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This month, DC Comics will launch Dark Knight III: The Master Race, the third entry in author-artist Frank Miller's subversive take on Batman, the popular crime-fighting superhero. To promote the eight-part saga, DC will release the first issue under 47 variant covers, each by a different artist, and each available exclusively in a single city. Canada's lone Dark Knight variant cover features artwork by Francis Manapul. Manapul, who lives in Toronto, has drawn interiors and covers for many comics, and is best known for his work on Top Cow's Witchblade and Necromancer series. He has worked solely for DC since 2007, where currently he scripts and draws Detective Comics, the series that debuted the Batman character in 1939.
Variant editions of comic books – the same comic available with multiple different covers, some with lower print runs than others – have been making a comeback in recent years. They peaked during the "speculator boom" of the 1990s, which began, in part, thanks to the success of Miller's original 1986 Dark Knight series. Comic publishers oversaturated the market with variant covers and other gimmicks, which collectors bought in multiples, convinced the books would rise in value. When the market's bubble eventually burst, two-thirds of independent comic stores closed and publishing giant Marvel – home of Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the X-Men – filed for bankruptcy. Many once-valuable comics from this era are worthless today.
Miller's acclaimed Batman: The Dark Knight Returns took place in a dystopian future, where Gotham City's rising crime rate convinces a middle-aged Bruce Wayne to again don Batman's cowl after a decade in retirement. Its gritty storyline and high production values ushered in a new era of darker, more adult-oriented storytelling in comics. A poorly received sequel, The Dark Knight Strikes Again, followed in 2001. A fourth instalment has already been announced.
The first issue of The Master Race will appear on stands Nov. 25. Manapul's variant cover version will be available exclusively at the Silver Snail in Toronto.
Update: Manapul will be signing the comic at the Silver Snail on Nov. 28 from 1–3 p.m., and 5–7 p.m.
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Everyone knows who Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was...yes, the creator of the super sleuth Sherlock Holmes. And he was an exceptional writer of adventure and science fiction too. But Doyle was also a part of popular spiritualism of the era and succumbed to the pseudo authenticity of the Cottington Fairies.
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Arthur Conon Doyle not only accepted these photos as genuine, he even wrote two pamphlets and a book attesting the genuineness of these photos, and including much additional fairy lore. His book, The Coming of the Fairies, is still in print, and some people still believe the photos are authentic. Doyle's books make very interesting reading even today. Doyle's belief in spiritualism, convinced many people that the creator of Sherlock Holmes was not as bright as his fictional creation.
Some thought Conan Doyle crazy, but he defended the reality of fairies with all the evidence he could gather. He counters the arguments of the disbelievers eloquently and at great length. In fact, his evidence and arguments sound surprisingly similar in every respect to those of present-day books touting the idea that alien beings visit us in UFOs.
Some background...
"Modern" spiritualism began in the United States in the mid 19th century. Specifically, it arose in Western New York state, a region known to social historians for the religious fervor which made it a spawning ground for many religious sects. They refer to it as the "infected district" or the "burned over district." Spiritualism was born in the fertile religious fervor of immigrant Swedenborgians, Mesmerists, and other religions, a climate of thought receptive to spiritualist ideas.
Mainstream religions promised eternal life, but in an era of emerging science which demanded verifiable physical evidence, many religious persons wished for tangible evidence of the claims of relgion, particularly of claims of an afterlife.
Such apparent evidence appeared in Hydesville, New York, in 1848, in a modest frame house which had a reputation of being haunted. Here occured the event which launched the movement known as "modern spiritualism" to distinguish it from earlier historical beliefs about an afterlife.
The Fox family had three teenage daughters who claimed to hear strange rapping noises at night. The girls thought a ghost might be producing the noises, so they tried to respond by clapping their hands. They soon evolved a code for communicating with the ghost of a peddler who had long ago visited the house and had been murdered there. A skeleton later found in the basement seemed to confirm this. Naturally this attracted much local attention.
The Fox girls were instant celebrities. They demonstrated their communication with the spirit by using taps and knocks, automatic writing, and later even voice communication, as the spirit took control of one of the girls.
Soon others, now known as mediums, imitated this and began communicating with the dead, charging for their services, or accepting donations. Seances were conducted in dark or semi-dark rooms with participants seated around a table. Sometimes the table would lean and tilt, participants (sitters) might feel a cold breeze on their faces, fresh flowers (even out of season) sometimes materialized out of thin air and appeared upon the table. Musical instruments played mysteriously. The medium sometimes spoke, under control of a spirit, relaying meassages from the dear departed. Other methods of spirit communication included writing on sealed slates, impressing images onto photographic plates which had been kept in sealed enclosures, and painted images which gradually appeared upon previously blank canvas.
Skeptics suspected this was nothing but clever deception and fraud. Nonetheless, belief in the ability to communicate with the dead grew rapidly, becoming an organized religion called Spiritualism. Spiritualism flourished well into the 20th century, and still exists today.
Suspicions that the seance-room phenomena were fraudulent were reinforced when Margaret Fox confessed to deception. On October 21, 1888, Margaret appeared before an audience of 2000 to demonstrate how she had fraudulently produced the spirit raps. In her stocking feet, on a small pine platform six inches above the floor, Margaret produced raps audible throughout the theater by cracking her toe-joints! Doctors from the audience came on stage to verify the source of the sound.
Margaret confessed that she and her sister used this and other methods to produce the raps. Sometimes they used an apple on a string, bouncing it on the floor out of sight behind the furniture. Her confession showed that the entire spiritualism movement was founded on fraudulent events.
Margaret's revelations outraged Spiritualists. They simply refused to accept the validity of her confession. Henry J. Newton, president of The First Spiritual Society of New York said:
The idea of claiming that unseen "rappings" can be produced with joints of the feet! If she says this, even with regard to her own manifestations, she lies! I and many other men of truth and position have witnessed the manifestations of herself and her sisters many times under circumstances in which it was absolutely impossible for there to have been the least fraud.
Margaret wrote a signed story that appeared in The New York World, Oct. 21, 1888. She said:
Spiritualism is a fraud and a deception. It is a branch of legerdemain, but it has to be closely studied to gain perfection.
One of those who would not accept Margaret's confession was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the fictional Sherlock Holmes and a convinced believer in spiritualism. He responded:
Nothing that she could say in that regard would in the least change my opinion, nor would it that of any one else who had become profoundly convinced that there is an occult influence connecting us with an invisible world.
The magician Harry Houdini, a showman continually alert to opportunities for self-promotion, publicly exposed mediumistic trickery in his stage shows and wrote pamphlets opposing fraudulent mediums. In spite of this, some spiritualists claimed that Houdini had genuine spiritualistic powers, refusing to accept Houdini's own statements that only deception was involved in his performances.
Arthur Conan Doyle devoted a whole chapter of his book The Edge of the Unknown to a detailed argument that Houdini had genuine psychic power, but wouldn't admit it. Curiously, Doyle and Houdini remained friends for a long while, in spite of public clashes over spiritualism. Perhaps they shared an appreciation of the value of public self-promotion. Eventually Houdini became outraged as a result of a seance in which Mrs. Doyle claimed to have communicated with Houdini's mother, and the details she reported were obviously wrong.
