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Silent Protest 2017
One hundred years ago today, as Google pointed out, ten thousand Black men and women held a silent march in New York City. They marched in protest of the lynchings and violence heaped upon Blacks across America. The women wore white representing innocence and the men wore black, mourning the loss of lives and violence plaguing Blacks in America. While they did not chant or speak or sing, they did carry banners, two of which were prominently displayed: "Thou shalt Not Kill" and "Your Hands Are Full of Blood". Slogans just as appropriate today as they were 100 years ago.
Since its founding in 1916 the Birth Control League, whose name changed to Planned Parenthood in the 1940s, has waged a birth and population control war against women of color. In doing so, their organization has created one of the greatest health care crises this nation has known. Black women ten or more years after their abortion decision find themselves in a fight for their lives battling breast cancer, the second most common cause of cancer death among black women according to Sisters Network. When pregnant with their "planned" children, the ones they want, the CDC warns Black women may find themselves at greater risk for extreme premature birth, the kind most babies do not survive (27 weeks or less). Yet the CDC has not published the settled science information that reveals previous induced abortions are a risk factor for premature birth in subsequent pregnancies.
When visiting one of the Planned Parenthood surgical centers located within two miles of their homes, Black women are exposed to medical conditions that may result in infertility and death. Once inspected some of those facilities, like the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, are cited for failing to meet recognized medical standards including washing hands and sterilizing the instruments between procedures. Because of the stigma associated with abortion, most women do not feel free to discuss the botched abortion that left them with parts of the baby that had to be removed in a hospital emergency setting. Moreover, some have been killed in a Planned Parenthood center due to poor medical care such as Tonya Reaves who was left to bleed for more than five hours before emergency care was sought. Too little. Too late.
There is no way to measure the numbers of women whose uteri were perforated, bowels pulled out, or who experienced incomplete abortions. We cannot measure the numbers of those who found themselves infected with STDs, bacterial infections and the like because of their abortion decision. Those numbers are not reported nor are they collected. What is known is that thousands, if not millions of Black women have been injured, some psychologically and most physically since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
When states have dared to fight to regulate the abortion industry in the same manner that any other surgical facility is regulated, Planned Parenthood has fought tooth and nail to keep their facilities in squalid conditions. Citing a lack of access to women of color, as they did in the Hellerstedt v. Whole Women's Health case, they refused to raise their clinics to ambulatory surgical levels, and refused to meet requirements that doctors have admitting profiles in nearby hospitals.
It is time for another silent protest, first of the government (for refusing to defund Planned Parenthood) and second, Planned Parenthood who receives half a billion taxpayer dollars as they increase their abortion business that is increasingly hurting women of color. On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 join me in a silent protest. Ladies were white to commemorate the innocence and lives of the babies Planned Parenthood slaughters in their surgical centers. Men wear black to mourn the lives of the millions of Black babies and their mothers that have died at the hands of a Planned Parenthood abortionist. In every post on social media use the hashtag #endthegenocide
#YourHandsAreFullofBlood.
From 12 noon to 1:00 pm EST do not speak, and let us use that hour to pray. First for the babies, then for their mothers, then for the families that abortion has injured. Let us pray for an end to this scourge.
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President Trump Are You Really Listening
I received an email inviting me to participate in President Trump's "Listening to America Survey to tell me the true sentiments, concerns, and interests of REAL America". I should have realized it was nothing more than a fundraising ploy, but I did not and took some of my time to complete all the questions hoping against hope that someone might truly read it and "listen". After all, the tag line of the email was "why don't they EVER listen".
During his campaign, President Trump pledged " to do everything I can to continue that promise of freedom for African-Americans". He has a huge opportunity to keep that pledge.
There is a systemic evil running amok in America's political landscape. This evil specifically allows the targeting of women of color. Members of the American government, both Congressmen and Senators seemingly are okay with the targeting. They appear reluctant to reallocate the federal dollars the organization receives. This reluctance is growing into resistance as the organization calls in the many political favors they have spent years cultivating. So confident are they that their lies of reproductive justice are being accepted, they have come together and called on elected officials whose campaigns they underwrote to prosecute the undercover journalist who exposed the seedier side of their business - the selling of baby body parts. So confident are they, they readily signal the nation they are eliminating the weeds their founder identified when she launched the Negro Project in 1939. "Lack of access to reproductive healthcare" has become just as dark as the Black code tht ruled the land for more than 90 years.
Their aging abortionists are sending more and more women to area hospitals for emergency care. They refuse to report the many sexual predators who escort their underage victims and sex trafficked victims into abortion facilities to abort the evidence of sexual abuse. Their nurses quit for fear of losing their licenses because of the squalid conditions found in their centers. When inspected, states find them failing to meet even basic medical standards such as washing their hands and sterilizing the instruments between procedures. And, they are constructing larger and larger surgical facilities in communities of color, carrying out their founder's vital mission of controlling the Black birthrate.
They have withheld essential information from the women they are targeting. They deny the link between abortion and breast cancer despite numerous studies that confirm it from around the world including China the world's abortion capital. Today one in eight American women have breast cancer, a fact The National Center for Biotechnology Information declares is an epidemic. They rarely if ever discuss the 150 studies that confirm a link between abortion and premature birth in subsequent pregnancies, even though premature birth is a direct contributor to the increasing infant mortality rate. Black women are facing extreme premature births (less than 27 weeks) in subsequent pregnancies.
Most, if not all of their customers are not aware of the numbers of women that have died because of a botched abortion. Women like Cree Erwin, Tonya Reaves, and Edrica Goode.
As Planned Parenthood grows more and more callous little black and brown babies and sometimes their mothers are being sacrificed in the name of women's rights. President Trump if you are truly listening and truly committed to doing everything you can to ensure the promise of freedom, you can start by stopping Planned Parenthood's targeting. Urge the Senate to reallocate the more than half billion dollars they receive. #defundPlannedParenthood #Enough #stopthegenocide
Planned Parenthood Pink: Mother's Day Massacre and Beyond
Abortion's underbelly is raw and oozing filth. Festering in that underbelly are a host of unacceptable, even squalid facilities, that one former abortion center worker says "even the demons in hell are not exposed to". Like others in America's elite community, abortionists have no qualms in experimenting on women of color – subjecting them to the same hazardous and squalid conditions some claim were eradicated when abortion moved out of the back alley and into the centers that dot Black and Latino neighborhoods.
One such experiment was the "Mother's Day Massacre" . Harvey Karman, an abortionist who faked his medical credentials, created a device called the supercoil that International Planned Parenthood paid him to test in Bangladesh. The experiment went awry and women were injured. In 1972, Karman joined Kermit Gosnell, who later ran Philadelphia's house of horror , to try the device on American women. They bussed fifteen Black women in their second trimester of pregnancy from Chicago to Philadelphia. Once there, the 'super coil' was placed inside their wombs and nine of the fifteen were seriously injured. The supercoil, according to testimony to the grand jury in Gosnell's 2013 murder trial, "…was a device that he and [Karman] were working on that was supposed to be plastic – basically plastic razors that were formed into a ball. All right. They were coated into a gel, so that they would remain closed. These would be inserted into the woman's uterus. And after several hours of body temperature, it would then – the gel would melt and these 97 things would spring open, supposedly cutting up the fetus, and the fetus would be expelled."
Gosnell fled the country for a while, vacationing in the Bahamas. Karman was prosecuted and did a short stint in jail for practicing medicine without a license. In 2008 when he died, one Planned Parenthood director celebrated him stating he did "more for safe abortion around the world than practically any other person in the world." The fact that so many Black and Bangladeshi women were injured by his "invention" was of no concern to the purveyors of abortion. As America 's elite has done in most experiments on people of color (Tuskegee Syphilis Study 1932-1972; Puerto Rican Cancer Study – 1931), they quietly pushed the story to the back burner and abortionists continued plying their wares in squalid, unclean environments.
