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72 Year-Old Suffers Crushed Leg Injuries
Georgia attorney, Gwyn Newsom, represented a man who sustained permanent leg damage when he was hit by a van in a McDonald's parking lot. The 72-year old exited his vehicle and was walking into the McDonald's when a distracted commercial vehicle driver struck him and ran over his leg. The collision caused open fracture and crush injuries, as well as risk of amputation. Despite surgical procedures to fix the break, the Plaintiff still suffers from pain, swelling and the risk of amputation. Attorney Newsom contacted DK Global to support her damages argument by creating a visual aid that would leave no room for the defense to disregard the Plaintiff's lasting injuries.
DK Global traveled to Georgia and compiled a day-in-the-life style documentary showing how the injuries continue to affect the Plaintiff's daily life. DK Global's Creative Director followed the Plaintiff and captured footage of him performing routine tasks that are now difficult due to the injuries sustained. Additionally, a drone was used to capture high definition footage of the incident scene, further establishing the accuracy of the presentation. The reconstruction, which aided in proving liability, animated the collision from multiple points of view to adequately represent the scope of the collision. Ultimately, the presentation showed that the driver and thus, his company, were liable for the collision and that the Plaintiff deserved substantial compensation for his injuries. Attorney Newsom ensured justice for her client, and won big in the amount of just over $1 million!
"...We are also entitled to prejudgment interest on our $1 million policy limit demand from March 2014 to the present that they refused to pay, plus attorneys' fees and costs (including all DK Global costs) from January 2016 to the present as a result of achieving at least 125% of our Rule 68 offer of settlement in December 2015 for $775,000 that the Defendants refused to pay. The only exhibit the jury asked to see again was the DK Global animation. Thank you [DK Global] team for a huge victory for Team Skinner!" - Gwyn Newsom
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The Advanced Aviation Husky, Hi-Nuski and Coyote are a family of American ultralight aircraft that was designed and produced by Advanced Aviation. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction and introduced in 1978.

Design and development
The Husky predates the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, but complies with them, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a cable-braced high-wing, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration. The aircraft is described as a "RipSilver", an unlicensed clone of the Eipper Quicksilver, which it closely resembles.

The Husky is made from aluminum tubing, with the wings and tail surfaces covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing is cable braced from a single kingpost. The pilot is accommodated with a sling seat, suspended from the wing. The control system is unconventional with pitch controlled by weight shift, while roll is controlled by wing-mounted spoilers controlled by cables attached to the pilot's seat and actuated by weight shift. The tail surfaces are fixed.

The Husky was later developed into the Advanced Aviation Cobra.

Variants
Husky
Version with a Cuyuna 430D direct drive engine of . Also called the Hi-Nusky.
Coyote
Version with a Cuyuna 215 reduction drive engine of .

Specifications (Husky)

References

External links
Photo of a Husky in flight

1970s United States ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Husky

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Hallucinogen Laws in Connecticut
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Definition of the Drug
Connecticut law classifies hallucinogens according to their effect. For example, the tendency to "assert a confusional or disorganizing effect upon mental processes or behavior and mimic acute psychotic disturbances." Also, these drugs can occur naturally or through synthesis. Despite its psychedelic properties, marijuana is not classified as a "hallucinogenic substance" for legal purposes. The statutory definition of hallucinogen provides examples. Examples of such drugs such as mescaline, peyote, and LSD. However this list is not exhaustive. Psilocybin containing mushrooms, ecstasy (MDMA), PCP (angel dust), and ketamine (Special K) are also classified as hallucinogens. Furthermore, Connecticut law contains a sub-category of hallucinogenic substances. This section contains five milligrams or more of lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD.
Hallucinogen Laws
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 21a-240(23)
(23) "Hallucinogenic substances" are psychodysleptic substances. They assert a confusional or disorganizing effect upon mental processes or behavior and mimic acute psychotic disturbances. Exemplary of such drugs are:
Mescaline.
Peyote.
Silocyn.
D-lysergic acid diethylamide.
Also, these are controlled substances under this chapter unless modified.
Please see our pages on possession for a detailed discussion on what act or acts constitute possession.
Simple Possession
Possession of a hallucinogen substance carries some of the harshest penalties under Connecticut law. There is no charge equating to misdemeanor or "simple" possession of a hallucinogen substance. Possession of any amount of hallucinogen substance, no matter how small, is classified as a felony offense.
Felony Possession
Felonies are the most serious crimes in any system of criminal law. A standard definition of a felony is any crime punishable by more than one year in prison or by death.
Often the offense itself does not get a felony label. But, the punishment tells the public that the offense is a felony. Additionally, statutes may label a crime a "gross" or "aggravated" misdemeanor. But, this happens provide for a sentence of more than one year in the state penitentiary system. This ensures that the offense gets treated as felony in many respects.
A person convicted of a felony may have more restrictions on their rights than a person convicted of a lesser crime. In many jurisdictions, felons cannot serve on juries. Oftentimes they lose their right to vote or to practice certain professions, such as lawyer or teacher. Felons may not own guns or serve in the military.
Penalties for Felony Possession
For a first conviction of possession of a hallucinogen substance, you face up to five years in jail. Also, you face up to a $2,000.00 fine.
For a second or (subsequent) conviction of possession of a hallucinogen substance, you face up to 10 years in jail. Also, you face up to a $5,000.00 fine.
Penalty for Illegal Possession. Alternative Sentences.
(b) Any person who possesses or has under their control any quantity of a hallucinogenic substance other than marijuana or four ounces or more of a cannabis-type substance, except as authorized in this chapter, for a first offense, may be imprisoned not more than five years or be fined not more than two thousand dollars or be both fined and imprisoned, and for a subsequent offense may be imprisoned not more than ten years or be fined not more than five thousand dollars or be both fined and imprisoned.
Possession with Intent to Sell
Please see our pages on possession with intent. This provides a detailed discussion on what act or acts constitute this crime.
Penalties for Possession of a Hallucinogenic Substance with Intent to Sell
a. Possession of a Hallucinogenic Substance with Intent to Sell by a Non-drug Dependent Person
For a first conviction of possession of a hallucinogenic substance with intent to sell you are facing from five to 20 years in prison.
For a second or subsequence conviction of possession of a hallucinogenic substance with intent to sell you are facing from 10 to 25 years in prison.
b. Possession of a Substance that Contains Five Milligrams or More of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide with Intent to Sell by a Non-drug Dependent Person
Connecticut imposes particularly harsh penalties on individuals who are in possession with intent to distribute more than five milligrams of LSD. Individuals charged with possessing five milligrams or more usually don't get prosecuted under federal law (as no Connecticut case law exists on the subject). Under the federal guidelines the weight of LSD will calculated by the whole weight of the blotter paper or other carrier medium containing the drug. (See Neal v. U.S., 516 U.S. 284 (1996)). While the federal mandatory minimum sentences get triggered at a slightly higher threshold, 10 milligrams, because the weight of LSD and carrier medium get combined, possession with intent to distribute virtually any amount of LSD will trigger the mandatory minimum sentence.
For any conviction of this crime, you are facing from five to 20 years in prison. Also, you face a maximum of a life sentence.
c. Possession of a Hallucinogenic Substance with Intent to Sell by a Drug Dependent Person
For a first conviction of possession of a hallucinogenic substance with intent to sell by a drug dependent person, you are facing up to 15 years in prison and up to a $50,000 fine.
Then, for a second conviction of possession of a hallucinogenic substance with intent to sell by a drug dependent person, you are facing up to 30 years in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.
For a third (or subsequent) conviction of possession of a hallucinogenic substance with intent to sell by a drug dependent person, you are facing up to 30 years in prison or up to a $250,000 fine.
Penalties for Possession of a Hallucinogenic Substance with Intent to Sell: Relevant Statutes
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 21a-277. Penalty for illegal manufacture, distribution, sale, prescription, dispensing.
Any person who manufactures, distributes, sells, prescribes, dispenses, compounds, transports with the intent to sell or dispense, possesses with the intent to sell or dispense, offers, gives or administers to another person any controlled substance which is a hallucinogenic substance other than marijuana, or a narcotic substance, except as authorized in this chapter, for a first offense, shall be imprisoned not more than fifteen years and may be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars or be both fined and imprisoned; and for a second offense shall be imprisoned not more than thirty years and may be fined not more than one hundred thousand dollars, or be both fined and imprisoned; and for each subsequent offense, shall be imprisoned not more than thirty years and may be fined not more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars, or be both fined and imprisoned.
As an alternative to the sentences specified in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the court may sentence the person to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction for an indeterminate term not to exceed three years or the maximum term specified for the offense, whichever is the lesser, and, at any time within such indeterminate term and without regard to any other provision of law regarding minimum term of confinement, the Commissioner of Correction may release the convicted person so sentenced subject to such conditions as they may impose including, but not limited to, supervision by suitable authority. At any time during such indeterminate term, the Commissioner of Correction may revoke any such conditional release in their discretion for violation of the conditions imposed and return the convicted person to a correctional institution.
Penalty for illegal manufacture, distribution, sale, prescription or administration by non-drug dependent person
Any person who manufactures, distributes, sells, prescribes, dispenses, compounds, transports with the intent to sell or dispense, possesses with the intent to sell or dispense, offers, gives or administers to another person one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances containing an aggregate weight of one ounce or more of heroin or methadone or an aggregate weight of one-half ounce or more of cocaine or one-half ounce or more of cocaine in a free-base form, or a substance containing five milligrams or more of lysergic acid diethylamide, except as authorized in this chapter, and who is not, at the time of such action, a drug-dependent person, shall be imprisoned for a minimum term of not less than five years or more than twenty years; and, a maximum term of life imprisonment.
The execution of the mandatory minimum sentence imposed by the provisions of this subsection shall not be suspended, except the court may suspend the execution of such mandatory minimum sentence if at the time of the commission of the offense (1) such person was under the age of eighteen years, or (2) such person's mental capacity was significantly impaired, but not so impaired as to constitute a defense to prosecution.
Any person who manufactures, distributes, sells, prescribes, dispenses, compounds, transports with the intent to sell or dispense, possesses with the intent to sell or dispense, offers, gives or administers to another person any narcotic substance, hallucinogenic substance other than marijuana, amphetamine-type substance, or one kilogram or more of a cannabis-type substance, except as authorized in this chapter, and who is not, at the time of such action, a drug dependent person, for a first offense shall be imprisoned not less than five years or more than twenty years; and for each subsequent offense shall be imprisoned not less than ten years or more than twenty-five years.
Penalties for Possession Near a Prohibited Place
You face up to three years in prison. Also, the sentence should happen consecutively in addition to any prison time for the underlying offense.
§ 21a-278a
Penalty for illegal manufacture, distribution, sale, prescription or administration
Any person who violates section 21a-277 or 21a-278 by manufacturing, distributing, selling, prescribing, dispensing, compounding, transporting with the intent to sell or dispense, possessing with the intent to sell or dispense, offering, giving or administering to another person any controlled substance in or on, or within one thousand five hundred feet of, the real property comprising a public or private elementary or secondary school, a public housing project or a licensed child day care center, as defined in section 19a-77, that is identified as a child day care center by a sign posted in a conspicuous place shall be imprisoned for a term of three years, which shall not be suspended and shall be in addition and consecutive to any term of imprisonment imposed for violation of section 21a-277 or 21a-278.
To constitute a violation of this subsection, an act of transporting or possessing a controlled substance shall be with intent to sell or dispense in or on, or within one thousand five hundred feet of, the real property comprising a public or private elementary or secondary school, a public housing project or a licensed child day care center, as defined in section 19a-77, that is identified as a child day care center by a sign posted in a conspicuous place. For the purposes of this subsection, "public housing project" means dwelling accommodations operated as a state or federally subsidized multifamily housing project by a housing authority, nonprofit corporation or municipal developer, as defined in section 8-39, pursuant to chapter 128 or by the Connecticut Housing Authority pursuant to chapter 129.
Controlled Substances in Connecticut
Drug Crimes and Minors
Employing Minors
Manufacturing and Selling

