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Q: Android AlarmManager stops working after long sleep I am starting the AlarmManager like so:
long systemTime = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME, systemTime, intervalMillis, pendingIntent);

Every works fine until the device goes to sleep for a long time, then when the device wakes up the alarms are never triggered again. This is similar to Android: After a long sleep, AlarmManager stops updating and AlarmManager stops running, however im already using AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIMEso they are no help.
I do not want the AlarmManager to wake up the device, but I do want it to continue when the device has woken up. How do I fix this?

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Everyone's favorite donkey-flooded website, PartyPoker, has announced a new promotion directly aimed at competing with the big poker rooms that hold major online tournaments. The Monthly Million tournament guarantees a $1 million prize pool on the first Sunday of every month. Qualifiers for the tournament start at micro-stakes $1 satellites.
For Mac users, the good news is that PartyPoker recently released a very slick edition of its software that works via a web browser. A player on a Mac can load up their account in PartyPoker's web-based software and get in on the action at the fourth most frequented poker room on the internet.
In order to get as many people as possible into the tournament, there are 13 different ways to qualify. The straight buy-in is $600+40 for those that want to get in and not worry about grinding satellite tournaments. The first way to get in is through a Monthly Million Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy that costs a mere $1 and qualifies players into a Monthly Million Qualifier worth $64+6, where 18 seats per day are guaranteed. Alternatively, players can buy into a $8 Sub Qualifier Speed tournament (not a rebuy) and gain entry into the same $64+6 tournament that runs three times per day.
Another way to get in is through a $2 Daily Speed Rebuy or a $6 Daily that gets a player into a MEGA Friday Satellite, which is a $50+5 contest that runs at 17:00 ET and guarantees at least 30 seats into the Monthly Million.
Other options include a $1 Super Satellite Saturday Qualified Speed Rebuy or the $4 Super Satellite Saturday Qualified Speed tournament. The $4 edition runs three times on Saturdays. People who survive these tournaments enter into a $32+3 Super Satellite Saturday where 25 seats are guaranteed.
For the ballers out there with a fat bankroll who want to satellite in, but not wade through the wanna-be fish at the micro-stakes, there is a $44 Daily Sub Qualifier Extra Speed tournament that buys players into a $160+$12 Million Qualifier Extra. That tournament runs daily at 14:35 ET and one in four players gain entry into the Monthly Million tournament; three seats are always guaranteed.
Finally, there are Daily Country-Specific Freerolls where the top 10 players in each country qualify for a Monthly Million Special tournament on Fridays at 15:30 ET. Daily Player Points Qualifiers costing 10 PartyPoints and 25 PartyPoints also get players into that 20 seat freeroll.
In a press release on the new tournament, the site explains, "With $1,000,000 up for grabs in the Monthly Million, the first Sunday of every month is definitely not a day of rest at PartyPoker.com." This marks a huge upgrade from the previous marquee event at the site, the $300,000 Guaranteed, which will continue to take place every Sunday at 17:45 GMT.
With PartyPokers regular big tournament regularly seeing an overlay (meaning the site has to put in its own money to meet the guaranteed prize pool), offering a bigger monthly event seems counter-productive to company profitability. However, with a new Millions promotion, the site is trying to make itself a big player in the world of online tournament poker, while still excluding the United States market.


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New Study Confirms People Can't Drive and Use Cell Phone Safely
June 12, 2013 | Filed under: Industry News,Mobile Related | Posted by: Kristofer Brozio
File this under: DUH?
The National Safety Council acknowledges that the results announced today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety of a new distracted driving study, again confirm the presence and crash risk of cognitive distraction. The human brain is incapable of performing, at the same time, the tasks necessary to safely operate a motor vehicle while engaged in other cognitively demanding tasks such as a phone conversation or speech to text.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has observed 10% of all drivers, at any given moment, are distracted by a cell phone. When this unprecedented level of exposure to risk is combined with the degree of risk as defined in the AAA Foundation study, it is easy to understand why cell phone distracted driving has become a public health epidemic, poised to only get worse.
"The National Safety Council joins the AAA Foundation in urging the auto industry and policy makers to carefully evaluate all the research on this issue," said Janet Froetscher, National Safety Council president and CEO. "We encourage these groups to reconsider the inclusion of communications and entertainment technology built into vehicles which allow, or even encourage, the driver to engage in these activities at the expense of focusing on driving."
In addition, NSC continues to call on all drivers to put down their cell phones when driving and pay sole attention to the critically important task of driving so that everyone can get home safely to their families and loved ones.
Auto crashes are the leading cause of unintentional death in this country. Crashes are the leading cause of death for everyone between 5 and 35 years old. About 100 people die every day on our nation's roads. The number one cause of car crashes is human error and driver distraction is the top human error. Based on this new research and many earlier studies, it is irresponsible to permit, enable and even encourage non-driving related activities that divert a driver's attention from the task of driving.
About the National Safety Council
Founded in 1913 and chartered by Congress, the National Safety Council, nsc.org, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to save lives by preventing injuries and deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the road through leadership, research, education and advocacy. NSC advances this mission by partnering with businesses, government agencies, elected officials and the public in areas where we can make the most impact – distracted driving, teen driving, workplace safety, prescription drug overdoses and Safe Communities.
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GOP Donors Urged to Put Money Behind 2020 Women House Candidates
June 4, 2020 1:20 PM	 By Greg Giroux
Republicans need to ramp up their financial support of the record number of GOP women seeking House seats, often against better-funded Democrats, according to the lawmaker who led the party's candidate recruitment.
"We've got to get our women donors, on their own, to be giving more money to women candidates. We've got to get the male donors, on their own, to be giving Republican women more funding. And that's something I've been saying, I'm going to keep saying it," Rep. Susan Brooks (R- Ind.) said Wednesday at an event on Republican women in the 2020 election that was sponsored by the nonpartisan Women & Politics Institute at American University in Washington.
Republican women are looking to replenish their depleted ranks in Congress after a 2018 election in which the partisan composition of women in the House widened to 89 Democrats and 13 Republicans from 64 Democrats and 23 Republicans before the election. The successes of Democratic women helped propel their party to the majority.
"This last election was pretty devastating for the Republican women in particular. We lost a number of our sisters," said Brooks, who is not running for re-election this year.
A screenshot of the online discussion between Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Ind.), NRCC Executive Director Parker Poling, and Betsy Fischer Martin, the executive director of the Women & Politics Institute.
A record 557 women, including 340 Democrats and 217 Republicans, filed to run for House seats thus far, according to data compiled by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
The Republican total far exceeds the party's previous record of 133 women who sought House seats in 2010. Democrats are close to their high watermark of 356 women candidates in 2018. The center's tallies will tick up a bit after a few more states complete the formal primary candidate filing process.
Parker Poling, the executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said the success of Democratic women in the 2018 election "inspired" more Republican women to run for Congress this year.
"The sight of them on swearing-in day on the House floor was really, really powerful. A lot of Republican women looked at that and said, 'I support women in office, I think that's admirable, but those women don't represent my political beliefs,'" Poling said.
Brooks said Republican members and organizations are doing more to help Republican women win their primaries in an effort to better compete with Democrats and groups like EMILY's List, which often intervenes in contested primaries to boost Democratic women.
"We are now seeing, I would say, more of our leadership and more of our rank-and-file members getting behind Republican women in primaries, because often our women have had a difficult time fundraising and making it through primaries," Brooks said.
Democrats still have a large advantage over Republicans in the number of women who have advanced to the November election. More than twice as many Democratic women than Republican women, 91 to 38, have won nominations for House seats thus far this year, CAWP data shows.
In a discussion moderated by Betsy Fischer Martin, the executive director of the Women & Politics Institute, Brooks and Poling discussed some of the Republican women running in key House races:
Karen Handel (Georgia's 6th District): Handel is seeking to reclaim the suburban Atlanta district she lost in 2018 to Lucy McBath (D). Handel, who faces four lesser-known rivals in a June 9 primary, had $958,000 in cash on hand on May 20 compared with $2.9 million for McBath.
Mary Miller (Illinois' 15th District): Miller, a farmer and educator, is a shoo-in to succeed retiring Rep. John Shimkus (R) after winning the Republican primary in March. Miller has said she would join the House Freedom Caucus, a bloc of some of the House's most conservative members.
Victoria Spartz (Indiana's 5th District): Spartz, a state senator, won a 15-candidate primary this week in the metropolitan Indianapolis district held by Brooks. The district has a decided Republican lean but the Democrats have a serious candidate in former state Rep. Christina Hale.
Brooks praised Spartz, who primarily self-funded her primary campaign and was backed by the conservative Club for Growth. She added that Spartz will need to "pivot and really put together a significant fundraising effort" for the general election.
Ashley Hinson (Iowa's 1st District): Hinson, a state representative and former local television anchor, is "absolutely one of our best candidates," Poling said. Hinson is opposing first-term Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D) in a competitive district that includes Cedar Rapids, Dubuque and Waterloo.
Brooks noted Hinson had more than $1 million on hand May 13, one of the highest totals for a Republican challenging a Democratic incumbent. Finkenauer had $2.2 million.
Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa's 2nd District): A state senator and physician making her fourth bid for the House, Miller-Meeks is running against former state Sen. Rita Hart (D) in a southeastern Iowa district where Rep. Dave Loebsack (D) isn't seeking re-election.
Yvette Herrell (New Mexico's 2nd District): Herrell, a former state representative, is facing first-term Rep. Xochitl Torres Small (D) in a rematch of a 2018 race that Torres Small won 51%-49% in a mostly rural and Republican-leaning district.
Brooks said Torres Small is "a very tough incumbent, someone who has worked very hard" but Herrell "can get it done." Herrell, who won a contested primary this week with a plurality of the vote, had $70,000 on hand May 13 compared with $3.1 million for Torres Small.
Nancy Mace (South Carolina's 1st District): Mace, a state representative and the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, is the front-runner in a four-candidate Republican primary on June 9. Rep. Joe Cunningham (D) is seeking a second term in the Republican-leaning coastal district.
Mace's opponents include Kathy Landing, a financial planner backed by the political arm of the House Freedom Caucus.
Beth Van Duyne (Texas' 24th District): Van Duyne is a former mayor of Irving who won the March primary in a metropolitan Dallas-Fort Worth district Rep. Kenny Marchant (R) is leaving open to retire. Two Democratic women, Kim Olson and Candace Valenzuela, are competing in a July 14 runoff.
Other Republican women in competitive races include Nicole Malliotakis, a New York assemblywoman opposing freshman Rep. Max Rose in the 11th District on Staten Island and Brooklyn; Claudia Tenney, a former House member seeking a rematch with Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D) in New York's 22nd District; Stephanie Bice, an Oklahoma state senator seeking to oppose first-term Rep. Kendra Horn in the 5th District in Oklahoma City; and Michelle Fischbach, a former Minnesota lieutenant governor who's seeking to unseat Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson in the state's 7th District.
For more about women running for Congress in 2020, listen to the May 18 episode of Bloomberg Government's "Downballot Counts" podcast with Kelly Dittmar, a political scientist and CAWP scholar.
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Bennett Roth at broth@bgov.com; Kyle Trygstad at ktrygstad@bgov.com


