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New Zealand's Bridges: ANZAC Bridge across the Avon River in Christchurch (2)
March 2011 (-43.501 Degrees, 172.701 Degrees) ANZAC Bridge
The ANZAC Bridge has a 3-span voided slab superstructure on 4 column bents. It was built in 2000 and has a precast superstructure, precast bent caps, and precast columns. That makes it a very innovative design. However, the seismic design isn't easy to understand. It appears that the bridge was meant to survive the earthquake through brute strength. There are no dampers or plastic hinges designed to limit the seismic force. Moreover, the columns are too big to be damaged and so most of the damage was due to shear at the bent caps or at the column to bent cap connections. Bridges are supposed to be weaker in flexure than in shear to avoid catastrophic collapse in case the earthquake force is larger than expected.
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System1 was founded with a simple mission—use technology to make advertising better for consumers and advertisers. Beyond the search box. System1 fuses technology and science to identify & unlock consumer intent.
GOAT Group
GOAT is the largest marketplace for buying and selling authentic sneakers. Established in 2015, the platform offers the largest selection of sneakers ranging from general releases to rare exclusives. Through its managed marketplace model, authentication service and buyer protection, GOAT is the most trusted option in the industry.
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ChowNow is the ordering platform dedicated to helping local restaurants grow and compete in a sustainable way. At ChowNow, we're driven by one purpose: to help local restaurants thrive. By helping diners discover their delicious creations and helping restaurants connect with customers new and old.
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Our mission is to inspire healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We know that sweetgreen is a critical link between growers and consumers, and we feel a responsibility to protect the future of real food.
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PatientPop is a rapidly-growing start-up in the heart of Silicon Beach. Our office knows how to play, and we're also serious about pursuing excellence and owning the results of everything we do. We value innovation and collaboration, and believe in empowering our team to build and drive their own careers.
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Centerfield develops intelligent Big Data driven marketing and sales technology utilizing real time biddable media (RTB), automated call routing and customized scripting. Our proprietary platform, Dugout, combined with our 1500 person sales and retention center delivers new customers at scale to many of the leading brands worldwide.
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Newly renamed A.S. Pushkin Sheremetyevo Airport gets a monument to the groundbreaking poet
Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport was recently renamed in honor of the poet Alexander Pushkin. To celebrate the change, officials installed a monument to Pushkin inside the airport on June 5. Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky participated in the monument's unveiling ceremony. The sculpture itself, created by Alexander Burganov, portrays the poet reciting a poem aloud, the airport's press service explained. The spine of the book in the poet's hand features a hidden QR code that allows travelers to download an audiobook of Pushkin's works. The sculpture joins at least 11 other major monuments to Pushkin in the Russian capital alone.
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Resident Evil 2 Remake is behind the corner and brings with him a lot of nostalgic feelings and a few pre-order bonuses that you can add to your game's version.
The game seems really good (here you can read our review) thanks to the new graphic's engine and the wonderful atmosphere in every single place.
The game comes with some costumes and special weapons as pre-order DLC, so with this guide, you can learn how to redeem them in your game.
If the pre-order bonus content is the Outfits/Clothes then you need to look for them in the "COSTUMES" section on the Main Menu. This COSTUMES is accessible from the in-game menu as well, all you have to do is PAUSE the game and access it from the in-game menu that will appear on the screen.
If the pre-order bonus item is a weapon then you will have to look for them in the box that will be find next to the typewriters in the game. Look for the typewriters in the Safe Zone - the box next to it will carry your pre-order bonus item.
That's all we have about where to find Resident Evil 2 Remake Pre-order Bonus items location.
Are you aware of the fact that the typewriters that you come across in Resident Evil 2 Remake can be used to SAVE YOUR GAME? Check out our guide on how to save your game in RE2 Remake (Auto Save and Manual Save).
All of them are only skins or similar, so nothing can give you a run more easy on the game.


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What are talking about here, what liquid is a it?
Water goes in the flush and blue goes in the loo.
Can you post a photo of the outside of the van where the toilet compartment is?
I expect your toilet flush draws from the main water tank, not a great idea IMHO, but if there is a filler flap outside above the toilet locker that would indicate a separate tank.
Only you know how much flush water you use, it is important to economise where you can.
Hi Mark and welcome to MHF.
Surely if this is a new van, then you should have manuals for everything, if not we are happy to answer you of course, but I would be heading back to the dealer and asking for a proper hand over where they should take you through all aspects of the van, until you are happy with them, and also show you where to find these in the manuals later should you need to, this is all part of what you pay for when using a dealer.
As Geoff (Tugboat) says if it draws water from it's own tank then there will be a filler point close to the cassette door, inside there is a real treat for you at some point , all part of the fun, gloves and hand wipes prepared in advance of course.


