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The most anticipated smartphones of 2021
By Sean Riley 25 December 2020
These are the smartphones we can't wait to get our hands on in 2021
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When it came to smartphones, 2020 finished strong with devices like the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, the iPhone 12 and compelling affordable options like the Galaxy S20 FE all launching in the last quarter of the year. That's just naming a few; there were a handful of other devices from Google, OnePlus and others that competed for our attention to close out the year.
But with 2021 nearly upon us, we find ourselves already looking forward to next year as these companies try to build upon their successes or correct some of their failures from 2020.
With that in mind, here's a look at some of our most anticipated smartphones of 2021.
Best smartphones in 2020
iPhone 12 Pro Max vs. Galaxy Note 20 Ultra: Premium flagship fight!
Galaxy S21: Price, release date, specs and more
This will be the first major smartphone launch of 2021 with Samsung already confirming an event for January 14, and we know it will include the Galaxy S21 announcement. While the Galaxy S21 and the Galaxy S21 Plus are certainly interesting, it's impossible not to be the most intrigued by the giant Galaxy S21 Ultra.
Some of the rumored specs are truly astounding, including the four-camera array on the back that will include a wide, ultrawide and then two distinct telephoto lenses at 3x and 10x optical zoom. With rumors indicating that Samsung has added the reliable laser focus system found on the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, there is reason to hope that the Galaxy S21 Ultra will deliver on the promise that we saw in the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Paired with the powerful new Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, Samsung will look to make up ground against the iPhone 12.
We have little doubt that Samsung is up to the challenge from a hardware standpoint; the question remains whether the company can finally get its act together when it comes to camera software. Samsung has the top hardware on the U.S. smartphone market, but its inability to leverage computational photography has left it perennially behind Apple and Google when it comes to the best smartphone cameras on the market.
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OnePlus isn't the scrappy underdog it once was, but it still doesn't command remotely the attention it deserves for the consistent quality hardware and stellar software support it offers. The OnePlus 8T that launched in the fall is an amazing smartphone that was held up by weak camera performance when compared to its peers. To be fair, I could have copied and pasted that from just about every OnePlus review over the last few years.
Hardware leaks are giving us some hope that the company may turn that around this year with schematics-based renders of the OnePlus 9 Pro showing two massive sensors and two smaller sensors. However, this wouldn't be the first time OnePlus brought its A-game on camera hardware and still failed to deliver stellar real-world performance. So much like Samsung, we'll need to see if it has managed to learn anything on the software front.
From a pure performance standpoint, this one should be an absolute beast with the Snapdragon 888 SoC, at least 12GB of RAM, UFS storage and perhaps a 144Hz 6.7-inch display. I've been burned before, but I'm really excited to see the OnePlus 9 Pro.
Microsoft Surface Duo 2
The Microsoft Surface Duo grabbed everyone's attention when the company first announced it back in October of 2019, but by the time it made it to market in September, some of the shine had worn off. The specs were mediocre with a dated processor, the camera was an afterthought and the interface was a buggy mess even after the delayed launch. Some of this might have been forgivable were it not $1,399.
So why am I eagerly anticipating a follow-up to this underwhelming device? For all of its flaws, the Surface Duo did show promise and it is offering something truly unique in the market which is always an attention grabber for me. Our reviewer praised the Duo for its unsettled identity as a phone, tablet and kindle hybrid and, while I certainly agree with that sentiment, I still think Microsoft will benefit from having seen this device in users' hands and honing how it fits all of these roles.
That is to say nothing of improvements to the hardware that should also give a serious boost to this device for the productivity-minded. A Snapdragon 888 processor and a little more RAM would do the Surface Duo a world of good. While the bezels aren't going away completely, they certainly could be reined in from their current early-2000's laptop thickness. This might be wishful thinking for Microsoft to pull off in a single year, but having watched what Samsung did from the Galaxy Fold to the Galaxy Z Fold 2 in a single year, it does feel possible.
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Speaking of Samsung's foldable lineup, the Galaxy Z Fold 3 is supposed to be one of possibly four foldables coming from Samsung in 2021 and it certainly is the one that I am most eager to see. Samsung somehow managed to take what seemed like a multigenerational leap going from the Galaxy Fold to the Galaxy Z Fold 2. While a similar technological advancement doesn't seem possible this year, it will be interesting to see how Samsung refines the concept when it isn't scrambling to rethink it.
From a purely aesthetic standpoint, Samsung only needs to do some slight bezel reductions; the two things I want to see are evidence of further improvements to durability and software. And while the utter lack of sales on the Galaxy Z Fold 2 isn't instilling a tremendous amount of confidence in the possibility of a price drop, one would certainly be a welcome move.
Galaxy Z Flip 2 FE
And on the subject of cheaper foldables, part of the aforementioned four Samsung foldable phones rumor for 2021 is that we will see a cheaper version of the Galaxy Z Fold and the Galaxy Z Flip. Presumably, they would follow the Galaxy S20 FE model and launch as "Fan Editions" of the standard Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 2. I'm interested in both, but I want to concentrate on the Galaxy Z Flip 2 FE.
The primary reason for this is simply the pricing. While the $1,449 starting price for the Galaxy Z Flip 5G might not lead you to believe that Samsung could get to $999 for this follow-up, the frequent sale price of $1,250 makes it a lot more believable. While I am not terribly drawn to this form factor, I can definitely see its appeal, and a foldable below the $1,000 mark would definitely help to cement the segment in the mainstream.
I think the Pixel 5 is a better smartphone than it gets credit for, but it was hard not to be disappointed by Google's decision to forgo the true flagship smartphone market in 2020. I even wrote at the time that seeing the Pixel 5 made me wish Google made a flagship smartphone.
Then, during Google's Q3 2020 earnings call in November, we got a little more insight into what happened this year with Google and Alphabet CEO, Sundar Pichai, indicating that the company had made "some deeper investments in hardware, some of it takes 2-3 years to come together" and that in 2021, we would see some of those investments finally come into play. We assume this, at least in part, refers to work Google has done on its own 5nm chip in partnership with Samsung with an 8-core ARM processor and optimizations for machine learning.
While it would be overreaching to assume Google could match Apple's A14 Bionic, a custom chip would certainly lay the groundwork for the company to be competitive with high-end flagships again in 2021. And with Google still arguably delivering the best smartphone camera on the market despite outdated hardware, it's impossible to not be excited about the prospect of Google truly shooting for a flagship Pixel experience.
On some level, it is difficult to get too excited about the next iPhone when the iPhone 12 just arrived and is so good that we've named it the best smartphone for most people. However, even with the fairly limited information we have today, there is enough to get me excited for what's next for the iPhone.
You'll notice I specifically point to the iPhone 13 Pro; that's because most rumors say high refresh rate displays are only coming to the Pro models next year. Apple already delivers a smooth experience on the iPhone with its 60Hz panels, and we've seen how good its 120Hz can be on the iPad Pro for 3 years now. It's going to be a complete game-changer for the iPhone 13 Pro models next year, and create a very clear break between the Pro and standard models again.
One of our only other complaints about the iPhone 12 was its battery life, and while it seems possible that Apple continues to address this with software updates, it will certainly make the necessary adjustments with the iPhone 13 to eliminate this complaint. There's a lot more Apple could do. I fully expect the Apple A15 Bionic to blow its competition away and when it comes to camera hardware, Apple could do more to meet the telephoto capabilities of high-end Android smartphones.
The thing I am most anticipating with the iPhone 13 is discovering whether Apple continues to push the envelope while it is enjoying its current lead or if it makes the simple fixes and moves on. The latter would be understandable, but it would definitely be a lot less interesting.
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New form factors
This is a bit of a catch-all as I'm not entirely sure which company will bring new form factors to us next year. Samsung has been rumored to be working on some rollable smartphone concepts in recent years. TCL demoed a number of prototypes at CES last year that fall into this category with a smartphone that folded on itself twice and another that you essentially pulled apart to extend the display then pushed back together. Then you have devices like the LG Wing that caught us by surprise this year with an entirely different take on a dual-screen experience.
However you want to categorize them, I love to see companies pushing the boundaries of what a smartphone is. We seem to be returning to an era when this is possible again after almost a decade of smartphone design settling into a fairly predictable upgrade pattern. I couldn't tell you at this moment which of these new ideas will take hold and spread to a wider audience, but it's an exciting time to be in the smartphone, world and I can't wait to see what's next.
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67 | Vocal Warm-Ups from Around the World (Part Three)
We continue the journey around the world talking to professional voice teachers about their favorite vocal warm-ups and technical exercises. This podcast features Elizabeth Rotoff (Winnipeg, Canada), Jerry Elsbernd (Minnesota, United States) and Nicole Casey (from the United Kingdom but interviewing from Spain!)
If you were looking for new and effective exercises to challenge and inspire your students - You are in the right place. This episode talks about using resistance bands, exploring onset, a naughty tongue twister (teehee) and more.
About our guests:
Elizabeth Rotoff https://www.thefitsinger.com/
10 Ways to Use Resistance Bands (Free Video!) http://bit.ly/2EO3eCI
Elizabeth Rotoff's singing career has had her perform across Canada and in England in opera, musical theatre and recital. She now focuses her attention on teaching voice. Her current students span ages 5 to 75. In addition to her love of teaching voice, Elizabeth has a strong passion for helping singers optimize their instruments for perfomance in singing as a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach and founder of The Fit Singer. Elizabeth has taken her expertise as voice teacher and health coach to be part of the faculty of Resonanz Opera, a Young Artists' Program in Ohio, as well as having been a presenter at the NATS National Conference in Chicago. Future speaking engagements include NATS Manitoba Vocal Wellness Day and the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Associations (CFMTA) National Convention. In her spare time she loves to train for triathlons and has found them to help her musical performance immensely.
Favorite Exercises:
I love doing physical warm ups with my students. I use all sorts of props such as exercise balls, bosu, foam rollers, lacrosse balls and even dumb bells, but my favourite, and my students favourite is the resistance band. I love how these can be incorporated not just into physical strength training exercises, but also to aid vocalizing. I use it in a number of ways to engage the core muscle needed for breath management. Some ways I use them in warm ups are holding behind the back vertically and doing slides. Held in front at waist level horizontally in scales, or for the youngest playing tug of war as they sing.
Jerry Elsbernd https://elsberndvoicestudio.mymusicstaff.com
Download Jerry's pdf about his exercises.
Originally from Bismarck, North Dakota, Jerry Elsbernd now resides in Shorewood, MN (a western suburb of Minneapolis), where he enjoys a thriving career as a full-time teacher of singing in his independent voice studio. He also teaches two mornings a week at an area high school where students are allowed out of their choir rehearsals for private lessons. A former adjunct voice professor at Concordia University St. Paul and the University of North Western St. Paul, he is a frequent contest adjudicator and master class presenter in the Twin Cities metro area. His professional singing experience includes being a member and frequently featured tenor soloist with The Dale Warland Singers and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, a co-executive producer and member of the national touring tight harmony vocal group Three Hits and a Miss, and as featured soloist in numerous regional oratorio, operetta and concert productions of a variety of styles from classical to Broadway and jazz. Jerry directs the Senior Choir at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church West Campus in Victoria, MN, and is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), serving as the MN Chapter Treasurer and executive committee member since 2014, as presenter at the National Conference (2012) on the topic of collaboration between the singing voice studio and speech therapist's office, and as adjudicator and committee member at the state, regional and national levels of the Student Auditions. He is also currently serving the MN Chapter as a mentor teacher. Jerry works primarily with students aged 15 and up, and his high school students frequently gain acceptance into the top elite voice and music theater programs in the country. Several former students have gone on to thriving careers in singing, including gold and platinum achieving pop artists and roles in on and off broadway productions.
1. ONSETS: This exercise, which ensures a clean "onset" or timing of the initial airflow with the simultaneous closure/start of vibration of the vocal folds helps set the instrument up for success with efficient sound while minimizing the caustic effect of harsh glottal "attacks" and avoiding under-energized or overly breathy tone. Once established with clean onsets of i; e ; a; o ; u (closed vowel to open and back to closed/rounded), we can then extend into a sort of modified multi-vowel messa di voce (< >) legato exercise using the same order of vowels on i-e-a-o-u, using the overtones that blossom as we crescendo to the ah (open) to facilitate/manage the descrescendo back to u (closed/rounded).
2. BIDDY BIDDY BEE: This exercise is great to get things going efficiently, especially with students who like to add pressure as they ascend in pitch. With each ascent, there is an immediate descent, which encourages a consistent flow of breath rather than a build-up of pressure, and the top note glides immediately down the scale: Bid-dy-bid-dy bee; bid-dy-bid-dy bee; bid-dy-bid-dy-bid-dy-bid-dy bee (pattern 1-1-1-1 3; 2-2-2-2 4; 5-5-4-4-3-3-2-2-1). Once established, this one can be modified to aid in several things as well: Change the "bee" to "bay" or "bah" or "boh", or progress through a full repeat of the pattern, starting with bee, then to bay, then to bah on one breath... or repeat it as many times as you can to see how little air is really needed...or to do dynamic work that can be an introduction to the skills needed for a true single vowel messa di voce (< to the top; > back down the scale). I also like the resonance that is aided by the half-voiced B and D consonants throughout.
Nicole Casey www.nicolecaseymusic.mymusicstaff.com
Trained as a classical singer at the Royal College of Music in London and went on to have a performing career covering opera, classical, musical theatre, jazz and contemporary music. Now predominantly a vocal coach, singing teacher and piano teacher with students from age 5 up to professional vocalists. Based in the U.K. but once a month, travels from England to Spain to give private lessons, coaching sessions and workshops. I'm a great advocate of encouraging anyone to sing - regardless of age, ability or talent. For my young students, fun with music comes first!
Favorite exercise:
Lips, teeth, tip of the tongue on a descending one octave major scale. I like this for connecting the tongue action with the lower abdominal muscles on the first note and then for working on forward placement going through from head to mixed to chest voice.
My students favourite:
Sister Susie (with the melody from from Paul Knight's vocal warm-up book)
I took a poll among my students and this was the resounding winner... probably because of the risk of swearing at their teacher as they get their mouths around 'she sits and shines, she shines and sits'.

