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Anvita Sudarshan is a filmmaker and author. She was Miss India Kuwait 2011, First Runner-up of Miss India Worldwide 2012, and finalist in I Am She Miss India Universe 2011 and Miss India South 2010. She served as a judge for Miss India New York 2013 and Miss India USA 2013. She has also extensively modeled for some leading brands. Writing has been a life-long passion for her. At fourteen, she co-founded Geo-Junior and edited it. Additionally, she has written and edited several film scripts, including documentaries on rural communities and village industries for Khadi and Village Industries Commission of Government of India. You can read more about Anvita on her website.


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Film Critic, Entertainment Weekly
Summer Movies '04
EntertainmentAir Date 07/13/2004
Film critics review summer blockbusters including "Spider-Man 2," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Vivendi Universal; Summer Movies '02; Will Smith
Entertainment, Business, Sports, MediaAir Date 07/02/2002
On the future of Vivendi Universal; film critics on this summer's movies; a rebroadcast of Will Smith on playing Ali.
Guest host Janet Maslin is joined by a panel of fellow film critics to analyze the summer '02 blockbusters.
Oscar Nominations '01; David Stern
Entertainment, SportsAir Date 02/13/2001
Film critics debate this year's Oscar-nominated movies; NBA commissioner David Stern on the future of the league.
Oscar Nominations '01
Film critics debate this year's nominated movies, which include "Traffic" and "Gladiator."
Oscar Nominations '93; Garry Marshall; Carol Felsenthal
Entertainment, Politics, Books, MediaAir Date 02/18/1993
Film critics review the Oscar noms; Garry Marshall presents "Wrong Turn At Lungfish"; Carol Felsenthal on Katharine Graham.
Caryn James, Owen Gleiberman, and Julie Salamon debate this year's nominations including "The Crying Game" and "Unforgiven."
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; Celebrating Walt Whitman; Oscar Nominations '92; Deborah Eisenberg
Entertainment, Books, HistoryAir Date 03/25/1992
Arthur Schlesinger on the Cuban missile crisis; On Walt Whitman; Oscars '92; Deborah Eisenberg.
Oscars Nominations '92
A panel of film critics share their predictions about the upcoming Oscars, and agree that "Silence of the Lambs" will win Best Picture.
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Richard Corliss
Julie Salamon
A. O. Scott
Janet Maslin
Bernard Trainor
World, Politics
General Bernard Trainor talks about the war that the U.S. would face going into the Middle East to fight terrorism. 27:33
Author James Clavell shares his bestselling novel "Gai-Jin," the third book in his Asian Saga. 20:55
Arnold Rampersad
Books, Sports, Health
Arnold Rampersad of Princeton on the book "Days of Grace," which he wrote with the late tennis player Arthur Ashe. 14:39
Brian Ross of ABC News reports on the anthrax scare. 08:52
Nisid Hajari
World, Books, Religion
Author Nisid Hajari presents "Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition." 21:10

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John A. List is an associate with Pahl & McCay practicing in the areas of Mutli-Family Housing, Fair Housing, Corporate Formations and Commercial Transactions. Mr. List advises landlords and property owners in operational and fair housing matters, including requests for accommodations under the federal Fair Housing Act and California's Fair Employment and Housing Act. He also assists clients in purchasing and selling commercial real estate, along with buyer-side financing matters.
Mr. List received his Bachelor of Arts in German from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. While in law school, Mr. List co-wrote an article for Plaintiff Magazine, "How to Know a Potential Class Action," published in January of 2011, participated in honors external moot court, and served as an extern to James S. Ware, United States District Judge. In 2010, he earned his Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law. Mr. List is admitted to practice in the States of California and Washington.


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Q: How to properly merge a user given generictype type to Class itself ? (Typescript) I am trying to merge user given generic type to class itself in constructor. But it's throwing Object is of type 'unknown'.ts(2571) while I access merged property from instantiated class. Currently I am using &, but I want to merge it in the class.
MyClass
class MyClass<ArgSourceT> {
  /**
   *  Instantiate class and load up the given object
   * @param source ArgSourceT
   */
  constructor(source: ArgSourceT) {
    Object.assign(this, source);
    // I want to do something like
    // this as this & ArgSourceT
  }
}

Current usage(solution)
const person = {
  name: {
    first: 'John',
    last: 'Doe',
  },
};
type PersonT = typeof person;
// I have to also merge with '&',
// so that it won't throw
// Property 'address' does not exist on type 'Observer<PersonT>'.ts(2339)'
// or
// Object is of type 'unknown'.ts(2571)
// when I access name from myClass.
const myClass = new MyClass(person) as MyClass<PersonT> & PersonT;
console.log('firstname', myClass.name);

A: It's possible with a little workaround. You can 'override' your class type signature by return this and defining the return type properly.
You can also define a merge function(see example)
playground
class MyClass<ArgSourceT> {
    /**
     *  Instantiate class and load up the given object
     * @param source ArgSourceT
     */
    constructor(private source: ArgSourceT) { }

    init(): MyClass<ArgSourceT> & ArgSourceT {
        return Object.assign(this, this.source)
    }
}

const c = (new MyClass<{ a: string }>({ a: "foo" })).init()
c.a // valid

function merge<A, B>(a: A, b: B): A & B {
    return Object.assign(a, b)
}

const d = merge(new MyClass<{}>({}), { a: "foo" })
d.a // valid

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Home Local News UK nurse recovers from COVID-19 after being given Viagra
UK nurse recovers from COVID-19 after being given Viagra
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She recovered from COVID-19 – with help from the little blue pill, according to a report.
Monica Almeida, 37, a fully vaccinated nurse in the UK, spent 28 days in a coma after contracting COVID-19 and was just 72 hours from her ventilator being turned off when she was saved by a "large dose of Viagra," The Lincolnite reported.
Almeida, an asthma sufferer who has worked as a respiratory specialist for the UK's National Health Service in Lincolnshire, tested positive for the deadly bug on Oct. 31, 2021, according to the outlet.
Four days later, the mother of two lost her sense of taste and smell, then began coughing up blood and soon experienced a drop in oxygen levels, according to the news outlet.
After being discharged from a hospital in Greater Lincolnshire with a prescription but no treatment, her condition took a turn for the worse and she was taken to Lincoln County Hospital, where she had started her career.
Monica Almeida was in a coma for nearly a month and was almost taken off of a ventilator.
Monica Almeida
The critically ill nurse was rushed to the resuscitation room, where she received oxygen before being admitted to the ICU on Nov. 9. A week later, she was placed in a medically induced coma, according to The Lincolnite.
But before going under, Almeida signed a document saying she was willing to take part in a study to try experimental drugs.
She was given the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra about a week after being placed in a coma and her airways opened, the outlet said.
Monica Almeida and her husband Artur after Monica awoke from her coma.
"It was definitely the Viagra that saved me. Within 48 hours it opened up my airwaves and my lungs started to respond," Almeida told The Sun. "If you think how the drug works, it expands your blood vessels. I have asthma and my air sacs needed a little help."
On Christmas Eve, the nurse was finally discharged and was able to spend the holidays with her family – though her complete recovery could take several more months, The Lincolnite reported.
"It was really hard, but the nurse looking after me was a former colleague which made a big difference and the staff could see how frightened I was and they were amazing," she told the outlet.
"Mentally I am now as good as ever, but I do get a bit teary and frustrated at times. Physically, I am very weak and fragile, but I am determined to recover," Almeida continued.
She told The Sun that she joked with one of the medical staffers when she awoke from her coma.
According to doctors, Monica Alemida's lungs began responding to the Viagra within 48 hours of being administered the drug.
"He told me it was the Viagra. I laughed and thought he was joking, but he said, 'No, really, you've had a large dose of Viagra,'" she told the outlet. "It was my little Christmas miracle."
Viagra can be given to COVID-19 patients in the UK if they have agreed to take part in a study to try experimental drugs, The Sun reported.
Scientists are investigating whether the erectile dysfunction drug can be used in the same way as inhaling nitric oxide, which can increase oxygen levels in the blood, according to the outlet.
Almeida, who is recovering at her home with her husband Artur and two sons, ages 9 and 14, added: "I could have been gone at just 37 years old, but I suppose I was a bit of a monkey and kept on fighting."
The grateful mom is urging people to get jabbed after being told she would have died if she hadn't gotten vaccinated.
"There are people out there saying the vaccine has killed people," she told The Sun.
"I'm not denying there are people who react and get poorly with the vaccine, but when we look at the amount of deaths we have in unvaccinated people there is a big message there to have your jab," Almeida added.
"I never expected at 37 years of age to get as ill as I did. I never thought this would happen to me and I want people to take it more seriously."


