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package gavilcode.irc;

import gavilcode.bot.Procedure;
import gavilcode.bot.ScheduleManager;
import io.prometheus.client.Gauge;
import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;
import org.slf4j.Logger;

public class BackPressureImpl implements BackPressure {

private static final int LIMIT = 18;
private static final int DECAY = 35;

private static final Gauge TOKENS_GAUGE = Gauge.build()
        .name("bot_output_tokens_free")
        .help("count of remaining output tokens")
        .register();

private final Logger log;
private final ScheduleManager scheduleManager;

private final BlockingQueue<String> tokenQueue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<>();
private final BlockingQueue<Procedure> jobQueue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<>();
private boolean shuttingDown = false;

public BackPressureImpl(Logger log, ScheduleManager scheduleManager) {
  this.log = log;
  this.scheduleManager = scheduleManager;
  init();
}

private void init() {
  IntStream.range(0, LIMIT).forEach(i -> tokenQueue.add("token"));
}

private void instrument() {
  int remaining = tokenQueue.size();
  TOKENS_GAUGE.set(remaining);
}

private void incTokens() {
  tokenQueue.add("token");
  instrument();
}

private void decTokens() {
  try {
    tokenQueue.take();
    instrument();
  }
  catch (InterruptedException ex) {
    log.error("", ex);
  }
}

@Override
public void doJobs() {
  try {
    while (!shuttingDown) {
      decTokens();
      var p = jobQueue.take();
      p.apply();
      if (!shuttingDown) {
        scheduleManager.schedule(this::incTokens, DECAY, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
      }
    }
  }
  catch (InterruptedException ex) {
    log.error("", ex);
  }
}

@Override
public void addJob(Procedure p) {
  try {
    jobQueue.put(p);
  }
  catch (InterruptedException ex) {
    log.error("", ex);
  }
}

@Override
public void close() {
  addJob(() -> shuttingDown = true);
  log.info("done tokens");
}

}

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Demo01_Strategy.BaseClass
{
    /// <summary>
    /// 算法的抽象父类
    /// </summary>
    public abstract class Strategy
    {
        public abstract void AlgorithmInterface();
    }
}


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(2) Any explosives that are not put into another magazine must be Footnote *attended.
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Q: Flutter Firebase Phone auth I am using sign-in with email and password feature of firebase Auth for my flutter app sign-in, i also want to use sign-in with phone number using otp send by firebase to your given number, the issue i am facing is that the user created by 'firebaseauth.createUserWithEmailAndPassword' is not same as when signing in with phone number, because it creates different user. I wanted to integrate phone auth with email and password
with same exiting users.
i have tried writing code for phone auth , basically the user profile details are null when i signin with phonenumber. but when i sign-in with or login with email and password it shows the user profile details so it is clear that seperate user is created which i don't want , i want a same user to user emailpass plus phone otp feature.

