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The Ecstasy and the Agony of an Affair
with Nancy and Ron Anderson | August 18, 2010
Today on the broadcast, Dennis Rainey talks with Ron and Nancy Anderson, a couple whose marriage was rocked off its foundation by the sin of infidelity.
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Nancy: I should have told somebody. I didn't tell girlfriends; I lied to them. I lied to my mother. I lied to anybody that I thought would stop it. The only person I told was a woman at work who I knew would agree with me because she had been divorced multiple times. And I said, "I'm thinking of leaving my husband," and she said, "Well, good for you. Life's too short to be unhappy."
Bob: This is FamilyLife Today: for Wednesday, August 18th. Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. We'll hear today how Nancy Anderson's marriage went from bad to worse and then how it came back again.
And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us. We're going to discuss a subject today, Dennis, that for anyone who has found themselves in the midst of this kind of a scenario, well, they know it can rock your marriage. It can rock your life.
Dennis: Yeah, we're going to talk about infidelity. "Newsweek" ran a cover story on this a number of months ago and it reported that 80 percent of Americans say that infidelity is wrong. Now compare that with the Scriptures, where infidelity is wrong 100 percent of the time.
The interesting thing is, it is estimated that somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of married men cheat on their wives and it's been as low as 10 to 15 percent of the women, but now has increased in recent years to somewhere between 30 to 40 percent of married women are now being unfaithful to their husbands.
And the reason is, according to this "Newsweek" article, is because of the number of women who are in the workplace, who are now coming into contact with the opposite sex because every day they're going to work like their husbands used to where their husbands were tempted. Now they're being tempted, as well.
Bob: And we've got a couple who are joining us today who have examined this subject, not just to see what the Scriptures have to say about it and what the cultural perspective is, but it's been a part of their own experience.
Dennis: It has. Ron and Nancy Anderson join us on FamilyLife Today. Ron, Nancy, welcome to our broadcast.
Nancy: Thank you very much.
Ron: Thank you for having us.
Dennis: Nancy is the author of a book called "Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome" and, in addition to her being a writer, she's a homeschool mom, has two children.
And you guys were married back in 1978 and when you started your journey together, Ron, you were 26, Nancy you were 22. You kind of thought you'd both meet each other's needs and it would be happily ever after. But that wasn't the case, was it, Nancy?
Nancy: No, it wasn't the case. And we did get married with a premise that's wrong and that was that I thought that he should make me happy and he thought the same thing. So we just sat around waiting to be made happy and, of course, that doesn't work.
Dennis: And one of the key questions, I guess, at this point is: where was God in all this in your lives? I mean, if you started out rocky, was He in the picture in your marriage? Or did you start your marriage without Him?
Nancy: I was a Christian. I had become a Christian, actually, while I was in high school during the Jesus Movement years in 1972 and I went to Bible college, even. So it wasn't that I didn't have the knowledge. I was just selfish and I wanted what I wanted when I wanted it and I wasn't willing to sacrifice any of my needs to meet his.
Ron: And also, she came from a very strong Christian background, both her mother and father and brothers. I became a Christian about a year before we got married. So I was fairly new. I wasn't a strong Christian and I think, looking back, obviously that was the beginning of the end, so to speak, because we were not building our relationship on godly principles at all. We were looking for reasons not to go to church. "Well, let's sleep in," or "Well, we were out late last night."
We weren't spending a lot of time with Christian friends. We weren't developing people that would hold us accountable as friends in that sense.
Bob: You know, we really shouldn't skip past this fundamental premise that you talked about here too quickly, because I think, Dennis, a lot of couples are saying that the fundamental thing they're looking for in marriage is to have their needs met. We talk at the Weekend to Remember conference about getting married with a 50/50 plan or a 50/50 approach to marriage, which is, "I'll do my part if you'll do your part." And that's always destined to destruction.
Dennis: It is, because her part -- that is my wife, Barbara, of course--
Bob: Right.
Dennis: Barbara's part is never as much as my part and the reason is, is my fingers are on the scales on my side of the deal. I'm weighing what I've done and I know how much it costs me to do what I do and we don't-- we don't meet each other halfway. And it's out of this drama of two people feeling like they haven't met one another halfway that disappointment strikes.
And then if you have someone who's going to work, as Nancy was, who's meeting sharp, handsome, attractive men, all of a sudden you have the possibility for a chemical reaction, which is what happened with you.
Nancy: It's exactly what happened. Actually, I can tell you the exact moment that it went into the danger zone and that was we were at a sales meeting. We were co-workers on a sales team and the whole premise of a sales team is to build teamwork and work on projects and have these victories together. So we were in the midst of one of those meetings and he was sitting next to me and his leg moved slightly and bumped up against mine and I did not pull away. And I remember making the decision not to pull away.
Dennis: Now do you think he did that on purpose?
Nancy: I don't know. He left it there on purpose, because usually, it would happen that you'd bump each other and then you'd both pull away. But we both left it and that sent the signal to him that I was unguarded. He later, in conversations, did remember that moment as a defining moment of our relationship, taking it from friends and co-workers into a physical -- though it was just our knees -- relationship and then it progressed.
Dennis: You know, I want to stop there, because I think some of the couples who are listening to this broadcast, specifically women at this point but also men, you need to realize that the opposite sex does go fishing.
Ron: Yes.
Dennis: They do drop hooks--
Dennis: --baited hooks in the water and, really, if you dissect the word "temptation" and what it means in the Bible, it means bait. And what he was doing is he was baiting you. He was-- he was going fishing to see how you would respond to that situation.
Nancy: Right.
Dennis: And I have no idea, over a period of years in my marriage, how many times women have gone fishing for me, but I'll tell you, it can all turn in an instant if your eyes are allowed to linger too long. If, as you did, you allow your leg to stay there and not pull away and shoot a look like, "What are you doing, buster?" which is what you should have done.
Nancy: Absolutely.
Dennis: The people who are going fishing are looking for a green light. And what you need to be at that point is not a yellow light. You have to be a red light that says stop right here.
Bob: One of the reasons you were vulnerable to that brushing of the leg was because your own marriage had deteriorated to the point where I think you and Ron were separated at the time, weren't you?
Nancy: Not at that time. It was later, because this relationship with the co-worker, then we started to sit next to each other at lunch and then we went to lunch alone. And then we went to dinner alone after work.
Dennis: You actually canceled a lunch with Ron, at one point--
Nancy: I did.
Dennis: --to have lunch with Jake.
Nancy: Correct.
Bob: Was that when he took the picnic basket to the park?
Nancy: That's when he took the picnic basket. And my husband, to set this up, was not complimenting me. He was not kind. He was not doing the things-- like I talk about in the book, he was not watering me. He was not watering his own lawn, so that's why I went looking for greener grass.
I'm not excusing my behavior, it's absolutely wrong, but I was in need of watering and I went looking for it in all the wrong places and this man at work, obviously, knew what I needed and began to water me with compliments. And compliments are like magnets and I was very attracted to him.
Bob: Ron, give your perspective on what was going on in the midst of this. Were you even aware that--?
Ron: No, I hadn't-- I mean, I was-- first of all, I was not a very good husband. I was a horrible husband. I frequently made Nancy the brunt of my jokes in a party environment and then we would end up fighting 'til three o'clock in the morning over that not being as funny I thought it was at her expense.
I used-- now, you've got to remember, we're both Christians at this point, but I'd resort to useing profanity in the relationship as my ace in the hole when I really wanted to make a point or really wanted to hurt her. So I was doing everything wrong that a husband could do.
And, you know, we jokingly say that she would come home and the first one that got home got to prepare their argument. So when the next one walked in the door, whatever the argument was going to be that night, we could start the chaos.
Bob: But conflict was pretty much a daily occurrence?
Ron: Conflict--
Nancy: That was our life.
Ron: Oh, that was our life. It was-- we were always picking at each other. And I, you know, half jokingly, here's a guy that's bringing her flowers to work, that tells her she's adorable. He's taking her to the park for lunch--
Bob: With a picnic basket, yeah.
Ron: --with a picnic. I kind of jokingly say, I would have dated him. Of course, not, but I mean, how could you not be attracted to that when you come home and then you have a fellow that is just a creep and I was a creep.
Bob: Were either of you saying to one another, we need some help for our marriage? Let's go to a counselor. Let's talk to a pastor. You were talking to your parents and saying, "Mom, Dad, help."
Nancy: No.
Ron: No.
Nancy: I wasn't. I was attracted to this other man and I was making just horrific choices. I knew that my parents would stop me, so I just lied. Adultery and lies are all in the same. Every adulterer is a liar and I got really good at it and the more lies you tell, the more lies you have to keep telling to cover up the lie you told yesterday. And so it became this cycle, this secret, that kept me in a prison where I couldn't even ask for help, because then I would have to give up Jake.
Dennis: Early in our marriage—and I know I've shared this on FamilyLife Today before but it's such a great illustration of what a woman ought to do in a situation like this where a man goes fishing. I was leading bible study and there was a man coming into our home for this bible study who went fishing for Barbara.
Initially she felt complimented. Not that another married man was seeking after her, but she enjoyed his attention. She began to fight a little internal battle over a couple of days, saying "What should I do? Should I tell my husband? That seems silly." But before the next bible study occurred, she told me.
She said, at the moment she told me even thought she felt foolish for even mentioning it, at that point she felt that its hold, or whatever lure it had over her, or a spell—you actually call it a spell in you book, The Greener Grass Syndrome—that spell was no longer cast over her and all of a sudden it was revealed for what it was. Not a silly temptation, but a real temptation that could have gotten a foothold if she'd kept it a secret.
Nancy: Amen.
Bob: That's so key. I had a co-worker in another setting come to me at one point and he said, "I just need some help and some accountability." He said, "I have found myself becoming attracted to a co-worker in our place," and he said, "And I just know this is wrong and I need some accountability."
