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| 198501 - || || 8 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198502 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198503 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198504 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198505 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198506 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198507 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198508 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198509 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198510 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198511 - || || 12 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198512 - || || 12 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198513 - || || 9 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198514 - || || 9 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198515 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198516 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Campo Imperatore || CINEOS
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| 198517 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198518 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198519 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198520 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198521 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198522 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198523 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198524 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198525 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198526 - || || 9 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198527 - || || 9 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198528 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198529 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198530 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198531 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198532 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198533 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198534 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198535 - || || 12 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198536 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198537 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198538 - || || 12 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198539 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198540 - || || 9 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198541 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198542 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198543 - || || 12 de desembre de 2004 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS
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| 198544 - || || 13 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198545 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198546 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198547 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198548 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198549 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198550 - || || 15 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198551 - || || 15 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198552 - || || 15 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198553 - || || 15 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198554 - || || 15 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198555 - || || 13 de desembre de 2004 || Campo Imperatore || CINEOS
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| 198556 - || || 13 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198557 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198558 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198559 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198560 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Campo Imperatore || CINEOS
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| 198561 - || || 15 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198562 - || || 15 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198563 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198564 - || || 14 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198565 - || || 15 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198566 - || || 15 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198567 - || || 15 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198568 - || || 3 de desembre de 2004 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS
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| 198569 - || || 3 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198570 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198571 - || || 10 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198572 - || || 11 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198573 - || || 12 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198574 - || || 1 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198575 - || 2004 YM || 17 de desembre de 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR
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| 198576 - || || 16 de desembre de 2004 || Jarnac || Jarnac
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| 198577 - || || 16 de desembre de 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch
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| 198578 - || || 18 de desembre de 2004 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey
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| 198579 - || || 18 de desembre de 2004 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey
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| 198580 - || || 18 de desembre de 2004 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey
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| 198581 - || || 18 de desembre de 2004 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey
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| 198582 - || || 18 de desembre de 2004 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey
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| 198583 - || || 18 de desembre de 2004 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey
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| 198584 - || || 18 de desembre de 2004 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey
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| 198585 - || || 16 de desembre de 2004 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS
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| 198586 - || || 19 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198587 - || || 17 de desembre de 2004 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS
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| 198588 - || || 21 de desembre de 2004 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198589 - || || 16 de desembre de 2004 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS
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| 198590 - || || 18 de desembre de 2004 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey
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| 198591 - || || 19 de desembre de 2004 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS
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| 198592 - || 2005 AK || 3 de gener de 2005 || Begues || Begues
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| 198593 - || || 1 de gener de 2005 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198594 - || || 1 de gener de 2005 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198595 - || || 6 de gener de 2005 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198596 - || || 6 de gener de 2005 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198597 - || || 6 de gener de 2005 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198598 - || || 6 de gener de 2005 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198599 - || || 6 de gener de 2005 || Catalina || CSS
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| 198600 - || || 6 de gener de 2005 || Catalina || CSS
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Cain Velasquez may not be retired from MMA after all
Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez (14-3) announced his retirement from professional mixed martial arts competition in October 2019.
The two-time champion transitioned to professional wrestling, competing on the smaller circuit before then appearing in Saudi Arabia at WWE Crown Jewel against fellow former UFC champ Brock Lesnar. Velasquez would lose the contest and his debut with the promotion, allowing Lesnar to get revenge for his 2010, UFC 121 loss. The two are now tied at a win a piece, Velasquez with the MMA win, Lesnar with the pro wrestling win.
Velasquez made the decision to leave MMA following a first round loss to Francis N'gannou in February. With the retirement announcement, Velasquez also left the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency testing pool.
But now it appears that Velasquez may not entirely be sold on his decision to leave the sport good.
"Who's to say I'm finished with the UFC?", when asked about his future by Sportsmail during WWE's promotion for their move to BT Sport in the U.K.
"I'm doing this WWE right now but I'm still training," the 37-year old Velasquez said.
He continued to talk about the loss to N'gannou. "There's no regrets. Obviously the outcome wasn't what I wanted it to be but that's what happens. I've been in that sport long enough to know that not everything goes your way. You can train as hard as you can and be as committed as you can but that night was not my night. I'm still very salty, still very upset about what happened in that fight. That's just me as a competitor… I obviously want to win them all."
Velasquez made his pro MMA debut with Strikeforce in 2006. He did not suffer defeat until 2011 when he lost the UFC heavyweight title to Junior Dos Santos in the main event of UFC on FOX 1.
Tags: Cain Velasquez, WWE
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Why is it orange? There's an app for that.
Happy Christmas, y'all. It's nearly been a year on this "new" blog and it's been fun. Many of my faithful readers from misery past have stayed with me as I attempt to build coalitions through beer and Pavement. And along the way, I've gained several new converts. Overall, it's been a good year.
There are no big announcements this year. I'll attempt to post once a week as usual. The posts will continue to be long and meandering with many self-gratifying footnotes, but I do that you for you, my faithful readers.
So, sit back with some "Gold Soundz" and yet another beer. This coalition is only getting started. We have a world to change, people.
1I apologize if I did not link to your blog. I sort of got lost in coming up with links and forgot who's been linked and who hasn't. The oversight is just that and not a slight in the least. Of course, if you commented more and linked back to my blog more, I might not have made such an error.
2I fully recognize that I go weeks without posting, but I do have somewhere around 60 posts. That's more than the 52 required to be a weekly thing.
3Did you really think I'd dump the footnotes?
fact that I can't makes me angry. Anyway. Happy holidays!
Yay me! I figured out how to add a blogroll.


The message included inside your Chad Bag can say anything you want. Hand them out at your next party, buy them for your kid's civics class, give them to potential voters as a reminder that their vote can make a difference. Customization is free with bulk orders.
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Ptychothrix vagans är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Walsingham 1907. Ptychothrix vagans ingår i släktet Ptychothrix och familjen plattmalar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Q: Matlab figure as png I am saving a matlab figure as png. I want to set the print size tight to the screen size, so I used:
set(gca(),'LooseInset',get(gca(),'TightInset')); %set print size tight to the screen size

However my image is not being saved tight to the screen size nor at the centre of the screen...
Here is my code with everything I already tried:
function []=FilledCircle1(x0,y0,Radius,N,col1)

if(N<=1)
    error('N must be greater than 1');
end

hold on
axis equal
% axis off
hold on

t=(0:N)*2*pi/N; %t=-pi:0.01:pi
x=Radius*cos(t)+x0;
y=Radius*sin(t)+y0;

c1=fill(x,y,col1);

set (c1, 'edgecolor','k')

set(gcf,'PaperUnits','inches','PaperSize',[0.8666,0.8666],'PaperPosition',[0 0 0.8666 0.8666])%setting size (130/150, 130/150, 150pixels per inch being the default size of img), paper position is imporrtant as otherwise i will have extra border

% % set(gcf,'Position', [0 0 4.4466 3.5733], 'units','inches')
% % iptsetpref('ImshowBorder','tight');

set(gca(),'LooseInset',get(gca(),'TightInset')); %set print size tight to the screen size

% set(gcf, 'Position', get(0,'screensize'));

set(gcf,'color','none'); %set backgroound color to transparent
fig = gcf;
fig.InvertHardcopy = 'off'; %saves the fig with the set background color

I would like my png file to look like this:

However it's looking like this:

Can someone help me understand what am I doing wrong?
Thank you!

