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Daily Current Affairs for Law Exams: 15-16th September 2019
Updated : Sep 16, 2019, 20:40
1. Spain beats Argentina to win Basketball World Cup
Spain defeated Argentina to win the Fiba Basketball World Cup held on 15th September in Beijing, China.
The Spanish team won the match by a margin of 95-75.
Spain won the basketball world cup after 13 years. Spain had won the title last time in 2006 with a 70-47 win over Greece.
Spain became the fifth country to win the World Cup 2 times. Earlier Yugoslavia and America won 5-5 titles. Soviet Union 3 and Brazil became champions 2 times.
Ricky Rubio scored the most for Spain, scoring 20 points. At the same time, Mark Gasol scored 14 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists.
Gasol and Rudy Fernandez won the World Cup for the second time as a player. Both were also included in the team that became champions in 2006.
On the other hand, in the match played for third place, France defeated Australia 67-59 to finish third for the second time in a row.
Argentina also lost the final in 2002
The Argentina team played the final for the first time since 2002. He was then defeated by Yugoslavia. Argentina last became champion in 1950.
FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, is the world governing body for basketball.
FIBA headquarters is located in Mies, Switzerland.
2. World Ozone Day observed today
September 16 is celebrated as World Ozone Day every year.
Its aim is to make people aware of the world around the world from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the Sun and the ozone layer that protects our lives.
The theme of this year i.e. World Ozone Day 2019 is '32 years and Healing'. Through this theme, the three-decades effort to protect the ozone layer and protect the climate will be reflected by countries around the world under the Montreal Protocol.
This weekend is also celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the Montreal Protocol. It is called the world's most successful synonym agreement. The treaty was signed on 16 September 1987.
Under this Vienna treaty, an agreement has been signed by all countries for the protection of the ozone layer.
The latest scientific assessment of ozone depletion was completed in the year 2018.
The assessment during this period revealed that the damaged part of the ozone layer has recovered at a rate of 1-3% per year since 2000.
Ozone layer
The ozone layer is composed of three oxygen atoms. It is a highly reactive gas and is present via O3. It is also produced naturally and from human activities.
The ozone layer is most damaged by man-made chemicals that contain chlorine or bromine.
These chemicals are known as ozone depletion substrates (OSDs).
When their quantity is high, the ozone layer is damaged and there are holes in it, through which harmful rays of the sun reach the earth and start damaging the atmosphere.
Scientists believe that life on Earth would cease to exist without the ozone layer.
The inability of the ozone layer will affect the lives of people, trees and animals.
Ozone layer depletion worsens the natural balance, causes more heat than winters, winters come irregularly and glaciers begin to melt.
3. 1000 PhD fellowships for ASEAN students in IIT
The Center is going to take a major step like providing 1,000 PhD fellowships for ASEAN students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
The fellowship program at IIT will be launched jointly by Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on 16 September.
IIT Delhi is preparing admission portal to provide PhD fellowship to ASEAN students.
In January last year at the 25th anniversary commemorative ASEAN-India Summit in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced 1000 fellowships for ASEAN citizens to pursue PhD programmes at an IIT of their choice.
4. India won the under-19 Asia Cup for the 7th time
The Indian U-19 cricket team has won the Asia Cup for the second time in a row.
Team India defeated Bangladesh by 5 runs in a thrilling final in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Batting first after winning the toss, India scored 106 runs in 32.4 overs.
In reply, Bangladesh lost the initial 4 wickets for just 16 runs and was all out for 101 runs.
Atharv Ankolekar, who took 5 wickets, was the man of the match.
India has won the Under-19 Asia Cup title for the seventh time.
Earlier India won this title in 1989, 2003, 2012, 2013-14, 2016, 2018.
5. Pankaj Advani became world champion for 22nd time
Pankaj Advani has become the world champion for the 22nd time. The 34-year-old Advani has won the title of IBSF World Billiards Championship for the fourth consecutive time. This is his fifth world title in the last 6 years in the short format of billiards.
On 15th September Pankaj Advani defeated Nay Thway Oo of Myanmar 6-2 in the final.
Pankaj Advani world champion
He is the player to become the World Champion most times in the world.
He has proven to be the most consistent Indian athlete, prevailing in world championships since 2003.
He has won more world titles in cue sports than anyone in the world making him the greatest cueist of all time.
6. Saurabh Verma wins Vietnam Open title
Indian badminton player Saurabh Verma won the title by defeating Sun Fei Shiang of China in the men's singles final of Vietnam Open BWF Tour Super 100 Tournament.
Saurabh defeated Sun Fei Shiang of China 21-12 17-21 21-14 in the men's singles final.
Saurabh has also won the title of Hyderabad Open and Slovenian International Championship this year.
7. Justice P Lakshmana Reddy appointed as first Lokayukta of Andhra Pradesh
Justice P. Lakshmana Reddy, a retired judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, was sworn in as the state's first Lokayukta on 15th September.
Governor Vishwabhushan Harichandan administered the oath of office to Justice (retd) Reddy at a function in Vijayawada.
Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy, High Court Judge, senior government officials were present on the occasion.
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Q: Does umask affect message queues? In Ubuntu Linux, does changing umask of the system (by calling umask() in a program for example), affect the creation and usage of the IPC facilities like message queues on the system?

A: From the man page

The umask setting also affects the permissions assigned to POSIX IPC objects (mq_open(3), sem_open(3), shm_open(3)), FIFOs (mkfifo(3)), and UNIX domain sockets (unix(7)) created by the process.  The umask does not  affect the permissions assigned to System V IPC objects created by the process using msgget(2), semget(2), shmget(2)).

So if your IPC uses the above, then yes. Can you be more specific?
strace myprogram | egrep 'mq_open|sem_open|...' should tell you if you're calling any of these, directly or indirectly.

