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import React from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import css from "./param.module.scss";
import Code from "components/code";

function ParamType({children} = {}) {
    return (

            {children}

    );
}

ParamType.propTypes = {};

export default ParamType;

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Q: JQuery smooth Scroll error I'm having an issue with my smooth scroll script, which worked on another site I did, but its throwing up errors on my new site. The code is exactly the same.

        Test

        Test 2

    <button id="click">Click me</button>

This is the error I'm getting in Chrome and Opera:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined
at HTMLDivElement.<anonymous> ((index):31)
at HTMLDivElement.dispatch (jquery.min.js:3)
at HTMLDivElement.r.handle (jquery.min.js:3)

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Finding the Right 3PL Provider: Is Your Growth Journey a Logistics Dream or Nightmare?
It was a great day for your business – Costco agreed to carry your product, both in stores and online. Awesome!
Your team worked hard for this deal and, after the celebration, you went home for some much-needed rest before starting to tackle this great new opportunity the next day with your current third party logistics partner (3PL).
That night, a vivid dream transports you to your desk the following morning. You call your 3PL provider to begin discussing a rapid ramp-up process for planned volume increases. But instead of excitement about the new opportunity, your 3PL instead expresses concern and tempers your expectations about what can be done and how fast.


"I'm not a typical model. I do commercial work, a little editorial, and no runway. I did a Benetton campaign a few years ago, which was cast by Brice Compagnon, the founder of WAD magazine. He also has this agency that specializes in unique beauty. Benetton is such an iconic brand, so that was a big deal for me. But in France, it can still be hard to get commercial work when you have such a specific look. People assume I get more work because of it, but it's not true. I'm still dreaming of a Gap gig! [Laughs] My passion is actually this project I started with my boyfriend—it's a food cart on a bike called Le Tricycle. We make vegan hotdogs and sell them during special events. It's going so well that we started doing private catering, too.
One of my favourite interviews from intothegloss simply because it's simple and sincere. She didn't try to overwhelme us with over the top products, and i like it because she speaks also of how people in other cultures consider redheads. I had a really good time reading it because of the person she is and not only for what she represents on images.


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Putin lays out plans to develop missiles if US leaves treaty
EURACTIV.com with AFP
Vladimir Putin speaks at an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board. [The Kremlin website]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (18 December) laid out plans for Moscow to develop mid-range missiles banned under a Cold War treaty with the United States if Washington abandons the deal.
Tensions have raged over the fate of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF), with US President Donald Trump promising to walk away from the agreement and Putin threatening a new arms race.
Washington this month said it would withdraw from the INF within 60 days if Russia did not dismantle missiles that the US claims breach the deal.
US gives Russia 60 days to comply with nuclear treaty
The United States delivered Russia a 60-day ultimatum on Tuesday (4 December) to come clean about what Washington says is a violation of a arms control treaty that keeps missiles out of Europe, saying only Moscow could save the pact.
The bilateral agreement forbids ground-launched short- and intermediate-range missiles, but not those launched from the air or sea.
Speaking at a defence ministry meeting, Putin said Russia's seaborne Kalibr and air-launched Kh-101 cruise missiles — as well as cutting-edge hypersonic Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles — would be converted for ground launch if Washington ditches the INF treaty.
"It probably won't be very difficult to conduct appropriate research and development and put them on the ground if need be," he said.
Putin lays out plans for Moscow to develop mid-range missiles banned under INF treaty if the US abandons the deal. See official transcript: https://t.co/DUsxJV88pE
— Georgi Gotev (@GeorgiGotev) December 19, 2018
Putin once again touted the Kinzhal missile, which he first unveiled as part of an array of next-generation nuclear weapons in his annual state-of-the-nation address earlier this year.
"No one else has it yet," he said.
He said the deployment of Kalibr missiles during Moscow's Syria campaign proved useful, allowing the military to fine-tune "this very promising" weapon.
Third countries to join?
Putin also suggested he was open to the idea of other countries joining the INF treaty or to starting talks on a new agreement.
Signed in 1987 by then US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the treaty bans ground-launched missiles with a range of between 500 and 5,500 kilometres.
The deal resolved a crisis over Soviet nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles targeting Western capitals, but put no restrictions on other major military actors like China.
"Yes, indeed there are certain difficulties with this treaty," Putin said.
"Other countries possessing short- and intermediate-range missiles are not party to it.
"But what prevents (us) from starting talks on their accession to the existing treaty or starting negotiating the parameters of a new treaty?"
Putin has said about a dozen countries were producing missiles of the type banned by the INF treaty.
Military expert Vasily Kashin said it would be fairly easy to convert Kalibr and Kh-101 cruise missiles for ground launch, though the Kinzhal hypersonic missile would need more work.
"This is not a threat, this is what will be unavoidable if there is no treaty," Kashin said.
He said ground-based intermediate-range missiles were cheaper, so Russia could place more of them in range of European targets, but added that Moscow wanted to keep the treaty to protect itself against a possible US attack.
Defence expert Alexander Golts said he doubted it would be possible to rescue the agreement and that expecting China to join the deal was "absolutely unrealistic".
"This is 90% of China's nuclear weapons capabilities," he said.
Former Cold War enemies Russia and the US have accused each other of being in breach of the agreement and Washington has said honouring it no longer made sense. Putin has said that Europe would be the main victim of a new US-Russia arms race.
The European Union has urged Russia and the US to save the deal.
EU 'extremely worried' about fate of nuclear treaty
The EU's top diplomat Federica Mogherini said Tuesday (20 November) she was "extremely worried" about the fate of a major US-Russia nuclear missile control treaty, warning that the security of Europe could be at risk.
A 60-day grace period — granted by the US as a concession to European partners — on the issue will expire in mid-February.
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En matemàtiques, la funció gamma el·líptica és una generalització de la funció q-gamma, la qual és en si mateixa un q-anàleg de la funció gamma ordinària.

Està íntimament relacionada amb la funció estudiada per , i pot ser expressada en termes de la funció gamma triple.

La seva representació és la següent:

Aquesta obeeix diverses identitats:

 on  és la funció q-theta.

Quan , es redueix al símbol q-Pochhammer infinit:

Fórmula de multiplicació
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Although the word "family" can be defined by various means and methods, there are particular blanket functions required of any and all family types. The blended family may experience challenges that are brought on due to contrasting traditions, values, habits, and personalities that are found in each individual of which the blended relationship is comprised. Several patterns of concern center around the idea of integrating these various conditions into the blended family so as to give a solid and safe identity to the blended family relationship.
Upon examination of necessary concerns in any and all families, economic support is by far one of the most critical. Concentrated effort through proper work ethic and a sense of familial responsibility must be in place to ensure peaceful co-existence within the blended family with regards to money and budgeting.
The terms "child support" and "alimony" are recurrently used within the context of the blended family. Without personal maturity and integrity, which includes a proper sense of domestic duty and responsibility to the relationships one has created, these two terms can initiate and create patterns of argument, fueled by bitterness and animosity. Without the virtues of wisdom and sincerity in those who make up this unique group, economic security is highly threatened in the blended family situation.
Another test the blended family often faces is that of emotional support. Emotional support is developed as intimacy is fostered through acts of mutual concern provided by all members of the family unit. Focused effort must be made to connect emotionally through learning better communication skills and engaging in family counseling that will help establish family identity. The word "blend" suggests learning to "mix smoothly" while remaining inseparably together. To achieve this perfect blend results in both security and solid, emotional oneness.
The goal of the blended family should be to achieve the highest quality of emotional support possible in order to create a safe place that will cushion pain and distress felt from situations occuring outside the family relationship.
Stepfamilies (another term for blended families), encounter various dilemmas regarding socialization. Children who comprise blended families are often subjected to very different norms, values, behaviors, social skills and even social positions as they encounter all of the aforementioned aspects in multiple family settings. Not only is this scenario confusing for the children involved, but it is also disconcerting to the adults as well, as they experience pressure to "be all things to all people". It is important that this unique family unit discovers ways that defines their exclusiveness in spite of their multiple-family social surroundings.
In order to establish security and identity within the blended family, the members must persevere and commit to the intention of resolving conflicts created by personal differences. As the family determines and defines their exclusive family culture, each individual therein will begin to experience encouragement and pride within the network of their family particular family fusion. Great is the reward for all who endure!
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Q: I am trying to write a program that allows a user to input a series of exam scores as integers I am trying to write a program that allows a user to input a series of exam scores as integers.
I want the outputs to look something like:
Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: 80
Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: 95
Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: 65
Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: -99
Largest: 95
Smallest: 65
2nd run:
Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: -99
You did not enter any numbers.
I got the first part down, but I cant seem to find out how to get the "You did not enter any numbers" line when I enter -99.
This is what I have so far.
import java.util.Scanner;    // Needed for the Scanner class