Doyle was a credulous dupe for various kinds of nonsense. He not only believed in spiritualism and all of the phenomena of the seance room, but he also believed in fairies.
In 1917, two teenage girls in Yorkshire produced photographs they had taken of fairies in their garden. Elsie Wright (age 16) and her cousin Frances Griffiths (age 10) used a simple camera and were said to be lacking any knowledge of photography or photographic trickery.
Frances and the Fairies, July 1917, taken by Elsie. Midg Quarter camera at 4 feet, 1/50 sec., sunny day.
Taken in July, showed Frances in the garden with a waterfall in the backround and a bush in the foreground. Four fairies are dancing upon the bush. Three have wings and one is playing a long flute-like instrument. Frances is not looking at the fairies just in front of her, but seems to be posing for the camera. Though the waterfall is blurred, indicating a slow shutter speed, the fairies, are not blurred, even though leaping in the air.
Taken in September, showed Elsie sitting on the lawn reaching out her hand to a friendly gnome (about a foot high, with wings) who is stepping forward onto the hem of her wide skirt.
"Francis and the Leaping Fairy" showed a slightly blurred profile of Frances with the winged fairy suspended in mid-air just in front of her nose. The background and the fairy are not blurred.
A fairy hovering in mid-air offering a flower to Elsie.
"Fairies and their Sunbath" is the only one that looks as if it could have been an accidental or deliberate double exposure.
Over the years the mystery persisted. Only a few die-hards now believe the photos were of real fairies, but the mystery of the details of how (and why) they were made continued to fascinate serious students of hoaxes, frauds and deceptions. When the girls (as adults) were interviewed, their responses were evasive. In a BBC broadcast interview in 1975 Elsie said: "I've told you that they're photographs of figments of our imagination and that's what I'm sticking to."
In 1977 Fred Gettings stumbled on important evidence while working on a study of early nineteenth-century book illustrations. He found drawings by Claude A. Shepperson in a 1915 children's book which the girls could easily have posessed, and which were, without a doubt, the models for the fairies which appeared in the photos.
Illustration for Alfred Noyes' poem "A Spell for a Fairy" in Princess Mary's Gift Book by Claude Shepperson. (Hodder and Stoughton, no date, c. 1914, p. 101ff). Compare the poses of these figures with those of three of the fairies in Photo No. 1. The figures have been rearranged and details of dress have been altered, but the origin of the poses is unmistakable.
A curious fact is that in this book, a compilation of short stories and poems for children by various authors, there's a story, "Bimbashi Joyce" by Arthur Conan Doyle! Surely he received a copy from the publisher. If Doyle had noticed this picture, and if he had the sort of perceptiveness he attributed to Sherlock Holmes, he might have concluded that the Cottingley photographs were fakes. But, maybe not. Believers are good at seeing what they believe, and not seing things that challenge their beliefs. Or perhaps the close match of drawing and photos is a supernatural psychic coincidence.
Elsie and Frances and Mr. Hodson were still living in 1977, and continued to stick to their story, affirming the genuineness of the fairies and the photos. Then, in 1982 the girls admitted, in interviews with Joe Cooper, that they had faked the first four of the photos.
As many had suspected all along, the girls had used paper cutouts of fairy drawings. No great photographic skills were required, though the photos do show good artistic composition. Elsie had artistic skill, and had even worked for a few months in a photographer's shop retouching photographs. But the girls probably did no retouching on these photos. The simplest of means, just cut-out drawings of fairies stuck on the shrubbery, was all that was required to dupe gullible and predisposed minds like those of Arthur Conan Doyle, Geoffrey Hodson, and Edward Gardner. Many of the copies of these photos which have been circulated have been suspected of having been "improved" by retouching. This certainly may be true of the photos being prepared for publication in books, the desire being for the clearest possible result on the printed page. However, those who say the pictures are "too good" to have been taken by teenage amateur photographers, are showing an unwarranted prejudice, not consistent with the facts revealed by analysis of the original photos. Some have claimed to see a slight "blurring" of the fairy images, when, in fact, the fairies are more sharply defined than the girl's images.
On the matter of Conan Doyle's gullibility, Gilbert Chesterton said...it has long seemed to me that Sir Arthur's mentality is much more that of Watson than it is of Holmes.
1. Doyle, Arthur Conan. "Fairies Phtoographed. An Epoch-Making Event." The Strand Magazine, Dec. 1920.
2. "Fairies Photographed: Report by E. L. Gardner," The Strand Magazine, Dec. 1920.
3. Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Coming of the Fairies. 1921. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1928. Reprint paperback from Samuel Weiser, Inc., 734 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003.
4. Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Edge of the Unknown. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Chapter 1 "The Riddle of Houdini" gives Doyle's opinion that Houdini was the greatest medium-baiter, and also the greatest physical medium, of modern times. The remainder of the book recounts stories of hauntings, ghosts, and apparently supernatural events.
5. Gardner, Edward L. Fairies, The Cottingley Photographs and their Sequel. The Theosophical Publishing House Ltd. 1945. Still in print in 1974.
6. Gettings, Fred. Arthur Rackham. Studio Vista, p. 84.
7. Gettings, Fred. Ghosts in Photographs. Optimum Publishing Company Limited, 1978. p. 67-72. This book has a good account of the Cottingley fairy photos, with pictures. Gettings discovered that the Shepperson drawings were the source used by the girls.
8. Randi, James. Flim-Flam! The Truth About Unicorns, Parapsychology, and Other Delusions. Lippincott & Crowell, 1980. Chapter 1, "Fairies at the Foot of the Garden" is one of the best accounts of this whole affair.
9. "Photographing the Fairies," Daily Sketch, Dec. 23, 1920.
10. Cooper, Joe. The Case of the Cottingley Fairies. Robert Hale, 1990.
11. Cooper, Joe. "Cottingley: At Last the Truth." The Unexplained, No. 117, pp. 2338-40, 1982. E-text copy.
12. "Fairies: Fun or Fake?" Fate, Feb. 1977.
13. Steve Szilagi. Photographing Fairies (A novel.)
14. Scheaffer, Robert. "Do Fairies Exist?" The Zetetic (The Skeptical Inquirer), 2, 1. (Fall/Winter 1977) p. 45-52. Compares the Cottingley fairy case to reports of UFO sightings. Reprinted in Paranormal Borderlands of Science, Kendrick Frazier, ed. Prometheus Books, 1981, p. 68-75.
15. New Scientist, 79, p. 1115. "Fairy photos."
16. Huntington, Tom. "The Man Who Believed in Fairies", Smithsonian, September 1997, p. 105-114.
17. Hitchens, Christopher. "Fairy Tales Can Come True", Vanity Fair, October 1997, p. 204-210.
18. Parascope has a short account of the Cottingley Fairies.
19. Arthur Conan Doyle fools magicians with dinosaur film.
20. Houdini page from the Library of Congress.
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Q: SQLITE IMPORTING PROBLEMS I was importing a sqlite3 file with electron and come up with this problem
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A: make sure it's the right path. or try path.join(__dirname, '/database.sqlite')

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What is DLT – Distributed Ledger Technology?
