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Van Dyke Trial Day 14: Surgeon says McDonald bled to death, had no vital signs
By Jon Seidel, Andy Grimm, and Ashlee Rezin Sep 26, 2018, 1:37pm CDT
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Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke listens during his trial for the shooting death of Laquan McDonald at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. | Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune pool photo
1:35 p.m. The trial has ended for the day
1:33 p.m. Surgeon says McDonald bled to death, had no vital signs
The surgeon who operated on Laquan McDonald at Mount Sinai Hospital after McDonald's fatal Oct. 20, 2014 shooting took the stand Wednesday afternoon.
Jeremy Stayton told jurors that, when McDonald arrived at the hospital that day, he had no vital signs. The defense team for Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke has insisted McDonald died at the scene of the shooting from one or two gunshot wounds.
"He had no blood pressure, no respiration, no pulse," Stayton said. "By the time I was able to see the heart it was not moving."
Stayton also said that, "if he had been shot with that injury right in front of us, the chances of him surviving are very low in any case." He said those odds would have been about 1 percent.
The surgeon later hesitated when asked if McDonald died from a gunshot wound that damaged his pulmonary artery.
"If he didn't have that pulmonary artery injury, I don't know whether he would have survived or not," Stayton said. "If he had just that injury, he would have died, 99 percent chance."
When Assistant Special Prosecutor Joseph Cullen asked on cross examination if McDonald "might have survived" that injury, Stayton said, "not likely." However, Stayton said that death wouldn't have been immediate. He said McDonald bled to death.
"It takes a while to bleed to death," Stayton said.
1:21 p.m. Police instructor says she emphasizes the words 'reasonable' and 'necessary'
During cross-examination, Chicago police attorney Yolanda Sayre was asked about the words "reasonable" and "necessary" in Illinois' use of force law.
Assistant Special Prosecutor Dan Weiler also asked Sayre about worksheets she gives to officers learning about that law. He noted the words "reasonable" and "necessary" appear 15 times in the worksheets. The words appear in bold and are underlined.
"It is made very clear to them that it needs to be reasonable and necessary," Weiler said of the use of force. Sayre agreed.
Sayre also acknowledged that she teaches recruits that the burden is ultimately on the officer to explain the use of force.
1:07 p.m. Defense witness explains Illinois' use of force law
After a lunch break, defense lawyers for Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke called to the stand Yolanda Sayre, an attorney for the Chicago Police Department who trains officers in the police academy.
Sayre said she's helped teach recruits for roughly two decades, including when Van Dyke went through the police academy.
While being questioned by defense attorney Dan Herbert, Sayre told jurors about a worksheet officers are asked to fill out to help them understand Illinois' law on the use of force by police officers.
That law says an officer "is justified in using force likely to cause death or great bodily harm only when he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or such other person" or when "such force is necessary to prevent the arrest from being defeated by resistance or escape" and "the person to be arrested has committed or attempted a forcible felony which involves the infliction or threatened infliction of great bodily harm or is attempting to escape by use of a deadly weapon, or otherwise indicates that he will endanger human life or inflict great bodily harm unless arrested without delay."
Sayre said recruits are taught to consider knives as deadly weapons, along with guns and baseball bats.
12:56 p.m. McDonald's family blasts defense for painting him as 'the perpetrator'
The great uncle of Laquan McDonald criticized the defense on Wednesday for bringing up alleged violent acts in his past during the murder trial of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke.
"It is an unjust ploy to paint Laquan McDonald as the perpetrator," the Rev. Marvin Hunter said at a news conference during the break in the trial.
"Laquan McDonald is a victim, he is the victim in this matter, he is not on trial and if we're going to look at the background of anyone in this particular proceeding, it should certainly be the background of Mr. Van Dyke."
Rev. Marvin Hunter, Laquan McDonald's great uncle, speaks to reporters Wednesday afternoon in the lobby of the Leighton Criminal Courthouse during the Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke murder trial. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Hunter referred to testimony Wednesday morning by truck driver Rudy Barillas who said he came across a young black man as he tried to break into a truck, called police and fended him off. Barillas never definitively identified the man as McDonald. That police call led to the eventual confrontation between McDonald and Van Dyke.
"The truck driver stated that he was able to fend off Laquan — even if that happened — the fact is that he said he was able to fend off Laquan with a cell phone and some gravel, he did not need 16 shots to get Laquan to go away," Hunter said.
Video by Ashlee Rezin | Faith leaders look on as Rev. Marvin Hunter, Laquan McDonald's great-uncle, speaks to reporters in the l
12:00 p.m. More threats from Laquan McDonald
A woman who worked at the Cook County juvenile detention center in April 2014 described another incident with Laquan McDonald.
Jakki Alexander told jurors she was called to a pod in the facility that month because McDonald was refusing to enter his cell.
When she got there, she said she heard McDonald make various comments. She said he threatened to beat up members of the rapid response team and that he'd "put a slug in the judge's head."
11:48 a.m. Jurors hear about 'revolver knife'
A Chicago police sergeant who once worked with Officer Jason Van Dyke took the stand for the defense Wednesday to describe an officer safety alert about a "revolver knife."
Sgt. William Schield said the alert went out in December 2012 when Schield was working in a targeted response unit with Van Dyke. He said it described "a knife that contains a 22-caliber revolver in the handle." He said it would likely hold between five and six rounds.
Schield said such alerts are read at roll call and posted on bulletin boards. However, during cross examination, he admitted he had never found such a weapon on the street — nor has he ever heard of any other officer finding one.
11:33 a.m. Truck driver says man in truck lot tried to stab him
Truck driver Rudy Barrillas described on the witness stand Wednesday his encounter with a man alleged to be Laquan McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014. He said that man tried to stab him.
Barrillas said he crossed paths with that person when Barrillas parked his truck in a lot at 41st and Kildare that night. He said he saw someone in a truck and asked that person to leave. He said that person got out of the truck.
"He pulled out a knife and wanted to hurt me," Barrillas said through a Spanish interpreter.
Barrillas went on: "He came toward me and he tried to stab me."
At one point during his testimony, Barrillas stood up and mimicked the gestures that man allegedly made with the knife that night.
Barrillas said he threw his phone at the person alleged to be McDonald, but that person "came back at me." So Barrillas said he "got a little bit of dirt, gravel and threw it at his face." Meanwhile, Barrillas said his wife was getting out of his truck to try to help him.
Barrillas said the man who was advancing on him "couldn't talk. He was tongue tied."
Finally, when the person alleged to be McDonald realized Barrillas was calling police, the individual fled.
During cross examination, Barrillas admitted to a prosecutor he was able to fend the person off with a cell phone and a handful of dirt.
11:14 a.m. Truck driver who called police takes stand to give key testimony for defense
The truck driver who summoned police to 41st and Kildare on Oct. 20, 2014 — initiating the fatal encounter with Laquan McDonald — took the stand Wednesday morning to describe his memory of the night.
Judge Vincent Gaughan has made clear the testimony of Rudy Barrillas is crucial to keeping an animated re-creation of McDonald's shooting in evidence. It was shown to the jury Tuesday.
Barillas could also be key to an argument by Officer Jason Van Dyke's defense team that Van Dyke was justified in fatally shooting McDonald under Illinois' use of deadly force law.
Barillas answered questions from defense attorney Randy Rueckert through a Spanish interpreter. He said he pulled his truck into a lot at 41st and Kildare on Oct. 20, 2014. His wife was with him. In the lot, he said he saw another person inside a truck.
"I got out of my truck and I asked that person to please leave," Barrillas said through the interpreter.
Barrillas said the person was black, about 5 feet, 6inches tall, and dressed in a black sweater and blue jeans. McDonald, in fact, was over 6 feet tall.
"I told him I was going to call the police if he didn't leave," Barrillas said. He acknowledged that he eventually placed the call.
10:39 a.m. Officer admits she went to help confront McDonald 'begrudgingly'
Officer Leticia Velez admitted on cross examination Wednesday morning she went to 41st and Pulaski "begrudgingly" on Oct. 20, 2014.
During cross-examination by Assistant Special Prosecutor Jody Gleason, Velez acknowledged she would have preferred to "have my dinner," but she agreed to go after a discussion with her partner. She said the call for help from other officers "sounded very serious." And dispatchers had called for an officer with a Taser. Neither Velez nor her partner had one.
"I didn't have a tool to provide," Velez testified. "I did not have a Taser and neither did my partner."
The exchange between Gleason and Velez quickly turned contentious. Velez insisted that, during the incident, she thought Laquan McDonald was carrying a gun.
"We found out later he did not have a gun, but I did believe he had one," Velez said.
Velez also pushed back when Gleason asked whether Velez pulled out her gun that night. Gleason noted Velez's memory had suddenly turned "fuzzy."
"About me taking out my gun? About me maybe wiping my nose? Yes," Velez replied.
She added: "It's muscle memory. If there's somebody with a gun you're going to take out your gun."
Later, Gleason noted that Velez previously said Officer Jason Van Dyke's partner, Joseph Walsh, searched McDonald immediately after kicking a knife away from McDonald after the shooting. The prosecutor asked whether Velez had ever seen that search depicted on video.
"If I said that he searched him, then he searched him," Velez said.
10:09 a.m. Testifying for defense, officer says McDonald looked 'deranged'
A Chicago police officer took the stand for the defense Wednesday morning and told jurors Laquan McDonald looked "deranged" the night he was killed by Officer Jason Van Dyke.
Officer Leticia Velez said she and her partner responded to radio calls indicating officers needed help near 41st and Pulaski on Oct. 20, 2014. She said they were traveling north on Pulaski in their police vehicle as McDonald was walking south. She said McDonald "actually got very close."
"He did not look at us," Velez said. "He did not look toward our direction. He just kept looking straight ahead."
Velez told jurors that "he looked deranged."
"We had lights, we had sirens, he was not looking in our direction," Velez said. "There was nothing that was actually fazing him."
Velez also said the fact that McDonald was holding his hands at his sides was a sign he may have had a weapon.
10:05 a.m. Prominent Chicago-area clergy members pray in front of courthouse
Seven clergy members and faith leaders from the Chicago area gathered outside the Leighton Criminal Courthouse Tuesday morning to pray for "justice for Laquan McDonald."
"We came to make the statement that Laquan McDonald's life matters," said the Rev. Marshall Hatch, of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church. "All our lives matter . . . We need justice for Laquan McDonald and we are all on trial."
Shortly before the Jason Van Dyke trial started Tuesday, Hatch joined in the prayer with Rev. Ira Acree, of Greater St. John Bible Church; Rev. Jeanette Wilson, of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition; Rev. Tim Hoekstra, of Suburban Life Community Church in Darien; Rev. Robert Biekman, of Maple Park United Methodist Church; Rabbi Max Weiss, of Oak Park Temple, and Pastor Eric Pernell, of New True Vine Baptist Church.
Video by Ashlee Rezin | Rev. Robert Biekman, of Maple Park United Methodist Church, joined seven other faith leaders to pray for
"As we're here on the steps of the courthouse, we're praying that justice will meet us there," Acree said in prayer. "We know that Chicago is watching, the state is watching, America is watching and the world is watching as justice is on trial.
"Oh, God, right now we pray that you will come against — with your strong power — against the systemic racism that exists in America and locally. We come against any attack against justice being manifested for today and throughout the remainder of this trial," Acree said. "We pray for the McDonald family we pray that you insulate them, we pray that you protect the jurors, dear God, that they wont be intimated and that they will do the right thing."
Acree also asked that "things will work out and we will live in a society where black lives will matter."
From left to right, Rev. Ira Acree, Rev. Jeanette Wilson, Rev. Tim Hoekstra, Rev. Robert Biekman, Rabbi Max Weiss, Pastor Eric Pernell and Rev. Marshall Hatch pray for "justice for Laquan McDonald" outside the Leighton Criminal Courthouse before the murder trial Wednesday of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
9:09 a.m. Key defense witness late to court — judge threatens to strike animation
Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan complained Wednesday morning that a key defense witness — a truck driver who called 911 the night Laquan McDonald was shot — had not shown up to court on time.
Defense attorney Dan Herbert said someone had gone to pick up Rudy Barillas "early."
"Show me where early is on my watch," Gaughan said.
The judge made it clear he would strike an animated re-creation of McDonald's shooting from the trial if Barillas doesn't testify. Barillas is also key to defense arguments that Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke was justified in fatally shooting McDonald under Illinois' law on the use of deadly force by police.
In the coming days, the defense for Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke is expected to call a ballistics expert as well as an authority on how massive stress can change an individual's perceptions.
On Tuesday, which would have been Laquan McDonald's 21st birthday, the defense called a video expert to discuss an animated re-creation he oversaw that showed for the first time the shooting from Van Dyke's perspective, rather than the police dashcam video.
The video clearly showed McDonald decreasing the distance between him and Van Dyke.
But McDonald also appeared to be veering away from Van Dyke, not heading right at him. What's more, McDonald does not raise his arms in the video.
Prosecutors tried to poke holes in the re-creation, noting some discrepancies between the video and what actually was at the scene.
Jason Fries testifies during the trial about an animated video portraying Officer Jason Van Dyke and Laquan McDonald.
At least one legal expert told the Sun-Times that the video didn't help the prosecution's case. But the head of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police, at a news conference after the trial ended for the day, praised the defense and the video, arguing it clearly showed the shooting was justified.
Video by Ashlee Rezin | Chris Southwood, president of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police, speaks to reporters at the Leighto
Here's a video recap of the testimony on Tuesday from Sun-Times reporters Andy Grimm and Jon Seidel:
Video by Ashlee Rezin
Also a small number of protesters showed up outside the Leighton Criminal Court Building Tuesday night to mark his birthday. Here's video from the scene:
Video by Maria de la Guardia
Several prominent ministers are expected to hold a news conference at 9 a.m. Wednesday outside the courthouse before trial starts. Among the reverends who say they are praying for justice are Marshall Hatch, Ira Acree and Janette Wilson from Rainbow PUSH.
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ATHENS, Ga. — No gimmicks. No passing touchdowns. No special "ball plays" from South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier.
USC strutted into Sanford Stadium on Saturday and beat No. 11 Georgia at its own game, relying on a stubborn defense and a power running game for a 16-12 victory that snapped a five-game losing streak to the Bulldogs and served notice that the Gamecocks are serious about contending in the SEC.
But the man hired to deliver the Gamecocks (2-0, 1-0 in SEC) a championship will take it.
"First one like that we've won since I've been here where the defense pretty much won the game for us," Spurrier said.
The win was USC's first against Georgia since a 14-9 victory in 2001, which also was the last time the Bulldogs were held without a touchdown.
Georgia (1-1, 1-1) represents the highest-ranked SEC opponent that USC has beaten on the road since joining the conference in 1992.
Spurrier called his team "a bunch of average stiffs" after its 28-14, opening-week win against Louisiana-Lafayette, in which the Gamecocks allowed 252 rushing yards.
He was much more kind Saturday.
"We came here thinking we matched up with Georgia pretty good. We thought we could play defense like we played tonight. Last we didn't do it very well," said Spurrier, whose team was a four-point underdog.
The statistics back that up.
USC had 21 first downs to Georgia's 20. The Bulldogs outgained USC 341-314 in total yardage. The Gamecocks held a one-minute, eight-second edge in time of possession.
But USC came up with more big plays defensively, sacking Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford three times and picking him off with six seconds left to snuff out the Bulldogs' last hope.
USC kicker Ryan Succop booted field goals of 41, 35 and 34 yards. The last one put the Gamecocks up 16-6 with 9:19 left.
The Bulldogs responded by driving inside the Gamecocks' 22-yard line on their next two possessions. Each time USC held, forcing Brandon Coutu to kick field goals of 39 and 34 yards to pull Georgia to 16-12 with 4:42 left.
The Gamecocks then kept the ball on the ground, letting Cory Boyd and Mike Davis run between the tackles and, in the process, run three minutes off the clock.
After taking over on its own 20-yard line with 1:20 left, Georgia moved into USC territory on a 17-yard reception by Mikey Henderson on third-and-10, one of only three third-down conversions (in 18 attempts) for the Bulldogs.
But Georgia went backward from there. A block-in-the-black penalty wiped out another long completion on third down, and a false start backed the Bulldogs to their 39 on third-and-25.
Stafford bought time in the pocket and heaved a high pass down the right sideline for Mohamed Massaquoi. But cornerback Captain Munnerlyn got a hand on the ball and it deflected to linebacker Jasper Brinkley, who grabbed it and ran about 20 yards.
After he was tackled in front of the USC bench, his teammates mobbed him and the celebration could begin.


