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In Defense of D&D Stats in Simple Language: What Measure is an 18?
One of the neat bits about having a blog is that I post things that generate discussion. It's one thing to say something in a group of similarly-minded DMs and have a talk before a session starts, but it's quite another to put something out there and hear from people you've never met or even heard of. I love receiving comments, and since I'm not at a point where I have to worry about arguments or incivility the only ones I have to block are obvious bots (I could do a post just on the funnier ones; as great as it is to not have to deal with so many spam comments, recent filter updates have probably deprived me of some quality comedy.)
I also love data, particularly taking it apart and putting it back together in meaningful ways. When I noticed that one of my posts had an order of magnitude more spam than any other, I got to compare it to other posts to figure out why. I think it's because I linked to Photobucket, and it's why I don't do that now. Another post received the most legitimate comments, mostly due to a heavy discussion between two DMs I know, and that showed me just how deep the conversation around the role of monsters in the world is. So it's something I've come back to now and again.
But the post that has the most comments from unique users is D&D Stats in Simple Language, an attempt to put real-world descriptions on the numbers for the six ability scores. It's also the post with the most comments disagreeing with the post itself. I've certainly had comments that amounted to "that's great, but not how I play it", and the fact that we can disagree on how to play D&D it one of the things that makes it such a worthwhile system. There's not just one way to play it. But given the amount of comments the post received (and, to be honest, the lack of much else to discuss while I'm waiting to play in 5E), I think it's reasonable to respond to some of them.
Most of the disagreements fall into two categories. I'll discuss one here and one in my next post, and I'll start with the easier one: The power level of high stats is too low. For example, the description for Strength 24 is "Pinnacle of brawn, able to out-lift several people". A fair number of commenters think this is actually the description for Strength 18, because that's the most a human can get. Anything beyond that is superhuman, limited to magical creatures or heroes far beyond the reach of low-to-mid-level play.
That makes sense depending on context, but the context of the post is 3rd Edition. When I first wrote these stats 4E hadn't been released (it may not even have been announced), and I didn't even get into gaming until after 3E had taken over. It was the only edition I'd played, and at the time it may have been the only system I'd played at all. I did say the stats aren't intended for 4E but I didn't explicitly exclude any other edition because I didn't think I needed to, though there is only one game I know where character stats range from 1 to 25 based on the rules in a Player's Handbook (and it has the 3E and Pathfinder tags but no tags for any other edition, but even I forgot about that until somebody pointed it out to me).
In 3E, Strength scores are very clearly defined. A medium-sized bipedal character (a human) with Strength 10 can lift 100 pounds over their head, heft 200 pounds, and push up to 500 pounds. These values quadruple for every additional ten points of Strength, with no limit on scores. 4E made things a bit cleaner by narrowing the range, as 4E is wont to do. A character multiplies their Strength score by ten to get their carrying load in pounds. Again, a Strength 10 human can lift 100 pounds, but at Strength 20 she can only lift 200. And in 5E, carrying capacity is Strength times fifteen but that's distinct from lift load, which is twice as high.
(I would include examples from earlier editions, but again, I've never played them or seen them played. I don't have the books to reference.)
To understand how this plays out in practice, let's look at somebody with whom I'm sure all my readers are familiar, Hossein Rezazadeh. He has lifted, from the ground and over his head, 467 pounds. Assuming nobody used magic on him that means his Strength as a 3E character is about 21. But as a 4E character it's 47, much higher than any character could ever have and even higher than Tiamat and other gargantuan deities. If you assume 4E's carrying capacity rules are closer to 5E's and define the snatch as actually heft load rather than overhead load, his Strength is 24. In 5E his Strength is only 16. We have three, perhaps four, Strength scores for the same person, and all we changed is the edition.
I'm picking on Strength because it's the only ability score with a clear definition, but this applies across the board. Dexterity 16 means a somewhat quick rogue in 3E (because they're faster than an average person, but pretty sluggish for a thief), an average low-to-mid-level monster in 4E (because ability scores scale with level, so higher values are common at high levels even for oozes), and an Olympic athlete in 5E (because the absolute forever maximum of human capacity is 20). Every stat varies by the expectations of the world and the players within it.
So I stand by my descriptions in a 3E frame of reference, but they can't be applied the same way to other editions. They're not intended for 4E or 1E or AD&D in the same way they're not intended for Savage Worlds or Apocalypse World. It's not a question of correct or incorrect as much as it's a question of which version of the stats you prefer. If you're using an earlier edition, feel free to kick out a few of the middle values (for example, removing "Visibly toned, throws small objects for long distances" and lowering everything above it by one) until the maximum is where you want.
Or, eschew them completely. Stats, high and low, can mean different things to different people. I'm a fan of interpreting low Dexterity not as "clumsy enough that he bungles into attacks rather than dodging them", but "resigned to the idea that he's going to take a bunch of hits, so he doesn't try to dodge as much as he could." Low Wisdom can mean you're scatterbrained or you jump to conclusions or you interpret the world incorrectly or something else. It's like compressing an image (for the younger readers) or albums of digitally remastered music (for the older readers): part of the problem with boiling the world down to something you can easily use is that you're going to lose some of the intricacies you liked. The simple language stats are a starting points for players who don't know what 14 Constitution means, not a canonical list. As long as it makes sense within the context of the game, go nuts.
But do make sure you have the context right. As I'll discuss next post, when you interpret an ability score in a way for which it was never intended, things collapse.
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3 Responses to In Defense of D&D Stats in Simple Language: What Measure is an 18?
Ray M. says:
Out of curiosity, I wonder what your opinion of the ability score themselves is. I haven't had an opportunity to explore the versions before 3e either, but lately I've been considering how the ability scores are implemented. Allow they allow for some interaction in the game (ability score damage, partial upgrades), but since almost everything depends on the modifier coudn't they scores themselves be removed entirely?
Silverwolf says:
"Dexterity 16 means a somewhat quick rogue in 3E (because they're faster than an average person, but pretty sluggish for a thief)"
I actually have a big problem with this way of thinking amoung players and DMs for 3rd edition variants. By what standard are they sluggish? Because I always- ALWAYS- consider things from a level 1 character's point of view and they max out at 18. Sure, by the time you are level 20 with triple digit hit points (depending on how your DM hands those out but many give you max) a rogue that started with a 16, the third highest number they could without racial modifiers, would have a 21 (not counting magic items likely boosting it). But how many people are 'level 20'. This is like saying 16 is subpar for a warrior class like fighter or barbarian. A strength of 18 is literally the strength score given to a horse- they can lift more, sure, and there are humans that have lifted more weight than a medium humanoid D&D character with 18 strength can, but I am sure you understand the point I am trying to illustrate.
This brings into consideration levels themselves. I'll be generous and say half of all people will even HAVE a character class. That really is pushing it too. But if it is high fantasy it could be believable though in low fantasy most people would have day jobs preventing them from learning the intricacies of sword play and studying dusty old tomes to shoot fireballs from their hands. In medieval fantasy most of them would be serfs. And even then, the Dungeon Master's guide gives you special classes for NPCs to make them a little less special than PCs. Warrior replaces fighter, for instance, and is notably not as good.
Out of this- again very generous- half how many of them will ever get past level 3 or 5? How many demi-god level 20 (or higher) characters are running around obliterating entire armies by themselves? This is vidya game logic, World of Warcraft with its legions of max level players. Not even Comic Books or Japanese Shonen has as many people capable of nuking cities. If that is what you want to go for, fine. But I think it is important to look at levels and what they mean.
1-5 = Gritty low fantasy. Still within human limitations, but honestly still pushing the envelope in many cases. You are still very human and even Kobolds or Goblins can pose a serious threat in the right circumstances or with the right numbers. Conan the Barbarian, Game of Thrones, actual human history, that sort of thing falls here.
6-10 = Epic Heroes. The sort that can take on armies when grouped together. Seriously, characters like these would be devastating opponents to go up against. Most of the Lord of the Rings cast comes to mind here, and legendary heroes from yore like Achilles, Jason, Saint George, etc. fall in line with what I'd expect. Solitary individuals like Link of Legend of Zelda fame or Gutz from Berserk probably also fit the bill.
11-15 = Wuxia. People that can solo armies by themselves. If those last two I mentioned don't fit epic heroes they fit here. A character in this level range is the sort of character that if you dropped them in the real world Middle Ages they could probably do a better job conquering the world than Genghis Khan did and wouldn't even need an army to do so.
16-20 = Demi-gods. I don't think I need to explain this. See Wuxia level conquering the medieval world and consider that these could probably do the same to a post industrial world. Titans have a CR rating of 20, don't they?
21+ = Super Heroes to ACTUAL Gods. These sort of characters are world enders, if they really wanted to be. They are the sort of characters that can fodderize giants, high ranking demons and adult dragons. Fighters are walking juggernauts, walls of HP, who hit harder than artillery barrages. Mages literally can cause city leveling explosions and bend reality to their whims. I only mention them because you ranked up to 25. Without magical assistance or being a half-orc they'd HAVE to be Epic level to get that. And frankly, as far as I am concerned, we passed epic ten levels ago.
Wow that got away from me. I digress. At level 1, especially if you roll your attributes, 16 is pretty good for your primary stat. You shouldn't consider it sluggish at all.
Great reply, it helpped me clarify some things I have struggling with.


