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Q: Regarding evaluation order multiply :: Int -> Int -> Int
multiply a b = a * b

minus :: Int -> Int -> Int
minus a b = a - b

minus2 :: Int -> Int -> Int
minus2 a b = b – a

minus2 (multiply (minus 3 5) 7) 9
minus2 ((minus 3 5) * 7) 9
9 - ((minus 3 5) * 7)
9 - ((3 - 5) * 7)
9 - ((-2) * 7)
9 - (-14)
23

Running the line minus2 (multiply (minus 3 5) 7) 9
Do I have the correct order of evaluation that Haskell would use?
Still new with functional programming so I'm not sure if I have the "lazy evaluation" process correct.

A: You can test your hypothesis by replacing subexpressions by (error "x"), (error "y"), etc. Whichever error is evaluated first is the one to show up when you run the expression.

A: To the point, evaluation can proceed in any order the compiler wants it to, as long as it gets the correct answer. For example, it could optimize the entire expression to 23 and have no evaluation at all at runtime. It could evaluate the right side of arithmetic operators before the left side, except for subtraction. It could randomly decide at runtime which to evaluate first.
Ignoring that, for an explanation of how to manually do the work, see "How Lazy Evaluation Works in Haskell".

But how to manually figure it out is not the main point of this answer. Your question was what evaluation order Haskell would actually use, so this answer loosely intends to tell you the evaluation order your program uses when compiled with the compiler of your choice (ignoring some caveats that don't matter for basic understanding of evaluation order).
With some work, we can have Haskell tell us what order it evaluates in. If you're in school, you probably want to learn how to find the evaluation order manually without assistance so that you can do well on a test.
It's recommended that you only do this to check an answer you're confident in. You can also use it if you get stuck, but you should only read up until the point that you're stuck to see what the next step is and to make an educated guess about why that's the next step so that you can begin to learn what the rules are by experimenting. This, in combination with the above linked article, will help quite a bit.
To do this, we can expand upon Jonas Duregård's answer by using Debug.Trace's functions instead of error. Debug.Trace's functions can output things when something starts or stops being evaluated, so they're quite appropriate here:
import Debug.Trace

-- Show result
r :: String -> Int -> Int
r nm n = trace ("Result of " ++ nm ++ " is " ++ show n) n

-- Show evaluation of Int -> Int -> Int function
f :: String -> (Int -> Int -> Int) -> Int -> Int -> Int
f nm g a b = e nm $ g a b

-- Show evaluation of an Int
e :: String -> Int -> Int
e nm = r nm . trace ("Evaluating " ++ nm)

-- Show Int literal
i :: Int -> Int
i n = e (show n) n

multiply :: Int -> Int -> Int
multiply a b = e "multiply" $ (f "multiply's *" (*))
                              (e "multiply's a" a)
                              (e "multiply's b" b)

minus :: Int -> Int -> Int
minus a b = e "minus" $ (f "minus's -" (-))
                        (e "minus's a" a)
                        (e "minus's b" b)

minus2 :: Int -> Int -> Int
minus2 a b = e "minus2" $ (f "minus2's -" (-))
                          (e "minus2's b" b)
                          (e "minus2's a" a)

main :: IO ()
main = print $ minus2 (multiply (minus (i 3) (i 5)) (i 7)) (i 9)

Once you've solved the problem on paper, you can check your answer with the results of the above code run on GHC. It tells you what evaluation order your code uses when compiled with GHC.
You can alternatively run this through the Haskell compiler of your choice.

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Being committed to promoting diversity and inclusion, the Company has hired over 60 women engineers in its new plant.
Becoming an equal opportunity employer, bringing in diversity and inclusion and creating a harmonious work culture are on the agenda of most organisations today. Diversity and inclusion, particularly gender diversity, is becoming more than a mere box to tick. In the latter half of 2017, HRKatha did a story on how building materials and composite solutions company, Owens Corning, was approaching this agenda in India. We spoke to the Company representatives to find out how serious they were about being an equal opportunity employer, only to be pleasantly surprised.
We learnt that at a global level, Owens Corning has been very particular about working towards creating a diverse, safe, and women-friendly work culture and environment. Yes, organisations all across the world are focussing on inclusion in all functions and are meeting with success too, but how challenging is it to employ women on the shop floor in a company such as Owens Corning? There are stereotypes to trash, mindsets to change, employees to sensitise and numerous other challenges. HRKatha was told that Owens Corning India is very mindful of the same and is striving continuously to create a workplace that offers equal opportunities to all genders, irrespective of the function.
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"We have 52 women operations engineers in the plant and we are targeting to reach the figure of 60 by end of this year. In addition to the hiring of young women engineers from different institutes across India, under our Young Engineers Programme, we have also hired experienced women engineers for our operations. This initiative strengthens our commitment to building and nurturing a diverse and inclusive workforce," says Abhijeet Jadhav, HR leader at the Taloja plant.
Sanjay Rao, India HR leader, Owens Corning says this has not been an easy journey. The effort began a year-and-a-half ago. At that time, two per cent of the workforce comprised women. Since then its efforts towards diversity and inclusion have borne fruit, and today seven per cent of its 2000+ workforce pan India comprises women. Consistent efforts continue to push the numbers further up.
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Blaney, Motorcraft/Quick Lane Team Feeling Upbeat About Vegas
Wednesday, Mar 08 2191
Ford Motor Company's NASCAR teams head into this weekend's races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on a roll, having won the first two Cup races of the season and scoring eight other top-10 finishes.
Ryan Blaney and the Motorcraft/Quick Lane team are among those headed West with momentum after having fast Ford Fusions in the first two races of the season.
Blaney finished second at Daytona and was poised for another strong run at Atlanta Motor Speedway before early tire troubles left him mired deep in the field for much of the race.
Still, the entire Motorcraft/Quick Lane team is focusing on the positives of the first two races of 2017.
"I guess on paper it looks like Atlanta didn't go very good for us, but in reality our car had a lot of speed and we fought hard to overcome a lot of adversity as a group," crew chief Jeremy Bullins said. "I was really proud of our team and how everyone responded and kept their head in the game and kept fighting."
Even with an 18th-place finish at Atlanta, Blaney is eighth in the championship standings heading to Las Vegas, where Bullins expects the good performance to continue.
"We've had two fast Motorcraft/ Quick Lane Ford Fusions to start the season, and I'm confident the car we are taking to Vegas is just as good," he said, adding that the team's chassis set-ups seem to work well on the 1.5-mile Las Vegas. "Las Vegas fits Ryan's liking – we tend to gravitate toward the fast, intermediate tracks – and that showed last year finishing sixth."
"It should be a good week to keep the momentum going that we've started the season with, and we can't wait to get the West Coast swing of the schedule started."
Team co-owner Eddie Wood said this weekend's race will be another test of the new aerodynamics package, with its short rear spoiler and other tweaks that are intended to put a driver's skills to the test.
"I'm looking forward to another opportunity to see where we are with our Motorcraft/Quick Lane Fusion," he said. "The new package seems to suit Ryan's style."
"I think we'll be OK."
Qualifying for Sunday's 400-mile run is set for Friday at 4:45 p.m. (7:45 eastern), and the race is scheduled to start just after 12:30 p.m. (3:30 eastern) on Sunday with TV coverage on FOX.
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Btw, the file is there, and doing "more /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.4/0000:02:09.0/sound/card0/id" yields "default" or "default_1".
How can I stop the "default" name overriding the names that I set in the .rules file ? Any help appreciated !!!!
I haven't seen anyone adressing this issue yet. You might want to ask on the linuxaudio user list.
Thanks, I will post it there also.
> I haven't seen anyone adressing this issue yet. You might want to ask on the linuxaudio user list.
>> I'm trying to configure a pc with puredyne and 2 RME HDSPM soundcards. I manage to get sound perfectly, and I also managed to merge the two sound cards into one using .asoundrc. My problem is that the cards are identical and at every boot they get a random order. I was trying to follow  to try to give them a name based on the hardware location of the pci cards.
>> Btw, the file is there, and doing "more /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.4/0000:02:09.0/sound/card0/id" yields "default" or "default_1".
>> How can I stop the "default" name overriding the names that I set in the .rules file ? Any help appreciated !!!!