Planned Parenthood is one of those purveyors of abortion in unclean, sometimes squalid conditions. They target women of color. Like Gosnell, Planned Parenthood lures women of color into their facilities and their shoddy healthcare has resulted in the deaths and serious injury of women who trusted them with their "reproductive healthcare". Once every few weeks, sidewalk counselors and prayer warriors report the increasing numbers of patients evacuated from a Planned Parenthood by ambulance: New York, Connecticut, Missouri, California, Illinois, Michigan, to name a few. When states dare to inspect Planned Parenthood facilities, many are cited for unsafe medical conditions including failure to wash hands between procedures and failure to sterilize instruments.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards spins a narrative that women of color will be denied access to reproductive healthcare if her organization loses the more than half billion dollars of taxpayer money they receive each and every year. She repeatedly ignores the fact that 79% or more of her surgical abortion facilities are located in the very neighborhoods where these women live and many of them do not provide the healthcare she claims these women will lose if taxpayer funds are reallocated. She ignores her own records that reveal Planned Parenthood: reached a half million fewer clients in the past six years; completed 60% fewer breast exams- less than 2% of America's breast exams; and completed 77% fewer pap tests – less than 1% of America's pap tests.
The only area where services increased have been in abortion - they perform almost 35% of them. Planned Parenthood has masqueraded in the cloak of women's rights for far too long. Their services are steeped in abortion's underbelly, and many of them operate in conditions just as squalid as those found in Kermit Gosnells' house of horror. As the mother's day massacre continues in Planned Parenthood abortion chambers across the nation, Black and Latino women must beware – their very lives and reproductive health depends on it.
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Labels: abortion, DefundPlannedParenthood Enough, Gosnell, Planned Parenthood
A Mother's Cry
There is something obscene about a child dying before a parent and I cannot imagine the anguish a parent would experience upon learning their child has preceded them in death. Just as I cannot imagine the anguish of the mother of 24 year old Cree Erwin who died July 4, 2016. In her mother's bed. Cree joined the ranks of those who had believed the lie that abortion is safe. Cree, like so many others, believed that she could trust those in the Planned Parenthood abortion center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She believed she would be safe when she placed her "reproductive health" in the hands of one of three abortionists known to complete terminations out of that facility.
"Reproductive health" - a phrase Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers began using about eight years ago to create an illusion of medical normalcy and safety for those considering abortion. Because of that illusion, the numbers of young vibrant Black women succumbing to the population control mission of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers is increasing. These centers are anything but safe. The facts surrounding Cree's death are not yet known. Was it a surgical botching like the one Mandy Gittler did on Tonya Reaves in Chicago, Ill in 2012? Was it similar to the abortion performed on LaKisha Wilson by Lisa Perriera in Cleveland, Ohio in 2014? Was it due to the RU486 pill, that ravaged the body of Holly Patterson an 18 year old California girl given RU486 by Planned Parenthood in 2003? Facts are scarce right now, but what is very clear is a mother has lost her child to abortion's blood sucking jaws. Planned Parenthood has once again succeeded in meetings its population control mission taking the life of young Cree Erwin and her baby.
Abortion is ugly. Abortion is killing Black women and children all across the country. More than 20,350,000 Black babies have died by abortion under Roe v. Wade according to Issues4LifeFoundation (http://bit.ly/1YpLccI). Women are dying as well, more than are being counted at the state or national level. Some of the ones we know died tortuous deaths, terrorized by the shoddy medical practices of abortionists across the country that has left them injured, wounded or dead. Women such as Semika Shaw of Philadelphia (2000), Tamia Russell of Detroit (2004) Denise Crowe of Anne Arundel (2006); Laura Hope Smith of Cape Cod (2007); Edrica Goode of Riverside (2007); Sherika Mayo of Johnson City (2008); and Antonesha Ross of Chicago, 2009 to name a few.
Reports out of abortion centers that dot communities of color are horrifying. As abortionists' age, such as this man in Michigan, women are being mutilated by their unsteady hands. More and more women are leaving the abortion chambers in ambulances rather than of their own accord. The epidemic of abortion has left a trail of women: infertile, uteri' mutilated by substandard care, infected because of unclean instruments and failure to follow medical protocols, such as putting on new gloves between each patient. Reports of patients hemorrhaging are becoming more common than rare. In July it was reported the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis sent its 60th patient to the hospital. It is unknown how many women had to seek additional assistance after leaving the center – those are counted as female trouble, rather than the botched abortions they are.
Adding insult to injury, the United States Supreme Court, in June of this year ruled that abortion standards do not need to meet surgical levels and abortionists do not need to have admitting privileges in nearby hospitals. Requiring them to do so would deny women access to abortion, they said. In fact, one of the briefs submitted by those supporting abortion stated women of color, specifically, would be denied access. In other words, it is okay to subject women of color to substandard medical care. Doing so they want us to believe, ensures access since many of the clinics in Texas would have closed.
Because of this, another daughter of the Beloved community, as Dr. King called us, has died, leaving a wounded mother and one year old son. And the information that is making me despair is that it is suspected Mandy Gittler, the same Mandy Gittler that left Tonya Reaves bleeding for more than 5 hours while she killed other Black babies, was the abortionist on duty the day Cree obtained the abortion (whether by pill or surgery is not known at this time). If Gittler was the abortionist, she left another motherless child. And this time she left a wounded mother in the throes of grief to make this chilling call for emergency help:
Please take a moment to grieve with Cree's family. Pray for them for strength to go through this tragedy. Then get up off your knees and join me and others in fighting this scourge that is ravaging the Black community. Inbox me if you want more information.
Many thanks to Operation Rescue for much of the information cited in this post.
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Labels: Antonesha Ross, Cree Erwin, Issues4LifeFoundation, Mandy Gittler, Planned Parenthood, Semika Shaw, Shrika Mayo, Tonya Reaves
The Supreme Court: America's Discrimination Force
Like it has done for centuries, the Supreme Court of the United States protected the path they began blazing in the Dred Scott v. Sanford case. Today the Court did what they do best. They once again denied the rights of most of America's citizenry in favor of a political agenda. Every woman in America should be in tears- especially Black women who are the targets in the bulls' eye.
Abortion has never been about a woman, or her right to choose. It has, from its inception, been about population control and Lord help us, it is succeeding. Today the Court made sure that when the abortions are done, doctors don't even have to meet regular surgical and medical standards of care though the service provided is surgery. Those doctors that cannot get admitting privileges to nearby hospitals can continue maiming and even killing women without consequence. Those facilities that are akin to Gosnell's House of Horrors in Pennsylvania can continue operating beneath reasonable medical standards.
Not long after the Court accepted the Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt case, Marva Sadler, Director of Clinical Services for Whole Women wrote in Ebony Magazine that it was Black women that would be most impacted if the Texas law was not struck down (http://bit.ly/1XlruhE) . She used irrelevant data such as the difference in wages between Black women and white men and an alleged lack of sex education to justify keeping substandard clinics open and thriving.
Today the Court breathed life into her balderdash. Today the Court cemented its skin color politics in the abortion at all costs foundation. Since the Court will not protect women we must unite and protect ourselves. On June 18, 2016, the day celebrated as Juneteenth the day the slaves were freed in Texas, Sisters for Life declared a national boycott of Planned Parenthood. Let's join them. Let us go get our daughters, nieces, aunties and cousins out of the dens of death that are called abortion centers. Perhaps it is time to question why these doctors cannot get admitting privileges. Perhaps it is time to ask how many women have been injured under their care and how many of them have died under their hands.
Pastor Walter Hoye of Issues4lifefoundaiton.org recently released a series of articles that reveal just how successful the population control Negro Project launched by Planned Parenthood and perpetuated by the abortion industry, has been. He said "Considering that the total current Black American population is about 42,000,000, the 20,350,000 Black American abortions are equal to 48.45% of the total Black American population." Had there not been so many abortions on Black women the Black population thee would be more than 62 million Blacks in America today. He went on to state that 40% of Black pregnancies end in abortion. And the Court today signaled that those pregnancies can end in substandard facilities that refuse to rise to a reasonable standard of medical care.