Gel technology is a type of VRLA battery where the liquid electrolyte is suspended in a fumed silica gelling agent causing it to partially solidify. The gelling agent offers superior resistance to leakage and enhanced durability with little maintenance and no watering.
Exide invented the patented GEL battery technology under the dryfit® trademark*. Instead of being in liquid form, the electrolyte is thickened into a gel-like mass. The GEL battery is a highly robust energy-system with best-in-class deep cycle properties, allowing unmatched safe depth of discharge. Exide's special patented design of pressure relief valves results in a fully sealed battery that can be safely stored and used in almost any location or environment, even transported by air. Crucially, GEL also has the smallest volume and weight ratio for the amount of Watt hours supplied.
As an energy supply battery, GEL is the ultimate choice for many demanding applications including boats, motorhomes and caravans. GEL batteries are also essential in the latest commercial vehicles with dual battery systems, or indeed in any vehicle with extensive electric power needs. The benefits of GEL make it popular in construction, mining, agriculture and industry. The technology is also used to provide remote power, everywhere from local highways to the Arctic Circle. Exide is currently working on achieving higher performance levels through the introduction of carbon additives, re-designed negative electrodes and new grids to produce faster charging times and improved cycling performance, making GEL an even more effective supply battery.
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Government report highlights damage of 'no-deal' Brexit
A new government report has highlighted the dangers that a no-deal Brexit would bring to the UK's automotive industry.
Several factors would combine to put the UK market on the back foot, with costs of preparation and tariffs on vehicles and parts combining to affect every automotive item produced in the country for foreign shores, in and out of Europe, suffering.
The report: The consequences of ″No Deal″ for UK Businesses was published by the Exiting the European Union Committee, and highlights the consequences of leaving the European Union without an agreement on a number of different markets.
Increased costs
The report highlights that leaving the EU without a deal would mean that the UK automotive sector would be subject to the EU's Common External Tariff on its exports to the EU27, its largest market, adding costs estimated at around £2,700 (€3,006) for UK cars.
These costs would undermine the competitiveness of UK exported cars compared to cars manufactured and traded within the EU and cars manufactured in countries, including South Korea and Japan, with free trade agreements with the EU.
Additionally, without any agreement on cumulation with the EU, it would be difficult for UK-manufactured cars to benefit from any trade deals reached with third countries as, for most lines, the proportion of UK-produced content is currently below 50%.
While some suppliers and manufacturers are looking to on-shore production, both in the UK and the EU, the report suggests there is evidence of jobs being lost in the supply chain as manufacturers in the EU27 reduce their own exposure to the disruption of a no-deal exit.
The committee also highlighted that Turkey is one of the UK's biggest suppliers of components, and as a member of a customs union with the EU, a no-deal exit would require the country to erect new barriers and checks in its bilateral trade with the UK, placing further costs on the UK automotive sector. The Committee notes that trucks attempting to enter the EU via the border between Turkey and Bulgaria can be subject to tailbacks of up to 17km and delays of up to 30 hours.
As the UK automotive sector relies on highly integrated supply chains, delays at the border will create disruption and inefficiency for businesses relying on components arriving ″just in time″ and in the correct sequence. Failure to maintain these processes risks putting the UK automotive sector at a competitive disadvantage in a highly competitive industry.
′We welcome the Exiting the European Union Committee report and its categorical finding that a ′no deal' Brexit would be a fundamental risk to the UK automotive industry's competitiveness and jobs,' comments Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). ′We have always been clear about the devastating consequences of ′no deal', and as the report says, planning for such an outcome has already ′had a chilling effect on investment in the sector'.
′UK and EU automotive industries are deeply integrated, and it is vital we maintain all the conditions that have made us globally competitive. As echoed in the report, at the very least, this means tariff-free trade, frictionless borders. ′No deal' must be avoided at all costs or risk irreversible damage to this vital sector.'
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Retired seaman to sail the Cape to Rio race to raise funds for a disadvantaged student
Phil Wade is sailing the Cape to Rio race to raise funds for a marine education bursary so that a deserving young lady can also go to sea one day.
by Caryn Edwards
Marine Inspirations co-founder, Phil Wade, is sailing the Cape to Rio race to raise funds for a hopeful student, Nqobile.
Nqobile's dream to sail
Sailing veteran, Wade, now 75, has an urge to go back to sailing across an ocean on a smaller boat, much like he did in his youth. He has chosen to sale the Cape to Rio race for Nqobile, who comes from a very disadvantaged background, and would otherwise never be able to afford her studies.
Wade says, "Nqobile is an intelligent and mature young lady of 16 who currently lives in a shack with her all-female family in Cato Manor township just outside Durban. This is a very poor area and is fraught with social ills and extremely high unemployment. Her father is deceased and her mother is unemployed. The family's only income is from social welfare grants which is inadequate."
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Ithemba Lethu and Sail Africa
An NGO called Ithemba Lethu works in the Cato Manor and offers peer leadership programmes at seven schools in the region. The NGO mentors and promotes outstanding youngsters between the ages of 12 and 16 in order to produce role models and create upliftment.
As part of this programme, Sail Africa, another NGO, offers sailing as an extra mural activity to one of these schools. A facilitator brings the Grade 8 and 9 learners down to Point Yacht Club each week, and this is how Nqobile started sailing two years ago.
Nqobile is currently first in her Grade at school and is committed to a career at sea. Sail Africa put her forward for a Bursary at Lawhill Maritime Centre in Simonstown and Marine Inspirations are raising the funds to pay for this. Nqobile is excited about going and is determined to work hard to achieve her dream.
All money raised will go towards a three-year bursary which will cover all her costs, school fees, full board and lodging plus travel home from Simonstown to Durban during school holidays.
For more information on how you can donate to make Nqobile's dream come true, please visit the GoFundMe page that Phil has set up.
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A Sonic Reading of Visualised Space: A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
Robert AA Lowe in A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
Philip Brophy listens in to the occultic meanderings of Ben Rivers and Ben Russell's experimental film and finds the secret power of audiovision. A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness will be screened at Bristol's Arnolfini as part of Off The Page, The Wire's literary festival for sound and music, 26–28 September
What does an image sound like? What does a sound look like? These are persistent questions in defining what the term audiovision means – yet one wonders if these questions miss the mark. Especially when considering the paucity of engaging son-image constructs in the entwined realms of film, music, and music-video. Ben Rivers and Ben Russell's collaborative experimental film A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness (2013) offers an exciting point from which to observe the dynamics between sound and image. But let's move cautiously. Audiovision necessitates perceiving things not evident on the surface.
The narrative structure of the film is broken into three domains with one performer appearing throughout: Robert AA Lowe. Maybe he's the thing we should follow, but the film grants no reward as we track his meanderings. As Robert defines the momentum of the film, let's start at the end and work backwards, picking up the audiovisual crumbs he and the film have left in their wake.
The film finishes with Robert disappearing into darkness. He's walking down a dingy side-street. The camera's f-stop allows him to become nothing, to blur into the beyond of the film. Location sound atmosphere embeds this disappearance. The film audiovisually naturalises itself, resembling a documentary through the use of apparently real sounds from the outside world.
Preceding Robert's walk-out/fade-out is a live performance. He had just appeared as a guitarist/vocalist in a black metal four-piece who run through some extended songs on a small stage in a bar in Oslo. The concert footage and Robert 's exit through the venue onto the street feels like a single extended long shot.
But the camera isn't gracefully gliding like a prancing ballerina. It is hesitant and unsure of its motivation. When the camera finds something of interest – a hand, a face, always a performative fragment – it rests with it. It's a quizzical perspective, like aliens watching humans or humans watching aliens. For sure, any underground gig by any of the current plethora of musical sub-sub-sub-genres can appear like this to an outsider.
Still from A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
If the camerawork seems only forensic – analysing without disclosing its findings – what is hyper-analytical in A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness is its unique soundtrack. This isn't your standard setup where footage is synched to a feed from the mixing desk and combined with a slight layer of ambient room sound. When we're resting with any one performer, the sound of the music initially sounds live but soon reveals itself to be analytically live: we hear a 'de-tracked' version of the whole band sound, as if a mic is placed just against Robert 's amp when he's being filmed, or among the drum kit when the drummer is playing and so on. It's not like dub mixing, though, where absence is deliberately rendered palpable and erotic. Here, the sound always seems detotalised, replicating the kind of perceptual focus we use everyday to filter out meaning from noise so we can concentrate on what we desire to listen to.
It's a remarkable scene, born of a type of audiovision that psychoacoustically relates to this dominant everyday mode of unlistening. The result is like a morphing undulation of dimensional fabrics which weave a proximate sense of being in the space itself. The real-time/space continuum effect – as with much of the history of experimental film and video practice – strives to anti-narrate the places it depicts by transfiguring the nominal language of angles and edits, in order to demonstrate how film language and form constructs its unreal version of time and space.
But this same history is also profoundly biased toward visual, optical and ocular modes of signification. The experimental film maker Stan Brakhage undoubtedly forwards a comprehensive pondering of how an alternative cinema can narrate without using realist, naturalist or illusory codes of representation inherited from previous centuries of literature, theatre and painting – but it's all eye, eye, eye. Watching and hearing Robert and the band onstage reminds one of the invisibility of the ear, ear, ear.
After the camera has become absorbed in the world of its onstage performers – replicating and evoking their own solipsistic rituals of noise engulfment – it floats out to the audience. There it sails on a small ocean of facial islands, buoyed randomly, bumping into inscrutable visages engulfed in their own solitary consummation of the sound waves radiating from the now-unseen stage. This on-screen shift from performer to auditor usually expresses an anthropological impulse, elevating the real face of a real person engaged in experiencing something. But Spell feels devoid of this humanist impulse. It's driven by the animist allure of sound.
While watching the black metal song performance meandering from performer to audience, merged with strange ambient inflections of sonic precision and diffusion, I thought of two similar deconstructivist moments of visualised real-time performance.
The first is the amazing 'matrix-mix' by François Musy for Jean-Luc Godard's little-acknowledged Soigne Ta Droite (1987 – Keep Up Your Right). It depicts an intense relationship (real and imagined) of Catherine Ringer and Fred Chinchin of the group Les Rita Mitsouko as they embark on recording a new album. While Godard's previous experiment in the aural deconstruction of music recording is the more famous 1968 film Sympathy For The Devil (originally titled One Plus One), Keep Up Your Right is more about tape-time and multi-tracking recording. Ringer and Chinchin play out their heady l'amour fou while they play the various channels of their multi-track in the studio, granting us a pre-Classic Albums insight to the formulative possibilities of a song prior to its mixing and mastering. Musy and Godard also utilise the same multi-track as part of their mix of music throughout the film, so that we don't actually hear the songs as much as we are inserted into their possible outcomes, thus leaving us as unfixed and dislocated auditors. This is the exhilarating feeling I got while floating with the camera between performers and audience members in Spell.
The other remembered moment is less radical: David Simon and Eric Overmeyer's TV series Treme (2010–13). Most praise for this series is aligned with conservative liberal ideals of musicology – that somewhere there exists 'real music made by real people', or contradictorily, 'real music made by real poets who observe real people'. Treme certainly pays lip service to these notions, mostly in quite embarrassing ways. But because the series is grounded in African-American traditions of music-making which seem more alive and celebrated in New Orleans than most other industrialised cities throughout America, there are numerous scenes involving the production and presentation of live music.
Mostly, they occur across a network of smallish venues – some with amplification, others without. Still other scenes are in the street, on the sidewalk, in the studio, in gymnasiums, in churches. But the liveness of sound is always palpable. All these scenes are enlivened by multiple microphone perspectives utilising the 5-channel audio space. Even at its simplest, the mix is of a frontal stereo space to which is added the centre channel which provides synchronous focus for the on-screen events, while simultaneously deepening and broadening the spatial dynamics of the mix. Put simply, one will hear a clear and detailed live stereo recording to which is added, say, the trombone being faded up a bit louder in the mix when a close-up appears on the screen.
Despite their differences visually, narratively, formally and even musicologically, Treme and Spell's actualisation of sound emboldens the resulting audiovisual experience beyond and despite whatever the rational parameters for assessing them as a TV series and a film are. The secret power of audiovision, I feel, is its capacity to destroy the object of its own making. Not destroy as some two-bit juvenile pseudo-radical punk-noise effete gesture, but as a creative procedure intent on investigating the dynamic interactions between aural/sonic codes and visual/image codes.
In the preceding two thirds of the Spell, Robert is first living in a small commune in Estonia, then on his own exploring the natural beauty of a Finnish forest. The former depicts him caught on the epidermis of the self-centred babble-space of the commune's oneiric utopia. The latter captures him luxuriating upon the skin of the forest's immersive eco-system. Both scenes frame him in connection with a living realm, to which he silently displays and performs a nuanced engagement. These two psychological workshops possibly inform the final third of the film staged in the Norwegian music venue.
Maybe the final third of the film is the materialisation of how he has come to comprehend his place in the world. Whatever, the film materialises that space through sound rather than rationalising it through image. As Robert walks away from the therapeutic fracturing of his onstage performance and rendering (à la Soigne Ta Droite's multi-track breakdowns), he passes into the world and onto the street. It's the same domain that informs the sonic and social dynamism throughout the history of New Orleans second-line performance (à la Treme). Audiovisually, A Spell To Ward Off Darkness does this and all that too.
A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness will be screened at Bristol's Arnolfini as part of Off The Page, The Wire's literary festival for sound and music, 26–28 September
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December 30, 2013 by Claude Fischer
In a Christmas Day review, film critic A.O. Scott wondered what "future archaeologists, digging through the digital and physical rubble of our long-gone civilization in search of reasons for its collapse," would make of "The Wolf of Wall Street," the new Scorcese-DiCaprio "bacchanal of sex, drugs and conspicuous consumption." Is the film a "diagnosis" of our pathology or "an especially florid" example of it?
Trying to understand what a work of art tells us about its times is a task not only of art critics, but also of historical scholars. If a historian a century or two from now examined the cultural artifacts of the last several years – say, Beyonce's latest release, a Twilight Saga movie, a pulp thriller about a serial killer, performance art in museums, reruns of Friends, a major Broadway production, or "Wolf" – how well could he or she describe the lives of average Americans today?
We can ask a similar question looking from our own time back to the 19th or 18th century. While a future historian will have all sorts of "hard" data about our era – business transactions, traffic records, news databases, government statistics, polls on what Americans think, maybe even NSA files, etc. – little material like that is available to describe Americans' experiences before about the 1920s or so. We do, however, have a lot of art from long ago: songs, paintings, and particularly fiction. What can art tell us about life in an earlier America and about people's thoughts and feelings in those times?
We might learn something about, say, common life on the New York frontier around 1800 from James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans or life in the Mississippi Valley around 1850 from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. We learn not from the foreground plots, but from the background settings what people wore, the houses they lived in, the jobs they worked, and the way families were structured – say, the fact that many households included spinster aunts. The 23rd century historian similarly might learn from our fiction about air travel, cell phones, work schedules, and perhaps even public norms for sexual behavior. (Today's fiction takes premarital sex for granted; much of early 20th century fiction treated it as scandalous.)
However, we have to be alert to distortions. For example, the slice of society which usually appears in art is quite a narrow one. Most works of fiction, just as most paintings, depict the well-off (or for dramatic counterpose, the terribly distressed). The great mass of average people and their average lives are largely invisible. This is one reason many imagine 19th-century life as more stable than our own. The stories and pictures that have come down to us largely depict the life of established families in stately homes, ignoring the disrupted lives and tumble-down shacks around them. Similarly, we have to consider how the production and marketing of art affects our view of the past. For example, sociologist Wendy Griswold found that as long as publishers flooded the U.S. book market with pirated British novels in the 19th century, American novelists focused on distinctive, niche topics (like Indians and frontiersmen rather than, say, urban family life). Once copyright protection developed and limited the British competition, American novels came to read more like British ones. The settings and themes changed because the market changed, even if American life did not.
What might art tell us about inward issues — about how people thought and felt, what motivated them, the qualities of personal relationships, and such? One argument is that art captures shared world views and people's most important concerns (as sociologist Benjamin Moodie argues here: pdf). Art tells us what the people of its time valued, what they considered to be moral dilemmas, how they evaluated character. If many Shakespearean plays are about false identities, that may mean that people of his era were obsessed with putting on and with unmasking false fronts. If Shakespearean characters are so driven by revenge that plays end with murdered bodies by the dozen, we take it that Shakespeare's was a brutally violent society. (Steven Pinker, in The Better Angels of Our Nature, reads much of the violence in earlier literature in just this vein.) The popularity of Horatio Alger up-from-poverty stories in the late 19th-century perhaps tells us that Americans felt that they, too, had such chances.
Or, instead, perhaps what novelists, songwriters, and artists really do to capture audiences is tell dramatically atypical stories, not boringly realistic ones — the prince-and-Cinderella romance; the rise-from-the-mat Rocky Balboa saga; the Milquetoast-turned-hero Cary Grant escapade; the Sex and the City glamour; the ghetto drug war shootouts; the improbable escape and improbable love story. And the stranger the tale – the more zombies, perhaps – the better? Art, in this analysis, is not a mirror of real life, but a funhouse mirror of real life.
One answer to this skepticism about the realism of art is that "classic," "fine" art may be "truer." Don't look at the pop novels or entertainment of an era to understand it; look at the "literature." But what we consider to be literature or other fine art depends more on the era in which the work is deemed great (and put on required reading lists) than on the era it was produced. Melville is only one example of a writer who was seen as great by 20th-century hindsight. Which art of 2013 — music, theater, award-winning books, video games, film, sculpture, tv, and more — would we say "tells it like it is" accurately enough that a future historian could use it to describe our lives and understand our psyches? The art of an age provides a window to spy on the people of its time, but through a dark glass. Seeing well through that colored window is itself an art.
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Rep Thielen Hails House Bipartisan Coalition
By Rep Cynthia Thielen @ 9:24 PM :: 3678 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
Thielen, Vice Chair of the House Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection
News Release from Office of Rep Cynthia Thielen
Honolulu, Hawai'i—State Representative Cynthia Thielen announced today her appointment as Vice Chair of the House Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection (EEP). With the recent shift in House leadership, Thielen and other legislators from both parties have received Committee leadership positions.
Highlights of Representative Cynthia Thielen's career and relevant experience include:
Twenty years as an environmental and land use attorney in Hawai'i representing numerous public advocacy groups
Co-counsel with attorney Boyce Brown on major environmental cases including H-3 and successfully representing the Protect Kaho'olawe 'Ohana
Twenty-two years as Representative for District 50 (Kailua, Kaneohe Bay) in the Hawai'i State Legislature
Ranking member on three House Committees: Judiciary, Energy & Environmental Protection, and Water, Land & Ocean Resource.
Member of the House Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Housing
Co-sponsored legislation which enables the State to aggressively pursue the goals set forth in the Hawai'i Clean Energy Initiative.
Advocates the implementation of wave energy in Hawai'i as a firm, renewable energy source
Fought legislation exempting state and county projects from environmental review and county zoning
Rep. Thielen noted the historic nature of the appointment of three Republicans as Committee Vice Chairs. "This is the first time a Republican has been awarded a Committee leadership role in the House. My colleagues and I are honored to be selected for these positions and look forward to working with the Committee Chairs, Members, and the general public as we consider bills of merit."
The Hawai'i House of Representatives has never had a bipartisan coalition determining nor had Republicans appointed to Committee leadership until now. The Senate preceded the House in this action in 1981 as part of a backing for Senate President Dickie Wong, the first time a bipartisan coalition was formed. Democratic members of that historic Senate coalition included now veteran politicians Governor Neil Abercrombie, Governor Ben Cayetano, and Democratic Party of Hawai'i Chairman Dante Carpenter.


