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Emily Capettini
Daphne Gets a Job Waiting Tables
Amateur detective invites too many questions in a town where gossip is prairie fire, so Daphne says no when asked if she has any prior work experience. Her interviewer, Cheryl, shrugs and hands her a schedule to fill out and a uniform.
"It's a bit retro," Cheryl says. "But that's what people like these days, I guess. You can keep your scarf if you want."
Daphne stumbles through the first day, head pounding as she unravels diner vernacular. The first week, she falls asleep on the sofa before she can untie her shoes.
On her fourth day of work, she drops a stack of plates, full moons waning across the floor. Danger-Prone Daphne howls in her ears. Daphne's face burns, even as coworkers stop to help her clean up. If there were a trap door or false wall in this diner, she would have found it. A canary underground, singing with lungs full of poison.
"Here." Cheryl hands Daphne a mug at the end of her shift. "Drink that. Don't ask what's in it."
The tea is honey-sweet with teeth, warming at the base of Daphne's throat.
"Everyone breaks some shit, especially during their first month. Everyone breaks shit, period. Depends on how you pick yourself back up after."
Daphne wants to laugh and tell Cheryl about the times she nearly didn't get back up, limb-curling forests and houses where dust lay thick as snow. Instead, she clenches her jaw and nods once, the shade of her old self flickering.
Daphne Has Written Velma Twenty-Eight Unfinished Letters
Dear Velma, how are you? We are fine. We're renting a house near campus and a cute retro diner.
Dear Velma, I hope you've survived midterms. Fred was so stressed, he snapped at me for reorganizing the cabinets.
Dear Velma, I got a job at that retro diner. Strange, isn't it, to suddenly have a full-time job and so empty of monsters?
Dear Velma, it is not so empty of monsters.
Dear Velma, do you ever lie awake at night, weariness like a wool blanket, liable to crackle and shock you when all you want is to shift positions?
Dear Velma, Fred says hello! He's reading over my shoulder as I write…
Dear Velma, I hope the spring has reached where you are. The amaryllis I put in a pot near our south-facing window has started to sprout. It will be nice to see some color in the world again.
Dear Velma, how did you learn to thrive so in loneliness?
Dear Velma, sometimes I dream I'm still pacing the halls of the Stillwell Mansion, except I'm the phantom. If you yank off my scarf, my head goes, too.
Dear Velma, F is gone so much these days—fraternity & coursework, he says, though he comes home smelling like that bar over on 6th and Maple.
Dear V, do you ever dream yourself into the past?
Dear V, I don't think I love F anymore, but is this because of him or because I love no one at all? They called you heartless at home, but I think I'm the one missing it.
Dear V, do you remember? Once when we were ten, we snuck into one of those model homes they had up before building the Riverbank Meadows subdivision and played house. You wanted to be the husband coming home from work and so I was the housewife. You'd taken a hat and coat from your dad's closet, to really sell the honey, I'm home, even kissed me, loud and wet on the cheek. I'd thought then that being a housewife wouldn't be so bad, but I hadn't realized you wouldn't be who I greeted at the door.
Dear V, I know you wanted to ask me to leave with you. I'm sorry, I was too
Dear V, I think I'm becoming a ghost. I watch my body take orders and smile. She's good at it.
Dear V, do you ever wonder what it must be like, to be that background character in a popular TV show? I think I am one.
Dear V, F has spent most Sundays hungover and miserable. It's only my biscuits and gravy that make him feel human again.
Dear V, I remember we left your dad's hat in the model home, and I promised you I'd go find it the next day. It was in one of the cabinets, somehow, maybe been stuffed there during a showing.
Dear V, Sundays are my only day off, and I'm still taking orders.
Dear V, what do you think the parameters of "incapable" are? Can a person accept help from others and stay under the limit? Are certain requests for help weighted more heavily incapable than others?
Dear V, do you think a privileged rich girl can learn to be on her own?
Dear V, some days Cheryl lets me whip up the wildest malt combinations I can think of and we sell them to brave customers for half price.
Dear V, we fight more, and he says I'm incapable of living on my own. He's not wrong. I can't afford rent by myself and don't know anyone else here.
Dear V, what would I even go to college for?
Dear V, some days I look at my front door and wait, breath between my teeth, for you to burst in, tell me honey, I've come to take you home.
Dear V, today I made a malt with pickle juice and we sold five times our normal amount, so the owner gave me a percentage of the profits. "You'd be good at this, long-term," he said. I know I should be flattered, but I went home and stood in the middle of the front room for an hour.
Dear V, do you think you have to die to be a ghost? Or is there a slow fade, too, when people begin to overlook you?
Dear V, I just realized, I never did give you that hat back.
Velma Decorates Her House for Halloween
They like her in this town, though she feels them looking for clues.
"Where are you from originally?" They've asked her close-lipped smiles, their frustration an oil slick. "Is it just you?"
She changes the subject, a long-time student in misdirection, and lets them murmur over the unknown of her, lets them gossip when they think she's out of earshot, "what does she have to hide?"
They wonder, too, about her house on Halloween. In late September, Velma spends two evenings winding ghosts in her trees like pear blossoms. Bats in the azalea bushes, a silhouette of a cat in her front window. She carves a cluster of pumpkins, places them at her front walk like heads on pikes. In the yard, she plants tombstones, lets a werewolf curl around her dahlias.
She leaves her porchlight off. They all come anyway, just to look at the house outfitted in the best decorations but where there is never any candy. Maybe one day, they'll realize she's left her résumé on the front lawn.
It takes hardly anything to keep something just for you, Velma discovered, once you have practiced, pried out the old veneer of Midwestern politeness burrowed deep in your heart. Once you have learned the secret to a good disguise is to wear your own face.
Emily Capettini is the author of Thistle (Omnidawn 2015) and is Assistant Editor with Sundress Publications. Her work has most recently appeared in Permafrost Magazine and Passages North. Originally from Batavia, IL, Emily is now Assistant Professor of English at Indiana State University where she teaches literature and creative writing. Find out more about her at emilycapettini.com
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Hamden Revives Biz-Boosting Effort
Erik Johnson: New Rules, facades on tap
Hamden plans to use a newly allocated $600,000 to seek to draw more businesses to town — and gain needed tax revenue — with the help of updated zoning regulations, blight reduction, and facade improvements.
Hamden's Legislative Council voted unanimously to fund that $600,000 initiative as part of a series of final line items in a broader now-completed $10,448,000 2021-22 capital budget.
The vote took place Monday night at the last meeting of the current Legislative Council (some of whose members will now be replaced by victors in the Nov. 2 general election).
Erik Johnson, Hamden's economic development director and acting town planner, pitched the $600,000 "Neighborhood Improvement Program" to the Council before Monday night's vote. He said the money will be used for acquiring and or demolishing blighted properties, assisting businesses and homeowners with making improvements necessary to lift all neighborhoods, and leveraging match dollars for participation in state, regional, and nonprofit efforts designed to improve community living spaces.
People from across the ideological spectrum have been calling for Hamden to increase its grand list as a cornerstone of efforts to tackle long-term town debt and high taxes.
The goal is not only to grow Hamden's grand list and increase revenue, but to recognize "the communal benefit associated with having a vibrant, small business community," Johnson said.
He specified that the fund will be broken into "three buckets": $225,000 for business activation and incentives, $225,000 for facade improvements and beautification, and $150,000 for consulting services to support the development of "a business pipeline."
The idea, Johnson said, is to generate "more opportunity to be successful in town, knowing that some of the spaces we have in town are older and have not necessarily been improved."
That first "bucket" includes money aimed at those budgeting to begin a business. Potential owners can apply for lease assistance or additional money to offset unexpected tenant improvement costs.
The second portion of the fund will aim to create new resources for businesses that "stuck it out," as Johnson said, through the pandemic. They can get grants to expand or beautify their businesses.
The last $150,000, Johnson said, could be spent contracting individuals to write legislation around cannabis businesses or review the town's zoning regulations in order to make it easier for diverse individuals to effectively establish the businesses they imagine in town. With the help of third party experts, Johnson said, projects that would take three or four years with the department's current staff size and capacity can be cut down to under 12 months.
Hamden's Legislative Council finalizing this year's capital plan over Zoom during their final meeting.
"So, if I wanted to open a restaurant, and I liked the location of something that had been a bank…" Council President Kathleen Schomaker began, offering an example of how the development dollars might be used. She asked whether the funds could be allocated towards removing a vault constructed within the building.
"It would be a cool restaurant" inside a vault, Johnson joked.
"The vault would have only the finest service," Schomaker quipped in return.
Johnson agreed that Schomaker's hypothetical example captured the intent of the money pot.
Councilman Justin Farmer piped in: "We'd be banking on the success of such an endeavor."
Johnson said that Hamden used to have a facade improvement program, as well as a microloan program. At some point the funding was not renewed. This broader neighborhood investment program will be paid like other capital projects through bonding.
In its pilot year, the program will offer money to between 25 and 40 businesses, Johnson estimated. Johnson said he plans to work with the mayor and the Economic Development Commission to determine which applications are chosen on a first-come first-served basis.
Johnson, who is six months into his new Hamden position, said that the neighborhood investment capital project will be paired with core programs currently evolving within the town's economic development department. For example, he plans to establish a tax assessment deferral program similar to that of New Haven's, in which the town will freeze a business' assessment of its current value while the owners make physical improvements to their space, then phase in the new tax cost over five to seven years.
By developing a process by which businesses apply for capital improvements, Johnson said, the town will also consolidate current bureaucratic challenges faced by business owners. Johnson plans to merge building, engineering, and planning and zoning departments onto Viewpoint software to facilitate intradepartmental communication over one platform.
That would allow an individual applying for a facade grant to use the same portal to get information about zoning variance requirements rather than having to go into town and walk between offices.
In line with the theme of "neighborhood investment," the public works department was also promised an additional $125,000 on Monday to renovate Hamden's public parks as part of the new capital budget. That includes $50,000 to fix paving on the southern end of the canal trail, $25,000 for replacing playground equipment, like broken swings in Bassett and Denicola parks, $25,000 for new fencing, and $25,000 for "unforeseen items that may come up moving forward."
At Monday's meeting, Council member Dominique Baez pointed to turf sinkholes and broken plexiglass at the Keefe Community Center's playground as well as exposed wires in Villano Park as potential priorities for that last $25,000.
Other final capital projects approved in the last round of review included $175,000 for IT infrastructure upgrades like server replacement, $95,000 to purchase new copiers in government buildings, and $15,000 to buy Bluebeam software in order to facilitate intradepartmental building reviews.
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Which actor does Rod Stewart want to play him in a biopic?
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Thanks to the success of musical biopics like Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody, there's been speculation about future biopics based on the lives of every other legendary British rock star. Rod Stewart says he's all for it, and he even has some ideas about who should play him.
During a recent interview on BBC Radio 2, it was suggested to Rod that Welsh actor Rhys Ifans would be a good choice.
"Yeah, that would be a very good idea," Rod agreed regardin the actor, who's appeared in movies like Notting Hill, The Amazing Spider-Man and Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, and in TV shows like Elementary and Berlin Station.
But, Rod noted, "He's gotta do something with his [hair]" — to match the singer's famous rooster 'do, natch.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer had another casting suggestion, too.
"[My son] Alastair has offered to play me when I was 14. There's a remarkable similarity," Rod said, but added, "If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. I'd be flattered if it did. I'll tell you what, the Freddie Mercury one was so good. It was rock 'n' roll. It'd be hard to get something better than that but I'll give it a shot."
During the interview, Rod also revealed that he's been quarantining at his U.K. mansion with his wife Penny, his youngest sons Alastair and Aiden, plus Liam and Renee, his older son and daughter with his ex-wife Rachel Hunter. "We haven't spent that much time together in so long," said Rod.
Stewart reported that he's also working on music, and working out constantly. "I don't think I've ever been as fit as I am now, 'cause I've got nothing else to do!" the 75-year-old joked.