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EXCLUSIVE: How Pembina's "extreme" regulations put an end to Energy East
Holly NicholasRebel Commentator
The Energy East pipeline is on its last legs partly due to unfair regulations coming down from the National Energy Board but now we've discovered even more obstacles thrown in TransCanada's way.
The Feds are partnering with different organizations to do the legwork on these regulations, among them the foreign funded anti-oil Pembina Institute, and now we've just found out what they have recommended.
The Rebel has documentation through access to information requests that outline how Pembina suggests handling these emissions. They show that the Institute has already factored upstream emissions into their 100 Mt cap.
Watch as I reveal more of the worst details found in these documents!
None of this makes sense unless you're a Liberal or the Alberta NDP.
They're against pipeline construction and these double regulations mean putting an end to Energy East.
Both the federal and provincial governments are using Pembina to make recommendations
The Liberals and NDP hate the oil and gas industry and they want to put an end to it but they just don't want to say so.
Instead, they get their friends over at the Pembina Institute to do it for them.
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Any government in Canada that opposes oil & gas pipelines should lose its share of oil & gas equalization payments. SIGN THE PETITION at CutThemOff.ca
Buy Sheila's book The Destroyers, about Notley's war on Alberta
One thing is certain.Trudeau will be filthy rich and probably Notley too when they eventually get booted out of office. But then again Trudeau might find a bus driver to take over the reigns of power as he already thinks of himself as a dictator.
William Elder commented 2017-09-14 13:43:29 -0400
This is to be expected when you have a Saudi oil broker in the PMO.
Carole Massé commented 2017-09-14 10:31:00 -0400
This is intentional destruction of the wealth of Canadians, to eliminate a competitor to the arab states. Exactly like the Venezuela socialism. Those politicians do not hate the oil and gas industry, they are corrupted and bought.
Can't say I am surprised.
Andrzej Szkoda the useful idiots are fine with other countries having pipelines they merely want to cripple Canada in that regard because they get paid to betray their own countries.
Robert Hewgill commented 2017-09-13 20:16:41 -0400
Unfortunately there is nobody in Alberta to defend Alberta. At the very least we should be blocking all products from these provinces that are attacking Alberta. However, even that would take a backbone and someone who knows how to fight.
Charles White commented 2017-09-13 20:07:58 -0400
I am waiting impatiently for the money trees and golden egg laying turkeys that Baby Doc and Auntie Rachel say will pay for everything. Maybe they need to give us instructions in the horticulture and husbandry to make it happen. Like do I plant a Loonie or a Toonie as seed for the money tree. How much gold gets shaved into poultry feed. These are important things to know to make the new economy, Baby Doc's Butts talks about, happen.
Andrew Szkoda commented 2017-09-13 19:59:13 -0400
Maybe Canada should follow one of the leading countries in climate change fight – Germany. Somehow they do not mind digging oil and gas pipelines under Baltic Sea (Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2)
Lee Horsman commented 2017-09-13 19:42:51 -0400
The "Boy Wonder" premier of New Brunswick was elected on a promise to ban fracking. And now he is begging and pleading TCPL to not walk away from Energy East.
It's like I have been telling my Alberta neighbours for the past 39 years snce I migrated here from NB. You can't see it from here, but the tide comes in and goes out twice every day. And there's nothing any of us can do to change that…
Don't worry people we will just use more mid east oil that somehow magically does not pollute unlike Canadian oil.
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A great idea, and I look forward to hearing about the hidden gems I've missed. When my wife started DMing, I marked a few sections in my 1st edition DMG for her to read, especially Monsters and Organization (pp. 104-105), as extremely useful reads, even though we were not going to be playing 1st edition.
Yep. Most of us assumed everyone was trying for immersion. If you weren't, you might as well play the Dungeon! boardgame, or maybe a bit of chess. The entire point of RPGs was the sense of "You are there!". Or, at least, it was for everyone I played with. The argument between gamism and simulationism back then was primarily about finding the golden mean between too little detail making the game feel fake, and too much detail getting in the way of immersion.
...we struggled through a wilderness adventure in a looking-glass world of carnivorous plants, invisible terrain, breathable water, and so on. All of which Gygax presented with a minimum of fuss. The author of Dungeons & Dragons doesn't much care for role-playing: "If I want to do that," he said, "I'll join an amateur theater group." In fact, D&D, as DM'ed by E. Gary Gygax, is not unlike a miniatures combat game.
Didn't he also argue in Dragon that you were free to change the rules, but that if you did, you were no longer playing D&D? Did I just dream that up?
Man, I've really started something this time. People just love D&D's history, don't they. Have fun. I just hope there's enough room in my sig for everyone.
Yes (or, at least, something close to that). I'm waiting for that issue (don't recall which one) to show up in the Dragon mag thread.
Generation of Ability Scores: Not much to say about this section. Here we get options for those who don't like 3d6, straight down the line. Gygax himself implies that the system from the PHB isn't the best system, as it tends to generate mediocre characters with short life expectancies. Here we see four methods of character generation, which clearly lend themselves to four different styles of play. These include the standard 4d6, keep 3, arrange to taste; roll 12 times and keep the best six; roll each stat 6 times (in order), keeping the best individual 6 results; roll twelve sets of character stats and keep the best set. My feeling, not having tested these, is that method 3 is the most "munchkin" of the bunch, with method 4 a close second. Methods 1 and 2 seem somewhat balanced in terms of creating good characters without making ubermensch, but that's just a gut feeling.
Non-Player Characters: This section seems completely out of place here; it gives instruction for generating NPC stats...but the rest of the information on NPC generation isn't for another 99 pages. Advice for stat generation is standard fare: set the stats for important NPC's, use 3d6 for others.
Effect of Wishes on Character Ability Scores: Oh, and how this was needed back in the day! Everyone was itching for the Wish spell to turn their fighter into a powerhouse with 21 strength! However, it, too, feels out of place; it should be included in the "Character Spells" section with the rest of the spell restrictions, as the effect of a Wish spell has nothing to do with creating the player character.
We are now starting to see the first stirrings of problems that would later contribute to the "AD&D is complicated!" syndrome. The book, right from the beginning, has a tendency to read somewhat stream-of-consciousness, as though it is being compiled from reams of notes without a clear outline or organizational plan (which I am guessing isn't far from the truth).
Characteristics for Player Characters: Here we have a fun--if very brief--section involving creating the persona of PC's. It advises against using the NPC characteristic charts found later in the book (though I found those intriguing enough that a character could be randomly built from them) and encourages creativity on the part of the player. I feel a bit like this would've been better served in the Player's Handbook, one of several sections that left me with that feeling.
Player Character Non-Professional Skills: The first attempt to include a skills system into AD&D. Unfortunately, there's not much of an actual system to be found here. Rather, we have a list of medieval professions with a paragraph basically telling the DM to "Figure out how to use them yourself." A tad lazy, to be honest, given that all that was needed was brief writeups (to the tune of a few sentences) of each profession and a simple Ability Check roll-under system to complete it, say, "Roll under your Ability, using 1/2 character level as a bonus to the check"; such a system was later accomplished with the Nonweapon Proficiency system presented in the Wilderness and Dungeoneer's Survival Guides and Oriental Adventures and represents a superior skills system. Still, it's nice to see the bare bones introduced so early in the game.
Staring Level of Experience for Player Characters: This is an interesting section. It deals with the idea that games should start at first level, because part of the fun is actually surviving to second, third, and fourth. I've always agreed with this sentiment and newer games that have tried to make characters "more survivable" at lower levels leave a bad taste in my mouth exactly because they lose the fun of making it to second level, the sense of accomplishment that comes from advancing a character through those weak, formative stages. In AD&D, actually surviving to Level 2 gave you an investment in your character that, IMHO, later games with their powered-up low-level characters just don't provide.
Also interesting in this section is an assumption (largely lost in modern games) that a DM will be running more than one group in his world, and that all such gaming groups are part of the same campaign, just adventuring separately. I wonder if the world is that different, if we really have that much less time on our hands these days, that this doesn't happen anymore, or if Gygax and his cohorts were just that much more invested in role playing than the average player back then. I have vague memories in the 80's, though, of playing with DMs who ran multiple groups simultaneously in their worlds. It's been a very, very long time since then, though.
And Tolkien, over the course of his life, gave three or four contradictory reasons for writing Lord of the Rings.
George Lucas once claimed he wanted Star Wars to be 12 movies. Then 9. Then claimed he never wanted more than 6. Now he's working on the 7th.
C.S. Lewis once claimed Narnia wasn't about Christ at all. The he said it was. Then he said it just wasn't an allegory (this after Tolkien lit into him for being too brash with his intent).
I've also seen reports that Gygax was very into role playing in his sessions.
I'm only dealing with the intent of the game as written in the rulebooks. Whether he later changed his mind once, twice, or ten times is moot. The game is what it is, and what's written between those covers is what's written.
I'm sure (un)reason will deal with the Dragon Magazine article when that thread reaches the appropriate issue, though.
I feel a bit like this would've been better served in the Player's Handbook, one of several sections that left me with that feeling.
On this one, I most definitely agree: there are several sections in the DMG that I read and go "Why is this here and not in the PHB?".
Personally, I think it has something to do with the semi-stream-of-conscious style and the fact that the DMG was the last of the three books to be completed. In other words, everything that they realised should have been in the PHB following its publication but wasn't probably got tossed in.
That's a good thought, and more than likely close to the truth. I know Gygax, before he was unceremoniously ousted from his own company (a bitter justice after what went down with Arneson?) was intending on a second edition of his own. It's possible that some of those issues would've been rectified, but we'll never know for sure.
Later, when I get to combat, I'll discuss why miniatures, the way they are at the core of 3.x, cannot have been the intent of AD&D, but in short: there are no miniatures-based rules in AD&D; only movement scales.


