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William Henry Poulett, 6th Earl Poulett (22 September 1827 – 22 January 1899) was an English peer, landowner, army officer, and racehorse owner. In the House of Lords he was a Conservative.

Early life
When Poulett was born in 1827, his chance of inheriting the family estates seemed remote. He was the third son of Vice-Admiral the Hon. George Poulett RN (1786–1854), who was the second son of the 4th Earl and the brother of the 5th Earl, who already had three sons. His mother, Catherine Poulett, was a daughter of Sir George Dallas, 1st Baronet.  He joined the 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot in 1840 and was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, passing out in 1842. Commissioned into the 54th Regiment, in 1846 he transferred to the 2nd Queen's Royals, then from 1852 to 1857 was with the 22nd Regiment in India, taking part in the British expedition from Peshawar to the Boroe Valley in 1853, and was with Brigadier-General Boileau at the storming of the heights.

Inheritance
In 1857, news reached Poulett in India that both surviving sons of his uncle the 5th Earl had died: Amias Poulett on 20 February 1857, and Vere Poulett, Viscount Hinton, on 29 August 1857. As Poulett's own father and older brothers had also died, this left him unexpectedly as the heir presumptive to the family estates, and he returned to England. From 1858 to 1870, he hunted the Hambledon Foxhounds six days a week. In 1864, as foreseen, he succeeded his uncle, the 5th Earl Poulett, inheriting Hinton House and about 11,000 acres, mostly around Hinton St George, with a second country house at Granville Hall, Droxford. He became a racehorse owner, specialising in National Hunt, and owned The Lamb, winner of the Grand National in 1868 and 1871. Another of his horses, Benazal, won twenty-seven steeple-chases and other races. In Who's Who, Poulett gave his recreations as "Racing, hunting, steeple-chasing, shooting, driving, yachting, fishing, telegraphy, and photography". He was a member of the Army and Navy Club, Arthur's, the Wellington Club, the Royal Albert Yacht Club, the Royal London Yacht Club, and others.

Personal life
Poulett married three times. First, on 23 June 1849, Elizabeth Lavinia, daughter of Joseph Newman of Landport, a pilot; she died in 1871.  Elizabeth is listed in Burke's peerage and the Royal Genealogy records Later that year he married, secondly, Emma Sophia Johnson, who died in 1876. Lastly, in 1879, he married Rosa, daughter of Alfred Hugh (de) Melville, an artist, and they had one son, William John Lydston Poulett, Viscount Hinton, born 11 September 1883, and two daughters, Eleanor Augusta Rosa, born 9 October 1879, and Violet Nita, born 5 October 1880.  His daughter Lady Violet married Cecil John Talbot Rhys Wingfield and was the mother of Edward William Rhys Wingfield (1905–1984).

A son, William Turnour Thomas Poulett, had been born to his first wife on 15 December 1849, at Southsea, Hampshire, only six months after their marriage, and Poulett had reason to believe he had been fathered by another man, Captain William Turnour Granville. In 1869, this son had married Lydia Ann Shippey, the daughter of William Shippey, a general dealer. They had one son, William Henry George Poulett (born 1 April 1870), and a daughter, Maud.  In November 1871, W. T. T. Poulett petitioned the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes for a Declaration of Legitimacy, to establish that he was the lawful son of William Henry Poulett, now the 6th Earl. In 1875, he was living at the family's secondary estate, Grenville Hall, Droxford, under the courtesy title of Viscount Hinton. However, after the birth of William John Lydston Poulett in 1883, W. T. T. Poulett was again disowned.

Dispute
Following the 6th Earl's death, the Poulett earldom and its entailed estates were claimed by W. T. T. Poulett, and on 27 July 1903, on a report from its Committee of Privileges, the House of Lords determined the dispute in favour of the 6th Earl's fifteen-year-old son, William John Lydston Poulett.  In a curious turn of events, Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland, the widow of a distant kinsman of the 6th Earl Poulett, left W. H. G. Poulett a bequest of £5,000 in her will, and he became a tea-planter in Ceylon.

Notes

External links
 ST4112 : Monument to William, 6th Earl Poulett – St George's church, Hinton St George at geograph.org.uk

1827 births
1899 deaths
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
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Q: Java Web Application connect to MYSQL and SQL SERVER I have a SpringMvc Web App running perfectly on a tomcat server alongside MySql.
What i need to do is that i need to store some data to another database on a SQL Server in another hosting.
So i am wondering if a spring mvc project has the capability to have simultaneously an MySql connection and SQL Server connection.
If not what could you advice me since i need to copy the contents of the mysql to sql every once in a while (say for instance in an interval of 2h).
Thanks

A: You can create two different DataSources with respective Drivers and Connection Credentials. It should work fine.

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The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989 and of the USSR in 1991 have become walled off in Western minds as events from an alien time and place.
But they should remind us that the architecture of human governments is not eternal. Communism was once a powerful threat to its capitalist rivals. But when circumstances change, the bright hopes of an age are prone to crash in disillusion.
Europe was a bright political project at the formation of the European Community and again when it expanded at the end of the Cold War. Its purpose was not so much power as peace: truly a noble vision.
But that noble project was built on an end-of-history economics, on frozen-in-time free-market notions and on dogmatic monetarism linked to arbitrary criteria for deficits and public debt.
In the wake of a global financial meltdown, these no longer serve. Unless they are abandoned soon, they will doom Europe as surely as communism doomed the empire of the East.
Europe's structure is also suspended between two stable formations: the federated nation state and the international alliance. This in-between structure is called aconfederacy, and it is something that was tried and which failed in North America on two occasions, most recently in 1865.
The South lost the US Civil War, in part, because it left too much power in state hands, and so could not in the end raise the funds or the men required to keep its armies in the field.
And following defeat, it took almost 70 years – until Roosevelt's New Deal in 1933 – before sufficient measures were taken to begin to overcome the dire poverty and economic stagnation of that region. This history too has been walled off in modern minds.
The distinctive European combination of millenarian economic ideas and unstable political structure faced a powerful shock from the global meltdown. With vast holdings of toxic US assets, investors sought to cut their losses by selling weak and small sovereigns: Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain.
Thus yields soared on those debts, while they fell simultaneously on US, German, French and British bonds. There was no sudden discovery that Greece was ill-managed or that Ireland had had an unsustainable construction boom. Those facts were known. The new event was the meltdown, the flight to safety, and the waves of predatory speculation that have followed.
Therefore what happened was a solvency crisis of the banks, as always happens in debt crises.
It was true in the 1980s, when the Reagan administration, no less, felt obliged to prepare a secret plan to nationalize all the major New York banks should a single major Latin American debtor declare default. It was true in 2008-09, when preventing the imminent collapse of Bank of America, Citigroup and others trumped all other US policy concerns.
It is obvious that the entire recent thrust of European policy has been to find ways to paper over the problems of Europe's banks: with phony stress tests, with new loans, with loud talk, with denunciations of profligacy in Greece or anywhere else – with anything except an honest examination of what lies at the heart of the problem.
Today Greece – under a resolute government and against heavy internal protest – has met the onerous conditions imposed on it. But for what?
For loans that are immediately recycled to the European banks, adding nothing to Greece's prospects except more debt? This will not lower interest rates, restore growth, or bring success to ongoing internal reforms. It is an intolerable situation and it will not continue for long.
Along one road there lies a future of defaults, panic, dissolution of the eurozone, and hyperinflation in the exiting countries, with a collapse of the export markets for those that remain.
The final consequence will be large population movements – as happened from the American South. For if Europe insists on reducing its periphery to poverty, it cannot expect those affected to sit still and accept their fate.
Along the other road lies the assumption of common responsibilities for sustained convergence, based on a new economics of mutual support.
Along this path sovereign debts below the Maastricht ceiling will be taken over and converted to European bonds and there will be a public-private investment program to restore growth and employment – as some of Europe's wisest leaders demanded in a manifesto just a few days ago. There will follow in due course the constitutional reforms needed to adapt Europe and its policies to the conditions of the post-crisis world.
What a wonderfully accurate analysis; but will they listen?
The analysis is good. the issue is just that the road "default" scares people and "common responsibilities & sustained convergence" scares people too. On top of that there is no gurantee for convergence. Especially for Greece the likelyhood of success is low. Any investor if he had to choose would bet on almost any Eastern European country, before he bets on Greece. Greece has received money since it auctioned itself off around 1960 between the Eastern Block and Europe. Where is the convergence result? Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia have done a much better job. At some it is time to cut the losses. The same holds true for Portugal. The Irish have a chance to get back on their own feet.
Why or why not listen? If this can be a part of their agendas.