/**
   This program shows the largest and smallest exam scores. The user
   enters a series of exam scores, then -99 when finished.
   UPDATED to show even number of points using if-statement
*/

public class Grades
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      int score = 0;       // Exam score
      int min = 100;       // Hold smallest score
      int max = 0;         // Hold largest score

      // Create a Scanner object for keyboard input.
      Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

      // Display general instructions.
      System.out.println("Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: ");
      System.out.println();

      // Get the first exam score.
      System.out.print("Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: ");
      score = keyboard.nextInt();

      // Input exam scores until -99 is entered.
      while (score != -99)
      {
         // Add points to totalPoints.
         if (score > max)
            max = score;
         if (score < min)
            min = score;
         // Get the next number of points.
         System.out.print("Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: ");
         score = keyboard.nextInt();
      }

      // Display the largest and smallest score.
      System.out.println("Largest: " + max);
      System.out.println("Smallest: " + min);
   }
}

A: What about introducing a variable which counts the entered numbers and is increased in the while loop?
OR as an alternative you could check after your while loop if the numbers changed:
if(min > max) {
    System.out.println("You did not enter any numbers.");
}
else {
    System.out.println("Largest: " + max);
    System.out.println("Smallest: " + min);
}

This would work because at the beginning you initialize the the min variable to 100 and the max variable to 0 which would result true for the min > max check if no numbers were entered.

A: The following code don't work when you enter 0 & 100:
if (max = 0 && min = 100)
    System.out.println("You did not enter any numbers");
else{
    System.out.println("Largest: " + max);
    System.out.println("Smallest: " + min);
}

It is good option to use additional boolean variable to check any input diferrent than -99:
public class Grades
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int score = 0;       // Exam score
        int min = 100;       // Hold smallest score
        int max = -100;         // Hold largest score
        boolean isAnyScore = false;

        // Create a Scanner object for keyboard input.
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

        // Display general instructions.
        System.out.print("Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: ");
        System.out.println();

        // Input exam scores until -99 is entered.
        while(true)
        {
            System.out.print("Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: ");
            score = keyboard.nextInt(); //Get the exam score.
            if(score == -99) { break; }
            else { isAnyScore = true; }

            // Add points to totalPoints.
            if (score > max) { max = score; }
            if (score < min) { min = score; }
        }

        // Display the largest and smallest score.
        if(!isAnyScore) { System.out.println("You did not enter any numbers"); }
        else
        {
            System.out.println("Largest: " + max);
            System.out.println("Smallest: " + min);
        }
    }
}

Variable isAnyScore is false. When you enter -99 in first loop run it still will be false, because there are no assign. When you enter something else than -99 in first loop run, it always will be a true (it will be asigned in any loop run as true). When isAnyScore is changing from false to true, it always will be the true, because you always assign the true, never false.

A: At the end of your program:
if (max == 0 && min == 100)
    System.out.println("You did not enter any numbers");
else{
    System.out.println("Largest: " + max);
    System.out.println("Smallest: " + min);
}

A: public static void main(String[] args) {
    int score = 0;       // Exam score
    int min = 100;       // Hold smallest score
    int max = 0;         // Hold largest score
    boolean isNumberEntered = false; //Test if any number has been entered.

    // Create a Scanner object for keyboard input.
    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

    // Input exam scores until -99 is entered.
    while (score != -99)
    {
        // Get the next number of points.
        System.out.print("Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: ");
        score = keyboard.nextInt();

        if (score == -99) {
            break;
        } else {
            // If the first number is entered
            if (!isNumberEntered)
                isNumberEntered = true;
            // Add points to totalPoints.
            if (score > max)
                max = score;
            if (score < min)
                min = score;
        }

    }

    if (isNumberEntered) {
        // Display the largest and smallest score.
        System.out.println("Largest: " + max);
        System.out.println("Smallest: " + min);
    } else {
        System.out.println("You did not enter any numbers!");
    }

}

How about if you try this? Do you want to stay in the loop until one number has been added or is htis the way you want it?

A: I think the grade is between 100 to 0.So I changed a little. If the input is < 0 and >100 , the output is "You did not enter any numbers".
  package chapter5;

import java.util.Scanner;
public class Grades
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {

      int min = 100;       // Hold smallest score
      int max = 0;         // Hold largest score

      // Create a Scanner object for keyboard input.
      Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

      // Display general instructions.
      System.out.print("Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: ");
     int score = keyboard.nextInt();
      if(score<0||score>100){
          System.out.println("You did not enter any numbers.");
      }

      // Input exam scores until -99 is entered.
      if(score>=0||score<=100){
      while (score != -99)
      {
         // Add points to totalPoints.
         if (score > max)
            max = score;
         if (score < min)
            min = score;
         // Get the next number of points.
         System.out.print("Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: ");
         score = keyboard.nextInt();
          if(score==-99){
                System.out.println();}

                else if(score!=-99&&score<0||score>100){
          System.out.println("You did not enter any numbers.");}

         }
      }
      // Display the largest and smallest score.
      System.out.println("Largest: " + max);
      System.out.println("Smallest: " + min);

   }
}

A: public class Grades
{
 public static void main(String[] args) {
        int score = 0;       // Exam score
        int min = 100;       // Hold smallest score
        int max = 0;         // Hold largest score
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
        // Display general instructions.
        int i = 1;
        do {
            System.out.println("Enter an integer, or -99 to quit: ");
            score = keyboard.nextInt();
            if (score > max) {
                max = score;
            }
            if (score < min) {
                min = score;
            }
            i++;
            if (i > 5) {
                break;
            }
        } while ((score != -99));

        // Display the largest and smallest score.
        System.out.println("Largest: " + max);
        System.out.println("Smallest: " + min);
    }
}


Contest #20 – Where On Google Earth?
It is the city of Iquitos, Peru, located at the Amazon river.
It is believed to be the largest city in the world which is not reachable by road, only by boat or air transport.
Iquitos, Peru – at about 3.44S 73.15W.


The Donald J. Trump Foundation compounded the error by not listing its 2013 gift to the pro-Bondi group, And Justice for All, in its filings with the IRS that year, the aides said. The charity listed a $25,000 donation to an unrelated group with a similar name, Justice for All. But that group, a Wichita-based nonprofit, said it never received any money from the foundation.
Such an admission of error from the campaign is itself relatively unusual, because Trump has built his presidential bid on a distaste for apologies.
Trump's campaign spokeswoman and the treasurer of his foundation said they were unaware of the charity's mistakes until Monday, when they were notified that a left-leaning watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, had filed a complaint with the IRS.
Bondi, a Republican who was preparing for her 2014 reelection campaign, never took action against Trump University.
The foundation's gift to Bondi gained renewed attention in recent days when Bondi endorsed Trump before this year's Florida GOP primary, on March 15. Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump's campaign, said it had been unaware that Trump's foundation made the erroneous political gift.
IRS rules say that nonprofit foundations, like Trump's, are "absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign." If an organization is found to have violated that rule, it could lose its nonprofit status. The penalty for sending false information to the IRS can be more severe.
CREW, the watchdog group, was the first to note publicly that Trump's foundation had reported a donation to the Kansas-based Justice for All — and not to the pro-Bondi group with a similar name.
An IRS spokesman declined to comment, citing federal privacy laws that prohibit the disclosure of information about any individual taxpayer.
The explanation from Trump aides Monday underscored the extent to which Trump's foundation is managed largely by the same people who help run his business empire and make decisions about his personal funds.
"In that book, it lists all the bona fide charities, so we went to that book and in that book, sure enough, is And Justice for All," Weisselberg said.
The listing she found for And Justice for All was actually for a nonprofit with the same name, located in Utah. So the clerk, Weisselberg said, wrote a check for that name, drawn from the charitable foundation's funds.
When compiling the foundation's donations for 2013, it did not list a donation to either of the groups called And Justice for All.
Instead, it listed a $25,000 donation to Justice for All, in Kansas.
"From what I'm told, they had a typographical mistake on the return. . . . Somehow, someone who typed up the return for that year put Justice for All," Weisselberg said.
A message left for Trump's paid tax preparer was not returned.