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is the decentralized way of storing data. A distributed database, (secure and encrypted), unmodifiable, that uses a peer to peer network and is managed within the Internet.
Likewise, it is called distributed accounting or general ledger; because there all the transactions of the crypto currencies are stored and are recorded as in an accounting ledger; therefore, it can be audited.


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Listen: Austria Election: Sebastian Kurz Poised To Regain Power
"Chancellor Sebastian cursed poised for a return to power after his conservative people's party won a snap election Sunday Mr could said he trying to form a government that works for Austria the shape of the next coalition is by no means clear Mister Kurtz could try to renew his alliance with the freedom posse but often the big losses for the far right that could be unstable another option for Mr Kutz could be a PAC to the resurgent greens possibly with the support from the liberal nanos which would be a first in Austria. coalition negotiations are expected to be long and complicated. elections when call the following the collapse of his government with the far right Freedom Party in may coaches party was expected to get thirty seven point one percent of the vote in parliamentary elections a gain of five point seven percent compared with two thousand"
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Chancellor Sebastian cursed poised for a return to power after his conservative people's party won a snap election Sunday Mr could said he trying to form a government that works for Austria the shape of the next coalition is by no means clear Mister Kurtz could try to renew his alliance with the freedom posse but often the big losses for the far right that could be unstable another option for Mr Kutz could be a PAC to the resurgent greens possibly with the support from the liberal nanos which would be a first in Austria. coalition negotiations are expected to be long and complicated. elections when call the following the collapse of his government with the far right Freedom Party in may coaches party was expected to get thirty seven point one percent of the vote in parliamentary elections a gain of five point seven percent compared with two thousand


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UN: Rohingya Refugee Girls Sold into Forced Labour in Bangladesh
TEHRAN (FNA)- Rohingya refugee girls are being sold into forced labour to raise money for desperate families in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh, according to the United Nations' migration agency.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it had identified 99 cases of human trafficking during the year since September 2017, although it cautioned that the actual number was likely far greater, Al-Jazeera reported.
Of the victims, 35 were girls and 31 were women, the IOM added in a report this week. Thirty-one of the girls ended up in forced labour as did 26 of the women.
"The stories we commonly hear are of vulnerable people being approached by traffickers with false promises of work and a better life," IOM Spokeswoman Dina Parmer said, adding some refugees were unaware of the risks.
"Others may be aware it is dangerous, but feel their situation is so desperate that they are willing to take extreme measures, perhaps sacrificing one family member for the sake of the rest of the family," she stated in a statement.
The rest of the trafficking survivors comprised of 25 adult men and eight boys who were forced into labour. Five women and four girls ended up in situations of sexual exploitation.
The Bangladeshi charity Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) is raising awareness among refugees of the dangers of trafficking, and has been collecting reports from Rohingya community leaders, as well as local and international groups.
"More than 1,000 have been identified as victims of human trafficking," Jishu Barua of the YPSA said.
More than 900,000 Rohingya, an ethnic and religious Muslim minority in Myanmar, live in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, the vast majority in camps, according to the UN.
About 700,000 of them arrived in Bangladesh last year following a bloody military offensive launched by the Myanmar army.
The UN, the US and human rights groups have said civilians were targeted in the crackdown. In a report released last month, the UN fact-finding mission said that Myanmar's top generals - including Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing - must be investigated and prosecuted for genocide in Rakhine. Myanmar has denied most of the allegations.
Bangladesh bars refugees from leaving the camps, or holding jobs other than participating in small-scale cash-for-work programmes run by humanitarian agencies, IOM noted.
"They are desperate to get out of the camps to make some money," Barua told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Cox's Bazar.
Traffickers prey on that desperation, offering transportation and work opportunities, according to IOM.
Among the cases IOM documented, one woman was forced to work "extremely long hours for very little pay in the fish processing industry", while girls and young women were used as domestic maids.


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model tracker Oct. 20, 2010
Meet the New Girl: Arizona Muse Recommends You Don't Take Anything Personally
By James Lim
In the handful of newcomers that made an impact this season, Arizona Muse is the leader of the pack. The New Mexico native had a ridiculously strong Fashion Week debut. But let's go to the beginning. Three years ago, Muse was spotted in all of her sun-kissed, hippie glory when Next Model Management signed the Gabriel García Márquez fan. During her first trip to New York, she booked spreads for Allure and French Revue de Modes. Muse then decided to take a hiatus from modeling, giving birth to her son, Nikko. Now, at the age of 20, she debuted as the first and last face at BCBG Max Azria's latest show. She also walked for Narciso Rodriguez, Altuzarra, and Marc Jacobs before leaving for Milan. Meanwhile, casting director Russell Marsh met with Miuccia Prada and it was then decided that Muse was to open and close for Prada's spring collection as an exclusive. Rounding out a successful four-week run, Muse also opened and closed for Miu Miu in Paris on top of her opening looks at Rochas, Chloé, The Row, and Kenzo. And she closed out Yves Saint Laurent to boot. Click ahead to read a brief Q&A with Muse, and then visit her new model profile to see loads of on- and off-the-runway pics.
What a breakthrough you had this season, opening and closing for BCBG Max Azria, Prada, and Miu Miu. Can you share with us the casting process that you went through?
It's been really interesting to learn how the whole process works. First I met casting directors, who then sent me on to meet the clients, and who then called me back for fittings. Then it all started over again in Milan [for Prada], and then again in Paris [for Miu Miu]. That's the briefest of brief summaries.
Gives us some beauty tips that keep you looking fresh.
I drink a lot of water. It sounds too simple, but it's a miracle.
How do you decompress after a long day of working?
I go home and play with my son, Nikko.
If you could meet anyone, dead or alive, who would you meet?
Probably one of the Greek goddesses, Athena or Aphrodite.
What's the hardest thing about modeling?
Sometimes I find it hard to meet and work with new people every day. But the longer I do it the more often I get to work with the same people, so that's getting better.
Favorite fashion capital?
Paris was my favorite. I just love the city and feel so good when I'm there.
What's your advice for newbie models trying to break through?
Be yourself and keep logical perspective, don't take things personally.
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Schade, Clark among WBCA Hall of Fame class
Four people with area ties will be inducted into the WBCA Hall of Fame
Schade, Clark among WBCA Hall of Fame class Four people with area ties will be inducted into the WBCA Hall of Fame Check out this story on thenorthwestern.com: http://oshko.sh/2w8dX7B
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Oshkosh North High School's Frank Schade keeps an eye on the Spartans as they play. Oshkosh North Spartans hosted Wausau West Warriors in a WIAA regional finals boys basketball game March 4, 2017. The Spartans beat the Warriors 69 - 47. Joe Sienkiewicz / USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin (Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, Joe Sienkiewicz / USA TODAY NETW)Buy Photo
OSHKOSH - Former Oshkosh North boys basketball coach Frank Schade and current Lourdes boys basketball coach Brad Clark will be among the newest class of inductees to the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
The ceremony will be held Saturday, Sept. 30 at the Glacier Canyon Lodge of the Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells.