GREE Forum > Forums > Crime City > Off-Topic > soo.. HOW MUCH ARE U LOOKING FORWARD TO GTA V?!
View Full Version : soo.. HOW MUCH ARE U LOOKING FORWARD TO GTA V?!
I'll go first. Been waiting for this game for like 2 years. Didn't like GTA IV that much, it was nothing like the good old days with san andreas and vice city. But it seems like Rockstar is actually going back to the roots with this one. My expectations have grown bigger for every trailer they've released, and now with the released gameplay vid, god, I almost came. That's one beautiful game. Have seen it like a thousand times.
The trailer shows promise, and I'm sure I'll pick it up at some time (seeing as I have every installment to date), but I'm not sure it's a day one purchase for me. My enthusiasm has shifted to the next-gen hardware (more specifically, the PS4) and the games developed exclusively and concurrently for that platform. It would be nice if Rockstar offered an enhanced / tweaked version for the next-gen consoles at a later date; for now, I'm going to hold off on pre-ordering this.
I agree, its a shame that it's not on the PS4. But it's been in development for the current consoles for about 6 years I think, so it's kind of understandable.
Are there any games in particular you're looking forward to on the next gen? I'm quite hyped for 'watch dogs', I think that's going to be an amazing game. I'm also hoping for a sequel to 'sleeping dogs', although that's not announced atm.
"Watch Dogs" is shaping up to be a phenomenal game, but I wouldn't expect any less from UbiSoft; same goes for their next installment of Assassin's Creed, Black Flag. I've heard lots of great things about "Sleeping Dogs" and I do have an installed copy on my PS3 hard drive (thanks to my PS+ subscription); it's just that I haven't gotten around to playing it as yet (maybe this weekend, who knows? :p ).
Besides "Watch Dogs", my most anticipated title is "Killzone: Shadow Fall" (I'm a diehard KZ fan, and "Killzone 3" was my favourite FPS this generation, keeping in mind that I also played every COD, MOH, Resistance and Halo installment, as well as Battlefield 3).
I'm anxious to see / hear what the indie developers have in store for the PS4. Some of the most engaging titles this generation aren't necessarily from the major third-party powerhouses, but rather, the small upstarts given a break by making their offerings available through PSN, including Flower, Journey and The Unfinished Swan.
I cant wait to ride bicycles again!
Hitting people with them is pretty funny too.
I'm a little upset it isnt for next gen systems but I'm supe stoked GTA has been my favorite franchise sim ce the PS1. I would like to see a bonus game that's in the aerial style of GTA 1 and 2.
The ONLY reason I'm not selling my 360 yet!
I can't wait either :D will be very fun to play I'm sure.
It is coming out on the next gen consoles as well though right?
only everyone in the world who is living! anyway, The sopranos join them 325 002 059!
Oooo yes! I can't wait to abandon crime city for awhile for GTA 5!!!!
I want to play it so bad, but my computer stopped working. I have to build a whole new one. I'm angry because I'm missing out on so many awesome games.
Hell yeah it is...shame it's not as accessible.
1 word shark attack! I got killed by a shark while swimming, also I dived down to the ocean floor only to have been killed by a giant squid WTF??????
So so so so MUCH! Oh, I've completed it..


