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Early Reviews for Simply Shameless
by Kate Pearce | Mar 25, 2009 | This & That
I just thought I'd share three early reviews for Simply Shameless which comes out at the beginning of May.
Here's a quick blurb if you've forgotten what this one is about:
In escaping the horrors of the French Revolution, Helene Delornay leaves behind her not only her past as a Bastille whore, but her bastard child. Determined to succeed in England, she does not expect to be overwhelmed by the erotic charms of Philip Ross, a young aristocrat returning from India to fulfill his reluctant duty to his family. After a night of passion, his unexpected offer, forces Helene to reveal her unsavory past and drive him away.
Eighteen years later, Philip is a recent widower and Helene has become the Madame of a select fee-paying London pleasure house where every erotic dream can become a reality. While Helene tries to tempt the now dour Philip into sexual excess, he struggles to ignore his reawakened desire for her and his dark fascination with the erotic fantasies she offers him. As they explore the boundaries of their shared taste for the exotic and unusual, Helene realizes that in Philip she has truly met her perfect sexual match. Now all she has to decide is what on earth to do with him…
And here are the reviews so far 🙂
Rating: 4 Cups
Simply irresistible is what I believe describes this book to
perfection. The eroticism in the pleasure house is sure to inspire the
most delicious fantasies which are enacted by sumptuously decadent
characters. Helene is as commanding, charming, and elegant as Philip,
and together they literally burst with passion. This is certainly one
of the most intelligently written erotic love stories on the market, and
I will be clamoring to read more from Kate Pearce.
Lototy
Reviewer for Coffee Time Romance & More
The passion of Pearce's erotic tale is focused and intense from the couple's first encounter to their reunion years later. Their sex encounters and fantasies, which include M/M, steam up the pages.
Summary: Fleeing her life as a sexual plaything for Bastille guards, Helene Delornay discovers her deep sensuality when she's stranded with Philip Ross, a young Englishman who's well schooled in the erotic arts. Eighteen years later, they meet again. She now oversees London's most exclusive house of pleasure, and he's an emotionless widower.
—M.H. Morrison
Just Erotic Romance Reviews (JERR)
Reviewer: Marcy Arbitman
Heat level: O
Kate Pearce is an extremely proficient author who writes both historical and
contemporary novels. I always know that she will bring me a terrific read.
Helene and Philip were well-written characters, whose places in this
excellent plot were phenomenal.
There are many other books in this genre by Ms. Pearce and I plan to read
them. I highly recommend Kate Pearce's books!
And watch out at the end of April, when I'll be holding a contest on my blog to win copies of all 3 Simply books, including this one!
Good things !
This has been a good couple of weeks.
I finally sent book #4 "Simply Wicked" to my editor-15 days late but he was okay about that. He read it over the weekend and loved it, so we are all set to go on that one! It was a little intimidating to see it already up on amazon before I'd even finished it, but I'm glad to get such a quick turnaround.
And 'Simply Wicked' was an interesting book to write. It's about Valentin's half-brother Lord Anthony Sokorvsky, who has been in all the Simply books so far and has created a great deal of interest among my readers. Anthony's had a tough few years and helping him to find himself, and love proved to be a challenge within the fabled romance boundaries. But, hey. I always break those rules anyway, so I hope you all find his 'happy ever after' as romantic and satisfying and honest as I did. It's out in October.
Other publishing news. I've heard from Ellora's Cave that "Secured Mail" will be coming out in print, which was a nice surprise! I'll get a proper link up as soon as it appears on the Jasmine-Jade site. I know some of you prefer the printed version to the e-version. And in a reverse announcement, I've also been told that "Simply Sinful" will come out in various e-formats soon as well. Again, as soon as I know, you will know.
We also got 2 new kitties!! After my daughter (who has a very vivid imagination, no idea where that came from, cough, cough) merrily told all the cat ladies in my hometown that I let my last cat run away and set my dog on him (all untrue, I swear. It was the cat who attacked the dog.) I'd begun to despair of ever being allowed to own a cat again.
In a desperate effort to avoid 6 more months of me searching for 'the one' Mr Kate Pearce gallantly offered to come with me to the next city and check out the ARF cats. I'd already been on their website and there were a few I liked the look of. One of the cats looked rather like Nick Nolte in his infamous DUI mug shot, so I knew I had to see him.
So we met George, the drunk looking one and he was adorable, a 1 yr old blue mackerel tabby. He was sharing his luxurious abode with Owen, a long haired black cat who had come in with him from the same shelter. It was obvious that these 2 loved each other to bits and Mr KP, who took a fancy to Owen, suggested we not break up the happy pair and that we adopt them both.
(I know Mr KP looks like he is holding an offensive weapon in this picture-he is normally quite sweet, honestly)
Of course I was thrilled by this 🙂 And so they came home with us. And so the trouble began…good trouble though. Owen, now renamed Chowder by everyone else (I call him Mr Binks but don't tell them) is a complete nutcase. He's also totally fascinated by my dog. My dog is terrified of him-the big wussy, and starts hyperventilating every time Chowder wants to wash his face for him. George (as he shall remain as he is my familiar) is the quiet evil one. I like him-a lot.
More pictures of the cats soon, I promise, and more good news on the publishing front too-I hope
Here's the link for the print edition of "Secured Mail"
Our First House
by Kate Pearce | Mar 3, 2009 | This & That
Mr. Kate Pearce and I watch a lot of Home & Garden T.V these days, we're always interested in new places to add to our "We're moving in 2 years, kids, bye!!" list and having lived in about 13 houses and two continents since we married, we feel quite professional and amused by the first-time buyers dilemmas.
We were talking last night about a particular couple, both young, both worked full-time, had no kids but who 'insisted' they had to have at least 2 bathrooms and 3 bedrooms before they would even consider a place.
It made us laugh because my family home, (see picture at left of the same road) a Victorian terrace house on the outskirts of London, had at his fullest 8 people living in it (2 parents and 6 daughters) and 1 bathroom…okay so there were a few 'moments' when it got ugly in there, but generally we made it work.
We were also discussing how 1800/2000 square feet seems to be about the size most first-time buyers on HGTV seem to aim at. And that brought us back to our first house as a married couple.
(please note, this is in the same neighborhood, but ours was actually smaller than this one, no porch, no bow window on the side and an upstairs window at the front rather than at the side LOL)
It cost 30,000 pounds (this was in 1986) and was approximately 280 sq ft-seriously. Picture a quarter corner of your house and you've pretty much got it. You came in the front door, ahead of you was a spiral staircase-(it wasn't big enough for a proper staircase).
To your right was the living area, 6ft x 6 ft wide, behind it was the kitchen which was big enough for a cooker and a sink, I'd say about 5 ft by 5ft. Upstairs was a small bathroom and our bedroom.
We bought a small pink 2 seater couch for 99 pounds in a clearance sale, which rolled out into a bed-that filled up the living space with the small T.V. We bought a cooker and a pine bed and that was it. Our house was complete.
We were so excited to be homeowners we even got a cat.
So you can excuse my amazement about how things have changed in the last 20 odd years 🙂 I always used to gawp at my mum when she told me her house cost 2,000 pounds back in the sixties and that her mortgage was fixed for 25 years at 20 pounds a month. It sounded ridiculous, but as she pointed out, it was still half my dad's wage, which is pretty much how much most of us fork out these days for houses of our own.
And after we watched the show last night I turned to Mr. Kate Pearce and told him that when we move I have to have my own toilet again….that's a deal breaker for me. So really I'm just as bad as everyone else these days. LOL


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«Трима́й» — перший сингл з дебютного альбому Христини Соловій «Жива Вода» (2015). Слова та музику до пісні написала сама співачка.

Огляд
Продюсером співачки та її пісні виступив Святослав Вакарчук, саунд-продюсером пісні став Милош Єлич, інженером запису — Олександр Костін, інженером зведення — Ігор Пригоровський, а режисером музичного відео — Максим Ксьонда.

Музичне відео
8 квітня 2015 року в YouTube було представлено музичне відео на цю композицію, яке за декілька днів зібрало більше мільйона переглядів.