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Several of our students were awarded scholarships from the Westland Goodfellows!
Thank you Westland Goodfellows, and congratulations students!
Mike Mars with his sister at the Fillmore, who is also a JG graduate.
Mike Mars won Mr. Wrestler of the year at the Detroit Free Press Sports Awards Ceremony Saturday night. The event was at the Fillmore in Detroit. The red carpet was quite a celebration. He won the award over several very talented athletes from across the state.
Mikey also won wrestler of the year for D1 from the Michigan Wrestling Coaches Association. He received a huge trophy for both awards. USA wrestling also had his picture and a write up with All American honors about him. This goes to every school across the country!
This young man is a celebrity!! Can't wait to see what he accomplishes at the University of Michigan!
Attached is a picture with his sister who is also a JG graduate. Please tell him congrats if you see him!
Thank you to all who show us your continued support.
This week many of our students have volunteered to help with our 6th-grade welcome event this Tuesday from 6 pm to 7:30 pm. Our students and staff will welcome our new Stevenson Saints and their families to their future middle school with fun, information, and exploration. Thank you to all our students and staff who are committed to showing our Stevenson Pride!


The National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and Jorge Gutierrez (Book of Life, Son of Jaguar) are providing five scholarships to five extraordinary Latinx experimental animators as they transition from CalArts into the industry by giving them the vital resources in building their resume. The scholarship provides access to NALIP's various insightful workshops, programs, and events, such as our Latino Film Festival and our NALIP Media Summit for the next three years, helping the recipients become more familiar with the dynamics of the industry. Through their consistent attendance at these events, these content creators will be given an invaluable chance to network and build connections not only with our empowering community, but within Hollywood.
The first event these recipients will attend is the 2018 NALIP Media Summit. The NALIP Media Summit is the largest annual gathering of Latinos in media nationwide. The weekend-long event will take place on June 21-24, 2018. The event focuses on bringing content creators of all levels together to give them the tools and information they need to help them move forward and promote diversity through our #WeAreInclusion campaign. This year's event will feature film screenings, panel sessions, workshops, showcases, networking opportunities, media markets and our Latino Media Awards Gala, an extravagant event where we highlight Latino content creators deserving of Hollywood's spotlight. Visit nalipmediasummit.com for more information and to get your passes.
In reaching out to CalArts, NALIP aims to directly create connections and networks with aspiring animators to help bridge the gap between Hollywood and intersectional content creators and works. We appreciate the cooperation from Jorge Gutierrez and CalArts in reaching out to students and showing them the resources we are eager to distribute.
I hope that by attending the NALIP events I will be given the opportunity to learn more about the entertainment industry and how I can as a latina animator/filmmaker make not only my voice heard, but the voice of my community heard. It would be an absolute honor to be in the presence of the influential Latinx creators in the entertainment industry who are coming together to empower Latinx creators like myself.
I am interested in being part of the NALIP activities, events, and community because I think it is a great platform that helps push Latin talent to other levels and opens opportunities for it to be developed and heard. Art, for me, has become the best way to express my ideas to the world and to actually make it better. NALIP can help me get my message to more people.
My goals for attending these events as a Brazilian-American filmmaker would be developing a better understanding of the current state of Latino art and representation in the animation industry and learning about resources that I can use and are available to me and other Latino filmmakers.
As most artists, my work has been inspired by my experiences, and Mexico has played a key part in my identity as I grew up there. The NALIP events are an ideal place to connect with other creators who want to collaborate on projects to portray our shared experiences which are not typically represented in the global media.
NALIP's dedication to uplifting the voices of, and giving space to, the creative Latinx community makes me feel like I can be a part of the conversation on diversity and representation. I hope to take what I learn from panels and workshops and apply it to my own practices, planting the seeds for friendships and future collaborations with those I meet there.
Visit nalipmediasummit.com for more information. Get your passes here!


