Last Sunday I talked walking on ABC Radio's Australia All Over, and was reminded of the brilliant walking opportunities we have down under. This post is by way of a reminder that we don't have to go to Spain to make a camino, or to be a pilgrim.
Back in the summer of 2009, I walked the Overland Track in Tasmania with five friends. We had blistering heat and snowdrifts, wallabies and platypus, chocolate and saffron, and adventures with camp stoves.
We had our breath taken away by vast vistas and miniscule insects.
It was a week of Australian wonders.
Do it if you get the chance.
Here's a mosaic. Little images of big country.
Thanks Carl NP for your photos.
And for the miles of walking wonders we have shared.
A review/write-up of the book on the Taste For Travel website. Click here. Do!


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HomeLaLiga HistoryLa Liga Top Scorers 2015-16
La Liga Top Scorers 2015-16
May 1, 2020 LaLiga Expert LaLiga History
The 2015/2016 season in La Liga was a close battle for the league title with just three points separating Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. All three were very strong at the time with the Catalans ultimately clinching the title, largely thanks to the incredible goalscoring exploits of Luis Suarez. While the Madrid clubs missed out on the main domestic prize, they did both reach the Champions League Final. Read on for the full list of La Liga top scorers 2015-16, as well as the final league table and a look at the players who provided the most assists.
The list below features every player who scored 10 or more goals in La Liga 2015-16.
Pichichi Trophy Winner – Luis Suarez (Barcelona) – 40 Goals
? Luis Suárez receives 2015/16 #Goldenshoe Award. The full story: https://t.co/Rh7QdSI5yz #FCBlive pic.twitter.com/LOcnfE1Ih5
— FC Barcelona (from ?) (@FCBarcelona) October 20, 2016
While this season fell right in the middle of the Messi/Ronaldo era, this was the only campaign in the 2010's where one of the dominant duo didn't win the Pichichi. Instead Luis Suarez was the 2015-16 top scorer in La Liga. The Uruguayan hit top form, scoring 40 of the incredible tally of 90 league goals that the famous MSN trident of Messi, Suarez and Neymar racked up.
Suarez went on an absolutely spectacular goalscoring run towards the end of the campaign to pip Ronaldo to the Pichichi and help Barcelona clinch the title. He remarkably netted four times in back-to-back league games as Barça beat Depor 8-0 at the Riazor before demolishing Sporting Gijon 6-0 at home. Suarez scored 14 times in his final 5 league appearances in the 2015-16 season and would even net a hat-trick in his first La Liga match of the following campaign to extend one of the most extraordinary scoring runs in Spanish football history.
2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) – 35 Goals
This was Cristiano Ronaldo's fourth most prolific season in a Real Madrid shirt. He was his usual brilliant self with 35 goals in 36 league appearances for Los Blancos in 2015-16, comfortably outscoring his long-standing nemesis Leo Messi, although the late heroics of Luis Suarez, denied him a third straight Pichichi crown.
3. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) – 26 Goals
Only by his own ridiculously high standards, 2015-16 wasn't a great season for Leo Messi. Playing on the right side of the famous Barça trident, Messi posted his worst scoring season of the 2010's, with 26 league goals. His slightly lower tally is largely explained by a knee injury which saw him miss two months of the campaign in late 2015.
4. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) – 24 Goals
Neymar (Barcelona) – 24 Goals
6. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid) – 22 Goals
7. Aritz Aduriz (Athletic) – 20 Goals
8. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) – 19 Goals
Ruben Castro (Real Betis) – 19 Goals
10. Borja Baston (Eibar) – 18 Goals
Borja Baston pens a thank you letter to #Eibar, 'the perfect place to develop' https://t.co/6GaV0g3wfw pic.twitter.com/RjX10MGQSd
— footballespana (@footballespana_) June 8, 2016
11. Lucas Perez (Depor) – 17 Goals
12. Youssef El-Arabi (Granada) – 16 Goals
Kevin Gameiro (Sevilla) – 16 Goals
14. Iago Aspas (Celta) – 14 Goals
15. Agirretxe (Real Sociedad) – 13 Goals
Paco Alcacer (Valencia) – 13 Goals
17. Nolito (Celta Vigo) – 12 Goals
Cedric Bakambu (Villarreal) – 12 Goals
Charles (Malaga) – 12 Goals
Javi Guerra (Rayo Vallecano) – 12 Goals
21. Antonio Sanabria (Sporting) – 11 Goals
Fernando Torres (Atletico Madrid) – 11 Goals
23. Jonathan Viera (Las Palmas) – 10 Goals
La Liga 2015/16 Table & each club's Top Scorer
The table below highlights how dominant the big three were this season with Barcelona and Real Madrid both easing past 100 goals while defensive maestros Atleti finished 24 points clear of 4th place. Villarreal clinched the final Champions League slot despite having no player score more than the 12 league goals chalked up by Cedric Bakambu while Europa League winners Sevilla also secured UCL qualification despite only finishing 7th with Kevin Gameiro top scoring for the Andalusians.
Points Goals Scored Top Scorer
1) Barcelona 91 112 Luis Suarez (40)
2) Real Madrid 90 110 Ronaldo (37)
3) Atletico Madrid 88 63 Griezmann (22)
4) Villarreal 64 44 Bakambu (12)
5) Athletic Club 62 58 Aduriz (20)
6) Celta Vigo 60 51 Aspas (14)
7) Sevilla 52 51 Gameiro (16)
8) Malaga 48 38 Charles (12)
9) Real Sociedad 48 45 Agirretxe (13)
10) Real Betis 45 34 Ruben Castro (19)
11) Las Palmas 44 45 Viera (10)
12) Valencia 44 46 Alcacer (13)
13) Espanyol 43 40 Caicedo (8)
14) Eibar 43 49 Baston (18)
15) Deportivo 42 45 Lucas Perez (17)
16) Granada 39 46 El-Arabi (16)
17) Sporting Gijon 39 40 Sanabria (11)
18) Rayo Vallecano 38 52 Guerra (12)
19) Getafe 36 37 Sarabia (7)
20) Levante 32 37 Deyverson (9)
There were some standout goalscoring seasons from a number of individuals further down the league too. The likes of Ruben Castro, Youssef El-Arabi and Lucas Perez enjoyed stellar campaigns while this was also the year of one-season wonder Borja Baston. On loan at Eibar from Atleti he registered 18 times in La Liga to help keep the Basque minnows up. It wasn't enough to convince Diego Simeone though with Baston being sold to Swansea that summer. A club-record signing, Baston would net just once in the Premier League in his debut season for the Swans and has since struggled to revitalise his career during various loan spells.
Despite Getafe's relegation, this was also something of a breakthrough campaign for Pablo Sarabia. He top scored for the South Madrid side with 7 goals from midfield before joining Sevilla for the bargain fee of just €1million in the summer of 2016.
Transfer Alert: Sevilla completes signing of Pablo Sarabia from Getafe. pic.twitter.com/PKeF2B5VSc
— GolaazoNoticiero (@GolaazoN) June 10, 2016
La Liga Assists 2015-16
The following players registered 10 or more assists in La Liga 2015/16:
Most Assists – Leo Messi & Luis Suarez (both Barcelona) – 16 Assists
Perhaps surprisingly, this list features a number of players who are better known for scoring goals than creating them, not least Luis Suarez who notched up an impressive 16 assists to go with his outstanding goal haul. Suarez and Messi tied for the most assists with 16 apiece and only Koke prevented an 'MSN' one-two-three with the Atleti man enjoying one of his best seasons.
3. Koke (Atletico Madrid) – 14 Assists
4. Neymar (Barcelona) – 12 Assists
5. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) – 11 Assists
6. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) – 10 Assists
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) – 10 Assists
Roberto Soldado (Villarreal) – 10 Assists
Marco Asensio (Espanyol) – 10 Assists
Loan Watch: Marco Asensio scored a brace & provided an assist in Espanyol's 4-2 home win vs Eibar. pic.twitter.com/0OjudBfGrI
— El Madridismo (@ElMadridismo93) May 15, 2016
Espanyol loanee Marco Asensio is another standout name on this list. Just 19 at the start of the campaign, he was one of the breakout stars of La Liga 2015-16, shining for the Barcelona club in his debut top flight season.
Featured Image behind text via Football.ua, CC BY-SA 3.0

