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State v. Lewis
69 Wn.2d 120 (1966)
417 P.2d 618
THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Respondent, v. THELMA RANDOLPH LEWIS et al., Appellants.[*]
The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.
August 4, 1966.
Opendack & Alfieri and James A. Alfieri, for appellants.
Charles O. Carroll and David W. Soukup, for respondent.
BARNETT, J.[†]
Appellants Agnes Woodley and Thelma Lewis appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict by which they were found guilty of attempted grand larceny.
The facts are virtually undisputed. Mrs. Clara Werth, 83, was living in Seattle with her retired husband. On December 11, 1964, while shopping at a neighborhood store, Mrs. Werth encountered appellant Agnes Woodley, to her a stranger. In the course of conversation, Woodley told Mrs. Werth of a lady friend who had found "a big money envelope with lots of money in it," and that she herself was carrying upon her person the cash sum of $10,000 which, she stated, was the insurance proceeds resulting from her husband's death. Asked about a "reliable bank," Mrs. Werth revealed to Woodley that she and her husband kept their "little savings" (some $8,000) in a bank which was very reliable.
At this point in the conversation, appellant Lewis, who had reportedly found the envelope containing the large sum of money, entered upon the scene. Lewis at first appeared piqued at her friend's disclosure of her providential acquisition, but her anger seemed to abate with Woodley's assurance that Mrs. Werth was "all right." Lewis then confided that the envelope which she had found contained the cash sum of $9,800 together with lottery stubs and *122 photographs of disrespectable women. When asked by Mrs. Werth as to her intentions regarding the money, Lewis replied that, on the advice of her "boss," she was going to keep it and divide it since it apparently had come from disrespectable persons. Mrs. Werth was persuaded to discuss the matter further while driving around in the "boss' car," which Mrs. Lewis said she had borrowed. The "boss," said appellant Lewis, had cautioned her that the money should be divided only on the condition that each recipient show some money of her own as an assurance that the found money would not immediately be spent. The car was parked and appellant Woodley gave to Lewis a wallet which she had represented as containing her insurance proceeds of $10,000, and which Lewis took to show her "boss" in his office "on 84th Street." Upon Lewis's return, Woodley was given what was purported to be a roll of bills worth some $3,000 or a third of the "found" money. Mrs. Werth testified that on top of the roll was a $10 bill, but that the rest "did not look to me to be too good." At the same time Woodley's wallet, supposedly containing the insurance money, was returned to her. Mrs. Werth, when asked by one of the appellants whether she was possessed of her bank book at that time, replied that she was not, and that it was necessary for her to return to her home, where her husband, probably worried, was waiting. Lewis told her that she would call the following Monday, and Mrs. Werth gave to the appellants her telephone number.
Her suspicions aroused, Mrs. Werth alertly contacted the Seattle Police Department. Appellant Lewis telephoned her on Monday morning and arranged to "finish the business." The police were present at the Werth home when this contact was made. A rendezvous was agreed upon by Lewis and Mrs. Werth, and the scene was staked out by the police. It appears that the appellants, in approaching the agreed meeting place, became cognizant of the presence of the police and fled. A subsequent chase resulted in their apprehension.
Lewis and Woodley were tried and convicted of attempted grand larceny by trick, device or bunco. Their appeal from *123 these convictions is prosecuted upon their belief that the state has failed to produce enough evidence from which a jury could find that they intended to commit the crime of grand larceny, or that they committed a sufficient overt act in endeavoring to consummate the crime.
RCW 9.54.010 provides, in part:
Every person who, with intent to deprive or defraud the owner thereof
(2) Shall obtain from the owner or another the possession of or title to any property, real or personal ... by color or aid of any fraudulent or false representation ... or by any trick, device, [or] bunco game....
Steals such property and shall be guilty of larceny.
If the value of the stolen property is of or more than $75, the consummated crime is designated as grand larceny. RCW 9.54.090(6). RCW 9.01.070 defines the crime of attempt as: "An act done with intent to commit a crime, and tending but failing to accomplish it...."
[1] The state, in a prosecution for an attempted crime, must prove that the defendant actually intended to commit the target crime, and that he performed an overt act directed toward its commission. There must be a unity of intent and overt act. Both elements must coincide. State v. Christensen, 55 Wn.2d 490, 348 P.2d 408 (1960); State v. Leach, 36 Wn.2d 641, 219 P.2d 972 (1950); 1 Wharton, Criminal Law and Procedure § 71, p. 152 (1957); 21 Am.Jur.2d Criminal Law § 110 (1965).
Appellants challenge the evidence presented by the state as insufficient to prove either of the essential elements. We must hold against them on both propositions.
[2] Intent, being a state of mind, can be inferred by the jury from all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the act. State v. Willis, 67 Wn.2d 681, 409 P.2d 669 (1966). This rule is as applicable in cases of attempted crimes as it is in cases where the crime has been consummated. State v. Leach, supra. The state's evidence, were the jury to believe *124 it, and the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, establish the facts that (1) there is practiced a well-known bunco scheme known as the "pigeon drop" or the "lost wallet"; (2) appellants followed the pattern of this scheme nearly to the letter; (3) appellants made several false statements to Mrs. Werth; (4) appellants, when arrested, were in possession of several items of property commonly used by confidence game operators such as wigs and stage money; included among these items was a paperback book entitled "The Big Con," within which various confidence games were described; and (5) appellants attempted to flee from the arresting law enforcement officers.
[3] Appellants strongly contend that criminal intent cannot be imputed to them from their overt acts alone. Where a defendant's overt act is patently equivocal, this rule may well be applicable. Thus, we held in State v. Leach, supra, cited by appellants, that the jury could not justifiably find a specific intent on the part of the defendant to have carnal knowledge of his daughter when the evidence showed only that he customarily shared a bed with her, and that, occasionally, while he and she were partially clad, he laid atop her. But the rule above urged has no application where, as here, the specific criminal intent of the accused may be inferred from the conduct "where it is plainly indicated as a matter of logical probability." Perkins, Criminal Law, p. 497 (1957).
The record disclosed abundant evidence from which the jury could justifiably find that appellants, throughout their course of conduct, actually intended to deprive or defraud Mrs. Werth of her property by trick, device or bunco game.
[4, 5] Intent alone, of course, is not punishable. It must coincide with some overt act adapted to, approximating and which, in the ordinary and likely course of events, will result in the commission of the target crime, reaching far enough toward its accomplishment to amount to the commencement of the consummation. Mere preparation is not indictable. The conduct of the accused, while it need not be the last act necessary to the consummation of the intended crime, must approach sufficiently near it to stand *125 as a direct movement toward the commission of the offense after the preparations are made. In determining just where preparation ceases and attempt begins, we can be aided by no rigid formula. Each case hinges upon its own facts and circumstances. State v. Christensen, supra; State v. Leach, supra; 21 Am.Jur.2d Criminal Law § 111 (1965).
It is the position of appellants that their conduct was, at most, merely preparatory to the perpetration of the target crime. We do not agree. The line between preparation and perpetration is often thin and difficult of ascertainment. However, that line was clearly transgressed here. From the evidence, the jury was justified in believing that the appellants engaged their intended victim in certain conversation by which they discovered the state of her bank account; that they made deliberate misstatement upon misstatement concerning the "found" money, the insurance proceeds, and the existence of a "boss," his car and his office; that they displayed a roll of spurious bills which they advertised as the "found" money; that they telephoned Mrs. Werth at her home 3 days later and arranged to "finish the business"; that appellants traveled to the rendezvous scene to consummate the target crime, and were prevented from doing so only by their last-minute discovery of the presence of the police, and by Mrs. Werth's determination unknown to them not to deliver the money. These acts constitute a direct movement toward the consummation of larceny by bunco scheme.
Appellants had done every act in the execution of their contrived scheme except to receive the property of their intended victim. A case in point, though not from our jurisdiction, is Williams v. State, 209 Miss. 902, 909, 48 So. 2d 598 (1950), where it was said:
The rule is well recognized that "whenever the design of a person to commit crime is clearly shown, slight acts done in furtherance of this design will constitute an attempt". [Citations omitted.] It is obvious that appellant and her companion designed and intended to obtain fraudulently the money of the Jacksons and convert it to their own use. The acts done *126 in furtherance of that design were not merely slight, but were, in fact, substantial. The appellant and her companion ascertained that the Jacksons had money. They represented that a pocketbook had been found containing $105. The pocketbook and money were exhibited. The Jacksons had money in the bank. The scheme was to get $100 of their money by permitting Tillie to share in the proceeds of the pocketbook. The place for the division was designated. Tillie left the scene ostensibly to get the money. At the designated place, the appellant and her companion appeared to be nervous and sought to escape. The only thing lacking in the consummation of the larceny was the actual delivery of the money.
The proof sustained the charge.
We can reach no different conclusion on the evidence before us. Both intent and overt acts are substantiated by the record.
ROSELLINI, C.J., DONWORTH, WEAVER, and HAMILTON, JJ., concur.
September 30, 1966. Petition for rehearing denied.
[*] Reported in 417 P.2d 618.
[†] Judge Barnett is serving as a judge pro tempore of the Supreme Court pursuant to Art. 4, § 2(a) (amendment 38), state constitution.


