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Comic Review: House of X/Powers of X
October 12, 2019 by Talking Pulp	in Comic Review, Reviews and tagged action, adventure, Apocalypse, Archangel, Banshee, Beast, Bishop, Black Panther, book, Captain America, Colossus, comics, Cyclops, Cypher, Dazzler, Doctor Strange, Emma Frost, Exodus (Marvel), Fabian Cortez, Fantastic Four, fantasy, Forge, Gambit, Gorgon (Marvel), Havok, Hellfire Club, Human Torch, Iron Man, Jean Grey, Jonathan Hickman, Jubilee, Magik, Magneto, Marvel, Mister Sinister, Moira MacTaggert, Mystique, Namor, Nightcrawler, Nimrod, Omega Red, Polaris, Professor X, Rasputin (Marvel), review, Rogue, Sabretooth, sci-fi, Siryn, Storm, superhero, The Stepford Cuckoos, The Thing (Marvel), Toad, Wolverine, X-Men, Xorn	| Leave a comment
Published: June 24th, 2019 – October 9th, 2019
Written by: Jonathan Hickman
Art by: Pepe Larraz
Let me preface this review by saying that this is the best new comic book story that I have read in ten years.
That's absolutely a bold statement but let's be honest, Marvel and DC haven't really been bringing their A game for awhile, other than a few things, here and there.
Overall, modern comics just aren't great anymore. But this is in a league of its own, as Sean Gordon Murphy's recent Batman work at DC Comics is also on its own plane of existence when compared to what else is coming out from its publisher the last few years.
That being said, it's been a really long time since I've been engaged by X-Men stories. That's kind of depressing, as the X-Men pocket of the larger Marvel universe is one of my favorite franchises of all-time.
Jonathan Hickman has made me care again.
In fact, this made me care so much that I added every new X-comic to my pull list, as I am hoping that this carries over into something larger, richer and more spectacular. This sort of prologue to the larger X-universe is going to be a hard thing to beat or live up to over the long haul but it's obvious that Hickman has a plan and I want to see how this all unfolds.
There are some things in this story that seem weird and out of place and I believe that these things are intentional. Primarily, many of the characters are acting uncharacteristic. I don't think it's an oversight or the product of a writer that doesn't know what he's actually writing about, as many modern writers seem to do.
If I'm wrong, I'll be pissed and heartbroken but there is real intelligence to this writing and Hickman has a fantastic track record.
Also, this is a great jumping on point. You don't really need to read what happens before. This is a true starting point for new readers or old readers that tapped out on the X-Men books long ago.
Plus, Pepe Larraz's art is some of the best I've seen in a long time.
Pairs well with: old school X-Men mega crossover events.
Comic Review: Wolverine Vs. Blade – One-Shot
July 29, 2019 by Talking Pulp	in Comic Review, Reviews and tagged action, adventure, Blade, book, comics, Doctor Strange, fantasy, horror, Marvel, mystery, occult, review, sci-fi, superhero, thriller, vampires, Wolverine	| Leave a comment
Published: July 10th, 2019
Written by: Marc Guggenheim
Art by: Dave Wilkins
This was a comic book that I didn't know I wanted until I saw it hit the shelves. It came home with me immediately and I gave it a read, twice.
Now it's not a classic and probably won't be heralded for years to come but for a Marvel comic in 2019, this was some solid f'n stuff! But maybe it would've worked better as an annual. Granted, I don't think Wolverine or Blade have regular titles, right now. Wolverine has just been in a lot of recent miniseries, as Marvel just resurrected him after being on the shelf for a few years.
Anyway, this is a badass comic. Marc Guggenheim, now mostly known as the guy behind all the CW superhero shows, penned a cool story that understood its characters and gave them real life. The banter between Blade and Wolverine was entertaining and they made a formidable pair.
Now calling this Wolverine Vs. Blade might have been a bit of a stretch. The two fight but it's pretty short and they realize that they need to team up to stop a vampire threat.
The big twist as to who the big villain is, is pretty neat. I don't want to spoil it but it makes sense for the story and for being a good match for the combined powers and skills of the heroes.
Also, there is a Doctor Strange cameo in this.
But apart from my satisfaction regarding the story, I also loved the art. Dave Wilkins created a beautiful looking comic.
In fact, I'd like to see Guggenheim and Wilkins work together again. Marvel should just greenlight a sequel to this or let these two work on some sort of team up miniseries.
Pairs well with: other Blade stories, as well as mid-'00s X-Force featuring Wolverine leading the team as a black ops group.
Comic Review: X-Men '92
July 26, 2019 by Talking Pulp	in Comic Review, Reviews and tagged action, adventure, Apocalypse, Archangel, Beast, Bishop, Black Panther, book, Brood, Cable, Cassandra Nova, comics, Cyclops, Deadpool, Death's Head, Doctor Doom, Doctor Doom 2099, Doctor Strange, Domino, Dracula, Excalibur (Marvel), Fabian Cortez, fantasy, Feral, Forge, Gambit, Ghost Rider, Havok, Hellfire Club, Hydra, Jean Grey, Joseph (Marvel), Jubilee, Marvel, Mister Sinister, Morph, Multiple Man, Mystique, Omega Red, Phoenix (Rachel Summers), Polaris, Professor X, Psylocke, Red Guardian, review, Rogue, sci-fi, Sebastian Shaw, Shatterstar, Silver Samurai, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Starjammers, Storm, Strong Guy, superhero, The Celestials, The Guardian, The Punisher, vampires, Wolfsbane, Wolverine, X-Factor, X-Force, X-Men, X-Men '92, X-Treme	| 2 Comments
Published: 2016-2017
Written by: Chad Bowers, Chris Sims
Art by: Mirati Firmansyah, Coby Hamscher, David Nakayama (cover)
Based on: the X-Men animated series by Fox Kids
If you were a kid in the '90s, you probably watched the X-Men cartoon that used to be on Fox on Saturday mornings. It was solid, did a pretty good job of adapting some of the comic book's big storylines and introduced a lot of non-comic reading kids to the X-Men franchise.
It ended after a few seasons and never really had a proper follow up. Well, that is until recently, as the show moved into the medium it was born out of: comic books.
Maybe this took its cues from DC Comics and how they came out with Batman '66, a comic book series that revisited the 1960s Adam West Batman TV series. But one can't deny that Batman '66 was a cool comic, a great idea and with that, should have inspired other comic books that continued the stories of comic book characters as they were presented in other mediums. Hell, I'm still waiting for that Batman '89 comic that was once teased and then had those teases retracted.
But this is about X-Men '92, which was a decent follow up to the animated series.
Overall, this was a fun read but it didn't wow me in the same way that Batman '66 did. Where that Batman comic felt tonally right and as if it was a true continuation of the series, X-Men '92 throws some weird curveballs and also tries to force in way too many characters just for the sake of the creators trying to give you the animated series' versions of these characters.
Maybe they knew this series would be short lived and therefore, they wanted to wedge in every character they could but it really becomes too much to process in the second half of this series. Also, I wasn't a fan of devoting so much time to a Dracula/vampire story. None of that was central to the core of the cartoon and it shouldn't have been central to the core of this comic.
Also, this feels like it is just borrowing the visual style of the TV show but it doesn't seem to understand the tone or the spirit of it.
It's still entertaining for fans of the source material but I wouldn't call it a must read or all that necessary. Die hards should check it out but I can see why this didn't make it a year where Batman '66 has still been hanging on for quite awhile with a long running series and several crossovers.
Rating: 6.75/10
Pairs well with: the animated series it's based on, as well as '90s X-Men comics and various spinoffs.
Comic Review: World War Hulk
June 20, 2019 by Talking Pulp	in Comic Review, Reviews and tagged action, adventure, Ares (Marvel), Black Panther, book, Brood, Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers), comics, Doc Samson, Doctor Strange, Fantastic Four, Greg Pak, Hawkeye, Hulk, Human Torch, Inhumans, Iron Fist, Iron Man, John Romita Jr., Korg, Luke Cage, Maria Hill, Marvel, review, Rick Jones, sci-fi, Sentry, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, Storm, superhero, The Thing (Marvel), Wonder Man, X-Men	| Leave a comment
Published: May 7th, 2008
Written by: Greg Pak
Art by: John Romita Jr.
Planet Hulk is one of my favorite story arcs of the '00s. I never read the followup, World War Hulk until now though. I think the reason behind that is because Planet Hulk was so perfect, I didn't want to diminish its impact on me by jumping right into the next big chapter in the Hulk's life.
That being said, I'm glad that I did finally read this as it was a lot of fun. Sure, it doesn't live up to what Planet Hulk was but those were big shoes to fill and this is still a worthwhile followup that shows the Hulk finally make it home with a serious chip on his shoulder.
At its core, this is a revenge tale. But there are a lot of layers and a dark secret that comes out at the end that really shakes the foundation of what this era's Hulk stands for.
You see, the Hulk is not only mad that his friends (Mr. Fantastic, Iron Man, Doctor Strange and Black Bolt) sent him away against his will, marooning him on a terribly violent planet, but now he wants revenge because his wife and unborn child were killed by what he believes was the fault of these same former friends. So the Hulk returns to Earth with his allies from Planet Hulk ready for a showdown with his old teammates in the heart of New York City.
This story is full of epic destruction and incredible action. It's also nice seeing John Romita Jr. do the art for this, as I've been an avid fan of his work since I first discovered him in the pages of Daredevil in the late '80s.
World War Hulk is full of a ton of Marvel superheroes, all trying to stop the Hulk's war against Earth's mightiest. While it isn't on Planet Hulk's level, it's still a worthy sequel and changes the Marvel landscape going forward.
Pairs well with: the story that precedes this one, the near perfect Planet Hulk.
Comic Review: Planet Hulk
May 31, 2019 by Talking Pulp	in Comic Review, Reviews and tagged action, adventure, book, Brood, comics, Doctor Strange, Fantastic Four, Greg Pak, Hulk, Inhumans, Iron Man, Korg, Marvel, review, sci-fi, Silver Surfer, superhero, sword and sorcery	| Leave a comment