Well, we had the opportunity to talk about that and to pray about it and I provided some accountability, but he told me, months later, when we were talking about this, he said, "It was-- it was like as soon as I told you, I didn't have the temptation as strong as it had been." As soon as it was out in the light -- and that's what we talked about. We talked about how you leave it in the darkness and it grows, you bring it into the light and somehow the power gets drained out of it, doesn't it?
Nancy: Right, exactly. And that's what I did not do. And looking back, I think, other than pull my leg away at the first instance, I should have told somebody. I didn't tell girlfriends; I lied to them. I lied to my mother. I lied to anybody that I thought would stop it. The only person I told was a woman at work who I knew would agree with me because she had been divorced multiple times. And I said, "I'm thinking of leaving my husband," and she said, "Well, good for you. Life's too short to be unhappy."
Bob: You know, there's an action point for some folks who are listening, Dennis, because they're saying, I haven't gone there, but I've thought of where there is and I've wanted to go there and the action point is, it's time to not only run, but to bring somebody else in. Don't keep it in the dark.
Dennis: I want to go one step back from that. I would say to every young couple starting out their marriage together, as you get your pre-marriage counseling, talk about this issue. I want our marriage to be a safe place, to be able to bring that to light and talk about so that it can be defused.
Bob: But it's interesting, because we'll get e-mails -- you know this -- from folks who write and say I am extremely jealous of my husband. He gets attention from other women. Is the jealousy my issue? He--you know, I do trust him. I don't think there's anything going on, but I just-- I find myself getting very jealous. What does a wife do if she finds herself in that situation?
Dennis: Well, I think in some of those situations, you've got to talk to your husband or if it's your wife who's flirting, you have to be able to have the conversation to say, "You know, your behavior in these situations is sending a signal that you're not a stop person, you're a green light person." And I've had these conversations with these women who are married to men who women pay a lot of attention to. There's a reason why those women pay attention to them, because those guys are flirting.
Nancy: Yeah.
Dennis: Those guys are sending out signals. They're fishing.
Ron: Well, and Nancy, I think, would admit that she was a world-class flirt, even while we were dating.
Nancy: I was. I dated a lot of boys in high school and a lot of boys in college and I took pleasure in the fact that I could reel them in and then they'd fall in love with me and then I'd move on. And yet I had not grown up. I had not matured in my faith. I had not matured in my relationship skills and those secrets are tantalizing.
I wanted to live in the secret world until the world all fell apart for me. And then, when I did finally confess, of course, and opened the door and let the light in, the light of truth and the light of the Lord, that's when our marriage started to turn around. But my secrets kept me in prison.
Bob: Would you say in your relationship with Jake, after the time that you brushed knees, were you pursuing him harder than he was pursuing you? Or was it equal? Or were you responding to what he was doing?
Nancy: I would say it was equal. Now he was married and had two children, so it was a different thing on his part.
Bob: You were married with no children?
Ron: Correct.
Nancy: I'd say it was equal. We both called each other; we both had our secrets. He had already told his wife that he was leaving her. He had actually moved out of the house. So he-- we were planning on being together.
Ron: She had told me that she wanted a divorce. Now it started out as, "Well, you know, I just need a little time on my own. Can I just go away for a couple days?" Okay. You know, I didn't know. And then, all of a sudden, she calls back and says, "Well, I need another week." And then by the fourth phone call, it's, "I want a divorce."
Bob: You never thought, in the midst of all of that, there's another guy?
Ron: No, I-- I was an idiot. I had no-- I just thought I-- I knew I wasn't a good husband and I thought that was the catalyst for it, because I wasn't, but I had no idea that she was having an affair with another man.
Dennis: You had no idea you were in real competition.
Ron: I was in big trouble.
Dennis: Real competition for the soul of your wife.
Ron: And you husbands that are listening, [choking up] you may think you've had a bad day when you didn't get a raise, but when your sweetheart comes home and tells you she wants a divorce, there's no amount of begging, pleading that is going to change her mind, because now you're talking to a woman you've never met before, you're talking to a wall. She's turned off the emotional faucet and doesn't care any more. Then you've had a bad day.
Dennis: You know, as we visit, a situation that certainly no person who gets married would ever think they would end up there. Proverbs, chapter 14, the first couple of verses, Solomon gives some great advice. He says, "The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands. He who walks in uprightness, fears the Lord, but he who is crooked in his ways, despises Him."
And, you know, I just can't underscore enough that marriage is a spiritual institution. It is a spiritual relationship. Your choices are going to be based upon some kind of spiritual value system, either one that's based on the Scripture or a spiritual value system of the world that's nonsense.
You're going to base your marriage on something and if you have the wrong foundation, if you don't have a relationship with Jesus Christ and if you're not in the Scripture, building your house according to the Biblical blueprints, you're not only not exempt from a story like what we've heard today, you're setting yourself up for someone to go fishing for you.
Because it's just a matter of time until you get disappointed, the hurt goes deep enough and your heart grows cold like the wall that Ron was speaking of where you're speaking to a woman you don't know or to a husband you don't know. And you know what, it's at that moment you need help and God's ready to help you in that moment.
Bob: And I think those couples who would find themselves in the early stages of a situation like this, they need to realize there is a strategy to protect yourself and to keep from falling into this sin. I also think, for those who would find themselves on the-- on the other side of an affair, God can put a marriage back together and can graft it together so that it's stronger than it was before. You guys are an example of that, you're a testimony to that.
Bob: The book that you've written called, Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome gives couples hope that a marriage can recover from an extra-marital affair, but it's also a great warning to all of us that we need to make sure we have established appropriate boundaries. And we need to make sure that we continue to cultivate the kind of relationship that God wants us to have in marriage—that we continue to love one another, and care for one another, even in the midst of what can be hard and challenging times for us as a couple.
You can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com for more information about how to get a copy of Nancy Anderson's book, Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome: How to grow affair-proof hedges around your marriage. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com, you can also call us at 1-800-FLTODAY, if that's easier. 1-800-FLTODAY, to ask about a copy of this book and we'll be happy to send it out to you and to help you however we can to strengthen and preserve your marriage, or to help you recover from a marital earthquake if one of those has occurred in your marriage.
In fact, this month, we want to offer you as a resource, a two-CD series featuring a conversation we had with Tim and Joy Downs. They are the authors of a book called The Seven Conflicts of Marriage where they talk about common areas of conflict that come into a marriage relationship. And they help us navigate how we can resolve those conflicts, and how we can live in harmony with one another. The CDs are a thank you gift to you this month if you're able to help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today with a donation of any amount.
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We're wondering here if we're going to have to make some further adjustments, and perhaps no longer be heard on some of the stations that are currently carrying FamilyLife Today:. So, we're hoping that as many of you who can, will go online or will call to help with a donation to support our ministry. When you make your donation, feel free to request the two CD series on The Seven Conflicts of Marriage. All you have to do is type the word "seven" into the key-code box on the online donation form. Or call 1-800-FLTODAY, make your donation over the phone and just ask for the CDs on conflict. Again we're happy to send those out to you as a way of saying thank you for your support.
If you've never made a donation to FamilyLife Today--maybe you've listened for a while and you've just never called or gone online to help support the ministry. We're hoping here during the month of August, that we can rally about 2500 new supporters--2500 of you who listen regularly but who have not made a donation. That would be about 100 people a day over the course of the month.
We've got a graph on our website that will show what our progress is this month if you'd like to check it out. But, we're asking if you'll consider being one of those 2500 this month and make a donation, request the CDs when you do, and we're happy to send those out to you.
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We hope you'll be back with us tomorrow as we're going to continue talking with Ron and Nancy Anderson. We're going to hear about what happened in their marriage when the earthquake went off, and how they began the process of rebuilding. I hope you can tune in.
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Tom Brady mistakenly enters a Florida man's home
'Am I in the wrong house?' new Buccaneers QB asks
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady warms up before an NFL wild-card playoff game against the Tennessee Titans, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, in Foxborough, Mass.
By: Peter Burke
A Florida man said Tom Brady mistakenly walked into his house earlier this month.
David Kramer told TMZ Sports that he's in the process of selling his home and had the front door open April 7 when the new Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback made his way inside.
Kramer said he was sitting in his kitchen doing some work when he heard the door open and then saw Brady, who dropped his duffel bags on the floor.
"He says, 'Hey, how's it going man?'" Kramer told TMZ Sports.
Kramer said Brady had a confused look on his face and then said to him, "Am I in the wrong house?"
It turns out Brady was actually looking for Bucaneers offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich, Kramer's next door neighbor.
Kramer said Brady, who recently joined the Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach< /span> , apologized and then made his way next door.
It's been a rough transition for the six-time Super Bowl winner who signed with Tampa Bay after 20 years with the New England Patriots.
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said during news conference Monday that Brady was working out by himself when he was booted from a downtown park< /span> that was closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Kramer said he found the whole experience to be "hilarious."
Let this be a lesson, Brady. Next time, knock.