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Pressure - Interviewed On The Thunderhead Show! Sunday February 21 2021, 11:52 AM
Pressure - Interviewed On The Thunderhead Show ! Check it out here at this link: https://www.mixcloud.com/TheThunders/exclusive-interview-with-the-band-pressure-on-the-thunderhead-show/
"Pressure wants you to use their music as tools to handle your life and to be proud of whoever you are! The music brings you closer to your own soul"
Band: Pressure
Track: 'What You See' - ISRC – QZFYX2147196
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Release Date: 19thh February 2021
Written and composed by Simon Forsell, Olof Jönsson, Emil Salling
'What You See'
Stockholm Sweden's 'Story Metal' trio PRESSURE have delivered yet again with another riveting and mesmerizing track from their up-and-coming album. Right from the opening laughter and guitar riffs from the heavy guitars, the song just keeps your ears at attention and wanting more. Olof's growling but clear tone just grabs and brings you inside the track. This single release is from the trio's up and coming album which will be self released sometime late April, early May.
Date and title TBA.
WHAT YOU SEE (is what you get) the latest single from Pressure continues to express the ins-and-outs of life's pressures. This particular track relays the message of how society perceives people. The man centered in the song is strong within himself. The track pushes the genre of music Pressure intends it to, which they are calling "STORY METAL".
"Story metal combines characteristics of traditional heavy metal with elements of melodic rock, with a lot of focus on the vocals! The beat varies as the mood of the song is written to reflect a true experience, challenge, emotion or occasion. "- Simon Forsell.
The term Story metal was first used in 2020 by the Swedish story metal band Pressure who plays story metal with three guitars and recorded drums and bass!
Story Metal definitely describes the concept of their songs and for the up-and-coming album.
A quote from Simon Forsell sums it up...
"Everyone has dreams – dare to live them. Everyone has inner strengths – do not let anyone tell you otherwise. Be yourself, show us what and who you are. Stand up, stand tall. What You See Is What You Get!"
Who are Pressure I hear you ask? Well if you had to tag them with a genre the one that fits best is a 'melodic rock' but they're so much more than that. Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden and with vocalist Olof Jönsson you can always guarantee soaring, athletic and committed vocals. Together with a twin guitar sound coming from songwriter and lead guitarist Simon "Siirpo" Forsell and Emil Salling. Their work often focuses and embraces the pressures felt from everyday existence. Their lyrics ably demonstrating that there are two sides to every story - the good and the bad. Every song has a double meaning and they truly see music as a tool to handle the different pressures thrown at us from the modern world.
The band began their journey together in 2018, and since then they've worked tirelessly developing their sound and live performance, their aim? To make memories with their fans and to an epic musical soundtrack and develop the Story Metal genre.
A quote that can summarize their lyrics is: "How can you tell a story about life if you haven't dared to live life to its fullest!
Pressure is all about every story, every moment, every Pressure!
What You See – Lyrics
Here is the lyrics to What you see
What You See
Whenever a storm is rising
I have no fear, I stand my ground
I'm not a fake or a deceiver
I won't pretend to be anything else
When I tell you, what I want
That's what I want and nothing more
When I'm crying, I'm sad for real
There's no hidden agenda, from me
What you see, is what you get
Full of flaws, but unique
Yeah, what you see is what you get
Every single day, I am myself
Some people say what I should think and like
Their words means nothing to me
Other determines laws and rules
And what's considered right or wrong
Don't want to listen but I have to
Want to be allowed to be myself
Every day I keep on fighting
For a chance, to be myself
BRIDGE (SPOKEN)
Don't tell me who I am
Don't tell me who you are
Don't tell me how you think everything works
I know who I am.
But do you? No you don't
CHR x 2
Listen to the band at these links:
Pressure · Nere men inte död (Beaten but not dead)
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7a9rKp03MYJv4leDN7Mm8k
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Pressuresweden
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Two arrested after public place shooting – Cessnock
Published: January 31, 2020 (Updated: May 27, 2021 ) in Australian News by 1news.info.
Two men will face court today charged following an investigation into a public place shooting in the Hunter Valley earlier this week. About 3am (Wednesday 29 January 2020), police were called to Mills Crescent, Cessnock, following reports of shots fired. Following inquiries, officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District stopped a Holden Commodore sedan on … Continue reading "Two arrested after public place shooting – Cessnock"
Two men will face court today charged following an investigation into a public place shooting in the Hunter Valley earlier this week.
About 3am (Wednesday 29 January 2020), police were called to Mills Crescent, Cessnock, following reports of shots fired.
Following inquiries, officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District stopped a Holden Commodore sedan on Doyle Street, Cessnock, a short time later.
Four men exited from the vehicle, with two allegedly fleeing the scene by foot.
The two remaining men were arrested and taken to Cessnock Police Station.
They were released later that day, pending further inquiries.
Following further inquiries, two men – aged 27 and 21 – were arrested in Cessnock and taken to Cessnock Police Station about 12pm yesterday (Thursday 30 January 2020).
Both men were charged with fire firearm at dwelling with disregard for safety, fire firearm in a manner likely to injure persons/property, possess loaded firearm in a public place and destroy/damage property.
They were both refused bail to face Cessnock Local Court today (Friday 31 January 2020).
Source: 16 News http://www.16news.com.au/index.php/2020/01/31/two-arrested-after-public-place-shooting-cessnock/
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Jean A. Sprenger, 81, of Coleman, died Wednesday January 16, 2019 at MidMichigan Medical Center, Midland. She was born October 12, 1937 in Saginaw, the daughter of the late Edgar & Hilda (Burns) Foster. Jean A. Foster married William (Bill) A. Sprenger June 6, 1959 in North Bradley. Jean was an active member of Faith United Methodist Church. She was a loving, caring wife, a devoted mother, grandmother and Christian witness.
Survivors include her husband, Bill; son Mark & Laura Sprenger of Sanford, daughter Dawn Loose of Highlands, TX, son-in-law Randy Powell of Boon, MI; 6 grandchildren: Kelsey & Marcus Covert, Alayna & Charles Matthews, Dustin Powell, Lindsey Powell, Samantha Loose and Nathan Loose; 2 great-grandchildren, Keegan Covert and Emma Matthews; brother and sister-in-law Lonnie and Connie Sprenger. She was preceded in death by her daughter Julie A. Powell on April 3, 2014.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am Monday, January 21, 2019 at the Faith United Methodist Church with Rev. Nathan Reed officiating. Burial will take place in Geneva Township Cemetery, North Bradley. Friends may call at the O'Laughlin Funeral Home, Inc. on Sunday from 2-4 & 6-8 pm and at the church on Monday starting at 10:00 am until the time of services. Memorials are suggested to the Faith United Methodist Church.
Sunday January 16 2-4 & 6-8 pm at the O'Laughlin Funeral Home, Inc., Monday January 17 10 am at the Faith United Methodist Church.