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Precious Metals & Energy – Weekly Review and Calendar Ahead
oleh admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Berita Terbaru | 0 Komentar
It's finally done: Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill.
In the coming days, most Americans will find checks for $1,400 per person in their direct deposit accounts. The so-called American Rescue Plan also aims to vaccinate the entire adult population by the 4th of July Independence Day; provide financial grants for states and businesses; and help the unemployed get back to work.
For an idea of what this means to markets, the Dow hit record highs all week, rallying right after the bill passed the Senate to the point when it got to Biden's desk for his signature.
This stimulus contains positives not just for risk assets. The huge spending involved will likely bolster inflation more than in any recovery period, including the months after the financial crisis 12 years ago.
On the commodities side, this means it's not just oil and copper that will benefit from the pandemic-restrained demand that will be unleashed for energy and infrastructure.
Gold prices should also rise, catching up, at least in theory, with price pressures that should grow after being held back for a year by depressed employment and wages.
Yet, what's theoretically possible isn't always necessarily achievable — as long-only investors in gold regretfully realized the past few months.
Gold prices fell 2.7% in January despite U.S. personal income growing 10% that month, beating forecasts, after checks for $600 a person sent out by former president Donald Trump under the last Covid-19 stimulus bill for $900 billion.
Gold's rut did not end with January. It continued to slide 6% in February. For March, it is down about 0.5 % month-to-date.
For decades, gold was touted as the best store of value whenever there were worries about inflation. Yet, in recent months, it was deliberately prevented from being the go-to asset for investors as Wall Street banks, hedge funds and other actors shorted the metal while pushing up U.S. bond yields and the dollar instead.
Bitcoin, an asset that can barely prove its intrinsic value, meanwhile, cropped up as a contrarian trade to gold, often rallying at the expense of the yellow metal. On Sunday, the granddaddy of cryptocurrencies, hit all-time highs above $61,000 — rallying 1,400% from its lows of March 2020.
Gold, in contrast, couldn't have done worse.
At just under $1,730 an ounce, the spot price of gold is back to its peak from a year ago, after losing 17% from an August record high of $2,073. Futures of gold actually fell into bear-market territory on March 9, hitting $1,673, or 20% below from their November record high of $2,089.
Gold's real anathema has been bond yields benchmarked to the U.S. 10-year Treasury note. These have hit pre-pandemic highs above 1.6% since last month on the argument that economic recovery in the coming months could overheat, leading to spiralling inflation, as the Federal Reserve insists on keeping interest rates at near zero.
The dollar, which typically falls in an environment of heightened inflation fears, rallied instead on the same runaway economic recovery logic. The greenback's status as a reserve currency also bolstered its standing as a safe haven, leading to new long positions being built in the dollar. In recent weeks, the Dollar Index has returned near the key bullish level of 92, further weighing on gold.
Despite this, an intriguing dynamic shift occurred on Friday — and it remains to be seen if it will last.
Gold prices began the day weak, falling more than $20 at one point, as the dollar spiked and yields on the 10-year note hit 13-month highs. But as the day progressed, the yellow metal recovered. It squeezed in its first weekly profit in four as it managed to settle New York futures trade just a few dollars lower than on Thursday, while actually closing higher in spot trade.
The comeback was somewhat spectacular considering that both of gold's spot and futures prices fell below the $1,700 support earlier in the day. It was not clear immediately what led to the turnaround. But some in the market read it as gold recapturing some of its safe-haven quality, as U.S. inflation enters a new era.
"Gold is extremely light-weighted now, as it's hated so much," said Philip Streible, analyst and broker at Blueline Futures in Chicago. "When you have such extreme levels of pessimism, often you see critical turning points in the market."
He also said that while the dollar wasn't making new lows, "yields might be overdone for the time being, in some kind of consolidation mode, and I think gold is recognizing that."
If gold is to continue rising — and it should as the $1.9 trillion stimulus is monetized and wages and prices rise to pressure the dollar — a rebound to at least $1,785 an ounce is possible in the near-term. That target shows up on multiple technical charts as a median resistance for gold were it to attempt a return to the $1,800 berth it lost last month.
While it's easy to ostracize gold at every market downturn, a study of the U.S. fiscal deficit and debt-to-GDP ratio will show why such a time-honored store of value is important to an investor's portfolio.
The U.S. Treasury's latest monthly balance sheet released on Wednesday showed a budget deficit of $1.05 trillion in the first five months of fiscal 2021, with $311 billion coming in February alone. And that's before the Biden administration's $1.9 trillion stimulus works its way into the economy in the coming months.
Gross federal debt in the United States increased to 107.6% of Gross Domestic Product in 2020 from 106.9% in 2019. US national debt itself is approaching $28 trillion.
If the 10-year note's yield rate stands at 2%, coupled with a near $30 trillion national debt, annual servicing payments would amount to $660 billion roughly. Annual deficits will continue to make the national debt stack even higher.
And while the United States appears to be in the relatively early stages of a monetary expansion cycle, money supply could still increase substantially and set the country up for a return to the 2008/2009 financial crisis days.
The other thing to consider is that the US economy could indeed rebound a lot faster than the Fed expects, as per the bets on 10-year yields. If that's the case, there's also a chance for inflation to rise stronger than the central bank expects. Gold historically has a strong correlation over the long-term with dollar debasement and monetary base expansion.
What we saw on Friday is an intriguing dynamic that could augur well for gold bulls — if it lasts.
Oil, meanwhile, displayed its own interesting shift on Friday as U.S. crude prices posted their first weekly loss in three as the resurgent dollar smothered most commodities.
Global oil benchmark Brent also had its first weekly dip since January though the drop barely made a dent on market sentiment with the London-traded crude staying at just under the key $70 per barrel mark.
"Brent crude will remain stuck around the $70 level until the oil demand outlook improves in Europe, which will only happen when they stop struggling with COVID variants," said Ed Moya, analyst at New York's OANDA.
Oil started the day higher in Asian trading as markets celebrated Biden's signing of his Covid-19 bill into law on Thursday. But as the day progressed, the spike in bond yields and the dollar took the shine off most commodities, except gold.
Despite Friday's dip, oil prices remain at least 80% higher than where they stood at end-October despite government data indicating U.S. crude output was recovering faster than refining after last month's storm-related outages in Texas.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration, in its weekly petroleum supply-demand report on Wednesday, estimated crude production at 10.9 million barrels per day for the week ended March 5, up from 10 million bpd cited for the week ended Feb. 26.
The EIA also said that crude inventories rose 13.798 million barrels last week, compared with industry analysts' expectations for a build of 816,000. The prior week's build was 21.5 million barrels, even higher than the 19.2 million-barrel increase seen during the week to April 10, 2020, when demand for oil cratered amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
But offsetting some of the impact of last week's crude build were larger-than-forecast drawdowns in gasoline and distillates, the EIA said.
That allowed traders to close an eye on the humongous crude builds and mark up in production since the Texas storm.
"We need more real oil buyers in the market for new highs," said Scott Shelton, energy futures broker at ICAP in Durham, North Carolina. "Are they coming? Absolutely, because demand is ripping and we need higher refinery runs globally and with emphasis on the U.S., where we have drawn down products stocks heavily due to the refinery outages."
Gold Price & Market Roundup
Gold for April delivery on New York's Comex did a final trade of $1,725.60 on Friday. It settled official trading for the session at $1,719.80, down $2.80, or 0.2%. It tumbled earlier in the day to $1,696.65, to break key $1,700 support.
For the week though, the benchmark gold futures contract gained $21.30, or 1.3%. It was the first positive week for Comex gold after three prior weeks of losses that left longs in the yellow metals almost 7% poorer.
The spot price of gold, which fund managers sometimes rely on for direction more than futures, settled on Friday at $1,727.55, up $5.12, or 0.3%. Its intraday low was $1,699.28. For the week, spot gold rose 1.5%. It lost almost 7% in three weeks prior.
Oil Price & Market Roundup
New York-traded West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark for U.S. crude, did a final trade of $65.57 on Friday. It officially settled the session at $65.61, down 41 cents, or 0.7%.
London-traded Brent, the global benchmark for oil, did a final trade of $69.18 per barrel. It officially settled the session at $69,22, down 41 cents, or 0.6%. For the week, it was down 0.2%.
Energy Calendar Ahead
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American Petroleum Institute weekly report on oil stockpiles. Wednesday, March 17
EIA weekly report on crude stockpiles
EIA weekly report on gasoline stockpiles
EIA weekly report on distillates inventories
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I love you dad! You're the best dad anyone could ask for. I am who I am because of this man. And what a great man he is. Probably the best in the whole wide world.
I'll save the things I love about him for his upcoming birthday (and I better get on that, 52 reasons is a lot of things to think of!)....until then, TE AMO PADRE!
Happy Father's Day to Kraig Earl, Grandpa Johansen, Grandpa Bert, Grandad Garrison, and Pa! We love you SO MUCH!
FYI: It's really not as bad as I make it out to be.
Landing at noon, we proceeded directly to CAFE RIO with my mom and sister, Brooke. Best welcome home treat ever. Thanks Mom. It's a crime that this blessing hasn't touched other states. Someday.
Second thing I did when I got home was get my wedding ring. Oh how I missed my diamond. I was counseled not to take it, and have had a decoy in it's place for the last 6 months. I'm excited to be wearing it for the next month. It's back where it belongs.
1) Touching down in Utah I got a little teary. It happens every time I have been in another country for an extended period of time. America is amazing. There's nothing like it and we are so blessed.
2) There is a distinct "feeling" since I've been here...and it's not the fact that I'm back in Mormonville, it's called relaxation, where I don't have to lock my doors the second I get in, cling tightly to my purse, hide my things in the trunk, worry subconsciously that someone selling things in every intersection will shatter my window.
3) I also might be a little more rude since South Africa. I'm so used to people being everywhere begging or trying to sell me things, coming up to my window when I'm stopped, knocking on my window. In South Africa I know that if I turn to look at them and say "No," that simple acknowledgment will spur them into a frenzy where they won't leave you alone. But if you look straight ahead and ignore them completely, they move on. That flight attendant probably thought "Who does this lady think she is?" as I proceeded to "ignore her completely looking straight ahead" instead of politely saying, "No thank you" when she asked me if I wanted anything from the Sky Magazine.
4) It's a good thing I'm not driving yet. Or you would find me in head-on traffic yelling "EVERYONE IS GOING THE WRONG WAY!!!"
5) I love cereal. If you asked me what I would be eating if I knew I was dying in 10 minutes, it would be cereal. I am enjoying have 2 or 3 bowls of different cereals every morning. There are 2 types of cereals in South Africa, Corn Flakes and Frosties. Oh how I have missed Golden Grahams, Apple Cinnamon Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Honey Bunches of Oats, and Frosted Mini Wheats.
6) I love looking out the window of my parent's place right now, watching the colors of the sunrise on the mountains of the canyon, the snow on Snow Basin, the green, and all the boaters pulling the skiers on that perfect glass. Oh this valley.
The first exciting event was seeing my best friend from high school, jr. high, elementary: Sarah Allen, who just returned home from her mission to Oregon. We picked up right where we left off as two goofy immature 18 year olds. It was wonderful.
I was super excited for yesterday, the 19th because it was one of my best friend Haylie Cox's birthday. I told her I wasn't coming in until the 23rd. She was planning a big Hogle Zoo trip with a bunch of friends, so I (with Sarah's help), went early and hid by the lion drinking fountain. Thanks to Sarah who "needed to get a picture drinking out of this fountain," I jumped out and surprised Haylie for her birthday. Totally awesome.
It's great that I've been so busy running around all day because when the 2-4am South Africa time hits (around 5-7pm Utah time)....I haven't been near a bed yet. I'm waking up at 5am, but doing pretty well!
My other best friend (I know...I have many) is having her baby girl TODAY! I can't wait to meet the little lady. I told her to wait for me to come in to come out of her mama and man she loves me already. I was able to take Lyndee's preggo pictures yesterday which turned out SUPER cute. Please bless I'm this cute with a baby inside me someday.
Her sister Kara brought her handsome little guy Colin along and we got some of his 18 month pictures too. What a cutie (pictures coming soon).
Well--I'm off to do some chores! I guess I gotta help around the house since I'm living here again!
Ben was invited by some of the "guys" to go to the USA vs. Italy Confederations Cup game here in Pretoria. "We're leaving the wives at home," his friend said. WHAT?! Not a happy camper :) Oh well. Ben had a blast. He said it was loud and lively (and man did he smell like beer and cigarettes when he got back). Too bad USA lost! He's probably going to the USA vs. Brazil game this Thursday with some office buddies. Way cool that we're right here where the action is happenin'.
We moved apartments this week too. Four floors up. That's what I got to do while he was at the game. We loved our old place...a lot, and there were many conveniences we had to forgo, but this place was cheaper for the company so we made the move. Click here to see our last apartment.
It's still way nice and we'll enjoy the change!
We had such a great weekend down in Durban. It's about a 6 hour drive south to the coast so we left Thursday night. We stayed at a fun backpackers place in Drakensberg and then left early Friday to get to the beach. The beaches were beautiful. We walked forever along the beach, chilled, and read New Moon. I only had about 3 or 4 chapters left at this time but I had told Ben what was happening. Don't tell him I wrote this but he wanted me to read the last of the book outloud! Isn't he a great husband?
We stayed at the BEST little B&B called the Manaar House in Umhlanga Friday night, it was so cozy and cute and had a hot tub!! That is the first hot tub we've seen here in South Africa. They are definitely few and far between. It was so nice to relax in after a day at the beach. We had such great weather too, and it's winter here!
Saturday we slept in, had an awesome breakfast, and enjoyed some more time on the beach before headed up 30 minutes north to Ballito.
Saturday night we went to "the biggest mall in the Southern Hemisphere," called The Gateway in Umhlanga. It was massive. Our feet killed after walking around the entire thing.
Sunday we went to the beach in Ballito and the beaches were the BOMB! They were covered in these cool rocks and ruins. It was fun to explore, catch crabs, and watch the surfers.Surfing is HUGE here in South Africa along the Durban coast, down to Jeffrey's Bay. There were so many and they were so good! The waves were enormous.
Anyway--we're sad to be back because it means that we only have 3 more days together before we're separated for a MONTH. I'm super sad but being home will help mucho. Can't wait to see everyone! Too bad I barely missed my 5-year high school reunion....oh well. How was it those of you who went?
Oh and my thoughts on New Moon: It was better than I thought it would be. Not as depressing as I'd anticipated. I liked getting to know Jacob and I really liked having Edward gone so they could build their friendship. I actually didn't want Edward to come back. I think I like Jacob more! She was just really happy with him and I felt like they had a real relationship and connection, instead of just this serious mystery and intrigue, the fantasy with Edward's "perfect face, marble skin, velvet voice, and golden eyes"...which I'm getting tired of hearing about. I also felt like the book was way too long and drawn out. She writes way too much information instead of just getting to the point. But I did enjoy it and I've got Eclipse to read on the flight home.
Also, we're moving today. Same building, just different room. We have mixed feelings about it because we absolutely love our apartment now. I'll get some pics of it up soon. Ok. I'm out!
We went to a Rugby game here in Joburg...must say that it wasn't too fun or interesting. I'm sure it would be if I knew what the heck was going on and why they dance around in a huddle and stuff, also I'm sure it would be better if we didn't lose 10 to 70! But oh well, it was with all the Monitor people which is always fun.
I also did all the bio pictures for Ben's office 2 days ago. That was fun.
I'm going home soon which I'm STOKED about. Not so stoked about being away from Ben though...FOR A WHOLE MONTH. Oh please bless me. That will not be fun. Then when I get back, we have 10 days together before he leaves me for 6 weeks....heaven help me.
It's officially freezing here in Joburg. Good thing we're headed to Durban for the weekend! It's right on the coast with amazing weather! We can't wait! Especially to have some quality time together before I'm a widow for 3 months.
P.S. I love this. I want to be like this when I'm 90. Have a great weekend!
So I'm on this CHANGE kick. First, I caved in and decided to read New Moon, mostly just to have the whole 'the book is better than the movie' feeling when I see the movie, cause I'm sure I will. I cut bangs on myself. Which I haven't had since I was probably 7. And over the weekend, went DARK! I like it. I always like to change my hair, and why not? What do you think?
Ben got on a new case that involves over 13 countries in Africa. Sa-weet. The good news is that he'll be making the world a better place and "saving Africa" with his work. And he'll also be able to spend 3-4 weeks in his favorite country, Mozambique....the bad news is that there will be a lot of travel. Multiple weeks at a time. Maybe even up to 6 weeks in September. No bueno. We're trying to figure out what to do with little miss me...since I can't come along and don't want to stay here by myself...I could develop some of my skills, like I would love to become a professional whistler. I'm pretty amazing at it right now, but I want to get even better.
Speaking of Mozambique. I'm sure you've all heard the news: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6660347. Can't believe we were just there a few weeks ago. Staying in that exact house with the Packards. We have received a couple emails from President Packard with updates and reports of the incident. The news has it mostly correct. President Packard did say, "Elder & Sister Nelson were not specifically targeted or that this was any act against the Church. This was most likely an isolated armed robbery and we happened to be their target this particular night." Also that the guards were not involved. During the meeting with the missionaries, Elder Nelson said that 'this type of thing happens all over the world. It is not unique to Africa as some might assume.' Our thoughts and prayers go out to them, their family, and the mission of Mozambique.
I'm coming home to Utah at the end of June! I can't wait. And it falls perfectly when Ben leaves for 3 weeks to work in Mozambique. Let me know if you want any pictures done while I'm there!
So Mensa. Since we're all into it. And Ben and I are math nerds. Take the official Mensa Quiz. I got 17/30 and Ben got 23/30. See what you get!
OK. That's all. Can't think of anything else. Peace out.