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Los Angeles restaurants now can only rely on takeout/delivery and drive-thru service as the pandemic worsens.
News>Casual Dining
Los Angeles County shuts down outdoor dining as COVID-19 cases surge
As the five-day average of coronaviruas cases increases to more than 4,000, restaurants can only offer delivery, takeout, and drive-thru
Joanna Fantozzi | Nov 23, 2020
Los Angeles County is shutting down outdoor dining in restaurants effective Wed., Nov 25 at 10 p.m., as the five-day average of COVID-19 cases grows to more than 4,000, the Los Angeles County Public Health Department confirmed on Sunday. Restaurants, bars, breweries and wineries in Los Angeles can now only offer takeout, delivery and drive-thru service for at least the next three weeks, while indoor dining rooms never reopened in the county during the coronavirus crisis.
The news broke the week after the county released new thresholds for additional restrictions that officials had said would go into effect if the five-day average peaked past 4,000 cases or more and hospitalizations at 1,750 or more per day. Currently, the five-day average is 4,097 and the Los Angeles County Public Health Department confirmed that the county had nine new deaths and 2,718 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday.
Related: To combat the spread of COVID-19, Los Angeles restaurants and bars will close for dine-in business
"The persistent high number of cases requires additional safety measures that limit mixing in settings where people are not wearing masks," Barbara Ferrer, director of public health for Los Angeles County, said in a statement. "We hope individuals continue to support restaurants, breweries and wineries by ordering for take-out or delivery. We also fervently hope every L.A. County resident supports all our businesses by following the Public Health directives that we know work to slow spread. Unfortunately, if our cases and hospitalizations continue to increase, we will need to issue further restrictions to protect our healthcare system and prevent more deaths."
This decision comes on the heels of multiple states and cities placing more restrictions in place as COVID-19 cases surge around the country. San Francisco shut down indoor dining on Nov. 13 after a 250% spike in cases. Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney announced a ban on indoor dining on Nov. 16 from Nov. 21 through the end of 2020.
Related: Michigan, Washington state, Iowa, California and Philadelphia add increased COVID dine-in restrictions as U.S. slowly moves toward second broad lockdown
States that have recently enacted limitations and restrictions on dining include Oregon, which ordered a two-week freeze on most activities across the state on Nov. 13, limiting restaurants to takeout and delivery-only until Dec. 2. New Mexico announced a shelter-in-place order from Nov. 13 until Dec., also prohibiting on-site dining. Washington also enacted a stay-at-home order on Nov. 15 through Dec. 14, limiting restaurants to outdoor dining and takeout/delivery. Michigan announced a three-week ban on indoor dining on Nov. 15.
On Nov. 22, there were 141,648 new coronavirus cases nationwide and 13 states had a 7-day average of more than 4,000 new cases daily, including Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Contact Joanna Fantozzi at joanna.fantozzi@informa.com
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BCW Drives Ambitious Global Technology Vision with the Hire of Michael Ann Thomas
NEW YORK, September 6, 2018 – BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe), a leading global communications agency, today announced that Michael Ann Thomas has been named Executive Vice President, Global Technology Solutions, effective September 10. Thomas will be responsible for taking BCW's strong global technology practice to the next level and expanding its depth through unique offerings, cross-practice teams and integrated campaigns for clients and the industry at large.
She will be an active leader with focus on client counsel as well as developing intellectual property and services for BCW that will strengthen the agency's offering and bring it to new heights. For North America, Thomas will build, broaden and nurture the client teams and help integrate the practice with other areas of expertise to build new offerings.
"I was searching for someone who has the energy and vision to propel our global strategy forward and lead in this highly competitive practice area," said Donna Imperato, Global CEO, BCW. "What is so striking about Michael Ann Thomas is that she is not bound by convention. She's fearless at a time when we need bold ideas, uninhibited creativity and a sophisticated understanding of the evolution of the world of technology. Michael knows what's driving global businesses."
Before joining BCW, Thomas was Global Technology Practice Chair for APCO Worldwide and spent years building a health technology offering for Edelman. In both roles, Thomas was responsible for meeting market demand with integrated communications solutions that lived at the intersection of technology and global business disruption. She has specialized in emerging technology, across disciplines and industries, and is a trusted advisor to well-known venture capital firms and start-ups. She has built unique diagnostics and communications tools to help traditional enterprises rebuild their infrastructure, culture, talent pool, products and processes to evolve, thrive and win.
"Michael is an expert at helping organizations define and communicate new measures of value as they navigate digital transformation," said Chris Foster, President, North America, BCW, to whom Thomas reports. "Michael understands this disruption, the issues facing the technology sector and how to position our clients to win."
For the last several years, Thomas has researched the global talent war burdening businesses around the world, spearheading strategy to better understand developers and the highly technical workforce. This has helped her technology teams optimize content and channel strategies to attract and retain quality talent, with higher velocity, as their businesses evolve.
"The moment I spoke with the team at BCW I knew instantly that there was a real hunger coming from Donna and Chris to move quickly, and in some cases re-design solutions based on new collective resources," said Thomas. "Businesses today need integrated campaigns, built on the backbone of sophisticated technologies and subject matter expertise, analogous with their own industries. BCW has incredibly strong leadership that's already thinking big, is experimenting and merging talent – and is now adding new variables, new people, new creativity and new sophisticated tools to exceed expectations and meet market demand."
Thomas previously served as a board member for the Hacking Medicine Institute, an organization born out of MIT's Hacking Medicine Program. She has also supported MIT's annual GRAND HACK and participates at SXSW and other digital events.
Published @https://www.bcw-global.com/news/2018-09-06-bcw-drives-ambitious-global-technology-vision-with-the-hire-of-michael-ann-thomas | 6th of September 2018
Please contact Petros Constantinidis for more information.
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"Growth Rate Variability and Lipofuscin Accumulation Rates in the Blue " by Se-Jong Ju, David H. Secor et al.
To better understand growth and age-pigment (lipofuscin) accumulation rates of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus under natural conditions, juveniles (33 to 94 mm carapace width) were reared in outdoor ponds for over 1 yr. Growth rates, measured by carapace width, during summer and fall exceeded all those reported in the literature; the initial carapace width of 59 ± 14 mm (mean ± SD) increased to 164 ± 15 mm within a 3 mo period. No growth occurred during winter months (November to April) at low water temperatures. Growth rates of crabs in ponds were substantially higher (von Bertalanffy growth parameter K = 1.09) than those of crabs held in laboratory environments, and than rate estimates for natural populations of mid-Atlantic blue crabs. Model comparisons indicated that seasonalized von Bertalanffy growth models (r2 > 0.9) provide a better fit than the non-seasonalized model (r2= 0.74) for pond-reared crabs and, by implication, are more appropriate for field populations. Despite growth rates that varied strongly with season, lipofuscin (normalized to protein concentration) accumulation rate was nearly constant throughout the year. Although the lipofuscin level in pond-reared crabs was significantly correlated with size (carapace width), it was more closely correlated with chronological age. Lipofuscin accumulation rates were also similar to those observed for laboratory-reared crabs, despite very large differences in growth rates and temperature regimes. The constancy of normalized-lipofuscin accumulation rates of blue crabs across seasons and environmental conditions suggests that lipofuscin concentration can be a more robust indicator of age than carapace width alone.
Ju, Se-Jong; Secor, David H.; and Harvey, H. Rodger, "Growth Rate Variability and Lipofuscin Accumulation Rates in the Blue Crab Callinectes Sapidus" (2001). OEAS Faculty Publications. 160.