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Red N Pink interview Sissy & The Blisters at the Pull Up The Roots live night at The Monarch in Camden for ROOTSTV.
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Like "Cousin Sissy" in Hot Fuzz, Sissy And The Blisters confusingly feature no girls and from the fuzzed up sound of their guitar, the insult version of sissy does apply either.
Instead the Guilford band, signed to renown talent spotting label Fierce Panda, have crafted a new EP (out Otcober 3), of which this track Let Her Go is the lead, that envokes weather beaten leathers and motorbike fumes.
And it's got good pedigree.
"Let Her Go is one of a few songs we wrote when we were really into the chord progressions that were used by The Ramones. It slowly developed into something totally different but kept those elements," says organist Nick Benton.
Coming up at Roots next Thursday is the brilliant Fractures, they are currently all over NME.
This July edition features live sets, music videos and interviews from SULK, Soldier, Howlin' Circus and The 335 presented by Red N Pink in Camden Town.
We predict this to be a very busy show so you're advised to get your tickets in advance as ticket holders get priority entry.
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Cadurci (Gauls)
Incorporating the Eleuteti
In general terms, the Romans coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now central, northern and eastern France. The Gauls were divided from the Belgae to the north by the Marne and the Seine, and from the Aquitani to the south by the River Garonne. By the middle of the first century BC, the Cadurci were located along the north bank of the Duranius (the modern River Dordogne), and around the basin of the Oltis (Lot), a branch of the Garonne in southern-central Gaul. They were neighboured to the north by the Lemovices, to the north-east by the Arverni, to the east by the Vellavi, to the south-east by the Gabali, to the south by the Nitiobroges, and to the west by the Petrocorii.
The Cadurci (or Carduci) were 'the angry [people]'. The core of the name stems from the proto-Celtic: *kādo(s)-, meaning 'anger'. There are a number of words in modern Welsh that mean anger, namely (noun) 'codded', and (verb) 'coddi'. So 'cadu(s)' had a suffix added on, probably to convert the verb into a noun. 'The Angry' they might have been, but what caused their anger or how they vented it has been lost to prehistory. That suffix, however, is a puzzling one. It could be a contraction of '-or' (a masculine 'doing' word) plus '-ic' to make an adjective from it, plus the Latin '-i'. That seems a little odd, somehow. Alternatively, it could be a combination of the name 'Cadu', meaning 'angry', plus 'ric' ('king', a variation of 'rix') plus the Latin '-i' suffix - the 'angry kings'.
There was also a smaller group of Cadurci to the south of the Nitiobroges, along the northern banks of the Garonne. Both groups may still have been in touch despite the presence of the Nitiobroges. A sub-group of the southern branch which lived along the River Aveyron in Aquitania was called the Eleuteti, or Eleutheri. Quite often they are labelled the Eleutheri Cadurci by scholars, although incorrectly since Eleutheri is a Greek word that can hardly be used for a Gallic tribe like the Eleuteti who, instead of being free (from the Greek word 'eleutheroi') seem to have been clients of the Arverni. Their only claim to fame is supplying troops for the relief of Alesia in 52 BC.
The tribe's oppidum was Divona, which was renamed by the Romans to Civitas Cadurcorum (modern Cahors). Uxellodunum, which was besieged and taken by Caesar, also belonged to the tribe. The territory of the Cadurci became Cadurcinumn to Latin writers of the middle ages. This was corrupted into Cahorsin or Caorsin, and then Querci (modern Quercy). The tribe's territorial boundaries are supposed to have survived in the bishopric of Cahors.
(Information by Peter Kessler and Edward Dawson, with additional information from The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, William Smith, from The La Tene Celtic Belgae Tribes in England: Y-Chromosome Haplogroup R-U152 - Hypothesis C, David K Faux, from A Genetic Signal of Central European Celtic Ancestry, David K Faux, from Celts and the Classical World, David Rankin, from The Civilisation of the East, Fritz Hommel (Translated by J H Loewe, Elibron Classic Series, 2005), from Europe Before History, Kristian Kristiansen, and from External Link: The Works of Julius Caesar: Gallic Wars.)
7th-6th cent BC
The Cadurci are thought to migrate across the Rhine, leaving the Celtic heartland in southern Germany to enter the land that becomes known as Gaul. Other Celtic groups are also settling in the British Isles and Ireland around this time. Whether the Cadurci tribe itself exists at this stage is entirely unknown. More probably, the migrants are one or more larger tribes that later divide and settle Gaul. It could take a further two or three centuries for the Cadurci to find a permanent home near the Garonne and evolve the identity that is later recorded by Caesar.
Lucterius
Leader during the revolt. Captured by Rome.
He sends Lucterius of the Cadurci into the territory of the Ruteni to gain their support, and marches in person to the Bituriges. Lucterius continues to the Gabali and Nitiobroges and wins their support, collecting together a large force ahead of an advance into the province of Narbonensis. Caesar gets there first and rallies the garrisons among the Ruteni and Volcae Arecomisci, and Lucterius is forced to retreat. From there Caesar circles through the territory of the generally pro-Roman Helvii (who provide auxiliaries) to reach that of the Arverni, despite deep winter snows in the mountains.
Vercingetorix, after sustaining a series of losses at Vellaunodunum, Genabum, and Noviodunum, summons his men to a council in which it is decided that the Romans should be prevented from being able to gather supplies. A scorched earth policy is adopted, and more than twenty towns of the Bituriges are burned in one day, although their oppidum at Avaricum is spared. The Gabali and the easternmost Arverni cantons are sent to fight the Helvii, and the Cadurci and Ruteni are told to lay waste the territories of the Volcae Arecomisci. The Helvii are defeated and their leaders slain, including Caius Valerius Donotaurus, the son of Caburus. The Allobroges manage to defend their frontiers successfully, but Caesar finds that he is hard-pressed to counter Vercingetorix's superiority in cavalry. He calls for cavalry and light infantry from the loyal German tribes (which undoubtedly includes the Ubii), and this helps him greatly in the battle which follows.
Vercingetorix, his cavalry routed in that battle, withdraws in good order to Alesia, a major fort belonging to the Mandubii. The remaining cavalry are dispatched back to their tribes to bring reinforcements. Caesar begins a siege of Alesia, aiming on starving out the inhabitants. Four relief forces amounting to a considerable number of men and horses are assembled in the territory of the Aeduii by the council of the Gaulish nobility. Among those demanded from the tribes of Gaul are thirty-five thousand men from the Arverni in conjunction with the Cadurci, Eleuteti, Gabali, and Vellavi, who are accustomed to following Arverni commands. Together they attempt to relieve Vercingetorix at the siege of Alesia, but the combined relief force is soundly repulsed by Julius Caesar's remarkable strategy of simultaneously conducting the siege of Alesia on one front whilst being besieged on the other. Seeing that all is lost, Vercingetorix surrenders to Caesar. The garrison is taken prisoner, as are the survivors from the relief army. They are either sold into slavery or given as booty to Caesar's legionaries, apart from the Aeduii and Arverni warriors who are released and pardoned in order to secure the allegiance of these important and powerful tribes.
Under the leadership of Drappes, the Senones team up with Lucterius of the Cadurci to invade the Roman provincia. Pursued by Roman forces, the Gauls entrench themselves at Uxellodunum, the oppidum of the Cadurci. In an attempt to re-supply the city, Drappes is cut off and captured by Gaius Caninius Rebilus. He commits suicide by starving himself to death. Lucterius flees to the Arverni, where he is betrayed and handed over to the Romans.

