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Democratic Absentee Ballot Requests Still Outpacing Republican Applications
By Karen Kasler • Sep 16, 2020
Absentee ballot applications were sent out by Secretary of State Frank LaRose's office just before Labor Day.
Absentee ballot requests are flooding into boards of elections. Secretary of State Frank LaRose reports 1.4 million applications have been received so far, well more than the 1.2 million ballot requests received in all of 2016. And early voting doesn't start till October 6.
And again, Democrats are dominating those requests, even in Republican counties.
An analysis of only mailed-in ballots from all of 2016 compared to absentee ballot applications sent in so far in 2020 shows requests from Democratic-affiliated voters are way ahead of those from voters affiliated with the Republican Party. Most requests, though, are from unaffiliated voters.
(A reminder: voters in Ohio aren't registered with a party, but can be affiliated with the Democratic or Republican Party, or a voter can be unaffiliated. A voter is considered unaffiliated if there's no record of that voter casting a partisan primary ballot for three years.)
In very red Delaware County, nearly 58 percent of partisan absentee ballots requests received this year are from Democrats, with just over 42 percent from Republicans.
Delaware County partisan absentee ballot applications received this so far this year compared to absentee ballots received by mail in all of 2016
In 2016, 76 percent of all partisan ballots were from Republicans. This year, the number of applications sent in by Democrats is more than three times the number from Democrats who voted by mail four years ago. And the number sent in by Republicans so far is two thirds of the total of ballots mailed in by Republicans in 2016.
Portage County is a swing county, which flipped to the Republican candidate for the first time since 1988.
Portage County partisan absentee ballot applications received this so far this year compared to absentee ballots received by mail in all of 2016
In all of 2016, 58 percent of partisan ballots mailed in were from Republicans, 42 percent from Democrats. So far this year, 74 percent of partisan applications have come from Democrats. And that's two and a half times as many ballots as the total mailed in by Democrats four years ago. Requests from Republicans are two thirds of the total mailed in by GOP voters in 2016.
Montgomery County is another swing county, voting for a Republican for president last year for the first time since 1988.
Montgomery County partisan absentee ballot applications received this so far this year compared to absentee ballots received by mail in all of 2016
In all of 2016, two thirds of partisan ballots were from Republicans, with a third from Democrats. This year's absentee ballot applications have totally reversed that. And Democrats have sent in nearly two and a half times as many absentee ballot requests than all of those mailed in by Democrats four years ago.
Erie County was the state's 2016 bellwether - Trump won the county by more than 9 points in 2016, and won the state by 8 points. It also had voted for Democrats for president since 1988. In all of 2016, Republicans sent in 57 percent of all partisan ballots.
Erie County partisan absentee ballot applications received this so far this year compared to absentee ballots received by mail in all of 2016
This year, Democrats make up 69 percent of the absentee ballot requests. And this year Democrats have requested twice as many absentee ballots as all those mailed in by Democrats in 2016. Republicans have requested two thirds of the total that GOP voters returned by mail in 2016.
Mahoning County partisan absentee ballot applications received this so far this year compared to absentee ballots received by mail in all of 2016
Mahoning County has been blue since 1968.
Four years ago, 42 percent of all the partisan ballots mailed in were from Republicans, 58 percent from Democrats. But this year, Democratic absentee ballot requests are 76 percent of all partisan applications. But the ballot requests are coming in slower in this county. So far, requests from both parties are below the total ballots mailed in four years ago.
It's unclear whether these Democratic voters are asking for early ballots because of concerns about coronavirus or delays in the postal system. And it's possible that Republicans are responding to President Trump's unfounded claims that voting by mail is problematic and are planning to cast ballots in person. But it suggests Democratic enthusiasm leading up to election day on November 3.
Early voting begins October 6, when voters can send back ballots by mail, drop them off in secure ballot drop boxes or vote in person at boards of elections.
In Some Key Counties, Ohio Democrats' Absentee Ballot Requests Outpacing Republicans'
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President Trump has repeated his concerns about mail-in voting, which Ohio has allowed as part of its no-fault early absentee voting for 14 years. The message not to vote by mail may be getting through to his supporters. But Democrats are requesting ballots in huge numbers.
Bid By Ohio's Secretary Of State To Make Ballots Postage Paid Is Rejected
By Jo Ingles • Sep 14, 2020
A panel of lawmakers has shot down a request by Ohio's Republican Secretary of State that would have allowed his office to pay for postage for mail-in ballots.
Secretary Of State Responds To Court About Why He Won't Comply With Its Order
The Franklin County Court that yesterday ruled Secretary of State Frank LaRose could and should allow installation of more ballot drop boxes throughout Ohio has taken another action. That same court is asking LaRose to explain comments made by his office that indicate he'll keep in place a directive that prohibits additional drop boxes.

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Unfortunately the steps to getting root are not altogether straightforward. You'll need a Windows PC, Samsung's Odin software, and a basic understanding of the tools of the trade (bootloader mode, download mode, and some ADB skills wouldn't hurt). The root package is a whopping 2.2 GB, and it will both downgrade your AT&T Note 3 to a slightly older firmware version and completely wipe personal files. It might be prudent to wait for a root solution on the latest firmware unless you really, really need it.
All that said, early users are reporting no problems with designgears' solution. And he's called it "Root De La Vega," a not-so subtle dig at the AT&T Wireless CEO. AT&T's version of the Note 3 still doesn't have an unlocked bootloader or access to custom ROMs, but this is a step in the right direction. Check the XDA forum post for full and detailed rooting instructions.