Please help the CIS-7 poor nations!
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. These are the seven poorest countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and are known as the CIS-7. Development banks such as the EBRD are doing their utmost to build the CIS-7 economies, claims the bank. But the situation is so severe that the EBRD, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, along with the International Monetary Fund, have called on donor countries to increase financial assistance on grant terms to the CIS-7. They made the call at a CIS-7 conference in Lucerne, Switzerland recently.
"Donor assistance in the form of highly concessional finance and debt relief will only succeed if linked to effective reform," said World Bank managing director Shengman Zhang in a concluding statement on behalf of the four co-sponsoring organisations.
The CIS-7 initiative was launched a year ago to address severe economic difficulties, increases in poverty, and rapid build-up of debt in many of the CIS-7 countries since independence in the early 1990s.
The Lucerne conference brought together government and civil society representatives from the CIS-7 as well as the international donor community. It broadened and deepened the debate to include a range of economic, institutional and social issues that must be tackled if the seven countries are to achieve development targets. Conference participants emphasised that CIS-7 governments and citizens must take ownership of the reform agenda to ensure it reflects clear national priorities – and that it is implemented. The Poverty Reduction Strategy process, now underway in all seven countries, is designed to reinforce this sense of ownership by putting the countries themselves in the driver's seat of reforms.
Participants underlined the importance of better governance and fighting corruption. "While recent evidence shows corruption is moderating and the investment climate is beginning to improve, the key remains continued economic and institutional reform and a more open and inclusive society," said Zhang. Regional integration is also a vital element in CIS-7 development, he said. The initiative's co-sponsoring agencies will now work with CIS-7 governments, donors and civil society to elaborate follow-up actions on finance and debt relief, ownership and governance, capacity building, and regional integration. Papers prepared for the conference are available in English and Russian on the CIS-7 website, www.cis7.org.


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Our mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.
Dean Kamen is an inventor, entrepreneur, and tireless advocate for science and technology. His passion and determination to help young people discover the excitement and rewards of science and technology are the cornerstones of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).
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Roy Pike (* 29. August 1938 in Pittsburgh) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Autorennfahrer und Unternehmer.

Karriere als Rennfahrer

Monopostosport

Roy Pike kam in den 1960er-Jahren nach Großbritannien, um dort vorerst bei Clubrennen an den Start zu gehen. Er versuchte, im Monopostosport Fuß zu fassen, fuhr einige Rennen in der Französischen Formel-3-Meisterschaft und gewann 1966 auf einem Lotus 41 die Formula 3 Radio London Trophy. Hinter ihm platzierten sich einige Fahrer, die in späteren Jahren erfolgreich Motorsport betrieben. Darunter waren: Chris Irwin, Brian Hart, Bob Bondurant, Derek Bell, Morris Nunn, Peter Gethin und Robin Widdows. Es folgten weitere Formel-3-Einsätze und 1967 der Sieg beim Gran Premio di Enna-Pergusa.

Roy Pike war in seiner Karriere bei zwei Formel-1-Rennen gemeldet, die jedoch beide nicht zur Weltmeisterschaft zählten. 1969 war er auf einem Brabham BT23B beim  Race of Champions gemeldet und nahm am Training teil. Ein Defekt an der Benzinpumpe verhinderte einen Rennstart. Das Rennen gewann Jackie Stewart auf einem Matra MS80. Gemeldet war er auch beim International Gold Cup 1970, erschien aber nicht zum Training und zum Rennen.

1969 bestritt er ein Rennen in der Formel-2-Europameisterschaft und wurde 1970 Gesamtneunter in der Europäischen Formel-5000-Meisterschaft.

Sportwagenrennen

Neben seinen Monoposto-Einsätzen war Roy Pike auch im Sportwagensport aktiv. Er fuhr Rennen in der Sportwagen-Weltmeisterschaft und war zweimal beim 24-Stunden-Rennen von Le Mans am Start. 1966 fuhr er einen Ferrari 275 GTB/C von Maranello Concessionaires. Mit Teamkollegen Piers Courage erreichte er den achten Rang in der Gesamtwertung und siegte in der Rennklasse für GT-Wagen bis 5 Liter Hubraum. 1968 schied er nach einem Getriebeschaden am Ferrari 250LM aus.

Unternehmer

1971 gab Pike den Rennsport auf, da er die finanziellen Mittel für weitere Einsätze nicht mehr aufbringen konnte. Er zog nach Somerset und gründete ein Unternehmen, das in den folgenden Jahren alte Landhäuser renovierte.

Statistik

Le-Mans-Ergebnisse

Einzelergebnisse in der Sportwagen-Weltmeisterschaft

Weblinks

 Roy Pike bei Old Racing Cars
 Roy Pike bei der Driver Database
 Roy Pike bei Racing Sports Cars

Einzelnachweise

Rennfahrer (Vereinigte Staaten)
Rennfahrer der 24 Stunden von Le Mans
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1938
Mann
Sportwagen-WM-Rennfahrer

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When you were born, you entered this world not knowing failure. The concept of failure did not exist. All you cared about was discovering and exploring everything around you. This joyful impulse to live with your senses wide open to discover the opportunities of living is the experience we are seeking in this key. Reflect on your attitude towards risk – do you step up to opportunities or do you hold back? When did you last take on a new bigger challenge? When did you promise to yourself or to someone else to deliver something without knowing how you would do it?
This creative tension is what pulls you up into a "venturi" tunnel of new possibilities – to discover innovation you did not know was locked in you. Great innovators and visionary leaders take on a greater challenge. It develops them to be bigger persons, to discover the capacities needed to realize their dream. It's the same for you – you have extraordinary capacities that you are not aware of until such time as you face a new unknown circumstance where these capabilities are needed and are pulled out of you.
This in essence is the story of this day. The inauguration of Barack Obama today is a step into a new unknown future for President Obama and for this nation. It is symbolic that his first act is a Proclamation of Renewal and Reconciliation. To step into a new unknown future and to find renewal one must first reconcile the past.


