Fans of Newt Scamander should check out this Fantastic Beast Notebook And Pen In Suitcase.
The set all start with the famous suitcase that Newt uses but inside the brown suitcase you find a journal and a wand and that want is also a pen so that you can write down all the fantastic beast you find .
And the suitcase when you open it also makes sound and when you take the notebook and pen out it looks like there is clothing inside it to make it look fun.
This suitcase is a true collectors item for the real fans of the the Fantastic Beast movies and book.
If you like the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie then this t-shirt is funny and perfect for you.
On the t-shirt you can see a Niffler and we know it like shiny things and on this t-shirt it is holding the famous ring from The Lord Of The Rings and I am sure that he will be hunted down because others want to have this ring really badly.
So if you want a unique Fantastic Beasts t-shirt then this one could be for you.
You can get this Niffler t-shirt in styles for men and women and it is available in many colors and in sizes Small – 6XL and all are made from 100% cotton.
If you liked Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie then you have to check out this 2018 wall calendar from this movie.
Besides Newt there are many of the main movie characters on this calendar and even some of the beasts.
the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them wall calendar just deserves a cool spot in your home so that you can enjoy a new fun image every month and there is plenty of room on it too so that you can write important events on there so that you won't forget when they will be happening.
If you want to be a bit more like Newt Scamander from the Fantastic Beasts movies then this Newt Scamander wand is what you need.
The people from Noble again made the perfect replica of a famous wand and this time it is the wand from Newt Scamander and as every true quality wand, this one too comes in its own storage box for when you want it to be safe when not in use.
The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them wand is about 14 inches long and just looks amazing and just like the real thing.
A wand like this is perfect as part of your Halloween or cosplay outfit and will look great with all your other Fantastic Beasts merchandise.
Now you can own a figurine of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them character Percival Graves.
This 3 3/4 inches tall figurine is made by Funko in their Pop! series of figurines.
Percival Graves comes with his wand in his hand but we all know how good he is at wandless magic so you never really know what he is up to.
The figure of Percival makes him look a bit rounder than the way he looks in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie but it is clearly him.
Percival Graves comes in the typical Pop! figurine box so that he will look great with the rest of your figurine collection.
Now you can become the proud owner of a Newt Scamander figurine that is based on the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie.
This 3 3/4 inches tall figurine is part of the Pop! series from Funko and the box is numbered with a 02.
The figurine of Newt looks like him complete with his famous coat and hair and he is holding an egg and that makes you wonder what kind of beast could be inside it.
Newt Scamander made by Funko has the typical round face that makes them so adorable and he comes in a nice box to that keeps him in a perfect new state if you would like it to be.
You know about the US congress but did you know that there is one for magic?
If you have seen the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie then you know and then you are going to want this magnet that shows a picture of the building and the text "Magical Congress Of The USA".
You can get this Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them magnet in different sizes so that it perfect for your need but just imagine having this Magical Congress magnet on your fridge or in you school locker, it will make you feel closer to the wizard world.
Now you can stay warm under this Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them fleece blanket.
This 50 x 60 inches blanket is what every fan of the Fantastic Beasts needs.
On the front, the fleece blanket shows the movie poster of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them with Newt Scamander in the middle. And the back is black and covered in symbols and only the true fans will know what all those mean.
This is an officially licensed product that is just perfect and warm.
Use this blanket on the bed or on the couch and you never have to worry about getting cold again.
If you like the story of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to be in different colors then you are in luck because now there is a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Coloring Book.
This 80 pages long coloring book is all about the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie and inside you will find the characters from the movie but also the skyline of New York city in 1926 and yes there will be a beast as well.
So now you can color away for many hours to make the story of the Fantastic Beasts just like you want it to look.


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import { schedule, danger, fail, warn, message, markdown } from "danger";

function checkAndroidFile(file){
  return file.match(/android\//)?true:false;
}

var hasAndroidFile = false;

if (!hasAndroidFile && danger.git.created_files) {
  danger.git.created_files.some(file => {
    var f = checkAndroidFile(file);
    if(f){
      hasAndroidFile =f;
    }
    return f;
  });
}
if (!hasAndroidFile && danger.git.modified_files) {
  danger.git.modified_files.some(file => {
    var f = checkAndroidFile(file);
    if(f){
      hasAndroidFile =f;
    }
    return f;
  });
}
if (!hasAndroidFile && danger.git.deleted_files) {
  danger.git.deleted_files.some(file => {
    var f = checkAndroidFile(file);
    if(f){
      hasAndroidFile =f;
    }
    return f;
  });
}
if(hasAndroidFile){
  console.log('hasAndroidFile');
}

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package router

import (
	"log"
	"strings"

	"github.com/fudali113/doob/utils"
)

const (
	urlSplitSymbol    = "/"
	pathVarRegStr     = "{\\S+}"
	suffixMatchSymbol = "*"
)

var (
	pathVarReg = utils.GetRegexp(pathVarRegStr)
)

func getURLNodeValue(url string) (string, string) {
	url = strings.TrimPrefix(url, "/")
	prefixAndSuffix := strings.SplitN(url, "/", 1)
	return prefixAndSuffix[0], prefixAndSuffix[1]
}

// splitURL 获取url的前缀和剩余的部分
func splitURL(URL string) (string, string) {
	URL = strings.TrimPrefix(URL, urlSplitSymbol)
	prefixAndOther := strings.SplitN(URL, urlSplitSymbol, 2)
	if len(prefixAndOther) == 1 {
		return prefixAndOther[0], ""
	}
	return prefixAndOther[0], prefixAndOther[1]
}

// 根据url的每一部分生成一个特定的value
// 用于寻找路径是做匹配
// bug  当初先`/d/s*`情况时将出现bug
func createNodeValue(urlPart string) nodeV {
	if strings.HasSuffix(urlPart, suffixMatchSymbol) {
		prefixStr := strings.Replace(urlPart, suffixMatchSymbol, "", 1)
		if strings.HasSuffix(prefixStr, suffixMatchSymbol) {
			log.Panic(`
			"*" 字符只允许出现在路由的最末端
			right:
				- a/b/cap/*
			error:
				- /a/d/**
				- /*/d/c  这样你后面的参数将无效
			`)
		}
		return &nodeVMatchAll{
			origin: urlPart,
			prefix: prefixStr,
		}
	}

	if matchStr := pathVarReg.FindAllString(urlPart, -1); len(matchStr) > 0 {
		pathVarStr := strings.TrimPrefix(matchStr[0], "{")
		pathVarStr = strings.TrimSuffix(pathVarStr, "}")
		if paramNameAndReg := utils.Split(pathVarStr, ":"); len(paramNameAndReg) > 1 {
			paraLen := len(paramNameAndReg)
			paraRegStr := strings.Join(paramNameAndReg[1:paraLen], "")
			return &nodeVPathReg{
				origin:    urlPart,
				paramName: paramNameAndReg[0],
				paramReg:  utils.GetRegexp(paraRegStr),
			}
		}
		return &nodeVPathVar{
			origin:    urlPart,
			paramName: pathVarStr,
		}
	}
	return &nodeVNormal{origin: urlPart}
}

func isMatch(fact, origin string, class int) bool {
	switch class {
	case normal:
		return fact == origin
	case pathReg:
		return false
	}
	return false
}

// 根据参数获取参数类别
func getClass(s string) int {
	if s == suffixMatchSymbol {
		return matchAll
	}
	if matchStr := pathVarReg.FindAllString(s, -1); len(matchStr) > 0 {
		pathVarStr := matchStr[0]
		if strings.Contains(pathVarStr, ":") {
			return pathReg
		}
		return pathVar
	}
	return normal
}

func getRtAndErr(rt ReserveType) (ReserveType, error) {
	if rt == nil {
		return nil, NotMatch{"this url not rt"}
	}
	return rt, nil
}

func addValueToPathParam(paramMap map[string]string, k, v string) {
	if paramMap != nil {
		paramMap[k] = v
	}
}


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Q: Can't start Curity on Big Sur even with libcrypto installed After upgrading to Big Sur, I can't start Curity anymore. When I tried upgrading to 5.4, I can't even start the installer. Is this a problem with Curity or the new macOS version? When I run either idsvr or installer.sh, I get this error:
installer.sh requires libcrypto 1.1 to run.
Please install it if it is not already, or add it to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then, restart installer.sh.