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Global: Measuring women's empowerment in agriculture
Washington, 28 February 2012 (IRIN)
The global anti-poverty movement has added a new tool to its arsenal with the launch of an index that measures women's empowerment in agriculture.
"Agriculture is the most effective way to drive inclusive economic growth of the poorest communities", which too often include women and children, said Sara Immenschuh of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a partner in compiling the index.
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index is a partnership between the US government's Feed the Future initiative, US Agency for International Development (USAID), IFPRI and Oxford University's Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI). It uses five criteria to measure the empowerment of developing country women in agriculture, and in their own households.
Pilot programmes in Bangladesh, Guatemala and Uganda studied how engaged women were in decision-making about agricultural production, what sort of access they had to resources and how involved they were in resource-related decision-making; the extent to which they controlled how income was used; whether they were able to have a leadership role in the community; and how they used their time.
If a woman scored well on four out of five indices, she was considered empowered. The results differed from country to country, and the reasons for low or high levels of empowerment also varied.
In Bangladesh, just less than a third of women were empowered, with lack of control over resources, weak leadership and influence in the community, as well as lack of control over income the main reasons.
In Guatemala, the number was less than 25 percent. The less educated a woman was and the younger she was, the more likely she was to be lagging behind in empowerment. On the other hand, the more empowered a Guatemalan woman was in agriculture, the greater the influence she had in other key areas of daily life.
Lack of leadership in the community and control over use of income were the two biggest factors contributing to disempowerment in Guatemala, the report says.
In Uganda, 37 percent of women were empowered in agriculture and more than half enjoyed gender parity at home.
However, many women in Uganda said widowhood empowered them – because they did not have to waste time asking their husband's permission to do things but just got on with them.
Ugandan women "who are empowered in agriculture also reported significantly greater decision-making and autonomy with respect to almost all domains", says the report.
Surveys were conducted in 450 households in southern Bangladesh, and 350 each in the western highlands of Guatemala and northern, central and eastern Uganda, between September and November 2011.
One aim of the project is to help US government agencies and anti-poverty organizations to measure just how successful their programmes are at fighting hunger and poverty.
"We want to improve gender parity not by disempowering men but by bringing women up to the level of men," said IFPRI senior research fellow, Agnes Quisumbing.
Although they make up 43 percent of the agricultural labour force, women in developing countries own less land, are limited in their ability to hire farm workers and have less access to credit, among other issues.
"Without addressing those inequities, women will be unable to effectively contribute to reducing global poverty and hunger," said Immenschuh.
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index was launched on 28 February at the UN in New York.
[Courtesy of IRIN News]
This entry was posted in Gender Issues, Global Health, Global Poverty, Women's Rights and tagged Disability Aid Abroad, Food Poverty, Global Health, International Disability NGO on February 28, 2012 by disabilityaidabroad.