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Obituary: Pete Shelley, influential songwriter who brought melody to punk rock
Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks has died at the age of 63. Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire
BRIAN PENDREIGH
Published: 06:00 Tuesday 11 December 2018
Pete Shelley, singer, songwriter and guitarist. Born: 17 April, 1955 in Leigh, Lancashire. Died: 6 December, 2018, in Tallinn, Estonia, aged 63.
It was November 1977, the year punk rock groups spat their frenetic chords and lyrics all over a stunned music public and the Buzzcocks were just one of many new bands hitting the road. They were touring to promote their first single Orgasm Addict and they were staying in a little guest house near the Playhouse in Edinburgh.
They had a gig, not at the Playhouse, but at the much smaller Clouds venue in Tollcross. Filling in time, frontman Pete Shelley settled down in front of the television to watch a romantic Hollywood musical – Guys and Dolls – suggesting a more sensitive side than some of his punk rock contemporaries.
"One of the characters, Adelaide, is saying to Marlon Brando's character, 'Wait till you fall in love with someone you shouldn't have,'" he recalled later in an interview for a Radio 2 documentary. "I thought, fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have? Hmm, that's good."
The following day Shelley began writing the song that would become the band's most famous contribution to the era – Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've).
It had the pace and the energy of punk, but more melody and certainly more sensitivity and empathy than the songs being turned out by the Sex Pistols and The Damned.
Shelley was bisexual and the song was inspired by his love for a male flatmate, Francis Cookson, who was later in a post-punk band called The Tiller Boys with Shelley. Ever Fallen in Love echoed the Beatles song You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, reputedly written by John Lennon for manager Brian Epstein.
It was of course the Buzzcocks' biggest hit, though that was not difficult. They had only five Top 50 singles and Ever Fallen in Love peaked at No 12, but its success could not be measured merely in chart positions. It became one of the standards of the era.
A version by Fine Young Cannibals for Jonathan Demme's 1986 film Something Wild made it into the Top Ten and the royalties financed a Buzzcocks reunion. Kurt Cobain was a fan and invited them to support Nirvana on their final tour, before his suicide in 1994.
Versions of Ever Fallen in Love also appeared in several other films, including one by Pete Yorn in Shrek 2 in 2004. Shelley rerecorded it himself as part of a supergroup tribute single in 2005, following the death of DJ John Peel who helped promote the Buzzcocks in the early days. The group included Roger Daltrey, Dave Gilmour, Robert Plant and Elton John, with proceeds going to Amnesty International.
Of solid working class stock, with Scottish ancestry, Shelley was originally Peter Campbell McNeish, born in 1955 in Leigh, Lancashire. His father was a fitter at a local colliery and his mother worked in a mill. He went to grammar school and enrolled on an electronics course at Bolton Institute of Technology (now Bolton University) before concluding that he was not cut out for life as a TV repair man. He revealed in one interview that he switched to Philosophy and European Literature.
Another student Howard Trafford advertised on the college notice board for musicians to join a new band and McNeish responded. Howard Trafford became Howard Devoto and it is interesting that, while John Lydon became Johnny Rotten when he fronted up the Sex Pistols and Simon Ritchie became Sid Vicious, McNeish adopted the surname of a tragic 19th century English Romantic poet.
After reading a review of an early Pistols gig in NME, Shelley and Devoto went to London see them and arranged for them to play in Manchester in June 1976. It had been intended that the Buzzcocks would support, but other group members walked out and it did not happen.
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The Buzzcocks did support the Sex istols at a second Manchester gig a few weeks later and they also performed with the Damned, Clash and Siouxsie and the Banshees in London. They borrowed £500 from friends and family and recorded and released an EP called Spiral Scratch, with an initial pressing of 1,000 copies, which sold out within days.
John Peel played it on his show and although it was an EP (extended play), it made it into the singles chart, leading to a contract with United Artists, though Devoto went back to college, leaving Shelley as singer, lead guitarist and leader. Following the lead of the Buzzcocks, dozens of provincial punk rockers started bringing out their own records.
Their debut single, Orgasm Addict, was unsurprisingly banned by the BBC when it came out in 1977. The follow-up What Do I Get? made it to No 37 the following year. Ever Fallen in Love was their sixth single. The group disbanded in 1981 after a string of singles and three albums. Shelley pursued a solo career, though there would be several Buzzcocks reunions as well.
At times Shelley struggled with his sexuality and with relationships. He married twice, firstly to a Japanese fan who he met at one of his gigs. They divorced and she returned to Japan with their son. He married for a second time in 2011 to an Estonian artist and moved to Tallinn.
The influence of the Buzzcocks was underlined in 1996 when the BBC launched a new pop music panel show called Never Mind the Buzzcocks, the title of which was also a play on the Pistols' album Never Mind the Bollocks. It was to run for 20 years.
Shelley appeared on the show in 2000 and presenter Mark Lamarr told him that without his group "There would be no Smiths or Radiohead and this show would be called Never Mind Joan Armatrading."