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Die IWA OutdoorClassics oder schlicht IWA (ursprünglich die Abkürzung für Internationale Waffenausstellung) im Messezentrum Nürnberg ist eine internationale Fachmesse für Jagdwaffen, Sportwaffen, Ordonnanzwaffen, Outdoorartikel und Zubehör. Sie zählt in Europa zu den wichtigsten Veranstaltungen der Branche. Veranstalter der jährlich stattfindenden Fachmesse ist die NürnbergMesse. Zu den ideellen Trägern der IWA OutdoorClassics gehören der Verband Deutscher Büchsenmacher und Waffenfachhändler und der Verband der Hersteller von Jagd-, Sportwaffen und Munition in Verbindung mit der Association Européenne de Commerce d'armes civiles, der Association des Fabricants Européens de Munition de Sport und dem Institut Européen des Armes de Chasse et de Sport.

Fachangebot und Publikum
Neben Waffen und Munition präsentieren die Aussteller Outdoor-Ausrüstung, insbesondere für Jagd- und Schießsport, Bogensport, Wandern und Tierbeobachtung. Zu den gezeigten Produkten gehören beispielsweise Funktionskleidung, Messer oder Taschenlampen.

Bei den IWA OutdoorClassics ist ausschließlich Fachpublikum zugelassen. Besucher müssen beim Kauf ihrer Eintrittskarte nachweisen, dass sie in einer relevanten Branche beschäftigt sind, beispielsweise bei einer Forstbehörde oder im Personenschutz. Eine Tätigkeit als Jäger oder Mitgliedschaft in einem Schützenverein sind nicht ausreichend.

Enforce Tac

Mehrere Jahre lang fand am ersten Tag der IWA OutdoorClassics der sogenannte Behördentag statt. Aufgrund wachsender Popularität lagerte der Veranstalter den Behördentag 2012 unter dem Namen Enforce Tac in eine eigene Veranstaltung aus. Dort bieten Aussteller Produkte speziell für Sicherheitskräfte etwa aus Polizei, Zoll und Militär an. Das Angebotsspektrum umfasst neben Waffen und Munition auch Einsatzkleidung, Fahrzeuge sowie Trainingsausrüstung wie Schießstände. Zur Enforce Tac gehört auch die Europäische Polizeitrainer-Fachkonferenz. Die Beschränkung auf Fachpublikum wird bei der Enforce Tac besonders streng gehandhabt.

Besucher- und Ausstellerzahlen

IWA OutdoorClassics
2019 präsentierten sich 1.619 Aussteller (davon 305 aus Deutschland) auf 58.177 m² Nettoausstellungsfläche den 45.476 Fachbesuchern (davon 17.529 aus Deutschland).

Enforce Tac
Auf der Enforce Tac 2017 waren 214 Aussteller auf einer Nettofläche von 3.692 m² vertreten. Die Messe erreichte 3.810 Fachbesucher.

Weblinks

Website IWA OutdoorClassics
Website Enforce Tac

Einzelnachweise

Sportmesse
Messe in Nürnberg
Veranstaltung (Waffentechnik)

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text: Q: Manga about a female lead who wakes up inside the world of a game she was playing, and gets into baking I am trying to find a manga that has a female lead Who wears strong perfume and heavy make up to impress a prince that she likes. She wakes up and finds this world was inside a game she was playing and she changes her ways into baking.


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Kim raises ideas of coalition government and amendment
Kim Chong-in, Former interim leader of the Democratic Party. [YONHAP]
Kim Chong-in, former interim leader of the Democratic Party, hinted that he may jump in the presidential race this month in an interview on Friday with the JoongAng Sunday, an affiliate of the Korea JoongAng Daily.
After leaving the Democratic Party last week, Kim has vigorously pushed for the so-called "third zone big tent," which is designed to bring together all potential presidential contenders and political factions, except for the Moon Jae-in camp and pro-Park Geun-hye faction, under the one big tent.
In an interview with the JoongAng Sunday on Friday, the day when the Constitutional Court removed Park from office, Kim said, "I have been saying I will keep my word when the situation forces me to run for the presidential race. Not much time is left, as the court made the ruling to dismiss Park today."
"As there is no sitting president, opposition political parties, for the first time without the ruling party, will compete against one another in the presidential race," said Kim. "Then candidates themselves will be a much more important factor than their party affiliation."
Answering the question of whether he wants to become a king or a kingmaker, Kim flatly said, "I have said numerous times that I don't want to be a kingmaker."
Kim proposed a road map to form a coalition government through a constitutional amendment before the presidential election, to run the coalition government for three years and then to hold both a general election and a presidential election in 2020.
He believes he can muster political power and field a unified candidate.
Below are edited excerpts from an interview with Kim.
Q. When you were mulling leaving the Democratic Party, did former DP Chairman Moon Jae-in try to hold you back?
A. I have never seen him since we ate together right after the general election in April last year. In the middle, he delivered his message through an intermediary. But that did not mean something to me … I have not received a phone call from him, not even once.
Under the current political situation, Moon has the most potential to become the next president, don't you think so?
Response rates in recent polls are below five percent. People who are disappointed by the political parties think there is no hope if politics does not reform. They will not respond to poll surveys and will not cast votes.
March 9 will be chosen for the presidential election day. How do you think the presidential race will go from here?
It is the first presidential election for which only opposition parties compete, as there is no sitting president anymore. I think the race will be candidate versus candidate and person versus person, not party versus party.
Do you think the presidential election will end up as a race between the Democratic Party and the other opposition parties?
I am not talking about political parties. People will choose a candidate who can resolve national conflict and efficiently solve urgent problems related to the economy, diplomacy and security. I don't think people will cast their votes because they support a certain political party.
What will be emerging issues during the presidential campaign?
The reason why all six presidents, who were elected through direct election, failed is connected with money. By amending the Constitution to adopt the decentralized power system, we have to prevent the next president from exercising absolute power.
Through accomplishing economic democratization, we have to install institutions that can curb certain economically powerful forces from influencing almost all social sectors, such as politics and media.
More than 180 lawmakers should be secured in order to carry out this plan. Only a coalition government can secure more than 180 lawmakers in the legislature. The era of absolute power has gone.
A new candidate who can share the presidential power with other political forces will emerge. People will choose the candidate who can implement the plan and perform the task efficiently as the next president.
We have to ask people to pick one of two choices. Electing a president under the existing Constitution and possibly having another failed president.
Or electing an able person who can carry out the constitutional amendment and pioneer a new path to a bright future and pass down a whole new country full of hope to future generations.
Do you think the constitutional amendment is achievable before the presidential election?
I think it's an easy job if lawmakers have enthusiasm. It is possible if more than 200 lawmakers join the cause. When the opposition parties tried to pass the impeachment motion against President Park in December, it was possible to pass the motion as scores of lawmakers from the ruling party sided with the cause.
Likewise, I think it is possible to amend the Constitution if dozens of lawmakers from the main opposition party, which refuses to amend the Constitution before the presidential election, side with it.
What are preconditions for launching a coalition government through the constitutional amendment to introduce decentralized power structure?
If prominent presidential contenders from the Bareun Party and the People's Party manage some parts of government function, joint political forces can run the coalition government for three years until 2020.
And then the presidential election and general election will be held in 2020 to launch the new political system.
For three years, each party and each presidential hopeful can do their best to earn voters' support and then be judged by the elections in 2020. Until then, all the parties can compete while each political identity remains intact.
Is it possible to field a unified candidate for the coming election?
I don't have to talk about this topic if all the presidential contenders want to run. I think they can accept the consensus if they are politicians who want to take care of this country's future.
When do you plant to make an official announcement of your decision?
Today is March 10. So I don't have many days left.
Do you intend to go independent?
It will be much better for me not to be affiliated with any political party. For now, I don't want to be confined by a certain political party.
Do you think you can manage the coalition government and the state affairs as president at this critical juncture?
I don't think I am incapable of handling it.
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The orcs, evil minions- What? What's that you say?
You've read the book already and you want to go away?
Fine. Go and leave; I'll tell this to another.
I haven't seen Lord OF The Rings... But u did a really good job at the poem!!
I love this! It made me laugh so hard. I know that this is kind of an old thing, but I was looking to see what you ahd written and I wondered what it was. It was great, that's what it was! Was that a racial statement about Saruman (joke. You know laugh....ha..ha,ha.....never mind). I like the part about Theoden's son's grave. And also the last part (it made me laugh and go hee hee and ha ha).
When I said Saruman was black I meant black-hearted (the many-colored thing is in the book; i don't know if you've read it or not).
Yes dear (scarcastically) I am quite aware of Saruman words (because that's what I am). I have read the books and it made so mad that they did that thing with Aragorn falling off a cliff. I don't remember that, do you?
This might interest you; My sister and I were just shooting each other with rubber band guns. Wouldn't you love tro join us?
I dunno... the books are better than the movies in general, so I was more mad at Peter Jackson.
Though the Aragorn-falling-off-a-cliff was a nice if startling touch.
I really liked this, Anna! You've got real talent. I love the Lord of the Rings, and the books, in my opinion, are better than the movies, although I like the movies a lot.
I like the end; it was funny. I always liked Samwise Gamgee the best, although Aragorn is a close second.
I am currently reading it and the beginning described me perfectly.
Quite frankly, I'm not sure anymore about Legolas. I'm rereading the books now with my sister (also named Emily, coincidentally) and I can't find anything for or against his having a sword.
Little mouse... who bursts into flames every time he eats cheese - A bedtime story.
Why LotR men are better than Twilight "hotties"