"To you, Miss Duncum, who has understood, assisted, and encouraged the Lair staff for many years, we would like to say that we will always remember you for your untiring efforts and sincere loyalty you have demonstrated throughout this year. We shall never forget you."
"The Board of Education Plans Ahead"
"The Rockdale Public School's Board of Education serves well at a job which demands sacrifice of time and the ability and courage to make a decision and stick by it. The members render this civic service unselfishly and receive no salary for their time. Their constant aim is to provide Rockdale with the finest in education. These prominent citizens have fulfilled their duties to the taxpayers and have maintained a policy of continuous improvement in our school facilites and instructional aids."
The Rockdale High School has sought to create an atmosphere whereby students could become involved in planning and decision making. Our concept of democratic administration recognizes the importance of student participation in a variety of school projects. We pledge our energy and patience to improve ourselves in developing responsible behavior in our students.
It is my earnest desire that the students of 1961–62 continue to be thoughtful and loyal to your school as you have been in the past. It has been a wonderful experience working with you. I wish you continued success and happiness in the future.
"These secretaries of our school fill an important function in the efficient operations of our school offices. Upon their shoulders fall the task of keeping record cards up–to–date, answering students' questions, greeting guests, answering the many phone calls and keeping everyone posted on the routine of the school Often it means giving of extra time to fulfill their job."
"Mrs White, secretary to High School Principal Charlie Martin, is a great help to the students and faculty"
"Mr Johnson and Mrs Walker are the Tax Assessors for the Public School of Rockdale"
"This is our school! We are proud to be a part of it!
Each little event added to the big moments makes our school life an industrious and happy one. Taking part in many activities, attending the various dances, and watching the mighty eleven fight on the gridiron are just a few of the many memories we wish to recall.