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From the The Waterwight Series series, volume 1
by Laurel McHargue
Pub Date: Feb. 29th, 2016
Publisher: Alpha Peak
In this YA adventure, a girl orphaned by global cataclysm searches for a new home, encountering talking animals and discovering she possesses special powers.
It's been three or four years since The Event, a huge natural disaster with unnatural consequences that no one wants to talk about, including the adults at the orphanage where Celeste Araia Nolan, about 14, now lives. After a strange dream, Celeste decides to run away; in her journey, she meets helpful talking cats and dogs and the dangerous Shifter, an evil being who can take different forms. She also discovers an amazing ability: she can defy gravity, first with leaps and bounds, then by actually flying. From a stony-visaged mountain she calls Old Man Massive, Celeste learns she "must find the key to stopping the advance of the big water" lying southward. This is no normal ocean; it's pink, gelatinous, reeking, destructive, and still spreading. Celeste flies across, getting a boost from Orville, a talking, winged, French-speaking frog who spoke to her in dreams. On the other side lies a village of children, survivors who have also developed strange powers, controlled by a mysterious Overleader, who punishes rule breakers. As Celeste works to find the key and save her new friends, she will face dangerous tests of her courage and resolve. McHargue ("Miss?", 2013) taps into dreamscapes with their myth/dream logic very effectively in this entertaining novel. The section where Celeste gets trapped in a seductive fantasy castle—her parents alive, only her favorite foods on the table, every room full of toys and games—is powerfully spooky, reminiscent of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. Post-apocalyptic YA fiction can be unrelentingly grim, but McHargue brings wit and warmth to this account as well as psychological insights, particularly in developing the Overleader's character. There's perhaps too much back and forth from the village to the mountain (Celeste begins to seem like a commuter flight), but the novel's charms overcome this defect. Readers should want to know what happens next in the Waterwight world.
Striking dreamscapes make this tale about a heroine who can fly a fine first outing in a planned series.


Here we go with Round 5 of the Character Codex! This will finish off the dwarves. If you've missed any, check out the Character Codex Gallery. Next week we will start with a female Elf Barbarian and a Male Elf Bard.
Speaking of elves, make sure to check out the latest comic where we introduce Elysia, our first elf character. Also, make sure to have a look at the World of Chronicle entry for the Celesyn, or high elves of Chronicle. Next week's entry will be for the Saesyn, or wild elves.
Also in the World of Chronicle section, you will see our Virtual Tabletop Token Gallery. This week all 11 dwarf classes are in there. Next week, we'll rotate out and start adding in the elves.
Finally, come back tomorrow for a new strip as we begin to investigate exactly what happened in Autumn's encounter with the Slumripper.
For the Dwarf Wizard, I wanted to still show that no-nonsense style of the dwarves, but I also wanted to give this guy some power. He's a high-level guy but he keeps his robes fairly modest, save for all the enchantments!
This is our first look at the wizards of Chronicle. We'll be exploring a lot more of the Brotherhood of the Threefold Path, the organization most wizards in Chronicle belong to, later. For now, this wizard is a member of the Grey Order, an order within the Brotherhood dedicated to magical research and observation.
First up is the dwarf sorcerer. I wanted to show a distinction here between sorcerers and wizards. Sorcerers in Chronicle can be anybody. You don't have to be of a special family, have great wealth, or be well-educated. Literally anybody can be born with the talent to tap into the natural energies of magic. I wanted to draw her as being "down to earth" and what better way in work clothes and moving earth. The dwarves of Jaxstein use magic like this to carve out the terraces they use for farming in the mountain valleys. This dwarf may just be one of those terraformers.
So, there you have it! 11 dwarves down, 66 adventurers to go. See you next week with the elves!
Here's what's happening this week at Chronicle!
There was a problem with the submission form last week that resulted in entrant data being lost. If you entered the contest, please resubmit your entry HERE. Because of this, the deadline has been pushed back to 11:59 CST tonight. So you have one more day to name those rogues for a chance to win a free full-color commissioned character drawing of your choice. Keep in mind that the character doesn't have to be fantasy based. I will draw any character or person you want - superheroes, sci-fi, cartoons, historical figures, a caricature of you, whatever you want.
This week in The World of Chronicle we'll start to delve into the elves of Chronicle. Part 1 will explore the Celesyn, or high elves, of Chronicle.
This week, the dwarves of the Character Codex will be finishing up. A female sorcerer and a male wizard will round us out. Virtual Tabletop tokens will go up for them the same day. The dwarf tokens will stay up for a week and then the whole set will come down when the elves go up. A downloadable pack of all 11 dwarves will follow shortly after.
In the Comic this week, Autumn and Elysia discuss the encounter with the Slumripper.
People seemed to like the Nausicaa drawing from last week. Let's see where my brain will wander this week!
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Welcome to Round 4 of the Character Codex! If you're new here, the idea is simple: I'm going to illustrate all 77 race/class combinations from the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. These are also the "traditional" races and classes you'll find in Dungeons & Dragons. You can see everything so far in the Character Codex Gallery.
Before we get to the characters this week, I want to mention a couple of things we have going on here at Chronicle. First, in conjunction with the Character Codex, there are now Virtual Tabletop Tokens of each of the Character Codex characters available for free download and use on Roll20 or any other virtual tabletop program.
Second, if you like the artwork you see here each week, you should enter the Name That Rogue contest! It's a chance to have a FREE full-color character drawing done by your request. So far, no one has named all 25 characters, so the chances are still good!
Lastly, don't forget to come back tomorrow for the latest Chronicle strip. We introduce a new character in this week's strip! Now on to the characters!
The first character this week is the female Dwarf Ranger. She's an all-around explorer. Many of the rangers in Chronicle tend to wander the mountain valleys around Jaxstein, the great dwarven vale. This is reflected in her climbing gear, but she's got a wanderer's spirit and is willing to go wherever she needs to go.
Note the wrench built into the pommel of his shortsword. I imagine that as a shortsword that gives +2 to Disable Device or Profession (Engineering) checks. Oh and, yeah, the scabbard and strap are made of duct tape.
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Welcome to Round 3 of the Chronicle Character Codex! We're still making our way through all 77 race/class combinations in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. If you've missed any of them check out the full gallery.
As always, two quick things before we start. First, check out the Chronicle comic! It updates every Thursday, so come back tomorrow for a new strip! This week's is a lot of fun with 25 characters in it! So come back and take a look.
Also, if you like what you see and you want your own character drawn, I'm running a sale on Character Sketches. I also draw other characters besides fantasy, so if you've got a superhero, sci-fi adventurer, supernatural detective, or anything else, I'll be glad to draw it too.
Now on to the Codex!
First up is the Dwarf Fighter. This guy is an update of a character from the original Chronicle comic book from back in the day. He has the fantastic name, Thorak Doomhammer and is a loyal companion (if the gold is good!) The original Thorak didn't actually have armor in his design so I added in the chain shirt and greaves to bump up his AC.
Finally, we have the Dwarf Paladin. In Chronicle, the majority of dwarves have given up their warrior ways, choosing labor and craftsmanship over combat. Their god, Jax, blesses this craftsmanship but seeks only true warriors to be his paladins. This older dwarf is one of the select few and has seen many battles before being honored as a Paladin. The symbol on his sword's pommel and his belt buckle is the rune for the letter J, for Jax. His armor's (along with the Dwarf Cleric's armor's) colors (gold and black) are Jax's colors as well.
Next up is the Dwarf Monk. I'm super pleased with how she turned out considering I had a hard time deciding what an eastern style, female dwarf would look like. Sporting a straw hat, simple kimono-style robes, and a the two-toed sandal, she bears the simplicity of a follower of Vrae, the Chronicle god of Truth, Wisdom, and Discipline.
That's it for this week! Next week, we head into mountains and the cities with the Dwarf Ranger and Dwarf Rogue.
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Here's the latest update to my Character Codex project! In case you missed the first update (gallery here), I'm going to be going through all 77 race/class combinations in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. Before we get started, let me ask you to go check out the Chronicle comic! Even though I'm having fun with the Codex the comic is my main focus. It updates every Thursday, so come back tomorrow for a new strip! Also, if you like what you see and you want your own character drawn, I'm running a sale on Character Sketches.
Okay, enough promotion! So, today we have the Dwarf Cleric and Dwarf Druid!
For the Dwarf Cleric, I went pretty traditional; armor, hammer, beard. I imagined him as being a lower level character, so not much in the way of gear. He's a priest of Jax, the dwarven god in Chronicle. Rather than have a separate holy symbol, Jax's priests use their weapon which has been blessed. Here he's turning some unknown undead. It's a bit rough and a little plain, but I'm still pleased with it.
For the Dwarf Druid, I went a little out of the ordinary. First off, yes, that is indeed a bearded female dwarf. The bearded women thing with dwarves has always been a bit of a controversy. Some say it's just a joke and they don't actually have beards, some say it's mandatory. Pathfinder's (and D&D's, if I recall) official stance is that they do not, in fact, have beards. The official Chronicle stance is that they once had beards, but after the dwarf nation traded its swords for plowshares, the hirsute look fell out of fashion. Now only, the most uncivilized dwarven women have beards. I figured a druid would fit in that category. She's a mountain druid and fairly high level, pulling off some earth bending moves. I'm super pleased with this one. The spearhead looks rough, I may go back and correct that. But, I'm happy with everything else.
Next week, is the Dwarf Fighter and Dwarf Monk (and Dwarf Paladin, if I get time)!