A: Curity actually works fine on Big Sur. When it starts, however, it's checking that its dependency, libcrypto, is present. This check may fail on Big Sur on any versions of Curity up to and including 5.4. To work around this problem, set the environment variable SKIP_LIB_CRYPTO_CHECK to some value. For example, you can do this:
SKIP_LIB_CRYPTO_CHECK=1 installer.sh
After you've run the installer, you'll need to start it this way:
SKIP_LIB_CRYPTO_CHECK=1 idsvr
You can make this permanent by saving this environment variable in your profile, or aliasing the idsvr command.

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Photographs from the Kodaikanal region of Tamil Nadu in Southern India.
Photographs from the Kodaikanal region of Tamil Nadu in Southern India. It was rainy season and there was a heavy mist in some parts.
In this category I am showing photos that were taken a long time ago before digital photography. I have scanned these old prints and made digital images. They aren't as good as images created with a good digital camera, but I thinks they are not bad and I have decided to offer them for sale. They may have a grainy quality, but in a way it kind of enhances them and adds to the aged feel of the photos.


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Virtual Supreme Court Competition
October 26, 2012 by gsumner3rd
High School students are invited to participate in an inaugural Virtual Supreme Court Competition.
During the October 2012 Supreme Court term, The Harlan Institute and The Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource) will host their inaugural Virtual Supreme Court Competition. By participating in this competition, high school students will gain experience in researching contemporary constitutional issues, crafting persuasive appellate briefs on their classroom blogs, and presenting convincing oral arguments to legal experts in our virtual courtroom over Google+ Video Hangouts.
The Virtual Supreme Court Competition will take place in two stages: submission of an appellate brief and presentation of oral argument. First, teams of two high school students will file an appellate brief in the form of a blog post advocating for or against the University of Texas's race-based affirmative action program, the issue pending before the Supreme Court this term in Fisher v. University of Texas.
Specifically, students will answer the fundamental constitutional question, "Is the Fourteenth Amendment Color-Blind?". For more information on the issue, interested educators and students can visit:http://harlaninstitute.org/contests/virtual-supreme-court/the-ot-2012-virtual-supreme-court-problem-is-the-fourteenth-amendment-color-blind/.
Constitutional law experts at the Harlan Institute and ConSource will review completed briefs, which must be submitted by January 31, 2013, and select the top four briefs for each side.
Second, those eight teams will advance to the oral argument phase of the competition, beginning in February 2013. Teams will compete against each other, and answer questions from Harlan Institute and ConSource judges, over Google+ video Hangouts. This phase of the competition will include three rounds of oral argument. Top appellate attorneys in Washington, D.C., will judge the final round of the competition.
The grand prize for the top two high school students is an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., to attend ConSource's Constitution Day Celebration on September 17, 2013. Other prizes include an iPad and Amazon gift cards. Additional information about the competition and prizes is available at:http://harlaninstitute.org/contests/virtual-supreme-court/.
Students and educators interested in participating in the Virtual Supreme Court Competition should sign up for FantasySCOTUS, the Harlan Institute's Supreme Court Fantasy League at http://harlaninstitute.org/fantasyscotus/sign-up/.
For questions or further information, please contact Josh Blackman, President of The Harlan Institute, atJBlackman@HarlanInstitute.org or Julie Silverbrook, Executive Director of ConSource, atJulie.Silverbrook@ConSource.org.
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Q: How can one find unknown XML namespaces in a document? Specifically (taking a deep breath): How would you go about finding all the XML name spaces within a C#/.NET XmlDocument for which there are no applicable schemas in the instance's XmlSchemaSet (Schemas property)?
My XPath magic is lacking the sophistication to do something like this, but I will keep looking in the meantime ...

A: The easiest way I've ever found to retrieve all of the namespaces from a given XmlDocument is to XPath through all the nodes finding unique Prefix and NamespaceURI values.
I've got a helper routine that I use to return these unique values in an XmlNamespaceManager to make life simpler when I'm dealing with complex Xml documents.
The code is as follows:
private static XmlNamespaceManager PrepopulateNamespaces( XmlDocument document )
{
    XmlNamespaceManager result = new XmlNamespaceManager( document.NameTable );
    var namespaces = ( from XmlNode n in document.SelectNodes( "//*|@*" )
                       where n.NamespaceURI != string.Empty
                       select new
                       {
                           Prefix = n.Prefix,
                           Namespace = n.NamespaceURI
                       } ).Distinct();

    foreach ( var item in namespaces )
        result.AddNamespace( item.Prefix, item.Namespace );

    return result;
}

A: You need to get a list of all the distinct namespaces in the document, and then compare that with the distinct namespaces in the schema set.
But namespace declaration names are typically not exposed in the XPath document model. But given a node you can get its namespace:
// Match every element and attribute in the document
var allNodes = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("//(*|@*)");
var found = new Dictionary<String, bool>(); // Want a Set<string> really
foreach (XmlNode n in allNodes) {
  found[n.NamespaceURI] = true;
}
var allNamespaces = found.Keys.OrderBy(s => s);

A: Here is a quick conversion of Marks c# into vb.net (for those legacy programs out there):
    Friend Function SetupNameSpacesFromFile(ByVal xmlDoc As XmlDocument) As XmlNamespaceManager

        Dim result As XmlNamespaceManager = New XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable)
        Dim n As XmlNode
        Dim d As Dictionary(Of String, String) = New Dictionary(Of String, String)

        For Each n In xmlDoc.SelectNodes("//*|@*")
            If n.NamespaceURI <> String.Empty Then
                If Not d.ContainsKey(n.Prefix) Then
                    d.Add(n.Prefix, n.NamespaceURI)
                End If
            End If
        Next

        For Each item As KeyValuePair(Of String, String) In d
            result.AddNamespace(item.Key, item.Value)
        Next