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AAO-HNSF 2012: Challenging Vocal Fold Paralysis Cases
by Thomas R. Collins • October 1, 2012
Dr. Blumin said he wouldn't be likely to order EMG because it wouldn't change the management: "She's still four months [out] so there's still a potential for spontaneous recovery."
Treatment Options for Vocal Fold Paralysis
Vocal Fold Paralysis Treatments
Laryngeal Reinnervation for Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis: Are We Ready
Dr. Johns said he used to do more diagnostic EMGs in cases like this, but he does fewer now. "It's not a perfect test," he said. Within the first two or three months of paralysis, an EMG wouldn't change management, he added, and after about six months, recovery is not likely anyway. It's that in-between period where an EMG may be valuable. "There's that sweet spot in the two- to six-month period where maybe if there were unfavorable prognostic signs on a laryngeal EMG, we might consider early intervention with laryngeal framework surgery," he said. But he said he's stopped doing that—for the most part, anyway—because of recent studies showing that using a temporary injectable material leads to durable voice results in two-thirds of patients, regardless of recovery status.
Dr. Merati agreed. "An EMG may be helpful," he said, "but just the act of relatively early injection laryngoplasty or medialization may reduce the rate of requiring permanent medialization later. I think that's been a big change, particularly over the last couple years. I wonder if we're all just sensitive now, just seeing the papers." (Laryngoscope. 2010;120(11):2237-2240; Laryngoscope. 2012;122(10):2227-2233).
Dr. Johns said he would order a detailed voice assessment because that would be key in deciding whether to intervene at all. Dr. Simpson added: "I think it matters a lot what they do for a living," and he's more likely to intervene with a patient whose job involves using his voice a lot. He also cautioned against focusing too much on one vocal fold, because there could be subtle paresis on the other side, too. "That's a mistake that I continue to learn from," he said.
Dr. Blumin said that if the patient wanted treatment, he would see the patient with a speech pathologist, then come up with options. "This patient may do well with voice therapy alone," he said.
Laryngoplasty
When doing an injection larygnoplasty—if that's the course eventually taken—the panel said that, by and large, they perform the procedure without monitors. "In terms of precision of injection and fewer complications associated with the injection, there is decent evidence that doing these injections under general anesthesia, where you've got fine control, is more precise with fewer complications," Dr. Johns said. "That being said, the complications of doing these awake is extremely low as well, about 5 percent."
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Filed Under: Departments, Laryngology, Medical Education, Practice Focus Tagged With: AAO-HNSF, laryngoplasty, paralysis, technology, treatment, vocal foldIssue: October 2012