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The deep waters off Madeira Island are home to a dazzling array of marine life, with dolphins and whales sharing the waves with birds, turtles, and more. On this wildlife-spotting adventure, take to the seas for up-close sightings of the native Bottlenose Dolphins, Sperm Whales, Spotted Dolphins, and Pilot Whales who call Madeira home. Enjoy free time to snorkel at your leisure—depending on the season—with a second trip guaranteed if you make no sightings.
The south coast of Madeira is a popular spot to watch whales and dolphins in their natural environment. This small-group yacht cruise offers a more personalized experience, with a chance to customize the tour to your group's preferences, stopping to swim or snorkel along the coast, and looking out for bottlenose dolphins, sperm whales, and Bryde's whales.
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It can be tough knowing where to find good snorkeling spots while traveling. This tour takes away the risk of wasting time, by traveling with a guide to a spot known for its rich marine life. All equipment is provided which means you can pack light. The day starts with a Kayak tour along the Underwater Nature Reserve of Garajau and then plenty of time to snorkel and swim.
The ship was sunk on September 4, 2018, south of Cabo Girão, off the island of Madeira, where the former NRP Afonso Cerqueira will fulfill its final mission, creating an artificial reef and providing a habitat for numerous marine species .Embark on this adventure and navigate the sunken ship.A great adventure, it's worth it.
Get away from the daily routine by taking a stroll through the most incredible dive sites on Madeira Island! You will enjoy crystal clear waters and on the outskirts of the rocky islands. The island of Madeira has a large and lively reef, offers fantastic conditions for divers, free divers and divers to explore the wonderful underwater world of the Atlantic!
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After reading a few other menus to get our creative tastebuds going, we debated long and hard the merits of different dishes to get this right - and we were starving at the end!
Banana Leaf Curry, Malaysia This dish took a lot of thought and was by far the hardest one to choose. Eventually it had to be Banana Leaf Curry from Malaysia! It's both the tastiest thing with the perfect amount of flavour and spice (due to you choosing what to have) and it's beautifully presented on glorious banana leaf giving it added colour. We don't know about you, but we are firm believers of colour giving food added flavour and this is the perfect example! Just make sure you know which way to fold the banana leaf when you're finished...If you enjoyed the meal you fold it towards you, if you didn't like it or it's a sad occasion you fold the banana leaf away from you.
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Franz Liszt 1811 - 1886
Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886 was an Austrian Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist of the 19th century.
Franz Liszt consulted homeopath Dr. Loewe (Lowe), a correspondent of Samuel Hahnemann, and he also consulted David Ferdinand Koreff who also treated his mother Anna Liszt, and who also treated Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult and her mother.
Franz Liszt took homeopathic remedies to counteract the 'strains of public life'. Liszt reports that his homeopath ordered him to exercise to overcome his fatigue.
Franz Liszt's friend Carl Frantz von Villers became a famous homeopath in St. Petersberg (Liszt was also a close friend of Carl Frantz Domink von Viller's brother Alexander Henrich von Villers, and they travelled and took tours together). Liszt was also a close friend of Olga von Meyendorff, whose husband Peter von Meyendorff was the Russian Ambassador to Berlin, (and himself a patient of Martin Wilhelm von Mandt).
Liszt's friend's Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult, Frederic Chopin, Heinrich Heine, Felix Mendelssohn, Ignaz Moscheles, George Sand, Robert Alexander Schumann, and Wilhelm Richard Wagner were also advocates of homeopathy.
Unfortunately, as with Ludwig von Beethoven and Robert Alexander Schumann, questions have been posed as to whether allopathic medical malpractice played a direct part in Franz Liszt's demise.
Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811, in the village of Raiding (Hungarian: Doborján) in the Kingdom of Hungary, then part of the Habsburg Empire (and today also part of Austria), in the comitat Oedenburg. The main language in that region was German, while only a small minority could speak and understand Hungarian. For official purposes Latin was used. Children had only had lessons in Hungarian since 1835.
Liszt himself became fluent in German, French and Italian. He also had some knowledge of English, but his knowledge of Hungarian was very poor. In the early 1870s, when all people living in Hungary were forced to learn Hungarian, Liszt also tried to learn it, but after some lessons he gave up.
The issue of Liszt's nationality has triggered many interpretations. The question is considered by some to be controversial to this day, since important sources are missing… In the vast majority of Liszt literature he is regarded as either Hungarian or German… Liszt, since 1838 at least, claimed that he was Hungarian, and it was important for him. Liszt and his father Adam had both solely Hungarian passports for their entire life. Furthermore his children bore Hungarian citizenship as well…
Every attempt to describe Liszt's development during his childhood and early youth has met with the difficulties of terribly sparse information. It had been Adam Liszt's own dream to become a musician. He played piano, violin, violoncello, and guitar, was in the services of Prince Nikolaus II Esterhazy and knew Haydn, Hummel and Ludwig von Beethoven personally.
Franz Liszt, as a mature artist, frequently said himself that the most important musical impressions of his childhood had been the playing of Gypsy artists. However, the repertoire he had to study as a boy at the piano had been different. According to Adam Liszt's letter to Prince Esterhazy of April 13, 1820, he had bought 1,100 "Bogen", i.e. 8,800 pages, of music of the best masters. During the previous 22 months, his son already had worked through the complete works of Bach, Mozart, Ludwig von Beethoven, Clementi, Hummel, Cramer, and further composers besides.
In October 1820, at the old casino of Ödenburg, he took part in a concert of the violinist (alleged) Baron von Praun, who was a child prodigy himself. In the second part of the concert, Liszt played a concerto in E flat major by Ferdinand Ries with much success and an improvisation of his own.
In November 1820 Adam Liszt took up an even better opportunity to present his son's playing to the public. In Pressburg, the Diet met for the first time after a break of 13 years. On November 26, at Count Michael Esterhazy's palace in Pressburg, Liszt gave a concert in front of an audience of aristocrats and members of the society. A group of magnates secured for a duration of six years to pay an annual sum of 600 Gulden (Viennese Currency), so that Liszt could study abroad.
In Vienna, Liszt received piano lessons from Carl Czerny, who in his own youth had been Ludwig von Beethovens student… Since July 1822, Liszt also received lessons in composition by Antonio Salieri…
Very soon Liszt was heard in private circles. His public debut in Vienna was on December 1, 1822… According to legend, he impressed Ludwig von Beethoven, although deaf, to such an extent that he congratulated Liszt on the stage, kissing him on the forehead and giving him enthusiastic praise… but Ludwig von Beethoven's conversation books show that Ludwig von Beethoven did not attend the concert…