It's a question the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal may soon tackle after an update to the provincial definition of "creed". Animal-rights and vegan advocates are calling the new policy, released in December, an important recognition of their right to express their beliefs. The 179-page policy, the first update from the provincial human rights commission since 1996, offers guidelines for what defines "creed," historically treated as religious beliefs and practices, in the more secular 21st century. That opens the door for vegans, atheists and other groups to claim similar protections under the law.
Instead, the aim was to provide an update that hedged against growing religious persecution in some areas, particularly against Muslims, and to make it more inclusive of, for example, atheists or those who practice an indigenous spirituality. "Creed" is now much broader than the more strictly religious interpretation intended when the Code was first drafted and is intended to capture more modern belief systems.
Is it a sincerely, freely and deeply held belief?
Is tied to personal identity and spiritual fulfillment?
Is it "a comprehensive and overarching system of belief that governs one's conduct and practices?
Does it address ultimate question of human existence, including ones about life, death and purpose?
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'Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes' Doc to Air on HBO
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A new documentary about the making of Bruce Springsteen's latest album will air on HBO next month, a few days before his group the E Street Band receive a special award at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The half-hour film, Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes, will detail the making of the singer-songwriter's most recent record, High Hopes, which came out earlier this year and debuted at Number One in 20 countries. The film, which premieres April 4th at 9:30 p.m. EST, will feature scenes of studio sessions, rehearsals and interviews with Springsteen and his High Hopes collaborator, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Filmmaker Thom Zimny, who previously helmed the 2010 HBO Springsteen doc The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, led the project. Zimny has also directed the Springsteen documentaries Bruce Springsteen: A Conversation With His Fans in 2011 and Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to Run in 2005.
Springsteen and the E Street Band will be back in the U.S. around the time the doc airs, following touring in South Africa and a string of Australia and New Zealand gigs. On the latter run, he covered AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," INXS' "Don't Change," the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" and even Lorde's "Royals," who said she "got teary" over Springsteen performing her song.
On April 10th, the E Street Band will receive the Award for Musical Excellence at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Brooklyn. The group's guitarist and singer Steven Van Zandt recently told Rolling Stone that the nod meant a lot to him, if only because people assumed he'd already been inducted. "It's always a bit strange when you're in a conversation with somebody and they assume you're already in," he said. "You gotta say, 'Well, actually. . .' That little bit of awkwardness will be gone now. And of course, you're honored to be part of the same institution as all of my heroes."
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That looks so great and so wholesome too. I adore hidden coconut in stuff so this bread really appeals to me!
Making it tomorrow. I need to buy some more dates first. Does look enticing.
I am a recent convert to coconut in bread but certainly love it so I know that this will be good.
Ooh - this sounds like a fantastic combination. I really must get back into a bit of bread making!
Thanks Dom, it is so easy to add stuff to bread and makes a nice change.
Definitely a good way to use up coconut. Thanks for a great challenge.
Thanks Bintu, I think I am a convert now too!
Mine too Karen, there's always tomorrow!
You should Laura. Worth looking at the Bready Steady Go challenge it certainly got me baking bread again.
I am super impressed! Way to go! It looks amazing! I will sometime visit in your "Coconut Bread".


I am in no way against putting the latest and greatest of accessories in a car, I've just had to pull myself back from going overboard to sticking with the bare necessities. Initially, I was putting together an Autodroid setup using a 2012 Nexus 7 that would allow a custom and personal touch-screen experience at a fraction of the cost of an aftermarket head unit. The setup is dated, but I was looking forward to it because I haven't dug into an android device since the HTC HD2. Below is a pic of the completed tablet being test fitted as well as a video demonstrating the autodroid rom.
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I daily drive an SUV loaded with features I never use. The two that I do use are the sunroof for fresh air and bluetooth to stream music from my phone. Because of this, I opted for an original stock radio. It's period correct for a 90's car and the cd and cassette player gives me an excuse to pull out old mix CDs and cassettes. In my opinion, it visually flows better with my "sorta-stock" interior theme.
What head unit did I choose and why?
Since the stock radio was already discarded when I bought the car, I referenced the sales brochure for a visual and realized that the likelihood of finding a stock working radio from a 1993 240SX was slim, so I took a look at the 1995 180SX brochure. I was curious to what options Nissan used in other variations of the S13 and came across the following double din unit.
This particular head unit was made by Clarion and came in a few variations that depended on whether or not the car was equipped with a cd changer. It can be found on the following 1997-1999 Nissan and Infiniti models: Maxima, Altima, Pathfinder, I30, QX4, and G20. The visual differences are the buttons above the power button and bass/treble buttons.
You can easily find the USDM units on ebay however, you can save yourself some dollars by checking your local salvage yards.
Just a real basic question, are these stock head units 6'2 ?
Do you happen to know the measurements..
Din size is usually measured by the radio face. Older single din radios are usually 7×2 inches. Double Din would be twice the size in height at 7×4 inches.