В YouTube цей відеокліп станом на квітень 2018 року має більше 18 млн переглядів, що робить його одним із 10 найбільш популярних українських музичних відео.

Нагороди

Хіт-паради

За місяць

Річні

Примітки

Посилання
 «Тримай» на SoundCloud

{Премія YUNA за найкращий відеокліп}}

Пісні 2015
Сингли 2015
Пісні Христини Соловій
Українські пісні

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I have to apologize for being quiet lately. I've been in the backwaters of Thailand and the best I can get up here is GPRS which is about as slow as dialup so I've only been checking emails.
However I received an email from a friend telling me about the US taking aim at Tilt, Stars, and UB/Absolute and at first I thought he was joking. Since then I've been slowly (remember I'm on GPRS) trying to reach out to people in the industry to get a feel for what's going on.
Many people are calling this the online poker industry's Black Friday. Interestingly enough I have always called Oct. 13, 2006 Black Friday because it was the day that President Bush signed the UIGEA into law.
Back in 2006 I wrote about how brilliant the UIGEA was in terms of what it could do. I never supported the UIGEA nor do I applaud this DOJ move but the first thing people need to understand is that no matter how many times someone screams "This isn't illegal," or "Its not fair," it doesn't change the reality that the US government does consider it illegal and they can bring down the full weight of the entire legal system on you.
Ask anyone who has tried to fight the IRS. They seize first and prove later. It's pretty hard to fight them when they have all of your assets and you can't pay a lawyer. This is the same tactic being used here. Hit hard. Deal a crippling financial blow and then see how long they can fight you with limited resources.
And that was one of the reasons I always thought the UIGEA was such a brilliant move (yes, you can admire your enemy's tactics). They left the definition of whether online poker was illegal vague. Then when the DOJ asserted it was it gave them the legal tools needed to shut down big payment processors.
Once they drove out all of the big processors it forced the online poker sites to resort to increasingly shifty payment processors.
Enter Daniel Tzvetkoff, the financial payment processing whiz kid who "allegedly" helped US facing poker rooms to sidestep those troublesome laws. Then he "allegedly" got greedy and ripped off the online poker rooms for $100 million.
Apparently, not thinking things through, "allegedly" one or more of the online poker sites decided to rat out Daniel to the Feds and told them when he would be on US soil where he was arrested. "Allegedly" he struck a deal with prosecutors to rat out his former clients and thus we find ourselves where we are at today.
"Allegedly" that led prosecutors to a financially strapped bank that "allegedly" took in an investment from several online poker sites that just happened to be having problems processing legitimate transactions in the US.
If all of the alleged parts are even remotely true this is no longer a case of illegal gambling. The additional charges being sought by prosecutors of money laundering, bank fraud, and wire fraud are very, very serious.
The DOJ is basically saying, "You may beat us on the UIGEA rap but these money laundering and fraud cases are pretty solid.". And while many countries might elect to decline extradition requests for UIGEA violations when online gambling is not a crime in their own country, it's a whole new ballgame when you throw money laundering and fraud into the mix. Those are crimes in most countries and they will have no legal out.
This is like getting Al Capone on income tax evasion. The Feds don't even care if the UIGEA violations stand up. They were "allegedly" able to force these companies into committing other illegal acts which could eventually see them worse off than the law that they were trying to avoid in the first place.
I don't think Stars or Tilt have financial liquidity issues so I wouldn't worry too much about whether or not they have the funds to pay. The only question is will you be able to get it.
It's an interesting question about the moral side of this. If they did what they're accused of they broke the law and they knew they broke the law. But they did it to get around a law they didn't agree with . . . hmmm, you gotta make that call for yourself.
Just wanted to say you make lots of sense and it's refreshing to read an honest and open minded view on a subject and time sensitive to many US players livelihoods.
Bill, thanks so much for this post. You've added lots of missing (alleged) pieces to a puzzle I couldn't make sense of from the other articles I've found online. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this question: As a Canadian (for whom cash is still safe) should I leave my money in these sites and continue to play as usual (against an unfortunately smaller player pool)? Or have the sites done something that should alarm me from a moral/legal point of view?
I pulled money out of UB/Absolute a few years back when that hole card scandal came out. I just couldn't trust either site anymore. But I love both Stars and Full Tilt – they're easily my favorite sites to play on for many reasons. I'd love to keep playing on them, but not if they're actually fraudsters.


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What Transportation Can Expect From Biden's First 100 Days
Policies addressing climate change, civil rights and equity will be linked with transportation policy like never before by the incoming presidential administration, according to policy experts in Washington.
Even before Pete Buttigieg was nominated by President-elect Joe Biden on Dec. 15 to be the next secretary of transportation, it was made clear during the presidential campaign that climate change and civil rights would be a major focus of the next administration. During his nomination speech, Buttigieg made a point to emphasize the administration's stance on these issues when it comes to transportation policy.
"This administration can deliver policies and resources in transportation that will create jobs, rise to the climate challenge and equitably serve all Americans — all while continuing to ensure the safety of travelers and workers alike," Buttigieg said. "We'll bring together leaders and communities from every corner — labor and business, left, right and center, urban and rural, communities of color, tribal nations, mayors, counties, states, and everyone who has a stake in American infrastructure — to design a better future."
Highways vs. Transit
Fred Wagner, a partner at the law firm Venable who focuses on environmental and natural-resources issues associated with infrastructure development, said the question of what projects get funded and advanced depends in large part on the metropolitan planning systems around the country.
"There's been a historic clash between major metropolitan areas and state DOTs in jurisdictions around the country," Wagner said during a webinar earlier this month. "There has been a tendency to promote highway solutions instead of other sorts of solutions that ... has worked to the detriment of underserved and disadvantaged communities."
Under the new administration, he said, that situation may be rectified by planning for greater transit opportunities, for "micro-mobility" to give opportunities to people who do not have vehicles or easy access to a train or bus station.
"I think the era of building and siting huge new highway projects around the country will definitely be closed in the short term," he said. "There will be an emphasis on fixing things first, and on maintenance of existing facilities.
"I think you're going to see, through funding mechanisms, discretionary grants programs that could be put into a new transportation bill that absolutely will have an emphasis on these types of issues. Not just transit per se, but transit that helps promote the welfare of disadvantaged communities. Not just ridership on demand that includes Uber and Lyft, but ridership on demand for specific communities that may not have access to it — like for people without a cell phone."
Wagner also underscored the importance of climate as a civil rights issue. "Many of the advocacy groups that support this administration tie them together," he said. "Where do some of these communities live, and how does climate affect them — in many instances the two issues merge." Policymakers are going to be looking at this very closely, he said.
With Congress finally passing a COVID relief bill earlier this week, there may be more opportunity to get a jump on a long-awaited infrastructure package when lawmakers return to Washington in early January.
Biden's Build Back Better
Biden's Build Back Better plan — his vision of how to go forward on infrastructure — is a $2 trillion package to be spent over four years. It includes not just transportation but also water infrastructure, energy and broadband. He has said he wants infrastructure legislation done within his first 100 days.
"The question then will be, how quickly is Congress able to respond," said Venable Partner Jim Burnley, who was secretary of transportation under President Ronald Reagan. "It's never as fast as you might expect. Typically with a new Senate it takes until March for the committees to be fully up and running. The House passed an infrastructure bill this year that can be a starting point — there's a lot of overlap between that bill and Biden's plan."
Waiting on the modal agencies
Burnley stressed that it's important to realize that the new administration does not get full effective control of the executive branch on Inauguration Day. It actually can take months before senior positions within the administration are filled, particularly those that require Senate confirmation. There are about a dozen of those leadership positions within the modal agencies at the Department of Transportation.
During the Obama administration, for example, it took until July 2009 to confirm the head of the Federal Highway Administration, while the head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was not confirmed until November. The head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was confirmed in December.
"It's a slow and rolling process," Burnley said, "and while the non-Senate confirmation positions can be filled much more quickly, it just takes awhile for a new admin to really get control of the processes and then begin to carry out the new administration's initiatives."
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 Anakondor – ett ormsläkte
 Grön anakonda – en orm i släktet anakondor
 Gul anakonda – en orm i släktet anakondor
 Anaconda (film, 1954) – svensk film
 Anaconda (film, 1997) – amerikansk/brasiliansk/peruansk film
 Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid – uppföljare till Anaconda från 1997
 Anaconda (pokerspel) – även känt som Pass the trash
 Anaconda (TV-program) – ett TV-program på Utbildningsradion 2007
 Anaconda (låt av Nicki Minaj) – en sång av Nicki Minaj på hennes tredje album The Pinkprint
 Anaconda Copper – ett amerikanskt företag
 Operation Anaconda – i Afghanistan
 Anaconda, Montana – en amerikansk stad
 Anaconda (gruva) – en gruva i Chile