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Google Added 64th Supported Language 'Esperanto' To Google Translator
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The search giant, Google has announced that it is adding the artificial language Esperanto, making it as the 64th supported language to its Google Translate product – the language which was first crafted by Ludovic Zamenhof and was published in 1887 Unia Libro book – the aim to design the language is as common language that all people could share and now around after 125 years, has hundreds of thousands of active speakers, millions of people with some knowledge of the language and even few hundred people who learned it from birth, taught by their parents.
Google attributes the ease with the language translation to the fact that the addition of the language is a largely symbolic measure, was constructed in a way that was easy for human beings to learns and result in easy for machines to translate it. Google says that team was actually "stunned" with the way that stated how the machine engine handled the language.
For Esperanto, the number of existing translations is comparatively small. German or Spanish, for example, have more than 100 times the data; other languages on which we focus our research efforts have similar amounts of data as Esperanto but don't achieve comparable quality yet.
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Over the years since we opened in 2009, we have had more than 70 exhibitions. Some of these are available online. We hope you will enjoy browsing these pages. If you live far from Settle, perhaps it will whet your appetite to pay us a visit. In the summer of 2019 we staged a special tenth anniversary exhibition at the Folly Museum in Settle. It ran from July 6 to September 6 and told the story of how we established the gallery. It listed all the exhibitions; included many of the posters we used to promote them and included tributes from many of our previous exhibitors, including Brian May who has shown some of his fascinating collection of Victorian photographs on two separate occasions. The boards from the exhibition are in the NOW WE ARE TEN section of this page, which you can reach by scrolling back to 2019.
A year in hill farming
9 January -12 April 2021
John Bentley's photographic exhibition 'A Year in Hill Farming' documented the sheep farming year in the uplands of Yorkshire and Cumbria. The photographs had been taken over the past 6 years by John who is based in Settle and is fascinated by the cycle and traditions of the farming year, the diversity of sheep and hill farming and the dedication of individual farmers and localities to particular breeds.
He said: "To me it is very important to document the industry as it stands and I am very respectful of the history and traditions of sheep farming and its social and economic importance to the Dales and the rural north of England. There are economic and environmental pressures on the industry and this past year has, of course, also seen the impact of Covid-19, meaning that the gatherings for the traditional shows and sales (as depicted in many of the photographs) can no longer take place in the usual way. The photographs in the exhibition document the sheep breeds, the people who rear / buy / sell them, the workings of the farming calendar and the environment and the infrastructure of hill farming. "
John has been a keen photographer for over 40 years. He has a wide range of photographic interests including live concert photography, landscape, travel and documentary photography. While John contributes news and stock photographs to a national press agency he is retired from full-time employment and able to devote his time to his personal photographic projects. In 2016/17 he was a contributor to the 'Voices from the Land' exhibition (initially staged at Hawes Countryside Centre), which focussed on interviewing and photographing farmers in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. His wide range of photographic work can be viewed online at-
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John says: "When I moved to Settle my farming photo project was mainly centred around photographing agricultural shows, livestock markets and sheepdog trials. In particular, sheep shows like Tan Hill and the various Lake District Shepherds' Meets started to loom large in the coverage. Becoming an 'addict' of sorts, I was drawn into photographing the world of hill sheep farming. There is still so much to photograph in the realm of sheep, but in the meantime in this exhibition I've tried to paint a picture of how the farming year pans out, including putting the tups with the ewes (or 'yows') in autumn, pregnancy testing, spring lambing, fell gathers, shearing, shows and sales and haymaking. I've tried to record the people, the animals, the activities, the infrastructure, the landscape and environment and the seasons. I find lots of aspects to photograph, although Covid-19.
A guide giving the background to the exhibition and more about hill farming today can be downloaded here:
The story behind the exhibition
Return of the 12 Days of Christmas
12 December 2020 – 8 January 2021
In the winter of 2020, once again we were delighted to show the famous all-knitted 12 days of Christmas as our contribution to the seasonal spirit in Settle. Featuring lords-a leaping, maids a milking, swans a swimming and all the rest, including of course the partridge in its pear tree, would Christmas be Christmas without this excellent work by our local knitters?
Since their first showing in 2014 the 78 tiny all knitted figures that act out the words of the Twelve Days of Christmas have amazed visitors and set many of them reciting the lines about what their true love gave to them on each of those days of Christmas.
The eight ladies knitting who produced the exhibition are Settle residents: Jeanne Carr, Catherine Holland, Shirley Crosby, Alison Tyas, Joyce Elliot, Jacqui Lewington, Betty Beesley and Janet Lillywhite. Credit is due too to Barbara Rigby who designed the window panels, giving the exhibition a truly festival spirit.
It has long been believed that the words of the Twelve Days of Christmas, did not reflect the rather odd collection of gifts given to a fiancée who would probably have preferred a box of chocolates, but were a device used by 16th century Roman Catholics to convey the basics of their belief without arousing the suspicions of non-Catholics.
In previous years the exhibition has been enhanced by gifts of chocolate left for visitors, but this year Covid restrictions prevented this.
Eight knitters knitting
Drummers drumming
Frontline faces
12 September – 12 December 2020
This exhibition honoured the true heroes of the Covid-19 pandemic – the people who put their own safety at risk to look after us all.
The exhibition ran from September 12 and was due to close on November 6, but with a new lockdown introduced from November 4 and set to run until early December it seemed only right to extend this highly relevant exhibition until the start of the Christmas show on December 12.
As in the earlier lockdown the gallery remained open, not least because we physically couldn't close it, but visitors were requested to observe social distancing ie one visitor at a time and to wash their hands before and after their visit.
Many of the portraits in Frontline faces were of friends and former colleagues of the Settle-based artist Julie Sobczak. Some were local, including a sheep farmer and his dog, but reflecting the fact that this is a global pandemic, they also included people that Julie had met during her extensive travels, that included a spell working as a midwife in the Cayman Islands.
Among the images was one of a group of musicians from New York who entertained neighbours during lockdown – the lead musician James Palmaro, who has been blind for forty years, is a long- time friend of Julie's. You can read more about him here: James Palmaro
Another image was of a policeman and his dog from New Zealand: they work with another of Julie's friends and have been featured in a piece on this exhibition in the New Zealand police magazine (see posting in the Gallery in the News section). Naturally health care workers in their protective gear featured in many of the images. And reflecting Julie's time as a midwife there was a picture of a family and their new born child with the midwife.
As an artist, Julie has previously worked mainly with watercolours but has more recently has embraced the wizardry of technology to create these digital paintings, based on photographs, that strive not only to capture a likeness – but also give an insight into subject's personality.
Julie says: "Thank you to all frontline workers. Your tireless efforts are not going unnoticed." Fifty percent of donations made to the gallery during this exhibition will go to NHS Charities Together.
Donations can be made here:
or by scanning the QR code in the exhibition poster below
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Here are some more images from the exhibition
FrontlineFaces guide
You can read more about Julie's work at the website www.digitalartbrush.com
Talking Pink
11 July – 11 September 2020
The work on show in this co-authorship exhibition TALKING PINK was created by Alison Medd and Paul Rogers and investigated and explored ideas and images based around the colour PINK..
Interacting with the photography the contemporary art practice of Alison has a different approach and provided contrasting emphasis and vitality to the exhibition in its enquiry around the subject. Stories collected from children and their families were explored and their words made the colour exist invisibly in this space. Dialogue is a contraction from the Greek words for through and words. Today children catalogue and categorise their everyday through a visual frame. Emoji's and' likes' replace the human response; what is read is frequently lost but what is spoken can be passed down through generations. Scientist David Bohm considers dialogue as a kind of creative catalyst for a group so this project TALKING PINK aims to trigger an intergenerational discourse on what the colour pink means to them and their families. As children's author Lois Lowry said 'Memories need to be shared.'
The photographic images were collected 'street photography' which were meant to complement and balance Alison's eclectic, investigative approach to pink.
A.C. Grayling says…' The history of collecting illuminates something striking: the human mind's unquenchable curiosity, and its love for the wonder of the world' – in this case TALKING PINK. The images are what most street photography is about – questioning; collecting; creating or snapping the 'strange and mundane'; developing contexts; encouraging one thing to lead to another and allowing thinking about things we didn't know or hadn't seriously thought about. All put into perspective and reinforced in practice by Magidson's lyrics…' Enjoy yourself while you're still in the pink' and Elizabeth Taylor's comment about '…falling off my pink cloud with a thud'.
Alison Medd is Director of Learning for Expressive Arts at a secondary school in Kent. Alison is new to the Gallery on the Green but has exhibited contemporary art at group shows with rhizoMAATic14 including – 288 NXRd, rhizoMAATic14 Graduate Show'(August 2014); 310 NXRd, 'Say What?' (March 2015); The Mali Salon, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka, Croatia 'Say What?' (April 2015). 'Message on a Bottle' Ashcroft Arts Centre (May 2016); Utopia Volkspark Friedrichshain (August 2016) and the Islington Arts Factory Summer Show (August 2017).
Paul Rogers was Associate Head of the School of Art and Design and a principal lecturer in applied photography at Blackpool and the Fylde college. He has exhibited previously in the Gallery on the Green and in local and national venues in the UK and the USA.
Alison Medd and Paul Rogers
Here is a photograph of Alison and Paul at the opening of the exhibition together with an overview of the show and some of the images on show in the exhibition.
Chris Newson – Chinese Brush Painting in the Community
March 15 – July 10 2020
This exhibition was due to close on May 15 but was extended until the lifting of coronavirus restrictions made it possible to change shows.
Chris Newson, is a teacher and practitioner in Chinese brush painting based in Settle. This exhibition featured her own work and showed how she teaches this ancient and fascinating art to a variety of different local groups.
Chris's interest in Chinese brush painting developed following her retirement from full-time work in 2008. She has learned from Chinese masters over one or two days each month for ten years, and is now a member of both the Yorkshire and the national Chinese Brush Painting societies, though such is that nature of the art that she is still technically a beginner.
Chris loves the amazing selection of natural hair brushes, the variety of papers and the Chinese watercolours with seven different reds. She grinds her own ink on a stone slate. She paints on all sorts of surfaces, including lamp shades, silk fans and now pressed cork!
Chris Newson last exhibited at the Gallery on the Green in 2013, in the snow, on her 60th birthday. Since then she has begun to exhibit in other places such as Ilkley Clarke Foley, ManyHands in Silsden, Craven Arts Studio, Skipton Art Trail and recently Le Caveau and Q Workery in Skipton.
She teaches a number of local art groups including Abbeyfield Supported Living, WI groups across Yorkshire, U3A in Craven and Barnsley, Project 6 in Keighley, hen parties, family groups and community interest companies in Silsden and Settle Community Hub. She leads some free classes and has developed publications for charity such as Cancer Support Centre.
Chris has worked in Settle for the Community and Business Hub, teaching at the Quaker Meeting House, the Hub and Victoria Hall Art Days.
She has a studio at home, overlooking fields and teaches talented and beginner pupils.
Chris can be contacted on chrisnewsn@aol.com.
She also has a facebook page chrisnewsonchinnesestylepainting.
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The first post-war meeting of FIFA, the International Federation of Association Football, was held in 1946, with Brazil as a candidate to host the fourth World Cup. The choice of Brazil as host impelled the 1948 construction of the Jornalista Mário Filho stadium, better known as Maracanã.
More than six decades later, the stadium hosted the World Cup once again, hosting seven games of the competition in 2014, including the final between Germany and Argentina. The last game gathered 74,738 fans, the current maximum capacity of the Maracanã.
With a maximum length of 317 meters and 32 meters high, for many years Maracanã was the largest stadium in the world. The field covers an area of 186,638m². The construction consumed 80,000m³ of concrete and 500 thousand bags of cement.