Had a half head of highlights with Emma. She wouldn't just shut up and let me relax throughout the whole visit and now my daughter has told me I have lines through my hair from bad highlights! Very annoyed. Won't be going back.
I went there on Monday will make this my hairdressers now, first class experience.
well this is what I have been looking for very nice girls that communicate with you, and now what the right thing is for you, never have I had such a lovely hair cut but also the best colour for me, will always go back there thank you.
Had my first haircut at withams best kept secret hair at Ooh la la. I had a fantastic 5* experience and will be recommending to all my friends.
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Mr Cleffton looked at the honourable lady in pitying and profound contempt for her ignorance, and deep reproach for what to him seemed an indifference absolutely brutal. What! sit down and calmly play on another instrument while his own—to him the best in the world—might be speeding in the hands of the exultant robber to the other end of the world.
This was more than fiddler humanity could endure. High fees and even the countenance of earls were not to be despised, but they were as nothing compared with the loss of his darling instrument, and in a torrent of excited language, such as the lady was seldom favoured with hearing, the bereaved musician told her so. Not another note would he play till he got his own fiddle.
A horrible pause followed, but in the end a compromise was effected, by which all but Mr Cleffton continued to play, while he followed the butler from the room to prosecute his inquiries in the regions below.
A tardily stammered-out word from one of the servants had given them a slight clue to the strange disappearance. During the interval occupied by supper, some of the strange servants being entertained below—that is, the coachmen and footmen of those who had come a distance, and merely put up the horses to wait till the party was over—had proposed that they should take a peep at the glories of the empty ball-room, and, this being readily agreed to, they slipped quietly upstairs under the guidance of one of the servants, and gratified their curiosity.
Every one in this case, down to the servants of the house themselves, had imagined that every body else knew all about the strange man, and so had paid little attention to him and his odd manner.
Smith had done little but smoke and stare, though he had shown great alacrity in going up to see the ball-room; some, indeed, insisted that it had been he who proposed the treat. More, he had gone up with his heavy driving coat on, and some of the servants had a faint recollection of him loitering near the music stands while the rest of the servants walked round the room looking at the decorations.
"Who, indeed?" All echoed the question; but when guest after guest had been enumerated or appealed to by the butler, there came the still more surprising discovery that Smith served no one—came with no one—and was known to no one—had gained admittance, indeed, entirely by the dress he wore, his own cool audacity, and the general flurry in which every one was plunged by the party being held up stairs.
The incentive was little needed, for a good deal of Cleffton's excitement had communicated itself to those about him. In a few minutes several vehicles were horsed and ready in the stable yard behind, and on one of these Mr Cleffton took his place beside the driver and with a grand lashing of whips and excited whooping they were off down the avenue, at the foot of which they separated to take the different roads running from the spot. Mr Cleffton, from some idea of his own, had chosen that leading to Edinburgh; but, though the night was clear, and the moon and stars out in the sky, not a trace of the fugitive did they come upon between the mansion and the city. Several tramps they did overtake and rouse up and search without ceremony, but as none of these answered the description of the surly Mr Smith, they were allowed to resume their tramping or snoring, while the agonised fiddler entered the city. Of course his first visit was to the Central Police Office, where he made known his loss to the lieutenant on night duty, and then excitedly demanded to see a detective. It was explained to him that detectives require sleep as well as ordinary mortals, and are not usually kept at the office during the night waiting for such exceptional cases, but this produced little impression upon the musician.
They ought to have given him McSweeny?'s address, considering the hour and the work I had done the day before, but they didn't; they gave him mine; and out to Charles Street he came at half-past four in the morning, and roused me out of bed, sleepy, stupid, and dazed with having got only three hours rest instead of eight, and, without waiting to see if I understood him, at once began to bemoan his loss.
"Strad! Strad! Who is she?" I vacantly asked, thinking from the man's tears that he must mean some young and beautiful maiden, violently abducted from her home and friends.
I stared at him, only half understanding the speech, and inclined to think that he had lost his head.


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Ilott expecting tough IndyCar debut, aims just to finish
David Malsher-Lopez
Callum Ilott is taking a measured approach to his first-ever IndyCar race, to use it as an experience-gathering exercise before working to make the car faster.
It was announced on Friday that Juncos Hollinger, which will return to IndyCar full-time in 2022, is to run Ilott in all three remaining races on this year's schedule.
The Ferrari Formula 1 test driver will roll off 19th in a field of 27 cars this afternoon, and is anticipating a tough baptism in the NTT IndyCar Series, but told Motorsport.com that he's determined to complete the race and gain experience.
"It's one of the heaviest cars I've driven," said the 22-year-old Briton, who last year finished runner-up in the Formula 2 championship. "The F2 car's peak is heavier, but because in these you're pushing hard 100 percent every lap, IndyCar is more tiring. In F2, you have to save the tires.
"I was told by Christian [Lundgaard, who made his IndyCar debut last month] that here you just push, and the Firestones will drop off a bit but you haven't got time to tire-save, as such; you just push and when they do give up, you just pit.
"He didn't have to fuel save; here I think we will have to do that a bit unless there's an early safety car.
"But whatever, I think after a 1hr45min race, I'm going to come in with bigger arms for sure!"
To save fuel requires the driver to come off the throttle sooner at the end of a straight but make up for this by carrying more off-throttle rolling speed through the corners, which in turn demands that the tires soak up a lot of lateral load. Ilott said he had tried this in FP2, the 30min session held after qualifying.
"Yeah, I was trying that in second practice which is why we were at the bottom of the times. Then at the end of the session we started to push but by then the tires had 25 laps on them so there wasn't a lot left.
"But I got a good feel for the tire deg I can expect tomorrow and the balance shift."
Ilott was only 0.6917sec off the fastest speed in his Q1 Group 1 segment, and less than three tenths away from being in the top six and therefore making it through to Q2.
"There are so many good drivers and cars, the field's so tightly packed, so that's not bad," he said. "I know I've got to get up to speed and I've also got to get the team up to speed as well, so it's a work in progress for all of us.
"We didn't really get a feeling for the reds in practice, and we got caught up in drivers trying to make gaps for themselves on track. Plus, to be honest, we were out of the window setup wise at that point.
"So after that we had a long discussion to turn the car around a bit and the car was a lot more in the window, but we missed out on a lap in qualifying and you don't get many laps in quali. But the car at least felt much better."
Regarding his prospects for the race, he said: "I don't think we're quick, but it's important to get the laps in, make sure we finish, and then we can all sit down and discuss what we can do to the car afterwards to make it faster for the next two races.
"On a short, tough track like Portland, every little bit counts and with a team that's restarting [in IndyCar terms] after two years away, we're still ironing things out. Every time I pit, there's two or three things that we need to address, and we need to change.
"And we're a one-man band. It's not like I can compare my feedback or data to anyone else."
On that point, Ilott said that the prospect of flying the Juncos Hollinger banner solo – and as a rookie – in 2022 wouldn't intimidate him.
"I wouldn't say that's an issue right now," he commented. "It's something that obviously I would heavily think about.
"On the driving side, I have no lack of confidence that I'm quick when we get it right. Of course, I've got to get experience but I believe in my own abilities.
"On the other hand, I have never previously pushed a team from where we are to where I hope we can be, so that will be a challenge in a series that's totally new to me. I need to speak to Ricky [team founder Ricardo Juncos] to see if there's things that I can bring or implement – not technically, but systematically, things I know that work from my previous efforts across the pond.
"I think it's very important to have someone to compare to, whether that's through a technical partnership with another team, whether that's with Juncos Hollinger running another car. Because at the end of the day you never know exactly what your full potential is unless you have something to compare to.
"I think a technical partnership with another team would actually be the best way because then it helps the whole team, not just me as driver, to gauge where we are, how we're doing, if we're making progress.
"But that's not my decision. That's for Ricardo to sort out. For my part, I just have to do what I can in the car and out of the car when I'm giving feedback."
Asked about his prospects for 2022, he said: "I really want to see where we are at the end of these three races, when I'm more familiar with the car, when we've ironed out any technical bugs with the car.
"Because I believe there was easily potential to be mid-pack in qualifying yesterday, and I think that's a good start with a brand new team. It gives me a lot of hope for what we can achieve together at Laguna Seca and Long Beach, and then that will give me a lot better idea of what to do in 2022."
Callum Ilott with Ricardo Juncos at the IMS road course test.
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The Temptations in their current incarnation.
Few songs more epitomize a musical zeitgeist or revolution in music history quite like this one. The individual male voices and musicians which brought those sounds to the world consisted of a classic Motown quintet with names like Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Melvin Franklin, Paul Williams, and Otis Williams along with the accompaniment by accomplished jazz players, The Funk Brothers.
The Temptations began in Detroit under the guidance of Motown music visionary Barry Gordy. The Tempts came to the fore in 1960, replete with classy suits and old-school swagger, and within three years became stars.
In the '60s, Motor City was the epicenter of cool and class and soon became a musical assembly line of hit after hit after hit. Those hits would come from the talents of legendary performers such as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Supremes, The Marvelettes, The Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Martha and the Vandellas. Some 20 number one hits came from this pioneering collective that would lead to its brash moniker, Hitsville USA.
Now 56 years later, one lone, original Temptation member, Otis Williams carries on with his latest iteration of the group, which he brings to the Ovations LIVE! Showroom at Wild Horse Pass Casino in Chandler this Saturday night, and the 74-year-old isn't letting age slow him down.
"I had no indication that 56 years later I would still be enjoying the ride," Williams says by phone from his home in Los Angeles.
Aside from Williams, it was his bandmates whose myriad of obstacles nearly collapsed the group.
Ruffin, who sang many of the leads in the group's hits, wanted more control of the money, and towards the end of his tenure in the group began missing shows. After being kicked out in the summer of 1968, he would occasionally just show up on stage and take over the vocal. He would later launch a moderately successful solo career.
Kendrick, who handled much of the song arrangements, followed in 1970 after not liking the new psychedelic direction of the group's music.
Williams, who suffered from sickle-cell anemia, fought the illness, but it would eventually force him to leave the Tempts in 1971 at the behest of his doctor. In the late '60s, Franklin suffered from arthritis. He was shot in the hand and leg trying to stop a man from stealing his car in 1978. His health continued to deteriorate over the next several years, and by 1995 he could no longer perform.
Ruffin died of a drug overdose in 1991 at 50. Kendrick died in 1992 of lung cancer at 52. Paul Williams committed suicide in 1973 at the young age of 34, and Franklin died in 1995 after a series of seizures at 52.
For Williams, eluding the fate that befell his comrades was due in great part to dancing on the edge of the excesses of the entertainment world, yet knowing when to take control.
Smokey Robinson, another Motown legend, played a significant role in jump-starting the Temptations' career.
Like many veteran performers, Williams is challenged to listen to the band's hits like "My Girl" after 50-plus years, but his message is clear about performing them.
Among the now 24 different names to grace the stage as Temptations, Ron Tyson has actually been with Williams and the Temptations longer than any other members with the exception of Williams and Franklin, going on 34 years. He and Williams are joined by Terry Weeks, now 18 years a group member. The trio will be breaking in new members, veteran soul man Larry Braggs (13 years with Tower of Power) and Willie Green this month.
Williams and the Tempts now focus on their ongoing series of mini-tours, which already include some two dozen shows already in early 2016. The group is also is actually working on a Broadway play based on the the Tempts run, with Williams as a producer. The group is also working on a new album Williams hopes to write, record, and produce by next year, as well. The group's last album, Still Here, came out in 2010.
Williams says it is hard to have one shining moment he is most proud of in a laundry list of accomplishments, from playing 13 times on The Ed Sullivan Show, being the only black group to have not one, but two TV specials, having played for U.S. presidents from Nixon all the way up to Obama.
The Temptations are scheduled to play Wild Horse Pass and Casino in Chandler on Saturday, January 16.