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A few dozen protesters gathered to show support for immigrant detainees participating in a hunger strike at New Jersey's Bergen County Jail. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees shared their experiences with organizers during the protests. Marcial Morales Garcia, a former detainee who participated in the strike, said most of the strikers want to be released because the facility isn't properly cleaned and denies detainees' medical needs. Emilio Dabul, a spokesperson for ICE, said only nine detainees stopped eating meals, but did not mention for how long. An ICE detainee is considered to be on a hunger strike if they refuse to eat nine consecutive facility-provided meals. NorthJersey.com
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Long Lines at New York City's Food Banks
The pandemic has led 65 percent more people to visit New York City's food pantries and soup kitchens this year when compared to last year, according to a new report from Hunger Free America. Many of those relying on food pantries are immigrants, including Juana Garcia, who moved from Mexico five years ago. Garcia every member of her household is unemployed, but she is able to make weekly trips to St. John's Bread & Life food pantry to support them. Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program increased about 15 percent between March and September, with about 1.7 million New Yorkers now enrolled. But some New York residents do not qualify for SNAP because of their immigration status or because they make too much money, and some feel SNAP does not provide enough for their households. Gothamist
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keyestudio Robotale Scratch incorporates a light sensor, sound sensor, a button and a slider, as well as 4 additional inputs that can sense electrical resistance via cables.
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3. Click "Script", write the control script using blocks of the control group.
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Click , the costume moves freely; bounce back when it hits the edge.
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Book Review│The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory
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The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory. By Emma Heaney. Northwestern University Press, 2017. 345 pp. $39.95 (paper).
Reviewed by Jennifer P. Nesbitt, Penn State—York
It is not possible for a person with a penis to be a woman. The presumptions, investments, and negations embedded in that statement motivate Emma Heaney's study The New Woman, an extraction of any vestiges of "biology is destiny" from theoretical and cultural constructions of gender. Heaney claims that the trans feminine allegory is an asymptotic figure for femininity installed in discourses about sexual identification that allows experts of many stripes to preserve, as factual, a biological line between men and women. This line persists despite considerable experimentation with the boundary, growing scientific evidence that genital sex is not determinate, and testimony from trans women that contradicts sexological models. Tracing the trans feminine allegory in literature and theory, Heaney proposes a revised model for analyzing gender, materialist trans feminism. This model focuses on the material conditions and experiences of living as a woman in institutionally misogynist cultures. In the process of historicizing trans femininity, Heaney offers some compelling readings of well-known modernist texts (Ulysses, Nightwood) and unweaves theoretical works by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Lee Edelman. Most importantly, Heaney takes at their word the testimony of trans women, real and fictional, about their experiences as women.
The study divides into two parts, the first focused on the early twentieth century and the second on the emergence of queer theory in the 1990s. Heaney posits the instantiation of the trans feminine allegory during the first period and then traces its reification in key theoretical texts for queer theory. In each section, Heaney consolidates the critique of theoretical models with evidence from life writing by trans women. Thus, Heaney claims, despite evidence showing great variety in self-perception among trans women, trans feminine experience "has taken on the status of an explanatory figure in stories about the general relation between bodily structures and sex identity" (5) and that relation is inversion ("a woman trapped in a man's body"). Allegorizing a trans feminine, Heaney contends, preserves woman as an abject term from which the New Woman and the homosexual free themselves (Part I). Later in the century, a trans feminine allegory destabilizes both the terms of and the relationship between gender and sex, enabling the emergence of queerness as an empowered critical and political stance also distinct from the category woman (Part II).
For Heaney, this formation reifies the abjection of woman as a social category, with two important consequences. First, those who share material conditions as women remain politically divided and, second, interpretive models unnecessarily limit readings of feminine experience. In politics, for example, Heaney argues that the imputation of "women's work as a preference that expresses gender rather than a necessity of living as a woman" leaves unchanged the presumption that sex and gender are aligned (26). A literary example arises when, according to Heaney, literary critics follow James Joyce's lead in Ulysses. Joyce's presentation of Leopold Bloom's sex changes are metaphorical rather than literal: "Joyce engages the idea that a man could be made into a woman in order to figure the relation between men and power, but stops short of engaging the reality that some women have penises" (97). Following suit, literary critics endorse the naturalization of suffering as a condition of womanhood.
Heaney's analysis of Ulysses highlights the interpretive richness of her model—a relatively simple observation mandates a rethinking of gender in literary analysis. In general, (re)readings of both literary and theoretical texts are tightly focused and convincing, if occasionally prolonged. Thus, the inconsistencies in Heaney's chapter on Djuna Barnes stand out despite the solid work in a section on Matthew O'Connor, the trans feminine character in Nightwood. The Ryder section includes superficially explicated block quotations and some sloppily handled secondary source references. Explications of poems from The Book of Repulsive Women, notably "From Fifth Avenue Up" and "To a Cabaret Dancer," rely on implied analysis rather than substantial engagement with language. The rushed feeling of this chapter seems an injustice to The New Woman and to an author Heaney admires.
By contrast, Heaney's discussions of trans women's life writing (chapter 4 and 6)—which Heaney defines broadly to include material presented in sexology texts, court transcripts, and more traditional published work—collect and analyze disparate material to show how the trans feminine allegory distorts our understanding of personal narratives. These narratives refute theoretical models: "Trans women had a variety of understandings of their bodies that often did not conform to the sexological metaphor of entrapment and desire for change" (154). Moreover, Heaney includes accounts that illustrate the imbrication of class and femininity in trans experience, racialize trans feminine experience, and assess trans femininity in narratives of colonization. In discussing the paucity of evidence, Heaney recounts the burning of the archives of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science in 1933: perhaps "lost to history in a day" were many documents about trans feminine life (197). This destruction of records highlights the importance of preserving trans feminine testimony and participation in the feminist and Gay Rights movements, where a similar narrative of marginalization has ignited debates about who can speak safely for whom. (I've borrowed this phrasing from Jane Marcus's Hearts of Darkness. See Evan Urquhart's Slate October 13, 2017 column on two recent documentaries about activist Marsha P. Johnson). The resonance of these events with A Room of One's Own affirms Heaney's observation that erasure from history is a shared material condition for all those who live as women.
Accomplished as this study is, The New Woman reads sluggishly due to organizational and stylistic problems. In the introduction, Heaney understates her range by announcing that she will trace "an allegorical strain in British Modernism" (9, italics added); she applies her model to materials that range across the US, Europe, and beyond. Heaney might also have eased readers into her argument by presenting life writing first because the relatively straightforward analysis there supports the intricate deconstructive maneuvers Heaney later uses for literary and theoretical texts. Similarly, Heaney's prose sometimes gets in her way, alternating between convoluted over-explication and redundant exposition. Elegance and economy is within Heaney's range, but quotable lines like "woman has never been a cis category" (20) coexist with clunkers like "He [Joyce] offers an aesthetic and conceptual investigation of the way sensation produces gendered meaning that rhymes with trans feminine understandings of sex in the period that we'll encounter in chapter 4" (71). The New Woman could have been shorter and more compelling with additional revision and editing.
The concluding chapter of The New Woman posits a materialist trans feminism that "reinstalls women and the feminine as vital categories for feminist theory and political activity with none of the universalizing (and thus cis sexist, racist, and bourgeois) baggage that made us turn away from those categories to begin with" (297). A whiff of the master signifier might attach here, but Heaney attends throughout to a plurality inherent in a trans feminine understanding of "women and the feminine." The study rests on listening to, hearing, and caring about women's diversity and women's commonality. Heaney brings to The New Woman a personal commitment to trans women past and present, a vocabulary that enables us to speak truths about personal experience with generosity, and a politics of legibility that counters cis rhetorics of deliberate ignorance. Heaney forwards the scholarly and political projects of inclusivity by demonstrating that there are no lines to cross except the ones we make, unmake, and remake in the interests of patriarchal cis dominance.
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The problem investigated was homophobia in some African American Churches (AAC) in the Washington, DC metropolitan area (DMV). The researcher used three data streams -- scriptural, contemporary and case studies -- to determine possible causes for homophobia in the AAC in the DMV. The data revealed that leaders acting on what they have been taught frame their ministry paradigms in ministering to LGBT people. These influences are deeply embedded into the culture of the AAC and the psyche of the AA pastor. From the data collected the researcher created a rubric scale of church leaders, as well as fourteen recommendations the AA pastor can use a reference guide to minister to LGBT members in their congregations.