At the Henry Center, you will never have to eat the same meal twice. The University Club of MSU prepares delicious dining options on a rotating basis leaving your guests delighted and energized for the rest of the day.
During the morning and afternoon, attendees can enjoy a quick meal and beverage to stay alert and focused during their event. Our morning continuous break service offers guests a selection of hot and cold beverages and assorted breads and pastries for a light meal. During the afternoon, we provide hot and cold beverages as well as a rotation of snacks and either a fruit and cheese tray or vegetable crudités tray. Guests can take a break and socialize while refueling for the rest of the meeting.
A luncheon buffet at the Henry Center is offered from 11:30 am to 1:00pm and served for all guests of the facility in the Atrium, an elegant dining space with reserved seating. Guests are offered hot lunch options on the buffet line, a variety of salads and bread, dessert and beverages. Multiple day events never need to worry about eating the same thing twice with the University Club of MSU's rotating menus.


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Saturday's big FIFA World Cup matchup between France and Australia will take place at 6 am EDT so get your bets in overnight. Gambling911.com will enter Saturday 4-0 with our World Cup picks.
France was coming in at 1/4 odds, Australia 9/1 and the Draw at 6/1.
This one may be lopsided but should get plenty of action due to the nations playing.
Each of these teams have three wins, two draws and one loss in their last six games overall.
These two nations have met each other three times, with France and Australia each getting one win, one draw, and one defeat. France destroyed Australia the last time they met in 2013, 6-0.
France have seen at least three goals in nine of their last 14 matches while four of Australia's last five matches have seen at least three goals scored.
Both teams have scored in six out of France's last eight matches.
Australia has been in good form of late and held their own against a team better than France, Germany (3-2).


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Another good post down the drain...
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After spending a couple of hours on a post, I inadvertently forgot to:
1. Copy my work
2. Log back in
3. Recreate the title
4. Post my work
However, no message forum user should ever have to remember to follow these four steps during a single session. Unfortunately, since OCDO's installation of vBulletin does not preserve the post (it does on most other vBulletin forums, including my own), the inevitable result is that the post (and my time) is lost.
Therefore, I'm going to ask you again to please change the timeout from its current setting.
Here's why: Overly short timeouts are the least effective way to increase forum security. By changing other parameters, you can make your forum many millions of times more secure than by greatly inconveniencing users with puny timeouts.
Only slightly complicating this problem is the fact that there are two issues at work. Actually, there are many, but given what the admins can quickly and easily change, it only involves two issues: Brute-force attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks. The login timeout involves man-in-the-middle attacks. Put simply, while you're logged in, someone listening in to the data transmissions between your computer and OCDO's servers can easily locate the session key. However, that's useless to them unless they're able to crack it while the session key is in play, then use it to log into using the sniffed user's account, and change their password, e-mail information, etc.
All that nets them, however, is that individual user's login credentials. It cannot hack the system itself. Furthermore, even the guest session uses a 32 character session hash. Given 96 available characters, that's a keyspace of 2.70819E+63. In case you're wondering, and according to Steve Gibson of Gibson Research Corporation, it would take a massive cracking array capable of one hundred trillion guesses per second at least 6.22 thousand trillion trillion trillion centuries to exhaust this session hash. If one wanted to be 99.9999% certain it couldn't be found, then it would still take 6.22 billion trillion trillion centuries to crack.
Not only is that an extremely long time, more than a trillion trillion times longer than the age of the entire universe, it's also the reason why maintaining a short login time is not merely petty, but it's pathetic, as well.
Let's work through some examples to see how this works:
- Login timeout: 20 min
- Min password length: 7 characters
- Max number of retries: 5
- Retry lockout: 15 minutes
Example 1: Change login timeout to 10 min
Result: This halves the time a man-in-the-middle attack can intercept a login. However, these attacks are only good during that particular session. Unless the attack cuts off communication with the user, the moment that user logs off, that key is cleared and the attack is halted. In the meantime, users are greatly inconvenienced by constantly being booted off the server every time they grab a lock snack, make dinner, or are busy working on a long post.
Result: It only makes the bad guys work twice as hard.
Bottom line: Login timeouts are so pathetically and ridiculously ineffective (see the 6.22 trillion trillion trillion centuries explanation above) that it's best to set them to 12 hours, if not 24 hours, and use other, far, far, far more effective means as described below:
Example 2: Change the min password length to 8 characters.
Result: Since 96 characters are available for passwords, this makes the bad guys work 96 times harder. That's 48 times more effective than halving the login timeout.
Bottom line: Increase the min password length to 8, thereby gaining 48 times more effectiveness in deterring a brute-force attack.
Speaking of passwords, you can also enforce a ban on dictionary passwords and/or the use of at least one each of upper, lower, numbers, and special characters. That results in an increase in security of between several thousand-fold to trillions.
Example 3: Reduce the max number of retries to 2 (total of 3 tries)
Result: This halves the number of times a brute-force approach can crack the password. However, if the min password length is set to 7, that's 75,144,747,810,816 possible passwords. Thus, instead of giving them 6 chances to work miracles, you're giving them 3 chances to work miracles. Regardless, merely by using reasonable values for the max retries and retry lockout, you've already defeated the brute force approach, completely.
Bottom line: It's better to leave it at 5 retries.
Example 4: Increase the Retry Lockout to 30 minutes.
Result: This just ticks people off. The whole point of combining the use of the min password retries and retry lock out is to limit the long-term ability of anyone to brute-force attack any particular user's login.
Bottom line: Leave it at 15 minutes.
With 5 total tries and a retry delay of 15 minutes, you're limiting the system to a maximum of 20 tries per hour, or 480 tries in a 24-hour period. Compared to 75,144,747,810,816 possible passwords, that's nothing. Well, actually, it's next to nothing. Specifically, it's 6.387671e-12. Put another way, you're at least 99.999999999361% "safe." However, that's simply by combining an attempt limit and retry lockout with an 8 character password minimum. Those who use a 9 or 10 char password receive 96 to 9,216 times more protection.
With all of the above in mind, here's an expert vBulletin administrator's advice:
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- Enforce no dictionary words: Yes
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- Retry lockout: 5 minutes
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You know what I hate? VMWare sees fit to base it's freaking VM platform on linux, but I have to have a WINDOWS box in order to have the management tools needed to actually CREATE a virtual machine.
my crt don't have brightness controll!!
so it MAY already be there.
...and UEC or KVM what is?
ok, so it's not african animals only.
I can't do anything with clouds here at LAM, owing to chain-of-custody concerns.
Karmic's gonna have all that built in, yes?
I think I saw SOME kind of large cat-like creature out at my cottage a couple of weeks ago.
i'll try ltsp_localapps :) ...tnx again!
Skunks, black bears, wolves, foxes, great grey owls, deer, racoons, mice, squirrels, hawks, and about 1x10^8 species of birds.
Hi all: I'm new to LTSP5 (I had been 'current' back in the 4.2 days), and I'm trying to set up a test Ubuntu server. Unfortunately, all the packages and docs assume a fairly basic setup, which does not match mine, and I can't seem to find enough documentation/files to set it up.
Basically, I'm trying to run this in an "enterprise network". I have an existing dhcp server, which I can modify the next-server, filename, and option root-path dhcp options. I have another server that does TFTP, but I don't mind if the ubuntu LTSP server does this.
The LTSP server must NOT run dhcp (that will break the network / piss off way too many people! :) ).
However, as my LTSP box did not have two nics in it, it appears that the setup scripts kinda broke. I have my /opt/ltsp/i386 directory and image, but I don't have any of the pxelinux / kernel / initramfs stuff. It installed dhcp, but did not configure it so I don't know what the magic is for the root-path option to use the image.
I also don't know how to verify that whatever is required to serve up the image (is it still NFS?) is actually configured/running.
"I don't have any of the pxelinux / kernel / initramfs stuff" ==> what do you have in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386 ?
thanks for the help, btw.
btw: Ideally, I think I'd like to run nx as my communication protocol. Is this (easily) supported by current ltsp?
Ok, got my prompt back.
Now, to configure your other server.
filename, I assume its something like /ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0, right?
Yep. What about the option root-path?
That's the big question for me, as I had always done NFS root, and I don't know how to specify NBD.
Ok. So it just looks to next-server for that?
ok, thanks. I'll let my dhcp config files update, and try it out!
kusznir: I'm a little worried about the 75Mb freed space, though... which packages were removed?
anyone here familiar with nomachine?
zamba: Do you mean the NX client?
alkisg: Your comment on FP-40 is very good.
Really, we were hearing about unicode in delphi since 2004, and it got there in delphi 2009!
Huh? which one are you talking about?
We used the workaround written by the dude running OpenStreetMaps.
Is it "normal" for the thin client to take a long time to boot (say, 2 min) that could boot ltsp 4.2 in around 30 sec?
alkisg: But that is the situation with the scandinavian characters as well - trying to type ä for example gives certain string of false characters.
alkisg: Is it something else you mean?
elias_a: Are you familar with NX and its use with LTSP?
kusznir: I have used it. It works.
Cool...does it usually perform better than ldm?
Are there down sides to using it?
alkisg: Oh right - and they are not supporting any codepage with greek alphabet?
kusznir: It is like VNC, usable but you notice the latency.
Oh...ok...I thought NX (at least claims) support for most of that stuff...so I thought it might even be easier.
I also like the idea of being able to disconnect and reconnect to the session, but perhaps the drawbacks aren't worth it.
NX is OK for example connecting to your office system remotely but you do not want to do it on regular basis.
I have never tried sound on NX but I doubt that.
Ok. I think I'll have to have nx running for remote users, but it sounds like I'm better off with ldm for local client use.
I'll ask Asmo Koskinen about it.
kusznir: you basically just set up nx on the server, yeah?
kusznir: Yes, LTSP5 takes longer to boot, as everything about Linux has gotten bigger since the 4.2 days.
elias_a: yes. All of this increases "boot time"
The real guage is how it funtions AFTER boot.
elias_a: Yeah!!! Nagging does work! :) "it's fixed in 10.1 ;)"
was wondering if a thin client needs a graphic card?
adac: Depends on what you want to do with it...Normally thin clients are configured as "heads" into a server, so in order to do that, it needs to have a graphics output.
hi, somebody know who I can get the terminal name that a user LTSP was connected?