You can find a number of articles explaining you the Linux Boot Process. Well I am not going to tell any thing different but I would like to show my point of perspective on some extra details of the Linux Booting procedure.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This article stands valid for all the Linux variants using GRUB and legacy init based runlevel scripts but with new kernel like RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 which uses GRUB2 and systemd this article does not stands valid.
I have also written another article with the steps of boot process using a flow chart to help you understand better.
This is the first thing which loads once you power on your machine.
When you press the power button of the machine, CPU looks out into ROM for further instruction.
BIOS determines all the list of bootable devices available in the system.
Operating System tries to boot from Hard Disk where the MBR contains primary boot loader.
To be very brief this phase includes loading of the boot loader (MBR and GRUB/LILO) into memory to bring up the kernel.
It is the first sector of the Hard Disk with a size of 512 bytes.
The first 434 - 446 bytes are the primary boot loader, 64 bytes for partition table and 6 bytes for MBR validation timestamp.
NOTE: Now MBR directly cannot load the kernel as it is unaware of the filesystem concept and requires a boot loader with file system driver for each supported file systems, so that they can be understood and accessed by the boot loader itself.
The primary boot loader takes up less than 512 bytes of disk space in the MBR - too small a space to contain the instructions necessary to load a complex operating system.
Instead the primary boot loader performs the function of loading either the stage 1.5 or stage 2 boot loader.
Stage 1 can load the stage 2 directly, but it is normally set up to load the stage 1.5.
This can happen when the /boot partition is situated beyond the 1024 cylinder head of the hard drive.
GRUB Stage 1.5 is located in the first 30 KB of Hard Disk immediately after MBR and before the first partition.
This space is utilized to store file system drivers and modules.
What is GRUB Boot Loader ?
This can be considered the heart of operating system responsible for handling all system processes.
Kernel as soon as it is loaded configures hardware and memory allocated to the system.
Next it uncompresses the initrd image (compressed using zlib into zImage or bzImage formats) and mounts it and loads all the necessary drivers.
Looks out for hard disk types be it a LVM or RAID.
Unmounts initrd image and frees up all the memory occupied by the disk image.
Then kernel mounts the root partition as specified in grub.conf as read-only.
Next as per the fstab entry file system's integrity is checked and root partition is re-mounted as read-write (earlier it was mounted as read-only).
Based on the selected runlevel, the init process then executes startup scripts located in subdirectories of the /etc/rc.d directory.
Scripts used for runlevels 0 to 6 are located in subdirectories /etc/rc.d/rc0.d through /etc/rc.d/rc6.d, respectively.
Lastly, init runs whatever it finds in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (regardless of run level). rc.local is rather special in that it is executed every time that you change run levels.
NOTE: rc.local is not used in all the distros as for example Debian.
Next if everything goes fine you should be able to see the Login Screen on your system.
It is good. But did you miss /etc/rc.sysinit ??.