A: The issue is because the labels of the x and y ticks are displacing your graph.

Rather than messing with TightInset, I would just set the Position property of the axes to make the inside of the axes take up the entire figure
hfig = figure();
hax = axes();

t = (0:N)*2*pi/N; %t=-pi:0.01:pi
x = Radius*cos(t)+x0;
y = Radius*sin(t)+y0;

c1 = fill(x,y,col1);

set(c1, 'edgecolor','k')

set(hfig, 'PaperUnits', 'inches', ...
          'PaperSize', [0.8666,0.8666], ...
          'PaperPosition', [0 0 0.8666 0.8666], ...
          'InvertHardCopy', 'off')

axis(hax, 'equal')
axis(hax, 'off')

set(hax, 'Position', [0 0 1 1]);
set(hfig, 'Color', 'none');

print(hfig, '-dpng', 'output.png')

You should also consider using export_fig as it more faithfully reproduces the graphics shown on the screen.

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Q: Cant edit Combobox DropDownStyle property I'm using Visual Studio and made a combobox using the graphic editor. I wanted to set its dropdownstyle property to simple but whenever I write
myCombobox.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.Simple;
it says system.windows.controls.combobox doesn't contain any definition of this.
I suppose it's just a namespace problem or something basic, but I'm pretty new to programming (basically I'm searching through tutorials to get a little program done) and can't get a grasp on it.
Thanks in advance!

A:
The WPF ComboBox control (found in the System.Windows.Controls namespace) doesn't have a DropDownStyle property. You're confusing your WPF control for the Windows Forms ComboBox control, which can be found from the System.Windows.Forms namespace.
If you want to make your WPF ComboBox look like it would be a WinForms ComboBox with ComboBoxStyle.Simple, set its IsEditable and IsReadOnly property to true.

A: Try using designer to set this value. In designer (graphic editor) click on your combo press alt+enter and properties windows should appear. Change the value of DropDownStyle  and save.
This way you visual studio will auto generate needed code in .designer.cs file of your user control or form.


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/*
 facemitidas.controller.js
 Gestión de las rutas de emsiores en la API
*/
var express = require("express");
var router = express.Router();
var facemitidasDb = require("../facemitidas/facemitidas.db_mysql");

router.get('/', function (req, res) {
    var nifTitular = req.query.nifTitular;
    facemitidasDb.get(nifTitular, function (err, grupos) {
        if (err) return res.status(500).send(err.message);
        res.json(grupos);
    });
});

router.get('/pendientes', function (req, res) {
    var nifTitular = req.query.nifTitular;
    facemitidasDb.getPendientes(nifTitular, function (err, grupos) {
        if (err) return res.status(500).send(err.message);
        res.json(grupos);
    });
});

router.get('/enviadas-incorrectas', function (req, res) {
    var nifTitular = req.query.nifTitular;
    facemitidasDb.getEnviadasIncorrectas(nifTitular, function (err, grupos) {
        if (err) return res.status(500).send(err.message);
        res.json(grupos);
    });
});

router.get('/enviadas-correctas', function (req, res) {
    var nifTitular = req.query.nifTitular;
    facemitidasDb.getEnviadasCorrectas(nifTitular, function (err, grupos) {
        if (err) return res.status(500).send(err.message);
        res.json(grupos);
    });
});

router.get('/:FacEmitidaId', function (req, res) {
    var FacEmitidaId = req.params.FacEmitidaId;
    if (!FacEmitidaId) return res.status(400).send('Debe indicar el identificador del facemitida');
    facemitidasDb.getById(FacEmitidaId, function (err, grupos) {
        if (err) return res.status(500).send(err.message);
        if (grupos.length == 0) return res.status(404).send("Mensaje no encontrado");
        res.json(grupos[0]);
    });
})

router.post('/', function (req, res) {
    var facemitidas = req.body;
    if (!facemitidas) return res.status(400).send('Debe incluir un objeto facemitida en el cuerpo del mensaje');
    facemitidasDb.post(facemitidas, function (err, grupo) {
        if (err) return res.status(500).send(err.message);
        res.json(grupo);
    });
});

router.post('/enviar', function (req, res) {
    var nifTitular = req.query.nifTitular;
    var facId = req.query.facId;
    facemitidasDb.envioFacEmitidasPendientes(nifTitular, facId, function (err, mens) {
        if (err) return res.status(500).send(err.message);
        res.json(mens);
    });
});

router.put('/', function (req, res) {
    var facemitidas = req.body;
    if (!facemitidas) return res.status(400).send('Debe incluir un objeto de facemitida en el cuerpo del mensaje');
    facemitidasDb.put(facemitidas, function (err, grupo) {
        if (err) return res.status(500).send(err.message);
        res.json(grupo);
    });
});

router.delete('/:FacEmitidaId', function (req, res) {
    var FacEmitidaId = req.params.FacEmitidaId;
    if (!FacEmitidaId) return res.status(400).send('Debe indicar el identificador de envio de fcaturas emitidas');
    facemitidasDb.delete(FacEmitidaId, function (err, result) {
        if (err) return res.status(500).send(err.message);
        res.json(result);
    });
});

module.exports = router;

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When I participated in the Chatham House/Daiwa Research Institute conference on the post-Brexit Japan-United Kingdom relationship in Tokyo last month, it was my first visit back to Japan since my departure from Goldman Sachs almost six years ago. Prior to this trip, I had been visiting the country regularly since 1988, so it was helpful to see things from a slightly more detached perspective.
By and large, Japan in 2019 feels relatively stable when compared to other advanced economies. A decade from now, I would not be surprised if it continues to show the highest real (inflation-adjusted) per capita gross domestic product growth rate in the Group of Seven.
True, Japan's annual GDP growth has averaged just 1.1 percent so far this decade; but its declining population and shrinking workforce is already translating into stronger per capita performance. In fact, given the country's demographic challenges, it might well be outperforming its long-term growth potential.
In particular, his signature economic strategy known as Abenomics has produced a number of successes. In addition to experiencing strong real per capita GDP growth, Japan's persistent deflation seems to have come to an end and there have been marked increases in women's labor-force participation.
Then again, Japan is also nearing the 20th anniversary of its foray into quantitative easing (QE). The remarkable duration of this unconventional policy may owe something to the fact no one can be sure what will happen if it stops. But it also continues simply because, despite massive liquidity injections and measures to cajole companies into raising wages, inflation remains persistently below the 2 percent target that Abe instructed the Bank of Japan to pursue.
Under these conditions, ending QE is simply not an option. Still, in principle, one can question the wisdom of continuing with it indefinitely.
It is obvious that the BOJ cannot achieve 2 percent inflation without introducing significant monetary risks; and it is not at all clear that a 2 percent target is sensible to begin with. Even if it is, there are risks to pursuing such a narrow objective at the expense of other policy priorities. Many countries learned this the hard way back in the 1990s.
That could also be true for equities, given that the BOJ has become one of the top-10 largest shareholders in many Japanese companies. On the other hand, if the BOJ ends its share purchases, equity markets will suffer less distortion and there could a more important role for individual stock analysis. No doubt, these variables — along with a planned increase in the Japan's consumption tax — will occupy financial analysts' minds for some time to come.
For example, with so much experience in managing the tricky relationship with China, Japan probably has some wisdom to offer other developed countries. For governments around the world, the challenge is to strike a balance between reaping the benefits of Chinese growth and avoiding the attendant security, cyber and financial risks.
I suspect that policymakers in Britain will share Abe's enthusiasm for stronger cooperation on data protection and cyber security — an issue that will feature prominently at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka this coming June.
They would also welcome Japan's advocacy for a better rules-based system of global governance. And, of course, they might have something to learn from Japan's recent success in striking trade deals across Asia and with the European Union. If the U.K. is determined to go it alone on trade, strengthening its commercial ties with Japan will be absolutely necessary.