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Příjmení Vágner nebo Vagner nese více osobností:

 Alexandru Vagner (* 1989) – rumunský fotbalista
 Ivan Vagner (* 1985) – ruský kosmonaut
 Jakub Vágner (* 1981) – český rybář a držitel několika světových rekordů v lovu sladkovodních ryb
 Jaroslav Vágner (* 1964) – slovenský fotbalista a fotbalový trenér
 Jiří Vágner (* 1971) – český sociální geograf
 Josef Vágner – více osob
 Karel Vágner (* 1942) – český kontrabasista, baskytarista, hudební producent, skladatel, zpěvák, kapelník a podnikatel
 Lukáš Vágner – více osob
 Marie Vágnerová (* 1946) – česká psycholožka
 Matyáš Vágner (* 2003) – český fotbalový brankář
 Milan Vágner (1929–2013) – český herec
 Milan Vágner (hokejista) (* 1957) – český hokejista
 Miroslav Vágner (1927–2010) – český římskokatolický kněz
 Martin Vágner (* 1984) – český hokejový obránce
 Petr Vágner (* 1977) – český herec a moderátor
 Robert Vágner (* 1974) – český fotbalový útočník
 Vladimír Vágner (* 1959) – český fotbalista, útočník

Vagnerová nebo Vágnerová
 Hana Vagnerová (* 1981) – česká herečka
 Jana Vagnerová (* 1973) – ruská spisovatelka a překladatelka
 Marie Vágnerová (* 1956) – česká psycholožka
 Věra Vágnerová – česká tanečnice

křestní jméno
 Vagner da Silva (* 1986) – brazilský fotbalový brankář
 Vágner Love (* 1984) – brazilský fotbalista

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The Leftovers: Making The Bills Pay
Sam's Club ... QB Sam Bradford threw for 247 yards, including a 53-yard touchdown pass to WR Nelson Agholor. It was the third-longest touchdown of Bradford's career ... Bradford has thrown four 40-plus yard touchdowns to four different receivers this season ... Four of Bradford's seven career 40-plus yard touchdown passes have come in 2015 ... Over his last four starts, he has completed 80 of 123 passes (65.0%) for 898 yards, five touchdowns, one interception and a 96.9 rating ... The Eagles are 5-1 in the last six games Bradford has started and finished and 6-2 in the last eight.
Full Nelson ... Nelson Agholor scored his first-career touchdown on a 53-yard reception, the longest touchdown reception by an Eagles rookie since Hank Baskett had an 89 yarder and an 87 yarder in 2006 ... Agholor became the 10th Eagle to score a receiving touchdown this season, tying for the highest total by an Eagles team since 2008 (11 players).
Offensive Quick Hits ... RB Darren Sproles scored his second rushing touchdown of the season and the 19th of his career ... TE Zach Ertz led the team with seven receptions and 98 yards, the second-highest yardage total of his career.
Defensive Nuggets ... DE Fletcher Cox picked up a sack and now has a career-high 6.5 this season ... S Ed Reynolds sealed the game with his first-career interception in his third NFL game, becoming the eighth different Eagle with an interception this season, which is tied for the third-highest total in the NFL ... In the fourth quarter, the defense held the Bills to 60 yards on four possessions, forcing three punts and an interception ...The Eagles held Bills QB Tyrod Taylor to a season-low 74.8 quarterback rating. Taylor came into the game ranked fifth in the NFL with a 104.3 rating and had not thrown an interception since Week 4 ... Bills RB LeSean McCoy was held to just 11 yards on eight attempts in the second half after racking up 63 on 12 carries in the first half.
Birdseed ... The Eagles improved to 4-2 all time at home against the Bills ... The Eagles have won eight of their last nine games against the AFC, including 3-1 this year ... P Donnie Jones averaged 50.4 gross yards per punt and 43.3 net yards, including a 63-yarder. He now has five 60-plus yard punts this season ... LB Bryan Braman recovered a fumble on special teams that led to an Eagles touchdown ... K Caleb Sturgis connected on all three of his field goal attempts, his 11th career game with three or more field goals ... The Bills accumulated 15 penalties, which tied for the fourth most in a single game against the Eagles and also tied for the fourth most by a Bills team since 1950.
Bills Vs. Eagles: Players Of The Game
A quick recap at some of the key players who powered the Eagles to their 23-20 win over the Bills. View the full gallery here...
DE Fletcher Cox was a disruptive force on defense, finishing with eight tackles, seven solo, and one sack
S Ed Reynolds had an interception at the end of the game to secure the victory for the Eagles
QB Sam Bradford threw 23 completions for 247 yards and one touchdown
TE Zach Ertz lead the team with five receptions for 98 yards
RB Darren Sproles lead the team with 41 rushing yards, had one touchdown and also returned four punts for a total of 47 yards
WR Nelson Agholor scored his first NFL touchdown and also had 62 receiving yards
P Donnie Jones tallied seven punts for a total of 353 yards to help the Eagles defeat the Bills
K Caleb Sturgis made three field goals, 45, 41, 30
LB Bryan Braman recovered a key fumble that allowed the Eagles to regain control of the game
CB Byron Maxwell had two tackles and a forced fumble
DB Eric Rowe had four tackles on the day