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Prescription Nicotine Based Vaping
Australia's medical experts, including the AHPPC, have warned of the health dangers of e-cigarettes.
This is consistent with the existing ban in all states and territories on the sale of e-cigarettes containing vaporiser nicotine.
Smoking rates in Australia have declined significantly over the past two decades, from 22.3 per cent in 2001 to 13.8 per cent in 2017-18.
But the latest statistics show tobacco use still contributed to an estimated 21,000 deaths, or more than one in eight, in 2015. This is why we need to drive down those smoking rates further.
In particular, around the world we have seen strong evidence of non-smokers being introduced to nicotine through vaping for the first time.
Therefore the Government is responding to the advice by ensuring that nicotine based e-cigarettes can only be imported on the basis of a prescription from a doctor.
This will help prevent the introduction of non-smokers to nicotine via vaping.
However there is a second group of people who have been using these e-cigarettes with nicotine as a means to ending their cigarette smoking.
In order to assist this group in continuing to end that addiction we will therefore provide further time for implementation of the change by establishing a streamlined process for patients obtaining prescriptions through their GP.
For this reason, the implementation timeframe will be extended by six months to 1 January 2021.
People should always be consulting their GP on these health matters and ensuring this is the right product for them.
This will give patients time to talk with the GP, discuss the best way to give up smoking, such as using other products including patches or sprays, and if still required, will be able to gain a prescription.
We note that the RACGP's Supporting smoking cessation – A guide for health professionals stipulates that nicotine-containing e-cigarettes are not first-line treatments for smoking cessation.
During this time, the Therapeutic Goods Administration will undertake a formal review and consultation process regarding the classification of nicotine in the Poisons Standard which will inform the implementation.
The Victorian Poisons Centre reported a near doubling of nicotine poisons between 2018 (21 cases) and 2019 (41 cases), primarily caused by imported products of dubious safety and quality.
A Victorian toddler died from nicotine poisoning in July 2018.
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Cayman fashion designer Luigi Moxam and dancer Susan Barnes perform Saturday evening during the Dance Excell recital following the closing of the YES Caribbean conference on Montserrat.
LITTLE BAY, Montserrat – A new word was coined this week Caymanserratian as Cayman Island entrepreneurs Luigi Moxam and Susan Barnes brought their energy and ideas to YES Caribbean, a conference for entrepreneurs held on Montserrat last week May 25 -28, 2011.
Fashion Designer Luigi Moxam shared his entrepreneurial story during various sessions over the four-day event and got local teens to model some of his gear as part of his presentation. Moxam showcased how he merged his love for the Cayman Islands, his passion for social and humanitarian causes with his fashion label One Tree Four Five Collection. By the end of the four days, Moxam and Montserratian-born actress Dionne Audain had coined a new word Caymanserratian to define the new found connections and passion that was being shared and spread.
Dancer Susan Barnes gave a heavy hitting presentation called Healthy, Wealthy, Wise: The Definition of True Success" in which she challenged those present to reassess the things that they have been using to define themselves. Barnes said Montserrat's tragic volcanic story should be honored and celebrated and then every effort made to move beyond it.
Dancer and Life Coach Susan Barnes, YES Caribbean Conference Host Nerissa Golden and Career Development Expert and Author Dr. Anita Davis-DeFoe speaking at For Ladies Only on Thursday, May 26 as part of YES Caribbean on Montserrat May 25-28, 2011.
While on island she taught a dance class at the island's smallest and youngest school Samuel Community Academy and also participated in the annual dance recital of Dance Excell. Barnes was also one of the panelists at the For Ladies Only, an inspirational evening hosted by YES Caribbean conference host Nerissa Golden.
Both Barnes and Moxam were interviewed on several local radio programmes and were also part of the live internet broadcasts from the conference. The two teamed up for Saturday evening's dance recital where Moxam showed he had a few other skills others than fashion design.
US-based Montserratian actress Dionne Audain and conference delegate Anthony Perkins where t-shirts by Cayman designer Luigi Moxam at the close of YES Caribbean, a conference for entrepreneurs held last week on Montserrat.
The Caymanians were part of an all star line up of entrepreneurs, which included actress Dionne Audain, filmmaker Felicia Bradford, Career Development Expert Dr. Anita DeFoe and designer Kaishah Peters.
Photos from YES Caribbean can be found on the event website at www.yes.trulycaribbean.net and on the Nerissa Golden – Truly Caribbean Woman page on Facebook.com as well as other related fan pages.
YES Caribbean was sponsored by ZJB Radio Montserrat, Cool & Smooth Antigua, the HYPE programme in the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Office of the Deputy Governor, the Montserrat Tourist Board, LIME, Office of the Chief Minister, the Bank of Montserrat and goldenmedia Montserrat.


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By Alexander Vuocolo
When Equinox first launched its Variis fitness app earlier this year, it was only available to members or those who had a SoulCycle at home.
Then COVID shook up the industry and turned digital home workout products into an essential offering for fitness brands looking to stay viable during the pandemic.
"We spent the first six or seven months of the year really trying to perfect the experience with the Equinox members and with the Soul riders," Equinox Media CEO Jason LaRose told Cheddar. "That's a group that's very, very engaged in their fitness, so they gave us amazing feedback and we were able to continue to refine the product."
As demand for the service increased over the span of the pandemic, Equinox decided to make the app available to the general public. It also partnered with American Express to give account holders a $25 credit toward the $39.99 per month membership.
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"That lineup of brands provides us an opportunity to bring content that's really unparalleled," he said. "We run a TV studio and content production facility that tries to bring these brands to life at a way that's as premium as what you see when you visit them in real-life."
LaRose emphasized that Equinox doesn't see its digital offerings as a replacement for in-person classes. Instead, the goal is to keep members and non-members engaged with the brand and then, eventually, drive them back to the gym once they are able to fully reopen.
"We definitely see this as an 'and' proposition, digital and physical, not digital or physical," LaRose said. "Before the pandemic, 60 percent of Equinox members were already using at least one fitness app on their phones to augment or even to guide them through some of the in-club experiences."
He noted that 72 percent of Equinox members said digital at-home workouts have made them more likely to want to work out at a physical location when possible.
"That's always been the play of us, is digital and physical," he said. "We never anticipated that one of the reasons that you couldn't make it all the time to physical would be pandemic, so that's thrown a new reason to the top of the list obviously in a very odd 2020."
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Some customers of Equinox and SoulCycle are calling for a boycott of the fitness studios after The Washington Post reported that Stephen Ross, chairman of the company that owns both gyms, is planning to host a fundraiser in the Hamptons for Trump's re-election campaign. Michelle Ye Hee Lee, political enterprise reporter at The Washington Post, breaks down the story.
Equinox Founder Lavinia Errico Shares Tips on How to Get Healthy in Life and in Business
Equinox Fitness Clubs founder Lavinia Errico spoke with Cheddar about her early days as an entrepreneur, and the future of fitness. "People are going to realize that in order to be healthy, you have to be spiritually healthy, mentally healthy, emotionally healthy and physically healthy," Errico said. "That's the movement."