Smoked capon with a garlic aioli sauce, baby Swiss cheese, red onion, fresh tomato, and romaine lettuce on cracked wheat bread.
Sun dried tomato turkey with a garlic aioli sauce, smoked provolone cheese, red onion, fresh tomato, and romaine lettuce on cracked wheat bread.
Black Forest ham, Swiss cheese, mayonnaise, red onion, tomato, and iceberg lettuce on Swedish rye bread.
Lemon chicken, red onion, and green olives with a garlic aioli base served with smoked provolone cheese, fresh tomato and iceberg lettuce on cracked wheat bread.
Solid white tuna, red onions, and red bell peppers with a mayonnaise base, cheddar cheese, fresh tomato, and bibb lettuce served on golden wheat bread.
Hummus, red onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, bibb lettuce and alfalfa sprouts served on cracked wheat bread.
Avocado, garlic lemon cream cheese, red onion, cucumber, and alfalfa sprouts on cracked wheat bread.
Roast beef, sharp cheddar, creamy horseradish sauce, red onions, tomatoes, and romaine lettuce on a hoagie bun.
Genoa salami, capicola, ham, provolone cheese, and olive aioli with fresh tomatoes, red onions, and roasted garlic marinara on a hoagie bun.
Served with fresh tomatoes and iceberg lettuce on cracked wheat.
Corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing on Swedish rye.
Grilled chicken, romaine lettuce, parmesan cheese, and bacon with Caesar dressing in a tortilla wrap.
Organic mixed greens with red onion, carrots, green and black olives, cucumbers, and strawberries served with a balsamic raspberry vinaigrette.
Angel hair pasta, fresh asparagus, green beans, red onions, red bell pepper, cucumber, and black olives served with a lemon and olive vinaigrette.
Grated kohlrabi and carrots and diced green onions tossed in a mayonnaise and red wine vinegar dressing.
Farafelle noodles, cherry tomatoes, red onions, green peppers, black olives, and diced cheddar cheese are tossed with our Green Goddess dressing.
Fresh tomatoes, thin sliced red onion, kalamata olives, green peppers, and feta cheese tossed with lemon and olive oil vinaigrette.
Red, white and green rotini and black olives tossed with Italian dressing.
Jim's mom's recipe with potatos, onions, garlic, celery, dill pickles, hard boiled eggs, and radishes all mixed in a Dijon mustard aioli.
wood fired oven are available as well. We can handle about anything. This just a list to help with ideas. Remember, we are catering to you, so make it a memorable experience by choosing a menu that is special for your occasion.


No. You must use the Leica TL-M adapter and then stack the appropriate generic lens adapter to get peaking, and magnification by the thumbwheel. Or the Leica TL-R adapter, which is ridiculously expensive.
Have you tried to use the lens + adapter without going through the lens profiling?
I am using a third party lenses (Nikkor) with an adapter that has no electrical connection to the camera and without lens profiling since Nikkor lenses are not listed; and, I can have magnification and focus peaking without any problem. But there is a turn around for magnification. Instead of using the top wheel, you have to use the arrows next to screen. After a while, you get used to it and it works perfectly well.
Yes, that is correct, one can always activate magnification by the arrow buttons. Personally I find that a slow and roundabout way. YMMV.
Thanks Japp and Louis, The Arrow keys were an unknown hack to me. I have the Leica M-TL and the Leica R-M adapters, but As I'm taking both the CL and SL to an airshow tomorrow I'll me using theM-TL adapter on the SL with the 135 APO and testing out the 180/4 R on the CL. Focus does not really matter that much at I'll zone focus the action shots, but for static displays it will be good to have the up-arrow trick.
I don't have a CL near me to try, but it is not clear to me why activating the magnification by the arrow keys is more cumbersome than the right thumb wheel. In either case, it is one flick or one push by your thumb, no?
Yes, but your thumb has to reach for and select the buttons; the thumbwheel is in an intuitive place and just needs a flick.. For me it is far more easy and fast to use YMMV.
I have a generic M-TL adapter (Pixco) on my CL and I can use Focus Peaking. I enabled it from the right thumbwheel (clicked the button, a menu came up, then chose focus peaking). For magnification, I use the down arrow button on the back.
That is correct, but you will have to use the arrow keys for magnification.
Is there any update on this after Firmware 1.4? Is it possible to get the focus peaking work with a non-Leica adapter after this? ehecatl wrote that it is possible on a CL, and I was wondering if it is also possible on a TL2?
I noticed focus peaking on my TL2 with 35mm 1.4 Summilux attached . What struck me was the enormous depth of field lit up with red halos at f1.4 . The mark 2 eyeball with focus magnification is a vastly more effective device it would appear . I paid for a high priced Leica L to R adapter , being unfortunately a bit of a perfectionist, then I noticed Ffordes Photographic are selling them a lot cheaper , drat ! Of course the TL2 has simple magnification with my aged R lenses (post 1976) utilising the top left wheel , the top right for aperture, very handy. It would appear the focus peaking is either too faint with R lenses, or doesn't work due to insufficient contrast.
Yes, focus peaking is either quite imprecise or (nearly) invisible, as it detects contrast, which varies with lens, subject and light. If you are unlucky you will either see nothing (a Leica complaint, but at least, if it works it works decently) or get a complete redout, with even image noise lighting up bright red (Sony, but it will always peak obviously, albeit from front to back).


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This in an exploratory trip so we will be taking it as it comes. Vehicles will need to be set up for hard driving definitely not suitable for trailers.
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For Halloween, Jessy Ellenberger of Oakland, California has created an Instructables tutorial for a Human Torso Appetizer plate (aka the "ManWich"). She uses puff pastry to create the majority of the organs, white bean dip and hummus for the lungs, pâté for the liver (how apropos), smoked salmon for the skin, cream cheese for the (cheeseball) stomach, a dark red beet for the heart, a salami for the colon, and then tops it off with a tiny pickle for the gallbladder.
…I chose to do lungs, a heart, liver, gallbladder, stomach, colon and intestines. Some organs are missing, I know. ;) But I couldn't get it all in there AND make it look nice!
I also decided to do little bits of spine coming out the top and bottom of the torso. I made tiny ribs out of the puff pastry too.