Guildford Boileroom, 31st March by mattytheduke – Scroll down for recent radio show audio.
Thomas White on Dermot O'Leary, 20th March – Shaun Keaveny stands in.
Here's fan recordings of the songs Thomas covered and the interview.
SK: Next in the studio, it seems rude to say a man because it's not one man, it's 4 men. It's one man who has played with more musicians than Kate Moss; ex of The Electric Soft Parade, as they're better known of course, ESP, he has struck out bravely and alone into the tundra of the musical landscape. He is here with us to play some new songs. It's Tom White; good afternoon Tom.
TW: Good afternoon, how's it going.
SK: Very good to see you guys but I must, first of all scan from left to right. It isn't just Tom of course. It's your brother Alex on keys, also ex of The Electric Soft Parade.
TW: STILL of The Electric Soft Parade.
SK: Ex sounds so final, doesn't it.
TW: We still rehearse every Friday, 7pm.
SK: You really do? That's fantastic… Andrew with the beard here on guitar and Damo of course. You're a mysterious figure to my right. What are you going to be contributing – vocals?
D: Just a little harmony here and there.
SK: Lovely, there's a nice understatement to your presence and I like that.
D: It's quite rare as well.
SK: So it's a new project, we've got the new album of course, The Maximalist. First of all can you describe to the listeners what's happening on the front cover, what's the inspiration behind it.
TW: I'm really chuffed because pretty much every interview we've done, people talk about the sleeve and I think that's great. It's a photograph that a good friend of ours, a guy called Keith Boadwee, who's an American artist and lecturer, he lives in San Francisco. And it's a piece of his called Berries which is essentially him squashing blackberries into his eyes. And it looks kind of quite disarming and a little bit scary at first but it's just fruit. It's nothing untoward happening really.
SK: It looks a little bit like a stigmata Christ pose. It looks like tears running down somebody's face – like a mask of red tears.
SK: Very striking and arresting image, isn't it. You were just talking about Electric Soft Parade. So you're still a going concern?
TW: Yeah, we haven't put a record out for a couple of years but… we will, we will.
TW: You should have seen us parking outside a minute ago. It got pretty heated.
AW: We're civil on radio.
SK: Actually, I must admit, off air it did get a little blue. It's fair to say, I remember playing the first Electric Soft Parade singles about seven or eight years ago now.
AW: Thanks by the way, cheers.
TW: And you got the year right. A lot of people say "you guys came out in the late 90's" – I was thirteen in the late 90's!
SK: It was 2002 I think, wasn't it?
TW: That's the first record.
SK: Silent To The Dark was a big hit and you were Mercury nominated. So, is it a good thing or a bad thing for a young man's psyche to have quite a lot of success quite young. Are you happy that's happened, or would you have preferred it the other way around?
TW: I think we had to do a lot of back tracking, it kind of happened so fast; pretty much career in reverse if you like. We did all that on our first record and then we did all the evolving afterwards if you like. Most bands start on a little indie and work up and then 3rd or 4th record they're breaking through… and it was so quick. We did have to do a bit of back-tracking and we did a lot of thinking.
AW: It's frustrating to think we're much better now, as a group, as players and people and everything. We know what we're doing. We've got our craft honed. We didn't really know what we were doing. To think we might have played shows to thousands of people and it was just a bit like a bunch of kids in a garage really, it was about that good. And yet we were given this world stage whereas now we're much tighter… and we're playing to 20 people back in the same garage.
AW: I was just about to say, sounds of the 70's surely is bands getting 4 albums in and suddenly having a hit and labels believing in them that far; that's gone.
SK: It has totally gone hasn't it. What are the upsides and downsides of the current music culture for you as musicians would you say.
TW: Well there's just so much music around, which is a good thing. And labels are much more – as Cooking Vinyl have been with my record – they're much more up for putting home-made records out and home-grown things. The whole notion of a label spending 50 hundred grand on a record has kind of gone out of the window. And there's a lot more artists releasing their own music… which does mean it's saturated more than ever but at the same time, the internet has allowed people to release records really cheaply; formats and laptop music and stuff is allowing people to make records for next to nothing in their bedrooms… and DJ's and labels are taking that music now as seriously as other records.
AW: I think it's amazing that given that this is the way things are now; that tracks are the thing, not albums. The fact we listened to the St. Vincent album, Actor, on the way up – amazing record, an album, a piece of work, fun as well. There's a whole bunch of bands and Tom's record – it's a record that goes in sequence, it's like a piece of work and I think it's amazing that given how the land lies now, that there's still bands/artists out there making bodies of work – that that still exists, the concept of an album.
TW: It's almost if you're into the idea of an album, all that stuff drives you to make even stronger pieces, rather than just tracks or singles.
SK: For me the most disappointing thing about the change in the record industry is that they don't fly people like me out to New York for parties anymore for album launches and things.
AW: It's all a bit "tighten our belts".
SK: That's over now. You're lucky if you get taken to a pizza restaurant now. You've got to pay for your own beer when you get there.
AW: We got bought our lunch today, that's all good. TW: Thankyou Cooking Vinyl. AW: There's no such thing as a free lunch. SK: Exactly, you should know that by now.
SK: Well listen, what are you going to play for us first?
SK: Take it away boys.
TW: This is Almost, I mean, Accidentally Like A Martyr.
SK: That was absolutely beautiful, I can honestly say that. Accidentally Like A Martyr, Warren Zevon, performed by the boys here and Thomas White at the centre.
TW: You've just named my band. We didn't have a name. It's "Thomas White and The Boys"… The best we had so far was Travelodge. We were just trying to find the most mundane names. Or, The Travellers Cheques. AW: That is my favourite yeah. TW: Just utter rubbish.
SK: If you want, you can have this; The Labradors Of Perception. That, in all honesty, is going to be my next band name but I haven't got around to using it. If you want to run with it, you can have it.
AW: You just made me choke on my coffee there!
SK: It's a little bit Huxley, a little bit Blue Peter.
SK: But beautiful 4-part harmonies coming together… It's nice to hear, I don't know if you agree with me, this Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young-esque 4-part vocals that are coming in. A lot more people seem to be influenced by it these days. I just think it's a lovely thing to hear. You can't go wrong with a few people singing close harmony.
AW: There's a few Todd Rundgren fans in this band as well, well two.
SK: It all comes though in the music.
AW: Yeah, layered stuff is brilliant.
SK: It's really beautiful. I hear that some of the boys in the band, especially you Tom, are quite into your cookery. Is this true?
TW: Yes I'm a fairly good cook, I like to think.
SK: So what would you do; you're in Celebrity MasterChef and you've got this to cook with: shallots, capers, pork medallion, basmati rice, coconut and/or tamarind. What are you going to do with it?
TW: Sorry, say it again?
TW: You could do light curry with that – see that's the bit I really freak out at, the bit of MasterChef where they give you the very limited ingredients and it's like hang on, I'd be rubbish at that.
AW: Thai green curry with pork… I would just have to punch them if I was on it.
TW: What I love about them is the way they describe the food as they're eating it: "I'm getting sweet ginger, I'm getting savoury"… it's just brilliant.
SK: I don't know if anybody saw it earlier in the week, my wife and I are completely obsessed with it, and a woman – the poor, poor lady, made a cheesecake. Gregg and John tasted it and their faces turned sort of green and orange, all contorted. And John went "I think you've put salt in there instead of sugar". And she had, she'd done a cheesecake with salt. Which is nothing if not original.
TW: Salty cheesecake. AW: She should've just used the capers and the pork, sod it, stick it all in.
SK: I think as well accidentally, Tom's come across the better name for the band; Salty Cheesecake. You can have that for nothing as well.
SK: Don't go yet because we've got another performance here, I'm looking forward to some other layered vocals. What are you gonna play for us now?
TW: We're gonna do another sadly late great artist, Mr Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. We're going to do a tune of his as a little tribute and it's a song called Maria's Little Elbows from his Good Morning Spider album.
SK: Right, fantastic, Ok. Well take it away boys.
SK: That was excellent, really, really beautiful. Thankyou very much indeed for that. TW: Thankyou Shaun.
SK: And what I also like, if I'm honest, is the fact that you've come in here, it's Radio 2 and you've done a couple of other people's songs. There's a sort of a lack of ego to that I think.
TW: You've got to give people props haven't you.
SK: You've got to give people props, that's exactly the right thing. Tributes to some wonderful songwriters there. But, your own music here, in its entirety on The Maximalist, what can people expect when they rush out to buy it.
SK: If you don't find something for you in the middle of that, there's something wrong with YOU, not the music.
SK: Before we let you go, guys, we had Professor Brian Cox in in the last hour.
SK: Does dark energy exist Tom and if so, how can it be measured.
TW: At this point I'll pass you over to the resident physicist in the band, Mr Damo Waters.
D: No. AW: You can't see it, that's the problem. D: It's a mathematical construct, it hasn't been proven to exist physically at all. It's all speculation and everything is riding on all these people making these assumptions. And for all we know, it's complete fabrication.
SK: Wow, well I've got one more for Damo. I thought dark energy emitted from Mariah Carey to be honest. What is the answer to the unification problem.
D: You've just got to get them in the mood, get them together down by the fire, it'll all come together eventually.
SK: Well, I don't know what to say, it's been a wonderful pleasure to have you guys in. I wish we could just ride out the rest of the show like this but we can't. The album is out in the shops now I think.
TW: It's out now, as of the 15th.
SK: The Maximalist. We look forward to hearing ESP when they come back. Do you have ESP between you, extra-sensory perception?
AW: We have it. TW: We finish eachothers sentences, all the usual sibling stuff.
SK: Thomas White and The Boys, aka Salty Cheesecake. TW: Aka was it Discounts For Vicars… Travelodge!