        Return result
    End Function


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Chapter 1 - Marseilles -- The Arrival
Chapter 2 - Father and Son
Chapter 3 - The Catalans
Chapter 4 - Conspiracy
Chapter 5 - The Marriage-Feast
Chapter 6 - The Deputy Procureur du Roi
Chapter 7 - The Examination
Chapter 8 - The Chateau D'If
Chapter 9 - The Evening of the Betrothal
Chapter 10 - The King's Closet at the Tuileries
Chapter 11 - The Corsican Ogre
Chapter 12 - Father and Son
Chapter 13 - The Hundred Days
Chapter 14 - The Two Prisoners
Chapter 15 - Number 34 and Number 27
Chapter 16 - A Learned Italian
Chapter 17 - The Abbe's Chamber
Chapter 18 - The Treasure
Chapter 19 - The Third Attack
Chapter 20 - The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If
Chapter 21 - The Island of Tiboulen
Chapter 22 - The Smugglers
Chapter 23 - The Island of Monte Crosto
Chapter 24 - The Secret Cave
Chapter 25 - The Unknown
Chapter 26 - The Pont du Gard Inn
Chapter 27 - The Story
Chapter 28 - The Prison Register
Chapter 29 - The House of Morrel & Son
Chapter 30 - The Fifth of September
Chapter 31 - Italy: Sinbad the Sailor
Chapter 32 - The Waking
Chapter 33 - Roman Bandits
Chapter 34 - The Colosseum
Chapter 35 - La Mazzolata
Chapter 36 - The Carnival at Rome
Chapter 37 - The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian
Chapter 38 - The Compact
Chapter 39 - The Guests
Chapter 40 - The Breakfast
Chapter 41 - The Presentation
Chapter 42 - Monsier Bertuccio
Chapter 43 - The House at Auteuil
Chapter 44 - The Vendetta
Chapter 45 - The Rain of Blood
Chapter 46 - Unlimited Credit
Chapter 47 - The Dapopled Grays
Chapter 48 - Ideology
Chapter 49 - Haidee
Chapter 50 - The Morrel Family
Chapter 51 - Pyramus and Thisbe
Chapter 52 - Toxicology
Chapter 53 - Robert le Diable
Chapter 54 - A Flurry in Stocks
Chapter 55 - Major Cavalcanti
Chapter 56 - Andrea Cavalcanti
Chapter 57 - In the Lucerne Patch
Chapter 58 - M. Noirtier de Villefort
Chapter 59 - The Will
Chapter 60 - The Telegraph
Chapter 61 - How a Gardener may get rid of the Dormice that eat His Peaches
Chapter 62 - Ghosts
Chapter 63 - The Dinner
Chapter 64 - The Beggar
Chapter 65 - A Conjugal Scene
Chapter 66 - Matrimonial Projects
Chapter 67 - At the Office of the King's Attourney
Chapter 68 - A Summer Ball
Chapter 69 - The Inquiry
Chapter 70 - The Ball
Chapter 71 - Bread and Salt
Chapter 72 - Madame de Saint-Meran
Chapter 73 - The Promise
Chapter 74 - The Villefort Family Vault
Chapter 75 - A Signed Statement
Chapter 76 - Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger
Chapter 78 - We hear From Yanina
Chapter 79 - The Lemonade
Chapter 80 - The Accusation
Chapter 81 - The Room of the Retired Baker
Chapter 82 - The Burglary
Chapter 83 - The Hand of God
Chapter 84 - Beauchamp
Chapter 85 - The Journey
Chapter 86 - The Trial
Chapter 87 - The Challenge
Chapter 88 - The Insult
Chapter 89 - A Nocturnal Interview
Chapter 90 - The Meeting
Chapter 91 - Mother and Son
Chapter 92 - The Suicide
Chapter 93 - Valentine
Chapter 94 - Maximilian's Avowal
Chapter 95 - Father and Daughter
Chapter 96 - The Contract
Chapter 97 - The Departure for Belgium
Chapter 98 - The Bell and Bottle Tavern
Chapter 99 - The Law
Chapter 100 - The Apparition
Chapter 101 - Locusta
Chapter 102 - Valentine
Chapter 103 - Maximilian
Chapter 104 - Danglars Signature
Chapter 105 - The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise
Chapter 106 - Dividing the Proceeds
Chapter 107 - The Lions' Den
Chapter 108 - The Judge
Chapter 109 - The Assizes
Chapter 110 - The Indictment
Chapter 111 - Expiation
Chapter 112 - The Departure
Chapter 113 - The Past
Chapter 114 - Peppino
Chapter 115 - Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare
Chapter 116 - The Pardon
Chapter 117 - The Fifth of October
Notwithstanding the density of the crowd, M. de Villefort saw it open before him. There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathize with the sufferer in a great catastrophe. Many people have been assassinated in a tumult, but even criminals have rarely been insulted during trial. Thus Villefort passed through the mass of spectators and officers of the Palais, and withdrew. Though he had acknowledged his guilt, he was protected by his grief. There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when the sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
It would be difficult to describe the state of stupor in which Villefort left the Palais. Every pulse beat with feverish excitement, every nerve was strained, every vein swollen, and every part of his body seemed to suffer distinctly from the rest, thus multiplying his agony a thousand-fold. He made his way along the corridors through force of habit; he threw aside his magisterial robe, not out of deference to etiquette, but because it was an unbearable burden, a veritable garb of Nessus, insatiate in torture. Having staggered as far as the Rue Dauphine, he perceived his carriage, awoke his sleeping coachman by opening the door himself, threw himself on the cushions, and pointed towards the Faubourg Saint-Honore; the carriage drove on. The weight of his fallen fortunes seemed suddenly to crush him; he could not foresee the consequences; he could not contemplate the future with the indifference of the hardened criminal who merely faces a contingency already familiar. God was still in his heart. "God," he murmured, not knowing what he said, -- "God -- God!" Behind the event that had overwhelmed him he saw the hand of God. The carriage rolled rapidly onward. Villefort, while turning restlessly on the cushions, felt something press against him. He put out his hand to remove the object; it was a fan which Madame de Villefort had left in the carriage; this fan awakened a recollection which darted through his mind like lightning. He thought of his wife.
"Oh!" he exclaimed, as though a redhot iron were piercing his heart. During the last hour his own crime had alone been presented to his mind; now another object, not less terrible, suddenly presented itself. His wife! He had just acted the inexorable judge with her, he had condemned her to death, and she, crushed by remorse, struck with terror, covered with the shame inspired by the eloquence of his irreproachable virtue, -- she, a poor, weak woman, without help or the power of defending herself against his absolute and supreme will, -- she might at that very moment, perhaps, be preparing to die! An hour had elapsed since her condemnation; at that moment, doubtless, she was recalling all her crimes to her memory; she was asking pardon for her sins; perhaps she was even writing a letter imploring forgiveness from her virtuous husband -- a forgiveness she was purchasing with her death! Villefort again groaned with anguish and despair. "Ah," he exclaimed, "that woman became criminal only from associating with me! I carried the infection of crime with me, and she has caught it as she would the typhus fever, the cholera, the plague! And yet I have punished her -- I have dared to tell her -- I have -- `Repent and die!' But no, she must not die; she shall live, and with me. We will flee from Paris and go as far as the earth reaches. I told her of the scaffold; oh, heavens, I forgot that it awaits me also! How could I pronounce that word? Yes, we will fly; I will confess all to her, -- I will tell her daily that I also have committed a crime! -- Oh, what an alliance -- the tiger and the serpent; worthy wife of such as I am! She must live that my infamy may diminish hers." And Villefort dashed open the window in front of the carriage.
"Faster, faster!" he cried, in a tone which electrified the coachman. The horses, impelled by fear, flew towards the house.
"Yes, yes," repeated Villefort, as he approached his home -- "yes, that woman must live; she must repent, and educate my son, the sole survivor, with the exception of the indestructible old man, of the wreck of my house. She loves him; it was for his sake she has committed these crimes. We ought never to despair of softening the heart of a mother who loves her child. She will repent, and no one will know that she has been guilty. The events which have taken place in my house, though they now occupy the public mind, will be forgotten in time, or if, indeed, a few enemies should persist in remembering them, why then I will add them to my list of crimes. What will it signify if one, two, or three more are added? My wife and child shall escape from this gulf, carrying treasures with them; she will live and may yet be happy, since her child, in whom all her love is centred, will be with her. I shall have performed a good action, and my heart will be lighter." And the procureur breathed more freely than he had done for some time.
The carriage stopped at the door of the house. Villefort leaped out of the carriage, and saw that his servants were surprised at his early return; he could read no other expression on their features. Neither of them spoke to him; they merely stood aside to let him pass by, as usual, nothing more. As he passed by M. Noirtier's room, he perceived two figures through the half-open door; but he experienced no curiosity to know who was visiting his father: anxiety carried him on further.
"Come," he said, as he ascended the stairs leading to his wife's room, "nothing is changed here." He then closed the door of the landing. "No one must disturb us," he said; "I must speak freely to her, accuse myself, and say" -- he approached the door, touched the crystal handle, which yielded to his hand. "Not locked," he cried; "that is well." And he entered the little room in which Edward slept; for though the child went to school during the day, his mother could not allow him to be separated from her at night. With a single glance Villefort's eye ran through the room. "Not here," he said; "doubtless she is in her bedroom." He rushed towards the door, found it bolted, and stopped, shuddering. "Heloise!" he cried. He fancied he heard the sound of a piece of furniture being removed. "Heloise!" he repeated.
"Who is there?" answered the voice of her he sought. He thought that voice more feeble than usual.