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Jake has harbored a secret crush for his boss for a long time. Will he finally work up his nerve to ask Ryan out? Maybe. Maybe, if it's not a date. After all, Jake is a young wisecracking don't hold me down type of guy. Not a date is just his speed. But can Ryan convince him that good sex is great, but real love is better?
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With last week's promotion, Ryan was now my direct boss. This was good and bad.
Good, because, OH YEAH. I mean now I get to stare at him from up close instead of from afar. It was bad because it is not good to lust after your boss. Who knew if he was even gay? He was chief architect in our huge office. (Did I say huge? One can hope. Bad, down boy. Bad.) A huge office with not one hint to his life outside of work. Not one photo of a friend or family, not one decoration that was tell.
I'm the marketing guy. I mostly do copy writing to sell the new building projects, but I do a lot of other stuff. And now, I'm directly under Ryan.
So to speak.
Which is a big deal for someone who is only twenty-six.
Ryan is the kind of cool, crisp, brunette hunk that could put world leaders and GQ models to shame and around him I'm completely tongue tied, which is not like me.
So I've been taking orders and keeping my mouth shut.
Which has gotten me exactly nowhere.
If I did something wrong, anything, I could end up losing my job. Or worse, having to face Ryan every day, maybe for years, eating crow, humble pie, humiliation, eating my Gaydar-ville gone wrong. He's too beautiful to be straight. He's too haunting to be on the wrong team. But still. I'm a chicken and so far I've done nothing.
Now I've been working for Jonowski & Sons for three years. I've seen Ryan at the break room and the water cooler and at company functions. When you work for someone for that long you feel like you know them, but the truth about your work acquaintances is you don't really know them. (Even though my right hand may or may not have… never mind.) Ryan was a crazy good architect, great dresser, got along with everyone, polite to a fault. Never mentioned a girlfriend but never mentioned a guy either. Never gave me an opening. (So to speak.)
Up until this week I worked in a small cubicle way down the hall. Now I had a big desk in an open space almost directly across from his big glass office. Right in his sightline.
Good and bad.
In other words, oh fuck.
Concentrating on work was a little harder than before.
And I REALLY didn't want my performance to go down. (So to speak.) You could tell a lot about a guy by his performance.
But I don't think I've ever wanted something so much.
Time to grow some.
There's a saying 'do nothing get nothing'.
Which is why I walked in today and said…
"Ryan, I have two tickets to see Winston Marsalis Jazz Orchestra on Friday at the Festival…"
"Wait," he said before I could finish. "Jake," he said. Ryan stood up and held his palm up in the universal sign for stop and I stopped mid-sentence. He walked around me and closed the door to his office. Then he came back and stood in front of me. "Are you asking me out on a date?" His voice went up a lot at the end.
"Nooooo," I said backtracking. A LOT. "No," I said. "I'm doing a report on this concert. For the Armstrong, Malcolm, and Charleston Liberty News," I said. A paper or eZine or blog that I had just made up. "And I have an extra ticket and I could really use someone with an artistic sensibility to go with me and give me their opinion. You know, someone like an artist, or an architect, or a jazz fan, or…"
I struggled to think of something that might say boss, or gay, or be a huge ego stroking compliment but I came up with nothing. "It's not a date," I finished lamely. "I could use an extra pair of ears to sample it, if you're interested. But if you're not…" I turned around toward the door.
"I'm interested…" Ryan said drawing the word out.
My eyebrows shot up.
"Very interested," he said.
"Good," I said trying to sound blasé, "Then it's a non-date."
"Right," he drawled. "How about I pick you up for this non-date?"
Fuck. Did it just get hotter in here? I gulped. "Ah. Yeah. That would be great."
"It's just the two of us, right Jake?" He took one step closer to me, predatory. "Or are you asking any other eyes and ears for other opinions for your … article?"
"Ah, no," I said, "Just you."
"Then I'll pick you up," he said.
"Okay," I said. "I live at…"
He cut me off. "I know where you live."
Okaaaayyy.
Yowsers.
This is where you turn and run away.
"Right," I said. "I've got work to do," I said. And I hustled my ass out of there. And I made myself scarce as possible until Friday night.
I couldn't fucking wait.
Ryan rang my doorbell at exactly six o'clock Friday night.
I opened the door and my eyeballs bugged out of my head. He was wearing a $3,000 black tuxedo and carrying a single long-stemmed white rose. He looked gorgeous, scrumptious, movie-star worthy. I looked him over head to toe to head again and blinked. Shook my head back and forth vigorously like a dog.
His eyebrows rose in inquiry when I didn't say anything.
"Perhaps I misread you?" he asked politely.
"Ah-ug. Cah." I said. Then I banged myself hard in the chest. I repeated the motion. "Ca-cough." I gave myself another hard fist to the heart. "Just making sure it's working," I said.
I stepped back and made a sweeping gesture with my hand. "Please come in. I think the concert's been cancelled. We'll have to stay inside. Like FOREVER."
He laughed.
"Starting right now," I said as he walked over the threshold and I shut the door behind him.
He laughed again, a nice warm sound. He handed me the flower.
"I'm underdressed," I said gesturing to my charcoal-colored button down and jeans.
"Or overdressed," he said raising an eyebrow. It was one of those statements where I couldn't tell if he was just kidding or not.
"You look fantastic," I said. "You dress for every non-date like that?"
"When I think it means I might be able to intimidate one of my underlings, absolutely."
I pulled him close. I closed my eyes and resisted the urge to bury my nose in his neck, but just barely. I came damn close, my face an inch away from his skin. He smelled incredible, musk, and soap, and the faintest hint of some expensive scent and under that, raw power.
Fuck resisting, I nuzzled my face into his neck.
"I've been wanting to do this since the day I had my first interview and I saw you," I whispered.
He backed me up until I was against the wall between the bookcases. "Yeah?" he whispered in my ear, and there was a hint of a low growl in his tone. "What else did you want to do?"
"Everything," I said.
"Tell me," he demanded.
He locked his eyes on me with a look so fierce my mouth went dry. "No, I'm serious, tell me."
The air shimmered, suddenly hotter.
"We won't make the concert if I tell you now," I said. "If I tell you…" I paused and gently rubbed my lips against his, barely touching him. "Oh God," I said. "If I tell you," I said and then closed my eyes. "I'll want to do some of those things right now."
He laughed softly in my ear.
"Well let's wait then," he said and pulled away abruptly. I felt a chill as if something precious was stolen. "We wouldn't want you to miss your information for your report for… Armstrong, Murderlong, Charlesdong…"
"Shut up you," I said playfully.
"Come on," he said and took my hand.
"Let me put the flower in water," I said.
"Leave it," he said.
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Król Kang z dynastii Zhou (chiński: 周康王 Zhōu Kāng Wáng) – trzeci władca z tej dynastii. Za jego czasów kraj rozwijał się pomyślnie. Król kontynuował politykę swojego ojca oraz powiększał terytorium państwa na północy i na zachodzie. Zwalczył także rebelię na wschodzie kraju.