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Q: How to draw a border when cell is in edit mode in datagridview in vb..net? Here is my code from onpaint event. Works OK until I resize the form, than I get different glitches. Man such a stupid thing and I lost like 3 hours on it. Any help appreciated.
     Using backGroundPen = New Pen(e.CellStyle.BackColor, 1)
            Using gridlinePen = New Pen(Color.Black, 1)
                Using selectedPen = New Pen(Color.FromArgb(254, 169, 62), 1)
                    'Using selectedPen = New Pen(Color.Red, 1)
                    Dim topLeftPoint = New Point(e.CellBounds.Left - 1, e.CellBounds.Top)
                    Dim topRightPoint = New Point(e.CellBounds.Right - 1, e.CellBounds.Top)
                    Dim bottomRightPoint = New Point(e.CellBounds.Right - 1, e.CellBounds.Bottom - 1)
                    Dim bottomleftPoint = New Point(e.CellBounds.Left - 1, e.CellBounds.Bottom - 1)
                    If e.ColumnIndex > -1 And e.RowIndex > -1 AndAlso sender.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(e.ColumnIndex).IsInEditMode Then
                        e.Paint(e.ClipBounds, DataGridViewPaintParts.All And Not DataGridViewPaintParts.Border)
                        e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(selectedPen, New Rectangle(e.CellBounds.Left, e.CellBounds.Top, e.CellBounds.Width - 1, e.CellBounds.Height - 1))
                        e.Handled = True
                    Else
                        e.Paint(e.ClipBounds, DataGridViewPaintParts.All And Not DataGridViewPaintParts.Border)
                        If e.RowIndex = -1 Then e.Graphics.DrawLine(backGroundPen, topLeftPoint, topRightPoint)
                        If e.ColumnIndex = -1 Then e.Graphics.DrawLine(backGroundPen, topLeftPoint, bottomleftPoint)

                        If e.RowIndex = sender.RowCount - 1 Then
                            e.Graphics.DrawLine(gridlinePen, bottomRightPoint, bottomleftPoint)
                        Else
                            e.Graphics.DrawLine(backGroundPen, bottomRightPoint, bottomleftPoint)
                        End If

                        If e.ColumnIndex = sender.ColumnCount - 1 Then
                            e.Graphics.DrawLine(gridlinePen, bottomRightPoint, topRightPoint)
                        Else
                            e.Graphics.DrawLine(backGroundPen, bottomRightPoint, topRightPoint)
                        End If

                        If e.RowIndex > 0 Then e.Graphics.DrawLine(gridlinePen, topLeftPoint, topRightPoint)
                        If e.ColumnIndex > 0 Then e.Graphics.DrawLine(gridlinePen, topLeftPoint, bottomleftPoint)
                        e.Handled = True
                    End If
                End Using
            End Using
        End Using

A: The DataGridView.EditingControl is parented to the DataGridView.EditingPanel.  Knowing that, it is simple to draw a custom border for the DataGridView.EditingPanel by subscribing to its Paint event by calling ControlPaint.DrawBorder.
Protected Overrides Sub OnLoad(e As EventArgs)
  MyBase.OnLoad(e)
  AddHandler DataGridView1.EditingPanel.Paint, Sub(s As Object, pe As PaintEventArgs) ControlPaint.DrawBorder(pe.Graphics, New Rectangle(Point.Empty, DataGridView1.EditingPanel.Size), Color.FromArgb(254, 169, 62), ButtonBorderStyle.Solid)
End Sub

A: Here is what I used, bases on the answer from TnTinMnm, tx.
Private Sub paint_datagrid_edit(sender As Object, e As PaintEventArgs)
    Dim tobjname, objectid
    objectid = get_object_id_by_control(sender.parent.Name)
    tobjname = LCase(objects(objectid).objectref)
    If tobjname = "gridname" Then
        ControlPaint.DrawBorder(e.Graphics, sender.clientrectangle, Color.FromArgb(255, 128, 67), ButtonBorderStyle.Solid)
    End If
End Sub


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Crystal River Cruises: Beyond 5 Stars
Cruise Industry News – October 07, 2019
Crystal River Cruises launched in 2016 with a shot over any competitor's bow, labeling their voyages an audacious six stars of luxury, according to the 2020 European River Cruise Market Report by Cruise Industry News.
The line's five ships are all-balcony, all-suite – all with private butler service – and every category of accommodation is completely above the waterline. Crystal touts spacious suites with walk-in closets, farm-to-table dining, 24-hour in-suite dining, unlimited WiFi and more. Room amenities are by avant-garde Italian fashion house Etro.
An all-inclusive product, the voyages include wines, champagnes, premium spirits, and coffees. They also offer more than 200 complimentary shore excursions.
"Crystal River Cruises offers discerning travellers a standard of luxury not seen before on Europe's rivers. This is evidenced in grand features and small, luxurious details throughout our ships, and underscored by the exceptionally personalized service guests receive from staff and crew," said Managing Director Walter Littlejohn. "Every guest's individual wishes and preferences are catered to with warm, genuine care."
Crystal's parent company, Genting Hong Kong, plans to pull the hulking, 22.85 meter-wide, 154-passenger Crystal Mozart from service in 2020 for yet-unannounced sailings elsewhere. No plan to replace the 1987-built ship has been announced.
That leaves the line with four, identical, custom-built ships less than three years old. The Crystal Bach, Crystal Debussy, Crystal Mahler, and Crystal Ravel carry 106 passengers each, with 1.6 passengers to each crew member. Each ship has a swimming pool, fitness center, and complimentary yoga classes.
The ships were designed and constructed specifically for Crystal at Genting-owned MV Werften in Wismar, Germany.
They feature Crystal's signature design and décor, with emphasis on elegant public spaces and highly functional guest suites.
The line currently operates on the Rhine, Main, Danube, and Moselle rivers.
"We always listen to our guests, so plans to expand to other rivers and destinations will be based on their feedback and our operational capacity," said Littlejohn.
While Crystal's U.S. operations are run out of offices in Los Angeles and Miami, its riverboat program is run by an operations office in the Netherlands.
Most passengers are sourced from the United States, followed by the U.K., Canada, Australia, and Asia Pacific. The line reports 58 percent of Crystal River guests are new to Crystal.
"The average age is also slightly younger than that of our ocean guests, as more younger, affluent professionals are able to stay connected as they travel the world," Littlejohn said.
The line reports strong bookings for the remainder of 2019 voyages and 2020 itineraries, he added.
"We're currently operating at extremely high occupancies and so expect to welcome close to 15,000 guests aboard in 2020."
The world's most popular cruises for 2019
ONCE IN A LIFETIME CRUISES YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS
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Q: Make md5 strong Im making a website that will intergrate with game that only support md5 hashing metod (atm). Which ofc is not especially safe anymore. But how could i make it stronger? Should I just generate long strings of random letters and numbers and hash them? But then the users have to save the password on a paper/txt file in computer.
What do you suggest?