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Q: Why is the for loop not removing every odd number from the array (using the splice method)? Problem
I am trying to remove all of the odd numbers from an array. For example, if I pass an array like so...
var arr = [1,2,3,6,22,98,45,23,22,12]
...the function removes all of the odd numbers except for 23. Why doesn't it remove 23 as well? If different numbers are used or if the order of the numbers is changed, it is always the last odd number that is not removed. I don't understand why though, since the for loop should continue until it gets to the end of the array (i < passedArray.length).
I am sure it is something simple, but I can't figure it out! Any help would be much appreciated ;)
Code

// PROBLEM: Loop through arr removing all values that aren't even.

// The original array
var arr = [1, 2, 3, 6, 22, 98, 45, 23, 22, 12];

// Function to remove all odd numbers from the array that is passed to it.
// Returns the new array.
var getEvenNumbers = function(passedArray) {
  for (var i = 0; i < passedArray.length; i++) {

    // If the remainder of the current number in the array is equal to one, the number is odd so remove it from the array.
    if ((passedArray[i] % 2) === 1) {
      arr.splice(i, 1);
    }
  }

  // Return the array with only even numbers left.
  return passedArray;
};

// Call the function and store the results.
var evenNumbers = getEvenNumbers(arr);

// Alert the new array that only has even numbers.
alert(evenNumbers);

A: The bug is that once you've spliced a number out of the array, you still increment i. This makes the code skip the number that follows the one that you've just deleted.
Since the number that precedes the 23 is odd (45), you never look at the 23.

A: You are chaging your array with splice, so your length changes as well. You could change your function to this:
var getEvenNumbers = function(passedArray) {
  var evenArr=[];
  for (var i = 0; i < passedArray.length; i++) {

    if ((passedArray[i] % 2) != 1) { // if its even, add it
      evenArr.push(passedArray[i]);
    }
  }

  // Return the array with only even numbers left.
  return evenArr;
};

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Volkswagen Is Teasing a Brand New All-Electric Car
Volkswagen Concept
By Kirsten Korosec / Fortune
Next week, Volkswagen will show off its all-electric concept car as it tries to distance itself from the diesel emissions cheating scandal that has eviscerated sales and forced the company to restructure.
In prelude to the unveiling at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the automaker has dropped a few hints. The latest image, tweeted on Wednesday, appears to reveal the rear of the concept car.
Dr. Herbert Diess, chairman of Volkswagen's passenger car division, will unveil the concept car—which many believe will be a microbus—on stage Tuesday. He is expected to focus on electrification and connected car technologies.
In the weeks since VW said it would appear at CES, the company has released a number of teasers via Twitter and YouTube about its highly anticipated car. One of the first, a photo of the front grill of a square-looking VW vehicle, prompted speculation that the company would reveal a microbus.
This latest photo adds to that theory. It shows a few letters (or is it numbers too?) that auto enthusiasts speculated were part of the car's name. They spelled "UDD.e," which led many people to try to guess at the rest as if playing Wheel of Fortune. A few options:
Budd.e (Volkswagen really does want to be your buddy)
Dudd.e (The opposite of what Volkswagen wants)
Mudd.e (Oh! An all-terrain microbus)
The "D" in the photo could also be viewed as a "0" and the U could be a "4." Perhaps the name is a number (with an "e" slapped on the end for electric) instead.
Whatever the car's name, Volkswagen's future depends on its ability to move past the emissions cheating scandal. And that means more than trotting out a concept car—even if it is electric. It will mean production models. Other VW-owned units such as Audi and Porsche are already making moves to electrify their lineups.
Audi of America president Scott Keogh told Fortune during a dinner event ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show in November that by 2025, at least one quarter of all Audi cars sold in the U.S. will have a plug. Earlier this month, Porsche announced it would produce an all-electric four-door sports car—its first on the market.


Liverpool have rubbished suggestions they have sealed a £17million swoop for Trabzonspor's Abdulkadir Omur.
Reports in Turkey on Monday stated that the Reds had "shook hands" on a deal which would see the young midfielder move to Anfield this summer.
They went on to state that Trabzonspor were keen to delay an announcement until after the end of the season in order to avoid upsetting their supporters. The fee agreed with Liverpool was reported to be 20m Euros (£17m).
However, Anfield officials are adamant that there have been no discussions for the talented 19-year-old who has been dubbed the 'Turkish Messi'.
And the ECHO understands that Omur is not currently a target for Jurgen Klopp.
The Reds boss isn't planning on adding to his squad ahead of Thursday's transfer deadline.
Liverpool have been repeatedly linked with Omur in recent months with the player's representatives clearly keen to drum up interest in securing his services.
Asked about the rumours, Omur said: "Liverpool are a great club, one of the greatest in the world. These offers are something Trabzonspor need to discuss.
"If the club give the go-ahead, talks can be held. The club's interests take precedence.
Omur, who is under contract until 2022, enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2017-18 as he clocked up 32 senior appearances for Trabzonspor.