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EU has agreed price cap for Russian oil Poland
RT.com
Russia has repeatedly warned that it will not sell the fuel to countries that participate in the scheme
The EU has agreed to cap the purchase price of seaborne oil from Russia at $60 a barrel, Polish ambassador to the bloc Andrzej Sados confirmed to Reuters, after several media reports cited anonymous sources to that effect on Friday. The deal was reached after Warsaw and the Baltic states dropped their demand for a lower cap in exchange for a review mechanism.
The review and adjustment mechanism will keep the cap at 5% below the market price, CNBC reported previously, citing diplomats involved in the talks. The EU is expected to make the official announcement on Sunday.
A 45-day "transitional period" would apply to vessels carrying crude oil of Russianorigin that was loaded before December 5 and unloaded at its final destination by January 19, 2023.
The price cap was originally proposed by the US and its G7 allies, seeking to further sanction Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. In practice, the measure would ban shipping, brokering, insurance and financing to enterprises seeking to transport Russian oil, unless it is bought at or below the artificial cap.
Russia has repeatedly warned that it will sell no oil whatsoever to countries that participate in the scheme.
"We are not interested in what the price cap will be," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on Thursday. "We will negotiate with our partners directly. And the partners who work with us will not look around at these caps or give any guarantees to those who illegally introduce them."
(RT.com)


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Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter (9 de febrero de 1907 – 31 de marzo de 2003) es considerado como un importante geómetra del siglo XX. Nacido en Londres, trabajó la mayor parte de su vida en Canadá.

Educado en la Universidad de Cambridge, trabajó desde 1936 durante cerca de 60 años en la Universidad de Toronto publicando doce libros y más de 200 textos académicos. Su trabajo principal fue en geometría destacando en teoría de politopos, geometría no euclídea, teoría de grupos y combinatoria.

En 1997 recibió la medalla Sylvester de la Royal Society por sus aportaciones en geometría.

Semblanza
En su juventud, Coxeter compuso música y fue un pianista consumado a la edad de 10 años. Sintió que la música y las matemáticas estaban íntimamente relacionadas, describiendo sus ideas en un artículo de 1962 sobre "Matemáticas y música" en el "Canadian Music Journal".

Accedió al Trinity College de la Universidad de Cambridge en 1926 como lector de matemáticas. Allí obtuvo su licenciatura (como Senior Wrangler) en 1928, y se doctoró en 1931. En 1932 visitó la Universidad de Princeton, en una estancia de un año financiada por la Fundación Rockefeller, donde trabajó con Hermann Weyl, Oswald Veblen y Solomon Lefschetz. Regresó al Trinity  por otro año, donde asistió a los seminarios de Ludwig Wittgenstein sobre filosofía de las matemáticas. En 1934 pasó un año más en Princeton como miembro de Procter.

En 1936, Coxeter se trasladó a la Universidad de Toronto. En 1938, junto con P. Du Val, H.T. Flather y John Flinders Petrie, publicó Los cincuenta y nueve icosaedros con la University of Toronto Press. En 1940, editó la undécima edición de "Mathematical Recreations and Essays",<ref>{{cite journal|author=Frame, J. S.|title=Review: Mathematical Recreations and Essays, 11th edition, by W. W. Rouse Ball; revised by H. S. M. Coxeter|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1940|volume=45|issue=3|pages=211–213|url=http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1940-46-03/S0002-9904-1940-07170-8/S0002-9904-1940-07170-8.pdf|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1940-07170-8}}</ref> obra originalmente publicada por W. W. Rouse Ball en 1892. Nombrado professor en 1948, resultó elegido miembro de la Royal Society of Canada en 1948 y Miembro de la Royal Society en 1950.

Conoció a M. C. Escher en 1954 y los dos se hicieron amigos de por vida. Su trabajo sobre figuras geométricas ayudó a inspirar algunas de las obras de Escher, particularmente la serie Límite del círculo, basada en teselados hiperbólicos. También inspiró algunas de las innovaciones de Richard Buckminster Fuller. Coxeter, M. S. Longuet-Higgins y J. C. P. Miller fueron los primeros en publicar la lista de poliedros uniformes completa (1954).

Trabajó durante 60 años en el Universidad de Toronto y publicó doce libros.

 Premios
 Fue nombrado Miembro de la Royal Society en 1950, de la que recibió la Medalla Sylvester en 1997.
 En 1973 recibió el Premio Jeffery-Williams.
 Desde 1978, la Sociedad Matemática Canadiense ha entregado el Premio Coxeter-James en su honor.
 En 1990 se convirtió en miembro extranjero de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias y en 1997 recibió el título de Companion de la Orden de Canadá.

 Obra destacada
 1942: Non-Euclidean Geometry (1st edition), (2nd ed, 1947), (3rd ed, 1957), (4th ed, 1961), (5th ed, 1965), University of Toronto Press (6th ed, 1998), MAA.
 1949: The Real Projective Plane 1961: Introduction to Geometry 1963: Regular Polytopes (2ª edición), Macmillan Company
 1967: Geometry Revisited'' (con S. L. Greitzer)

Véase también

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Matemáticos del Reino Unido del siglo XX
Matemáticos de Canadá
Geómetras
Doctores honoris causa por la Universidad de Alberta
Doctores honoris causa por la Universidad McMaster
Medalla Sylvester
Graduados honorarios de la Universidad de York
Miembros de la Real Academia de Artes y Ciencias de los Países Bajos
Nacidos en Londres

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If "QQ" works for a graceful exit in pinballx then this might be worth a try; in visual pinball map Exit Game to button 6 (same as exit emulator in pinballx), then when exiting game press and hold the exit button (visual pinball should accept that as quit and exit, hopefully cleanly). You can test it by launching visual pinball outside pinballx.
It'll just depend on whether VPX exits before pinballx closes it, so this is a long shot as i suspect pinballx will get in first.
Also check the button 6 isn't mapped to anything else in VPX key prefs.