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Super Solberg USA Double
Oliver Solberg scored his second American Rally Association win at the Susquehannock Trial Performance Rally (STPR) in Pennsylvania last weekend.
The 17-year old dominated the two-day event based out of Wellsboro to make it seven victories from 10 rallies (two of which, Rally Estonia and Lõuna-Eesti Ralli were comfortable R5 class wins) so far this season.
Leading from the first stage in his Subaru Motorsports USA WRX STI, Oliver and his Northern Irish co-driver Aaron Johnston built a comfortable advantage of more than a minute by the end of Friday's action. The pair won eight from 10 stages in a faultless performance from the #70 Subaru.
Saturday delivered more of the same, until a transmission problem slowed Oliver in the penultimate test. The Vermont SportsCar squad soon had that powertrain glitch sorted in time for the superstar youngster to go out and bag his second rally victory in two weeks. Admittedly, he won his class (and two rally championship titles) and missed out by a Lõuna-Eesti win to a Ford Fiesta WRC by just 3.9s.
Oliver said: "I have had so much fun in this car at this rally. OK, not so much fun when I only had front-wheel drive for the last-but-one stage, but the team built such a strong car, it was no problem. And when we came to service, they had it fixed really fast. They are fantastic.
"On this rally, I felt I totally was at home in the car. I think it was the best I ever felt driving the Subaru; it was like I could do exactly what I want. Honestly, the power and the feel from the car was amazing. Even when the rain came, we were sliding and having a lot, a lot of fun.
"I have to thank everybody at Subaru Motorsports USA and Vermont [SportsCar] for this. America is a real adventure for me this year. I have done five events and this is my third podium and second win with the team – that's a good record and one I'm really proud of. You know how much the Subaru name means to us Solbergs, so to have success like this is special."
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UNI's football season ends on a last second score
The football season ended for Northern Iowa Saturday a few seconds and one point short of a trip to Chattanooga and a spot in the national title game as they fell to Richmond in the semifinal round of the playoffs 21-20. Richmond got the ball at their own 38-yard line with no time outs left — but drove down and scored the go-ahead points with 14 seconds left to win the ballgame.
U.N.I. had the ball with two minutes left, but coach Mark Farley's team couldn't run the clock out. "This one hurts because we had it..in that last drive…we had it a lot of different ways actually," Farley says. Farley says he told the team if they can take what they did and use it in their own life experiences, as they never gave up and never listened to those who didn't believe in them. The Panthers weren't expected to get this far, but overcame obstacles such as having their two top receivers kicked of the team to advance to the semifinals.
Farley says it's hard and "so disappointing' because he feels bad for his players, yet he is so proud of them for what they've done to get to this point, "and than to have it taken away from you in the last seconds." Junior defensive end James Ruffin says it was a tough loss.
Ruffin says his thoughts were with the seniors and how they led the team and he says not getting the seniors to the championship game is what hurts the most. Ruffin they should have been able to stop Richmond on the winning drive.
Ruffin says all season long the defense has made plays and they wanted to have the lead in the fourth quarter, but he says Richmond made the plays to win the game. U.N.I. finishes the season at 12-3. Richmond advances to play Montana in the title game.