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Tribeca Review: 'The Driftless Area' Starring Anton Yelchin, Zooey Deschanel, John Hawkes, & More
Rodrigo Perez
Ponderously exploring pedestrian notions of the universe and connectedness, while mixing in familiar coming-of-age conflicts of love, death, and loss, and sprinkled with bumbling neo-noir crime and even magical realism, "The Driftless Area" is an overloaded, but generally underwhelming and meandering story about small town existence, fate, and the meaning of life.
Based on the novel by Tom Drury, the story is ostensibly about an unremarkable, luckless 24-year-old man named Pierre (played by an unassertive Anton Yelchin) who returns to life as a bartender in his Midwest hometown after his parents die and gets fatefully involved with a dangerous, but semi-idiotic career criminal named Shane (John Hawkes). It's hackneyed plot — which feels more contrived and arbitrary than convincing about chance and the mysteries of coincidence — strains to connect disparate characters and their cosmic destinies in any organic or believable manner.
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In one corner, there's Pierre. Next to him is his best friend Carrie (Alia Shawkat), whose main purpose for existing in this story is to deliver expository backstory (in tired voice over) about Pierre's unfortunate life. Then there's the mysterious Stella (Zooey Deschanel), who may or may not have survived a house fire, and is connected with the town's resident weirdo hermit, the mystical Tim Geer (Frank Langella), who strangely understands everything that happened to her and how to spiritually rectify "her story." Finally, there's Shane, who is paid by his boss (Ciaran Hinds) to burn down the house that Stella was randomly staying in. Shane and Pierre meet through happenstance and their quarrel leads to the young man stealing the older thief's bag of cash, which puts the turgid "tracking down the money" plot into action.
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Unremarkably told without much spark, "The Driftless Area" never coalesces in any meaningful or engaging way. The movie lazily conjoins all these players in artificial random circumstances, not unlike a small town "Pulp Fiction," but nowhere near as funny, inspired, or cleverly written as Quentin Tarantino's film.
Aptly named, the wandering 'Driftless Area' is listlessly paced, and its non-existent vitality is much like the purgatory like, neither here-nor-there setting of the movie — a humdrum cowpoke town where nothing really happens. Preoccupied with coincidental destiny, accidents, and luck, the movie's biggest problem is its vagueness and own ambivalence toward itself (apparently a trait in the book that does the movie no favors). Other than Shane attempting to retrieve his money and seek revenge, none of the characters or story beats are assertive or proactive. Even the romance between Pierre and Stella, or the universal conspiring between the woman and the town mystic, seems uncertain. Pierre is a paradox too — bold enough to steal money from a dangerous (though unconscious) man, and seemingly not fearful of reprisal, but as played by Yelchin, he's too blasé and ambiguous, and fails to make the audience care about his fate.
Written and directed by Zachary Sluser, "The Driftless Area" plays with notions of the self, time, the future, interconnectedness, and righting universal wrongs, but the movie fumbles around in search of profundity and never achieves it. Even at an economic 95 minutes, its inconsequential nature eventually grows increasingly tedious as the enervating movie ambles towards its inevitable and unexceptional conclusion. Featuring a cast that doesn't seem to possess much chemistry, a half-hearted sense of humor that isn't very funny, this insipidly rendered story never inspires much of anything in the viewer, and that kind of ambivalence is death in movies. Ultimately, "The Driftless Area" isn't so much bad as it is trivial and forgettable, but in a day and age of dwindling cinemagoers, and interest in adult storytelling fading from the big screen, its weary insignificance feels all the more criminal. [C-]
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Az online marketingben a konverziós ráta az egy adott időszakra eső vásárlók (vagy más, kívánatos műveletet végzők) számának és az ugyanezen időszakra eső látogatók számának százalékos aránya. A nemzetközi statisztikák szerint a 2-3 százalékos konverziós ráta már igen jónak mondható.

Ahhoz, hogy értelmezni tudjuk a konverziós rátát, először tisztáznunk kell magának a konverziónak a fogalmát. Konverzió történik akkor, amikor egy felhasználó az internetes kereskedés által küldött e-mail vagy egy hirdetés alapján az abban kívánt cselekedetet hajtja végre. A konverzió lehet egy vásárlás, amely egy adott linkre való kattintás után jött létre, vagy regisztráció egy weboldalon, egy tanulmány letöltése, feliratkozás internetes hírlevélre stb.

A konverzióval kapcsolatban mindenképp meg kell említeni a konverziós költséget, amely e-mail vagy egyéb online marketingtevékenység esetén egy új előfizető vagy vásárló megszerzésének költsége. Kiszámítása: a kampány teljes költségét elosztjuk az új előfizetők, vásárlók számával.

A konverziós ráta növelése

Ahhoz, hogy az eladások száma növekedjen elengedhetetlen, hogy minél nagyobb számú célközönség látogassa az adott honlapot, és a látogatók minél nagyobb százalékát konvertálja át vásárlóvá. Az előbbihez számos marketingeszköz áll rendelkezésre, az utóbbihoz csupán egyetlenegy: maga a webáruház.

Attól kezdve, hogy egy látogató megérkezett egy webshopba, kizárólag annak külseje, szerkezete és vevőbarát felépítése motiválhatja a tényleges vásárlásra. Más szóval az esetben a webáruház felülete az egyetlen "bolti eladó".
A magasabb konverziós ráta csökkenti a vásárlók megszerzésének költségét és növeli a profitot.

Eszközök a konverzió növelésére

- Teljes körű termékleírás

A webáruházak gyakori hibája, hogy egy-egy termékről nem adnak semmilyen információt a vásárlóik számára, ha mégis, akkor pedig sok esetben egy máshonnan bemásolt szöveg az. Ha a vevő látja a legfontosabb előnyöket és tulajdonságokat, ezek megerősíthetik döntésében. Hasznos funkció a vásárlók által írt visszajelzések feltüntetése a termékek oldalán.

- Színpszichológia alkalmazása

Jelentősen növelni tudjuk az átkattintási számainkat és ezáltal a konverziós rátánkat, ha megtaláljuk azt a színt, amire a célközönségünk a leginkább fogékony. Egy tudatosan tervezett színekkel elkészített kampány, akár 5-8%-kal több kattintást tud hozni, ezáltal növelve a konverziót.

- Keresztértékesítés

Ez egy másik igen hatékony módszer a keresztértékesítés. Működése igen egyszerű: minden, a vevő által kiválasztott vagy megvásárolt termékhez további hozzáillő vagy kapcsolódó termékeket ajánl a webáruház. A keresztértékesítés hatásköre és rugalmassága nagymértékben függ a használt rendszertől is. Legjobb, ha manuálisan lehet gyorsan és egyszerűen minden termékhez meghatározni a kapcsolódó termékeket.

- Egyszerű Vásárlás

A vásárlás legyen annyira egyszerű, amennyire csak lehet, és bármilyen időigényes/kényelmetlen műveletet csupán a fizetés során kelljen megadnia a vásárlóknak. Szüntesse meg az áruház időrabló regisztrációs és kijelentkezési folyamatait, ezáltal vásárlói még több értékes időt szánhatnak a vásárlásra – és nem vesztik el lelkesedésüket mielőtt még láthatták volna a kínálatát.

- Árengedmények

Az árengedmények és akciók rendkívül hatékonyak a látogatók vásárlásra ösztönzésében, és ha valaki már eldöntötte, hogy vásárol, igen könnyű "rábeszélni" valami másra is. A különböző akciók és árengedmények hatására a vásárlók rendszeresen visszanéznek a webáruházba. Hatásos még a bizonyos összeghatár fölötti árengedmény, mely az átlagos tranzakció-érték növelésének rendkívül jó módszere. Az előre meghatározott időszakokban érvényes "meglepetés" kedvezmények pedig a vásárlókat gyors vásárlásra sarkallhatják.

- Különleges bánásmód a törzsvásárlókkal

A rendszeres vásárlók hűségének jutalmazása különleges árengedményekkel, speciális "e-kuponokkal" tovább erősíti bennük a kellemes vásárlói tapasztalatokat. A kuponok az első vásárlásra ösztönzésnek is igen hatékony eszközei.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek

 Online marketing
 Checkout
 :en:Online shopping

Hasznos weboldalak
 Is conversion rate enough
 www.clickz.com
 www.marketingterms.com
 www.interactivemarketinginc.com