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Robert Mugabe, The Greatest African Nationalist in the 21st Century
Posted by TheBlackList on August 30, 2013 at 6:48pm
Meet His Excellency President Robert Gabriel Mugabe
By Shaka Barak,
President of the Marcus Garvey Institute, Inc
Born February 21, 1924, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, in the Zvimba District northwest of Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia to a Malawian father Gabriel Matibili and a Shona mother Bona, grew into a highly intelligent, articulate, aggressive, self-disciplined, with a serious demeanor, as a lover of books and reading, dark and handsome, and a non-drinker, and a non-smoker. He could easily teach a class ranging from Christianity to Socialism. However, his love for Zimbabwe, made Robert Gabriel Mugabe, destined to become, the greatest revolutionary freedom fighter in the 21st 'century.
In what was called Rhodesia, named after Cecil John Rhodes, (July 5, 1853- March 26, 1902), the British ruthless despot, Prime Minister Ian Smith (April 8, 1919- November 20, 2007), was determined in 1965, to prevent the tide of African Nationalism, promoted by Marcus Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, (UNIA & ACL) from 1914- 1940, that was sweeping through Africa and forcing Britain, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, and France to turn over their colonies to African rulers, to also happen to Rhodesia. Mugabe's justified distrust of whites in his country and rulers like Ian Smith, was hardened while he was in Que Que prison, because of his organizing for the liberation of Zimbabwe as Secretary General of ZANU-PF.
To give the reader an understanding of the mind set European colonizers had towards conquered people, in an inaugural address, at Oxford, art critic, John Ruskin summed up the thoughts of most who have dominated and oppressed the weak in the interest of Britain's expansion in Africa. "There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation…We are still undegenerated in race; a race mingled of the best northern blood…Will our youth of England make our country again a royal throne of Kings, a sceptered isle, for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace? …This is what England must either do or perish: she must found colonies as fast and as far as she is able, formed of her most energetic and worthiest men; seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her foot on, and there teaching her colonist that their first aim is on a distant plot of land, they are no more to consider themselves therefore disfranchised from their native land than the sailors of her fleets do, because they float on distant seas." Cecil Rhodes became a multi-millionaire off South Africa's diamonds, produced through brutal exploitation of Africans, through a forced labor system, which led him to become the most successful adventurer, trader, and scoundrel involved in the European "scramble for Africa. Rhodes efforts eventually led to whites mining, diamonds, cooper, tungsten, chrome, zinc, antimony, asbestos and coal. Through forced labor, that was backed by laws that established the inferior status of Africans, white farmers had a high standard of living, as they often planted and sold tobacco to Britain. The Land Appointment Act of 1930, and The Industrial Conciliation Act of 1934, was set up so that it was illegal for Africans to rent or own property in the greater part of the country, and prevented Africans from being considered employees as they sought employment, respectively. These privileged whites owned over 70% of the land that saw many individually owning 50 acres, 500, acres, 5,000 acres, and 50,000 acres.
Mugabe, literate and knowledgeable about Europeans, was opposed to any discussion about negotiations, that would leave the pro-Nazi, apartheid styled, white society in tact after the revolution. Unlike his counter parts Seretse Khama of Botswana, Samora Machel in neighboring Mozambique, and Kenneth Kunda in neighboring Zambia, Mugabe felt that only revolutionary armed struggle was the ultimate solution for establishing a new society. Mugabe told his mother Bona, "I am going to war, whether I shall return or not."
Mugabe was just as opposed to an alliance with the other political parties in Zimbabwe, such as Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU, headed by Joshua Nkomo. To carry out his vision, ZANU-PF Secretary General, from 1975, after his escape and flight to exile, Mugabe was secretly training ZANU's guerilla army Zanla, based in neighboring Mozambique. By 1977 he had gained control of the Guerilla campaign that would overthrow the criminal Ian Smith regime, and give ZANU a better position to dictate terms as it sought to have Smith tried and shot, and the whites exploiters made to turn every acre of land back over to the Africans.
Ian Smith had security forces that attacked Africans or any of his opponents and civilians by abductions, torture, and murder. It has been substantiated that Smith used biological warfare against the Mozambican people by poisoning their cattle with anthrax, similar to how the white invaders of North America killed off the buffalo that was used by the Native American for food, clothing, building of homes, weapons etc. Then they employed small pox and other diseases from Europe that the Native Americans immune systems could not fend off. Ian Smith determination to stop the spread of African nationalism spread death and destruction. As a dedicated Pan Africanist, the undeterred Mugabe, by 1979, had spread the guerrilla movement to every rural area of Rhodesia. Main roads and main railroads were under frequent attacks by Zanla. Out of fear the privileged white farmers armed and barricaded themselves in their fortified homes.
On January 27, 1980, when Mugabe returned home to Salisbury, Rhodesia, it was to a heroes' welcome larger than any that had ever been seen in Rhodesia. However, leaders from his border states, that had allowed Mugabe to use their border states to establish rear bases and to run their supply lines, had cautioned him to run the ZANU-PF campaign speaking in terms of moderation, denying, retaliation, and nationalization of the industries.
During the elections the white Governor of Rhodesia, Christopher Soames was tempted by the prodding of the opposition to disqualify, ZANU-Pf, when the facts clearly showed that there was intimidation being used by all the parties, including the Rhodesian Security Forces, the Muzorewa auxiliaries of his United African National Congress and Nkomo's Zapu. There were two assassination attempts on Mugabe's life, to remove him as a candidate, after the failure to thwart his campaign, disqualify Zanu, that he barely escaped. Overall the ruling was that the election was fair and free. Governor Soames in all honesty, believed that Mugabe's ZANU-PF would have won the election as he did, with an overwhelming majority 63% of the national vote, with or without a fair election. The Shona from which Mugabe springs was 82 % of the population compared to 14% the MDI opposition sprang from. Soames was concerned that the Rhodesia security forces might stage a coup, if they feared Mugabe would carry out his Marxist plans of retribution against Smith and the other exploiting white farmers.
Research allows us to see that all the land whites settlers occupied, from farmers to Christian missions was from dispossessing the local population, as part of Cecil Rhodes goal since 1890, of looking for gold and extending the British Empire, through his privately held company, the British South Africa Company. Many African lives were lost during that civil war, to keep white in privilege, especially the young Zimbabwean soldiers. After the fair and free elections, there was constant plotting to overthrow Mugabe's administration, and to sabotage the economy. Mugabe's enemies came from Britain, the west and from at home by blacks and whites in the region. On April 8, 1980 Zimbabwe was independent.
The soldiers or veterans deserved their share of the victory, which is the land that they fought for, and that the majority of it still remained in the hands of whites. Research shows that the peasants were thankful to Mugabe for an attempt at an equitable redistribution of the land, which efforts spilled over to equity in the factories, businesses, offices, aid offices, police and into the embassies. Whites on the other hand were furious and even today the 89 year old Mugabe strikes fear in the hearts of whites, who they thought once elected, he would allow business to go on as usual, blacks on the bottom, white on top. They thought Mugabe would rebuild Zimbabwe along the British political and economic model. In choosing which way to go, Mugabe chose the way that would benefit the people as he brought to an end the British Empires last colony.
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Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Subject: [SOA~2013] Robert Mugabe, The Greatest African Nationalist in the 21st Century
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West Comment by Rev.Dr.Niinana Kweku on September 2, 2013 at 7:35pm
We should all give thanks for mr muabe. This is what we need all over the planet,the garvey's malcolmx this is the only spirit that will set our people free from these oppressive systems. We are coming slavers'money changers your control over the planet is coming to it's end because their are many now who have awaken from your mind manipulation.let the count down begin. hotep
Caricom Comment by Wes Barnard on August 31, 2013 at 11:19am
God bless Mugabe and his intense desire to free his people from white rule. If only more Black "leaders", inside and outside of Africa had the same determination, the condition of Blacks worldwide would improve.
May all of us pray for a long and prosperous life for Mugabe and for his freed people. May they remain free forever, as God meant them to be.