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Should the Media Have Reported Un-Redacted Manafort Content?
Omitted from the buzz about the poorly redacted court filings associated with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is the ethics of un-redacting and reporting sensitive content filed in U.S. courts.
In the 2016 presidential campaign, digital subterfuge was a key component, from creation of fake news to sale of Facebook user data. You'd think court filings on convicted Trump-campaign associate Paul Manafort might have been properly redacted.
Reporters hungry for more information about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation checked to see if a mistake was made in redacting a sensitive document prepared by Manafort's attorneys.
It's a common error. Tech experts will tell you that thousands of redacted documents online can be easily manipulated to view content. Often a staff person or official uses black boxes that can be moved or removed from a document or selects and conceals passages with black background, which of course and be removed. Just select the passage and use a white background, exposing the text.
In this case, Manafort's lawyers had filed a response to an allegation that he lied to prosecutors. However, on page 5, either his attorneys or Mueller's staffers did not "flatten" the PDF so that the redacted passages could not be read.
Adobe has a tool that properly redacts (i.e. flattens) content, also shown in the above video. Other ways include taking a photo of the document and making a PDF out of that or printing the document, using a felt pen to redact and scanning it back into a PDF.
An ethical question, largely ignored by the media, is whether reporters should have disclosed the sensitive information as it was not intended for public consumption. Perhaps the disclosure would cause prosecutors or defense attorneys to change their strategy or even taint the ongoing investigation.
The media associated the disclosure with collusion, reporting that Manafort may have met with a Russian intelligence contact and provided polling data from the Trump campaign.
According to the Washington Post:
Attorneys for Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, inadvertently included a big reveal in a court filing on Tuesday through their clumsy failure to properly redact key portions. They admitted that during the 2016 campaign Manafort and his longtime associate Konstantin Kilimnik, who the FBI has said has ties to Russian intelligence, discussed a peace plan for Ukraine and that Manafort also shared with him political polling data.
As for media ethics, It seems the standard seems situational: "If you make a digital mistake, we are absolved and so can report confidential information."
Perhaps not in this case, but one nevertheless can imagine other scenarios when the dissemination of such information could pose a national security threat.
In the digital age, someone viewing improperly redacted court filings is going to disclose the content. As soon as one party disseminates that, others will un-redact and report.
Ultimately, then, the government and officers of the court have a responsibility to know how to use digital tools before filing sensitive documents in the U.S. Court system.
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The European Parliament is set to approve the E.U.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) before the end of the year, reported local media Friday.
"There is a debate within the European Parliament, that is independent, but I'm optimistic that it will sign the agreement before the end of the year," said the Vice President of the European Commission, Antonio Tajani, after meeting with President Santos in Bogota Thursday.
The agreement, which will eliminate various tariffs, widen market access and reduce technical obstacles to trade, was ratified by European Union members despite earlier concerns. In November 2009, 12 members of the European Parliament had requested that the E.U. not sign the FTA on account of the country's poor human rights record, especially in relation to trade unionists.
The European official arrived in Bogota Wednesday night to meet with President Santos and sign four agreements with the government to promote industrial cooperation, increase the exchange of commodities and strengthen small and medium enterprises and tourism.
The United States finalized their own FTA with Colombia recently that went into effect May 15.


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Derek Holland's "five and dive" was one of the last we'll ever see
Bruce Bochy is a dying breed, which means his ancient book of baseball won't get much play beyond 2019.
By Bryan Murphy Updated Apr 4, 2019, 10:36am PDT
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Bases loaded. Two outs. Top of the fourth inning. The Giants had taken a 3-2 lead against their rivals. They were the first three runs the Giants had scored in the first four innings of any game so far this season. Derek Holland had allowed two runs, including a booming home run to Enrique Hernandez to lead off the game, three walks and a single in 70 pitches through the first three innings. Bruce Bochy kept him in the game to hit.
He lined out on the first pitch.
In the bottom of the fourth, Holland looked like a different pitcher on his way to striking out the side. Still, let's go back to that moment in the top of the fourth. The Giants had rallied down 2-0 to take a 3-2 lead and despite an eight-man bullpen, a shaky performance up to that point by Holland, and off day today, Bruce Bochy stuck with his starter. Why? Because it's his prerogative and he was going to get his guy the win.
It mostly worked out, much like Bochy's decision the other day to walk the bases loaded ahead of Manny Machado — Machado drove in a run, but it was on a groundball that might have been an out had "I'm not Johnny Hustle" hadn't hustled down the first base line. Holland's 1-run lead against the Dodgers was really nothing given the power and skill of the Dodgers' lineup, but Bruce Bochy had faith in his bullpen, as he probably should.
But why didn't he choose to optimize the team's chances of scoring runs? That's just not the way he manages. And it's the last time we're ever going to see a Giants manager make regular season decisions based on his gut or care for a starting pitcher. After he retires, the nameless Macbook Air that will be installed as manager will make the most dispassionate decisions any stats-minded baseball fan could imagine based on the probabilities.
For better or worse, that's the modern game, and Bruce Bochy is the last of the old ways. Getting a starter a win is a vestige of whatever. The pitcher win has been so thoroughly "debunked" that it feels odd in the year 2019 to still see a manager out there making decisions based on it. Now, could Bochy argue that he didn't want to start a reliever carousel so early in the game and find himself out of pinch hitters down the line? Sure. And couldn't going to the bullpen so early suddenly leave the Giants susceptible to a surprise Max Muncying or Joc Pederson bomb in the middle innings? Yeah, probably.
But, it still wasn't a decision based in optimizing run production, which could explain at least in part why the Giants have not been able to optimize their run scoring opportunities in the Bruce Bochy era. It definitely felt like managing for a pitcher win over a team win, which feels like a really bad call to make until you realize that's the way he's always done it.
Still, what would've been the harm in burning Connor Joe in that situation?
Joe might've been able to draw a walk or he might've been able to pull a ball for his first hit. Or he would've made an out, because he's really struggling, but if you're going to do questionable things early in the season, it seems like going with the pitch-taking rookie hitter who won't have to contend with a left-handed pitcher throwing him soft away is better than sticking with a shaky pitcher just to maintain good vibes in the clubhouse.
Then again, that's why Bruce Bochy has had success over the past 25 years. Clubhouses get behind him because he makes it clear how he's going to run the show. The next manager(s) will have their own experiences and desires driving how they engage with their players, but given what we know about who will be hiring the next manager(s), those desires won't include doing whatever it takes to get a starting pitcher a win.


