel Orphanage in Peoria IL in late December 1926 or January 1927. Their father Alfred Hausammann had died in December 1926 and their mother, Emma Dubach (or DuBach) Hausammann placed the children there. Please let me know if this is the same institution. If it is not, can you help with how to go about finding the records?
hi. wish i knew where old staff and residents were.
I lived at guardian angel in 1987-1988. I went to school off grounds at peoria manual.


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Washington flew into a frenzy last week after multiple media outlets reported that prosecutors working for the special counsel Robert Mueller were dissatisfied with the way Attorney General William Barr portrayed their findings in the Russia investigation.
Prosecutors' reported decision to break their silence speaks volumes, given that Mueller ran one of the tightest ships in Washington for the past two years.
Mueller's office spoke out publicly just twice during the investigation: to comment on a GOP scheme meant to discredit the special counsel with false allegations of sexual misconduct and to dispute an explosive BuzzFeed News story in January.
"If prosecutors are concerned that their conclusions may be obscured or misrepresented – and if they're worried enough that they're talking about it to other people – that's something everyone needs to take seriously, regardless of whose side you're on," one former White House official told INSIDER.
Last week, Washington spun into a frenzy after The New York Times reported that members of the special counsel Robert Mueller's team were upset with Attorney General William Barr's characterization of their findings in the FBI's Russia investigation and that they believed their final report to be more damaging to President Donald Trump than Barr indicated.
Trump's supporters and many in conservative media immediately derided The Times' reporting, which was matched by The Washington Post and NBC News.
Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, accused Mueller's team of leaking to the media to "smear" the president.
Giuliani was partially right: Mueller doesn't leak.
That's why it speaks volumes that prosecutors took the unprecedented step of expressing their simmering frustration with the attorney general to government officials and others cited in last week's media reports.
For the past two years, Mueller ran the tightest ship in Washington, DC, as he and his team of prosecutors spearheaded one of the most politically explosive investigations in modern US history: whether the sitting president or members of his campaign conspired with the Russian government during the 2016 election and whether the president later sought to obstruct justice after learning of the investigation's existence.
The special counsel's team was so close-lipped that it forced journalists and the public to get creative to discern what Mueller was up to.
CNN set up a "stakeout team" to monitor who came and went from Mueller's office. Multiple media outlets had reporters milling around the Washington and New York federal courthouses (where most of Mueller's cases are being adjudicated) for signs of unusual courtroom activity.
The public learned about a mysterious grand-jury subpoena fight between Mueller's team and an unknown foreign corporation after a Politico reporter overheard a defense lawyer for the company asking a courthouse clerk for a filing.
When the media reported on who Mueller was planning to interview or who had just testified before his grand jury, the reports were based on conversations with those witnesses and their lawyers. Mueller's prosecutors always declined to comment.
Even as Trump and his loyalists mounted a largely one-sided public relations war against Mueller, he stayed mum. Instead, the special counsel spoke only through lengthy indictments and court filings that intricately detailed allegations against Trump associates, Russian nationals, and other players embroiled in the investigation.
Mueller's office publicly broke its silence just twice during the investigation.
In October, the special counsel's office released a statement revealing it had asked the FBI to investigate a GOP scheme to discredit Mueller using false allegations of sexual misconduct.
And in January, Mueller's team took the rare step of publicly disputing an explosive BuzzFeed News story about Trump and Michael Cohen.
Legal scholars didn't mince words when they addressed the seriousness of Mueller's move in both cases.
"Difficult to parse each and every word here, but it is extremely unusual for the Special Counsel's office to issue a statement disputing a story and should be taken very seriously," the former National Security Agency lawyer and Lawfare editor Susan Hennessey wrote.
Matthew Miller, who served as a Justice Department spokesman under President Barack Obama, echoed that view.
One former White House official who was involved in the Mueller investigation told INSIDER the public should approach prosecutors' decision to express their frustration with Barr with the same seriousness, if not more, given what's at stake now.
"If prosecutors are concerned that their conclusions may be obscured or misrepresented – and if they're worried enough that they're talking about it to other people – that's something everyone needs to take seriously, regardless of whose side you're on," the former official added.