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The Wine Curmudgeon
My goal: To help Americans see wine as Europeans do, as something to drink every day. Even if it kills me.
Wine trends
How low are wine prices these days? Awfully low
There has been a lot of news about wine prices holding steady lately, but it's been mostly economic -- studies, analysis, and so forth. That's the kind of stuff, as accurate as it is, that is sometimes painful for consumers to read. Not many of us worry too much about grape tonnage.
On the other hand, it's very easy for consumers to understand low prices, like these in a maling sent this week from Total Wine, the large regional retailer that wants to be a national chain:
• Barefoot pinot noir for $4.97, almost 30 percent off the suggested retail price.
• The 2009 Groth Oakville cabernet sauvignon, a previous vintage, for 12 percent less than the current vintage's $57.
• Bogle chardonnay, a mainstay of the $10 Hall of Fame, for $6.97.
• A previous vintage of King Estate pinot gris, about as dependable as a $17 wine can be, for $11.97.
• Perrier-Jouet Grand Brut, a holiday Champagne staple, for $39.99 -- 20 percent off suggested retail.
Some of these, like the Barefoot and the Bogle, are likely loss leaders -- priced to lure customers to the store in the hope they'll buy other, more profitable, wines. But the prices also speak to two other trends. First, there's still a lot of unsold wine in the supply chain left over from the recession, and especially expensive wine. Until those wines are sold or disposed of (right, Treasury?) they will continue to drag down prices. The Total mailing also had previous vintages from Cakebread, Chimney Rock, and Silver Oak, each expensive and popular California producers.
Second, competition among retailers is fiercer than ever, with liquor superstores growing 15 percent since 2008, three times faster than their conventional counterparts. Total, with almost 100 stores, wants to double revenues to $2 billion by 2016, while BevMo, with 144 stores mostly in the west, wants to expand outside its base. All that competition -- which is especially brutal in Dallas, where Total opened last year -- means more discounting in an attempt to build market share. And that means more low prices.
Throw in the economy, which has been treading water for at least a year, and the idea that wine prices are going to go up anytime soon is as silly as the Wine Curmudgeon using wine scores on the blog.
For more on wine prices:
• Retailers and wine prices
• Wine prices in 2013, one final time
• The revolution in cheap pinot noir
Oct 3, 2013 6:00:00 AM | Wine trends
Cupcake wine review 2013
The Wine Curmudgeon has discovered the flaw in the Cupcake Vineyards marketing juggernaut. It's almost impossible to find the wines in a store, whether grocery or wine, that has any kind of inventory. It took me 10 minutes to locate the two bottles for this review, scuttling between aisles at my local Kroger; would a less determined consumer have done as much?
Maybe they would. Cupcake is the post-modern wine business success story, eclipsing even Barefoot and its millions and millions of cases. Three years after it started, Cupcake was named wine brand of the year, and its sales increased 67 percent in 2012, according to one market research firm.
Cupcake, as Blake Gray wrote last year, approaches wine from a different perspective. It markets its brand before it markets its products, so its customers don't buy on varietal, like pinot noir, or region, like France, the way most of us do. Rather, its customers buy Cupcake first and worry about varietal and region later.
In this, the wine is marketed almost like women's clothing, where Cupcake is the designer that shoppers look for before they look for a specific item like a dress or a skirt. That's why Target has long offered designer collections, whether from Isaac Mizrahi, Jason Wu, or Phillip Lim.
None of this, of course, takes into account whether the wine offers value. That's why I'm here – this year's take is after the jump:
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Sep 23, 2013 6:00:00 AM | $10 wine, Red wine, White wine, Wine reviews, Wine trends
Retailers and wine prices
Wine-Searcher.com has great news for wine drinkers: "Increased transparency of wine prices worldwide means retailers are no longer able to charge excessive prices."
So how does that jibe with what I saw yesterday – a national retailer charging $17 for a South African red blend that included pinotage? Wine prices don't get much more excessive than that.
The Wine Curmudgeon will sort this all out after the jump:
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Sep 19, 2013 6:00:00 AM | Wine Curmudgeon, Wine trends
When Blue Nun ruled the wine world
In the 1980s, the German company that produced Blue Nun exported 2 million cases of the cheap, sweetish white wine, making it the YellowTail of its day. In this, it was supposed to be the fabled gateway wine -- something that would introduce non-wine drinkers to wine. Then, they would progress from Blue Nun to dry wine wine and eventually emergeturn into smart, sophisticated, and savvy wine drinkers.
That never happened (and, as I discuss in the cheap wine book, probably never will). Blue Nun, like all potential gateway wines, whether white zinfandel or YellowTail, reached its peak and hit a plateau, and consumers moved on to something else. Blue Nun is still around and still sells millions of cases, but it's not what it was.
How big was Blue Nun then? I had dinner at Commander's Palace in New Orleans in 1982 in the swanky upstairs dining room, and six or eight people at the table next to us were drinking Blue Nun. That they ordered it at one of the world's great restaurants and which had an equally great wine list speaks to how comfortable it made those diners feel. Because, of course, Blue Nun was the white wine that's correct with any dish – a brilliant marketing slogan for U.S. wine drinkers hung up on wine and food pairings, and just as true now as then.
Not all of the wine's marketing was that good, as this TV commercial from 1985 – when it was on its downhill slide -- demonstrates (courtesy of xntryk1 at YouTube):
The myth of wine and food pairings
The ancient Greeks, who didn't understand gravity or the Bell curve, attributed the mysteries of the universe to the gods, and it served them well. Need a victory in battle? Pray to Zeus. Not sure about the future? Visit Apollo's oracle at Delphi.
Wine and food pairings are wine's version of Greek mythology. It's the solution to all of the wine industry's problems, even though – like Apollo's oracle – pairings don't mean all that much to the vast majority of wine drinkers.
This is not to say that wine and food pairings are legitimate, because certain food tastes better with certain wine, and there is scientific evidence to support that. What it does mean is that, for most consumers, they aren't important. You can see more about this here. And here.
This has made such an impression on me that I've pretty much given up on wine and food pairings (though I'll still suggest them). The cheap wine book goes into detail, but what it comes down to is this: If I tell people it's OK to drink what they want, then why I am telling them what to drink it with? All I ask is that wine drinkers be open to the concept of pairings and give them a try. If they don't like them, that's fine, too. As my brother says, "I like big red wine. Why can't I drink it when I want?"
Nevertheless, many in the wine business see wine and food pairings as the key to increasing wine consumption in the U.S. (this being one of the most important exceptions). This approach shows up regularly in studies and white papers, and most recently in what was an otherwise outstanding effort to help the industry figure out how to get Hispanics to drink more wine.
But the report, issued by Rabobank, has this line: "What support will be given for pairing wine with Hispanic food?" Forget the practicalities – what exactly is Hispanic food, given that Hispanics come from dozens of countries and they even eat non-Hispanic food? More importantly, it also ignores the point that most consumers don't care about pairings and that pairings are especially intimidating to new wine drinkers. So how will that help lure Hispanics into wine?
Sometimes I wonder if anyone is really paying attention when they write these things.
Sep 12, 2013 6:00:00 AM | Wine advice, Wine Curmudgeon, Wine trends
The revolution in cheap pinot noir
The moscato and sweet red wine trends have received more attention, but the revolution in cheap pinot noir may eventually be just as important to the wine business and to consumers.
That's the gist of a story I wrote for the Beverage Media trade magazine. Pinot, traditionally the province of oenophiles with deep pockets, has long been considered fine wine more than mass wine for two reasons: The grape was always difficult to grow and difficult to turn into wine. Neither is especially true any more, and these changes have allowed winemakers to produce millions of cases of pinot that costs less than $15 a bottle and is clean and professional – if sometimes not very pinot-ish in taste.
In addition, the popularity of these wines is another indication that U.S. wine drinkers are looking for fruitier, less tannic, and less alcoholic options than merlot and cabernet sauvignon, and this ties into the moscato and sweet red trends. The tremendous growth in the popularity of these three wines hints at larger changes in what wine drinkers want, though it's probably too soon to know more than that.
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Aug 9, 2013 6:00:00 AM | Wine trends
The Postal Service's plan to get into the wine business
I can deliver wine. Really.
Which ultimately may make about as much as sense as the Postal Service's sponsorship of a professional cycling team.
Nevertheless, a top postal official floated the idea last week that the agency, facing a gazillion dollar deficit and not having any other real ideas, should get into the booze delivery business. "There's a lot of money to be made in shipping beer, wine, and spirits," said the official, who estimated it could be worth $50 million a year to the agency.
This was big news, given that it's currently illegal to ship alcohol via the mail. A Dallas TV station was so enamored of the idea that it ran the story, complete with video of drunken college students. One regular blog visitor asked, hopefully, if this was the beginning of the end of the three-tier system.
Of course not. It may not even be especially lucrative. First, very little in the way of spirits is shipped in the U.S. each year, says Jeff Carroll of Ship Compliant in Denver, which helps wineries automate the compliance process. That's because spirits can't be shipped to consumers across state lines -- laws that eliminate one part of the Postal Service's potential market. Beer, apparently, is still trying to figure out direct shipping, and is hampered by even higher shipping charges than wine. So that eliminates the second potential part of the market.