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These findings confirm a lot of other research about how good service influences customer loyalty.
Service consistency matters. Notice that revenue grew only where the service quality started high and stayed high.
Even when service improves it still takes a while for customers to reward a supplier with more revenue. The customers that started with a lower Promoter response, but improved, still showed a negative compound annual sales growth rate (though a lower rate than those with a declining Promoter response).
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Utilizing advanced aerodynamics and low center of gravity, the Cobra KING F9 Speedback driver optimizes club head speed and launch for impressive distance off the tee. The high tech face provides fairway finding forgiveness.
Hang around enough golfers in various places and common subjects emerge out of the chatter. The Cobra KING F9 SPEEDBACK Driver has been one of those common subjects – and the talk is all positive. What I discovered during testing was a driver worthy of all the hype.
Eye catching from the very first photos was the Ferrari yellow trim. Bold like Rickie's orange Puma apparel, the black and yellow head combo is distinctive and attention grabbing. I went with the more subtle avalanche off-white that also has a matte black finish on the crown.
The crown features exposed carbon fiber that wraps over the trailing edges. Two ridges direct your eye to the classic Cobra logo and centerline of the club face. Across the front of the crown, slightly raised polymer 'trips' are one of the aerodynamic features of the KING F9 Speedback. They also provide visual interest without looking busy.
The front edge of the crown is rounded and leads to a tall face. The bottom of the club head highlights the namesake SPEEDBACK shaping, which features a raised skirt and low weight pod on the trailing edge. The shaping is sleek and distinctive in keeping with the aero theme.
While counter balanced, the UST Mamiya Helium shaft still left the club with a bit of head weight that provided subtle feedback on head location during the swing. The overall balance of the Cobra KING F9 Speedback kept me feeling the driver could take more swing speed – 'let it fly' danced in my head. I could tell strike location with my hands yet the contact felt stable regardless of impact point. Sound was a consistent, medium volume composite 'crack' with a deep tone.
From my first few hits on the driving range I knew I'd be guilty of adding to the buzz around the Cobra KING F9 Speedback driver. On reasonably good strikes, my shots had wonderful trajectories that carried past my normal landing markers and rolled out nicely. Not as attention grabbing but equally noteworthy was the forgiveness on mishits. Catching one low on the face still sent the ball high and straight. High on the face and towards the heel, the ball started left then worked its way back towards the target line. Tagging one out on the toe created a flight that was low but straight.
Turns out the CNC milled face, a remarkable feat of precision on its own, also includes Dual Roll Technology designed for straighter, more consistent ball flights. The face incorporates two vertical roll curvatures, three horizontal bulge curvatures, plus variable face thickness in an elliptical square pattern. Whew, that's a lot of design technology – and that's just the face. Luckily the Cobra site has great visual aids to help explain it all.
Earlier, I mentioned many of the performance elements of the driver head that achieve Cobra's two main design goals – max clubhead speed and low center of gravity. Most features have dual functions like the two ridges that frame the ball and add rigidity to the carbon fiber crown and return more energy to the ball.
On the launch monitor at Club Champion I wasn't surprised at the data as it echoed my experiences outdoors. Across the board, the numbers were super solid – highlighted by impressive ball speeds and remarkable consistency. With four high quality aftermarket shafts to choose from, 8 adjustable loft settings, and the ability to swap weight positions, fitters can set up the Cobra KING F9 Speedback driver to maximize performance for golfers of all abilities and swings.
Every aspect of the Cobra KING F9 Speedback driver has functional attributes that may not be obvious to the casual observer. But that's ok, because the results speak for themselves – more distance plus fairway finding forgiveness. Like all KING F9 clubs, the Speedback driver comes standard with Cobra Connect to track stats through the Arccos app. Give the Cobra KING F9 Speedback driver a try for yourself and join the conversation.
That distance can't be correct with a driver.
Interesting comment, as I'm certain I could also hit this or any driver 50 yards. All about swing speed. My hunch is you were expecting Matt Saturnus type driving distance – which I wish I had!
Hi Matt, nice review as always. I have one question, why your club speed dropped that much during this test?
Thanks for the compliment (hopefully) – but I believe you have me confused with the younger, faster swinging Matt Saturnus.
It would be nice to hear how changing the settings in an adjustable driver affected your results. Heavy weight forward or back. Loft adjustments etc. I'm curious if you played around with those adjustable settings. Seems like if you are going to take the time to review a club, you could talk more about those features and how they had a effect on you personally. This mostly reads like the website and/or the product intro blurbs. I can only speak for myself, but a review detailing "a day with the club" … maybe how you hit it in the range , made some adjustments, took it out on the course, how it performed hitting different shots etc would be more enlightening. Anyway… food for thought. Thanks.
Thanks for the feedback A.J. We try to balance providing technical details that may not be obvious looking at a rack of clubs and actual field testing results – all in a reasonable length review.
Enjoyed the review Matt! What loft did you test with?.
Thanks for reading Jeff. 10.5 degree.


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Enemy Within – Dark Rose Valkyrie – Humble Opinions
by Kane Bugeja
Special Force Valkyrie, move out!
If there is one positive of living in a world of mindless, bloodthirsty monsters, it's that it's easy to tell who the enemy is…because of the claws and fangs and violence. Unfortunately, the situation becomes a touch more complex when said monsters are actually humans, infected and transformed by the unholy fusion of alien matter and a virus. Not that that changes what needs to be done…
Asahi Shiramine is moving to the big city, with little more than a dream in his heart and a mission on his mind. With a brand new work opportunity and the Ultimate Beginner's Luck, his life is looking up…at the giant monsters who stand before him: Chimera. Horrid abominations that prowl the world and threaten the uninfected populace of the world, with both violence and the fear of contracting the Chimera Virus. Naturally, the military is all over this and Special Force Valkyrie now stands as humanity's best hope for survival. Probably. The game certainly promotes their effectiveness, but the simple fact remains that they are only present in Japan, a country that closed itself off from the world when the virus struck. So while it is good that there is a group willing to fight back against the Chimera threat, everywhere that is not Japan is pretty much a non-issue and could be on fire…or frozen…or poisoned. Chimera can do a lot.
It's also a sword
Now I know what you're all thinking, "This is a game about fighting for the safety of humanity, so naturally there is an underlying harem element to the story." Good job everybody, you're right. Though it doesn't factor into gameplay to any major degree, it is enough of a facet that it is noticeable. Yet, it really doesn't matter all that much. Barring one extra image appearing at the end of the game (of whichever lovely lady you form the strongest connection with), the concept of building trust with anybody on your team exists solely to add drama to another of the game's mechanics: Treachery. As the plot progresses, it becomes all too apparent that somebody on your team is working for the enemy, leaking intel and undermining humanity's survival. This leads to roughly four instances where you must interview each soldier, weighing their statements against one another to discern the liar in the bunch. Interesting in concept, the actual mechanics of this endeavour leave a little to be desired and mostly stand out as an obstructive outlier, rather than the crucial gameplay element it was likely intended to be. If it makes you feel better however, the results of these interview seem to serve no purpose other than to provide items (based on the validity of your observations) and a stock standard phrase from your Commander. You also never actually learn if you were right in your investigations…so there's that.
Internal suspicion aside, Dark Rose Valkyrie revolves around a tried and true RPG battle formula based on turns. With a limit of four active soldiers in your squad, with another four for backup, it is up to you to strategise, use the correct elemental abilities, judge whether a ranged or close up approach is best, swap in backup members when your frontline is looking week, correctly use battle items, wisely distribute stats upon level up and know when to run from battle…or you could simply keep pressing Attack until the bad guys fall. Admittedly not the most strategic approach, it is one that works until the very end of the game. As long as you pump up the Melee stat, you can pretty much activate Auto Battle and wait for your squad to win for you. Granted, elemental specials expedite the victory process and help avoid the need for healing items every now and then, but that's a matter of how much time you wish to spend navigating your attack list, which can be quite expansive as levels increase. The most troubling issue that arises from this strategy is the game's inclusion of the story elements. Multiple moments of the game will see your team forcibly reorganised, possibly robbing you of your most powerful characters for a time. Though far from the end of the proverbial world, the overall lack of impact the story has make these moments little more than an annoyance.
The military has really lightened up on their dress code
When outside of battle, you are occasionally able to talk with your team, building a rapport and hopefully connecting with their various personalities, in order to feel bad when one turns heel. The effect of this relies solely on your interest in certain anime archetypes and your tolerance of heavy handed drama. Fan of the sheltered rich girl who longs for purpose? Luna is your girl. The stoic girl who hides a cute side? Yue. Sweet and innocent girl with secret insecurities? Ai. Twins whose wealthy father despises them for being born as women and wishes they would hurry up and have sons (they're roughly 16 by the way) and enters the game literally saying that women are useless, just to really rub in the evil? Coo and Amal are your girls. There's also Kengo and Naoyuki, but they're mainly hung up on doing laundry and looking for attractive women, respectively. Also they're guys. And considering they don't blush and stumble over their words like every girl in Special Force Valkyrie, I don't think they like Asahi in that way. And if none of these options interest you, hang around until the split personalities enter the fray. It's basically just an excuse to have the girls double up on tropes, throwing shyness, violence, and a remarkable amount of disdain into the romantic mix. You know, the building blocks of any solid relationship…in an anime.
Though a visual novel manner of storytelling is, by definition, expository, there are certainly ways to mitigate the overwhelming flow of information that comes with telling and not showing. Dark Rose Valkyrie does not do this well. With the opening of the game informing you of story and the various mechanics that comprise combat, it's a little hard to find the time to care about anything. Though this confusion naturally disperses as you come to terms with Attack, Charge, Arts, Ignition (temporary power-up), Overdrive (even more temporary super power-up) EX Attack, Side Attack, All Out Attack, Co-operation Attack, Special, Melee, Ranged, Fatigue, Remodeling and Tailoring, the initial hesitance born of confusion is hard to move past. Yet, despite this, it is the end of the game that dishes out one of the heaviest expository deluge…for no reason. As the story is wrapping up and the villainous force has revealed themselves, motivations of greed and hatred fueling them, the game decides to suddenly reveal a bevy of new facts that were never once alluded to and serve no real purpose in regards to closing the story. Let's just say that, in a story about monsters and a virus that transforms humans into said monsters, the idea of an immortal foe who has been working behind the scenes for a century or so, manipulating the development of humanity's defences in the hope of creating the exact conditions necessary for their super evil goals, never once occurred to me…or any character in the story for that matter. Combined with the manner in which the final moments play out, it feels as if the game simply forgot it wanted to include these story elements and threw them all in at the end. Which is not exactly a high note to leave off on…like, at all.
The chain of command is…complex
Dark Rose Valkyrie is not a fantastic game, neither is it a bad one. Though much of combat can be ignored in favour of simply hitting things with oversized weapons, the romantic sub-subplot exists simply to show of anime girl tropes and the story utilises confusion to conceal average execution, a good time can still be had with this game. The enemy designs are interesting, the simple dungeons lean well into a quick burst play style and the overwhelming force you can apply to a single, villainous cobra is cathartic to say the least. Still, Dark Rose Valkyrie very much feels like a PS Vita experience, with its flaws only becoming more apparent on a console that can handle so much more. Especially visible in the final sequence of the game, utilising in battle models in a cinematic fashion. Not the best idea, which is a phrase that sadly applies to much of what Dark Rose Valkyrie has to offer. Chimera and all.
Every Dark Rose has its thorns…
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P&N Engineer, Chris Cruickshank, Designated for MSPE Assembly of Fellows
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Prein&Newhof is proud to announce that the members of Michigan Society of Professional Engineers (MSPE) recently nominated Prein&Newhof Senior Project Manager Chris Cruickshank, PE to become a Fellow Member in the MSPE Assembly of Fellows.
This award recognizes Chris' outstanding contributions to MSPE, the engineering profession, and his engineering achievements. The Assembly of Fellows meet at least once per year to act on nominations for Fellow Membership and other appropriate business that may be brought to its attention. You can learn more about the Assembly of Fellows here.
Chris has been a member of MSPE for 22 years, during which time he has served on numerous of the association's committees.
Chris is a licensed professional engineer in Michigan since 1990. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Detroit. Chris serves as a Team Leader at Prein&Newhof, overseeing our Laboratory staff, Airport group, Hydraulics team, Structural Engineering team, and our Geotechnical/Environmental group. He also serves as Prein&Newhof's Corporate Secretary, a Director of the Board, and an Executive Committee member.