"Open the door!" cried Villefort. "Open; it is I." But notwithstanding this request, notwithstanding the tone of anguish in which it was uttered, the door remained closed. Villefort burst it open with a violent blow. At the entrance of the room which led to her boudoir, Madame de Villefort was standing erect, pale, her features contracted, and her eyes glaring horribly. "Heloise, Heloise!" he said, "what is the matter? Speak!" The young woman extended her stiff white hands towards him. "It is done, monsieur," she said with a rattling noise which seemed to tear her throat. "What more do you want?" and she fell full length on the floor. Villefort ran to her and seized her hand, which convulsively clasped a crystal bottle with a golden stopper. Madame de Villefort was dead. Villefort, maddened with horror, stepped back to the threshhold of the door, fixing his eyes on the corpse: "My son!" he exclaimed suddenly, "where is my son? -- Edward, Edward!" and he rushed out of the room, still crying, "Edward, Edward!" The name was pronounced in such a tone of anguish that the servants ran up.
"Where is my son?" asked Villefort; "let him be removed from the house, that he may not see" --
"Master Edward is not down-stairs, sir," replied the valet.
"Then he must be playing in the garden; go and see."
"No, sir; Madame de Villefort sent for him half an hour ago; he went into her room, and has not been down-stairs since." A cold perspiration burst out on Villefort's brow; his legs trembled, and his thoughts flew about madly in his brain like the wheels of a disordered watch. "In Madame de Villefort's room?" he murmured and slowly returned, with one hand wiping his forehead, and with the other supporting himself against the wall. To enter the room he must again see the body of his unfortunate wife. To call Edward he must reawaken the echo of that room which now appeared like a sepulchre; to speak seemed like violating the silence of the tomb. His tongue was paralyzed in his mouth.
"Edward!" he stammered -- "Edward!" The child did not answer. Where, then, could he be, if he had entered his mother's room and not since returned? He stepped forward. The corpse of Madame de Villefort was stretched across the doorway leading to the room in which Edward must be; those glaring eyes seemed to watch over the threshold, and the lips bore the stamp of a terrible and mysterious irony. Through the open door was visible a portion of the boudoir, containing an upright piano and a blue satin couch. Villefort stepped forward two or three paces, and beheld his child lying -- no doubt asleep -- on the sofa. The unhappy man uttered an exclamation of joy; a ray of light seemed to penetrate the abyss of despair and darkness. He had only to step over the corpse, enter the boudoir, take the child in his arms, and flee far, far away.
Villefort was no longer the civilized man; he was a tiger hurt unto death, gnashing his teeth in his wound. He no longer feared realities, but phantoms. He leaped over the corpse as if it had been a burning brazier. He took the child in his arms, embraced him, shook him, called him, but the child made no response. He pressed his burning lips to the cheeks, but they were icy cold and pale; he felt the stiffened limbs; he pressed his hand upon the heart, but it no longer beat, -- the child was dead. A folded paper fell from Edward's breast. Villefort, thunderstruck, fell upon his knees; the child dropped from his arms, and rolled on the floor by the side of its mother. He picked up the paper, and, recognizing his wife's writing, ran his eyes rapidly over its contents; it ran as follows: --
"You know that I was a good mother, since it was for my son's sake I became criminal. A good mother cannot depart without her son."
Villefort could not believe his eyes, -- he could not believe his reason; he dragged himself towards the child's body, and examined it as a lioness contemplates its dead cub. Then a piercing cry escaped from his breast, and he cried, "Still the hand of God." The presence of the two victims alarmed him; he could not bear solitude shared only by two corpses. Until then he had been sustained by rage, by his strength of mind, by despair, by the supreme agony which led the Titans to scale the heavens, and Ajax to defy the gods. He now arose, his head bowed beneath the weight of grief, and, shaking his damp, dishevelled hair, he who had never felt compassion for any one determined to seek his father, that he might have some one to whom he could relate his misfortunes, -- some one by whose side he might weep. He descended the little staircase with which we are acquainted, and entered Noirtier's room. The old man appeared to be listening attentively and as affectionately as his infirmities would allow to the Abbe Busoni, who looked cold and calm, as usual. Villefort, perceiving the abbe, passed his hand across his brow. He recollected the call he had made upon him after the dinner at Auteuil, and then the visit the abbe had himself paid to his house on the day of Valentine's death. "You here, sir!" he exclaimed; "do you, then, never appear but to act as an escort to death?"
Busoni turned around, and, perceiving the excitement depicted on the magistrate's face, the savage lustre of his eyes, he understood that the revelation had been made at the assizes; but beyond this he was ignorant. "I came to pray over the body of your daughter."
"And now why are you here?"
"I come to tell you that you have sufficiently repaid your debt, and that from this moment I will pray to God to forgive you, as I do."
"Good heavens!" exclaimed Villefort, stepping back fearfully, "surely that is not the voice of the Abbe Busoni!"
"No!" The abbe threw off his wig, shook his head, and his hair, no longer confined, fell in black masses around his manly face.
"It is the face of the Count of Monte Cristo!" exclaimed the procureur, with a haggard expression.
"You are not exactly right, M. Procureur; you must go farther back."
"That voice, that voice! -- where did I first hear it?"
"You heard it for the first time at Marseilles, twenty-three years ago, the day of your marriage with Mademoiselle de Saint-Meran. Refer to your papers."
"You are not Busoni? -- you are not Monte Cristo? Oh, heavens -- you are, then, some secret, implacable, and mortal enemy! I must have wronged you in some way at Marseilles. Oh, woe to me!"
"Yes; you are now on the right path," said the count, crossing his arms over his broad chest; "search -- search!"
"But what have I done to you?" exclaimed Villefort, whose mind was balancing between reason and insanity, in that cloud which is neither a dream nor reality; "what have I done to you? Tell me, then! Speak!"
"You condemned me to a horrible, tedious death; you killed my father; you deprived me of liberty, of love, and happiness."
"Who are you, then? Who are you?"
"I am the spectre of a wretch you buried in the dungeons of the Chateau d'If. God gave that spectre the form of the Count of Monte Cristo when he at length issued from his tomb, enriched him with gold and diamonds, and led him to you!"
"Ah, I recognize you -- I recognize you!" exclaimed the king's attorney; "you are" --
"I am Edmond Dantes!"
"You are Edmond Dantes," cried Villefort, seizing the count by the wrist; "then come here!" And up the stairs he dragged Monte Cristo; who, ignorant of what had happened, followed him in astonishment, foreseeing some new catastrophe. "There, Edmond Dantes!" he said, pointing to the bodies of his wife and child, "see, are you well avenged?" Monte Cristo became pale at this horrible sight; he felt that he had passed beyond the bounds of vengeance, and that he could no longer say, "God is for and with me." With an expression of indescribable anguish he threw himself upon the body of the child, reopened its eyes, felt its pulse, and then rushed with him into Valentine's room, of which he double-locked the door. "My child," cried Villefort, "he carries away the body of my child! Oh, curses, woe, death to you!" and he tried to follow Monte Cristo; but as though in a dream he was transfixed to the spot, -- his eyes glared as though they were starting through the sockets; he griped the flesh on his chest until his nails were stained with blood; the veins of his temples swelled and boiled as though they would burst their narrow boundary, and deluge his brain with living fire. This lasted several minutes, until the frightful overturn of reason was accomplished; then uttering a loud cry followed by a burst of laughter, he rushed down the stairs.
A quarter of an hour afterwards the door of Valentine's room opened, and Monte Cristo reappeared. Pale, with a dull eye and heavy heart, all the noble features of that face, usually so calm and serene, were overcast by grief. In his arms he held the child, whom no skill had been able to recall to life. Bending on one knee, he placed it reverently by the side of its mother, with its head upon her breast. Then, rising, he went out, and meeting a servant on the stairs, he asked, "Where is M. de Villefort?"
The servant, instead of answering, pointed to the garden. Monte Cristo ran down the steps, and advancing towards the spot designated beheld Villefort, encircled by his servants, with a spade in his hand, and digging the earth with fury. "It is not here!" he cried. "It is not here!" And then he moved farther on, and began again to dig.
Monte Cristo approached him, and said in a low voice, with an expression almost humble, "Sir, you have indeed lost a son; but" --
Villefort interrupted him; he had neither listened nor heard. "Oh, I will find it," he cried; "you may pretend he is not here, but I will find him, though I dig forever!" Monte Cristo drew back in horror. "Oh," he said, "he is mad!" And as though he feared that the walls of the accursed house would crumble around him, he rushed into the street, for the first time doubting whether he had the right to do as he had done. "Oh, enough of this, -- enough of this," he cried; "let me save the last." On entering his house, he met Morrel, who wandered about like a ghost awaiting the heavenly mandate for return to the tomb. "Prepare yourself, Maximilian," he said with a smile; "we leave Paris to-morrow."
"Have you nothing more to do there?" asked Morrel.
"No," replied Monte Cristo; "God grant I may not have done too much already."
The next day they indeed left, accompanied only by Baptistin. Haidee had taken away Ali, and Bertuccio remained with Noirtier.