At the end of April 1823, the family for the last time returned to Hungary. At end of May 1823, the family went to Vienna again.
On September 20, 1823, the Liszt family left Vienna for Paris. To support himself and his parents, Liszt gave concerts in Munich, Augsburg, Stuttgart and Strasbourg. In Miesich he was regarded as an equal to the child Mozart. On December 11, 1823, the family arrived in Paris. The next day, Adam Liszt together with his son went to the Conservatoire, hoping the child prodigy would be accepted as a student. But Cherubini, the director, told them that according to a new rule only the French were allowed to take part in piano class…
Liszt learned French quickly and it became his main language. He made the acquaintance of the piano manufacturer Sébastien Érard, pioneer of the "double escapement" system of piano mechanics. After Liszt had played in private circles and given concerts on March 7 and April 12, 1824, at the "Theâtre Italiènne", he had become a most famous and popular artist.
In 1824, 1825 and 1827, together with his father, he visited England, where he was known as "Master Liszt"…
Since 1824, Liszt studied composition with Anton Reicha and Ferdinando Paer…
Liszt afterwards felt drawn in a different direction. He started disliking music and spent much time with religious ideas. However, he was forced by his father to continue giving concerts.In 1826 in Marseille he started composing original etudes…
In summer 1827, Liszt fell ill. Adam Liszt went with his son to Boulogne sur Mer, a spa town on the English Channel. While Liszt himself was recovering, his father fell ill with typhus… Adam Liszt was buried in Boulogne. Liszt never visited his father's grave.
In later years, Liszt himself always took a skeptical point of view regarding his career as child prodigy. While he had earned much money and gained a prominent name, his general education had had no chance of development. He made up for this lack by intense reading. Starting in the early 1830s, he read huge amounts of books, and when he died in 1886, he left behind many thousands of volumes…
After his father's death Liszt returned to Paris. For the next five years he was to live with his mother in a small apartment…
At occasions, Liszt performed at private soirées, typically organized by Rossini, who would invite other artists as well…
At the end of December 1830 or at the beginning of January 1831, Liszt left Paris, traveling to Geneva. The voyage led to severe problems in his private life. For those reasons there was a gap of nearly two years in Liszt's concert activities…
During winter 1831-32, Liszt made the acquaintance of Felix Mendelssohn and Frederic Chopin. Both of them arrived in Paris with a suitcase full of masterworks…
Important influence on Liszt also came from the sect of the religiously oriented Père Enfantin fraction of the Saint-Simonists. As part of their ideology, contemporary forms of marriage were regarded as prison for women and in this sense as kind of crime…
Since 1833, Liszt's relation with Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult was developing. In addition to this, at end of April 1834 he made the acquaintance of Felicité de Lamennais. Under the influence of both, Liszt's creative output exploded…
As an integral part of the usual Liszt biography, a love affair with his pupil Caroline de Saint Cricq must be mentioned, although the source situation is not only poor but desperate. Following a traditional line, Caroline must be described as to have been nothing less than a holy angel living on earth, without worldly desires of whatsoever kind. Besides, she was very beautiful and very rich.
Liszt, who had not the least interest in those qualities, became her piano teacher in spring 1828 when he was 16 and she was 17. While exclusively talking about holy things, they very soon fell in love. Supported by Caroline's mother, they wanted to marry. Shortly afterwards, on June 30 or July 1, 1828, the mother died. Caroline's father, French Minister of Commerce in the government of King Charles X, then acted as antagonist, showing Liszt the door. Caroline fell ill, and Liszt suffered a nervous breakdown…
A further love affair, as reported by Liszt's biographers, sounds even more adventurous… after the revolution of 1830 a total change of Liszt's personality must have occurred. His nervous breakdown was forgotten, all holy ideas besides, and he was now hungry for whatever experiences life proffered. Together with Adele de Laprunarede, very beautiful and very rich, although married, he enjoyed his first long love affair…
In addition to this, there was still another lady, also very beautiful, together with whom Liszt went to the Savoy. Her name was "Mlle de Barré"…
Liszt's letters of spring and summer 1834 are full of complaints about his illness and depressiveness…
In autumn and winter 1834-35, Liszt made the acquaintance of George Sand…
From 1876 until his death he also taught for several months every year at the Hungarian Conservatoire at Budapest. On July 2, 1881, Liszt fell down the stairs of the Hofgärtnerei in Weimar.
Though friends and colleagues had noted swelling in Liszt's feet and legs when he had arrived in Weimar the previous month, Liszt had up to this point been in reasonably good health, his body retained the slimness and suppleness of earlier years. The accident, which immobilized him eight weeks, changed all this.
A number of ailments manifested—dropsy, asthma, insomnia, a cataract of the left eye and chronic heart disease. The last mentioned would eventually contribute to Liszt's death. He would become increasingly plagued with feelings of desolation, despair and death—feelings he would continue to express nakedly in his works from this period.
As he told Lina Ramann, "I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound."
He died in Bayreuth on July 31, 1886, officially as a result of pneumonia which he may have contracted during the Bayreuth Festival hosted by his daughter Cosima.
At first, he was surrounded by some of his more adoring pupils, including Arthur Friedheim, Siloti and Bernhard Stavenhagen, but they were denied access to his room by Cosima shortly before his death at 11:30 p.m. He is buried in the Bayreuth cemetery.
Questions have been posed as to whether medical malpractice played a direct part in Liszt's demise. At 11:30 Liszt was given two injections in the area of the heart. Some sources have claimed these were injections of morphine. Others have claimed the injections were of camphor, shallow injections of which, followed by massage, would warm the body. An accidental injection of camphor into the heart itself would result in a swift infarction and death…
Of interest:
Olivier Emile Ollivier 1825 – 1913 (Ollivier was the son in law of Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult, and he was also her son, reputedly the son of Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult and Franz Liszt) was a French statesman and the 30th Prime Minister of France. Although a republican, he served as a cabinet minister under Napoleon III and led the process of turning his regime into a "liberal Empire". Emilie Ollivier was a staunch defender of homeopathy, and he publicly promoted his defense (see the article in Harper's Magazine, Volume 18 in 1859), when he is reported as representing the Central Homeopathic Association of Paris in a libel case, which was brought against a Dr. Gallard for defaming homeopathy. Ollivier acted for the defense, and he delivered an impassioned presentation of the benefits of homeopathy, including a full history, ranking Samuel Hahnemann alongside Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz,