A: What is wrong with an md5 hash for what you are doing? Throwing more random characters at it won't make much difference.
You can take a look at SHA hashes for an alternative to md5.

A: The weaknesses of md5 are a little over-hyped, but you can just use sha512 instead. It's a better hashing algorithm.

A: While MD5 isn't the best hashing algorithm out there due to its weaknesses, it all depends on exactly what you're doing.  If it's your only option and you want to hash passwords before storing them in the database, by all means do so.
You said that MD5 is your only option "at the moment".  Does this mean you might have other hash algorithms available later?  Consider using MD5 for now but leave yourself an upgrade path to use other algorithms.
You may want to consider using a salt in conjunction with MD5.  This will help defend against some attacks (e.g., rainbow tables).

A: If it's for passwords hashing, consider using salted hash instead of just brute hashing the password. See Wikipedia
If the password are user chosen, consider having a password strength indicator and also prevent them to use too easy one. One good thing is to check they are at least two of either upper/lower/numbers and run them through cracklib and if they fail that, refuse to set the password.
Other than that you're pretty much OK.

A: What exactly do you hash and how you use the hash?
Are you refering by any chance to storing account passwords for authentication with the site? The weackness of password hashing are caused by using the hash (any hash) in a wrong manner, not by inherent hashing algorithm weakness. Nobody is going to brute force your MD5 hash, the problem will be dictionary attacks agains known hash values (rainbow tables). And the protection is to use an HMAC hash, or something similar, like a 'salted' hash.
I'm afraid you're on the wrong track if you consider that using a different hashing algorithm will give you any benefit. While is true that SHA1 or SHA256 have stronger cryptographic attribute and will stand a brute force attack for longer time, even the stronges hash will be useless if incorrectly used. On the other hand MD5 will work just fine when used properly.