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Trump names Tom Reed to New York re-election team
Chad Arnold, New York State Team
ALBANY – Four Republican members of Congress from New York, including Tom Reed, will join a county sheriff and a New York City Council members as the leaders of President Donald Trump's re-election effort in his native state.
The Trump campaign Wednesday announced that Dutchess County Sheriff Butch Anderson was among one of six elected officials in New York selected to advance President Donald Trump's agenda in the state ahead of this year's elections.
He will be joined on the team by New York City Councilman Joe Borelli and Republican Reps. Pete King and Lee Zeldin of Long Island; Tom Reed of the Southern Tier and Elise Stefanik of the North Country and Albany area/
Stefanik made headlines last year for her staunch defense of the president during an impeachment hearing of the House Intelligence Committee.
They were named "Honorary State Chairs" to the "New York Trump Victory" effort on Wednesday, which will work to "advance the agenda of President Trump and Republicans up and down the ballot," according to a news release from the campaign.
"President Trump's agenda of creating jobs, strengthening our military, securing our borders, negotiating better trade deals, and lowering crime rates has historic support in the 21st Congressional District and across Upstate New York," Stefanik, R-Saratoga, said in a statement.
The team, established by the president's reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee, "will work to elect Republicans in the state," said Brad Parscale, Trump's campaign manager.
"(The presidents) success can be felt nation wide and electing Republicans across New York will help ensure he can achieve more victories for the American people for many years to come," Parscale said in a statement.
This isn't the first time Anderson has worked to advance the president's agenda.
He served a similar role during then-candidate Trump's election campaign in 2016 alongside former Rep. Chris Collins and Erie County businessman and former gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino.
"What I did was I spoke at different events around the state," Anderson said of his role four years ago.
"I assume I'll be doing the same thing. It's nothing spectacular or anything like that, it's just I'm an honorary member. I was four years ago, and I'll be there again this year."
Anderson, however, will be the only member from the 2016 election to return for this year's election.
Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Trump in 2016, pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in September and faces more nearly five years in federal prison. He has since vacated his seat in Congress.
And Paladino came under fire shortly after the 2016 election after making racist remarks in which he referred to former First Lady Michelle Obama as a "male" and suggested she move to the "outback of Zimbabwe" to live comfortably "in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla."
The president was impeached by House Democrats last month for abuse of power and obstructing Congress and will face a Senate trial beginning Jan. 21.
What to watch for in November in New York
Trump, the New York City businessman who was born in Queens, has an uphill battle to win his native state — which has 29 electoral votes up for grabs on Election Day.
He recently announced he was changing his residency to Florida, criticizing New York's policies and political leaders — which he has done frequently during his time in the White House.
"Despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year," he tweeted Nov. 1. "I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse."
"It's not like Mr. Trump paid taxes here anyway," Cuomo said in a statement at the time. "He's all yours, Florida."
New York has twice as many registered Democrats than Republicans. Trump secured just 37% of votes in the state in 2016, even though he won a majority of counties outside of New York City.


They walk neatly behind their teachers like little ducks in a row ... they raise their hands instead of their voices ... they act as if adults might actually know something. I'm serious. That's how the young students at South Bend's Tarkington Traditional School usually behave. I am up and down Tarkington's hallways once a week as a reading tutor (and on a few other occasions when my wife, one of the teachers, forgets her lunch.) Tarkington reminds me of my grade-school days, when kids knew that getting into trouble at school meant even worse trouble at home. "What we have here is working very well," says Principal Terry Zubler, who ushered in the traditional school approach four years ago. "And there are several reasons why." Although he wouldn't admit it, Terry himself is one of those reasons. A former South Bend teacher of the year, he has an upbeat attitude and innovative mind. Then there are the teachers and staff, mostly veterans and a good representation of the type of top-notch educators still spread through the South Bend system. But it is the parents themselves who may really be making a difference in this school. Yep, the parents. "Our parents sign a compact that says they will read to their child daily, that they will check homework and that they will stay in communication with their child's teacher," Terry says. And parents are strongly encouraged to take part in the school's programs. "We have a Three-for-Me program run by our parent coordinator, Julie Toth, in which parents pledge three hours of volunteer time for the school year," Terry continues. So far, 315 out of 464 parents have reached that goal with more than 3,000 volunteer hours already given. "We make sure parents aren't turned away at the office door," Terry says. "We want them to be a part of their child's education." The results? ISTEP scores have skyrocketed. "Three years ago, 56 percent of our third-graders passed the language part and 49 percent the math," Terry says. "The following year, those same students as fourth-graders were at 73 percent in both sections." Scores continue to rise -- this year with third graders at 83 percent in language and 84 percent in math. Only Kennedy Academy had better scores among the South Bend primary centers (K-through-4) but unlike Kennedy, Tarkington has no academic requirements. "We have kids from every neighborhood in South Bend and over a 40 percent poverty rate among our families," Terry says. "We would definitely be the poorest school in the P-H-M district." But with comparable ISTEP scores. Tarkington students also wear uniforms, but the academic success has more to do with the commitment from home. "Since we began the traditional approach, not one parent has chewed me out on the phone," Terry adds. "We might not always agree, but they want to be accommodating." Tarkington originally was going to be the corporation's discipline school, where students were made to toe the line. "But we may have fewer detentions and fewer trips to the APPLE room than any school in the corporation," Terry says. He even has had other principals warn him when a troublemaker is transferring to Tarkington. "But when they get here, we don't see that behavior," Terry says. "Their parents have made a commitment to send them here and the other students set good examples." OK, kids will be kids. There always is going to be some orneriness in any school. But Tarkington has very little of that. "And yes, I do sometimes have to call some parents and tell them they aren't living up to our agreement, but that has been minimal," Terry says. "I know many of our parents would really like to see the same kind of school at the intermediate level," Terry says. "And really, why not have a school like ours in all areas of the city?" Good question. Good teachers and good administrators help make good students. Good parents almost seal the deal. Bill Moor's column appears on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Contact him at bmoor@sbtinfo.com, or write him at the South Bend Tribune, 225 W. Colfax Ave., South Bend, IN 46626; (574) 235-6072.


In 2012 Envirofriendly conducted a three month trial with the aim to show the effectiveness of our tailored program with the use of our biological products in a controlled trial within the Port Douglas sewerage scheme.
Coles with its large combi ovens and the local marina and fish markets.
Reduce the time spent by Council staff clearing blockages.
To investigate the extension of scheduled maintenance intervals.
Eradicate bad odours emanating from the sewer lines and pump wells.
the pump well in the park.
forward to Council for consideration.
would monitor and replenish dosing equipment every month.
In September 2012 Envirofriendly met with council officers and all agreed that the trial had been a success.
The pump well was considerably easier to clean on a regular basis.
The extension of time intervals between cleaning of the pump well was not trialled by the Council.
through the entire sewer infrastructure.
An extension of maintenance intervals to pump well would be a probability.
Extended life expectancy for floats and pumps.
maintenance program and that if funds were available they would give consideration to the program.


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Rosenthal spent his entire career in the futures industry and was inducted into the FIA Futures Hall of Fame in its inaugural year in 2005. He first became a member of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) in 1958 and served for two terms as its Chairman beginning in 1981. He was also Chairman of the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation. He was a director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and MidAmerica Commodity Exchange and a founding member of the National Futures Association.
Starting his career as a trading floor runner, he worked his way up the ladder in the brokerage business and as a floor trader, founding his own brokerage firm, Rosenthal & Co., in 1970 as a CBOT clearing member. In 1988, he merged his business with Collins Commodities, which traced its roots back to 1923 with the founding of Greene and Collins. Together, they became Rosenthal Collins Group.