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Why does the adapter make slight noise when using it (or when charging battery)?


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Q: rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production not working as required I am trying to precompile assets using the command rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production, but I always get the error below.
** Invoke assets:precompile (first_time)
    ** Execute assets:precompile
    /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/rake assets:precompile:all RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_GROUPS=assets --trace
    ** Invoke assets:precompile:all (first_time)
    ** Execute assets:precompile:all
    ** Invoke assets:precompile:primary (first_time)
    ** Invoke assets:environment (first_time)
    ** Execute assets:environment
    ** Invoke environment (first_time)
    ** Execute environment
    ** Invoke tmp:cache:clear (first_time)
    ** Execute tmp:cache:clear
    ** Execute assets:precompile:primary
    rake aborted!
    LoadError: cannot load such file -- uglifier
      (in /home/cool_tech/cool_tech/app/assets/javascripts/application.js)
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-3.2.14/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-3.2.14/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `block in require'
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    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/actionpack-3.2.14/lib/sprockets/compressors.rb:80:in `compressor'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/actionpack-3.2.14/lib/sprockets/compressors.rb:74:in `compress'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.2.2/lib/sprockets/processing.rb:265:in `block in js_compressor='
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    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.2.2/lib/sprockets/index.rb:92:in `build_asset'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.2.2/lib/sprockets/base.rb:169:in `find_asset'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.2.2/lib/sprockets/index.rb:60:in `find_asset'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/actionpack-3.2.14/lib/sprockets/static_compiler.rb:19:in `block in compile'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.2.2/lib/sprockets/base.rb:219:in `block in each_logical_path'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.2.2/lib/sprockets/base.rb:206:in `block (2 levels) in each_file'
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    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.2.2/lib/sprockets/base.rb:204:in `block in each_file'
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    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.2.2/lib/sprockets/base.rb:217:in `each_logical_path'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/actionpack-3.2.14/lib/sprockets/static_compiler.rb:18:in `compile'
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    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `call'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `block in execute'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `each'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `execute'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:179:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
    /usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:172:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:165:in `invoke'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/actionpack-3.2.14/lib/sprockets/assets.rake:60:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `call'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `block in execute'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `each'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `execute'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:179:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
    /usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:172:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
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    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `each'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `block in top_level'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:115:in `run_with_threads'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:100:in `top_level'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:78:in `block in run'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:176:in `standard_exception_handling'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:75:in `run'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/bin/rake:33:in `<top (required)>'
    /usr/bin/rake:23:in `load'
    /usr/bin/rake:23:in `<main>'
    Tasks: TOP => assets:precompile:primary
    rake aborted!
    Command failed with status (1): [/usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/rake assets:precomp...]
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    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/actionpack-3.2.14/lib/sprockets/assets.rake:12:in `ruby_rake_task'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/actionpack-3.2.14/lib/sprockets/assets.rake:21:in `invoke_or_reboot_rake_task'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/actionpack-3.2.14/lib/sprockets/assets.rake:29:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `call'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `block in execute'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `each'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `execute'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:179:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
    /usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:172:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:165:in `invoke'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:150:in `invoke_task'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `each'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `block in top_level'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:115:in `run_with_threads'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:100:in `top_level'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:78:in `block in run'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:176:in `standard_exception_handling'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:75:in `run'
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-10.2.2/bin/rake:33:in `<top (required)>'
    /usr/bin/rake:23:in `load'
    /usr/bin/rake:23:in `<main>'
    Tasks: TOP => assets:precompile

Does anybody has any idea what could be wrong? Thanks.

A: Replace
rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production

with
rake assets:precompile (RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile is the exact rake task)
Since precompilation is done in production mode only, no need to explicitly specify the environment.
Update:
Try adding the below line to your Gemfile:
group :assets do
  gem 'therubyracer'
  gem 'sass-rails', "  ~> 3.1.0"
  gem 'coffee-rails', "~> 3.1.0"
  gem 'uglifier'
end

Then run bundle install.
Hope it will work :)

A: Have you added this gem to your gemfile?
# Use Uglifier as compressor for JavaScript assets
gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.3.0'

move that gem out of assets group and then run bundle again, I hope that would help!

A: To explain the problem, your error is as follows:
LoadError: cannot load such file -- uglifier
      (in /home/cool_tech/cool_tech/app/assets/javascripts/application.js)

This means somewhere in application.js, your app is referencing uglifier (probably in the manifest area at the top of the file). To fix the issue, you either need to remove the reference to uglifier, or make sure the uglifier file is present in your app, hence the answers you've been provided

Fix
If you've had no luck with adding the gem to your GemFile, a quick fix would be to remove any reference to uglifier in your application.js manifest. This, of course, will be temporary, but will at least allow you to precompile your assets

A: I found out that my back-up project worked well if I precompile without bundle update. Maybe something went wrong with gem updated but I don't know which gem has an error.

A: I had this problem today. I fixed it being being explict about my require
gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.0.3', require: 'uglifier'

I had mine still in the assets group.

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Opinion: Despite appearances, A1GP is far from dead
By Andy Darley
In Australia, they're calling it the worst-kept secret in sport: A1GP, the self-styled World Cup of Motor Sport, is not coming to play in the sun and surf of the Gold Coast later this month.
In the end, the 19-day gap between the London court hearing at which the troubled series won back possession of its cars and the date on which they were supposed to race on the far side of the globe was just too short.
Recovering them from the transport company that had impounded them, cleaning the mice from the cockpits and the cobwebs from the Ferrari engines, making last-minute FIA-mandated safety changes and finally crating them up to fly them to Australia was too big a job.
And the result is that the expected triumph of A1GP's highest-profile ever event has turned into a farce, leaving most observers convinced the series will simply collapse in the next few days, never to be heard from again.
But it might not end up that way.
A small point, largely overlooked, suggests that if everyone holds their nerve the Gold Coast fiasco might prove to be as survivable as the failure of last year's planned opener at Mugello did.
A1GP has money again.
Sure, series boss Tony Teixeira said in September he'd secured enough funding to run the championship for three years – but British fans, accustomed to the endless assurances from Donington Park's Simon Gillett, took that statement with a pinch of salt.
Wrongly, it seems. First, three Surfers Paradise resorts said they had received not just bookings from teams – but deposits too. Then, following the cancellation, Teixeira headed off demands that A1GP be sued for the return of its race fee by immediately promising to repay it in full, along with a AUS $50,000 charitable donation.
This is not the behaviour of a series on the verge of collapse – this is the behaviour of a series that pulled everything together just a fraction too late to get away with it. We strongly suspect that if the court hearing of October 6th had been held just a week earlier then A1GP would be racing at Surfers Paradise as planned.
So the situation at the moment, while a very, very long way from ideal, is not necessarily fatal either.
And this is the difference between A1GP and Donington. While Gillett and Teixeira seem like very similar characters – both bullish outsiders, a bit rough around the edges and a long way from the urbane smoothness of a Luca di Montezemolo – and both have spent the summer making reassuring noises about faltering projects, their prospects are not necessarily the same.
Gillett's track record consists of a failed plan to develop a motorsport centre in Wales. Teixeira, by contrast, has actually served up four seasons of racing. Gillett promises the money for Donington will be there. Teixeira seems to actually have his, albeit too late to save his first race.
The next A1GP races are scheduled for Zhuhai in China on 15 November. Despite the cancellation in Australia, it's far too early to bet the bank on their not happening.
Author: Andy Darley. Ex-journalist, fan of Mark Webber and anyone who ever drove or tested for Minardi and didn't say rude things about the team afterwards. Owns a Triumph Spitfire and hopes that, one day, it'll be on the road again. Andy has written 744 articles for us.
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Q: SetFileTypeSH missing I try to edit a SH file but I always get an error opening:
Error detected while processing BufReadPre Autocommands for "*":
...m/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim/lua/packer/load.lua:171: Vim(echomsg):E114: Missing quote: "Error in packer_compiled: ...m/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim/lua/packer/load.lua:160: Vim(lua):E5108: Error executing lua ...r/start/filetype.nvim/lu
a/filetype/mappings/function.lua:391: Vim(call):E117: Unknown function: dist#ft#SetFileTypeSH
Error detected while processing BufReadPost Autocommands for "*":
E5108: Error executing lua ...r/start/filetype.nvim/lua/filetype/mappings/function.lua:391: Vim(call):E117: Unknown function: dist#ft#SetFileTypeSH
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'cmd'
        ...r/start/filetype.nvim/lua/filetype/mappings/function.lua:391: in function 'name'
        ...te/pack/packer/start/filetype.nvim/lua/filetype/init.lua:17: in function 'set_filetype'
        ...te/pack/packer/start/filetype.nvim/lua/filetype/init.lua:65: in function 'try_lookup'
        ...te/pack/packer/start/filetype.nvim/lua/filetype/init.lua:168: in function 'resolve'
        [string ":lua"]:1: in main chunk