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Is Lennie James leaving Fear the Walking Dead? Is Morgan Jones dead?
Fear the Walking Dead	 September 30, 2019
Is Lennie James leaving Fear the Walking Dead following the events of the season 5 finale? It's certainly fair to wonder, based on the closing minutes of Sunday's episode.
In the concluding seconds of what we saw tonight, we had what we would refer to as a devastating sequence of events for the character. He had already cast his lot in with Virginia, thinking at the time that it was going to be the only way to help them survive. He was tricked, and in that way, completely screwed over. He was able to ensure the safety of all of his friends, but at the same time, perhaps not himself. In the closing minutes, Virginia shot him and, after learning that the group's new "patient" (Grace) was pregnant, he was then left to die.
New Fear the Walking Dead video all about that Morgan cliffhanger! Watch our discussion on the finale in our video below and join in on the discussion! Remember to subscribe to CarterMatt on YouTube and then also view our Fear the Walking Dead playlist. While Fear the Walking Dead may be done for the season, The Walking Dead is kicking off in a week and we will have more video coverage on that so stay tuned to our YouTube channel for that!
There's no denying based on the end of the episode tonight that things aren't looking too great for Morgan — we imagine that he's gonna be in a tight spot moving into season 6, but we also didn't see the zombies actually devour his flesh. Because of that, we're holding out hope that the character will end up being okay. Maybe someone rushes in and saves him, or maybe he finds a way to (somehow) fend off the walkers himself.
James has been one of the longest-tenured members of the Walking Dead universe. He first appeared in the pilot episode and was one of the first people Rick Grimes met. Then, we had the version of Morgan within the episode "Clear." Eventually, he traveled down a different path and he's now been the leader-of-sorts of the whole "helping people" movement. Him leaving the show would be a dramatic blow for not only those within the Fear the Walking Dead world, but also the flagship show.
For now, though, know this: There has been no confirmation on the future status of Lennie James. We'll keep you posted, so be sure to stick around.
Related News – Be sure to get some more news on Fear the Walking Dead, including when the new season is going to be premiere
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The term Hyper-Calvinism refers primarily to a theological position that historically arose from within the Calvinist tradition among the early English Particular Baptistsin the mid 1700's. It can be seen in the teachings of men like Joseph Hussey (d. 1726), Lewis Wayman (d. 1764), John Brine (d. 1765), and to some extent in John Gill (d. 1771).
It is called Hyper-Calvinism by its critics, who maintain that it deviates from the biblical gospel by (1) denying that the call of the gospel to repent and believe is universal, i.e. for all alike, and (2) denying that the unregenerate (natural) man has a duty to repent and believe in Christ for salvation.
This theological position was labeled Hyper-Calvinism in the mid 1700's as the issue was argued and debated among English Baptists and others. It should be noted that, although Hyper-Calvinism became fairly widespread among the English Particular Baptists of that day, not all Particular Baptists agreed with the extremes of Wayman and Brine.
While this doctrine has always been a minority view, it has not been relegated to the past and may still be found in some small denominations and church communities today.
The archetypal Hyper-Calvinist position may be found explicitly set forth in the confessional articles of the Gospel Standard (Baptist) Churches, specifically: Articles of Faith of the Gospel Standard Aid and Poor Relief Societies, (Leicester, England: Oldham & Manton Ltd., n.d.) -- most recently seen online here.
Article XXVI of the Gospel Standard articles: "We deny duty faith and duty repentance – these terms suggesting that it is every man's duty spiritually and savingly to repent and believe. We deny also that there is any capability in man by nature to any spiritual good whatever. So that we reject the doctrine that man in a state of nature should be exhorted to believe in or turn to God."
Article XXXIII of the Gospel Standard articles: "Therefore, that for ministers in the present day to address unconverted persons, or indiscriminately all in a mixed congregation, calling upon them to savingly repent, believe, and receive Christ, or perform any other acts dependent upon the new creative power of the Holy Ghost, is, on the one hand, to imply creature power, and on the other, to deny the doctrine of special redemption."
Wayman contends that saving faith was not in the power of man at his best before the fall and therefore makes the following deduction, "What Adam had, we all had in him; and what Adam lost, we all lost in him, and are debtors to God on both accounts; but Adam had not the faith of God's elect before the fall, and did not lose it for his posterity; therefore they are not debtors to God for it while in unregeneracy." Lewis Wayman, A Further Enquiry after Truth, (London: J & J. Marshall, 1738), p. 51.
Wayman簡稱救贖人的信仰並不是人類在墮落前最佳的能力,故此造成以下的推理:『我們在亞當中擁有亞當的一切;我們在亞當中失去了亞當失去的一切,在這兩種情況下,我們都欠神的宅;但是亞當在墮落前並沒有神揀選的信心,也未曾為了他的後裔失去那個信心;故此,他們尚未重生時,都不沒欠神的債。』Lewis Wayman, A Further Enquiry after Truth, (London: J & J. Marshall, 1738), p. 51.
John Brine gives some insight into Wayman's statement. Brine taught that every duty incumbent on Adam in his unfallen state he also had the ability to perform, and this duty extends to all men in their fallen state regardless of their lack of ability. Brine maintained that a lack of ability does not release a man from duty (with which most Calvinists would agree). Yet, somehow he sees salvation in a different category; for "with respect to special faith in Christ, it seems to me," says Brine, "that the powers of man in his perfected state were not fitted and disposed to that act." John Brine, A Refutation of Arminian Principles (London, 1743), p. 5.
John Brine為Wayman的聲明提供更為深入的解釋。Brine教導,亞當有能力完成每一個在未墮落狀態中的責任,這個責任延伸到每一個在墮落狀態中的人,不管他們是否沒有能力。Brine堅稱沒有能力不能把一個人從責任中釋放出來(大部分的加爾文主義者也會同樣這點)。然而,他把救恩放在不同的範疇中;因為『關於在基督中特別的信息,對我而言,』Brine說,『就是人在其完美狀態中的能力,不能合適的處理那個行動。』John Brine, A Refutation of Arminian Principles (London, 1743), p. 5.
Accordingly, saving faith lay not within the powers of man in his unfallen state, because there was no necessity for it. Since, therefore, it was not part of his powers in his unfallen state, it could not now be required of him in his fallen state. On this basis, duty-faith and duty-repentance are denied by the hyper Calvinist.
Historic Calvinists regard repentance and faith as the means by which the great commandment to love God and love our neighbor finds fulfillment. This duty to love God and neighbor existed before the fall and Adam certainly enjoyed the ability to do so. Man's love of God is therefore still obligatory, and the means through which it is to be realized, namely repentance and faith, are likewise obligatory. Man owes God his love and trust by the very fact that he is God's rational creature. Adam had the ability to love and trust God before the Fall. Man is still responsible to love and trust God even though, because of the Fall and while in an unregenerate state, he has lost the moral ability to do so. Therefore, contrary to hyper-Calvinism, fallen man is indeed duty-bound to repent and believe in Christ for salvation.