ALAMO, Calif. (KGO) -- Monday, ABC7 News anchor Dan Ashley held his annual Friends of Camp Concord Golf Tournament.
It was held at the Round Hill Country Club in Alamo. This is the 19th year this event has been held.
The tournament raises money to help send underserved children to summer camp at Lake Tahoe, all expenses paid. So far, 8,500 children have been sent to camp over the years.
Ashley said, "One of the most important features of what we do at Friends of Camp Concord is make sure that all of the kids who go up to Lake Tahoe on scholarship are anonymous in terms of who is there on assistance. So, the counselors don't know, the other kids don't know. The kids we send up there just get to go up there and have a great time and just be kids."
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We don't need no stinking model numbers!
April 21, 2017 Bill Brown
The curtain rises and act one begins…
"Hi! Welcome to Lawnmowerpros.com. How may we help you?"
"I need one of these!" (dropping item on the counter).
"I…uh…see. Um. Ok. (Trying not to reveal that I have absolutely no idea what that thing is). What did that come off of?"
"My mower."
Right. What mower do you have?
"MY mower. I got it at…"
"I understand it's your mower, do you have your model number?"
"I looked all over that thing and I couldn't find one. (Glancing sheepishly away.)"
"I see, well; do you happen to know the year it was made?"
"I bought it about three years ago."
"Ah. So maybe its a 2012?"
"I don't think so. It was used."
"I see. Alright. What brand is it?"
Deep cleansing breath.
"Is this part from the engine or the mower?"
"I think the engine. See what happened was that it fell off of the thing that's right next to where the cable thingy attaches. I think. I was mowing last week and I noticed the front wheels were really wobbly and I had loaned it to my brother-in-law last week and when I got it back, first off he didn't even fill it with gas. But then when I was using my trimmer around the mailbox I saw that we had…"
"I'm sorry. So, this is from the wheels?"
"No. The cable part where when you move the thing, the mower runs…in one direction, but when you pull the handle back-no wait..forward then the engine makes this noise like "poing clack poing" so when I turned it off then the engine stopped but I don't know. I checked the oil."
You stare at me with wide eyed apprehension because it has suddenly become as abundantly clear to you as it has to me that you sound like a crazy person.
I take a deep slow breath. I smile. I imagine riding horses on the beach with my girlfriend…and violins playing…and stuff.
"So, your wheels were wobbly, and when you moved the handle, it won't go any more. Correct?"
"Right. Yeah, but then when I go to start the mower, then the pulley thing wouldn't go back around so then I looked and I found this on the ground."
"And you think this may have been part of where one of the cables attach?"
"I don't know where the cable attaches."
"I'm sorry. I meant-"
"Plus, there's only one cable."
"Sorry?"
"There's only one cable on the mower."
"Oh. Right. Sorry. Where that cable attaches.
"Where the cable attaches. This might have come from there."
"No…I'm asking you. This may have come from where the one cable attaches."
"I don't know. I was using the weed whacker when I saw it."
Realizing that we're really not getting anywhere, I decide its time to take a different approach. I pick up the part and notice the word "Huffy" engraved into it.
"I'm going to ask a crazy question, but bear with me, ok?"
"Does anyone in your family own a bicycle?"
"It's my mower/"
"I understand. I'm just-"
"This is a mower shop, right?"
"Right. Mower. Yellow."
…end scene.
What you have just witnessed is a dramatization of an event occurring in repair shops everywhere…every day. While the names have been changed, the absurdity has not.
In a perfect world, I say "I need your model number." and you say "Oh, ok. Here it is." Then we find the part, we sell you the part and everyone parts friends.
But the reality is inexplicably different. I say "I need your model number." and you look at me like I'm screwing with you. Then you dig in and argue with me about how easy it should be to just go pull the part off of a shelf. Now I'm looking at you like you're screwing with me!
I have met folks who are willing to spend more time arguing with me over why they shouldn't need the model numbers than it takes to just go get them and be done with it.
In the end you still need the right part, we haven't made a sale and everyone's lost sight of something very important: We actually want to help you. The CSR and the service writer want to help you, the manager wants to help you. The technician wants you to leave his shop, but that's why we don't let him deal with customers.
Bullet Point- A quick, smooth transaction gets you back on the road and frees me up to help the next guy but it takes two for this tango.
Urgency – preparation + ego= a bad time at the mower shop.
The truth about model numbers
Your machine is a combination of parts, all fitted together to create a working device. But every one of those parts can break, and the manufacturer knew it.
So, in anticipation of said breakage, they wisely assigned a number to each part. Then they had their engineers draw up schematics (or parts diagrams) of the machine showing each available part and they listed the description and part number for each of them.
That is how we find parts.
What are we really talking about here?
While it helps to know about two cycle and four cycle machines, when it comes down to finding parts, there's really only one relevant question you have to answer: Do you care whether you get the right part or not?
If you don't (and it would appear that many people don't seem to) then we probably need to talk about who's going to end up paying the return shipping costs when you end up sending that part back to me.
But if you do care about getting the right part, then walk with me.
Them's was the good old days
Now, there was a time when the old shade tree mechanics could just look at a part and know exactly which one it was, then go right back into their shop and pull one out of a bucket. He could do that because there was only a few engines to choose from. They were all basically the same and most parts were interchangeable.
He doesn't work here any more.
So, now you're stuck with a guy like me who uses a computer to tell him which part goes where and how much it costs and where it can be found.
And while I may not posses the down homey simplicity of old "Shade Tree" , I have air conditioning, the internet, and I can keep track of 3 million more parts than he ever could on his best day.
And given just how many parts are floating around out there, looking for a part without a number is often like looking for a needle in a stack of needles.
Let's see old Shade Tree pull that one out of his butt! Ha!
So, you're looking for a new air filter. Sure! The air filter is one of the most commonly replaced parts on any small engine. Need a small engine air filter? Here you can purchase small engine air filters.
Oh. So, it's a Briggs and Stratton air filter? Well why didn't you say so? Here you can purchase Briggs and Stratton Air Filters.
Not seeing a picture of yours? Numbers would eliminate the guess work. But forget about air filters. How about Briggs and Stratton Fuel Line? Champion Spark Plugs? Briggs and Stratton Carburetor Repair Kits? Finding what you're looking for? Are you sure? How long did it take? Some parts are not returnable. Are you sure now?
You think it's hard to find replacement tires for your car? All four of them are the same. I bet your car doesn't have two different sizes of tires, plastic and steel, drive gear or no.
At this point, old "Shady" would be up in that tree sucking his thumb, crying "Maw! Paw! That mower feller has come a tormentin!
Wanna hear something crazy?
When it comes to finding parts, your machine may actually be two separate pieces of equipment. I wouldn't make it up! It's true!
See, there are two cycle and four cycle engines but for the purposes of this conversation, we'll just say big engines and small ones.
So, when it comes to finding parts for the big engines (mowers, walk behind tillers, wood chippers, log-splitters, etc) the engine is actually separate from the machine. It has its own model number, serial number and manufacturer. For example: you may have a Craftsman mower with a Briggs and Stratton engine or you may have a Snapper Mower with a Honda Engine.
But for smaller equipment (trimmers, chainsaws, blowers, edgers, etc), the engine is normally considered part of the machine as a whole; requiring one brand, one model number, one serial number. For example: your echo trimmer is one piece of equipment, your Troy Bilt blower is one piece of equipment.
So, to find the part you need, we have to know where to start looking. Is it part of the engine or the machine?
Would you go to a Ford dealership for Chevy parts? No? So you already see why brand is important.
Some brands are easy to look up (Snapper, Craftsman, MTD) while other brands are a bit more proprietary and require direct assistance from an authorized dealership. (John Deere and Stihl, respectively).
So, the brand of the engine tells us whether we can even provide parts for your machine in the first place.
While there are many brands that Lawnmowerpros.com can provide original (OEM) or aftermarket replacement parts for, some we simply can't.
Knowing the brand also allows us to figure out where you need to look to find those numbers. For example, the model and spec number on a Kohler engine is on a decal on the side of the engine while a Briggs and Stratton engine has numbers stamped into the engine itself, and a Honda engine requires numbers on a decal at the top of the rewind starter assembly as well as numbers pin stamped into the side of the engine block.
Why so complicated? Bring it up with the manufacturer and let me know what they say.
Model Numbers! They bum me out, man.
They're a drag. We know. What with all those numbers and letters and having to look at stuff. I am of the opinion that the entire model number system clearly reveals the repression that is inherent in the system. It's just another way for the government to keep the working man down. You have our condolences.
Having said that, they're important if you want the right parts the first time.
The serial number can also be valuable, but it doesn't replace the model number. And, no…we can't back track and find your model number with your serial number.
The serial number actually tells us which version of your model you have. For example: Let's say you have a Dixon zero turn mower model 4423 and you need the outer spindle shaft. As it turns out, Dixon manufactured that particular model between 1997 – 2003 and between those years, there were four different shafts used.
When you provide your serial number (in this case, it will be 98944) tells us that your mower was manufactured in 2003. By looking at the 2003 diagram, we are able to find the right part. Among other things, your serial number helps us to narrow down which unit to look at.