I do install neovim through ppa, so it should be part of it.
neovim info:
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Features: +acl +iconv +tui
See ":help feature-compile"

   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/nvim"

Run :checkhealth for more info

Searching for that error has not revaeled something that appears to be a solution (at least for me)
Has someone a clue?


Intrepid mysterious Special Guest Star The Paper went in search of good live sounds, and the following is what transpired when he took in The New Pornographers at the 9:30 Club.
If there's a force in the universe that compels one to move, it should be named The New Pornographers. In DC for the first of two sold out shows, the supergroup spent little time talking. Carl even remarked at one point, "We don't need to tell you how much we like you, do we?" Instead, they opted to exercise their super power of rocking the crowd for almost ninety minutes. Which probably felt like ten to the lovely lady on the right balcony who never ceased dancing.
In fact, the combined synergy among the eight-piece and the boisterous crowd caused the hanging display of flashing lights in the background to come partially loose near the top. Said display is a few multiples of a human in height, so it presented a slightly precarious proposition should it come crashing down to Joe who sat right before it, prompting Neko Case to address the crowd saying, "take it easy." If one failed to detect the sarcasm in her voice, it became apparent once the band launched loudly into the next song.
Beyond simply energy, Neko and company, with emphasis on the conjunction, exhibited delightful musicianship. Simi strummed the violin like a guitar. Kathryn didn't so much sweep her hand across the piano as pet it like a cat begging to be caressed. Then there's the jubuliant satisfaction of having all eight members simultaneously drop the beat that sent cheers echoing. While there are many other highlights to list, the vocal harmony among the members stood out the most. It was a beautiful instrument that beckoned everyone to sway and sing along in unison.
At one point mid song, Blaine and Joe raised their glasses to each other. It was certainly a very befitting gesture that encapusulates the electrifying performance. I would have loved to have seen them again on the second night but I was scheduled to see Beauty Pill.