This is my small tribute to Tony Buzan, who died on April 13th 2019. He was the inventor of the mind map. Rest in peace Tony.
On my smartphone I use Mindjet Mindmanager. It is a rather dull looking mind map program. I can add colour, but that will slow me down. For me mind mapping is jotting ideas as fast as possible.
My first action was to make my conference notes readable. My handwriting is quite awful. The use of sketchnotes did not improve the quality significantly.
My notes were about WordCamp Rotterdam 2019. There were some really technical talks. It is almost impossible to translate technical stuff like settings of analytics programs or Cascading Style Sheets to images.
Okay. The Notes branch was needed as a reminder that I would read my notes without thinking too long.
Almost immediately I added a branch with presentations. If needed, I would read the presentations in slow speed. Just before blogging I realized I made an error. I opened Twitter search and entered the hashtag "#wcrtm" and "slides". #wcrtm stands for WordCamp RotTerdaM. All the presentations of the interesting talks popped up.
Another branch is Goodies. These are gifts of sponsors. I lost my highlighter somewhere. I marked this branch with a red cross. Then I remembered that I had a camera sticker from a previous conference, which I found and placed. So I marked this branch with a green V. For the English people: Jack in the box.
I got some booklets / books about SEO or Search Engine Optimalisation, performance of a website and website security. The reason, that I did put this branch under the central object, was to balance the tree. This tip was given by a business consultant. The way I interpreted was that I had to avoid a mindmap with too few main branches.
Back to my Books branch. This branch contained information which I could use. Not immediately, but it was something I could not put away lightly. The Goodies branch was more like: done and forget.
Now comes the most important main branch in my mind map: Actions. Sub branches were added during my note cleanup.
This website still had no proper 404 screen. Yes, there are some plug ins, but is there a more elegant way to solve this problem? Also too many plug ins will slow down my website.
During the conference there were lots of configuration suggestions. As a newbie WordPress administrator I asked, how I could configure this. The answer was to contact the host provider. Actions from my side could collide with actions from the host provider. Bracing for impact.
I still have to place a security.txt on my website. More information can be found in securitytxt.org.
On the web I read some disturbing information about Xmlrpc.php. On the conference it was strongly suggested to remove it.
Another action was to collect all my markers for future notes. A final action was to put extra information about text in my pictures in the Alt Text.
Depending on my progress and feedback of my host provider I will adjust my actions in my mind map.