Which leaves wine. And, according to my calculations, the Postal Service would have to capture one-third of the wine direct shipping market to make that $50 million – an ambitious target for a startup competing with UPS and FedEx. That number is based on the Postal Service charging $4 a bottle (a standard price) and that 38 million bottles of wine were sold via direct shipping in 2012.
More worrisome is that the Postal Service doesn't seem to understand the legal niceties involved. Why would someone be quoted as saying they would ship spirits and beer when there was no market for it? It's also not clear from the stories I saw whether the anyone at the Postal Service understands the three-tier system and its restrictions -- that 10 states don't allow direct shipping and that licences and approvals would be needed in most of the other 40 for the Postal Service to get legal status as a shipper.
And finally, given that gazillion dollar deficit, what difference is $50 million going to make? Better to sit down with Congress to figure out its future in the Internet Age than waste time and money on something that seems so hit and miss.
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Is the damage to Australia worth it?
Tony Walker
Let us turn to Shakespeare for guidance to describe the predicament in which Australia's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, finds himself in his interactions with a bullying American president, damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
– Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3.
In one of Shakespeare's most oft-quoted passages Polonius is providing his son, Laertes, with some advice before he embarks for the bright lights of Paris.
It might be a stretch to compare Turnbull and the hot-headed Laertes; he is more like Hamlet in his indecision, it might be said. But in a transactional space he has placed his government in an invidious position by outsourcing a domestic political conundrum.
Neither a borrower nor lender be …
The Trump administration may well honour an agreement struck with the previous Obama administration in its lame-duck phase to take up to 1,250 refugees from Nauru and Manus Island. But the question will remain: will the diplomatic aggravation and reputational damage to leader and country have been worth it?
Turnbull's spokespeople have been assiduous in their efforts to persuade us that an Australian prime minister stood up to the bully in the White House, and that rather than suffering a humiliating rebuff he gave a good account of himself.
That may be true, as far as it goes. But the point is, we should never have been in a position in the first place where we were relying on America's good graces to salve an Australian domestic political problem at a moment when an American election was being fought on the refugee issue.
Let's repeat: a deal of questionable probity was struck with an outgoing American administration in contradiction with the policy impulses of an incoming replacement.
No purpose is served now by arguing that few expected Donald Trump to prevail. That is one argument you cannot take to the bank.
If there is a reasonable explanation for Trump's behaviour towards a friend and ally it is that he is being asked to sanction an arrangement that is antagonistic towards policies on which he was elected.
Whoever dreamed up this slithery refugees-for-politics arrangement in the prime minister's office, or that of the immigration minister or the foreign minister, should be held to account for placing Australia's reputation in hoc to an administration untethered form normal diplomatic niceities.
This proposed refugees-for-politics transaction might be characterised as an attempted end run around various United Nations refugee conventions.
My colleague at The Conversation, Michelle Grattan, has suggested that Turnbull cut his losses, tell Trump the deal is off, and offer those incarcerated on Nauru and Manus a "one-off" amnesty to come to Australia.
If Labor had the guts it would support such a course. But its position is even less principled than that of the government, if that is possible.
Labor both criticises its implementation and runs dead on such a transaction at the same time. This puts it in the position, discreditably, of both borrower and lender in this argument.
None of this is to suggest border controls be loosened, or that measures in place to counter unauthorised arrivals be relaxed. It is simply an argument to deal with an existing problem that has caused enormous rancour in Australia, and one that could be resolved if separated from politics.
Unfortunately, and in the case of a government bereft of an appealing political narrative, the "stop the boats" refugee mantra provides a port in a storm, it might be observed.
This brings us to the broader question of how countries like Australia might deal with a White House like no other in living memory.
If it is any comfort to Turnbull in his mendicant state as far as the refugee deal is concerned, leaders of comparable countries like Canada are faced with the same dilemma, and it is this. To what extent does Turnbull, or Justin Trudeau of Canada, or Angela Merkel of Germany, or Theresa May of Britain, assert their country's values and at the same time criticise Trump at a moment when America's own values are being trashed?
Trudeau perhaps provides the better model for an Australian prime minister seeking guidance about how to deal with the Trump phenomenon. Inside and outside the Canadian parliament, Trudeau has avoided direct criticism of the Trump administration, but he has made his views known via social media.
No such public sentiments have emanated from an Australian prime minister hostage to his party's unsentimental refugee policy, and a supplicant on the issue to a new American administration.
For her part, Merkel did not dissemble, as might be expected, and in contrast to others, including Turnbull. Her spokesman said:
The chancellor regrets the US government's entry ban against refugees and citizens of certain countries. She is convinced that the necessary decisive battle against terrorism does not justify a general suspicion against people of a certain origin and a certain religion.
Finally, a word about the Battle of Hamel, of July 4, 1918. In the welter of words written about the Trump-Turnbull contretemps, in which an American president allegedly hung up on an Australian prime minister, much has been made of Australia having been America's most steadfast ally from the first world war on.
It is true that American troops served alongside Australians under the command of then Lieutenant General John Monash. But it is also the case America's commander, General John J. Pershing, whittled back American involvement on the ground for operational reasons.
In the end, a relatively small number of American soldiers were involved in what proved to be a successful operation in efforts to defeat the German army on the River Somme.
Like the reduced American commitment at Hamel, a Trump administration may seek to minimise its intake of refugees in what has proved to be an exercise in Australian diplomacy that has brought little credit to those involved.
This article first appeared on The Conversation.
Photo: AAP/Mick Tsikas.
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Paranormal Road Trip: Destination Clifton Heights with Kevin Lucia
Come on boys and ghouls! It's time to hop on Route 666 for a spooktacular Paranormal Road Trip.
This week's stop is Clifton Heights, NY and our special guide is Kevin Lucia author of THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY and THINGS SLIP THROUGH.
Kevin's Top 5 Spooky Places in Clifton Heights
Clifton Heights, New York – the Adirondack town of Things Slip Through, Devourer of Souls, and Through A Mirror, Darkly.
Clifton Heights is a modestly sized Adirondack town between Old Forge and Inlet. Two miles past Old Forge, you take a left off NYS Route 28 North onto Route 79 East, and you're in Clifton Heights after a twenty minute drive. The Heights is one of the minor mountain ranges of the Adirondacks – definitely no comparison to White Face or Blue Face Mountain – but still picturesque in that uniquely recognizable Adirondack way. Clifton Lake is just big enough to offer fishing and swimming for the locals, not big enough to attract too many tourists.
Main Street in Clifton Heights is lined with the sorts of local-run shops and eateries you'd expected in a town like this. We certainly aren't a tourist-magnet like Old Forge or Lake George, but we'd like to think we offer our best face to everyone who visits. We pride ourselves on our appearance, while retaining our own unique identity.
The Adirondacks, of course, is rife with stories of haunted places, and Clifton Heights is no exception. In fact, it could even be said that Clifton Heights has some of the most ghostly locations in all of Adirondack Park. According to a town survey The Tribune took last Halloween, here are the top five most "ghostly" locations in Clifton Heights.
5. Old Webb
Old Webb - as it's affectionately called by the locals – was formerly a primary school in the Webb County School District, about five miles outside Clifton Heights town proper. Back in the seventies, it was closed due to "low enrollment" and "district rezoning," though many have found that explanation to be suspicious over the past few decades. Even more oddly, the school was closed with a rapidity bordering on mass evacuation. Stories abound of entire classrooms full of desks being left behind, as if one day, the entire school simply walked out en masse.
Several attempts to re-task the building failed. It stands empty and abandoned, and is a known party location for teenagers on Saturday nights over the summers. Though there've been no recent reports of hauntings, the story of Old Webb's closing still raises eyebrows, as folks wonder if something else besides "low enrollment" led to the school's demise.
4. Ampitheater, Raedeker Park
In the eighties, Raedeker Park had an outdoor amphitheater and bandstand which played home to concerts, plays, and the weekly summer movie. Over the past ten years, however, it has fallen into disuse and disrepair. Rumor has it that a ghostly presence started making itself known during the early nineties; a woman singing a mournful tune too soft to make out. The official story from the Town Board is simply that for now, restoration expenses aren't cost effective, but stories still circulate that over the summers, if you happen to wander over to the amphitheater ruins after visiting Raedeker Park Zoo, you might very well hear a mournful woman singing a soft tune.
3. abandoned gazebo, Bassler Road
On Bassler Road, just past the Commons Trailer Park and before old Bassler House are the remains of what was once a wonderfully maintained flower garden and koi pond. Years ago, the owner, an elderly Vietnamese man named Mr. Trung, was found floating face down in the koi pond, an apparent victim of death by heatstroke. All that remains of the garden today is the overgrown pond and the old, tattered gazebo at its center.