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ABA Ethics Opinion Cracks Open Door to ABS
14 Min Read By: Keith R. Fisher December 15, 2021
Introduction: The Expansion of ABS
Alternative business structures (ABS) is a generic term used in the legal ethics arena to refer to any form of business model for provision of legal services that is different from traditional law practice models (sole proprietorship and various types of partnerships). ABS can include the possibility of equity ownership by non-lawyers, including even publicly traded law firms (as has been seen in Australia, where ABS is known as "incorporated legal practices") and business or consulting entities with non-lawyer equity owners that provide both legal and non-legal services.
Besides Australia, ABS has been permitted for many years in England and Wales (since the Legal Services Act of 2007) and, here in the United States, in the District of Columbia.[1] The D.C. liberalization of its Rules of Professional Conduct did not yield a significant amount of law-firm affiliated ABS. Part of this may have been due to uncertainty about whether D.C.-licensed lawyers, many of whom are also licensed in one or more other U.S. jurisdictions (e.g., Maryland, Virginia), would run afoul of the rules of professional conduct in the other jurisdictions, which did not permit ABS.[2] More recently, however, Arizona and Utah have modified their respective versions of Model Rule 5.4[3] to permit business structures that allow nonlawyer ownership of law firms and the sharing of legal fees with nonlawyers.
Model Rule 5.4
Under ABA Model Rule 5.4, which has been adopted essentially unchanged in nearly all other U.S. jurisdictions, lawyers are prohibited from sharing legal fees[4] with a nonlawyer or practicing in a law firm in which a nonlawyer owns any interest or serves as an officer or director. The original purpose of this prohibition, which a number of lawyers deem anachronistic, was to preserve the professional independence of lawyers.
Starting in the latter part of the twentieth century, however, it became clear that lawyers no longer had—assuming they ever had—a monopoly on the provision of legal and law-related services. Accountants and other tax professionals had for many years offered tax-related services to the general public in a manner that frequently blurred any distinction between legal and non-legal services. Other providers made available document discovery and a broad array of low-cost, high-volume legal-related services to both businesses and individuals.
The success of many of these initiatives attests to the societal problem posed by the high cost of lawyers' services. The author has frequently remarked (only partially in jest) that, were he in need of a lawyer, he couldn't afford himself. The issue does not call for levity, however. In a nation that widely regards itself as a leading exponent of the rule of law, the World Justice Project 2020 Rule of Law Index ranked the United States as only twenty-first out of a total of 128 countries, but—more tellingly in terms of peer group analysis—fifteenth out of twenty-four on a regional basis and twenty-first out of thirty-seven based on population income level.
Affordability of legal services is a large component of arguments advanced in support of repeal or revision of Model Rule 5.4. The revisions in Utah and Arizona in 2020 and 2021, respectively, have already been mentioned. In February 2020, the ABA recognized that "more than 80% of people below the poverty line and the many middle-income Americans who lack meaningful access to effective civil legal services."[5] Accordingly, the House of Delegates passed Resolution 115 calling for "regulatory innovations that have the potential to improve the accessibility, affordability, and quality of civil legal services."
In an era in which lawyers and law firms routinely practice on a multistate basis, piecemeal adoption of such changes raises an obvious question: May a lawyer practicing in a jurisdiction that adheres to the current text of Model Rule 5.4 invest in an ABS in a jurisdiction that allows it, and if so, what ethical limitations (if any) apply to that investment?
Formal Opinion 499
In September 2021, the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (the "Ethics Committee") addressed that question in Formal Opinion 499. It interpreted Model Rule 5.4 to allow a lawyer "passively [to] invest in a law firm that includes nonlawyer owners . . . operating in a jurisdiction that permits ABS entities, even if the lawyer is admitted to practice law in a jurisdiction that does not authorize nonlawyer ownership of law firms." "Passive" investment,[6] for this purpose, means investment in an ABS with the sole aim of receiving a return on capital based on the efforts its employees, without any personal participation by the investor in the ABS's work or management—in short, wholly unrelated to the investor's law practice.
As a corollary, the opinion further refined its definition of "passive investment" as negating access by the investing lawyer to confidential information protected by Model Rule 1.6 without the informed consent of the ABS's client. This sounds fairly straightforward, but it is actually somewhat complex, because, as the Ethics Committee acknowledges, it may often be difficult to anticipate what kinds of information about the ABS a potential investor might reasonably request, and therefore "it is unrealistic to assume that there will be no investor requests for information about the ABS operations or revenue. The issue of disclosure of confidential information by an ABS is a developing area of the law and beyond the scope of this opinion." No extraordinarily useful guidance there, to be sure, but until this area is fleshed out further, conservative ethics advice (which the Ethics Committee, to its credit, offers) is this: If considering investment in an ABS, a lawyer "should exercise due care to avoid exposure to confidential client information held by the ABS or other associations that could result in a determination that the . . . [investing] lawyer is part of the ABS 'firm.'"
More helpful, by way of guidance, is the rejection by Formal Op. 499 of any notion that this kind of investment could create a conflict of interest per se. "A passive investment does not create an 'of counsel' relationship where conflicts are imputed to other lawyers. Nothing about a passive investment necessarily creates the 'close, regular and personal relationship' characteristic of 'of counsel' arrangements." To make appearance double sure, however, the opinion insists that investing lawyer make sure that the ABS does not in any way imply that the investor is a lawyer for the ABS or is otherwise associated with the ABS. Furthermore, the mere fact of a lawyer's passive investment in an ABS in a Model Rule 5.4 jurisdiction does not require imputation of conflicts under Model Rule 1.10 between the investing lawyer (or that lawyer's firm) and the ABS.
While conflicts at the time of investment are rare, they are not impossible, however. Formal Op. 499 cautions that if the investor when making the investment also represented a client with interests adverse to a client of the ABS, a concurrent conflict under Model Rule l.7(a)(2) might exist. Such a conflict could arise equally where the investor is an advocate for a client adverse to one of the ABS's clients or a business lawyer representing a client involved in a transaction with one of the ABS's clients. This is so, the opinion concludes, because the investing lawyer's interest in the ABS could "create a significant risk" that the investor's representation of the client would be "materially limited" by the investment in the ABS.
The attentive reader will have noted that the Ethics Committee's conflict of interest analysis applies only at the point of investment. The opinion subsequently underscores this point: "The fact that a conflict might arise in the future between the . . . [investing lawyer's] practice and the ABS firm's work for its clients does not mean that the . . . [investor] cannot make a passive investment in the ABS."
The Ethics Committee considered the conflict of law issue that arises when (as often will be the case, at least at present) the investor is admitted to practice in a jurisdiction that retains Model Rule 5.4. That issue is addressed by Model Rule 8.5(b)(2). Formal Op. 499 concluded that the law of the jurisdiction in which the ABS is authorized to operate should apply "because under Rule 8.5(b)(2), the predominant effect of . . . [the] passive investment in an ABS would be in the jurisdiction(s) where the ABS would be permitted."
To recapitulate, then, the gist of Formal Op. 499, a lawyer admitted to practice in a jurisdiction that has adopted (or substantially adopted) Model Rule 5.4 may invest in an ABS entity with nonlawyer equity owners that is permissible under the ethics rules of another jurisdiction if:
the investment is solely for obtaining a return on capital;
the investing lawyer does not practice law with the ABS;
the investing lawyer ensures that the ABS does not in any manner hold out the investing lawyer as practicing at or working at the ABS;
the investing lawyer, prior to making the investment in an ABS, ascertains that none of his or her existing clients are adverse (within the meaning of Model Rule 1.7(a)(2)) to any of the ABS's clients;
the investing lawyer does not enjoy access to confidential information protected by Model Rule 1.6 absent
the informed consent of affected clients; or
compliance with an applicable exception in the ABS jurisdiction's version of Rule 1.6.
Beyond Formal Opinion 499
There are, however, some important ethics principles related to lawyer investment in ABS that are not addressed in detail by Formal Op. 499 and that may pose potential snares for unwary lawyer investors. First, the opinion observes, "[T]he mere fact of a passive investment by a Model Rules Lawyer in an ABS does not require imputation of conflicts under Model Rule 1.10 between the . . . [investing] Lawyer (or that lawyer's firm) and the ABS." This is correct but could benefit from further elaboration. Where the ABS is itself a client of the investing lawyer or where the investing lawyer asks a client also to invest in the ABS, Model Rule 1.8(a) imposes several requirements before a lawyer may enter into a business transaction with a client.[7] Under that rule, a lawyer cannot enter into a transaction with the client unless (i) the transaction and its terms are fair and reasonable and fully disclosed in writing to the client in a manner that the client can reasonably understand; (ii) the client is notified and given a reasonable opportunity to seek an independent lawyer's advice; and (iii) the client gives informed consent, in a writing signed by the client, both to the essential terms of the transaction and to the lawyer's role therein (including whether the lawyer is representing the client in the transaction). While discipline for transgressing this rule can be severe,[8] unlike other conflict of interest limitations in the Model Rules, these are not imputed to affiliated lawyers under Model Rule 1.10(a)[9] (though they may be under the Restatement's approach).[10]
Furthermore, the mere fact that there is no per se conflict at the time the investing lawyer makes the investment in the ABS does not mean that conflicts will not arise in the future. Therefore, the investing lawyer's continuous monitoring is required for concurrent conflicts, such as where the lawyer is engaged to represent a client whose interests are adverse to a client of the ABS. In that scenario, the investing lawyer's representation of the client could be "materially limited" by the investment interest (assuming it is not de minimis) in the ABS; other lawyers in the investing lawyer's firm might, however, be able to take on that representation.
Another lurking issue is presented where the investing lawyer's interest in an ABS, either individually or in concert with others, is a controlling interest. This may implicate the rarely invoked Model Rule 5.7, which applies the strictures of the Model Rules in connection with the provision of "law-related services." This term is defined in Model Rule 5.7(b) in such a way as to be quite relevant to an ABS: "services that might reasonably be performed in conjunction with and in substance are related to the provision of legal services, and that are not prohibited as unauthorized practice of law when provided by a nonlawyer." The rule applies to:
the lawyer in circumstances that are not distinct from the lawyer's provision of legal services to clients; or
in other circumstances an entity controlled by the lawyer individually or with others if the lawyer fails to take reasonable measures to assure that a person obtaining the law-related services knows that the services are not legal services and that the protections of the client-lawyer relationship do not exist. (Emphasis added).
Unfortunately, the key term "control"—a concept familiar to business lawyers in a variety of statutory contexts—is defined neither by the rule nor by the Terminology section of the Model Rules. The only guidance offered is somewhat vague and is found in Comment 4 to Model Rule 5.7:
[4] Law-related services also may be provided through an entity that is distinct from that through which the lawyer provides legal services. If the lawyer individually or with others has control of such an entity's operations, the Rule requires the lawyer to take reasonable measures to assure that each person using the services of the entity knows that the services provided by the entity are not legal services and that the Rules of Professional Conduct that relate to the client-lawyer relationship do not apply. A lawyer's control of an entity extends to the ability to direct its operation. Whether a lawyer has such control will depend upon the circumstances of the particular case.
Short of actually exercising dominion over the quotidian business operations of the ABS, what constitutes control for this purpose remains murky. The best way for a lawyer investing in an ABS to be sure of not running afoul of this provision would seem to be contenting oneself with a modest, minority investment and avoiding any possibility of being viewed as acting in concert with other investors who, in the aggregate, might be deemed to exercise control.
Formal Opinion 499 raises the curtain on a sensible approach to ABS as innovation in the provision of legal services and related services becomes more widespread. As is evident from the opinion, this is an area in which further refinement of lawyers' ethical responsibilities can be anticipated. For now, passivity is the watchword: Make passive investments, act passively and not as a lawyer for the ABS, and be on the lookout for lurking conflicts issues.
[1] D.C. Rule 5.4(b) permits individual nonlawyers, in certain circumstances, to be partners in law firms, as long as they do not provide legal advice but provide different professional services that assist the firm in delivering legal services. The firm must have as its sole purpose providing legal services to clients. The District does not, however, permit passive investment in law firms.
[2] That is precisely the issue that is considered in the recent ABA ethics opinion discussed in this article.
[3] In Arizona, the provisions are now a part of ER 5.3.
[4] Note, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct nowhere define the term "fees." That potentially gives rise to an argument about the source of law firm revenues that could, even under the Model Rule, be shared with nonlawyers, but this article will not consider that issue.
[5] ABA, Res. 115, Revised Resolution and Report at 1 (Feb. 2020)
[6] Formal Op. 499 is limited to passive investment in an ABS and does not address issues implicated by a lawyer practicing in an ABS.
[7] It is possible, albeit unlikely, that the factual settings alluded to here might constitute the investing lawyer "acquir[ing] an ownership, possessory, security or other pecuniary interest adverse to a client." If that acquisition is "knowing," that is another basis upon which Model Rule 1.8(a) would come into play.