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Our Better Is Better Than The Tiger Bullpen
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The Cheat is nowhere to be seen, so I figured I'd jump in with a recap of Saturday afternoon's game.
Gavin Floyd came up with a performance that will be totally acceptable out of the fifth starter's role for the rest of the year. While not looking great, he didn't look totally horrible. 6 IP, 6 H, 3 ER is a performance that should be good enough to win most games. He got the lead late in the game and held it during his final inning. It seemed like Gavin occasionally ran into problems with two outs, but hopefully that will be something that disappears after getting comfortable.
Is there anyone more fun to watch in the lineup right now that Carlos Quentin? He's taking a starting spot and running away with it. I'm not sure which brought more joy to watch, his RBI single in the sixth inning or his absolute bullet from left field to nail a jogging Edgar Renteria trying to return to first base. Bad news for Jerry Owens supporters.
Dontrelle Willis couldn't find the plate with a plate-finding machine, and it finally cost him in the sixth inning. Nick Swisher picked up his third walk of the game (and his sixth in this last two games) to start off the action. He may be hitting .200 after five games, but the .478 on-base percentage sure looks sexy. Moreover, he hasn't looked totally overmatched in center.
After looking like secondhand horse poo in Spring Training, Jermaine Dye has been locked in to start the year, picking up his second home run in the eighth inning for that all important insurance run.
What's up with Orlando Cabrera in the field? He botched a cutoff throw early in the game that led to an early Tiger run, and he's just looked out of sorts at times. He's drawn some walks but hasn't looked much better at the plate either. Could we start seeing Juan Uribe and Alexei Ramirez starting at shortstop on occasion?
Toby Hall sucks. Good signing...in theory.
Boone Logan, Scott Linebrink, and Bobby Jenks. 3 IP, 0 R. Gave up three hits and Jenks was a little off in the ninth, but there's nothing to be worried about yet. Logan still looks good against lefties and Linebrink is still looking worth the money. Hard to say much after five games, but it's still a hell of a lot more encouraging to see them start out hot.
The Sox go for the sweep tomorrow night on ESPN2, as Mark Buehrle faces Justin Verlander on Sunday Night baseball. Smart money says that Mark won't be quite as bad as he was in Cleveland on Opening Day. We may even see Brian Anderson tomorrow as part of the Sunday Getaway Lineup®, since there are rumors around the Sox clubhouse that he does in fact exist.