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Kingston girls head to Surf 'N Slam hoops tournament
The Buccaneers play three games in four days in San Diego.
Kingston girls head to Surf 'N Slam hoops tournament The Buccaneers play three games in four days in San Diego. Check out this story on kitsapsun.com: https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/sports/2019/12/26/kingston-girls-head-surf-n-slam-basketball-tournament/2721462001/
Jeff Graham, Kitsap Sun Published 7:15 a.m. PT Dec. 26, 2019
Kingston girls basketball coach Charles Deam is hoping a few days spent in warmer temperatures might lead to more consistent offensive output for his squad.
The Buccaneers are bound for San Diego on Thursday to prepare for three games in the Surf 'N Slam Hoop Classic.
"We've never been to a holiday tournament. That's something since I've been here I've always wanted to do," said Deam, in his third season as head coach.
Kingston is one of four Washington teams playing in the Slam Division. Liberty, Shorewood and Hockinson are also competing in the event, which begins Dec. 27 and concludes Dec. 30. The Buccaneers open against California's Granite Bay at 2:45 p.m. on Friday.
Kingston's Kylee Walker scored 15 points in the team's victory over Bremerton on Dec. 20, 2019. It was the first Olympic League 2A victory for the Buccaneers, who'll play in the Surf 'N Slam tournament in San Diego on Dec. 27-30. (Photo: Jeff Graham / Kitsap Sun)
"It's going to be a great experience," said junior point guard Kylee Walker, mentioning the team plans to take a trip to the San Diego Zoo during its stay.
Kingston played its best game of the season Dec. 20 in a 70-14 home victory against Bremerton. Four Buccaneers scored in double-figures as the Buccaneers (2-4) won its first Olympic League 2A game after dropping its first three league contests.
"That was much needed," Deam said. "That's the first time we shot the ball like that. That's how I expected us to shoot the ball. We've been struggling, we've been struggling."
The Buccaneers, who finished 11-12 in 2018-19 and reached the West Central District playoffs, played with a sense of focus and deliberation against Bremerton, concentrating on ball movement and attacking the rim early. There was a high degree of harmony with Kingston on offense.
"Tonight we played together as a team," Deam said. "We've been doing good individually, but we haven't been able to put it together as a team. We were looking for the extra pass, everybody was trying to make their teammates better."
Sophomore forward Ellee Brockman led the Buccaneers with 20 points. Other top scorers included Walker (15), junior Sierra Denning (13) and junior Suzanne Skinner (10).
Walker's play stood out as particularly encouraging. She hit three 3-pointers in the second quarter and had 13 points by halftime. Kingston's starters sat for long stretches in the second half with the game in hand.
Kingston girls basketball coach Charles Deam and the Buccaneers finished 11-12 last season and reached the West Central District playoffs. (Photo: Jeff Graham / Kitsap Sun)
"She did a great job of setting us up in our offense. She got us into it," Deam said of Walker. "People were out of position, she stopped, directed traffic. She did what a point guard was supposed to do. She played great. She showed some great basketball IQ tonight."
Walker said she'll "usually shoot if she's open," but she's primarily focused on setting up her teammates.
"It felt good to be able to play my game," Walker said, "and as a team we played well together."
Kingston's offense struggled mightily in the team's first three games, finishing with 44, 37 and 38 points in losses against Port Angeles, Sequim and North Mason. It wasn't what Deam expected out of the Buccaneers after a strong showing at Western Washington University's basketball camp this summer.
"We played like 10 games in six days and we looked great," Deam said. "You were able to clean up those mistakes right away."
The Surf 'N Slam should provide the Buccaneers more opportunity for fine-tuning and tinkering before Olympic League play resumes in 2020.
"Fly somewhere to play basketball," Deam said. "That's a cool trip."
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The Educational Programs and Operations (EP&O) Levy is the only locally approved ballot measure that directly pays for classroom and operational needs such as transportation, safety and security, special education, curriculum, extra-curricular activities and staff. If renewed, the EP&O Levy will allow the District to collect its full statutory authority which amounts to between 4.9 million and 6.6 million per year from 2019 to 2022.
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Ghost Rider Is Begging for a Supernatural Mystery Movie in the MCU
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become a world where audiences have created many lists of characters they'd love to see at some pointing the franchise. But chief among many of these lists is none other than the Spirit of Vengeance, Ghost Rider. Of course, with so many Riders, the possibilities of who could be introduced and how are endless. But considering the MCU is known for being traditional, it's possible that the original Rider, Johnny Blaze, would be a likely first choice.
While the supernatural world of the MCU is slowly being established, more secrets have also been revealed. But many of these secrets may take a firmer hand to solve and face. As a result, a Ghost Rider film would be a great addition and a perfect template to bring a brand-new genre to the MCU — supernatural mystery. The best part is the character's current comic run, by Benjamin Percy and Cory Smith, sets up an ideal introduction for the iconic antihero.
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Ghost Rider Would Be the Perfect Supernatural Mystery
With so many sorcerers and monster hunters out in the world, the idea that demons and creatures from the great beyond operate in the open is less likely. As a result, working from the shadows would take a different type of hero to find and eliminate them. With that said, Ghost Rider could be a great spirit detective with the skills to battle the creatures he spent time looking for.
A great way this could work is by having Blaze compelled to travel cross-country, like in the comics, facing strange enemies with horrific backstories to save the souls of those lucky enough to survive the ordeal. But the moment he must face the monster, the Rider comes out and deals vengeance with extreme prejudice. Furthermore, each location he cleanses would lead him one step closer to a larger plot tied to an iconic villain like Mephisto or Blackheart and even help him uncover a larger mystery about himself.
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A Mystery Would Solve Why Ghost Rider Was Missing in the MCU
In the current Ghost Rider run, Blaze was trapped in a false reality by the demons of Hell that had him believe he was reunited with his wife and children. However, this was far from the truth, and his escape led him to face many realities he wasn't ready for. However, it also put him on a journey to get answers and justice. While it's hard to establish a verbatim story, many elements could be applied to answer why the Ghost Rider has yet to appear in the MCU. With Blaze trapped in a Matrix-like situation and finally escaping, it would force the character to make up for lost time as he blazes a trail across the country so fast that characters like Doctor Strange wouldn't be able to keep up.
Having Ghost Rider appear in media res in the MCU also opens the door for a deeper explanation of his past, similar to characters like Moon Knight, who were working parallel to the events of the MCU. It's a chance to have the character at full strength and at his most ruthless without rehashing a traditional origin. The overarching mystery gives Blaze a new purpose as a detective who solves spiritual situations and the nurses his skills to deliver vengeance on a horrifying scale. Furthermore, with the mystery genre being largely out of focus in the MCU, it would offer a new style fans would surely enjoy, especially if the Rider is finally making his mark.
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In 2011 he launched a women's ready-to-wear collection, and in 2012 a unisex eyewear collection. Thom was the recipient of the 2012 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Fashion Design.
In 2018 Ermenegildo Zegna has acquired 85 percent stake in the Thom Browne company.
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ONE POINT for each volunteer hour you work - even if you have your signature membership.
100 hours: $75 credit toward cost of CWA workshop registration, limited to one per year per member. Only two members can receive this credit in any given workshop. First come, first served. Turn in your hours certificates to the registrar.
60 hours: With two (2) acceptances in a CWA National Exhibition, apply for Signature Membership; or upon presentation of signed service hours, one year's free membership. Turn in your certificates to the Membership Director.
30 hours: One free CWA apron. Use your certificates as cash upon purchase.
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5 hours: Rent a display panel. See Forms: Panel Rental for more details. Use your certificates as cash upon purchase.
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It is the member's responsibility to keep a record of volunteer service hours by asking for 'Service Hours" slip at the time of volunteering and have it signed by the chairman of the event being worked. You can print a volunteer service hours record from the forms page on the drop down menu on www.californiawatercolor.org. Bring it with you to the volunteer event to be signed by the Director or Chairperson.
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'We are extremely happy with our decision to stock Vince the Vet Superfood.
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We are looking for outlets in a number of areas, who would like to stock our products and benefit from the unique holistic products, services and support we offer.
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I am trying to use the above failedMf variable to use in my Email Notification in post build action in Jenkins. Need some help on that.
I as trying to inject it in Env variables which I haven't succeeded yet. Not sure if that is the right approach.

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Kopparkitteln, The Copper Kettle, is a family-owned restaurant in the heart of the oldest town in Sweden.
Kopparkitteln, The Copper Kettle, is a family-owned restaurant in the heart of the oldest town in Sweden. With watchwords such as quality, hospitality and tradition we offer our guests an extraordinary food and beverage experience in a fusion of Swedish gastronomy and classical cookery from the Mediterranean. Our primary goal is to make our guests satisfied in all aspects of the meal. The beautiful view over lake Mälaren and our genuin hospitality makes Kopparkitteln a natural place to visit during a day-tour to Sigtuna.
Welcome to Kopparkitteln in Sigtuna!
Lettuce with tomatoes, cucumber, sheep's cheese and red peppers topped with red onionrings, kalamataolives och the vinaigrette of the house. Served with roasted bread and butter.
During our summer months (May – Aug) our wine bar is open in connection to the restaurant, where we offer our guests different wines from different regions and varieties combined with snacks and tapas.
The cellar of the old building has now been converted into a private facility where we tailor our guests conferences, wedding receptions, birthdays or just a pleasant evening with friends. For larger groups, our head chef has designed a special menu which, just like our regular menu, combines Swedish home cooking and classic cuisine from the Mediterrannean. In our Chambré Séparée, our guests are offered a dinner in a peaceful and exclusive environment with its own bar, private entrance, private bathroom restroom facilities and a small stage for any speech or other entertainment.
To get the most out of your experience, we recommend booking our Chambré Séparée at least two weeks in advance.
The name Kopparkitteln (the Copper Kettle) comes from the old housing association called Koppardosan (The Copper Box). It all started with the town alderman Carl-Gustav Björkman, who built a two-storey building to set up a shop. The property was later bought up and a pharmacy was set up in the premises. Due to poor profitability in the contemporary small-town pharmacies (Sigtuna had only 300 inhabitants at this time), a so called "Stadskällare" was established in the cellar, which is a nickname for the most exclusive tavern in town. The pharmacy was moved in the mid-1800s, while the tavern remained with Arvid Granström as a new restaurateur. In 1918, the whole inclosure was bought by Olof Palme (uncle of our late Prime Minister Olof Palme). Olof Palme (Sr.) died in the Finnish Winter War and left his widow behind with five children and the whole property. When the widow Palme sold the property, a confectionary was established in the building. In 1939, the whole building burned down in a landscaped arson. The tenant of the confecionary, direcor Schwieler, was later sentenced to a long imprisonment for arson toghether with his wife.
The property was later renovated and the confecionary continued until the 1970s, and is said to have been our king His Royal Majesty Carl-Gustav Bernadotte's favourite whereabout during his years at SSHL, the royal boarding school in Sigtuna. Since the 1980s, a restaurant has been runned in the building.
We recommend that you book a table prior to visiting Kopparkitteln. It is possible to make reservations for eight people online. If your company is bigger than eight people you can call or e-mail us and we will take care of it.