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Hello, I'm currently reading and trying to understand Ulysses. Looking at the Linati schema in the "Organ" column, it is written "Telemachus does not yet suffer a body". I understand the sentence to mean someting along the lines of: "Telemachus doesn't yet have a body". Is my interpretation right and if so, why doesn't he suffer the body, why is there no body part associated with the first chapters? If someone were to go into detail about explaining this I would be eternally grateful. This is also coincidentally my first post, so hello to everyone!
Hmmm, that's a tough one. I think that much of it has to do with the first chapters' focus on Stephen Dedalus. Keep in mind that Joyce had "lost interest" in Stephen by the time he was writing Ulysses. His aesthetic would be rendered obsolete by the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode, and he come to embody a form that Joyce could no longer evolve. Hence, the majority of Ulysses focuses on Bloom, and he is the model that Joyce sought to complete. He was the complete man that Joyce saw in Shakespeare's Hamlet. In many ways, Stephen (Telemachus) serves primarily as a mental and spiritual entity that Bloom must rationalize in order to reach the climax of both his spiritual, mental, and physical embodiment. If Bloom and Stephen are taken as models for Joyce, then Bloom is the vehicle by which he achieves completion. By the time of Ulysses, Stephen has been relegated to being a part of himself that Joyce had to come to terms with in order to reach a sense of wholeness. Sorry, I know this meandered a bit, but in short, I'd argue that Stephen doesn't receive a body designation because it had become impossible to define him as something absolute and concrete. He was essentially a child that would never grow or develop into an adult form.
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Meow if It's Murder Cozy Mystery Book Review
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Meow If It's Murder
by L.C. LoTempio
Nora Charles doesn't believe in fate, even if she is a crime reporter who shares a name with a character from The Thin Man. In fact, she's moving back to Cruz, California, to have a quieter life. But after finding an online magazine eager for material, and a stray cat named Nick with a talent for detection, Nora's not just reporting crimes again. She's uncovering them…
Back in her hometown, Nora reconnects with old friends and makes some new ones, like Nick, the charming feline who seems determined to be her cat. But not everything about Cruz is friendly. Writing for a local online magazine, Nora investigates the curious death of socialite Lola Grainger. Though it was deemed an accident, Nora suspects foul play. And it seems that her cat does too. Apparently, Nick used to belong to a P.I. who disappeared while investigating Lola Grainger's death. The coincidence is spooky, but not as spooky as the clues Nick spells out for her with Scrabble letters—clues that lead her down an increasingly dangerous path. Whether fate put her on this case or not, solving it will take all of Nora's wits, and maybe a few of Nick's nine lives.
My Review of Meow if It's Murder
Meow if It's Murder is such a cute cozy mystery. I love books that have cats as helper detectives! Nick is the perfect companion for Nora. After all, his former boss was a P.I. who got help from Nick, aka Sherlock, on his cases too.
Once I got into this story, I really liked it. It started a little slowly, but that is probably because it's a new series and a lot of groundwork needed to be laid in the beginning. The characters are really fun. Nora makes a great main character, her best friend Chantal is funny and quirky, and Detective Corleone makes a good love interest for Nora. The plot is fast moving and has some really exciting action. It will keep you guessing til the end.
I'm looking forward to the future books as they are sure to be winners too! If you like cozy mysteries, this new series is one for you!
About Author Toni LoTempio
While Toni Lotempio does not commit – or solve – murders in real life, she has no trouble doing it on paper. Her lifelong love of mysteries began early on when she was introduced to her first Nancy Drew mystery at age 10 – The Secret in the Old Attic. She lists among her favorite mystery/suspense writers Erle Stanley Gardner, Mary Higgins Clark and James Patterson, as well as EJ Copperman, Steve Hockensmith, Victoria Laurie, Ali Brandon, Rita Mae Brown, Miranda James and Sofie Kelly to name only a few!
Toni is also passionate about her love for animals, as demonstrated with her four cats: Trixie, Princess, Maxx and, of course, ROCCO, who not only provided the inspiration for the character of Nick the cat in the Nick and Nora mystery series, but who also writes his own blog and does charity work for Nathan Fillion's charity, Kids Need to Read!
Toni's also devoted to miniseries like The Thorn Birds, Dancing with the Stars, reruns of Murder She Wrote and Castle (of course!). She (and ROCCO, albeit he's uncredited) pen the Nick and Nora mystery series from Berkley Prime Crime – the first volume, MEOW IF ITS MURDER, debuts Dec. 2, 2014. She, Rocco and company make their home in Clifton, New Jersey, just twenty minutes from the Big Apple – New York.
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Let's Keep Toxic Fandom Where It Belongs: In 2017
With fan communities getting bad reputations these days, Keith O'Neil asks all fans to keep their emotions in check when criticizing what they "love."
By Keith O'Neil -
The internet has given fans a voice like never before. Back in the day, you'd need to write a letter that had a slim chance of appearing in the letter column of a comic book. Now, you can directly contact the creators of your favorite things on sites like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. For some creators, this interaction lets them know how well they are doing, while other creators might not want that much interaction with their fandom.
However, we've seen a growing trend in the past few years — a trend of particular fanbases becoming not just angry, but outright hostile if something happens in a movie or a comic book they don't like. They'll organize Change.org petitions to get a movie removed from canon (like The Last Jedi) or make hateful comments on Youtube pages.
Look, I am not saying you can't have opinions on things you watch or read. We are humans after all, and God knows I have plenty of opinions. However, something we all should keep in mind for 2018 is keeping criticism strictly about the product itself and not make it personal.
Star Wars fans drove creator George Lucas away from the whole franchise. Sure, the prequels could have used another creative voice besides Lucas, but the way some fans attacked him was horrible. A good example of this is a documentary called the People Versus George Lucas. I am not exaggerating when I say it is nothing but fans complaining about the Star Wars prequels. You'd think they hate Star Wars the way they talk about it.
Earlier this year, I kept that mantra in mind when I wrote about how Marvel Comics could improve their overall comic line and company. Their sales were down and they losing fans left and right. I made sure to not attack the people behind the decisions Marvel had been making this decade, especially during the "All New All Different" era. Sure, criticize the work, but don't criticize the person. Understand the difference?
Two good examples of fans getting hostile over what they see are Batman V Superman and The Last Jedi. With both movies, you could feel it in the air how much the hardcore fans did not like the movies. Some fans wanted director Zack Snyder off Justice League immediately.
"Hey Ben, did I ever tell you I want to make the most divisive movie since Spider-Man 3?"- Zack Snyder, according to some fans.
If I criticize a movie, I try to keep it about the movie. The way some fans talk about Rian Johnson's work on The Last Jedi, you'd think he murdered a pack of baby seals after burning down an orphanage on Christmas Eve. The Sunday after The Last Jedi opened in theaters, Star Wars' official Facebook page had a status wishing Johnson a happy birthday. Fans took that opportunity to let him know 2 things: that they didn't like the movie (absolutely their prerogative and right to do so), but also, that they didn't exactly want him to have a happy birthday either. Check out the comment section.
Wishing a very happy birthday to the writer and director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson!
Posted by Star Wars on Sunday, December 17, 2017
Once in a while, the creators respond. Just look at the show Teen Titans Go! on Cartoon Network. In the episode "The Fourth Wall", the Titans interact with the Control Freak, who essentially is an avatar of fans who think the animated show is too kiddy.
Another thing fans should leave in 2017 is the "us versus them" mentality when it comes to fandom. Star Trek vs Star Wars may be the originator of feuding fanbases, but you'd think Marvel and DC fans were in an actual war the way they interact with one another. Can't we all just get along? We are all comic book and movie fans after all.
I'll admit I am guilty of stoking the flames of war with Marvel and DC. My very first article on this site was all about how Batman V Superman was a better movie than Captain America: Civil War. I came out guns-a-blazing and talked about how BVS was a far superior film. Let's say fans let me know in very colorful language they disagreed with me. Looking back, I should have been more inviting in my writing. I was part of the problem, now I want to be part of the solution.
When we personally attack a writer, artist or director on social media over something we — as fans — don't like, we always look bad in the end. Again, not saying you can't have an opinion on something, but just keep emotions in check when criticizing work. Being rude and obnoxious to creators is a bad look for all fans, no matter what you like.
Keith O'Neil


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Mordacia est un genre d'agnathes de la famille des Petromyzontidae (ce ne sont pas des poissons). Ce genre regroupe trois espèces.

Liste d'espèces
Selon  et  :
 Mordacia lapicida
 Mordacia mordax
 Mordacia praecox

Selon  et  :
 Mordacia lapicida (Gray, 1851)
 Mordacia mordax (Richardson, 1846)
 Mordacia praecox Potter, 1968

Notes et références

Annexes

Liens externes

Petromyzontidae

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Kate Forbes MSP secures pavement by busy trunk road for Loch Ness community
A small Highland community which overlooks Loch Ness is celebrating after their constituency MSP Kate Forbes convinced Transport Scotland to build a pavement allowing villagers to safely make it to a local bus stop on the A82.
Residents of Alltsigh – which is a few miles north of Invermoriston – previously had to walk on the trunk road or the uneven road-side because there was no other way to get to the stop. Local bus users include a young mum with a pram.
After months of correspondence with the Loch Ness MSP, Transport Scotland have agreed to build a small pavement which will allow safe passage between the bus stop and the village.
Because of its local hostel, which is also visible from the A82, Alltsigh is popular with walkers on the West Highland Way.
Kate Forbes MSP said: "I've visited the house and I have watched, first hand, as cars drive incredibly fast past the front door. It's a straight section and so sometimes you even see attempts at over-taking.
"There is no pavement right now which means that pedestrians take their lives into their hands every time they walk down the road. It's exceedingly dangerous. That is why this is such a major improvement for local people and visitors to the area.
"I'm delighted that Transport Scotland have agreed to install a pavement so that people can walk far more safely down the road."
Alltsigh
Crowdfunding plea continues for purpose-built pod so terminally-ill boy can remain at home
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituents paying over £6m a year in delivery surcharges


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        this.user = {};

        this.set = function (name, email) {
            this.user = {
                name: name,
                email: email
            };
        };

        this.get = function () {
            return this.user;
        };

        this.destroy = function() {
            this.user = null;
        };
    }
}

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Buckeye Bounce Houses is a family business that specializes in Columbus Ohio Bounce House Rentals. Fully licensed and insured, Buckeye Bounce Houses provide the best value in Central Ohio with ALL RENTALS ALL DAY! Buckeye Bounce Houses offers the cleanest, safest, and highest quality inflatable rental experience in Columbus Ohio. All rentals are delivered and set up at your location while you focus on your event. Currently we're happy to deliver to Dublin, Powell, Galena, Westerville, Worthington, Lewis Center, Sunbury, Gahanna, North Columbus, and New Albany. Buckeye Bounce Houses offers More Bounce For Your Buck!