MCG Empire boss decided to bless his fans financially by giving 10 families 100k each to start the year. The Spellz produced record talks about God's blessings and faithfulness which we can relate to as we made it to the new year!
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Hengda Li (Seattle), founder of Asian Performing Arts Theater and HengDa Dance Academy, is officially recognized in China as a National First Rank Dancer. He is a graduate of the Beijing Dance Academy. Hengda is the only male dancer to achieve the honor of three consecutive national dance championship in China. After arriving in the USA in 1991, Hengda had been a soloist at the Pacific Northwest Ballet until the summer of 1996, and since then has been devoting all his time to the development of Asian Performing Arts Theater and Hengda Dance Academy. He is the recipient of a 2012 Seattle Mayor's Arts Award and a 2013 CityArtist Project grant.


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Q: Clear url in browser window using Java code I am using navigate().to() method to navigate but new url is getting appended to old url as below, after executing navigate.to function thus resulting in 404 error
https://www.google.co.in/www.yahoo.co.in
Can anyone please help how should I get this to work?
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
    WebDriver fd = new FirefoxDriver();
    fd.get("http://www.google.co.in");
    Thread.sleep(3000);
    fd.navigate().to("www.yahoo.co.in");
}

}

A: I'm not sure how to use navigate().to() but this an alternative solution.
import java.awt.Desktop;
import java.net.URI;

....

try {
    Desktop d = Desktop.getDesktop();
    d.browse(new URI("http://www.google.co.in"));
    Thread.sleep(3000);
    d.browse(new URI("www.yahoo.co.in"));
} catch (Exception ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
}

A: There are two options:
1) use again get() method from the WebDriver to navigate to the new URL.
2) use navigate().to() method, but use fully qualified URL parameter. Eg. "https://www.google.com"
From the WebDriver javadoc: @param url The URL to load. It is best to use a fully qualified URL
The navigate() method is useful for using the context on the current web context. i.e. go back, forward.
Basically, the get() and navigate().to() do the same thing. I just tried both and they work.
Reference: http://www.seleniumeasy.com/selenium-tutorials/difference-between-webdriver-get-and-navigate


Michael Wickenden, who died in 2016 while trekking in Myanmar, was a plant collector, nursery, campaigner against the misuse of plant copyrighting and the owner of Cally Gardens in south-west Scotland. I am not alone in thinking that he was the most knowledgeable and interesting plantsman of our generation. Click below to read the profile of him that I wrote for 'Gardens Illustrated'.


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PHILADELPHIA, PA (April 12, 2017) – Junior Lone Star FC will have to travel to Ocean City, NJ to face the Premier Development League (PDL)'s Eastern Conference Champions Ocean City Nor'easters in the First Round of the 2017 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.
The Stars will be making their first ever appearance in this prestigious tournament after winning the Philadelphia Premier Soccer League (PPSL) Fall title and also defeating fellow league opponents Rising Stars FC (5-1) and New Jersey's Brick Lions FC (3-2) in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup First and Second Local Qualifying Rounds, respectively last Fall. The Nor'easters, meanwhile, will be making their eighth tournament appearance after winning the PDL's Eastern Conference title last season.
The First Round match between the two sides will be played on Wednesday, May 10th at 7:30pm at the Carey Stadium in New Jersey. The winner will face the Harrisburg City Islanders of the United Soccer League (USL) on Wednesday, May 17th.
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, recognized as U.S. Soccer's National Club Championship, is an annual competition open to all amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with U.S. Soccer. The tournament has crowned a champion for 103 consecutive years dating from 1914. In 1999, the competition was renamed to honor American soccer pioneer Lamar Hunt.
The 104th edition of the tournament will have a record 99 clubs, with 21 Premier Development League (PDL) teams, 18 National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) sides, and 17 Open Division local qualifiers entering the First Round on May 9-10. The Second Round follows on May 16-17 and introduces six North American Soccer League (NASL) teams and 18 United Soccer League (USL) clubs. The 19 Major League Soccer (MLS) teams will enter the Fourth Round on June 14.
FC Dallas is the defending Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup champion after defeating the New England Revolution 4-2 on Sept. 13, 2016 at a sold-out Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas. This year's championship game is scheduled for September 20.
This year's winning team will receive $250,000, a berth in the 2019 CONCACAF Champions' League and have its name engraved on the historic Dewar Challenge Trophy, one of the oldest nationally contested trophies in American team sports. The runner-up will earn $60,000, while the team that advances the furthest from each lower division will take home a $15,000 cash prize.
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I eat these as an evening snack in stead of breakfast. Crunchy, sweet and just right.
This is a tasty cereal with a decent protein amount. It tastes similar to Cheerios, slightly sweeter. The single portion bags are a very generous amount. I mix part of a bag with Cheerios, add diced dried fruit, some nuts and eat!
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Who has a list of backpacking food vendors that I can buy from. Why do you like them. I've tried to dehydrate but takes to much time.
Great freeze dried and dehydrated products. They also sell meals.
Any well stocked supermarket. Seriously, It's all you need.
There was enough vegetables for about 50 dinners. I prepared 10 and only used about 20%.
I also purchased a few other items like powdered chicken stock, Preserves, nut butters, packets of olive oil, packets of Parmesan cheese, 2oz shelf stable cheeses, etc.
It worked out financially and saved alot of time preparing my meals.
no supermarkets in my area sell stuff from backpacking food vendors.
no supermarkets in my area sell stuff from backpacking food vendors. Perhaps, but they sell plenty of food suitable for backpacking. Much cheaper, too.
Perhaps, but they sell plenty of food suitable for backpacking. Much cheaper, too.
And Walmart too. No need to overpay for over packaged backpacking specific food.
Nice, but expensive. Almost $20 per day.
Already mentioned, Buyt the two that I like are Hawk Vittles (http://hawkvittles.com/) and Packit Gourmet (http://www.packitgourmet.com/). With both, they food is far tastier than your run of the mill backpacking food and there are many more options. I believe that they gentleman that runs Hawk Vittles is also a retired chef.
I tend to use Hawk Vittles of Packit Gourmet for my suppers while I use food items from grocery stores for my breakfasts and lunches.
Breakfast is so often, instant oatmeal or grits, breakfast bars, instant coffe etc. For lunch I really like these chicken salad kits from Bumble Bee -- http://www.bumblebee.com/products/8/bumble-bee-chicken-salad-with-crackers-kit. I also find that Target's grocery area has some interesting snack items like their fruit bars and fruit strips that make great additions to lunches.
I didn't check. I know if I was solely with Mountain House, it'd cost me over $50 a day. My current meal plan costs around $12. Another $8 for something someone else put together doesn't sound awful. You're right though, it is a lot of money.
I'm about $12 per day using a mixture of packit gourmet and grocery store ingredients with an easy breakfast, lunch a really nice dinner and a hiker midnight snack of sopressatta and cheese. I spend more on the sausage and cheese each day then the regular meals.
While it's not an answer to the OP's original question I also buy most of my backpacking foods from grocery stores, Wally World, and health food stores. While I do buy dehydrated and freeze dried backpacking foods occasionally, typically when on sale or at pro prices, it can get prohibitively expensive especially on a long thru-hike. I stand with Feral Bill and Ktaadn in that MOST of my foods come from the grocery store. It's most often cheaper, especially when you can purchase foods like lentil bean soup, corn chowder, vegetarian chili, falafel mix, instant oatmeal, dried nuts and fruits, organic foods, tc in the amounts you want directly from bulk bins without the added cost of packaging which I typically throw away anyhow. I like measuring out my sized portions to suit nutritional content, calories, and repackage with less package wt.
Well have you considered stickin the thing on a electric timer and start at 9PM? then go to bed?