Though children of all ages make yearly pilgrimages to old Bassler House, no one ever goes near the gazebo, despite its rather innocuous appearance. Stories tell, however, of people driving by the gazebo at night and seeing a dull, greenish haze drifting up from the koi pond, as well as a shadowy form lurching toward the gazebo. Those who live nearby will swear that on a certain night every summer, what sounds like thousands of bull frogs rumble from the koi pond and the gazebo.
2. Bassler Road
Bassler Road, which leads out of town to the interstate, mostly owes its reputation to the 1992 disappearance of a local girl, Jenny Tillman, eighteen years old. After a fight with her mother, Jenny Tillman packed a bag and stormed out of their trailer in the Commons Trailer Park on Bassler Road. She was never seen or heard from again. Since then, stories have circulated of a lonely girl in white hitching alongside Bassler Road. Coincidentally, the number of fatal car accidents on Bassler Road over the years – even before Jenny's disappearance - seems excessive. There have also been reports of a strange, shadowy male figure hitching alongside Bassler Road, but in all the cases, the tellers were warned off picking up this hitcher by some deap-seated, primal fear.
1. Bassler House
Bassler House is a run-down Victorian farmhouse sitting in the middle of a long-fallow corn field off Bassler Road, outside town. Unoccupied since the mid-fifties, when Harold Bassler (a linguistics professor at Utica College) and his wife Marge disappeared without a trace, it has become the epitome of the "small town spook house."
Legends abound of strange lights and sounds coming from the old house at night, and dozens of tales of its haunting have been passed down over the generations, told second and third hand from adolescents and teenagers who have dared explore its ruins. In the eighties, a local boy fell through a rotted floor to his death, and in the nineties, two brothers vanished without a trace the night they bragged to friends of going to Bassler House to look for "nudie books left by them football players always partyin there." Despite the tales, Bassler House remains a favorite sight for daring, intrepid youth and teenagers.
Thank you Kevin for giving us such a haunting tour of Clifton Heights!
To learn more about Kevin Lucia and his books, please visit his website. You can add his books here on Goodreads.
What did you think of Kevin's picks for spooky places?
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"Get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich," he says.
I sigh exasperatedly, heading into the kitchen. I stand in front of the counter, palms upturned to the heavens, eyes pitch-black as I invoke the darkest magicks to help me with this task.
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GTA 6 Rockstar Tweet: After a number of years of rumors and reports, Rockstar has confirmed that they are working on a new Grand Theft Auto game, and said that it's "well underway".
The previous year, Rockstar patented a new system for NPC navigation, which can be used in the GTA games. Many people are waiting for this game for many years so they should also know that being the successor of GTA 5 is not easy due to its popularity.
As for now itself rockstar is not talking so much about the game and trying to keep all the things separate now. There is a possibility that the initial version of the GTA 6 can be smaller than the GTA 5 game but it will be improved by giving some updates in the future. But until that we can only for the GTA 6 release date 2022.
GTA 6 rockstar tweet is going viral and many Grand Theft Auto Series fans are also now happy to hear this because the GTA 6 Game is under development.
Many of you have been asking about a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series.
With every new project, our goal is always to significantly move beyond what we've previously delivered. We're pleased to confirm that active development for the next entry in the series is underway.
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According to the GTA 6 rockstar tweet, it has been confirmed that GTA 6 will surely be released soon for the gamers after so many years of rumors. Hence, excitement among all the gamers is at its peak and they also want to know GTA 6 rockstar release date.
Since the rockstar games officially announced 'well underway' means that GTA 6 pc game is in development therefore after some months as the work gets completed so many hopes regarding GTA 6 release date 2022 is taking the forefront.
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Pullbox Reviews: Idle Thuggery- Nothing "Idle" about it…
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Idle Thuggery: The First Cut
Written by Morgan Quaid
Art by Rain Art Studios
Textures, Lettering, & Soundtrack by Luke Gartner-Brereton
After a an oddly fortuitous encounter with an old school friend in a dark alleyway, Frank Grey finds himself suddenly working as a low-level henchman for one of Kenton City's rising Arch Villains. After a brief induction, Frank is thrust into a world of intrigue and excessive violence, where promotion is a matter of survival rather than skill. On his second mission the newly-made henchman receives a fatal wound, but does not die as he should; a fact which raises some intriguing possibilities. Idle Thuggery is an attempt to pull back the curtain and take a look at what goes on behind the scenes of a typical arch-villain enterprise; to see the bags under the superhero's eyes and walk a day in the life of those unsung (and frequently death-prone) members of villainy; the henchmen.
A while back, a global event went completely unnoticed and changed everything.
Called "The Forgetting", the event covered a span of three minutes, three minutes that no one on Earth remembers. Three minutes of lost time, only accounted for through modern technology. Everyone knows something happened, but no one can say what. What is known is that soon after The Forgetting, a small number of people started displaying what can only be described as superpowers.
As with all things, these powers came at a price. Sure, a person might be able to fly, run faster than a Ducati motorcycle, or flip a garbage truck with one hand. But human life is finite, and as the saying goes, "the light that burns brightest burns half as long." The more an individual used his or her power, the faster their light burned out.
Did you think that stopped everyone from living the life of a comicbook superhero? Not a chance. Think about it. If you had the power, would anything be able to stop you from flying? There will always be those courageous enough, foolhardy enough, crazy enough to risk everything in order to be all they can be.
This story is not about one of those people.
This story is about a guy named Frank. Frank's not a bad guy, just not a terribly ambitious one. Out of work, he spends each day in a mind numbingly dull routine. His mundane existence is thrown on its ass when through chance encounter, a simple mugging, Frankie is reunited with an old acquaintance from school.
Joseph "Stinky" Tenenbaum has done pretty well for himself. He's got some really sharp clothes, a steady job, and minions assigned to do his bidding. Okay, wait… so the minions aren't officially his. I mean sure they work for Joseph, but he works for a proverbial Big Cheese. That's right; Stinky Tenenbaum is Operative 29, employed as middle management for the criminal organization known as the Silver Hand!
Through their chance encounter, Joseph offers Frank a helping hand… a job, a once in a lifetime offer that will change Frank's life forever- 401K and health benefits included. Sure, Frank would be required to take on certain assignments, missions that some judgmental and narrow minded people could look down as "crimes". But as Stinky…
Sorry… Joseph.
As Joseph, Operative 29, puts it, it isn't really a life of "crime". It's just a matter of "alternate ethics".
Thus begins Frank's new life. He goes through rigorous testing and training. He learns all about things like guns, explosives, and hand to hand combat. Then finally comes that fateful day when Frankie gets his working clothes… a (mostly) bullet-proof suit and silver mask. Even better, he gets minions of his very own and assumes the mantle of Operative 13! But as we all know- and I'm paraphrasing here- with great power (and minions) comes great danger to life and limb.
What, you thought Frankie was the first "Operative 13"? Hell no, he's wearing some dead guy's suit. Probably the mask too. Come on, recycling's important and Kevlar-lined Armani don't come cheap.
When Morgan Quaid sent me the opening chapter for Idle Thuggery, with information about a Kickstarter campaign, I was really interested. Basically, Quaid has taken a staple of the superhero genre, and flipped the script something fierce. We're not following the career or life of the "hero". We're not even following the "villain". This story is all about the guy who works for the villain, in the trenches, out there on the front line, doing the dirty jobs and making it all happen. And Morgan Quaid accomplishes all of this with style, gusto, and an entertaining "day in the life of…" style of narrative as Frankie tells his story. He's built a world that looks a lot like our own, reflecting many current issues and situations, and spins it all out by getting us to root for the guy we're usually booing and jeering at.
The art by Rain Art Studios is done in a gritty, frenetic style that puts heavy emphasis on facial features and expressions. At any given time, there's no doubt whatsoever what state of mind poor Frank is in (mostly gut churning panic), as it's penciled and inked right there on his face for all to see. It's a dark style, with a heavy use of shadows, and at certain points it was a little tough to follow the action. At first, it kinda bugged me, but then I thought about it in terms of a live action movie. There are always those moments when things move too fast to follow, the action is happening in dim lighting, and it's kinda cool because for a few seconds you're right there with the characters, trying to make out what the hell is going on. With that epiphany, I went back to one of those scenes and found that from panel to panel, Rain Art had accomplished the same thing on the page, and suddenly it all worked for me.
Overall, I can't really think of anything in Idle Thuggery that didn't work for me. It's sometimes harsh, but always moving along with a sense of purpose, and definitely toward a larger goal yet to be revealed. I liked Quaid's work enough to check out another project he's got going: The Rust Chronicles (check it out if you're interested in steampunk with a twist).
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Charles S. Whiting (May 25, 1863 – March 25, 1922) was a justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court from 1908 until his death in 1922.