Little Chef Globetrotter is a part of Little Chef Cooking School. Children take part in a weeklong sailing course where they also cook for themselves and in the process sample new foods.
We cook with fresh ingredients, delivered daily to the children's yachts. Each trip is run by a skipper-chef that teaches the kids to cook and sail. Our sailor-chefs learn about the history of the food they prepare, along with all the techniques used to cook their meals. Along their travels, children stop by local restaurants and learn from their chefs about regional Masurian fare which they are also given the chance to taste. Working on a boat builds quite the appetite and all of our teenage chefs enjoy their cooking even more than usual on these trips.
The schedule for our course includes sailing classes, the history of sailing, art classes, team-building sessions, and orienteering with maps and compasses, just to name a few of the activities the children partake in. Every day after returning to port, children have these other activities to enjoy.
We are one company that brought the idea of combining cooking courses with sailing courses and we are the sole provider of this type of camp in all of Poland. The founders of this project are parents who possess passion and experience in sailing and cooking, as well as in instructing children and adolescents. Our goal is to foster a passion for sailing in our pupils while at the same time opening their culinary horizons to new tastes and cuisines.


This page contains links to relevant workshops, projects, and principle documents.
Numerous groups are conducting research, building tools, and developing policy statements related to fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.
Software and libraries that implement fair learning algorithms or facilitate algorithm auditing.
FairML: Auditing Black-Box Predictive Models, an end-to-end toolbox for auditing predictive models by quantifying the relative significance of the model's inputs.
Lime: Explaining the predictions of any machine learning classifier, supports explaining individual predictions for text classifiers or classifiers that act on tables (e.g. arrays of numerical or categorical data).
Fairness Measures: Datasets and software for detecting algorithmic discrimination.
Fairness notation, definitions, data, and legality, presents mathematical notions of fairness from the literature, helpfully rewritten using consistent notation and presented with context.
Aequitas, an open-source bias audit toolkit for machine learning developers, analysts, and policymakers to audit machine learning models for discrimination and bias, and make informed and equitable decisions around developing and deploying predictive risk-assessment tools.
Guidelines and documentation developed by standards bodies, practitioners, and researchers.
Critical Algorithm Studies: A Reading List - A comprehensive list of scholarly work on algorithms and social concerns. Compiled and maintained by Tarleton Gillespie and Nick Seaver at the Social Media Collective research blog.
Principles for Accountable Algorithms and a Social Impact Statement for Algorithms - These principles and associated suggested social impact statement outline were developed as part of a Dagstuhl seminar on Data, Responsibly.
Digital Decisions - An initiative by the Center for Democracy & Technology.
Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability - released by the ACM US Public Policy Council.
A growing number of organizations inside and outside academia are dedicated to promoting the ideals of fairness, accountability, and transparency of algorithmic systems.
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Alalia Mack was one of the first African American students to earn a master's degree in nursing from the University of Kentucky. In this interview she discusses her family background and childhood in Tampa, Florida. She talks about her undergraduate education at Tuskegee Institute.
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PILGRIM'S PANTRY
Meet Mike and Mary Alice Ezzell
My wife Mary Alice and I are members of the Mobile Loaves and Fishes Ministry of our parish. That particular ministry provides lunches in the form of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, turkey and cheese sandwiches, fruit, chips and cookies to locations on the south and west side of San Antonio where the need is greatest. When we began with Mobile Loaves and Fishes, we quickly became attached to the people that we served. We were also humbled by the gratitude that we saw when we distributed the cold sandwiches, cookies, etc. I commented to Mary Alice one time that it was almost like we were giving them a steak dinner, with the response and thanks that we were getting. What a blessing they have been!
After one of our Saturday food distributions in early fall, 2013, while we were on the way home Mary Alice commented, "I wish there was a way that we could provide a hot meal for them. Wouldn't that be great?" So, an idea was born. We thought, "Why not?" Why not cook them a real Thanksgiving dinner, on Thanksgiving Day, and distribute the meal to them early enough in the day so that they could enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner with their families? Not just one dinner, but if they asked for seven, we would give them seven dinners.
That first year, Thanksgiving, 2013, there were only four of us. But we cobbled together as many roasters, serving equipment, and warming containers as we could, and we served hot turkey and gravy, homemade cornbread dressing, fresh mashed potatoes, green beans with bacon, homemade yeast dinner rolls, fresh baked Apple crisp, and about two dozen fresh baked pumpkin pies. We provided "To Go" containers, so that the families could take the food home to enjoy it in their homes. That first year, we served almost 200 meals.
By the second year, the word had gotten around about our Thanksgiving Day dinner, and a lot of volunteers raised their hands and said "We would like to help". So we put them to work. In the 3 to 4 weeks before Thanksgiving, 2014, we enlisted many hands in food preparation so that we would be ready for Thanksgiving. Without those volunteers, we could not have served the number of meals that we did that year. This time, there were not just four of us serving on Thanksgiving morning, we had at least a dozen. That year, we served over 250 meals. In the years since, the number of meals has continued to grow. In 2018 we were blessed with finding a Commercial Kitchen available to us on Tuesday through Thursday of Thanksgiving week. With the help of almost 250 volunteers we served over 1100 meals!. This year, we are fortunate to have the same commercial kitchen available to rent, so we will be serving additional locations. This year, our goal is to serve 1200 or more meals!
Our ministry and our volunteer base has continued to grow. We established the nonprofit known as Pilgrim's Pantry to provide a structure. The formal name of the nonprofit corporation is Matt 2535 Holdings, Inc. "Pilgrim" is in deference to the first pilgrims at Thanksgiving, and the true meaning of the celebration of Thanksgiving. "Matt 2535" is in recognition of the scripture found at Matthew 25:35 and following.
The number of meals that we have served has also continued to grow. We would like to grow as well. We would be honored by any tax deductible contribution that you could make to Pilgrim's Pantry. Wouldn't you like to be part of this group that serves a hot meal to those in need, on a day that is a tradition for all of us? Thank you so much for considering us.
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' For I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in… whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me.' Matthew 25:35
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AudioCulture
The noisy library of New Zealand music
Te pātaka korihi o ngā puoro o Aotearoa
Kuputohu Puoro
aka The Underdogs Blues Band, Pig Mann and Edwards
Grant Gillanders
The Underdogs formed in the aftermath of Beatlemania and played their blues style and its various incarnations over an eight-year period (1964-1972). As was the order of the day, many members came and went, and in some cases, came back again.
The group was originally started in 1964 by blues fanatic Archie Bowie and guitarist Harvey Mann, both from Mt Maunganui but based in Auckland. They were a hard-core blues band playing mainly traditional American negro blues, which was a brave move in Beatles-obsessed New Zealand.
This early incarnation of The Underdogs was the band without an audience. They had to wait for the prevailing British rhythm and blues explosion to gain an audience in New Zealand, and in The Underdogs' eyes, save us all from a world of continuous yeah yeah yeahs.
The British R&B invasion took hold and The Underdogs Blues Band soon flourished.
The British R&B invasion spearheaded by the likes of The Yardbirds, John Mayall and The Rolling Stones took hold and The Underdogs Blues Band soon flourished, as New Zealand quickly became a stronghold of the British style of R&B. The Underdogs were a tight musical unit and soon found themselves playing in some of the inner city dances and clubs.
Musical divisions within the group started to surface over musical direction, which resulted in group leader and guitarist Harvey Mann taking drastic steps to ensure that his band all travelled in the same direction together.
Harvey asked Murray Grindlay if he would like to join The Underdogs as he had just fired Mick Sibley, their singer, who had taken over from Archie Bowie. Drummer Ian Thomson stayed a while then left in protest while rhythm guitarist Tony Rawnsley found himself being replaced by his brother Lou. Thomson later moved to The Brew.
