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package org.camunda.bpm.spring.boot.starter.webapp.filter.csrf.it.properties;

import org.camunda.bpm.spring.boot.starter.webapp.filter.util.HeaderRule;
import org.camunda.bpm.spring.boot.starter.webapp.filter.util.TestApplication;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.boot.web.server.LocalServerPort;
import org.springframework.test.context.TestPropertySource;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;

import java.net.URLConnection;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest(classes = { TestApplication.class }, webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
@TestPropertySource(properties = {
  "camunda.bpm.webapp.csrf.enableSameSiteCookie=true"
})
public class SameSiteEnabledIT {

  @Rule
  public HeaderRule headerRule = new HeaderRule();

  @LocalServerPort
  public int port;

  @Test
  public void shouldEnableSameSiteCookie() {
    headerRule.performRequest("http://localhost:" + port + "/app/tasklist/default");

    String xsrfCookieValue = headerRule.getXsrfCookieValue();
    String xsrfTokenHeader = headerRule.getXsrfTokenHeader();

    assertThat(xsrfCookieValue).matches("XSRF-TOKEN=[A-Z0-9]{32};Path=/;SameSite=Lax");
    assertThat(xsrfTokenHeader).matches("[A-Z0-9]{32}");

    assertThat(xsrfCookieValue).contains(xsrfTokenHeader);
  }

}


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Tag: Video Games
Unleash shinobi warrior justice in 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice"
A bloodied shinobi warrior is struck down, stabbed to death by a group of Ashina clan soldiers. As the shinobi lays dead in the street, the Ashina turn their backs from the bloody mess. The shinobi rises to his feet, ready to finish his fight by executing the Ashina warriors. "Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice" is […]
Entertainment, spring 2019
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'Generation Zero' offers great concert, poor execution
Upon returning home from a short island vacation, you quickly realize that things are not the way they were. Without a soul in sight, and with every car, house, and street seemingly abandoned, the only thing to do is push forward. "Generation Zero" is an open world, post-apocalyptic shooter where lethal machines have eradicated human […]
Action, Featured, Generation Zero, Review, video game review, Video Games
Exciting gameplay overshadows forgettable story in 'The Division 2'
Most humans have been wiped out by a fatal biological super-bug, but somehow this bug is weaponized. Secret groups of government agents, or "Division Agents" are considered to be the last line of defense in rebuilding and defending the nation. In "The Division 2" players get to create and play their own Division Agent and […]
entertainmant, Featured, Review, South Plains College, video game review, Video Games
Loot, pillage in sandbox pirate adventure game 'Sea of Thieves'
Sail the seas and take what you want in Rare Interactive's sandbox pirate adventure, "Sea of Thieves." "Sea of Thieves" gives players balanced options that are rarely seen in the gaming industry today. For example, all weapons are exactly the same and cannot be upgraded. A player who has been active for some time would […]
Entertainment, Game Review, Levelland, Lubbock, sea of thieves, South Plains College, student review, Students, video game review, Video Games
'Breath of the Wild' expands Zelda anthology
In the final battle between the evil king Calamity Ganon and the champions of Hyrule, Link, the legendary Hyrulian hero, is struck down. Princess Zelda, who is the reincarnation of the Goddess Hylia, protector of Hyrule and the Triforce, was able to protect link from Ganon's fatal blow by shielding him and carrying him to […]
Entertainment, Game Review, Review, Video Games
New games, updates not worth money
The current state of the gaming industry is abominable. The status quo for almost every major and even indie (independent) game developers is to sell half of the game up front for full price, with the options of spending more money up front for "downloadable content." This is a big issue, considering the games consumers […]
Fall 2018, Opinion
Opinion, South Plains College, video game review, Video Games
'Fallout76' disappoints with server, game-play glitches
The "Fallout" series follows the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse who spent a long time in "Vaults" while waiting for radiation to die down to livable levels for human beings to survive. "Fallout 76" is not different in that respect, only now the survivors you meet get to be other "Fallout" players instead of non-player […]
Entertainment, Fall 2018
Entertainment, Featured, Levelland, South Plains College, video game review, Video Games
Legendary bandit faces moral crisis in 'Red Dead Redemption 2'
Arthur Morgan and his posse of outlaws jump a moving train from horseback. Guns drawn, Arthur yells, "Your money or your lives!" Robbing trains becomes a bit of a past time in Rockstar's "Red Dead Redemption 2" a western-themed adventure game, set in 1899, just before the decline of the American frontier. "Red Dead Redemption […]
entertainmant, Video Games
'Black Ops4' has repetitive aspects from previous titles
Buying and playing "Call of Duty: Black Ops 4" was a poor way to kill time while waiting for the release of "Red Dead Redemption 2." "Call of Duty: Black Ops 4" is the latest title in Treyarch's "Call of Duty" franchise. "Black Ops 4," or, "BO4," has some issues that are seen throughout the […]
Black Ops4, Entertainment, Featured, Video Games
'Tomb Raider' exceeds some expectations, falls short short in other areas
"Shadow of the Tomb Raider" is the final piece of a three-game story arc rebooting the "Tomb Raider" franchise. "Shadow of the Tomb Raider" is sporting some fine graphics and unique gameplay customization features not seen every day. But the main content follows a boring, predictable pattern, where you are railroaded from one conflict to […]
Entertainment, South Plains College, tomb raider, video game review, Video Games
New 'Destiny 2' expansion revives expectations for fans
Destiny 2's population has been dwindling since release. The handful of players who have stayed loyal to the franchise deemed "Forsaken," the latest expansion, an important step that will determine the future of the franchise. New and old players have high hopes and expectations for the new downloadable content (DLC). Many veteran players see this […]
Destiny 2, Entertainment, teens, Video Games
Back Talk: Video games considered as sports controversial
Competition, skill in playing video games similar to sports by Kendall Rainer When we think about sports, football and soccer come to mind. But most people don't think about video games. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a sport is defined as "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes […]
Opinion, Spring 2018
BackTalk, Debate, Video Games
'Far Cry 5' exceeds exceptions with compelling visuals, gameplay
Seconds are ticking away. The score is 45 to 40 with just under two minutes remaining in the match. "Watch out guys! There is a huge gorilla chasing me," exclaims my teammate. I turn around to see an oversized gorilla decimating my team, and I hear bullets from the enemy team buzz over my head. […]
far cry 5, video game review, Video Games
New 'Dragon Ball' Game immerses fans with engaging gameplay
The nostalgia of my childhood has been in full force the past few months. I'm a little older than the average South Plains College student. I was born in 1989, making me a '90s baby. Everywhere I look, I see something that just scream the '90s. With that said, when I was in elementary school, […]
'Battlefront II' excites fans with new gameplay, intersting features
In a galaxy far, far away the fate of the universe is determined by the battle of the dark side and the rebellion. Only one can win. "Star Wars Battlefront II" has finally hit the shelves after the long wait and requests for the game. "Star Wars" fans were thrilled when EA finally announced that […]
Battlefront 2, Review, Star Wars, video game review, Video Games
'Origins' of Assassin's Creed executes best game in years
In "Assassin's Creed: Origins," players take control of Bayek, a man driven by vengeance, like so many assassins that follow in his footsteps.
Assassin's Creed, Egypt, Entertainment, Featured, Game Review, Video Games
'Grand Theft Auto' remembered for changing world of games
With 15 titles released on nearly every platform imaginable in the past two decades, October 2017 marks not just the 20th anniversary of the first game in the "Grand Theft Auto" series, but also the beginning of an unstoppable pop culture juggernaut's inevitable future.
Entertainment, Grand Theft Auto, Video Games
Nintendo Switch offers home console, portable gaming
by MATT MOLINAR//Associate Editor A new video game console is being hailed as a breakthrough in both home console as well as portable gaming. I was immediately sold on the Nintendo Switch upon learning about its ability to run as both a home console and a portable console. So I placed my pre-order as early as […]
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'Breath of the Wild' breaks ground with open world, RPG elements
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America's leader is its enemy
Today, the Idiot that stupid and ignorant Americans elected to the presidency in 2016 ended the Iran Nuclear Deal. Its termination was based on the fool-in-charge claiming that the deal was weak and unverifiable. Bullshit, of course! But that does not matter to the nation's Idiot because the deal was concluded by a real president, Barack Obama.
Former President Obama has responded with this tweet statement:
There are few issues more important to the security of the United States than the potential spread of nuclear weapons, or the potential for even more destructive war in the Middle East. That's why the United States negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the first place.
The reality is clear. The JCPOA is working – that is a view shared by our European allies, independent experts, and the current U.S. Secretary of Defense. The JCPOA is in America's intere...See More
Which, of course, this statement reflects reality and the Idiot could care less because he was fulfilling a ridiculous campaign promise based on racism and ignorance to begin with. The deal was canned because it was done by Obama, period. The Idiot in the White House ended the deal that benefited America and its allies and the Americans who voted for this Idiot share the blame as well.


At the end of November, governments from 196 nations will gather at the Paris climate conference to discuss climate change. Here's why an agreement is crucial.
The current commitments on greenhouse gas emissions are not only not good enough, they also run out in 2020.
At the end of the month, global leaders will meet in Paris to attempt a new agreement about what happens for the next decade and beyond.
Johanna Wagstaffe looks at the science behind what, exactly, we need to accomplish.


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Show alarm for all "disconnected" states: The sensor for the interface will always turn into a red Down status for a disconnected interface. This applies if the ifOperStatus of the interface is not "up".