Howdy fellow Doomies! Far before Pine Box Entertainment, members of the community have discussed ways in which players could be notified of local gatherings and events. While initial plans for a website to develop an event calendar are still being discussed, we wanted to start taking measures to try and find ways in which players can reach out to others locally in their area, as well as post whenever traveling to find if there's a meetup for any casual games or tournaments. The following is a list of regional Facebook groups we've asked the community to help compile. Please respond with your group, or any you are aware of, to help us improve the list, and thus the community!
Thanks guys and keep em coming! The list will be sorted and placed under the Resources tab on the PBE website.
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A couple more to add!
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Dr. Noor Aldeen Atatreh, Al Falah University's Chancellor met with Muna Bu-Samra, Al Bayan Newspaper's Editor in Chief to discuss AFU's aim of improving and developing the university's educational outputs. Prof. Abdelhafid Belarbi, AFU President, and Taleb Shaheen, Editor Manager of Local Affairs also attended the meeting.
Ms. Bu-Samra welcomed the delegation and raised the need to develop a mutually beneficial partnership with leading educational institutions in the UAE and to contribute with the transformation taking place in the Emirate in terms of rapid growth not only in the education sector but also in information and technology. She also added the necessity of training capable media professionals to further develop UAE's media sector.
Dr. Atatreh, on the other hand, stated that it is one of AFU's goals to form a strong partnership with media organizations in UAE particularly with Al Bayan Newspaper as a major media station in Dubai to assist students from College of Mass Communication in applying theoretical knowledge to practical application.
Towards the end of the meeting, Dr. Atatreh presented the university's shied and logo to Ms. Muna Bu-Samra in honor of the efforts made to serve the Emirate of Dubai and its media sector.