Published: April 2nd, 2008
Art by: Gary Frank, Aaron Lopresti, Takeshi Miyazawa, Carlo Pagulayan
I read The Incredible Hulk comics as a kid. But I wasn't really a Hulk fan until Planet Hulk came into my hands in 2008. By the time I got to the end of it, I realized that I had just experienced one of the absolute best comic book stories of that decade.
A lot of the story would go on to be used in the film Thor: Ragnarok because a live action adaptation of the story wasn't possible with all the issues regarding which studio owns the controlling rights over the character. But I loved what they did use in that Thor film between Hulk being a gladiator and the inclusion of Korg, as well as some other minor details.
It had been awhile since I read this story though and I thought that I needed to see how it has held up.
Well, this is still absolutely incredible. It is, most definitely, my favorite Hulk story of all-time. But I also probably enjoy it for the fact that it has some sword and sorcery elements to it and really just feels like Hulk the Barbarian.
Greg Pak did a stupendous job writing this though. For something so lengthy and beefy, the whole thing is engaging, there aren't any dull moments and each issue builds off of the ones before them. This is what comic book writing should be. This has perfect pacing, every panel matters and it hits you right in the feels just when it needs to.
Planet Hulk had multiple artists work on it, which is common when a story arc is this long. But what's great about it was that the style was consistent and you don't immediately notice that it's different. It all just fits together very cohesively. Sometimes different artists have styles that can conflict and be almost jarring when reading a collection. This does not suffer from that at all.
After jumping back into this 11 years later, I really want to read the followup World War Hulk now, which I missed back in 2008.
Pairs well with: World War Hulk and the Peter David run on The Incredible Hulk.
Comic Review: Doctor Strange, Vol. 1: The Way of the Weird
May 16, 2019 by Talking Pulp	in Comic Review, Reviews and tagged action, adventure, book, Brother Voodoo, comics, Doctor Strange, fantasy, Jason Aaron, Magik, Man-Thing, Marvel, occult, review, Scarlet Witch, superhero, Weirdworld	| Leave a comment
Written by: Jason Aaron
Art by: Chris Bachalo
It's been awhile since I've read Doctor Strange. I used to love picking up back issues of stuff from the '70s and '80s when I was a kid. But I didn't like much of the late '90s or '00s stuff. But I heard good things about Jason Aaron's run, so I figured I'd start at the beginning and give it a shot.
This was a pretty fun read and it's creative, as well as interesting. I also really liked the art style.
My only real complaint is that this Doctor Strange doesn't seem like the same character I enjoyed in his classic stories. He's lacking the sense of authority one got from him in the '70s and '80s and here he is just kind of quirky and goofy.
Despite that, it's not a big distraction, it's just that the character feels off. It's also very salvageable moving forward and it doesn't deter me from reading more from Aaron. Hopefully, he finds his footing a bit more after this first story arc.
The threat here also doesn't feel as big as the story makes it out to be. I guess I'll have to see what's next but knowing what Doctor Strange has faced before, this threat seemed lame and unconvincing. Sure, all other Sorcerer Supremes from other realms and worlds are gone but the story still feels thin and is missing the weight of that.
I'll give the second volume a shot in the very near future, so I hope that sort of rights the ship.
Pairs well with: Jason Aaron's other Doctor Strange stories.
Film Review: Avengers: Endgame (2019)
April 27, 2019 by Talking Pulp	in Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2019, action, adventure, Angela Bassett, Ant-Man, Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Anthony Mackie, Arnim Zola, Avengers, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong, Black Panther, Black Widow, Bradley Cooper, Brie Larson, Captain America, Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers), Chadwick Boseman, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders, comics, Crossbones, Danai Gurira, Dave Bautista, Disney, Doctor Strange, Don Cheadle, Drax the Destroyer, Elizabeth Olsen, Evangeline Lilly, Falcon, fantasy, film, Frank Grillo, Gamora, Groot, Guardians of the Galaxy, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hawkeye, Hayley Atwell, Hulk, Iron Man, James D'Arcy, Jeremy Renner, John Slattery, Jon Favreau, Josh Brolin, Karen Gillan, Ken Jeong, Letitia Wright, Linda Cardellini, Loki, Marisa Tomei, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Natalie Portman, Nebula, Nick Fury, Peggy Carter, Pom Klementieff, Red Skull, Rene Russo, review, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Redford, Rocket Racoon, Ross Marquand, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlet Witch, Scarlett Johansson, sci-fi, Sebastian Stan, Spider-Man, Star Lord, superhero, Taika Waititi, Tessa Thompson, Thanos, The Black Order, The Russo Brothers, Thor, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Holland, Ty Simpkins, Valkyrie (Marvel), Vin Diesel, War Machine, Wasp, Wasp (Hope Pym), William Hurt, Winter Soldier, Yvette Nichole Brown, Zoe Saldana	| Leave a comment
Release Date: April 22nd, 2019 (Los Angeles premiere)
Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Written by: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Based on: The Avengers by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
Music by: Alan Silvestri
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Josh Brolin, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Wong, Pom Klementieff, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow, William Hurt, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L. Jackson, Ross Marquand, Jon Favreau, Marisa Tomei, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Linda Cardellini, Tessa Thompson, Rene Russo, John Slattery, Tilda Swinton, Hayley Atwell, Natalie Portman, Taika Waititi, Angela Bassett, Frank Grillo, Robert Redford, Ty Simpkins, James D'Arcy, Ken Jeong, Yvette Nichole Brown
Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Studios, 181 Minutes
"You could not live with your own failure, and where did that bring you? Back to me." – Thanos
*There be spoilers here! But I kept it as minimal as possible.
Here we are… the end.
Well, it's the end of an era but not the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although, this may be the end for me, as there isn't much else I'm looking forward to from the MCU after Endgame. Granted, there hasn't been much news on what's coming next, either.
But anyway, how was this film? The big, badass finale to a 22 movie franchise?
It was good but it wasn't anything close to stellar.
My biggest issue with it was that it was a pretty big clusterfuck that had too many parts to try and balance. Where the previous film Infinity War did that just fine, Endgame had so many more extra layers thrown on top of it that it was overkill. I mean every single character that had any sort of significant impact on MCU storylines over 22 films ended up shoehorned into this thing. Even Natalie Portman, who wanted nothing to do with these movies after being in two of them and dialing in a mediocre performance both times.
Also, the time travel element to the story did a bunch of things that didn't make sense and they also pissed on Back to the Future because it's easier to shit on a classic (and its fictitious application of quantum physics) than to actually write a coherent time travel story of your own. Endgame opted to go the lazy Doctor Who "timey wimey" route than to concern itself with paradoxes and all that other catastrophic nonsense. They even kill a version of a character from the past and it in no way effects the present version of that same character.
The big battle at the end was the most epic thing that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has done but what should have felt like Marvel's version of The Return of the King felt more like Ready Player Two. It was a CGI shitfest and I'm not even sure how Spider-Man was web-swinging on a large, open battlefield where the only objects above him were fast moving spaceships going in the opposite of the direction he was swinging in. But whatever, physics is hard, brah.
I liked that this film gave us some closure for some major characters. Granted, I'm not all that happy with what that closure was but like Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr., I'm also very, very tired of this franchise. I feel like Endgame really is a jumping off point for fans that have rode this train for 11 years that feel like they need a break. I feel like I need a break and even if my mind was made up before this film, Endgame really solidified it.
Although, I am a bit excited for whatever happens with the Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor. As for the rest of the characters and their films, I don't really care. I think I'm only really enthused about cosmic Marvel and not Earth Marvel, at this point.
Almost all of the acting was damn good, especially in regards to Robert Downey Jr., Karen Gillan, Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson.
Brie Larson on the other hand is a fucking charisma vacuum and every time she was on screen, I felt like I was looking at a first time community theater actress trying to play Nurse Ratched. And the Justin Bieber makeover was terrible. That scene where she blew up the ship and floated there, victoriously, just made me yearn for someone, anyone else to be in that role. My brain immediately thought, "Man, imagine if that was Charlize Theron, the theater would've just erupted instead of everyone just sitting here sucking loudly on empty soda cups." I'm not wrong, I rarely ever am.
Anyway, the movie was messy but it had some really good moments. But this isn't a movie that can stand on its own. You need the previous 21 films for context or all of this would be lost on you. Sure, it's emotional and some bits are powerful but without 11 years of context, the weight isn't there. And I prefer to judge films on their own merits as a sole body of work and not as an episode of a TV show or a chapter in a book. But at the same time, there is no way you can recap everything before this, as this film series is now too damn big.
Well, it's over I guess. In 2008, it was hard imagining this day. But here it is. And I'm tired.
Pairs well with: Everything in the MCU before this film, as it all leads up to this one.