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The team celebrated winning the crown in 2017, winning 10 of their 14 fixtures and finishing more than 70 points clear of their nearest challengers Lancashire.
They will soon be heading out for some warm-weather training and friendly action in the West Indies as they count down to the start of the 2018 campaign.
But before enjoying some time in the sunshine they have been working on their game a little closer to home at the HECC Sport Centre for Cricket in Rook End, High Wych.
The likes of captain Ryan ten Doeschate, England stars Tom Westley and Ravi Bopara, hot property Dan Lawrence, James Foster and Varun Chopra have been making themselves feel at home at the Tharbies Farm complex.
The county champions have been doing physical training and fitness tests at the five-lane indoor centre, which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary, due to their own training centre being refurbished, and they are spending two days a week at the complex.
"We've been here 10 years and we've built up a good reputation with Essex," said the centre's head coach Luke Humphrey.
"They were aware of the quality of our centre and they chose to send their professional players over here in the absence of their own facilities.
The centre offers a wide variety of all-round coaching – batting, bowling and fielding – for all age groups, from grass-roots level to county and beyond.
One-to-one, group, club and masterclass coaching sessions are held throughout the year, as well as additional team and league training in the purpose-built indoor and outdoor facility.
Humphrey oversees all of the coaching programmes and courses at the centre throughout the year and he has 15 years of experience with players of all ages and abilities.
He started his coaching career in 1998 as an ECB Level 1 coach and later joined the family business on a full-time basis in 2002, before becoming one of the youngest ECB Level 3 coaches in England.
Visit www.heccsport.com to find out more.


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A narancshasú virágjáró (Dicaeum trigonostigma) a madarak osztályának verébalakúak (Passeriformes) rendjébe és a virágjárófélék (Dicaeidae) családjába tartozó faj.

Rendszerezése
A fajt Giovanni Antonio Scopoli olasz ornitológus írta le 1786-ban, a Certhia nembe Certhia trigonostigma néven.

Alfajai
Dicaeum trigonostigma assimile Bourns & Worcester, 1894
Dicaeum trigonostigma besti Steere, 1890
Dicaeum trigonostigma cinereigulare Tweeddale, 1878
Dicaeum trigonostigma cnecolaemum Parkes, 1989
Dicaeum trigonostigma dayakanum Chasen & Kloss, 1929
Dicaeum trigonostigma dorsale Sharpe, 1876
Dicaeum trigonostigma flaviclunis Hartert, 1918
Dicaeum trigonostigma intermedium Bourns & Worcester, 1894
Dicaeum trigonostigma isidroi Rand & Rabor, 1969
Dicaeum trigonostigma megastoma Hartert, 1918
Dicaeum trigonostigma pallidius Bourns & Worcester, 1894
Dicaeum trigonostigma rubropygium E. C. S. Baker, 1921
Dicaeum trigonostigma sibutuense Sharpe, 1893
Dicaeum trigonostigma sibuyanicum Bourns & Worcester, 1894
Dicaeum trigonostigma trigonostigma (Scopoli, 1786)
Dicaeum trigonostigma xanthopygium Tweeddale, 1877

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Im still trying to come up with a death guard list I like. I keep coming to the conclusion that the best troops are the ones that are the cheapest and leave the heavy lifting for the rest of the army. I was listening to a great 40k podcast, the 11th company, and the TO for NOVA, Mike Brandt, was talking about how the best defence for an army is to throw a monkey wrench (read as fast moving assault threats) into the opponents plan. He also talked about putting an army on the table that really doesn't care about casualties (his favourite armies are horde guard, orks and nids). With this in mind I have come up with this.
This list is hyper agressive. By turn two I should have the spawn units, the heldrake, the daemon prince and the maulerfiend all up in my opponents bacon. This should keep the attention off my zombie horde. 1850 I would like add an aegis with a quad gun......hey zombies still have a BS.