I think you know by now that all parts are not the same. I know enough to know I don't know enough when it comes to just guessing at the right ones. Model numbers eliminate guesswork.
Going all "Beautiful Mind" and just firing off every number you find on your machine is just as bad as giving me no numbers at all. Keep It Simple: Ask and I'll be happy to tell you what I need.
Time is money. I may be able to determine which part you have by looking at your old part or a photograph of your part (I'm pretty good with primer bulbs), but it will take far too long to unravel the mysteries of your snow blower to make the experience cost effective. I'm not messing with you here; I'm just giving it to you plain. Model numbers eliminate guesswork. Bring the numbers…the Fonz would have.
Buying a part because it looks like the right one online is a suckers bet. Pictures are representative of the type of part and are rarely exact representations of the part you're looking for. Model numbers eliminate guesswork.
Even if it says it in the name of the part; there is no such thing as truly "universal". Some parts work on multiple machines. Do not assume that if it says "universal" it will work on your machine. Model numbers eliminate guesswork.
For more information on how to find the numbers we need, check out How to find your model numbers.
It's easy when you go "by the numbers"!
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Hunters face total ban on bringing trophy kills back to UK
Campaigners are urging the government to fulfil its promise of the world's strongest ban on trophy hunting with comprehensive legislation
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Hunters will finally face a total ban from bringing trophy kills back to Britain, it has been reported.
The Mail on Sunday revealed that ministers will this week announce a ban on the import of trophy kills as figures show over 300 carcasses of endangered species have been shipped to the UK since 2019.
The announcement comes over two years since the Tories pledged to ban imports, which Boris Johnson has called a "disgusting trade". His father Stanley Johnson has campaigned extensively in favour of the ban.
A source from Whitehall told the Mail on Sunday that this week the next steps will be outlined regarding the ban and they will be "comprehensive, robust and effective, delivering the promised change to help protect thousands of species."
Claire Bass, executive director of campaign group Humane Society International (UK), told The Independent that while the ban is "extremely welcome", the devil will be in the detail of the legislation.
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"The government has been promising this ban since 2019 and has been dragging its heels a bit but they've taken their time to hopefully get the deal right and hopefully it isn't a ban full of loopholes that will allow the hunters to carry on with business as usual," Ms Bass said.
She added: "We want to make sure it is what government promised - which is the strongest trophy hunting ban in the world. To do that it's got to be as comprehensive as possible in terms of the list of species."
Dame Judi Dench, a supporter of the campaign to ban trophy hunting, said: "Having raised expectations, the government now has to deliver. It is a policy that has a lot of support."
To apply pressure on MPs to enforce the ban, Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting will send out a book shaming 75 British hunters, some of whom boast of killing hundreds of animals, the newspaper reported.
Their names and photos were found on the website of Umlilo Safaris, a South African company that offers hunters more than 50 species to kill.
Among its offering, the website Umlilo charges £9,175 for a "combo package" to kill a lion and lioness and £18,750 for an elephant.
Eduardo Goncalves, founder of Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting told The Independent that while the development is welcome, he is also waiting to see the scope of the ban including details of species it covers.
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"We want to know what the government intends in terms of enforcement and punitive measures. It's our view that lawbreakers receive a jail sentence," Mr Gonclaves said. He called on the government to bring the bill forward as soon as possible or to adopt MP John Spellar's private member's bill to ban trophy import bills.
"Every week that goes by without a ban means more animals, many of them endangered, are being shot by British trophy hunters and their head, bodies and skins are being brought back to decorate their living rooms - which is something the public finds repulsive," Mr Gonclaves added.
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Three Morpeth Harriers travelled the lengthy journey to the Falklands, to take part in the annual Cape Pembroke Half Marathon on Sunday February 17th 2019, a flat mixed terrain event on tarmac, gravel, sand and peat, running from Stanley to the Cape Pembroke lighthouse, and back again.
Military personnel and Falkland Islanders.
winning the £125 prize for first lady, and was 20th overall.
and Richard Sill was 26th with a time of 1hr48mins25secs.
and the footage went out on Falkland TV a day or so later.
She also had her photo in the local paper, "Penguin News."
and husband Les is working for Falkland Conservation counting whales.
was there for a week as the visiting consultant gynaecologist.
with apologies to Pam and Sue.
competing for Kilbarchan in the Senior Women's 10k event.
ads which finished in eighth and fifteenth team places respectively.
held at Sheffield Arena on Sunday 24th February 2019.
However, with a great deal of opposition, she went out in her Semi Final, where she clocked 9.25s.
It was an excellent day for the region, and for Morpeth Harriers athletes Rory Leonard and Carl Avery, as they each respectively won Gold and Bronze individual medals at the Saucony sponsored annual English National Cross-Country Championships, held within the splendour of Harewood House, ancestral home of the Lascelles family, near Leeds, on Saturday 23rd February 2019.
Thankfully the glorious sunshine, that broke through following early morning fog, made the occasion even more memorable as a spectacle, and equally well worthy of the extremely hard work put in by the organising team, led by Northern Athletics official Steve Gaines, himself a former Morpeth man.
In that, there would be no one more pleased than Gaines, when the day eventually ended, however his day would certainly be most brightened by the very sight of Rory Leonard coming home to clinch the approximately 8.9k Championship, run by the Junior Men.
It was very much a case of "The Lion Returns to Harewood," as this was very much the scene of where Leonard took the first of four titles in just over a year, having won the Northern Under 17 event in January 2018, followed a few weeks later by an Under 17 Inter Counties title at Loughborough, and last month he took the Northern Under 20 Men's title at Pontefract.
On Saturday, it was only natural that Leonard would be one of the likely favourites for victory, however being a first year Junior, and up against rivals a good year older than himself, he would certainly have to work his socks off to make it more of a reality.
He certainly did that in abundance, and it wasn't until the final downhill that he felt confident of victory.
On the final climb, Leonard managed to kick away from his chasing rivals, from where he continued his way to the finish line, and the loudest of cheers, as he became the first Morpeth Harrier for all of twenty four years to capture an English Cross Country National individual title, the last being Carley Wilson in 1995 at Luton, where she won the Under 13 Girls event.
Prior to that, there had only been two other Morpeth National Cross-Country title holders, and they were also both Under 13 Girls, they were firstly Angie Foster in Birmingham in 1989, and Lyndsey Bradley, again in Luton, but on a different course in 1993.
place taking the individual Bronze medal.
Unfortunately, Morpeth Harriers only just missed out on team medals in the Junior Men's event, finishing in fourth place overall, nine points adrift of third placed Reading AC, with Tonbridge winning from Cambridge and Coleridge by a margin of twenty-three points.
This was despite excellent supporting runs by Kieran Hedley (43rd), Alex Brown (50th), and Matthew Briggs (74th), in a finishing field of 201 runners, which meant that they had finished as first Northern club, ahead of Preston who were sixth, who were the Northern Champions at Pontefract.
Long term injury victim Taylor Glover is obviously a big miss to the success of this age group.
and Emile Cairess of Leeds City.
Avery, who also just lost out to Cairess in last month's Northern Championship at Pontefract, was still determined to add another Gold Medal to the one that he had won on the very same course just over twelve months previous in the 2018 Northern Championship, so much so, that he again went to the front in the final quarter as they battled the more hillier stretches of the tough demanding circuit.
and Mahamed and Cairess made their respective moves to steal clear.
adding to the Junior title that he won in London in 2018.
just holding off a fast finishing John Millar of Ipswich.
to the fore in the field of 2006 finishers.
in the form of Andrew Lawrence.
Alistair Douglass (302nd), Phillip Winkler (317th), and Tom Innes (461st).
They were sixth from the North however, and retained their mantle as first from the region, ahead of Tyne Bridge Harriers, who were twenty second overall, and Gateshead Harriers, who were twenty ninth.
David Nicholson (1053rd), and Steve Haswell (1258th).
The Under 17 Men's 6k event, was won by Wallsend's Sam Charlton, who won by nine seconds from Aldershot's Will Barnicoat, with Shaftesbury's Henry McLuckie just hanging on to take the Bronze medal, after being an early pace-setter over the two medium laps.
with Charnwood and Tonbridge taking the minor team medals.
who were one place and twenty-four points ahead of them.
and Lewis Eke (163rd), completing the Morpeth scoring tally.
did extremely well in the 272 strong field of finishers.
who finished 20th in their 3k event behind winners South London Harriers.
Their first finisher in the 408 strong field was Ryan Davies, who finished in sixtieth place overall.
Other Morpeth scoring finishers were Bertie Marr (104th), Joe Dixon (183rd), and Joseph Hudspith (212th).
The club were seventh from the North, and first from the region.
who just won by a two second margin.
finished in 40th and 96th places respectively in a finishing field of 129.
and was twenty third from the North, and third from the region.
Morpeth Harriers had three athletes competing in the Under 15 Boys 4k event.
followed by Dylan Davies and Sam Tait, who were 136th and 291st respectively.
Rebecca Bradley was 216th in the Under 15 Girls 4k event.
especially with the event being held closer to home.
held on Newcastle's Town Moor on Sunday 17th February 2019.