Schade, who was already inducted into the Hall as a player in 2008, coached 42 years and compiled a 610-326 record -- the fourth most wins in state history. The last 31 years the Wausau native coached the Spartans, compiling a 490-234 mark.
Schade retired following the 2016-17 season when he led Oshkosh North to a 25-1 record, with the lone loss coming to eventual state champion Stevens Point in a sectional final.
Clark is being inducted for his playing career at Markesan High School where he led the Hornets to a pair of WIAA state titles and was named Mr. Basketball in the state in 1996.
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Clark went on to be a standout player at UW-Oshkosh and coached at Oshkosh West and Ripon College before joining the Knights program.
Two other people with area ties will be among the 30 enshrinees.
Former UW-Oshkosh women's basketball coach Kathi Bennett will be the lone college coach among the inductees. Bennett led the Titans to six conference titles and six NCAA Tournament appearances, including the 1996 national title.
Phil Jerg was the head coach at Berlin High School in the 1980s and is being inducted for his work as an assistant coach at DeForest High School.


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Shameel currently functions as Partner for Accounting Advisory service for KPMG in Sri Lanka. He has more than 17 years of experience in the provision of Audit and Tax related services. Shameel was the resident Partner in KPMG Maldives overseeing the Audit function and office administration till March 2018. Shameel also worked in KPMG Qatar for a period of 7 years and KPMG in Sri Lanka for a period of more than 4 years. He has conducted several trainings on IFRS and ISA for clients in the Maldives. He was the Head of training at KPMG in Qatar looking after IFRS and ISAs trainingfor the staff and IFRS training for the clients.
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Given the ongoing health emergency, the European Commission's stakeholder dialogue on the implementation of Article 17 of the Copyright Directive is currently suspended. The 7th meeting of the stakeholder dialogue, which was originally scheduled for Monday of this week and where the Commission was expected to "share initial views on the content of the guidelines", has been cancelled and it is currently unclear how and when the stakeholder dialogue will be resumed. In the meanwhile, the European Commission is continuing its work on the guidelines.
While we are waiting for news on the future of the stakeholder dialogue we have produced an input paper for the Commission (pdf) that summarises our observations from the stakeholder dialogue so far and formulates a number of principles that the Commission should take into account when drafting its guidelines. In line with our initial principles, the input paper focuses on licensing, transparency and procedural safeguards for users' rights. The paper builds on the model that we had presented during the last meeting of the stakeholder dialogue.
Specifically, we are asking the Commission to include the following in the Article 17 implementation guidelines:
Recommend to national lawmakers to fully explore all legal mechanisms (including collective licensing with extended effect, mandatory collective management schemes and other non-voluntary licensing schemes) for granting OCSSPs authorisation to have in their platforms copyright-protected works and other subject matter uploaded by their users.
Require that all ownership claims made in the context of the measures required by Article 17 must be made fully transparent to allow public scrutiny and prevent unjustified removals or blocking by rightholders claiming ownership of works that they do not own.
Require that OCSSPs publish statistical information on the number of removal/blocking actions as well as the number of complaints and the resolution of complaints arising as the result of such actions.
Requires that in cases other than obvious infringement and in order to prevent automated measures from affecting lawful uses, users must have the ability to override all automated actions before the blocking/removal takes effect.
Require that in case of obvious ("prima facie") infringement uploaded content can be automatically blocked/removed under the condition that uploaders have the ability to easily and effectively challenge such blocks/removals.
Require that users must be able to rely on all existing exceptions as grounds for challenging removal/blocking actions and must be able to dispute the ownership claims on which an action is based.
In our input paper we urge the Commission to take these principles into account when drafting its guidelines. The stakeholder dialogue has confirmed the fact that automated content recognition technologies are not capable of recognising lawful uses of copyrighted works, but it is also clear that, given the amounts of content uploaded, platforms will need to use automated content recognition technology to manage their obligations under Article 17.
To reconcile the use of these technologies with the requirement that measures taken by platforms shall in no way affect legitimate uses, it is imperative that users have the ability to prevent lawful uploads from being blocked/removed. To illustrate how this can be ensured in practice our input paper also includes a step-by-step implementation outline based on the principles identified above. You can read the full input paper here.
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Q: Unreleased DirectShow CSource filter makes program crash at process shutdown I'm developing a DirectShow CSource capture filter. It works fine, but when I close the program that is using the filter (in this case I'm testing with VLC, but the same happens with other programs), the program crashes (if I'm debugging it in Visual Studio then a breakpoint is triggered).
I've been hunting down this problem for some time now and found that both, my source filter and my source stream are not being released; this is, their reference counter is 1 at the end of the program, DllCanUnloadNow() function reports that there are 2 objects still in use, and, when CoUninitialize() is invoked, the program crashes.
I'm pretty sure that the reference counters are being handled correctly since I'm using the base classes implementation. The only unusual thing in my software that I can think of is that I'm using my own version of DllGetClassObject(): I configured the .DEF file to have MyDllGetClassObject() exported instead of DllGetClassObject() so I could insert some code before invoking the default implementation. I don't think this is a problem since I've checked that the reference counter of all objects I return at the end of MyDllGetClassObject() is 1.
I guess I'm missing something about the lifecycle of the filter, but can't figure out what (this is the very first capture filter I'm developing). Any suggestion?
Thank you in advance,
Guillermo

A: I finally figured out what was going on. The static method InitializeInstance in my source filter is invoked with bLoading == false and rclsid == <the GUID of my filter> at process shutdown. That seems to be the appropriate place to release that remaining reference counter from the filter instance.
I got the key idea of how important is to release all COM objects before CoUninitialize some time ago from another post on StackOverflow entitled DirectShow code crashes after exit (PushSourceDesktop sample). All I needed was just a little bit more knowledge on DirectShow filters lifecycle.
Anyway, thank you for your efforts, Roman, I know how vague this thread sounded from the beginning :)


Once again the Buffalo Peak Outfitters family would like to thank you for your generous outpouring of needed supplies, concern and prayers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She certainly left her mark on the Gulf Coast, but more importantly, you left your mark on the hearts of many Mississippians.
The rebuilding of the Gulf Coast has expectedly proven to be a slow and arduous task. Though progress has been made, it will take a long time before people re-establish themselves in their old neighborhoods. Despite the slow passage of time during the rebuilding process, the fact of the matter is the resilient people of the Gulf Coast are getting their lives and property back in order, piece by piece, with the continued help of caring outsiders.
We hope you will consider volunteering to come down and work a few days or a week. Opportunity abounds. Just drive through a neighborhood and when you see someone working, get out, introduce yourself and start helping. Bear in mind you will need to be self-sufficient for the most part. Motel space is very limited (bring your tent), but food and water is available.
We are including a link to an excellent editorial entitled "Six Months After Katrina" taken from the The Sun Herald that we hope you will read. We thought it was very well done.


Powered by globalisation and virtually impossible to measure the flow of grey product is a phenomenon that threatens any authorised channel which plays by the rules. Such are the intricacies of parallel importing in this region that you could probably fill a book spanning a thousand pages and still fail to get to the bottom of the subject. But in this article Channel Middle East examines the two most critical aspects of grey market trading: the factors that cause it and the ways in which it can be controlled.