[8] See, e.g., In re Davis, 740 N.E.2d 855 (Ind. 2001) (suspending lawyer for 18 months); State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Perry, 936 P.2d 897 (Okla. 1997) (disbarment for this and other rules violations).
[9] Standing alone, passive investment does not give the investing lawyer "access to information protected by Model Rule 1.6 without the ABS client's informed consent" and does not create the sort of relationship with the ABS that would normally require imputation of conflicts.
[10] Under the RESTATEMENT (THIRD) OF THE LAW GOVERNING LAWYERS § 126, the rules governing a lawyer's business transactions with clients are imputed to affiliated lawyers under § 123. See id. § 126, cmt. A.
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Introducing Hypertellurians
June 1st update: the game is now live!
Like many games masters, judges, referees, or whatever you like to call them, I have many more adventures and adventure ideas than I'll—sadly—ever be able to run. I've collected amazing one-shots, fabulous books, exciting PDFs, intriguing blog posts and much more, all spanning a variety of settings, themes, and tones.
I had this idea percolating inside my head of a campaign that would span many worlds, where the characters would travel through dimensions and planes of existence. I would use this as the big excuse to string together a whole bunch of these adventures, and it wouldn't matter if they varied radically in tone, or in the technological development of their inhabitants—in fact, it would be expected, since the characters crossed worlds!
I needed three things: a reason for the party to risk their lives in these crazy locations, a means to travel between all of them, and, hardest of all, a game system to run it in.
I thought about this long and hard. The game we were about to finish was Symbaroum, an excellent dark fantasy romp through an oppressing, ancient forest. A "roll under" system, where the character powers are tightly tied to the tone of the setting. I liked a lot of the mechanics, but many of them wouldn't work for a gonzo worlds-spanning game.
Karen forced to paint for me.
Before Symbaroum, we played a lengthier homebrew campaign called Verdant Reaches. We used a modified version of 5th edition D&D for this, mainly when it came to magic. I was aiming for a world where magic was raw, rare, and mysterious. I gave each magic-using class their own spin on magic, with some pseudo-scientific explanations, changed up a bunch of spells, and struck others that really didn't fit.
This worked in the beginning, but became harder and harder as the characters levelled up and gained new abilities and spells. Each of these had to be examined in light of the whole; made harder by D&D's widespread availability of magic, across most classes, too.
I made a final mistake in this campaign: a black swan, a world shattering event, that unravelled magic as everyone knew it. It was my hope that this would give us a new baseline to create new magic, invented and developed by the characters. This might have worked for a very story-driven group of players. It worked less so for my group, who were used to outlined character options and a solid reference for planning character progression. I should have anticipated this, having gamed with this group for a very long time.
I thought about much more cut down systems, like The Black Hack, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, and other OSR favourites. But they all had the same problem as above: few and somewhat vague character progression options, something that was just too important for my players. I'm a huge fan of rules-light systems like The Black Hack, or Breakers, for one-shot games. But in order to maintain the interest of my players over the long term, we need exciting and varied character options, and plenty of them. I thought of Spire and its awesome character classes and advances, but they are inextricably tied to its setting (a great boon for Spire!)
Ultranaut dragged off by space vixens.
More systems went through my mind: Numenera, or perhaps better yet, The Strange. But ultimately I couldn't shake the thought: "Why not, after an eon of gaming, finally create a system of my own?" After all, I knew what I wanted in a system in order to bring the fun my way, and even more importantly, I knew what my players wanted in a game system in order to remain engaged.
So I had some requirements that the system would need to fulfill:
it had to work with existing OSR and system-neutral adventures with on-the-fly conversion,
it would furthermore ideally work with D&D, 13th Age, and other, "bigger" systems too,
it needed a solid and intuitive core mechanic,
it had to support a variety of approaches to magic,
it needed to let me make judgement calls instead of have rules for every possible interaction,
it had to provide a plethora of starting character options and progression options.
With those goals in mind I set out to cannibalize all my favourite parts of all the systems I've played, to see how I could mash them together into something new.
As you've already guessed, none of this would have come to pass, had I not this vast line of amazing pioneers and game designers go before me. And beyond printed material, many ideas came—or were lifted wholesale—from blog posts, social media discussions, podcasts, in person conversations, and much more. When I publish the system, I will attempt to credit as many sources I looted from as I can remember, but please accept my apologies in advance for those I may miss.
Even though the game will span countless worlds—dubbed the "Ultracosm"—I still needed a general focus. For this I settled on retro futurism and science fantasy, especially from sci-fi magazines of the early 19th century (like Planet Stories, Amazing Stories, et al), but also heavily influenced by the paintings of Frazetta, the Vallejos, Caza, and Caldwell. I put together a Pinterest board with images that capture the tone I'm going for.
As I'm writing the rules and the character powers, I'm paying particular attention to the language used, in order to remain true to this tone. I never use modern words or words that are too loaded in meaning with reference to modern science fiction. Everything should sound more like science fiction and fantasy as envisaged in those publications of old. This helps switching from a medieval world, to one with floating sandships and emitters, with little to no friction and cognitive dissonance. Numenera talks about this too, in the introduction to its world.
He's watching you.
Since writing the first draft, we've playtested, adjusted, rewritten, and playtested again for many months. I'm currently on the 3rd major rewrite of the system, based on everything we learned. During each iteration, we noted what worked and what didn't, which powers were clearly too good, and which types of powers were lacking. We experimented with multiple core mechanics, each time focusing on streamlining without sacrifcing depth.
It's my hope that this 3rd revision will be in a publishable state. We have a simple d20 roll with (generally) one modifier, where every ability point counts. There are 3 abilities: Brawn, Agility, and Mind. The target for each roll is the opponent's ability score, or the task's difficulty. Advantage and disadvantage are lifted directly from 5th edition D&D. The round system borrows heavily from Shadow of the Demon Lord.
So far so good, and all of that is relatively standard fare that could have and probably has already been bashed together by many a homebrew system. But this game has two strengths beyond that: the huge number of character powers and advances, and its Sense of Wonder mechanic.
Having a simple and flexible core rule is of course vital, but it doesn't by itself set the game apart from others, nor does it bring anything unique to the game to the table. In Spire, the character classes and advances are steeped in the lore and tone of the setting. But in a game that spans worlds, this doesn't easily work. So by eliminating the specific content of the worlds characters might visit, I took a step back, and realized that exploration and discovery is an even greater aspect of this game than in even in most.
This felt good: making discoveries themselves an integral part of the mechanics. Enter the Sense of Wonder pool. As characters make discoveries, they gain points in this pool, which is shared among the party. During combat or other situations where the outcome is unsure, and therefore one or more rolls are required, the players have the option of wondrous actions, on top of standard ones. These cost Wonder points, and thus their use requires consent from the other players. But in return they can achieve truly, well, wondrous things. This in turn reinforces the heroic, unlikely, and perhaps even a little gonzo, tone of the game.
The Wonder pool also incentivises exploration, and thus travel between worlds (read: all those adventures from your shelf you want to run).
There is much more to this, but it's all explained in the core rules, so let's talk about something else next.
Yes, the game is called Hypertellurians, implying better than average humans. In fact, the choice of characters goes some way beyond what we might normally think as human. Instead of classes and races, the game has 6 archetypes, which, together with its array of free-choice starting powers, allows for creating a huge number of character concepts.
Five archetype concepts by Karen Reding, based on my regular group.
The archetypes are: the Royal (deposed queen, scheming general, or maybe a magical princess), the Beast (were-leopard, orc, or maybe a mermaid), the Construct (android, juggernaut, golem), the Alien (gas cloud, idea from space, tall and thin thing), the Revenant (vampire, skeleton, creature that should not be), and the Ultranaut (experimental spacecraft astronaut flung through black hole, totalitarian femme fatale occultist).
The archetypes all have their own signature starting powers. Then we have general starting powers like Byronic, Deep Lungs, Different Down There, Sidekick, Tellurian of Unusual Size, and Terrible Curse, to name just a few, that you get to choose from. Finally, each archetype has a set of minor, medium, and major advances, plus generic advances to choose from too.
Very soon. I'm finishing up the general starting powers at the moment, and then I'll have a go at the inventory. Finally, I'll throw together a character sheet. I'll probably release it at about the same time as my group starts playtesting this latest iteration.
Initially, I will be releasing Hypertellurians on this blog, in its own section, with original, and public domain art, and solid graphic design. It'll be a living document for a while, as playtesting notes come in, things are tweaked, and perhaps advances added.
I'm a big fan of web pages for reading and referencing game mechanics, especially if they are designed for the game itself rather than more generic. Having multiple tabs open for different parts of the rules is handy, for example. That said, I'm aware that many people might prefer a PDF they can stick with all their other electronic gaming books. I might investigate a print stylesheet at first that'll let you print to PDF without screwing up the graphic design. As for down the road, we'll have to see.
That's it for now. If you made it this far, congratulations, and my sincerest thanks for your interest in my little hobby project! I will update this page with more information on the game as it evolves, and in the meantime you can look forward to probably another handful of preview or support posts about the game soon.
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Jon Sindell wrote the story collections The Roadkill Collection and Family Happiness. His humor has appeared in The Big Jewel, Defenestration, Feathertale, Hobart, The Higgs-Weldon, Points In Case, riverbabble, The Short Humour Site, and Thrice Quarterly, and before barnyard animals in petting zoos everywhere. Much of his writing hides in plain sight here.
Judge Bling (with jaundiced expression): I don't know, bruh, I just wasn't feeling it.
Judge Snyde (with derisive grin): What's with the big hat? I mean, seriously, man. No. No no no no no.
A.B. (with kindly grin): Poetic arithmetic, ma'am. A bit grand, perhaps.
Judge Fluffe (chin on palm): I don't get it.
Judge Fluffe: Could you explain what "four score" is?
The judges stare vacantly at Lincoln.
Judge Bling (sighing in exasperation): Yes?
The judges look at one another in distress. Judge Bling looks sourly upward as if hoping to find the sum in the ceiling. Judge Snyde scrawls four sets of twenty marks on a paper and begins counting them, but loses count and hurls the paper to the floor. Judge Fluffe laboriously works out the problem with pencil and paper.
Judge Fluffe (beaming): Eighty! "Four score" means eighty.
Lincoln touches the brim of his stovepipe hat in salute.
Judge Bling (smiling broadly): Well, why didn't you just say so, dawg?
A.B.: Perhaps I should have.
Judge Snyde (jealous of Judge Fluffe's approval of A.B.): So what's the seven, then? I mean, (mocking Lincoln's sonorous intonation), "four score and seven years ago" and all that?
Judge Fluffe (taking up her pencil to add seven to eighty, exclaiming brightly): 87!
Judge Bling (rolling his wrist to signal "hurry up"): Yeah yeah yeah, we got that, dawg, but eighty-seven years ago what?
The judges look at each other in an arithmetic-induced panic. Judge Bling scrunches his brow as if pained by constipation. Judge Snyde chews nervously on his pencil. Judge Fluffe fumbles for her phone to use its calculator. They hold a tense, huddled conference.
Judge Bling (irritated, in a panic): We'll go to commercial.
After the commercial, Lincoln is gone.
Judge Bling: Listen up, yo. Sorry to report that A.B. Baby has been disqualified for the use of a banned substance: arithmetic. That leaves us a few minutes to enjoy these highlights from the earlier rounds of Historic Death Match.
Johnny The Eff Kennedy: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
Judge Snyde: I like that "ahsk." Smooth as silk.
Judge Fluffe (mooning): I love the hair.
Judge Bling: Right right, the hair, the accent, it's all good, but my issue is, ask what "I" can do for my country? Isn't that a little backwards, my man? Shouldn't it be what my country can do for moi?
Judge Snyde: Yeah, it is sort of "ahsse bahkwards."
Judges Bling and Snyde high five.
Judge Fluffe: And a tad authoracratic?
Judge Snyde: Sorry, Johnny, just—no. No no no no no.
Winnie The Church Hill: Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
The judges exchange puzzled glances.
Judge Bling: Listen, Winnie, we let you in because your mom was American, but what you gotta know is, some famous speech dude said, "Briefness is the soul of wit." So dig this upgrade: "The beginning's over." Boom! (tallies words). Your original was twenty-four words. My rewrite was three. Three! That's a savings of ... (works it out on calculator) ... twenty-one words! Ya-know-I'm-sayin'?
Judge Snyde: (stands and points to the seat of his skin-tight purple pants): This is the beginning of the end.
Winnie The Church Hill (stiffening lower lip with determination): I shall never surrender!
Judge Snyde (rolling eyes, then staring derisively at Churchill): Just—no. No no no no no!
Churchill stiffens his lips and trudges off the stage with dignity.
Judge Fluffe (calling after sweetly): I love your accent!
Judge Bling (slicing finger across throat to cut King off): Yo dawg, I see where you're going and I feel you—but don't you think you oughtta dump the "God" riff? It's not very inclusive, amirite?
Judge Fluffe (with patient smile): And `black men' and `white men'—definitely problematic.
Judge Snyde: What they're saying, your highness, is ... (stands and raises hands as if conducting a choir to cue the audience to join in) ... No. No no no no no!
Em L. King furrows his brow with deep concern for the spiritual well being of the panel and the audience alike and walks off the stage back into the past.
Judge Bling: Since briefness is the soul of wit, and tediousness the legs and outward flowers or somethin', let me just say, in the words of the immortal me: See you next time on America's Got Talented Orators! Bling out!