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Notes on current events
Migreurop Brief #6 - October 2017
Niger: interference and neo-colonialism in the name of development
On 10 October 2016, Niamey welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel with pomp and ceremony. She made no secret of the fact that "security" and "immigration" were her two main concerns. Her purpose was to implement the endlessly repeated "recommendations": Niger, a "transit country" should receive support in order to play its part as migration filter. Programmes to "reinforce local institutions" would make it possible to clearly distinguish between "refugees" – to be protected in situ – and "migrants" to be "escorted back" to their "countries of origin". In other words, as the French president recently said, Niger and its neighbours (Libya, Chad, etc.) should yield, allow their country to become a territory of camps and accept their role as hotspot (see Brief #4). The neo-colonial underpinnings inherent in this view of Euro-African relations has led the highly accommodating Niger authorities to remind us that the interests of their nationals and their national sovereignty deserve greater consideration. These intergovernmental negotiations are still ongoing, whereas in Libya deals are struck directly with the heads of militias who are willing to play jailor, provided they can get their hands on the funds doled out to the border guards of the European Union (EU).
Niger | Externalisation
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Movie-By-Movie: Terry Gilliam
By James White 2009-10-12T07:00:00.284Z Feature
The trials, the tribulations, the triumphs of Tel...
Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)
The Movie: With just a couple of (albeit brilliant and twisted) shorts under his belt, Terry Gilliam collaborated with Terry Jones to direct the Pythons' first proper, non-show-based stab at film.
Despite cancelled locations, awful weather, team squabbles and a drunken, often forgetful leading man in Graham Chapman, the final result is a ramshackle but hilarious collection of comedy moments that work well together despite themselves.
Terry's Trials: Though they were old friends and workmates, Jones and Gilliam had very different directing styles. In the end, frustration boiled over and Jones would end up the sole voice behind the camera for the team's other films.
"Terry and I tended to agree on most things, until we actually started working together and then we discovered we didn't agree quite as totally," laughs Gilliam.
"And we both had a very similar view of the whole thing, we knew what the look we wanted, all of those things. The real difference came in that I've got a better eye than Terry, is what it's about, I'm better at those things, and he's better at other things. I've got a better eye and ultimately that's how we ended up working it.
"So we split; I ended up being at the camera, and he worked with the guys, 'cause I having been in my little garret all those years my social skills were not as highly developed as they are now!"
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Jabberwocky (1977)
The Movie: As the director admits below, Jabberwocky feels more like a transition than anything else. Sure, it's bursting with his usual imagination and visual flare, but it's also decidedly silly and immature in places.
Terry's Trials: While the shoot was largely trouble-free in itself, the tone began to vary wildly from Gilliam's initial thoughts of a grown-up medieval fantasy to something between Python and a kids' film.
"I don't think we were bold enough when we wrote the thing; there are certain areas which are very Pythonesque in it, and we didn't completely make the break from Python. It was like a transition film - it went half-way to where I wanted to go.
"I think the thing is full of wondrous bits and pieces; I'm not convinced we got it flowing as well as it should have, but there's some moments that I think are just wondrous in it. Unfortunately it was sort of hoisted by the Python petard and at the time the reviews just couldn't look at it without judging it against Holy Grail, which was arrogance on my part, to think that it wouldn't be judged like that."
Time Bandits (1981)
The Movie: Determined to get Brazil made, Gilliam needed something substantial to back him up when he pitched the dark corporate totalitarian fantasy. So he and Michael Palin dreamt up this crazy family fantasy.
It's got plenty of darkness (see below), but it's also truly funny and rewarding, loaded down with great characters brought to life.
Terry's Trials: The actual production went okay, but the troubles began when Gilliam was forced to confront the realities of test screenings.
"The only big battle I was having was over the ending. The idea of a children's film where the parents blow up was not possible. And we had a screening in Fresno, California, one of the NRG screenings where they hand out the cards that you fill in.
"It gives the audience the chance to have power over the filmmaker, and they really grasp that power! But something was wrong with the print — it was either the Dolby print or it wasn't a Dolby print but it went through the wrong sound system — and so the first third of the film sounded like mmphfhphm mfhbmle thfmphfl mpthmfswmem — people were leaving.
"Now on the questionnaire — and this is stuff that every filmmaker has to go through, dealing with these statistics that come at the end — when the audience votes, one of the questions is, 'What is your favourite part of the film?' And one of the answers was, 'The End.'
I took the cards home and it was clear that because of this terrible sound system and so many people leaving, the part they liked best about the film was the end — it was over, is what they meant.
"But when you saw the statistics the next day, the part that was most loved about the film was the end — which was the parents blowing up! And so I won and got the parents blowing up."
The Movie: After a quick diversion back into Python-land to make the Crimson Permanent Assurance pirate short that appears before – and crashes into – The Meaning Of Life – Gilliam got to work on what would become his undisputed masterpiece.
Continuing his obsession with corporate culture and faceless bureaucracy (which he'd tackled in a sideways fashion with Jabberwocky), Gilliam, along with co-writers Charles McKeown and Tom Stoppard poured his guts into the film and it shows – it's dangerous, atmospheric and brilliant.
Terry's Trials: Did he have problems with it? Um… just a little bit.
"Universal at the time was far closer to the bureaucracy that was portrayed in Brazil — they were just stunned by it. And they didn't know quite what to make of it."
"Even though the script was shot as approved and all of those things, they just weren't sure, because they're very nervous people. They're paid enormous sums of money to be able to predict exactly what the public wants. And I think that can lead to real neuroses on their part because it's an impossible task.
"And so their immediate reaction was a nervous one: 'We're not sure what we've got, so let's try to change it into something that we do understand.' And I refused to play ball with them. I said, 'Sorry, this is the film that we agreed to make.' And then it got into this legalistic argument.
The only thing they really had over us was the time clause, and that's what they used to try to make us change the essence of the film."
You likely know the rest – the studio produced its own, butchered, "Love Conquers All" happy ending version, Gilliam went to war to make them release his take. He won…
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The Movie: It should've been a no-brainer for Gilliam – a rich epic loaded with comic possibilities and weird creatures.
But somewhere along the line, the huge film the director had in mind crashed into the reality of movie-making budget considerations and the scars are still evident – Munchausen is too messy, too random and while it looks amazing, the story is seriously lacking.
Terry's Trials: "I remember when we could not figure out exactly what should go - it was the eleventh hour and two days before crisis point," says the director.
"Film Finances were going to sue me for fraud. I found that amusing considering the subject matter we were dealing with. But when they started getting really heavy, David Tomblin, my assistant and associate producer suddenly called and said 'Call your lawyer, the game's up!'
"Charles McKeown got so angry about it we shot through the script in less than an hour and came up with revisions the financiers found acceptable. Telexes, cables and memos were flying about in all directions and at one point a Film Finances guy pissed me off so much, I punched out a car windscreen.
"I couldn't believe I'd done it or let the situation get so out of hand. I felt I had reached the end and laughed at the threat of replacement by lower echelon directors because, by this stage, they were welcome to it. No one would have touched it with a barge pole. I became a hostage director."
The Fisher King (1991)
The Movie: Recovering from Munchausen, our hero really just wanted to make something small and simple. The Fisher King, written by Richard LaGravenese, seemed to fit the bill perfectly.
And it works – somehow Gilliam's inherent flights of fancy mesh with the story of downtrodden DJ Jeff Bridges and the crazy man with a crusade (Robin Williams) that end up helping each other.
Terry's Trials: It was a largely trouble-free shoot, especially compared to the likes of Munchausen, but Gilliam did note some hiccups:
"The last couple of days were very silly where we're doing a close-up of Jeff in front of Carmichael's townhouse, against those stairs which were built in California, with all of Madison Avenue behind us, with buses.
"The noise was unbearable, it was ruining sound takes. And I used to laugh at people who did things like that, it's ridiculous; you could do that close-up in LA — just bring the wall back.
But we ended up doing it because everybody's fired up, you've got to do it. We did close-ups with the Knight on Fifth Avenue, and what you see on film, I'm not sure if you know it's Fifth Avenue, which is very, very bad. But it's to do with the fact that you get away with it, is why you do it."
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
The Movie: Despite the legendary struggle over Brazil, Gilliam returned to Universal for Monkeys, which saw him take another step up in terms of star power, with Bruce Willis And Brad Pitt nabbing the lead roles.
The time travel paradoxes become a little twisted in on themselves, but Monkeys still successfully blends the intriguing look Gilliam always brings with the sci-fi hook.
Terry's Trials: Another relatively strife-free shoot, but some different challenges.
"It's a very different experience working with stars," Gilliam set at the time.
"I'm not used to the American system that allows stars incredible latitude. They're just not used to working the way we used to work in England, where we're just more matter-of-factly getting on with it. Here, people are frightened with the success of successful people. It's much more hierarchical, there's more fear in the air. It's odd."
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)
The Movie: Never one to back down from a challenge, Gilliam suits up for a book adaptation that had defeated Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone and had seen Alex Cox fired by the producers of this latest version before El Tel was brought aboard.
It's a long, strange trip that captures gonzo god Hunter S Thompson's rambling prise and, in Johnny Depp, his wacked-out personality, even if the film itself never quite gels.
Terry's Trials: The biggest issue was trying to get permission, apparently… "Cooperating with our vision wouldn't gain the hotels much! We ended up with a couple of the old hotels that, for whatever reason were at least accommodating enough to let us shoot there. We were only able to shoot inside the Riviera and inside the Binions.
"The Riviera was actually very accommodating. And as far as exteriors, the Palace Hotel we converted into Bazooka Circus. We had to wheel in this 20-foot-high clown head, which is a huge open mouth as our entrance. Then they'd got six lanes of car in the entranceways for cars to come in and disgorge the clients, and we were allowed to use two lanes at any one time.
"So we were dancing around a casino that was functioning. And so that was all very difficult stuff. And each thing we had to get done in a night; we were not allowed to come back anywhere!
"Our problem was trying to make a Vegas that looked like Vegas in 1971. We were very limited in what's there that we could use. The key shot that establishes Vegas, the majority of it is computer generated.
"The Mint Hotel doesn't exist any more, so all of that had to be recreated. Circus Circus, which in our script is 'Bazooka Circus' (because Circus Circus wouldn't let us near their place), we had to build all that. It was great because we were able to take it much further than the reality."
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
The Movie: A long break between films (partly forced by the collapse of The Man Who Killed Don Quoxote), but sadly his return to big studio filmmaking – well, Miramax/Dimension – didn't exactly turn out to be a solid return.
Trouble with the movie (see below) and a frankly dodgy script resulted in something that has small moments to enjoy (particularly the banter between Heath Ledger and Matt Damon) but very little else. Mighty = fallen.
Terry's Trials: "They're always a fight! I don't know if it has to be. I've made films that weren't fights, but they tend to get the adrenaline going," Gilliam told us at the junket. "A fight tends to clarify what's important and not important to me. If you're fighting for something – 'Okay, I'll give you that, but I'm going to keep that,' – it's not the worst thing to happen, but I don't particularly enjoy them.
"We had casting fights and there were some make-up things and a few other things like that. I remember saying to Bob Weinstein, 'listen Bob, we're both independent, we've both been successful in our own way, we both think we're right. This could be a difficult marriage...'And to give them their due, most of the time when I've dealt with studios, there's nobody there that believes in anything strongly enough, so you can work your way around them. But it wasn't the easiest…"
Tideland (2005)
The Movie: Oh, dear… It was primed as Terry's return to stress-free indie movie making, with a low budget, lowered expectations and zero studio meddling.
But for all Tideland's commitment to its creepy tone, it meanders and gets lost in the weird world, never finding its way back to watchability.
Terry's Trials: Though the result didn't exactly set the world alight, Gilliam clearly enjoyed making it.
"We were away from the world. It was a great crew. And we just did it. There weren't any problems. The whole thing was so easy, luckily. It's proved to be difficult selling the film; it was difficult getting the money. But the making was a breeze."
"The thing that got the adrenaline going was that we were up against a schedule, weather, and all those things. But as far as fights about the content or who was in it, any of that? Nothing. And that was a joy!"
Wish it had been for the rest of us…
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The Movie: It's out this week – you can read our reaction for yourself.
Terry's Trials: The loss of Heath Ledger was almost the end of the film – but thanks to some help from the likes of Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, it got finished.
"Providence intervened," Gilliam says. "I had to be incredibly pragmatic after Heath died. It wasn't easy. But there was a sense of freedom: I would think, let's try that because if we don't do something we're dead in the water, and if we try that it might work, it might not. Heath took a certain responsibility off my shoulders by not turning up for work.'"
"On top of everything else, we were in mourning. 'This was a deeply loved human being, and he's not there any longer. Except he was there, on the screen. We'd go into the editing-room every day and say, Heath, you bastard, you really stuck me in the shit here. It was a misery, but turning Heath into the bad guy was a nice way of grieving. But, oh shit, look how good he was!
"Johnny, Jude and Colin, they all did their job brilliantly, but what we'll never know is what the effect of the film would have been if Heath had played all of it: when the audience suddenly realises how horrible he is – what would that have been like? Because there's something so sweet about Heath."