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एक कारसेवक को आखिर क्यों कहना पड़ा -'आई कुड नॉट बी हिन्दू' !
Summary: आज संविधान निर्माता बाबा साहेब डॉ भीमराव अंबेडकर का महापरिनिर्वाण दिवस है,बाबा साहब ने अपने लेखन में सामाजिक विषमता के कारक तत्वों की खोज करते हुए पाया था कि हिन्दू धर्म एक चार मंजिला इमारत है,जिसमें सीढ़ियां नहीं है,जो जहां जन्मता है,वहीं मरता है।उन्होंने कहा कि इस धर्म में पैदा हो जाना मेरे बस की ब
Author: Bhanwar Meghwanshi
मोदीनामा: हिंदुत्व का उन्माद- पुस्तक समीक्षा
Summary: मोदीनामा : हिंदुत्व का उन्माद
लेखक : सुभाष गाताडे
प्रकाशक : लेफ़्टवर्ड बुक्स, 2254/2 ए, शादी खामपुर, न्यू रंजीतनगर, नई दिल्ली – 110008
क़ीमत : 195 रुपये
Gujarat: Behind the Mirage
Summary: A Collection of Informed Arguments
Edited by Teesta Setalvad
publisher: The Book People
Author: Teesta Setalvad
#Caste is not a rumour: The online diary of Rohith Vemula
Summary: #Caste is not a rumour: The online diary of Rohith Vemula is a collection of Mr. Vemula's online writing. The book, which is over 40,000 words, includes most of his Facebook posts. The books carries his views on a gamut of issues including politics and academics.
An Insider Account of Staged Encounters by the Indian Army
Summary: Book Review
Blood on my hands: Confessions of staged Encounters
Author: Kishalay Bhattacharjee
Hashimpura
Summary: Searching for survivors among the blood-soaked bodies strewn around the canal and between the ravines near Makanpur village, on the Delhi–Ghaziabad border, on the night of 22 May 1987, with just a dim torchlight—the memories are still fresh in Vibhuti Narain Rai's mind. On that fateful night, when Rai first heard about the killing, he could not believe the news was true until he, along with the district magistrate and a few other officials, went to Hindon canal. He quickly realized that all of them had become witnesses to secular India's most shameful and horrendous incident—personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) had rounded up dozens of Muslims from riot-torn Meerut and had killed them in cold blood in Rai's area of jurisdiction. Offering a blow-by-blow account of the massacre and its aftermath, Hashimpura is a screaming narrative of the barbaric use of state force and the spineless politics in post-Independent India.
Arabs Without God: Atheism and Freedom of Belief in the Middle East
Summary: In Arab countries, openly declaring a disbelief in God is a shocking and sometimes dangerous thing to do. Many have been imprisoned for it, some have been forced into exile and others threatened with execution.
Author: Brian Whitaker
Fascism: Essays on Europe and India
Summary: The victory of fascism in Europe between the wars was an incalculable human catastrophe. This collection of essays contains the first-ever English translation of Arthur Rosenberg's fascinating analysis of the emergence of fascism in Europe, as well as a short introduction to the essay that explains its significance, and then four contributions that extend the framework to India – dealing in turn with Savarkar and the politics of the Hindu Mahasabha (Srinivasan), communalism as the Indian version of fascism and its roots in the majoritarian ideologies of the nation-state (Simeon), and the fascism of the Sangh Parivar as this had emerged by the early '90s when concerted communal mobilisations unleashed a spate of violence, foreshadowing the even more horrific events of 2002 (Sumit Sarkar). Unlike most left-wing theories of fascism, Rosenberg's work made the mass base of fascism central to its political success.
But what does it mean for fascism to have a "mass base"? And how does it construct one? The concluding chapter explores the notion of "passive complicity", using ideas developed by Jean-Paul Sartre in his major work Critique of Dialectical Reason, and then turns to a characterisation of the Extreme Right in India by looking at the strategies at work in the subversion of Indian democracy.
Author: Edited by Jairus Banaji


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Anne Renaud (born 24 March 1970 in Ambilly) is a former French athlete, who specialized in the 400 meters hurdles.

Biography
She won three titles of champion of France in the 400m hurdles in 1995, 1996 and 1997.

Prize list
 French Championships in Athletics   :
 3 times winner of the 400m hurdles in 1995,  1996 and 1997.

Records

Notes and references
 Docathlé2003, Fédération française d'athlétisme, 2003, p. 428

1970 births
Living people
French female hurdlers


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Q: (How) Are identical flags by multiple users merged? If two or more users flag the same post for the same reason, will these flags be merged into one? And what happens to the flag weight, e.g. will it be summed up or the maximum be applied?
Also, what happens to different flags on the same post? Does that post get an increased flag weight as in "here is definitely a problem"?

A: If two or more people flag the same question then we see all the flags both on the flag summary page and when we view the flagged post.
It is useful to be able to see everyone who's flagged a post - certainly on the summary page - as it acts as a multiplier. The more people who've flagged a post the more likely it is to get closed quickly (certainly in my case anyway).
I assume (like YOU) that all those who flag a question get their flag weight adjusted when the flag is dismissed - either upwards for a valid flag, or downwards for an invalid one.

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A young gravedigger in northern Spain was trapped under a gravestone weighing 200kg (440 pounds) when the scaffolding on which he was working collapsed.
Miguel Caridad, 23, was working in the parish of San Pedro de Nós, in A Coruña, Galicia, on Tuesday afternoon, along with two colleagues, when the rudimentary scaffolding holding them suddenly collapsed.
"The gravestone fell on top of me. It was around 200kg and I was practically underneath it, they had to get me out," the young grave digger told regional newspaper, La Voz de Galicia.
The incident took place during a funeral service, shocking the already emotional mourners. Caridad was taken to hospital in A Coruña.
Amazingly he walked away more or less unscathed.
The heavy slab had fallen on his legs, chest and face but Caridad managed to walk away with no more than a pulled hamstring and a bruised body.
For Caridad, grave digging is a family business; he is the grandson of gravediggers and has been working in the job since he was 14, training with his grandfather, who is now 71-years-old.
But in his nearly ten years of grave digging, he has never had such a close shave as he experienced this week.
He currently works in 50 cemeteries in and around A Coruña, in northern Spain.


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Q: setcookie() gives no error, but the cookie does not set I have a application based on CodeIgniter . I tried to set cookie in on of my controller functions. Here is the part of my code
private function login_core($username, $user_pass){
    //Get value from database
    $this->load->model('user_model');
    if($this->user_model->init($username) == 1){
        $pass = $this->user_model->getPassword();
        $this->e['db_pass'] = $pass;
        //Now encrypt th real password
        //Make thisL
         $e_p = $username. $user_pass . $this->user_model->getEmail();
         $e_p = sha1($e_p);
         $this->e['act_pass'] = $e_p;
         //Whenever the email is changed, update the password. (Require password to change the email)
        $this->load->library('encrypt');
        $this->load->library('xsecurity');

        //cookie not set :( . And i don't know the reason
        if($pass == $e_p){
            $this->xsecurity->SetInfoLocal($e_p);
            setcookie('y',$this->encrypt->encode($username, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']),60*60*24*3);
            return true;
        } else {
            return false; //false'
        }

    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

public function login(){
    if(!isset($_POST['user'], $_POST['pass'])){
        $this->load->view('header');
        $this->load->view('content/errorError');
        $this->load->view('footer');
        return false;
    }

    $user = $_POST['user'];
    $pass = $_POST['pass'];

    if(self::login_core($user, $pass)){
        $d['a'] = $this->e;
        $this->load->view('header', $d);
        if(isset($_GET['redirect_to'])) {
            ob_start();
            header('location:'. $_GET['redirect_to']);
            return true;
        }
        $data['userloggedOn'] = true;
        $this->load->view('main', $data);
    }
    else
    {
        $data['userloggedOn'] = false;
        $this->load->view('main', $this->e);
    }

    $this->load->view('footer');
}

The user points to login via a form, and to my thinking, no any headers are sent before setting cookie (for the login page).when i wrap if around setcookie, the result is true, but the cookie does not set? Why?