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Need help with pricing a nos rifle I'd like to sell.
Thread: Need help with pricing a nos rifle I'd like to sell.
Hi guys long time.. Hope all is well.
I have been into guitars of all kinds. It is my new hobby..
Anyhow, I need help pricing a rifle I'd like to sell.
It is a romanian mk2 545x39. It is made in romania imported by intrac and says mk2. Had a kvar aims74 front sight and romanian gas block with lug installed.
Has ak103 us made romanian aims replica thread on muzzle brake. kvar lpk, Original aims 74 bayonet. Bayonet fits muzzle brake perfectly. aims 74 bakelite upper handguard. push button side folding stock with original mounting screws. wood front pg lower hand guard. bakelite grip.
Nylon strap, aims pouch, 3 aims74 steel mags, 1 5rd steel mag.
It is unfired and original barrel of course.
A while back I saw atlantic selling something similar.. with a us barrel?
So can you guys give me an idea of what is fair to ask for?
I was thinking of putting it up on the forum instead of gb because maybe someone on here would like it.
Since photobucket went to a payment service I have not posted pics and I will have to make a new account somewhere to post pics or if I can just attach them to a post here.
Last edited by qbertquartz2; 04-01-2019 at 10:10 PM.
I'd say around $1000-$1100, maybe more. I've seen a couple AIMS clones with the right parts around that, but they tend not sell quickly. That has the upturned charging handle already? Only 'real' thing you're missing is a brake.
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Original barrel, if it passes the bullet test, should bring a bit more.
Yeah it is an original romanian import and unfired.
I also have the ak103.com US made romanain muzzle brake replica on it and I think kvar fcg.
Estimates . And builds sometimes sell for less than the sum of parts, sometimes more. Being unfired is a plus to many potential buyers as well, and could add a little more. And by 'real' I only meant your brake is not Romanian. Not familiar with the one you have, but even having a 22mm brake gets it even closer to the original.
Sounds like a nice gun, and a favorite of mine, but unfortunately few kit-built or, as in this case, "restored" rifles sell for the sum of the parts. Depends on how quick you want to sell it. I'd suggest listing it for $1k, and be willing to adjust downwards or take an offer if it doesn't move.
That's a good idea for a subforum.
Ok I put it up for sale today. I have it in a pb album instead of putting each pic in the post.
Also put up a howa m1 carbine if anyone collects those.
Help with pricing a Krink to sell.