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I am going to try to download one of the many photo's I have of Dunfermline Cemetery War Graves. I do not have a website my photo's are all on my PC. Can I do this?
Best thing to do is sign for a free photobucket account. Then you can upload your photos to your album there. There should be a link under each photo that you can copy and paste into the message body here.
It automatically resizes your pics as well which is handy.
I have opened an account with Photobucket and downloaded a picture but cannot find a place to copy and paste. Sorry you are talking to someone who is not good with PC stuff.
Also How to I start a topic i.e. Dunfermline Cemetery? Presume its just the title of the email.
I use Webshots and Picaso for my photo's, could I use these sites.
You should check the Fife section first to make sure that the cemetery you took photos in has not been started here already. If it hasn't then just start a new thread in the Fife section using the name Fife Council use for the cemetery. Put location details in your first post and then start posting the CWGC headstones alphabetically. Once they are complete then start adding the other headstones.
Don't worry about making any mistakes, there are plenty of forum moderators on hand to sort it out for you until you get the hang of it.
I looked for IMG Tags on Photobucket but could not find it, though did find this below. Is this what I am looking for.
Oh I find PC things so hard.
Think I have answered my own question.
Will plug away at this over the summer, wet rainy days as I took a lot of photo's.
Hi Frances, as Adam says, plenty of people around to help. The photo you posted is very small, try for 800 X 600 size.
In photobucket, below each picture there are four links, the last one (IMG CODE) is the one you want, copy that and paste it into your mail (don't use the URL button).
but without the question marks. I had to put those in so you could see the code and not the photo.
I hope this one looks ok.
I am practising on this forum before I try the real thing.
Thanks for all your help, fingers crossed.
Can someone please tell me if this picture looks ok and can I post it and more closes ups on the Civiliam memorial?
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Who's behind Grow United PAC, which funded ghost Florida Senate candidates? It's a mystery
Mark Harper
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Layers of secrecy connect state Senate District 9 candidate Jestine Iannotti and a mysterious entity that spent $180,000 to promote her.
A ghost candidate and a political unknown, Iannotti never campaigned in the race that Republican Jason Brodeur won. But campaign ads were mailed on her behalf that were designed to take votes from Brodeur's other opponent, Democrat Patricia Sigman.
Now, the unanswered questions surrounding Iannotti's candidacy and the money behind it may be part of a federal investigation. The New York Times reported recently that the District 9 race came up in the federal probe of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz. William Daniels, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Middle Florida District Office, would not confirm or deny such an inquiry.
A Gannett Florida Newspapers examination of available records has found that the money behind Iannotti's campaign begins with an obscure source and fades into two short-lived Florida political committees fronted by mysterious people.
Those PACs in turn funneled more than a half-million dollars into helping Iannotti and two other state Senate ghost candidates. How that money was specifically used to help the ghost candidates isn't clear.
SHAM CANDIDATE:Democrats call for investigation of Brodeur's Florida Senate race, 3rd party candidate
MONEY IN POLITICS: Florida Legislators' PACs Amass Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
EMBATTLED STATE SENATOR Frank Artiles Resigns After Racial Slur Apology
It all runs contrary to what lawmakers and Supreme Court justices who shaped the current campaign finance system claim is the counterbalance to allowing unlimited spending in political races: transparency.
Yet lawmakers in Tallahassee who are working on an election reform bill this session of the state Legislature aren't wading into Florida's PAC swamp, a system that allows those with power to raise and spend large sums of money — often from opaque sources —with little oversight.
Robert Maguire, research director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, said the shadowy money in the Florida Senate races are also happening elsewhere, in part because donor money has more influence in state campaigns than national races.
"It's certainly been a trend we've seen where an entity that does not disclose its donors is formed and then quickly funds an entity that is supposed to disclose its donors," Maguire said. "It leaves voters in the dark in terms of how their elected officials got into office.
"And it really hobbles their ability to hold them accountable because the reason we have disclosure is so that if someone has undue influence — for example, if somebody gets into office and they start crafting and passing bills overwhelmingly (for) a particular industry, the public has the ability to say, 'Wait a minute. You got a lot of money from that industry. Are you paying them back for getting you there?'"
Jestine Iannotti, silent candidate
Running as a no-party-affiliation candidate, Iannotti never campaigned and finished a distant third with 2%. But her ghost-like presence and the mailers backing her strongly suggest she was a shill dropped into the race to peel off voters who otherwise would be likely to cast ballots for Democrat Sigman.
The well-funded Republican in the race, Brodeur, won the Senate seat with 50.3% of the vote, and is among the lawmakers who are now deliberating election reforms dealing with who should get mail-in ballots automatically and when and where drop boxes can be used.
The mysterious source of money that paid for Iannotti's mailers — an entity called "Grow United" — also paid for mailers for ghost candidates in two other state Senate races in south Florida. Former Republican state Sen. Frank Artiles has been indicted on charges of paying one of those ghost candidates tens of thousands of dollars. Artiles has pleaded not guilty.
The trail doesn't end there. It now potentially includes a former tax collector who is under indictment, a Congressman who is under investigation, and a former legislator who until recently was a prominent lobbyist in Tallahassee.
It also includes a person connected to the money that supported the ghost candidates, and two people who created the state PACs through which the money passed to help those candidates. And, it includes a Central Florida company that received all the money from the PACs and created mailers in support of the ghost candidates.
Sources: Matt Gaetz talked about ghost candidate in Senate 9 race
The New York Times recently reported it had two sources saying Gaetz had conversations with prominent Seminole County real-estate developer, lobbyist and former state representative Chris Dorworth about ways they might help Brodeur, such as bringing in a third candidate to siphon off votes from Sigman.
Gaetz, who reports indicate referred to former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg as his "wingman," is under federal investigation. Greenberg is now under indictment for sex trafficking of a child, wire fraud, bribery of a public official, theft, stalking and identity theft. Greenberg is reportedly cooperating with federal authorities looking into whether Gaetz was having sex with a 17-year-old girl, among other things.
Gaetz has denied the allegations, while Dorworth told the Times he had no involvement in helping Iannotti, and pointed out it's not a violation of the law in Florida to recruit a third candidate to run for an office.
Dorworth resigned April 9 from his position as managing partner of the Central Florida office for Ballard Partners, perhaps the most influential lobbying firm in Tallahassee. His resignation occurred the day after the Times story about Dorworth's discussion with Gaetz about recruiting a third candidate into the District 9 state Senate race.
Neither Dorworth, Gaetz, or Greenberg could be reached for comment. Brodeur did not return a News-Journal call to his office.
Media reports show that Gaetz and Dorworth were roommates in Tallahassee, and Greenberg's tax collector office also hired Dorworth as a lobbyist.
None of the PACs involved in assisting Iannotti in the District 9 Senate race have any visible fingerprints of Gaetz, Dorworth or Artiles. Ionnatti, the no-party candidate useful to Brodeur in his race, isn't talking publicly.
Low income and a move to Sweden?
Last October, Democratic voters in Senate District 9 reported receiving mailers backing Iannotti featuring the smiling stock image of a Black woman. Iannotti is white. Iannotti is a candidate who "WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR US!" one of the mailers reads.
Iannotti, 35, wasn't home last week when a reporter from The News-Journal knocked on the door of her Winter Springs home, called her and sought her out online. She wasn't there during the campaign, either, conducting no visible campaigning and even failing to fill out required campaign finance records.
The Orlando Sentinel, citing Facebook posts and her father as sources, reported that Iannotti recently moved to Sweden.
Her father, John Iannotti, told The News-Journal by phone he didn't want to discuss his daughter, pointing out that she is a "grown adult."
A woman's voice in the background instructed John Iannotti: "Oh, hang up." He wouldn't divulge his daughter's location or how to reach her.
"That's your deal where you'll have to find her and talk to her," he said.
On a financial disclosure she filed in June 2020, Jestine Iannotti reported an income of $2,344.87. It was not clear over what time frame that money was earned, but she was no longer working at one of the jobs she had listed.
Seminole County schools records show Iannotti was hired as a paraprofessional at a special education school in 2009. After working there for a year and a half, her contract was "non-renewed," but she then started working as a substitute teacher. Because she did not complete an annual training, she was removed from the district's substitute list in January 2020, records show.
Iannotti listed her net worth at negative $154,000, due to student loan debt.
State attorney alleges pay-to-run scheme in Miami
Prosecutors in Miami-Dade County charge that in the District 37 race, Artiles paid no-party candidate Alex Rodriguez more than $44,000 to run. Those payments have resulted in criminal charges against both men. Both have pleaded not guilty.
In that instance, Rodriguez — backed by virtually identical campaign materials as those supporting Iannotti and a would-be spoiler in a third race, in Senate District 39 — siphoned off enough votes from the incumbent Democrat Josè Javìer Rodriguez to make Republican Ileana Garcia an upset winner by 32 votes.
It appears unlikely that the state attorneys who oversee Seminole and Volusia counties will look into Iannotti's candidacy. A spokesman for Phil Archer of the 18th Judicial Circuit said such a matter would be left to law enforcement agencies to investigate. A spokesman for R.J. LaRizza of the 7th Judicial Circuit said he cannot confirm or deny whether an investigation might occur. A more likely route could come from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Orlando.
Charges have not been brought in the District 39 race Republican Ana Maria Rodriguez won by a comfortable 13 percentage points over Democrat Javier Fernandez, with Celso Alfoso finishing a distant third.
All three races involved NPA candidates who received support from the same source, an entity first identified as Proclivity of Georgia, then later amended in records to Grow United Inc.
Grow United, and the political committees tied to Iannotti's campaign, traverse down trails so dark, the money backing Iannotti is difficult, if not impossible, to trace.
The political committee, or PAC, connected to Iannotti's campaign is named The Truth. It was created on Oct. 2, Division of Elections records show.
On that same date and bearing the exact same time stamp —11:34 a.m. — another PAC, Our Florida, was formed.
The next day, Oct. 3, both The Truth and Our Florida received a single large contribution from an entity called Proclivity Inc., which was later amended to Grow United. The Florida Division of Elections has not yet responded to a request for information about the amendment.
Then, on Oct. 5, The Truth paid all of its money, $180,000, to a Florida-based printing and direct mail firm, Advance Impression LLC. That same day, Our Florida paid all of its $370,000 to the same firm. Advance Impression then produced nearly identical mailers for all three of the state Senate ghost candidates.
Advance Impression lists its president as Luis Rodriguez of Clermont. The News-Journal went last week to the business address for Advance Impression, a residential home on Nice Court. No one answered the doorbell or responded to a note left at the door.
Mark Fincke, a business development manager at DME Delivers Direct Marketing Co., Daytona Beach, said a 6-by-11½ political mailer would cost 37 cents for a run of 100,000, or $37,000. It's unclear how many pro-Iannotti mailers were sent to voters, or whether the total of $550,000 Advance Impression received through the PACs was used entirely for mailers.
Tracking the PACs
Both The Truth and Our Florida have chairpersons listed on their filing documents. But neither are known political insiders.
The Truth lists Hailey DeFilippis of Winter Springs as its chair and treasurer. The Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Office has no record of anyone by that name having been a registered voter in recent years. Someone by that name is registered to vote in Pinellas County. The News-Journal attempted to reach her by phone, but the listed number rang without answer.
Our Florida's chair, Sierra Olive, is listed with an address that's a UPS mail office in Miami. Local 10 News, a Miami television station, reported last November that Olive is Facebook friends with Alex Alvarado, a Republican strategist who is the stepson of Luis Rodriguez, owner of Advance Impression, the printing firm.
Both The Truth and Our Florida PACs were shuttered after the 2020 general election. The Grow United money that passed through the two PACs were their only transactions.
The Delaware-chartered Grow United lists a UPS store in Denver as its address. But besides the ghost state Senate candidates, the entity has a history of other involvement in Florida politics.
Public records list a Richard Alexander as its incorporator, but provide no contact information other than the UPS store address.
No officers are listed for Grow United, which is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, a designation that makes it tax-exempt but also requires it to have more of a social welfare mission than a political one. That hasn't stopped it from shoveling nearly $1.5 million to disparate political committees and organizations, including the Florida Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and the Florida Democratic Party, which received $360,000 and $170,000, respectively, on Oct. 15, state campaign contribution records show.
A spokeswoman for the Florida Democratic Party did not respond to requests for comment.
Transparency concerns not part of election reform bill
Florida's campaign-finance system allows big loopholes for political donors who want to remain anonymous, violating the spirit of the Supreme Court's landmark 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision.
In allowing unlimited spending by corporations and unions on political races, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote:
"With the advent of the Internet, prompt disclosure of expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials accountable for their positions. This transparency enables the electorate to make informed decisions and give proper weight to different speakers and messages."
That's not what's happening in Florida — and in many states, fair elections advocates say.
Yet the lawmakers in Tallahassee who are making amendments to an election-reform bill backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis are not looking at any of the campaign-finance concerns raised by the Florida Senate races with ghost candidates.
"In Florida, we have tried to put a priority on making the most transparent process for money in politics as we can. We put a priority on transparency but it's not working," said Ben Wilcox, research director of Integrity Florida, a good-government organization based in Tallahassee.
"If someone wants to hide the source of their money, there's all sorts of ways they can do that," Wilcox said.
That's what he's seen with the ghost candidacies in the three Senate races: Untraceable money.
Maguire, of CREW, added: "This new system sort of takes that mechanism of accountability away from voters."
Wilcox, of Integrity Florida, called the growth of dark money frustrating.
"I guess it shows that the people in the Legislature got elected through the current system," he said, "and so they're reluctant to do any kind of reform and the current system is just completely dysfunctional."
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Nice Postcards from the Edge. I am not talking about the real paper postcard that you mailed using postal service. I am talking about the "postcards" that you post here, on the web. Especially I like the pictures and videos of living on the edge. Living in tents, sounds of boiling water, preparing of soup, sleeping, resting, reading in tents, playing chess in tents, taking a shower, etc. In other words, the pictures of everyday life there. It makes me think I am there, with you, living and experiencing it, too. "Virtual reality", so to speak.