Our homes aren't cookie-cutter boxes and, as a result, building a Quail home is always exciting but not without it's challenges. Luckily, we've surrounded ourselves with the best contractors and vendors who appreciate the challenge as much as we do.
Case in point: This Quail Homes' new home construction in Woodland, WA with numerous custom features for the framing team to consider. Not least of which is the fact that the home is being built on the side of a hill. Let's get the details from Michael at ML Framing. Read on!
Thank you for your fine craftsmanship and for sharing your experience with us Michael!
All photo credit to ML Framing.


Early November, lifestyle and home goods boutique, Akae, became KampInd's first stockist. Yay! Akae exists as a space to relate to and inspire fellow women and mothers, and couldn't be a better match. And, there is a story behind every product in their boutique, which is central to KampInd's mission and brand.
What are some brands that have stories that inspire you? Please share in the comments below.


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Q: How to get Object values which have multiple rows in it I am converting a JSON string into a object and this object contains multiple records of a table like a row structure. each row contains some set values. It's like an object within an object. I am trying to read the value of these objects but I am unsuccessful.
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();

// Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
// Read the content.
string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();

//converting json data into array
JavaScriptSerializer ss = new JavaScriptSerializer();
object itm = ss.DeserializeObject(responseFromServer);

In this response stream object gives the json string with multiple values and I am converting this into object using javascriptserializer. At debugging mode I have seen that all the data is there in this object in multiple rows where each rows in itself is also a object .
These rows store information like offer_id, name as  keys and  there values. I want to write a loop to call this keys and its value to perform further action. But I am unable to call these data in the loop.

A: Usually the way I would use a JavaScriptSerializer would be to
//Serialise
JavaScriptSerializer js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
string str = js.Serialize(new Thing() { ID = "111" });

//Deserialise
Thing thing = js.Deserialize<Thing>(str);

however if you do not know the Type to convert back to you can
Dictionary<string, object> dic = (Dictionary<string, object>)js.DeserializeObject(str);

foreach (KeyValuePair<string, object> keyValue in dic)
{
    keyValue.Key; <-- this is the property name (ID)
    keyValue.Value; <-- this is the property value ("111")
}

and then just handle the key value pairs you receive.

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Q: Is Microphone sensitivity and sound measure for loudspeaker adjustable in android? Is Microphone sensitivity and sound measure for loudspeaker adjustable in android? If it can be , how can i do that (with which classes and methods)?
And how can i stimulate a phone call and send message when a little sound comes to phone?

A: For API 16 you can use AutomaticGainControl, the AudioEffect and the AudioRecord to adjust gain, sampling and other pre-processing audio recording features.


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//require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'Thrift.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'Transport/TTransport.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'Transport/TSocket.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'Protocol/TProtocol.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'Protocol/TBinaryProtocol.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'Exception/TException.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'Exception/TTransportException.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'Type/TType.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'Type/TMessageType.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'Factory/TStringFuncFactory.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'StringFunc/TStringFunc.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . 'StringFunc/Core.php';

$GLOBALS['AIRAVATA_ROOT'] = 'Airavata/';
require_once $GLOBALS['AIRAVATA_ROOT'] . 'API/Airavata.php';

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use Thrift\Transport\TSocket;
use Airavata\API\AiravataClient;

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        $this->airavataServerHost = isset($options['airavataServerHost']) ? $options['airavataServerHost'] : null;
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        $protocol = new TBinaryProtocol($transport);
	$transport->open();
        return new AiravataClient($protocol);
    }
}

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The scenario sounded frighteningly real.
More than 200 federal, military, state and county medical and emergency specialists were called into action yesterday when the possibility arose that passengers from a commercial 767 jet that crashed on Midway Island might be affected with the deadly avian flu.
Coast Guard C-130 cargo planes with Air Force and medical specialists from Tripler Army Medical Center were sent to Midway earlier in the week to treat the nearly 200 passengers from Jakarta, Indonesia, who were on the commercial aircraft when one of its engines was struck by a bird.
In the process of transferring the injured passengers -- most of whom could not speak English -- some of them started showing flulike symptoms: high fever, diarrhea and coughing. Federal regulations required the C-130 crew to report the illness, which was relayed to the Communicable Disease Center.
Immediately, a "safe haven" quarantine, decontamination station and mobile hospital were established at an abandoned hangar at the John Rogers Air Field at Kalaeloa. The hangar had already been designated as the triage site to receive the mass casualties from the Midway Island plane crash.
When the Coast Guard C-130 landed yesterday at Kalaeloa, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents sealed off the area. Later, the agents, wearing goggles and nose and mouth face masks, stood guard as nine patients on litters, two dogs and one blind person with her seeing-eye dog were processed and sent to a quarantine area or to the hospital.
The team of 50 Air Force and Army medical specialists, who, under the disaster scenario, were returning to Oahu after helping at the crash site, also were taken to the quarantine station because of the possibility that they had been infected.
Yesterday's drill was designed to help federal, state and county officials test a system for managing patients during a mass casualty situation, explained Lt. Col. Stanley "Ed" Toy, chief of operations for the U.S. Army Pacific's Joint Task Force-Homeland Defense headquartered at Fort Shafter.
In this case the treatment of the "crash victims" was complicated by the possibility of a pandemic influenza outbreak, Toy added. "The intent here is to safeguard the community and the state of Hawaii from any infectious disease threat."
Toby Clairmont, leader of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team, told reporters, "We want to stress the system."
"A large part of this exercise is learning to work together ... to be as seamless as possible."
Toy said planning for exercise "Lightning Rescue" started more than a year ago.
If this had been an actual bird-flu threat, the entire mobile operation probably would have been set up at Honolulu Airport, which already has an area designated to handle this type of emergency, Toy said.
Besides treating the three animals, which actually were stuffed dogs, yesterday's exercise involved transporting three patients encapsulated in a plastic "biocontainment chamber."