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A friend lent me 100€. I bought a gift and he owes me 25€.
i get +25€ in the category of this transaction.
In the cash overview still stands: "has lent you 100€".
the balance should be 75€.
What about this issue in Version 5?
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Q: Loop through the days of the week I was wondering if someone could tell me if it's possible to loop through the days of the week after 6 inputs of product or/and 6 inputs of quantity are input. So basically the program displays Monday and then loops 6 times and then goes to Tuesday loops 6 times and then Wednesday. If it is possible could I get a few ideas??? I would really appreciate some help. I have googled with no luck and that's because I know i'm not asking google the right question.
 import java.util.Scanner;

      public class Mailorder {

         public static void main(String[] args) {

         //create a scanner
         Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

         //declare variables

         double product1 = 3.75;
         double product2 = 5.95;
         double product3 = 8.75;
         double product4 = 6.92;
         double product5 = 8.75;
         double product6 = 7.87;
         double sum2 = 0;
         int sum1 = 0;
         double total = 0.00;
         int product;
         int quantity;

         //Monday
         System.out.print("Monday");
         System.out.println();

         //read in product #
         System.out.print("Enter a product number: ");
         product = input.nextInt();

         //read in quantity sold
         System.out.print("Enter quantity sold: ");
         quantity = input.nextInt();

         //keep reading data until the input is 0
         while (quantity != -1) {
                 sum1 += quantity;

         //switch case
         switch (product)
        {
         case 1: total = product1 * quantity; break;
         case 2: total = product2 * quantity; break;
         case 3: total = product3 * quantity; break;
         case 4: total = product4 * quantity; break;
         case 5: total = product5 * quantity; break;
         case 6: total = product6 * quantity; break;
        }

       sum2 +=total;

       //read the next data
       System.out.print("Enter a product number: ");
             product = input.nextInt();

       System.out.print("Enter quantity sold: ");
             quantity = input.nextInt();

        }
      //print results
      System.out.println("The total retail value of all products sold last week $" + sum2);

    }
  }

A: DayOfWeek enum
The DayOfWeek enum defines seven objects, one for each day of the week, numbered 1-7 for Monday-Sunday.
An EnumSet is a highly optimized implementation of Set for collecting enum objects.
EnumSet<DayOfWeek> dows = EnumSet.allOf( DayOfWeek.class );  // Collect all seven day-of-week objects, in order Monday-Sunday.

Loop that set.
for( DayOfWeek dow : dows ) {
    String dowName = dow.getDisplayName( TextStyle.FULL , Locale.US ) ;  // Generate localized string for the name of the day-of-week.
    System.out.println( dowName ) ;
    … // Ask for product code and do your math
}

A: Use an inner loop:
for(--- each day of the week ---)
    // do something

    for(int i=0; i<6; i++) {
        // do something else
    }
}

To find what are the days of the week (how to implement the 1st loop), look at class Calendar: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html#getActualMinimum(int)
int firstDay = Calendar.getInstance().getActualMinimum(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
int lastDay = Calendar.getInstance().getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

A: DayOfWeek enum
The DayOfWeek enum defines seven objects, one for each day of the week, numbered 1-7 for Monday-Sunday and it can be accessed even easier:
for(DayOfWeek day : DayOfWeek.values())
{
   //Your code goes here
}

A: Sorry for unformatted text, i am replying from mobile.
I think what you need is this operator "%"
Inside your while loop you can increment a count
int count=0;
String currentDay="Monday";
String nextDay;

// your while loop start here

count++;

if(count%6 == 0)
{
    switch(currentDay)
    {
    case "Monday": nextDay="Tuesday"; break;
    //etc
    }
currentDay = nextDay;
}

% operator will give you reminder of a division.

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If you are a gamer, and especially if you are a PlayStation fan then you already know what is happening around the world for the last two months. Well, don't worry if you were too much into gaming that you did not even realize what has happened. If you are one of the unlucky ones then you did hear about what happened and it was simple. There was a news all over the internet:
"PlayStation 5 is going to hit the market soon"
Well, this was a shocking news for almost everyone. Where a new console release news make people happy, this was totally opposite and there are reasons. What are those?
You see, buying console is costly. Whenever people buy a console, they assume that they will use that console for at least five to six years. The benefit of having the latest console of the market is immense. You can brag about it which is just one mini part. There are a lot of other things. One big thing is that you do not have to worry about the graphics and other aspects.
There is a problem that all pc gamers and old console gamers have. Whenever there is a new game around the corner, they start calculating and wondering that whether the game will work on their game station or not. If you have the latest gaming console, you do not need to think about that at all. For example, if you have a PlayStation 4 or an Xbox one in today's world, you do not need to even think about the next game. Buy anything you like and the chance is 100% that the game will run on your computer.
So to summarize everything, if you have the latest console, you can play all latest games that will release in the world for the next ten odd years. This is a big assurance and that is why a lot of people go for consoles. Yes! Trust me. This is one of the reasons.
Now you understand that why everyone were in shock when they came to know that PlayStation 5 is going to release right? Well, the good news is that it was a scam and the console will not release on anytime sooner.
There was another confusion that whether PlayStation 4.5 will be there in the market and the answer is again negative. The product will not be there in the market anytime sooner. Sony is super happy with their PlayStation.
Since the birth of PlayStation, Sony has already sold more than 100 million units to the public.
However, Xbox is also not far behind, both consoles are not head to head when it comes to the market.
Here is what we saw in the market:
According to Devinder Kumar (AMD), there are indeed next gen consoles on its way. And you need to take note that AMD supplies processors for both Xbox and PlayStation.
Shuhei Yoshida hinted that the upcoming PlayStation 5 will be on the hands of the developers as they are given full freedom to develop the upcoming console. So what can we expect for the upcoming next-gen consoles?
Well, now is the rise of VR technology, and there are a bunch of VR devices coming out in the market next, the question is how well are these games going to function in these upcoming devices. Could PS5 and Xbox Two take the VR route?
Another speculation is that PS5 and Xbox Two might dump the hard disk and will be a streaming device. After all, most games now can be downloaded over the web. But one of the most popular rumored specs for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Two is that both consoles will have a 4K resolution and a backward compatibility.
But the whole thing will take at least 5 years from now if not more than that. It is not like Sony cannot make a PlayStation early. But there is no profit in that, right? So, they won't do it. Trust us and continue gaming.
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Notification of regulation amendment regarding approval, notification and evaluation of medical devices in Korea.
1) Implantable medical device have higher risk in case of adverse effect, therefore quick actions like recalls are needed; however, the approval process is unsatisfactory since they are not separately categorized and managed at the time of approval.
2) Therefore a new definition of Implantable Medical Device is established, and a written indication in Remark section as "Implantable Medical Device" is required at the time of approval application.
3) The status of the approval of Implantable Medical Device can be managed separately and quick reaction to any risks such as adverse effects can be expected.
1) According to No.3 of the Article 7, Section 1, Clause 2, the director of MFDS is to define the raw materials that are required to be limited for approval and notification due to issues with safety and effectiveness.
2) Hence, mercury, asbestos, and phthalate materials (limited to sap sets) such as diethylhexylphthalate (DEHP), Dibutylpthalate (DBP), Benzylbuthlpthalate (BBP) are capable of harming human body, therefore they are restricted for approval and notification.
1) If there is a change among the approved or notified items of manufacturing (import) licensed or notified product, the regulation requires to acquire an amended license or an amended notification; however, it requires a new application for lisense or notification in case of change in the intended use, which is a waste of time and manpower of administration process.
*Compared to amending license (technical document 42 days), new license process (tech. document 65 days) usually takes 23 more days.
2) Hence, for changing intended use, it is required to take amended license process rather than new license application which will improve the lead time.
3) By shortening the processing time for change of intended use, the medical device industry will have improved market accessibility.
1) At the time of approval, the data that were submitted to OECD members and analyzed, and the data registered in SCI (Science Citation Index) must be approved as a clinical test data despite the absence of items such as clinical test method, test result, and analysis.
2) There's no logic of having to approve the SCI registered clinical test data even though there is no control or statistically insignificant number of test subjects, and there's a rising issue of unfairness compared to the domestically studied test data.
3) Therefore it is expected to solve the illogical and unfair issue by requiring to submit the data with the valid clinical test method, test result and clinical analysis even for the data submitted to OECD members and analyzed at the time of approval, or for the data registered in SCI.
1) Currently, only 5 item classes such as capillary thermometer and automatic electronic blood pressure meter are exempted of sales business notification, but irrationally the medical application installed on appliances such as cellular phones, are needed to be notified as a medical device sales.
2) Therefore, the exemption list from sales business notification as a medical device, are expanded to include a mobile medical app and a device with the mobile medical app for self-diagnosis purpose.
3) The expansion of the exemption list is expected to improve the accessibility of the customer and to invigorate the industry of medical devices such as medical application.