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determine whether a phrase query or a span query might accomplish the task.
> I am looking for sentence search rather than word search.
> > take a look at phrase queries and/or span queries.
> > > my searching is working like this.
> > > "SD", "RAM", "Bhaskar" all results are coming .
> > > i.e. "SD lib"
> > >       "RAM hello"
> > >       "hi Bhaskar "
> > >       "Bhaskar hai SD"
> > > But I want below output.
> > >        "SD RAM Bhaskar"
> > >        "SD RAM Bhaskar hello"
> > > any thing.
> > > or "Bhaskar" I am getting all the string.
> > > Can you please advice?
> > > Thanks a lot in advance.
> > >> "An Analyzer that filters LetterTokenizer with LowerCaseFilter"
> > >> "A LetterTokenizer is a tokenizer that divides text at non-letters.
> > >> defined by java.lang.Character.isLetter() predicate."
> > >> can never match.
> > >> one that suits your underlying data and the queries you want to do.
> > >> text search engine" and may cause inconsistent results.
> > >> > Please help here, thanks in advance.
> > >> > > code (+ Analyzer) that creates the query while searching.
> > >> > > > with &debug=true appended.
> > >> > > > an "analysis"
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> > >> > > > > Thanks Lan for reply.
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> > >> > > > >> Ian.
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> > >> > > > >> > Can someone help me here.
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> > >> > > > >> > Thanks in advance.
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Got out on Saturday to do some railfanning with the great fall colors at thier peak.
Nice shots. There are very few if any shots from some of those locations. Good to see them finally represented.
I noticed a while back that there some large areas around middle TN that were not represented...I thought I'd do my part to fill in some of those holes.
waiting to see more fom you.
Interesting, I didn't know Sperry Rail had gotten into the business of leasing out locomotives . . .


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Far Horizons Sailing Search Engine.
Flags of the World Everything you will ever need about the fascinating subject of flags, flagmanship and vexillolgy.
H M Coastguard Home Page.
International Guild of Knot Tyers - an association of people with interests in knots and knotting techniques of all kinds.
Jubilee Sailing Trust is supported by YOSC - find out more on how they help disabled young people to go sailing.
Madforsailing for all the sailing news, lots of pictures, a holiday finder and a UK regatta map.
Marine Accident Investigating Branch (MAIB) examines and investigates all types of marine accidents to or on board UK ships worldwide and other ships in UK territorial waters. Reports can be downloaded from the Website and valuable safety lessons learned by reference to actual incidents.
Marine Diesel Engine and Boat Maintenance by Tony Brooks - Reading College's engine Guru training course notes with lots of detail about engines, electrics, welding and other technical stuff.
National Coastwatch Institution - find out how these volunteers keep watch around our coasts.
Notices to Mariners gives all the detailed information to keep your charts up-to-date from the official Hydrographers Web Site.
OFCOM - formerly the Radio Communication agency has everything you need to use your VHF correctly and legally.
Perfectly Engraved - offer a range of trophies, awards and gifts engraved to your requirements.
RNLI - find out more on how you can support the Lifeboats and buy on-line from their Watermark Gift Catalogue.
Ropers Knot Page - how to tie your Boat (or Granny) up in knots - including some animated demos of those hard-to-do knots.
RYA Royal Yachting Association Home Page.
Safety on the Sea safety advice from the RNLI.
SaiLinks Marine Internet - lots of links to UK sailing and commercial sites.
Sailing Source A Glossy Magazine with lots of new boat reviews and one-design info.
Solent Shallows - detailed photographs of the many hazards around The Solent and The Isle of Wight. This large collection of aerial shots, taken at spring low tide and labelled to show precise locations, can assist in your avoidance of the area's many hazards.
Southern Sailing School Home Page - Yes! it's YOSC's old friend John Goode.
Stanfords for Nautical books and charts - buy them on-line here.
Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors (BAADS) Helps disabled people to participate in all aspects of sailing.
Fotosearch - Sailing Stock photos, clipart, illustrations etc.
Nautical Know-how Lots of useful boating and safety hints and tips.
Sailing Links Hundreds of links to (mainly) US sailing sites.
Cherbourg Tide Table - Gives times and heights of high water Cherbourg for 2019 - useful if you are using Reeve-Fowkes Tidal Atlases.
Note: The times shown in the table are shown in Time Zone -0100 which is one hour ahead of UTC (Coordinated Universal Time - formerly known as GMT). British Summer Time (BST) is also one hour ahead of UTC. When cruising in home waters during the period from 01:00 on 31 March 2019 to 02:00 on 27 October inclusive, the time read from these tables will be the same as clock time in the UK. Outside these dates the times read from this table will need to have one hour subtracted to equal UTC.
WXTide32 Version 4.7 FREE - download this programme to predict tidal heights, streams etc. UK, Europe and Worldwide.
Frank Singleton's Weather Page This Ex Met. Office Weather Guru's site tells sailors about weather and forecasts, how to get them and how to use them.
GRIB US - A freeware application allowing instant and fully customizable access to global weather data which can be downloaded and viewed on your PC.
Wind Direction current wind direction and strength in the UK.
Celestial Navigation for those who can use a sextant and sight reduction tables.
International Telecommunication Union - List of all MMSI and Ships VHF Callsigns.
Natural Navigator is the school set up by Tristan Gooley to research and teach natural navigation - the art of being able to find your way solely by using nature using the sun, moon, stars, weather, water, land, sea, plants and animals.
UK Hydrographic Office - details on Admiralty Charts and how to keep them up-to-date.
Waypoints and how to enter then into your Garmin GPS.
Guildford Coastal Cruising Club - based at Papercourt Sailing Club, Ripley, Surrey. YOSC has formed a close relationship with GCCC and shares some sailing events, quiz nights etc.
ISAF International Sailing Federation worldwide list of yacht and sailing clubs.
Reading Offshore Club - YOSC has a close relationship and share some events, quiznights etc.
Yateley - A brief description of the Town.
Yateley Medical Centre - details of the health services available at the Oaklands Practice.
Digital Photography Review - time to throw away the Box Brownie and get into the 21st Century?
Ebay Online Auctioneers - get rid of all your unwanted junk or buy a bargain?