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Q: How to use indirect reference to read contents into a data table in R. How do you use indirect references in R? More specifically, in the following simple read statement, I would like to be able to use a variable name to read inputFile into data table myTable.

myTable <- read.csv(inputFile, sep=",", header=T)

Instead of the above, I want to define

refToMyTable <- "myTable"

Then, how can I use refToMyTable instead of myTable to read inputFile into myTable?
Thanks for the help.

A: R doesn't really have references like that, but you can use strings to retrieve/create variables of that name.
But first let me say this is generally not a good practice. If you're looking to do this type of thing, it's generally a sign that you're not doing it "the R way.'
Nevertheless
assign(refToMyTable, read.csv(inputFile, sep=",", header=T))

Should to the trick. And the complement to assign is get to retrieve a variable's value using it's name.

A: I think you mean something like the following:
reftomytable='~/Documents/myfile.csv'
myTable=read.csv(reftomytable)

A: Perhaps assign as mentioned by MrFlick.
When you want the contents of the object named "myTable" you would use get:
 get("myTable")
 get(refToMyTable)   # since get will evaluate its argument

(It would be better to assign results of multiple such dataframes to a ist object or a Reference Class.)
If you wanted a language-name object you would use as.name:
as.name("myTable")
 # myTable    .... is printed at the console; note no quotes
str(as.name("myTable"))
 #symbol myTable