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1. Day for Night (Truffaut, 1973)
2. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
3. The Player (Altman, 1992)
4. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
5. The State of Things (Wenders, 1982)
6. Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960)
7. The Last Movie (Hopper, 1971)
8. Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder, 1971)
9. Le Mépris* (Godard, 1963)
10. Strangers Kiss (Chapman, 1983)
See also: Living in Oblivion, Shadow of a Vampire, White Hunter Black Heart, Man Bites Dog, Last Tango in Paris, Son of Rambow, Passion*.
But the thing about films about film-making is the films they're making in the films always seem to be rubbish.
*I know, I know, aren't all Godard's films about film-making?


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Chapter: Albert G. Holzman
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Suggested Citation:"Albert G. Holzman." National Academy of Engineering. 1989. Memorial Tributes: Volume 3. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1384.
ALBERT G . 1921-1985 HOLZMAN BY DONALD C. BURNHAM ALBERT G HO~ZMAN professor and chairman of the De- partment of Industrial Engineering, Engineering Manage- ment, and Operations Research at the University of Pitts- burgh School of Engineering, diect of a heart attack at the age of sixty-three on May I, 1985, while attending a profes- sional society meeting in Boston. Dr. Ho~zman spent his en- tire career his education, his industrial experience, and his academic teaching and management years in the field! of · . · ~ n( Austria engineering. Dr. Ho~zman was born in 1921 in Johnstown, Pennsylva- nia. He attended the University of Pittsburgh from which he received both a B.S. and an M.S. in industrial engineering anct a Ph.D. in economics. After two years of experience as an industrial analyst with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Ho~zman joined the stab of the University of Pittsburgh as . ~ an assistant professor. He moved rapidly up the academic ladder and in 1958 be- came a full professor in the School of Industrial Engineer- ing. Albert Ho~zman retained this professorship while con- currently serving as chairman of the Industrial Engineering Department in 1965. He also served as the director of engi- neering operations of the NASA Technology Transfer Cen- ter from ~ 965 to ~ 972. During the twenty years that Dr. Ho~zman was chairman 193
194 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES of the Inclustrial Engineering Department of the University of Pittsburgh, he organized ant! managed his department so well that the university became one of the outstanding inclus- trial engineering schools in the country. Dr. Ho~zman not only advocated the use of tractitional inclustrial engineering techniques and procedures, but he also brought this entire field into the new computer age at the University of Pitts- burgh. In addition to promoting the use of computers in in- dustrial engineering, he was active on a national basis in the use of operations research. Although he was located in the heart of an industrial city, the scope of his vision extended beyond those confines, and he advocated the use of inclustrial engineering not only in manufacturing but also in the services area. Indeed, many of the graduates of his school went to work in hospitals and service-relatec] industries. He believed that industrial engi- neering and operations research could be annlied success- fully in nearly every field of endeavor. 1 1 Dr. Ho~zman authored a number of books and scores of articles on industrial engineering and operations research. He contributed to society by marshaling the talents of engi- neers and scientists throughout the world in the develop- ment of the sixteen-volume Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology (New York: Marce} Dekker, 19751. Other im- portant books he wrote were Operations Research Support Meth- odology (New York: Marce! Dekker, 1979) and Mathematical Programming for Operations Researchers and Computer Scientists (New York: Marce! Dekker, 19811. He also contributed to many encyclopedias on subjects such as industrial engineer- · · · , · · . · . ng, 1near programming, game t theory, deaslon making, crlt- ical path methods, nonlinear programming, and information retrieval systems design. Dr. Ho~zman was a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania and served as a consultant to numerous com- panies, including Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Good- year Tire and Rubber Company, Climax Molybdenum Com- pany, and H. B. Maynard and Company. He was a member of the board of directors of On Line Systems, Inc.
ALBERT G. HOLZMAN 195 Dr. Ho~zman was a fellow of the Institute of Industrial En- gineers and a member of the Operations Research Society of America, the Institute of Management Sciences, ant! the American Society for Engineering Education. He served in many high-level positions within each of these societies. He also received the Distinguishes! Alumnus Award in 1982 from the University of Pittsburgh Engineering Alumni As- sociation. He was electect to the National Academy of Engi- neering in 1984. Although Dr. Ho~zman's great achievements in the fielcis of industrial engineering and operations research required much devotion, he clid not neglect his personal life. He placer! the importance of his family and his religion above everything else. In 1945 he married Joan Michalowski, who had been a high school classmate. They had five children: three sons, Thomas G. of Atlanta, Georgia; Richard G. of Baltimore, Maryland; ant! David of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania; and two daughters, Judith Bajgier of Cherry Hill, New Jer- sey; and Jacqueline Pincher of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Joan frequently accompanied him on professional trips to South America and Europe. Dr. Hoffman was active in his church and in his local PTA. In addition to all of his personal and professional activities, he found time to play tennis weekly year-round and enjoyed playing with his clog, a Great Dane. Together with his technical and educational achievements, Dr. Ho~zman made many friends among his colleagues and students. His contributions to society will continue through those who have been influenced by his work.
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Nearly 20 years after JonBenét Ramsey's death, CBS is reopening the case in hopes of finally finding out exactly what happened on the night of December 24, 1996.
Premiering next month, The Case Of: JonBenét Ramseyis a limited true crime docuseries that brings together the case's original investigators with new experts, and utilizes advanced forensics and technology in order to delve deep into potential theories about the 6-year-old pageant contestant's murder. And based on the just-released trailer for the series, it's going to be a must-watch.
Not only will the show include full-scale models of the crime scene and other key rooms of the Ramsey house, but it will also include interviews with the case's original suspects and the 911 operator who took the call that JonBenét was missing.
The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey premieres Sunday, September 18 at 8:30 EST and 8 p.m. PST on CBS. The remaining episodes will premiere in the days following, ending with a finale on Sunday, September 25.