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Paper Count: 4
Search results for: Laurence Tamatea
4 Droning the Pedagogy: Future Prospect of Teaching and Learning
Authors: Farha Sattar, Laurence Tamatea, Muhammad Nawaz
Drones, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are playing an important role in real-world problem-solving. With the new advancements in technology, drones are becoming available, affordable and user- friendly. Use of drones in education is opening new trends in teaching and learning practices in an innovative and engaging way. Drones vary in types and sizes and possess various characteristics and capabilities which enhance their potential to be used in education from basic to advanced and challenging learning activities which are suitable for primary, middle and high school level. This research aims to provide an insight to explore different types of drones and their compatibility to be used in teaching different subjects at various levels. Research focuses on integrating the drone technology along with Australian curriculum content knowledge to reinforce the understanding of the fundamental concepts and helps to develop the critical thinking and reasoning in the learning process.
Keywords: Critical thinking, drone technology, drone types, innovative learning.
3 Pectoral Muscles Suppression in Digital Mammograms Using Hybridization of Soft Computing Methods
Authors: I. Laurence Aroquiaraj, K. Thangavel
Breast region segmentation is an essential prerequisite in computerized analysis of mammograms. It aims at separating the breast tissue from the background of the mammogram and it includes two independent segmentations. The first segments the background region which usually contains annotations, labels and frames from the whole breast region, while the second removes the pectoral muscle portion (present in Medio Lateral Oblique (MLO) views) from the rest of the breast tissue. In this paper we propose hybridization of Connected Component Labeling (CCL), Fuzzy, and Straight line methods. Our proposed methods worked good for separating pectoral region. After removal pectoral muscle from the mammogram, further processing is confined to the breast region alone. To demonstrate the validity of our segmentation algorithm, it is extensively tested using over 322 mammographic images from the Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database. The segmentation results were evaluated using a Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Hausdroff Distance (HD), Probabilistic Rand Index (PRI), Local Consistency Error (LCE) and Tanimoto Coefficient (TC). The hybridization of fuzzy with straight line method is given more than 96% of the curve segmentations to be adequate or better. In addition a comparison with similar approaches from the state of the art has been given, obtaining slightly improved results. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Keywords: X-ray Mammography, CCL, Fuzzy, Straight line.
2 PeliGRIFF: A Parallel DEM-DLM/FD Method for DNS of Particulate Flows with Collisions
Authors: Anthony Wachs, Guillaume Vinay, Gilles Ferrer, Jacques Kouakou, Calin Dan, Laurence Girolami
An original Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) method to tackle the problem of particulate flows at moderate to high concentration and finite Reynolds number is presented. Our method is built on the framework established by Glowinski and his coworkers [1] in the sense that we use their Distributed Lagrange Multiplier/Fictitious Domain (DLM/FD) formulation and their operator-splitting idea but differs in the treatment of particle collisions. The novelty of our contribution relies on replacing the simple artificial repulsive force based collision model usually employed in the literature by an efficient Discrete Element Method (DEM) granular solver. The use of our DEM solver enables us to consider particles of arbitrary shape (at least convex) and to account for actual contacts, in the sense that particles actually touch each other, in contrast with the simple repulsive force based collision model. We recently upgraded our serial code, GRIFF 1 [2], to full MPI capabilities. Our new code, PeliGRIFF 2, is developed under the framework of the full MPI open source platform PELICANS [3]. The new MPI capabilities of PeliGRIFF open new perspectives in the study of particulate flows and significantly increase the number of particles that can be considered in a full DNS approach: O(100000) in 2D and O(10000) in 3D. Results on the 2D/3D sedimentation/fluidization of isometric polygonal/polyedral particles with collisions are presented.
Keywords: Particulate flow, distributed lagrange multiplier/fictitious domain method, discrete element method, polygonal shape, sedimentation, distributed computing, MPI
1 A Temporal QoS Ontology for ERTMS/ETCS
Authors: Marc Sango, Olimpia Hoinaru, Christophe Gransart, Laurence Duchien
Ontologies offer a means for representing and sharing information in many domains, particularly in complex domains. For example, it can be used for representing and sharing information of System Requirement Specification (SRS) of complex systems like the SRS of ERTMS/ETCS written in natural language. Since this system is a real-time and critical system, generic ontologies, such as OWL and generic ERTMS ontologies provide minimal support for modeling temporal information omnipresent in these SRS documents. To support the modeling of temporal information, one of the challenges is to enable representation of dynamic features evolving in time within a generic ontology with a minimal redesign of it. The separation of temporal information from other information can help to predict system runtime operation and to properly design and implement them. In addition, it is helpful to provide a reasoning and querying techniques to reason and query temporal information represented in the ontology in order to detect potential temporal inconsistencies. To address this challenge, we propose a lightweight 3-layer temporal Quality of Service (QoS) ontology for representing, reasoning and querying over temporal and non-temporal information in a complex domain ontology. Representing QoS entities in separated layers can clarify the distinction between the non QoS entities and the QoS entities in an ontology. The upper generic layer of the proposed ontology provides an intuitive knowledge of domain components, specially ERTMS/ETCS components. The separation of the intermediate QoS layer from the lower QoS layer allows us to focus on specific QoS Characteristics, such as temporal or integrity characteristics. In this paper, we focus on temporal information that can be used to predict system runtime operation. To evaluate our approach, an example of the proposed domain ontology for handover operation, as well as a reasoning rule over temporal relations in this domain-specific ontology, are presented.
Keywords: System Requirement Specification, ERTMS/ETCS, Temporal Ontologies, Domain Ontologies.


The 1990-91 season saw Sampdoria win the Serie A title for the first time in their history, finishing five points ahead of second placed AC Milan. Third placed Inter Milan were victorious in the UEFA Cup, with ninth-placed AS Roma compensating for their sub-standard league season with glory in the Coppa Italia, while Juventus's seventh-placed finish meant that they would be without European action for the first season in three decades. Lecce, Pisa, Cesena and Bologna were all relegated.
↑ Rob Smyth. "The forgotten story of … Sampdoria's only scudetto | Rob Smyth | Sport". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
↑ James Callow. "Chippenham Town striker earns 'fastest ever' red card | Football". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-04-10.