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Credit: © FELIX MÖCKEL" /> Credit: © FELIX MÖCKEL The paper: B. Chen et al., "Structure of an unliganded simian immunodeficiency virus gp120 core," Nature, 433:834-41, 2005. (Cited in 67 papers) The finding: Using X-ray crystallography, researchers at Harvard Medical School, led by Stephen Harrison, determined the structure, at 4 Å resolution, of the un-bound simian immunodeficiency virus envelope glycoprotein-gp120.
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B. Chen et al., "Structure of an unliganded simian immunodeficiency virus gp120 core," Nature, 433:834-41, 2005. (Cited in 67 papers)
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Using X-ray crystallography, researchers at Harvard Medical School, led by Stephen Harrison, determined the structure, at 4 Å resolution, of the un-bound simian immunodeficiency virus envelope glycoprotein-gp120.
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Harrison's team revealed striking conformational differences between gp120 unliganded and in interaction with the CD4 receptor. They also observed small "pocket" features on the protein that "fill up" when CD4 binding occurs-helping to explain why some small-molecule entry inhibitors are therapeutically successful.
The difficulty of growing unliganded SIV and HIV gp120 crystals continues to frustrate researchers, slowing the progress of getting a complete structure of the gp120/41 trimer, or "spike," according to Harrison.
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Giving India's luxury market a new direction, Les Petits gives children something more to clap about with their kidswear collection and furniture. Bringing Young Versace into their store, we took the opportunity to ask the President, Ms Swati Saraf, about their journey till now and future plans
By: Soumya Jain
Kids today are born with a silver spoon – we have pretty much established that. And while parents pamper and indulge themselves, how can they leave their precious children behind? This global trend of giving kids the best of fashion has hit the Indian consciousness too.
And it was this that led Ms Swati Saraf to scout for a gift for her sister's new born baby. "When we surveyed the market, there was hardly anything there. There was only Burberry at that time. And even if you go to GK or other places, you do find clothes for kids, but there is nothing special. It is regular stuff – clothes that you wear at home," she said.
And thus Les Petits was born. India's only multi-brand store retailing outfits and accessories for children from brands like Dior, Fendi, Blumarine and now Versace, Les Petits has made it its mission to dress children stylishly. It is a part of the burgeoning INR 30,000 crore kidswear industry, which is growing at a rate of 20-25 per cent in the words of Ms Saraf, and is estimated to reach INR 80,000 crore by 2015.
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But as is true largely with the luxury scene in India, opening Les Petits was no cakewalk. "Me and my husband did not have a background of retail when we were launching Les Petits. And the main question we had was what brands do we get into India? So deciding on the correct brands was the first priority," Ms Saraf said. The kind of brands they chose was perfect. After all, moms wearing Dior and Fendi would obviously like to see their kids decked in the same!
Taking the luxury image seriously, as they should, they booked a space at DLF Emporio, which is the prime retail option for luxury brands. The interiors have been done by PLS Design who, as per their website, have also done work for brands like Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Tom Ford and Vacheron Constantin among others. "There was great pressure because it was the first multi-brand boutique for luxury kidswear in India. And when you talk about luxury, the store also has to be like that. So those were the pressures, otherwise it has all been fine," said Ms Saraf as she smiled.
The concept of international luxury brands has picked up in the past five years in India. Though we know and understand luxury, many people are probably not aware about international brands. So as we adults update our style quotient and wardrobe, is too soon to bring in the aspect of childrenswear in India? Ms Saraf begs to differ quite enthusiastically. "I don't think it's too soon. These brands have been there for quite a while in DLF Emporio and DLF Emporio has been there for almost five years now. And you know people travel so much these days. Awareness is already there. So I don't think it's the wrong time to enter. It is the perfect time because luxury in India is booming at a phenomenal rate, and kids' luxury is also growing at the same time," she says confidently.
The Les Petits team personally goes to select the collection that is stocked at the store subsequently. With 12 brands in their kitty, we are sure that's not easy. And being India, they create their assortment carefully. "We do a lot of whites for summer and winter. But Indians are not very comfortable with whites all the time. They look for more colours definitely. They want a lot of accessories - accessories sell really well for us. And also we get a lot of feedback from customers on whatever we have sold in the past. We analyse what is doing well and what is not, and then select our collection. We keep improving as per the feedback," said Ms Saraf.
One baby step at a time
Though the demand is there, she also admits that at times parents don't understand the high pricing these clothes have. They have to explain it to them patiently, which is not easy at times. "But that's how the market will grow," she says as she shrugs her shoulders.
The multi-brand store is obviously a win-win situation for all, more so for the customers. A variety of choices helps in doing a mix-and-match to get the perfect look. As for Les Petits, it expands their scope of brands and the collections they bring in to satisfy the well-pampered, price-conscious Indian customer.
So as fairy-like princesses and little dapper gentlemen emerge confidently on the fashion scene, the luxury childrenswear market is set to grow in India, as fuelled by the sustainable expansion plans by Les Petits.
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Future versions of Motorola personalization
DavidJan 24, 2014NEWS, SMARTPHONES0
The number of new smartphones regularly provided by manufacturers, is growing almost exponentially. It is not surprising: first, to satisfy each customer, regardless of the thickness of his wallet and tastes, and secondly, to win market share. However, almost every new device peculiar presence of one defect which can be formulated in two words, namely "bad personalization." Indeed, most manufacturers provide a pretty poor choice in color design of their devices, most often the user is free to choose between black and white version of the device. Whatever it was, CEO of Motorola told about the coming revolution in the personalization of smart phones, which, of course, not limited to a choice of one color only.
First of all, it is worth recalling that the American company has previously attempted to do something similar. Together with the presentation of the new flagship Moto X, an overview of which, incidentally, can be admired here , Motorola executives also talked about the so-called draft MotoMaker. Over the last word hidden service, with which you can realize their unique vision of the color palette of the smartphone. Selecting one of multiple options, the front and rear parts, as well as the volume keys and camera rim hardly leave anyone indifferent. Also, some time ago, Motorola has made it possible to use wooden back covers.
Unfortunately, this service is currently only works in the U.S., but because the waiting time of its launch in Russia can pass for acquaintance with new ideas engineers.
Dennis Woodside (Dennis Woodside), CEO of Motorola, shared the company's plans to expand the possibilities of personalization. According to his statement, as early as next year, the company can provide a choice of screen size is the same smartphone. In addition, Woodside also mentioned about the theoretical possibility of changing the internal characteristics of users. What kind of performance can be modified as desired – is unknown, but most experts believe that it is the amount of system memory.
Importance of such innovations is difficult to underestimate. I'm sure many people at one time refused to purchase a favorite model just because of inappropriate size of its screen. Henceforth, we can safely say that this problem will soon become part of history.
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U.S. postal worker Willie Farrow saved regular customer Ann Richards's life at a crucial time in 2013. (YouTube Screenshot | WXII 12 News)
Postal Worker Hailed As a Hero For Saving Elderly Woman's Life While on His Route
By Li Yen, Epoch Times
January 13, 2019 Updated: January 13, 2019
A normal workday to deliver packages in December 2013 turned into a heartpounding moment for one North Carolina postal carrier.
Willie Farrow never did encounter a life-threatening situation throughout his 14 years of working with the U.S. Postal Service. So when he stumbled upon such a scene one winter day in 2013, he sprang into action.
That evening, as Farrow arrived at the home of his regular customer, Ann Richards, in Winston-Salem, he noticed something amiss. Strangely, the Christmas lights at her Country Club Road home were not turned on.
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Peering through her window, Farrow saw the elderly woman lying on the floor, and to his horror, he noticed some blood.
Farrow knocked on the glass, but she was unresponsive.
"It looked like a lot of items had been pulled off the shelves. Maybe she was reaching up, you know, to try and get up off the floor, and couldn't at the time," Farrow told WXII12.
The terrifying sight left Farrow worried. He immediately called 911 and stayed with Richards until first responders arrived on the scene.
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Richards was then rushed to the intensive care unit of a nearby hospital. Her medical condition was not released to the public; however, she was well after receiving treatment, WXII12 reported.
Doctors revealed Richards could have died if she hadn't received the treatment she needed in time. For that, Richards's son thanked Farrow for saving his mother.
Of course, Farrow was happy to be in the right place and at the right time.
"I was relieved to know she was okay," he told U.S. Postal Services.
Farrow was hailed as a national hero by his union for rushing to help an elderly woman in a time of crisis.
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"On or off duty, letter carrier heroes generously deliver that 'extra service' to the American public every day, and in doing so they proudly carry on a great tradition of delivering for America, six days a week," said Judy Willoughby, National Business Agent for the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), in front of around 90 workers at Winston-Salem Manor Post Office.
Willoughby presented Farrow with a hero certificate and an NALC hero pin for his "dedication and willingness to help."
Hats off to Farrow for his service and quick-thinking action!
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I don't know if you've heard but a little known race car driver named Dale Earnhardt Jr. won this year's Daytona 500.
Ok, but seriously, I was BEYOND excited when Dale Jr. crossed that finish line. I was screaming and jumping up and down and then shaking. The shaking part honestly surprised me, maybe I just had low blood sugar from the jumping around?? I dunno. Anyway, I'm so happy for Dale Jr. and I loved how he went and hugged every single member of his team before he talked to the reporter in Victory Lane. How can anyone not like Dale Jr.?? Seriously, how?? Actually don't answer that because I'm sure some of you are sick of him, and I don't want to get into it. 🙂
Anyway, maybe the best part of Dale Jr. winning the Daytona 500 was that he promised to get on Twitter if he won the race. He's been tweeting since Sunday night and he's great at it. Lots of pictures and good stuff. I hope he keeps it up.
— I would just like to point out that all women should be offended by Richard Petty's comments about Danica Patrick. I've never been her biggest fan but that doesn't mean that I can't see when someone is basically saying that a woman isn't as good as men and never will be. His point is ridiculous. There are a TON of male NASCAR drivers that haven't set the world on fire in their careers, and it's really stupid to just say that she can't do it. He's not psychic.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 National Guard Chevrolet SS, celebrates his victory Sunday, February 23, 2014, winning the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. (Photo by HHP/Harold Hinson for Chevy Racing)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (left), driver of the #88 National Guard Chevrolet SS, celebrates his victory with Hendrick Racing teammate Jeff Gordon, driver of the #24 Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet SS, Sunday, February 23, 2014, after winning the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is Earnhardt Jr.'s second Daytona 500 victory. (Photo by HHP/Harold Hinson for Chevy Racing)
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Geographical profiling, but it has it's limitations, particularly when more than one perpetrator is operating in the same area. Moreover, presumably the same analysis would also identify Emma Smith as a victim, ad she was assaulted close to where Tabram was murdered. Okay, I know she claimed to have been attacked by a gang, but that in itself adds weight to the theory that more than one individual was responsible for the Whitechapel murders.
Tom Wescott's book delves into this and it looks like Smith and her "witnesses" may have been lying to protect somebody and the same lying happened with Tabram's murder.
BTW, JtR could have been a gang member, no problem. Then he goes ronin. Could explain the experience in getting them prostrate without a sound.
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So in effect Hutchison dropped the most incriminating piece of evidence a mere couple of ninutes walk from where he was apparently living at the time of the murders. Do you think this is likely?
sure-in a city that dense. now I don't think whoever dropped it lived in the wentworth building or even on that street. THAT would be too close.
A question I asked myself a number of times! Then again, I do not belong to the ones who regard the Victoria Home as Hutchinsons regular joint...
We haven't forgotten. You are currently engaged in defending that position in another thread with questions like why is he shouting to call people over if he has just murdered someone. People who testified to trying to avoid him because the area was so dark.
If geographic mapping pointed to the home of your Professor Plum with the lead pipe in the ballroom, you would be doing summersaults... but it obviously isn't.
Fitting suspects to all the evidence and not just some evidence to a suspect is how investigations move forward. This geographic profile is probably evidence and your suspect doesn't fit in. That suspect bias stuff is an automatic set of blinders when it comes to evidence. The amount that gets dismissed as coincidence is absurd.
It's interesting how many people who believe in coincidences now need this geographic profile to be yet another coincidence.
but it dosnt point to your favored suspect chapman though does it?
no it dosnt. serial killers, especially the rare post mortem mutilators, are singular-none got their starts in a gang. its a very private, singular thing.
and don't bring up tandem killers like the hillside stranglers, Lake and Ng(sp) or the canadien couple.
dosnt count and especially becaue tandem killers tend to be torturers, rapists and all interest is pre mortem.
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You don´t have to tell me about coincidences, Batman. Or Scobie: "When the coincidences mount up - and they do in his case - it becomes one coincidence too many."
Then again, we may of course like some coincidences more than others.
Regardless of that, no other suspect compares to Lechmere in the genre. Not by a country mile.
But as I said, back to geoprofiling, congenially described a few posts back: "Geoprofiling can be a hit or a miss".
Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
What about Rose and Fred West? And Duffy and Mulchay threatened to mutilate one of their victims.
Tabram wasn't mutilated post mortem, which would tend to rule her out if post mortem mutilation was the primary objective.
Last edited by John G; 10-19-2018, 01:53 PM.
As I said, one goes look. DNA dragnets either hit or miss for example. Here we have looked and we have found some things.
I'm not going to ignore it, even if I had a super-duper suspect.
Chapman is a good suspect. I think Kozminski a good suspect also. I don't think I have a favoured one at all and I won't let that get in the way of a good geographic profile either.
Having said that Chapman does have a connection to this I think. A place of business. A barber's shop in the basement of the White Hart Pub, in George Yard. Which is just below the hot zone.
Make of that coincidence what you will
Are you sure there are no cases of a duo splitting up for example and one going off on their own, even if they hook back up later?
Just for the record. I'm one of those who isn't fazed by coincidences, but I don't dismiss this "heatmap" - on the contrary, I think it gives a useful indicator of where the Ripper may have lived. What I am saying, however, is that the heatmap can't be used to pin Tabram's (or Smith's) death on Jack the Ripper simply on grounds of proximity.
I think even if Tabram had been beaten to death with a broken wooden pallet piece she meets the right victimology for JtR. Put the photo of the dead Martha Tabram next to the dead Anne Chapman. I wonder how many people mistook Tabram for an Anne Chapman photo.
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For different reasons (I'm not familiar enough with geoprofiling to have a view of its efficacy) I too believe Martha Tabram was the first (or at least early) victim. They include timing of the murder, victim profile, the manner in which the body was left, the same type of weapon, nature of the attack etc... I also find the resemblance striking with the victims, with the exception of MJK, especially Martha and Anne.
Sam and I have debated Martha Tabram as a victim of JTR in another thread. I understand his significant argument against classifying Tabram as a JTR victim to be that the attack MO was different (over simplified but stabbing instead of slicing with a different knife than the other murders). I think it was the start of a learning process and we see evolution through the murders. I feel the balance of all the reasons to believe Martha was a JTR victim massively outweigh the reason that might cause doubt.
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Originally posted by rjpalmer View Post
You're joking, right? I don't wish to dampen your efforts, but for the sake of reality:
At the time of the DC sniper case, profiler after profiler appeared on cable news, spouting all the usual hype, stating the killer would be a local white guy driving a white van who must have had an intimate knowledge of the DC Beltway area...probably a local delivery driver.
In reality, the actual killers (plural) turned out to be two black dudes, recently from TACOMA WASHINGTON (that's the other side of the continent). They were entirely mobile, living out of their blue sedan and were captured due to a tip from Robert Holmes (of Tacoma) who had seen Muhammad and Malvo back in Washington State, practicing shooting their bushmaster with a silencer and saying how easy it would be to launch an urban attack. This set the police looking for Muhammad, and his car was eventually spotted while the two men were sleeping in a rest area off a freeway exit in Maryland by a guy named Whitney Donohue. He tipped the police, who checked it out, and secured the arrest. Case closed.
Holmes and Donohue shared the $500,000 reward for the capture of Muhammad and Malvo.
"Geographical Profiling" had no bearing on the outcome of the case, and would have been utterly worthless considering the two supsects were from the other side of the country and entirely mobile.
Why do you state that Keppel and his methods solved this case? In truth, I would think the DC sniper case is one of the better examples of why Geographical profiling might, in the end, be utterly worthless if the suspects were from outside the area.
Similarly, in the case of Pickton, the pig farmer from Vancouver, BC., he picked up all his prostitute victims in the same tiny redlight district in downtown Vancouver, but lived some 20 miles away. Please show me how a geographical profile would have proved useful in the case.
Pickton was arrested when a rookie 'mountie' searched his pig farm during a weapons violation charge; she discovered some items belonging to a missing woman. Years earlier, Pickton had been arrested for abducting and brutalizing a "sex worker" who had escaped from his farm, but, unbelievably, the government didn't prosecute him.
At the time Kim Rossomo (not Keppel) was working in Vancouver. He had earlier pushed for the idea that this spate of missing women from downtown Vancouver might be the work of a serial killer. He was ignored by his fellow officers, and no "geographical profile," to my knowledge, was ever written-up, and could hardly have been useful in pointing to a pig farm some 20 miles distance from the neighborhood from where the women were abducted.
If anything, these two cases show the possibility of a killer living miles away. To state that these cases were solved by geographical profiling is entirely unwarranted.
Excellent post, and you have confirmed what I had already told Batman as to the viability of using profiling, Geo or criminal.
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Originally posted by etenguy View Post
She was even considered a ripper victim by the press in relation to the Nichols murder. Seems she was forgotten about after Chapman.