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While the Indian cricket team gears up to start their campaign in the World Test Championship in the first Test against West Indies in Antigua an important member of the team is cooling his heels back home in Mumbai. Hardik Pandya, who was rested for the series, is making the most of his time off and on Thursday walked the ramp at the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week.
Pandya was the showstopper along with actor Lisa Haydon for designer Amit Aggarwal. Dressed in a maroon attire from the designer's latest collection, the all-rounder showed just why is he such a hot property even off the field. Pandya has not been seen making public appearances at shows and events since the, now infamous, Koffee with Karan controversy it seems has left his struggles in the past and back to enjoying life outside cricket.
Pandya shared a video on Instagram with the message,"Rocked the ramp at LFW with @r.elan.official and @amitaggarwalofficial. Great collection made even better to wear with R | Elan fabrics and amazing craft of Amit Aggarwal. The best of @lakmefashionwk."
He was an important cog in the team's wheel in the ICC World Cup and will look to get back to donning the national colours in the upcoming home season, which starts with tough series against South Africa.
In a recent interview about the Koffee with Karan controversy, India opener KL Rahul spoke about the ordeals he and Pandya faced and also touched upon their relationship after the entire episode.
"It was hard for both of us. We did speak to each other about it while this whole process was on (investigation). He was with his family and friends and I was with my people. We switched off from the outside world for those few weeks. We learnt from the situation, accepted it, and now we are back to being good friends. We literally spend 300 days together... travelling and playing cricket. Hardik is still a good friend and we enjoy each other's company,
Tamannaah Bhatia's Blue Sari Abstract The Show


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We have talked about Nirvana Beer before – one of our first beer-tasting events included a prototype stout made by Steve, the man behind Nirvana, as one of the beers on the tasting menu. It was actually the favourite beer of the evening, beating several well-known commercial brands, so we have been eagerly waiting for more. And now we have it.
Steve, together with Becky and the rest of the Nirvana team have opened UK's first dedicated low and no alcohol brewery in Leyton, East London. Club Soda paid a visit last week to check out the brand new brewhouse, which is very impressive – you can read more about Nirvana Brewery on the Club Soda Guide website. And also to do some yoga.
Yes, you read that right. Nirvana is not just about low and no alcohol beer, they want to be a bit more than that. So they organise beer and yoga classes too. This is a special yoga class, using beer bottles as props with some of the exercises, followed by a beer tasting and nibbles afterwards.
The floor of the brewhouse had yoga mats waiting for us, for the class taught by Liz who is an experienced yogi and teacher, and a friend of good beer. Most of the postures would be familiar to people who have practised yoga before, but some came with little beer bottle-shaped twists. These included using the bottle as a point of focus, and doing the warrior pose while holding a bottle in your outstretched arm (actually rather hard work!).
The two Nirvana beers already out and available are Kosmic, which is a 0.0% ABV stout – dark and beautifully malty, with hints of chocolate and vanilla in the taste; and Mantra, a 0.7% ABV IPA – nicely balanced bitterness and citrus fruit flavours and plenty of taste for a lower alcohol beer. Both are excellent beers for the mindful drinker, with no compromise on the taste. And Nirvana have plans to add more beer styles to their range, both non-alcoholic 0.0% ones, and low-alcohol ones of under 1% ABV.
You can find out more about Nirvana, their beers, and their beer yoga classes on the Nirvana Brewery website.


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Q: How to find out what plays "Ding" in my application Whenever I close a particular context menu and have changed the value in a particular ToolStrip TextBox my application plays "Default Beep" (Windows Ding.wav)
I have stepped through my code line by line until the "Ding" is heard but I cant find anything.
How does one go about finding out what makes my application go "Ding"?
Edit:
Well it turns out that this wasn't so simple as I thought (I suspected a rouge MessageBox or something). The ding only plays on my Vista, my colleague tells me it doesn't play on his XP.

A: You can debug your program in Visual Studio, and set a breakpoint on the System.Media.SystemSound.Play method. When the breakpoint hits, look at the current call stack to see what called the method.
The breakpoint can be set through the "breakpoints" window of Visual Studio, don't forget to set the language as "Unknown" or the IDE won't find the function.

A: Whenever you press enter on a Form the default behavior is to execute the click event of the Accept (AKA OK) Button. If no OK Button is defined a Beep is issued as no default action can be executed.
To override this beep you can:
1.- Define an Accept button on your form.
2.- Handle the keypress event on the TextBox, check if ENTER or RETURN key has been pressed and set e.handled=True
If option 2 then take notice that it will only work for TextBoxes, ENTER in other controls can cause a Beep if not handled there.
Regards,
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Q: How to find points along the inner and outer edge of a ring along a specific direction I have a set of random numbers distributed on a annular disk. I want to find points on the inner and outer edge along a particular angle.
One possibility is to use ConvexHull. For example
n = 1000;
pts = {#[[1]] Cos[#[[2]]], #[[1]] Sin[#[[2]]]} & /@
       Transpose[{RandomReal[{4, 6}, n], RandomReal[{0, 2 Pi}, n]}];

q = -3 Pi/4; (*Direction*)
dq = Pi/10;  (*Span*)

Needs["ComputationalGeometry`"]

dq0=0.01; (*use slightly bigger angle to select*)

pts4=Select[pts, q-dq-dq0 < ArcTan@@# < q+dq+dq0 &];
out=pts4[[ConvexHull[pts4]]];

R=Mean[Norm/@pts4];

edge1=Select[out, q-dq < ArcTan@@# < q+dq && Norm[#] < R &];

edge2=Select[out, q-dq < ArcTan@@# < q+dq && Norm[#] > R &];

Grid[{{
Graphics[{LightBlue,Disk[{0,0},6,{q-dq,q+dq}],
 PointSize[Large],Orange, Point[pts4], PointSize[Small], Black,
 Point[pts], Dashed, Red, Circle[{0,0},4], Circle[{0,0},6]},
 ImageSize->300],
Graphics[{LightBlue,Disk[{0,0},6,{q-dq,q+dq}],
 PointSize[Large], Green, Point[edge1], Blue, Point[edge2],
 PointSize[Small], Black, Point[pts], Dashed,
 Red, Circle[{0,0},4], Circle[{0,0},6]},
 ImageSize->300]
}}]

But it doesn't cover all edge points.

Another way

Another possibility is, as suggested by Batracos, is to use the radial distance as filtering condition. Since the points are not uniformly distributed, there may or may not be a point within a radial range along a particular direction. As you can see from the figure that the inner edge is much deeper in the middle of the blue region than the border.