A: don't you need to added the current time to the expire date?
for example
setcookie("y", $unique_string, time() + (60*60*24*30), '/');


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Q: Duplicate XML elements and add attributes I need a program that will duplicate XML elements and add attributes to them. It could be easier with an XSLT transform but I need the program to ask whether each matching element should be duplicated.
Here is a small and simple example of what I start with
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

    <title>title</title>
    <para>text</para>
    <mediaobject>

      <imageobject>
        <imagedata fileref="filename.png" format="PNG"/>
      </imageobject>

    </mediaobject>
    <para>text</para>

What I want after passing the script
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

    <title>title</title>
    <para>text</para>
    <mediaobject>

      <imageobject arch="html;fo;fo-print">
        <imagedata fileref="filename.png" format="PNG"/>
      </imageobject>

      <imageobject arch="screen">
        <imagedata fileref="filename.png" format="PNG" width="100%"/>
      </imageobject>

    </mediaobject>

I need the program to find
each imageobject element
and ask whether it
should be duplicated.
If so then it is duplicated and attributes arch and width are added.
The XML file has to be external to the script and it would be nice if I could apply it to several files.

A: Tutorial: https://grantm.github.io/perl-libxml-by-example/
use 5.024;
use IO::Prompt qw(prompt);
use XML::LibXML qw();

my $dom = XML::LibXML->new(line_numbers => 1)->parse_file('so51206867.xml');
for my $imageobject ($dom->findnodes('//imageobject')) {
    say 'Found at line ' . $imageobject->line_number;
    say $imageobject->toString;
    if (prompt 'Duplicate? ', '-yes') {
        my $copy = $imageobject->cloneNode(1);
        $imageobject->setAttribute(arch => 'html;fo;fo-print');
        $copy->setAttribute(arch => 'screen');
        $copy->findnodes('//imagedata')->get_node(1)->setAttribute(width => '100%');
        $imageobject->addSibling($copy);
    }
}
$dom->toFile('so51206867-out.xml');


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YA Writers 2019
2019 fringe events
Bristol Lit Fest
Dark Stories and Disturbing Tales with Emily Koch, Jane Corry, Jane Shemilt and Melanie Golding
7pm, 26 October
Waterstones, Union Galleries, £10
These best-selling authors, all writers of powerful thrillers, discuss the art of writing and why psychological suspense is so popular during these turbulent times.
How do you write a thriller that makes you stay up all night, feverishly turning the pages? And just why has the genre 'psychological suspense' become so huge in the turbulent world that we live in today?
Four of the country's best-selling psychological thriller writers talk about the art of creating suspense and why psychological drama has seized the public's imagination. They will discuss their inspiration as well as how they produce haunting and explosive storytelling that grips the reader to the very end.
With Emily Koch, Jane Shemilt, Melanie Golding. Jane Corry will chair the event.
Emily Koch is an award-winning journalist and writer living in Bristol. Her debut novel - If I Die Before I Wake - is a top 20 bestseller and was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, longlisted for Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Her second novel - Keep Him Close - is out in 2020.
Jane Corry (Chair) used to write romance but her writing turned dark when her first marriage ended in 2005 and she took a job as writer in residence of a high security male prison.
Jane's time in prison ' led to a new voice as a thriller writer - and a contract with Penguin. She has since written four novels for Penguin Viking, all of which have been in the top five of the Sunday Times. The most recent, 'I Looked Away', was number three in June this year. 'My Husband's Wife' has been optioned as a television series. She is published in more than 35 countries and has also been in the Washington Post bestseller list.
While working as a GP, Jane Shemilt completed a postgraduate diploma in Creative Writing at Bristol University and went on to study for the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa, gaining both with distinction. Her first novel, Daughter, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club, shortlisted for the Edgar Award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, and went on to become the bestselling debut novel of 2014.
Melanie Golding's chilling debut novel, Little Darlings, was published in early 2019 with HQ HarperCollins in the UK and Commonwealth, HarperCollins Canada and Crooked Lane Books in the US. 'Deep. Dark. Utterly addictive… you can't unread this story. It will haunt you.'
Address: Waterstones, 11A, Union Galleries, Broadmead, Bristol BS1 3XD
Crusoe 300: Lunchtime lecture on Robinson Crusoe
Bristol Festival of Literature Launch Party
The Bristol Festival of Literature Book Fair
©2020 by Bristol Festival of Literature.
contact@BristolFestivalOfLiterature.org


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Business News: Solicitor Kate Mahon in fundraising challenge
A BIG-HEARTED Coventry solicitor will be putting on her running shoes this weekend and pounding the city streets in a bid to raise money for a local centre.
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Kate Mahon has signed up for the Coventry half-marathon on Sunday in an effort to help people with multiple sclerosis and other conditions.
The solicitor at Button Legal, in Warwick Road, in the city centre, will be raising cash for the Mercia MS Therapy Centre in Aldermans Green.
The charity provides therapies for people with multiple sclerosis, those recovering from stroke, children with cerebral palsy and autism via a number of therapies including physiotherapy, counselling, reflexology and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Money raised from Ms Mahon's efforts will be put towards the physiotherapy service at the therapy centre to help those with disabilities to remain as mobile and independent as possible.
Ms Mahon said: "I'm looking forward to raising money for the Mercia MS Therapy Centre.
"The centre's work is invaluable for so many people."


Police are being distracted from fighting violent crime by filling out forms for crimes that don't exist, says the head of England and Wales' frontline officers.
John Apter, chairman of the Police Federation, cited the case of two Hampshire police officers sent to track down two drunks reportedly fighting in a park who had disappeared by the time they arrived.
They then had to spend 20 minutes filling in a crime report and carry out a vulnerability assessment in case there were children who might have witnessed the incident.
"That's 20 minutes completing paperwork for a job job that is going nowhere, no offenders, no offences, no vulnerability," he said.
"If this was one time a shift, that might be okay but it might six or ten times. That's where this process can get too much. We are keeping the pie chart people happy but it is not delivering policing. That's where we have lost our way.
Simon Kempton, operational lead for the Police Federation, said the demand for collecting statistics and assessing vulnerability had steadily increased each year with new Home Office recording requirements reinforced by new IT systems installed by forces.
The most recent introduced last year required officers to fill out a 10-page form for use of force including what happened, where, whether officers were threatened, who was injured and where on their body. It could take over 10 minutes in some forces to complete for each person arrested.
As an officer, he also now had to log incidents such as rubble on a road which might have been removed by a Good Samaritan by the time he arrived. "In the past, I would say it's removed, NFPA [no further police action]" he said.
"Now I will be sent a form on my mobile or desktop, and have to fill out empty boxes on who was the officer, when attended, the risk, it goes on and on and on.
Someone somewhere may be desperate to know how many times, there were call-outs to the road and maybe it would have been easier when we had 22,000 more police officers.
The National Police Chief' Council said: "Policing has made efficiency savings of £1.6bn since 2011, and will deliver a further £350 million by 2018/19. A range of programmes are underway to improve collaboration and technology making us more efficient.