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Where Does the Money Go in the 2019 Cary Bonds?
September 12, 2019 /2 Comments/in Community, Downtown, Elections, Featured, Government, Parks, Transportation /by Michael Papich
Cary, NC – Citizens packed the Cary Theater to hear Town Manager Sean Stegall talk about the proposed Cary bonds and what they will finance, from the Downtown Cary Park to multiple road widenings to preserving open space in town.
The presentation on Cary's 2019 bond referendum took place Tuesday, September 10, 2019. While Stegall led the presentation, state law prevents him from explicitly advocating for people to vote for the bond in the 2019 election.
"I'm not advocating, but you may notice I lean a certain way," Stegall said.
The bonds are for $112 million for the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources department and $113 million for the Transportation department. And unlike with most bonds, because of Cary's growth bringing in increased tax revenue already, as well as existing financial management in town, Stegall said taxes will not need to be raised in the coming years if this bond passes.
"It's money we don't need right now," Stegall said. "We'll only ask for it when we need it."
Before Stegall talked about the specifics of what this money will fund, he compared Cary to an aging body that now needs more upkeep than before, which means spending more money.
"It took a lot of effort to make Cary Cary. It's going to take even more to remain Cary," he said. "If we don't reinvest in Cary, there will be a result: a less prosperous community."
For all the prices listed in the presentation, Stegall said they are about 80 percent accurate projections, but the terms of the bonds means they can not spend more than what they are listing.
For all of the projects funded by the bond referendum, Stegall said they will have their own individual bonds, each with their own terms.
The transportation portion of the bond funds three road widenings, on Green Level Church Road, O'Kelly Chapel Road and Carpenter Fire Station Road, costing $15.5 million, $9.2 million and $4 million respectively.
The largest single project funded by the transportation bond is $21 million for road infrastructure in the coming Fenton development. There is also $23 million for various state Department of Transportation roads, to bring them up to "the Cary standard" as Stegall described it.
Additionally, there is $14 million for road improvements around Cary, including intersections, $5 million for parking structures in Downtown Cary and $5 million to repair sidewalks, including on Louis Stephens Road and Cary Parkway.
"When we think of sidewalks, we think of someone in a wheelchair," he said. "For them, that is not a sidewalk, it's a lifeline."
During the question period, nearly all questions were about transportation projects. Multiple people asked Stegall about funding for bike lanes and bike-friendly projects. Audience members noted that while cyclists are heavily featured in marketing for the bonds, as well as the referendum's logo, there are no bike projects listed as part of the bonds.
Stegall said cycling imagery is "aspirational" and the town's goal is to make roads more bicycle-friendly, but this will require a lot of retrofitting and will take a long time.
"Important things are not done quickly," he said.
Stegall also said this is a product of cyclists not being a priority for engineers or engineering schools in decades past, but it is a more important piece nowadays.
Stegall was asked about the older neighborhoods that have no sidewalks. Like when Stegall said it now costs more to maintain Cary, the standards and quality of sidewalks now mean that it takes longer and costs more. But, Cary has recently changed the way it funds sidewalk maintenance versus building new sidewalks so Stegall said this should result in more sidewalks in the future.
The design for the Downtown Cary Park Phase II
Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources
The biggest single project with these bonds is $50 million for the Downtown Cary Park. Stegall said that price comes from the kind of park Cary residents said they wanted in their feedback, and admitted that the town was leaning toward an $80 million design.
The park is important not just as an economic driver for Cary's downtown, Stegall said, but because to outsiders, it will represent all of Cary.
"When you think of a city, unless you know people who live there, you think of their downtown and that's where you go to visit," he said. "We're going to be judged by the quality of our downtown."
The bond also funds $20 million in setting land aside for open space, though Stegall noted that more open space in a town means things get more expensive overall.
Other large price tags in the bond are $8.9 million for Carpenter Fire Station Park and $6.1 million for McCrimmon Park in West Cary, as well as $10 million for the not-yet-designed Tryon Road Park. Tryon Road Park is one example of why there are no timelines attached to many of these projects yet – many are several years in the future and whether or not the bond passes will also be a deciding factor.
"I don't want to say we wouldn't go ahead with the Downtown Park if the bond didn't pass, but we would certainly take a pause," he said. "We're not taking it for granted that the bond will pass."
The bond would also fund historic site preservation, improvements at Cary's tennis parks, skateboard park and greenways and it would create more programming at Veterans Freedom Park.
Election Day in Cary is Tuesday, October 8, 2019. Early voting starts on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 and the deadline to register to vote is Friday, September 13, 2019.
Story by Michael Papich. Photos by the Town of Cary and Hal Goodtree.
Tags: cary parks, Community, downtown, Downtown Cary, elections, Government, parks, recreation, Transportation
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George Jones says:
If there was an analysis of where the tax dollars are collected and where they are spent, I think we would find that our downtown has benefited by a disproportionate amount. I live near the downtown, so not complaining, but also recognize that I have benefited. Flip side, if the downtown were allowed to fall into further disrepair, Cary as a whole would eventually suffer.
Cathy Roposh says:
I have lived in Cary since 1977 and watched Cary spend money like the Cary Tennis Park which is near Green Hope High School to practice on. It is a shame that Cary High has to use Dunham Park, , the closest Tennis Courts to them. The problem I see at that park , the courts are so old they the cracks leek water and there are only 5 courts to play . This slows on the playing time when Dunham and other schools come to Cary's home courts. Cary should be ashamed of themselves for forgetting about our
original park near downtown Cary and the Cary High School and other tennis clubs that use it. I paid taxes since 1977,
but the money goes to all the new areas.
We need money here too.
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Vietnamese pilot killed in UK mid-air collision
A Vietnamese pilot was killed in a mid-air crash between his helicopter and an aircraft in the United Kingdom on November 17.
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The scene of the collision (Photo: The Guardian)
Hanoi (VNA) - A Vietnamese pilot was killed in a mid-air crash between his helicopter and an aircraft in the United Kingdom on November 17.
According to the Vietnamese Defence Ministry and the Helicopter Services Company at the Wycombe Air Park in Buckinghamshire, where the collision occurred, Captain Nguyen Thanh Trung was taking an advanced helicopter training session on a CabriG2.
He was in the student's seat and his mentor was on the pilot's seat.
Contact with the helicopter was lost 15 minutes after it took off.
The Helicopter Services Company said that the helicopter was hit in the rear by a light two-seat aircraft Cessna, which was also on a training session, at the height of 1,000 feet or about 330m.
The mid-air collision killed all four people on the helicopter and the aircraft, according to UK media reports.
The crash is being investigated. -VNA
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Da Lat receives ASEAN Clean Tourist City award
Da Lat city, Lam Dong province, was honoured with the "ASEAN Clean Tourist City Award 2022" at the ASEAN Tourism Forum in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
2023 a promising year for tourism: official
Nearly 19,500 surgeries performed during seven-day Tet holiday
Hospitals across Vietnam conducted 19,435 surgeries during the seven-day Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, up 11.4% from the same period last year, reported the Health Ministry's Department of Medical Service Administration.
HCM City to pilot issuance of electronic civil status records
Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Justice has proposed the Ministry of Justice pilot the issuance of electronic civil status records instead of a paper version as part of efforts to enhance satisfaction with civil status registration.
Paris peace accords brings spring of freedom to nation: former Deputy PM
The signing of the Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, had brought a special spring to the northern region, when for the first time in the resistance war there was no air-raid siren and no evacuation, former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan told Vietnam News Agency during a recent interview on the occasion of the agreement's 50th signing anniversary.
PM inspects construction of Ring Road No.4 in Hanoi capital region
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh inspected the construction work of Ring Road No.4 in the Hanoi Capital Region on January 27.
Traffic accidents fall during Tet holiday
As many as 152 traffic accidents occurred in the country during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, from January 20 to January 26, a year-on-year decrease of 12 cases, according to the Ministry of Transport.


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Q: Three column layout, column width based on content, last column takes available space Trying to achieve something that I thought should be quite simple in HTML/CSS, although keep running into walls to get the layout as desired.
Essentially, I have three parts of content to put into a three column layout and I would like it to appear as a continuous sentence with an image in the middle. The text lengths and image sizes will vary and my goal is to make the width of the first two columns based on their content, then the last column to take the space left so the text will break.
Below is a diagram to show an example layout.

And an example of how each part should respond with different sized images:
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Like so:

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*Short text (column width based on text length)

*Landscape or Portrait Image (image size set in CSS, column width based on image width)

*Longer text (column width fills available space left from first two columns)

Here is my fiddle and code:
https://jsfiddle.net/2020_RG/a10k5tf7/
HTML:

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            This section will only have text and fill available space left by previous text length and image width.  Positioned aligned to bottom of image, regardless of image height. All lines overflow and break like this when the text is long.

CSS:
    #container {
        width: 97%;
        margin: 1rem 1.4rem;
    }

    .part_one {
      vertical-align: top;
    }

    .part_two {
      margin: 0.3vw 0.2vw 0 0.1vw;
    }

    .part_two img {
      max-width: 46%;
    }

    .comma {
        margin: 0 0.4vw;
    }

It would appear that the last column doesn't break as desired and instead runs onto the next line below the image.
Perhaps grouping this into a column or table is best, although how to keep the third column width taking the available space and be positioned off the image... some genius flex system?

A: CSS-Grid can do that. [View full screen]
Of course this is not responsive as the image width is auto and so does not adjust to screen size (unless you want to, which is another issue).

#container {
  width: 97%;
  margin: 1rem auto;
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: max-content auto 1fr;
}

.part_one {
  vertical-align: top;
}

.part_two {
  margin: 0.3vw 0.2vw 0 0.1vw;
}

.part_two img {
}

.part_three {
  grid-row: 2;
  grid-column: 3;
}

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        This section will only have text and fill available space left by previous text length and image width.  Positioned aligned to bottom of image, regardless of image height. All lines overflow and break like this when the text is long.