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White Fang Comparison
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BUCK AND WHITE FANG "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than it loves itself"- Josh Billings. The Call of the Wild and White Fang are very similar stories but also very different in many ways. In the beginning of these stories, Buck and White Fang are different yet the same in a few ways. First, both dogs are large in size and smart. For example, Buck gets his large size from his dad, and White Fang gets his large size from his father as well and each dog inherits their "brains" from their mothers. Since, both dogs get their size and smarts from their parents, this is a similarity. Second, the dog's birth stories are much different. For instance, White Fang is born in the cold north…show more content…
First, both dogs are rescued. For instance, Buck is saved by John Thornton from being beaten to death by Hal, Buck now loves him deeply. White Fang is rescued by Jack Conroy while he is being killed by another dog in a dog fight. Since both dogs were rescued, this is a way at the end of the book that is similar between the two. Second, both Buck and White Fang get new masters again, (but they are good ones). For example, White Fang is tamed by his new master, Jack Conroy and will be forever loved. Buck is saved by John Thornton who cares for him. Since, both dogs get new, good, loving, masters, that is another way Buck and White Fang are similar. Last, the dog's whereabouts are different when their good masters are being attacked.For example, Buck was out in the wilderness (away from camp) answering the "call of the wild" when John Thornton and his partners were attacked and killed by the Yeehats. White Fang was in the cabin with Jack Conroy when Beauty Smith (White Fang's old mean master) and his henchmen attack Jack, luckily, White Fang saves Jack's life unlike Buck did for John. Since, the dogs whereabouts were different when their masters were attacked, that is another reason why The Call of the Wild and White Fang are
Primitive Instincts In Jack London's The Call Of The Wild
Primitive instincts is a major theme when one closely examines the changes Buck undergoes from a civilized dog into a wild dog. Buck was raised in a lavish lifestyle, however when he is kidnapped this all changes. Alaska's harsh environment brings out Buck's primitive instincts buried deep within him. It is necessary for these traits to be expressed because surviving is key in Alaska and living in California, these traits would never have been seen. The wilderness appeals to Buck's new wild side and he goes out there to live with the other wild animals when his owner dies.
The Powerful Mootivator In 'The Call Of The Wild'
Finally, Buck still shows his love for John Thornton. After answering the call to the wild, and joining a wolf pack Buck still goes to the valley
Where The Red Corn Grows Analysis
Where the Red Fern Grows was written by Wilson Rawls. It was about a boy and his family. Billy wanted dogs, so he had to save up money to get them. He finally saved up the right amount of money to get them. They went hunting together a lot.
Lieutenant John Dunbar Character Analysis
Lieutenant John Dunbar from the book "Dances With Wolves" by Michael Blake is an American soldier who is eventually became a comanche who can be described as courageous and smart through the obstacles he has faced that gave him a purpose too his life. At first, Lieutenant Dunbar has two wives and a family at home that he left to fight in the civil war and be patriotic. However, over time Lieutenant Dunbar becomes Dances With Wolves and has outstanding qualities of curiousness, and is very witty the same and finds his true friends. First, Lieutenant Dunbar is characterized as intelligent and observant of his surroundings unlike most people. For instance, when he was staying at the abandoned Fort Sedgewick he first saw a wolf across from a
Struggle For Mastery In Jack London's Call Of The Wild
Call of the Wild essay "Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good" (London 43).The adventure story Call of the Wild by Jack London is about a dog named Buck that starts out as a domesticated pet and then he is forced to join a sled dog team. Throughout the book he hears the call of the wild in his mind and eventually when his ideal master and team dies, he goes through with answering the sounding of the CALL OF THE WILD and starts his new life with the wolf pack. As Buck goes through his retrogression, the theme Struggle for Mastery is observed over and over again. Once Buck was forced to join the team of sled dogs, he quickly realizes he wants to be the lead dog. In one part of the book when Buck killed Spitz, the leader of the team, he believed that he should be awarded the lead spot.
Power Of Animals In James Welch's Fools Crow
Through the strength given to him by the Wolverine for the attack on the Crows, Fools Crow earned honor and respect from his tribe members. He was looked upon during meetings and his words were taken at an important level. Fools Crow was no longer known as the dog lover and now young men looked up to him as their role model. Even his younger brother, Running Fisher, who had been the man back then when Fools Crow was timid was now jealous of his achievements and possessions now seeing his as puny in comparison to his older
Domestication In Jack London's The Call Of The Wild
Buck is now able to mature and grow up, becoming more independent as he tends to test out his instinct's more in the wild. Now in the prime of his life, Buck is stronger than ever, possessing all the same hereditary instincts as his ancestors. Upon his last return to camp, Buck senses a change, soon to discover the death of John Thornton. He avenges the Yeehat Indians out of love for his master, giving him a sense of pride that he is capable of killing the biggest game of all: man. Most importantly, Thornton's death allows Buck to fulfill the call of temptation.
Of Mice And Men Crooks Dialogue Analysis
This example suggests that he has done the same thing his whole life and has now decided to try something new. With the guys so willing to shoot his dog because he was old, Candy fears they would do the same thing to him. On page 45, Carlson says "I wisht somebody'd shoot me if I got old an' a cripple." This quote shows us that Carlson believes people are only good to an extent, and Candy fears he has come to that extent. In this book, Candy and his dog foreshadow the ending, as the characters prove to us that the dog is weighing down
Similarities Between The Horse And His Boy And White Fang
White Fang by Jack London, and The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis are two very different books, from genre to setting, but these books do have their similarities. White Fang is about a wolf dog who learns the way of the wild, kill or be killed. The Horse and His Boy is about a boy and a talking horse who run away together to find the imaginary country, Narnia. One way these books are similar is they were both written by very well-known authors, and were both published in the 1900's.
Why Pitbulls Are Misunderstood Summary
Many years ago, pit bulls were considered "Nanny Dogs" because of their loyalty and gentleness toward their guardians. They were also once an American favorite, earning the title "America's dog. "Unfortunately, people soon found ways to exploit pit bulls' Behaviors and tendencies for dog fights, and their strong appearance became a symbol of violence, drug culture and gangs. Today, pit
Where The Red Fern Grows: Book And Movie
When he get the dogs Billy trains them to go hunting with him. Where was a boy named Reuben he went hunting with Billy and Reuben had a axis in his hand when he tripped and he die with the axis. Billy went to competition with his dog and won after the competition Billy went out to hunt they ran into a mountain lion and old dan,little ann
Larry Levin's Oogy: Love
Sayeh Shahriari Mrs. Vermillion Ap language and composition 26 October, 2016 Oogy: the dog only a family could love Oogy was written by Larry Levin. The story is about a Dogo who had been used for bait in a dogfight and was severely injured. The left side of his face was torn off, including his ear. Luckily Oogy was rescued by Diane one of the doctors at AAH, who had saved Oogy's life.
Buck And The Gold Rush Essay
There was a downside to Buck changing and evolving into the product of the wilderness. Buck suffered in the conditions : "His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly " (London 83). Buck and the other sleigh dogs didn't always get along and sometimes at camp there was altercations between the dogs. Buck had to develop and learn the way of life that he might be in for the rest of his life.
Buck's Perseverance In The Call Of The Wild
Dealing with life struggles takes a colossal amount of perseverance. During the story The Call of the Wild, Buck has to go through being embezzled from his normal life and is forced to be a sled dog in the Yukon Territory in Alaska. In contrast, my father began a life for himself by acquiring two more jobs just to make a good living for himself in his early adult years and hopefully the rest of his life. Like my father, Buck had to be robust and willing to seek any challenges heaved at him. Therefore, the struggles that shot upon them had to be addressed and accomplished to succeed in life.
Beowulf: Compare And Contrast
Beowulf and Grendel can be compared and contrast in many ways. Beowulf is a prince and more like a hero. Grendel is a monster, he is mean and selfish. They both are strong and very powerful. Also, both of them are a murder.
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Q: How to identify a long press on arrow keys in jQuery I have two options to myself keypress and keydown. I am inclined to use keypress because it records an event, even if the key is repeated i.e. key is long pressed. But the problem is that keypress records special keys such as arrow keys only in Firefox. If I want to do it cross browser then I have to use keydown but then a long press will be recorded as a single event.
Any help is appreciated.