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Why Do Navy Seals Use Sig P226
U.S. Navy SEAL teams started using the SIG P226 in the 1980s, after German Kampfschwimmer tested them successfully. In 1989, the P226 was.
The Dept. of Energy (DOE) manages our nation's nuclear weapons program and armed security is vital to protecting these weapons and nuclear material. The Navy SEALS, the Texas Rangers and many federal officers use the Sig P226 for a very good reason. Accuracy and reliability.
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Why do Navy SEALs use Sig p226? But why do Navy Seals use a Sig P226. We're getting to that. The P226 has a shorter barrel than the M9 and for warriors who sometimes fight in close quarters, that matters.
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Sig Sauer 716i Tread Review The SIG SAUER 716i TREAD rifle may seem like a standard run of the mill AR-10 but its origins are much more military. It's basically a civilian version of a battle rifle that was part of a 2019, 72,000 rifle contract to the country of India. The rifles sent to India were select-fire (full auto
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Once reserved only for an elite few, the MK25 delivers the advanced features that made the P226 the official sidearm of the U.S. Navy SEALs.
While the Sig Sauer P226 is used by many militaries and agencies worldwide, one of the most famous users of the pistol is the U.S. Navy SEALs, which So why do the SEALs use the Glock 19? I'm not sure, but unless there are die-hard Glock fans in our special operations forces, I don't think they will.
What pistol do Navy SEALs use 2019? The Navy's special operators are preparing to part with the Sig Sauer P228 and adopt the Glock 19 as their sidearm. While SEALs have long carried the P226, the more compact P228 has been a staple among Naval Special Warfare Combatant Craft crew.
Which Sig Sauer does the Navy SEALs use? P226 MK25The P226 MK25 is identical to the pistol carried by the U.S. Navy SEALs, the fleet's special Why is FN 5.7 so expensive? Probably has a lot to do with design and development and the fact that no military in the world is latching on to them in.
Special units like the Navy SEALs generally have more of a use for the.
The Sig Sauer P226 is a semi-automatic weapon that is one of the.
The Glock G19 saves weight compared to the Previous pistol of the SEALs, the Sig P226. In fact, it's 7 ounces lighter, which is quite.
The Sig Sauer 226 TACOPS is an iconic pistol that has served in militaries, including the U.S. Navy SEALs, and law enforcement units across the world. The Sig 226 was adopted by the U.S. Navy SEALs as the MK25 but has since been supplemented Glock 19 (Photo: Don Summers/Guns.com).
The Navi Seals use two handguns models: The Glock 19 and the Sig Sauer P226. The Naval Special Warfare Command added the Glock 19 to.
That is the allure of owning a SIG Sauer P226 MK25 9mm pistol. The original military MK25 was accepted by the U.S. Navy for SEAL use in the.
The Dept. of Energy (DOE) manages our nation's nuclear weapons program and armed security is vital to protecting these weapons and nuclear material.
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25 to Navy SEALs and they went into service in 1989. But why do Navy Seals use a Sig P226? The P226 has a shorter barrel than the M9 and for warriors who sometimes fight in close quarters, that matters. The P226 slide is made of stainless steel for increased strength which prevents mishaps and.
Why do Navy SEALs use the Sig P226? The Navy SEALs are beginning to transition to the Glock 19. But SEALs have used the Sig Sauer P226 for years due to its chrome-lined barrel and chamber, stainless steel slide, and Nitron coating, which made it an ideal weapon for use in harsh saltwater.
U.S. Navy SEAL teams started using the SIG P226 in the 1980s, after German Kampfschwimmer tested them successfully. The SIG P226-9-NAVY is a version of the SIG P226 produced that features a stainless steel slide engraved with an anchor to designate them as Naval Special Warfare pistols.
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There are only 239 Master Sommeliers in the world and he's one of them (check the actual count HERE). Adam Pawłowski joined the notable group in 2014 after merely seven years of intense training at Northcote and since then he has been striving to pass on his wine knowledge to the world, working as a wine consultant, educator and expert. Recently he has been working closely with a Polish restaurant Ed Red (in Krakow and Warsaw), recommended both by Gault&Millau and Michelin guides. He is responsible for the restaurant's wine selection and front of the house service. We were lucky to get Adam to talk with us about the kind of wine we're most interested in at Eat Polska: Polish wine.
Eat Polska (EP): Is Polish wine worthwile?
ADAM PAWŁOWSKI (AP): Yes, of course it is. I really wanted to include Polish wine in Ed Red's wine list. I actually knew this immediately. But the thing with Polish wine is that you need to be very selective and careful about it. There are some extraordinary Polish wines, but there are still some Polish wine makers who commit basic errors in the science of wine making. Most common ones being reduction (sulfur aromas), oxidation (causing loss of fruit aromas i wine) or intense brettanomyces (giving wine barnyardy or horsey smell). Some Polish red wines are deceivingly beautiful. They may be deeply purple, ruby or garnet but once you put your nose in the glass and you taste the wine, there is not much to talk about. These are the things that still happen and they happen elsewhere as well, but Polish wine makers need to work hard on that. More expertise is needed. If anything, white wines are our stronger suit, because Polish climate is harsh. I believe we should strive to emulate the success of Austrian or German wine makers. The climate they operate in is similar to ours and it works miracles on their wine.
This being said, I see lots of progress when it comes to Polish wine making.
EP: How can you tell?
AP: Recently I was a member of jury in Poland's biggest wine contest in Jasło. It was the third time I was there and I have to admit that over the past three years there are a lot of new winemakers who produce Polish wine. Three years ago we had a selection of 60 wines for the contest, a year later 100 and this year we tasted 212 Polish wines. We awarded different winemakers with 83 medals. Of course the majority were bronze medals but we gave 11 golden medals, which I believe is a lot. Grand prix winning Pinot Noir by Winnica Płochockich was a masterpiece in its category. It tasted like a very decent Burgundy wine. Other sommeliers were amazed that such high quality wine had been produced in Poland. What is more, in April I had the honour of being a judge in one of the most prestigious wine contest in Europe organised by a British wine magazine "Decanter". Given that such contests are based on blind tasting premise, I had no idea whose wine I was tasting. It turned out that one of the finest Pinot Noirs in that contest was a Polish wine. It was awarded a silver medal in its category (CLICK HERE TO SEE WHICH WINE IT WAS).
EP: What is the direction Polish wine makers should take now? If we can't measure up to France or Italy, would you say it's a worthy idea to produce alternative wine types, such as e.g. orange wine? Just to excel at something different?
AP: I wouldn't say it's a good idea. You see, when it comes to wine making I'm a traditionalist. Wine needs to be made according to certain standards. You can't tolerate mould, oxidation nor abundant sulfur aromas in wine. It needs to be drinkable. So my message to Polish wine makers would be: first, make very good classical wine. Then, perhaps you can start experimenting. Orange wines are acceptable only in very particular contexts, but they are sort of exceptions to the rule. And we all know that the exception proves the rule.
EP: So who are the Polish leaders in wine making?
AP: Certainly I don't want to overlook anyone but I have a few of my favourite Polish wine producers who got it right in my opinion. These would be: Winnica Turnau, Pałac Mierzęcin, Winnica Modła, Winnica Płochockich, Winnica Jasiel, Winnica Jaworek or Winnica Srebrna Góra which produced wine that is being currently sold in one of the biggest market chains in Poland at a very reasonable price.
EP: Is it a good idea to sell Polish wine in supermarkets?
AP: I believe it's a very good idea. It makes Polish wine more accessible to a wider audience. It's not just in restaurants or vineyards anymore. This being said, only few Polish vineyards could afford such a bold move. In order to cater for a big supermarket's needs a vineyard has to provide a constant wine supply. Most Polish vineyards are as big as 1ha which makes it virtually impossible. Winnica Srebrna Góra stretches over 20ha, but that's exceptional for Polish market. They were forced to use most of their crops in order to be able to offer their wines to this big supermarket chain during numerous months. One could argue if the attractive supermarket price spoils Polish wine market, but I had the opportunity to taste these wines and they are quite decent ones. They are also made to a Polish liking.
AP: Polish people tend to prefer wines with a higher amount of residual sugar and little tannins to counteract it. These wines are fine, but they are not excessively engaging. They are simple. But what putting a Polish wine in a supermarket chain does is that it makes Polish consumers more aware of its existence. I would assume that once they try Polish wine and they learn to appreciate it, they will pursue different ones.
EP: How much wine is consumed in Poland?
AP: An average Pole consumes between 3 to 4 litres of wine per year. It is nothing compared to Great Britain where an average Brit consumes between 25 and 30 litres of wine per year. Plus, there is no wine drinking culture and certain lack of wine patriotism. Polish wine is quite pricey and unreliable so Poles prefer to bet on French or Italian classics. This being said though, recent study shows that due to global warming in 2050 Poland's territory will become one of the best places to grow grapes and make high quality wine. So hey, there's still hope. Let's keep an open mind about all this Polish wine making.
Read where to find great Polish wine in Warsaw HERE.


people with disabilities as competent, self-directed individuals who can and should live the lives of their dreams: a real life in the real world!
What are your ideas on how people with disabilities, parents, educators, service providers, health care providers, legislators, and/or others who influence the lives of people with disabilities can make the world a better place?
Families and organizations stop creating "special" programs and events for people with disabilities. Inclusion and integration have two different meanings. If we, as family members, don't celebrate the gifts of our loved one with a disability, we can expect the world to continue to devalue people with disabilities.
We would accept people with disabilities for who they are and not spend so much time trying to fix them.
Parents of children with disabilities dream big dreams for their children, and ignore the negative words of others (physicians, teachers, therapists, health care providers, service providers, family members, or anyone else).
Individual autonomy were valued, instead of helpful conformity. I am tired of having my life planned out around what suits the powerful.
Other children treat my children as they would any of their other friends. It blesses my heart when my children are treated as equals. Their disabilities make no difference at all!
We realized that we're all utterly dependent in infancy and senility, and we all experience disability at one time or another, in sickness or in health. Since we cannot escape the need to give and receive care at these times, disability is not "abnormal," but entirely normal—or as Kathie Snow says, "it's natural." By embracing a "new abnormal," we exclude no one and promote tolerance for one another in our infinite diversity.
People would appreciate that progress for some people happens in small steps and deserves to be celebrated.
We recognize that the system is so poorly-managed and misleading. Misguidance and roadblocks in the system during a person's childhood years result in more costly support systems needed with the person is an adult.