Contrary to popular opinion, the grey market is actually pretty simple to define.
Any authorised reseller that moves product outside of the territories stipulated in the terms of its contract with a manufacturer is creating a grey market.
Or, to put it in a different way, if products remained in the markets where vendors intended them then the grey market would cease to exist.
Rarely is it as straightforward as that, however.
"What you have to remember is that there are different scales of grey - really starting from cross border grey, where you have legitimate partners irregularly selling products to territories outside of their contract," said Guido Romagnoli, MEA channel director at networking vendor Cisco.
The situation in the Middle East is complicated by the ubiquity of subdistributors and re-exporters, which means that even if authorised distributors stick to selling into their designated territories there is nothing to prevent the product from being moved onto somewhere it shouldn't be by parties lower down the supply chain.
This lack of transparency is regarded as one of the primary catalysts of grey marketing, especially in the Middle East, which enjoys a privileged location close to the manufacturing hubs of the Far East, but also serves as a procurement base for traders in Europe and the US.
This also creates a two-way force as grey product is moved out of the Middle East on one hand and brought in from outside the region on the other.
Underpinning all this is a vibrant intra-region grey market caused by product being illegitimately moved between countries such as UAE, Iran and the African states.
Several channel sources speculate that the existence of free trade zones in places such as Jebel Ali means it is far more likely that the flow of grey product is stronger going out of the Middle East than it is coming in.
"There are three cities — London, Hong Kong and Dubai — where the maximum trading happens in the world and that gives rise to a lot of grey importing," commented Manish Bakshi, general manager MEA, at consumer electronics and monitor vendor BenQ.
"But if you look at somewhere like Saudi, grey doesn't happen as much because of the market nature.
The same goes for Egypt, China or India. The tendency of these channels is to buy or sell in-country.
In addition to the three trading cities mentioned by Bakshi, Amsterdam and Singapore are also regarded as key locations in the route that grey product takes through the global supply chain.
Research by KPMG and US-based industry body AGMA back in 2003 revealed that grey market sales of IT products account for over US$40 billion in annual sales and collectively cost IT vendors up to US$5 billion a year in lost profits.
At the essence of the grey market is the product itself. Parallel importing only occurs if there is a demand for the commodity or the product is in short supply.
That creates a situation where buyers attempt to source product from nonconventional channels or authorised channels that find a sale too hard to resist.
The flip side of this scenario is when the channel becomes overstocked with inventory, prompting a surge in grey importing as distributors sell to customers in places they shouldn't just to offload stock.
Levels of grey trading in the region are also determined by the physical appearance of the product, with small, fast-moving goods such as components, cameras and boxed software far more susceptible to grey forces than monitors or PC systems.
"Grey market traders do not usually work with mid- or high-end products — they take mass distributed products that are easy to move or cash in," said Amr Hassan, general manager at HP IPG in the Middle East.
The mode of transport also has a key role to play, according to Bakshi at BenQ: "It is widely recognised that air shipments have a higher rate of grey imports than sea freight.
With air freight you can have the product in the market the next day, but it can take between 20 and 25 days by sea if a trader is moving it from America to Dubai, for example.
A whole series of other elements, which may appear harmless on their own, can also be exploited by companies that have no qualms about using or servicing the grey market.
Volume-based partner programmes, unrestrained OEM channels, frequent quarter-end deals and high levels of aging product in the supply chain all contribute to the problem.
The proliferation of online communication and the fact that some parts of the world can access particular pricing 12 hours ahead of others remain additional factors that are exploited by parallel importers.
Variations in import duties and VAT regulations have a massive impact too, as emphasised by recent reports on the role that Dubai has had to play in rising cases of mobile phone VAT carousels operating out of the UK.
Countries such as the UAE, where the import rate is just 5% — and some traders are rumoured to understate the quantities they bring into the country — are much more conducive to grey marketers than places such as India where import taxes of 30% levied on consumer electronics means that the price of the product becomes too expensive to ship into other markets at a profit.
One Dubai-based components distributor, with operations across the Middle East, said it is routinely approached by traders in countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic and claims local customs procedures are not effective enough to stem the grey tide: "In some parts of the world, like Europe and the US, the grey market tends to be monitored through some regulations.
For instance, look at what some of the major IT vendors have decided to do in the UK and EU — all imports of their products from the outside have to be justified to customs.
We are very far away from that happening here.
There is an argument that the grey market is a necessary evil in this region, particularly when it comes to getting products into embargoed countries.
Rumours that vendors happily turn a blind eye to such tricks if it inflates their numbers are never far away.
One source said: "I think that culturally and historically speaking the Middle East has always been open to the world and is a place where people have a habit of sourcing their products from.
The grey market in the Middle East will always have a chance to function, but this is something you have to put in context with the pressure that the vendors are under to hit their numbers.
This is a growing market and because other markets are in need of products—- and here you can somehow get access to pricing that is below US and European pricing — you are left with the issue of greed.
All of this feeds neatly into the factor that is undisputedly regarded as the main reason for grey marketing: pricing.
Aside from availability issues, the over-riding motivation for trading in grey circles is because somebody somewhere is offering a product for a more attractive price.
If a vendor keeps a differential price structure between two or three countries adjacent to each other, or in different continents, then it is bound to create a grey market.
Gulfem Cakmakci, senior channel sales manager at Seagate Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, added: "In the past most of the grey market prices were coming from direct OEM customers.
However, we do not see them anymore as the OEM business is more under control today.
While the grey market will never be stopped, there are ways to control its ability to function, particularly when it comes to pricing.
Coherent and consistent pricing strategies, supplemented by tightly-managed discount models, are much more likely to discourage parallel importing, while vendors also have a duty to ensure that the local, in-country promotions they run are attractive enough to stop resellers from turning to the grey market.
"Distribution needs to fulfil customer demand, wherever it comes from," said Mario Veljovic, sales and marketing manager at Middle East distributor Aptec.
"What the vendors really need to do is find creative and secure models to support local distributors.
Hard drive giant Seagate claims it has reduced grey marketing activity by changing the way it does business with its distribution partners over the past two years.
New reporting systems have replaced the manual way of entering data, while a worldwide pricing strategy and unified approach to channel programmes have been introduced.
"We also stop shipments if any distributor has more than five weeks on hand, there are no quarterend deals and we do not support any cross-regional activity - these have all helped us to limit the grey market in the channel," revealed Cakmakci.
Cisco, meanwhile, has altered its rewards scheme for account managers so that the incentive to authorise deals is no longer volume-driven. The same goes for the distribution channel.
"The important thing for us is that nobody is paid on sell-in.
We start compensating on sell-out, but only when we know the identity of the reseller that is getting the product, and the customer as well," said Romagnoli.
A strong pricing policy is just one preventative measure.
Vendors are also taking steps to introduce more effective support provisions and warranty processes to educate resellers that they should always buy through authorised routes.
Western Digital recently launched a service hub in Egypt and has a serial number tracking system in place to ensure that the original location of any faulty drives that are returned can be identified.
One common reason cited for the prevalence of grey trading in the Middle East, compared to Europe for example, is the level of resources that vendors have committed to region.