Clarification : "Point at the edge"

By point at the edge I mean the points which construct the boundary. For example consider this segment

I need to find points constructing the blue and red lines. ConvexHull gives only points on the green line, which is very small in number. I would prefer a tunable parameter which can determine the roughness of the edges (which is the slice width here). Increasing the roughness/slice width will include more points in this case.
Here I used the the slicing to find the edges
dat = {RandomReal[{-10, 10}], RandomReal[{-2, 2}]} & /@ Range[500];

Needs["ComputationalGeometry`"]
pts1 = dat[[ConvexHull[dat]]];

dqq = 0.5;(*slice width*)
slice = Most@Range[-10, 10, dqq];
edge1 = edge2 = {};
Do[ps = Sort[
  Select[dat, qq < #[[1]] < qq + dqq &], #1[[2]] < #2[[2]] &];
  If[Length[ps] > 0, AppendTo[edge1, First[ps]];
  AppendTo[edge2, Last[ps]];]
,{qq, slice}]

Graphics[{PointSize[Large], Blue, Line[edge1], Red, Line[edge2],
 Green, Dashed, Line[pts1], PointSize[Small], Black, Point[dat]},
ImageSize -> 300]

A: I'm not sure which points you really want, so this is a stab in the dark: You could "walk around" the inner resp. outer circle, and pick the closest point in pts to every point on each circle.

(code for the animation at the bottom of the answer.)
Mathematica's Nearest function makes this relatively quick:
n = 1000;
pts = {#[[1]] Cos[#[[2]]], #[[1]] Sin[#[[2]]]} & /@
   Transpose[{RandomReal[{4, 6}, n], RandomReal[{0, 2 Pi}, n]}];

nf = Nearest[pts -> Automatic];
{rMin, rMax} = MinMax[Norm /@ pts];
ptsOnCircle = Array[{Cos[#], Sin[#]} &, 1000, {0., 360 °}];

Now nf[{x,y}] returns the index of the closest point to {x,y}, rMin and rMax are the radii of the innermost/outermost points and ptsOnCircle are points on a unit circle.
This function then finds the closest point in pts for each point on a circle, deletes duplicates and creates a "closed" list (i.e. the end point is the start point again):
ptIndices[r_] := Module[{indices = (nf /@ (r*ptsOnCircle))[[All, 1]]},
  indices = DeleteDuplicates[indices];
  Append[indices, First[indices]]]

Now e.g. pts[[ptIndices[rMin]]] gives the closest points to every point on a circle with radius rMin
Graphics[
 {
  Point[pts],
  Blue, {Thick, Line[pts[[ptIndices[rMin]]]]}, {Dashed, Opacity[0.6],
   Circle[{0, 0}, rMin]},
  Red, {Thick, Line[pts[[ptIndices[rMax]]]]}, {Dashed, Opacity[0.6],
   Circle[{0, 0}, rMax]}
  }, ImageSize -> 600]

To control the "jerkiness" of the lines, you can use a transform the "squashes" the points to a thinner ring:
transformRadius[pt_] := pt/Norm[pt]*(Norm[pt]*.1 + 1)

Graphics[Point[transformRadius /@ pts]]

(since the result of ptIndices is a list of indices, this doesn't move the result points, it just modifies the distances used in the calculation.)
nf = Nearest[transformRadius /@ pts -> Automatic];
{rMin, rMax} = MinMax[Norm /@ transformRadius /@ pts];
ptsOnCircle = Array[{Cos[#], Sin[#]} &, 1000, {0., 360 °}];
ptIndices[r_] := Module[{indices = (nf /@ (r*ptsOnCircle))[[All, 1]]},
  indices = DeleteDuplicates[indices];
  Append[indices, First[indices]]]

Graphics[
 {
  Point[pts],
  Blue, {Thick, Line[pts[[ptIndices[rMin]]]]},
  Red, {Thick, Line[pts[[ptIndices[rMax]]]]}
  }, ImageSize -> 600]

Since the points were "squashed" closer together for the calculation, the resulting border line is "jerkier":

Here's the code for the animation at the beginning:
Monitor[frames = Table[Graphics[
     {
      {AbsolutePointSize[1/300], Gray, Point[pts]},
      MapThread[
       Function[{r, col},
        Module[{nearest, poly},
         nearest = nf[ptsOnCircle[[i]]*r][[1]];
         poly =
          Append[TakeWhile[ptIndices[r], # != nearest &], nearest];
         {
          col, {Line[pts[[poly]]]}, {Dashed, Opacity[0.6],
           Circle[{0, 0}, r]},
          {Thick, Line[{ptsOnCircle[[i]]*r, pts[[nearest]]}]}
          }]], {{rMin, rMax}, {Red, Blue}}]
      }, ImageSize -> 300], {i, 1, Length[ptsOnCircle], 5}];, i]

ListAnimate[frames]

A: Your problem is ill-defined, since the notion of a point "along" and edge is not clear (or at least you have not defined it). Setting the convex hull vertices as the points along the outer edge is arbitrary, however, it is a logical approach (from a visual perspective, at least).
Inspired by this approach, I will define the points along the inner edge as the points included in the convex hull over points limited to a radius $r_{min} + r$, where $0<r<r_{max}-r_{min}$, with $r_{min} =4$ and $r_{max}=6$, the inner and outer circle radius, respectively.
In order to select an "appropriate" $r$, I propose the following ad-hoc solution:
Find the minimum $r$ such that the area of the corresponding convex hull is at least as large as the inner circle area. Here is a sample of this approach
n = 1000; (*number of points*)
rmin = 4.;
rmax = 6.;
pts = {#[[1]] Cos[#[[2]]], #[[1]] Sin[#[[2]]]} & /@
   Transpose[{RandomReal[{rmin, rmax}, n], RandomReal[{0, 2 Pi}, n]}];
Needs["ComputationalGeometry`"];

pts1 = pts[[ConvexHull[pts]]]; (* points "along" outer edge*)

chullarea[
   r_?NumericQ] :=(*difference of convex hull area (constrained to \
points of radius<rmin+r) with inner circle area*)
  ConvexHullArea[
    Select[pts, (rmin < Norm[#] < rmin + r) &]] - (\[Pi] rmin^2 // N);

r0min = Min[Norm /@ pts] - rmin; (*minimum norm of all points*)
r0 = NMinimize[{r, chullarea[r] > 0 && 2 > r > r0min}, r];
pts2 = Select[
  pts, (Norm[#] < rmin + r0[[1]]) &]; (* points "along" inner edge*)

Graphics[{
  {Green, PointSize[Large], Point[pts1]},
  {Blue, PointSize[Large], Point[pts2]},
  {Dashed, Red, Circle[{0, 0}, rmin]},
  {Dashed, Red, Circle[{0, 0}, rmax]},
  {Point[pts]}
  }
 ]