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Requisitions Points Remaining Hex Cheat Any game can be edited with this hex edit. I used the player name "commander" and searched for the second occurance of it and within just a few hexes above the name was whatever the remaining requisition points needed. Save the game then go in and edit. Then reload. For example, most of the time you will see 0A because the mission will give you 10 points to requisition.
Then you will have a new requisitions points remaining amount of: 24056 instead of 102.


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I am seriously in need of a vacation. Every summer I usually take 3 weeks off and jet set off to Cyprus to visit my family… it is a great break because I can shut my brain off, no science for 3 weeks… sleeping in late, staying out late, laying on the beach getting super tan, and relaxing. Oh how I long to travel! 🙁 I am dreaming of flying to Mykonos or Santorini right now… a girl can only dream…. sigh… what are your vacation plans (if you haven't already taken a vacation!) ? Where do you want to visit?
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Yes – Mr & Mrs. FIRE Station have been very blessed to be able to retire more than a decade earlier than the average person, but it does come with an opportunity cost of 10+ years of income. While we are not living a "frugal" lifestyle, we are still making a choice to forgo the material benefits of working. Why do so? At this point of our lives, I think that TIME is the ultimate LUXURY and it shouldn't be a stretch to make the most of all we have been so fortunate to receive.
Here is a link to an article about the classic study on the relationship between money and happiness by Nobel-prize winning economist Angus Deaton, who says that happiness tops out at about $75K / year of income.
Yes – "The life unexamined is not worth living." Socrates, I think.


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Q: Deploy using VSO RM to Azure Linux with PS/DSC I have setup a Linux Srv in Azure with OMI/PSDCS and trying to deploy with VSO Release Management.
I have created an Azure environment (I won't allow mw to create a Standard Env) and solved all certificate issues so far.
Now it's failing because RM try to connect to the linux server using Negotiate Auth and (of course) the OMI service only supports Basic.
How can I make RM to use Basic? Or OMI to support Negotiate/NTLM?
Any post or document showing ANY working VSO RM deploying to Azure without using Chef?

A: The "Run PS/DSC task" that ships with RM does not support Linux deployments. The current implementation is quite dependent on Windows being the target. But, may I suggest a couple of workarounds?
For both of these workarounds, you should first have a PS script (with DSC configurations and Start-DSCConfiguration) that you can run from a Windows machine to target your Linux machine, without using RM or Build. You have complete control on how this script should be written including how the credentials are created, and the authentication method.
Once you have an independently tested PS script, you can do one of the following:

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*Create a Build definition in your visualstudio.com account Build hub and use the Powershell Build step to run the above script. Note that this is the new Build system in VSO. It has the ability to run PS scripts easily. Note that you are creating a build definition here instead of a release template in RM. The new Release hub that will be available later this year in VSO will be very similar to the Build hub, and you can leverage the same PS script inside a Release definition once that is available. I tried this approach and it seems to work fine.

*Setup a Windows machine as a target Azure environment in RM. Create a vNext release template to then run the above PS script on the Windows machine. When that script is run, it will be able to target the Linux server. In this approach, you are using a Windows machine as a proxy to run the PS script. I have tried this using agent-based release template, and not with the vNext release template. I am hoping that it will work fine with the vNext release template as well.


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Q: Injection via Guice into an Immutables class I'm using 2 common packages, Immutables and
Guice.  The very first thing that happens at runtime is I load setting from environment and other sources into settings into a singleton, non-Immutable config class, let's call it MyConfig, that for example, exposes a public getSettingX() method.
 MyConfig myConfig = MyConfig.intialize().create();
 String settingX = myConfig.getSettingX();

I have one abstract Immutable class, call it AbstractImmutable. that at instantiation needs to set a field based on the myConfig.getSettingX().
@Value.Immutable
abstract class AbstractImmutable {
   abstract String getSettingX(); // Ideally set
}

Now, typically I inject MyConfig into classes using Guice, and would liket to figure a way to do this for implementations of the AbstractImmutable class (to avoid manually having to inject the MyConfig class every time I build an object--whole reason using juice to begin with, to manage my DI). However, since the concrete Immutables classes are generated at compile, it doesn't to work with the usual Guice injection annotations.
There's indication on the Immutables site of using the builder package to annotate a static factory method, but I can't seem to figure how to add this to the abstract immutable class.
Anyone have any suggestions?

A: To my knowledge, there is no way to do this on the generated Immutables class itself (though there may be some funny stuff you could do with @InjectAnnotation), so you may be out of luck there.
Even though you are asking under the guise of Guice, what you are asking for reminds me of the pattern that AutoFactory uses, and should be similarly applicable. In essence, take advantage of the Factory Pattern by injecting into the factory and then the factory will create the Immutable object.
For example, specifically referring to your case,
@Value.Immutable
abstract class ValueObject {
    MyConfig getMyConfig();

    @Value.Derived
    String getSettingX() {
        getMyConfig().getSettingX();
    }

    String getAnotherProperty();

    class ValueObjectFactory {
        @Inject MyConfig myConfig;

        ValueObject create(String anotherProperty) {
            return ImmutableValueObject.builder()
                .setMyConfig(this.myConfig)
                .setAnotherProperty(anotherProperty)
                .build();
        }
    }
}

Then, in the application code, you would inject the ValueObjectFactory directly and call create on it as
class SomeApplicationClass {
    @Inject ValueObjectFactory factory;

    void someMethod() {
        ValueObject = factory.create("myString");

        // ... do something with the ValueObject
    }
}

Similarly, you could define your factory as a builder, but that will be a decision you will have to make based on the number of parameters you have.


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Q: How to debug excel VBA COM reference object I created a .Net COM (Component Object Model) DLL, registered it and added it to an Excel VBAProject as a Reference. Now I can call the .Net methods from the VB macros. Is there a way to attach the Visual Studio 2013 debugger to the COM DLL? I tried to attach it to the Excel process but this didn't work.
Thanks

A: Hans Passant, you are right. It is enough to change "Attach to" from "Automatic" to "Managed (v4.5, v4.0) code, Native code" and attach to EXCEL process


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Q: Input elements are displayed the whole width of the screen I'm using bootstrap to make input elements with prepended text, using code from
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/input-group/#basic-example

    @

  <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Username" aria-label="Username" aria-describedby="basic-addon1">

The problem is that the inputs are wrongly displayed:

This is how it should be displayed

I already deleted all the contents of my css file to test if the problem was there but it isn't.
I assume that can be fixed with css, but I don't know how.

A: For that to happen your classes are not calling the CSS anexed to them.


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Q: Apache Kafka : commitSync after pause In our code, we plan to manually commit the offset. Our processing of data is long run and hence we follow the pattern suggested before

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*Read the records

*Process the records in its own thread

*pause the consumer

*continue polling paused consumer so that it is alive

*When the records are processed, commit the offsets

*When commit done, then resume the consumer

The code somewhat looks like this:
   while (true) {
          ConsumerRecords<String, String> records = consumer.poll(kafkaConfig.getTopicPolling());
                if (!records.isEmpty()) {
                    task = pool.submit(new ProcessorTask(processor, createRecordsList(records)));
                }
                if (shouldPause(task)) {
                    consumer.pause(listener.getPartitions());
                }
                if (isDoneProcessing(task)) {
                   consumer.commitSync();
                   consumer.resume(listener.getPartitions());
                }
    }

If you notice, we commit using commitSync() (without any parameters).
Since the consumer is paused, in the next iteration we would get no records. But commitSync() would happen later. In that case which offset's would it try to commit? I have read the definitive guide and googled but cannot find any information about it.
I think we should explicitly save the offsets. But I am not sure if the current code would be an issue.
Any information would be helpful.
Thanks,
Prateek

A: If you call consumer.commitSync() with no parameters it should commit the latest offset that your consumer has received. Since you can receive many messages in a single poll() you might want to have finer control over the commit and explicitly commit a specific offset such as the latest message that your consumer has successfully processed. This can be done by calling commitSync(Map<TopicPartition,OffsetAndMetadata> offsets)
You can see the syntax for the two ways to call commitSync here in the Consumer Javadoc http://kafka.apache.org/0110/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.html#commitSync()