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IDS network offers you refuelling services in 600 gas-stations situated in strategic locations, i.e. near the main European trunk-roads. The gas-stations are open 24 hours a day and are designed for heavy vehicles.
After signing in to IDS website https://www.ids.q8.com/en-us/ournetwork/ournetwork.aspx you will be able to review the gas-stations, their GPS coordinates, additional services provided in the gas station, such as parking, café, restaurant, etc. You will also find information about would-be repairs in the gas-stations or closure of the gas-stations, and other relevant information.


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Lake Buena Vista Chiropractic is an Orlando chiropractic clinic specializing in auto accidents, back pain, neck pain, and headaches. Being located just outside of Walt Disney World we provide a convenient location for locals and tourists alike.
Chiropractic care is more than just making the pain disappear. It is about learning, understanding and taking care of your body to improve your quality of life. We aim to educate our patients about Chiropractic and other natural solutions to common health problems in order to motivate you to take a more active and responsible role in restoring and maintaining your own health as well as the people around you.
As an Orlando chiropractor, we understand that although our patients may be diagnosed with the same condition, they respond very differently to treatments. For this reason, we tailor a specific plan of action to meet your needs, goals & unique medical and physical condition.
If you have been involved in a car accident, whiplash injuries (aka hyperflexion-hyperextension disorder) need to be taken very seriously. Because symptoms of a whiplash injury can take weeks or months to manifest, it is easy to be fooled into thinking that you are not as injured as you really are.
Acupuncture is a component of Traditional Chinese Medicine that revolves around the idea that many diseases are caused by an inbalance in ones Qi (chi) , essentially energy pathways that transverse the body. By using very thin needles, and sometimes heat, acupuncture attempts to open up and restore those pathways, otherwise known as meridians, and restore balance to the body.
Chiropractic acupuncture focuses mostly on the pain relieving abilities of acupuncture. By activating specific points on the body and balancing the patient's Qi many painful conditions can be treated.
This is my chiropractic clinic in Southwest Orlando near Walt Disney World and I encourage all my patients to please leave me a review here.
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If you're on vacation and want an adjustment without paying for x-rays, this place is awesome. This was seriously one of the most thorough adjustments I have ever had. Gets my highest review!
I have been vacationing in Orlando and decided to see a chiropractor for back pain that has been going on for almost 2 months. I was able to book a same day appointment with no problem. I felt like a new person even after just 1 session! I can't thank Dr. Young enough for helping me.
I could tell from my very first visit that Dr. Young is different from other chiropractors. He is very thorough in his exam. You can just tell he knows what he's doing. His office isn't fancy but his care is definitely 5 star. I spent decades on pain medicine and muscle relaxers. After just a few visits, I no longer needed prescription pills. As long as I see Dr. Young, I live pain free. Thank you Dr. Young!
While on vacation from traveling, our sons back was severely hurting him. We gave Dave a call and he was able to get us right in. He was quick to to get some minor adjustments made and get us back out on our vacation!! Highly recommend, if your in the area and in some pain.
While vacationing in Orlando this week I was in major need of an adjustment which couldn't wait until I got back home to my permanent chiropractor, so I looked on-line for a chiropractor close to the resort I was staying. I was pleasantly surprised to find Dr. Young on such short notice and immediately made an appointment to see him that morning. I found him to be very thorough and I was surprised at the amount of time he spent on adjusting me. It was much more than I am typically used to. He gave me a great adjustment and even was able to take my insurance (great considering I live out of town). I would highly recommend Dr. Young to anyone.
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Ted Cruz Turns His Back on the 2nd Amendment, Endorses Red Flag Laws
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The Republican-led Senate is selling out the American people on gun control, and chief among the anti-constitutional traitors is former tea party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on gun legislation today where hand-picked "experts" were brought in from throughout the country to talk about the necessity of red flag laws, a sneaky and dangerous form of gun confiscation. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) started the hearing with a rousing endorsement of pre-crime.
"We're trying to identify people in our communities who are exhibiting pretty extreme behavior in terms of mental health issues where they become a danger to themselves and others," Graham said, adding that "law enforcement and sometime family members" should be allowed "to go to a court" to rob an individual of their constitutionally-protected firearm rights.
While it is expected for a moderate like Graham to work with the likes of Sens. Dick Blumenthal (D-CN) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to push red flag laws, Cruz is expected to be the type who would stand against this type of push. He failed to do so during today's hearings, exposing himself as an oathbreaking enemy of the US Constitution.
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"The national epidemic we have of mass shootings and of school shootings is a tragedy, and it was one that I believe we need to do significantly more to prevent." Cruz said to begin his remarks.
Cruz, who has advertised himself as a constitutionalist since being elected, would go on to give a shockingly endorsement of red flag gun control – calling them "extreme risk laws" – an incredible betrayal of his Texas constituents.
"The right approach I think is targeting and focusing on bad guys, and I do think that extreme risk laws of the kind we're discussing can potentially be apart of the solution set," Cruz said, "that targeting those that pose an extreme risk that have serious mental illness and pose a threat to themselves or others is a law enforcement tool that can be helpful in preventing crimes of violence."
Cruz, who got his start as a Washington D.C. lawyer with connections to the Bush family, was quick to throw some weasel words out there about "the need to protect the public safety with also the obligation to protect constitutional rights and civil rights."
The Senator's intent was clear though despite his double-speak. Cruz is supporting gun control, the end of due process, the evisceration of the Bill of Rights, and measures that will further exacerbate tensions between police and ordinary citizens. One man's life was already taken by a cop enforcing these unconstitutional edicts.
It's not just Cruz who is folding on gun rights. President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association (NRA) have issued public support for red flag laws as well.
Larry Pratt, founder of the no compromise gun rights lobby Gun Owners of America, is one of the few conservative leaders willing to stand strong against the scourge of red flag laws.
"These laws are better known as Gun Confiscation Orders, and they turn our system of justice on its head," Pratt wrote about red flag laws. "No one should have their rights taken from them and then be forced to prove their innocence. It's the government's job to prove someone is guilty, after affording that person all the protections of Due Process."
Very few, if any, have the courage to make a bold stance for the 2nd Amendment in Congress. Lyin' Ted certainly is not among them, as the self-serving phony will always do what is politically advantageous.
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(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Internal Revenue Service employee Diane Zelazny's eyes filled with tears during a rally in protest of the longest partial federal shutdown in history in Ogden on Jan. 10, 2019.
When government shutdowns cause innocent people to go without a needed and earned paycheck, it is immoral.
What adds to this despicable situation is that the people responsible for this impasse have a lifestyle significantly above those placed in jeopardy, have rarely lived from paycheck to paycheck, and have never experienced the hardship of an unexpected expense without emergency savings. While they may claim to understand the difficulties of their constituents (in the rare case that they once experienced poverty), they are so far removed from it, they no longer understand the impact their inaction has.
Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. There may be many reasons for this: inadequate pay, a serious illness, downsizing at work, unexpected hardship. But most people are doing the very best they can.
While a multitude of part-time work is available, compensation is minimal. There are only so many hours an individual can work without effects on personal health, relationships and parenting.
A noted economist, in talking about behaviors of those living in poverty, shared how the poor lack the discretionary income to stock up on everyday basics when they are on sale. Instead, they live from paycheck to paycheck, paying full price for necessities. Often, fast food is less expensive and more filling than stocking up with fresh fruits, vegetables, fish, dairy products and other nutritious foods at the local market.
A lack of savings means that normal but unplanned-for expenses such as medical bills, auto repair or appliance replacement can be a major setback. Those dedicated sacrifices to build savings, retirement, education funds or just to save for a family vacation to go to Disneyland are wiped out and must begin again. Use of finance plans, credit cards, payday loans, etc. compound the situation.
Surely, there are better ways to research, plan and establish effective national security than making federal workers pawns in a game fraught with egos, side deals and public power plays.