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MacOS Sierra: top five things you want to recognize about Apple's new Mac software
Posted on May 14, 2021 June 10, 2021 | by Pearl Harper
Siri lands at the Mac, you could now copy things between different Mac and iOS devices, your computer now lives within the cloud – and everything may be tabbed
The free MacOS Sierra upgrade is available for nearly any Mac since late 2009. Photograph: Apple
The free improvement is to be had for nearly any Mac from late 2009 and may be available through the Mac App Store later today. While a few might need to preserve off straight away updating, given the recent trouble with early updates, right here are 5 new things to be discovered by using people who want to change to macOS Sierra.
Siri is now to be had in your computing device or computer. Photograph: Apple
The largest trade for Sierra other than the call is Siri. The equal voice assistant from the iPhone and iPad is now on the Mac with similar capabilities and faults. It can find documents for you the use of natural language as introduced with El Capitan, set appointments, take a look at spellings, plays a song and tells you the climate, but how a great deal you operate it depends on where you figure: colleagues to your open-plan workplace aren't going to like the truth that you just started out talking on your laptop.
2. Universal clipboard
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Universal clipboard approach, you can get reproduction on one device and paste on some other while not sending any files or communications among the two. Photograph: Apple
Have you ever desired to paste something among two Macs or a Mac and an iPhone or iPad? Now you could. Just reproduce something on one device, hit paste on the other, and wait. Sometimes it takes some time, depending on how desirable your connection is, but it works tremendously properly. It works for textual content, pictures, and most other things you may find a reproduction to the clipboard.
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3. ICloud pressure desktop
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cloud Drive transports all the files to your laptop between machines. Photograph: Apple
While a few are organized and store all their files in carefully organized folders, many have the whole lot dumped on the laptop and locked on a unmarried machine. ICloud Drive desktop can now sync documents and folders on the laptop among machines and to iPhones or iPads, so the whole thing now not organized is on the market from multiple machines.
4. Everything is in a tab now
View files and different more than one-window apps in a tabbed view, as watch the unusual video over the pinnacle at the identical time with the picture-in-image show. Photograph: Apple
The tabbed interface kickstarted via browsers has now come to extra or less the entirety in Sierra. From textual content editors to snapshots editing, budgeting apps, and electronic mail, hitting the "Merge All Windows" choice under the Window drop-down within the fame bar merges the home windows from one app into one tabbed interface. Of course, not the entirety supports it without delay, and some that do have 1/2-baked implementations, but if you desired tabs everywhere on a Mac, now's your hazard.
5. Apple Pay, iOS 10 features, and extra
View your recollections within Photos. Photograph: Apple
Aside from big Mac capabilities, MacOS Sierra also provides compatibility with most of the brand new features from iOS 10. Now you can pay for things the use of your Touch ID sensor for your iPhone on the net, you can send fancy chat things with iOS 10 customers in Messages, view movies dealt with through the Quicktime Player in a floating window, or even free up your Mac the usage of an Apple Watch if you own one. Apple Music in iTunes now looks greater, just like the iOS model too, and the Memories function from the iOS Photos app is now inside the MacOS Sierra Photos app. MacOS also guarantees to lose up a little space in your Mac by storing unused documents within the iCloud drive, but how a lot area it can unfasten up depends on what styles of files are taking over your hard power.
There are three main things to recollect. First, your pc should run all of the software programs you want to do the process. Second, it helps if you already recognize a way to use the operating gadget. Third, are you able to manage to pay for it?
It appears as though you may be using Microsoft Office, perhaps with Publisher, for generating flyers in the first region. Microsoft Office runs on both PCs and Macs so that you can work collectively. Technically, the Windows versions of Outlook – used for email, contacts, and shared calendars – and Excel are greater powers than the Mac versions; however, if you both use Macs, you'll be at the identical level. The most important downside is that Microsoft doesn't provide Publisher for the Mac, but you may likely use the open supply Scribus as an alternative.
As for the operating gadget, I expect you're already familiar with Windows XP and probably Vista. You will, therefore, ought to spend some time gaining knowledge of a new running gadget, whether or not that's Windows 10 or macOS (previously Mac OS X). If you understand how to use Windows 7, you could nonetheless purchase business laptops jogging Windows 7 Pro. This may be supported until 2020, though you will have to move to Windows 10 subsequently.
Thirdly, Apple's costs are a barrier for lots of buyers. The most inexpensive Windows 10 laptops price around £a hundred thirty, which compares with £749 for the cheapest MacBook Air. But Apple also expenses more for telephones and capsules, and you already own both an iPhone and an iPad. So if you have been inclined to pay for those, perhaps you'd be willing to pay Apple's PC charges as nicely.
If so, then my first price range desire would be a 21.5in iMac (£899), preferably with an upgrade to 16GB of memory (£160). Of course, it's now not so much a desktop as a laptop on a stick. However, it offers you the ergonomic blessings of a large screen and a separate keyboard and mouse.
If you must have a pc, the cheapest MacBook Pro expenses the same (£899); however, it's thirteen.3in the display is glaringly smaller than the iMac's 21.5in screen. For an additional £one hundred, you may purchase the more modern, smarter MacBook Pro with a Retina screen (£999). This has a decision of 2560 x1600 in preference to 1280 x 800 pixels.
These are Apple's entry-stage expenses. However, a Retina MacBook Pro (£999) with 16GB of memory and Apple Care (£199) comes out at £1,358, critical cash.
Windows options
Today's most inexpensive Windows 10 laptops consist of the Lenovo Ideapad 100s and the HP Stream 11, which cost pennies less than £a hundred thirty. These might also do what you want, but I'd nonetheless suggest against them. They have small (eleven.6in) screens, restricted reminiscences (2GB), and small, gradual 32GB MMC storage chips.
You need to, without doubt, aim for a laptop with a bigger display screen, 4GB or extra reminiscence, and both a difficult power or a larger SSD (solid-nation drive).
Going up to a 15.6in display screen still gives you plenty of cheap choices. For instance, you may get an Ideapad 100s with 4GB of memory, a 500GB hard power for £199.99, or 8GB and a 1TB hard power for £249.Ninety-five. Better nonetheless, John Lewis is selling the identical 8GB pc with a quicker Intel Core i3-5005U processor for £289.95. John Lewis consists of a two-yr assure, so if it fails after that, you'd buy a brand new PC.
Alternatives encompass the Asus X540 (from £229, become £399.99) and X553SA (£289. Ninety-five), and various fashions of the Acer Aspire ES1-531 (from £229.99). They're all much of a muchness, so drop via a local store and notice if there's one you fancy. Obviously, those laptops are not as nicely made as to the MacBooks at 3 or 4 times the rate; however, they need to be sturdy enough to continue to exist in your home surroundings. Also, at the same time, as they don't have excellent keyboards (the Ideapad 100s' isn't too horrific), I'm assuming you'll use them with an outside keyboard and mouse.
You can purchase better Windows laptops in case you are willing to spend more: examples consist of the Asus Zenbook X305 (£579. Ninety-five) and the Lenovo Yoga 500 (£549.99) or seven hundred (£749.95). But these are getting near MacBook rate territory…
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Montsûrs is een voormalig kanton van het Franse departement Mayenne. Het kanton maakte deel uit van het arrondissement Laval.

Gemeenten
Het kanton Montsûrs omvatte de volgende gemeenten:

 Brée
 La Chapelle-Rainsouin
 Deux-Évailles
 Gesnes
 Montourtier
 Montsûrs (hoofdplaats)
 Saint-Céneré
 Saint-Ouën-des-Vallons
 Soulgé-sur-Ouette

Ingevolge de herindeling van de kantons vanaf 2015, zijn de gemeenten Brée, Deux-Évailles, Montourtier, Montsûrs en Saint-Ouën-des-Vallons gevoegd bij het kanton Évron, de gemeente Soulgé-sur-Ouette bij het kanton L'Huisserie en de gemeenten La Chapelle-Rainsouin, Gesnes en Saint-Céneré bij het kanton Meslay-du-Maine

Montsurs

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Howdy everyone! Who loves chocolate? And who loves chocolate that's acceptable to eat for snacks and not just dessert? Look no further than Chocolate Oat Bites!
But before I get into the recipe, I have some exciting news to share with you. Today is my first day of school! I am studying nutrition in a year-long program at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I have been wanting to do the program for several years now and I'm so excited that it worked out for me to start in the same month my oldest son started Kindergarten. Everyone that I've known to complete this program says it is a life-changing experience. And just from diving into the orientation materials I can see how that is going to be true! I'll keep you updated on my new knowledge here on the blog.
OK, now back to chocolate! Does anyone remember those no bake cookies with chocolate, peanut butter, and oats? I had them all the time growing up and still make them regularly today. The recipe I use is from an old church cookbook, which is my absolute favorite kind of book. I have a bit of an addiction and love to collect them. Seriously…if you have any you are looking to get rid of send them my way!
Speaking of healthy substitutions, I have seen people make their no bake cookies and other recipes with coconut oil instead of butter. This is totally fine and you could do this to make the recipe vegan. I happen to think a high quality butter is good for you (and delicious) so I use it! It's all about what works for you and your family.
Let me know how you like my Chocolate Oat Bites by leaving a comment here on the blog or by tagging #kristensfixins on social media.
Looking for other quick snack recipes? Check out my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins!
Tasty bites of chocolate, peanut butter, and oats. The perfect portable and healthy snack.
Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper and set aside.
In a saucepan heat peanut butter, maple syrup, butter, vanilla, and salt on medium heat. Stir until melted and just combined. Do not let it cook.
Remove from heat and stir in cocoa powder and oats.
Using a tablespoon (or a melon baller works great), place dollops of the mixture on cookie sheet. This should make about 20 bites.
Let sit until cool enough to handle. Form into balls.
Chill in the freezer until firm.
Store in airtight container in refrigerator. They taste best cold!
These look yummy! I will be making them soon. Hope you guys are doing well!
Thanks, Andrea! Miss seeing you but love catching glimpses of your sweet family on FB!