Our last Breaky Run of 2017. We'll finish off the year at the fantastic City Golf Club in Toowoomba.
After breakfast you're free to explore the garden city or run back down the range with the rest of us.
We will be meeting at 6:15am at the Orion Shopping Centre Car Park, Main Street, Springfield. First group away at 6:30am.
Make sure you are fuelled and have a coffee before arriving as we need to leave on time for this run.


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A Diffident Editor Eccles of Electronics World + Wireless World enters the Diffident's Quagmire, and digs in.
The current Editor of EW committed to a long series of articles by a Capacitor guru named Cyril Bateman. One Penelope Lyon then published a letter in EW jan98 saying that Bateman dec97 contradicted Catt dec78, in the same journal. Bateman answered, also in jan98, that both Bateman and Catt were correct. [That is, a capacitor both does and does not have series inductance!] http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/2644.htm The diffident Editor then refused to publish a riposte from Catt, that they could not both be correct. This dispute is now on its way to the Press Complaints Commission.
Relief! Now I have a website, I'll just put it there. The Commission would not have a clue, any more than Eccles, the current editor of EW+WW [now gone, I.C. 2002], bless his little cotton socks. However, being clueless does not excuse his refusing to publish my brief rebuttal.


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Q: What would happen if dd receives same input file as output file Let's say I accidentally ran sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda instead of sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
And I didn't want to wait for the 500gb operation to complete to find out if I broke my system.
Does anyone know what the outcome would be so I can either wait in peace for it to complete or just interrupt it and start with a fresh install so long?
Edit: Here is the resulting output
$ time sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda bs=64K conv=sync,noerror status=progress
512001769472 bytes (512 GB, 477 GiB) copied, 9084 s, 56.4 MB/s
dd: error writing '/dev/sda': No space left on device
7814181+1 records in
7814181+0 records out
512110190592 bytes (512 GB, 477 GiB) copied, 9088.72 s, 56.3 MB/s

real    151m28.774s
user    0m28.459s
sys 5m33.146s

A: In isolation, dd if=/dev/sdx of=/dev/sdx would write the same data that is already there. No harm done(*).
However, if the device is in active use e.g. by a filesystem, there may be a possible race condition:
dd reads data (A), filesystem writes data (B), dd writes data (A), causing (B) to be lost / corrupted.
So it could still result in data loss or system crash.
Other possible side effects are wasting write cycles if it's SSD storage, and causing sparse files / thin volumes / snapshots to use up more storage space.

Also note that if you do the same thing with a regular file instead of a block device, the result would be an empty file and all data lost:
$ dd if=foobar of=foobar
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 0.000179684 s, 0.0 kB/s

That's because without conv=notrunc the first thing dd does is truncate the output file to 0 bytes, and at that time, all it can read from a 0 byte file is 0 bytes too.

(*) unless you use additional options that are capable of changing offsets, such as seek, skip, noerror, sync, ... or if you end up using different but same device like if=/dev/sdx of=/dev/sdx1 where such offsets are introduced by partitioning. In this case dd would end up writing the same data pattern repeatedly (by reading what it previously wrote at an offset). It would corrupt everything.
There is also a more obscure corner case where a device erratically returns wrong data without properly reporting it as a read error. In this case you'd end up writing corrupt data back to the device.

A: Nothing will happen as the data is read, buffered, written (in that order)

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Multiple Teams · Jun 23 Congratulations Pitchers of the Year!
Sarah Abramson and Alex Martin have done it again! For the first time in school history a softball and baseball pitcher have been voted "League Pitcher of the Year" two years in a row!!!
• Senior on Rex Putnam HS Baseball Team, GPA 3.0 • Alex has had a great year. In his last two starts pitching Alex has thrown two complete game shutouts vs. Liberty and LaSalle. In those two games he pitched 14 innings, gave up 0 runs and only 4 hits total, and had 24 strikeouts.


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#include "application.h"

CallbackContext::CallbackContext( const std::string& callbackId, Application* app )
  : INIT_LOGGER(CallbackContext),
    _callbackId(callbackId),
    _app(app),
    _finished(false)
{