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package org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.daemon;

import org.gradle.api.Action;
import org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.CompileSpec;
import org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.Compiler;
import org.gradle.api.logging.Logger;
import org.gradle.api.logging.Logging;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.WorkResult;
import org.gradle.internal.UncheckedException;
import org.gradle.process.internal.WorkerProcessContext;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;

public class CompilerDaemonServer implements Action<WorkerProcessContext>, CompilerDaemonServerProtocol, Serializable {
    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logging.getLogger(CompilerDaemonServer.class);

    private volatile CompilerDaemonClientProtocol client;
    private volatile CountDownLatch stop;

    public void execute(WorkerProcessContext context) {
        stop = new CountDownLatch(1);
        client = context.getServerConnection().addOutgoing(CompilerDaemonClientProtocol.class);
        context.getServerConnection().addIncoming(CompilerDaemonServerProtocol.class, this);
        context.getServerConnection().connect();
        try {
            stop.await();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            throw UncheckedException.throwAsUncheckedException(e);
        }

    }

    public <T extends CompileSpec> void execute(Compiler<T> compiler, T spec) {
        try {
            LOGGER.info("Executing {} in compiler daemon.", compiler);
            WorkResult result = compiler.execute(spec);
            LOGGER.info("Successfully executed {} in compiler daemon.", compiler);
            client.executed(new CompileResult(result.getDidWork(), null));
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            LOGGER.info("Exception executing {} in compiler daemon: {}.", compiler, t);
            client.executed(new CompileResult(true, t));
        }
    }

    public void stop() {
        stop.countDown();
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}

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Foundation in memory of Merfyn Temple
Grandchildren of retired Methodist minister leading initiative.
A charitable foundation is to be set up in memory of a former Honiton man, whose life and work touched countless people's lives.
Reverend Merfyn Temple, a retired Methodist minister, died peacefully in his sleep at Abbeyfield's Hill House, Combe Raleigh, on January 12. He was 92.
For 30 years, he worked in Zambia and established himself as a man who stood up for what he believed in.
Fairness and justice were at the heart of his principles and he became the first white man to join the United National Independence Party.
At the age of 86, he was jailed in Zimbabwe for publicly criticising dictator Robert Mugabe.
The Merfyn Temple Foundation is being established by his grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the charity in lieu of flowers at a service being held in Honiton to celebrate Mr Temple's life.
The service is taking place at Honiton Methodist Church, in Chapel Street, at 11.30am on Friday, March 2.