There are currently over 62,800 tax parcels in Washington County. The GIS Division working with the Real Property Lister Division, is responsible for maintaining these parcels covering all communities in Washington County.
The cadastral dataset is created from a variety of sources. The public land survey system framework was created by entering in all monuments using their published Northing and Easting. Sections and Quarter Sections were constructed by connecting the public land survey system monuments. The remaining features were entered using coordinate geometry primarily using documents recorded in the Register of Deeds. Those documents include subdivisions, condominiums, certified survey maps and deeds. The recorded documents were supplemented with right of way plats and other non-recorded surveys. In most cases, lake and river boundaries were identified using orthophotography. Apparent gaps and overlaps greater then 2.5 ft are mapped.
The cadastral information should not be used for legal, survey, engineering, financial, tax or other professional advice. If specific or precise information is required, you should always use the original recorded documents, surveys, plats, flood insurance studies, or other official means. Washington County specifically disclaims liability for damages of any kind resulting from the misuse or misrepresentation of any information contained herein.
Photocopies - Tax maps are printed yearly. These maps can be viewed in the Real Property Lister Office where photocopies can be made.
Internet - Parcel data can be viewed and printed on the Washington County Interactive Mapping Application.
Digital GIS or CAD Data - Digital versions of this data is available online from the Data Download site for free.


Most hardware startups find themselves thinking about intellectual property early-on and wondering if it is truly necessary for their invention. If you are planning to manufacture your product abroad, considering a crowdfunding campaign, wanting to speak with potential investors or find yourself constantly worrying about someone copying your invention, then meeting with a patent attorney is a great idea. In many cases, having a design or utility patent will be beneficial for your startup in the long-run.
Below are a few tips on how to prepare for your initial meeting with a patent attorney. Keep in mind that the first meeting can be free—being adequately prepared means that you will be able to glean as much knowledge as possible from this meeting.
Prepare a brief description of your invention.
The key to this description is to be concise. What does your invention do? What are the main functionalities of your invention? This written summary if often called an "invention disclosure statement", however it doesn't need to be formal and can be written in any form. Keep it to a page or less in length, and even a paragraph or two will be sufficient.
Write your description so that someone unfamiliar with the product can get an idea of what it does and the technology behind it. Patent attorneys deal with a variety of technology, but don't always have an extensive technical background, so you want to be able to bring them up to speed quickly on your specific invention.
Bring drawings or a prototype.
Seeing your invention is a quick and efficient way of describing your product to the patent attorney. A prototype allows the patent attorney to assess the product and understand the exact intricacies behind your invention. Depending on the exact nature of your product, a functional prototype might be just what you need for the meeting. However, line drawings or sketches of your product will also work for your initial meeting. These drawings don't have to be formal, but they should be thorough.
Conduct your own patent search.
This can sound slightly counter-intuitive since you are meeting with a patent attorney, however you should to conduct your own patent search beforehand. Search patent databases such as www.google.com/patents or www.uspto.gov using keywords from your "invention disclosure statement".
Print the patent search results.
From your patent research, print and bring the patents that are most similar to your idea. You can either print out the patent references or compose a list of them, so that they can be easily retrieved. This will provide a research starting point for the attorney as they conduct a more formal patent search.
We also suggest organizing the above information into a single file folder and include a business card. This way the attorney will have all of your invention information and contact information in one place.
Adequate preparation for this meeting ensures that you will get the most out of your initial meeting and hopefully gain a better understanding as to whether this route makes the most sense for your invention and stage of business.


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The Light Behind the Window by Lucinda Riley
Reviewed by Sophie Duffy
Published by Pan, August 2012
Gassin, South of France, Spring 1998
Emilie felt the pressure on her hand relax and looked down at her mother. As she watched, it seemed that, whilst Valerie's soul departed her body, the pain which had contorted her features was disappearing too, enabling Emilie to look past the emaciated face and remember the beauty her mother had once possessed.
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Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France. An old notebook of poems leads her in search of the mysterious and beautiful Sophia, whose tragic love affair changed the course of her family history. As Emilie unravels the story, she too embarks on her own journey of discovery, realising that the château may provide clues to her own difficult past and finally unlock the future.
London 1943. A young office clerk, Constance Carruthers, is drafted into the SOE, arriving in occupied Paris during the climax of the conflict. Separated from her contact in her very first hours in France, she stumbles into the heart of a wealthy family who are caught up in a deadly game of secrets and lies. Forced to surrender her identity and all ties to her homeland and her beloved husband, Constance finds herself drawn into a complex web of deception, the repercussions of which will affect generations to come.
Lucinda Riley is a good old-fashioned story-teller who writes from the heart. The Light Behind the Window is her third novel and is an engaging read. Fans of Anita Shreve, Kate Morton and Amelia Carr should enjoy this book.
The Light Behind the Window is ambitious in its scope and technicality. Not only is there a split narrative between WW2 and the 1990s but the action is also divided between France and England, town and country. Riley weaves a deftly-crafted novel and threads it through with intrigue and tension galore, adding enough period detail for authenticity, but not too much to overwhelm.
Constance, the main character from the 1940s narrative, is plucked from her day job as a clerk and recruited into the Special Operatives Executive (also known as Churchill's Secret Army). She rises to the task, knowing there is a great risk to her life if she passes the
training, which she does with flying colours. As she lands in France, her world is thrown into confusion and she must live by her wits.
Emilie has just lost her mother and has inherited a massive estate which includes a chateau in the south of France. She lacks self-esteem as she was neglected as a child, so she must learn to take control of her life. And then Sebastian comes along...
We know that Constance and Emilie are somehow connected to each other, despite the distance of time. We also suspect that the chateau and its library of rare books will play an important part. The dual time frame comes together nicely in the latter part of the novel and the final reveal brings the story to a satisfying conclusion.
The massive themes of love and war, betrayal and forgiveness and its large cast of characters - including two sets of twins - make The Light Behind the Window perfect for a TV drama. (I still remember Secret Army from the 1970s, the Belgian-based WW2 resistance series that was the inspiration for the parody sitcom 'Allo 'Allo.)
If you like a 'big' novel with plenty of drama, suspense, narrative drive, twists and turns, and if you want a story with strong female characters, then read The Light Behind the Window.
Labels: drama, family life, love, strong female characters, war, wwII
Michelle J Heatley Monday, October 22, 2012 10:34:00 am
A novel which had not appeared on my radar however after Sophie's excellent review of The Light Behind the Window it is one I shall add to my reading list. I also remember the excellent series Secret Army.
Vivienne Monday, October 22, 2012 12:26:00 pm
Glad Sophie convinced you!
neiruxe Monday, October 22, 2012 10:49:00 am
This definitely sounds interesting! it's been a while since I last read something that doesn't revolve around teen hormones and luuurve, and this seems like the perfect choice.
- Ellie @ The Selkie Reads Stories
It is nice to break up the YA with a couple of adult books.
bermudaonion Monday, October 22, 2012 11:39:00 am
I really enjoy dual narratives like that. This sounds good to me!
Definitely think you will enjoy this one.


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Record Store Day – May You Never Single
Universal Music are pressing an exclusive 7-inch vinyl single release for Record Store Day 2014!
Packaged in its own picture sleeve the A-side is the very rare and highly collectable band version of John's much loved song May You Never, originally released as a single in November 1971 (see discography entry) and on the B-side there is an alternate take of May You Never that features ex-Free guitarist Paul Kossoff on guitar, previously unavailable on vinyl!
The single will be available exclusively from participating stores on Saturday 19th April 2014.