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A Fourth Election Would Be a Disaster for Israel's Left
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A protester holds a sign during a protest against Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Oct. 31, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit
The Zionist left has made many ideological, political and organizational mistakes in recent decades. These have led it to shrink, atrophy and lose its way.
The result was its loss of the country's leadership and the rise of the biggest swindler in the country's history to years in power. But as this adrift bloc drags us to a new election, its chain of errors has reached a peak.
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Despite Kahol Lavan Chairman Benny Gantz's accurate remarks about the dire state of the country, the operative political rationale for dissolving the Knesset isn't at all clear. After all, if an election is held, the left's declared goal – ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – would founder on the rocks of reality.
According to all the polls of the past half year, Netanyahu would achieve in the next election what he failed to achieve in the three previous ones – the ability to form a rightist government that would let him do as he pleases with the country, and perhaps even get his trial canceled.
Based on these polls, the "anyone but Bibi" bloc would number at most 56 to 58 of the Knesset's 120 seats. It would include the savior du jour, Gadi Eisenkot, along with the Yesh Atid, Joint List, Kahol Lavan, Yisrael Beiteinu and Meretz parties. Even if Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman joins forces with the Arabs' Joint List – which is utterly unlikely – they would not have enough Knesset seats to form a majority governing coalition.
Netanyahu, in contrast, would be able to form a government of 63 to 64 seats comprised solely of his Likud party, the ultra-Orthodox parties and Yamina. He would also be able to expand this coalition by adding three or four deserters from Kahol Lavan and Yesh Atid – and there will be some. It's happened before.
Many people are counting on Yamina leader Naftali Bennett to be the man with the power to send Netanyahu packing from the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem and back to his own home in Caesarea. But even if the Messiah arrives and Eisenkot, Lieberman, Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid and even Meretz agree to crown Bennett as prime minister, the political reality is that even so, a change in government wouldn't be feasible. Without the Joint List, a handover of power is virtually impossible.
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Moreover, even with the Joint List, it's politically impossible for Bennett to lead the revolution, because his partners in Yamina wouldn't allow it. His base is the religious Zionist community, most of which isn't built for a coalition with Meretz, or with parts of Yesh Atid, Kahol Lavan and Eisenkot's future party. Nor are these parties built to make Bennett their leader, or to sit in a coalition with Yamina MK Bezalel Smotrich and his ilk.
Since Bennett could not join forces with the left, or even the center-left, he would be forced, despite his impassioned rhetoric against Netanyahu, to crown him as prime minister once again. That means Netanyahu would head a stable coalition of rightists and the ultra-Orthodox in which Yamina would get several key portfolios, such as defense, justice, finance and transportation.
To remain in power, Netanyahu would give it all of the above. And that will assuage the anger of most Yamina members over his failure to build in Jerusalem and his squandering of the opportunity to apply sovereignty to the settlements in Judea and Samaria.
His continuation in power would cause great despair and loss of hope among the Zionist left. Its resentment would intensify, as would its divisions, and how it would end nobody knows.
Therefore, even though this is a terrible government the likes of which we've never seen before and even if the current coalition is intolerable, it's better than what the country could anticipate if it were to be dismantled. After all, it would be replaced by a government in which even the few checks that restrain Netanyahu would disappear.
The obvious conclusion is that the people who are dragging us into holding a new election must halt the process immediately. It's still possible to sober up.
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Slap my forehead, don't I feel silly or how I love VMWare.
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I was watching CNN tonight and saw on the News Ticker that VMWare IPO'ed today on NYSE. Firstly, congrats to the whole of VMWare – an obvious case of hard work and an excellent product line.
Talk about wanting to slap my forehead, how did I miss this? Obviously I did what with several personal issues in my life of late taking my attention away from hot tech issues like this.
Now for the irony; I had started writing a piece on VMWare yesterday but never completed it.
I have been a huge fan of VMWare since they opened doors and run VMWare on my home PC for various testing scenarios.
The concept of running a Virtual computer is brilliant and as a tool complements having Symantec Ghost as a roll-back or cloning option on your computer(s). VMWare does more than just run an alternative OS on your Computer, it knows how to play nicely with resources – RAM, multiple processors, Disk space and Network. Oh yes and you can define rollback points within the Virtual Machine.
For a user who doesn't want the high electric bill of multiple computers, doesn't have the space or whose significant other doesn't like the home becoming one huge test lab then this is a splendid option.
This once I am going to say that VMWare versus Microsoft's Virtual PC/ Server wins the day. I know, I know .. it sticks in my craw that I have supposedly found a serious piece of software that Microsoft does not lead the market in. Remember though that VMware will run just about anything on most platforms.
A good friend of mine was telling me several weeks ago how he is strapped for a test machine for different software and this resulted in him installing a piece of software that did horrific things to his work PC and email. One short lecture on VMware and Symantec Ghost later he was checking out their sites and asking for my advice how to set this up.
The one qualifier or warning I will give is that Virtualization uses large amounts of disk space each time you create a roll back point so ensure you have a reasonably large Hard Disk.
The best fun I had with this was creating a Home Network of my real OS, Windows XP Pro and several other Virtual Machines.
Alas and this is the slap on the forehead I would have purchased this stock at first market opening as they are as of 16:00 EST at $51.00 already. It is good sometimes to remember that knowledge can transit to money if you remember to apply it and don't just see technology in the purest sense as a solution.