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Make MPs' records available to public
Reader suggests federal plans to monitor Internet use be countered by making MPs' information available to Canadians.
Feb. 29, 2012 7:00 a.m.
Open letter to Vic Toews, minister responsible for public safety:
As a Canadian with nothing to hide and no fear of authoritarian bullies, I would like to propose an amendment to your odious Internet control bill.
1. The Internet records of all members of Parliament will become a part of the public record immediately upon election of that member to office. This includes all records then existing for the individual back to the age of majority from all sources and all new records from home, phone, office or public library access to the Internet. As public information it would be available without copyright for commentary, analysis, debate and satire to members of the Canadian public.
Chris George, Notch Hill
Keep Canadian oil for Canadians
McGuire Lake suited for educational purposes


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"""Example script showing how to use acme client API."""
import logging
import os
import pkg_resources

from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import rsa
import OpenSSL

from acme import client
from acme import messages
from acme import jose

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

DIRECTORY_URL = 'https://acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org/directory'
BITS = 2048  # minimum for Boulder
DOMAIN = 'example1.com'  # example.com is ignored by Boulder

# generate_private_key requires cryptography>=0.5
key = jose.JWKRSA(key=rsa.generate_private_key(
    public_exponent=65537,
    key_size=BITS,
    backend=default_backend()))
acme = client.Client(DIRECTORY_URL, key)

regr = acme.register()
logging.info('Auto-accepting TOS: %s', regr.terms_of_service)
acme.agree_to_tos(regr)
logging.debug(regr)

authzr = acme.request_challenges(
    identifier=messages.Identifier(typ=messages.IDENTIFIER_FQDN, value=DOMAIN))
logging.debug(authzr)

authzr, authzr_response = acme.poll(authzr)

csr = OpenSSL.crypto.load_certificate_request(
    OpenSSL.crypto.FILETYPE_ASN1, pkg_resources.resource_string(
        'acme', os.path.join('testdata', 'csr.der')))
try:
    acme.request_issuance(jose.util.ComparableX509(csr), (authzr,))
except messages.Error as error:
    print ("This script is doomed to fail as no authorization "
           "challenges are ever solved. Error from server: {0}".format(error))


Sacha joined Staples in June 2013 to head the transformation of the Advantage business across Europe, based in the Amsterdam HQ. He then took over the position of MD Online France in October 2014 (JPG and Bernard business units). The Advantage France BU was added to his portfolio in January 2017. In November 2018 he took the VP South Europe responsibility, covering France, Italy and Spain.
Prior to joining Staples, Sacha held senior managing positions in retail for more than 20 years, including at Office Depot (as MD Contract France and MD Retail France) , the Dixons Group and the Watson Group (Marionnaud). He also has private business ownership experience, having helped raised some funds to organize the purchase and then manage two distressed companies. Prior to that he worked 5 years in consulting.
Sacha earned his MBA with Honors from the Insead business school. He holds a Master of Science in Telecommunications from Telecom SudParis. A French national, Sacha lived and worked in six countries (Italy, Poland, UK, Russia and The Nederland). Mother tongued French, he speaks fluent English, Italian and Russian. In 2011 he was nominated one of the top ten CRM personalities in France.


Meet Edmond de Belamy, your new worst nightmare.
Last week, Christie's offered up for auction a portrait titled "Edmond de Belamy," estimating that it would sell for around $7,000 to $10,000. I assume this is a fair-ish market price for an artsy portrait of an obscure French guy painted onto a high-quality canvas sitting in a gilded wooden frame, created by an artist no one has ever heard of, marked up a few grand by dint of it being for sale at Christie's. Contrary to the auction house's expectations, however, the painting sold for $432,500. This has a lot to do with the fact that Edmond de Belamy never existed, and instead is the result of a group of computer programmers feeding 15,000 different portraits into an algorithm, which then spat out Edmond, along with ten members of his made-up family.
As an uncultured rube, it's not up to me to comment on the actual quality of a piece of AI-generated art. But I do wonder what, exactly, the people who bid on the portrait thought made "Edmond de Belamy" so valuable. It wasn't the scarcity of the piece itself or the labor that went into it — presumably, the algorithm that spat Edmond out could create an unlimited number of similar portraits, and unlike human portraiture the AI didn't have to deal with the physical toll of keeping a steady hand or concentrating on a consistent vision for the work. Was it just that they wanted to be the first person to buy a piece of AI-generated art at Christie's? Again, I am not steeped in the art world, but my gut instinct tells me "yes" on this one.
Additionally, the fact that an AI-generated artwork fetched such a handsome price creates some interesting questions about the future of humanity as we know it. Some scholars have posited that since copyright law is premised upon acknowledging the human effort and ingenuity that went into a work's creation, granting copyright privileges to an AI would be tantamount to giving it legal personhood. And if that's the case, once humans manage to create even more sophisticated AIs than what we've got now, will those non-living beings become humans in the eyes of the law? Like, will it be murder to unplug an AI even if it's creeping you out or, I don't know, creating little drone bees that are stinging you while you're trying to mow your lawn? These are questions that might seem a little silly now, but they may very well be the ones that dog us in the future.