Facebook has massive user base; 968 million daily active users (as of June 2015) and has become a dominate player in the online ad space. On mobile alone, ad revenue was $2.1 billion as of July 2015.
With it's carefully controlled interface and ad formats, Facebook offers marketers a clear picture of who they're talking to, where their market is located, what the market is interested in, and how engaged they are.
But, Facebook is just a tool - it doesn't know your business, your audience, or how you're perceived within local markets - it's up to you to develop ad strategy that is relevant to the markets you conduct business in.
What Facebook doesn't know is that while you've dominated the market in Tennessee, you're virtually unknown in Massachusetts.
Facebook doesn't know Tennessee natives won't settle for bad barbecue, or that in Boston The Green Monster is only scary if you're a Yankee.
Yet, PPC advertisers insist on running the same creative across all markets, with little to no regard to the local language, imagery, or culture that people are immersed in every day.
Problem is, when 90% of marketers do this, all it creates is noise.
Take a minute to think through who is going to respond to that ad. Would you click on the ad? Are people clicking on the ad only to find out it's not relevant to them?
You have the most advanced targeting strategy ever, with multiple demographic variables and all sorts of interest based targeting layered on top. The only people seeing the ad are the people you know will want your product.
Having a detailed targeting strategy is great, but it can't cover up a bad ad.
Show people why they should be interested. Tie the users to the ad through the image and copy itself.
That's where understanding local markets comes in.
The simplest method of tying your ad to a local market is to explicitly identify the location in the ad itself.
If identifying as a New Yorker is important to the ad being relevant, reference New York City in the ad.
Taking it a step further, if referencing a specific neighborhood, such as SoHo, increases the ads relevancy, use Facebook's Zip Code targeting to narrow where the ad is shown, and use the copy to reference another popular location nearby.
For example, let's say you opened a new high-end men's clothing boutique. The ad copy may contain all the relevant points to the brand, but also close with, "Right down the block from The Dutch" referencing a restaurant popular among SoHo regulars.
That's the general idea in a nutshell. Now let's look at two examples of actual Facebook ads pulled from news feeds.
For example, what is Southwest Airlines advertising here?
You immediately notice the words "Indianapolis", "nonstop", and "$99" with a picture of a big, colorful plane emblazoned with Southwest. Look closer and you see it's a flight from Indianapolis to New York for $99.
Sure, a flight to New York may not end up interesting you. But, for a brief moment you checked out the ad because it was "local" and made a connection between you and your location.
Our second example comes from Beazer Homes, which is looking to drum up interest in new home purchases.
The first line mentions Indianapolis letting users know that this ad is for you if you live in Indianapolis.
It's a bit different from the Southwest ad in that "Indianapolis" doesn't pop out at you from the image. Here you have to read the text above the image to find out it's for Indianapolis, but the idea is the same. Mention the local market if that's important for the ad to be relevant.
The second method of targeting local markets is to use the language and imagery to mention a community. For this you might be targeting a single or multiple locations, but you're trying to identify with a specific community within those locations.
Say you sell cooking software that helps keep track of items in a kitchen and warns employees when items are about to spoil or run out. You'd target your ad budget to big city zip-codes with the highest concentration of high-end restaurants that would most likely pay for your service.
Instead of saying Miami or New York explicitly in the ad, you might mention the word "chef" or "restaurant" to tie the ad to that community of professionals. A chef or restaurateur seeing the ad would know immediately the ad was intended for them.
Let's look at two examples of Facebook ads that target communities rather than locations.
The first example is Zipcar.
Here Zipcar is specifically mentioning the word "campus" in two different locations and calls the service "Zipcar for universities." It's clearly aimed at college students on college campuses.
If I'm part of a university campus, I'm going to be more likely to identify with this ad because I'm in that community.
The last ad is from Wealthfront, an automated investment platform aimed at Millennials.
Right in the opening line of the ad you see the world, "Millennials." making it clear who they're trying to connect with. It's a good start, but how could it be made more relevant?
If they were running this ad in all major U.S cities, they could experiment using images of their "Model Millennial" in front of the popular Millennial hangouts within each city.
Taken a step further, if they wanted to improve performance among different demographics, they could target messaging & creative toward different genders, relationship status, and kids.
Editor's note: As a happily married, father of two, Millennial in a city of 30,000, the ad above does not come close to representing me. I understand how it would speak to the single, tech start-up men in my generation want to use their new money to live large, but I would scroll right past this ad were it in my newsfeed.
That said, Wealthfront the investment product is interesting to me, but I only know because I researched while editing this article.
A man my age, spending time with his wife and kids in a small New England town or park. The copy would move me to consider about investing for my family's sake, while reinforcing the value proposition that the app is low-cost & hassle free.
The product is the same, but the reason I'd use it is completely different from my single male counterpart, and if that ad wants any chance that it won't end up just being noise in my newsfeed, it needs to understand that difference.
Fall foliage is something very familiar to me, and localizing the setting in the ad's creative immediately helps ground me in reality the ad is trying to sell, making me far more likely to move through the funnel.
However, I doubt this exact creative would have the same effect on fathers who live in the desert.
The point is, Facebook has given marketers an unparalleled opportunity to be ultra-specific in their creative and targeting, and most of us squander it because we're lazy.
Yes, it takes a lot more work to target ads towards specific regions and their cultures, but in doing so it makes you much more relevant to those groups.
At the end of the day, Facebook is a social network, where people like, comment, and click on the things that are relevant to them, and relevancy is so much more multifaceted and complex than the individual likes, interests, and demographics in their profile.
Pay attention to the local cultures within your core markets, because at the end of the day, they're spending more time there than on Facebook, and that's the reality you want to be a part of.
Chadd is an analyst for Hanapin Marketing, focused on the role of social media plays in marketing. He can often be found writing and discussing what it's like in the trenches of social media marketing with anyone who will listen.