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You text a friend who texts another friend who slips outside to meet you by the entrance and walks you around the corner — out of view of the clipboard sentries — to hand you someone else's VIP pass ("get it back to me once you're inside, okay?"), and then you finally make it across the gilded threshhold to find. . . a room full of people plotting how to make it into the next party.
He added: "It's overwhelming the options you have. Do you want to see Flo Rida [the rapper, headlining a private party benefitting the help-our-vets "Got Your 6" campaign], "or do you want to see Common [another rapper, performing at an RIAA gala]?" It's all good, man. Our spreadsheet says they're different nights.
Pacing oneself is key this week. On Saturday night, as the very first convention-goers arrived, one overserved California delegate brawled with staff at a hotel while another passed out in the lobby, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Inside the DGA party's gauzy white VIP tent (not as hard to penetrate, actually, if you walk with confidence), Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler (a gubernatorial hopeful) braved the Carolina humidity in a blazer. His first convention? San Francisco in 1984. His Yale roommate's dad ran Gary Hart's campaign and hooked them up. "I organized a concert with Kenny Loggins and Carole King. That was my job," he said.
Back then, of course, he thought the best part of the conventions were the after-hours parties. Now, he told us, "the very best part is the delegation breakfasts — you see everyone from home!" Sigh, another thing to crash? Will adjust our spreadsheets accordingly.