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https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/New-mayor-will-shape-direction-for-development-191217.php
New mayor will shape direction for development
By Elizabeth Kim, Staff Writer
Published 8:35 am EDT, Sunday, October 25, 2009
STAMFORD -- As the city's most intense building cycle cools off as a result of the recession, the next mayor will have to steer development through a critical period that will either build on or diverge from the vision of the current administration.
Both candidates pledge that they each want a vibrant downtown, smart growth, the preservation of neighborhoods and parks, and diversity -- goals cited in the city's current master plan, which serves as a blueprint for development.
The major difference may be that of strategy.
Most notably, Republican candidate Michael Pavia has vowed that he would commission a new master plan.
"I think the pressures we've seen on zoning were the result in some areas where zoning should have been evaluated and enforced," Pavia said, referring to zoning changes that developers seek to build projects. "But it points to one thing -- a need to have the most comprehensive master plan that looks forward to the next 20 years and zoning that will guide development."
Democrat David Martin has reacted with skepticism to Pavia's position, saying he sees no reason to embark on a new master plan. He believes the city should make changes to the plan in places where assumptions about the neighborhood have changed, such as the South End.
"We need to be more specific," Martin said about Pavia. "What is it that you're trying to accomplish?"
One idea Pavia has floated is to make zoning regulations adapt to the demands of the marketplace. As an example, he said that unit size restrictions should be loosened to encourage developers to build more one-bedroom and studio-sized units in areas such as the downtown.
"If you want to encourage single-occupancy units, you allow a property owner to create more to make it economically feasible," he said,
Martin, in turn, responded by saying such a plan would create sprawl and over-development.
By all accounts, creating a new master plan would be a significant undertaking for the city. The most recent master plan, a roughly 500-page document, was completed in 2002 after three years of study and feedback from the public. Prior to that, the previous comprehensive master plan was completed in 1977.
The 2002 plan recommends an update every 10 years. The city is currently working on an amendment that addresses issues related to sustainability.
It is not clear how a new master plan might lead to the changes Pavia seeks in the city's current zoning regulations, without a comprehensive rezoning. The process of rewriting zoning is governed by a series of ordinances in the city's charter, some of which date to the 1950s.
In the case of the city's downtown, zoning rules been considered outdated and out of the step with the city's master plan. As a result, the Downtown Special Services District has commissioned a study to come up with rezoning suggestions for the downtown, an initiative both candidates said they support.
Staff Writer Elizabeth Kim can be reached at elizabeth.kim@scni.com or 203-964-2265.


linkedin not working Exactly how will LinkedIn Profile Optimization help to boost your personal brand?
linkedin not working LinkedIn is an unbelievable network for individual branding and also can enable you to fabricate a skilled presence on one of the most popular social media network with greater than 377 million experts.
LinkedIn might be practical for the pursuit of employment, organizing as well as furthermore for list building specifically when you are conscious of all hidden tricks as well as approaches to LinkedIn Profile Optimization. In case your "Who's Viewed Your Profile" layout is level covering week after week like a body without a beat, here is a personality check rip off sheet and also few tips to boost the LinkedIn account that will certainly aid bring some life into your profile as well as produce even more account views linkedin not working.
Luckily, there is a totally free device you could use to place yourself along with your very own brand name and also it is referred to as LinkedIn!
This is the area you could user interface with the possible clients to fabricate business, clients who are especially eager on just what you give the table or even situate the one amazing contract you have actually been looking for.
When someone initially connects with the account, they will decide on a prompt setup to continue seeking or hand down to the adhering to account who is most likely your rival. As a result of this, you've to focus around advancing the profile to influence it to arise.
The problem countless people challenge is that they merely move their resume or throw something with each other. Which implies the profile is unimpressive or undistinct.
You have the extraordinary placement of standing where you are today, viewing exactly how you got here and concentrating on where you are going. You get the opportunity to make your story.
You get the opportunity to select which work you place right into your account and which parts of those line of work to feature. All that you put on your account needs to be worked with particularly to the brand name you are making and for that LinkedIn Profile Optimization is a must.
It could be foreseeable and time-worn – yet the what's what is key words and also the succeeding find capacity is exactly what influencing the Internet globe to go round. Consider what somebody could type into Google in instance that they were searching down someone like you.
Assume verb, point, equivalent word, and acronym. What is your organisation name? These are key phrases to utilize in your profile.
You call for a lift pitch or speech, and also you have to add it to LinkedIn. linkedin not working A "lift speech" is that extremely short speech you would offer (pitch) to an official amid the ride up to his office or to her auto. You have perhaps 30 seconds to pitch an unimaginable tale, book or believed to them.
You have to do similarly with your LinkedIn brand name. In the event that somebody messages you or you require to chat with them regarding your brand, have a suitable lift speech prepared. In the event that it is in on the internet message structure, you can use a one area pitch.
Chances are that you have actually seen the records on Facebook where somebody has a few thousand "companions." Do they certainly have these countless actual buddies? Probably not. Do they actually talk with this countless people? Once extra, it's not most likely.
LinkedIn is a specialist systems administration account, so essentially going out as well as interfacing with your buddies really isn't vital. Look out individuals in your field, search for those you appreciate or that talk to their company in a means you like.
Exceptional among various other methods to LinkedIn Profile Optimization along with to construct the networking potential and also to discover new service partners is to make use of the posting tool. Make up web content on the topic you are inhabited with. Make a week by week or fortnightly blog site in view of your personal brand name. This will aid sustain the exposure and bring extra connections. There are a number of LinkedIn profile optimization examples that you can consider and these LinkedIn profile optimization instances will help you to enhance your very own brand name.
When you make a LinkedIn account you will certainly wind up with some confused wreckage of a URL. It encourages it to emerge on a web page as well as will certainly assist in LinkedIn profile optimization as well as in addition boost your very own brand.
Utilize a profile photograph that speaks with your professional side in addition to user interfaces with business. Scrape the image of you hanging with companions for an image speaking with your inclusion in business. Try to keep the branding images regular over the on-line pages. This makes it less demanding to perceive. linkedin not working There countlesses LinkedIn profile optimization examples that you can look as well as see what type of images they have published on their profile.
You don't generally require to make web content to aid your own brand. This might achieve brand-new connections primarily to leverage the other content as well as also aid in LinkedIn profile optimization.
It doesn't make a distinction on the occasion that you are originally stages of the company, are merely beginning to remove or if you are a vapor train and absolutely nothing can avoid you from development. By exploiting these suggestions, you will see the increased interest for your account, as well as you will organize your account over the resistance, which is something you have to accomplish your specified objectives.


You'd been teasing for a long time with phoots of a sweet-faced puppy - I'm glad you were finally able to bring her home. She's so cute! I am not familiar with that breed, as it is not 1 recognized by the American Kennel Club. I hope you, the cats & your new puppy will be very happy together for a very long time!
Just seeing this sweet liltte Tara trying to get Jeeeves or one o fthe other cats to play made my heart go pitty patter. What fun you will have training your new puppy. It is one lucky dog to have a wonderful family of cats to keep it in line and a wonderful human to love it so. I have seen this type of dog in paintings before. They look so lively. Your home will not be the same with this bundle of energy let loose in it.
Yolanda! 48 comments on one blog WOW! Wonderful piectrus, and as a training dog behaviourist I can congratulate you on giving this young pup such an interesting environment. Give the pup so many new experiences while she is small. There is a 'window of opportunity' that closes when she is around 15weeks. Show her bicycles, cars, men with beards, cats, chickens etc.