The Google team is full of surprises. Just when you think it's gone and outdone itself, it rolls out another improvement that completely changes everything. The last biggest change was the logo, made with the 'Alphabet' font – it went from the old Times to a new and sleek look across the board. Now, however, Google has upped the ante, with its own mobile device, the Google Pixel, and the voice-controlled Google Home. The company that made the internet search what it is today has taken the OS it developed and produced its own hardware to go with it. Google Home will completely change how the user interacts with their gadgets and day-to-day tasks, making even the most tedious processes that little bit easier.


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Sunday, 27th November 2022
The "Thriller" album has re-entered the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for the first time since 1984. It's re-entry after the release of "Thriller 40" has put it at number seven on this weeks album charts.
It earned 37,000 equivalent album units. Of that, album sales make up 27,500, SEA units comprise of 9,000 (equaling 13.17 million on-demand official streams of the set's tracks) and TEA units comprise 500.
"Thriller" originally spent 37 nonconsecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 between 1983 and 1984. It's the most weeks for an album by any artist, barring soundtracks. The album had a twenty-four year gap from last being in the charts in 1985 until it returned at the end of 2009 due to catalog (older) albums not allowing to chart again. Between May 1991 through to November 2009, catalog albums were not allowed to chart on the Billboard 200. If they had we would have seen a massive spike around his death in June 2009.
For this weeks chart positions all versions of the "Thriller" album, old and new, are combined together for tracking and charting purposes. This means the original "Thriller" album along with the 2001 special edition, the 25th anniversary edition and of course the newly released 40th anniversary edition all counted.
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On the Usefulness (Or Lack Thereof) of Foreign Keys
by Tim Ellis / 28 September 2015
I recently spoke with Sebastian Machuca (a Sydney-based engineer) about the concept of having FK constraints in Dev and Staging environments, but disabled in Production. Here is the ensuing dialogue, edited for brevity and for making-me-look-like-a-genius.
Our dialogue was good, but we were unable to come up with a concrete list of problems that the database will incur when FK constraints are removed from production databases. I found some strongly-worded opinions on the interwebs about FKs, but nothing that had precise technical backing.
For example, there is a Stack Overflow Q&A that both Sebastian and I found that contains this assertion:
knowing about the relationships between tables in the database helps the optimizer plan your queries for most efficient execution, since it is able to get better estimates on join cardinality.
Everything I know about statistics-based optimizers tells me this statement is false. Does anyone have a reference that talks about this in more (technical) detail?
The Foreign Keys Dialogue
S: Why do you say that is it wise to drop foreign keys in a production environment? Do not most advise to have them? I would personally consider an anti-pattern to not have enabled the foreign keys.
T: Well, this is a subtle point. So let's say you create some FK relationships. And you write some code that violates them. What happens?
S: Breaks all the things. 500 error.
T: So then you fix some bugs... less 500 errors... you fix more... And finally it doesn't break. At that point, the code is correct, yes?
S: Yes.
T: And so if I leave the FK constraints in place, they really do nothing [ed: at this point, we've not recalled the cascading delete feature of FKs] But FK constraints use a lot of DB resource, for enforcing business rules that have already been enforced by the (now-fixed) code!
S: But concurrency is a key factor in here. When you are in development or staging, you have very little concurrency. Also, Referential Integrity should be handled at the lowest possible level, which would be the underlying database. Relational Database Management Systems are optimized to handle this.
T: Well. Referential integrity can be relegated to the database, and it has the tools (Foreign Keys) to do it, but it's not necessary. Recall that as your app gets errors that you fix, you are encoding the RI into the application. So once your application doesn't have errors anymore (assuming you got all possible errors) then your RI is perfectly encoded in the applicaiton. So the THEORY is, once the app is debugged, then the RI is fully in the app, and FK is completely redundant.
S: But even if your code is "perfect", that doesn't mean it's perfect for high concurrency.
Orphaned Rows
T: I think you're saying that if the app tries to keep two tables in sync without using a transaction, that a FK would save the application from error? But let's look at the example. We have a parent table with people==(id, name, address_id) and child table addresses==(id, address). We want to delete this person. FK will cascade the delete and ensure the addresses table row also gets deleted. So the app must, absent FK, do delete from people... delete from addresses...
Maybe this is the case we're concerned about? That the app forgets to do the cascading delete?
S: Correct. That is just one example.
T: When I search Google trying to find why people think FK are necessary, this seems to be the main case they're worried about. "Orphaned Rows." [ed: we can encode deletes of the child table rows into the DB access layer]
T: Okay, so then what's the other case? When it comes time to insert... the application will insert into addresses... insert into people right? And whatever ID it gets when inserting to addresses it'll use as the ID for people.address_id? But how would a high-concurrency situation change this? No matter what, when you insert into addresses, you'll have an ID assigned... No other thread can get it, whether an FK is there or not?
S: Updates as well can be complicated.
T: When you UPDATE, you will never need to change the ID. Maybe let's imagine for a second that you do, though. So you update the addresses ID from 1 to 5... And another thread at the same time thinks it can change 2 to 5... The primary key (or unique index) saves from two threads changing id=5.
S: Okay. I give up... FOR NOW. Tell me why FKs exist at all, then.
T: So relational databases were made in... the 1960's? 1970's? Something around then. At the time, everything... and I do mean everything would happen on one computer. Codd and all those brilliant guys thought of how to have the database make sure shit was unbroken at the closest layer to the data as possible, in the database.
This made sense at the time. It even a little bit makes sense today, but here's what's changed: we started building systems that run on many computers. When we did that, we found out some components scale horizontally really well, like stateless application code. And some components are really hard to scale horizontally, like stateful database code.
So typically the former runs on a whole lot of cheap machines. The latter runs on fewer very expensive machines.
So a bunch of smart people sometime in the past 10 years or so figured this out: When you can move the work that used to go into the database into the application layer... The whole system becomes more efficient/cheap.
We used to have these "stored procedures" and people would write entire applications worth of code in them. No-one does that anymore, because in so doing, you're pushing all your compute to expensive hardware that doesn't scale well.
Oh, and stored procedure languages are ugly... but I digress.
S: Nice. I get what you are saying. Just, relying on the app to handle the edge cases makes me nervous. I think if our development environment would have a comparable stress test as production then I wouldn't worry so much.
T: I feel like there is potentially a legitimate concern in here, but we can't seem to put a precise condition on it (outside of the cascading DELETEs).
So yeah, a very real problem is if no-one ever tests in dev/staging. Then no FK constraints are ever violated. Then we go to production where I've removed the FK constraints, and data gets all wonky.
But really, the edge cases around FK violations are pretty boring/trivial. It's all about "I deleted the row from the parent table and left the row in the child table, oops!" and... that's about it, outside of UPDATEs to the child table without subsequent UPDATE of the parent table (and I'm still struggling to think why you'd do that anyway).
There can be "I created a parent table entry and left the ID for child NULL and never created a child row"... But we can define the parent table ID column as NOT NULL to solve that problem.
There are a lot of DB professionals (esp in the MySQL community) who strongly claim FK constraints are NEVER necessary. In any environment, anywhere. They say code FK constraint logic into DB layer in your app. I'm not quite that extreme.
It's an interesting discussion. I haven't put a LOT of thought into it... just enough that I feel about 95% confident we can drop FK constraints in production, and getting that performance win would be great.
S: But Foreign Keys enforce the lowest level business rules, for example, "if an order exists, it must be related to a customer that exists." If you remove the constraint, you no longer have enforcement of that rule, which would allow any client of the database to (for example) remove a customer who owns orders, while leaving the orders in place. You would have to write more (error-prone) code in your application (and test that code) to prevent this.
In some places in the code, we don't use an ORM, and have just raw SQL in the code base. I think a good experiment would be to run some queries in search of orphans in our DBs.
I see as a benefit the use of constraints, because they are an additional layer of correctness/sanity checking on your application. They will expose bugs that would otherwise stay hidden, in development and in production. And I prefer to detect a bug than to "have an order with no customer".
Timeless Foreign Key Checklist
T: I guess what it comes down to is the following:
How much testing is done on application code before it's rolled out? If little to none? FKs will do the work for you in production.
How disastrous is it if there is broken Referential Integrity due to no FKs? If significant? FKs will be a good safety net.
How bad is the performance hit of FKs in production? If significant? FKs should be avoided.
In my experience, at most orgs (and my gut instinct is that this holds at Bigcommerce), #1 is little, #2 is insignificant, and #3 is significant.
As to your particular example, I do find it hard to imagine the situation where an order might get created for a customer that doesn't exist. Transactions can solve that problem.
Also, "broken" RI can be a benefit. For example, if we truly DELETE a customer from the database, we might still want a record of the fact that orders were placed by (a now-unknown) customer. If we enforce cascading DELETEs to save us from orphaned rows, we cannot have this arguably quite useful state in the database.
If the answer is to just flag the customer as deleted without actually DELETEing the row, then we've left the realm of where FKs help again.
Tim Ellis
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The Definitive Guide: Bellator 265 Preview
Now, Bellator 265 has taken some hits. Eight fights have been cancelled or rescheduled, with the most heartbreaking being Adam Borics vs. Jay Jay Wilson. Wilson missed weight by a whopping 4.4 pounds, the fight was cancelled, and Adam Borics got his show money (as he should).
Granted, even though we've lost a few fights, we still have some good stuff here. In addition, while these fights aren't immediately important, the results will have a definite impact on the larger Bellator landscape.
The headliners are a couple of heavyweight veterans. Red corner: Cheick Kongo. Blue corner: Sergei Kharitonov. But, before we get to that, let's take a look at the rest of the four-fight main card.
Catchweight (140LBS): Jornel Lugo vs. Keith Lee
Jornel Lugo (6-0, 3-0 Bellator) is an athlete out of the Combat Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. A professional competitor since 2019, Lugo is the 8th-ranked Bellator bantamweight and 2-0 since rejoining the promotion. I'm impressed with Lugo's record, because he is clearly being built, but not with cans. He has fought similar or more experienced competition his entire career. Most recently, Lugo captured a decision win over Cass Bell at Bellator 256.
Keith Lee (7-4, 2-1 Bellator) is an athlete out of Las Vegas, and his is the younger brother of UFC welterweight Kevin Lee. Lee began his MMA career in 2017 and he's fought for a number of promotions. Lee last competed at Bellator 253 where he dropped a unanimous decision to Raufeon Stots. While Lee has lost before, it was his first in a major promotion. So, it'll be interesting to see what improvements he's made.
What to Expect: I expect Lugo to win a decision. While Lee has great footwork and striking fundamentals, the reach of Lugo (73″) will be difficult to overcome. Lugo knows how to maximize his reach with leg kicks, but his boxing is not very developed. Lugo flails while boxing on the inside, and that is where Lee will have the biggest opportunity to win. That said, Lugo knows how to stay out out of danger most of the time, and he's pretty good on the floor as well. For a reference to how I think this will go, watch Lugo's win against Cortavious Romious from SFT 23.
Heavyweight: Marcelo Golm vs. Billy Swanson
Marcelo Golm (8-3, 0-0 Bellator) is an athlete out of American Top Team in Coconut Creek, Florida. He had a short stint in the UFC where he went 1-3, but after a couple wins on the regional scene, Golm is back in the big lights. He's had some difficulty keeping an opponent around in Bellator as Swanson is Golm's third opponent in one week.
Billy Swanson (4-1, 0-0 Bellator) is a fighter out of Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee. He just got the biggest opportunity of his young MMA career as he's been called on less than a week to take on Golm. While Swanson once fought as an amateur for Bellator, he is going from unsigned to fighting on the main card. Swanson was 8-1 as an amateur, so he has skills, and three of his four pro wins are via stoppage. He's got a chance here, but not a great one.
What to Expect: I fully expect Golm to finish Swanson in round one. While Swanson hits hard, that's not rare at heavyweight. It's something Golm has seen before, but at a much higher level. I would guess that Swanson hasn't faced the caliber of BJJ player that Golm represents. While Golm should be defensively responsible, he should win after his first takedown.
Welterweight: Logan Storley vs. Dante Schiro
Storley
Logan Storley (11-1, 6-1 Bellator) is an athlete out of Sanford MMA in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He last fought at Bellator 252 where he lost a split-decision to current champion Yaroslav Amosov. That said, a ton of observers thought that Storley won that fight. Storley is the hometown fighter at Bellator 265, and the matchmaking is clearly for Storley to rebound from his lone professional loss in a big way.
Schiro
Dante Schiro (8-2, 0-0 Bellator) is an athlete out of Madison, Wisconsin with Chosen Few Gym. Schiro went pro in 2018, and he's earned seven of his eight wins via stoppage. His only career setbacks were a couple razor-thin split-decisions. In addition, Schiro is coming off a TKO win over UFC-vet Kenny Robertson. Overall, Schiro seems to be a good, young fighter, but one that's meant to lose to the hometown fighter nonetheless.
What to Expect: I expect Storley to win a dominant and quick fight. Storley has fantastic wrestling and always-improving striking. Schiro is pretty tough, and he has serviceable skills everywhere. He is a submission threat, but on the feet, he seems pretty vulnerable. While Schiro isn't a pushover, and he clearly has talent, I'm sure he hasn't faced someone like Storley. I mean, Schiro is a +1300 underdog in some places, so if you have $20 you never want to see again, you know what to do.
Heavyweight: Cheich Kongo vs. Sergei Kharitonov
Cheick Kongo
Cheick Kongo (30-11-2, 12-3-1 Bellator) requires no introduction to longtime fans of MMA. Once a staple of the UFC heavyweight division, Kongo has been on a legendary run since moving to Bellator. In fact, Kongo hasn't been finished since 2013. Kongo is a fantastic striker, but he is very conservative. In addition, he is great at shoving people against the fence, and his wrestling game has come a long way since his UFC debut in 2006.
Kharitonov
Sergei Kharitonov (32-8, 3-2-1 Bellator) is an athlete out of the Netherlands with team Golden Glory. Kharitonov made his pro debut in 2000 and he's faced off with some of the biggest heavyweight names of the past twenty years. In addition to MMA, Kharitonov has competed in kickboxing and, most recently, boxing. He has wins over the likes of Nelson, Mitrione, Sokoudjou, Arlovski and Overeem, just to name a few. He is a power puncher, but he doesn't have many weapons as lethal as his hands.
What to Expect: I expect Kongo to win via stoppage, but not in the first round. Don't get me wrong, Kharitonov can definitively get it done with his striking power. That said, Kongo doesn't get caught often. That's mainly due to Kongo's conservative style and overall cage awareness. Kharitonov needs to start fast and throw caution to the wind to get it done. If he tries to play Kongo's game, that's a recipe for disaster.
And that's it! Enjoy, and I'll see you at the fights.
It's been a pleasure.
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Nkhata Bay is a busy fishing village on the shores of Lake Malawi, near Mzuzu. The town is well-placed for tourists to take advantage of the beaches at Chikale, where they can kayak, take day cruises, or dive and snorkel.
The diving schools in Nkhata Bay are famously cheap but quality varies so it is best to get recommendations beforehand. Other attractions in Nkhata Bay include tours of the Kawalazi coffee plantation and Chombe rubber and tea plantations, or hiking up the cliff faces to watch the fish eagles feeding.
There are a few craft markets in Nkhata Bay, and some bars and restaurants serving Malawian pizza and freshly caught fish. Nkhata Bay is the second busiest resort area on the lake, easily accessible by Malawian standards, and well-equipped for travellers, with a variety of accommodation being available.