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The Comeback Sheds Light on Valerie Cherish
December 13, 2014 Anthony Farrell
Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) becomes her own (almost) undoing in The Comeback
You can just see it can't you? Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) standing in front of a room full of her peers, accepting an Emmy and saying "Well, I got it!". It's an image that could very well come true after experiencing Valerie actually acting – and incredibly well.
In the HBO comedy's fifth episode of season two (titled Valerie is taken seriously), we continue our internal (and sometimes not so internal) struggle of loving and feeling incredibly uneasy for and with Valerie as she continues work on Seeing Red but this time round, we get our first glimpse at some of the work Val is doing on the show.
And it's fucking amazing.
Long time fans will know Valerie the not-so-good sitcom actress and Valerie the star of her own documentary, but this foray for Val into gritty drama is new ground for us and Valerie herself and it's here with episode five we learn that perhaps Val had spent most of her life working a road she was never meant to take.
The scene in question is where Val sneakily watches some of her dailies with Mickey.. a bedroom scene where Mallory is leaving a nasty voice message for Paulie G.. "That's fine i'll leave a message OK. I don't care if you're available or unavailable. I don't care if you just found out if you have herpes or hepatitis C from one of those whores you pay to come to your room on show night. I've been in this business a lot longer than you have and i'll be in this business long after they take you out in a body bag because you are going to O.D on some shit that you're going to pump into your veins because you hate yourself, and guess what? I'm your way out and you're too fucking stupid to even know it."….
There's that moment when the camera cuts to Valerie after watching the scene and we're waiting for any hint of recognition from her of the inexplicably incredible work she's just seen….and there's nothing. Not even Mickey's words of praise "Oh, Red! All these years. You can really act" can stop Val from tearing the scene apart – all for the way she looks – it's too dark, she looks tired, Paulie G pushed her too hard…even noting that clip was take 12.
Val is completely blinded by the darkness in the scene.
And once again, just as we're almost comfortable enough to root for Val for the win, she's off like a bull, hunting down anyone that can make her look better on screen because Val believes that "people aren't going to want to see me look like that" – a belief only instilled further after a meeting with a reporter from the New York times who after seeing the first episode of Seeing Red, told Val she was brave. .
So consumed in what others think of her, Val completely misses the actual and genuine positive remark for one of vanity – but that's the Valerie Cherish we've walked hand in hand with all along.
Thankfully, after a second meeting with the NY Times reporter, Val get's it given to her straight up "It was so emotionally raw. People have never seen that side of you before. It felt like you were exposing the inner part of yourself in a very surprising and compelling way."
Could Valerie be ready to leave behind the image she wants people see her as in exchange for the credible actress she could possibly be?
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Is SEC a government agency Philippines?
The Securities and Exchange Commission (Filipino: Komisyon sa mga Panagot at Palitan, commonly known as SEC) is the agency of the Government of the Philippines charged with the registration and supervision of corporations and securities, as well as capital market institutions and participants, in the Philippines.
What happens if you lie to the SEC?
Is SEC a government agency Philippines?What is the full form of SEC paper?
How much money does the SEC get for winning the national championship?
How much do people in the SEC make?
How does the SEC affect U.S. today?
Do Sole proprietors need SEC?
Why did the SEC fail?
Who is currently #1 in SEC?
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Lying to SEC Investigators Can Result in Harsh Consequences, Even Jail Time. A hedge fund operator accused of securities fraud was recently sentenced to three months in prison for obstruction of justice.
Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) SEC courses are value-based and/or skill-based and are aimed at providing hands-on-training, competencies, skill etc.
Collectively — for making it to both the College Football Playoff semifinals and the national championship — Georgia and Alabama will take home $6 million apiece, courtesy of the SEC.
How much does a Sec make? As of Aug 8, 2022, the average annual pay for the Sec jobs category in the United States is $113,174 a year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $54.41 an hour. This is the equivalent of $2,176/week or $9,431/month.
The SEC gives investors confidence in the U.S. stock market. That's critical to the strong functioning of the U.S. economy. It does this by providing transparency into the financial workings of U.S. companies. It makes sure investors can get accurate and consistent information about corporate profitability.
Sole proprietors must register with the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) while corporations and partnerships are registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). A sole proprietor must register with the DTI and secure a Certificate of Registration.
Although several partial explanations have been given for the SEC's decline, including budgetary problems and a fragmented regulatory system that has not kept up with developments in the financial markets, the main reason for the decline is that the Commission succumbed to the anti-regulatory climate of recent years.
1 Georgia (53) 2-0
2 Alabama (9) 2-0
3 Ohio State (1) 2-0
4 Michigan 2-0
SECME – Science, Engineering, Communication, Mathematics, and Enrichment | AcronymFinder.
The SEC also divides its staff into five main divisions: the Division of Corporate Finance, the Division of Investment Management, the Division of Enforcement, the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, and the Division of Trading and Markets.
Full form of Security is: S-Sensible E-Efficient in work C-Claver U-Understanding R-Regular I-Intelligent T-Talent Y-Young. Full form of Security is: S-Sensible E-Efficient in work C-Claver U-Understanding R-Regular I-Intelligent T-Talent Y-Young.
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The Office of Veterans Affairs works to help assist tribal members who are Veterans of the U.S. armed forces, and their families, in an effort to improve their quality of life and their future. The department offers Veterans a multitude of services, referrals, outreach events, home and VA/Hospital visits, and Military Funeral Honors. The Program currently has more 250 recorded Veterans in our system and serves an average of 35 Veterans a month.


First Full Country-By-Country Reporting Standard Proposed in U.S.
Yesterday U.S. Senator Carl Levin introduced the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act (STHAA). The bill proposes solutions to loopholes and vulnerabilities in American policy that allow corporations to escape taxes. Tax evasion currently costs American taxpayers over $100 billion each year.
The bottom line is that each of us has a legal and civil obligation to pay taxes, and most Americans fulfill that obligation. It is time to force the tax scofflaws, the tax dodgers, and the tax cheats to do the same, and end their misuse of offshore tax havens.
In order to do so, the STHAA would provide the IRS, SEC, and law enforcement with new resources for detecting illicit financial activity, remove loopholes that allow misleading activity, and increase penalties on those abusing the financial system.
The bill, which requires annual country-by-country reporting "on employees, sales, financing, tax obligations, and tax payments" by all corporations registered with the SEC, marks the first time a full country-by-country reporting standard—one of the Task Force's major priorities—has been introduced in the United States . Requiring greater transparency from multinationals will help prevent tax evasion, transfer pricing, and other illicit international transfers of money. Country-by-country reporting has been identified by the Task Force as a priority in improving corporate accountability and preventing illicit capital flight.
For investors, the more information available about a company's business practices and balance sheets, the better. This reporting requirement would also help anti-corruption and economic development efforts in developing countries by creating more transparency and accountability in the business dealings between multinational companies and governments.
Access to increased information is a boon to the private sector as well as the government, allowing investors to better evaluate the financial health of firms.
The bill is cosponsored by Senators Bill Nelson, Sanders, Shaheen, and Whitehouse, and is supported by a wide range of advocacy and business groups, including Global Financial Integrity, Tax Justice Network, Citizens for Tax Justice, Global Witness, the FACT Coalition, and Business for Shared Prosperity, among others.


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Q: Change background colour between day and night in ggplot2 in R I'm plotting graphs in R from blood pressure measurements stored in Apple's Apple health app following the fantastic blog from Taras Kaduk.
I changed the code for my needs and now I would like to change the background colours from the plot depending on the time value. I have added a column daynight with the two values "night" and "day" ("night"= between 18:00 and 06:00, "day" from 06:00 until 18:00). Is there a way to use this values to switch the background color in the graph, so that all the night periods are darkened? Alternatively I could use directly the datetime value (x axis), that is a POSIXct value.
I did only find examples that do the trick but with one (or a few) fixed date values like this one: Change color background in ggplot2 - R by specific Date on x axis.
Here a dataset and the code I use so far:
Sample data (blood_pressure):
  value      type            datetime daynight         state
1    96 Diastolic 2022-01-10 07:52:48      day Hypertension 1
2   102 Diastolic 2022-01-10 07:09:58      day Hypertension 2
3   109 Diastolic 2022-01-09 19:58:56    night Hypertension 2
4   141  Systolic 2022-01-09 08:27:24      day Hypertension 1
5   146  Systolic 2022-01-10 19:09:19    night Hypertension 1

blood_pressure  %>%
  ggplot(blood_pressure, aes(datetime, value)) +
  geom_point()

Here You can see an example plot:

A: Here's an example using @Henrik's data:
d = data.frame(x = seq(from = Sys.time(), by = "1 hour", len = 50), y = 1)
d$hour = as.numeric(format(d$x, "%H"))
d$hour_shade =ifelse(d$hour >= 18 | d$hour <= 6, "gray60", "gray90")
ggplot(d, aes(x, y)) +
  geom_rect(aes(xmin = x, xmax = lead(x), ymin = -Inf, ymax = Inf,
                fill = hour_shade)) +
  geom_point() +
  scale_fill_identity()


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"The great thing about appropriation is that even though the transformation reads as fiction, everybody knows that the source of the appropriation was at some point non-fiction, (magazine, movie, etc.), and it's these sources, or elements of non-fiction, that gives the picture, no matter how questionable, its believable edge" – Richard Prince.
"Double Take" showcases works by artists who work and have worked with appropriation in photography as a mean of conveying a message. It presents a dialogue between some of the artists of the Pictures Generation and some artists of the younger federation.
Robert Heinecken (1931 - 2006) Two Women - T, 1987. ©The Robert Heinecken Trust, courtesy of Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles.
The gallery, which has a New York venue as well, presents exhibitions and publications devoted to the gallery's established area of expertise while also seeking to evolve and expand its focus. Skarstedt London is committed to sharing both its aesthetic perspective and philosophical approach through high-quality exhibitions and collaborations with top international museums and private collections.