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<?php
namespace test\cms;

use \test\helpers\PHPUnitUtil as Utility;

/**
 * @coversDefaultClass \cms\SpamCheckActionTrait
 */
class SpamCheckActionTraitTest extends \test\helpers\cases\Base
{
    protected $configMock;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        $configInterface = '\rakelley\jhframe\interfaces\services\IConfig';
        $testedTrait = '\cms\SpamCheckActionTrait';

        $this->configMock = $this->getMock($configInterface);

        $this->testObj = $this->getMockForTrait($testedTrait);
        $this->testObj->method('getConfig')
                      ->willReturn($this->configMock);
    }

    public function validationCaseProvider()
    {
        return [
            [//passes and returns
                'foo,bar,baz',
                'foo',
                true,
                true
            ],
            [//passes no return
                'foo,bar,baz',
                'foo',
                false,
                true
            ],
            [//fails and returns
                'foo,bar,baz',
                'lorem',
                true,
                false
            ],
            [//passes and throws
                'foo,bar,baz',
                'lorem',
                false,
                false
            ],
        ];
    }

    /**
     * @covers ::validateSpamCheck
     * @dataProvider validationCaseProvider
     */
    public function testValidateSpamCheck($valid, $input, $return, $success)
    {
        $this->configMock->method('Get')
                         ->with($this->identicalTo('SECRETS'),
                                $this->identicalTo('HUMANVERIFY'))
                         ->willReturn($valid);

        if ($return) {
            $this->assertEquals(
                $success,
                Utility::callMethod($this->testObj, 'validateSpamCheck',
                                    [$input, $return])
            );
        } else {
            if (!$success) {
                $this->setExpectedException('\rakelley\jhframe\classes\InputException');
            }
            Utility::callMethod($this->testObj, 'validateSpamCheck',
                                    [$input, $return]);
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: Find closest value in a list over 360 degrees I have a long list of numbers that contains measured angles. The basic idea is that it looks something like this:
var list = new List<double>() {352.9, 354.9, 356.9, 359, 1, 3.1, 5.9};

I am looking for a way to obtain the nearest upper and lower value when I specify some value x. So for example if x = 354.6, I want the upper value to be x_up = 354.9 and the lower value to be x_low = 352.9. I though about using this method, but it does not taking into account that circle angles follow a modulo system.
When x = 0.2, I want x_up = 1 and x_low = 359.
Any ideas on how I can implement this?

A: Please, note that floating point types (double, float) support remainder operation %; so you can put it as
  using System.Linq;

  ...

  List<double> list = new() {
    352.9, 354.9, 356.9, 359, 1, 3.1, 5.9
  };

  double x = 0.2;

  // 359
  var x_low = list.MaxBy(item => ((item - x) % 360 + 360) % 360);
  // 1
  var x_up = list.MinBy(item => ((item - x) % 360 + 360) % 360);

Edit: If you can't use MaxBy you can put good old foreach loop:
float x_low = -1;
float x_up = -1;
float x_max = -1;
float x_min = -1;

foreach (var item in list) {
  var value = ((item - x) % 360 + 360) % 360;

  if (x_up < 0 || value < x_min) {
    x_min = value;
    x_up = item;
  }

  if (x_low < 0 || value > x_max) {
    x_max = value;
    x_low = item;
  }
}

A: I would highly recommend creating a Angle-type rather than using float/double to represent angles. This saves so much confusion when reading code since you do not have to worry about if it is in degrees or radians, and gives a nice way to gather various angle-related functionality. Make it a readonly struct reduce the overhead to nearly nothing.
This should allow you to make a function to normalize the angles:
private readonly double radians;
public Angle Normalized180_180{
  get{
     var Pi2 = PI * 2;
     var rad = radians;
     rad = (((rad % Pi2) + Pi2) % 360) - 180;
     return new Angle(rad);
  }
}

This should give you a angle guaranteed to be in the -180 to 180 interval, but you could adjust the code to use whatever interval you prefer.
Then you can take the difference, (overload operators to make this simple), normalize, and select the smallest negative and smallest positive value:
var nextSmallest = myAngles.MinBy(a => {
    var diff = (targetAngle - a).Normalized180_180.Radians;
    if(diff < 0)   return double.MaxValue;
    return diff;
};

Another approach would be to normalize and sort your values, and use BinarySearch to find the position of your target value in the list, but you need to fiddle around with the returned value to get the position, and probably also some separate checks to handle edge cases, like the beginning and end of the list.


I don't know if i am seeing things, but when the Hashrate of ASICMINER dropped on BTCGuild from 3.5TH/s to around 3TH/s the Hashrate of the top OZCoin miners went up.
Could it be, that they are hashing there without telling?
It was announced by friedcat yesterday that other pools will be used once they make 'corresponding adaptions to very large workloads in the next week'.
Its possible because friedcat claimed they tested at other pools but the results were too bad.
20 more blocks and we are #1 on btcguild.
Amazing isnt it? Diff is so going to sky rocket in the coming weeks to a month or two.
And yet strangely enough it still looks like 27ish Th, and has been for what, three months now?
There are four lucky addresses.
I'm just going by the value reported on bitcoincharts. It's been something like 25-30 Th since at the very least November. Why so hostile?
the value reported on bitcoincharts. It's been something like 25-30 Th since at the very least November. Why so hostile?
Yup. Whether you look at the 3- or 7- or 14-day average, we clearly went from 21-22 to 30+ THash/s in 1.5 months. Hardly unchanging, but clearly a nice +50% mining increase.
Avalon previously said that they were assembling around 12 units a day.
I took a look at the homepage of avalon and they claim that their units have 0.065TH. When they complete 12 units a day they have a speed of 0.78TH per day. That seems to be more than the 0.2TH Asicminer can create. And i dont have clue whats the hindrance here. I really would prefer to have more infos.
Are they sitting around with a soldering bolt and put the asicchips at a PCB or what is the time-eater? It really is worrying me now a bit that we dont have 12TH online but 4.2TH only. After weeks. I think even if friedcat would hire real professionals to do that task and they come at friedcats place it would be way way more effective because the income would be way more than the salary.
I really see a problem here. Please friedcat think about a solution, maybe hire some guys that can help because when the 50TH are coming the speed now is used wouldnt work.
I dont want to put pressure on you friedcat to work more, because it looks you guys are working hard anyway. I only want that you guys think about a solution to make this all faster. And hiring-costs wouldnt be the biggest factor to take into account.
I agree, more people needed to get full benefits.
I hope friedcat will see it the correct way. The way i see friedcat till now he is a kind person with ideals and he really wants to create a good shareholder experience. But persons like that are at risk of becoming a workaholic. When i read they work day and night, often without sleep, i think its not too far fetched. And if one is in this wheel you want to do everything alone, dont want to delegate. Even though the results wouldnt be the best seen from the outside and the person doing the work is bringing the own health in danger.
Im not sure if something like that is involved but i hope friedcat and team can see the things rational and can come to the best decision.
But i would like to know anyway what exactly they are doing and what it is that is eating the time. Then one can think about a solution.
2. Temps are more likely to break extremely valuable components.
4. Training temps and ramping them up takes time.
1. Short contracts tend to be more expensive for the reason you stated, quality of them is just as subjective as long term contracts.
3. We don't know if he did scout, which is just as good as not, since there was no implication of speed up, in fact there was of slow down.
4. We are talking about 2-3man job adding 1(2?) hands, which is 25-50% speed increase, the ramp up is minimal considering an estimated 200day deployment based on historical data.
I hope friedcat will see it the correct way. The way i see friedcat till now he is a kind person with ideals and he really wants to create a good shareholder experience. But persons like that are at risk of becoming a workaholic.
Please keep the psychoanalysis to yourself. Everything in this regard is far fetched anyway.
Until now we have seen nothing but professional conduct from friedcat.
However, the rate of deployment is a good question. I expect friedcat to address this issue sooner than later, since everybody is aware that the rate of deployment is a critical component in the growth potential of the company.
Why do you think a shareholder of a company cant ask what its going on or suggest solutions? In fact i think shareholders are in some kind part of a company so that they should try to make things better.
And im very sure that friedcat is able to find help that is able to be a help instead making things worse.
Maybe youre right and my "analysis" was far fetched. But with the current information politics there is not much place than guessing. So when i see the speed of work together with their claims that they work day and night what should i think? In February (only 4 days left) the 50TH will come in and from the first 12TH are a bit more than one third online. That doesnt look to me like they found the time to overthink their workflow when they all work day and night. So maybe im wrong but i see a problem that has to be solved. And i wont excuse for trying to do this with the little bit of info i have.
With this speed and the given difficulty ,it's very easy to calculate we're mining about 633BTC/day.
Since this equals about $19k/day, getting another 4.6TH/s up a week earlier than predicted for example, will simply give $133k more profit.
I think it's not a bad idea to invest in some more hands because we probably only have a few weeks where we can get BIGG profits. If all the other ASIC's are coming online it will be much more difficult to get such a big part of the pie.
But I'm sure Friedcat and the others have considered this so there probably is a reason why they didn't.