Bay Lake Area History: Railroads & Mining on the Cuyuna Range This is a story of railroads, mining, immigration and entrepreneurs . ... just a portion of the Cuyuna Range. The dark blue lakes were mines. ... began shipping iron ore. Within 7 years, the volume reached 2,588,106 tones.
Previous Experience: As owner of the Pea Ridge Iron Ore mine, Mr. Kennedy fully developed the mining engineering plan and process facilities for the iron ore mine before selling off the iron ore portion of the mine, now in development. Mr.
Bay Lake Area History: Railroads & Mining on the Cuyuna Range This is a story of railroads, mining, immigration and entrepreneurs . ... transportation for outbound iron ore and inbound supplies, Cuyler Adams began ... just a portion of the Cuyuna Range. The dark blue lakes were mines.
Introduction - Razorback Iron Project The Razorback Project is a large low grade, high tonne magnetite – iron ore project in the central portion of the Mawson Iron Province and is wholly owned and operated by Magnetite Mines Limited.
Merritt is the man credited with the discovery of Iron Ore in 1890 near the present site of the City of Mountain Iron. Mountain Iron sits on the Mesabi Trail bicycle trail. The entire trail is 132 miles (213 km) long and stretches from Grand Rapids, MN, to Ely, MN.
Persistent liquid phases exist throughout the high temperature portion of the sintering cycle and can be formed using prealloyed powder ... Discussion is then focused on the effect of the chemical, physical, and mineralogical characteristics of iron ore on these steps and the consequences for sinter quality and sintering performance.
Those properties were to be mined to obtain about half of the iron ore for the former ESML plant. In December, however, Cliffs obtained the privately held GPIOP portion, which includes 553 purchased acres and 3,215 leased acres.
Even if a significant portion of China's 100 million tons of direct steel exports are replaced by an equivalent amount of indirect exports, it will not be sufficient to sustain global iron ore growth much beyond 2025.


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Terror raid teenager 'handed over'
An 18-year-old arrested in connection with an alleged al Qaida plot has been released into the custody of the UK Borders Agency, police said.
Police in Manchester after a series of terror raids
Twelve men, including 11 Pakistani nationals, were arrested on Wednesday after police raids in Greater Manchester, Liverpool and Lancashire.
A Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said: "The North West Counter Terrorism Unit was given warrants for the further detention of 11 men arrested."
Police now have a further seven days to detain the men, who range in age from 22 to 41 and are in custody in various locations across the country.
The 18-year-old has been released without charge in relation to the anti-terror operation and is now in the custody of the UK Borders Agency, which regulates immigration and can investigate the status of those entering the country.
Police are continuing to search 10 addresses in Liverpool and the Cheetham Hill area of Greater Manchester.
Officers and forensics teams have been meticulously searching the properties at Earle Road, Cedar Grove and Highgate Street in Liverpool, and in Cheetham Hill on Galsworthy Avenue, Abercarn Close, Esmond Road, Greenhill Road and Cheetham Hill Road.
Of the 12 men initially arrested, 10 hold student visas and one is a UK-born Briton.
In the aftermath of the arrests, Immigration minister Phil Woolas stepped into the row over security checks for foreign students by denying that they were inadequate.
He rejected claims that the UK would not cooperate with the Pakistani authorities over background checks on applicants for visas to study in Britain.
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Then and Now: 14th Street at 7th Avenue, NYC
14th Street and Seventh Avenue, NYC
Southwest corner of 14th Street and 7th Avenue, NYC, in 1972.
Today, we're going to examine some Manhattan history that ventures into the art world. I enjoy the above photo from 1972 for a couple of reasons. First, it reminds me of the famous 1942 Nighthawks oil painting by Edward Hopper which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago.
"Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper, 1942 Art Institute of Chicago.
"Nighthawks" happens to be a personal favorite of mine, and a print hangs in my dining room. When he painted Nighthawks, Hopper had his studio nearby at Washington Square. He did not identify the location, but he mentioned in passing that the painting "was suggested by a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet." That could have been Greenwich Avenue at West 11th Street, a mere three blocks south of the location of the 1972 photo. So, we are in the same vicinity for certain. Now, I'm not trying to make some outlandish claim that this photo reveals the true source of Hopper's inspiration, which is unknown and remains the subject of speculation. That would be presumptive. Great claims require great proof, and I have none aside from some visual similarities.
The opposite, southeast, corner of 7th Avenue at 14th Street. This would have been in the background of Hopper's "Nighthawks" painting. Notice the second-floor windows and compare them to those in Hopper's painting. See any similarities?
However, Bickford's Coffee Shop would have been in there in 1942, so I also cannot rule this location out as something that Hopper saw and perhaps filed away in his mind for a later painting. Perhaps you will agree with me that the scenes are uncannily similar and this type of scene is what Hopper saw in Greenwich Village which inspired "Nighthawks."
14th Street looking east toward 7th Avenue, NYC, in 1916. The Pentecostal Nazarene Mission Church, aka Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, shown in this photo was located at 210 West 14th Street. That would place this photo on the south side of 14th Street just to the right of the location shown in the 1972 photo. The pastor then was the Reverend Mrs. I.M. Jump. In the distance can be seen the IRT 6th Avenue elevated line, which already was 35 years old in 2016. The 7th Avenue line which resulted in the construction of the subway station seen in the 1972 photo took place shortly after this photo was taken.
Second, I love old photos of 14th Street. That is the least appreciated major cross street in Manhattan. The runner-up would be 23rd Street, but at least that has the Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park to give it an identity. All that 14th Street has is Union Square Park, also an underappreciated fixture that locals value more than visitors. Anyway, when I found the above 1972 photo taken on 14th Street, I decided to do a comparison of 14th Street at 7th Avenue from 1972 to 2017.
Southwest corner of 14th Street and 7th Avenue, NYC, in September 2017 (Google Street View).
The scene hasn't really changed much over the years. The subway stop which has been there since around 1916 and the architecture shows that we have the proper spot. The location across 7th Avenue that in 1972 was a pizza joint is now a bar and grill or computer repair shop, depending on exactly which storefront it inhabited.
Bickford's ca. 1950. Bickford's was a large chain, and while this location looks quite similar to 7th Avenue at 14th Street, it likely was elsewhere.
The location of the Bickford's Coffee Shop is now the Regal Gourmet Deli. Bickford's was a chain of eateries founded by Samuel Longley Bickford (1885 - 1959) in 1922. It went public in 1929, which was a good time to go public for the business's owners, though not so much for people who bought the stock. Bickford's was one of the first great fast-food chains, with locations primarily in New York but also across the country, including Florida and California. A favored haunt of artists and writers, and it is not impossible that Hopper himself stopped in at this particular Bickford's on 7th Avenue and 14th Street, considering that his studio was nearby. Bickford's reached its peak in the 1950s, but it closed its last New York restaurant in 1982. While it is now down to only three locations in Massachusetts, Bickford's remains in business as of 2019.
Anyway, the 1972 photographer had a keen eye for atmosphere and most likely also recognized the similarities of that scene with Hopper's famous painting. It's a nondescript part of Greenwich Village now, but the southwest corner of 7th Avenue and 14th Street has a lot of history to it and a story to tell if you're willing to listen to it.
Thanks for visiting this entry in our "the more things change, the more they stay the same" series. The history of 14th Street is rarely noticed, but it is rich, evocative, and worth remembering. Please visit some of our other entries in this series!
Posted by James Bjorkman at 12:57 PM
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The High Fi MMJ Awareness Event happened on Sunday, May 18, and your favorite groups of nurses, the 420Nurses, were there big time. But rather than tell you, the NEWS will show you.
Here Summer Rain gives the 'smell to tell if it's swell' test to product.
Some 420Nurses took a minute to watch the concert happening on the first floor of the event.


What are we supposed to do with these people?
Whenever you hear some wind bag in the media--or anywhere else for that matter--carping on about morality as it applies to diversity, what they are really describing is the "moral" destruction of White people, plain and simple. The media, more than anything else, really are the key to this problem. It is they which have undermined the old morality, promoted the new morality, and also taken the vanguard in destroying the homogeneity of our people, in which the old morality was normal, and brought about the social and racial chaos (Affirmative Action, miscegenation, busing, open borders, etc) which is part and parcel to the media's "new morality" we see today. If we are to have an instinctive informed rejection of the new morality then we must have, for starters, dedicated activists who aren't afraid to tell, and enforce, these kinds of truths.


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It's images like these that must be archived properly. I want to ascertain who all these folk are and which farms they were from. Only with this sort of information does the collection really become a useful archive.


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Italské egejské ostrovy (italsky Isole italiane dell'Egeo; řecky Ιταλικά νησιά του Αιγαίου), do roku 1923 nazývané jako Italské okupované egejské ostrovy (italsky Isole occupate italiane dell'Egeo; Τα ιταλικά κατεχόμενα νησιά του Αιγαίου), byla skupina dvanácti hlavních ostrovů (Dodekanés) v jihovýchodní části Egejského moře, které spolu s okolními ostrůvky patřily v letech 1912 – 1943 k Italskému království.

Historie
Dodekanés až na Kastellorizo byly roku 1912 během Italsko-turecké války součástí Itálie. Roku 1912 Itálie souhlasila v souladu s "dohodou Ouchy" s návratem ostrovů do Osmanské říše, avšak s neurčitostí textu, prozatímní správu vedla dále Itálie. Roku 1923 se Turecko v Lausannské smlouvě vzdává veškerých nároků na ostrovy. Během První svétové války byl ostrov Kastellorizo obsazen Francií a roku 1919 byl připojen k Itálii. Dodekanés bylo anektováno Fašistickou Itálií se jménem Possedimenti Italiani dell'Egeo.