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Here Are The Most Insane Black Friday Fights In American History
American PatriotsHere Are The Most Insane Black Friday Fights In American History
While Thanksgiving might come with family tussles around the dinner table Thursday, nothing seems to get Americans into the fighting mood quite like the Black Friday deals at Walmart.
We've compiled the most insane, petty, and hilarious videos of Black Friday consumers stampeding over one another to get that cheap TV, those AirPods that are now only slightly overpriced, or that toaster you guess you could use.
Teen Mall Brawl: Modesto, California — 2016
Footage obtained by CNN shows a group of young male Black Friday shoppers started wailing on each other at the Vintage Faire mall in Modesto, California in 2016.
The cause for the brawl went unreported, and local police told CNN they never heard about the incident. (RELATED: Prior To Black Friday, Don't Miss Out On This Deal)
The footage shows two young men in their teens or early twenties throwing punches before their friends get involved. Before long, nearly a dozen of them are beating each other and mall goers crowded around to watch or yell for them to stop.
Mall security eventually broke up the fight.
Resident Marco Sebastian said the fight started at about midnight, just as the Black Friday deals were going into effect, according to KTLA.
Punching Cops: El Paso, Texas — 2016
Police in El, Paso, Texas were trying to settle down Walmart shoppers fighting over a TV on Black Friday in 2015 when one of the shoppers thought it would be a good idea to take a swing at the cop. It wasn't.
The video shows a group of at least three men laying claim to a television box as police officers approach in the crowded store. An officer grabs one of the men wearing a cyan shirt and starts pushing him away from the box, at which point the man winds up his left arm and nails the cop. (RELATED: The Ultimate Black Friday Shopping Guide 2019 Amazon Edition)
"Oh shit," one of the shoppers can be heard saying as the police then take the man down. They pin him to the floor for roughly a minute before appearing to lift him up to take him out of the store.
Just goes to show: if you punch someone on Black Friday, make sure it's another shopper.
Riot Forces Mall To Close: Hoover, Alabama — 2017
JUST IN: @HooverPD say they responded to several reports of fights at the Galleria Thursday night. Here's video of one incident outside the Buckle store. More on @WBRCnews this morning. pic.twitter.com/UZEZQGykGE
— Clare Huddleston (@Fox6Clare) November 24, 2017
Police closed the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Alabama after multiple fights broke out in 2017. One video of the incident begins with shoppers screaming wildly and mall security already pinning at least one woman to the ground.
A few seconds in, a police officer bear hugs a woman from behind and lifts her up and away from a rack of clothing she'd been fighting over.
The camera then sweeps left to show another officer restraining a third woman before all three are lifted up in front of a crowd of people, several with their phones out.
The altercation was one of several that took place at around 11:20 p.m. the night before Black Friday, according to Claire Huddleston, a reporter for WBRC in Alabama.
There was also a report of gunfire, but police later said it had been someone lighting off fireworks, according to Mediaite.
Walmart Clerk Killed: Long Island, New York — 2008
Jdimytai Damour, a 6-foot-5 mountain of a store clerk was trampled to death after trying to block the path of stampeding shoppers in 2008.
While no footage of the incident was ever released, witnesses said other workers attempted to save Damour and were injured as well, with some heading to the hospital — including one woman who was eight months pregnant, according to The Guardian. The hospital later reported that both she and her baby were fine. (RELATED: Everyone Is Talking About This Mob Of Black Friday Shoppers Fighting Over TOWELS)
"Despite all of our precautions, this unfortunate event occurred," Walmart said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those impacted."
Walmart said it had hired Damour on a temporary basis to bulk up store staff in preparation for Black Friday. Witnesses said roughly 2,000 shoppers stormed through the doors when the opened.
Like Taking A Veggie Streamer From A Baby: Location Unknown — 2015
The clip posted on YouTube in 2015 shows shoppers tackling a pallet-full of veggie streamers. One woman grabs three and hands one of them to her son before another woman snatches it from the child and tries to spin away.
"Why are you being so aggressive? You're scaring me," the thief screams when the other woman tries to maintain possession of her third streamer.
Some have argued the video was staged, however, as there were several boxes lying on the floor a few feet from the child, and the boy appeared to already be holding the box before coming on-screen, according to the New York Daily News.
So what does Black Friday 2019 have in store for us? God only knows, but keep your eye on Arkansas and Alabama, which have traditionally been the hotbeds of America's Black Friday disasters.
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Why settle for an oversized piece of art when you can have a piece of art that covers the whole wall? The difference between a wall mural and wallpaper is that it doesn't repeat. It is an entire scene stretched across a determined width.
Floral wall murals create truly unique and striking spaces and are setting the trend in wallpaper offerings this season. This design will work really well as a feature and can add colour, definition and style to any space.
The abstract designs are iconic. They are so simple in the form of colours and can fit any personality. You don't have to worry much about styling around your mural, simply add a few feature pieces to make the space your own.
Magma's nature wall murals selection is perfect for any lover of the great outdoors. From lustrous mountain tops and deep forests to desert mountain scenery. The selection of calming designs celebrates the unique connection between us and the wonderful world we live in.
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Why is Micro Focus announcing obsolescence of a product or product version?
Micro Focus publishes the planned dates for end of Committed Support, Extended Support and Self-Help Support with Rights to New Versions on the Software Product Lifecycle pages on MySupport, as soon as the product version is released. There are version specific licenses for certain product versions and Micro Focus ends the sale of these licenses prior to the end of support date for that version. When this happens, we announce the obsolescence of a product version. And there are situations when the whole product is reaching its end of life. In such cases, Micro Focus will announce the obsolescence of the product and specify replacement products available for customers to use, if any.
For products under the version based support lifecycle process, Micro Focus announces the end of sale and end of support dates for specific versions when newer product versions or replacement products (if any) are released. These dates appear on MySupport.
This is in accordance with our Release & Support Policy. Definitions of terms are documented in the Business Support Agreement and Enterprise Security Products Support Policy.
Please refer to software.microfocus.com or otherwise check with your local Micro Focus sales representative or Micro Focus business partner for the latest information.
When a replacement product/new version is available, all support customers can obtain the media and associated license keys at Software Licenses and Downloads Portal.
In case of obsolescence of a product under the time based support lifecycle process for which a replacement product exists, or obsolescence of a product version under the time based support lifecycle process, Micro Focus will continue to provide Committed Support, Extended Support and Self-Help Support with Rights to New Versions for the product or product version until the dates that appear on MySupport Software Product Lifecycle.
In case of obsolescence of a product under the time based support lifecycle process for which no replacement product exists, Micro Focus will continue to provide support for the product until the dates that appear on MySupport Software Product Lifecycle .
In case of obsolescence of a product or product version under the version based support lifecycle process, Micro Focus will provide support until the announced end of support date, which is documented on MySupport Software Product Lifecycle. Thereafter, in case of product obsolescence with a replacement product or product version obsolescence, customer is entitled to Self-Help Support for a two (2) year period.
Following obsolescence, there may be a new version or a replacement product available through migration. You are encouraged to check with your local Micro Focus sales representative or Micro Focus business partner to determine the options that meet your business needs.
Support pricing for new versions or new products is determined independently. Please work with your Micro Focus representative to know the difference in support pricing, if any.
In connection with migration to a replacement product or product version, there may be an updated ALA document. Please read the latest ALAs for your newly migrated products so that you understand the new license terms and parameters. ALAs are available at https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/web/softwaresupport/document/-/facetsearch/document/KM720008.
Your local Micro Focus education specialist can help understand what training packages are available for you for your new product version or replacement product.
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Unix-утиліта cmp (від  — порівнювати) порівнює два файли будь-якого типу і пише результат в стандартний вивод. За умовчанням cmp не видає ніяких повідомлень, якщо файли однакові; якщо ж вони розрізняються, повідомляється номер байта і рядка, де виявлена перша відмінність. Байти і рядки нумеруються, починаючи з одиниці.

Входить, наприклад, в пакет GNU diffutils.

Синтаксис команди

Формат цієї команди наступний:
  cmp OPTIONS ...  FROM-FILE [TO-FILE]

Назва файлу «-» означає стандартний ввод. «Cmp» також використовує стандартний вивод, якщо один з файлів не вказаний.

Вихідний статус 0 означає, що відмінностей не знайдено, 1 — знайдено, 2 — виявлена помилка.

 -c
 Друкує символи, що розрізняються. Відображає контрольні символи символом «^» і буквою алфавіту, а також передує символам зі встановленим вищим бітом символом «-M» (що означає «мета»).
 -ignore-initial=BYTES
 Ігнорує всі відмінності в одному з перших BYTES байтах вхідних файлів. Відтак з файлами, меншими за розміром, ніж BYTES байтів, поводиться як з порожніми.
 -l
 Друкує зміщення (десяткове) і значення (вісімкове) всіх байтів, що розрізняються.
 -print-char
 Друкує всі символи, що розрізняються. Відображає контрольні символи символом «^» і буквою алфавіту, а також передує символам зі встановленим вищим бітом символом '-M' (що означає «мета»).
 -quite або -s або -silent
 Нічого не друкує, тільки повертає вихідний статус, який показує чи відрізняються файли.
 -verbose
 Друкує зміщення (десяткове) і значення (вісімкове) всіх байтів, що розрізняються.
 -v або -version
 Видає номер версії cmp.

Посилання
 cmp(1)  — сторінка допомоги man в GNU/Linux
 GNU diffutils

Стандартні програми для Unix


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