From twitterpated youths to death do us part, from 1586 to 2012, and from Paris to Times Square: this is the look of love. Warning: heart fluttering, heart breaking, and heart re-making all straight ahead.
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Save the Princess
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Just another typical Tuesday for Princess Peach.
Link! He come to town,
Come to save, the Princess Zelda!
—Joe Pleiman, "The Legend of Zelda", from The Rabbit Joint.
Mario: We gotta find the princess!
Luigi: And YOU gotta help us!
—Hotel Mario
The defining Excuse Plot of the 8-bit era. A Damsel in Distress (whether it be the princess, your girlfriend, whatever) has been kidnapped and put in a tower, and you (and you alone, unless it's a 2-player game) must fight your way through a veritable army of evil minions, dodge horrific death traps, etc. to save her from the Big Bad. Your only reward is probably going to be a Smooch of Victory, unless, of course, you get the Standard Hero Reward. Hope she's worth it!
Once in a rare while, the villain will decide to Hypnotize the Princess and marry her.
The trope derives from the ancient concept of "Princess and Dragon," where The Hero must save a woman from an invading monster. This is usually used as a metaphor for real-life conflict.
Pretty much a Dead Horse Trope these days; while video games still feature the occasional Damsel in Distress, rescuing them is only part of the overall plot; either that, or it's covered by the Grandfather Clause. In his book Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life, Chris Kohler credits this progress to some Girl Gamers who wrote to Nintendo in The Eighties to say they were tired of saving princesses; Nintendo eventually announced they'd stop using it as a final goal except in the Super Mario series.
This plot has become quite a popular target for subversion or deconstruction in indie games, and newer references to it in popular culture can be classed with Pac-Man Fever. For a similarly overused plot, see Fake King.
Named because it's often a princess. You know why.
Examples of Save the Princess include:
1 Action Adventure
2 Action Game
3 Adventure Game
5 Beat'Em Up
6 First-Person Shooter
7 Light Gun Game
8 Miscellaneous Games
9 MMORPGs
10 Platform Game
11 Puzzle Game
12 Real Time Strategy
13 Role Playing Game
14 Survival Horror
15 Turn-Based Strategy
16 Visual Novel
The Legend of Zelda had Link trying to rescue Zelda from Ganon, and the second sees him trying to rescue another Zelda from a spell that causes her to sleep eternally. All the games after that, though they usually do have Zelda kidnapped at some point, do not make it the major driving force of the plot; those games which are an exception to this rule usually do not feature Zelda at all (e.g. The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening, The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask).
Majora's Mask has a kidnapped princess that is the basis for reaching the first dungeon. However, you can finish the game without needing to free her from her prison.
Both The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker and its sequel, The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass, are kicked off with the kidnapping of a young lady — your sister in the first, and the actual princess in the second; much of the story centers around their rescue. In both games, though, the plot carries on well after you've saved the ladies in question. Four Swords also has very little plot beyond this.
The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks both averts and lampshades this. While Zelda's body is stolen, she, in spirit form, sticks with Link. When she realizes there's a Big Bad to be defeated, she promptly tasks Link with the entire task, claiming that sitting around and waiting for the hero to rescue her is a "family tradition". Soon after, though, they discover that Zelda can be useful in combat and they work as partners from then on.
Action Game
The first two Ninja Gaiden games on the NES has Ryu defeating some form of Cosmic Horror to Save the World while also saving the CIA agent Irene Lew, who becomes his girlfriend at the end of the first game. In the third game, Irene is presumed dead in the beginning but is alive and doesn't require rescuing.
Fat Princess turns this into a Capture the Flag game, with the goal being to get to the opposing team's base and carry their princesses back to their side. You can hinder the progress by feeding the Princess cake, which will have her grow fatter and becoming heavier to carry.
"The Prince Gilgamesh wore golden armor and attacked monsters to save Ki in The Tower of Druaga." In this case though, Ki (pronounced "Kai") is not actually a "princess" per se, she's a shrine maiden in service to the goddess Ishtar (who lends her name to the game's sequel, "The Return of Ishtar").
The goal of Penguin Adventure is to find a golden apple to restore the health of the penguin princess. Because of Guide Dang It, it's easier to get the bad ending in which she dies.
The plot of several King's Quest games:
In King's Quest II, Graham has to rescue Lady Valanice, who is kept in a tower by an evil witch.
In King's Quest VI, Alexander has to rescue Princess Cassima, who is being forced into marriage to the Grand Vizier.
In King's Quest III, the Oracle of Llewdor first lets "Gwydion" know about about the three-headed dragon terrorizing the faraway land of Daventry, and the young princess sent as its latest sacrifice. The Oracle then drops the second bombshell (she's his sister, meaning he's the lost prince), and the third (his name's not Gwydion at all).
And inverted in King's Quest IV and King's Quest VII where it's the princess doing the rescuing.
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom. The princess to be rescued (by a heroic cucumber) is the one in the title.
Fantasy Quest has this as its excuse plot, but a twist awaits players who make it to the end. In the sequel, you are tasked with rescuing dozens of princesses.
Revolutionary Girl Utena has a field day with this trope:
Once Utena "wins" Anthy in the Duels, She. Will. Protect. Her. From ANYONE. Deconstructed: Utena was NOT doing it for Anthy's actual sake, but to feel good about herself and without taking Anthy's own thoughts in consideration. Even more: the Big Bad was counting on it and set up Anthy as a Decoy Damsel to cash on Utena's self-righteousness for his benefit. Utena is, understandably, devastated when she finds out how she's been used — and even more so, when she realizes how badly she hurt Anthy over it. And then she decides to not just save Anthy, but to give her the chance to save herself. Which she ultimately does.
Once upon a time, there was a prince who saved all the women he could ever reach for... Deconstructed, too: the people demanded more and more from the Prince and attacked him when he couldn't save anyone else, and the Prince's younger sister took the brunt of their hate to help him. Who's the Prince? Akio, the Fallen Hero of a Big Bad, once known as Prince Dios. And who's the sister? Anthy.
Magic Knight Rayearth has Hikaru, Fuu and Umi being summoned to rescue Princess Esmeraude, the Pillar of Cephiro, who's been kidnapped by her once Number Two Zagato. Not really: the one who actually was trying to save the princess was Zagato. Because the girls were summoned to KILL Esmeraude at her behest so a new Pillar can be chosen.
One Piece's Alabasta arc is about helping Princess Nefeltari Vivi save her Kingdom, but at some point Luffy alongside Vivi's friend Pell must specifically save her from the Big Bad Sir Crocodile.
Much later, the Straw Hat Pirates get into a Save the Prince mission. This is because one of their friends, a Rebel Prince who ran away of his abusive Big Screwed-Up Family, is forced to return to the kingdom he loathes so much and abandon the life he built for himself, and the Hats can see how much the guy is suffering over it. Said friend? None other than one of the Staw Hats, Sanji.
The objective in the first Double Dragon is to rescue Billy's girlfriend, Marian. In the second, it's a little different; you're avenging her death. Although she does come back to life in the ending of the NES version, only to be kidnapped in the third game.
In Final Fight, your goal is to rescue Jessica - Cody's girlfriend, Mike Haggar's daughter AND Guy's good friend. Even more: since Haggar is the mayor, Jessica can be seen as the local princess.
Bringing back the classics (though in a hilarious, over the top way) through Castle Crashers. This time there are four princesses, and an achievement for getting the Smooch of Victory from all four!
Which is incredibly funny when all the people playing it don't care at all about it, and just stand around waiting to be killed in order for someone to smooch the princess and end the level.
Pretty much all the classic (1989-1994) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games have you rescue April, though only the first and third Game Boy ones have you save her at the end of the game.
Kung Fu Master: "Save Sylvia from Mr. X!"
In Vigilante, you had to rescue your girlfriend Madonna (not that Madonna).
The Wii game Red Steel featured its One-Man Army hero tearing through the machinations of the Yakuza in an international battle to bring down their new, more violent and corrupt leadership, learning legendary sword techniques along the way, after they kidnapped his fiancé and killed her father, the previous and attempting-to-go-legal Yakuza leader at their engagement announcement dinner.
Light Gun Game
The arcade Light Gun game Time Crisis has The President's Daughter as a hostage of the bad guys who must be rescued.
Retro Game Challenge has a princess to save in Guadia Quest and in the first two Haggleman games. Arino comments that the Haggleman princess gets captured an awful lot. And he hates that Haggleman 3 doesn't have a princess to save.
In World of Warcraft, a quest charges you with saving the dwarven princess Moira Bronzebeard from the emperor of the dark dwarves. It turns out she's pregnant with said emperor's child and doesn't want to be saved...
Platform Game
The original Super Mario Bros. and 3 both have this plot, as does the Japanese version of 2 (The Lost Levels), Super Mario World, Super Mario 64, the first half of Super Mario RPG, the second half of Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, the Paper Mario games (excluding Super Paper Mario, where Peach is a playable character), and New Super Mario Bros. Bowser must really dig Peach...
In fact, the plans of pretty much every villain in the Mario universe always involve kidnapping Peach at some point. In fact, in some games she's even somewhat of a Barrier Maiden. In Superstar Saga, her voice can awaken the Beanstar (the MacGuffin of the game), while in Super Paper Mario she is forced to wed Bowser in order to bring about The End of the World as We Know It.
At the very beginning of the Mario franchise, Pauline in Donkey Kong, who gets kidnapped again in the Game Boy version and in most Mario vs. Donkey Kong games.
Also Daisy in Super Mario Land, one of the few games where Bowser isn't present. Apparently he only got a license to kidnap Peach.
Super Princess Peach inverts the trope - Bowser jacked the Vibe Scepter and sends his minions in to use it to paralyze THE ENTIRE CASTLE in emotional distress, using the chaos to imprison THE MARIO BROTHERS (arguably one of his smartest moves in some time)! Peach was Late to the Party, and thus puts it on her shoulders to bail the brothers out.
The earlier Prince of Persia games.
Braid is ostensibly about this, but the truth behind Tim's pursuit of "the Princess" is a bit more complicated and considerably more depressing.
It's possible that the game is actually a Deconstruction of the standard "save the princess" plot.
To give an example of how this trope was so prevalent to the point of getting absurd, in the NES games Tiny Toon Adventures and Muppet Adventures, you are charged with saving rather strong and self-sufficient characters Babs Bunny and Miss Piggy, respectively. The latter example in particular is rather egregious, since it's far, far, far more likely that Miss Piggy would have to save Kermit from a bad spot (And she did, in The Muppet Movie. She'd also have saved him in the episode where the pigs took over the show, except she got offered a star position).