This is my safe go-to tip, buying older Galaxy S6, S7, Pixel (XL) or any other flagship device from any of the big Android manufacturers that's not named LG from the year before. Flagship smartphones represent the absolute best in the android ecosystem hence one can't really go wrong by doing this. With Android flagship smartphone notorious for loosing half or more of their price value over the course of a year, it makes it easier to find a smartphone that falls your price range. You might not get software updates (custom ROMs ftw here) but you can rest assured that you'd get an above average performance from your phone.
2⃣ Always check the amount of internal memory the phone has.
The amount of internal memory a smartphone is a good indicator of how well the phone would perform. Always stay away from devices with less than 16GB internal memory (14GB if you're really counting). Most devices with 8GB are usually the bottom of the barrel devices and shouldn't exist, with these devices you're going to run into trouble updating or downloading new apps soon enough. And performance wise, these devices are piss poor as they tend to have the cheapest processors and RAM. The amount of RAM an Android smartphone has is another big factor in how well it would perform. In 2018, anything above 2GB is just around the right amount of RAM a device needs to function properly. Unfortunately most affordable Android smartphones come with 1GB (2GB if the manufacturer is feeling really generous). An Android smartphone with 1GB is the fashion equivalent of wearing a S size shirt when you've 44 inch chest.
3⃣ Buy from reputable companies.
Nowadays it's not just enough to buy a phone that has a Samsung or Nokia badge slapped on it because there are tons of clones out there. Hence you can't trust those street vendors, who might not know any better or care, as they tend to carry these fakes or clones. Go to Slot or any reputable phone vendor when buying a smartphone. If possible go along with someone that's savvy about these things.
If you've got a limited budget and you aren't in a hurry, you might as well look into importing your own phone. There are a more than a few decent smartphones out there that aren't visible in most markets including the Nigerian market. Phones like the Redmi 5, Redmi 5 Plus and Redmi Note 5 & Note 5 Pro from Xiaomi are quite good value for money. Xiaomi is really generous with the components they fit into their devices. The recently announced Redmi Note 5 Pro which retails for around $218 is unarguably the best phone you can buy between the $200-$300 price range. If you wanna save a little more there's the Redmi 5 ($136) and Redmi 5 Plus ($150).
And then there's also the issue of software updates, fortunately Xiaomi has a rather excellent track record when it comes to keeping their phones update even the budget devices get to see updates in a timely manner. If you're interested in buying a Xiaomi smartphone, you can order them from any of the following online stores AliExpress, Gearbest or Geekbuying.com and then go to the Post Office to pick up your phone in 2-3 weeks.


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Seminar on the dissemination of information on cultural properties and collaboration
"ALC (Art Libraries' Consortium)," a cross searching site on art libraries
"So (Imagine)," an associative searching site
On April 22, the Department of Research Programming invited Mizutani Takeshi (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) and Marukawa Yuzo (National Institute of Information) to speak at a seminar on the dissemination of information on cultural properties and collaboration. Mizutani and Marukawa have constructed and are engaged in the management of "ALC (Art Libraries' Consortium)," a cross searching site on art libraries, and "So (Imagine)," an associative searching site, respectively. The Institute and the Department of Research Programming, in particular, that is in charge of disseminating high quality information on cultural properties, held discussions with the future in view. We plan to make conduct activities toward a more effective dissemination of the accumulated results of research.
(2008.04 / TANAKA Atsushi)
Opening of the research rooms at the Kuroda Memorial Hall
The former research room on the first floor that has been newly opened
Until now, works of Kuroda Seiki were shown in the Memorial Room and the Exhibition Room on the second floor of the Kuroda Memorial Hall. From April 24, the former research rooms on the first and second floors have also been opened to the public. In the former research room on the second floor, a slide show entitled "The Life and Art of Kuroda Seiki" (12 mins.) is being shown so that visitors may better understand Kuroda's art. In the 2 research rooms on the first floor, a wooden desk, cabinet and photographs from the days of The Institute of Art Research are exhibited. The most recent publications of the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo can also be perused freely. These new additions enable the visitors not only to appreciate Kuroda's works but also to learn about the history of the Institute and its present work.
Kabuki photographs by Umemura Yutaka
Umemura Yutaka (June 15, 1923 – June 5, 2007) was a photographer who was in charge of the gravure pages of the magazine Engekikai. Last December, the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage received negatives and photographs left by the deceased from his widow. Currently we are engaged in sorting out these materials to see how many there are. We hope to complete procedures for their official donation to the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo.
Photographs by the deceased is said to have been first published in Engekikai in 1947, but the oldest negatives and photographs donated date to around 1962. More than 10 cartons of materials were transported to the Institute. They are valuable documents of a photographer who continued to take pictures of the kabuki world in the latter half of the 20th century.
(2008.04 / IJIMA Mitsuru)
Articles in Science for Conservation made available on the Internet
Science for Conservation is a periodical on scientific research related to the conservation of cultural properties. Since the inaugural issue published in March 1964, of which the first article was "The outline of the scientific researches for the preservation of cultural properties in Japan" by the then director of the Department of Conservation Science, Sekino Masaru, researchers of the Department who are committed to the mission of passing down to future generations valuable cultural properties that their predecessors have left to them, have been engaged in research and have continued to make the results of their research open to the public. The latest edition of the periodical, volume 47, contains 25 reports and articles including those related to the conservation and investigation of the mural paintings of Takamatsuzuka Tumulus and .Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.
Science for Conservation, as a book, is not for sale and can be read only at related organizations and universities, but all the articles that have been published until now have been make into PDF files so that they may be downloaded via Internet (http://www.tobunken.go.jp/~hozon/hozon_pdf.html).
(2008.04 / YOSHIDA Naoto)
Outdoor exposure test for the improvement of weather-resistance of urushi-coated surfaces used on buildings
Inspecting the urushi-coated sample test pieces
Exposure test stand for urushi-coated surfaces at the Taiki Multipurpose Air Park (left)
As a part of its project, Investigation and Research of Traditional Restoration Materials and Synthetic Resins, the Center for Conservation Science and Restoration Techniques has been conducting basic test for the improvement of weather-resistance of urushi-coated surfaces used on buildings. A stand for outdoor exposure test was placed at Taikicho, Hokkaido because the percentage of days with good weather is highest there in Japan, because it is easy to obtain data concerning weather, and because the annual hot-cold difference is great. From April 17 to April 18, sample test pieces of vermilion urushi and black urushi placed on the stand at the Taiki Multipurpose Air Park were inspected to see the condition of their deterioration. In this on-site investigation, the 8th-month inspection, the differences in deterioration depending on types of urushi-coating has gradually become clear. The first phase of inspection of deterioration due to UV light through this outdoor exposure test will continue until September 2008.
(2008.04 / KITANO Nobuhiko)
Preservation of the Buddhist Monastery of Ajina Tepa, Tajikistan
The southeast wall facing the courtyard with a stupa that was found by investigation
Cooperative work with young Tajik experts
The Japan Center for International Cooperation in Conservation dispatched the 3rd mission of the UNESCO/Japan Trust Fund project, Preservation of the Buddhist Monastery of Ajina Tepa, Tajikistan from April 16 to May 9. The purpose of this project is the preservation of a Buddhist monastery made of mud bricks and/or pisé. The Center has been removing sand and weeds that have accumulated since past excavations and conducting archaeological cleaning and soundings since 2006 in order to clarify the position and structure of the walls of the monastery.
In this mission, we carefully studied the southeast wall facing the courtyard where a stupa is located, and confirmed the entrance that leads to the room where Parinirvana Buddha had been once placed. In addition, as a result of soundings at two points on the edge of the site, we were able to detect the outer wall of the Buddhist monastery and to confirm its original size. Such results provide information valuable for the conservation of Ajina Tepa. All archaeological investigations made at the site were done with young Tajik archaeologists, whose cooperation was of great help. At the same time, we believe that it was meaningful from the point of view of capacity building of local experts.
(2008.04 / ARIMURA Makoto)
Program for capacity development along the Silk Road
Class by OKADA Fumio (Kyoto University of Art and Design)
Class by NAKAUCHI Yasuo (The Japanese Association for Conservation of Architectural Monuments)
The program for capacity development along the Silk Road jointly conducted with China National Institute of Cultural Heritage(formerly the China National Institute of Cultural Property; restructured and renamed in February 2008)is now in its third year. This year the course on the protection of old buildings (first year of a two-year plan) will be held for three-and-a-half months in spring and that on the conservation of earthen structures (third year of a three-year plan) will be held for two months in autumn. This year, the spring course started a little earlier than usual, on April 3, to avoid the Beijing Olympics which will start on August 8. Twelve trainees from Xinjiang, Gansu, Qing Xiang, Ningxia, Shanxi, and Henan participate in the old buildings group. In the first year they will attend theoretical lectures and receive practical training in various types of investigations and the making of conservation plans in order to learn the basics necessary for the practical training in the work of conservation in which they will participate in the second year. The Palace Museum has provided a corner on the east side of Yihexuan within the Gugong Palace complex as a place for on-site training in the first year. During the three-and-a-half months, 10 Japanese lecturers will participate and work with Chinese lecturers.
(2008.04 / OKADA Ken)