In light of today's ruling, I am sure Planned Parenthood Action will step up sending their white activists to pursue their political efforts to terminate Black babies (http://bit.ly/1YAvGc4). I can only pray we will stop the tidal wave the Court launched with a boycott of tsunami proportions.
Sound the alarm. Tell women to beware, and join the boycott.
Labels: abortion, Planned Parenthood, Supreme Court
An Open Letter to Congresswoman Gwen Moore
For decades Planned Parenthood spent millions of taxpayer dollars convincing the culture children in the womb are not humans. They labeled the babies products of conception and blobs of tissue. They used the Latin word fetus to turn a baby into an object of no value, something to be easily scraped, and torn from the mother's womb. They encouraged the notion that reproductive rights trump the right to life of the child. Once they believed themselves to be on sure footing on that message they turned their attention to their most deadly program, the Negro Project.
Under the watchful eye of their most successful population control architect, Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood expanded their reach into communities of color. She systematically grew their presence until more than 79% of their surgical abortion facilities are located in densely populated (their words) communities of color. In fact in only five minutes, you could take a short drive or walk from your Milwaukee office to their N. Jackson Street location conveniently located in your district. The same is true in the districts of Congresswomen Barbara Lee (CA), Maxine Waters (CA), Joyce Beatty (OH), Corrine Brown (FL), Yvette Clark (NY), and Sheila Jackson Lee (TX) to name a few of those who were elected to look out for our interests. Labeling Protectingblacklife.org an extremist group does nothing to change the accurate information they presented that reveals the location of the surgical centers.
Cecile Richards changed the business model of the organization ensuring that every Planned Parenthood offers medical or surgical abortions and those affiliates that refused to do them were forced out. She then turned her eye toward building a cultural campaign that would allow her to carry out, in plain sight, the mission of the Negro Project, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger launched some one hundred years ago. In order to control the Black birth rate. Richards even went so far as to get the Ford Foundation on whose board she sits, to develop and provide training and talking points to elected officials and others in an effort to reject the genocidal impact of Planned Parenthood's abortion agenda. Black legislators, Black media, entertainers, and yes even Pastors were co-opted to help maintain the illusion Planned Parenthood fights to preserve Black and female rights.
And you, Representative Moore stepped right into the Negro Project. Your comment that conservatives such as myself are "shaming African American women and attacking the reproductive health providers they rely on" are right out of that training Richards provided you in 2012. You agreed to promote their radical agenda of abortion at all costs, even if it results in the genocide of those whose skin color is the same as yours.
You and others ignore the reality that many abortionists simply walked out of the back alley and into the front doors of urban abortion centers. The health care they provide is no health care at all, and many times it violates even the most basic standards of medical care. You and others ignore the fact that some of their affiliates have been stealing taxpayer dollars by over billing Medicaid (http://bit.ly/1PksXB6). You ignore the fact that they aid and abet underage sex abuse every time they fail to report a minor presenting for an abortion (http://bit.ly/1PUxhE7). You ignore the unsanitary conditions found in many abortions centers like the one in Delaware where conditions were so bad the nurses quit (http://dailym.ai/211GaGK). You ignore the fact that women are injured in these centers due to substandard medical care and each and every year more than 60,000 require hospital care as a result of a botched abortion (http://bit.ly/1bZJLuQ). You ignore the fact that one of the upper echelon of Planned Parenthood was giddy at the thought of selling so many Black and Latino baby body parts that she could purchase a Lamborghini. And, you ignore the fact that women die in these abortion centers. Let us remember Tonya Reaves who was left bleeding for more than five hours in a Chicago Planned Parenthood (http://abcn.ws/1orwUdg).
The shame, Congresswoman Moore, is that you and those with whom you serve, have failed to protect the very people that sent you to Congress. Oh, how I wish I could call you an Uncle Tom. But I cannot, because he gave his life to protect those in his care. You, on the other hand, have opened the door to Simon Legree and those who are hell bent on wiping us from the earth. I applaud Congressman Duffy, a 21st Century abolitionist with the courage to face down the hate,being spewed by out of control abortion radicals. At the very least he is speaking out. I pray more have ears to hear than those willing to embrace a lie as they slaughter babies and many times their mothers in the name of reproductive rights.
Labels: Cecile Richards, Congressman Sean Duffy, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, Tonya Reaves
One Victory over the Darkness of Abortion
In February, 2015 I received a call from Father Terry Gensenmer of CEC for Life. With controlled frustration in his voice, he described a project he, Operation Rescue, and Life Legal Defense Foundation had been working on for more than a year. Information had come to them that there was a rogue doctor performing abortions in Selma, Al and he was not licensed to do so in accordance with Alabama law. They had submitted a complaint, complete with extensive documentation to the state, but after more than eight months, had received no response. He then invited me to participate in a press conference to be held later that month calling on the state to shut down Samuel Lett, the abortionist. I was happy to do so.
Since Kermit Gosnell was exposed in 2009, I have been monitoring reports of abortionists that injure women and run substandard facilities. All across the nation there are abortionists who ignore state civil and criminal laws, especially those designed to protect women from predators and substandard medical care. Lett's center provided a glaring example of this and the state's complicity in covering over abortion center violations. So off to Alabama I went and participated in the press conference challenging the state to no longer turn a blind eye to this abortionist who was preying on Black and poor women in Selma. In my mind's eye this was an easy thing to do. Lett was illegal. The state could verify his violations by simply sitting in the parking lot and observing the many women going in pregnant and coming out not. Piece of cake I thought.
But Alabama chose to go the way of Pennsylvania and every other state that ignores their own laws when it comes to abortion. A little over a month later they said they were "unable to establish that [Lett's] facility performed a number of abortions that would require it to be licensed as an abortion or reproductive health center." Once again poor women and women of color were allowed to be preyed upon by abortionists more interested in their ill gotten gain than they are interested in providing "health care" to their patients.
It was in this environment that the Selma Project was birthed through prayer. A gathering of Black, Caucasian, Latina, and Native Americans was called to rally, pray and walk across the Pettus Bridge calling attention to the violations of civil and criminal laws by Samuel Lett and other abortionists across the country. We called on the State of Alabama to do the right thing and shut Lett down. We called on the residents of Selma and Alabama to join us in protesting Lett's illegal operation and the many violations that occur daily across the country, harming women physically and mentally. We called on the nation to join us in demanding the immediate shutdown of the back alley abortionists like Lett Planned Parenthood surgical centers and others that now have the covering of Roe v. Wade to hide their shoddy and substandard medical care. We united under one banner to highlight the destruction that Lett and others have been wreaking on unsuspecting poor women in communities of color, calling attention to the many women that have died in one of the abortion surgical chambers that dot Black and Latino neighborhood. Our united, concerted effort paid off in a big way.
The Central Alabama Women's Clinic, formerly used as Lett's back-alley abortion clinic, is now operating as a weight-loss facility.
Today we celebrate this victory over the darkness of abortion. While we do not know the consequences of the State of Alabama allowing Lett to operate for so long in violation of state laws, we celebrate that he is no longer preying on women. Though they did not take steps to shut Lett down, we pray Alabama will still do the right thing and hold him accountable for his violations of the law and the injuries he inflicted on his patients.
To God be the glory for this thing He has done.
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Q: smbclient NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE against Windows Server 2012 R2 share We are running Debian wheezy, with smbclient v 3.6.6, trying to reach a Windows 2012 R2 share.
This conundrum involves two users: ReadOnlyUser and WriteUser
We have been using -A (--authentication-file) to reach our windows shares from this box for years in order to automate many file transfer jobs against various Windows shares, sftp, and web endpoints. I can use the -A option to log in with the ReadOnlyUser against this share without difficulty.
smbclient '//server.domain/share' -A ReadOnlyUser.auth
I can use -U to log in with the WriteUser if I provide the password in response to the prompt interactively.
smbclient '//server.domain/share' -U WriteUser
However, when I try to provide an authentication file with the WriteUser credentials, I get this error: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
The authentication files look like this:

username = WriteUser
  password = 3iDPCAWmdiAQxTn3
  domain = mydomain

I checked in our AD to make sure that the two users are identical in all other respects.

A: It is a known issue which has been reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1318835
The symptom of smbclient seems to ignore the "domain" section in your credentials file, so that -A doesn't override /etc/samba/smb.conf。The workaround based on the issue report is you have to modify WORKGROUP in smb.conf:
[global]
workgroup = mydomain

So that you can keep using -A  to access SMB server.
Hope this helps.

A: I was having the same problem with smbclient, and I noticed that it went away when I manually selected the "Just Enable File Sharing" option on the File Sharing dialog you get after manually right-clicking on the folder you want to share.
In some Windows machines (like Windows XP) you need to add this to permit remote sharing for non guest users:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\forceguest=dword:0

or, automating using the windows xp command line:
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa" /v forceguest /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000 /f

After that, smbclient worked without any problems with any user.
Many thanks to jethomas in http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f10/enable-file-sharing-via-the-command-line-133562.html

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February 18, 2022, 8:00 pm Schuster Performing Arts Center, 1 W 2nd St, Dayton, OH
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The Dayton Philharmonic and guest vocalist Carmen Bradford bring to the stage a program featuring hits performed and recorded by the great Swing legends Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and more. Carmen uses this collection of timeless standards and songs, made popular by the great vocalists of the swing era, to guide the audience with her dazzling vocal style and honor these incredible vocal songstresses.
Carmen Bradford is jazz royalty. Her grandfather Melvin Moore sang with Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band and with the Ink Spots, and her parents are legendary coronetist and composer Bobby Bradford and world-renowned jazz vocalist, composer, and author Melba Joyce. It was no surprise, then, that at the age of 22, Carmen was discovered and hired by William "Count" Basie and became the featured vocalist in the legendary Count Basie Orchestra for nine years.
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Pansy's Passion (MF)
by Skye Michaels
The Black Dahlia Hotel 5
BDSM Contemporary
[Siren Everlasting Classic: Erotic Consensual BDSM Romance, spanking, sex toys, HEA]
Fashion designer Pansy Nicholas and Billie Crockett can't seem to be in the same room together without fireworks. Pansy is constantly being thrown into the company of smart-ass, annoying Billie Crockett, keyboard man for the Dark Place band. Billie is the sexiest man she's ever met, and he has wanted to take command of Pansy since the first time he saw her.
Pansy's Fashion Week debut is jeopardized when a member of the Capriccio crime family tries to muscle into her business. Billie steps up to solve the problem, but refuses to tell Pansy how he worked it out.
After Fashion Week and the band's six-city tour, Billie and Pansy take a trip to The Black Dahlia BDSM Hotel on Fort Lauderdale Beach. Things are great until Pansy makes a fatal mistake and all hell breaks loose in their relationship. Neither will budge. Their short-lived romance is on the rocks for good. Can this relationship be saved in spite of two stubborn people who love each other?
Skye Michaels is a Siren-exclusive author.
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Pansy Nicholas hit "end" on her cell phone. Grrrr! That man made her crazy. She had dialed the loft to let Billie Crockett and the rest of the members of Dark Place, Logan Hawk's band, know what was going on. Logan had his apartment, office, and music studio there, and the band, Dark Place, had their rehearsal and recording space. She got it. Billie Crockett was Logan's best friend, and the guys were all like brothers, only closer. She shifted uncomfortably in her chair. And he makes my panties wet. How aggravating is that? Why? He was so not her type. Tight jeans and black t-shirts were all he seemed to wear, and she was a fashion designer with her own—albeit struggling—label.
Pansy adored Logan Hawk for the difference he had made in her best friend Melodie's life, and the other guys in the band were great. Big teasers, but great. But Billie Crockett just made her nuts and had from the first time they had met. Billie was the backup vocalist of Dark Place and played keyboard and occasional backup guitar. He was tall and wiry with a mop of dark curls and soulful brown eyes that he used shamelessly. He was a smart-ass wise-guy who she thought took advantage of Logan's good nature. And he was cocky in more ways than one. The one time they had danced together at a club she had felt his hard-on rubbing against her belly through both their jeans. Yes, she knew it was a biological reaction, but still it made her nervous and twitchy. Pansy was no shrinking violet. She held her own in the tough environment of the fashion industry and the New York Garment District after all. But Billie Crocket…
Pansy pulled the pencil out of her loose and messy light brown and blonde streaked top-knot and picked up her ever-present sketch pad. She turned the page and did a quick pencil sketch of Billie Crockett. What was it about him that got to her even though she really did not like him?
The Loft, Stranahan Shoe Factory Building, Tribeca Section of New York, New York, Saturday early evening, December 12, 2015
Billie Crockett put the phone down and turned to the other guys in the band. "Karin Sanders grabbed Melodie at the shopping mall this afternoon and took off with her. That sheriff's detective fiancé of Logan's friend managed to retrieve her. Karin is in lock down in the psyche ward of the hospital and going to be charged with assault and kidnapping and whatever."
"So, Mel's okay? Is this shit finally over?" Keith Ransom ran his hands through his short, spiked blond hair and blinked back tears in his hazel eyes. He played second guitar and was of medium height and muscular. He and Melodie were particularly close. What she had gone through after having her face slashed by a derelict in front of her art gallery a couple of years ago had really touched him, not that all of the guys didn't adore her like a sister. She was marrying their best friend and the leader of the band, and they were happy for both Logan and Melodie. They had all gone through the agony of the attack with Logan who had witnessed it and had saved Melodie from bleeding out on the sidewalk while he waited for the ambulance to arrive.
"Yeah. It's all over, but I'm sure there will have to be a competency hearing or something before they lock her up and throw away the key. At least I hope they throw it away. In any event, Karin's going to be locked up for a long time. Thank God."
"Is Pansy all right? When did all this happen?" Tyler Easton was the drummer and multi-instrumentalist, playing xylophone, cymbals, and tambourine. He was tall and well-built with red hair and green eyes, and was intense and the quietest member of the band despite the racket he made on the drums.
"Pansy is fine. You know she's pretty tough and no-nonsense." He frowned. "That woman makes the palm of my hand itch. I'd like to turn her over my knee and spank her nice round butt."
Guy Penrod, their bass guitar and sax and trumpet, who was tall, with a cut physique, classically handsome features and blue eyes that drove the girls crazy, glanced down at the front of Billie's jeans. "Right. Have you ever met a woman you didn't want to spank?"
"No, but that's beside the point. Pansy Nicholas makes me nuts."
"You're a dog, Crockett," Guy said.
"Woof, and I want to chase that Pussy."
Guy shook his head and continued. "So, are Logan and Mel coming home now?"
"No. They'll be back after the cruise to Bermuda aboard that BDSM boat owned by Jamie Devereau, the Le Club guy."
"Good. I guess they can both use the time to come down and relax after all that shit with Karin."
Pansy kicked off her boots, and reached for the snap at his waist band. She lowered his zipper and pushed his jeans down. Ummm, commando. For some reason that was so sexy. His big cock was hard and proud. It was beautiful with a full mushroom head and a prominent vein on the underside, and his balls were full and hard as well. Billie almost fell on the bed as he hastened to kick out of his boots and pants legs.
She ran her hands down over his washboard abs before she pushed the shirt off his shoulders. She grinned at him. "Don't think I'm going to forget about our interrupted conversation."
"Want to bet?" He pulled her down next to him on the bed and ran his hands down over her chest until he had captured her breasts. He began to lick and suck one and then the other. "This is a feast. I don't know what to kiss and suck first. I guess I'll have to start at the top and taste my way down your body until I get to the prize. You are even more beautiful than I thought you would be. And believe me, I had great expectations." His lips were gliding down the side of her neck leaving goose flesh behind them.
"You're quite beautiful yourself, Billie Crockett." Oh, boy. She was going to enjoy every minute of this. Her pussy was starting to vibrate in anticipation. Pansy had known from the beginning that Billie, with his bad boy vibe and smart-ass sense of humor, had the potential to rock her world. She was starting to teeter on the edge. He pushed her back on the bed and began to kiss and lick his way down her abdomen toward her pussy. The anticipation was killing her. He was certainly taking his time.
Pansy started to raise her hips to encourage him. He held her hands above her head and whispered, "Slow down, Pansy. Keep still. You can't rush me. I've been waiting too long for this, and I plan to enjoy every moment to the fullest." He went back to her breasts. It was all she could do to obey and stay still. He flicked his rough tongue over her nipples, and she wanted to scream. He anchored her lower body with one leg between her thighs. "We're not in the dungeon, but we are going to do this my way."
"Just so long as we do it and soon." He reached down and smacked her thigh. "Ouch."
"Who is in charge here?"
"You are, just hurry."
He laughed. "I can see I am going to have to teach you patience. Pleasure delayed is pleasure increased by anticipation three-fold. Now, spread your thighs for me. I want to taste that sweet cream I can smell." She did as directed, and he immediately began exploring her pussy with his talented fingers. She had watched his beautiful hands on the keyboard many times and wondered what they would feel like on her body. Finally he plunged two fingers between her wet folds. She rose to meet him, and he immediately withdrew. "Be still. Every time you move, I will stop what I'm doing. You are not to come until I give you my permission."
Oh, God. I don't know if I can do this. The ache between her legs was making her twitchy. She wanted to ride his thigh, but she knew he wouldn't allow it. This was torture.
"You will learn that ordering a Dom to do something is likely to get you just the opposite." She moaned. How did Melodie stand this? She felt like she was going to spontaneously combust. Pansy forced herself to take a deep breath and begin counting to one hundred in her head. When she got to one hundred she started again. All the while, Billie was torturing her with his fingers. Finally she felt his hot breath on her pussy. She thought she might cry with relief. She spread her legs wider and prayed he was going to use his tongue. He blew softly on her labia. Pansy couldn't stay still. She wanted to scream. She needed to clamp her legs shut, but now they were held apart by his wide shoulders, and he held her hands tight at her sides. She was at his mercy. Billie Crockett gave new meaning to the word 'foreplay.' Billie continued the slow torture.
Finally she said, "Billie, please. I can't wait."
"Call me Sir."
"What?" She was confused. Her body was coming apart at the seams, and her mind was not at its clear, sharp, best. What was he talking about?
"Call me Sir and ask again nicely."
"See, that's not so hard. What do you want me to do to you, Pansy?"
"Jesus, Billie. I want you to fuck me."
"No, that's okay. Calling me Sir will be sufficient. Say it again." Oh, this smart-ass is impossible.
"Sir, I want you to fuck me." He was going to pay for that later. She would see to it. Sir, indeed, and Pansy Nicholas didn't have to beg any man.
He levered up on his muscular arms, positioned his hard cock, and drove into her in one long, smooth thrust. Her body quickly stretched to accommodate his girth. And then he went still. Perfectly still. She tried to rise up and stroke him, but he still controlled her body. Her pussy was screaming for the friction and pounding she knew he could deliver if he would just move. "What do you say, Pansy?"
"Please, Sir."
Billie began to stroke her pussy with long, slow, steady strokes as though he had all the time in the world when what she wanted was a hard, fast fucking. God, I need hard and fast. He is killing me. This was not what she had expected. She'd thought they would have a nice, hard fuck and she would get off quickly. This slow, aching need that permeated her entire body from the top of her head to her tingling toes was driving her mad. If he didn't give her what she needed soon, she was going to come apart at the seams. Billie looked deeply into her eyes. "You are going to learn to trust me, Pansy, and when you do, you are going to call me Master."
Like fucking hell! Billie Crockett was going to have to work a hell of a lot harder before that ever happened. But, oh God, she needed him to move.
"What do you want, Pansy?"
"Fuck me, damn it. Fuck me."
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In the face of another security flaw, Snapchat has rolled out a verification screen for new users.
In order to confirm that these new users are not robots attempting to steal private data, the Snapchat app will now display nine colourful photos upon sign-up, and users will be required to select the photos that feature the Snapchat ghost icon before proceeding.
The move reportedly comes after Texas high school student Graham Smith notified Snapchat of "a flaw that left Find Friends vulnerable in spite of rate limiting and other quick-fixes they made."
Those quick fixes came after Gibson Security revealed several vulnerabilities within the Snapchat app late last year. One of those bugs could allow "someone to easily create a database of the usernames and phone numbers of users of the Snapchat application, in a small timeframe, using phone numbers automatically provided to the app." It wasn't long before someone - not Gibson - created such a database, posting the usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million Snapchat users online.
Snapchat issued a fix earlier this month, but 16-year-old Smith found more bugs. And when Snapchat failed to respond, Smith took take matters into his own hands: He found Snapchat co-founder Bobby Murphy among the leaked data and texted him. Spooked, Murphy said he'd look into the issue.
Smith was still playing detective a week later when he found another hole: The Find Friends feature's phone number verification was only an in-app requirement; there were no server-side checks to ensure accounts had been validated, "meaning you can programmatically use Find Friends on a brand-new account, no phone number verification required," he explained in a blog post.
Smith again texted Murphy. By 17 January, Snapchat had started enforcing server-side phone number validation before letting accounts use the Find Friends service, Smith said.
A company spokeswoman confirmed the new verification screen to ITProPortal, but did not provide details about Smith's involvement.
Snapchat did, however, tell TechCrunch that "we appreciate the efforts of those who help identify vulnerabilities in our service and we continue to make significant progress in our efforts to secure Snapchat."
"After making various suggestions as to how Snapchat could fix their problems, Snapchat had decided (previously) to make various fixes that were either incomplete or didn't get the job done," Smith said.
It may not stump the young hacker, though. Via a series of tweets, Smith revealed his continued effort to beat Snapchat.
"Template matching FTW. Time to try it out against Snapchat," he wrote Tuesday, a reference to the title given to Snapchat's security update.