This lovely stone farmhouse provides spacious family accommodation is furnished to a high standard and enjoys an attractive South facing aspect, the conservatory is situated in an elevated position and has South and East facing views over the surrounding countryside.
With an elegance of the Georgian era that boasts many original features such as cornicing and a wide staircase with carved mahogany hand rail, it's a great choice for families or groups of friends to enjoy a wonderful holiday.
How perfect to lie back and relax under the stars after a day on the beach, walking or sightseeing!
The house is accessed through a covered outer hallway – perfect for storing coats, bikes and beach equipment! – which leads to a large kitchen with quality units, oak worktops, a Belfast sink, a good size range oven, dishwasher, fridge/freezer and microwave plus there's a utility room with washing machine, dryer and WC.
The sitting room has oak floors and overlooks the garden and beyond to a small orchard and pretty meadows. It has a wood burning stove – perfect for cozying up to in the cooler months – plus TV/DVD – a lovely room to sit and relax.
There is a formal dining room off the kitchen with oak floors, in which to sit, relax and enjoy meals. This in turn leads to a charming conservatory, which is light and airy, again with views of the garden – it's a perfect space to sit and enjoy a morning cuppa with a good book.
To the first floor are three bedrooms – there's a double with a king size bed with views of the garden. The second double bedroom has a double bed and garden views plus there's a triple bedroom with three full size 3′ beds. There is a shower room with shower, WC and hand wash basin.
The house bathroom is wonderful, spacious, with a free-standing roll top bath, separate shower, WC and hand wash basin.
The property is situated in spacious gardens and grounds; to the front is a lawned garden with the hot tub – how perfect to lie back and relax under the stars after a day on the beach, walking or sightseeing! There is also a BBQ and a table and seating – an idyllic spot for enjoying al fresco dining.
Hayburn Beck Farmhouse is set in glorious open countryside 2 miles north of the village of Cloughton, 5 miles from Scarborough.
It is a great location for outdoor activities, with golf courses, lovely coastal walks along the Cleveland Way, stunning cycle routes such as the old railway to Whitby, beautiful sailing and championship quality surfing. Add to this all the usual seaside entertainment and bustling promenades located close to the beach and Scarborough is the destination with something for everyone. Ideally situated for touring the coastline and the moors, makes Scarborough an ideal base for a fun-filled break.
The whole family enjoyed our stay. The hot tub was perfect!
With an elegance of the Georgian era that boasts many original features.
Utilities: All utilities, crisp bed linens and hand/bath/tea towels are included.
Pets: Pets welcome at a cost of £30 per pet per stay.
Note: This can be booked wth neighbouring barn conversions Mistal Cottage (sleeps 4) and Thresher's Cottage (sleeps 5) to sleep up to 16 people.
The farmhouse was fabulous me and the girls had a great time. Would definitely stay here again and recommend. Thank you very much.
What an outstanding property, it was one of the most beautiful cottages that we have ever stayed in, we are definitely going to be back very soon.
We had a lovely time, Hayburn Beck Farmhouse is perfect in every way. We will return.
What a lovely holiday property, finished to an extremely good standard, the whole family enjoyed our stay, the hot tub was perfect. We will certainly recommend Yorkshire Coastal Cottages and their fabulous properties to everyone, Thank you.


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I'm being charged correctly but haven't been able to view the bill in Firefox for a very long time! I have to use either Edge or Chrome to view.
If it works in Edge and Chrome ... but not in Firefox ... that suggests that it's Firefox which is broken. They seem to be forever patching it to fix one issue or another!
Does a Firefox problem mean that they can't take my Direct Debits. None this year. Gee they have admitted, under pressure, that they have a long running issue, including billing people who have left. It's a good job they are not an internet supplier, or you would have thought that they might undertsand computers or perhaps they just don't have a business model (unless it includes not collecting their rents).
They are just USELESS and a WASTE OF SPACE.
There might well be other issues, but these recent posts are discussing accessibility issues varying by chosen browser. Given that the user interface works with two out of three mentioned browsers one has to at least consider the possibility that the third browser is broken.
Now working in Safari on MacBook Air most of the time. I occasionally get "Loading Token" and the page either hangs or takes a while to load. The "Loading Token" message may or may not be specific to Safari on MacBook but I haven't seen it before on any other website.
@Anon, it goes without saying that we know this issue must be a big inconvenience, unfortunately as with any kind of technology things can and will sometimes go wrong but we're working hard to get it fixed.
@Anthorn, thanks a lot for the update.
Sadly, I have to join the many who have been unable to view anything in the billing section.
Yes, I am using Firefox, latest version downloaded today. Still not working for me. I have tried all the possible solutions posted, but without any luck. I have tried Edge, and yes it always works fine without any problems. Perhaps I should be writing this to Firefox? I do hope that you acheive some success with trying to sort this problem out.
This thread was started over 5 months ago.
There has been no notice in the service areas and little staff input on this thread. If you had been more honest at the start you might be getting different responses from the people who pay for the system and your wages. Some of the stories on here have made me very sad and very mad.
It could have been quicker to have dismantled Pnet and started again than this.
Does working hard mean that you have hired in outside labour at minimum wage per hour working only on a Friday when there are 5 Fridays in the month and buying the cheapest components from Sheffield market? (maybe that is what is meant by "this kind of technology"). Because it feels like it.
Wonder what the Adcertising Standards Authority would make of that statement with the harrowing stories on here about being hasled and harried for money the op does not owe, not even an account with them anymore?
What are you suggesting here?
Or are you seeking to suggest that the whole of the world is out of step with Firefox?
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There is a variety of issues, some of which are clearly the back end billing and common across all interfaces. However when the same user interface code works in some user's end environments and not in others, then one HAS to consider that there could be an issue with the user environment (their choice of browser).
If the reports made here by users that X works with Chrome and Safari but not with Firefox are to be taken at face value, then one has to consider the possibility that Firefox is the component which might be broken.
In such cases, it is not as might be implied by your comment a simple case of fixing their code, it becomes a matter of identifying and understanding the defect in Firefox and working out how, if at all possible, that defect might be mitigated without damaging the perfect functionality in the environments which function correctly. This is not "blaming everyone else" it is facing up to the empirical evidence - which might be unpleasant for some. Firefox is not the panacea many believe it to be - if it were so perfect, there would not be the swarm of new releases seen so frequently.
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Q: Implicit Function Theorem with Higher Dimensional Codomain I have a question regarding the Implicit Function Theorem.

Prove that if $\mathbf{g}(s,t)= \begin{bmatrix} g_{1}(s,t) \\ g_{2} (s,t) \\ g_{3}(s,t) \end{bmatrix}$ and $\begin{vmatrix} \frac{\partial g_{1}}{\partial s} & \frac{\partial g_{1}}{\partial t} \\ \frac{\partial g_{2}}{\partial s} & \frac{\partial g_{2}}{\partial t} \end{vmatrix}(s_{0},t_{0}) \neq 0$, for some points $s_{0},\,t_{0}$, then $\exists \delta>0$ such that $\mathbf{g}[B_{\delta}(s_{0},t_{0})]$ (an open ball centered at $(s_{0},t_{0})$ of radius $\delta$) is the graph of some function.

I am quite comfortable with proving special cases of the Implicit Function Theorem, but in this case the dimension of the domain is smaller than the dimension of the codomain.
I would appreciate any help!
P.S. This is for test preparation.

Here is my attempt at the problem:
By the Inverse Function Theorem, $g_{1}$ and $g_{2}$ have inverses.
Now define a function $\mathbf{G} \begin{pmatrix} x \\ y \\ z \end{pmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} g_{1}^{-1}(x) \\ g_{2}^{-1}(y) \\ z \end{bmatrix}$.
$D\mathbf{G}(x_{0},y_{0},z_{0})$ can be found to be invertible, where $(s_{0},t_{0}) \mapsto (x_{0},y_{0},z_{0})$. Therefore, there exists a neighborhood around $(x_{0},y_{0},z_{0})$ for which this is also true.
Define $s$ and $t$ such that their respective spaces contain an origin (i.e. $(s,t)=(0,0)$). Now define a function $\phi$ that maps the space of the variables $x$ and $y$ to the space of the variable $z$:
\begin{equation}
\mathbf{G}^{-1} \begin{bmatrix} 0 \\ 0 \\ z \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} \phi_{1}(z) \\ \phi_{2}(z) \\ z \end{bmatrix}
\end{equation}
Now note that: $\mathbf{G} \begin{bmatrix} \phi_{1}(z) \\ \phi_{2}(z) \\ z \end{bmatrix} =  \begin{bmatrix} 0 \\ 0 \\ z \end{bmatrix}$. So the preimage can be redefined:
\begin{equation}
\mathbf{G} \begin{bmatrix} \phi_{1}(z) \\ \phi_{2}(z) \\ z \end{bmatrix} = \mathbf{G} \begin{bmatrix} \mathbf{G}^{-1} \begin{bmatrix} 0 \\ 0 \\ z \end{bmatrix} \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} 0 \\ 0 \\ z \end{bmatrix}.
\end{equation}
The same can be reasoned of
\begin{equation}
\mathbf{G}^{-1} \begin{bmatrix} 0 \\ 0 \\ z \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} x \\ y \\ z \end{bmatrix}
\end{equation}
and so $\phi_{1}(z)=x$ and $\phi_{2}(z)=y$. In vector form, that is $\phi(z)=\begin{bmatrix} x \\ y \end{bmatrix}$. Therefore there exists a function whose graph is some ball $g[B_{\delta}(s_{0},t_{0})]$.