It is that time again! Up Top Acres and Bells Brewery are teaming up with Chef Colin McClimans and Beverage Guru Peter Grimm to host a rooftop BBQ with a throwback twist. Let us take you back in time to the 90s! Toss your smartphone in a fanny pack, throw on some neon duds, and let's get to the top of the Aggro Crag! We are merging fine dinning and backyard grilling into delectable, innovative flavor combinations for hotdogs and hamburgers. Wash it down with amazing specialty beers from Bell's on "ICE ICE Baby".
For the beer enthusiasts, we have our VIP section offering rare Bell's samples for a few extra "Bills, bills, bills" ($10 to be exact).
Ticket price includes all you can eat and drink during the length of the event so come hungry and thirsty. We will be hanging out until the sun goes down...and then we will hang out some more. We're even matching 90s prices - Early bird tickets are just $25 ($35 for VIP) get them while you can!
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For many people, we will be known historically as Leina Broughton however we are so excited to have transitioned into our new name Leina & Fleur.
The brand Leina Broughton started in a home garage in Gold Coast ten years ago but six years ago that all changed when we officially joined forces. We didn't know each other but there was an undeniable synchronicity of when we met (a sliding doors moment!), our similarities, our complimentary skill set, our work ethos and a belief that our intuition was in check and that this all made sense. We didn't know it at the time, but it turns out that our approach to gut instinct decisions backed with knowledge and bravery would become the strength of our business decisions.
This wasn't a halfway decision to head into partnership together, true to us, it was all in. We were going in as 50/50 partners with a few clear decisions made. We would set up our operations with a software system (which we later went on to receive a federal grant to create), we would focus on Australian Made and that if it all went pear-shaped we had a 'get-out' card for 3 years time where we could both walk away with no regrets.
Right from the beginning, we knew that the self-named brand would need to be reassessed as we went, but for then the focus was getting past that 3-year mark!
It turns out that time was just what we needed. We became Telstra Business Award finalists, received a grant to design and build our own custom software for the business, moved to new premises that were 4x bigger than our original offices and our wonderful customers increased exponentially.
Our customers have been such an important part of our journey and have not only been the face of our brand over the last 2 years with our Customer Supermodel Shoots, they have also been the support that has given us such incredible inspiration. This is something that we will always be so thankful for and why we are so passionate about staying connected to our community.
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But of course, there was always that unfinished and opened loop of the name of our business. Of course it was a brand name but there was such a gap as the reflection of who we are as a business and how we operate. We've always looked after different parts of the business, it's our strength. The yin and the yang, the operations and the marketing, the money and the design. These parts can't operate independently, these parts need each other to work.
After a week-long intensive in Vegas for Business Mastery (yes the bizarreness of that is not lost on us) we came back on a mission, we had chosen a new name, Womenco, and we were on a mission to make it a reality!! Everything was planned, we had a clear idea and nothing was changing our minds… Right at the eleventh hour, we decided to hold a focus group with six key customers to make sure our passionate vision made sense. We bought the group together from 3 different states with strict instructions on keeping it all under the radar and we unleashed the name… let's just say the response was not what we imagined, not even close!! Straight away the group assumed that we were planning to sell and move on from our very Community Focused Brand. Lucky we have learnt how to be agile ninjas over the years! It was back to the drawing board to find 'the' name. Business continued as normal but it still wasn't right...
Fast forward to a rainy day in February (right before the world stepped into crazy land) it was like the heavens opened up and said what are you doing ladies, it's time!!! In a whirl of emotions (we do nothing by halves…) the name of leina & fleur flew in the conversation and we both literally stopped in our steps, looked at each other and said, I like it. We didn't need a tricky or neutral name to explain who we are, it just needed to say us.
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Advancing Minimally Invasive Surgery for Gynecologic Oncology
Innovations in Obstetrics & Gynecology | Winter 2022
Robotic surgery for gynecologic cancer cases was approved by the FDA in 2005, making it a relatively new approach to gynecologic oncology. Surgeons at University Hospitals in Cleveland regularly perform robotics-assisted procedures, and they are looking for ways to innovate and drive the field of minimally invasive surgery in gynecologic oncology forward.
Anna Strohl, MD
Gynecologic oncologists at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and across the country perform minimally invasive procedures to treat uterine cancers, vulvar cancers, endometrial cancers and cervical cancers. These minimally invasive procedures can be done via laparoscopy or robotics.
The minimally invasive approach allows surgeons to perform procedures that result in less pain and faster recovery times for patients.
Sentinel lymph node mapping
As minimally invasive surgery has become a mainstay of gynecologic oncology care, more techniques have emerged. For example, sentinel lymph node mapping has made it easier to evaluate lymph nodes for cancer.
"Sentinel lymph node mapping was originally established in other cancer types, such as breast cancer, melanoma and penile cancers, and it has become more frequently studied, used and validated in vulvar cancers and cervical cancer, as well as more recently in endometrial cancers," says Anna Strohl, MD, co-chair of the University Hospitals Robotics Committee. "It is a less-invasive technique that allows us to get information about lymph node status without having to expose patients to more morbidity."
Before the sentinel lymph node technique was developed, all lymph nodes in a lymph node basin had to be sampled in a patient with cancer that could spread. Sentinel lymph node mapping makes use of dyes that allow surgeons to identify the one or two lymph nodes that may need to be removed.
New types of dye are being developed to further enhance sentinel lymph node mapping. For example, surgeons may be able to use these newer dyes in concert with handheld technology to perform the mapping procedure, even during traditional open surgery.
Innovation at UH
Dr. Strohl is involved in expanding the robotics program at University Hospitals. She is part of the UH Robotics Committee, which is working to bring a third robotics system to UH to increase patient and provider access.
"We're also looking into developing a surgical coaching program, in which surgeons who are new to the robotic platform can partner with more established robotic surgeons and review cases, review techniques and become both more efficient, as well as push their own limits in terms of which cases they can do minimally invasively with the robotics platform," she says.
University Hospitals in Cleveland is looking to develop more access to robotic surgery, not only for gynecologic oncology but also for benign gynecology cases and cases performed in other surgical divisions.
Minimally invasive surgery performed at UH is paired with the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery program, which focuses on the patient experience before, during and after surgery. The ultimate goal is to reduce patient pain, reduce recovery time and improve outcomes.
Experts at UH are also looking for ways to expand the indications for minimally invasive procedures in gynecologic oncology. "In addition to the day-to-day clinical work, we are interested in clinical trials and research, really trying to advance the field," Dr. Strohl says.
UH has been selected as a site for an international randomized controlled trial examining surgical and oncologic outcomes for robotic-assisted radical hysterectomies, versus traditional, open radical hysterectomies in patients diagnosed with cervical cancer. "[We are also] hoping to expand the techniques that we've really honed and developed for endometrial cancers and cervical cancers and bring those to [some selected cases of] ovarian cancer," Dr. Strohl says.
UH is working to make minimally invasive surgery the gold standard of care in gynecologic oncology, as well as in other specialties, she says. "The flexibility and the willingness to innovate and to be open to new ideas has allowed us to develop the minimally invasive programs that we have here."
If you are interested in learning more about how UH is finding innovative ways to perform and expand minimally invasive surgery in gynecologic oncology, reach out to Dr. Strohl at Anna.Strohl@uhhospitals.org.
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Members of Germany's Main Political Parties Start 'Fair Copyright Initiative'
DailyDirt: Life, But Not As We Know It
Different Treatment For Tech Related Law-Breaking Depending On Whether Or Not You Have Power
from the funny-how-that-works dept
Wed, Oct 12th 2011 4:01pm — Mike Masnick
Rick Falkvinge is noticing one of the bigger hypocrisies when it comes to the law and technology: these days, we hear all the time about the strongest defenders of copyright law being caught infringing. And yet, they never seem to get in much, if any, trouble for it. In fact, they often seem to think that as long as they apologize or ignore the controversy they'll be fine -- and that's how it often works out. But, heaven forbid you're a single parent facing accusations of sharing two dozen songs! The copyright holders get to go after you for many millions.
To Falkvinge, this is reminiscent of the "high court" and "low court" concepts from the Middle Ages, in which the nobility had the high court: where breaking the law had limited consequences, and you could get away with paying a fine and issuing an apology. Then there was the low court, where everyone else was dealt with, and might receive punishments such as "branding, have their hands cut off, or sometimes just thrown in jail if it was a petty offense; like killing another commoner, which was a lesser offense than stealing from merchants." The two classes and the double standard on punishment reminded him of today's digital world:
In reality, the high courts and low courts have been reintroduced in silence. When Sony BMG broke into millions of computers worldwide in 2005, rootkitting them to disable their ability to run instructions that would violate Sony�s own interpretation of its copyright monopoly, Sony was sentenced to send out marketing material for its own products and no individual executives were charged. When LulzSec members were arrested for breaking into systems in the singular, they get the low court treatment.
When a commoner is accused of violating the copyright monopoly, in some draconian countries like France, they can be sent into social exile without even getting a trial in the low court. In contrast, the noble Voddler (a video-on-demand service) violated the GPL egregiously by using free software to build its service � but without resharing the code, thus violating the copyright monopoly that GPL builds on, and for thoroughly commercial purposes. They were never prosecuted. In contrast, they are now speaking at hearings in parliaments on how successful they are.
What bugs me the most is that those who get away with doing these kinds of things never seem to realize how they're in a position of power and protected. They just brush off their own failure to abide by the law as if it's nothing -- and never realize what they're doing to the people they go after.
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We should create a new party, along the lines of the pirate party with expanded goals.
That's not going anywhere with a two party system. Remember all those "tea party" representatives ran as Republicans. I think it would be great to get rid of the two party system, but you can imagine the liklihood of getting that Constitutional amendment passed.