After the dust had settled, there emerged a new Underdogs incarnation that would become the most enduring and best known line-up, with original members Harvey Mann (guitar) and Neil Edwards (bass) now joined by Murray Grindlay (vocals), Lou Rawnsley (rhythm guitar) and Tony Walton (drums).
Without missing a beat and using the recently released John Mayall and Eric Clapton Bluesbreakers album as their blueprint the new Underdogs settled in to a Galaxie residency late in 1966 where they played alongside The La De Da's, The Action and The Pleazers.
Eldred Stebbing signed The Underdogs to his Zodiac label. The first single 'See Saw'/'Looking Back' was released in early 1967, with the A-side, 'See Saw' showing a slight shift in direction from their blues roots into a more soulful direction. As Murray Grindlay explains, "we started [recording] closer to what The La De Da's were playing, which was a mixture of soul and British R&B, which was a lot more commercial than the hard core blues that that the previous Underdogs line-up had played."
Murray Grindlay recalls the session for their second single, "We were in the studio recording 'Sitting In The Rain'. At the end of one of the takes, I started laughing, we were fooling around as usual, I recall Neil Edwards trying to shove drumsticks up our arses, just your usual Dogs session. As soon as the tape had been turned off, Eldred Stebbing comes rushing into the studio and says "that's it, that's the take", and we said nah we were just goofing around man we wanna do another take, and Eldred said, "no, no, it's brilliant that's it."
Later in the year the single would be chosen as a finalist in the 1967 Loxene Golden Disc Awards.
Shortly after the release of 'Sitting In The Rain' Harvey Mann left the GROUP.
Shortly after the release of 'Sitting In The Rain', group leader Harvey Mann left the band, also to join The Brew (with Ian Thomson). Miffed that Harvey had left, the remaining members decided not to replace him, to show that they didn't really need him and carried on as a four-piece.
Late in 1967 work started on their debut album, which included a cover of the Donovan song 'Hey Gyp' that became their next single and included possibly New Zealand's first drum tape loop.
Edwards left after being kicked out halfway through the album recording sessions, as the group's musical direction started to change yet again. Murray Grindlay explains, "Neil didn't really want to play the blues shit that me and Lou were getting back into, we had just re-discovered John Mayall and The Cream and wanted to be just like them, Neil wanted to carry on down the soul road, so he joined Le Frame."
Dave Orams joined the group on bass.
The group relocated to Wellington for a short period before returning to Auckland at year's end.
Early in 1968 Orams left to join Wellington group, Quincy Conserve and was replaced by George Barris.
Shortly afterwards the group broke up. Tony Walton said at the time, "We had gone as far as we could, we were not progressing in what we were doing and even rehearsals were not going well".
Tony Walton went on to join a new group Jigsaw that included as their lead singer, Glyn Mason who by year's end would leave Jigsaw to take over from Larry Morris in The Rebels. Chaz Burke Kennedy and George Barris were also members of Jigsaw.
Meanwhile Murray Grindlay and Harvey Mann joined The Australasian Blues Champions who rehearsed but never really got off the ground.
After little more than a month Murray and Harvey reformed the Underdogs in April 1968. Filling out this line-up was Lou Rawnsley and Doug Thomas on drums.
This line-up of the Underdogs managed to stay together for the rest of 1968. In early 1969 they released the single 'There Will Come A Time'/'Fine Jung Thing'. Lou Rawnsley left after the single's release and was replaced by Chaz Burke-Kennedy from Jigsaw, but by late 1969 the group had disbanded again.
Harvey Mann and Neil Edwards got together with Glen Absolum on drums in 1970 and yet again reformed the group. They released the 1971 Bob Gillett-produced album Wasting Our Time as Pig, Mann and Edwards for Pye Records before finally breaking up for good.
In 2000 Ascension Records released the CD Blues Band and Beyond, which includes their entire Zodiac output, including their album, EP and singles.
The Underdogs, circa 1967: Lou Rawnsley, Murray Grindlay, Tony Walton and Neil Edwards
Photo credit: Simon Grigg collection
The Underdogs, April 1968. Left to right, Ian Thomson, Lou Rawnsley, Harvey Mann, Murray Grindlay.
Photo credit: Ian Thomson collection
The Underdogs classic debut album, released on Zodiac in early 1968
The Underdogs in their underpants at the Galaxie. Left to right, Murray Grindlay, Harvey Mann, Tony Walton, Neil Edwards, Lou Rawnsley.
The Underdogs, 1970 (AKA Pig, Mann and Edwards): Neil Edwards, Glen Absolum and Harvey Mann
The Underdogs Mk.2 at the Trades Hall, New Plymouth, 1966: Mick Sibley, Ian Thomson, Tony Rawnsley, Harvey Mann and Neil Edwards
Photo credit: Photo by Bruce Hookham. Dave Hurley collection.
The Underdogs, June 1967: Tony Walton, Neil Edwards, Murray Grindlay and Lou Rawnsley
Smashing up the Galaxie
The second Underdogs album, recorded for Pye in 1970 by Neil Edwards, Harvey Mann and Glen Absolum (AKA Pig, Mann & Edwards).
Sittin' In The Rain
The Underdogs from 1968
Lou Rawnsley in action with The Underdogs, circa 1967. Rawnsley bought the Fender Mustang when he was too slow to score a Stratocaster or Telecaster from Sydney Eady's twice-yearly guitar shipment. He hated the bright red colour and stripped it to the wood before adding the names.
Lou Rawnsley on the 1967 C'mon tour
Photo credit: Louis Rawnsley collection
Original Underdogs line-up, 1965. Left to right, Tony Rawnsley, Neil Edwards, Archie Bowie, Barry Winfield, Harvey Mann.
The Underdogs at The Trades Hall, New Plymouth, 1966: Mick Sibley, Ian Thomson, Tony Rawnsley, Neil Edwards and Harvey Mann
The Underdogs in 1970: Neil Edwards, Glen Absolum, Harvey Mann
The Underdogs' live single Cheating, fearturing covers of The Animals, Solomon Burke and Lee Dorsey, was recorded at the Galaxie nightclub, then owned by Eldred Stebbing. The medley was split over two sides and was released in September 1967.
Murray Grindlay fronting The Underdogs, circa 1967. Tony Walton on drums.
The Underdogs filming the video for Sittin' In The Rain outside Palmerston North, 1967. Director Christopher Bourn is seen on the left. (The cameraman was Peter Boden.)
Photo credit: Christopher Bourn collection
The Underdogs, late 1966: Harvey Mann, Neil Edwards, Tony Walton, Lou Rawnsley, and Murray Grindlay
The final Underdogs lineup - Neil Edwards, Glen Absolum, Harvey Mann
Photo credit: Grant Gillanders Collection
Taken during the filming of The Underdogs' 'Sittin' in the Rain' video: NZBC assistant Peter Janes is holding the conga drum, director Chris Bourn is looking round the van. Tony Walton far left; Neil Edwards looks on.
Photo credit: Leo Shelton
The Underdogs ham it up for the camera, circa 1967. Left to right: Neil Edwards, Tony Walton, Murray Grindlay, Lou Rawnsley.
The Underdogs business card, mid-1966
A strangely edited 1967 photo of The Underdogs from Playdate with Tony Walton, George Barris (cropped in), Lou Rawnsley and Murray Grindlay
The Underdogs go 'hip' in Playdate, just after the release of 'Sitting in the Rain'.
Photo credit: Roger Donaldson/Playdate
The Underdogs, September 1967: Tony Walton, Neil Edwards, Murray Grindlay and Lou Rawnsley
The Human Instinct
The Quincy Conserve
The Blues Down Under
Murray Grindlay
The Stebbing Legacy
The Galaxie
Murray Grindlay - vocals
Lou Rawnsley - rhythm guitar
Harvey Mann - lead guitar
Neil Edwards - bass
Tony Walton - drums
Archie Bowie - vocals, guitar
Doug Thomas - drums
Glen Absolum - drums
Ian Thomson - drums
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Let's keep the momentum going urges Huddersfield Town manager Lee Clark
LEE CLARK watched his side leapfrog Sheffield Wednesday to go third in League I and proclaimed: "It's a terrific result for us."
As Wednesday went down 1-0 at home to leaders Charlton, Town came out on top in their trans-Pennine derby thanks to Alan Lee's 86th-minute strike from fellow substitute Danny Cadamarteri's teasing cross.
And the boss continued: "It's great to see players come off the bench and make a contribution."
Clark was forced to make a 23rd-minute change because Oscar Gobern was suffering after a clash of heads and he said: "Anton Robinson kept things going smoothly after Oscar took a real whack, which left him groggy and with double vision.
"In the first half we played some good football and created some decent openings in a tight game.
"In the second half we didn't get the ball down as much as we would have liked, although the opposition played a huge part in that.
"Every game I've experienced against Oldham has been very difficult.
"Their work ethic, togetherness and aggression in a fair sort of way makes them tough opponents, and they have quality in the side as well.
"But my players combated that and earned the three points.
"It's a terrific result after Wycombe (where Town won 6-0) and another clean sheet, which is very pleasing.
"Promotion-winning teams keep clean sheets and win games 1-0.
"It's important to stop goals going in at one end, because we will always create opportunities at the other.
"We didn't give them too many chances. They were a threat from long throws and set plays, but the lads did extremely well, and the clean sheet isn't down to just the back four and keeper.
"It's two wins and two clean sheets on the bounce and we're looking a solid unit. It's given us momentum with another home game (against Brentford next Saturday) coming up."


GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Touchdowns are always nice, but clutch kickers are welcome security blankets for NFL offenses, especially in the playoffs.
Three of the four teams left in the postseason have seasoned veterans. And the fourth team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, has a kicker who booted a league playoff-record six field goals last week in Kansas City.
Talk about getting a leg up on the competition.
"He's pretty smooth. Nothing really puts him off," said Steelers punter Jordan Berry, the holder for kicker Chris Boswell.
A second-year player, Boswell already has postseason pedigree. He won Pittsburgh's wild-card game last season against the Cincinnati Bengals with a 35-yard field goal with 14 seconds left, one of four successful tries in that game.
No kicker left has playoff familiarity like Stephen Gostkowski, who has 20 postseason appearances with the New England Patriots entering the AFC championship game on Sunday against Pittsburgh.
No kicker left has been in the league longer than Matt Bryant, the balding, 15-year veteran for the Atlanta Falcons.
"As far as kicking as long as I've kicked, I've never taken anything for granted. Even though I am 41 and even though this is Year 15, it's still a dream," Bryant said.
Then there is Green Bay's Mason Crosby, who enters the NFC championship game Sunday against Atlanta fresh with the confidence of having hit a 51-yard field goal as time expired to beat the Dallas Cowboys last week.
Crosby actually hit two 51-yarders, except the first was waived off because Cowboys coach Jason Garrett had called timeout just before the attempt. Crosby also drilled a 56-yard field goal with 1:33 left.
The conditions were ideal at roof-covered AT&T; Field, just like they should be inside the Georgia Dome on Sunday.
Career playoff stats (entering Sunday): 14 of 14 on field-goal attempts, 4 of 5 on extra-point attempts in four games.
2016 regular season: 21 of 25 FGs, with long of 49 yards; 36 of 36 on extra points.
Notable: Also booted six field goals in Week 15 against Cincinnati. … Signed in October 2015 following an open tryout and after Josh Scobee missed a couple kicks in a loss to Baltimore.
Career playoff stats: 26 of 28 FGs, 64 of 65 on extra points in 20 games.
2016 regular season: 27 of 32 FGs, with long of 53; 46 of 49 on extra points.
Notable: Five missed field goals in regular season were most since missing six in 2012 … No missed extra points since Week 11, and two missed field goals in that span. … Hasn't missed a field goal in postseason since a failed 44-yarder on Jan. 10, 2010 in 33-14 loss to Baltimore.
Career playoff stats: 26 of 28 FGs, 58 of 58 on extra points in 17 games.
2016 regular season: 26 of 30 FGs, with long of 53; 44 of 47 on extra points.
Notable: First kicker in NFL history to make two 50-yard field goals in the final 2 minutes of a postseason game. … Crosby's 1,267 points are second most by an NFL player in his first 10 seasons, behind only Gostkowski (1,330 points, 2006-15).
Career playoff stats: 8 of 9 FGs, 21 of 21 on extra points in seven games.
2016 regular season: 34 of 37 FGs with long of 59; 56 of 57 on extra points, both league highs.
Notable: Made his first Pro Bowl this season. … Falcons' all-time scoring leader with 892 points, having passed Morten Andersen's mark of 806 points.
Bryant is looking for more.
AP Sports Writers Will Graves, Kyle Hightower and Charles Odum contributed to this report.


Caitlyn A. Bukaty, Ph.D. is the Evaluation Coordinator and Analyst for the Florida Center for Students with Unique Abilities at the University of Central Florida. Prior to joining F.C.S.U.A. she worked at Cornell University evaluating transition-focused professional development programming in New York State. Caitlyn earned her PhD in Exceptional Education from U.C.F. in 2016 where she was a U.S. Department of Education funded scholar and Presidential Fellow.
Caitlyn was an exceptional education teacher in Western New York where she taught in a variety of settings. Her research is focused on helping students with intellectual disabilities prepare for successful postsecondary employment and living.


For a long time, I've feared that I was a psychopath. As you may know, the primary characteristic of a psychopath is a lack of empathy. They have very little ability to see things from other people's perspective. This is why they make good corporate CEOs. (Really!) When I've brought up my concern about myself, my friends have scoffed at it. I'm more like the anti-psychopath. But I never found this terribly compelling. Perhaps I'm such a great psychopath that I fool everyone — even myself! So when I came upon the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Test (LSRP), I was very excited. Here at last was an opportunity for me to find out for sure.
As soon as I saw the questions, I knew that I was safe. The first question was, "Success is based on survival of the fittest; I am not concerned about the losers." Obviously, I disagree with this. But I have definitely known people who would completely agree with it. The funny thing is that I've always assumed people who said things like that were kidding — that they said it for effect. Then again, that sentence better sums up the philosophy of Ayn Rand than any other that I can think of. And this is more or less what we hear from Republican politicians and throughout the business world.
It's important to remember that psychopathy does not necessarily indicate that a person is violent. That's why I highlighted Mitt Romney. I actually think that our society is rather fond of psychopaths — as long as they aren't interested in being too antisocial. In addition to CEOs, psychopaths are over represented among surgeons. That's doubtless a good thing. I know someone like me would be useless in an emergency room. It's in politics that being a psychopath could be a bit of a problem for society. Certainly we need analysts who just look at the facts. But most people don't run for president thinking that they are going to do what is best for the nation based upon the facts. They just want the "goodies" that go along with the job.
But at least I feel better knowing that I'm not a psychopath — even if it means that I'm not as successful as I might be if I were. What does it say about a society that being empathic and helpful is a bad thing?
See also: Is Mitt Romney a Psychopath?
I had to change references to "doctors" to "surgeons" above. General practitioners tend to be less psychopathic. It is surgeons (which is what Rand Paul was) who are psychopathic. Also high on psychopathy: police officers, lawyers, salesmen, journalists, and clergy.
Amir Meshal is a young man from New Jersey. Back in 2006, he was in Somalia. But when war broke out, he fled to Kenya where he was picked up by the American military and interrogated more than thirty times — variously tortured and generally having his constitutional rights ignored. What's more, these government officials threatened to make him "disappear." Or at least that is what is alleged in Meshal v Higgenbotham, which has been dragging on for six years. But I see no reason to doubt that we did exactly this to Meshal. This is the sort of thing that we do all the time.
I'm especially interested in the threat to make Meshal "disappear. The most basic right in a nation is habeas corpus. There can be no kind of justice if the government isn't even admitting that they are holding a citizen. And the United States has been doing this over and over again by handing people over to governments don't abide by such laws. Of course, what this means is that we don't abide by such such laws. Our military and intelligence institutions seem to do whatever they want. They are above the law and few people care until they are directly effected by such lawlessness.
Aljazeera America reported the most recent status of the case, US Citizen Fights to Sue FBI Agents for "Inhuman" Detention Abroad. The problem with the case is that it keeps getting thrown out for a classic reason: the government claims that a trial would harm national security. This is hogwash, of course. This is just the government security bureaucracy protecting its own. But there is a sense in which such a case would harm national security: what has happened to Amir Meshal is almost certainly common. So to reveal what our government does to its citizens every day would indeed cause problems. The people might decide the government shouldn't do that.
The government's position on this seems to be like it was in the case of Anwar al-Awlaki. In that case, the government basically said that if an American citizen is outside the country, it has the right to assassinate. In this case, if an American citizen is outside the country, the citizen has no constitutional rights. I can just hear the Fox News viewers' response to this, "Well, I never leave the country, so I have nothing to worry about!" This is really troubling. I'm not big on slippery slope arguments, but there really is no reason to believe that the government will continue to find bigger and bigger carve-outs for our constitutional rights. As it is, we have a system where journalists can print anything they want; but any person who gives them information the government doesn't like is looking at decades in prison.
Increasingly, Americans have to be brave, because the government won't abide them being free.