Dog heat stroke is an emergency and quick action is needed to prevent permanent brain damage or even death in the dog suffering from heat stroke. Symptoms include heavy panting and difficulty breathing. Read on to get additional information on the symptoms, treatment, and prevention of heat stroke in dogs.
Unlike people, dogs cannot cool down by sweating.
In fact, the only few sweat glands that they have are on the pads of their feet. You can say that dogs don't have a very efficient cooling system. As such, they do not tolerate high temperatures as well as we do.
To lower their body temperature, dogs pant. But as you can imagine, if the environmental temperature is very high, panting is not the best way to cool down! So it is extremely important to keep our dogs cool in hot summer days to avoid heat stroke.
Having the dog exercise strenuously on a hot humid day.
Leaving the dog in a car with windows closed on a hot day.
Confining the dog on concrete or asphalt surfaces.
Leaving the dog outside without shade and fresh water on a hot day.
Putting a muzzle on the dog while using a hair dryer on the dog.
Brachycephalic dogs (short-muzzled dogs) such as Pugs, Bulldogs, Shih Tzu and Boston Terriers.
Dogs with a thick coat.
Dogs having a high fever.
Dogs with a heart or lung disease that causes respiratory problems.
Bright red tongue and mucous membranes.
The rectal temperature can go up to 104°F to 110°F.
The dog will likely vomit.
If quick treatment is not received, the dog starts showing signs of unsteadiness. He may also pass bloody diarrhea.
He then will suffer from shock and his lips and mucous membranes will turn gray. This will be followed by collapse, seizures, coma, and eventually death.
Heat stroke in dogs requires quick and emergency treatment.
Immediate measures to cool down the dog are essential to avoid brain damage which can occur rapidly – usually in just a few minutes.
If your dog is showing signs of heat stroke, move him out of the source of heat immediately, e.g. into an air-conditioned room.
Take his rectal temperature and monitor his temperature every 10 minutes.
If the rectal temperature is over 104°F, lower the dog's body temperature immediately by spraying him with water or immersing him in a tub of cool water for up to 2 minutes.
Never use very cold or ice water to cool down your dog. Cold water causes constriction of the surface blood vessels and slows down the transfer of heat from the body to the outside.
You may also wipe the dog's paws with cool water and apply cool packs (e.g. bags of frozen vegetables) to his groin area.
Continue the above cooling process until the rectal temperature falls below 103°F.
Then stop the cooling process and dry off the dog. If the dog is cooled down further, he may develop hypothermia (low body temperature) and shock.
It is essential to take your dog to the vet for a thorough physical check-up after an episode of heat stroke to make sure there is no permanent damage caused by the heat stroke.
DO NOT leave your dog in a car with the windows closed, especially on a hot summer day.
Allow your dog to exercise only moderately on a hot summer day. Encourage your dog to drink plenty of water during breaks.
Outdoor dogs whould have their resting place in a shady area to avoid the heat from the sun, and should have access to fresh water at all times.
Dogs with respiratory disorders should be kept indoors with the fan or air-conditioner on during the hottest time of the day.
Check out this effective product that can keep your dog cool on a hot humid day and prevent him from getting heat stroke: Ruff Wear Swamp Cooler Cooling Vest for Dogs .


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Doré Copper files preliminary environmental, social impact assessment for Quebec operations
Doré Copper Mining (TSXV: DCMC; OTC: DRCMF) has submitted the preliminary information statement for the environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) for […]
By Marilyn Scales November 17, 2022 At 2:22 pm
Repairing the roof of the Copper Rand mill near Chibougamau, Que. Credit: Doré Copper
Dore Copper Mining
Doré Copper Mining (TSXV: DCMC; OTC: DRCMF) has submitted the preliminary information statement for the environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) for its proposed hub-and-spoke operations near Chibougamau, Que. The filing includes information covering the Corner Bay and Devlin mines, the historic Copper Rand mill, the tailings management facility, roads, and electric power connections.
The preliminary ESIA is the first step of the project review procedure under the provincial environmental quality act.
Doré Copper hopes to be the next copper producer in Quebec. The initial production target is over 50 million lb. of copper-equivalent in concentrate annually. Several copper-gold mines (beginning with Corner Bay and Devlin) would feed a revitalized Copper Rand mill. The company is also exploring former producers Copper Rand, Cedar Bay, and Joe Mann.
A positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) was made for the project earlier this year. Using a copper price of US$3.75/lb. and a gold price of US$1,820/oz., the project has an after-tax net present value with an 8% discount of $193 million and an after-tax internal rate of return of 22.1%. The initial capex is $180.6, which would be recovered over a 5.5-year period. All-in sustaining costs are estimated to be US$2.24/lb. copper-equivalent. Work is now underway on the feasibility study.
The PEA can be read at www.DoreCopper.com.


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package nu.danielsundberg.montyproblem.show;

import nu.danielsundberg.montyproblem.show.box.Box;
import nu.danielsundberg.montyproblem.show.box.EmptyBoxImpl;
import nu.danielsundberg.montyproblem.show.box.WinningBoxImpl;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Abstrakt klass för att representera alla typerr av gameshows med lådor
 */
public abstract class AbstractGameShowImpl implements GameShow {

    /**
     * Konstanter för felmeddelanden.
     */
    public static final String FAR_INTE_VALJA_SLUMPVIS_ANNAN_LADA_MED_MINDRE_LADOR_AN_2 =
            "Cant select a random box when the amount of boxes in the show is lower than 2.";
    public static final String GAMESHOW_IS_RIGGED_INGA_VINNANDE_LADOR =
            "Gameshow is rigged! No winning boxes.";
    public static final String KAN_INTE_TA_BORT_SA_MANGA_LADOR_FRAN_SHOWEN =
            "Cant remove that many boxes from show.";

    /**
     * Lådor som showen innehåller.
     * Default ett tomt set med lådor.
     */
    private Set<Box> boxes = new HashSet<Box>();

    /**
     * Skapa en ny låda
     * @param containingPrize anger om lådan skall innehålla vinst eller ej
     * @return ny låda
     */
    final Box createBox(boolean containingPrize) {
        //
        // Om boxen skall innehålla priset skapa en WinningBox,
        // annars skapa en tom lådda.
        //
        return containingPrize ?
                new WinningBoxImpl() :
                new EmptyBoxImpl();
    }

    /**
     * Välj en slumpvis låda från showens kvarvarande lådor.
     * @return vald låda
     */
    public final Box selectRandomBox() {
        //
        // Välj random nummer baserad på antal befintliga lådor
        // och returnera därefter lådan på den platsen i en array
        // baserad på vårt skapade set.
        //
        int randomSelectedIndex = new Random().nextInt(this.boxes.size());
        Box[] theBoxes = this.boxes.toArray(new Box[0]);
        return theBoxes[randomSelectedIndex];
    }

    /**
     * Välj en slumpvis låda från showens kvarvarande lådor utan vinst.
     * @return vald låda
     */
    final Box selectRandomBoxWithoutPrize() {
        //
        // Skapa set med enbart icke vinnande lådor
        //
        Set<Box> boxesWithoutPrize = new HashSet<Box>();
        for(Box boxToCheck : boxes) {
            if(!boxToCheck.hasPrize()) {
                boxesWithoutPrize.add(boxToCheck);
            }
        }
        //
        // Välj ett slumpvis valt nummer baserat på antal icke vinnande lådor
        // och returnera därefter lådan på den platsen i en array baserad på
        // vårt skapade set.
        //
        int randomSelectedIndex = new Random().nextInt(boxesWithoutPrize.size());
        Box[] theBoxes = boxesWithoutPrize.toArray(new Box[0]);
        return theBoxes[randomSelectedIndex];
    }