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Recap #242: Halloween Extravaganza – Fillmore!: Episode #21, "The Unseen Reflection"
Written by Jude Deluca Published 17 October 2019 16 October 2019 Discussion Leave a Comment on Recap #242: Halloween Extravaganza – Fillmore!: Episode #21, "The Unseen Reflection"
Fillmore Title Card
Title: Fillmore! – The Unseen Reflection
Director: Christian Roman
Writer: Madellaine Paxson
Summary: Vampirita, a series of novels about an astronaut vampire, has attracted a huge following at X – and none more so that Torrey and Terri. The next installment of the series will be released in a fortnight, and until then, fans can audition to star in the next book! Terri and Torrey start to build projects to win the auditions, but every time one is finished, it gets sabotaged. Naturally, the main suspects are two members of a rival novel's fanclub – TQ, a mysterious and riddle-talking guy with an affinity for multicultural cuisine, and Trace, a girl who never seems to be happy with the color of her hair. But evidence points to neither… so just who could have enough knowledge about the projects to find the perfect way to sabotage them?
Now it's time for a very special recap on Devil's Elbow, featuring that cult classic Disney show "Fillmore!"
Airing in the early 2000s, "Fillmore!" was an animated series done in the style of 1970s crime and detective shows set within a middle school. Specifically it was set within X Middle School, one of the biggest middle schools in America. That's not even hyperbole because X Middle School is fucking HUGE. It's practically a city. To put this in perspective, they have clubs for everything including a field for bocce ball, a corn maze so large they had to send a rescue team to save some poor kid who came out screaming "IT ALL LOOKS THE SAME!!!!", an expo center for science fairs, and a fucking JAI ALAI STADIUM. An entire stadium SOLELY for jai alai.
The main characters are Cornelius C. Fillmore (Orlando Brown) and Ingrid Third (Tara Strong). Fillmore was once the worst juvenile delinquent to ever attend X Middle School until he turned over a new leaf and joined the Safety Patrol. Ingrid, a goth girl with a photographic memory making her the smartest kid in school, was another former delinquent who transferred to X from a school in Nepal following a prank with a stink bomb and a pinata.
As partners in the Safety Patrol, Fillmore and Ingrid have gone around solving a number of bizarre crimes, including:
The destruction of an entire model train expo
The kidnapping of X Middle School's beloved mascot, Lobsty the Lobster, during Spirit Week
A serial shredder going around destroying school projects with a handheld paper shredder
The tagging of a graffiti artist going by the handle "Stainless," whose antics lead Fillmore and Ingrid to seek the aid of another tagger put in permanent detention ala Hannibal Lector for something unspeakable he drew with only a mini golf pencil
The theft of EVERY SINGLE BOOK in the school's massive library
A group of students forming a vigilante squad to get revenge on the school's bullies by traumatizing them for life
A counterfeit baseball card ring organized by a visiting Canadian diplomat's son who has "Diplomatic immunity" and thus can't be touched by the Safety Patrol
Threats made against the school's star chess player, Checkmatey, who's inexplicably a white gangsta kid who churns out cringeworthy raps
Every single crime in the series is treated with the same amount of ridiculous seriousness, the exact way shows like "Starsky & Hutch," would handle them. It's got chase sequences up the ying-yang, interrogations, and Fillmore and Ingrid getting chewed out by their superior officer, Chief Vallejo.
So yeah, the "X" probably stands for "Xtra" because everyone in this show is operating at 75 out of 10. The best is probably the school's principal, Dawn S. Folsom, voiced by Wendie Malick giving a delightfully hammy performance. She spends most of her time either sweetly complimenting the Safety Patrol when she's not threatening to have them all shipped to Kazakhstan, or she'll turn their HQ into her own personal sauna. She's such an egotist the school's drama club did a musical about her life story. My favorite scene involves her ranting about making sure Checkmatey brings glory to the school while she's vocally changing the settings on her massage chair.
"And then the void in our trophy case, and the VOID in my HEART, WILL BE FILLED! DEEP TISSUE!!!"
Unfortunately, she's not in this episode.
No I picked this episode to review on Devil's Elbow because the conflict involves sabotage being inflicted against members of a fan club for a book series about a vampire astronaut. The main suspects are members of a rival fan club for a different franchise. The episode offers a look into fandom wars, toxic fandoms, and what happens when creators stop giving a shit. [Wing: Well this should be interesting.]
As luck would have it, back when the show was still on Toon Disney (or Disney XD, at the time) they once did a marathon of all the episodes that hadn't yet aired on this channel. I recorded all of them on a video tape I still own and still works. This episode's the last one on the tape, so I've known about it for years.
Act One: Sabotage Under Glass
It's a normal day at X Middle School when two girls in the cafeteria reveal they have an announcement to make. They're both dressed in identical red suits, similar to the one worn by fictional character Vampirita of the very popular book series of the same name. The two girls, red-headed Torrey and brown-haired Terri, are both members of the school's Vampirita fan club and are eager to unveil something to the rest of the school. However, the moment is quashed somewhat by heckling from a pink-haired girl called Trace. Torrey and Terri are both familiar with her and try their best to ignore her remarks.
Torrey explains how she's been a Vampirita fan since the first book's release, and thanks to Vampirita she's made a number of new friends. It's how Terri became her best friend. Book #23 is coming out in two weeks, and the publisher's holding a contest for the chance to become a character in the new book. [Wing: …wait, that's not how publishing works.] Despite Trace's smug remarks, Torrey and Terri are excited to show off their entry in the contest. The two girls spent half a year learning the art of glass blowing so they could create a statue of their favorite vampire astronaut. Without further ado, the girls rip off the tarp to unveil their masterpiece, titled "Where No Vamp Has Gone Before." [Wing: Jesus, these two are dedicated to their fandom. I love them.]
The moment the statue's displayed, Trace blanks for a moment and then starts laughing like there was no tomorrow. Confused, Torrey turns around and is horrified by what she sees. The statue's not of Vampirita! It's, it's…
Fillmore – Citizen Fang Statue
CITIZEN FANG!
[Wing: WELL THEN. Also, that does not look like something that was blown from glass but done with a mold. Also also: WEREWOLF.]
While all this is going on, Safety Patrollers Fillmore and Ingrid are in hot pursuit of a runaway mime.
Yes that's exactly what you think it means.
The young mime barrels through a nearby art class, ruining several works in progress and knocking over a large stack of chairs in an effort to escape from the Safety Patrol. By the time Fillmore and Ingrid are able to make it out of the destroyed classroom, the mime's gone. Fillmore then receives notification on his walky talky about the disturbance in the cafeteria.
The rest of the Safety Patrol's on the scene and taking note of the crime. Terri's allowing crime scene photographer Danny O'Farrell to borrow some of her Vampirita books. Turns out her cousin works for the publisher so she can get copies for free. Score!
Fillmore's taking a statement from Torrey about the statue. She claims it still looked like Vampirita when she saw it yesterday at school, and thinks someone melted it down and turned it into… THAT at some point after she left. Torrey thinks it was none other than Trace, arguing of course she'd melt a perfectly good Vampirita statue and turn it into *ugh* Citizen Fang.
Fillmore's not up on the latest trends in books and asks what, exactly, the statue's supposed to be now. Torrey contemptuously says that abomination's none other than Citizen Fang, Werewolf Senator. Since Trace is V.P. of the Citizen Fang Fan Club, of course she wrecked the statue. [Wing: …uh, am I suppose to be on Trace's side right now? Because I'm on Trace's side right now.]
According to Torrey, the Citizen Fang followers are evil morons because those books are so stupid. A werewolf senator? The paparazzi would've exposed him in a heartbeat! Plus, Congress is in session during the full moon. [Wing: Yeah, I am 100% on Trace's side right now. Jesus, Torrey, like what you like and let other people like what they like.] Terri adds that Trace left the cafeteria as soon as the statue was unveiled. Doesn't that seem a tad suspicious?
Ingrid calls Fillmore over to the statue, saying she's spotted a hair stuck inside the glass. While Ingrid chips open the statue to remove the hair for evidence, Fillmore searches for Trace to question her. Trace (now with blue hair) [Wing: I need Trace's hair colour abilities.] is at the school's bocce ball field. She mockingly calls Fillmore "Ossifer" and eagerly states yes, she laughed at the statue. Why? Because she enjoys laughing at those Vampirita morons. Like, don't they realize sunlight kills vampires? Not even mentioning that's with the ozone layer. So how in the fuck does an astronaut vampire make sense? The sun should've fried her by now! [Wing: Okay, they both make some interesting logic points, BUT AGAIN, like what you like and let other people like what they like why are people always like this?]
Fillmore can't help but chuckle at how similar Trace sounds to Torrey, commenting the two sets of fans might have more in common than either thinks. Trace is offended by the notion, coldly repeating the Vampirita fans are all morons.
Anyway, Trace has an alibi for yesterday afternoon. The Citizen Fang club was holding a bungee jump party AND it was recorded on video. [Wing: Y'all, the Citizen Fang club is badass.] Fillmore then asks if the entire club attended, which takes some of the wind out of her sails. She admits one member, T.Q., didn't attend since he hates bungee jumping. Who's T.Q.? The club president.
T.Q. Schrader appears to be a rather smug blonde kid, calmly eating an ornate sushi lunch when he immediately tells Fillmore he didn't wreck the statue. Seems T.Q.'s not an idiot since he knows everyone's talking about the statue and they already figure he did it because he's the Citizen Fang club's president. He asks Fillmore if there's any evidence linking him to the statue's destruction, then explains he was at home yesterday afternoon and his parents will verify that statement. Fillmore tells T.Q. he might have more questions for him later, so don't go anywhere. T.Q. promises, and calmly swears he ALWAYS keeps his promises.
"Not many humans can say the same."
Safety Patrol forensics specialist Karen Tehama has analyzed the white hair found in the statue and confirms it's definitely human. Meanwhile, O'Farrell is deeply engrossed in the Vampirita books and managed to acquire all of them thanks to Terri. As Fillmore and Ingrid decide they need a specialist to examine the rest of the statue, Chief Vallejo bursts into the room and is furious about what happened in the art lab. Having received a bill for all the damages caused during the mime chase and with Principal Folsom breathing down his back about the budget, Vallejo warns Fillmore if he causes more property damage he could get suspended from the squad.
Fillmore and Ingrid bring the Citizen Fang statue to a glass figurine shop, where the owner's able to identify (just from the sound it makes when he taps it with his finger) the statue's pressed glass and not blown. [Wing: Called it! Do I know my cartoon glass statues or what.] From the marks on the surface, he can tell it wasn't made in a glass mold, but a metal one. Possibly used for pewter. Ingrid suggests they investigate X's metal shop to find a pewter mold that could've been used to reform the Vampirita statue. The store owner suggests the two can take a short cut through the store's figurine section instead of going back around the block. He warns them the figurines are VERY delicate and VERY expensive, so be careful…
[Wing: NO NO NO when you've already been warned about not costing the team more money why would you agree to do this why?]
Ingrid's honestly more weirded out by how many glass unicorns are in this store [Wing: Hater. This has also made me realise I've never seen a glass werewolf.] as she and Fillmore try to make their way through the figurine section. Fillmore tries asking a nearby kid in a hooded sweatshirt if they know the way out. The kid immediately bolts in the opposite direction, raising Fillmore's suspicions enough to chase after them.
While in pursuit, Fillmore and Ingrid watch as the hooded kid jostles one of the displays and a glass penguin goes tumbling down-!
Act Two: Shards of Justice
Ingrid manages to catch the figurine before it hits the floor, so the chase resumes. Fillmore and Ingrid corner the hooded kid in a dead end, only for the perp to grab a nearby warning sign and throw it at Fillmore. This causes Fillmore to fall back on one of the shelves, making several glass pieces fall. While Fillmore stops the figurines from shattering, the hooded kid distracts Ingrid by dumping a box of glass-polishing rags on her head.
To try and stop the kid, Fillmore throws the very same warning sign towards them. It only trips the kid momentarily, but causes more figurines to plummet. Fillmore only stops more property damage thanks to a large role of bubble wrap conveniently left at the end of the aisle. While the figurines are saved, the perp is gone. They did however drop a book in their hasty exit. It's that old classic, "The Several Stages Of Grief: A Pop Up Book."
"Spiro the Clown is wearing a frown, because depression's stage 4 and is wearing him down."
[Wing: Uh … huh.]
Ingrid sees the inside of the book has a sticker from X Middle School's library, and proposes Fillmore check out this angle while she searches the metal shop.
The school librarian looks up the pop-up book in the library's database, informing Fillmore the book's four months overdue. The name of the last person who checked it out has been mysteriously erased from the database. In the meantime, Fillmore asks the librarian some questions about Torrey and the others. The librarian knows all four kids very well from their reading habits.
Torrey: Enjoys checking out Vampirita books and supplementary fan guides. Considers her a little obsessive, but very sweet.
Terri: Where there's Torrey, there's Terri. Besides Vampirita, Terri's interested in collectible Mountain Ogre dolls. Weird hobby, but a nice kid.
Trace (whose photo has her in a lime green Marie Antoinette style wig): [Wing: Oh, wait, is it all wigs? I could have her skill with hair colours!] Interested in books on wigs and hair pieces along with Citizen Fang.
T.Q.: Did a semester in library science classes, has the potential to be a great librarian some day. In fact, his home computer has access to the library's database, making it possible for him to enter the database and erase his name if need be. [Wing: …why? Why would you allow a student to have that kind of access, especially from his home computer?!]
Ingrid contacts Fillmore and lets him know she found the Citizen Fang mold. Turns out T.Q. made the mold himself as an extra credit project.