The Oklahoma State basketball team couldn't stop fouling Jordan Murphy. In fact, it couldn't stop Murphy.
The Minnesota senior forward tallied 24 points, including 11 at the free-throw line, in the Golden Gophers' 83-76 win against the Cowboys on Friday at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The Cowboys accumulated 24 fouls during the game, and Minnesota converted 23 of its 30 attempts from the line.
OSU (4-3 overall), however, couldn't replicate the same success. The Cowboys finished 12-of-24 from the free-throw line. They shot worse from the charity stripe (50 percent) than 3-point range (52.6 percent).
Lindy Waters led the Cowboys with 18 points while draining four of his six 3s. Cameron McGriff scored 10 points, but foul trouble limited him to 29 minutes. While he was on the floor, the Cowboys outscored Minnesota by 11.
The 11 minutes he was off the floor, OSU was outscored by 18.
Freshman center Yor Anei had four blocks in 15 minutes but fouled out late in the second half. He picked up two quick fouls after halftime, forcing him to sit on the bench.
Michael Weathers (18) and Mike Cunningham (12) also scored in double figures. The Cowboys trailed 70-52 with 10:33 left in the second half. At the 9:03 mark trailing by 15, OSU deployed a veteran lineup of Weathers, Waters, Cunningham, McGriff and Thomas Dziagwa, a group that narrowed Minnesota's lead to six thanks to a 12-0 run.
OSU had a chance to get within three, but Weathers split free throws at the line before the Golden Gophers (6-1) clinched the game at the line.
OSU forced 19 Minnesota turnovers and grabbed 13 offensive rebounds, though it garnered only five second-chance points.
The Cowboys return to action Wednesday when they travel to Tulsa to face the Golden Hurricane at 7 p.m.


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A New York Times Bestseller "A charming story about finding a safe place to let your freak flag fly." —People "Young readers who have ever felt too big or been made to feel small will feel just right in the cheerful glow of Weiner's contemporary fairy tale." —The New York Times Book Review From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a "smartly crafted" (BCCB) and "heartwarming" (School Library Journal) tale of friendship, furry creatures, and finding the place where you belong. Alice Mayfair, twelve years old, slips through the world unseen and unnoticed. Ignored by her family and shipped off to her eighth boarding school, Alice would like a friend. And when she rescues Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake one day, she finds one. But Millie is a Bigfoot, part of a clan who dwells deep in the woods. Most Bigfoots believe that people—NoFurs, as they call them—are dangerous, yet Millie is fascinated with the No-Fur world. She is convinced that humans will appreciate all the things about her that her Bigfoot tribe does not: her fearless nature, her lovely singing voice, and her desire to be a star. Alice swears to protect Millie's secret. But a league of Bigfoot hunters is on their trail, led by a lonely kid named Jeremy. And in order to survive, Alice and Millie have to put their trust in each other—and have faith in themselves—above all else.
Author Jennifer Weiner
"The story of twelve-year-old Alice, a misfit who is ignored by her own family and shipped off to boarding school. She'd love a friend, and one day she rescues mysterious Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake. Millie, it turns out, is a Bigfoot, part of a clan that lives deep in the woods. Alice swears to protect Millie and her tribe, and the two girls try to find a place where they both fit in"--
Little Bigfoot Big City
Twelve-year-old Alice Mayfair is not human. While Alice goes in search of her past, her best friend Millie Maximus, a tiny Bigfoot with a big voice, prepares for her future. Together they plan to sneak off to New York City in this second of a trilogy from a #1 New York Times-bestselling author. 5 1/2 x 8 5/16.
From the bestselling author of In Her Shoes, All Fall Down and the forthcoming novel Who Do You Love, Good in Bedis a funny and tender story full of heart. Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people's lives for her local newspaper. And for the past twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her job, her friends, her dog and her life. She loves her apartment and her commodious, quilt-lined bed. She has made a tenuous peace with her body and she even felt okay about ending her relationship with her boyfriend Bruce. But now this... 'Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world,' Bruce has written in a national woman's magazine. And Cannie - who never knew that Bruce saw her as a larger woman, or thought that loving her was an act of courage - is plunged into misery, and the most amazing year of her life.
Genre Book Fiction
"Generous and entertaining." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and columnist comes a "fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave" (Cheryl Strayed) collection of heartwarming personal essays "as wonderful as her fiction" (Mindy Kaling) that "will enthusiastically reach out to readers and swiftly draw them close" (Publishers Weekly , starred review). Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an "unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker ). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister, a clumsy yogini, and a reality-TV devotee. In this "unflinching look at her own experiences" (Entertainment Weekly ), Jennifer fashions tales of modern-day womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey. No subject is off-limits in these intimate and honest essays: sex, weight, envy, money, her mother's coming out of the closet, her estranged father's death. From lonely adolescence to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the F word-fat-for the first time, Jen dives into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to fans all over the world.
Genre Book Biography & Autobiography
Everyone S A Critic
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Everything and In Her Shoes masterfully combines Stephen King with Donna Tartt, plus a twist of Shirley Jackson, in this timely tale that spikes horror with humor and asks whose stories matter—and who gets to decide. Laurel Spellman is the most respected and feared literary critic in America. For years—more than she wants to admit—she's written acid-etched reviews, gleefully goring sacred cows, anointing Great American Novelists, keeping the mob of scribbling women in their place while enjoying all the perks of her position. She doesn't want to lose her spot on top of the literary world—not any more than she wants to replace her decades-old cartoon head shot with a new photograph. But when Laurel ends up taking a group of bibliophiles on a tour of literary Paris, she meets her worst nightmare: an eager debut author of commercial fiction named Tess Kravitz. Laurel despises books like Tess's: easy reads with happy endings, where the fat girl finds true love, or happiness through yoga. She can't stand Tess herself, a chirpy, chunky blond with a totebag full of a seemingly inexhaustible supply of her book, The Comfort Diet. But Tess is undeterred by Laurel's scorn. She makes it clear that she'll do anything—absolutely anything—to get her book on Laurel's radar. As author and critic play cat and mouse in Paris, ominous tokens appear, dark secrets are revealed, and Laurel finds herself haunted by her history and tormented by Tess's book. The line between reality and fantasy begins to blur in a clash between an aging critic who will do anything to hold on to what she has, and a desperate author, who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
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The Half Life
From #1 bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, a short story about what can happen when one restless woman's best laid travel plans go astray...
Big Summer
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Sexy and satisfying, Big Summer is the perfect quarantine read." —USA TODAY "The beach read to end all beach reads." —Entertainment Weekly "Big fun, and then some. It's empowering and surprising—a reminder to put down the phone and enjoy each moment for what it is." —The Washington Post A deliciously funny, remarkably poignant, and simply unputdownable novel about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all life's ups and down. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Good in Bed and Best Friends Forever, Big Summer is the perfect escape with one of the most lovable heroines to come to the page in years. Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this time—she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media—so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue was always the one who had everything—except the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne's no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She's built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size Instagram influencer. Letting glamorous, seductive Drue back into her life is risky, but it comes with an invitation to spend a weekend in a waterfront Cape Cod mansion. When Drue begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of cute single guys, Daphne finds herself powerless as ever to resist her friend's siren song. A sparkling novel about the complexities of female relationships, the pitfalls of living out loud and online, and the resilience of the human heart, Big Summer is a witty, moving story about family, friendship, and figuring out what matters most.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner delivers "a tale of love against the odds" (People). Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just eight years old when they meet one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenial heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she's intrigued by the boy who shows up alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy's taken back to a doctor and Rachel's sent back to her bed, they think they'll never see each other again. Yet, over the next three decades, Andy and Rachel will meet again and again—linked by chance, history, and the memory of the first time they met, a night that changed both of their lives. A sweeping, warmhearted, and intimate tale, Who Do You Love is an extraordinary novel about the passage of time, the way people change and change each other, and how the measure of a life is who you love.
Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. Meet Rose's sister Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie is a backing singer in a band called Whiskered Biscuit. She dreams of fame and fortune -- and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime. These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they're more alike than they'd ever believe. The brilliant new novel by Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love, will be released in August 2015.