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UPDATE On Las Vegas Massacre – Why Is Nobody Talking About This?!
The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh demands answers for the still unanswered questions he says people are starting to forget to ask concerning the shooting in Las Vegas. Walsh has a few questions about the shooting that he says still matter. The fact that we don't have the answers to them yet, actually, is startling. "Why did the timeline of the shooting change three times?" Walsh asks. And he doesn't stop there.
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WHY THE HELL WASN'T HE IN JAIL
El Paso police arrested Devin Kelley on June 7, 2012, at a Greyhound bus station a stone's throw from the U.S.-Mexico border after he escaped the Peak Behavioral Health Services facility about 12 miles away in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, according to the police report…. Sunland Park officers told their Texas colleagues that Kelley "was a danger to himself and others as he had already been caught sneaking firearms" onto Holloman Air Force Base and that Kelley "was attempting to carry out death threats that [he] had made on his military chain of command," the report states.
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Colorado Homes and Lifestyles /
June-July 2011 /
Serendipity in the City
Perhaps it was destiny. When architect Chris Davis found a dilapidated house on a narrow lot in Denver's mixed-use Highlands neighborhood, the structure was beyond repair. Still, the principal at BOSS Architecture was intrigued by the narrow 25-by-150-foot "shotgun" lot—and the community in which it resides.
"Our firm is very invested in revitalizing urban areas of Denver," Davis says, who works with fellow architect and business partner Kevin Stephenson at the Denver-based firm. "I was immediately attracted to the Highlands neighborhood, and this block in particular." He put an offer on the property, and at the closing something else caught his eye—realtor Brighty Bradley, who would later become his wife.
It didn't take long for Davis, Bradley and Stephenson to begin conceptualizing plans for a new home on that fateful lot. "Many of the homes on our block were built in the late 1800s," Davis says. "I was especially inspired by one 1870s Victorian brick square house in particular, and I decided to reinterpret the design in a new way with a context appropriate for the neighborhood in scale, material, size and color."
The team conceived a streamlined, efficient floor plan that was carefully designed to maximize space. Acting as a general contractor for the project, Davis hired Mallory Construction to frame the 1,800-square-foot home, which includes three bedrooms, four bathrooms, an exercise room and office in the basement, a courtyard, and a two-car garage with a rooftop deck.
For the new home's exterior, Davis had hoped to duplicate the old orange pressed brick prevalent in the neighborhood, but he couldn't find the quantity of salvaged brick he needed. So he got creative and applied new brick with the smooth back side facing out and the textured side facing in. To modernize the façade, Davis and Stephenson fabricated and installed a blackened hot-rolled steel balcony enclosure. "It's a very simple, classic palette," Davis says.
Inside, an open living room flows into the kitchen and dining area. Stainless steel-and-lacquered-MDF cabinetry and stainless appliances merge to create a sleek wall that provides smart prep space as well as storage. In lieu of an island, Davis handcrafted a massive table of African mahogany. "That table is the heart of our home," he says. "We cook there, eat there and work there."
Opposite the kitchen's work wall stands a modern staircase. "The stairway is an element in the space that acts like a sculpture," Davis says. The custom laminated-wood stair treads cantilever out of the wall, connected by exposed steel pipe stringers. From above, light streams down on the staircase through a skylight, filtering all the way down to the basement.
Light also floods the back of the house through a large custom glass and steel pivot door that slides open, extending the living space to a private courtyard. This oasis is where Davis ends most of his days—enjoying the property he was destined, it seems, to revitalize. "The courtyard is my favorite 'room' in the house; my wife and I sit back there and have a glass of wine together nearly every night."
CREATING AN OUTDOOR HAVEN WITH LIMITED SPACE
"It's critical to have outdoor living space in a home," says architect and homeowner Chris Davis, who
created a private courtyard with comfortable seating, landscaping and a water feature, all within a 15-by-20-foot rectangle. Here's how you can follow his lead.
Bigger isn't necessarily better. The outside space should be proportional to the scale of the home. "In my opinion it's worse to have a space that's too large than one that's too small," Davis says.
Create a palette of plantings. "We had mature ash trees and added two young catalpa trees; I like the contrast and juxtaposition," Davis says. Potted plants and shrubs can fill in empty hardscaped areas.
Create easy access. In Davis's home, a pivot door swings wide open, blurring the boundaries between inside and out. "The courtyard is a nice amenity to have right off of the kitchen," the architect says.
Furnishings should be comfortable and inviting. Davis built the simple wood bench to fit the space and added two classic butterfly chairs for seating.
Consider adding a water feature, such as a fountain. "An element of water is important," Davis says. "It cools the space and creates a sound that muffles the noises of urban living."
Architecture: Chris Davis and Kevin Stephenson, Boss Architecture, Denver, (303) 377-6322, bossarch.com
This article appears in the June-July 2011 issue of Colorado Homes and Lifestyles
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1From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 17 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for a very pleasant letter, and I supplicate a continuance of them—I have given up the hopes of seeing the family, or any part of it this Year—but when the Marquis is gone I hope to have letters from your Brother, John, and yourself, which will help to keep up my old spirits a little longer, my heart & wishes and Prayers are with you forever—We have nothing to tell you here but...
2From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 18 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your pretty little letter of October 3rd., mongrel as it is, part English, part French, has diverted me much. I have ran about here, & there, and every where, with delight especially to Auteuil. But my good boy you have many voyages & Journeys to perform, before you can trace all the residences of your vagrant Grand Father. You must go to the Rue de Richlieu to Passy, & to the place de...
I see little in this Play but the Manners of the Atheanians and The Naivete et Nettite du Style. The Miseries of Domestick Life; when all Confidence is wanting: between Parents and Children Masters and Servants, Friends and Neighbours, Husbands and Wives, Lovers and Mistresses; are held Up to View in a Mirror. Such Morals are surely no better than those of London or Boston, Paris or New York....
4From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 15 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
you are a frolicksome little fellow; and I delight in your Fun with your School mates as heartily as you do, because it proves that you are all good natured and good humoured and live together in harmony. When I lived in Holland, the Dablers in English laughed a little, sub rosâ at a question put by William the fifth Prince of Orange to a Stranger who Spoke the Language "What for a Countryman...
Do you See, in these Plays of Terence, which are the Translations from Menander, the Character of the Athenians? Are not the Slaves Superior Beings to the Citizens? Every Smart Expression; every brilliant Image, every Moral Sentiment is in the Mouth of a Slave. To be Sure, however, Masters and Slaves are nearly on a Level, in Principles of Conduct. MHi : Adams Papers. {{Included with...
6From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 11 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind Letter of July 26. Your Visit to Mr Clarksons must have been very pleasant. Such a number of young Ladies who all spoke in your mother tongue must have had to you, all the charms of Novelty as well as beauty. I have never read Mr Clarkson's History of Quakers Anabaptists or Methodists You are too young to form a permanent Judgment whether you like London, Petersburg...
This is Commencement Day, at Harvard Colledge or in more magnificent Language at The University at Cambridge . But whether you call it Colledge or University, I hope you will one day Study there and take your Degrees there. I have recd your Letter of June 23d. Charles! have you left your Genius frozen in Russia? You was celebrated in Petersburg, and from thence in America, as a Smart Boy. This...
8From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 3 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your two letters—and I wish you would continue to write to me twice a week—my dear Charles Mathematicks and Law are the two rocks on which a Man of business may surely found his reputation, as well as his capacity for doing good, to himself, his friends, his country, as well as to mankind. Study my dear Charles makes the man. It is not novels or Poetry It is neither Scott or...
9From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 12 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
I am much pleased with your frankness in relating the manners and customs of your School—talking playing and whistling are amusements not fit to be indulged or tolerated in the scene of Education for Youth—and you bear an honorable testimony in favour of your excellent School in Boston—I hope your Parents will bring you with them next Summer—and place you again at Mr Goulds most excellent...
10From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 3 October 1815 (Adams Papers)
Mr John C Gray is to take this letter, & with it my fervent wishes for your happiness, & for that and the success of your education. We are anxious to know whether your parents have placed you in any public or private school, who are your instructors who your fellow Students, and what branches of Literature & Science you are taught. You have had great opportunities to see the masterpeices of...