}

CallbackContext::~CallbackContext()
{

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void CallbackContext::sendPluginresult( std::shared_ptr<const PluginResult> result )
{
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    if(_finished)
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      LOG_WARN(logger()) << "Attempted to send a second callback for ID: " << _callbackId << "\nResult was: " << result->getMessage();
      return;
    }
    else
    {
      _finished = !result->getKeepCallback();
    }
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  _app->sendPluginResult(result, _callbackId);
}

void CallbackContext::success( const Json::Value& message )
{
  sendPluginresult(std::make_shared<PluginResult>(PluginResult::OK, message));
}

void CallbackContext::success( const std::string& message )
{
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Rdio announces free, ad-supported music service ahead of iTunes Radio launch
Christian Zibreg on September 16, 2013
The popular streaming-music startup Rdio, is about to launch a a free, ad-supported music service just as Apple is prepping to flip the switch on iTunes Radio alongside iOS 7 release this Wednesday. According to a report Monday by The New York Times, the Pandora rival has also secured a new, $100 million partnership with radio operator Cumulus, which will also sell advertising for a free version of the service in the United States…
According to the article, Cumulus will give Rdio broad access to its programming and promote Rdio on its stations in exchange for "a significant equity stake" in Rdio's parent company, Pulser Media.
Cumulus operates some 525 radio stations in the United States.
The deal between Rdio and Cumulus is a trade, with no cash changing hands. Further terms were not disclosed, but the value of Cumulus's content and services is estimated at more than $100 million.
A typical Rdio subscription costs a few bucks a month and is available in 31 markets around the world. The service lets music lovers listen to songs, build playlists and interact with other users. The entry-level Rdio plan will set you back $4.99 a month for web-only streaming.
Unlimited web and mobile streaming is priced at $9.99, which is similar to Spotify and Pandora.
Notably, Pandora has recently decided to remove a 40-hour monthly cap on mobile listening due to the impending arrival of iTunes Radio.
There is some debate over whether Apple should be worried about this development.
In my view, it's just business as usual. Apple's had competition before and its credibility in the music space can't be overestimated – Apple commands the market for digital music downloads and has been doing so for a decade now.
With the release of iOS 7 this Wednesday which includes iTunes Radio on iOS 7 devices and iTunes-enabled Macs and PCs, Apple will for the first time dip its toes into the streaming-music waters.
The company's crucial advantage stems from its vertical integration: iTunes Radio is built-in and only a tap away in the stock iOS 7 Music app, whereas similar offerings from Rdio, Pandora, Spotify and others require a separate download and a setup procedure.
Last but not least, iTunes Radio will stream The Beatles music.
iTunes Radio now requires Apple Music subscription
iTunes Radio revamp rumored to include Drake, Pharrell Williams and David Guetta as guest DJs
Beats buy and iTunes Radio limitations blamed on Apple's 'arrogance' and incompetent managers
Apple seeds fourth iOS 13 and iPadOS betas to developers


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package org.gobiiproject.gobiidtomapping;

import org.gobiiproject.gobiimodel.headerlesscontainer.MarkerDTO;

import java.util.List;

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    List<MarkerDTO> getMarkers() throws GobiiDtoMappingException;

    MarkerDTO getMarkerDetails(Integer projectId) throws GobiiDtoMappingException;

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Why would one of the biggest VMSes get into Voice over IP?
That is the big question as Genetec has announced Sipelia, a "communications management" module for their Security Center platform, running a dedicated SIP server and integrating intercom calls with video and access.
In this note we review what SIP is, Genetec's implementation, and how it applies to the security/surveillance market.
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Exactly! The questions isn't why would they want to do it, the questions is "why not?" How much harder is it for them to write a SIP driver versus an ONVIF or RTSP driver? Add a simple two way communication button on the client software and your done. Tie into existing SIP based intercoms and speakers. I have been prodding other VMS companies about this for over almost two years. Other companies better start getting a clue and thinking about possibilties instead of just sitting back and going "we're not going to do in unless there's we get enough people asking for it and there's an oppurunity to make gobs of money at it". Hello, if you have people asking about something and you don't have it, they're just going to move on to someone else that does.
An emergency phone done right in modern times is a sip phone able to survive a baseball bat in an inner city parking garage. Of course it makes sense to use SIP. That's what you'd do in the 21st century as opposed to the (sometimes antique) implementations inside some of these vendor's solutions. Watching the sales dude timidly type in 192.168... to configure the sadly primitive network stack on some of these solutions is just scary.
Also, admitting you're running SIP is a good step towards realizing you have audio streams, flowing both directions, along a network used for video surveillance.
By the way if they cared a serious IP phone vendor (Cisco, Avaya) could compete with Stenephon etc. in their sleep.


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Red Dead is een reeks van computerspellen uitgegeven door Rockstar Games. De serie omvat Red Dead Revolver, Red Dead Redemption en Red Dead Redemption 2. De spellen hebben het Wilde Westen in de vroege twintigste eeuw als hoofdthema. In Red Dead Revolver werden voor het eerst verschillende spaghettiwestern-elementen samengevoegd, waaronder de muziek van Ennio Morricone.

Red Dead Revolver

Red Dead Revolver speelt zich af in de jaren 80 van de 19de eeuw. Red Harlow is een premiejager die wraak neemt voor de moord op zijn ouders. Het spel werd ontwikkeld door Capcom en is gebaseerd op Gun.Smoke dat het bedrijf uitbracht in 1985. In 2002 werd de ontwikkeling gestaakt. Rockstar Games kocht het spel en zette de ontwikkeling voort. Door het accent te verleggen van een Amerikaanse western naar een spaghettiwestern kon er meer geweld toegevoegd worden en werden de personages uitbundiger. Het spel imiteerde de films in hetzelfde genre en maakte gebruik van muziek van Ennio Morricone.

Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption kwam in 2010 uit voor de PlayStation 3 en Xbox 360. Het spel deelt veel gameplaykenmerken met Grand Theft Auto IV, dat ook in de Rockstar Advanced Game Engine is gebouwd. De game vertelt het verhaal van de voormalig vogelvrij verklaarde John Marston, die door de Amerikaanse overheid is opgedragen zijn voormalige criminele compagnons op te sporen. Marston ontmoet op zijn reis door het Zuidwesten van de Verenigde Staten en Noordwest-Mexico vele karakters waarvoor hij opdrachten moet uitvoeren om zo zijn zoektocht voort te kunnen zetten.

Red Dead Redemption 2

Red Dead Redemption 2  kwam op 26 oktober 2018 voor PlayStation 4 en Xbox One uit. Het spel speelt zich vóór de gebeurtenissen in Red Dead Redemption af. De speler speelt als Arthur Morgan, die deel uitmaakt van de bende waar John Marston uit Red Dead Redemption ook in zat.