A: var pressed = null;
$(element).on('keydown', function(event) {
    pressed = +new Date();
    // do whatever else you need upon key down
});
$(element).on('keyup', function(event) {
    var duration = +new Date() - pressed;
    pressed = null;
    // do whatever you need to do based on the duration of the press
});

I leave it as an exercise to you to work out support for multiple concurrent keys pressed.

A: You could use two events, like so:
var timer=false,
    pressedTime = 1000; //one second

$('input').on({
    keydown: function(e) {
        var charCode = (e.which) ? e.which : event.keyCode, keyP;
        if (charCode===37) keyP = 'left';
        if (charCode===38) keyP = 'up';
        if (charCode===39) keyP = 'right';
        if (charCode===40) keyP = 'down';
        if (!timer) timer = setTimeout(function() {
           clearTimeout(timer);
           timer=false;
           alert(keyP+' arrow key held down for 1 second');
        }, pressedTime);
    },
    keyup: function() {
        clearTimeout(timer);
        timer=false;
    }
});

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A: there's a plugin named jQuery Responsiveness which may help achieving this.

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About JFK, Oscars Diversity, and 'Bulletproof' Donald Trump
stephenking1sts.com February 15, 2016
The Daily Beast has a nice interview with Stephen King about JFK, Oscars Diversity, and 'Bulletproof' Donald Trump
Stephen King Talks JFK, Oscars Diversity, and 'Bulletproof' Donald Trump
There are few words more reassuring to cinemagoers than "based on a novel by Stephen King." The wildly prolific author's books, which have sold 350 million-plus copies, also inspired some of the most celebrated films of the past five decades, from The Shining to The Shawshank Redemption. But King, who is 68, has had far worse luck on the small screen, where many of his projects have fizzled.
That should change with 11.22.63. Executive produced by King and J.J. Abrams, the Hulu miniseries is an adaptation of his sprawling novel of the same name about an English teacher in King's native state of Maine (played by James Franco) who is tasked with going back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, thereby preventing a string of catastrophes like the Vietnam War. Along the way, he investigates whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and finds himself torn between the past and the present after falling for a fetching Dallas librarian (Sarah Gadon).
Did you watch the assassination of JFK on the news, and what effect did that have on you?
We watched, my mother, my brother, and I. I got out of school and lived in a little town south of Waterville, Maine, and this guy who drove a bunch of us kids back and forth, he never played the radio, and that afternoon the radio was on. He said, "Some son of a bitch just killed the president." And we were just stunned to silence. We saw everything that happened after that. My mother was a rock-ribbed Republican but she cried her eyes out; she kept talking about the little kids that he had. We were watching Sunday with our dinner in our laps to see Oswald transferred from the lockup in Dallas to the bigger jail, and we saw him assassinated on live TV. Our jaws just dropped. We couldn't believe it.
Why do you feel that this tragedy has birthed more conspiracy theories than any other moment in American history?
Because Jack Ruby shut Oswald's mouth before he could talk about what he had done. Oswald was taken into custody and said the things anyone would say initially—"I didn't do it," "I was a patsy"—and that's where the conversation ended. The reason there's been all the conspiracy talk is because Oswald never broke down and said, "I did this," but also what it says at the front of 11/22/63, the Norman Mailer quote: We find it difficult to believe that one lone wingnut with a gun could kill the most powerful man in the world. But we've seen it time and time and time again. We saw it with John Lennon—that was no conspiracy, it was just a crazy lone gunman who killed him. Bridget Carpenter, the showrunner, came to disagree with me, but I think Oswald was acting alone.
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A former Fort Bliss soldier has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to reckless injury to his infant son in the child's death.
Former Spc. Jeffrey Farrey was sentenced Tuesday in El Paso. His wife, Jenna Farrey, was previously sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to injury to a child in the death of 5-month-old Jackson Farrey, whose body was found buried in the New Mexico desert in November 2013.
Both could have been sentenced to life imprisonment if convicted at trial of their charges.
Records show the Farreys had said they found the child unresponsive and failed to seek medical care. An autopsy found the child had choked to death.