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Tourist everywhere! It is a great place to kill time at if you end up with a layover at MSP Airport, or are trying to impress an out-of-state friend. Other than that, it is just a huge mall.
This lake doesn't get above 41 degrees, ever. That makes it basically impossible to swim in, and it is huge so finding the perfect fishing spot isn't easy either.
Sure it is cool that there is a giant waterfall right in Minneapolis, but again it is full of tourists. You're better off going somewhere where the paths aren't cluttered with people taking "group nature selfies".
Paul Bunyon and Babe the Blue Ox, The World's Largest Crow in Belgrade, The Hairy Mosquito in Milaca. Who wants to bring the car to a screeching halt just to get out and take a picture?!
There are 10,000 other lakes in this state. Why does everyone want to be on this one?
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By Brian D. Renner Mar. 3, 2014
17 years ago Carrie White's mother, Margaret White, gave birth to her daughter under circumstances which can only be termed bizarre.
Julianne Moore, Judy Greer, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday, Kimberly Peirce, Chloë Grace Moretz, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Friday, October 18, 2013 (Nationwide)
Runtime: N/A
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
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A look at the Carrie behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Kimberly Peirce last directed Stop-Loss and The Walls. The film's writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa last wrote The Town that Dreaded Sundown and The Madman's Daughter.
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Remake of the 1976 film, which was based on Stephen King's novel. The new film will hit theaters 37 years after Brian De Palma's classic original.
On or about April 24, 2013, the film was in Post-Production status.
On or about August 18, 2012, the film was in Production status.
On or about April 12, 2012, the film was in Pre-Production status.
On or about January 4, 2012, the film was in Development status.
On or about May 20, 2011, the film was in Announced status.
Carrie Release Date: When was it released?
Carrie was released in 2013 on Friday, October 18, 2013 (Nationwide release). There were 14 other movies released on the same date, including Escape Plan, Broadway Idiot and The Fifth Estate.
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Q: ObservableCollection.OrderByDescending().Take() does not return an ObservableCollection on an IEnumerable If I use this next bellow code in C# using Unity, I get a IEnumerable<widget> back but I want an ObservableCollection<widget> back.
public class widget
{
    public string myString;
    public int myInt;
}