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In feminist theory, kyriarchy () is a social system or set of connecting social systems built around domination, oppression, and submission. The word was coined by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in 1992 to describe her theory of interconnected, interacting, and self-extending systems of domination and submission, in which a single individual might be oppressed in some relationships and privileged in others. It is an intersectional extension of the idea of patriarchy beyond gender. Kyriarchy encompasses sexism, racism, ableism, ageism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, xenophobia, economic injustice, prison-industrial complex, colonialism, militarism, ethnocentrism, speciesism, and other forms of dominating hierarchies in which the subordination of one person or group to another is internalized and institutionalized.

Etymology
The term was coined into English by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in 1992 when she published her book But She Said: Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation. It is derived from , "lord, master" and , "authority, domination, sovereignty". The word kyriarchy (), already existed in Modern Greek, and means "sovereignty", i.e. the rulership of a sovereign.

Usage
The term was originally developed in the context of feminist theological discourse, and has been used in some other areas of academia as a non–gender-based descriptor of systems of power, as opposed to patriarchy. It is also widely used outside of scholarly contexts.

The Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani has described the Australian-run Manus Island prison as a kyriarchal system: one where different forms of oppression intersect; oppression is not random but purposeful, designed to isolate and create friction amongst prisoners, leading to despair and broken spirits. He elaborates on this in his autobiographical account of the prison, No Friend But the Mountains.

Structural positions
Schüssler Fiorenza describes interdependent "stratifications of gender, race, class, religion, heterosexualism, and age" as structural positions  assigned at birth. She suggests that people inhabit several positions, and that positions with privilege become nodal points through which other positions are experienced. For example, in a context where gender is the primary privileged position (e.g., patriarchy), gender becomes the nodal point through which sexuality, race, and class are experienced. In a context where class is the primary privileged position (i.e., classism), gender and race are experienced through class dynamics. Fiorenza stresses that kyriarchy is not a hierarchical system as it does not focus on one point of domination. Instead it is described as a "complex pyramidal system" with those on the bottom of the pyramid experiencing the "full power of kyriarchal oppression". The kyriarchy is recognized as the status quo and therefore its oppressive structures may not be recognized.