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Truth or Dare (2018)
Lucy Hale ("Pretty Little Liars") and Tyler Posey ("Teen Wolf") lead the cast of Blumhouse's "Truth or Dare," a supernatural thriller from Blumhouse Productions ("Happy Death Day," "Get Out," "Split"). A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare. Directed by Jeff Wadlow ("Kick-Ass 2"), the thriller co-stars Violett Beane, Hayden Szeto, Landon Liboiron, Sophia Taylor Ali and Nolan Gerard Funk. The film was produced by Blumhouse's Jason Blum and executive produced by Wadlow, Chris Roach, Jeanette Volturno and Couper Samuelson.
Foolish supernatural horror has lots of death, drinking.
Violett Beane
Michael Reisz
Chris Roach
Artists in This Film
Films in Horror
Vanishing on 7th Street


I (Lisa) decided to start a Bibs2Bags blog. Why? First, we have amazing product that I really want to showcase and tell everyone about! (I am listed under marketing on the website, you know). Second, I run-a lot. (Hence why I have every bag offered on our website!) So through the 8 years of being an average, mediocre, middle of the pack runner, I've learned a thing or 2 about running-focused products and I'd like to share my knowledge with other. Whether you are just starting out, or have been running a long time, I think bouncing ideas off of one another and learning from others trial and error can only help you become a better runner.
I'm open to your feedback and I'd love to hear about blog topic suggestions as well, so please feel free to comment on my posts!


COLLEGE STATION -- The University of the Incarnate Word softball team has canceled its doubleheader against the Texas A&M Aggies in College Station, Texas due to weather. The games will not be rescheduled.
Three University of the Incarnate Word men's tennis student-athletes earned All-Southland Conference, announced the league office Wednesday. Oliver Valentinsson earned the No. 4 spot for first team singles, while the doubles pairing of Paco Bendana and Caleb Dyer were named to the doubles second team in the No. 2 spot.
SAN ANTONIO -- The University of the Incarnate Word softball team came up just short to UTSA on Tuesday when the Roadrunners hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh to earn a 4-2 victory over the Cardinals.
SAN ANTONIO -- The University of the Incarnate Word baseball team took a 6-4 decision over UTRGV on Tuesday night at Daniel Sullivan Field, sponsored by H-E-B.
McKINNEY, Texas -- Junior John Hill finished fourth among 55 players as the University of the Incarnate Word men's golf team placed seventh in the Southland Conference Men's Championship golf tournament at Stonebridge Ranch Country Club on Tuesday.
McKINNEY, Texas – The University of the Incarnate Word is tied for seventh place after Monday's first 18 holes of the Southland Conference Men's Championship golf tournament at Stonebridge Ranch Country Club. The tournament resumes on Tuesday morning with UIW's golfers teeing off at nine-minute intervals beginning at 7:50 a.m.
SAN ANTONIO -- The University of the Incarnate Word baseball team hosts UTRGV for a midweek matchup on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. (CT) at Daniel Sullivan Field, sponsored by H-E-B.
SAN ANTONIO -- The University of the Incarnate Word softball team has a pair of intriguing matchups this week with a Tuesday rematch against the UTSA Roadrunners (6:00 p.m.) and a Wednesday doubleheader against the SEC's Texas A&M Aggies (2:00 p.m.).
McKINNEY, Texas -- The University of the Incarnate Word, led by junior John Hill – the Southland Conference Golfer of the Month in March – plays in the Southland Conference Men's Championship Monday through Wednesday at Stonebridge Ranch Country Club.
SAN ANTONIO -- The University of the Incarnate Word baseball team fell, 8-6, to Houston Baptist in the series finale on Saturday afternoon at Daniel Sullivan Field, sponsored by H-E-B.