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Tracking Climate Data (and Cheetahs) with Ivan Palmegiani
ARTICLE PUBLISHED: January 13, 2020
Ivan Palmegiani is an environmental scientist turned to data for answers. One does not simply cross into the realm of data. But Ivan did. We wanted to know more about nature, ecosystems, and the role of collecting and analysing data in the fight against climate change.
Hi Ivan, it is a pleasure to interview multidisciplinary experts like you. Can you tell us a bit more about what you work on and how you got here?
For about 8 years I worked as a wildlife ecologist, with a particular focus on large predators. These species typically roam over large areas and feed on other animals to survive. You can easily guess that such traits generate competition with humans. It is about space and resources as, sometimes, predators feed on human-related resources, namely on livestock.
The best way to mitigate conflict, in my opinion, is understanding the reasons for both parts. While livestock breeders and stakeholders can make their case, predators are elusive and cannot express themselves in words. Therefore, the scientific approach allows researchers to investigate their behaviour, to understand their needs in terms of space and resources. That was my job: gathering and processing data to produce and share results about large predators in order to put decision-makers in the best condition to make good decisions.
Ivan Palmegiani placing tracking device on Namibian cheetahs to study their use of space and movement pattern (Credit: Claudi Coni)
In the last year, I have been doing something similar but in a different context. I make my technical and analytical skills available to people and companies like you Plan A, which are tackling the environmental crisis, and working on data-driven solutions generating positive impact in their respective fields.
Why did you decide to turn to data after having spent time on the ground? Do you find that it is a better way to gather information or find solutions?
My career shift has been long and arduous. My choices have been driven by many factors, the main one is that data needs to be processed to draw solid conclusions, and to develop effective conservation strategies. Then there are personal reasons, such as curiosity and search for new challenges. Last year I changed working environment, following my aspiration to have a more direct impact on society, as I felt the academic environment being limiting in that sense.
Despite these arguments, I wouldn't say that analytics is more or less functional to wildlife conservation than fieldwork, they are complementary. For instance, I have worked extensively with GPS data to study movement patterns of large predators, and therefore their behaviour. Those analyses brought to valuable results, but there is no chance to fit a GPS collar remotely.
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Another important aspect of fieldwork is dealing with the people who live in close contact with wildlife. This is a big responsibility because a false step in that context could nullify large conservation efforts.
I have sat multiple times with stakeholders and made data accessible to explain how predators were moving around them, what they were after, and how to coexist with them. It is not an easy task. One has to deal with frustration, misinformation, diffidence, and of course with the economic aspect of the human-wildlife conflict, but I felt that I was doing something meaningful in those contexts.
What can we learn from climate data analytics?
Artificial intelligence is kind of ubiquitous nowadays, at least in the western world, and is changing our lives at an incredibly fast pace. When it comes to climate, I think that the amount of information made available to the public through new technologies already represents climate action, because it is likely to raise awareness. Large data sets are now available to analysts, scientists, to whoever is able and interested in processing them, in forecasting future trends, in developing data-driven solutions. Data can be used to optimize production processes, transportation of goods and people, to predict ecological dynamics, and prevent destructive events to occur.
A cheetah feeding on its prey (Credit: Ivan Palmegiani)
A mother cheetah and her cub (Credit: Ivan Palmegiani)
Hyenas are also part of the concert of predators in the savannah (Credit: Ivan Palmegiani)
The potential of data goes beyond my own imagination BUT… Potential is well different from the real impact data may have. While the first is inherent the data and the technology to process them, the impact is given by people using data, and their final goal is what matters. The irresponsible and unregulated use of data and technology is likely to become detrimental both for societies and for the environment. If instead we decided to use data for good purposes, if we handle the rush of having 'data-tech-super-powers' and focus on social and environmental health, we may be able to optimize the utilization of resources and to make them available to most humans, as it has never done before. It's a matter of choice.
How could wildlife conservation impact climate change?
There is a theory named after the primordial goddess impersonating the Earth in Greek mythology, Gaia. That theory proposes that each organism on Earth is interacting with other organisms and their inorganic surrounding to guarantee the conditions for all of life to persist on the planet. In this perspective, any organic and inorganic component of an ecosystem is crucial for the functionality of that ecosystem, and of any other ecosystem related to it.
For example, reforestation is one of the most effective actions to address climate change. One way of doing it is planting trees, creating new forests, another is maintaining the conditions for natural forests to persist. This latter is the approach I recommend. It involves what we call in ecology as top-down and bottom-up dynamics, or more generally speaking trophic cascades. A sound example of this is being recorded in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (USA). The last wolf present in that area was shot in the '30s, until the mid '90s, when wolves have been reintroduced, prey and particularly the elk have been doing very well, too well actually. Their population grew over the ecosystem capacity, meaning that they were eating too many young willow, aspen and cottonwood plants. The result of this was that the delicate balance between forests and meadows was being jeopardized, forests were gradually shrinking and other animal species, which apparently have nothing to do with those mentioned so far, were disappearing. One example is the beaver, which needs willows to survive in winter, and that has started recolonizing its natural habitat only after wolves have been reintroduced. Just an example of how members of ecological communities are connected, and why we should invest in maintaining ecosystems healthy, before attempting to create new ones.
What is Ivan Palmegiani's position on climate change? How do you want to impact your world?
We are now in the phase when the consequences of irresponsible behaviour and pernicious environmental policies are evident to anyone willing to see them. With great regret I have to admit that too many are not willing to see them yet. Anyway, I like to think that we are still capable to slow down the process and to keep our lives worth living, but I cannot be sure of that, nobody can, so the earlier we take action, the better it is. Every day spent without planning or doing something meaningful in the fight to climate change is a lost chance. A sensitive and aware community of people all over the world, as well as science and technology, are precious allies, if used responsibly. If not, no drama…life goes on, without humans.
Sardinian mouflons (Credit: Ivan Palmegiani)
The Savannah holds surprises in the high grasses (Credit: Ivan Palmegiani)
Lonely cheetah on the prowl in Namibia (Credit: Ivan Palmegiani)
Critically endangered black rhinos from Namibia (Credit: Ivan Palmegiani)
When it comes to me, I always try to estimate the effects that my actions may have on the environment and on society, so I keep adjusting my lifestyle as I acquire more accurate information to minimize consumption and waste of resources. I like keeping myself informed on certain topics, and I enthusiastically share information which can enable people to make more sustainable choices. I support projects and initiatives aimed to tackle environmental issues, or to make people sensitive towards them. Also, I enjoy fixing stuff, and finding solutions to reuse items which otherwise would end up in the trash, and maybe on an Indonesian beach shortly after.
It is a good start, but I want to do more than this, much more.
You have spent a lot of time working for the conservation of large mammals. What are the main risks for these species?
In general, I would say that ignorance, arrogance and neglect are the main risks for wildlife conservation. In practical terms, the main threat to large mammals, and not only, is habitat loss. Our species colonised the entire planet and keeps managing the surrounding environment with disturbing superiority, as if our survival didn't depend on that very environment. As said before, ecosystems are delicate and large mammals are just a part of them but the good side of these species is their high ecological demand. In most cases one needs to work on the entire ecological community to preserve one single mammal species, because that constitutes the habitat for the target species. For this reason, certain species are named 'umbrella species', because saving them means saving the habitat they live in.
Do you see hope in large terrestrial animal conservation? What are the best techniques out there to support these guys?
Yes, there is hope and therefore motivation to keep up the good work. In my opinion, the best approach is knowing the species in their socio-environmental context, make the information available to the people living in close contact with wildlife, giving wildlife a value for local communities by, for instance, encouraging sustainable wildlife tourism. There are local economies relying almost entirely on such resources. This is just one of the possible solutions, the one which is being implemented in Europe. Other solutions have been tested and implemented in other geographical areas. Local conditions are a key factor for successful conservation initiatives, and I am a big supporter of local solutions to global challenges.
From Berlin, what can I do to help this fight?
Typically, wildlife projects require large investments and nowadays wildlife researchers need to justify why they do a certain job. For many people that's not even a job, but a hobby, and it is not recognized as a priority for our societies. Given that, local administrations and governments are sometimes resistant to allocate resources to wildlife research and conservation, or it could result in a political suicide.
Wildlife traffic jam in Namibia (Credit: Ivan Palmegiani)
That said, any citizen can support wildlife conservation, and climate actions, with their vote, with their daily habits and choices. The more motivated could get to know the species inhabiting their area, there is plenty of wildlife even in Berlin (not only rats!). People can get in touch with researchers, attend meetings where they present the results of their studies to local communities, get involved. Sometimes academic environment is perceived as some kind of intellectual Olympus, a place where normal humans are not welcome. That's totally wrong and it generates lots of misconceptions. It is true that there are people feeling part of some kind of 'elite' within academia, but they occur anywhere and, in my experience, they are a minority. Most researchers are simple, smart, committed people keen to share their passion for science.
You may know the expression 'citizen science', it stands for research and conservation projects involving citizens which are willing to cooperate in data collection, or other tasks. The European Citizen Science Association organises events and gatherings all over Europe. In Berlin there are the Museum für Naturkunde and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research carrying on several citizen science projects.
What would you say to the people who want to support climate action but do not know where to begin or how to go about?
When someone states before me that doesn't have a clue on how to behave towards climate change, and it happened already, I try to understand how come that person has no clue on such an important matter. If one doesn't know how to behave in that regard, it is likely that others don't know either, and that's a big issue for all of us. Understanding the reasons for disinformation is the first step to fix the problem. My suggestion is to start from small things, trying to cut on energy consumption, eating less meat, buying local, getting away from single-use plastics, avoid over-consumerism…also on Christmas time.
Funniest looking animal?
Ah, there are so many. Let's just name the Mudskipper.
Favourite ice cream flavour you're afraid is at risk from climate change?
Honey. Ah, wait…that's not an ice cream flavour, and it's not strictly related to climate change, but the disappearance of honey bees is one of the scariest things coming to my mind.
Pineapple or kiwi?
How do you know that I love them?! This is the most difficult question you asked me so far! Ok, I say pineapple, and beg forgiveness from kiwi (although I've already renounced to both of them, and opted for locally grown seasonal products).
If you were a wild animal, what do you think you'd say to humans?
I am a wild animal, although the wild side comes and goes depending on the circumstances. As an animal, I am always happy to remind other humans that they are animals too. I like to remind them that they are special, like any other living being on Earth, that they are the result of a long evolutionary process, like any other species on Earth, so they'd better behave as part of a big system, not as its masters.
You have to live on a desert island because of the consequences of climate change. Who do you take with you, and what CD (yes, there's a CD player on this island)
I would bring David Bowie along. I don't mean the song-writer, but his second studio album titled after him. The LP opens with that masterpiece titled 'Space Oddity', great lyrics to sing out loud on a desert island. I can already figure it.
As for the person to live this adventure with, let's see. I would like to have someone creative and adaptive to enhance the chances of survival, but also someone stimulating, smart, a good talker. How about Leonardo da Vinci in his 20s? He didn't have a clue of modern technology and he's still recognised as one of the most creative minds ever lived. Imagine what he could do on a desert island, but the CD player would freak him out and keep him busy for a couple of years, so I would lose both company and music. Maybe not a good idea. You know what? My favourite camping (and life) partner would be the best company for me on that island. We would make a great team there, if she agrees to join me, otherwise, it wouldn't be fun for anyone. Eheheh
Last question, what is your equation of happiness?
Be nice to yourself, be even nicer to others. Not always easy to implement, but I try hard.
Ivan Palmegiani was born in a small town in the central Apennines, in Italy His environmental sensitivity started growing there together with a passion for ancient history about Greek and Roman mythology. Ivan started volunteering to study wildlife and mountain ecosystems as a bachelor. Passion for climbing brought him into the Alps, where he collected data for a Master thesis on the wolf-prey relationship.
He moved to Namibia in 2013 and studied the social system of free-ranging cheetahs where he learned GPS telemetry, geodatabases, spatial and movement analyses and modelling. He now lives and work in Berlin.
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The Old Barn can also accommodate pets (up to two small/medium dogs) and is suitable for partially disabled or elderly visitors, as two bedrooms, toilet, wet room, kitchen and living room with a south facing decking area are all located on the same level and are accessed via a ramp from the car parking area. An additional third bedroom with ensuite is available upstairs with traditional stairway access.
In line with our policy of continual improvement and our aim of making your stay with us the best we can. We are pleased that all our visitors can now enjoy our new communal games room with pool table, darts board, playing cards and a selection of board games. Perfect for winding down at the end of the day, or keeping the kids happy on a rainy one, our games room we hope will add that little bit extra enjoyment and fun during your stay with us at Corporation Farm Cottages. Check out the images on each cottage to see our new addition.
Living room: With 55″ Freeview TV with Netflix, beams and tiled floor.
Kitchen/dining room: With electric oven, electric hob, microwave, fridge, dishwasher, washing machine, Freeview TV, beams and tiled floor.
Bedroom 1: With double bed and Freeview TV and DVD player.
Bedroom 2: With twin beds and Freeview TV and DVD player.
Bedroom 3: With kingsize bed, Freeview TV, DVD player and en-suite with shower over P-shaped bath, toilet and heated towel rail.
Large enclosed decked garden with sitting-out area and garden furniture. Bike store. Please note: There is a wildlife pond in the grounds, just 20 yards away.