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July 2, 2019 Ballot Box Scotland Scottish Parliament 3
Amidst much pomp and circumstance at the weekend, the Scottish Parliament officially turned 20. Yesterday marked the strict anniversary of the devolution of powers to Scotland's newborn legislature. That's cause for reflection in any case, but the concurrent departure of Tavish Scott and return of Sarah Boyack, both 1999 originals, added another layer of interest. On Twitter, someone asked me not just how many MSPs remained from the original 1999 Parliament, but have held the same seat the entire time.
For a little bonus post from Ballot Box Scotland, I've had a look at the class of 1999. I got a bit mixed up when giving it a go on Twitter the other day, but hopefully I've got it spot-on this time! Of the 129 MSPs elected to the first Scottish Parliament, 26 (20%) are still to be found in the Holyrood chamber today.
The Immovable Objects – 4 MSPs
These are the MSPs who've not just been around since 1999, but per that Twitter query, have held the same (or equivalent) seat since then. They are;
Labour – 1 MSP
Jackie Baillie, Dumbarton
SNP – 3 MSPs
Roseanna Cunningham, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire (Perth 1999-2011)
Fergus Ewing, Inverness and Nairn (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber 1999-2011)
John Swinney, Perthshire North (North Tayside, 1999-2011)
All four hold constituency seats, though only Jackie Baillie's constituency still bears the same name, seeing only very minor boundary changes. Nonetheless, these four represent the most rock-solid core of MSPs, who've proven impossible to budge.
The Old Hands – 14 MSPs
These are the MSPs who've had continual service since 1999, but have represented different seats in that time. They are;
Labour – 4 MSPs
Johann Lamont, Glasgow Pollok 1999-2016, Glasgow 2016-
Lewis Macdonald, Aberdeen Central 1999-2011, North East 2011-
Ken Macintosh, Eastwood 1999-2016, West 2016-
Elaine Smith, Coatbridge and Chryston 1999-2016, Central 2016-
SNP – 10 MSPs
Bruce Crawford, Mid Scotland & Fife 1999-2007, Stirling 2007-
Linda Fabiani, Central 1999-2011, East Kilbride 2011-
Christine Grahame, South 1999-2011, Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale 2011-
Fiona Hyslop, Lothians 1999-2011, Linlithgow 2011-
Richard Lochhead, North East 1999-2006, Moray 2006-
Michael Matheson, Central 1999-2007, Falkirk West 2007-
Alex Neil, Central 1999-2011, Airdrie and Shotts 2011-
Shona Robison, North East 1999-2003, Dundee City East 2003- (as Dundee East 2003-2011)
Nicola Sturgeon, Glasgow 1999-2007, Glasgow Southside 2007- (as Glasgow Govan 2007-11)
Sandra White, Glasgow 1999-2011, Glasgow Kelvin 2011-
Unsurprisingly, the SNP MSPs who've shifted seats since 1999 all moved from representing a region to a constituency, whilst for the Labour MSPs the movement was in the opposite direction. I have Ken Macintosh down under the Labour heading as that was the label he was elected under; he is currently not affiliated with a party whilst serving as Presiding Officer.
It's worth noting that the SNP have always operated a policy of placing their top-ranking candidates in both constituencies and high list positions, whilst Labour had a misguided policy of banning standing for both votes (except where boundary changes suggested a lost constituency seat). When I say misguided, I mean the effects of that policy were so notably destructive to the party in 2011 that when New Zealand reviewed their similar electoral system in 2012, their electoral commission highlighted them as a good reason not to bring in such a ban there (page 38). Had Labour not had that rule in 2011, they might have a few more "lost their constituency, re-elected on the list" MSPs today.
The Returners – 8 MSPs
Politics isn't a secure game, but defeat isn't always final. These are the class of 1999 MSPs that were sent packing, but beat a glorious return at a later date. They are;
Sarah Boyack, Edinburgh Central 1999-2011, Lothian 2011-2016, 2019-
Rhoda Grant, Highlands & Islands 1999-2003, 2007-
Iain Gray, Edinburgh Pentlands 1999-2003, East Lothian 2007-
Pauline McNeill, Glasgow Kelvin 1999-2011, Glasgow 2016-
Lib Dem – 1 MSP
Mikes Rumbles, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 1999-2011, North East 2016-
Kenny Gibson, Glasgow 1999-2003, Cunninghame North 2007-
Gil Paterson, Central 1999-2003, West 2007-2011, Clydebank and Milngavie 2011-
Mike Russell, South 1999-2003, 2007-2011, Argyll and Bute 2011-
Sarah Boyack is the only one of the bunch to make her return mid-session rather than at a succeeding election, for which I'm sure she's quite grateful to Kezia Dugdale. Her colleague Pauline McNeill is also notable as the only one of Labour's 2011 losses to have returned to Parliament although few, if any, of the others actually tried.
Mike Rumbles return in 2016 ensures the Lib Dems still have an original 1999 MSP in their ranks, but at the cost of having displaced Alison McInnes and giving them an all-male team.
The SNP's relatively poor result in 2003 sent a few of their MSPs packing, but this trio returned for the party's 2007 minority victory. Gil Paterson stands out for having represented three distinct areas (not counting boundary changes) over his time at Holyrood, whilst Mike Russell beat one of the more impressive migrations in terms of distance, shifting from the South region up to Argyll and Bute – though perhaps he took the relatively short hop from Ailsa Craig to Kintyre?
The Missing Pieces
So from all of this, we're now at a point where only the SNP and Labour have MSPs with unbroken terms since 1999. What happened to the other parties?
Lib Dems – Tavish Scott's resignation last week saw the Immovable Objects dip to only 4 MSPs, and the Lib Dems lose their last MSP with an unbroken service record.
Conservatives – The only 1999 MSP the Conservatives elected in 2016 was North East MSP Alex Johnstone, who sadly passed away due to cancer a few months after being re-elected. That means John Scott, who has represented the Ayr Constituency since the first ever Scottish Parliament by-election in March 2000, is now the longest serving Conservative MSP.
Greens – Robin Harper was the first Green Parliamentarian elected anywhere in the UK in 1999, and ensured the Greens as a party would go on to have unbroken representation in the parliament to this day. He didn't stand for re-election in 2011, which means that with 16 years service Patrick Harvie holds the record for the Green MSPs.
A further 20 years from now, will there still be MSPs from 1999? Quite possibly! Down at Westminster, Ken Clarke was first elected in 1970 so is approaching 50 years in the role. One to beat, perhaps.
Panelbase, 18th-20th June 2019
Doug Daniel
"It's worth noting that the SNP have always operated a policy of placing their top-ranking candidates in both constituencies and high list positions"
I'm not sure if this was the case previously (I know there were different rules before I got involved), but it's definitely not now – SNP members in the region get a free vote on how to rank the candidates who have put themselves forward for the regional list. In 2016, a lot of constituency MSPs didn't even put themselves forward for selection to their regional list, and even those that did didn't necessarily top the lists (e.g. Christian Allard topped the North East list, although he was basically the incumbent anyway, so that kind of muddies things a bit).
"Policy" is perhaps more official and restrictive than what was intended, which was rather that they have been quite good at dual candidacies vs how atrocious Labour are.
For example in 2011, Labour didn't have Iain Gray on the list, but the SNP had Salmond on. In 2016, although the likes of Sturgeon and Swinney were all but guaranteed to hold their constituencies, they were also list toppers. They may have been put there by a democratic vote, but that still favours prominent incumbents and is in contrast to preventing them from standing in the first place!
That said I do think it was originally less open – I find it hard to imagine that the famous sinking of Margo Macdonald on the Lothian list for 2003 that led to her becoming an independent would have come about from members, given her popularity.
Yeah, the reforms that took place during Swinney's reign included moving to OMOV, so it was definitely more closed.
Mind you, if the Tories had another North East list MSP stand down, they'd simply lose a seat, since Tom Mason was the last on their list. So I guess there's a balance to be struck between protecting your best talent and having enough back-up candidates in case you need them.