This is the initial premise of Eversion. The endings will make you wish you hadn't saved her.
This was uncannily anticipated by the ending of Monster Party: "But, the princess became a monster. And, more monsters followed her." In that case, though, it was All Just a Dream...in one country's version, at least.
Done in an antiheroic way in Wario Land: The Shake Dimension, where saving the princess is only Wario's secondary goal, with him being promised treasure at the end. In fact, at the end where Princess Merfle congratulates Wario, he stops her in the middle by grabbing her and tossing her out of his way.
At the end of Earthworm Jim 2, it appears that "having defeated the nefarious Psy-Crow, our hero, Earthworm Jim, has won back the heart of the lovely Princess What's Her Name." Except she's a cow wearing a costume. So is the villain. So is Jim.
The main plot of the first Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers game on the NES is to rescue Gadget. This notably doesn't start till after you've beaten the first level where the goal is to find a lost kitten (which it turns out was Fat Cat's way of distracting you), and the game goes on for three more levels after you rescue Gadget.
This is inverted in the PC game version, where Chip and Dale spend the game collecting screws so that Gadget can finish the Ranger Plane and rescue Monteray Jack from Professor Nimnul.
You have to rescue your love interest in Gish.
You have to rescue your love interest in Meat Boy.
The Clonk level "Dragon Rock" plays this unashamedly straight, right down to the evil mage-with-a-dragon doing the kidnapping. In "Tower of Despair" it's the king, and the dragon itself is the capturer, but otherwise it's pretty much the same.
Ghosts N Goblins and its sequels begin by showing Princess Prin-Prin getting kidnapped by some horrible demon.
In Jackie Chans Action Kung Fu, Jackie has to rescue Josephine, who is either his twin sister or his girlfriend, from an Evil Sorcerer who abducts her in a Ghosts N Goblins-like opening scene.
Crusader, an obscure Platform Game by Compile for the MSX, is the source of the quote: "Princess has been kidnapped! You must save princess."
In A Boy and His Blob in: The Rescue of Princess Blobette, you have to rescue Princess Blobette.
Puzzle Game
Tower Of The Sorcerer, an indie puzzle game masquerading as a dungeon-crawl RPG, plays this straight, complete with the opening line "A brave man is walking for to save the princess". The plot from there is actually not too bad, but it's clearly an Excuse Plot, as the princess is hardly mentioned thereafter and seen only once before the endgame. Then the trope is subverted in the game's Twist Ending: it turns out that it really was an Excuse Plot. The "princess" is an inanimate statue. The Big Bad's real goal was to get a sufficiently-powerful hero to the top of the tower so as to help him Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence.
The goal in Castlequest is to rescue Princess Margarita from Groken Castle.
Kickle Cubicle actually has four princess to rescue, one at the end of each area.
Lampshaded in Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, in one mission you must fend off the alien attackers from Princess Rhianne Burke's personal palace, Mission Control tells you that "You have a Princess to save, Commander."
The first Dragon Quest essentially has only two objectives: Save the Princess, and kill the Dragonlord. Unlike most Save the Princess games, however, you actually rescue the princess from a dragon (usually the first one you kill) in the Marsh Cave long before you beat the Big Bad.
Your very first objective in Final Fantasy I is to rescue Princess Sara of Coneria/Cornelia/Corneria, who has been taken by good-knight-gone-bad Garland.
Similarly, Final Fantasy Tactics starts off with you needing to rescue Princess Ovelia. Then it gets complicated.
There is a mission in Valkyria Chronicles where your squad has to quite literally save the princess after a kidnap attempt.
Being an Affectionate Parody of RPG cliches, The Bards Tale naturally uses this as it's main plot.
One segment of the main plot in Dragon Age: Origins has the Warden breaking into Arl Howe's estate to rescue Queen Anora, who is kept there by her father against her will. The Rescue the Princess aspect is really overshadowed by the Fort Drakon escape following it and the fact that Howe finally gets what's coming to him.
Your first real goal in Knights of the Old Republic is to rescue Bastila from the swoop gang that recovered her from a crashed escape pod and is now offering her as a prize in an upcoming swoop race. Then, two-thirds of the way through the game, Malak captures her... (Of course, the movie whose universe KotOR is set in had Save the Princess as a good chunk of its plot as well.)
Oh, so very, very much subverted in Live a Live: Orsted sets out to rescue his princess bride-to-be in an opening obviously inspired by Ghosts N Goblins. By the end of the chapter, she thinks that his friend was the only one who truly deserved her, even though he's turned evil, and commits suicide so that the two of them can be together forever. This leads to Orsted becoming a demon of pure hatred and the Final Boss.
Your first real objective in Chrono Trigger is to retrieve the girl who has fallen through a time warp; and sure enough she turns out to be a princess. Subverted in that when you get back, you're put on trial for kidnapping her in the first place. You end up having to dive through another time warp in order to evade the guards, and that's where the real adventure begins.
One mission in Mass Effect 3 will have Shepard saving a krogan princess.
Hydlide combined this with Fetch Quest, with the Big Bad somehow having transformed the princess into three fairies.
In Resident Evil 4, Leon pretty much spends the entire game going through the Big Bad's trap-filled castle, fighting off undead minions, so he can rescue the President's daughter, Ashley. At the end of the game, Ashley offers him a lot more than just a Smooch of Victory, but given he's part of the secret service in that game, that would obviously not have been a good idea, and he rightly turns her down.
Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation for the GBA is a Turn-Based Strategy game with sci-fi themes and SuperRobots. Your squadron still ends up needing to Save the Princess, but at least it's only a subplot that's introduced and then resolved rather quickly.
Disgaea plays with this.
Absence of Justice take...
Almaz: I must save the princess!
Sapphire: * Groin Attack*
Almaz: The princess! She touched me! I can die happy now...
Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice also looks at it more seriously with the reasoning behind its Inversion: Princess Sapphire has seen far too many people go off and die all in the name of protecting her. So she became a Badass Princess capable of destroying anything that might kill a hero.
The Cursed Memories take involves Axel kidnapping Taro and Hanako as bait for the 'wild tribesman' Adell so he can "rescue" Rozalin.
Fire Emblem:
In Mystery of the Emblem, three Princesses need rescuing at the very end: Princess Nyna of Archanea, Princess Maria of Macedon, and Marth's own sister Princess Elice of Altea. (Plus the noblewoman Lena). This is because due to their pure hearts, the four have been brainwashed into becoming Virgin Sacrifices for the awakening of the evil Dragon God Medeus. And ironically, Maria can only be debrainwashed - by another Princess, her big sister Minerva.
Genealogy of the Holy War begins when Sigurd, his knights and then his sister and brother in law (plus other warriors that join them) set out to save a friend of Sigurd, Lady Edain, captured by a prince who wants to marry her by force. Ironically, the brother of said prince (Jamke) is the one who releases her as Sigurd's troops fight on, and if she safely reaches the playable cast alongside a thief who's helping her out (Dew) by the guy's orders, they'll both join the troops and she can recruit Jamke later.
Plus, if the player does things right, Sigurd can end up saving and recruiting another princess: Ayra, who has been forced to serve another evil prince to keep her nephew Shanan safe.
In the second part, almost at the end one has to find Princess Julia... in classic style she's in another castle every time the player conquers the previous castle... this lasts until the final part of the final chapter, where she's been Brainwashed and Crazy into becoming That One Boss hanging out in the way. (Note that she's That One Boss who one can't kill, or the game will become practically Unwinnable- she's needed for the Final Boss fight.)
Binding Blade gives two "save the princess" missions, one with Princess Guinevere of Bern (the half-sister of the Big Bad, who becomes Roy's protegé and the game's Big Good) and the other with Princess Lilina of Ostia (who joins the tropes as a Magical Girl Warrior as soon as she's rescued)
In The Sacred Stones Princess Eirika is the main character of the first several missions, and is at least initially most concerned with saving herself. In addition, after getting to safety (And Saving her best friend and fellow Princess, Tana) Eirika sets out on a quest to save her brother making this 'Save the Prince'. Except that, in the end, he's the one who rides to her rescue. And from then on they must team up to save not only one another, but the whole world while at it.
In Eirika's path, she and her peeps must actually "Save the Prince" - Tana's older brother Innes, who's been cornered alongside two companions (the mercenary Gerik and the dancer Tethys) by corrupt noblemen. In Ephaim's, he must again rescue Tana from a mercenary troop. In both cases, the rescued royal will immediately become avaliable to fight.
One of the early missions in Fire Emblem Awakening is a "Save the Queen" one, protecting Chrom and Lissa's older sister Emmeryn (the Exalt of Ylisse) from an assassination attempt by Plegia. In the Bad Future, Emmeryn was assassinated, and the Bad Future followed few afterwards.
Some time later Emmeryn is captured and then set to be executed, so the Shepherds lerd by Chrom and the Avatar must rescue her before that happens. She solves it via an Heroic Suicide (which is subverted if one plays her Paralogue almost at the end - she survived, but with severe brain damage).
After the Time Skip, when Chrom and Co. arrive to Valm, they find a Badass Princess who's being pursued by The Emperor's army. She's Say'ri, the Fallen Princess of Chon'sin, and once she's recruited she can immediately start fighting back.
In Fire Emblem: Three Houses Byleth, their father Jeralt and their mercenaries step into another group of mercs attacking a Princess (Edelgard, from the Adrestian Empire) and two Princes (Claude from the Leicester Alliance, and Dimitri from the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus). Saving them is what will let Byleth be hired in the Officers Academy that the three attend. It turns out one of the royals had staged the attack for their own plans, though.
Later in the game, one of the objectives of the Azure Moon/Blue Lions route is to Save the Archbishop - Rhea, the beautiful woman who leads the Church of Seiros, has been captured and imprisoned by the Adrestian Empire, now led by Edelgard.
While technically not a princess (unless you count her as one for being the daughter of the Fey clan's leaderess), poor Maya Fey in the Ace Attorney series has to be saved from death four times! The first two involve Maya being accused of murder and you have to get a not guilty verdict to save her. The third occasion has Maya kidnapped by an individual who uses this as leverage to force Phoenix into taking a case. The last case has Maya being trapped on a freezing mountain. And things just get worse from there...
The game that Radd is from in the webcomic Kid Radd has this plotline. Interestingly, due to the premise of game sprites as sentient beings who are created for the express purpose of being in games, Radd has no idea he even has a girlfriend until the narrator tells him so.
This is how Exiern starts.
Swap out "Princess" with "CEO and former Magical Girl Warrior", and we've got the main plot for Last Res0rt. Of course, both halves of the rescuer/rescuee equation are female (and said Rescuee is reasonably capable of saving herself), so...
In Sinfest, Fuschia reads the damned a story about rescuing the princess from the dragon.
Dead Horse Trope