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The Imperial Talker
Prequel Trilogy
Sequel Trilogy
Canon and Continuity
I Have Failed You
Hovering above a lava field, exhaustion apparent on their sweaty faces, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader (formerly Anakin Skywalker) stare each other down. Heated emotions are clearly running through them, hot like the lava which surrounds them on all sides. Having engaged in a running battle, one that has put them both in harms way, this small moment of reprieve will not last long, but it is long enough for Obi-Wan Kenobi to address the foe who stands before him. A stern look on his face, Kenobi delivers a line packed with painful contrition:
"I have failed you, Anakin. I have failed you."
We do not know precisely what Obi-Wan is thinking as he speaks, precisely what failures run through the Master's mind as he addresses the former student whom he loves. But we really don't need to know, and we can otherwise fill in those blanks on our own. Rather, the statement is Obi-Wan's all encompassing mea culpa, an admission to the young man before him that as teacher he failed his student.
Juxtapose this with what came before, the last time Obi-Wan and Anakin spoke as friends. In that moment, as Kenobi prepared to depart for the planet Utapau, he admitted to Anakin that he had trained him since he was a boy and had taught his student everything he knew. And yet, now, as the two stand above the lava fields of Mustafar, sweat dripping down their faces, Kenobi acknowledges the hardest of truths: that everything he taught Anakin was simply not enough to keep the young man from heading down a dark path.
To Kenobi's guilt-ridden admission, though, we can add another layer. In Attack of the Clones, Anakin admits to his Master that he is the "closest thing to a father" the boy has ever had, and later complains to Padmé that Kenobi is "like my father." One could see the father-son relationship without any explicit statements, but those statements certainly help solidify the familial connection Kenobi and Skywalker shared. In a very real sense, Kenobi adopted the young boy, raising him as his own. In this regard, the statement "I have failed you" is not only a teacher admitting that he failed his student, but it is equally that of a father painfully conceding that he has failed his son.
In turn, other layers can be tacked onto these. Thinking about the familial relationship differently, we can imagine Kenobi as Anakin's older brother, a point which is actually reinforced when Obi-Wan admits moments later that "You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you." Taken through the lens of brotherly love, Kenobi's failure is that of an older brother who did not keep his younger brother from going astray. Or, one could easily view the statement through the lens of friendship, with the Jedi Master confessing that he failed to aid his "good friend" in his most dire moment(s).
In noting these four layers, and even recognizing there could be others, I dare not dig any deeper. It feels fruitless to begin "explaining" specific failures Kenobi may be thinking in this particularly moment, and besides, as I already said, we can fill in those blanks for ourselves. Instead, what makes this line stand out to me, what makes it one of my absolute favorite lines in all of Star Wars, is the raw emotion and honesty inherent within it. Kenobi's words are packed with pain, with remorse, with anger, and frustration. What he says is loaded with candor, with sincerity, and with the maturity of a Jedi Master. In this moment, Obi-Wan Kenobi takes on the weight of his own actions AND the actions of his former protege, placing the onus squarely on his own shoulders.
"I have failed you, Anakin."
"I have failed you."
"I have failed."
It is a failure Obi-Wan Kenobi will live with for the rest of his life.
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Michael J. Miller says:
Excellent choice! This easily stands as one of the most powerful moments in the entire Star Wars Saga. I love how it colors what happens in the Original Trilogy too. For me, now I can't watch Obi-Wan's encounter with Darth Vader aboard the Death Star in 'A New Hope' without thinking of this scene, without feeling it – this exchange in particular. This moment colors everything before and after it, and rightly so.
Imperial Talker says:
I would agree that it is a powerful moment. There is a heavy weight to the exchange, a recognition (at least for the audience) that neither individual is truly listening to the other. Lenovo offers his mea culpa to Anakin but he isn't even talking to Anakin, he is speaking to Darth Vader.
I'd never thought of it like that! I've obviously realized it's Darth Vader on Mustafar, that Anakin's gone then. But I'd never really understood how little Obi-Wan can see that.
And, it makes the "I hate you" line even more profound because the emotions are coming from a Sith, a Sith who is declaring his hatred for a Jedi.
starwarsanon says:
I love this line so much. Mostly because of Obi-Wan's willingness to take responsibility onto himself. He doesn't blame Palpatine, he doesn't blame Padme (whom he knows about at this point), he doesn't blame Yoda/Windu or anyone…he blames himself. I think that is so powerful to come to that clarity at that moment. I feel like it would be so easy to push aside the blame especially this early into the betrayal, but he doesn't. He knows that at the end of it all, he was his master and he failed him.
This is something I wanted to write and discuss ever since you shared that tweet…but you put it so well, I'm not sure there's much more I can add.
Sorry for my delayed reply! I've been crazy busy….and distracted in my free time by the Battlefront II campaign (just finished it this morning). Annnnnywhoooooo……
I am sure Obi-Wan could easily find fault outside of himself, in the actions of others (particularly the Jedi Order) but that he blames himself is just perfect in every way. It really serves as a stark reminder that our actions have consequences that go far beyond our immediate sphere of influence. It is easy to find fault in others (something Anakin constantly does) but difficult to accept failure.
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Laurie Canter in action at the 2018 Portugal Masters. PICTURE: ANDY CROOK.
REVIEWING areas of improvement has kept Bradford-on-Avon pro Laurie Canter occupied ahead of this weekend's final Q-School qualification stage at Lumine Golf Club in Tarragona, Spain.
Canter's performances in the build-up to Q-School – an annual qualification process that grants 25 players membership to next season's European Tour – proved enough for him to bypass last week's initial qualifying round.
With approximately 1,000 players jostling for 25 places, Canter has prepared for this weekend's tournament in a relaxed style – taking two weeks of rest while working on his accuracy from the tee.
The 28-year-old Bath-born pro admits his lengthy range from the tee is proving to be his own downfall.
Targeting improved accuracy, the Cumberwell Park star has made some slight tweaks to his game ahead of his fourth Q-School appearance.
He said: "Last week I sat down with my caddy and a couple of people that have helped me this season to review where I am.
"There are a couple of areas I want to target improvement in moving forward.
"I drive the ball well, but for the length that I hit it I'm not hitting enough fairways. I'm trying to hit a few more fairways which will give me an advantage when I'm trying to reach the greens.
"Otherwise I'll continue to work hard on my short game, which in the last month or so has really started to improve – I'm seeing some headway there.
"If my pitching is good and short-game is good, then it will help. So I will be focussing my attention on that this week.
"I'm always trying to keep on top of all of the other elements as well, it is a juggling act when you're trying to get your game together.
"You can feel like one area you're struggling in starts to improve, but then somewhere else slips by.
Despite his experience, the Wiltshire hope admits he will still feel nerves before his opening shot – something which he firmly believes isn't such a bad thing.
"I imagine I will still be nervous, and I hope I am," admitted Canter.
"I think it's important to be nervous before qualifying – it's a great opportunity to go and get that card and play at the top level.
"Q school is an opportunity, and if you burden it by saying you have everything to lose then it's easier to fail.
"I think it's very much an 'everything to gain' situation. With that in mind, I've had some nice experiences this year.


Whistler Olympic Park is nearby as well as Callaghan Lake Provincial Park. The turnoff to Callaghan Lake just past Alexander Falls is the same turnoff you take to get to Madeley Lake. Madeley Lake is your first right after crossing the bridge, while Callaghan Lake is 8 kilometres up this bumpy logging road. The old logging road takes you along the left shore of Madeley Lake passing a couple good canoe/kayak launching spots. The end of the road comes just before a disintegrating bridge blocked by a huge boulder. The short trail to the Madeley Lake campsite is found just across this bridge on the right. The campsite is largely unmaintained and is very rustic and beautiful. An ancient outhouse, picnic tables and several metal fire pits dot the campsite with several large tent clearings. Emerging from the deep forest of the campsite you come to a gorgeous gravel beach. South facing, the beach is always sunny and magically serene. The campsite at the end of Madeley Lake is very basic, though wonderfully remote feeling and rustic. The sun rises over the lake in the morning and you are bathed in sun most of the day. In previous years you could also camp at the nearby Alexander Falls, however this is no longer allowed. Also, keep in mind that this whole area in the winter is taken over by Callaghan Country and Whistler Olympic Park so access via skis comes with a usage charge. Another campsite option in the area is the beautiful and large campsite area at Callaghan Lake Provincial Park nearby. Both the Madeley Lake campsite and the Callaghan Lake campsite are free.