Roku 1923 civilní guvernéři nahradili vojenské velitele. Italská politika vůči domorodému obyvatelstvu měla dvě fáze: zatímco guvernér Mario Lago liberální diplomat, favorizoval mírové soužití mezi různými etnickými skupinami a Italové vybírali strategii integrace, jeho nástupce Cesare Maria De Vecchi se pustil do nucené kampaně italianizace ostrovů.

Jediným odvětvím, kde Lago byl neochotný bylo náboženství: východní ritus byl potlačen a sloužilo se jen v katolické ritu.

Italština byla povinným jazykem a na školách se řečtina učila jako dobrovolný jazyk.

Mussolini chtěl z ostrovů udělat "vitríny" - ukázkové území Italské koloniální říše, a proto se pustil do série masivních veřejných prací, nové silnice, monumentální stavby v souladu s fašistickou architekturou aj. Mnoho příkladů italské architektury lze stále nalézt na ostrovech:
 Grande Albergo delle Rose (dnes "Casino Rodos"), postavený Florestanem Di Fausto a Michelem Plataniou
 Casa del Fascio of Rhodes
 Chiesa di San Giovanni, postavený Florestanem Di Fausto
 Teatro Puccini (dnes Národní divadlo)
 Palazzo del Governatore, postavený Florestanem Di Fausto
 Villaggio rurale San Benedetto (dnes Kolymbia)
 Città di Portolago (dnes Lakki) - ostrov Leros

Po italské kapitulaci v září 1943 se ostrovy staly bojištěm Němců, Britů a Italů. Němci zvítězili ačkoliv roku 1944 byli vyhnáni z území Řecka. Ostrovy byly obsazeny až do konce Druhé světové války. Po skončení války se dostaly pod britskou prozatímní vládu. Roku 1947 se Mírovou smlouvou dostaly pod vládu Řecka.

Administrativní členění

Zdroj: Census of 1936
Zdroj: Annuario Generale, Consociazione Turistica Italiana, Roma, 1938

Reference

Zaniklé státy Evropy
Itálie

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We are learning all about dinosaurs in preparation for the PTO sponsored Family Fun Night!
1st, 2nd and 3rd grades practiced the fine art of asking questions, an important part of the research process. Students browsed print resources and dinosaurs apps for inspiration.
4th grade learned how to use Google search operators to efficiently narrow search results. 4P and 4F explored dinosaurs, while 4S and 4U used their newly learned skills to research countries for a class project.
5th grade learned how to used advanced search features to improve their web search strategies in preparation for an upcoming class assignment.
Sixth grade learned how to use advanced search features to improve their web search.
Seventh grade dove deep into the history of the Internet.
Eighth grade researched answers to 1st grade questions about stegosaurus They shared the answers through simple picture books.


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International student enrolments in colleges, Canada
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International student enrolments in universities, Canada
Canadian student enrolments in colleges, Canada
Canadian student enrolments in universities, Canada
Student enrolment at Canadian public universities and colleges rose for the third consecutive academic year in 2017/2018, largely driven by higher enrolments by international students, particularly from China and India.
Over 2.1 million students enrolled in Canadian public universities and colleges in the 2017/2018 academic year, up 1.9% from the previous year. This growth was largely attributable to an increase of 15.6% (+40,014) in international student enrolments in universities and colleges, while enrolments by Canadian students edged up 0.2% (+3,081).
Just over half of international students are from China or India
Canadian enrolments in public universities and colleges have generally been trending downwards since 2012/2013, but the number of international students has almost doubled—accounting for 14.1% (296,469) of all postsecondary enrolments in 2017/2018.
While Canada attracted students from over 200 countries in 2017/2018, just over half of all international students enrolled in Canadian public colleges and universities hailed from China (28.1%) or India (22.8%).
China was the top country of citizenship for international students in seven provinces. Conversely, India accounted for the largest share of international students in Ontario, while it was France in Quebec and Trinidad and Tobago in New Brunswick. These variations may reflect specific provincial or institutional policies and partnerships with different countries.
A small share of international students (1.7%) were enrolled at foreign campuses or in distance learning programs offered by Canadian postsecondary institutions.
The growth in international student enrolments was more pronounced for colleges, with the number of international college students up by almost one-third (+30.3% or +23,247) from 2016/2017 to 2017/2018. This increase was mostly attributable to students from India (+18,870). The number of international university students rose 9.3% (+16,767), led by India (+5,562) and China (+5,151).
Enrolments in STEM programs are on the rise
Students enrol in a diverse range of programs, which are broadly classified as STEM programs or BHASE programs. STEM includes science and science technology, engineering and engineering technology, and mathematics and computer and information sciences. BHASE includes business and administration; arts and humanities; social and behavioural sciences; legal professions and studies; health care; education and teaching; and trades, services, natural resources and conservation.
In the 2017/2018 academic year, just over one-quarter of students (26.3%, or 494,244) were studying towards a credential in a STEM program. Enrolments in these programs have risen by 16.4% since 2013/2014. Higher enrolments in mathematics and computer and information sciences (up 46.9% since 2013/2014) led the gains over this period. Meanwhile, enrolments in BHASE programs decreased by 0.7%, largely as a result of lower enrolments in the arts and humanities (-10.6%).
Students may change programs over the course of their studies. A previously released study by Statistics Canada showed that 4% of students who enrolled in STEM programs leading to a college diploma ended up switching and eventually graduating from a BHASE program four years after enrolment. In contrast, just under 1% of students who started in a BHASE program had switched to, and graduated from, a STEM program four years after enrolment.
Men accounted for 62.1% of enrolments in STEM programs in 2017/2018, while women accounted for 37.9%. Within STEM programs, women outnumbered men in sciences and science technology, while men accounted for the majority of enrolments in engineering and engineering technology and in mathematics and computer and information sciences.
Women traditionally represent the majority of enrolments in BHASE programs, and they accounted for 62.0% of enrolments in these programs in 2017/2018. Women outnumbered men across all BHASE programs, with the exception of business and administration, where men accounted for just over half (50.2%) of enrolments.
Number of postsecondary graduates continues to rise
In the 2017 calendar year, 543,321 students received a credential, such as a certificate, diploma or degree, from a public postsecondary institution, up 2.2% from a year earlier.
Almost half of 2017 graduates obtained a degree at the bachelor level or above, with 35.8% of graduates receiving a bachelor's degree, 11.5% a master's degree and 1.5% a doctorate.
Women accounted for 57.3% of all graduates in 2017, and they outnumbered male graduates at every level of education except at the doctoral level, where they accounted for 45.6% of all graduates.
Graduates with higher levels of education generally have higher earnings. A recent study using data from the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform showed that, when earnings of graduates with different types of credentials (for example, college-level certificate versus diploma, undergraduate degree versus master's degree, or master's degree versus doctorate) were compared, the gap between the earnings of undergraduate and master's degree holders was the largest. Master's degree holders were earning, on average, 40% to 47% more than undergraduate degree holders two years after graduation.
Enrolments in Canadian universities and colleges by STEM/BHASE credential program, 2013/2014 and 2017/2018
Graduates from Canadian universities and colleges, 2016 and 2017
Note to readers
Administrative data on Canadian postsecondary institution enrolments and graduates are obtained from public colleges and universities using the Postsecondary Student Information System. The counts exclude students enrolled in apprenticeship programs. Enrolment and graduate counts for certain institutions are preliminary or are based on estimates.
The levels of enrolment presented are not meant to represent a complete enumeration of all students at postsecondary institutions during the 2017/2018 academic year. Rather, they are based on students enrolled in postsecondary institutions at the time of the fall snapshot date, that is, a single date chosen by the institution that falls between September 30 and December 1. Therefore, students who are not enrolled during this time period are excluded. This has a greater impact on colleges as they have a continuous intake of students and offer shorter programs.
Enrolments are based on program counts and not on student counts. If a student is enrolled in more than one program as of the snapshot date, then all of their programs are included in the count.
Graduate data are published based on the calendar year.
Some programs at the bachelor level and above can be offered in colleges.
All numbers, including the totals, have been rounded; therefore, sums of the values may not match the total counts. Percentage changes were calculated using rounded values. The data are subject to annual revisions. These revisions are applied to include new data submissions from 2004, any updates to classification standards and changes in concepts.
The infographic "International students enrolments at Canadian public colleges and universities, 2017/2018" is now available as part of the series Statistics Canada – Infographics (Catalogue number11-627-M).
For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact us (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; 514-283-8300; STATCAN.infostats-infostats.STATCAN@canada.ca) or Media Relations (613-951-4636; STATCAN.mediahotline-ligneinfomedias.STATCAN@canada.ca).