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VERSUS FIGHTING THROUGH AGES
REVOLUTION & GOLDEN AGE - CONTINUATION
Other titles will mark the year 92', and still particularly SNK and Capcom: the firms release their sequels respectively for Street Fighter II with its 'Champion Edition' version, in which bosses are now playable and mirror match became possible, then the 'Turbo' version, increasing impressively the speed of the game and packing a few new moves. Two softs packing slight improvements since the 1991 hit, but the editor have some advance on its pursuers, he perfectly knows about this fact and so take his times. SNK on its side, intends to catch up with his rival and takes out the big guns. The Neo Geo receives three incredible new games: World Heroes, Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury 2. The mythical barrier of the hundred megabytes is crossed with these two ones, and this impressive size can be felt when you see the games running in the arcades. World Heroes is a pretty good soft produced by ADK - but the two other titles are downright spectacular. AOF stages huge sprites and impressive zooms during the combats, a premiere in the videogame world. Fatal Fury 2 meanwhile, offers eight playable characters (including the sexy Mai who made her first appearance), a gameplay completely redesigned and a brand new realization since the first episode. Between the two companies, the competition has just begun ...
Fatal Fury 2 / Street Fighter II CE: the war has begun!
Art of Fighting / World Heroes: among 92' best fighting games.
But the title that most likely marked the players in 92, is undoubtedly Mortal Kombat. Midway carries a 100% digitized fighting game: backgrounds and fighters are designed in a hyper-realistic style and are made through motion capture, a technique to film real actors performing the movements. The game declines as VS Fighting around extreme violence, giving a gory dimension to the battles and dramatic atmosphere that were never seen before. The gameplay is simple yet addictive, and there are enough selectable fighters even for demanding players (seven in total). A phenomenal success in the gaming rooms, adapted to almost all platforms.
Mortal Kombat introduces ultra-violence in fighting games.
Note that this is also the year when the Super NES receives Street Fighter II's successful adaptation, and that this one will not only boost sales of the console, but also considerably popularize Capcom's game. Sales get through the roof, setting new world sales records, and the Nintendo machine access the highest step of the the best-selling 16-bit podium.
Gender literally takes off in 1993, with no less than twenty-eight new titles, excluding ports. This is the most fertile years since the Versus Fighting genre exists. Quite remarkable innovations are emerging, and some major publishers (some that already tried VS games before) align their babies in the competition. Sega double misses its entrance with two totally crappy games: Burning Rival and Dark Edge. The first, like many mediocrities of its kind, is extremely steep, with a bland gameplay and completely missed design. As for the second, it's using 3D backgrounds... with flat 2d sprites. A true absurdity gone relatively unnoticed. Surprising from an editor like Sega... but after all, it's very difficult to be an expert in several domains simultaneously. Bandai releases two games based on a very popular license: Dragon Ball Z Super Butouden and Dragon Ball Z Super Butouden 2. Softwares are using split screen so that characters can move away from each other, and perform their enormous fireballs away from each other. Despite some good ideas, games are sloppy and we feel that the programmers rested on the strength of its license. Moreover, despite some rave critics, these games sold like hotcakes, causing the delight of fans!
DBZ on Super NES, or how a big license allows to totally botch a game!
It continues with a few titles providing a more meritorious quality. Konami is trying to compete with the big names with its Martial Champion. Achievement is good enough, the game fun and varied, with ten selectable fighters. This is far from the weight with Street Fighter II Turbo or Fatal Fury 2, which are more precise, better made, and infinitely more charismatic. Another notorious trial is Fighter's History by Data East -familiar with the genre, strong with some good VS titles in the past. The game takes back Street Fighter II bases shamelessly. It has so many similarities with Capcom's hit , that the firm will intend a lawsuit against the company for plagiarism. Finally, the complainant will be unsuccessful and Data East will no longer be bothered anymore...
Fighter's History / Martial Champion, two sympathic games... no less, no more.
Always on the side of 100% new games, Atlus releases Power Instinct. First installment in a saga that lasted more than a decade, this first episode offered a very good realization coupled with interesting gameplay, and an atmosphere especially fun! The characters are endearing, game quirky and fun, with a completely crazy soundtrack. Another original creation of this remarkable 1993 vintage is Clay Fighter. Developed on the Super NES, the title depicts warriors made of clay... and it stands as a very good fighting game! Namco is also trying to sort with Knuckle Heads... The novelty is that you can play four simultaneously, but separately from this, the app seems to arrive straight out of the eighties with its "3d" gameplay and its sickl stiffness. Discription for the publisher, which will only return three years later with real 3d.
Fun is back with Power Instinct and Clay Fighter.
Heavyweights side now, we are granted the sequels of previous years' greatest hits: Mortal Kombat II arrives in the arcades and is even more impressive than its predecessor. Graphics, animation and sound have been improved, the roster expanded and hundreds of liters of blood added. Midway has became a major fighting game editor at this time, it's now indisputable. Sega draws inspiration from them for their first Genesis VS Fighting game, Eternal Champions. Aesthetically closer to Street Fighter II, the game features impressive gore scenes and unhealthy atmosphere... without equalling the Midway game, and even less Capcom's ones. Besides, this latter completely renovated its legendary saga, with Super Street Fighter II. Not only the game now runs on new powerful arcade hardware (CPS-II), but it also offers better graphics, refined music, and four new characters bringing the total to sixteen. This game's rival arrives next to Fatal Fury 2, it's Fatal Fury Special. SNK did not skimp and added no less than eight new playable fighters in the game (15+1 hidden) while they significantly improved the gameplay, now integrating combos to the series. The title is on a par with SSFII and Osaka firm finally emerges as the biggest rival of Capcom.
Fatal Fury Special VS Super Street Fighter II: titans battle!
But that's not all ... SNK really hit hard during this year 1993, and another title will impress all players around the world and make history: I'm of course talking about Samurai Shodown. Voted game of the year, its action took place in the samurai era, featuring epic blades fights. The realization is sumptuous with powerful zooms, incredibly beautiful graphics and a simply outstanding soundtrack. The gore is also present, with blood and character slicings in every way... SS knew a resounding success, and the editor begins to carve out a first class reputation in the world of arcade.
Samurai Shodown brings fresh blood to VS Fighting.
1994: it's the outbid, no less than forty-two 2D titles were born this year, while the first 3d fighting games appear. Right in the beginning of the year, Sega invades arcades with Virtua Fighter. The game takes advantage of the astronomical capabilities of Sega Model-1, a machine capable of handling tri-dimensional graphics as few other systems at the time can. Popular enthusiasm quickly appears around the game: for the first time, backgrounds and characters are completely modeled in 3D and combats use this third dimension! The game tends to be realistic both in its appearance as in its mechanisms. It features warriors using various martial arts, very different from each other. The integration of real 3d marvel as it was never seen before, and if the gameplay seems with hindsight, more basic than in Fatal Fury Special or Super Street Fighter II, success is huge and the audience is captured .
So Sega comes back to the to the highest peaks of the gaming rooms. At the end of the year, the editor already releases the second installment of VF, offering two new characters and improved graphics. Competition doesn't have them waiting long and takes shape under the aegis of Namco, who prepared a proportional response to the giant Virtua Fighter from Sega, and immediately stands out as a very serious rival with a very impressive game: Tekken. The editor uses a home hardware house equalling Model-1's power, it's the Namco System 11. Less 'realistic' than its rival in its gaùeplay, the soft wants to be spectacular and fun, and experiences an instant success.
Namco's Tekken encounters a great success and is ported on 32-bit systems.
Meanwhile, the 'Success Story' continues. That same year, players are entitled to Super Street Fighter II X (ultimate version of the saga), Samurai Spirits II, Art of Fighting 2, Karnov's Revenge (sequel to Fighter's History, the controversial game), but also Power Instinct 2, World Heroes 2 Jet, and a new episode of DBZ on the Super NES - still mediocre - with Dragon Ball Z Super Butouden 3. What a lovely variegated! The least we can say is that there's choice for every taste. SNK and Capcom share top billing with their legendary sagas, and improve once more their reputations. But other surprises still await the public, as both firms havesome startling news in reserve that year.
Samurai II & Super Street II X, the cream of the crop!
Power Instinct 2 & Karnov's Revenge play the minor figures.
Brand new franchises make their appearance, and not least. Capcom's Darkstalkers is launched: it's a game featuring supernatural characters and vampires in a medievalo-fantastico-creepy atmosphere looking great. The game is graphically rich and pretty different from a lot of other series of the editor, in terms of gameplay. Like SNK, it seems that Capcom tends to expand its range to reach the widest audience possible. It's probably for this reason that X-Men: Children of the Atom is also released: a Marvel licensed game featuring Comic's heroes such as Wolverine, Cyclops or Storm. It's straight forward, beautiful, spectacular and fans of button-and-stick--mashing are in paradise with this luxurious défouloir.
Darkstalkers and X-Men, Capcom gives in the fantastic register!
SNK on its side produces only one new franchise, but it will mark with a hot iron the world of Versus Fighting. The King of Fighters 94 'is the first 'crossover' in the history of fighting games: heroes of Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting series meet during a martial arts tournament, pleasing the dream of all fans! Characters belonging to the saga make their appearance, as Kyo Kusanagi, Heidern, Daimon, Chang... and if the game starts from scratch with its graphic style, the gameplay is also a revolution: you can play with a team of three fighters whose order of passage is adjustable. The game is accurate, fast, full of combos and special moves. A stringent timing is required, and the technicality is in the spotlight as never before. In addition, SNK sets the largest rosters ever offered in a fighting game: no less than twenty-four different warriors are available!
KOF 94' is the beginning of a VS Fighting legendary saga.