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const commander = require('../');

// Test .version. Using exitOverride to check behaviour (instead of mocking process.exit).

describe('.version', () => {
  test('when no .version and specify --version then unknown option error', () => {
    const errorMessage = 'unknownOption';
    const program = new commander.Command();
    // Override unknownOption as convenient way to check fails as expected.
    jest.spyOn(program, 'unknownOption').mockImplementation(() => { throw new Error(errorMessage); });

    expect(() => {
      program.parse(['node', 'test', '--version']);
    }).toThrow(errorMessage);
  });

  test('when no .version then helpInformation does not include version', () => {
    const program = new commander.Command();

    const helpInformation = program.helpInformation();

    expect(helpInformation.includes('Usage')).toBe(true);
    expect(helpInformation.includes('version')).toBe(false);
  });

  test('when specify default short flag then display version', () => {
    const myVersion = '1.2.3';
    const writeMock = jest.fn();
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program
      .exitOverride()
      .configureOutput({ writeOut: writeMock })
      .version(myVersion);

    expect(() => {
      program.parse(['node', 'test', '-V']);
    }).toThrow(myVersion);
    expect(writeMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`${myVersion}\n`);
  });

  test('when specify default long flag then display version', () => {
    const myVersion = '1.2.3';
    const writeMock = jest.fn();
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program
      .exitOverride()
      .configureOutput({ writeOut: writeMock })
      .version(myVersion);

    expect(() => {
      program.parse(['node', 'test', '--version']);
    }).toThrow(myVersion);
    expect(writeMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`${myVersion}\n`);
  });

  test('when default .version then helpInformation includes default version help', () => {
    const myVersion = '1.2.3';
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program
      .version(myVersion);

    const helpInformation = program.helpInformation();

    expect(helpInformation.includes('-V, --version')).toBe(true);
    expect(helpInformation.includes('output the version number')).toBe(true);
  });

  test('when specify custom short flag then display version', () => {
    const myVersion = '1.2.3';
    const writeMock = jest.fn();
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program
      .exitOverride()
      .configureOutput({ writeOut: writeMock })
      .version(myVersion, '-r, --revision');

    expect(() => {
      program.parse(['node', 'test', '-r']);
    }).toThrow(myVersion);
    expect(writeMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`${myVersion}\n`);
  });

  test('when specify just custom short flag then display version', () => {
    const myVersion = '1.2.3';
    const writeMock = jest.fn();
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program
      .exitOverride()
      .configureOutput({ writeOut: writeMock })
      .version(myVersion, '-r');

    expect(() => {
      program.parse(['node', 'test', '-r']);
    }).toThrow(myVersion);
    expect(writeMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`${myVersion}\n`);
  });

  test('when specify custom long flag then display version', () => {
    const myVersion = '1.2.3';
    const writeMock = jest.fn();
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program
      .exitOverride()
      .configureOutput({ writeOut: writeMock })
      .version(myVersion, '-r, --revision');

    expect(() => {
      program.parse(['node', 'test', '--revision']);
    }).toThrow(myVersion);
    expect(writeMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`${myVersion}\n`);
  });

  test('when specify just custom long flag then display version', () => {
    const myVersion = '1.2.3';
    const writeMock = jest.fn();
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program
      .exitOverride()
      .configureOutput({ writeOut: writeMock })
      .version(myVersion, '--revision');

    expect(() => {
      program.parse(['node', 'test', '--revision']);
    }).toThrow(myVersion);
    expect(writeMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`${myVersion}\n`);
  });

  test('when custom .version then helpInformation includes custom version help', () => {
    const myVersion = '1.2.3';
    const myVersionFlags = '-r, --revision';
    const myVersionDescription = 'custom description';
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program
      .version(myVersion, myVersionFlags, myVersionDescription);

    const helpInformation = program.helpInformation();

    expect(helpInformation.includes(myVersionFlags)).toBe(true);
    expect(helpInformation.includes(myVersionDescription)).toBe(true);
  });

  test('when have .version+version and specify version then command called', () => {
    const actionMock = jest.fn();
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program
      .version('1.2.3')
      .command('version')
      .action(actionMock);

    program.parse(['node', 'test', 'version']);

    expect(actionMock).toHaveBeenCalled();
  });

  test('when have .version+version and specify --version then version displayed', () => {
    const myVersion = '1.2.3';
    const writeMock = jest.fn();
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program
      .exitOverride()
      .configureOutput({ writeOut: writeMock })
      .version(myVersion)
      .command('version')
      .action(() => {});

    expect(() => {
      program.parse(['node', 'test', '--version']);
    }).toThrow(myVersion);
    expect(writeMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`${myVersion}\n`);
  });

  test('when specify version then can get version', () => {
    const myVersion = '1.2.3';
    const program = new commander.Command();
    program.version(myVersion);
    expect(program.version()).toEqual(myVersion);
  });
});

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Bedrooms are a lot of fun to decorate. A big part of why this is so is because unlike decorating more communal spaces around the house, you normally don't have that hypothetical home critic or visitor judging you while you're having trouble deciding over whether to put an accent wall or leave the whole thing alone in order to make—and leave—a good impression.
Unfortunately, as a result, you're also plagued with thousands of great ideas. Fairy lights, a giant wall tapestry, a DIY wine-bottle chandelier—it's endless. Without expert guidance, how do you know which ones will work? Sometimes, the Pinterest pins can get too overwhelming that you end up not knowing where to begin in the first place.
What you need is a refresher. What looks nice on somebody else's wall does not always translate well in your own turf. And to really own it, you need to strut your own style. So how do you redo a bedroom so it looks great? Read on for some amazingly simple tips.
If you're looking for one easy trick to make as many changes without doing a major overhaul, simply change your room's paint color. And while you're at it, be sure to get new paint that sticks to a color theme.
By sticking to one color palette, your room will look more organized and put together. It will also save you the stress and effort while shopping for decorative items to put in your room.
If you already have a theme or color scheme in mind, it's easy to keep an eye on decor that will be consistent with what you've chosen. You can add random pops of color around the room or use a centerpiece that will draw the whole room together into a singular piece.
Tired of those three-year-old posters on your bedroom wall? Want to don something stylish but also easy to install?
These things are fantastic because they're relatively cheap, can be hung at any desired angle, and easily make a bold statement. If you get tired of one design, you can just get another. And there are plenty of design choices and options online and in your local home depot. You can even get custom-designed wall tapestries!
Prices range from as little as thirteen dollars to as much as thirty dollars if you're on a budget. Of course, there are always high-end equivalents.
If tapestries are out of the question, put your own works up! If you have finesse for painting, drawing, or any artistic effort, having your creations displayed on your own walls lends your space a unique character. Additionally, your art will make for a good conversation piece whenever you invite somebody worthy into your cave.
You'll be surprised how a little more or less light can change the whole ambiance of a room. If you want to let more light in and use natural light to make your room appear brighter, use sheer fabric or any curtain material that is light and easy to manipulate.
If, for some reason, you want to retain a certain air of warmth in your personal space by adding in a layer of shade, use drapes, heavy fabrics, or blinds, and complement it with some stylish indoor lights like suspended lanterns or light bulbs.
You can also try replacing your lamps with some string lights. Another option would be to add a bit of a surprise factor by installing some beach or coastal lighting or any off-theme lamp piece to lend the place some character.
There's no better way to instantly freshen up your personal space than to keep it clean. Even if you only have minimal decorations displayed, if they are always placed accordingly and are kept respectable, you don't have to go to extra lengths to make the place look pretty.
A well-kept room is not only beautiful to look at but also a pleasant and rewarding thing to do. Making your bed in the morning helps you feel accomplished and ready to tackle the bigger challenges of the day.
Coming home every day to a made bed is also one of the small pleasures of life. Additionally, living in a tidy space has positive psychological effects—it boosts your mood, clears your thoughts, and helps you tackle depression.
So include it in your weekly schedule to tidy up your room and take out the trash. Make it a point to discipline yourself, and leave things where they should be after you use them. This kind of proactive cleaning process helps keep your space clean longer and also urge you to build the habit.
Plants work magic in transforming any room into a chic space. More importantly, they help clean the air you breathe.
Indoor air pollution may seem tame, but when left unchecked, it can cause diseases to the members of the family.
Bringing in some greens not only serves an aesthetic purpose but also filters the air, removing toxins that can potentially harm the health of the inhabitants of the home.
This post from Good Housekeeping features thirty houseplants that easily thrive with little need for constant attention.
As you can see, transforming your personal space does not take a bank raid. All you need is a little inspiration and creativity to look at your space with a new perspective and make magic with what's easily available.
While these tips may seem simple on the outset, they can make great, surprising changes once realized.