To maintain this system, kyriarchy relies on the creation of a servant class, race, gender, or people. The position of this class is reinforced through "education, socialization, and brute violence and malestream rationalization". Tēraudkalns suggests that these structures of oppression are self-sustained by internalized oppression; those with relative power tend to remain in power, while those without tend to remain disenfranchised. In addition, structures of oppression amplify and feed into each other.

See also

Anarchism

Cultural hegemony
Feminist theology
Hierarchy
Intersectionality
Male privilege
Marxism
Patriarchy
Postmodernism
White privilege

References

External links

Feminism and society
Intersectionality
Social inequality
Social systems
1990s neologisms

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Chequered Love
Song written by Ricky and Marty Wilde. Kim Wilde's second single and sixth track of the album Kim Wilde. The song appeared during the end credits of the movie Chalet Girl. In 2019, the song was used in an advert for Oakley.
In the UK, the single was only released on 7" format. However, in Germany a 12" single was also made and distributed around Europe. This 12" single contained no special versions, it contained the same tracks as the 7" single.
See also this page in the discography.
There are five versions of 'Chequered Love': the original album version, A live version, recorded in Bournemouth, released on the album Aliens Live in 2019, and three remixes by Matt Pop, released in 2020 by Cherry Pop: the Matt Pop Extended version, the Matt Pop Alternative mix and the Matt Pop Instrumental.
A music video was filmed to promote the single. It was directed by Brian Grant.
Go to this page for more information.
TV performances
WWF Club
Especial Applauso
Musikladen
World music festival
LosVast Kuipspektakel
Kim Wilde in Sopot
Kim Wilde live in Gross Gerau
Top of the pops 2
Art on Ice 2008
'Chequered love' was performed live on almost every concert she has done since her Debut Tour. Notable exceptions were the Rock Meets Classic Tour in 2014, the Christmas concerts at Knebworth House in 2014, live dates in December 2015, the Here Come the Aliens Tour and during the Return of the Aliens Tour.
The track was covered by Exom, Hot Rod Linkun, Human Hamster Hybrids, James Last, The One, Radspitz, De Romeo's, The Shields, Smiler, Springbok, Superconnies, Lynn Sweet, the Top of the Poppers and Petra Zieger.
Marty Wilde about 'Chequered love'
This was one of the hardest songs in many ways because we had to come up with a follow-up to Kids in America and it was a really tough nut to crack. We kept coming up with different melodies and we weren't happy, neither was Mickie (Most), and it was the last song we laid down. Ricky had been up to see Mickie about three or four times and each time he took four or five songs with him. Mickie wasn't sure about any of them and time was running out - we had to get a new single out. On his last trip, Ricky played the first three and Mickie wasn't too sure about them. The last track was 'Chequered Love' and he picked that. It was the last song we had written and it was pretty near to the deadline. We recorded it in two days. (1)
Ricky about 'Chequered Love'
I remember one particular period, I think it was when we were having to come up with 'Chequered Love', I was so frightened that we didn't have a follow-up to Kids in America, I spent three days writing, no sleep at all (and no drugs!). It was literally just... I had to do it. It had to be done. As soon as we had success with 'Kids', it was mayhem, the pressure was on. Mickie said as soon as it was released and it became a huge success, 'You'd better write the follow-up then'. So I came up with three or four ideas, took them to Mickie and Mickie said 'Chequered Love', that's the one, love it, and I thought 'Thank God for that, it was just a major relief that I got the next single. And it felt like that every time with each subsequent single. It's like hitting the jackpot every time. Every time Mickie said yes, you knew it was fine. He had the vision, he knew - amazingly. (2)
Kim about 'Chequered Love'
Chequered Love was inspired by my mum and dad, who would be two of the most opposite people you could ever meet. They are like opposite magnets, so my dad wrote the song. (2)
Yeah (giggle)... 'Touch me, do what you want to'... yes, we were having a laugh at that the other day. Yes, well, a good pop song, I think it's a good pop song, it has a lot of energy, it's good fun, good entertainment and I enjoy singng it... that's what it boils down to. (3)
Rick had been up to see Mickie (Most) about three or four times and each time he took four or five songs with him. Mickie wasn't sure about any of them ad time was running out. We had to get a new single out. On his last trip Ricki played the first three and Mickie wasn't too sure about them. The last track was Chequered Love and he picked that. It was the last song we had written and it was pretty near to the deadline. We recorded it in two days. (4)
"Chequered Love" Dad wrote, but he did not have a title for it. He just wrote a song about two people who are so different from one another, but they somehow managed to be together, something like the opposite poles of a magnet. These are real difficulties in the relationship between two people. He had the title, as I said, and he asked me what I think about it. And I said you should call it 'Chequered Love'. (6)
Highest chart positions
Australia: 6
Austria: 16
Belgium: 2
Denmark: 2
Germany: 2 (24 weeks)
Ireland: 4 (7 weeks)
Netherlands: 2 (10 weeks)
South Africa: 1
Sweden: 6 (8 weeks)
Switzerland: 2 (9 weeks)
United Kingdom: 4 (9 weeks)
Interview sources
(1) Kim Wilde Fanclub Introductory Magazine
(2) I love the 80's interview for BBC (UK), January 2001
(3) Kim has music in her blood In: [unknown] (Australia), [August] 1981
(4) Wilde: Sex kitten or reluctant starlet?, New Musical Express (UK), September 19, 1981
(5) Kim Wilde, Music Collector (UK), November 1990
(6) Why does your daddy let you go alone?, Džuboks (Yugoslavia), September 11, 1981
Chequered love, HR1 Live Lounge (Germany), 28 November 2010
Chequered Love - Live in Dortmund (Germany), 3 March 2011
'Chequered Love' single sleeve
You say, "Everything's alright"
I say, "Nothing can go right", hey
Oh, what a game you can play
Sad days add to confusion
Sad ways end in delusion, play
Well, that's the name of the game
Well, I know your love is rough
And the roads you take are tough
But I just can't get enough
Touch me, do what you want to
Say no, then, I just need you, babe
You're gonna drive me insane
You are man for all seasons
You are man with no reasons, yeah
You're the man with no pain
Well I know your love is rough
And the road you take is tough
Oh, oh, oh, I can't let go
'cos I need you so tonight
You say everything's alright
I say nothing can go right, yeah
Oh what a game you can play
Sad ways end in delusion, yeah
That's the name of the game
Oh I can't let go
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This Maori polling booth is at Te Whaiti, Urewera. Participation and interest in elections for the four Maori seats grew steadily in the late 19th century. The sign in the window reads 'Polling Booth, Whare Pooti'.