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L'année 1580 a été marquée, en philosophie, par les événements suivants :

Événements

Publications

 Nicolò Vito di Gozze : Nicolai Viti Gozii Patritii Reip. Ragusinae commentaria in sermones Averoes De Substantia Orbis (...), Venezia 1580

 Johann Thomas Freig :
 Rhetorica, Poetica, Logica in usum rudiorum, 1580.
 Grammatica graeca und latina, 1580.

Naissances

Décès

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 1580 en littérature

1580
XVIe siècle en philosophie

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India vs Sri Lanka: The Oval — a beacon of Tamil-Sinhala unity | The Indian Express: It's not the easiest of the three cricket stadiums in the capital to get to. The approach is very much —along narrow well-shaded alleys and past little tapri shops—more like what you would expect to a quaint village ground and not the first venue to host Test cricket in Sri Lanka. The Oval is located in an inland suburb called Wanathamulla, which is mainly known for its low-income urban settlements. Like a member at the TUCC reveals, the slightly untoward location of the Oval was not by chance but rather by choice.
"Back then when the TUCC asked the government for a plot, Wanathamulla was in a much worse state than what it is now. But they wanted to keep us away. Even now we warn our members from parking their cars outside the gates," says a member.


This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia's tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires through two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the nation, and the terror of the shelling of Dubrovnik. Tackling universal themes on a human scale, master storyteller Miljenko Jergovic traces one Yugoslavian family's tale as history irresistibly casts the fates of five generations. What is it to live a life whose circumstances are driven by history? Jergovic investigates the experiences of a compelling heroine, Regina Delavale, and her many family members and neighbors. Telling Regina's story in reverse chronology, the author proceeds from her final days in 2002 to her birth in 1905, encountering along the way such traumas as atrocities committed by Nazi Ustashe Croats and the death of Tito. Lyrically written and unhesitatingly told, The Walnut Mansion may be read as an allegory of the tragedy of Yugoslavia's tormented twentieth century.--Provided by publisher.
Croatian writer Miljenko Jergovic is a leading author in the region of former Yugoslavia and the recipient of numerous national and international awards. He lives in Zagreb, Croatia. Stephen M. Dickey is associate professor in the Slavic languages and literatures department, University of Kansas. Janja Pavetic-Dickey, a native of Croatia, served as staff translator and interpreter at the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.


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Buffs fall in first-round action, 57-49
Sports | March 23, 2013
Jim Vertuno
AP | AP
AUSTIN, Texas – Illinois has been doing it the hard way all season. Why change just because it's the NCAA tournament?
After letting a big first-half lead slip away Friday, senior guards Brandon Paul and D.J. Richardson bailed out the Illini with consecutive 3-pointers with 6 minutes to play and No. 7 seed Illinois pulled out a tough 57-49 win over No. 10 Colorado in the second round of East Regional of the NCAA tournament.
"It's March Madness," Paul said. "That stuff happens all the time."
Madness indeed. How else to explain how a team that gave up a 16-point halftime lead, allowed an opponent to go on a 21-0 run and shot just 13 percent in the second half would still win by almost double-digits?
"It was a strange game," first-year Illinois coach John Groce said. "This team has been a fun team to coach, an interesting team."
Groce didn't see anything quite like that last year when he was leading No. 13 seed Ohio to the round of 16. This time, his team survived its first game despite making three field goals in the second half.
It just so happened that two of those would prove to be the baskets that would win the game.
"We've played in so many games where we had to come back," Richardson said. "We're mature players. We've been through up and downs throughout our careers."
Paul and Richardson are seniors who missed the tournament last season and teamed up on the two biggest possessions of the game for the Illini against Colorado.
Colorado had fought back from a 37-21 halftime deficit to take a 44-39 lead late in the second. Richardson pushed the Illini back in front with a long 3-pointer from the right wing, then made a steal and fed the ball to Paul, who swished another to make it 48-44.
Paul stretched the lead from the free throw line to put the game away in the final minute. Paul finished with 17 points despite shooting just 3 of 12 while guarded most of the game by Pac-12 defensive player of the year Andre Roberson.
"We're a team that never gives up. D.J. was in my ear, just telling me to make plays," Paul said.
The Illini came into the game confident the rigors of the Big Ten had prepared them for anything in the NCAA tournament and used their defensive muscle to build the big early lead. Tracy Abrams ended a 21-5 run over the final 10 minutes of the half with a 3-pointer – Illinois' sixth of the first half – with 3 seconds left.
Everything flipped in the second.
Colorado regrouped behind Roberson and the hot shooting of Askia Booker, who made three 3-pointers in the opening minutes of the second half.
Paul picked up two quick fouls early in half and went to the bench. His absence over the next three minutes seemed to unsettle the Illini as Colorado kept chipping away at the lead. Even when Paul returned, he missed his first two shots.
Colorado made the hard work pay off when Josh Scott layup's gave the Buffaloes the lead, and baskets by Xavier Johnson and Roberson pushed it to 44-39. Illinois finally broke its scoring drought on a basket by Abrams with 8:30 left in the half.
"We all made great plays on that run," Booker said. "We were getting stop after stop and we were pushing it down their throat."
And then …
"They hit two big 3s," Booker said, "and that changed momentum."
Paul's 3-pointer was one of the few times he was able to break free of Roberson. Back in the lead, the Illini seemed to regain their collective composure.
"A lot of teams would crack," Groce said. "We had to find a way to grind, figure it out."
Colorado was playing in consecutive NCAA tournaments for the first time in 50 years only to make a quick exit. Booker scored 14 points and Roberson had nine points and eight rebounds. Spencer Dinwiddie, the Buffaloes' leading scorer this season, finished with six points on 1 of 8 shooting.
"Our defense was good enough in the second half, our heart was good enough," Colorado coach Tad Boyle said. "We're disappointed being one-and-done."


Someone on one of the forums asked how many spydies we all owned. The true sign of the accumulator/collector disease is not knowing. So I laid them all out, wow, more than I thought. 18 total if you count the little keychain guys.