Sorry this message is so very overdue. First of all, thank you all, so much, for the emails, cards, letters and love and prayers you sent me after I wrote about my Lyme disease in August. Knowing that so many people were thinking of me and sending me healing wishes, thoughts, and vibrations really helped me during the dark days. I did get worse before I got better, and I didn't want to write about being sick.
Today is one of those golden November days. The angle of the sun is so low it seems that you could dance in its rays. This morning as I sipped my tea by the woodstove with Auggie, the fluffy kitty, on my lap, I could see out into the gardens and orchard beyond where Ralph and the dogs were playing. The sun was coming over the hills to the east and backlighting them so that they all appeared to wear halos. Even the poor, porcupine-pruned plum trees looked energized and the frosted flowers and meadow grasses shimmered in the light.
Barley the new pup (five months old) is now bigger than Rosie, and the two play endlessly! Rosie clearly believes that we got Barley just for her and is bringing him up with occasional help from us. Usually she's Mary Poppins, gently guiding him, but once in a while, we see the East German drill sargent come out. On Halloween morning she caught three mice, played with each for a bit, then tossed them over to him. We've expanded our walks in the woods nearby and have taken him to our favorite trails in Northfield and Amherst. She loves showing him the brooks and streams, the dead trees where other animals have made their homes for the winter, and the best spots for gamboling and frolicking and for full out running.
I'm convinced that getting such a young pup was the best way to successfully integrate him into our family. Not only is Rosie overjoyed by his arrival, but Auggie loves Barley too and has no compunctions about sharing food and bedding with him. Indeed, Auggie was larger than Barley when he arrived and he has shown her complete respect from the start. He already joins Rosie in protecting Auggie when other dogs visit. Every morning he wakes up sooo happy and full of joy it's impossible not to waken with a laugh ourselves. On top of it all, he loves fruit of every kind - raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, melon, apples, even tomatoes and peppers.
In the woods, the beavers are once again working like, well, beavers, felling new trees every night and flooding the brook in new places. It's so exciting to see their work, and Barley, especially, loves splashing through our old paths. The pond is large enough now to welcome many of the migrating ducks that pass by. We've never had so many and their sounds and splashes delight us all.
There were times during my illness when I felt saddened that I could no longer run through the woods - the places that I loved so well now seemed dangerous - but I've overcome that fear. The edge habitat of the fields is even more dangerous than the woods, and my gardens are probably as dangerous as the fields. I can't stop farming - it's more than my life's work; it's my life - and running through the woods is also part of who I am and what makes my life fulfilling. I'll be vigilantly looking for signs of Lyme on all of us and will seek treatment immediately if any of us becomes infected, but I can't stop being who I am or restricting the dogs to a more sanitized life.
Greetings on a rainy October morning!
Most of the leaves of the hardwood trees have fallen here in Southwestern New Hampshire, with only the oaks and the apple trees still holding on. The blueberry planting is a ribbon of brilliant flame in the center of the garden beds, and the raspberries and blackberries have turned a deep wine color along the perimeter. Ralph has filled the bird feeders on the cherry tree and the cardinals, titmouses, chickadees and nuthatches fill the tree.
.....and I thought 04 was an avalanche year! The heirloom tomatoes that I grew from Dancing Bear Tom represented sauce varieties from Italy, Poland and Ukraine as well as varieties saved from Amish farmers and Jersey gardeners. They started coming in mid-August and never let up until frost and we literally picked a ton from about 150 plants, including our own beloved "Enchantment." Of the assortment, new favorites are "Italian pear" which we grew in honor of Ralph's grandmother because it sounded like the variety she had grown during his boyhood - it's heart-shaped with bright red skin that eclipses the deep, deep red hue of the flesh; and "Red Devil" and "Polish Linguisa," two sausage-shaped varieties which produced abundant large, long fruits with firm, sweet flesh and very few seeds.
Our tomato crop also led to this year's gardening epiphany - the best method we've yet found for trellising the plants. I've been growing tomatoes all my life and have tried everything from rigidly staking and pruning to the free-form sprawling style (and everything in-between) using cages, stakes, trellises, twine, ribbon, pantyhose, and so forth. Several years ago we tried a friend's method of staking between plants and using twine to weave a makeshift netting for the row. We learned that using cages around the plants can promote diseases like early blight because the lower leaves get cramped by the cages, limiting air circulation.
I was glad to be rid of the cages because trying to stick their three-pronged legs into our rocky soil was always an exercise in frustration and we often worried that we were stabbing the tomato roots as we tried and tried to set the cage into the ground. However, we do own a couple hundred of the things.....It was Ralph, of course, who saw the new solution. We set the plants at two feet apart, then set a cage between each plant. Since the cages were far from the plants' roots, we could shove them deeply into the ground to set them securely. The cages have three rings parallel to the ground which gave us three levels to secure the twine. We ran the twine along each side of the plants. The method was a great success since it held the tomatoes securely off the ground. Because I became ill in early July I never got a chance to prune the plants but it wasn't really necessary. The plants yielded, literally tons of tomatoes that stayed cleanly off the straw mulch until ready to pick.
Our newest product is a refinement of our old "Herb and Garlic Pizza Sauce." We simmered our heirloom tomatoes into a rich, thick, red sauce (with our true, old-world bay leaves), then added lots of our fresh garlic, basil and parsley to produce a sauce that's bursting with flavor. It's ideal for spreading on crostini, French bread, crackers, boboli or pizza dough, or for topping dishes like ravioli, tortellini, or eggplant parmesean. We even add it to soups to give them another layer of flavor.
The global warming phenomenon that has helped spread the nasty Lyme spirochete north also helped give us a tremendous pepper year. I remember years when we couldn't get a single pepper to turn red before killing frosts set in....this year seemed more like summer in Virginia. We probably didn't pick a whole ton of peppers, as we did with tomatoes, but we had the best yields I've seen in my lifetime. Outstanding varieties included the new Italian pepper named "Carmen" and a bell called "Socrates" and our old favorites Italia and Giant Marconi. The jalapeno from Tom called "El Jeffe" out performed "Grande" and his Kung Pao chilies out performed the standard cayennes. As soon as we had the first bushel picked, Lara and Ralph put up our wildly popular "Mad Hatter's Pepper Preserve." We hope that this year we've made enough to fill the demand!
Although I got to pick only about 20% of my summer crop myself, Ralph and the girls got most of it in. The rain early in the season meant that the fruit was large, and the hot sun during ripening assured that they were very sweet. By the time that the Autumn berries began to ripen in mid-September I was again able to pick my share and relished every minute in the beautiful berry beds. The long season without frost meant that we were picking right up to last week - we didn't even need to cover the long heritage bed with plastic to protect them. It's not a banner year for my favorite berry, but a good solid harvest none-the-less.
After last year's amazing yield, I wasn't surprised at the paltry performance by the blues this year. We have enough to get through the holidays, but will probably run out by the first of next year. Blueberry lovers take note!
The TeddyBerries were tremendous! Huge, beautiful berries bigger than Ralph's thumb - these richly hued black beauties have many layers of flavor when allowed to completely ripen. A single berry can be at once sweet and spicy, tart and peppery. They are the most intensely flavored blackberries we have ever tasted, and our preserve captures all of these flavors. (I prefer the regular preserves with berries bursting with each bite; Ralph prefers the smooth glide of the seedless preserve on his toast.) Ralph picked hundreds of baskets of blackberries this year with lots of help from Joe. Dana, Lara, Johnny and even I helped too.
Alas, the porcupine really did destroy the Damson Plum trees for this season. He chewed branches off and tossed them to the ground and the poor trees look more like toothbrushes than fruit trees. Some did fare better than others, and the two closest to the house are fine, giving me hope that we might see some fruit next year (and I hope the porcupine forgets all about us in the meantime). After neglecting the pears for most of the season, porcy did some damage to the pears at the end of the season but avoided the peaches entirely. They were much young to bear this year anyway, but Tom had a great harvest so we will have plenty of Dancing Bear Peach Preserve for the holiday season and beyond.
My illness prevented me from putting up much at all in the way of herbal vinegars. We did get a good garlic crop.....just enough for Tomatoes Rustica and Farmhouse Garlic Mustard! I have made some the three herbal-infused honeys (Lavender, Lemon Verbena and Chocolate Mint) and will get more put up this month.
Ralph picked our red currants just before heavy rains in mid-July and we've now put up our very limited Rosie's Red Currant Preserve. The trial planting of 16 Elderberry bushes was a tremendous success! They've all grown tall and broad in a semicircle by the lower pond - one even produced a couple handfuls of berries which Ralph, of course, experimented with preserving. The color was beautiful and the unique flavor was delightful. We can't wait to pick more!
Ralph is out there now turning the soil so we can plant our winter rye. (Yes, I know it's late, but the forecast is for temperatures in the 50's all week long so we think it's worth a try.) As soon as I finish this letter, I'm heading out to plant the garlic. The bed is prepared and I've divided the cloves. All that remains is to pop them in, then cover with straw after Thanksgiving, when we also mulch the strawberries.
On the last Tuesday of September, I was finally able to return to Newton, the market I've gone to for more than 25 seasons. My emotions soared with my return - hugging so many old friends, seeing so many dear people, was incredibly moving. I couldn't have done it, though, without my old friend Fana. I've known Fana since he was four and his beautiful mother, my friend Cecilia, brought him with her to pick strawberries at my first farm in Leyden in 1979. Since his real job as a title researcher gives him flexibility, he was able to rearrange his schedule to share his Tuesdays with me. He did all the driving and set up the tent and tables for me and helped me in so many ways! And as long as I'm thanking people, I must once again sing Lara's praises. This year she helped more than ever, first with planting because of my bum knee, then she took over the raspberry picking when I was sickest, and finally helped rescue me in the kitchen when I was too tired even to stir the preserves.
Several friends sent me great books during my illness. Amy Tan's new memoir offered me a a look at what can happen when Lyme disease goes untreated. "Healing Lyme" gave me insight into the disease and its history and herbal approaches to healing. "Leaving Mother Lake" transported me to an area in western China and a totally different, female-centered culture where I sought refuge during some of the scariest days of my illness.
One of the finest books I've ever read was Sy Montgomery's memoir, "The Good, Good Pig" which tells of the deep love between Sy and her dear pig Christopher Hogwood. I kept a couple of pigs (for breeding) at my first farm in Leyden and particularly loved my dear Prudence, but Sy's relationship with Christopher was extraordinary. This may be one of the finest homages to any creature ever written. The writing is beautiful; the lessons in animal behaviour illuminating; the tale of love, overpowering. I wish everyone in the world could read this amazing book.
Ralph's dad, John Legrande, was a warm, funny man with a heart of gold. His big old heart finally gave out this summer after nearly 86 years. Thanks to the tender loving care of Ralph's brother Johnny, Dad got to live his whole life in his own home. We're grateful for all his care, and also that Ralph was able to visit his father several times this spring, then in August in the hospital while he was still pretty well, and then to be with him during his final days.