Extremely unusual French 1840 silver inlaid blunderbuss with massive 3 inch opening at the end of a 16inch barrel. The underside of the stock is carved with a 3 dimensional horses head with checkering at the wrist. The barrel is inlaid with silver and reads damas turc (Turkish damaskas steel). 30 inches overall.


Social recruiting is no longer something for the future—it is here today and is already playing an important role, given the explosive growth of social media trends. The rise in adoption of social media, especially by active job searchers, presents new opportunities and challenges for talent management professionals. More than ever before, organizations need a global social recruiting presence if they expect to succeed in a world that is digitally connected.
At the core of a successful social recruiting initiative is a clear and focused strategic plan. How will social media enable you to achieve more impactful efficiency and effectiveness when it comes to recruiting? What will drive the most impact for your talent acquisition efforts? To achieve the most measurable outcomes, you will want to start with your goals – what success looks like to you – in mind.
It is important to ensure that appropriate and inappropriate uses of social media are clearly articulated and shared with employees of all levels. A strategic business plan considers the strategic uncertainties associated with it, and the same is true of your social media strategy. With the right policies and guidelines, and with strong training programs, organizations can gain tremendous benefit from online engagement.
A comprehensive social recruiting strategy includes the creation of a robust content strategy. The content that you create should be determined by the goals and objectives that you've set for your social recruiting efforts. To develop content that is relevant and socially friendly, make sure that you know your audience, know where they hang out; also know your recruiting brand and your recruiting voice.
Embrace mobile as part of your social recruiting strategy. Mobile technology has profoundly changed the way businesses interact with stakeholders, customers, employees, and now job seekers. Mobile is your opportunity to leverage marketing techniques, to create interactions, and to find those you may want to take to the next level.
Create a meaningful candidate experience. Everything about the recruiting process can add to or subtract from how candidates experience the company – the company's products and brand, the technology, the employees, and the recruiting team. Even when candidates don't get the job they were seeking, you want them to feel that their experience is worth a positive post on their Facebook page.
Transform employees into recruiters. Leverage your employees' social networks to actively connect with and engage pools of talent, and to recruit on the company's behalf.
Measure what matters. The trick for talent professionals is to have good techniques for filtering and processing the vast amounts of available information, and to understand and leverage it for planning, campaign optimization, resource allocation, and program outcomes.
Workforce science. Workforce science will put big data at the heart of recruiting allowing recruiters to move beyond using social media as a communication tool toward leveraging big-data technologies. Recruiters can then mine data and drive customized social experiences that influence job-seeker behavior in ways that benefit the business.
Social graphs. Social graphs will seismically change how we recruit. The data collected through social graphing will become of great interest to businesses that are trying to connect and engage for the purposes of building a brand and driving consumer behavior.
Gamification. We can expect that gamification will continue to change the game of recruiting – especially as these tools are adopted more readily in organizations.
The content of this blog is a summary of a larger body of work, written by Annemarie Neal for The Conference Board. The report is titled Brave New World: Recruiting Talent in the Digital Age, published October, 2013. The report number is TCB_R-1534-13-RR.
Read more from Annemarie Neal in her new ASTD book, Leading from the Edge.


Say Who has put its expertise to the benefit of the Fashion, Luxury and Art industries.
Say Who acts as a media, an agency and a creative studio to create their marketing campaigns and engage their key communities.
Say Who media offers a panorama of the personalities who shape today's cultural and artistic scenes. Say Who covers the cultural life and events, and highlights its leading figures as well as the places that host them, while always making sure to bring a high-standard, relevant and artistic perspective. We work closely with brands and institutions which identities correspond to our vision and values. With our experience in the media industry and our broad network of influence, we can work with you to develop content and communication programmes in line with your needs.
Say Who agency creates inspiring and engaging campaigns to support the strategic positioning and business of luxury / lifestyle brands. Thanks to our unique network of digital influencers and creative ideas, Say Who brings together key audiences and boosts the influence potential of each of its campaigns.
Say who studio intervenes on the creative and strategic conception of influence marketing campaigns. It also develops content for any media or digital plarform relative to each project (photos / videos...). The studio is in charge of brand content campaigns designed to support the brand's strategy. Say Who relies on its expertise as a media to develop the best editorial plan for its campaigns, taking into account the brand's media ecosystem (digital, social networks, owned media).


I'm just about to start doing exactly what Suzi has done (I have the same problem with clay aand poor drainage). Any idea where I can source bulk wood chips (ramial or otherwise) in the Hobart area?
Suzi gets her woodchips from the South Hobart Landscapes supplies – they have two types of woodchips, really rough and quite large and then a smaller variety. Suzi gets the smaller chip. Good luck!
Hey Hannah, so great to browse your blog and to particularly come upon this model of managing waterlogged clay soils. We've been pondering strategies for our farm on the Fleurieu Peninsula and this looks like a good idea to start toying with! Hope you're well!
Hello dear Joel! Yep this is a great technique – I've seen how effective it is and am a keen advocate. Look forward to hearing how you go with your own farm. Lots of love to you and your family :-).


text:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using QuantConnect.Data;
using QuantConnect.Data.UniverseSelection;
using QuantConnect.Interfaces;

namespace QuantConnect.Algorithm.CSharp
{
    /// <summary>
    /// In this algortihm we show how you can easily use the universe selection feature to fetch symbols
    /// to be traded using the AddUniverse method. This method accepts a function that will return the
    /// desired current set of symbols. Return Universe.Unchanged if no universe changes should be made
    /// </summary>
    /// <meta name="tag" content="using data" />
    /// <meta name="tag" content="universes" />
    /// <meta name="tag" content="custom universes" />
    public class DropboxUniverseSelectionAlgorithm : QCAlgorithm, IRegressionAlgorithmDefinition
    {
        // the changes from the previous universe selection
        private SecurityChanges _changes = SecurityChanges.None;
        // only used in backtest for caching the file results
        private readonly Dictionary<DateTime, List<string>> _backtestSymbolsPerDay = new Dictionary<DateTime, List<string>>();