    /**
     * Ta bort ett givet antal lådor från showen (som inte innehåller vinsten).
     * @param numberOfBoxesToRemove representerar antalet att ta bort
     * @param boxesNotToRemove låddor att inte ta bort
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     */
    public final void removeRandomBoxesExcept(int numberOfBoxesToRemove, Box...boxesNotToRemove) {
        //
        // Validera att vi inte försöker ta bort för många lådor
        //
        if(numberOfBoxesToRemove >= boxes.size()+boxesNotToRemove.length) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(KAN_INTE_TA_BORT_SA_MANGA_LADOR_FRAN_SHOWEN);
        } else {
            //
            // Skapa ett set med lådor vi vill ta bort
            //
            Set<Box> boxesToRemove = new HashSet<Box>();
            for(int i = numberOfBoxesToRemove; i > 0; i--) {
                //
                // Välj en slumpvist utvald låda i showen (som inte är angivna lådor)
                //
                boxesToRemove.add(selectRandomBoxExcept(boxesNotToRemove));
            }
            //
            // Ta bort utvalda lådor från befintliga lådor.
            //
            this.boxes.removeAll(boxesToRemove);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Välj en av showens lådor utom angiven
     * @param boxesNotToChoose låda att inte välja
     * @return slumpvis låda
     */
    public final Box selectRandomBoxExcept(Box...boxesNotToChoose) {
        //
        // Kontrollera att showen innehåller lådan och att det finns fler än 1
        //
        if(boxes.size() > 1 &&
                boxes.containsAll(Arrays.asList(boxesNotToChoose))){
            Box aRandomBox = selectRandomBox();
            //
            // Om vald låda finns i listan att inte välja, gör nytt försök
            // annars returnera vald låda.
            //
            return Arrays.asList(boxesNotToChoose).contains(aRandomBox) ?
                    selectRandomBoxExcept(boxesNotToChoose) : aRandomBox;
        } else {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(FAR_INTE_VALJA_SLUMPVIS_ANNAN_LADA_MED_MINDRE_LADOR_AN_2);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returnera showens lådor.
     * @return boxes i showen
     */
    public final Set<Box> getBoxes() {
        return this.boxes;
    }

    /**
     * Returnera box med prize
     * @return vinnande lådan
     */
    public final Box getBoxWithPrize() {
        //
        // Snurra igenom alla lådor och returnera den med vinsten.
        //
        for(Box boxToCheck : boxes) {
            if(boxToCheck.hasPrize()) {
                return boxToCheck;
            }
        }
        throw new IllegalStateException(GAMESHOW_IS_RIGGED_INGA_VINNANDE_LADOR);
    }

    /**
     * Addera given låda till showen
     * @param boxToAdd låda att lägga till
     */
    public void addBox(Box boxToAdd) {
        //
        // Addera angiven låda till vårt set med lådor.
        //
        this.boxes.add(boxToAdd);
    }

}


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Chris Rainbow geboren Christopher James Harley (Glasgow, 18 november 1946 – 25 februari 2015) was een Schots zanger. Naast zanger was hij ook eerst schilder.

Rainbow nam deze naam aan omdat in het begin van zijn muzikale carrière niet aangezien wilde worden voor die andere beroemde Harley destijds, Steve Harley van Cockney Rebel. Hij begon bij de bandjes Hope Street en The Dream Police. Hij zong in de jaren 70 twee kleine (Britse) solohitjes bij elkaar Give Me What I Cry For en Solid State Brain. Daarnaast zong hij op albums van The Alan Parsons Project, de albums van Eve tot Gaudi dragen zijn naam en ook Eric Woolfsons Freudiana uit 1990 vermeldde zijn naam.

Vervolgens komt hij bij Camel terecht en nam met hun The Single Factor en Stationary Traveller op. De tournee van Traveller bracht hem in contact met Ton Scherpenzeel (traden ook samen met Camel op in Haarlem), die hem later inschakelde voor zijn muziekalbum Heart of the Universe (1984). Ondertussen leende hij zijn stem aan radiojingles bij Capital Radio onder meer aan de shows van Kenny Everett.

Later was hij nog even betrokken bij de Schotse Gaelic band Runrig. Hij leidt de laatste jaren een teruggetrokken bestaan als eigenaar van een muziekstudio op het Isle of Skye.

In Nederland haalt alleen zijn single Living in the world today de tipparade van de Top 40 (midden 1977); het staat op Looking over My Shoulder.

Discografie
1975: Home of the Brave
1978: Looking over My Shoulder
1979: White Trails
198?: The Instrumental Chris Rainbow UK mini-LP
2002: Unreleased & demo tracks, 1973-1983