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Multi-Objective Mapping Method for 3D Environmental Sensor Network Deployment
Yung Po Tsang, King Lun Choy, Chun Ho Wu, George To Sum Ho
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Effective deployment of the emerging environmental sensor network in environmental mapping has become essential in numerous industrial applications. The essential factors for deployment include cost, coverage, connectivity, airflow of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, system lifetime, and fault tolerance. In this letter, a three-stage deployment scheme is proposed to formulate the above-mentioned considerations, and the fuzzy temperature window is established to adjust sensor activation times over various ambient temperatures. To optimize the deployment effectively, a multi-response Taguchi-guided k-means clustering is proposed to embed in the genetic algorithm, where an improved set of the initial population is formulated and system parameters are optimized. Therefore, the computational time for repeated deployment is shortened, while the solution convergence can be improved.
IEEE Communications Letters
https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2914440
Environmental sensor network
mapping method
multi-objective optimization
multi-responses Taguchi method
10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2914440
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Deployment Earth and Planetary Sciences 100%
Sensor Network Physics 100%
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Air Conditioning Earth and Planetary Sciences 16%
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Tsang, Y. P., Choy, K. L., Wu, C. H., & Ho, G. T. S. (2019). Multi-Objective Mapping Method for 3D Environmental Sensor Network Deployment. IEEE Communications Letters, 23(7), 1231-1235. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2914440
Tsang, Yung Po ; Choy, King Lun ; Wu, Chun Ho et al. / Multi-Objective Mapping Method for 3D Environmental Sensor Network Deployment. In: IEEE Communications Letters. 2019 ; Vol. 23, No. 7. pp. 1231-1235.
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To clean up a CAS backup directory with the need of a minimum number of passed days since the deletion of a file in the CAS Area the command line tool cleanbackup can be used.
To be able to use this tool, you have to install fsc-cas-utils.rpm.
To save or load the cached Fabasoft Folio objects of the Fabasoft Folio COO Service also the command line tool fscadmin can be used.
This query initializes the Fabasoft Folio server cache with all User Environments and all referenced objects (e.g. commonly used objects COOSYSTEM@1.1:usrenvlocalobjects).
To execute Fabasoft app.ducx Expressions the command line tool fsceval can be used. This tool can be found in the /opt/fabasoft/bin directory also.
su - fscsrv -c "/opt/fabasoft/sbin/envdir /var/opt/fabasoft/instances/WebService_100/env fsceval -eval \"coort.Trace('hello world')\""
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It has just occurred to me that even upon clicking on the pictures from FB, you can't really see them.
Don't worry. It's not important. I promise you. It was just funny. To me, at least.
They went big for me, thus I saw what you call Ms Nicks...we had auroras here last night, I slept so hard through the night...just my luck to do so on a night I might Not want to for a change. You sleep well tonight, I bet you will after all your work.
Actually, I could read them -- they were a hoot! I loved the puns on the Stevie Nicks song titles.
If someone told me I looked like Stevie Nicks, I'd probably hump their leg.


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November 6, 2015 By Hank Nuwer Leave a Comment
Moderator: This is an important update from today's Greenville online. Excerpt below.
"Attorneys for Sigma Phi Epsilon argued that the Clemson chapter of the fraternity was dissolved on Feb. 6, nearly two months before the family [of late pledge Tucker Hipps] filed the lawsuits, and that as a "non-existent legal ghost," it can't be sued.
It cites a 1991 case in Delaware in which that state's Supreme Court ruled that a fraternity member who was injured while he was a member couldn't sue his fraternity after its charter had been withdrawn. But it said individual members could be sued.
Motions for dismissal were filed by the national fraternity and former Clemson SigEp members Campbell Starr, Samuel Carney and Thomas Carter King."