Manufacturers with small regional teams tend to be more focused on sales targets and business development than tackling grey market perpetrators.
"Grey marketing is more likely to happen when you don't have an organisation on the ground," acknowledged Romagnoli at Cisco.
"In the last 12 to 24 months we have built up quite a big channel team.
Bakshi at BenQ echoes that sentiment and warns of the pitfalls of a local structure that is not set up to counteract the unlawful movement of products.
"Vendors that have a centralised, rather than decentralised, structure attract grey.
If you have just got people sitting in Dubai and controlling the rest of the region on the telephone then it gives a lot of encouragement to the grey market.
If the in-country infrastructure is weak in Saudi or Egypt, it tends to lose out to the other brands.
With global giants such as HP, Microsoft, Cisco and Symantec waging high-profile campaigns against the grey market, and adjusting their go-tomarket processes to counter illicit activity, there is every hope that vendors are making a better fist of curbing the problem than they have done in the past.
Veljovic at Aptec is one of those who believes this is the case.
"I wouldn't say we have a bigger issue with the grey market than we did this time last year.
In fact, it is probably not even in the top 10 reasons of why we lose business," he said.
Grey market activity will never be completely eradicated, but the responsibility rests with vendors to do all they can to ensure that it doesn't make victims of those who keep to the terms of their contract.
Grey market traders work with mass distributed products that are easy to move or cash in, not high-end products.
If you look at what the laws are saying, they are quite flexible and so the market is very open.
Vendors with a centralised, rather than decentralised, structure attract grey.


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I Love Lucy: Season 1 (1951)
Genres: Sitcom TV Comedy
Connections: I Love Lucy
Here's how it all began-the classic episodes that started America's long-running love affair with everyone's favorite madcap redhead, Lucille Ball. Plus the rarely seen pilot episode that sold the I Love Lucy series. By the end of its initial season, I Love Lucy was TV's first bona fide smash-hit-the very first program seen in more than 10 million homes. America just couldn't get enough of this stunning new comedy talent-Lucy as a less-than-poised would-be ballerina in "The Ballet," Lucy battling the world's longest loaf of bread in "Pioneer Women," and Lucy in her greatest performance, as the health tonic-guzzling TV pitchwoman for "Vitameatavegamin" in "Lucy Does a TV Commercial." ("And it's so tasty, too!") Fall in love all over again, with the wild and wacky series that changed TV forever! --Amazon


We just watched the The Angry Birds Movie at Powerplant Mall Cinema, courtesy of McDonalds. It was a colorful and fun movie for the whole family. The children were laughing so hard during the showing; but I must admit, there were moments when I found myself laughing as hard as the kids.
Aside from the movie, you can now enjoy McDonald's The Angry Birds Happy Meal. There are ten Angry Birds Happy Meal toys to collect while supplies last –Light-Up Red, Speedster Chuck, Lasso Pig, and slingshot launchers featuring Red, Bomb, Stella, Terence, Leonard, Cowboy Pig, and Pilot Pig.
To activate the secret game in the 'Angry Birds Action!' app: simply open the app, click on the BirdCode-enabled icon, and scan the code. This brings the user to a mini-game with the mission to defend McDonald's from the green pigs. Players will be rewarded with free power-ups depending on their score.
1. Light-Up Red – Press button to activate a red glow and make Red's eyebrows move down.
2. Speedster Chuck – Pull back Chuck to wind up. When released he will move slowly at first then suddenly speed up.
3. Lasso Pig – Push button on back to make lasso spin round and round.
4. Red – Load Red onto slingshot launcher. Press button to launch Red toward the targets.
5. Angry Birds' Bomb Character Launcher - Load Bomb onto slingshot launcher. Press button to launch Bomb toward the targets.
6. Stella - Load Stella onto slingshot launcher. Press button to launch Stella toward the targets.
7. Terence - Load Terence onto slingshot launcher. Press button to launch Terence toward the targets.
8. Angry Birds' Leonard - Load King Pig onto slingshot launcher. Press button to launch King Pig toward the targets.
9. Cowboy Pig - Load Cowboy Pig onto slingshot launcher. Press button to launch Cowboy Pig toward the targets.
10. Pilot Pig - Load Pilot Pig onto slingshot launcher. Press button to launch Pilot Pig toward the targets.


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Wonders of Nature and Artifice
The Renaissance Quest for Knowledge
Browse the Cabinet
Interactive Panorama
Installation and Reception
ARTH 284
FYS 188
by Peter Zhang
Crocodiles — the Singular Beast in the Renaissance Cabinet
American Alligator Skull from the Gettysburg Biology Department
Stuffed crocodiles often predominated many famous cabinets, hanging in the center of the ceiling. Crocodilians are the largest reptiles and the largest p
redator that spends time on land. They have existed for about 240 million years, and today there are 23 species of crocodilians in total, categorized in three families: 13 species of crocodiles, two species of alligators, and six specie
s of caimans. Archaeologists found a "Supercroc" fossil as long as 40 feet (12 meters) and weighting 17,500 pounds in Niger. They believe that the crocodile lived alongside dinosaurs about 100 million years ago[1]. For more infor
mation on Supercroc and crocodilians, click here and here.
Nature's irregularities were highly appraised by the Europeans during the Renaissance. Monsters, such as two-headed horses were exhibited in Renaissance cabinets as practical jokes that God and nature had played[3]. Collectors desired to find one item that embodied nature's irregularities that would be capable of satisfying their curiosity about science and art[4].
Among the chamber full of mysteries, the crocodile was often the most exotic monster and a frequently encountered star in the cabinet of curiosity. The extravagant size, sometimes even bigger than today's crocodile (due to the overhunting of the large crocodiles, click here fore more information), and its mysterious origin figured them as a perfect fit in the cabinet.
The exoticism of crocodiles was first raised by the Spanish Jesuit José de Acosta, author of Natural and Moral History of the Indies. In his text, he questioned why biblical texts omitted the explanation of the origin of the crocodile. He wondered why crocodiles were not mentioned if Noah had saved them from the flood. Since the biblical text cannot lie, the origin of crocodile became an enigma. [5]
Maria Sibylla, 1699-1701, Common or Spectacled Caiman with South American False Coral Snake, own by the Royal Collection Trust.
Maria Sibylla Merian was a pioneer in scientific drawings. The above illustration is showing a watercolor of a spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus) holding a False Coral Snake (Anilius scytale) in its mouth. Maria collected many reptiles during her visit to Suriname, and she may have observed this scene of a caiman fighting with a coral snake on her way. Moreover, this drawing also illustrated a very interesting scientific fact that crocodilians are the only reptile that shows parental care. In the drawing, the Caiman crocodilus is protecting its hatched egg from the attack of the False Coral Snake. Unfortunately, her volume of Surinamese reptiles was never published; but many scholars and collectors were interested on owning a stuffed crocodile under her influence.