Externe links
 CHRIS RAINBOW Biography
 Discogs Profiel
 overleden
 musicmeter

Schots zanger
Rockzanger
Camel
Pseudoniem

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discover how fears manifest and how to conquer them!
Its game play hearkens back to old school point and click, inventory-based adventure/puzzle games but uses third person analog controls for a more updated, immersive feeling.
Pria's lush world belies a society fragmented by tribal squabbles, lost histories, geographical extremes, and, above all, the need for survival. Among all of these people lies an even deeper secret- an ancient myth that tells of a dark force whose shadow is unmatched and growing again across the land. Join Kiba, a simple boy from a sleepy town called Kami, as he comes of age to defeat this evil in an incredible tale of heroism and friendship.
Chapter One shows Kiba, a teenage boy on the edge of manhood, floating through life. Each day looks exactly like the one before it, and the monotony of routine drags at everyone's heels, though they have different ways of showing it. A powerful storm ripped through the village just yesterday and creates a perfect opportunity for everything to change. Journey through Pria with Kiba. Go from isolation to companionship and the routine to the extraordinary. Meet unique characters and take the first steps into a larger world. Follow Kiba from a boy who couldn't into a man who could.
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Stage and Screen – Wheel Of Fortune
Editorial Staff | Posted on July 25, 2010 |
IGT's Center Stage series gives you Wheel Of Fortune like you've never seen it before
by Frank Legato
If you're a longtime slot player, chances are you've played International Game Technology's Wheel Of Fortune slot machine. Chances are you've played several versions of the game, in reel-spinning and video, slant-tops and uprights, small versions, and maybe even the huge one with all the play stations and the horizontal wheel.
Well, get ready for the Wheel like you've never seen it before. Meet the "Wheel Of Fortune Experience." There's never been Wheel Of Fortune like this, and the reason is the IGT platform they call "Center Stage."
Once you do see it, you won't forget it. Center Stage is a bank of five machines under a display of video monitors like nothing else in the casino. The main video screen is a 103-inch LCD monitor. It dominates the wall of a casino, and it is flanked by two "smaller" 40-inch "portrait LCD" side displays. It is a game display that stops you in your tracks. Like a theater movie screen with slot machines in front of it, it lights up the entire surrounding casino area.
Casinos need a big wall to fit this behemoth, but IGT is also marketing a smaller, yet no less impressive, version with a 70-inch main screen flanked by two 32-inch monitors, one with four machines that can be placed anywhere in the casino. Both use IGT's new "Mega FX" surround-sound chairs to complete the experience with immersive, vibrating sound.
And both versions provide a canvas on which is painted a version of the Wheel Of Fortune game that offers features like none before it. "Center stage is really a giant video wall with flanking LCDs," comments Boris Hallerbach, IGT's MegaJackpots product manager. "What that allows us to do is take that blank canvas and paint a theme onto it. It really becomes a vehicle for fantastic MegaJackpots brands."
Few MegaJackpots brands are more fantastic than Wheel Of Fortune, and the most famous game-show slot in the world was made for this format.
The first base games will be classic three-reel slots in quarter and dollar denominations—familiar single-line themes like Red, White & Blue and Safari 7s which appear as the old reel-spinners but use IGT's "MLD," or multi-level display technology that is actually formed by two video screens.
But the bonus is what makes the game, and the bonus is what has crowds gathering around this game wherever it's been placed.
Puzzle Power
If there has been one repeated comment from players over the dozen-plus years since Wheel Of Fortune ushered in the age of themed slot machines, it is this: Where's the puzzle from the show?
Wheel Of Fortune has always got the audience chant and spin of the fortune wheel right from the show, but the other main part of the Wheel Of Fortune TV game show is the word puzzle that forms the main competition between contestants—those big letter boards replicating the old "Hangman" kid's game; asking Alex to "buy a vowel." It is a huge part of the TV show's identity and culture that has always been missing from the slot machine, mainly because its play borders on elements of skill, but also because a normal-sized video screen can't do the game-show puzzle justice.
Well, Center Stage changes all that, providing a group-play bonus on the big board that can be seen from across the room. Players even get to compete under their own names, which they key in at the start of play.
"The giant screen was made for the Wheel Of Fortune puzzle board," Hallerbach says. "Using all that real estate for solving puzzles is a natural. Fans of the show love to solve the puzzles."
In the case of this game, three players become "contestants" whenever one machine hits the bonus trigger symbol on the third reel. To be eligible, you must bet the maximum in the primary game. (They are three-coin reel-spinning games; you want to bet the max anyway.) The computer selects two other players on the bank at random. Each player will have a multiplier number above his name on the big board—this is earned during normal play. The more you spin, the higher the multiplier can rise. The multiplier applies to all credits won in the bonus game.
The bonus game is solving the word puzzle, by selecting letters. All the letters in the puzzle are displayed on each player's screen before the bonus round begins, so there are no picks of letters that aren't in the puzzle. The computer picks the first player who will choose a letter. Just as on the TV show, the more that letter occurs in the puzzle, the higher the bonus that the player ultimately will receive. The display over each name shows the number of letters collected by each player.
Unlike the show, every player gets a chance to pick. The pick goes to the next player when one player is done, and proceeds until the puzzle is solved. Along the way, some letters that occur only once in the puzzle are "bonus letters," which automatically reveal another one-instance letter. That speeds up the bonus game, and gives some players free letters.
Once the puzzle is completely solved, the famous wheel appears on the video display and spins once. The value the wheel pointer lands on is multiplied by each player's number of letters, and by each player's multiplier. Every "contestant" wins with every bonus round, and players with the most letters are displayed on a "Hall of Fame" leader board showing the highest bonus awards of the day and of all time. It's a very cool little extra for the game.
The puzzle round has been causing a lot of little parties on slot floors where the game is installed. "Tons of people line up to watch the puzzle round," Hallerbach says. "People gather around and try to solve the puzzles. It attracts more people than playing the game does." There is also camaraderie amid the friendly competition in the bonus round.
Most of all, people gather around to watch the game on the big screen—it's an attraction all by itself. "It's the biggest and brightest thing on the casino floor because of that large monitor," says Hallerbach. "Crowds have been milling around waiting for the game to go live, and then they crowd around to get a seat to play."
This game isn't going to get stale any time soon—there are nearly 1,000 different word puzzles programmed into this thing. Puzzle bonus rounds happen around 10 to 12 times an hour, on average.
The best thing about Wheel Of Fortune Experience on the Center Stage platform is that this is only the beginning. The three-reel, three-coin version—which should be available in Louisiana, throughout Native American jurisdictions, and in field trial in Nevada by the time you read this—is the proverbial good first impression.
"We decided early on that we wanted to lead off with our best brand to make a big splash with Center Stage," Hallerbach says.
The next game on Center Stage will be a five-reel, 50-line penny version of Wheel Of Fortune Experience, followed by a three-game "MultiPLAY" game called "Wheel Of Fortune Triple Spin." The primary game on this will be have three reel-sets, and players will wager on all and spin all three at once. The community bonus in this version of the game is similar to the "Super Spin" version of the wheel, with several players entering into individual wheel spins played out on the big screen—players will be able to spin up to three bonus wheels at once.
What Hallerbach says is one of the most anticipated games on the Center Stage format is "American Idol," slated for a fall release. It is a cinematic reproduction of the famous performance reality show. In the community bonus round, all the contestants from the reality show's first season are features in "auditions," and players receive bonuses according to how each Idol judge rates the performance. The video clips include the "clunkers from the show. If you thought the wheel drew a crowd, wait until you see this one.
Next year, you can expect the first Center Stage game to be "The Dark Knight," based on the Oscar-winning Batman movie. Hallerbach won't reveal the details, but with this format, you can imagine it's going to be a huge game.
Beyond that, you can expect a steady stream of new releases for this format, which is really a self-contained computer server. Joe Kaminkow, the IGT game development vice president who came up with the concept for Center Stage, has described it as a "Cineplex, with slot games as the films."
We can't wait to see what's playing next. •
The Wheel Of Fortune Experience
International Game Technology
Three-reel, single-line video slot in reel-spinning format; community-style, video-based bonus event; quarter and dollar denominations
Payback % Range
87%—93.96%
Average Hit Frequency
Approximately 15%
Top Jackpot
Progressive; Resets:
NV: $1 million, $200,000
Native American: $300,000; $100,000
CA, CT, OK, LA at press time; other Native American locations and NV pending
IGT's Center Stage series gives you Wheel Of Fortune like you've never seen it before.


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Home/World/Russia backs China's stance on Taiwan, calling Pelosi's visit 'provocative.'
Russia backs China's stance on Taiwan, calling Pelosi's visit 'provocative.'
The Kremlin on Tuesday said Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan "provokes the situation" over the island, aligning Russia with China's claims to Taiwan as its territory.
"Everything that relates to this tour, to the possible visit to Taiwan, is of course of provocative character," the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told reporters on Tuesday before she arrived. "It provokes the situation, leads to more tensions."
"Here we are in absolute solidarity with China," he continued. "Its sensitivity to this issue is justified."
Wary of provoking Beijing, most European nations have long kept Taiwan at arm's length.
But Russia, which has grown closer to China in recent years, on Friday reaffirmed its support on the issue. Its foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, told reporters, "Our position on the existence of only one China remains unchanged."
On Tuesday, Mr. Peskov said that with the speaker's trip, "unfortunately, the U.S. chose the path of confrontation."
"It doesn't bode well," he added.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, China has tried to shield itself from the fallout of the war while preserving ties with Russia. Before the war, President Xi Jinping of China and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, had declared that their countries' friendship had "no limits."
That basic commitment appears to have endured. In June, Mr. Xi offered to deepen cooperation with Mr. Putin, and keeping with China and Russia's official practice, he did not refer to a "war" or an "invasion," instead mentioning only the "Ukraine issue."
Since February, his government has called for peace talks and maintained it was trying to be an impartial broker. It has also denounced Western sanctions on Russia, amplified disinformation about the war, and purchased large amounts of Russian crude oil as European buyers dropped it.
At an international summit last month, the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken, urged China's foreign minister to change positions over the war, saying, "it's pretty hard to be neutral when it comes to this aggression."
The foreign minister, Wang Yi, responded that Beijing was neutral, and accused the United States of having "dead end" policies and "China phobia," echoing official Russian rhetoric of recent years.
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