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Q: Difference between Different Notations of 2-d Vector? I am playing around with vectors and stumbled upon different types of 2-d vectors.Can someone please point out key differences between these vector declarations.
Which of them are actually 2-d vector -
//c++ format
//All libraries preincluded
 1) std::vector <int,int> v1;
 2) std::vector <pair<int,int>> v2;
 3) std::vector <int> v(10);
 4) struct node{
       int a,b;
     }
     std::vector<node> v4;
 5) std::vector< vector<int> > v5;

A: The answer is none of the above.
There is no such thing as a 2D vector. All vectors are 1D, but may contain objects that lend the appearance of additional dimensions.
Consider option 5. This is a vector which contains other vectors and certainly can look 2D when used. The outer vector supplies one dimension and the contained vectors supply the other. But it isn't a 2D vector. It is a vector of vectors.
std::vector <int,int> v1;

Invalid syntax. This specifies the allocator to be of type int and probably results in several pages of bizarro error messages.
std::vector <pair<int,int>> v2;

Will provide an N x 2 matrix, but accessing the pairs is cumbersome v2[n].first? Yuck.
std::vector <int> v(10);

This is a 1D vector, but it could be treated as a 5x2 matrix if you are willing to do the math yourself: v[row*2+column]
struct node{
   int a,b;
 }
 std::vector<node> v4;

Almost identical to option 2. v4[n].a is not bad, but could be better.
std::vector< vector<int> > v5;

Covered above. This has merit, but allows non-rectangular shape and has horrible cache performance because each of the many vectors is it's own beast with it's own memory and that memory may be scattered throughout storage. Read up on spatial locality to see why this is bad.
I pitch option 6
std::vector<int[2]> v6;

This is all contiguous storage and looks like an N x 2 matrix: v6[row][column].

A:
std::vector<int,int> v1

This is illegal syntax, a std::vector holds only a single type of data - the second template argument can be used for a custom allocator object.

std::vector<std::pair<int,int>> v2

This declares a std::vector which holds objects of type std::pair<int,int> such that each element of the vector holds two integers in a pair construct.

std::vector<int> v(10)

Constructs a std::vector of int types with 10 default-inserted instances of int.

std::vector<node> v4

Declares a std::vector holding objects of type node where node is defined in your question. Each node has two public int fields so acts in a similar way to std::vector<std::pair<int,int>>.

std::vector< std::vector<int> > v5

This declares a std::vector of std::vector<int> objects such that v5 is a "2d vector" (I use that term loosely, technically it's not really 2d) - i.e. each element of v5 contains a std::vector<int> object.

A: *

*illegal?

*N by 2 vectors

*1D vector (reserve space for 10 elements)

*N by 2 vectors

*vector of vectors. Can be N by M, or even in irregular shape.

2) 4) 5) access cells differently. Assume that you want to access cell at row x, column y:

*

*2) y==0: v2[x].first; y==1 v2[x].second

*4) y==0: v4[x].a; y==1 v4[x].b

*5) v5[x][y]