Hi all you Helky bastards!
So - let's try this for signs. It worked once and should work again!
Please sign stating your class / spec and what days you can do.
Both, some kind of tank.
Maybe for both. Alchohol and fun might prevent me.
Handsolo will be there on Sunday.
okay this was easy tomorrow for sure , not so sure about Tuesday !
change me to a maybe for tonight.
Suliya wrote: change me to a maybe for tonight.
Change me to a definate for tonight then.
Tentatively yes for the 8th.


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Published: August 20, 2018, 3:40 pm
Tags: News, Crime, Neighborhood Crime, Broward, Local
Man bashes in bathroom wall to break into gas station office in Cooper City
Thief leaves with cash, cigarettes, deputies say
COOPER CITY, Fla. – A man bashed in a bathroom wall last month to break into the office of a gas station in Cooper City, authorities said.
The burglary happened just after 2 a.m. July 28 at the Shell gas station at 5704 S. Flamingo Road.
Broward Sheriff's Office deputies said the burglar bashed in a wall that separates the women's bathroom from the office and then ransacked the office, taking cash and cigarettes.
The theft was discovered by an employee around 11 p.m. the same day.
Deputies said the thief was seen on surveillance video arriving at the gas station in a white, two-door car.
Anyone with information about his identity is asked to call Detective Glenn Gainey at 954-435-2200, ext. 272. Anonymous callers can call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477. A reward of up to $3,000 is offered for information that leads to an arrest.


This is extremely important information for both your home and your work computers. Please take the time to read all of it and make sure you understand it. Contact me if you need more info or have a question. And by the way – Macs are NOT immune.
FYI – If you are not backing up your files you are playing Russian Roulette with your data every single time you open an email. I highly recommend that you assess your current backup solution or your backup needs. Please contact me to schedule an appointment and I will help you protect your data.
You can also click here to download my Ransomware booklet. I will be revising in shortly to bring it up to date since some things have recently changed but the information is still current.
This is no joke – this may be the worst computer threat we have ever seen. If you are a business with a network of computers this has the potential to put you out of business.
The short version of this message is – Ransomware will arrive in an email with an attachment. Trust nothing, do not open any attachment unless you are completely certain you know who sent it and what's in it. Delete the email and then contact the sender to verify they really did send it, or if came from a company (UPS, IRS, etc) delete the email and call them directly to find out if they really are trying to contact you. Do NOT download ANY attachment.
If you do become infected, IMMEDIATELY shut down your computer. Don't think, don't wait, pull the plug or hold down the power button till the computer shuts off. Then, immediately contact an IT professional for help.
Please read on to learn how to protect your personal or business data. Yes, it's long, but it's important.
Ransomware has been a big problem for the last two years but it has now begun to enter into a new phase. In the past, the bug would usually take out your computer, and another computer only if it had a shared resource like a mapped drive, for example – if you had a bunch of shared files on a T:\ drive. However, this new variation no longer needs that link to spread.
The strain which is currently spreading can infect other computers if they are connected to the same network, mapped drive or not. So, if you are sitting in Panera or Starbucks and using their WiFi, and someone in the building clicks on an attachment that's infected, the virus will very possibly jump to your computer as well.
Make sure you understand that – if any computer on any network gets infected while you are on the same network, there is a very good chance you could be infected as well.
You cannot recover your files once they have become encrypted.
Got that? You cannot reverse the damage except by recovering your files from backup or by paying the ransom.
If the countdown timer on the infected computer runs out, the ransom doubles. This is one of the bigger problems with this infection since most people are not setup with a bitcoin account and that is how they will demand payment. It takes a minute to setup an account and it is not very easy to do, so the ransom may double before you can pay it. The demand may start at $300 to $500 but will increase once the timer runs out, and the timer will reset again but at the higher demand.
Short version – if you don't pay within 3 days the ransom will double and the timer resets. If you don't pay in another three days the ransom will double again and the timer will reset. Lather, rinse, repeat.
In some cases, the virus will give you two or three timer resets to pay, and then delete your files completely if you don't. If that happens that data is gone. Seriously gone.
No amount of money, praying, or begging will get your documents or baby pictures back. The only option is to pay the ransom before the timer runs out.
So how do you protect yourself? Education and backup are your only defenses. If you are the owner or leader of a business you must inform and educate your employees as well.
There are a few steps you can take to protect yourself from becoming a victim and having to pay the ransom. No, that is not the best answer, but in too many cases it's the only one since it's the fastest solution to getting your business back up and running.
Second – BACKUP YOUR DATA. Let me put that a different way – BACKUP YOUR DATA. Or, I could say BACKUP YOUR DATA. There are a bunch of easy ways to get this done now, so you have no excuse not to. Backup is critical now.
Carbonite – I have never been a big fan of Carbonite in the past but they have recently added a much needed feature. You can now recover old versions of your files. That means you can reach back to the day before the infection and recover your data.
Amazon Cloud Drive – If you sign up for Cloud Drive, Amazon will backup all of your data for a flat fee per year. Look under your Amazon account settings for Cloud Drive. Cloud Drive will backup your stuff and then close the link and isolate your stuff.
DO NOT rely on a portable hard drive or thumb drive for your critical data. Use one of the solutions above. If a USB drive is connected to an infected computer it will also become damaged. If you are going to use a USB drive to store your backup data, you MUST unplug the drive when the backup is done.
JungleDisk – This is the best option for business computers. JungleDisk will also allow you to go back in time to recover your data, and JungleDisk is the most cost effective way to protect your files. JungleDisk will also allow you to use one account to manage all of the computers that contain important data. The one catch is, although it is the best small business backup product, it's not the simplest product to set up. However, that's why I'm here.
There are other products but after 20 years of watching people lose important stuff these are the only three I recommend. They are reliable, full featured, and cost effective products.
Third – EDUCATE. You must understand the threat, and you must educate your family, your employees, or anyone else who could introduce the virus into any network you share.
The most important things to keep in mind are that ransomware is almost always delivered through email. It will arrive as an attachment which usually needs to be Unzipped. The email will usually say something like Invoice Attached or Shipment Processed, or UPS Notice, etc. The email title will usually be something that makes you feel like you need to open the attached file. Don't do it, don't download the attachment.
You must question everything. You must read the email carefully, do not assume it's Ok because it looks official. Or because someone you know sent it. There are easy ways to fake the sender address so very often a virus will raid a computer's contact list and then send out at random to the other people in your list as you.
You must question everything. Read the email and make sure it matches up with the fact that there is an attachment. In other words, if you receive an email from someone you know and there is an attached file you were not expecting – does the body of the email make sense? Does it sound like it's from the person who sent it? Were you expecting an attachment from that person?
If the answer is No, or you are even just a little unsure, do not open the attachment. Delete the file, the contact the sender and ask if they did send you the attachment. If they did send it they can just send it again.
Same goes for any other email, if it includes an attachment and you were not expecting it, delete it and then go to the source. If you receive an email from UPS that says something about a delivery, delete the email and then go to their website or call them to check if it is real. Do NOT assume something is what it appears to be. DELETE, DELETE, DELETE.
Education is your number one defense, make sure you and your family or employees know what to look for and how to react.
No antivirus or malware product can protect you. Do not listen to anyone tell you otherwise. Malwarebytes, Kaspersky, BitDefender and some other big companies have all released statements making it clear that they cannot protect you from ransomware. Because of the way they deliver it you are kind of inviting it in and walking it past the guard at the door. Once the virus is launched the antivirus product may react, but the damage will already be done.
Bitcoin is safe, but a bitcoin account is a challenge to setup. It is sometimes easier to find a friend who already has one, but if you are running a business it is a good idea to set one up ahead of time and stock it with $300-$500. Paying the ransom will be your quickest option, so if your business depends on a computer such as a point of sale, or your businesses server and all of the company files are infected, you may need to pay the ransom just to keep your doors open.
Pay the ransom if it's the fastest way to get back on your feet.
You can protect yourself, and you can avoid becoming the next victim of ransomware. Please, please backup your data, and please educate your users. Do not use a shared WiFi source like a coffee shop right now. And of course, do not download or unzip ANY attachment unless you are 110% certain you know what it is. If it's a .Zip file it is almost certainly bad news for your computer.
You are your own best defense against ransomware. Backup your data, educate your other users, make sure your version of Windows is completely up to date, and trust nothing. Know how to react if you do see unusual activity on your computer – kill it immediately. Do not rely on antivirus to protect you, be your own "bodyguard".
There is no other way to protect your important family data, or your business operations.


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Q: How can I prove an equation has a certain number of real roots? I have this code
NSolve[1-(b/r)^2-g^-2*(2/15 * Σ^9 (1/(r-1)^9-1/(r+1)^9-9/(8r) (1/(r-1)^8-1
       /(r+1)^8)) - Σ^3 (1/(r-1)^3-1/(r+1)^3-3/(2r) (1/(r-1)^2-1
       /(r+1)^2))) == 0, r, Reals]

I want to prove that for any values of g, b, Σ, I will find, for r, only 4 real roots. The others will be complex.
Any ideas?