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TAL GOLAN, is a creative, energetic, and seasoned business leader with broad-based technology experience. Prior to joining VERB as Chief Strategy Officer, and during the period December 2013 through March 2019, Mr. Golan held senior executive level positions at Salesforce.com. During the period February 2017 through March 2019, Mr. Golan m was COO – Success Cloud Product and Innovation at Salesforce.com, where he collaborated with leaders of the world's largest enterprises to help them to navigate the complexities of continuous transformational change. As a founder, entrepreneur, investor, and technology inventor, Mr. Golan has grown businesses from the ground up. As a C-level executive, he has reinvigorated organizations to achieve new levels of value and sustainable growth. Mr. Golan's experience in the tech sector includes software design & engineering, cloud computing, product management, mobility, messaging, cryptology, and large-scale data storage and security. Mr. Golan is adept at bridging the communication gap that often exists between business and IT organizations in order to build high-performance teams that deliver exceptional bottom-line results. He describes himself as 'a super-connector and innovation broker, on a personal and professional mission to unify and inspire everyone around me to create the impossible.' Mr. Golan holds a B. A. degree from Brandeis University in Philosophy and Religion, as well as certificates from the University of Southern California for Leadership Development for Building High Performing Teams; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Independent Study for Introduction to Algorithms; Stanford University Independent Study for iOS Application Development; and University of California, Berkeley for C++.