        /// <summary>
        /// Initialise the data and resolution required, as well as the cash and start-end dates for your algorithm. All algorithms must initialized.
        /// </summary>
        /// <seealso cref="QCAlgorithm.SetStartDate(System.DateTime)"/>
        /// <seealso cref="QCAlgorithm.SetEndDate(System.DateTime)"/>
        /// <seealso cref="QCAlgorithm.SetCash(decimal)"/>
        public override void Initialize()
        {
            // this sets the resolution for data subscriptions added by our universe
            UniverseSettings.Resolution = Resolution.Daily;

            // set our start and end for backtest mode
            SetStartDate(2013, 01, 01);
            SetEndDate(2013, 12, 31);

            // define a new custom universe that will trigger each day at midnight
            AddUniverse("my-dropbox-universe", Resolution.Daily, dateTime =>
            {
                // handle live mode file format
                if (LiveMode)
                {
                    // fetch the file from dropbox
                    var file = Download(@"https://www.dropbox.com/s/2az14r5xbx4w5j6/daily-stock-picker-live.csv?dl=1");
                    // if we have a file for today, break apart by commas and return symbols
                    if (file.Length > 0) return file.ToCsv();
                    // no symbol today, leave universe unchanged
                    return Universe.Unchanged;
                }

                // backtest - first cache the entire file
                if (_backtestSymbolsPerDay.Count == 0)
                {
                    // No need for headers for authorization with dropbox, these two lines are for example purposes
                    var byteKey = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes($"UserName:Password");
                    // The headers must be passed to the Download method as list of key/value pair.
                    var headers = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>
                    {
                        new KeyValuePair<string, string>("Authorization", $"Basic ({Convert.ToBase64String(byteKey)})")
                    };

                    var file = Download(@"https://www.dropbox.com/s/rmiiktz0ntpff3a/daily-stock-picker-backtest.csv?dl=1", headers);

                    // split the file into lines and add to our cache
                    foreach (var line in file.Split(new[] { '\n', '\r' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries))
                    {
                        var csv = line.ToCsv();
                        var date = DateTime.ParseExact(csv[0], "yyyyMMdd", null);
                        var symbols = csv.Skip(1).ToList();
                        _backtestSymbolsPerDay[date] = symbols;
                    }
                }

                // if we have symbols for this date return them, else specify Universe.Unchanged
                List<string> result;
                if (_backtestSymbolsPerDay.TryGetValue(dateTime.Date, out result))
                {
                    return result;
                }
                return Universe.Unchanged;
            });
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Event - v3.0 DATA EVENT HANDLER: (Pattern) Basic template for user to override for receiving all subscription data in a single event
        /// </summary>
        /// <code>
        /// TradeBars bars = slice.Bars;
        /// Ticks ticks = slice.Ticks;
        /// TradeBar spy = slice["SPY"];
        /// List{Tick} aaplTicks = slice["AAPL"]
        /// Quandl oil = slice["OIL"]
        /// dynamic anySymbol = slice[symbol];
        /// DataDictionary{Quandl} allQuandlData = slice.Get{Quand}
        /// Quandl oil = slice.Get{Quandl}("OIL")
        /// </code>
        /// <param name="slice">The current slice of data keyed by symbol string</param>
        public override void OnData(Slice slice)
        {
            if (slice.Bars.Count == 0) return;
            if (_changes == SecurityChanges.None) return;

            // start fresh
            Liquidate();

            var percentage = 1m/slice.Bars.Count;
            foreach (var tradeBar in slice.Bars.Values)
            {
                SetHoldings(tradeBar.Symbol, percentage);
            }

            // reset changes
            _changes = SecurityChanges.None;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Event fired each time the we add/remove securities from the data feed
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="changes"></param>
        public override void OnSecuritiesChanged(SecurityChanges changes)
        {
            // each time our securities change we'll be notified here
            _changes = changes;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// This is used by the regression test system to indicate if the open source Lean repository has the required data to run this algorithm.
        /// </summary>
        public bool CanRunLocally { get; } = true;

        /// <summary>
        /// This is used by the regression test system to indicate which languages this algorithm is written in.
        /// </summary>
        public Language[] Languages { get; } = { Language.CSharp, Language.Python };

        /// <summary>
        /// This is used by the regression test system to indicate what the expected statistics are from running the algorithm
        /// </summary>
        public Dictionary<string, string> ExpectedStatistics => new Dictionary<string, string>
        {
            {"Total Trades", "66"},
            {"Average Win", "1.06%"},
            {"Average Loss", "-0.50%"},
            {"Compounding Annual Return", "18.511%"},
            {"Drawdown", "7.100%"},
            {"Expectancy", "0.810"},
            {"Net Profit", "18.511%"},
            {"Sharpe Ratio", "1.439"},
            {"Loss Rate", "42%"},
            {"Win Rate", "58%"},
            {"Profit-Loss Ratio", "2.12"},
            {"Alpha", "0.308"},
            {"Beta", "-10.065"},
            {"Annual Standard Deviation", "0.1"},
            {"Annual Variance", "0.01"},
            {"Information Ratio", "1.275"},
            {"Tracking Error", "0.1"},
            {"Treynor Ratio", "-0.014"},
            {"Total Fees", "$193.75"}
        };
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The database goes from present day back to 1982. In the USA there are 256 single-engine jump plane accidents (flying skydivers, ferry flights and maintenance flights). There are 65 multi-engine accidents. Does this make multi-engine planes safer? If you look at fatal accidents for each kind we find 16% of single-engine accidents were fatal while 38% of multi-engine accidents were fatal. So, if you are in an accident in a multi-engine plane you are much more likely to be involved in a fatal accident. But again, does this make multi-engine planes more dangerous? If there is an engine failure event many pilots would prefer a multi-engine plane as modern twins will usually continue to climb on one operating engine rather than being forced to descend as in the case of a single-engine plane. Many times in a multi-engine plane the aircraft circles back for a normal landing at the departure airport and is a "non-event". In single engine planes you are committed to a landing wherever you are. Some pilots attempt the "impossible turn" back to the departure runway after takeoff which is not just a 180 degree turn but rather 360 in total resulting in loss of control and crashing with fatal results.
So why might there be so fewer total accidents in multi-engine planes? Generally, multi-engine pilots have more flight experience. They are likely to have taken more check rides which allows for more opportunities to learn from experienced pilots. They are likely to have an instrument rating which teaches the pilot the importance of smooth aircraft control and increased scanning of the instruments. Basically, they are more aware of what the plane is doing.


In the year 2113, seventeen-year-old Jenna Strong is helped to escape from Mileway Maximum Security Prison outside London in order to help destroy ACID, the most brutal and controlling police force in history.
Thank you to everyone who sent in a submission. Anna M., you are the weeks big winner!


Petra collection by Kara Ross is still covered by veil of mystery, because at this moment I can't find any detailed information. It was presented to the public at the Las Vegas Couture Show. Pieces of new collection are created with 18K gold, diamonds, and various precious and semiprecious stones. Pay attention to the perfect combination of raw and cut stones.