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'Modern Bank Heists' Threat Report from VMware Carbon Black Finds Dramatic Increase in Cyberattacks Against Financial Institutions Amid COVID-19
Third annual report details how financial CISOs are battling ransomware, wire fraud transfer, island hopping, destructive attacks, and counter incident response
May 14, 2020 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today released the third annual "Modern Bank Heists" report, produced by VMware Carbon Black. The report combines original VMware Carbon Black threat data analysis with annual survey results featuring responses from 25 leading financial institution CISOs.
"Financial institutions have long been targets for cybercrime syndicates," said Tom Kellermann, head of security strategy, Security Business Unit, VMware. "Over the years, bank heists have escalated to virtual hostage situations where cybercrime groups and nation-states have attempted to commandeer digital transformation efforts. Now, as we address COVID-19's impact on a global scale, it's clear attackers are putting financial institutions directly in their crosshairs, according to our data."
Among the key findings from the report:
Threat Data Analysis
From the beginning of February to the end of April 2020, attacks targeting the financial sector have grown by 238%, according to VMware Carbon Black threat data.
Ransomware attacks against the financial sector are up 9x from the beginning of February to the end of April 2020, according to VMware Carbon Black threat data.
27% of all cyberattacks to date in 2020 have targeted either the healthcare sector or the financial sector, according to VMware Carbon Black data.
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33% of surveyed financial institutions said they've encountered an attack leveraging island hopping (an attack where supply chains and partners are commandeered to target the primary financial institution) over the past 12 months.
The full report, available for download here, takes a look at some of the key attack types financial institutions are encountering; how modern cybercriminals are evolving; what tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) are emerging; and how defenders can keep pace.
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Sowing joy and bearing fruit | Blooming Joy!
Here we have Mark 4:14-20. This is one of those less-than-helpful joy references. We're not talking about true, lasting, God-given joy in this case. Instead, it is fleeting, ephemeral. Trouble and hardship kill this joy quickly. It is the joy of a shallow faith, one that hardly has roots to stand up in the face of any difficulty. It's the kind of faith that thinks hardship means that your faith isn't strong enough. I commend to your personal reading the entire chapter, especially verses 1-20 to get the entire parable of the sower and the seeds. It's a familiar story to anyone who has been a Sunday school regular as a child. The imagery is easy to grasp so it's a favorite of Christian education programs and curricula.
The true joy comes in the last group, the good soil group. They hear the word and respond with bearing fruit, showing their faith with their lives, and the kingdom of God grows through it. Does that mean they don't have hardships? Of course not. The most fruitful trees are the ones that have been carefully pruned. I can honestly say in my life that I didn't have any sort of ability to share my faith until we went through all of our struggles. It is the hardships that have produced the fruit in my life, instead of choking out the growth of faith. And it is the mercy of God that I can still stand on my feet and share my faith with others. I know at times it shocks the people I meet that I can still trust in God despite all of the bad. But it's precisely because He never let go of me during the bad that I can trust Him. He has heard my every cry, counted my every tear, and sometimes been my only comfort in the storm. Without God's love in my life, I couldn't survive. And I can't help but praise Him for it.


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A look inside "The Hole." Dan Glugosh
According to several sources, the gaping hole on 95 Street and Jasper Avenue is in the process of being sold.
Chris Hodgson, Director, Property Sales and Acquisitions with the City of Edmonton, confirmed that as of the paper's deadline, "an agreement for the sale of the property is pending a prospective purchaser completing due diligence work. Unfortunately, the details of the purchase have not been made public due to FOIP considerations."
According to an article in the Sun published on June 23, the buyer is Calgary developer Cidex Group. It is believed the site will be developed into a large rental tower with over 200 units, including three-bedroom ones, as well as a day care.
The hole, which measures 0.4 hectares and is 10 metres deep, was listed at around $4.4 million. The final price is not known, as councillors approved the sale in private. It was previously owned by BCM Developments. The company left the site after it was decontaminated, as it was unable to get financing and geotechnical assessments completed before the City's deadline.
Boyle McCauley News will keep you updated as plans are confirmed for the development on that corner, when the information is available.
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"After it happened we went out immediately," Joe Kozfkay, regional fisheries manager, said Thursday. "We were looking for dead (fish) bodies and we didn't see that. We didn't find hardly any dead fish."
However, trout and mountain whitefish eggs that were exposed on the river bed were likely impacted. The extent of the damage won't be known until 2016, after fish numbers are tallied, Kozfkay said.
Even then, the populations should remain healthy, he said.
"You lose one year class. It's an impact, but a relatively small component," he said. "It's hard to say that anglers are going to notice the difference, but it is concerning when a river gets essentially shut down."
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If I could freeze the Autumn season to admire the beautiful scenery just a bit longer I would. Winds and rain grab a hold of those precious leaves and they are gone until the next fall season.
The clock ticks at the same speed each and every day as does the calendar year with each passing month.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1, 4, 6: Everything on earth has its own time and its own season…for crying and laughing, weeping and dancing…there is a time for finding and losing.
For a number of autumn seasons it was as Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes; for crying, weeping and losing. My ex-husband not only left that season but it was also our anniversary month.
How can I still love this season with so many negative memories? God is the Healer. For not only did Solomon say it was for weeping, it was also for laughing, dancing and finding.
As each autumn season arrived, I continued to celebrate my process of healing and find inner joy as a single mom. With God's help, I chose to love life not hate it. I was married for 12 years then alone for another 12 before God blessed me with Bill. Life was a struggle and I cannot deny that. Autumn would arrive once again. While I admired the changing leaves and pumpkins nestled in the fields, I also celebrated the fact I was not the same person as 11 months before. Why? My heart was changing just as the leaves on the tree because I asked God to lead. He knew best.
I took Solomon's advice. God and I walked together through the Autumn season learning to laugh, dance, and find who I was.
Are you enjoying laughing, dancing and finding?
How is your healing process?
Autumn is a changing season as can be your heart.
Ask God to lead you through this colourful season of life.
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