A: A brute fore way can be to divide the selected region in smaller slices and then choose the terminal points along the radius.
n = 1000;
pts = {#[[1]] Cos[#[[2]]], #[[1]] Sin[#[[2]]]} & /@
  Transpose[{RandomReal[{4, 6}, n], RandomReal[{0, 2 Pi}, n]}];

q = -3 Pi/4;(*Direction*)
dq = Pi/10;(*Span*)
pts4 = Select[pts, q - dq - dq0 < ArcTan @@ # < q + dq + dq0 &];

dqq = 0.05; (*angular slice width*)
slice = Most@Range[q - dq, q + dq, dqq];
edge1 = edge2 = {};
Do[
 ps = Sort[Select[pts4, qq < ArcTan @@ # < qq + dqq &], Norm[#1] < Norm[#2] &];
 If[Length[ps] > 0,
   AppendTo[edge1, First[ps]];
   AppendTo[edge2, Last[ps]];
   ]
,{qq, slice}]

Graphics[{LightBlue, Disk[{0, 0}, 6, {q - dq, q + dq}],
 PointSize[Large], Green, Point[edge1], Blue, Point[edge2],
 PointSize[Small], Black, Point[pts], Line[edge1], Line[edge2],
 Dashed, Red, Circle[{0, 0}, 4], Circle[{0, 0}, 6]},
ImageSize -> 300]