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The Witcher 3: Up To 100 Hours In Story And Open World
By Mike Sousa on June 10, 2013, 10:28AM EST
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According to what CD Projekt has revealed on the magazine EDGE, the story mode of The Witcher 3 will take approximately 50 hours to complete. However, players will need another 40-50 hours to complete all the sidequests in the open world.
Marek Ziemak, the gameplay producer, said "Skyrim, which I think we all love, is a rather short game in terms of the main storyline, if you just want to focus on that element and you're not that interested in exploring the world, it's not that big. But that's the core of The Witcher 3: the main story. It's 40, 50 hours, plus the open world."
Ziemak also revealed that the combat system of his new game will be "closer, more personal, and a bit more bloody." The game will also have a new ability, Witcher Senses, which seems to be inspired on the Detective Mode used in the recent Batman games, and will be used to identify the ememy's weak points during combat and chase them in the open world.
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A few months ago I was filling out some forms for my children's school. It's a long and tedious process and I had a lot of time to think. I hate filling out forms. I really hate it. My great preference would be to have someone else do it. One of the advantages of having a wife was that she would usually fill out school forms. For many years now it's been just me and my kids. And I really hate it filling out those damn forms.
My kids have some severe food allergies, asthma, and assorted other industrial diseases (as Mark Knopfler would say). Their school requires one form for each medication with name, address, dosage, and contact information for allergist, pediatrician, parent, and backup responsible adult. There are consent forms each for the doctor and the parent, per medication. Then there is a separate consent form for each child to give to the bus company for field trips — with name, address, medications, emergency and doctor contact information. With all the permutations, I filled out more than 20 pages, mostly redundant.
So what does all this whining have to do with online identity information?
I found that, as I filled out the forms, I wanted to introduce variations. For example, refer to a child by their nickname here, full name there. Say "Dr J. Jones" on this form and "Allergist Jack Jones" on that form. It broke up the boredom and allowed me a pathetically small vent for my displeasure. Of course, planning to go buy a cool all-in-one printer and copy machine would have been better, but that's another issue.
I started to think about how I could encode information in the forms and yet still give accurate information. It's like making up email addresses when registering for something online. I do this and I know many other folks do too. I have some domain names that I own that are configured so that any email address in that domain dumps into a single account, like dale@mydomain.com. So when I register for something at XYZ company, I can use an email address that encodes where I registered. I make up an email address like xyz-registration@mydomain.com. If I suddenly start getting spam addressed to xyz-registration, I know that XYZ company did not handle my registration information properly. I have, in a sense, modulated my identity information so that, while it still works for it's intended purpose, I can also identify the initial recipient.
Maybe we could automate this technique with online identity information.
Many user centric identity systems deal with personas. I was recently playing with my openid account and saw that it supports personas to group attributes and selectively give out identity information. But I wonder if we could also encode extra information in the attributes associated with each persona when that information is given out, so that, if I see information about me used inappropriately, I might determine the source. Like my spam source detector system, I do not think of it as a rigorous system, just something that might be useful on occasion.
I think implementing such a system would be preferable to filling out forms. I hate forms.
This entry was posted in Fluff, Identity on November 29, 2006 by dale.