Engraving from Ferrante Imperato, Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599)
Ferrante Imperato was an apothecary of Naples who documented his the museum in Dell'historia natural. Gentlemen who visited the museum were most impressed by the crocodile hanging on the ceiling. They were either pointing and discussing, or standing quietly observing the singular beast. Around the crocodile, the equally fascinating sea creatures were hanging. By hanging these creatures, Imperato hoped to avoid distracting visitors' attention from the mineral and vegetable specimens along the museum's walls.[6]
Manfredo Settala's Cabinet of curiosities. From "Museo o Galeria" (1666)
Lodovico Settala was a physician who established a cabinet of curiosity in Milan. His cabinet grew to be one of the richest cabinet in the 17th century after his son Manfredo Settala took charge. In his collection, objects were well-organized and exhibited in transparent glass-fronted boxes. The rich aspects of his cabinet attracted an ever-growing number of visitors of a broad range of nationalities and social classes.[7] Variety of treasures organized thematically. Three stuffed crocodiles can be easily spotted on the middle of the ceiling, showing the supreme rank of crocodiles during the Renaissance.[8]
Basilius Besler – Fascicvlvs Rariorvm – own by the Wikiimage
The figure above is the title page of Fascicvlvs Rariorvm, cabinet of Basilius Besler, the botanist, apothecary, and botanical art book publisher. We can see Basilius Besler pointing at his cabinet and explaining to the visiting dignitary. The stuffed crocodile was lying on the ground. On the right side of the stuffed crocodile, a person was holding the crocodile skull. It seems like he was showing the crocodile skull to the visitor. The skull hanging on the right wall was possibly another oversized crocodile skull.
Different collectors appreciated the various aspects of the crocodilians. Interestingly, modern biologists are still learning fascinating facts about this ancient group of reptiles. In some ways they remain as mysterious and wondrous today as they were during the Renaissance.
For an audio description of crocodilians, Supercroc, and scientific drawings, listen here:
http://wonder-cabinet.sites.gettysburg.edu/2017/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Audio-Guide.mp3
— Peter Zhang
The following are some useful websites for you to explore more:
1. Dell'historia natvrale di Ferrante Imperato napolitano
2. Hortus Eystettensis, Basilius Besler, gardens, and cabinets
3. Ferrante Imperato: Step Into His Cabinet of Wonders!
[1]Hays, Jeffrey. "CROCODILES: THEIR HISTORY, CHARACTERISTICS AND BEHAVIOR." Facts and Details. 2013. Accessed November 02, 2017.
[2] Danvenne, Christine. Cabinets of wonder: a passion for collecting.
[3] R.J.W. Evans and Alexander Marr, Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, p.49-55
[5] De Natale and Cellinese. Imperato, Cirillo, and a Series of Unfortunate Events: A Novel Approach to Assess the Unknown Provenance of Historical Herbarium Specimens
[6] Patrick Mauriès. Cabinets of Curiosities, page 158.
[7] John E. Simmons. Museum: A History. p.118
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I'm fascinated by historical fiction and often wonder just how I might fare in other times to the age I was born in. It turns out I'm not alone and Michael Wills, author of the Children of the Chieftain Series of books for young readers, has been pondering exactly the same thing. He tells us his views today in a super guest blog.
Michael's latest book in the Children of the Chieftain Series, Bounty, was published by Silverwood on 8th February 2017 and is available for purchase here.
The young crew of the Viking ship 'Eagle' set out on a new journey when they are given the task of delivering a message in the land of the Rus. But fate has a surprise in store for them when they are ordered to travel on the Viking trading route south to Constantinople, a route fraught with danger. They must face warring tribesmen, deadly rapids and a host of other dangers before they reach their destination. There the adventure continues when they find themselves in the service of the emperor of the Greeks.
The Days of Wooden Ships and Iron Men?
As an historical novelist, I often find myself wondering whether the physical feats of my protagonists are actually realistic. Publishers of books like mine are very fond of putting a picture of a burly, handsome man on the cover of their books. He is usually half dressed so that the full extent of his musculature may be seen. But were people like that in days gone by? Well, probably some were, but I am certain that most had just an average physique.
This begs the question, how was it then that men could perform the extraordinary feats of strength and physical endurance which litter history? Consider these three examples.
In 1031, Prince Jaroslav in Novgorod, (Russia), commanded his Viking mercenaries to attack his Polish enemy. This army travelled 150 miles by boat and then marched 420 miles, carrying their equipment, over rough terrain before meeting and defeating the Polish army.
In 1066, there was an invasion of Britain, before the famous Norman conquest. In September, a Norwegian Viking army of 16,000 men invaded the north of England and took York. King Harold of England responded by force marching his army from London to a village called Stamford, near York, a distance of 220 miles, in six days. Although outnumbered, his army defeated the Norwegians.
In April 1789, in the South pacific, there was a mutiny on a Royal Navy ship called the Bounty. The commander, Captain Bligh, was set adrift in a 23-foot-long open boat together with 18 men who had stayed loyal to him. They had just 28 gallons of water, 32 pounds of pork and 150 pounds of hard biscuit. For six weeks, with no chart to help him, Bligh navigated the small craft a distance of 3,600 miles. His men endured storms, dangerous reefs, hunger and thirst before they reached the safety of Timor. Only one man died, he was killed by the inhabitants of one of the islands where Bligh sought provisions. Recently, there was a re-enactment of this voyage, though this time the navigator had a chart. Even though the modern crew reached their destination, (after being re-supplied with water), two of the crew had to be taken off by a rescue boat. One had become mentally unstable and the other suffered a severe cut which became infected.
Were men tougher and more resilient in times gone by? Even though their diet, clothes and equipment were far inferior to those of today. British and American Army regulations require that men and women on strenuous duties should be provided with between 4000 and 5000 calories a day. The Viking mercenaries, the Anglo-Saxon army and Bligh's sailors would have had nothing like that and yet they performed acts of great physical prowess.
So, the conclusion I draw from the examples I have given and hundreds of other historical events is that the truth is often much stranger than fiction and that there was indeed a time of wooden ships and iron men. Of course, there are incredible examples of physical endurance in our day and age too, but I venture to suggest that most of us would be unable to emulate the feats of our forefathers. Thus, using history as a guide, I generally feel comfortable that I am not asking too much of the characters in my books.
Michael E Wills was born on the Isle of Wight, UK, and educated at the Priory Boys School and Carisbrooke Grammar. He trained as a teacher at St Peter's College, Saltley, Birmingham, before working at a secondary school in Kent for two years. After re-training to become a teacher of English as a Foreign Language he worked in Sweden for thirteen years. During this period he wrote several English language teaching books. His teaching career has included time working in rural Sweden, which first sparked his now enduring interest in Scandinavian history and culture – an interest that, after many years of research, both academic and in the field, led him to write Finn's Fate and the sequel, Three Kings – One Throne.
Continuing in a Viking theme, in June 2015 Michael published Children of the Chieftain: Betrayed, the first of a quartet of Viking adventure stories for young readers. The book was described by the Historical Novel Society as 'an absolutely excellent novel which I could not put down' and long-listed for the Historical Novel Society 2016 Indie Prize. The second book in the quartet, Children of the Chieftain: Banished, was published in December 2015.