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In our continuously evolving world, men and women are becoming equal partners, more so than ever before—both in caring for their families and in the workplace. And yet, even today, women still face specific financial challenges that cannot be overlooked. Every women is all too aware of the issues: a long-standing gender pay gap, loss of income due to care taking, higher retirement and longevity expenses, and more. As an advisor, one of the greatest services you can provide is to help women overcome these challenges by planning in a way that addresses their unique issues head on.
It's no mystery that women's roles have changed dramatically in the past 50 years, and yet the actual numbers may surprise you. In the 1950s, not only were men the primary breadwinners, but only 33% of women were in the workforce at all1, and only about 7% of women held a college degree2. Women were almost solely responsible for homecare and childcare. That's a stark contrast to today. Now women earn more bachelor's degrees than men, and 40% of women are their families' primary breadwinners.3 As a result, the number of wealthy women is growing at twice the rate of men.
For advisors, this fact alone should make serving women a top priority for your business. A quick look at the numbers makes this need particularly clear:
Of course, adding real value for this underserved group requires much more than simply updating your marketing materials to include women. The unfortunate truth is that, despite significant advancements in their careers and their wealth, women are still investing less than men. Even when they do invest, they tend to invest too conservatively to meet their needs. The result: women's retirement account balances are 1/3 lower than their male counterparts4. To make matters worse, due to lower pay and time away from the workforce, women receive 23% lower Social Security benefits than men.5 Considering that women live an average of 8 years longer than men, this reality puts them at a very real disadvantage as they face not only retirement, but also the need for a basic level of financial security.
The good news is that you can help. By helping women tackle these 5 key areas of financial planning, you can not only help them improve their own financial outlooks, but also help build your practice in a meaningful way:
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While men tend to focus on building family wealth, women tend to focus on building wealth for their families, often sacrificing their own needs to support their children, aging parents, and others in need. They're also more inclined to serve as the family caretaker, resulting in fewer hours in the workplace.
Encourage your client to start saving as early as possible to bolster her savings by leveraging the power of compounding. Not only will saving more now help protect her own financial future, but it will also increase her resources to help care for her family—both during her lifetime and beyond.
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Time away from the workforce also means women are more likely to have multiple retirement accounts with past and present employers. Be sure to identify all of your client's retirement accounts and discuss the value of a consolidated investing approach that helps ensure proper diversification and asset allocation. By consolidating her accounts, you'll be better able to design and implement a strategy to address her unique needs.
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Two of the biggest financial challenges for women are the gender pay gap (women still earn an average of 20% less than their male counterparts6 and lost income due to time away from work to care for children and other family members. These realities have forced many women to underfund their retirement accounts—sometimes to a dramatic degree. By maximizing your client's catch-up contributions, you can help her close the savings gap to create a more secure retirement.
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Throughout the planning process, keep your client's need for a reliable income stream top of mind. Why is this more critical for women than for men? The average age for widowhood is just 597, which means your client may not only take charge of her family's wealth sooner than she expects, but she'll also need income to support her for the rest of her life. Knowing that the average life expectancy of a 65-year-old woman today is 868(nearly a decade more than a man of the same age), she needs to be saving and investing at a fast and furious pace to create a reliable income stream for her lifetime.
1 12 Stats About Working Women, U.S. Department of Labor, March 2017.
2 Percentage of the U.S. population with a college degree 1940-2016, Statista, 2018.
3 The National Center for Education Statistics, 2015-2016. Updated as of March 2018; Why Has Women's Economic Power Surged? Five Stats You Need to Know, Forbes, Jan. 2017.
4 Why Aren't Women Saving Enough for Retirement?, Yale Insights, May 2017.
5 The Wisest Retirement Solutions for Women, Forbes, September 2017.EndFragment
6 The gender pay gap in the US is still 20 percent—but millennial women are closing in on men, cnbc.com, Money, August 2017.EndFragment
7 Suddenly single: The realities of going from two to one, CNBC, Aug. 17, 2016.
8 Life Expectancy at 65, OECD Data, OECD.org, 2015.
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Q&A: Author Abby Schachter
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by Anna Isaacs August 19, 2016 in Latest
Drawing on her Jewish heritage and experience as a mother and journalist, Abby Schachter argues in her new book, No Child Left Alone: Getting the Government Out of Parenting, that government intervention is interfering with parents' ability to make basic decisions about how to raise their children. Expansion of child protection policies and activities, says Schachter, means the diminution of parental control, and of parents' ability to raise independent, fully functioning offspring. Moment senior editor George E. Johnson spoke with Schachter on the eve of the publication of her provocative new book.
Why did you write this book?
The first reason is personal. We have four children, and have been sending them to state-licensed preschool since 2008. Every year there were more annoying rules: How and what you could send in their lunches or snacks, how you could prepare them. The worst was the state, Pennsylvania, requiring day care providers to throw out any uneaten food. They were not allowed to put anything back in the refrigerator, not allowed to offer it a second time. The state decided that the food might have become hazardous.
But the straw that broke the camel's back was in 2013, when we brought our son, then nine weeks old, to day care. I said, "I need my son to be swaddled"—wrapped tightly in a blanket, for sleeping—which has been done for thousands of years, is in Harvey Karp's book, The Happiest Baby on the Block, and works. The day care operator said, "We are not allowed to swaddle; you have to get a note from a physician. If we get a note, maybe we can swaddle him."
Did they say why?
They said it was a state rule. But it turns out that this state rule started out as series of guidelines written by a group called the National Resource Center in Denver, Colorado, for the Department of Health and Human Services. States like Pennsylvania were looking for a quick way to license day care centers, and here comes this quasi-governmental operation that says, we have this book of guidelines, everything you need, no problem, everything that might come up, and we've talked to the experts—the American Academy of Pediatrics for some things, nutritionists for other things, and so on. All the state has to do is pass it. Except that it did not ask any day care operators, didn't ask any parents.
Talking to The National Resource Center is like entering a George Orwell novel. I called and said, "Why are you banning swaddling?" The woman there said, "We're not against swaddling, we're against blankets in cribs." This, to me, was an extreme example of interference from some unaccountable person, entering into the life of my child. I said to myself, Am I crazy? Am I the only person who feels this way?
The second reason for this book is, I am a journalist. I'm a writer. I had already been following the stories of parents who had been criminalized for certain parental behavior that used to be perfectly normal and acceptable: Sending your kids to get pizza themselves, waiting in the car for ten minutes while you go on an errand.
It depends on how old the children are, right?
But in so many of these cases, nothing happened to any of these children. And yet the parents were arrested. Parents were given open cases by child protective services. They had hearings. Some had to pay legal bills. Some of them were held in jail. In some of these cases, they were single mothers. How is it that the state comes along and takes the only parent that the child has? So I said to myself: How much more is there? That is when I started to look whether this was a systemic problem. And what I discovered is that I did not know the half of it.
How does Jewish culture, or Judaism, enter into your thinking about this subject?
One of the very first things that Judaism says about your responsibilities as a person is your relationship with your parents. It's very much like the relationship that Jews have with God. It's a two-way street. While the commandment is to honor your father and mother, parents have a whole list of things that they are supposed to transmit to their children. You get the kid married. You should teach him Torah. You're supposed to teach your kid to swim. And you're supposed to teach him a trade. You have to make them a functioning person, a person who can save his own life and the lives of others, a person who can contribute to the world and who can contribute to the Jewish people. I think this is an amazing worldview, and what it says is that the family unit is so important. It is the backbone of our society.
I have a real problem with the direction we are going. The role of families in American culture used to be different. And the view that the government took toward the importance of families was different. There has been a shift away from the family as a unit toward thinking about children as separate and distinct from their parents. There now are a whole host of government-approved actions affecting children that parents are not asked about, not asked to approve. There is a lot that Judaism has to say about how to be parent and how to raise children. I would like the country that I live in to respect that, but I don't think that it does anymore.
How is your book structured?
There are six chapters: Childhood independence, breastfeeding and the feeding of babies generally, day care, nutrition and health in public schools, "the war on fun" and child obesity. It goes through, step by step, all the areas of life where parental discretion and authority has been undermined by. or superseded, I should say, by government rule.
Let's pick one, "the war on fun," to illustrate.
Sledding is banned on public hills. Running is banned on playgrounds, in schools and in public playgrounds. Playing with balls, playing certain games. Cartwheels. Pushing another child on a swing. Recess has been curtailed at schools because they are afraid of bullying.
Some schools ban recess?
Yes. In Florida, a school curtailed recess because they said that the children had too much to do in the classroom. The parents came to and protested in front of their school. So, you do have parents who will argue against stuff like this. Sometimes they win and sometimes they lose. I call them "Captain Mommies and Daddies." They feel, as I do, that when you are confronted by an overbearing state, someone is taking away individual parenting decision-making. They think, these are my private parenting decisions, and they're being taken out of my hands.
The other thing I talk about concerning fun is the role of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Like many federal agencies, it takes the grain of an idea—and it's a good one, here, of consumer protection—but it needs to justify itself over time. So it starts expanding its mandate. It's no longer only about, say, banning toys from China that were found to have high contents of lead.
They don't have to seek public comment for their recalls. Relying on their own experts, they publish alerts, on a weekly basis, to consumers, declaring certain products to be hazardous or dangerous, or potentially risky. So even in the case where there hasn't been an injury, they will still ban something, reasoning there is a potential hazard. They also don't have to show the costs versus the benefit. They don't publish the probability of the risk.
How do you balance the rights of parents and role of public welfare?
The Supreme Court ruled that parents essentially have authority over their children except that they are required to have the child educated. That, to me, is a perfectly fine standard. That's where we should start. Why should the government get involved in telling mothers how they should feed their babies? Why should they have an opinion? Leave the mothers alone, make the decision, talk to whomever they want to consult; the government should not have a view that one mode of feeding a baby is better than another.
I would like there to be a parental bill of rights defining what is a public welfare issue and what is private. Here, the burning example is vaccines, where you're talking about a potential public health crisis. Without group immunization, there is no protection against these diseases. It's no good if I get my child immunized but the kid sitting next to him in preschool is not immunized. You need a high rate of immunization for the public protection of everybody.
I want the state to acknowledge that it has a limited role in families. I don't believe that there is a "one size fits all" solution. I would like to see greater awareness and understanding of this problem. And I want to highlight the people who already are engaged in trying to limit the overbearing state.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
Eva 15:47h, 23 August Reply
If every parent were as educated and responsible as the author, the government would not need to be involved. However, there are an equal number of parents who feed their kids a junk food diet, endanger children by leaving them in cars during hot weather or alone and assessable to kidnappers or molesters. I could go point by point and give the author examples of where her irritation with government interference has saved the lives or wellbeing of myriad children. I am afraid that this book may only be addressing the complaints of a portion of parents while not caring at all about parents (and kids) who need laws for protection. In this country, laws are made on behalf of the common good – not for the convenience of a few people who feel entitled to special treatment. I have only known Judaism to be protective of the weakest among us – such as babies and children. I ask this woman to search her heart before she writes her next book.
Eric & Pam Schoen 20:56h, 23 August Reply
So, let's seek the lowest common denominator by indiscriminatingly having government do as it does, and continues to increase what it does, therefore absolving individuals of the responsibility of caring for ourselves and others, plus others in need.
Danny Zalta 10:29h, 24 August Reply
Eva,
What you have written here is true. However, there has to be a line and I believe that the government has crossed that line many times over the past few decades and perhaps it is time for them to reevaluate. Children need to be protected against abusive and neglectful parents but parents should not be afraid of the government with every decision they make concerning their children and unfortunately that is the case now.