Born in Rochester, Minnesota, Whiting studied law at the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota. He was prosecuting attorney of Kingsbury County, South Dakota for four terms. In 1903, Governor Charles N. Herreid appointed Whiting as a circuit court judge, where he served until 1908, when Governor Coe I. Crawford appointed Whiting to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the death of Howard G. Fuller. Whiting remained on the supreme court until his own death.

Whiting died at the age of 59 after an anesthetic administered in preparation for an operation on his tonsils caused heart convulsions.

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When I first conceived the idea for The Lazarus Conspiracies, I wrote it as a film script under the title "The Lazarus Project." The script tells the story of a maverick Chicago cop who is so obsessed with seeing justice done that he repeatedly breaks the rules of police conduct in order to catch the bad guys. The script was a top ten finalist in the Illinois/Chicago Screenwriting 2000 Competition.
An exciting new mystery novel by author George Hudson!
In the midst of a secret love affair, passions flare and a murder is committed. The crime, however, is unsolved. Carefully constructed lies and public ignorance hide the truth, and the victim disappears into history. The lives of those behind are drastically changed, but they eventually move on, believing the truth is safely buried forever.
SO, A. G. HAYES, WHO IS KILLING ALL THE LAWYERS?
The protagonists in my book, WHO'S KILLING ALL THE LAWYERS? are based on a couple of Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents I met during the cold war in Vienna, Austria, a few months after the end of World War II. My unit had moved from Italy into Austria to augment other units searching for fugitive Nazi's mingling as Austrians citizens.