A: We needn't guess many (thousands) cases in order to verify the underlying statement if we harness some handy Mathematica functions like CountRoots, RegionPlot3D or Manipulate.
At first, we can observe that, the equation can be easily transformed to a polynomial type by an appropriate multiplication (applying Expand on the left hand side of the equation we can see an obvious choice for a multiplying factor  r^2 (r + 1)^9 (r - 1)^9 g^2).
FullSimplify[ (1 - (b/r)^2 - g^-2 (2/15 Σ^9 (1/(r - 1)^9 - 1/(r + 1)^9 - 9/(8 r) (1/(r - 1)^8
               - 1/(r + 1)^8)) - Σ^3 (1/(r - 1)^3 - 1/(r + 1)^3
               - 3/(2 r) (1/(r - 1)^2 - 1/(r + 1)^2))) ) r^2 (r + 1)^9 (r - 1)^9 g^2 ]

g^2 (-1 + r^2)^9 (-b^2 + r^2) + 8 r^2 (-1 + r^2)^6 Σ^3
- 8/15 r^2 (5 + 45 r^2 + 63 r^4 + 15 r^6) Σ^9

So let's define:
p[r_, Σ_, b_, g_] := (   g^2 (-1 + r^2)^9 (-b^2 + r^2) + 8 r^2 (-1 + r^2)^6 Σ^3
                       - 8/15 r^2 (5 + 45 r^2 + 63 r^4 + 15 r^6) Σ^9 )

it is a polynomial in its all varables:
PolynomialQ[ #, Variables @ #]& @ p[r, Σ, b, g]

True

Now we can simply look for cases where CountRoots finds more real roots than 4
Manipulate[ CountRoots[p[r, Σ, b, g], r],
           { Σ, -10, 10}, {b, -2, 0}, {g, -2.5, 2.5}]

Now it is much simpler to provide an example with rational arguments e.g.
CountRoots[ p[ r, 23/10, 8323/1001, 1/20], r]

8

Therefore we conclude that there are cases with more than 4 real roots of the equation. Evaluating e.g.
NSolve[p[r, 23/10, 8323/1001, 1/20] == 0, r, Reals]

we can check that the roots are all distinct.
Moreover we can plot the region where we have more that 4 real roots (p as a 20-th order polynomial in r has 20 complex roots). For the sake of speed we can use this option PerformanceGoal -> "Speed" in RegionPlot3D (nontheless it takes > 1 minute to evaluate):
RegionPlot3D[ CountRoots[p[r, Σ, b, g], r] > 4,
              {Σ, -2.5, 2.5}, {b, -10, 10}, {g, -2.5, 2.5}, PerformanceGoal -> "Speed"]

The structure of the region of interest seems to be more sophisticated but plotting it with higher fidelity needs much more time.
Edit
Working with Manipulate we can also provide examples where there are 20 real roots, e.g.:
CountRoots[ p[r, 0, 1, 1], r]

20

though in general there are multiple roots:
 r /. Solve[ p[r, 0, 1, 1] == 0, r, Reals]

{-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1}

i.e. 1 is a 10-fold root:
 Count[ %, 1]

10

A: Applying the experimental method, we can see that the conjecture is false. Let
{\[CapitalSigma], g, b} = {-8.12029, 4.79026, 1.46801}

Then solve for the roots:
NSolve[1 - (b/r)^2 - g^-2*(2/15*\[CapitalSigma]^9
     (1/(r - 1)^9 - 1/(r + 1)^9 - 9/(8 r) (1/(r - 1)^8 - 1/(r + 1)^8)) -
     \[CapitalSigma]^3 (1/(r - 1)^3 - 1/(r + 1)^3 - 3/(2 r) (1/(r - 1)^2 -
     1/(r + 1)^2))) == 0, r]

to which the answer is a long string of 20 complex values. On the other hand, let
{\[CapitalSigma], g, b} = {2.34665, 0.0507719, 8.31449}

Then the above has 8 real roots (and 12 complex roots). So you can have either (i) fewer than four real roots or (ii) more than 4 real roots, depending on the values.


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Effect Of Sabbatical Leaves On Gratuity
By Krishna Vijay Singh & Nachiketa Goyal |
In today's day and age of long working hours and mundane life style, many employees often take a decision to break the monotony, and move away from the activities of their daily lives. Employees often take long leave from office in order to achieve their personal goals such as higher education, learning/upgrading skills or travelling, and such leaves are often termed as Sabbatical Leave. The duration of such sabbatical leaves may vary from one individual to the other as also the organisations. Often, sabbatical leaves are taken for a period of six months to about one year depending on the purpose for which one goes on a sabbatical.
Many companies have a provision for leaves without pay. However, only a few companies have a provision for sabbatical leaves. Often, we have come across the question whether the sabbatical period during which an employee was on leave would be considered as a part of continuous/uninterrupted service for the purpose of payment of gratuity or whether such period will be excluded for the purpose of payment of gratuity and would therefore be considered as a break in service.
According to Section 4 of the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 ("Act"), "Gratuity shall be payable to an employee on the termination of his employment after he has rendered continuous service of not less than five years – (a) on his superannuation, or (b) on his retirement or resignation, or on his death or disablement due to accident or disease…"
The term 'continuous service' plays an important role in the aforesaid definition and a plethora of judgments regarding the interpretation of the term have cemented the current legal position with respect to payment of gratuity.
The Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in Lalappa Lingappa and Ors. Vs. Laxmi Vishnu Textile Mills Ltd. AIR1981SC852 observed that the term "actually employed" should be interpreted as "actually worked" and that the employees who had not worked for a minimum of 240 days that year and were absent without leave were not entitled to the benefit of gratuity. It failed to take into account their short term leaves due to various reasons and denied them the benefit of their gratuity holding that the short term leaves were not included in calculating the period of continuous service.
Subsequent to the aforesaid judgment, the Act was amended. The Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in the case Jeewanlal (1929) Ltd. and Ors. Vs. Appellate Authority under the Payment of Gratuity Act and Ors. AIR1984SC1842 observed that the law laid down in Lalappa Lingappa case denied Gratuity to a large number of employees merely because their short-term absence remained un-regularized and expressed its regret that it took the Government three years to introduce an Amendment Bill. It was only in 1984 that Section 2A of the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 was introduced, which defines the term continuous service by an employee as follows:
"An employee shall be said to be in continuous service for a period if he has, for that period, been in uninterrupted service, including service which may be interrupted on account of sickness, accident, leave, absence from duty without leave (not being absence in respect of which an order treating the absence as break in service has been passed in accordance with the standing orders, rules or regulations governing the employees of the establishment), lay-off, strike or a lock-out or cessation of work not due to any fault of the employee, whether such uninterrupted or interrupted service was rendered before or after the commencement of this Act."
This issue was again analysed by the Hon'ble Madras High Court in the case of H. Ramappa S/o Hanumanthappa and Ors. vs. The General Manager, Sri Yellamma Cotton Woolen and Silk Mills and Ors. 2008(117)FLR863 in which it was held that "Section 2-A(1) of the Act shows that every service rendered by the employee shall be continuous service for a period, even if there is interruption during the period on account of sickness, accident, leave, absence from duty without leave, except when there is break of service under orders passed as per the Certified Standing Orders, rules or regulations and/or lay off, strike, lock-out, or cessation of work, not due to any fault of the employee concerned. All interruptions of the said type will have to be ignored and will not result in depriving the employee of the benefit of continuous service. It is only when the employee has absented from duty without leave and further, if any order is passed by the employer treating absence from duty without leave as break in service in accordance with the Standing Orders, rules or regulations, then it would not amount to continuous service during that period. It was not in dispute that no orders were passed by the employer in accordance with the Certified Standing Orders to the effect that the absence of the appellants at any point of time, was to be treated as a break in service."
It was held that appellants therein had rendered 'continuous service' within the meaning of Section 2-A(1) of the Act, and therefore, it was not open to the employer to contend that there was a break in service and the appellants were entitled to gratuity. It is only when the case of the employee does not fall within the meaning of Section 2-A(1) of the Act, the provisions or Section 2-A(2) would come into play. Therefore, in view of the amendment in Section 2A, the case of Lalappa Lingappa could not have been applied.
In view of the above, as per Section 2A of the Act, it is clear that in the event the employee is absent from the duty due to sickness, accident, leave or absence from duty without leave, he/she would be entitled to the benefit of gratuity unless the employer has passed an order treating such absence without leave as a break in service in accordance with the Standing Orders of Employment applicable to the employee. In the case of a sabbatical leave, the same would essentially qualify as a leave if permitted by the employer and would only be a leave for a longer duration than a usual leave and therefore, in our view shall be treated as a continuous service in terms of Section 2A of the Act. In other words, if an employee goes on a sabbatical with the consent of the employer and resumes work after completion of the period of sabbatical, he or she would be deemed to be in 'continuous service' for the purpose of payment of gratuity.