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These make wonderful goat houses or for sheep and many other species.
They measure 72"diameter and 60"high. I provide one for every 5 adult Nigerian Dwarfs but they tend to enjoy snuggling together and I find 10 in one often.
For sale for pickup here at the farm $250 each which includes the vent cap.
*If you are farm assessed bring a ST7 and you can buy them for $235.
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Here is one of many, many examples in children's television of a production run ending with a clip show because there's no money left. At least they were able to go back into production after a break of a couple of months and make six more episodes after this.
Clip shows in a half-hour episode feel long. This one feels agonizing. During the four very long clips, we get quite a few desperate people shouting some variation of "We're not going to make it!" at least three times.
Daniel didn't mind. The format meant that he got to see all the machines in action and hear lots of thrilling music. He didn't object at all to seeing them again. He's rewatched many of the episodes several times already. One more won't hurt. Neither will ten or eleven, probably.
Many years ago, I read a book about The Muppet Show which had some fascinating behind-the-scenes shots. I had never realized how much forced perspective was required to make puppets interact with humans. "30 Minutes After Noon" has lots of really neat, really clever shots and camera tricks. None of it's strictly necessary; it's just the director wondering whether he can make the episode more interesting to watch. It works. Apart from the use of a human hand in place of a puppet's, pictured above, there's a really cool tracking shot through a couple of doors before the action on the puppet stage.
This is one of the fastest-paced Thunderbirds episodes, because it's broken into two halves, two separate emergencies several days apart thanks to the action of a criminal gang. It means there's nowhere near the padding that other episodes have, with lots of excitement. It's a very good, very entertaining episode, although Daniel surprised us by saying his favorite part was Lady Penelope and Parker arriving in the nick of time and blasting the bad guys' helicopter out of the sky. After all the neat stuff on display, that was it? Well, he giggled and wowed and loved it to pieces, which was the important thing.
We still have five episodes of Thunderbirds to watch, but we're going to take a break and come back to those in a few weeks. And then, I hear, we'll have three brand new episodes as well. Stay tuned!
WOW. This episode is AMAZING. The Hood is back, but he's not the comedy wonk-wonk-wonk barely competent Hood that we sometimes see. This time, he ambushes and hypnotizes Brains and Tintin, beats their professor friend unconscious (offscreen, of course), and buries Brains in the desert sand up to his neck, demanding to know where the underwater treasure they're seeking can be found. He is pure angry evil, not played for laughs at all, and he scared the absolute bejesus out of Daniel.
Daniel spent more than a couple of minutes either behind the sofa or in the library, and we weren't surprised. This is an uncommonly intense episode, and, as we often see with his reactions watching Batman when Robin is endangered, he reacts badly when characters who are less able to defend themselves get in trouble.
In a really neat development, Scott, Virgil, and Gordon all choose to stay overnight with their craft to protect the others while waiting for the professor to be evacuated in a medical copter. Brains, rescued but feeling terrible for being a burden, goes out to find the treasure, dives back underwater and the Hood ambushes him AGAIN. Daniel ran for the hills.
The attention to detail in this episode is wild. Sure, there are problems with the plot as there always are, but the intensity of the situation covers up most of them, and the really neat production covers the rest. Brains spends most of the episode with chapped and inflamed lips after his morning trapped in the sun, and Scott and Virgil didn't have time to shave before rescuing him the second time and the puppets have morning stubble!
And this time he has strings. Lots of strings. You know, normally, I can just ignore all the strings in these shows, but somebody was asleep at the wheel this week. Even the experimental Red Arrow fighter jet has a whacking great unavoidable hole cut in the top of the cockpit for strings about as big around a cowboy's lasso to waggle the pilot's head around. Quit interfering with my suspension of disbelief, strings!
Well, if you can ignore the strings, this is a fun one, especially if you enjoy family life on Tracy Island, because this has lots of good moments. It's a good rescue, too, with two technicians stuck atop a TV transmission tower after the jet has crashed into it. Daniel had his usual blast watching it, and he seemed to like the Hood driving over a dismantled bridge and dropping into a river best.
Well, some episodes of Thunderbirds are better than others. This is one of the others.
Daniel got a huge kick out of it. He enjoys Lady Penelope and Parker, and Thunderbird 4, and this has all of them in a big rescue. A bridge has collapsed while a space rocket was being driven across it to its launch site. The rocket is manned and full of fuel, which probably increased its weight a whole heck of a lot, and the countdown to ignition starts when it hits the bottom of the river, which is up there with "I said 'lunch,' not 'launch'!" in the dumb astronaut sweepstakes.
But Thunderbirds has the most calming effect on him, no matter how wild and crazy he is beforehand, and today he was so full of energy that I was afraid he was going to pop. He sat patiently and wide-eyed, asking understandable questions about the show, and asking us what certain words on the screen said, and was completely wowed by the whole experience.
This show was made for kids, and not adults, and while every so often they contrived a completely ridiculous situation, and filled the story with incredibly dumb characters – the same "the bridge can't possibly collapse!" guy turns into "we don't need International Rescue!" guy, making him doubly tedious – but we can forgive missteps so dopey when they're so exciting to their young fans.
One thing this particular episode really drives home is how lonely the Tracys' lives can be. Alan spends the entire series quietly pining for Tintin, but in this episode, he has a rival. An old friend in the construction business, Eddie Houseman, shows up unannounced on their island to woo her for a couple of days, and Alan, with all the one-note sadness of a character who's appearing in a TV show that will get broadcast in random order on stations across the world and can't actually develop, pouts about it. But it also shows that they can't have guests, other than Lady Penelope, since they can't launch a mission if anybody's on their island.
The mission this time is rescuing Houseman himself, because he's an impetuous blowhard who will risk his life to save his company. He gets in a ridiculous scrape and is trapped in a genuine cliffhanger that reminded me of the end of the movie The Italian Job, with added explosives. When Eddie's vehicle is lifted by Thunderbird 2 via a magnetic clamp, and starts to slip, Daniel had to hide under his blanket because it was so exciting.
The production is absolutely first-rate, but our older daughter Ivy, who's seventeen, joined us and raised an eyebrow about how dated it appears to her jaded teen eyes. Hmph! I'd like to know what show from 1966 was willing to film the wild things this series did. At one point, the Eddie puppet is halfway up a mountain, jackhammering into it to plant explosives while being pelted by artificial rain. All in a day's work for the Supermarionation crew!
Hooray! We're back for more Thunderbirds, which Daniel will happily tell you is the very best show ever.
Ages ago, A&E Home Video released Thunderbirds in six silly-priced box sets. I bought four of the six at slightly more sensible prices, but, having made the investment, I didn't feel like double-dipping when Shout Factory/Timeless put out a much, much more sensibly-priced eight-DVD box set. So extra special thanks to our Fire-Breathing buddy Matt for finding used copies of the missing A&E sets 3 and 5 for practically pennies at the excellent McKay Books' Chattanooga location.
Anyway, skipping from episode 12 to episode 19 like we did, I sort of felt that we were getting a little more of the secret agent and comedy stuff and not enough mayhem. "Terror in New York City" is one disaster after another, a situation that starts bad, with Thunderbird 2 being knocked out of commission when a trigger-happy naval commander mistakes it for a hostile craft, and then the jawdropping events in New York that happen.
The world of Thunderbirds is one where generals and criminals and titans of industry come up with great big ridiculous plans without ever once considering whether their idea is actually a good one. This time, some bozos decided to redevelop all the area around the Empire State Building, and move the building – just pick it up and MOVE IT – two hundred yards. This doesn't work. The ground gives way and the Empire State Building is destroyed. It's just amazing. The whole building and the enormous super-contraption they made to move it goes down into pebbles and matchsticks.
Daniel was edge-of-his-seat thrilled. He loved it to pieces, especially since Gordon and Thunderbird 4 get lots of screen time, navigating the underground river to find the two missing newsmen. When a second building gets ready to topple over onto the crash site, his eyes were as big as dinner plates, his blanket was in his mouth, and he was curled up in Mommy's lap, holding on for dear life.
Captain Scarlet is good, but it isn't this good!


Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, today announced that clinical data on atacicept, an investigational drug for systemic lupus erythematosus, are scheduled to be presented in poster sessions at the 2016 American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ACR/ARHP) Annual Meeting taking place from November 11-16, 2016, in Washington, DC, U.S.
For more information about the data to be presented, please review the ACR/ARHP website. Also, visit our booth at this year's Annual Meeting to learn more about the company's commitment to advancing innovation in lupus and other immunological diseases.
Atacicept is a potential treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus. Atacicept, a recombinant fusion protein, contains the soluble TACI receptor that binds to the cytokines BLyS and APRIL. These cytokines are members of the tumor necrosis factor family that promote B-cell survival and autoantibody production associated with certain autoimmune diseases such as SLE. Atacicept has been shown in animal models to affect several stages of B-cell development and may inhibit the survival of cells responsible for making antibodies. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt. Germany, acquired exclusive worldwide development and commercialization rights for atacicept, including in North America, from Zymogenetics in 2008. Atacicept is currently under clinical investigation and not approved for any use in the United States, Canada and Europe.
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As a nonprofit corporation that owns and operates a private social club, petitioner's income derived from membership fees and other receipts from members is exempt from income tax. However, all other income is non-exempt "unrelated business taxable income," defined in § 512(a)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code as "the gross income (excluding any exempt function income), less the deductions allowed by this chapter which are directly connected with the production of the gross income (excluding exempt function income)." Petitioner has nonexempt income from sales of food and drink to nonmembers and from return on its investments. During its 1980 and 1981 tax years, petitioner offset net losses on nonmember sales against the earnings from its investments and reported no unrelated business taxable income. In computing its losses, petitioner identified two categories of expenses incurred in nonmember sales: (1) variable (direct) expenses, such as the cost of food, which, in each year in question, were exceeded by gross income from nonmember sales; and (2) fixed (indirect) overhead expenses, which would have been incurred whether or not sales had been made to nonmembers. It determined what portions of fixed expenses were attributable to nonmember sales by employing an allocation formula known as the "gross-to-gross method," based on the ratio that nonmember sales bore to total sales. The total of these fixed expenses and variable costs exceeded petitioner's gross income from nonmember sales. On audit, the Commissioner determined that petitioner could deduct expenses associated with nonmember sales up to the amount of receipts from the sales themselves, but could not use losses from those activities to offset its investment income because it had failed to show that its nonmember sales were undertaken with an intent to profit. Petitioner sought redetermination, and the Tax Court ruled in petitioner's favor, concluding that petitioner had adequately demonstrated that it had a profit motive, since its gross receipts from nonmember sales consistently exceeded the variable costs associated with those activities. The Court of Appeals reversed, holding that the Tax Court had applied an incorrect legal standard in determining that petitioner had demonstrated an intent to profit, because profit in this context meant the production of gains in excess of all direct and indirect costs. The court remanded the case for a determination whether petitioner engaged in its nonmember activities with the required intent to profit from those activities.
Held: Petitioner may use losses incurred in sales to nonmembers to offset investment income only if those sales were motivated by an intent to profit, which is to be determined by using the same allocation method as petitioner used to compute its actual profit or loss. Pp. 160-171.
(b) By limiting deductions from unrelated business income to those expenses allowable as deductions under "this chapter," § 512(a)(3)(A) limits such deductions to expenses allowable under Chapter 1 of the Code. Since only § 162 of Chapter 1 serves as a basis for the deductions claimed here, and since a taxpayer's activities fall within § 162's scope only if an intent to profit is shown, see Commissioner v. Groetzinger, 480 U.S. 23, 35, 107 S.Ct. 980, 987-988, 94 L.Ed.2d 25, petitioner's nonmember sales must be motivated by an intent to profit. Dispensing with the profit-motive requirement in this case would run counter to the principle of tax neutrality underlying the statutory scheme. Pp. 163-166.
(d) Petitioner has failed to show that it intended to earn gross income from nonmember sales in excess of its total costs, where fixed expenses are allocated using the gross-to-gross method. P. 171.
876 F.2d 897, (CA9 1989) affirmed.
BLACKMUN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which REHNQUIST, C.J., and BRENNAN, WHITE, MARSHALL, and STEVENS, JJ., joined, and in which O'CONNOR, SCALIA, and KENNEDY, JJ., joined except as to Parts III-B and IV. KENNEDY, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which O'CONNOR and SCALIA, JJ., joined, post, p. 171.
Leonard J. Henzke, Jr., Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Clifford M. Sloan, Washington, D.C., for respondent.


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Naguilian is een gemeente in de Filipijnse provincie La Union in het noordwesten van het eiland Luzon. Bij de laatste census in 2007 had de gemeente ruim 45 duizend inwoners.

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Bestuurlijke indeling
Naguilian is onderverdeeld in de volgende 37 barangays:

Demografie
Naguilian had bij de census van 2007 een inwoneraantal van 45.232 mensen. Dit zijn 1.731 mensen (4,0%) meer dan bij de vorige census van 2000. De gemiddelde jaarlijkse groei komt daarmee uit op 0,54%, hetgeen lager is dan het landelijk jaarlijks gemiddelde over deze periode (2,04%).

Geboren in Naguilian

 Pedro Subido (4 december 1930), Filipijns atleet en bondscoach (overleden 2013);
 Artemio Rillera (1 mei 1942), rooms-katholieke bisschop (overleden 2011).

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Gemeente in La Union

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Written by Tim Krasniewski. November 08 2022 Posted in Financial News
Disney Vacation Club resorts are not immune to inflation as member dues rise 4-8% for most destinations.
Big increase set for Disney's Beach Club Villas
Disney Vacation Club dues cover the operating costs of the resort (employees, park transportation, housekeeping, utilities, etc.) as well as property taxes and some allocation for long-term repairs and upgrades.
Following are the proposed figures for the 2023 calendar year:
Resort 2022 Dues 2023 Dues Increase
Animal Kingdom Villas $8.2365 $8.8099 +6.96%
Aulani $8.6739 $9.1424 +5.40%
Aulani Subsidized $6.5205 $6.8727 +5.40%
Bay Lake Tower $7.0826 $7.4255 +4.84%
Beach Club Villas $7.5362 $8.1655 +8.35%
BoardWalk Villas $8.0802 $8.5309 +5.58%
Boulder Ridge $8.1469 $8.5110 +4.47%
Copper Creek Villas $7.6020 $7.9203 +4.19%
Grand Californian $7.4824 $8.0409 +7.46%
Grand Floridian $7.0077 $7.3332 +4.64%
Hilton Head $10.0707 $10.7305 +6.55%
Old Key West $8.8063 $9.3570 +6.25%
Polynesian $7.3859 $7.9475 +8.04%
Riviera $8.3840 $8.5049 +1.81%
Saratoga Springs $7.3287 $7.8622 +7.28%
Vero Beach $11.9405 $12.8503 +7.62%
Vero Beach Subsidized $9.4100 $10.1298 +7.65%
Disney's Riviera Resort checked-in with the lowest increase at just 1.81%. Disney Vacation Club appears to have been conservative in its budgeting for the new resort, with dues rising just $.19 per point since its opening in 2019.
Owners of Disney's Beach Club Villas will see the largest increase at 8.35% or almost $.63 more per point than they paid in 2022. Dues for Disney's Polynesian Villas & Bungalows also rose more than 8% with owners set to pay $.56 more per point than the previous year.
Rising operating costs are the primary culprit at resorts with large dues increases. The Polynesian's operating budget rose from $5.0335 per point in 2022 to an estimated $5.5074 in 2023, an increase of 9.4% year-to-year. Beach Club operating costs are up 11.5% from $4.8932 to $5.4574. Meanwhile Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa saw its operating costs rise just 5.3% from $4.5665 to $4.8088 per point as capital improvements contributions and estimated taxes rose by 2.7% each.
Somewhat surprisingly, the two locations at Disney's Wilderness Lodge--Boulder Ridge and Copper Creek--are among the lowest increases despite a modest increase in 2022 and wholsale refurbishment which will continue into 2023.
Athough it is not a high dollar item, insurance costs rose dramatically at many locations. Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa saw its rate rise from $.0726 in 2022 to $.1353 per point in 2023, an increase of more than 86%. Other Walt Disney World resorts saw their insurance rates increase by roughly 50%. Among Disney's beach locations, insurance for Disney's Vero Beach Resort rose just 8% from $.8952 to $.9709 per point. Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort insurance rose 23% from $.2823 to $.3476 per point. And insurance at Aulani, Disney Vacation Club Villas increases less than 2% from $.2028 to $.2063 per point.
Full budget statements can be accessed by clicking on resort names in the chart above. While these budgets are still preliminary, they are expected to be formally approved by the DVC Board of Directors during the Condo Association Meeting on December 8, 2022.