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Restaurants Sushi Damo
Located in the heart of midtown west, right cross the Time Warner Center and Columbus Circle, Sushi Damo offers diners exceptional Japanese cuisine in a sleek atmosphere with warm, friendly service.
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Sushi Damo is located in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Known as "Clinton" by the municipal government and devotees of former mayor DeWitt Clinton and as "Hell's Kitchen" by Daredevil and everyone else, this area of Midtown West is currently experiencing rapid (re)development. Spanning roughly from West 34th to 59th Streets and from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River, it still has a rough-and-tumble character when compared with other more defined neighborhoods in Manhattan. Once a bastion of poor and working-class Irish Americans, over the last decade the neighborhood has undergone tremendous gentrification as a result of its proximity to Midtown's many office buildings. Long-time residents, many of whom enjoyed reasonable rents and decent-sized apartments, are finding that conversion of rent-controlled and -stabilized apartments, coupled with the general building boom and strong economy, brought quick change to this formerly sleepy area. Given the strange, even Byzantine zoning regulations in New York, it's not unusual to see a tiny brownstone, a remnant of another era, adjacent to or near a brand-new high-rise rental or condominium building. While the wholesome new Theater District has resulted in lower crime rates and decreased the area's quality-of-life problems such as prostitution, urban transformation for some means a loss of the gritty qualities of this neighborhood for others.
While you'll find thousands of new apartments in Hell's Kitchen west of Ninth Avenue, you'll also find dozens of eclectic and interesting restaurants to boot. Some of our favorites include the terrific Daisy May's BBQ on Eleventh Avenue; the German cuisine of Hallo Berlin and nearby Queen of Sheba featuring great Ethiopian cuisine on Tenth Avenue; French patisserie La Bergamote on West 42nd Street; Bali Nusa Indah on Ninth Avenue has intriguing Indonesian dishes; the Film Center Café for high-powered American diner-style dishes; and the many Thai places dotting Ninth Avenue too numerous to mention.
Hotels in Hell's Kitchen include a number of budget places the further west you go such as The 414 Hotel and the Skyline. While there are dozens of hotels on Eighth Avenue and throughout the Theater District on Eighth Avenue and Broadway, Hell's Kitchen enjoys a somewhat more relaxed pace than the frenetic hubbub you'll find just two avenues further east.
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York's World War I Liberty Gardens
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Some of you might remember the Victory Gardens of World War II, when everyone was urged to grow as much food as they could to feed their families. This would free up commercially grown vegetables to be canned to feed our troops fighting overseas and training here. The movement didn't start with World War II; it was a revival of the World War I Liberty Garden program.
Highly organized under Yorker Anna Dill Gamble, the people of York County enthusiastically embraced the World War I movement. See my recent York Sunday News column below for a recap of the 1918 activities: York's World War I Liberty Gardens were a great success
Spring is the time to plant gardens. This spring also marks the 100th anniversary of the United States entry into World War I. These two things come together in documents I recently discovered at the York County History Center.
Anna Dill Gamble was extremely active in women's causes and organizations, both locally and nationally. Besides being a leader in women's suffrage, she was a leader in initiatives for lasting peace, attending international conferences. During World War I she was deeply involved in the administration of Liberty Gardens.
The Liberty Garden movement was a federally-sponsored program aimed at increased food production and conservation. Gardening in back yards and vacant lots was encouraged so that citizens could feed themselves and other local people, allowing commercial food processors to concentrate on producing food for the military; less food having to be shipped freed railroads to transport troops and war materiel. The gardens were seen as uniting Americans, including recent immigrants, in a common purpose.
The government provided free publications on gardening and preserving food, and local sponsors helped with donations. According to the University of California "The Victory Grower" website, in 1917 there were an estimated 3.5 million home food producing gardens, with 5.3 million in 1918. The Liberty Garden project continued, renamed Victory Garden, after the November 1918 Armistice signing, enabling more food to be shipped to Europe for troops still there and for European war relief. It was reinstated as the Victory Garden campaign during World War II.
York responded quickly. Its Garden Commission was organized immediately, with five women and five men, when the United States entered the war on April 10, 1917. Mayor E.S. Hugentugler chaired the committee, and Anna Dill Gamble was secretary. They ordered seeds and determined lots to be plowed by the city. The Civics committee of the Woman's Club offered monetary help.
In 1918 the Garden Commission awarded vacant lots again, but with no appropriation for plowing nor free seeds. By then there was such enthusiasm that these incentives were not needed. Since the Garden Commission had not provided any supervision or advice in 1917, however, a new organization, the Food Production Division of the Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense, took on that role for 1918. Women from the former Garden Commission formed the nucleus with five additional women. Anna Dill Gamble chaired the committee.
According to their minute book, they went into action in early May 1918, with Gamble asking the Chamber of Commerce to appropriate funds for the project. Mrs. George Schmidt was assigned to ask the school board to pledge $10 for each public school garden. Others would look after St. Patrick's and St. Mary's parochial school gardens.
A week later Mrs. Schmidt reported the school board was unwilling to make an appropriation, so Miss Gamble would try to find someone to plow school gardens. Some schools were encouraging children to plant gardens in their own back yards, such as the 35 gardens already started in North York under the supervision of Principal Conway.
George Brillinger was hired as garden supervisor to advise gardeners, coordinate donated plants and labor and keep records. Brillinger had a busy summer visiting the gardens spread throughout the city and neighboring communities. At one point he supplied the gardeners with several thousand tomato and cabbage seedlings that had been thinned and would have been wasted. The September 20, 1918 minutes noted that Brillinger presented his detailed report after his taking 162 hours (including six hours of riding street cars) to secure the data.
A lengthy newspaper clipping included with the minutes summarizes the report. Total value of war garden crops under the supervision of Brillinger and the York County WCCND for 1918 was $128,682. They were grown on 13,655 plots totaling 398,692,067 square feet. Details of the report are broken down for the four quadrants of the city, as well as North York, West York and these neighborhoods: Small's Meadow, Lightner and Mayer tracts, Erwin Place, Elmwood, Violet Hill, Grantley, Pennsylvania Avenue area, Windsor Park, Laucks Mill Road, Fairmount and Mt. Rose/Green Hill.
In addition, employees of York Railways tended 108 plots along the trolley lines: two along the Dover Line, nine on the Dallastown line and 97 on the way to Hanover. Brillinger mentioned that Assistant District Attorney J.T. Atkins and attorney Amos Hermann raised $50 worth of vegetables on a lot along the Chanceford turnpike in York Township. Brillinger also recorded his own $80 worth grown in Conewago Township. (According to city directories, Brillinger's business was insurance, real estate and auctions, but he seems to have been respected for his garden expertise.)
The committee made plans to have participants bring produce to exhibit at the York Fair, held in October in those years. This would not come to fruition, however, as the 1918 fair was cancelled because of the great influenza outbreak.
As chairwoman of the Woman's Committee, Gamble sent copies of the Liberty Garden report to Grier Hersh, Chairman of the Committee for Public Safety and Committee for Food Production for the area, as well as to the War History Commission of the Pennsylvania Council of National Defense and Committee of Public Safety, which was quartered at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. She also sent photos and "printed matter" to the latter.
The Woman's Committee was disappointed that the school gardens projects did not work out as planned; due to a labor shortage no one could be found to plow most of the school lots in the spring. They were pleased that the St. Mary's and St. Patrick's gardens, with 50 children participating, were successful. Children all over the county also planted their own gardens, often with the encouragement of their schools.
Note that the impressive figures do not include the many thousands of gardens that were cultivated throughout the towns and countryside of the rest of the county. If they were taken into consideration, the area and value devoted to feeding York County during the war years would be multiplied many times over.


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She has a new re root of beautiful auburn curls, New eye chips and body and new carving and face-up.
She also received new Jewelry Grade Pulls with semi precious gemstones. I love her radiant new look and I hope she brings joy to my dear friend LaRose.
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This article wouldn't cause me to hesitate from buying another iPod in the slightest. It's a great technology with an elegant design. Like all other devices, it's not perfect...but a lot of its immense popularity and success have made it a nice big target for naysayers, the jealous, and the legally opportunistic. For example, the iPod volume control litigation and media chatterings are just ridiculous. I can do more damage through numerous other audio devices and practices...should manufacturers financially reward the stupidest of their customers with settlements? Regarding being "on your own", I've had to return one for repair, after the 90-day warranty. "No problem, here's a new one," said the friendly Apple Store employee. The iPod/iTMS/iTunes combination, in its current form, has obviously worked for many millions of consumers, who seem to enjoy it, flaws, proprietary formats and all. Those who complain about it should try something else and STFU. :)
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What's the best way to share books with your 2-year-old? Here are some tips that cover 2 stages in your child's life: 24 to 29 months and 30 to 35 months.
Sharing Books with Your 2-Year-Old book review; book recommendations; Parenting books;.