I borrowed some of my favorite models for a little studio fun last week. I wanted to try out my waterfowers backdrop and some new pettiskirts I picked up, and what little girl doesn't love playing around in poofy skirts and parasols?
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These little cuties were one month old and only 5 lbs. The nice thing about having them in the studio at one month old is that I get some great eye contact. They were less excited about the floppy naked poses, especially the little guy, but his sister was willing to try a few for us. So little and already into getting her photo taken!
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I had the chance to do newborn photos for this little cutie last year, and now I got to come back in honor of her first birthday. She has grown into an adorable little doll and is the apple of mom and dad's eye. Here is a look back at her last year. She has grown so much!
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These little guys braved a chilly January morning and we managed to have a little fun and stay warm. I have worked with 3 of their cousins previously and I was excited to meet more members of the family.
Posted 9 years, 3 months ago at 8:06 am.
I had the honor of working with musician Andy Colon to create the images for his debut album. I am so excited to see (and hear!) how the album turns out. These are some sneak peeks, and I will post again with a link to his album when it is released.
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John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not."[1] [mehr][weniger]
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With Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, 1921.
William Pitt sat for Hoppner at the artist's residence in what would be his last portrait sitting. Initially exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1806, George Scharf described the primary (three-quarter length) version on display at the National Portrait Gallery as showing the sitter's ''ruddy and close shaven face....the hair is grey from powder, some of which lies on the collar of the coat''.
Pitt and Hoppner were close contemporaries and the evident world-weariness in the heavy eyelids and solemnity of expression suggests a certain amount of empathy on the artist's part as his sitter's health began to deteriorate. Finished in October 1805, ''the work had not been sent home when Pitt died (Clint had been engraving it). Then came applications from the most intimate friends of the deceased statesman for copies. All these, made before the original was sent home, were by the express permission of Lord Mulgrave''(1) .


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Fundraising by Following the Bear - BALTIC Zip Wire 2012
posted 26 Jun 2012, 15:40 by Stephen Harrison [ updated 21 Aug 2013, 15:07 ]
Following in the footsteps of adventurer and Chief Scout Bear Grylls, this Saturday adult leaders and supporters will be flying across the River Tyne raising money for the group. Our team of 11 will take on the challenge of the 2012 BALTIC zip wire, starting 140 feet up on the roof of the BALTIC flour mill and zipping across the river to the Quayside below. It's a truly terrifying experience and not for the faint hearted!
The group are fundraising for additional camping equipment in order to provide adventure to more young people in Washington. Families are welcome on the Newcastle Quayside at 10:00am to support the event. We'll also be selling raffle tickets with the chance to win a signed Bear Grylls necker, from the night Bear did his incredible stunt.
If you would like to support any of our participants, please email web@3rdwashingtonscouts.org.uk to make a donation to the group, or you can make a secure online donation via BT Mydonate at https://mydonate.bt.com/events/balticzipwire2012/74054
If you haven't already seen Bear's incredible moment on the zip wire with the Olympic flame, check out this video on the ITV news website and look out for scouts in the welcoming party at the bottom.
3rd Washington Scouts (part of Houghton-Le-Spring Scout District) provides adventure for young people aged 6 to 14 in the North and West of Washington, Tyne and Wear. Two thriving beaver colonies, two cub packs and two scout troops make up over 200 members, comprising of over 160 young people and a leader team of 40 adults. The group is a registered charity and is managed by an active executive committee.


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Q: Visual Basic - Random Number Generator using Array and For Loop I need assistance with creating an elementary array in VB.NET.
The objective is to load a random number into each array location and then display the contents of the array. There are 100 index values from 1 to 100.
Here is what I have so far:
    Dim Output As String
    Dim RandomNumber As Integer
    Dim n As Integer
    Dim NumberArray(101) As Integer

    NumberArray(n) = RandomNumber

    For n = 1 To 100
        Randomize()
        RandomNumber = Int(Rnd() * 100) + 1
    Next

    Output = Output & "Index #" & n & vbTab & NumberArray(n) & vbCrLf

    TextBox1.Text = Output

The output I am receiving is:
Index #101           0
I cannot figure out how to output the entire list of arrays.

A: I suggest using RANDOM Try this:
Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
Option Infer Off
Public Class Form1
    Dim random As New Random(Now.Millisecond)
    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim array() As Integer = {}

        For I As Integer = 1 To 100
            ReDim Preserve array(I - 1)
            array(I - 1) = random.Next(0, 101)
        Next
        MsgBox(arrToStr(array))
    End Sub
    Function arrToStr(arr As Integer()) As String
        Dim sb As New System.Text.StringBuilder
        For i As Integer = 0 To UBound(arr)
            If i = UBound(arr) Then
                sb.Append(arr(i).ToString)
            Else
                sb.Append(arr(i).ToString & ", ")
            End If
        Next
        Return sb.ToString
    End Function
End Class

In your style:
Randomize()
Dim Output As String = String.Empty
Dim NumberArray(99) As Integer
For n As Integer = 0 To 99
    Dim RandomNumber As Integer = CInt(Int(Rnd() * 100) + 1)
    NumberArray(n) = RandomNumber
    Output &= "Index #" & n.ToString & Space(4) & NumberArray(n) & vbCrLf
Next
TextBox1.Text = Output

A: All your loop is doing is generating random numbers, and assigning them to a variable, which then gets overwritten in the next iteration. You need to move the array assignment and output string concatenation to inside the loop.
Dim Output As String = ""
Dim RandomNumber As Integer
Dim n As Integer
Dim NumberArray(101) As Integer

For n = 1 To 100
    Randomize()
    RandomNumber = Int(Rnd() * 100) + 1

    NumberArray(n) = RandomNumber
    Output &= "Index #" & n.ToString & vbTab & NumberArray(n).ToString & vbCrLf
Next

TextBox1.Text = Output

Please note that the code above is not 'ideal.' I specifically wrote it this way to retain as much of the asker's original code for clarity.

A: You could cut down on code, as follows:
Dim Output As String =""
Dim i As Integer
Randomize(Timer.Now)
For i = 1 To 100
    Output = Output & i & vbTab & (Rnd() * 99) + 1 & vbCrLf
Next
TextBox1.Text = Output

The random numbers will be unreliable, since the default rn generator is not that good in terms of periodicity.