text:
import {createNewInstance} from '../../src/incident/filter/filterManager';
import {Filter} from '../../src/incident/filter/filter';
import {ComplexFilter} from '../../src/incident/filter/complexfilter';
import {FilterRequest} from '../../src/incident/filter/filterrequest';

describe('FilterManager', function() {
    var manager;

    beforeEach(function() {
        manager = createNewInstance();
    });

    describe('when a simple filter is used', function() {
        describe('when a property is added', function() {
            var filter,
                expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function() {
                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('Reporter', 'contains', 'Tester')
                    ], 'and')
                ], 'and');

                manager.updateSimpleFilter('Reporter', 'Tester');
                filter = manager.generateSimpleFilter();
            });

            it('should create the expected filter', function() {
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });
        });

        describe('when multiple properties are added', function() {
            var filter, expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function() {
                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('Reporter', 'contains', 'Tester'),
                        new Filter('State', 'contains', 'open'),
                        new Filter('Id', 'contains', '1')
                    ], 'and')
                ], 'and');

                manager.updateSimpleFilter('Reporter', 'Tester');
                manager.updateSimpleFilter('State', 'open');
                manager.updateSimpleFilter('Id', '1');
                filter = manager.generateSimpleFilter();
            });

            it('should create the expected filter', function() {
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });

            describe('when a property is removed', function() {
                var updatedFilter, expectedUpdatedFilter;

                beforeEach(function() {
                    expectedUpdatedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                        new ComplexFilter([
                            new Filter('Reporter', 'contains', 'Tester'),
                            new Filter('Id', 'contains', '1')
                        ], 'and')
                    ], 'and');

                    manager.removeFromSimpleFilter('State');
                    updatedFilter = manager.generateSimpleFilter();
                });

                it('should create the updated filter', function() {
                    expect(updatedFilter).toEqual(expectedUpdatedFilter);
                });
            });

            describe('when a property is updated', function() {
                var updatedFilter, expectedUpdatedFilter;

                beforeEach(function() {
                    expectedUpdatedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                        new ComplexFilter([
                            new Filter('Reporter', 'contains', 'Tester'),
                            new Filter('State', 'contains', 'closed'),
                            new Filter('Id', 'contains', '1')
                        ], 'and')
                    ], 'and');

                    manager.updateSimpleFilter('State', 'closed');
                    updatedFilter = manager.generateSimpleFilter();
                });

                it('should create the updated filter', function() {
                    expect(updatedFilter).toEqual(expectedUpdatedFilter);
                });
            });
        });
    });

    describe('when a complex filter is used', function() {
        describe('when a simple equals filter is used', function() {
            var filter, expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function(done) {
                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('Reporter', 'equals', 'Tester')
                    ], 'and')
                ], 'and');

                manager.generateComplexFilter('Reporter = \'Tester\'').then(result => {
                    filter = result;
                    done();
                });
            });

            it('should create the correct filter', function() {
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });
        });

        describe('when a simple contains filter is used', function() {
            var filter, expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function(done) {
                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('Reporter', 'contains', 'Tester')
                    ], 'and')
                ], 'and');

                manager.generateComplexFilter('Reporter contains \'Tester\'').then(result => {
                    filter = result;
                    done();
                });
            });

            it('should create the correct filter', function() {
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });
        });

        describe('when a simple not equals filter is used', function() {
            var filter, expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function(done) {
                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('Reporter', 'notequals', 'Tester')
                    ], 'and')
                ], 'and');

                manager.generateComplexFilter('Reporter != \'Tester\'').then(result => {
                    filter = result;
                    done();
                });
            });

            it('should create the correct filter', function() {
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });
        });

        describe('when a simple and filter is used', function() {
            var filter, expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function(done) {
                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('Reporter', 'equals', 'Tester'),
                        new Filter('State', 'notequals', 'closed')
                    ], 'and')
                ], 'and');

                manager.generateComplexFilter('Reporter = \'Tester\' AND State != \'closed\'').then(result => {
                    filter = result;
                    done();
                });
            });

            it('should create the correct filter', function() {
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });
        });

        describe('when a simple && filter is used', function() {
            var filter, expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function(done) {
                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('Reporter', 'equals', 'Tester'),
                        new Filter('State', 'notequals', 'closed')
                    ], 'and')
                ], 'and');

                manager.generateComplexFilter('Reporter = \'Tester\' && State != \'closed\'').then(result => {
                    filter = result;
                    done();
                });
            });

            it('should create the correct filter', function() {
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });
        });

        describe('when a simple or filter is used', function() {
            var filter, expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function(done) {
                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('Reporter', 'equals', 'Tester'),
                        new Filter('State', 'notequals', 'closed')
                    ], 'or')
                ], 'and');

                manager.generateComplexFilter('Reporter = \'Tester\' OR State != \'closed\'').then(result => {
                    filter = result;
                    done();
                });
            });

            it('should create the correct filter', function() {
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });
        });

        describe('when a simple || filter is used', function() {
            var filter, expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function(done) {
                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('Reporter', 'equals', 'Tester'),
                        new Filter('State', 'notequals', 'closed')
                    ], 'or')
                ], 'and');

                manager.generateComplexFilter('Reporter = \'Tester\' || State != \'closed\'').then(result => {
                    filter = result;
                    done();
                });
            });

            it('should create the correct filter', function() {
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });
        });

        describe('when a multi-expression statement is used', function() {
            var filter, expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function(done) {
                var child1 = new ComplexFilter([new Filter('Reporter', 'equals', 'Tester')], 'and');
                var child2 = new ComplexFilter([], 'or');

                child2.children = [
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('State', 'notequals', 'closed'),
                        new Filter('Description', 'contains', 'Foo')
                    ], 'or')
                ];

                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([child1, child2], 'and');

                manager.generateComplexFilter('Reporter = \'Tester\' AND (State != \'closed\' OR Description contains \'Foo\')').then(result => {
                    console.log('Got result ' + result);
                    filter = result;
                    done();
                });
            });

            it('should create the correct filter', function() {
                console.log('comparing ' + filter + ' to ' + expectedFilter);
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });
        });

        describe('when a nested multi-expression statement is used', function() {
            var filter, expectedFilter;

            beforeEach(function(done) {
                var child1 = new ComplexFilter([new Filter('Reporter', 'equals', 'Tester')], 'and');
                var child2 = new ComplexFilter([], 'or');
                var nestedChild = new ComplexFilter([], 'and');
                nestedChild.children = [
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('State', 'equals', 'open'),
                        new Filter('testvar', 'equals', 'Foo')
                    ], 'and')
                ];

                child2.children = [
                    new ComplexFilter([
                        new Filter('State', 'notequals', 'closed'),
                        new Filter('Description', 'contains', 'Foo')
                    ], 'or'),
                    nestedChild
                ];

                expectedFilter = new FilterRequest([child1, child2], 'and');

                manager.generateComplexFilter('Reporter = \'Tester\' AND (State != \'closed\' OR Description contains \'Foo\' OR (State = \'open\' AND testvar = \'Foo\'))').then(result => {
                    filter = result;
                    done();
                });
            });

            it('should create the correct filter', function() {
                expect(filter).toEqual(expectedFilter);
            });
        });
    });
});


text:
This is a list of diplomatic missions of Croatia, excluding honorary consulates. Croatia is a European country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean.

Current missions

Africa

Americas

Asia

Europe

Oceania

Multilateral organizations

Gallery

Closed missions

Africa

See also
 Foreign relations of Croatia

Notes

References

 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia

Diplomatic missions of Croatia
Croatia