There are no other musicians in my family, and my first contact with classical music was through the many recordings (cassette tapes and vinyl records) that my parents had. My father, who is an painter, wanted me to become a pianist and it seemed an attractive idea to me, without knowing much about it as a child. Whenever we visited someone with a piano in the house, I would sit down and start trying out various combinations of sounds, which caused startlingly different reactions in me. I was keen to learn more about this fascinating instrument and, at age of 6 I started having lessons.
I remember watching, as a child, Leonard Bernstein's brilliant Young People's Concerts on TV, with Romanian subtitles. Not only did I find what he was saying so captivating, but there was also something about his delivery that seemed so different from the stuffy world I associated with classical music. It gave me the feeling that classical music can be "cool"!
Later, I've had some very fortunate meetings with people who have encouraged and inspired me in various ways, and instilled in me new energy for my musical pursuits. I am thinking especially of the pianists Valentin Gheorghiu and Dominique Merlet and most recently Iain Burnside. Nowadays, I also find a lot of inspiration discussing and sharing ideas with fellow young musicians, and also people from the wider arts world, such as young filmmakers.
Perhaps at the moment I am most proud of my recent CD. I should also mention my recent concert with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra at the Enescu Festival, where I played the 1st Concerto by Shostakovich, with none other than Tine Thing Helseth! There have been other performances of which I have been proud, but I think the way a lot of us musicians think is to focus more on our next concerts, and what can be improved. I guess there is a fear somewhere that being too proud of something will cause a stagnation, or it will make one become too complacent. However, I am learning now more and more that, although self-criticism is important, it is also important to look back, acknowledge and enjoy my musical achievements to date.
I believe I have a certain affinity for the music of Ravel, in particular for Gaspard de la nuit. Similarly, I feel very close to the Enescu Sonata in F sharp minor, and I think it shows in the way I play it. Also, I feel very at ease playing Schumann, in a completely different way from when I play Ravel. In Schumann there is a certain freedom and flexibility of phrasing that I enjoy very much, and allows for a lot of spontaneity in performance.
I try to choose pieces that I know will attract me enough to keep coming back to and working at them, intensely and consistently. I also try to have a sort of theme, or unifying idea, that connects the programmes of my recitals or recordings.
The Wigmore Hall, with its wonderful acoustics and intimate atmosphere, but also the gorgeous Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, with which I associate so many beautiful memories, both as a performer or an audience member.
There have been many concerts that I enjoyed, and remember fondly. But there is one that sticks out, if for a slightly peculiar reason.
I remember a few years ago being at a summer academy in the south of France, with Dominique Merlet. The whole atmosphere was great there, as we were a group of like-minded people, keen to learn, work and share ideas in the gorgeous setting of a little medieval French village. The concert at the end, however, was something special. We were supposed to play in an 11th century church, which proved much too small for the number of people who came to listen. Therefore, on a starry summer night, there were lots of people sitting or standing outside, in the dark field, listening to the music coming through the open door of the church. When my turn came to play Premier communion de la Vierge from Messiaen's Vingt Regards, halfway through my performance I heard the unmistakable sound of a thunder, followed shortly after by a gentle rain, that intensified gradually. In a way it's just an anecdote, yet I find it could be a nice metaphor for what performance can be, audience and soloist both witnessing something greater than them.
Success can mean different things to different people. For me it would be the ability to devote all my energy to making music that I am passionate about, and sharing it with wide audiences.
At the risk of a cliché, I would say the most important concept is love – love for music and for the works which you are studying. I am not the first one to say it, and I strongly believe it is the only thing that will get you through all the possible difficulties and struggles of this profession.
Living somewhere in nature (perhaps on a farm), with a good piano and endless time to explore, read and practice. Friends would gather regularly to make music, discuss and drink good wine.
A state of curiosity and excitement at the prospect of all the musical adventures and discoveries that lie ahead.
For his debut album, 'Transcendence', Romanian pianist Mihai Ritivoiu, has recorded three substantial solo piano works by Enescu (Sonata in F sharp minor), Franck (Prélude, Choral et Fugue) and Liszt (Sonata in B minor). Ritivoiu's choice of repertoire pays homage to his Romanian heritage as well as his desire to speak beyond the piano.
On 16th May 2018, Ritivoiu will give his debut concerto performance with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Michael Collins.
Mihai Ritivoiu was born in Bucharest and began piano lessons at the age of 6. In 2012 he graduated with the highest honours from the National University of Music in Bucharest, the piano class of Professor Viniciu Moroianu, subsequently obtaining Masters and Artist Diploma degrees with Distinction from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2016, where he studied with Professor Joan Havill. He also took part in masterclasses with Dimitri Bashkirov, Dominique Merlet, Emmanuel Ax and Richard Goode.
Mihai won the Dinu Lipatti National Competition in Bucharest in 2010 and was a laureate of a number of international competitions, such as the George Enescu International Piano Competition in Bucharest, 2011, Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artist Competition in 2014 and Teresa Llacuna International Competition, Valence, 2015. He played recitals in England, Romania, Switzerland, Germany, and Japan, and performed concertos with the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra, Bucharest Chamber Radio Orchestra and Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
His performances have been recorded and broadcast by Radio Romania Muzical, Radio Television Suisse – Espace 2 and Medici TV, and he was a guest on BBC Radio 3's programme "In Tune". His debut CD, containing solo works by Franck, Enescu and Liszt, has been recently released on the Genuin label.
Mihai is a City Music Foundation artist and a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and has received generous support from the Liliana and Peter Ilica Foundation for the Endowment of the Arts, Erbiceanu Cultural Foundation and Ratiu Family Charitable Foundation.


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Certified referees are those who have passed the training and test of the Mass State Referee Committee (www.massref.net). To be eligible for one of these courses you need to be 14 or older at the start of the season. These referees are paid to officiate our U10 – U14 travel games (Grade 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8 games).
Volunteer referees are trained within WYSA, are at least 12 years old, and provide volunteer referee services for our U8 (grade 2) in town games.
In both cases a referee can also be a player in Westford (or for other teams/ clubs).


The tweet states that it is a Steelbook, but that design is clearly a steelcase with no spine.
Not really into steelbooks, so hope they do a decent collectors edition as well.
The Steelbook will be the CE, MHA was exactly the same.
By the looks of the image, it's not even a steel book, it's a steel case.
From what I have learned based on my research while looking to buy the Magical Index/Scientific Railgun blu-rays, it's that Manga UK are the absolute worst for this.
Ech stuff like that bugs me, but I guess I need to grit my teeth and bear it if I want to keep them on my purchase list.
So Amazon UK accidentally leaked Broly on Prime apparently. I feel kinda bad for Manga even though Amazon already rectified the situation.
I have aks manga if thee are Anny plans to releas darling in the franxx ??
Hi Bryan! We're looking into it, but no news to share today.
Recreators doesn't even have a US release.
Black Clover's got a new home.


The North Florida Parkinson's Awareness Choir is an opportunity for all members of the Parkinson's community to raise their voices in song. One of the many symptoms of Parkinson's is a decrease of vocal quality, as the disease can affect articulation, breath support, and volume. Being a choir member addresses all these factors and provides an opportunity to socialize with those affected by Parkinson's disease while performing for members of the greater Tallahassee community.
Historically, the choir has been led by Tallahassee Memorial Hospital's Music Therapists as well as interns from Florida State University's top-rated Music Therapy program. These caring and talented professionals are dedicated to improving the vocal strength, quality, and endurance of people with Parkinson's.
The choir meets every Wednesday from 2 – 3:15 p.m. at Temple Israel in Tallahassee. We are led in vocal exercises at the start of each session, and then we learn a repertoire of eight to 10 songs every three months. Concerts are scheduled throughout the year at residential care facilities, adult day care centers, and other local venues. These events provide a great opportunity to show off the results of our hard work and improve awareness of Parkinson's disease in our community.
The choir is also open to relatives and friends of those with Parkinson's, and there are no restrictions or auditions needed to become a member. "I have a terrible voice" is no reason to stay away. The truth is simple: The larger our group, the better we sound – and your voice will improve as a result of your participation. Maybe the best reason to join, however, is that we have fun!
For further information, please contact the Parkinson's Outreach Association at (850) 364-0230 or contact@theparkinsonsoutreach.org.


In Part 2 we discussed how to validate a control. Now we will cover some techniques that can be utilize for validation.
For more complex validation, such as validating an email address, you may need to rely on Regular Expressions. Regular expressions are useful because it allows you to match complex data by providing formatting information. In addition, PowerShell has built in support for regular expressions in the form of the –match operator.
In this example we are matching any string that contains the word "shell".
We will not go into details on how to use Regular Expressions, since it's an extensive subject unto itself. We recommend referring to PowerShell's about_Regular_Expressions help topic or type "PowerShell Regular Expressions" in a search engine for more information.
By using Parameter validation you can as validate TextBox values as well; although this isn't necessary the best method. For more information on Parameter Validation refer to the about_functions_advanced_parameters help topic.
Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Text'. The number of characters (0) in the argument is too small. Specify an argument whose length is greater than or equal to "1" and then try the command again.
As you can see this may not be the best error message to present to a user; therefore, you may have to customize your error messages.
Use this control when you need a phone number or other set format. The MaskTextBox insures the field is entered correctly by enforcing formatting. Depending on the format, you may still need custom validation for control or use the MaskTextBox's built in validation for DateTime formats and number values. See PrimalForms 2011: Spotlight on the MaskedTextBox Control blog article for more details.
Use this control when you have a predetermined set of values that the user must select from.
Use this control when you have yes or no type question.
Use this control when you have integer values. This control allows you to specify a range of valid values.
Use this control when you have text information such as a name. If there is a size constraint on the data, then use the TextBox's the MaxLength property to limit the number of characters the user can enter. See PrimalForms 2011: Spotlight on the TextBox Control blog article for more details.
What's new in the 2011 versions?