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The Bozos Strike Again — EPA Breaks Contract with Bay Journal
Posted on August 28, 2017 by Bruce
In the Pruitt EPA, even when they might do important, good things, like Bay restoration, they don't want us to know about it. The Bay Journal is THE BEST reporting there is on Bay restoration.
from the Newport News Daily Press
EPA yanks funding for Bay Journal
Tamara DietrichContact ReporterSenior Reporter
The nonprofit Bay Journal is set to lose about a third of its funding after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it's terminating a six-year grant it awarded the magazine just two years ago.
The EPA notice came without warning in a "very terse" email Wednesday that attributed the decision to a "shift in priorities," said managing editor Timothy Wheeler in a phone interview Friday.
The termination is effective February 2018, when the journal was supposed to receive an annual installment of $325,000 to help support a staff of 11 and 100,000 free print and online subscriptions.
"It doesn't completely defund us, but it does knock us back, there's no question about that," said Wheeler. "If we can't replace that money, we're going to have to make cuts. It's a rather big drop.
"It's not as if we didn't realize we were vulnerable. We had been working to reduce our share coming from federal funds even before this. But we had no reason to suspect that a grant that had already been approved would be yanked like this."
In a statement, journal editor Karl Blankenship called it an "unprecedented decision" in the history of the nonprofit monthly magazine, whose mission since 1991 has been to cover the Chesapeake Bay watershed, particularly pollution, water quality, habitat and fishery issues.
"For 27 years," Blankenship said, "the Bay Journal has been an important source of news and information for those who care deeply about the Chesapeake."
The EPA has funded the journal since it began. EPA funding comes through the Chesapeake Bay Program, a regional partnership of federal, state and local governments, and academic, conservation and citizens groups, all dedicated to restoring the bay.
President Donald Trump wants to zero out federal funds for the CBP in a stated effort to shrink government bloat. His chosen EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, had voiced support for cleanup efforts during his confirmation hearings earlier this year, but since then has come under fire from conservation groups for failing to live up to those words.
At the nonprofit Chesapeake Bay Foundation, president William Baker said the funding cut shows Pruitt's "true anti-environmental colors" in a "transparent attempt to shut down the free exchange of scientifically validated bay information."
The bay watershed is the largest on the continent, stretching over portions of six states and the District of Columbia.
The bay deteriorated over decades of pollution and overfishing, and the EPA has been at the forefront of efforts to restore it, pushing bay states into a so-called pollution diet in 2010 that recent scientific surveys indicate are starting to work.
The Bay Journal also receives funds from the Campbell Foundation for the Environment, the Town Creek Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Chesapeake Bay Office, the Chesapeake Bay Trust and individual donations.
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Google – Can they do anything wrong?
I asked this question on October 22, 2004 on my former blog, Market Talk with Piranha, which you can still enjoy online. That was my "blogger" blog while running MSW and before starting chrisperruna.com on wordpress.
It is now three years since that post and I have not owned GOOG for the entire run, not even close to the full up-trend. So, why didn't I own it the entire time?
I ask myself today what I asked myself then: WHY NOT?
I guess my answer boils down to trying to beat the market with swing trades in speculative stocks. I've come to realize that it is more profitable to just stick with a winner over the long term and trade them like a turtle (per the book by Curtis Faith). I need to better weather the draw-downs with trending stocks and ignore the shorter term daily fluctuations. If I could successfully do that, I would have owned both GOOG and AAPL for their entire runs instead of pieces of their profits! SCRAPS when looking back!
Google (GOOG) is now up more than 350% during the three years and crossed $600 per share in intraday trading today. Is it hard to believe that GOOG may reach $1,000 per share before this great run is over? Hell no! Great stocks with increasing earnings go higher. They continue to make higher highs so never be afraid to buy stocks making new highs during bull markets or stocks that have a P/E ratio above the rest of the field. Luxury items demand a premium price!
Google reported Thursday and missed expectations by $0.11: Earnings were at $0.45 per share, up 25% vs. a year ago. Revenues rose by 105% beating views. Shares were up about 8% in after hours trading.
We can now see how the after hours trading would pan out today. A huge gap up on extremely large volume has sent Google up 16% today. Too bad Google can't help the rest of the market as it is "dead as a doornail".
The Google gap up started the day at $170.43 The stock closed the day yesterday at $149.38 Currently at noon, it is holding around $174 (up 16% for the day). What a run since the IPO.
Anyone could have gotten in at $98 to $100, too bad I wasn't one of them!
I have seen GOOG come up on my preliminary screens but I was holding off until they reported earnings and formed a pattern I was comfortable with.
Back to Google, I love the site, I love the company and I love what I see in the stock, so why don't I own a piece of it?
Listen to me Google, set up a solid base and allow me to ride the next wave!
I did ride that wave but I jumped off too soon!
I originally bought Google in October 2005 and watched it race up about almost 40% in two and a half months to the start of January. I figured "It's Google! It's going up forever!" Well, I was wrong and watched my profit go down to zero in four weeks and with my spirits deflated I ended up selling for a slight loss (bought at 339, sold at 335).
Well, a year later, I had learned some lessons. I bought last October at 426. I watched Google gap up and move sideways, move up and gap down and move sideways, and now watching it move up. So, the lessons I have learned with this stock is that even though it looks like a very powerful stock (and it is), it has long periods of sideways action. I got really bored holding it this year and considered selling it because for 8 months I had no gain in it.
Luckily, I decided to hold on because I believe in the business. I also own BIDU (which has performed way better), but I think Google is a more stable investment. BIDU is going to tank sooner or later, and even though Google will eventually start to crumble, I think it won't happen as quickly.
I bailed out of both GOOG and BIDU too early. Excellent profits but not nearly as large as they could have been.
I don't feel bad about the GOOG sell because my money went to work elsewhere but my BIDU sell over the summer stings slightly. I missed a big portion of the recent move to $300 . And this money did not make more elsewhere!
Hey, we can't argue gains. I will continue to learn and hang in with these great bull runs.
One thing that has changed in my trading is I have a bit more emphasis on hanging with a stock rather than trading off the technicals, which is where I started. I read "Practical Speculation" by Victor Niederhoffer last summer and decided that my trading style needed refinement. I find that when I trade less often, my results are better.


While James Bond actor Daniel Craig had some harsh comments for the franchise while on the publicity trail for the last film 'Spectre', including the now infamous "I'd rather break this glass and slash my wrists", it seems that after a break from the role he's not totally closed off to returning.
Speaking at The New Yorker Fest, Craig defended the wrist-slashing comments and confirmed he still relished the role saying "There is no other job like it...and if I were to stop doing it, just saying, I would miss it terribly", before going on to say "I love this job, I get a massive kick out of it. And if I can keep getting a kick out of it, I will." While James Bond always returns, I'd say the likelihood of Craig also returning has jumped up a notch.


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"Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams": Victoria and Albert Museum in London welcomes largest Dior exhibition
Publicationsluxury brands collectionfine artFine Art News "Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams": Victoria and Albert Museum in London welcomes largest Dior exhibition Following exhibitions at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Denver Art Museum, Maison Dior visits London until July 14, 2019, inviting visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum to discover a retrospective celebrating the avant-garde spirit Share
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Fascinated with London and motivated by a desire to please British women, Christian Dior launched his British offshoot C.D. Models in 1951. Three years later he was received by the Duchess of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace, where he staged a spectacular fashion show to benefit the British Red Cross.
"There is no other country in the world, besides my own, whose way of life I like so much." — Christian Dior
This journey through time continues with the staging of iconic models such as the Bar Suit, along with designs inspired by British Spirit and elegance to which he gave names such as Londres, Mayfair, Chelsea, Dickens or Oxford. The immersion culminates with an exhibit called "Le Salon", which showcases the splendor of society soirées, illustrated by spectacular dresses that testify to the virtuosity and superb savoir-faire of the Dior haute couture ateliers.
This was the beginning of an unbreakable bond between Dior and England, embodied some years later by Lady Dior, the iconic bag named in honor of Lady Diana.
The exhibition "Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams" at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London "celebrates one of the most ingenious and iconic designers in fashion history," says Tim Reeve, Deputy Director and COO of the V&A. The exhibition pays tribute to the inspiring passion Monsieur Dior felt towards all things British, retracing highlights from the designer's life, from his childhood to the founding of his eponymous Maison in 1946.
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