A: HINT: By the Inverse Function Theorem, locally you can invert the mapping $(s,t)\mapsto (g_1(s,t),g_2(s,t))$. Use this to show that locally the image of $\mathbf g$ can be written in the form $z=\phi(x,y)$.
EDIT: To provide a bit more detail, let $\mathbf G(s,t) = \begin{bmatrix} g_1(s,t)\\g_2(s,t)\end{bmatrix}$. By the given condition at $(s_0,t_0)$, there is a neighborhood $U$ of $(s_0,t_0)$ on which we have an inverse function $\mathbf G^{-1}\colon \mathbf G(U)\to U$. Now consider $\phi = g_3\circ\mathbf G^{-1}$.


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Review: You Belong Here by Laurie Steed
I'm listening to PJ Harvey, having spent the morning devouring the second half of Laurie Steed's You Belong Here. It lead me to remember how close I once felt to PJ, how much Dry and To Bring You My Love meant to me. Now I'm unsure where the discs are—on a spindle somewhere, I think. They're burnt discs, and they were ripped for me in Glen Waverly by my friend Karl (his tall and sloping handwriting on the front of the disc). Karl's dad had become animated telling me how much he believed I'd find something resonant in PJ. And I did. I still do.
When I listen now, my body still somehow anticipates the little aching hiccups she does at the end of a verse or track, the audible inhalations, the yelps. I remember the house in Glen Waverley with its overgrown yard, and the boys who lived in the house. I remember the walk across the oval from the station, and making tacos together, and tacking blankets to the walls to sound-proof a band rehearsal room… I remember the comfort that PJ brought me in later sharehouses, and in bleak moods… All these things are attached to her sound. From one track unfolds a world.
Musical memories are some of the strongest ones, and this idea is what pulls together Laurie Steed's You Belong Here (released March 2018 from Margaret River Press), whose cover features an artfully destructed cassette tape. This debut novel follows the Slater family across three generations, in only 247 pages. We first meet Jen and Steven in 1972, and follow their love affair and the beginnings of their family. Three children later, Jen and Steven struggle to remain connected. After Steven leaves the family, the reverberations of his decision are felt long into the future, impacting not only his children (Alex, Emily and Jay), but their children too. The book closes on the family in 2015.
Nostalgia plays a big part in these stories, and readers are rewarded for their era-specific knowledge not only of music but of cultural touchstones like Street Fighter II.
The chapters at first seem ambitious, skipping forwards and planting the sweet beginnings of family life. By the time things go sour for the Slaters, a slipstream of inevitability has tied everyone together—and as a reader, I was invested in the family's happiness by this point. The love between Jen and Steven seems unstoppable, their move to Perth necessary. When Dad (Steven) leaves, Jay watches on: 'In the end, it was okay without Dad around. They wouldn't have chosen it had they been given the choice of three doors, but they'd only been given the one, and when you were only given one door there's not much else to do but go through'. Fate and choice may be an illusion, but the really sticky and interesting bits—the stuff that makes characters interesting—is how they respond to forced and unchosen situations, and whether they subscribe to familial patterns or push back.
The highly enjoyable musical elements in You Belong Here begin with Just Hits '85 – a cassette the family enjoys together. Throughout the book, characters meditate on the music that matters to them, through extended critiques that fit beautifully into the context of the stories. Alex gives a full-page critique of Faith No More's Angel Dust; Emily an even longer reflection on PJ Harvey's Rid of Me. When big-hearted and compassionate 'Baby Jay' gets his opportunity to think over music, he does so only as a reaction to his siblings' tastes. 'You're joking about this album, aren't you?' he asks of Alex's obsession with Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral. You Belong Here underscores the reasons that music can affect us so deeply, and how we hold it close, until it becomes a container for moments within our lives.
Steed's background as a short story writer allows him to artfully capture the arc of a number of lives through well-placed episodes which centre the experiences of different family members. The novel's precise language hints rather than prescribes, creating moments that gesture beyond their frame—expanding in much the same way that musical memories inflate.
Steed has compressed an incredible story between these two covers.
Review: Shibboleth, ed. Laurie Steed
In Jo Riccioni's short story, 'Shibboleth', ex-lovers visit the Tate Modern to see Doris Salcedo's installation, 'Shibboleth'. The story's protagonist feels 'a primal shock, the life-sized rupture of it in all that civilised space'. The story runs for a short 12 pages, but gestures far more widely than those confines without feeling too ambitious. A shared past is cobbled together from snippets. The dialogue glows with the warmth and idiosyncrasy of talk between familiar people. This is the story that won the 2016 Margaret River Short Story Competition, and the story which provides the title for a new book from Margaret River Press, compiling outstanding entries from that competition.
I know little-to-nothing about what happens in the writing world of Western Australia, and I'm both apologetic for and embarrassed by this. I suspect it's unconscious urban south-eastern literary snobbery at work. But WA accounts for such a large portion of our country, it's silly not to make a priority of knowing what's happening there – such as the good work done at Margaret River Press. This collection features writers from Australia and New Zealand, but also (importantly) new and exciting voices from WA, including the winner of the Southwest Prize, awarded to a writer from south western WA (this year, Phil Sparrow's story 'Theo').
The vast majority of writers in this collection are female. The experience level of the writers included varies greatly, ranging from a first publication, through to the winner of this year's VPLA for an unpublished manuscript, and others with major awards and big-name publications under their belts. Casting an eye over the author bios at the back of the book, it looks like this collection could, in years to come, be a bit of an early who's-who in the world of Australian fiction.
Salcedo's art work, alluded to in Shibboleth's cover art, is a huge installation. It's a fissure in the gallery floor, the kind of damage done by a massive earthquake, only this is man-made. It's a stunning image that stands at the centre of the award-winning story, but it also provides a wonderful unifying motif for all the stories in the collection.
Again and again, these stories riff on that gap – for better or worse. Maybe it pulls people apart. Maybe it's something to be overcome. The crack's still there though. These stories acknowledge the existence of the gaps, and all our attempts and failures to bridge them. In 'Shibboleth' it's what comes between the central characters, and its protagonist scoffs at the tactless metaphor. Throughout the collection, these chasms also exist between carers and patients ('It Used to be a Boyd', 'Flight', 'Theo'), and between who we are and who we'd rather be ('Teacher' and 'Fork in the Path'). It's the space between the limits of human behaviour – the awful, as in 'Fork in the Path' and 'Composition', and the redeeming, as in 'Teacher' and 'Flight'. Between the familiar and the strange; exploring the rub of strange places and new experiences, or the moments where the the repetition of the same-old reaches breaking point. Sometimes it's literal, where physical structures separate us, like animal enclosures ('Thirsty') and wards ('Theo'). Or perhaps it's the space either side of death ('Flight' and 'A House') or grief ('Before they had Teeth', 'The Sea also Waits'). Again and again, the stories in Shibboleth act as meditations on what brings us together and what sets us apart. It looks at the tears – large and small – that appear in the fabric of the things that make us human. The faults and cracks. And the tiny, skipped rhythms of everyday life.
The Southwest Prize winning entry, 'Theo' (Phil Sparrow) is about the ease with which we can slip away from being able to care for ourselves. It talks of those complacent to this reality as 'They who thought they were safe'. Shibboleth, as a whole, cumulates as a study in the faults in that safety. At any moment things could change; these stories are pivotal moments.
The collection is at its best when the stories act as a catalogue of things that the form does so well: tiny moments of unease, glittering language, and stunning central images (such as Shibboleth, or the baby trees at Tana Toraja).
I didn't love all the stories in this collection – with 24 stories in there, that was always unlikely. But the ones that got me really got me. 'Le Farfalle' and 'Before they had Teeth' both left me wanting more. My favourite story, 'It Used to be a Boyd' is about a mock wedding that happens every week in a nursing home, because 'everyone loves a wedding'. The aged care worker at its centre, and the resident with whom she connects, felt very real.
There's a paradox in really good short stories where they manage to feel bigger than they actually are, for their gesturing beyond the bounds of their page length. At their longest, the stories in Shibboleth run for 12 pages. At their shortest, just four. They're very 'just-one-more'ish, and fit easily into commutes or before-bed reads.
In just a few sittings, Shibboleth took me around the world, into lives I'd never heard of. It introduced me to characters both sympathetic and not, and to writers I can't wait to hear more from (Magdalena McGuire and Cassie Hamer, I'm looking at you!). It pivoted gracefully around the chasm introduced in Jo Riccioni's title story, and made me consider the turning points and breaks in my own life.
Entries for next year's Margaret River Short Story Competition are open, with Ellen van Neerven editing. If this year's shortlist is anything to go by, the competition will be fierce.
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