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Roberto Fonseca
Roberto Fonseca (born 1975, Havana) is a Cuban jazz pianist. From an early age, Fonseca was surrounded by music: his father was a drummer, his mother, Mercedes Cortes Alfaro, a professional singer (she sings on her son's most recent solo album, Zamazu), and his two older half-brothers, Emilio Valdés (drums) and Jesús "Chuchito" Valdés Jr. (piano) are also two young musicians of great international prestige.
After an early interest in drums, Fonseca switched to piano at the age of 8, and by 14 was experimenting with fusing American jazz and traditional Cuban rhythms; he appeared at Havana's Jazz Plaza Festival in 1991 when he was just 15.
Fonseca studied at the Cuba's prestigious Instituto Superior de Arte, where he obtained a master's degree in composition, even though he often says that he was a really bad student. After earning his degree, he left Cuba to find his sound.
His first album, En El Comienzo, which he recorded with Javier Zalba and the group Temperamento, was awarded Cuba's Best Jazz Album in 1999. This success encouraged him to work on two solo records: Tiene Que Ver and Elengo, combining latin jazz, drum and bass, hip-hop, urban music and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
In 2001, Fonseca went to Japan to record No Limit: Afro Cuban Jazz. He also toured with the Buena Vista Social Club the same year and has worked with Rubén González, Ibrahim Ferrer, Cachaito, Guajiro Mirabal and Manuel Ga
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A 'gomukhi' is a special cover made in the shape of a cow's mouth. It is mentioned in our ancient texts that while chanting mantras on a rosary it should always be kept inside the gomukhi bag.
This gomukhi is made of cotton and has the sacred symbol 'Vrindavan Dham - Hare Ram Hare Ram, Ram Ram Hare Hare - Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare' printed on it.
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The Walk of Fame Class of 2019 has been officially revealed, courtesy of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
For film honours, we have the names of Alan Arkin, Kristen Bell, Daniel Craig, Robert De Niro, Guillermo del Toro, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, Tyler Perry, and Gena Rowlands, while in the television category, there's, surprisingly, Alvin and the Chipmunks, as well as Candice Bergen, Guy Fieri, Terrence Howard, Stacy Keach, Sid and Marty Krofft, Lucy Liu, Mandy Moore, Dianne Wiest, and Julia Child (in a posthumous way).
On their part, the recording group include Michael Buble, Cypress Hill, the Lettermen, Faith Hill, Tommy Mottola, P!nk, and Teddy Riley. Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris will be recognised for their time together as "Trio," and Jackie Wilson will be honoured posthumously.
And to finalise this, Idina Menzel, Cedric the Entertainer, Judith Light, and Paul Sorvino will be recognized in the live theatre/live performance category.
What do you think about this news? Are you excited for this artists?
The dates for these ceremonies have not been revealed.


Unless you live under a rock, you've probably noticed this blog has moved. Until Monday, when this site went live, it was hosted at Freethought Blogs, as were about half the other blogs here. I've said my goodbyes to FTB, where I was fortunate enough to spend three years. Now it's my turn, and my pleasure, to welcome you to the Orbit. If you haven't already, see our public press release; then read our About page, then watch our video on Kickstarter, where we reached our first goal in just over a day. If you're still hungry, follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
A lot's been happening these past few days, and we're still scrambling to catch up. In particular, there have been questions about why some of us left Freethought Blogs to create this site, what our relationship will be and what the differences between us are. Colleagues of mine, Heina and Stephanie among them, have already gone some way to fleshing out the details, and it's worth noting that ex-FTBers constitute only one part of our membership—but since it's true that we were the ones who decided to launch our own site, I want to give my own answers to those questions.
To begin with, the Orbit is an independent site. Those of us who've moved here from FTB are proud of our work there and want to continue it here, but the association is informal: we're less a sister site and more of a mutant offspring. As for why we decided to start our own site, the short version is that a few months back, when conversations about updating FTB's internal structure took place, several of us came to the realisation simultaneously that our ideal network would be easier to build from scratch than to mould by reforming a site with its own history and machinery.
The more we talked about the site we wanted to be, the clearer it was that our best moments were when we didn't copy FTB, and that it wasn't the site most writers at Freethought Blogs had signed up to. We didn't want colleagues to have to choose between leaving a reshaped FTB and staying on a site no longer resembling the one they'd joined, so we made our own plans. If Friendly Atheist readers were wondering, the reason Pharyngula isn't hosted here is that a network cofounded by PZ Myers already exists: our network isn't that network, and it works differently.
With that in mind, here are some ways the Orbit differs from other sites.
As detailed on our About page, everything behind the scenes here is done by bloggers, and everyone who writes here has a role. (Some people handle the paperwork, some admissions, some the social feeds.) Patheos is a highly individualised network where writers can focus on doing their own thing; the Orbit is a collective democracy whose members all know each other, share a similar outlook and socialise together when not handling site business. FTB is somewhere between the two, a network where some people work behind the scenes and others just blog.
Every point on that scale has its pros and cons. Out of those three networks, the Orbit is the one that demands most time and engagement from its members when they're not blogging. The upside is that we're far more of a community. Part of the point of running the place through working groups is that everyone here has an investment in making the site a good workplace, and we have internal systems in place for getting to know each other, resolving conflicts and supporting each other's mental health. You don't just write a blog at the Orbit—you live here.
2. We host fewer blogs.
Traditionally, FTB has had thirty to forty blogs. Although we don't currently have a hard limit, we'll be sticking in the region of twenty-five. Once your network contains a certain number of people, it's likely quite a few of them will never interact. Rather than adding more members, our strategy for growth involves maintaining a productive atmosphere, collaborating with each other on content separate from our own blogs and promoting each other's work. Instead of looking for new members all the time, our focus will be directing our efforts inwardly.
3. We have a flatter structure.
Skepchick has Rebecca Watson in charge; the atheist channel at Patheos has Dale McGowan; FTB has an executive committee. Round here, no one is in charge—or, rather, all of us are. Our structure is completely nonhierarchical: we get things done by working in small, dedicated groups with their own areas—finance, tech, policy—that liaise with each other and have no governance from above. Broadly, they have autonomy in their own areas. When necessary, including during admissions, all our bloggers vote, and upholding the site rules is the policy group's job.
4. We pay writers more evenly.
At FTB, proceeds from ad revenue after hosting costs are divided among bloggers according to how much traffic they get: if you get five percent of the site's hits, you get five percent of the cash. The Orbit's system differs in two ways. Firstly, now that we've raised enough on Kickstarter to cover our first year of hosting costs, all ad revenue will go directly toward paying writers. Secondly, only half the total will be allocated by views the same way as at FTB; the other half will be divided equally between all bloggers.
I'm proud that this is our site's approach, and I'd like other networks adopt it. It reflects both our desire to be collaborative—everyone on this site has a material interest in promoting everyone else's work—and our acceptance the blogosphere isn't a meritocracy. All kinds of factors influence traffic to someone's blog beyond how good it is—how much spare time they have, when they started and who they know, their physical ability to write—and we want to help smaller blogs on their way up.
It's true, of course, that a large percentage of a small sum still isn't much, but we don't want to build our audience by getting heavy traffic on some blogs and next to none on others. If we're to grow, it's going to be together, with the benefits spread around—and as you might be noticing, together is what this site is about.
No pop-up ads. This is great.
Also, the organization structure sounds a bit like Holacracy, which is a system designed to make organizations run smoothly without a "boss". They might have some tips that The Orbit would find useful!
One thing I liked about the old FTB home page, back before it got "improved", was that each blog had a bit of real estate with its logo and the title (and link) of the most recent post on that blog.
Since a lot of my favorite bloggers didn't post very often (I like to say "quality over quantity"), it was an easy way to see whether to visit them, and I could ignore the blogs I didn't like. The current FTB scheme of showing the "most recent" articles (for some inscruitable definition of "most recent") privileges the more prolific bloggers.
This is fantastic to hear and I have found a true online home. I don't just like this place, I need this place; especially right now. I am excited for the future and getting to know all the other writers and new commenters too. It was also fun to be a part of the build up over at the pub.
Sounds a wee bit socialist to me. You're probably for Sanders right? Well okay then. I'm in.


It is my pleasure to invite you to attend the 2017 Presidential Peace Conference on 9-10 June 2017, taking place in Atlanta immediately before the RI Convention. This special event will celebrate our work to address the underlying causes of conflict and our success in making peace a priority. We'll hear from inspirational speakers and look ahead to opportunities to continue our steadfast commitment to peace.
The program will include internationally recognized keynote speakers, breakout sessions, and networking events that explore Rotary's commitment to peace. The event is open to the entire Rotary family and guests. Registration for the Presidential Peace Conference is US $126.50 and space is limited. Learn more about the Conference and register online.
I hope you'll join me in Atlanta to celebrate our accomplishments and recommit our dedicated efforts to Rotary Serving Humanity.
Early-registration rates for the RI Convention end after 15 December. Take advantage of the early-bird prices and register today for the Peace Conference and Convention.
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On my recent browsing trip I stopped by Ann Taylor Loft to see if they had any great spring finds for us gals on a budget. Loft is Ann's younger and (not much) cheaper sister, they have great finds and most the time a good sale will come around and make everything a little more reasonably priced.
I did however find these great Double Layer Placket Cardigans (which come in an array of colors) for $34.99, and a cute Petal Bib Top for $24.99. Their Boyfriend Jeans were a little steep at $79.50.
Love those sandals! Where did you find them?