public ObservableCollection<widget> myCollectionOfWidgets;

I can iterate through the collection with ForEach with no problem. I even implemented IComparable for my widget so that I can sort them with myInt property.
But when I try to get the first 15 items in the collection ordered by myInts in descendingOrder, I get an IEnumerable back:
var newWidgetCollection = myCollectionOfWidgets.OrderByDescending(myCollectionOfWidgets => myCollectionOfWidgets.myInts).Take(15);

If I try to cast it back to an ObservableCollection of widgets like so:
var newObservableCollectionOfWidgets = (ObservableCollection<widget>)newWidgetCollection;

I get an error reading this:

"InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid."

I would like someone to answer me:

*

*Why does this happen? In other words, I forgot to use an interface, which one?

*Maybe point me in the correct direction.

*If my code is incorrect, where did I go wrong.

A: When you use foreach loop  and another code that just iterates through the collection you don't neeed to convert items since they are remains the same. But when you are using LINQ ( take or orderby for example), them most LINQ methods returns IEnumerable collection. I don' t mean  absolutely all of them since  some methods  return Max , Min , ... or a single item).
Linq can convert it to List  immediately using ToList method. But it doesnt have a method to return and ObservableCollection. Fortunately the obsrvable collection has a special consructor to convert IEnumerable. Try this
ObservableCollection<widget> newWidgetCollection = new ObservableCollection<widget> (
myCollectionOfWidgets.OrderByDescending(myCollectionOfWidgets
=> myCollectionOfWidgets.myInt)
.Take(15)
);

if you want to improve performance by not repeating conversions to Observable, start from the List if it possible, and  only after completing all trasformations convert it to Observable.
If you use it often, try this extention
var  newWidgetCollection  =  myCollectionOfWidgets
.OrderByDescending(o =>o.myInt).Take(15)
.ToObservableCollection<widget>();

public static ObservableCollection<T> ToObservableCollection<T>
        (this IEnumerable<T> source)
    {
        if (source == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("no source found");
        }
        return new ObservableCollection<T>(source);
    }


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Q: Lagrangian method applied to mass in inclined plane The problem of the mass in inclined planed solved using the Lagrangian mechanics is well known, by example on this page.
However, according to my information, method is valid for any basis and expressions of the involved concepts. Thus, if I define a 2D euclidean basis, being $x$ the horizontal distance and $y$ the heights, I can say that:

*

*potential energy of the mass, $V(x,y) = mgy$ (fixing $V(0,0)=0$)

*kinetic energy, $T(x,y) = T_0 + mg(y_0-y)$, being $y_0,T_0$ the values at $t=0$.

*Lagrangian, $L(x,y) = T(x,y)-V(x,y) = T_0 + mg(y_0-2y)$

*Lagrange equations:
$$ \frac{\partial L}{\partial x} = 0 = \frac{d}{dt}\frac{\partial L}{\partial \dot{x}} = 0 $$
$$ \frac{\partial L}{\partial y} = -2mgy = \frac{d}{dt}\frac{\partial L}{\partial \dot{y}} = 0 $$
being both a probable error, because first one say nothing about $x(t)$ and second one implies $y(t)=0$.
Could someone say me where is the error in this development?
Remark: I'm not looking about how to solve the problem of the inclined plane using Lagrange mechanics, something easy to find in the bibliography. Please, answers must be as near as possible to this approach to the problem (this basis, these expressions for $V$ and $T$) or show why this approach is a no way, against the Lagrange postulates.
ADDENDUM:
About the expression for kinetic energy:
a) using second Law (being $\theta$ plane angle and "s" position along plane):
total force, $F=-mg\sin(\theta)\hat{s}$ where $\hat{s}=cos(\theta)\hat{x}+sin(\theta)\hat{y}$
speed, $v=(-g\sin(\theta)t+v_0)\hat{s}$
position $\mathbf{r}=(-\frac{1}{2}g\sin(\theta)t+v_0)t\hat{s}+\mathbf{r}_0$
y component of position, $y=y_0+(-\frac{1}{2}g\sin(\theta)t+v_0)t\sin(\theta)\hat{y}$
kinetic energy, $T=\frac{1}{2}m(-g\sin(\theta)t+v_0)^2=...=T_0+mg(y_0-y)$
b) by conservation of energy (where constraint forces are assumed produces no work):
$T(x,y)+V(x,y)=T(x,y)+mgy=T_0+V(x_0,y_0)=T_0+mgy_0$
$T(x,y)=T_0+V(x_0,y_0)-V(x,y)=T_0+mg(y_0-y)$

A: Lagrange's equations are based on generalized coordinates $q_i$.
A system of $N$ particles in a 2D system with $k$ holonomic constraints have $2N-k$ degrees of freedom and hence are described by $2N-k$ independent generalized coordinates.
Holonomic constraints are basically constraint equations of the form $f(\vec{r}_1,\vec{r}_2...,t)=0$.
In this problem, there is 1 holonomic constraint equation of the form $$y=Ax+C, $$where $A$ and $C$ are constants. This arises from requiring the mass to stay on the inclined plane.
Thus in this problem, there are $2-1=1$ degree of freedom and should be described by 1 independent generalized coordinate $q$.
You can choose either $x$ or $y$ as the independent generalized coordinate. It is incorrect to express the Lagrange equation in terms of both $x$ and $y$ as they are not independent coordinates.
Hence you get the 'nonsense' equation like $0=0$ for your $x$ coodinate.
Furthermore, the derivation of Lagrange's equations has the kinetic energy $T$ specifically defined as
$$T=\frac{1}{2}mv^2.$$
Following this definition, you should express $v$ in terms of the generalized coordinate you choose. For example if you choose $y$ as the generalized coordinate, you will get $v=v(\dot{y})$ and hence $T=T(\dot{y})$. This will resolve your error of getting $y(t)=0$.
Summing it up, you should always use generalized coordinates when using lagrange's equations and always express the kinetic energy as $T=\frac{1}{2}mv^2$.