Another Friday - a day of fun and frolic (as I would like to hope!). Friday is a transition - a workday that leads to fun, a weekday in which strict officewear rules (for those of us who have them!) are relaxed, a day in which imagination and excitement overtake staidness and care. It promises tantalizing possibilities. This weekend, break the rules. Do something different, something exciting. Something that will bring a private smile to your face throughout the coming long work week.


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The first-ever India international Jewellery show, IIJS Virtual on 12th October 2020. The virtual show is powered by GIA. GJEPC has organized IIJS for 38 editions. However, due to the pandemic, the physical trade show transformed into a virtual show. The show will be open for 5 days till October 16, 2020. The five-day virtual show will host a series of seminars featuring the industry's best professionals, who will speak on a range of topics of vital importance to your business in the current scenario including, outlook 2021 Gold, Diamond, & Platinum; Virtual Transformation of Retail In times of Pandemic; Design Direction 2021; Export Opportunities in Silver; Digital transformation; Faceless Assessment.
The inaugural ceremony of IIJS Virtual
The highlight of the inaugural ceremony was Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Railway, Shri Piyush Goyal and Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri Uddhav Thackeray were the Guests of honor for the event and attended the ceremony virtually and addressed the audience. Chetan Bhagat was the star of the evening.
The IIJS Virtual 2020, has over 330 Exhibitors, 8000 registered Buyers, 2900 meetings have been booked and around 200 visitors registered from the US, UK, UAE, Qatar, Singapore, Bangladesh, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Italy, Egypt, Belgium, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Czech Republic, Copenhagen, etc.
Shri Uddhav Thackeray, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, said, "GJEPC has adapted well to the changing lifestyle. He further stated " "We want to make Maharashtra the number one trading center for diamonds and jewelry not only in India but the world. I'm inviting the industry to be more interactive so that we can accomplish this vision together. The Government of Maharashtra will do everything to take the jewelry trade to greater heights. We should also think about how to further enhance our designing institutes to develop them further." He pledged the support of the Maharashtra Government to the Gem and Jewelry Industry and congratulated GJEPC for its initiatives.
Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Railways said, "I am indeed proud of the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), who have shown resilience in these testing times when the world is suffering the adverse effects of the pandemic, to showcase intrinsically and beautifully created pieces of art through the medium of technology."
"In fact, this imbibing of technology to reach out to customers across the world shows the resilience of Indian business, Indian industry, and the commitment to serve customers, particularly with the festival season around the corner, both in India as we celebrate Navratri, Dussera and Diwali; and across the world, where Christmas and the New Year are going to be times when we erupt in joy and bring back the mood in the world".
Colin Shah, Chairman of GJEPC in his opening remarks said, " The show has been receiving overwhelming response from exhibiting companies and buyers alike. I am confident and optimistic that IIJS Virtual will bring the much-needed momentum in the Gems & Jewellery business ahead of the festive season. The gem & jewelry industry is actively operational with Surat Diamond factories running at 90% capacity GJEPC is constantly pursuing with the government for reforms such as E-Commerce, Gold Monetisation, SEZ policy, sales at SNZ, etc. requisite to propel growth in the trade.
He further acknowledged the support and guidance of the Ministry of Commerce, Finance Ministry, and Maharashtra State Govt,
Vipul Shah, Vice Chairman, GJEPC, said, "Collectively, the gem and jewelry industry has shown resilience, adapted well to the situation, and is making optimum use of digital means to deal with day to day business. Overall, the industry has been quick to adapt to the new normal. IIJS Virtual is an effort to build a robust digital architecture that showcases India's leading manufacturers and connects them to the buyers from India and the world"
Shailesh Sangani, Convener, IIJS Virtual, said, "This is a new chapter and a new beginning in the history of GJEPC, with a mega show like IIJS, is being organized virtually for the first time ever.
Sriram Natarajan, Managing Director, GIA India said, "I would like to thank GJEPC for bringing us together in this one of a kind IIJS Virtual 2020. GIA's association with GJEPC goes back many years. This year we are privileged to be part of IIJS in its new virtual avatar."
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Znojile pri Krki () is a settlement in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica in central Slovenia. It lies between Krka and Muljava in the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.

Name
The name of the settlement was changed from Znojile to Znojile pri Krki (literally, 'Znojile near Krka') in 1953. The name Znojile is derived from *znoji(d)lo 'sunny or sun-facing area' from the verb *znojiti 'to be warmed by the sun'. The name therefore refers to the geographical orientation of the place.

Cultural heritage
A small roadside chapel-shrine in the settlement dates to the early 20th century.

References

External links
Znojile pri Krki on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica


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Identity is the new 'battleground' for marketers, says global Salesforce SVP
By Paige Murphy | 29 May 2019
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Identity is the new "battleground" for marketers, says Salesforce senior vice president (SVP), marketing innovation and CMO programs Jon Suarez-Davis.
The US-based SVP and chief strategy officer recently took on a newly created role within Salesforce which will see him work on marketing innovation and strategy at the marketing C-suite level.
Suarez-Davis spoke to AdNews on how his new role came about after listening to the pain points of marketers surviving in a "hyper-accelerated" time of customer expectations where personalisation has become paramount to successful marketing and advertising strategies.
"One of the key things that [marketers] were talking about is trying to understand more marketing innovation, capabilities development, organisational design and then technology solutions," he says.
"So, I just started this new role which is really focused on marketing innovation and strategy at the marketing c-suite level."
Bringing the creativity back to marketing
Suarez-Davis is a strong advocate for using tools that give marketers more time to be working on creative and strategy rather than being bogged down in data.
He believes that artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling society to ask smarter questions, contrary to the common belief that it provides all the answers.
"As a marketer, this idea of Gen Z and digital natives, they literally expect to have a personalised relevant experience," Suarez-Davis says.
"There's just no way we can deliver these personalised experiences at scale without leveraging artificial intelligence."
In Salesforce's recent State of Marketing report, he says there was around a 35% increase in companies using AI. More than 40% of the high performers who identified as meeting their goals were also using AI.
"We've got to create environments where marketers are truly doing marketing. They're using creativity and ideas and they're not combing through data. That can be automated."
AI doesn't have to complex either, Suarez-Davis points out. He uses the example of a company which retails hats for sports brands. The business has been using AI to increase the opening rate of its emails which, at the time, was close to 6%.
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"Is it the sexiest, coolest example in the world? No, but it's an example of how it's happening right today and you can just see how that's going to progress," he says.
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But how far is too far in the personalisation journey? Suarez-Davis makes the case for using data appropriately and providing "value" for the consumer without the "creepy factor".
"There's been a pretty strong argument that if I deliver value to you, you know, the value exchange that it won't be creepy. I still stay on that side of the argument," he says.
"Although, I will say the environment we live in today has definitely raised the game at how good marketers have to be. I mean, a proper marketing job is really, really challenging now. It's certainly one of the golden ages of marketing because we have accountability, we have technology.
"We have all these things and yet the point is that a customer's expectations just keeps staying a couple of steps ahead of us but I don't see any way around it. Customers want value and they just want us to make sure that the value exchange for their data is appropriate."
While it has always been important, Suarez-Davis reiterates how now more than ever it is critical that companies are open with customers about how they are using data.
Going forward, he says that companies who have trust, transparency and authenticity at the centre of their business will be the ones best equipped to survive data breaches.
"We live in this dynamic environment but if you're always doing the right thing from a values standpoint, then that will help you address any of these technology issues that inevitably come."
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from six import raise_from
from .backoff import Backoff
from .retrier import Retrier
from .constants import PY_34
from .errors import ErrorWhitelist
from .strategies import ConstantBackoff
from .exceptions import MaxRetriesExceeded, RetryError