Fillmore and Ingrid track T.Q. down and want to bring him to H.Q. for questioning. T.Q. barely makes an attempt to plead innocence when Tehama immediately radios Fillmore and says there's an emergency at the school's croquet fields.
Yes they have a croquet field IT'S A BIG FUCKING SCHOOL.
Someone just ruined Torrey and Terri's newest entry in the Vampirita contest. T.Q. starts joking he's CLEARLY the guilty party, since he obviously used his amazing rubber arms to stretch to the croquet fields while they weren't looking. Fillmore does not appreciate his attitude.
Seems the newest project was an inflatable version of Vampirita that's now floating off into the sky. Torrey's beside herself, asking why this had to happen to her.
"Everything I touch – ruined!"
Terri tries to console her best friend, saying they can create another entry. O'Farrell, totally lost down the rabbit hole that is Vampirita, references several of the character's seemingly hopeless battles against her sworn genetic enemy and begs Torrey not to give up.
Since the balloon is still visible in the sky, it appears the culprit might not have gotten far. Fillmore assesses the croquet field and notices someone leaving… someone with a pair of hedge clippers attached to their belt. Suspicion peaked, Fillmore and Ingrid chase after their new suspect while weaving through the croquet balls. Oh it's terrible. Balls to the left, balls to the right. Fillmore almost takes a big blue ball right in his face when he falls down. It's like a frat party on Fire Island.
Fillmore manages to reach the controls for the sprinkler system, causing the perp to swerve into the row of storage sheds near the gate. They get the drop on Fillmore when the perp unleashes a jumble of croquet wickets and goal posts on top of him and almost gets away. Luckily, Fillmore grabs a wicket and hits a ball straight towards the perp, making them trip and fall.
Ingrid and Fillmore close in on their suspect and it's… Trace! This time in a bone white wig.
Act Three: This Devotion, Nevermore
Trace is being held in Safety Patrol HQ for questioning. Her wig's been removed to check if it matches the hair found in the statue. Her natural hair's revealed to be black and rather short. Trace exclaims she didn't wreck the Vampirita balloon. Sure, she WANTED to cut its ropes but someone beat her to it.
Fillmore pulls out a piece of red paper they found on Trace and asks what it is. Trace almost loses it as she says she found that page in a book T.Q. lent her, revealing it's none other than a page from a Vampirita novel! She thinks T.Q. has crossed over to the Vampirita fandom and screams he's a filthy traitor, banging her fists on the table with each punctuation.
"It's a page from a Vampirita novel! He's crossed over! I-I can't believe it! Traitor! Traitor! TRAITOR!"
Outside the interrogation room, Ingrid and Fillmore discuss whether or not Trace is lying. She sounds genuinely upset she didn't get to cut the rope. Ingrid points out T.Q. definitely had something to do with this, wondering if he and Trace are both sabotaging Torrey and Terri.
"Trace and T.Q. working in tandem tried to trash Torrey and Terri's attempts at taking the trophy. Together. *Sigh*"
However, it turns out the hair in the statue didn't come from Trace's wig. Tehama reports the wig's made from artificial hair, while the hair from the statue's natural. Ingrid adds Torrey and Terri are putting together a final attempt to enter the contest, which is being held at a horror-themed bookstore called "The Zombie's Bookshelf" in one hour. Fillmore instead wants to ask T.Q. about the Vampirita page.
Fillmore and Ingrid question T.Q. at his house. He invites the two inside and offers them tea said to be good for "Repressed rage." T.Q. explains the page isn't from an actual Vampirita novel, but an advanced reader copy. The kind that are sent to reviewers before the books get officially released. Apparently the pages are made red to make it harder for anyone to make duplicates or sell online. [Wing: Or to make them even more a collector's item. God, this publisher is a failure.] T.Q. mentions they're extremely hard to get but a determined fan can hunt one down if they search hard enough.
Fillmore asks if T.Q. really has become a Vampirita fan since he had the page, and T.Q. resents the notion. T.Q. still loathes Vampirita as much as possible, and the page that story came from is supposedly horrible even compared to the usual novels.
"Though I should give the author credit. Reading that page sucked the very life out of me."
BURN.
T.Q. won't tell them where he got the page from, even as Fillmore threatens to drag him back to HQ to find out the truth. Instead, T.Q. pulls out a Mountain Ogre doll, mentioning how they're an extraordinary combination of rubber and lifelike hair…
We've reached the climax of the episode, and have YOU figured out who done it? Was it…
Fillmore – Trace
Fillmore – T.Q.
TRACE AND T.Q., working together to sabotage the Vampirita fandom?
Fillmore – Torrey and Terri
TORREY AND TERRI, who were sabotaging their own works to frame the Citizen Fang club as part of a petty fandom rivalry?
Fillmore – Store Owner
THE FIGURINE STORE OWNER?
Fillmore – The Mime
THE MIME?
Ms. Crabtree
MS. CRABTREE?
Cousin Maldehyde
SWEET COUSIN MALDEHYDE?!
Going over the evidence so far, Fillmore picks up the red page and notices a dark smudge on it. He immediately says they have to get to the Zombie's Bookshelf.
At the aforementioned horror store, the Vampirita contest's under way. Let me tell you, the author of the series looks like she'd rather be anywhere else then listening to the contestants. Her agent reminds her these promo events were listed in her contract, and advises her to smile. She does. For one second.
Off to the side, Torrey's rehearsing a spoken word thing with O'Farrell but is getting nervous because the helmet on her space suit costume keeps fogging up. O'Farrell has got Torrey's back and tells her to relax. When it's Torrey's turn on stage, Terri gives her a thumb's up as she's about to turn on the mist machine for the performance. Which is exactly when Fillmore and Ingrid show up, demanding Terri come with them to answer some questions.
Terri throws the switch on the machine, trying to escape in a cover of mist only to back herself into a corner. With nowhere else to go, Terri's accused of sabotaging the projects. Torrey doesn't understand, asking why her friend would wreck her own chances to become a character in her favorite book series?
FILLMORE'S SUMMATION: Terri got an advanced copy of the new Vampirita novel from her cousin before the contest. Unfortunately, the book was bad. REALLY bad. So bad it drove Terri to actual tears which is how the page got smudged. Terri couldn't let them win the contest and get included in this piece of garbage, so she set to work on wrecking their projects without Torrey knowing. Terri melted down the Vampirita statue and turned it into Citizen Fang. She was able to cut the ropes on the balloon since she was right next to it. Right after she melted the statue, Terri shredded the advanced copy. Only she missed a page, which landed in front of T.Q.
Maybe she shouldn't have shredded the pages in the metal shop.
T.Q. shows up behind Fillmore at the bookstore, and Terri cries he promised not to tell anyone what she did. Annoyed, T.Q. says he always keeps his promises and didn't "Tell" Fillmore. He just pointed Fillmore in the right direction.
T.Q. adds he saw Terri turn the statue into Citizen Fang, and he recognized the heartbroken, tear-stained look on Terri's face when he picked up the Vampirita page. He let himself appear as a suspect because he promised Terri he'd keep quiet. T.Q. empathized with Terri because he knows how much it hurts when a creator decides to destroy the franchise and characters you love so much. Turns out T.Q. went through three different fandoms before Citizen Fang. Apparently, he's used tea and self-help books to deal with it. Alongside keeping Terri's secret, T.Q. gave her the grief book to help her cope.
Since the secret's out, Terri explains the reason she didn't simply warn Torrey was due to her cousin swearing her to secrecy on the advanced copies. She couldn't let Torrey suffer getting tied down with the Vampirita series after it jumped the shark. Terri regretfully apologizes for what she did, and Torrey maturely forgives her instead of freaking out about any "Betrayal" or for Terri speaking blasphemy against the books.
Torrey asks if the new novel's really that bad. Terri exclaims it's WORSE. Aside from multiple spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors, Vampirita betrays her allies and the entire resistance to her sworn genetic enemy by giving him their secrets and access to her power. Why, you ask?
THEY'RE DATING.
Torrey's HORRIFIED at how OOC this is, and the author chooses the WORST possible time to voice her opinion. She laughs and decides Terri should win the contest because she's a "Nutso" fan, yelling at the kids it's only a stupid book. A book which she wrote and finished while on a plane to Milan.
Torrey refuses to let her friend be insulted like this and cuts the author down for how little she cares about her books, her characters, and her fans.
"Just… a BOOK?! Too bad some people don't know their own characters well enough to know that they don't end up dating their sworn genetic enemies! You know, some people would say this whole thing happened because Terri promised her cousin she wouldn't tell me about the book. Or because T.Q. promised he wouldn't rat Terri out. But I say it happened because you didn't know how to keep YOUR promise to your fans. That's what a book is, Madame, a promise. Try keeping it next time."
Several kids in the store applaud Torrey while the author silently glares at her before leaving. T.Q. commends Torrey and mentions the Citizen Fang club was trying to raise money to charter a bus for an upcoming convention. Torrey proposes the Vampirita fans could help out so everyone can attend.
[Wing: We'll talk about this in a lot more detail below, readers.]
So it looks like the case reached a happy ending…
Too bad THE FUCKING MIME'S BACK!
Giving Fillmore a taunting look, the mime darts through the bookstore and Fillmore quickly follows after.
The next day at HQ, O'Farrell is despondent to learn what happens in Vampirita #23 when he hasn't even finished #8 yet.
"I didn't even get a chance to become disillusioned."
Meanwhile, Fillmore's got the mime snagged (apparently he's been stealing lunch bags) and of course Vallejo's pissed about the damage that happened offscreen in the bookstore. However, the mime's apparently offered to put on a show to raise money for the bill.
Annnnnd then Ingrid radios in about someone having stolen a 10 foot ladder.
Said perp is on their way to the school's ceramics department.
Poor Vallejo looks like he's about to have a heart attack as Fillmore heads out. But don't worry, Fillmore mentions he has some tea that'll help his boss calm down. Vallejo starts screaming Fillmore's name… and then promptly tells the mime to stop copying him.
I think this episode honestly does a good job at showing some of the positive and negative aspects of being in a fandom. They can get petty and nasty when arguing with a different fandom. Sometimes you don't realize the arguments against elements in one franchise are actually similar to arguments against the one you follow. And sometimes you can overreact about someone liking a different fandom, like Trace did when she assumed T.Q. liked Vampirita.
Fandoms can also be a place where you make real friends you can rely on. Being a fan isn't necessarily good or bad for you. It depends on how you decide to act as a fan. It sort of dispels the idea that being a fan of a fictional story makes you a loser who needs to get a life.
It's sort of amazing Terri's feelings of betrayal were taken seriously over how bad the latest Vampirita novel was revealed to be. This wasn't over an arbitrary plot decision, but because the characters were legitimately acting in ways they aren't supposed to and the protagonist just does something absolutely stupid and unbelievable. Vampirita does something the previous 22 volumes never hinted or built up towards in any way possible, instead being a blatant example of the writer clearly not giving a shit anymore. If the writer ever did.
[Wing: Eh, I disagree that a book is a promise to the readers and that authors/creators can't change their minds on how characters go. There's a difference between criticising how a story is told/the characters are treated/etc., which is absolutely valid, but to attack the author/creator for breaking a promise is ridiculous. Authors/creators don't owe anything to their fans, and the fans don't owe anything to the authors/creators. Yes, I think we as fans (or I guess consumers of media might work better) can criticise what the creator chooses to do, especially when it buys into damaging stereotypes, etc., and I think creators should want to do no harm to minority groups with their media, but I don't think that's something authors/creators owe, it's just the right thing to do. There's nothing wrong with a creator not caring about the work the way the fans do or for a creator do make something just for money. It's still a job. And it's okay that the author here wanted to write Vampirita dating with their previous enemy. Enemies to lovers is a trope for a reason. It's also okay for fans to not like how it was done. It's not okay for fans to attack the creator.]
Props to Torrey also, who doesn't have a problem with Terri exclaiming how bad the book was to show Torrey doesn't just worship the series or the writer. Her friend matters more to her than the series they bonded over, which is something both girls demonstrated. Not to mention Torrey's complaints against the author focused on her not making an effort to deliver a quality story, instead of whining the story doesn't match Torrey's personal vision of Vampirita. Oh, but with her proposing having the Vampirita fans team up with the Citizen Fang fans it shows she can still support the character even if the next book is garbage. You can still love the character even if you're aware of the dip in quality.
T.Q. also shows maturity when he bonds with Terri over their shared disappointment, having developed a sense of empathy from the franchises he's followed and past experiences with his own depression. In the end, T.Q. and Torrey were able to find some common ground and try to amend the rift between their fandoms.
I will say the episode could've clarified if the Vampirita author was always this apathetic or if working on the series wore her down and she started focusing on the money. She doesn't win any points when she calls Terri nuts even after Terri explained she was trying to stop Torrey from being humiliated by getting included in the book. And if she really did just care about the money, you'd think she'd make a better effort to earn her paycheck.
This episode probably resonates a lot with our own experiences in fandoms. Sailor Moon fans had the disappointment of "Crystal," Cutey Honey fans had "Universe." Harry Potter fans had "The Cursed Child" and the "Fantastic Beasts" movies. Plus there's the myriad of horrible film and TV show remakes in the last two decades.