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Harvey Kurtzman And The Search For Truth
John R. Parker
Born October 3, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, Harvey Kurtzman might be the single most influential cartoonist of all time.
As the editor of Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat for EC Comics, Kurtzman created an entirely new kind of war comic that is still considered the gold standard today; as the creator and driving force behind Mad, he introduced his own brand of satire into the American lexicon. In an expansive family tree of truth-seekers that includes artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, and comedians, Harvey Kurtzman is the root.
Through the early 1940s, Harvey Kurtzman published comics and cartoons in dribs and drabs. At New York's High School of Music & Art --- which Kurtzman attended with future collaborators Al Feldstein, Will Elder, Al Jaffee, and more --- a teacher connected him Louis Ferstadt, a cartoonist, muralist, and American Communist who contributed to The Daily Worker, the newspaper that Kurtzman was essentially raised on.
As part of the Ferstadt studio, Kurtzman was just another cog in the assembly line, producing "house style" pages for several publishers before being drafted in 1943.
Harvey Kurtzman
While in the army, Kurtzman illustrated posters, instructional materials (much like his hero Will Eisner), and cartoons for camp publications and Yank, the weekly magazine for enlisted men. Though Kurtzman never saw combat, his years in the military and the possibility of joining the theater of war seemed to leave an impression on the young artist.
After his discharge, Kurtzman made his first big creative stride on Hey Look, a series of one-page filler gags for Timely Comics editor Stan Lee. Although Kurtzman later looked back on this work with derision, through over 150 Hey Look strips one can see the master artist developing his offbeat humor and minimalist style, and refining his approach toward layouts and visual rhythms. And it was through Hey Look that Kurtzman landed his next, and biggest gig.
When Kurtzman stepped into the offices of EC, he did so during a period of transition, as Bill Gaines had taken over for his deceased father Max, renamed the company Entertainment Comics, and took his first steps toward the "New Trend" comics that would make the publisher infamous.
Although Bill Gaines had no immediate need for Kurtzman, he was so impressed with his Hey Look samples that he hired him so nobody else would, assigning him to Lucky Fights It Through, a giveaway educational story about, of all things, cowboys and venereal disease.
After contributing art to a few New Trend crime and horror stories, Kurtzman pitched Gaines an adventure comic called Two-Fisted Tales. Although the series began with broad adventure tales of every kind, as hostilities in Korea escalated from police action to war, Kurtzman focused the book on tales unlike any other in American comics: realistic war stories.
Prior to Two-Fisted Tales, American war comics were simple, jingoistic, and sensationalist. Enemies of all races and nationalities were painted as wretched and subhuman; all Americans were righteous, justified, and uniformly heroic; all conflicts black-and-white. Kurtzman, however, injected the genre with a sense of humanism and realism that immediately made Two-Fisted Tales stand out from the pack.
The rising interest in war stories and the success of the first title led to a companion series, Frontline Combat. As the editor for each series, Kurtzman not only wrote every story, he provided detailed layouts to which he expected his artists to strictly adhere, and never deviate from his voice.
Meticulously researched by Kurtzman and assistant editor Jerry DeFuccio (whose research included a ride on a submarine), Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat told war stories throughout history and from every point of view: Americans and Koreans, Spaniards and Amazonians, the victors and the vanquished.
There were no heroes or villains, only those who fought, lived, and died, and Kurtzman's comics paid them all respect by refusing to paint warfare in simple terms. Kurtzman was devoted to truth, and the truth is that war is Hell.
Kurtzman's commitment to honesty again worked its way into his next major project, albeit in an entirely different manner. After arguing with Gaines over the difference in pay between Kurtzman and Feldstein, Gaines suggested that Kurtzman begin a humor series in the same vein as Hey Look.
The result was Mad, again written and laid out entirely by Kurtzman, with finished art by several EC staffers, but most prominently Jack Davis, Will Elder, and Wally Wood. Although it struggled at first, Mad quickly found its voice with biting parodies of comics, movies, television shows, and pop culture figures that revealed the artifice and hypocrisy of postwar America.
Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
For its first twenty-three issues in comic book form, Kurtzman and his collaborators offered a steady stream of irreverent, unpredictable humor that extended even to the formal content of the periodical: aping advertising styles, copying the looks of other magazines, and even intentionally printing upside-down.
The level of satire in the first stage of Mad ranges from pointless fun to barbed social critique that skewered commercialism, mass media, segregation, and inauthenticity throughout American popular culture.
Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood
Soon, Mad became the most successful title in the EC Comics stable, essentially supporting the company after the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency killed most of the publisher's titles. After the end of the Korean War in 1953, interest in Kurtzman's war comics had dwindled until both were canceled, and he threw himself entirely into Mad.
With the twenty-fourth issue, the book transitioned to a double-sized, slick magazine format, and by the time Kurtzman departed in 1956 it was one of the most popular and influential humor magazines in the country.
After Mad, Kurtzman continued to make vibrant work for decades. He took several more swings at humor magazines --- the short-lived Trump for Hugh Hefner; the even shorter-lived, self-financed Humbug; and Help, for Warren Publishing, which lasted the first half of the '60s --- and published the likes of R. Crumb, Terry Gilliam, and Gilbert Shelton. Other standouts among his post-Mad work include The Jungle Book, The Grasshopper And The Ant, and over twenty years of gorgeous and raunchy Little Annie Fanny strips with Will Elder for Playboy.
Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis
But Kurtzman's legacy in comics was firmly established by 1956. If he had never produced another page after Two-Fisted Tales, Frontline Combat, and Mad, his legacy as America's leading cartoonist would still be intact. Actually, even if Mad was all he ever did, his legacy might still be unquestionable.
In less than a decade Kurtzman shifted several paradigms. Changing the way war comics were viewed was a major victory, but it was just the first big step in the career of a man who altered the look and voice of American humor.
Because he always attempted to represent the truth, he achieved something remarkable, and by the time he passed away in 1993, entire generations of subversives owe him a debt of gratitude that they will never be able to repay.
Next: Celebrating The Mad Vision Of William M. Gaines
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Client/ Server technology is a means for separating the functions of an application into two or more distinct parts. Client/ server describes the relationship between two computer programs in which one program, the client, makes a service request from another program, the server, which fulfills the request. The client presents and manipulates data on the desktop computer. The server acts like a mainframe to store and retrieve protected data. It is network architecture in which each computer or process on the network is either a client or a server. Servers are powerful computers or processes dedicated to managing disk drives (file servers), printers (print servers), or network traffic (network servers). Clients are PCs or workstations on which users run applications. Clients rely on servers for resources, such as files, devices, and even processing power.
A server (or "back end") manages the resources such as database, efficiently and optimally among various clients that simultaneously request the server for the same resources. Database server mainly concentrates on the following tasks.
Managing a single database of information among many concurrent users.
Controlling database access and other security requirements.
Protecting database of information with backup and recovery features.
Centrally enforcing global data integrity rules across all client applications.
The third component of a client/ server system is network. The communication software is the vehicles that transmit data between the clients and the server in client server system. Both the client and the server run communication software that allows them to talk across the network.
Client – Server technology is also called 3-tier technology as illustrated in Figure .
Client/server is an important idea in a network, however, it can be used by programs within a single computer. In a network, the client/ server model provides a convenient way to interconnect programs that are distributed efficiently across different locations. Computer transactions using the client/ server model are very common. For example, to check your bank account from your computer, a client program in your computer forwards your request to a server program at the bank. That program may in turn forward the request to its own client program that sends a request to a database server at another bank computer to retrieve your account balance.
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Why is the Holy Father bringing him to our attention right now?
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Today, during a Mass with seminarians at the cathedral of Santa María la Real de La Almudena in Madrid, Pope Benedict announced that he will soon declare St. John of Avila a Doctor of the Church. The Holy Father said:
In making this announcement here, I would hope that the word and the example of this outstanding pastor will enlighten all priests and those who look forward to the day of their priestly ordination.
I invite everyone to look to Saint John of Avila and I commend to his intercession the Bishops of Spain and those of the whole world, as well as all priests and seminarians. As they persevere in the same faith which he taught, may they model their hearts on that of Jesus Christ the good shepherd, to whom be glory and honor for ever.
As Rocco Palmo points out, John of Avila will be the first saint to receive the title "Doctor of the Church" since Pope John Paul II bestowed it upon St. Therese of Lisieux in 1997. The formal announcement from Pope Benedict will mean that two of the last four Doctors – that is, John and Teresa of Avila, who received the title in 1970 – will have been Spanish saints.
But who exactly is this newest Doctor of the Church? And is there a reason the Pope is focusing the faithful's attention on this saint right now?
The Catholic Encyclopedia has an overview of his life, written before his canonization in 1970 by Pope Paul VI.
A more in-depth look at the saint's life and work – and some hints as to why the Holy Father may be directing our attention toward him at this point in time – can be found in this article by Sr. Joan Gormley, originally published in 2004 in Homiletic & Pastoral Review.
Among other things, Gormley points out that John of Avila pushed vigorously for ecclesiastical and priestly reforms, starting with the screening process for candidates to the priesthood and including the quality of education given to those candidates. He also was an influential figure at the Council of Trent, and one of the architects of the seminary system for the formation and education of priests.
Gormley offers some details about St. John's program for reform, as well as the saint's vision for a stronger ecclesiastical and priestly culture, at a time when it had fallen into corruption and widespread disgrace:
For John of Avila, renewal of the priesthood demanded that the reality of the mystery of the priest's conformity to Christ as the Good Shepherd and the High Priest had to be acknowledged and acted upon in the choice and formation of men for such an exalted office. The Pope and the Bishops responsible for choosing and preparing men for the priesthood had to make certain that they ordained only men worthy of handling the Eucharistic Body of the Lord and his Mystical Body, the Church. The holiness of the Church depended on the holiness of priests and without the latter the renewal of the Church could not be accomplished, even if here and there, saints would rise up.
[John] insisted that holiness of life is inherently necessary for the holy state of the priesthood and that anyone who does not possess the spiritual and intellectual capacity for this exalted state should be excluded from entering. He insisted that, before ordination, candidates undergo a rigorous program of spiritual and intellectual formation in accord with the Gospel and the Church's teaching, and that they continue to grow in these areas after ordination. Any review of the formation and education of priests today can only profit from being so strongly reminded of the nature of the priesthood and the indispensable role of the priest in the sanctification and salvation of the members of the Church.
For more on John of Avila's life and work, check out the full article here.
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F. The seller must ensure that each block trade is reported to the Exchange within five minutes of the time of execution; except that block trades in interest rate futures and options executed outside of Regular Trading Hours (7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Central Time, Monday – Friday on regular business days) and Housing and Weather futures and options must be reported within fifteen minutes of the time of execution. The report must include the contract, contract month, price, quantity of the transaction, the respective clearing members, the time of execution, and, for options, strike price, put or call and expiration month. The Exchange shall promptly publish such information separately from the reports of transactions in the regular market.
Pursuant to an offer of settlement in which ICAP Securities Limited ("ICAP"), neither admitted nor denied the Rule violation upon which the penalty is based and after voluntarily submitting itself to the jurisdiction of the Exchange for purposes of resolving the matter, on August 22, 2013, a Panel of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Business Conduct Committee ("Panel") found that on November 16, 2011, ICAP executed a 1,500 lot block trade in the June/September/December 2012 Eurodollar Option spread contract, and did not report the trade to the Exchange within five minutes of the time of execution, instead reporting the trade three minutes outside of the required period. The Panel concluded that ICAP thereby violated (Legacy) CME Rule 526.F.
In accordance with the settlement offer, the Panel fined ICAP $10,000.


CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. - March 15, 2011 - MSI Computer Corp., a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, today announced that it is now shipping its first wave of PCs powered by AMD's Accelerated Processing Unit: the 15.6-inch CR650 notebook computer and the 20-inch 16:9 widescreen Wind Top AE2050 All-in-One PC.
The MSI CR650 notebook delivers a superior multimedia experience in a small form factor with the newest generation AMD Dual Core Processor E-350 with AMD Radeon™ HD 6310 Discrete-Class graphics chip which supports Microsoft® DirectX® 11 for enhanced performance. The CR650 extends the life of each battery charge with MSI's Turbo Battery+ power-saving technology and offers shortcuts for shutting off the screen to extend standby time, giving you up to 6 hours of power on the go. The CR650 also comes with high quality, theater-class wrap around stereo courtesy of SRS PC Sound™.
•	HDMI out: To watch HD films on a screen larger than a computer, the CR650's HDMI slot lets you connect to LCD TVs of any size.
•	Genuine 720p high-definition (HD) video: Enjoy a truly clear and smooth video and picture quality without jerkiness. In addition, the Built in 720P HD Webcam can be used with all kinds of social networking media, allowing optimum high-quality video communication.
•	Cinema Pro: The MSI CR650 laptop comes equipped with MSI's own Cinema Pro technology to maximize its graphics performance. Depress the Cinema Pro hot key to switch to video mode for higher resolution and richer colors for a viewing experience so enjoyable that you'll find it hard to tear yourself away.
"AMD's newest generation platform is helping revolutionize MSI's product portfolio," noted Andy Tung, vice president of sales for MSI US. "Our customers want entertainment on the go, as well as products that are sensitive to power consumption, and the new VISION Technology from AMD gives us the ability to deliver cutting edge products at an appealing price point."
The AE2050 All-in-One PC is also equipped with the AMD Dual Core Processor E-350 with AMD Radeon HD 6310 Discrete-Class Graphics, to provide high quality HD images and audio effects, whether watching online streaming video, playing online games or sharing photos.
•	High power efficiency: MSI's application of the latest AMD Fusion platform delivers incredibly low level power consumption - only 65 watts per hour - without compromising performance. Compared with traditional desktop PCs, the Wind Top AE2050 is able to save nearly 74% in energy, thus significantly reducing power consumption and CO2 emissions. The Wind Top AE2050 is certified with the most stringent environmental standards, including Energy Star 5.0 and the European Union EuP specifications for energy consumption.
•	Faster gadget charging and file transfers via USB 3.0: MSI's Super Charger technology allows you to charge a device even when the computer is turned off, and it reduces charging time by 40 percent. Two high speed USB 3.0 ports provide a transfer rate that is up to 5Gbps and ten times faster than USB 2.0, which means a 4.8G HD movie can be transferred in approximately 14 seconds.
•	Advanced HD imaging: Whether watching video, playing games, or sharing photos, the sharp HD images and audio effects on the Wind Top AE2050's 16:9 cinematic wide-screen display deliver a brilliant experience. Furthermore, with the AMD Accelerated Processing Unit supporting Microsoft DirectX 11, now you can enjoy your games with more life-like details and enhanced graphics performance.
•	Exclusive multi-touch software: The fourth generation of MSI Wind Touch offers a friendly and intuitive user interface that makes it easy to check the weather, world clocks, browse photo albums, and record video messages without the use of a mouse or keyboard.


Listening to Wagner's music inspired Bruckner, then a church musician in a provincial monastery, to start writing symphonies, although ironically, Wagner himself only completed one symphony in his lifetime.
Bruckner's fame, on the other hand, largely rests on his symphonies, and under the direction of Dutch-Maltese conductor Lawrence Renes, the MPO will be performing his fourth, the only one to which he attached a title.
The orchestra will also be joined by British soprano Emma Bell for a performance of Wagner's Wesendonck lieder, a musical setting of five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, a friend – and possible lover – of the German composer.


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Doug Ose out of the running for California governor
by Ben Christopher February 26, 2018 Updated June 23, 2020
It wasn't meant to be for Doug Ose. This morning, the former Republican congressman announced that he won't be running for the governor of California after all.
GOP candidates for governor debate in San Francisco. From left: businessman John Cox, former Rep. Doug Ose and Assemblyman Travis Allen.
It wasn't meant to be for Doug Ose.
This morning, the former Republican congressman announced that he won't be running for the governor of California after all.
Since announcing his run last month, Ose failed to gain traction in the campaign. He was not invited to participate in a number of gubernatorial debates in Los Angeles and San Francisco. In a recent public opinion poll, only 3 percent of likely voters expressed interest in voting for him.
"The reality is there is little appetite among the donor community for doing this," Ose told Dan Morain of CALmatters. "When people who write $20,000 checks start writing you $1,000 checks, they're telling you something."
The announcement should come as good news to the remaining Republican gubernatorial candidates, Travis Allen and John Cox. Ose's late entry into the race provoked some angst among GOP political observers who worried that a third Republican would split California's conservative vote in the primaries, allowing two Democrats to advance to the general election in November.
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I recently treated myself to CHANEL's 2012 summer collection nail color, Holiday (#617).
I tend to gravitate to Corals and Coral-Reds in the summer, and this one is beautiful. Only CHANEL could manage to create a truly unique Orange-Coral in a sea of the Orange/Tangerine shades that dominates in almost every nail line this season.
The main point of difference is that this shade is a true, shiny Orange but without any pink undertones. It's an orange with just a splash of dark orange/red. One coat goes on slightly sheer but still very pretty, and two give that beautiful true orange which is great on toes especially.
I just started following you on Twitter and your perfect description of this nail polish colour made me run and buy it today. I am typing this comment as my nails are drying and... This is the exact shade of orange/tangerine I was looking for: absolutely sophisticated! Thank you for this!


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HomeViews provides you with information on prime residential real estate properties in the Palos Verdes Peninsula area of the South Bay in California. The four cities which comprise the Palos Verdes Peninsula are Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, and Rolling Hills Estates. We also feature listings for International Properties and Ranches in the Western United States and properties in neighboring communities of Long Beach and San Pedro, as well as the Palm Springs communities.
The oldest city is Palos Verdes Estates which was founded in 1939 and which spans the coast line from San Pedro on the South to Redondo Beach on the North.
The private ranch city of Rolling Hills was founded in 1957. Rolling Hills is a private gated community with only about 800 houses, each situated on approximately 1 acre or larger parcels. There are 3 entry gates to the City.
Rolling Hills Estates is a city with about 4,000 houses and a population of around 8,000 people. It was founded in 1957 and features a lovely blend of ranch homes interspersed among a rural environment with white fences with riding trails and lush shady pepper trees. An example home can be seen at 17 Seahurst Road.
Rancho Palos Verdes is the newest city on "the Hill" and was founded in 1978 and comprises most of the area not within the other 3 cities and has a broad array of housing including which range from some of the most exquisite homes in PVP to lovely apartments.
Only a very small area in the Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Westfield has remained an isolated island of unincorporated Los Angeles County land.
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The Palos Verdes Peninsula is 15 miles south of the Los Angeles Airport and about 24 miles south from downtown Los Angeles, CA. It is one of the few areas within Los Angeles County which has preserved a uniquely gentle and rural atmosphere with spacious houses set on large lots with view of the city vista, ocean, and surrounding rolling hills. One of the most spectacular views is known as the Queen's Necklace from Palos Verdes Estates which comprises the coast from Redondo Beach up through Santa Monica and out to Malibu.
The Peninsula is sometimes referred to as "the Hill" by local residents. It is the highest point of the southern Los Angeles basin known as the "South Bay" and from the city side of the Hill the downtown Los Angeles skyline is visible and the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island can be seen on the other side. Palos Verdes real estate has become one of the most choice - and expensive - in all of Los Angeles County with some property pricess exceeding $10,000,000 for a home and very few homes available for less than $1,000,000. The average price of a home on the Hill is $1,600,000 in 2005.
The ocean city along the coast with unmatched vistas of the Pacific is Palos Verdes Estates. Many homes there are reminiscent of the French Riviera or Mediteranean Spain complete with white walls and red tile roofs. Along Paseo Del Mar, the street closest to the Ocean are the some of the most magnificent mansions to be found anywhere on the Pacific Coast. Palos Verdes Estates has also been referred to by some as "Beverly Hills By The Sea."
For a true rural ranch atmosphere the ideal city is Rolling Hills which is a fully gated incorporated city with vast expanses of secluded and private lush rolling green hills reminiscent of the way California used to be in the days of the Spanish Land Grants. Rolling Hills Estates has a similar flavor but is an open city with wide thoroughfares and riding trails set with lovely ranch style homes with large lots and plentiful trees. Rancho Palos Verdes offers a mix of both rural and ocean views and is the largest city on the Hill.
The weather on the Palos Verdes Peninsula is among the most moderate and ideal to be found anywhere in the world and very similar to the French Riviera. Temperatures average 70 degrees throughout the year with cool westerly sea breezes which keep the air on the entire Palos Verdes Peninsula which juts out into the ocean among the cleanest and freshest in all of Los Angeles County. Some fog comes in but mostly during June and July with the rest of the year being usually clear and delightful.
There are 2 private and 2 public golf courses on the Hill. The oldest private club is the Palos Verdes Country Club located in Palos Verdes Estates, CA. The other private country club is the Rolling Hills Country Club located in Rolling Hills Estates, CA. The 2 publicly accessible golf courses located in Rancho Palos Verdes are the Los Verdes Golf Course located at 7000 W Los Verdes Dr, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 and the Ocean Trails Golf Club located at One Ocean Trails Dr, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275.
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Manchin Mans Up
Nick Baumann
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, the most popular politician (and Democrat) in the state, is running for Senate, he announced Tuesday. He hopes to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd. Manchin is popular enough that he has a decent shot at winning the seat, even in a Republican year. West Virginia Republicans were able to add a provision to the special election law that would allow current officeholders—like Rep. Shelly Moore-Capito, the GOP's top candidate—to run for their current office and the Senate seat simultaneously. Capito is the most prominent Republican in West Virginia, but even she trails Manchin in the polls—by fourteen points, according to Republican-leaning Rasmussen.
About That "Dems Must Win West Virginia" Argument…
West Virginia's Mountain (Party) Mama
David Case