# Ensure user do not import this module in unsupported Python runtimes
if not PY_34:  # pragma: no cover
    raise RuntimeError('cannot import async_retrier module in Python <= 3.4')

import asyncio  # noqa

class AsyncRetrier(Retrier):
    """
    AsyncRetrier implements an asynchronous corutine based operation retrier.

    Only compatible with `asyncio` in Python 3.4+.

    AsyncRetrier implements a synchronous and asynchronous context manager.

    Arguments:
        timeout (int|float): maximum optional timeout in milliseconds.
            Use `None` for no limit. Defaults to `None`.
        backoff (riprova.Backoff): optional backoff strategy to use.
            Defaults to `riprova.ConstantBackoff`.
        evaluator (function): optional evaluator function used to determine
            when an operation should be retried or not.
            This allow the developer to retry operations that do not raised
            any exception, for instance. Evaluator function accepts 1
            argument: the returned task result.
            Evaluator function can raise an exception, return an error or
            simply return `True` in order to retry the operation.
            Otherwise the operation will be considered as valid and the
            retry loop will end.
        error_evaluator (function|coroutinefunction): optional evaluator
            function used to determine when a task raised exception should
            be proccesed as legit error and therefore retried or, otherwise,
            treated as whitelist error, stopping the retry loop and re-raising
            the exception to the task consumer.
            This provides high versatility to developers in order to compose
            any exception, for instance. Evaluator is an unary
            function that accepts 1 argument: the raised exception object.
            Evaluator function can raise an exception, return an error or
            simply return `True` in order to retry the operation.
            Otherwise the operation will be considered as valid and the
            retry loop will end.
        on_retry (function): optional function to call on before very retry
            operation. `on_retry` function accepts 2 arguments: `err, next_try`
            and should return nothing.
        sleep_coro (coroutinefunction): optional coroutine function used to
            sleep. Defaults to `asyncio.sleep`.
        loop (asyncio.BaseException): event loop to use.
            Defaults to `asyncio.get_event_loop()`.

    Attributes:
        whitelist (riprova.ErrorWhitelist): default error whitelist instance
            used to evaluate when.
        blacklist (riprova.ErrorBlacklist): default error blacklist instance
            used to evaluate when.
            Blacklist and Whitelist are mutually exclusive.
        timeout (int): stores the maximum retries attempts timeout in
            seconds. Use `None` for no timeout. Defaults to `None`.
        attempts (int): number of retry attempts being executed from last
            `run()` method call.
        error (Exception): stores the latest generated error.
            `None` if not error yet from last `run()` execution.
        sleep (coroutinefunction): stores the coroutine function used to sleep.
            Defaults to `asyncio.sleep`.
        backoff (Backoff): stores current used backoff.
            Defaults to `riprova.ConstantBackoff`.
        evaluator (coroutinefunction): stores the used evaluator function.
            Defaults to `None`.
        error_evaluator (function|coroutinefunction): stores the used error
            evaluator function. Defaults to `self.is_whitelisted_error()`.
        on_retry (coroutinefunction): stores the retry notifier function.
            Defaults to `None`.

    Raises:
        AssertionError: in case of invalid input params.

    Usage::

        retrier = riprova.AsyncRetrier(
            timeout=10,
            backoff=riprova.FibonacciBackoff(retries=5))

        async def task(x):
            return x * x

        loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

        result = loop.run_until_complete(retrier.run(task, 4))
        assert result == 16
        assert retrier.attempts == 0
        assert retrier.error == None

        # Using the async context manager
        async with riprova.AsyncRetrier() as retry:
            await retry.run(task, 'foo', bar=1)
    """

    # Stores the default global error whitelist used for error retry evaluation
    whitelist = None

    # Blacklist is just a semantic alias to whitelist
    blacklist = None

    def __init__(self,
                 timeout=None,
                 backoff=None,
                 evaluator=None,
                 error_evaluator=None,
                 on_retry=None,
                 sleep_coro=None,
                 loop=None):

        # Assert input params
        if timeout is not None:
            assert isinstance(timeout, (int, float)), 'timeout must be number'
            assert timeout >= 0, 'timeout cannot be a negative number'

        # Event loop to use
        self.loop = loop or asyncio.get_event_loop()
        # Stores number of retry attempts
        self.attempts = 0
        # Stores latest error
        self.error = None
        # Maximum optional timeout in milliseconds. Use 0 for no limit
        self.timeout = timeout or None
        # Stores optional evaluator function
        self.evaluator = asyncio.coroutine(evaluator) if evaluator else None
        # Stores the error evaluator function.
        self.error_evaluator = error_evaluator or self.is_whitelisted_error
        # Stores optional coroutine function to call on before very
        # retry operation. `on_retry` function accepts 2 arguments:
        # `err, next_try` and should return nothing.
        self.on_retry = asyncio.coroutine(on_retry) if on_retry else None
        # Backoff strategy to use. Defaults to `riprova.ConstantBackoff`.
        self.backoff = backoff or ConstantBackoff()
        # Function used to sleep. Defaults `asyncio.sleep()`.
        self.sleep = sleep_coro or asyncio.sleep
        # Stores the default error whitelist used for error retry evaluation
        self.whitelist = (AsyncRetrier.blacklist or
                          AsyncRetrier.whitelist or
                          ErrorWhitelist())

    @asyncio.coroutine
    def _call(self, coro, *args, **kw):
        """
        Calls the given coroutine function with the given variadic arguments.
        """
        res = yield from coro(*args, **kw)  # noqa (required for Python 2.x)

        # If not evaluator function response is error
        if not self.evaluator or res is None:
            # Clean error on success
            self.error = None
            # Return response object
            return res

        # Use custom result evaluator in order to determine if the
        # operation failed or not
        err = yield from self.evaluator(res)
        if not err:
            self.error = None
            return res

        # Raise custom error exception
        if isinstance(err, Exception):
            self.error = err
            raise err from RetryError

        # If True, raise a custom exception
        if err is True:
            raise RuntimeError('evaluator assertion returned True')

        # Otherwise simply return the error object
        return err

    @asyncio.coroutine
    def _handle_error(self, err):
        """
        Handle execution error state and sleep the required amount of time.
        """
        # Update latest cached error
        self.error = err

        # Defaults to false
        retry = True

        # Evaluate if error is legit or should be retried
        if self.error_evaluator:
            retry = yield from (asyncio.coroutine(self.error_evaluator)(err))