As the third principal largest city in Spain, Valencia is an important town having the most exclusive boutiques and plenty of traditional stores throughout its territory. In fact, Valencia, in general, is a shopper's city. Foreign and local people have endless shopping possibilities in Valencia. They can find plenty of hippie markets, artisan shops and elegant boutiques from famous designers such as Dolce and Gabbana, Armani and Louis Vuitton.
Foreigners should visit the Christopher Columbus street (La calle Cristobal Colon). There are many small stores such as Mango's, Zara's and El corte Ingles along this wide and crowded street. In addition, visitors can find a large number of recognized boutiques from Spanish designers like Adolfo Dominguez and Purificaci�n Garcia.
The Mercado de Colon is another important marketplace in Valencia. This modernist building was reconstructed during the early 20th century. A lot of people from different places of the city gather together in this lovely marketplace in order to take a short break and drink a beverage. Following the same route, there is a small and attractive square called La Plaza de Alfonso that have beautiful trees. Near the square, visitors can buy soccer stuff from the Official Soccer Valencia Team Walk through the Alfonso Square and then tourists will find the Peace Street (Calle de la Paz) where plenty of sport shops are available as well.
Shopping is one of the most common and pleasant activities in Valencia. The stores and the marketplaces open at 10:00 am. However, foreign people have to bear in mind that the majority of stores in Valencia and in the entire Spain have a siesta time so the stores are closed during two hours approximately. (2.00pm until 4:30pm).


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Pirate Cavern is an adventure map location, and commonly known as one of the creature banks. It is guarded by 20-80 Pirates and 20-80 Corsairs. As a reward for defeating the guards, 1, 2, 3 or 4 Sea Serpents will join the hero's army. The more Pirates and Corsairs there are, the more Sea Serpents will join.
50% probability of getting the third stack of Corsairs in the upper right corner (A hex, instead of Pirates). All the guard stacks of the same speed are attacking in alphabetic order from A to D.
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The Lakers opened defense of their first championship in 12 years with an opening-night victory at Portland, where Coach Phil Jackson noted, "There's still blood in the air--in this series," and then a ring-night loss to Utah, followed by signs that there was much to be resolved.
Jackson read a poem before the home opener.
Shaquille O'Neal, Jackson said, "carried this team on his back." He praised Ron Harper for his "leadership in triangle lore." He mentioned team architect Jerry West and finished with two lines, both of which drew cheers.
"If they stay on track, we might win back to back," he said. "With your support, I think, we might just repeat."
Jackson predicted his memories would include the growth of his first Laker team, its ability by the end of the season to include everybody, and its flat insistence to win.
"If I see anybody with tears in their eyes, I'm going to slap them in their head," he said. "You can be happy and not shed any tears. Soap operas, you can cry. Over a ring? You cry?"
An hour later, as Staples Center filled, a public address announcer bellowed.
"Ladies and gentleman, the defending world champions . . . ," and Staples Center, for a moment, wasn't a place for decorum or cool. They stood, applauded and made a dozen private moments very public ones.
The Lakers began 3-3, however, by which time the tussle between O'Neal and Kobe Bryant had begun. In mid-month, O'Neal had two sore thumbs, limped on a sprained left ankle, and was brooding over a change in the offensive tenor. Bryant, coming back after an off-season spent making 2,000 daily jumpers, wrested shots from the stodgy triangle offense.
Frightened off anti-inflammatory medication after the revelation of Alonzo Mourning's kidney ailment, O'Neal returned to the Indocin bottle to fight back the pain. Miffed at observations he was taking too many shots, Bryant ignored the media for part of a week, then returned with a smile.
"I'm fine," he said. "I get ticked off too sometimes. Big shocker, huh?"
Jackson made a decision Nov. 18 at Denver that lingered. With 17 seconds remaining, the Lakers down a point to the Nuggets and O'Neal unable to play, Jackson assigned the last play to go through J.R. Rider.
Afterward, 15 minutes after the Lakers had given back a 13-point fourth-quarter lead, after the Nuggets scored 17 consecutive fourth-quarter points, Jackson rested his back against a cinder block wall and admitted he probably should not have given Rider the basketball at the end.
"We just didn't play it right," Jackson said. "It might be my fault for trying to go to him too early in the year without sufficient knowledge of what's around him."
Said Rider: "He put me in a position to be a hero."
It wouldn't happen again. Rider lost the ball on the left wing, and the Lakers lost.
The month wasn't without its levity. Rider missed the team bus in San Antonio and arrived at the Alamodome with a note from the hotel general manager. O'Neal break-danced during a game against Golden State.
Also, there was the chocolate cake thing.
In the NBA locker room, there are occasional acts of kindness.
Then, it is a man's prerogative to be suspicious.
Mark Madsen, one of the nicest guys in the history of NBA locker rooms, suffered from back spasms. Laker trainer Gary Vitti, per his job description, cured the back spasms after a few days of treatment.
When Vitti arrived at his El Segundo office one morning, a beaming Madsen presented him with a chocolate cake he baked the night before.
Vitti, a veteran, eyed the cake warily.
"Mark," he said, "I'm from New York. Is there Ex-Lax in there?"
Madsen assured him there was nothing in there but cake mix and icing.
"I've been doing this for 20 years," Vitti said. "Not once has another man baked me a cake."
Vitti grinned. It was not his intention to make light of such a nice gesture. OK, maybe it was.
"He's wonderful," Vitti said of Madsen. "He really is."


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Drugs found in Citrus County home with 3-month-old child inside, police say
by: WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff
CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – A Citrus County couple now faces numerous charges after deputies found over 400 grams of cannabis and other drugs and paraphernalia with their 3-month-old baby inside their home.
The Citrus County Sheriff's Office Tactical Impact Unit (TIU) executed a search warrant Thursday at 9318 N. Travis Drive in Citrus Springs.
The TIU had previously received information that Samuel Gorman and his girlfriend, Amber Branson, were receiving cannabis through the mail and utilizing different techniques to extract THC wax and hashish.
According to deputies, the couple was also smoking cannabis in their home with their three-month-old child nearby.
After receiving this information, detectives say they quickly gathered evidence that led to the issuance of a search warrant for the main purpose of keeping the child safe.
When detectives entered the home, they said they smelled a strong odor of cannabis.
Deputies say they were able to located Gorman and Branson along with their baby and a roommate Samantha Carson.
According to deputies, detectives discovered the following inside the home:
73 grams of cannabis wax
15 vape cartridge syringes
12.2 grams of hashish
2 vape canisters
435 grams of cannabis
10.6 pounds of edibles (gummy worms)
Paraphernalia and manufacturing equipment
"Today, our TIU detectives were able to eliminate a risk to the youth in our community, and remove a 3-month-old child from a potentially dangerous environment," said Sheriff Prendergast. "To those offenders who use cannabis candies and similar products as a way to appeal to children, our message to you is simple, it will not be tolerated in Citrus County."
Gorman and Branson have been charged with the following: possession of a place used to manufacture controlled substance when a minor is present or resides there, possession of cannabis with intent to distribute, possession of a controlled substance, possession of manufacturing equipment and possession of paraphernalia.
Deputies say their bonds were each set at $17,000.
The Department of Children and Families was contacted and the child was removed from the custody of Gorman and Branson.
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Jon Jones is putting in the work in preparation for his Octagon return, and that comeback now appears to have a tentative date.
The former UFC light heavyweight champion took to Instagram to post a before-and-after picture indicating what he used to look like during his "offseason" as compared to now. He also captioned the photo with a hint as to when he might fight again. In keeping with his usual routine, Jones then deleted the post.
April 23 is the date the UFC has announced a pay-per-view event at New York's Madison Square Garden. Of course, MMA must be legalized in the state before the promotion can hold a card there, a battle that has been ongoing for years. Jones, a New York native who trains in Albuquerque, N.M., would make an ideal headliner for such an event, which would likely be UFC 198. He would almost certainly face Daniel Cormier in a light heavyweight title bout.
Jones was recently reinstated by the UFC after being suspended and stripped of his title for his involvement in an alleged hit-and-run incident earlier this year. In his absence, Cormier defeated Anthony Johnson to capture the vacant 205-pound title. Jones defeated Cormier via unanimous decision at UFC 182.