A: The purpose of the Euler-Lagrange equations is to find the equation of motion of the system once we plug in the Lagrangian. Alternatively, one can use Newton's second law to find the equation of motion.
Your biggest mistake comes from the way in which you expressed the kinetic energy, because you had to solve the equation of motion to write it in that way (in part (a) of your addendum). In other words, you solved Newton's second law, and plugged the solution into the Euler Lagrange equations, so it makes sense that you didn't get a new equation.  A simple analogy for what you did is the following: consider the equation $du/dt=1$, $u(0)=0$. The solution is $u(t)=t$, and putting this into our original equation we get $1=1$. Nothing new there.
The reason you also got a nonsense equation along with $0=0$ is that you actually solved for $y(t)$ and plugged that into $\dot{y}(t)$, but left $y$ as an independent variable. It's more subtle, but the nonsense equation comes from the same error.
Additional info
The Lagrangian is a functional of the particle's trajectory. You plugged a particular trajectory (the correct classical trajectory) into this function, and essentially this gives you a number (as a function of time). You can no longer plug this expression into the Euler-Lagrange equations, as those come from minimizing the action where the Lagrangian is expressed as a functional of possible trajectories. More explicitly, the equations of motion come from imposing
$$
\frac{\delta}{\delta{\vec{q}}(t)} \int L(\vec{q},\dot{\vec{q}},t) dt = 0,
$$
where the trajectory for $\vec{q}$ is not specified in the Lagrangian - it comes from solving the above equation. What you did is find $\vec{q}(t)$ and plug this into the kinetic energy, thereby changing the problem at hand; you can no longer vary the action with respect to possible trajectories $\vec{q}(t)$, when it's no longer a function of possible trajectories.


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#pragma once

#include "sha.h"

// The parallel_hash algorithm uses the technique described in
//  1) S. Gueron, V. Krasnov. Simultaneous Hashing of Multiple Messages.
//     Journal of Information Security 3:319-325 (2012).
//  2) S. Gueron. A j-Lanes Tree Hashing Mode and j-Lanes SHA-256.
//     Journal of Information Security 4:7-11 (2013).
//  See also:
//  3) S. Gueron. Parallelized Hashing via j-Lanes and j-Pointers Tree Modes,
//     with Applications to SHA-256.
//     Journal of Information Security 5:91-113 (2014).
//
// It is designed to convert the serial hashing to a parallelizeable process.
//
// This function assumes that m is of N_BITS length and that
// ((la / MAX_MB_SLICES) >= SLICE_REM)
void
parallel_hash(OUT sha_hash_t *out_hash,
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Gaza's health ministry says Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian teenager during protests along the perimeter fence dividing Israel and Gaza.
Maisara Shalouf, 15, was shot in the belly and died in northern Gaza Strip, at one of the protests along the frontier.
The ministry added that 30 other Palestinians were injured, without specifying how many were hit with live fire.
The weekly demonstrations, backed by Gaza's Hamas rulers, entered their second year this month. They have seen the death of 200 Palestinians and an Israeli soldier.
Friday's protests were the first after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared headed to form the next government following Israeli elections.
Egypt has brokered a deal to ease Israeli restrictions on Gaza, but the extent of facilitation is yet to be clear.


On Friday June 9th a couple of hundred people will gather at AJ Jolly Golf course in Alexandria to play some golf and raise some money in memory of Fort Thomas resident Mike Dunn. That someone is so well liked and remembered that they inspire this kind of turnout is impressive, but what is truly amazing is that the tournament is now in it's 30th year, which tells you how much people think of Mike and his family.
Mike Dunn graduated from Highlands in 1982.
The first year they gave one $500 check but the outing grew: they now raise about $25,000 annually and award five Mike Dunn scholarships of $1000. Over the first 29 years they have handed out over $100,000 in scholarships, making the Mike Dunn scholarship one of the biggest in NKY in terms of total cash awarded. Jayson points out the fund also "donates to families who are in need, who are having hard times due to illness etc." Over the course of the last three decades, it has also contributed to other local causes such as the new football field and Fort Thomas Education Foundation.


We report the first detailed study on the types and distributions of active subaqueous fumaroles and surface diffuse CO2 degassing in the three main volcanic lakes of São Miguel Island (Sete Cidades, Fogo and Furnas), Azores archipelago, Portugal. The results of the surveys, carried out in May 2011 using a floating accumulation chamber and a dual beam 50 and 200 kHz echo sounder, revealed a very low surface CO2 degassing at the three lakes, in the range of 32–608 kg d−1. However, dense subaqueous degassing plumes were found in the north of the Furnas crater lake (7.5–9 plumes per 100 m2), and moderate-density degassing in the Fogo (1.5–2 plumes per 100 m2) and Sete Cidades crater lakes (1–1.5 plumes per 100 m2). The echo sounder detected hydroacoustic signatures interpreted as acoustic flares, 'puffing' bubble plumes or walls of bubbles associated with numerous subaqueous fumaroles. The recorded echograms show that the bubbles rise at average speeds of between 19 and 30 cm s−1 at the bottom, with frequencies of release from 1–2 to 31 s. Most subaqueous fumaroles disappear due to the dissolution of CO2 before reaching the lake surface. These dissolution processes are enhanced by the pH range observed in the three volcanic lakes (c. 7–9). Observed dissolved CO2 values indicate that the pressure of this gas in the three lakes remained much lower than the hydrostatic pressure and the risk of a limnic eruption is therefore negligible. We suggest that the rising levels of CO2 from the subaqueous bubbles could constitute a critical fuel for subsurface phytoplankton layers, interpreted as horizontal acoustic layers with high backscattering values. The highest density of subaqueous bubbling correlates with recent submerged secondary craters formed around the caldera rims of the three Late Quaternary stratovolcano complexes of São Miguel Island. Our results emphasize the need to perform regular surface degassing studies as an important volcanic surveillance tool in the Azores archipelago.


More Entertainment for the Excursionist.
The Vandalia railroad company is having a large octagon band stand, twenty feet in diameter, erected in the park.
It will be a very commodious stand and will be built with a view of putting a substantial roof on in the near future. We have long needed a band stand for the use of the bands that come on excursions and this will fill a long felt want.
Ihere is a rumor to the effect that the railroad company intends to engage a theatrical troupe and put on a high class vaudeville in the park this summer.
Something of this sort is badly needed. We have means of bringing people here.
The beauties of old Maxinkuckee are known the country over, but we are sadly in need of first class entertainment for the people after they are here.
Why not hold a meeting, organize and approach the railroad company with a proposition to start a good vaudeville here. They certainly would be willing to do their part and that with the contributions of the business men who would be benefited by such an entertainment, would make the cost light on all, as well as a great benefit to all.
Better to have more entertainment and less carousal. People that come here and get drunk do so, mostly, because there is nothing else to do.
They go down and take a, steam boat ride, then a row boat ride, eat dinner and then unless they drink booze, they are through.
1916 - Apr 13 - Howard Mikesell has bought the bandstand lot in the Vandalia Park addition and expects to build a bungalow on it.