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Success Stories	Energy Admin	2016-09-05T08:07:16+00:00
'Andy' came to us in a desperate state and did not know who to turn to or what to do. A local man who had worked for most of his adult life but in poorly paid areas of work lost his job, through no fault of his own. With the loss of his employment, his landlord signalled that he would not be happy having somebody on benefits in his property, so now unemployed and homeless. His initial assessment visit made it apparent that already severe problems could be made worse without help and a possible spiral into mental health issues was highly likely.
We offered Andy accommodation; helped to sort out short-term benefits as he had never claimed Income Support in his life and set about building up his confidence through encouragement to help with voluntary activities and become fully involved in the communal events available within the Trust. We also helped with his CV and in an excellent example of joint working, Social Security got him a place on a work-scheme. His hard work; determination and obvious ability led to the offer of a permanent post once the scheme had come to an end
Andy remained with us until he had built up sufficient funds for a deposit on his own accommodation and left us to continue his life independently as a proud, contributive member of society in his own accommodation and working hard at a job he enjoys.
Desperate Straits
A man literally turned up at the door of Sanctuary House one day in January in desperate straits. He initially presented with a major gambling addiction and serious economic problems. Born in the UK, we had to prove his entitlement to benefits and his right to residency, which we were able to do, working with Social Security in an excellent example of beneficial joint working. The impact of gambling on his life was immense; loss of employment due to theft; breakdown of his relationship and a loss of contact with his daughter, combined with large and mounting debts. He presented as a fairly desperate person, anxious to seek help and knowing he had to turn his life around.
He immediately started to go to Gambler's Anonymous meetings and got himself barred from book-maker's shops. He then started to tackle his debt head-on, including negotiations with the Viscount's Department, with our help. And whilst doing all this he became an active and willing volunteer – whether at church events, the weekly soup kitchen or for others in the house. He was praised widely for his attitude, commitment and generosity of spirit. In May he moved to Sanctuary Lodge and during this whole time he applied for jobs endlessly, attended interviews and doing the most he could do to find employment and coping with the setbacks and knock-downs along the way. He also re-established regular contact with his daughter and been able to 'make peace' with his estranged partner.
He has now moved into his own accommodation and found full-time and meaningful employment whilst also pursuing voluntary opportunities as a means of wishing to 'give back'. We continue to offer outreach support to ensure the progress continues and we will be with him through till he no longer needs our help.
Complex Multi-issues
'K' was a very reluctant referral; a man not wanting or knowing how to express that he needed help or even how to open up. He was also an intensely proud man who had always paid his way in the world, worked hard and had a mature understanding of his role in and responsibilities to society. A long-term UK born Jersey resident, he was in his mid-late forties when he first sought help.
'K' was almost classically a victim of the economic downturn and with that one major problem came a raft of other issues that led him to crisis point. The loss of his job placed a strain on an already volatile relationship; that in turn led 'K' to start drinking heavily and with that came low-level mental health problems, depression and a heightened level of anxiety. When it all became too much, he was hospitalised and this is where Sanctuary Trust came in.
We first met 'K' whilst he was in hospital an the first task was to make him see that he deserved help and support and that there was nothing wrong or abnormal in how he was feeling or what he was going through. He took a place, reluctantly, at St. Aubin and so began the work of helping him regain strength, renew, heal and feel strong enough to face the world again. The heightened anxiety diminished and with that the level of support from external services also reduced. 'K' started to engage with us and the other men; willingly becoming involved in voluntary activities and actually started helping us with his practical skills – he had a life-time experience of the building trade. Whilst doing very practical voluntary work, a chance encounter led to some occasional and casual paid work. 'K' soon moved to our Beaumont property and from there things happened rapidly. He started working full-time and his energy, skill and obvious ability allowed him to pursue his own sub-contracting work.
After a year, 'K' left us but we maintained contact, until gradually he felt he no longer needed that support. He is now a highly successful and sought-after builder, with work literally stacked up, he has been able to offer work in varying degrees to other men living with Sanctuary and also finds time to help others in need with practical support or advice. He has recently been to see us and he is very clear in his message: Sanctuary Trust literally saved him and gave him the chance to enjoy the life he is now able to lead. Job done!
In and Out of Prison
A man in his early 30s with a history of petty crime and trouble with the police and a history of being in and out of prison and almost a 'classic' example of the stereotypical 'broken' home. This man came to Sanctuary House late in 2013, having slept rough or on friends' couches etc.
Shortly after moving to Sanctuary House, his mother passed away further compounding existing issues in his life. Initially he was difficult to engage with or motivate and began to have issues in the house. A series of prolonged absences from the house, without prior agreement put his place in danger. In a superb case of joint working, with his Social Security employment advisor, we were able to get him on courses and motivated sufficiently to get a place, for a limited period, on a job scheme. This proved so successful he was given a position within TTS as cover for sick leave for six months, paid at 'going rate', and with the understanding that a permanent post may be available at the end of this period. Motivated and almost a changed man in terms of his outlook, he enjoyed the work and the camaraderie and clearly approaching life with a renewed assurance.
He moved to Sanctuary Lodge and although his contract came to an end, the experience of work and all that brings means he remained motivated to find permanent work and ultimately, his own accommodation.


ComfortDelGro taxi drivers have been slapped with a new levy structure to encourage them to accept bookings.
In a letter to taxi drivers, ComfortDelGro, said that it loses "thousands of bookings" every day because drivers don't accept them.
The company will launch a new fee system where it takes a 3.9 percent levy for each booking that costs over S$12 and no levy for bookings under S$12.
These levies are charged only for rides booked through ComfortDelGro's phone and mobile app booking systems.
Taxi drivers will receive weekly incentives for taking on more bookings.
Taxi drivers currently pay 30 cents per fare for off-peak bookings, and 40 cents per fare for peak-hour bookings, while advance bookings carry a S$1 levy.
ComfortDelGro says it hopes the new levy system will encourage taxi drivers to take on more bookings through the booking system.
However, taxi drivers have been very vocal with their displeasure.
Some have even called for a petition against the new levy scheme.
Others, after doing the sums, say that the difference isn't much per job but cumulatively can take a large chunk out of drivers' earnings.