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Q: How to display path in new line after displaying output in Visual Studio code?
The output that is displayed and the path of folder has no gap (the output javed and path PS... Both are attached. I want to display output "Maha Javed" to appear at one line and then PS.... To display on new line), how can I make the path to display on new line in terminal powershell in visual studio code?

A: It sounds like your prompt may be broken, the Prompt function is used in Powershell to generate the prompt.
In my case running this in VSC yeilds:
( Get-Command Prompt).ScriptBlock

"PS $($executionContext.SessionState.Path.CurrentLocation)$('>' * ($nestedPromptLevel + 1)) ";
# .Link
# https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=225750
# .ExternalHelp System.Management.Automation.dll-help.xml

Now as the other commentors have noted this behaviour is not usual. But if your prompt script is different from the above for some reason you can reset it or at least see what it is and indeed change it to what you please.
See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_prompts?view=powershell-7 for a full explanation of this.

A: ( Get-Command Prompt).ScriptBlock
same problem what to do in ubuntu 20
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Dear Investors,
Thank you very much for the questions and the opportunities to clarify them. Your questions will be reposted in blue followed by our replies in black.
Through this online exchange, we hope you have a better understanding of our Group's businesses and strategies.
ASL Marine Holdings Ltd.
Dear JW, you wrote:
Going forward, chartering looks to be taking a bigger role in driving the revenue. Wouldn't this threaten the position of some of your own customers? How do you workaround this conflict of interest?
We work closely with customers on the charter of vessels. Most of the customers are common to our shipbuilding and shiprepair business. In other words, we work with customers as business partner and we do not compete with them.
FPSO market is growing steadily and the company has previously mentioned in putting more efforts to secure related contracts. How does the company competes against the likes of Keppel who has big reputation in FPSO conversion. What kind of competing advantage you see yourself having against these competitors.
The market for FPSO conversion is varied. We focus on the smaller FSO and FPSO operating in the Indonesian water.
Our yard offers competitive advantages over our rivals are in terms of our pricing, provision of dedicated services and maintaining close interaction with the customers. In addition, our facilities are extensive to include the whole logistics supply chain that is geared for servicing FPSO conversion.
I understand that the company has expressed interest in developing capabilities in offshore fabrication works. How does this complement your existing business? Is this a high margin business, if not, wouldn't outsourcing be more capital efficient?
The offshore fabrication projects have slightly higher margins as compared with shipbuilding projects. We can utilise the existing shipyard facilities for the offshore fabrication works and there is no need to invest additional capital in extra facilities. However as the offshore fabrication works require specialised knowledge and skill, the engineering and design of these projects will be outsourced to third party contractors.
Any plans to step into rig building business?
The Group does not build rigs and it is a different industry compared to ship building. Currently, the Group has no plans to venture into rig building business.
How strong is the company's sales team? How does the sales team usually source for business?
The Group has put in place a qualified marketing team who are able to advise customers with specific requirements and at the same time offer alternative proposal for their consideration. Our marketing team operates over a multiple countries and serves the regional South East Asia and Asia Pacific markets. All leads that are generated internally and externally are logged into a register for follow-up and close-up.
Dear KC, you wrote:
Do you build ships for external customers or most of the ships are built for your own chartering business?
We build ships for both external customers as well as for our own fleet of vessels. Most of the ships we built are for external customers. For your information, our order book includes only contracts for external customers.
For FY12, your interest bearing loans and borrowing that needs to be repaid within one year (current liability) is approximately 76.2 million and your net cash from operation is approximately 75.7 million. If we deduct the capital expenditure of 67.2 million for FY12, you are left with a FCF of 8.5 million. After deducting for the dividends paid to shareholders of approximately 7.3 million, you are left with 1.2 million. How do you plan to repay the interest bearing loans and borrowing?
The interest bearing loans and borrowing that due within a year of $76.2 million comprised mainly $21.5 million for partial bonds repayment due in March 2013, $10.3 million under short term loans mainly for specific project financing, $6.3 million under hire purchase obligations and $31.9 million for vessels financing.
The Group expects to meet the repayment schedule including the proposed dividend payment substantially through our positive operating cash flow as well as internal cash reserves, external borrowings for new vessels which were acquired and possibly proceeds from sale of vessels.
Do you compete with your customers on ship chartering business? Wouldn't this affect the relationship with your customers?
Kindly refer to our reply to question 1 raised by JW.
The debt-equity ratio of the company is pretty high. Has the company think about using internal cash flow to fund acquisition instead of borrowings?
The Group usually funds its working capital including debts servicing and capital expenditure for its shipchartering operations through its operating cash flows, external borrowings and possibly proceeds from sale of vessels. Management constantly reviews and monitors the Group's cash position to ensure sufficient cash and credit facilities to meet operational and capital expenditure requirements.
Why is the xD date so far away from the date of reporting of full-year results?
The proposed dividend has to be approved by shareholders at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting ("AGM") which has been scheduled to be held on 25 October 2012. In accordance to the SGX listing manual, at least 5 market days of notice must be given for any books closure date.
I realised that ASL Marine does not seem to put up announcements on most contracts that they won as compare to other companies such as Ezion, SembMarine etc. As such, investors may not realise the amount of contracts that you won until the reporting of the quarterly results. Why is that the case? By not putting up the announcements, the share price may be suppressed as investors do not know if the company is working hard for shareholders.
Appropriate announcement on new shipbuilding contracts secured have been made by the Group via SGXNET as and when the contracts are confirmed and signed. For contracts secured and confirmed during the prohibited period the Management will incorporate such information in the results announcement.
Dear Melvin Lim Peng Hui, you wrote:
You have provided for S$4.7 million of doubtful debt from subsidiaries of the PT Berlian Laju Tanker Tbk. Will there be further provisions? Does the company still have ships from PT Berlian Laju being repaired at its yards? If so does your company have the right to auction or sell off the ships to recover the repair cost? Thanks.
The Group is currently waiting for BLT's submission of a repayment plan on settlement of the outstanding balance before deciding the amount of additional provision for doubtful debts. Currently the Group does not have ships from subsidiaries of PT Berlian Laju Tanker Tbk ("BLT") that are being repaired at its yards.
Dear Frank Ho, you wrote:
Your long term chartering business almost doubled in FY2012 to S$19.2 million, Why is this so? Is the rate for long term charter cheaper than spot rates? Do the company factor in annual charter rate increases for your long term charters to hedge against increasing spot charter rate should demand pick up again?
The increase in the long-term charter revenue was mainly due to the additional 10 vessels under long-term contracts and that includes contracts for the bigger vessels added such as AHTS acquired in 4Q FY2011 and the ROV Support Vessel acquired in 1Q FY2012. Generally, the rate for long term charter is usually more competitive than spot charter rate.