[Wing: And yet plenty of people love, say, The Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts and don't think there was any betrayal done by Rowling. Because there isn't; what she created was good or bad depending on your opinion and maybe did harm (I'm not actually familiar with most of the content there, only the terrible choices made regarding Indigenous people in North America when it comes to magic, but most of what I saw about that was Rowling making statements, I don't know if it showed up in the text), but Rowling didn't owe anyone anything.]
I regret to say I know exactly how Terri and T.Q. must've felt. Some of you probably remember my scathing remarks against DC Comics and their last event book, "Heroes in Crisis." It seemed to pride itself on trying to exploit trauma and PTSD as Tom King spent nine months destroying the characters of Wally West and Poison Ivy (whose bloody corpse was almost used for a sexy pin-up cover). Apparently he gave editorial a bare story outline and let them do whatever they wanted with it. King attempted to deflect criticism by shamelessly spouting garbage about the series being a metaphor for mass shootings and claiming it's good how people reacted so badly towards it because it got them to think.
I have to honestly say, as far as I'm concerned Tom King's one of the few comic writers I'm willing to believe's both a bad writer and a bad person for sinking that low to try and diminish critiques against his writing. You don't say you're gonna do a meaningful story about PTSD and therapy using superheroes and then hide behind excuses exploiting things like MASS SHOOTINGS when people call you out on your failure to deliver!
[Wing: I still think the issue here is not the promises a creator makes by creating a work (though, to be fair, making that kind of promise in the first place is a terrible idea and also different from the "promise" that is made just by creating a work; actually making a concrete promise to consumers maybe is something that consumers can be angry about if it isn't provided) but what was actually done in the story. And it's generally a horrible idea for creators to respond to criticism; they almost never respond in a way that makes things worse and often the criticism isn't for them in the first place, it's for other fans, other consumers, especially when it comes to things like reviews.
I'm also now having thoughts about the difference between a single creator and multiple creator works, e.g., Rowling's Harry Potter world versus comics where not only are their multiple creators at any given time (at the very least usually an author and an artist), but different creators take on the same character at different times and in different universes. The consistency across stories isn't as strong in general in a setup like that, and I wonder how much that changes the way creators approach characters.]
I didn't mention how "Heroes in Crisis" effected me so badly in regards to my struggles with depression and PTSD I spent months discussing it with my therapist, who even agreed with me that the book was garbage and offensive to people who've been traumatized. The last issue upset me so greatly it left me in a suicidal mindset, with the events around me spiraling to a degree that I attempted to cut my wrist open just to make it stop.
You can read about that here: http://www.comicosity.com/paved-with-good-intentions-how-heroes-in-crisis-betrays-trauma-victims/
I know Wing recently mentioned how enraged she was at the last book in the "Last Vampire" series because of the racist garbage Christopher Pike included at the end.
[Wing: I am, absolutely, though the racist garbage really was building from the very first book. And despite the way I write it my response, which is pretty flippantly addressing Christopher Pike (more as a character for the recap than the author himself), I don't think Pike owes me or any other reader anything. I think what he's chosen to write doesn't always make sense with what's come before (though the racism does) and I think he is writing a terrible story, but those are his choices to make and my criticism is about what was created from those choices and the damage those choices do. He hasn't betrayed me individually or even the story itself; the story itself has failed, though he may not see it that way, other readers might not see it that way, etc.]
All in all, while every person has the potential to take being a fan too seriously, it's important to remember you can be upset over something as a fan and your feelings can still matter. You need to remember to have the proper perspective.
[Wing: Absolutely. Fandom can be wonderful and it can be terrible, like everything else people do, but your feelings are valid. It's when people start to take those feelings and opinions out on other fans, on creators, on partners of the actors, etc., that a problem occurs. People can like things you don't like. Creators can do things you don't like. Criticising the work shouldn't also mean attacking other fans and the creators, etc. Nor should it mean that your feelings and opinions aren't valid, even if that doesn't mean anyone has to agree with them.]
I admit, after reading Wing's comments, I should've been firmer in discussing the bias the episode shows towards the fans' P.O.V. against the author's. The Vampirita creator's given no real explanation as to why she has such little zeal for the series at this point or in meeting the fans and it robs the validity of Torrey's response to her insult. The author's nastiness exists just to give Terri's actions validity, when the writers could've discussed that CREATING and MAINTAINING a best selling book series isn't exactly a picnic. Though I still don't think the author won any favors by calling Terri "Nuts," since Terri never attacked the woman herself. Terri's complaints were always on the actual book and she never once directed her scorn towards the writer.
What also doesn't help is Terri doesn't explain how or why Vampirita starts dating her arch enemy in the book or why she betrays her friends. If the show had explained the direction came out of nowhere and they simply started dating "Just because," that would've been one thing. Possibly, the author admitting she wrote and finished the book on a single plane trip implies it really was a rush job, but again her lack of characterization doesn't do much for the episode's point.
The idea of anyone being owed anything in a fandom reminds me of "The Simpsons" episode that featured "Itchy & Scratchy" getting a new character added, "Poochie." This is also something I should've discussed originally and I'm seeing now a lot of this was coming off as biased as well. The Poochie character was added solely to boost ratings and was micromanaged into creation by the show executives. A lot of hype was built for the debut, and the character was almost unanimously loathed because the entire cartoon was built around how awesome he was while everyone talked about how awesome he was. After portraying the executives as greedy and shortsighted, and the production team as lazy and self absorbed, the episode proper portrayed the fans as obsessive and petty over the tiniest details. Comic Book Guy complains about how the show "Owed him" as a loyal viewer, when Bart, who hated the episode too, retorts HE probably owes THEM after the hundreds of hours of entertainment HE received for FREE. It also acknowledged how Homer, who got to voice Poochie, genuinely tried to do the best he could and realized there were problems with the character he wanted to fix. Unfortunately, because it was out of his control it meant he wasn't really given anything to work WITH despite his efforts.
And yes, I should've offered a more broader discussion about franchise reboots overall and only lent towards the ongoing bias by mentioning properties that garnered a lot of backlash. "Sailor Moon Crystal" and "The Powerpuff Girls 2016" attracted a lot of criticism (the former for claiming to be a more faithful adaption of the manga when it severely downplayed the roles of most of the main cast and shoehorned a romance subplot based off a single piece of artwork, the latter for pandering to its audience by recycling old memes and removing beloved characters who bizarrely were said to be "Not right" for the show), but that didn't mean EVERYONE hated them. SMC's third season was considered an improvement and there were those who actually liked the romance subplot, and many who worked on the new Powerpuff Girls were fans of the original show and were overjoyed to work with their favorite characters.
I think honestly I was buying more into Torrey's insults to the writer due to my own negative experiences in the comic book fandom, especially the vitriol I've spewed against people like James Robinson and Tom King. I have no right to discuss perspective when I myself lack enough of it, which is something I still need to work on.
[Wing: I mean, you have every right to discuss whatever you want to discuss. Things like this are a conversation, and just like the creators of fiction (as our examples are here) can have their work criticised and discussed, so can we in our works of nonfiction.
We all bring our own perspectives to our conversations and opinions. That's part of what makes us human; that's part of how we build our societies. And part of what I'm bringing to the table here is the ongoing toxicity in a lot of fandom spaces right now where creators and other fans are attacked for not liking "appropriate" things or for liking them in "inappropriate" ways. I won't go off on a full rant here, because this isn't really that conversation, but, for example, people can like "problematic" things in fiction and other fans shouldn't attack them for it. There's always been at least some of that in online fandom, but as access has spread and people's voices have been amplified, it seems to be increasing. A lot of it comes across as some fans feeling like they deserve all fans to react to the canon the same way they do, which simply isn't true and that's even before we get into "appropriate" and "inappropriate" canons and ways to be fannish.
To come back to the actual conversation, it doesn't actually matter if people didn't hate a thing like, say, Sailor Moon Crystal. You (generic fan you but also you specifically, Jude) have the right to criticise it for any reason. It's the idea that we as fans are owed something from creators that I object to. The example from Bart and Comic Book Guy is a decent way to show that, I think.]
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"Do you know what my wife usually orders?" I asked at the Oak Grove Coffeehouse this morning. I wanted to bring her a surprise. Kris stops there once or twice a week, but I don't go in very often. I don't like coffee. I guess I should know what Kris orders (since she orders the same thing every time), but I don't. I was hoping I wouldn't have to guess.
Jason, the owner, thought for a moment. "She orders a medium latte extra-hot," he said.
"Who's your wife?" asked the kid behind the counter.
"Yeah," said Jason. "CSI Milwaukie." Everybody laughed.
"Do you want anything?" the kid asked as he took my money. The coffee was $2.75, but I left $1.25 for a tip.
I love this sort of thing. I love local businesses owned by community members. (I bumped into Jason a couple of weeks ago as he was leaving his home to go to the coffee shop. I was walking down the hill as he was walking out his driveway to go up the hill.) This is the precisely the sort of thing I want to support over shops like Starbucks, etc.
And yet I rarely frequent the Oak Grove Coffeehouse myself. As I said, I don't like coffee. I'm not a fan of their hot chocolate. It's vastly superior to Starbuck's hot chocolate (which basically tastes like muddy water), but it's still made the same way: add some chocolate syrup to milk and heat.
All the same, I could be giving the shop some of my trade. At lunch, they serve sandwiches. Also, they have a few breakfast croissants every morning. And they carry Mexican Coke. I'll bet they have bottled water, too. It's important to me that Jason and his family are able to make a profit from their shop, yet I don't do much myself to support them. In fact, I'm sort of a drain on their income.
Today, for example, as I was walking out the door, Jason stopped me and gave me a lemon pastry. "Take it," he said.
"Yes," he said. "It's from yesterday, and I'll just have to throw it out if you don't take it." Jason's given me stuff in the past, including free drinks. I'm grateful for this, but I feel bad. I want to be adding to his income, not taking away from it.
Addendum: Kris and I had lunch with Susan this afternoon, and she pointed out that I forgot to end the story. "Were they right?" she asked. "Did they get Kris' drink order correct?" Indeed they did. Kris orders a medium extra-hot latte.
Same deal here with local commerce. We've been making conscious decisions to frequent our locally owned restaurants, and there are some *really* good ones. Unfortunately, most other local commerce has been replaced by regional/national chains. I love interacting with locals, and helping keep their businesses afloat is an added bonus.
Our bug man, of all people, was slinging burgers at a local swim meet where our kids were competing. When he saw us, he just about jumped over the table to catch our eye and say "Hey." He had been out to treat our deck for carpenter bees about six weeks earlier and wanted to know if it worked. To be honest, I didn't even recognize him at first, but he sure knew us. You don't get that kind of connection when you deal with the big mega-chains.
Thanks for the treat, sweetie! It hit the spot. Thanks to Jason, too!
My wife and I have found that local restaurants tend to be priced comparably to the big chains (sometimes cheaper, sometimes a bit more) but they have significantly better service and generally better food. My wife's theory is that since they haven't got Appleby's budget for national advertising, they have to rely more on locals and word of mouth so they work really hard to develop good relationships and positive feeling.
I've also noticed that the waitstaff at independent places are often older and more intelligent than the highschool students who wait tables at the larger chains. I have a feeling this is confirmation bias on my part but I'll throw it out there.
Starbucks does this too. In fact, I think they go out of their way to encourage their employees to remember regular customers and the drinks they order. I've had employees at several different Starbucks near different offices I've worked at remember my name, greet me by name every time I come in, and know what I normally order. The fact that the corporation is owned by people in Seattle doesn't change the fact that the people you interact with when you actually go into any particular Starbucks store are all locals. If your next door neighbor got a job at your local Starbucks, would that make that store feel more local?
This isn't meant as an advertisement for Starbucks. I fully understand the "local is better" viewpoint, but I think if you refine that viewpoint a bit, the quality we're actually looking for isn't locality, but personality. Wal-mart is still Wal-mart even if you live in Bentonville, Arkansas. In contrast, I remember calling up a small bicycle parts manufacturer in Northern California with a question about one of their products with which I was having trouble. They answered the phone on the first ring, the person who picked up the phone knew how to service the part I was asking about, and they gave me instructions over the phone, as well as mailing me the replacement part I needed as well as a service manual for the part, for free. This small manufacturing shop was located several counties away from me, but that didn't affect the fact that they had fantastic and personable service.