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Q: Getting null when I send file reactjs to express server I am trying to send files using react js to express the server. but when I send a file from the frontend I got a null value into the server.
Frontend: I have consol log into the frontend everything is ok into the frontend.
const ProductImport = function () {
    const [file, setFile] = useState<any>();
    const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState<boolean>(false);
    const [fileName, setFileName] = useState("");

    const saveFile = (e) => {
        setFile(e.target.files[0]);
        setFileName(e.target.files[0].name);
    };
    const uploadFile = async (e: any) => {
        e.preventDefault()
        const formData = new FormData();
        formData.append("file", file);
        formData.append("fileName", fileName);

        console.log(file);
        console.log(fileName);

        fetch('http://localhost:5000/upload-excel', {
            method: 'POST',
            body: formData
        })
            .then(response => response.json())
            .then(data => {
                if (data.insertedId) {
                    alert('excel Added')
                }
            })
            .catch(error => {
                console.error('Error:', error);
            });

    };
    return (
        <form onSubmit={uploadFile}>
            <label htmlFor="formGroupExampleInput" className="form-label">Example label</label>
            <input type="file" onChange={saveFile} />
            <button type="submit">Upload</button>
        </form>
    )
}

Backend: The problem is with the backend, I got null
//MIddleware
app.use(cors())
app.use(express.json())
app.use(cors());
app.use(fileupload());
app.use(express.static("files"));
app.use(bodyParser.json({ limit: "50mb" }));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ limit: "50mb", extended: true, parameterLimit: 50000 }));

     app.post("/upload-excel", async (req, res) => {
            const file = req.files;
            console.log(file);
        });

Frontend console:

Backend console:

A: Express by default can't parse formData, you will have to use 3rd party package like multer
Few changes you will have to make, install multer npm i multer then
const multer  = require('multer')
const upload = multer({ dest: 'path/to/save/file' })

 app.post("/upload-excel", upload.single('excel-file'), async (req, res) => {
            const file = req.file;
            console.log(file);
        });

A: I had the same problem. Turns out just need to reference the right item
    app.post("/upload-excel", async (req, res) => {
        const file = req.files.file;
        console.log(file);

        //for people that want to write to disk
        require("fs").writeFile(somepath, file.data, function(err) {
          console.log(err);
        });
});


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Biden fires Trump-appointed lawyer who refused to resign
by Tal Axelrod - 03/06/21 10:58 AM ET
President Biden on Friday fired Sharon Gustafson, who was appointed by former President Trump as the general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The White House told Gustafson that she was being fired effective 5 p.m. Friday after she refused to resign willingly.
In a letter to the White House released by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank, Gustafson said she "respectfully" declined the White House's request to resign and that she wanted to serve the remainder of her four-year term, which was set to expire in 2023.
Gautam Raghavan, the White House deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, responded in an email that she was being fired as of Friday evening.
Neither the White House nor the EEOC immediately responded to requests for comment from The Hill.
Republicans swiftly came out swinging against the firing. Andrea Lucas, a Republican-appointed commissioner to the EEOC, described the firing as a violation of Biden's calls for unity.
"I find the action taken today by the White House against our independent agency to be deeply troubling, a break from long-established norms respected by presidents of both parties, an injection of partisanship where it had been absent, and telling evidence of what 'unity' actually means to this President and his Administration," she tweeted.
…telling evidence of what "unity" actually means to this President and his Administration. In his inaugural address, the President said, "The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation's greatest strength."
— Andrea R. Lucas (@andrealucasEEOC) March 5, 2021
"This is a pattern. President Biden calls for the end to 'partisan warfare,' only to turn around and demand that Senate-confirmed officials resign so he can make room for his left-wing friends," said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), the top Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee.
"President Biden should take a note from General Counsel Gustafson, who stuck to her commitment and refused to cave to partisan pressure. This unprecedented firing of an honorable public official which occurred just hours after she was asked to resign is unwarranted and should be immediately rescinded," Foxx said.
Gustafson was first appointed to her role in 2018. She faced scrutiny at the time over remarks about protections for LGBT workers.
Gustafson wrote in her letter to the White House that she was unaware of past EEOC generals counsel who had been fired at the start of a new administration, though Biden has worked quickly to install his own appointees across the federal government.
Tags Donald Trump Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Joe Biden Sharon Gustafson Virginia Foxx


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#ChildMolester | Babysitter Admits to Killing Cousin's 11-month-old Daughter, Hiding Her in Woods After Backhanding Her: Reports – Crime Online
December 23, 2021 Author: Wire_Services
An Indiana man has pleaded guilty to murder under a plea agreement that would spare him life in prison if approved.
Justin Miller appeared in court Monday and admitted to killing his family member's 11-month-old daughter, Mercedes Lain, while he was supposed to be babysitting her in August.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, police found Mercedes dead in a remote wooded area in Starke County in August, after she had twice been reported missing; first by an unknown person, and then on Sunday by her father.
During court, Miller said he was babysitting Mercedes and arguing with his girlfriend when the baby began crying. He reportedly admitted to striking the baby a few times with a backhand, causing the baby's head to hit a wall. She died shortly after.
Miller said he woke up and rolled a synthetic marijuana joint, then noticed the baby was dead. He then took Mercedes to the wooded area and buried her, after borrowing gas money from a neighbor.
Mercedes Lain and Justin Miller/
Rannells Funeral Home; Police Handout
According to ABC 57, a judge will still need to approve Miller's plea agreement. If the judge is willing to accept the terms of the plea deal, Miller faces a minimum of 45 years in prison and a maximum of 65 years. He is scheduled to return to court in January.
"It's just not good enough to plea out like that," Mercedes' grandmother, Angela Owens, said. "I just can't see how the court's going to accept a plea from him."
"I'm blown away, I don't understand how. I guess for him, maybe a plea might be good, but a plea is just not good for us."
An affidavit for probable cause indicated that Mercedes' parents, Kenneth Robert Lain, 41, and Tiffany Jo Coburn, 32, are facing Level-6 felony charges for neglect of a dependent. The parents told detectives that they left the baby in Miller's care at an apartment in Mishawaka, with plans to pick her up later.
According to ABC 57, Miller is Kenneth Lain's cousin.
"Both parents attempted to get a hold of Miller numerous times and could not contact him," the affidavit says. "They finally contacted him on Sunday, and Miller advised that he had dropped [Mercedes] off with a neighbor since Lain and Coburn weren't home. No one has seen [Mercedes] since."
After police tracked Miller down at a friend's house, he reportedly said the infant's parents were going through a rough time with Mercedes. He claimed he offered to babysit but then left Mercedes with a "heavy set white female" that he had seen before with Mercedes' parents.
Miller's story changed numerous times, according to police.
The affidavit indicated that both Lain and Coburn refused to turn calls to police and were "uncooperative in looking for their child." Coburn was later arrested outside of an Economy Inn, where she stayed with her other children. She allegedly admitted that she and Lain had been communicating with Miller over Facebook messenger.
Tiffany Coburn and Kenneth Lain/Police Handout
Miller was subsequently arrested at the same Economy Inn as Coburn. Lain was arrested a few days at a Red Roof Inn.
A few days later, police discovered Mercedes' body. On August 30, Miller's charges were upgraded to murder.
"They are definitely not good parents," Owens, who is Coburn's mother, told The Daily Beast. "They didn't need to have a child."
"We tried everything in our power to get this baby taken away from them," Owens continued. "We have called [child protective services] many times. There's nothing more that we could have done than what we did. We have gone beyond our power in doing what we could to help this baby."
In 2016, Lain pleaded guilty in an unrelated case to neglect when it was found that a 20-year-old man sexually abused Lain's 12-year-old daughter. According to court records, Lain and his then-wife, Mary Lain, knew the abuse was happening and did nothing to stop it — even letting him live at their home for two months.
Mary Lain also pleaded guilty to neglect, and 20-year-old Angel Delapaz pleaded guilty to child molestation. The 12-year-old later gave birth to a son fathered by Delapaz.
Meanwhile, Owens is pushing for Miller's plea deal to be rejected.
"I mean, an innocent child. My innocent grandchild. How could you just do that and expect, okay, you do forty-five years and get out and you're fine? Where's my baby at? Where's her time? Where's her life?"
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[Feature Photo: Mercedes Lain/Handout]
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