Dear Alvin Khoo, you wrote:
You have S$91.8 million in cash. Shares of O&G related companies are quite low now considering the world's addiction to the commodity. Do you plan to use some of the cash to invest in the shares of some of your competitors, customers or suppliers listed on the stock exchange? A vested interest can lead to M&A and JVs that would accelerate the growth of the company.
Given cash position of the Group, the Group continuously exploits strategic opportunities to make selective investments in related businesses or new business areas. However, any new business opportunity will be subject to prudent evaluation of the risks and returns by the Board of Directors before any decision is made and by then appropriate announcements will be made accordingly.
Thank you for all your questions and the interest in ASL Marine Holdings Ltd. We have come to the end of this Q&A session.
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Scheer's Citizenship & "VirginiaWhistle"
It was just barely a few hours ago that I wrote about Conservative leader Andrew Scheer and his propensity for being evasive and being unwilling to answer straight forward questions during this campaign. I thought that I wouldn't need to talk about that again for a while, but then the Globe and Mail struck again, with a piece of news that will not help this narrative about Scheer go away. The news? Well something that we probably didn't see coming:
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer holds dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship https://t.co/01engBqdll
— Globe Politics (@globepolitics) October 3, 2019
Okay, you have to admit that there is a huge piece of irony out there that Andrew Scheer of all people holds dual citizenship and said nothing about it until he was outed. Remember, for the past three campaigns the Conservatives have made sport about attacking other leaders for having dual citizenship. Remember the attacks on Stephane Dion, whose apparent crime was having dual Canadian-French citizenship? Then it was Michael Ignatieff and the whole "Just Visiting" campaign. And then in 2015 they turned their sights on Tom Mulcair, who also has French from marrying his French wife.
In each of those cases, we heard from Conservatives attacks about how there was something wrong about all of this, something unsavoury, something to be mistrusted about these elites who happened to have citizenship elsewhere. They were to be mistrusted and all that garbage. Andrew Scheer won his seat three times with those lines, riding them to a big MP pension and four years in the Speakers chair, along with the extra salary and the free public housing at Kingsmere. Yet all the while he remained conspicuously mum about his own dual-citizenship dalliances. Yeah, that probably doesn't help this whole "he's got something to hide" narrative that's going around.
An interesting thing about this for me was the fact that somehow this piece of news somehow never came out before it. It seemed to be completely unknown to everyone and somehow it wasn't until this moment that it came out, which is weird if you ask me. You have to wonder who knew, and it was wondering about that that took me to Google, where after a few minutes I found this nugget:
It looks like someone called VirginiaWhistle on Reddit knew about this. In fact, that individual has written a grand total of 4 messages on Reddit, all of them involving Andrew Scheer, his families' citizenship and specific details about citizenship law. Oh, and they also asked if he had renounced any of it yet. All four of those messages were put out six and seven months ago, which would put that right in the middle of the SNC-Lavalin scandal, if you're interested in the timing.
When I did my Google search almost everything that came up in the first 10 pages came from tonight, which tells you how little people seemed to know about this topic. Yet the one exception in that search? That first post I put above. Gotta say this raises more questions of it's own, and makes you wonder where the Globe and Mail story came from. And to be clear, I'm not doubting the story and the facts in it; the Conservatives have confirmed them. The Globe are a bunch of pros and I respect their work. But when a story like this seems to come completely out of nowhere and you see things like those Reddit messages line up, it smells like someone was up to something, someone who took the name VirginiaWhistle.
As for the actual story itself, there is a degree of seeing Scheer hoisted so firmly and completely upon his own petard that feels like karma striking. This is very much a "live by the sword, die by the sword" situation. And as it was for Dion, Ignatieff and Mulcair, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having dual citizenship. But it's amazingly hypocritical of Mr. Scheer and does play into the narrative that's out there, especially given that he kept this secret the whole time, despite someone's obvious efforts to out him sooner. This won't help Scheer's campaign, that's for sure, but after finding out this other detail, I am left with other questions about how is actually behind this story. From my perspective, it looks like this story has been in the works for a while and the timing involved here seems anything but a coincidence. We'll see what more comes of all of this but for sure, this election has proved to be anything but boring.
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Serial, Still a Juggernaut
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When Serial returned with its highly anticipated third season last Thursday, dropping two episodes to kick off an ambitious journey into the heart of Cleveland's criminal-justice system, the podcast scored its biggest debut yet: More than 1.4 million people downloaded each of the first two episodes within the first 14 hours of publication, according to the podcast measurement firm Podtrac.
The first episode, "A Bar Fight Walks Into the Justice Center," saw around 1.46 million unique first-day downloads, according to Podtrac numbers provided to Vulture. The second episode, "You've Got Some Gauls," brought in around 1.43 million unique first-day downloads.
That's higher than the launch numbers for Serial's second season, which debuted in December 2015 and focused on the mysterious kidnapping of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan. The debut episode of that sophomore season garnered around 1.34 million unique downloads on its first day. Its second episode, published a week later, dropped down to 1.24 million unique first-day downloads.
The huge numbers are great news for Serial, says co-creator and executive producer Julie Snyder, especially because the third season is so different than the first and second. "One of the things that's stressed me out about Serial the last few years has been audience expectation. That we're supposed to be true-crime, or just one deep investigative story, or some other easy descriptor. So to come out this season and say, Instead we're gonna do a bunch of stories from Cleveland! Well … we were admittedly a bit nervous before the release," Snyder said. "So these launch numbers — and the response to the episodes in just the first few days — have been so gratifying. Because we really believe these stories are important. The world is crazy now and there are so many podcasts and there's such wonderful journalism being produced … it's heartening that people are excited for us to keep going."
The performance of Serial's third season can't yet be compared to that of S-Town, its acclaimed novelistic spinoff by Brian Reed that was released in March 2017. (Snyder was also the executive producer.) S-Town released all seven of its episodes at once, and they went on to collectively bring in over 40 million global downloads within the first month — a high-water mark for the podcast industry at the time. We'll have to wait until the end of the season, and then dig through the data, to figure out how Serial measures up.
In the meantime, here's another neat data point for context: When the very first episode of Serial debuted on October 3, 2014, it was downloaded only 86,000 times on its first day. Today, the combined downloads for the first two seasons have topped 350 million. And some of those downloads, I should add, come from Kim Kardashian.
Serial Season 3 Is Ambitious, Addictive, and Completely Different
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