Today, Michael works part-time as Ombudsman for English UK, the national association of English language providers. Though a lot of his spare time is spent with grandchildren, he also has a wide range of interests including researching for future books, writing, playing the guitar, carpentry and electronics. He spends at least two months a year sailing his boat, which is currently in Scandinavia.
You can follow Michael on Twitter, visit his website and find him on Facebook.


Mr. Malone, 92, is a longtime resident of East Hampton who once owned an auto body repair shop on Springs-Fireplace Road and has long been active in local Democratic politics. He admits he has occasional memory lapses, such as not knowing the exact dates the events in question occurred or not remembering the name of Windmill Village's social services director, Michelle Rothar.
Nearly two months later, however, Mr. Malone is upset that nearly everything — clothing, shoes, curtains, upholstered furniture, a mattress and box spring, refrigerated food, boxes of belongings, lamps, and his clock radio — was destroyed. In particular, he said among the items removed was a jigsaw puzzle worth $25,000. The puzzle depicted a Willem de Kooning painting that Mr. de Kooning, then a resident of Springs, had signed at the behest of his daughter, Lisa, who gave it to Mr. Malone as a gift.
In addition to Mr. Malone, Arthur Burns, his caseworker at Adult Protective Services, Linda Norris of the East Hampton Town Housing and Urban Development Department, and Francis Bock, a town housing inspector, attended the Sept. 5 meeting. It was near the end of the session that Mr. Malone mentioned he had some bug bites on his body. "That was a big red flag for us," Ms. Rothar said. Mr. Bock and Mr. Burns visited Mr. Malone's apartment after the meeting and discovered bed bugs.
When a technician from Premier Exterminators came to assess the problem the next day, Gerry Mooney and Kathy Byrnes, the co-managers, said he told them it was the worst infestation he had seen in 20 years.
Windmill Village officials said when two other residents then reported possible bed bugs — one had found a bug; another said he had a bite — they decided to have the entire six-unit building emptied, cleaned, and sprayed, with two treatments scheduled a week and a half apart.
All the residents, including Mr. Malone, were displaced for about five hours during the first treatment. Their belongings were removed, cleaned if possible, and stored on site until the second treatment was completed.
The reason he intends to sue, Mr. Malone said, is that although he was asked to leave so that exterminators could do their job, he was told when he returned that all of his belongings were permanently gone. "I kept saying, 'Where is my stuff?' " Mr. Malone said.
Windmill Village officials have said Mr. Malone remembers the sequence of events incorrectly.
Mr. Malone said he is looking for an attorney to argue his case. In the meantime, he has accepted the help of Brontie O'Neal, who has known Mr. Malone for over 30 years, and said he would write a civil complaint for Mr. Malone to pursue in court.
Mr. O'Neal, speaking by phone last week, said he was recently released from Attica prison, where he studied to be a paralegal. He said the complaint he wrote for Mr. Malone was filed on Nov. 1 and Windmill Village was "served with the papers by U.S. marshals" as of Friday. "We haven't received anything, to our knowledge," the Windmill Village management team said on Friday.
Tom Ruhle, the director of the East Hampton Housing and Community Development Office, said it was his understanding that Windmill Village "acted on the advice of professional exterminators, and it was their professional opinion" that Mr. Malone's items were destroyed because the infestation was worse in his unit.
One thing Mr. Malone and the Windmill Village staff agree on is that this has been painful. Mr. Malone is known in the community as a genial, smart, well-liked man with a long history of public service. Windmill Village officials insist they run a caring facility for senior citizens, most of whom use federal Section 8 vouchers.
As a rental facility, Windmill Village is not obliged to furnish tenants with anything beyond appliances and utilities. But the management, along with Marge Harvey, a board member, helped locate some used furniture for Mr. Malone as well as a TV, and St. Michael's Lutheran Church provided him with a $500 gift certificate. Mr. Mooney said he took Mr. Malone to the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society thrift shop to buy some clothes. "The L.V.I.S. has nice stuff," Mr. Malone commented.
Other progress has been slower. Mr. Malone was sleeping on a low-slung cot until his bed was replaced only last week by Adult Protective Services.
He said he deserved to be treated with more dignity. He contends he was unfairly singled out, though Windmill Village, town officials, and his caseworkers have said that wasn't the case. "It was a health and safety issue," Ms. Byrnes said.


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Lucha Libre AAA Announces MSG Show in September
Indie / Misc
Lucha Libre AAA held a press conference today to announce that they'll be doing a show at Madison Square Garden in New York City on September 15. Tickets will go on sale on May 5.
¡Día histórico para #LuchaLibreAAA y para México 🇲🇽!
15 de septiembre, @TheGarden en Nueva York 🗽
Boletos a la venta el 5 de mayo en @Ticketmaster pic.twitter.com/yN8oDsxmrK
— Lucha Libre AAA (@luchalibreaaa) April 4, 2019
Nos vemos el 15 de septiembre en @TheGarden #LuchaLibreAAAenNY 🗽💯🔥 pic.twitter.com/3PREo4SPSs
🔥🔥 AAA INVADING NY 🔥🔥
Estamos muy orgullosos de estar este 15 de septiembre en el Madison Square Garden. #LuchaLibreAAA #LuchaLibreAAAEnNY 😉🤩
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LUCHA LIBRE AAA WORLDWIDE MEXICO'S PREMIER PRO WRESTLING ORGANIZATION INVADES NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
(April 4, 2019) New York – An impressive roster of leading Mexican and internationally- known pro wrestlers will "invade New York" when Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, Mexico's premier pro wrestling organization, presents one of their legendary spectacles at Madison Square Garden on September 15th, 2019.
This will be the first time that Lucha Libre AAA presents an event of this magnitude in the main arena at Madison Square Garden. Tickets go on sale on another noteworthy date for the Mexican community, May 5th, "Cinco de Mayo."
The date of the September 15th event is expected to attract an audience of Lucha Libre AAA fans from New York's Mexican and Hispanic communities, as well as the area's die-hard pro wrestling fans. Dorian Roldán, Managing Director of Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide said "The timing of the event on September 15th is very important for everyone of Mexican heritage. It is the eve of Mexican Independence Day and is also recognized in the U.S. as the "unofficial" kick-off of Hispanic Heritage promotions. We anticipate that all of New York's diverse Hispanic community will join us at Madison Square Garden to enjoy this truly-Mexican spectacle in New York's most iconic sports venue".
Roldán added, "Our firm is going through a very important moment of globalization, that has allowed us to place Mexican lucha libre and its wrestlers, known as luchadores, at a new level. Lucha libre is a sport and a performance that offers the opportunity for families and fans of all social levels to gather together and surrender in front of the mysticism and dedication of the wrestlers, anywhere in the world".
The pro-wrestling event will feature the spectacle that loyal Lucha Libre AAA fans are accustomed to experiencing, and are representative of this famous brand, including the colorful aspect of the wrestlers' masks and outfits, and the dramatic, exciting matches in the ring. Roldan continued, "The entire experience will transport attendees to Mexico, in a flash. Whether Latino, Mexican or American, all fans will enjoy the richness of Mexico's culture, with a bit of nostalgia, in the midst of New York City."
The full roster of wrestlers who are confirmed to appear will be released at a later date.
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