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US Bishop: Opposition to Cardinal Cupich 'guided by the Evil One'
Bishop Robert Gruss condemned Roman Catholic Faithful, which will visit South Dakota later this month to learn more about parishioners' experiences with the now-Archbishop of Chicago.
Wed Feb 13, 2019 - 8:27 pm EST
Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago in an interview with Salt and Light, May 1, 2017.
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February 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Robert Gruss of Rapid City, South Dakota, said this past weekend that a lay Catholic group's effort to force Cardinal Blase Cupich out as archbishop of Chicago is "evil and guided by the Evil One."
The campaign by Roman Catholic Faithful (RCF) to uncover specifics of Cupich's leadership during the cardinal's 1998-2010 tenure as bishop of the Diocese of Rapid City is merely to besmirch Cupich, said Gruss, who stood by the controversial cardinal in the letter he ordered his priests to read from the pulpit at all Masses in his diocese for the weekend of February 9-10.
"It seems to me that their goal appears to be to try to uncover 'dirt' on Cardinal Cupich so that they can tear down his reputation," he said. "They are accusing him of promoting a pro-homosexuality agenda in the Church, tolerance of abortion, and other issues which go against Catholic teaching."
"The Diocese of Rapid City wants to affirm our respect and admiration for Cardinal Cupich," Gruss stated in his letter. "During his tenure as our bishop, he was an effective leader and shepherd, leaving a legacy that will long mark the ministry of our diocese. When he was the bishop of Rapid City, Cardinal Cupich upheld the teachings of the Catholic Church and encouraged dialogue as a means to change the hearts and minds of people, leading them to the truth of Jesus Christ and His Church."
A "moment of unity as a Catholic church"
While he was bishop of Rapid City, Cupich locked parishioners of a Traditional Latin Mass parish out of their church when they wanted to celebrate the Easter Triduum, attributing his action to "an opportunity on an annual basis for us to all worship together, for one moment of unity as a Catholic church." The Catholics were forced to conduct Good Friday services on the sidewalk.
Cupich's handling of the Tradition-minded Catholics is one of several reasons that Roman Catholic Faithful puts forth for why he should be removed.
Also on the list is the fact that Cupich, as bishop of Spokane, Washington, as it was learned this past December, had been made aware that seven Jesuit priests credibly accused of sexual abuse were living unsupervised on the campus of Gonzaga University, and he allowed them to continue in that situation.
The Illinois-based RCF had disbanded in 2009 after 12 years of working to expose corruption in the Catholic Church and then reassembled to continue its work amid the resurgence of clergy sex-abuse scandals last summer, in particular the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report.
Gruss' letter and response to it from RCF board member and Catholic attorney James Bendell were the subject of a column from Renew America's Matt Abbott.
Also on the RCF list is Cupich's banishment of Father Paul Kalchik without due process.
Kalchik, himself a survivor of sexual abuse by a priest and a neighbor, had this past fall overseen some of his parishioners' burning of a blasphemous rainbow flag containing a cross that had been used in his church's sanctuary with the permission of the now deceased previous pastor.
The rainbow flag burning was a private act of exorcism conducted after the flag had been discovered in parish storage, much the same as other similarly sacrilegious items found previously. Kalchik remains in hiding for fear of Cupich having him forcibly committed for psychiatric evaluation.
Additionally on the RCF list, Cupich permits individuals in same-sex "marriages" to receive Communion and ecclesiastical funeral rites, he has apologized for the Catholic Church's attempt to convert Jews to the faith, and while bishop of Spokane he directed his priests and seminarians to not take part in the 40 Days for Life pro-life vigil.
RCF plans to visit Rapid City on February 23 to gather information from local Catholics about their experience with Cupich in their diocese, placing an ad in advance of the visit in the local newspaper seeking the input of Catholics.
"Our organization is seeking information on the political actions, the spiritual direction, and the troubling issues concerning the administration of Catholic prelate Blase Cardinal Cupich," the ad said.
Gruss cited the RCF ad in his letter.
"The question on my mind: 'Is their true goal to rid the Catholic Church of clerical corruption or is it an attempt to destroy the reputation of Cardinal Cupich with whom they disagree regarding his approach to certain Church teachings?'" he said. "Based upon what I have read in their materials, their goal is to attempt to destroy the reputation of Cardinal Cupich. Therefore, their mission is evil and guided by the Evil One. Any group that seeks to divide the Church by sharing false information is doing the work of Satan."
RCF held a similar conference in the Chicago area in early January, attended by hundreds, a Church Militant report said, at which the group laid out its reasoning for seeking Cupich's ouster.
Stephen Brady, the group's founder and president, said at the event that his goal was to see Cupich gone from Chicago by the end of 2019.
Bendell echoed Brady's audacious vow, according to Church Militant, garnering significant applause.
"Our message to Cardinal Cupich is this," Bendell said. "We are going down that rabbit hole. And you are coming with us. I'm here to tell you, one year from now, Cupich will be gone."
Cupich had told a local NBC affiliate in late August that Pope Francis had a "bigger agenda" than dealing with former Papal Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's charge that Francis knew about and rehabilitated accused serial predator Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.
"He's gotta get on with other things of talking about the environment and protecting migrants and carrying on the work of the Church," Cupich stated. "We're not going to go down a rabbit hole on this."
He also told a gathering of seminarians in his archdiocese shortly thereafter that, while the Church's "agenda" indeed involves keeping children safe from harm, "we have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by all of this," citing helping the homeless and sick.
Bendell challenged Gruss to a public debate in response to Gruss' letter on the question of whether Cupich has "promoted perversion and error, and he has betrayed the faithful during the times that he has served as bishop prior to being named Cardinal and assigned to Chicago."
Cupich, whom Francis named archbishop of Chicago in 2014 and elevated to cardinal in November 2016, was also appointed by the pope to organize the upcoming global summit on summit on clergy sex abuse of minors later this month.
Communion for Catholics in non-marital unions
He had laid out a pathway at the 2015 Synod on the Family for same-sex couples and the divorced and remarried to receive the Eucharist in accord with their consciences.
In March of last year, Cupich removed Father Frank Phillips – founder and former superior of the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius – as pastor of St. John Cantius Church, in spite of a review board's finding that Phillips did not violate any criminal, civil or canon law after his been accused of improper conduct with adult men.
And in August 2015, following release of the Center for Medical Progress videos exposing Planned Parenthood's baby body parts trafficking scandal, Cupich wrote in an op-ed that unemployment and hunger are on the par with the millions unborn children killed by abortion. He equated abortion with lack of "decent medical care," "a broken immigration system," "racism," "hunger, joblessness and want," gun violence and capital punishment.
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