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Ezzatolah entezami (; Teerã, 21 de junho de 1924 - Teerã, 17 de agosto de 2018) foi um ator iraniano .

Carreira
Ezzatolah Entezami começou sua carreira nos palcos em 1941, e se formou em teatro e escola de cinema em Hanover , Alemanha , em 1958.  Ele atuou em filmes desde 1969.  Sua apresentação de estréia foi no filme de Darius Mehrjui , The Cow , pela qual recebeu o prêmio Silver Hugo no Festival Internacional de Cinema de Chicago em 1971.  Ele brilhou no papel de um aldeão ingênuo que não pode suportar a morte de sua amada vaca e começa a acreditar que ele é a própria vaca.

Entezami era conhecido como um dos atores mais proeminentes do cinema iraniano e foi rotulado como o maior ator da história do cinema do Irã.  Ele trabalhou com a maioria dos diretores de cinema iranianos proeminentes, incluindo Darius Mehrjui (oito filmes), Ali Hatami (quatro filmes), Nasser Taqvaee , Mohsen Makhmalbaf , Behrouz Afkhami e Rakhshan Bani-Etemad.  Ele foi premiado com o Crystal Simorgh de Melhor Ator duas vezes do Festival Internacional de Cinema Fajr , pelo Grand Cinema e The Day of Angel.  Seu trabalho e realizações foram reconhecidos em outubro de 2006 no centro cultural do Irã, em Paris .