        # If evalutor returns an error exception, just raise it
        if retry and isinstance(retry, Exception):
            raise_from(retry, self.error)

        # If retry evaluator returns False, raise original error and
        # stop the retry cycle
        if retry is False:
            raise err

        # Get delay before next retry
        delay = self.backoff.next()

        # If backoff is ready
        if delay == Backoff.STOP:
            raise MaxRetriesExceeded('max retries exceeded') from err

        # Notify retry subscriber, if needed
        if self.on_retry:
            yield from self.on_retry(err, delay)

        # Sleep before the next try attempt
        yield from self.sleep(delay)

    @asyncio.coroutine
    def _run(self, coro, *args, **kw):
        """
        Runs coroutine in a error-safe infinitive loop until the
        operation succeed or the max retry attempts is reached.
        """
        err = None

        while True:
            try:
                return (yield from self._call(coro, *args, **kw))

            # Collect raised errors by cancelled futures
            except asyncio.CancelledError as _err:
                err = _err

            # Handle any other exception error
            except Exception as _err:
                yield from self._handle_error(_err)

            # Increment number of retry attempts
            self.attempts += 1

            # Forward raised exception, if needed
            if err is not None:
                raise err

    @asyncio.coroutine
    def run(self, coro, *args, **kw):
        """
        Runs the given coroutine function in a retry loop until the operation
        is completed successfully or maximum retries attempts are reached.

        Arguments:
            coro (coroutinefunction): coroutine function to retry.
            *args (args): partial arguments to pass to the function.
            *kw (kwargs): partial keyword arguments to pass to the function.

        Raises:
            Exception: any potential exception raised by the function.
            RuntimeError: if evaluator function returns `True`.
            asyncio.TimeoutError: in case of a timeout exceed error.

        Returns:
            mixed: value returned by the original function.
        """
        if not asyncio.iscoroutinefunction(coro):
            raise TypeError('coro param must be a coroutine function')

        # Reset backoff on every new execution
        self.backoff.reset()

        # Reset state
        self.error = None
        self.attempts = 0

        # If not timeout defined, run the coroutine function
        return (yield from asyncio.wait_for(
            self._run(coro, *args, **kw),
            self.timeout,
            loop=self.loop
        ))

    @asyncio.coroutine
    def __aenter__(self):
        return self

    @asyncio.coroutine
    def __aexit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, traceback):
        return self.__exit__(exc_type, exc_value, traceback)


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One resident, Jeff Bridges, co-owner of a hotel, said his first floor was submerged by 7 feet of water, forcing him to stay on the second floor.
In Sebastopol, 12 miles southeast of Guerneville, Mamadou Diouf, owner of the high-end clothing store Tamarind Clothing, waded the streets in knee-high boots to survey the damage after the Laguna de Santa Rosa River jumped its banks
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Flood warnings remained in effect throughout the Sacramento Valley on Thursday as tame roadside gullies boiled angrily with runoff, and creeks rushed over roads in some areas.
The National Weather Service for the Bay Area reported a one-day rainfall for Santa Rosa of 8 inches, while the Venado weather station near Guerneville picked up over 20 inches in two days.
Aside from the torrent of rain, Sonoma and Plumas counties were hit by numerous mudslides.
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The American Eclectic Dispensatory, 1854. > Part II. Materia Medica. >
Cornus circinata. Round-leaved Dogwood.
Cornus rugosa
Also see: Cornus circinata. Round-leaved Dogwood. - Cornus florida. Dogwood. - Cornus sericea. Swamp Dogwood.
Nat. Ord. — Cornaceae. Sex. Syst. — Tetrandria Monogynia,
The Bark.
Description. — This plant, likewise called Broad-leaved Dogwood, Alder-leaved Dogwood, Round-leaved Cornel, etc., is a shrub growing from six to ten feet high, with straight, slender, greenish and verrucose branches. The leaves are large, about as broad as long, orbicular, or very broadly oval, opposite, acuminate, waved on their edges, somewhat rough above, but lanuginous beneath. The flowers are white, in small, spreading, depressed cymes, without an involucrum. The fruit or berries are a bright blue, becoming lighter colored as they mature, small, soft, hollowed at base, and crowned with the persistent style.
History. — This plant is a native of the United States, growing from Canada to Virginia, on hill-sides and the banks of rivers, and flowering in June and July. The dried bark is usually in quills of a whitish or ash -color, and affords a gray powder, somewhat resembling that of ipecacuanha. Its odor is slight, and its taste bitter, astringent, and somewhat aromatic. It imparts its virtues to water, and in chemical character, has thus far been found analogous with the Cornus Florida.
Properties and Uses. — An astringent tonic, which may be employed in all cases where such agents are indicated. An infusion of it may be made by infusing an ounce of the coarsely-powdered bark in a pint of boiling water, and may be given in doses of one or two fluidounces, several times a day ; it is useful in diarrhea and dysentery, and also as a gargle in sore-throat. One ounce of the bark affords 150 grains of an astringent, intensely bitter extract, which may be used with benefit. The medical virtues of this plant are similar to those of the Cornus Florida, as well as its doses.
The American Eclectic Dispensatory, 1854, was written by John King, M. D.
‹ Cornu cervinae calcinatum. Calcined Deer's Horn. up Cornus florida. Dogwood. ›


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LucasArts released a remake with updated audio & visuals titled The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition in July 2009 for iPhone, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox 360 exclusively via download. PlayStation 3, Mac OS and iPad versions followed early in 2010 for download on their respective services. LucasArts confirmed the game's development on June 1, 2009; rumors appeared several days earlier when the Xbox 360 version of the game received an USK rating. The game was first displayed to the public at the 2009 E3 in June. The remake features hand-drawn visuals with more detail, a remastered musical score, voice work for characters, and a hint system. The developers included the function to switch between 2009 and original audiovisuals at will. The voice actors included Dominic Armato as Guybrush Threepwood and Earl Boen as LeChuck; most had provided voice work in sequels to The Secret of Monkey Island.
LucasArts's game producer Craig Derrick and his team conceived the idea of the remake in 2008.After researching the Monkey Island series' history, they decided to make "something fresh and new while staying true to the original", which resulted in the idea of The Secret of Monkey Island's remake. The developers tried to leave much of the original design unchanged. Any changes were intended to achieve the level of immersion desired for the original. To that end, they added details like a pirate ship or pirates talking in the background of scenes. While the team considered the SCUMM interface revolutionary at the time, LucasArts community manager Brooks Brown noted that it is incompatible with an analog stick, which most consoles use. The designers made the cursor contextual to the game objects as the primary interface. Brown had considered updating the reference to advertise Star Wars: The Force Unleashed because Loom was not on the market at the time, but concluded that the game would not be the same if such changes were implemented.Prior to the Special Edition release, however, LucasArts announced that Loom, along with other games from its back catalog, would be made available on Steam. Brown stated that the decision to distribute the game online was because "digital downloads have finally gotten going".
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Main series
The Secret of Monkey Island · Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge · The Curse of Monkey Island · Escape from Monkey Island · Tales of Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition · Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
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PEGI-12
USK-12
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