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Holistic dentistry operates according to the belief system that your teeth are an integral part of your body and hence your overall health, and recognizes that your oral and dental health can have a major influence on other disease processes in your body.
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Have you wondered how the holistic approach would enhance your dental wellbeing? This patient found that holistic dentistry greatly helped her to understand her overall health, and by using the Payment Plan to make regular visits affordable, she is enjoying optimum dental health.
She says she is "super happy" and pays monthly so that she can see the dentist and hygienist every 6 months. She feels reassured by the time taken and feels that her teeth are checked and cleaned really thoroughly.
For this patient holistic dentistry has been really valuable, the dentist has looked at her teeth as a reflection of her overall wellbeing. The practice's approach of offering complementary therapies when necessary, as well as sound advice on mainstream treatments such as teeth whitening has been of immense benefit to her. The team are friendly and this makes it a very nice experience overall.


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Healthy Ocean. Steady Winds.
North Sails is the sailmaking industry's leading and largest brand, and we have an opportunity to have a positive impact. The ocean is our source of life and it's what keeps us in business. To ensure a healthier ocean and to keep us sailing in this awe-inspiring environment, we are committed to making changes to our products and operations, as well as advocating for the health of the seas, winds, and life on earth.
Earth is our home and we need to look after it. That's why we're partnering with like-minded, forward-thinking citizens and organizations to reduce our environmental impact. Through cutting edge recycling research and development, and constant investigation of future manufacturing and material usage, we're constantly working to protect our most precious resources.
We design sails to last. The take-make-waste culture needs to stop and North Sails is leading the way in the sailmaking industry. Using state of the art technology, we manufacture products that not only outperform the competition but also have unsurpassed longevity. Our sails are tested and proven in some of the most unforgiving environments, so no matter where your passion lies, you can have confidence in what you hoist.
People are at the heart of everything we do, and taking care of our employees is paramount to our culture. We operate our seven wholly owned manufacturing facilities worldwide, where health and safety standards are a priority. Our Safety Committees monitor and maintain occupational safety and health standards that equal or exceed the best practices in the industry. Just like a sailing crew, our team is what makes us great and many of our environmental initiatives—like vertical gardening at our manufacturing facility in Sri Lanka—were spearheaded by our employees.
Reduce Emissions From Our Business Operations
North Sails is committed to reducing its carbon footprint. Starting in 2023, we will measure direct and indirect carbon emissions from our operations, so we can make informed decisions on how to reduce our carbon footprint. Where possible, we are committed to purchasing renewable energy tariffs and increasing our onsite renewable energy generation. By continuing these practices, we are determined to achieve our goal of increased usage of renewable energy at our manufacturing facilities to 80% by 2030.
Be A Leader In Responsible Product Innovation
North Sails has always been at the forefront of technological advances in sail manufacturing. We're utilizing this same approach to find solutions for sail recyclability, low-impact manufacturing, the use of alternative fibers, and opportunities for material circularity. In 2022, we started conducting lifecycle analyses of our manufacturing processes to find ways to decrease our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste without compromising performance or longevity of our products.
GIVE BACK to the ocean
The ocean has always been our source of livelihood, as well as a playground for our customers and employees. Our Beach Clean Up program involves employees, along with local yacht clubs, to help keep our coastlines clean. And through North Sails Apparel, we partner with organizations like the Ocean Family Foundation and Coral Gardeners to fund conservation programs and marine research around the world.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a call to action for all countries and nations to unite in a common goal. They comprise of 17 interlinked global goals that act as a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs provide an opportunity to turn our vision into reality by focusing our goals and giving direction to our initiatives. SDGs are the cornerstone of any serious sustainability initiative and we've worked hard to incorporate them into our plan where we can have the most impact.
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The Seattle City Council's push for more density and unrestrained growth demonstrates the undue influence of special interests in City Hall. The City is highly incentivized to up-zone in Urban Villages and encourage new development because of the revenue from the construction sales tax. Rather than legislating by sound urban planning and financial management, the Seattle City Council has become dependent on the short-term construction revenue to fund the ever-expanding budget. In addressing the housing crisis, then, the Council prioritizes revenue from development at the expense of Seattle's affordability and livability.
This approach fails to create the housing that Seattle desperately needs. New development cannot keep pace with the need for affordable housing. The HALA Committee's "Grand Bargain" would optimistically produce 6,000 "affordable units" over ten years, but Seattle currently has over 100,000 cost burdened households. Development is not only too time consuming, but it also risks Seattle's livability. Prioritizing development results in displacement, gentrification, homelessness, and an accelerated loss of our existing low-income housing stock. Housing that is older, non-debt supported and affordable is sold and replaced by new, more expensive development. An oversupply of new luxury units increases average rental rates.
The unregulated growth and increased density also strains our existing infrastructure. Increasing density without expanding infrastructure forces our schools to operate over capacity, burdens our transportation systems, and contributes to gridlock on our roads.
The City must enact a more sustainable approach to growth and equity. Developments must be planned to ensure both the growth of affordable housing and the maintenance of Seattle's neighborhoods and character. Schools, transportation, open space and other infrastructure must be planned alongside density growth to ensure that our communities grow efficiently and sustainably. Growth must pay for growth. We must levy impact fees on the developers, so that residents of Seattle do not bear the burden of increased growth.
Additionally, we must explore new, innovative solutions to expand our housing stock rather than relying on ineffective density and developments. As a City Councilmember, I will prioritize investment in cost-effective, efficient solutions to expand our affordable housing stock. This includes investing in tiny homes, reducing regulations on mother-in-law units, tracking our existing affordable housing stock, encouraging transit-oriented housing, and reviving a fund from existing property taxes to pay for affordable housing. It is time for a pragmatic, balanced, and data-driven policy to tackle Seattle's affordability crisis.


Eight families gathered on a mild Autumn evening to watch some of Richmond Park's bats emerge after sunset. As usual the group was led by Philip Briggs of the London Bat Group. After waiting patiently under darkening skies – bat detectors at the ready – we were rewarded by the appearance of at least three species – common pipistrelle, soprano pipistrelle and Daubenton's bats.


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Q: How to convert the palette offset bytes to an image? So, there I have a .ppz file, which contains offsets in palette array. Exactly this file contains 51 images. The first two bytes are the offset to the header. The header stores the width, height, image size and data size (size of the offsets bytes). And then there are the offsets themselves in the palette array. Each bit is one color.
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This file was obtained after unpacking another file in which the colors used in these images were stored in the header.
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Is there a way to convert palette offsets to 24 bit BMP or RAW 24? Preferably in python.


Creating contemporary lighting on your home interior will gain its modern nuance with nice elegance. You should bring the new interior accent by adding this feature on your home. You will get catchy interior space in shiny color situation. The lighting fixtures are actually various enough with its nice element. You can define your room theme first. It helps you to figure out about what kind of lighting design that you want to add on your home setting. Let's take a look on several inspiring examples below. You will be amazed on how impressive these room settings using the cool lighting feature on its interior design.


A very simple and easy outfit for the daytime over what you can throw your oversized winter coats or a fur waistcoat with a big hat or scarf. I love good oversized and cropped trousers, not the boyfriend one but one that looks a few sizes big on me. I bought mine in H&M earlier this year but they have a similar now also, you just have to get a few size bigger if you want this effect.