Filmografia selecionada

 A vaca , 1969
 Sr. Ingênuo , 1970
 O carteiro , 1972
 Bita , 1972
 Sadegh o curdo , 1972
 Sattar Khan
 Tumulto do Amor , 1973
 Reino dos céus
 Leão Adormecido , 1976
 O ciclo
 Os moradores de poeira
 Hezar Dastan , série de TV, 1978–1987
 Condenado , 1978
 A escola aonde fomos , 1980
 Hadji Washington , 1982
 Casa da aranha
 Kamalolmolk , 1983
 The Suitcase , 1985 (lançado em 1988)
 Os inquilinos , 1986
 Leão de pedra , 1986
 Shirak
 Jafar Khan retorna da Europa , 1987
 No olho do vento
 Grand Cinema
 O navio Angelica , 1988
 Hamoun , 1989
 A sombra da imaginação , 1990
 Banu , 1991 (lançado em 1998)
 A casa tranquila
 Era uma vez, cinema , 1991
 The Toy , 1992 (lançado em 1994)
 A Batalha dos Petroleiros
 Dia do Anjo (também-sc.), 1993
 O Azul-Velado
 O fatídico dia de 1994
 Tufão
 Takhti, o campeão mundial (a primeira versão, inacabada) 1996
 Vento e anêmona

 O Comitê de Punição , 1998
 The Mix (ator convidado)
 O quarto escuro
 Crepúsculo , 2001
 Uma casa construída sobre a água , 2001
 Um lugar para morar , 2003
 Ordem , 2004
 Estrelas , 2005
 Cores da Memória , 2007

Vida pessoal
Seu filho, Majid Entezami, é um compositor iraniano de trilhas sonoras .

Links externos

 Uma entrevista com Ezzatollah Entezami em conexão com o filme biográfico recentemente produzido " ... e o Céu Azul ", dirigido por Ghazaleh Soltani e produzido por Ghasem Gholipour, Agência de Notícias Mehr , 21 de novembro de 2010  (em persa).  Reportagem fotográfica da entrevista:  .

Mortos em 2018
Nascidos em 1924
Atores do Irão
Naturais de Teerã


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Donel Scott Bianchi, a Navy executive officer who lives at Moffett Field, will become the San Francisco Unified School District's first chief operating officer in January, the district announced Wednesday.
Bianchi will report to Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, but his salary -- more than $150,000 annually -- will be donated by an outside group of business people. Everybody involved in the rare arrangement promised Wednesday that the school district wouldn't be beholden to the donors who funded Bianchi's position.
"They were very clear," Bianchi said of the group that hired him. "They said my boss is the superintendent, and I work for the superintendent. I don't see anything awkward at all."
Bianchi, 50, lives near Mountain View and works as the chief executive officer for Naval Facilities Engineering Command Field Activity West. He began his career as a naval pilot and holds degrees in civil engineering, business management and environmental engineering. He is married and has three children.
The district also announced a new chief of facilities, David Goldin, 54, of Berkeley, who held the same position in Newark's school district. The architect and contractor has been responsible for the design and management of several construction projects in Bay Area school districts. He is married and has two children.
Two more administrators will be announced by the end of the year: a chief business officer and a chief budget officer. Those two posts -- as well as Goldin's position -- have been empty for a while, and money exists in the district's budget to pay for them, Ackerman said.
Bianchi's job, however, will be funded by the Business Advisory Committee, which was created by Ackerman in 2002. It consists of 15 to 20 people -- including financier Warren Hellman and Chamber of Commerce president Lee Blitch -- who meet monthly to discuss how to help schools.
The consulting firm McKinsey and Co. conducted a free management audit of the district earlier this year and found that Ackerman needed a No. 2 person to run day-to-day operations so she could focus on academics and curriculum.
The advisory committee offered in July to pay for the chief operating officer position. Eunice Azzani of the executive search firm Korn/Ferry International conducted a free national search, and Ackerman, Hellman and a few others winnowed the candidates.
Hellman said in July he and other donors would fund at least $150,000 annually in compensation, but Bianchi wouldn't disclose Wednesday the details of his salary and benefits. Hellman couldn't be reached for comment.
None of the new hires needs school board approval because they are civil service positions, meaning they don't have teacher or principal credentials from the state, according to Michele Modena, chief administrative officer for the district. Only credentialed hires need board approval, she said.
School board member Eric Mar said he was worried about the deal coming with strings attached, though it has the backing of a majority of the board's seven members. Mar said he would prefer that the school board have some input into the selection process.
"Public trust would be built much more strongly if we had board and community input," he said.
Blitch said he and other members of the committee have nothing to gain from the setup but a better school system for the city. "We're not looking for any business out of the school district," he said. "There's nothing for me to get out of this."
"I have been trying to do it all," she said later.


// The thrill of the chase. The adrenalin of the race. The satisfaction of a word well-written. Such are the emotions of my life right now.
What an incredible journey to be writing this book. What a privilege. What a thrill.
And what a terror at the same time.
Oh my goodness, people are going to read this? What will they say? What will they think?
Do you remember those nightmares as a child, just before a big presentation, when you dream that "It's Showtime!" and you show up without pants?
It's an incredibly vulnerable thing to share your passion with other people. Art is vulnerable. Writing is vulnerable.
Will I be enough to make this beautiful?
Will I be enough to make this powerful?
"And God is well able to lavish all His grace upon you, so that in every matter and in every way, YOU WILL HAVE ENOUGH OF EVERYTHING, and may be lavish in all your own good works" (2 Corinthians 9:8 NTE).
"I have made you ENOUGH.
Hey guys! The Launch Date is set… SATURDAY, MAY 6!
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Every Friday, I join an inspiring group of writers to write for FIVE MINUTES on a one-word prompt. No editing. No revising. Just WRITE. This week, the prompt word was ENOUGH.
He is more than enough! He is sufficient. Your neighbor #14 at Kate's.
Just the words I needed to hear today! Writing makes me vulnerable sometimes and gives me unwanted fears. But He is enough. Thanks for sharing from your heart.
Hugging the dog is always a good idea.
So I did, and at the same place…yep.
The third time was the charm, because I closed my eyes and put my hands down…and miraculously hit the right notes, and was able to finish.
I was later told that they thought I was doing a Victor Borge, and it was ALL intentional!
Thanks for stopping by, Andrew. You are always welcome!
Yay! just when I am deeply sinking in the "accuser's" accusations about that… and to having to repeatedly say it loud to myself and the devil that, "I AM ENOUGH." I am enough to be an awesome mother. I am enough to be a great wife. I am enough. Even in this season when I feel extremely inadequate, which makes me feel inferior and insecure, I am enough. It's not about the feeling, it's the TRUTH!
THANK YOU SHAUNA… your writing really helps me greatly, not to go down the spiral. Love you, & miss you.
I would love to have your book, so timely for this momma…Will you have it online? How can I order it?
Wow, my friend. That is such a precious compliment to me! Thank you.
Thanks for sharing that Scripture: it's so encouraging. And congratulations on your upcoming book. I don't think I have visited you on FMF but am glad to do so this week.
Congratulations on your upcoming book. I know you're excited and have faced many fears in the process. So thankful you've listened to the voice telling you He makes you enough. Yes!


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Q: Add each row from text file in separate textboxes in C# I have 30+ TextBoxes in my application and I would like to add, in order, each row of the text file in each textbox.
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (path1 != null && Directory.Exists(path1))
    {
        var lines = File.ReadAllLines(path1);
        foreach (var line in lines)
        {
            //what is here ?
        }
    }
}

So, if I have in my text file:
 - dog
 - computer
 - money
I would like to have in:

*

*textbox1 the first row (dog)

*textbox2 the second row (computer)

*textbox3 the third row (money)

Update: Added a list of TextBoxes. Now, how can I access one textbox at a time and use it in foreach ?
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    List<TextBox> textBoxes = new List<TextBox>();

    for (int i = 1; i <= 37; i++)
    {
        textBoxes.Add((TextBox)Controls.Find("textBox" + i, true)[0]);
    }

    if (path1 != null && Directory.Exists(path1))
    {
        var lines = File.ReadAllLines(path1);
        foreach (var line in lines)
        {
            //what is here ?
        }
    }
}

A: Convert the foreach to a for and use the index to access the current line as well as the designated textbox:
if (path1 != null && File.Exists(path1))
{
    var lines = File.ReadAllLines(path1);
    for (var lineIndex = 0; lineIndex < Math.Min(lines.Length, textBoxes.Count); lineIndex++)
    {
        textBoxes[lineIndex].Text = lines[lineIndex];
    }
}

A: If you want to use your foreach loop, try this:
var textBoxIndex = 0;
foreach (var line in lines)
{
   textBoxes[textBoxIndex++].Text = line;
}

A: here is my suggestion
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    string Path1 = "MyFile.txt";

    List<TextBox> textBoxes = new List<TextBox>();

    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        foreach (Control item in this.Controls)
        {
            if (item is TextBox)
            {
                textBoxes.Add((TextBox)item);
            }
        }

        string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(Path1);

        for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length; ++i)
        {
            textBoxes[i].Text = lines[i];
        }
    }
}

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