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Q: How to guaranteed write into file in multithreading with exceptions? This is a simplified example
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            new Thread(() => Method1()).Start();
            new Thread(() => Method2()).Start();
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        }

        private static void Method1()
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StreamWriter doesn't write the data into file if exception occurs too early and in another thread. File data.txt is empty at the time when exception occurs.
I played with this situation a little and found a bunch of workarounds:

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*If I increase the sleep interval for the exception's thread (and decrease interval between writings into file) the file will be filled with data. It is not a choice because I don't know when an exception occurs.

*As a consequence of previous workaround I can decrease the buffer size of the stream writer. But it seems not working if I set it too small - for example, this code
FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"h:\data.txt", FileMode.Create);
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs, Encoding.Default, 10))
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*File will be filled if I close the writer before exception occurs. But that is not a good choice - I have to write into file from 1 to 10 times per second. It is not a good idea to open and close the writer so frequently, is it?

*I can catch the exception like this
private static void Method2()
{
try
{
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}
catch
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}

}
and all will be OK - no application termination and file will be filled pack by pack. But that is not the case also - I can't control when and where exceptions occur. I try to use try-catch everywhere but I can miss something.
So the situation is: StreamWriter's buffer is not full, exception occured in another thread and is not catched, so the application will be terminated. How not to lose this data and to write it into file?

A: As I understand your situation you are assuming that there is a bug somewhere and the process might be terminated at any time. You want to save as much data as possible.
You should be able to call Flush on the StreamWriter. This will push the data to the OS. If your process terminates the data will eventually be written by the OS.
In case you cannot convince StreamWriter to actually flush for some reason you can use a FileStream and write to that (pseudocode: fileStream.Write(Encoding.GetBytes(myString))). You can then flush the FileStream or use a buffer size of 1.
Of course it's best if you prevent the process from being terminated in the first place. This usually is straight forward with Task as opposed to using raw Threads.

A: Flushing the stream will ensure that all of it's content is pushed into it's underlying file.
That will take care of ensring all of the data is saved after you completed an operation and that a following exception will not make your application loose data.

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This was on the request list do I took a shot at it. I don't know how to modify track length though so these are all raw. Also I don't know the composer since the credits are all in Japanese.
After chatting with Doommaster1994, I believe the composer is 安間 一成, which most likely stands for Kazunari Yasuma.
That's a complete set (minus the Nintendo Logo, which I have... and it's not in the music modifier collection), but some of the dumps are off due to jumping the gun. I've got just the cure for that, as I have my own dumps on hand mostly from 2011-2012.
Hey, maybe I should move this and Gon to the submission area? Both are complete minus tagging.
The range is 01-0F. The game crashes after 0F.
You must use this code for some music values due to a memory overflow.
Yeah OK. It wasn't hard to get all the music from this game since it's such a small game.


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Piedmont Social House, at 2135 Ayrsley Town Blvd, is hosting a festival on its lawn on Saturday, May 4th, 2019, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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View from southern neighboring building. Wood boards of trellises are spaced differently depending on exposure to sun, wind and industrial noises as well as privacy concerns. Early planting as well as the storage/potting "shed" (at lower left) are shown here too.
Perspective from above to think about.


The 1970s in Vermillion, South Dakota found plenty of abandoned farm houses surrounding the small town. The University of South Dakota student's dominated the area and renting a farmhouse was quite cheap. The amiable farmers had no problem occupying the mostly rundown buildings to the many students, hippies and free-thinking spirits willing to live in such accommodations.
Jack was a famous Siamese party cat at one of these farmhouses that became known as party central. Clyde, Damien, Chip and Heiny adopted the lovable vagabond until their eviction day when somebody's $10 waterbed burst on the upstairs bedroom floor. They were moved out and Jack moved into my farmhouse.
Jack became a homebody and loved us deeply until the day we took him on a cross-country adventure from McAllen, Texas to New York City. We stayed at an old Army buddy's house and he bragged about what a well-trained cat we had.
"Even in the big city your cat is smart enough to go to the bathroom outdoors," Rick exclaimed.
Soon we left the Big Apple for Canada. Only later did we learn from my friend that Jack left his "business #2" behind the couch.
We entered Canada by way of Montreal and later picked up three friends in South Dakota. Jack would have preferred to stay back at the farm but we continued our Canadian adventure through Calgary to Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jack got a real laugh when we were detained by U.S. Customs agents at the U.S./Canada border. The ruthless Inspector didn't like our haircuts and hated our attitudes even more. Confident that my father-in-law's car contained no drugs, weapons, bombs or terrorists, the five of us took turns holding Jack while our Oldsmobile 98 was disassembled.
We were more than willing to replace the seats and our luggage, fully aware that technically, under the current Nixon Administration's rules, we could have been busted like the poor sap in front of us. They confiscated his VW Bug and carted him off to jail for felony possession of narcotics.
We headed down scenic Pacific Coastal Highway 101 with the Grand Canyon as our next destination. Somewhere along the way we encountered a desert-like environment where the temperatures were approaching 110 degrees.
We stopped and looked for some shade and no one appreciated it more than Jack. He was off like a rabbit at the dog track and quickly laid down in the shade of a mesquite shrub. When it came time to return to the car, Jack had disappeared, even though we kept close tabs on that bush.
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We voted. Four travelers wanted to continue on, fully aware of my wife's veto power. The Olds 98 would go nowhere without the beloved Jack.
We eventually found Jack lying in the shade of a different mesquite bush, in no hurry to go anywhere. He got a three-day break at a kitty spa located near the Grand Canyon. The place had a booming business with idiots who chose to take their pets on vacation.
About 40 years later I ran into Jimmy Bass, one of the four voters who favored leaving Jack behind. We discussed that summer's escapade.
"You know it was lucky your wife found that cat. I had different plans for him," Jimmy stated.
Next week's column will be about Jack and Jill.


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