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When I am fortunate enough to hear a speaker like Damien, I immediately realize I am in church. It doesn't matter the surroundings or circumstances. I need no robes, pulpit or incense. I recognize a speaker of truth when I hear one.
In the GOD section I wrote: "That our truth isn't your truth does not invalidate our perception nor our experience; NEITHER DOES IT TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER YOUR TRUTH. But truth is the greatest gift I can offer you...and I offer you mine." Watching Damien Mander, I know he offered me his greatest gift and I am the better for it.
Do our priorities align? No they do not. Where he has chosen to apply his efforts lay far afield from my own. But when someone is that honest and authentic, Life is telling me to "get on board." It (Life) will provide something for me to do or say, change or endorse. It may be as simple as regarding my meals as a sacrament. The mindfulness that life must be sacrificed for my own life to continue. Or, if all else fails, could I not (at very least!) be a little more grateful for the food I eat?
Damien was a self-professed "special operations sniper." There is little doubt in my mind he has killed human beings. ("When things go bang, people die.") I don't believe he is ready to deal with that just yet. So he's become a passionate advocate for the animals. This is a good thing. God needs strong and courageous shepherds. And it is not in my province to question the means by which he or anyone else arrives at their truth. Only that they speak openly, fearlessly, and with integrity.
But I can and will speak to his yes or no question; I will be brave enough the next time an opportunity arises to make a difference. But it won't be restricted to animals.
This site has reached all continents except Australia. This is my blatant effort to "court" an audience from Oz. (what natives call Australia; aka God's Country) Shameless? Absolutely. Worthwhile? Well, lets take a stroll through the Never Never and find out.
* Rough translation: This isn't inane chatter (earbash) my friend (bloke). Its the real thing (dinky-di) so give it a try (burl). Message coming from an American (seppo-short for septic tank!).
For those of you unfamiliar with this phrase, the title of this post might be confusing. While the spelling of potato is the same, the pronunciation is as follows: Po-Tay-Toe versus Po-Tat-Toe. The gist of the meaning is that different aspects of the same idea are being emphasized. With that in mind I ask you watch the following link.
Now, if interested, check out the posts 9-19-12 (Miracles) and 10-2-12 (A Herd Of Birds). My question to you is, is the word "awe" so very different than my word "miracle?" Awe: 1) "a mixed feeling of reverence, fear and wonder, caused by something majestic, sublime, sacred etc." Miracle: 1) "an event or action that apparently contradicts known scientific laws and is hence thought to be due to supernatural causes." 2) "A REMARKABLE EVENT OR THING; MARVEL."
In the web site section GOD, the 3rd paragraph of PERSPECTIVE contains this thought; "I may call them miracles, but that is my confirmation bias and not an instruction. Call them what you will." This is my acknowledgment that certain people may be totally turned off by the use of the word miracle. That "miracle" holds too many religious connotations. I get that. I am more than fine with you being "in awe, or awestruck" by Life. The important fact is that one can feel as though they have received an amazing gift, be it a miracle or a feeling of awe. And that gift could generate gratitude.
The spiritual benefits spoken of in many places on this web site are being verified by science. It is as I've said; the process (G-G-G) works. But so what? It is more powerful (the process) when it is utilized by many rather than a few. So I want to share it with you. I ask that you explore it as a path of possibility. Try it on for size. Take it out for a test drive. I believe your life will change for the better. If I'm wrong, write me off as an extremist. If I'm right, well, you'll know exactly what to do---however they pronounce potato.
There is a TV program called "Hoarders." I find it nearly impossible to watch. Five to ten minutes is about the maximum length of time I am able to endure. That people would allow their living space to become so intolerable (you've got to see the show to believe what people subject themselves to) is beyond my comprehension. I struggle to locate my compassion and empathy. Why, I ask myself, is this issue any more problematic for me than alcohol or drug addiction?
When it comes right down to it, it may be how "in your face" (obvious) the problem is that causes my consternation. An alcoholic or drug addict is more than capable of hiding their disease. Hoarding is so OVERT! An alcoholic or drug addict can lie to themselves and others, but how does a hoarder manage that? When their "stuff" is floor to ceiling and they can barely move from one room to another, how do they mange that? Yet it is estimated that 5.3% of Americans are hoarders.
The manifestation a childhood trauma takes on in an adults life really isn't my concern. It isn't my job to evaluate the level of denial a person engages in and decide whether it meets my criteria. The simple fact is an individual has created a living hell for themselves; be it drink by drink, dose by dose, or box by box. My job is to suggest a reinterpretation of how and why their life experience has brought them to such a place. And whether or not they are ready for something different.


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Riding the golden tiger
Back in the late 40s when Thailand was more whimsical and less bloody, there was a curious hijacking. Cargoes of gold frequently flew through Krungtep [the Thai capital] for sale in China. There hyper-inflation – more potent than Communist arms — was toppling the Nationalists. The economic meltdown was the last straw for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's fragile regime which had stood alone for so long before Pearl Harbor.
Washington's refusal to make a $500 million gold loan helped clinch Chiang's fate. General U.S. war debt fatigue, Kuomintang corrupt reputation and a Congress faced with a wartime economy being restructured brought the decision. But we now know it stemmed, too, from Treasury officials with too close connections to the Soviets and budding Communist power in China.
Still, gold in a steady stream cascaded into the Chinese private sector. Shadowy international gold merchants were satisfying Chinese savers' quest for security in a world coming apart. Little did they know within less than a decade, Mao Tse-tung's bloody "land reform" would not only snatch their gold but his programs eventually would cost as many as 70 million lives of those who could not flee to Taiwan or beyond.
But in those heady days international trade was recovering from World War II. Early intercontinental flights, with no nonstops nor even night flying, carried the gold across South Asia. When it arrived at its last stopover at dusk, it was unloaded at Don Muang airport, convoyed into the Bank of Thailand, then brought back the next morning, reloaded to go on to Hong Kong.
One evening in May 1948, a multi-million dollar [1948 dollars!] shipment disappeared. The mystery was never solved. With occasional bars turning up, rumors had it that the gold had been stolen by Thai police guards or the army or airport officials — or maybe just ordinary ever-present k'moi [robbers]. As the last rumors died away, it was said, never with confirmation, that Lloyds, the insurers, had done a deal, splitting the difference with the thieves.
That old gold piracy comes to mind in mid-summer 2010 as Beijing announces "liberalization" of gold sales.
Like most of Beijing's policy announcements, the message must be taken with more than a grain of salt. The new Chinese regulations come at a time when Western gold fever, at least temporarily, had died down a bit. "Gold bugs" have now concluded that, counterintuitively, central banks are not rushing into gold as a hedge against the declining dollar and the debt-ridden Euro. There is even a rumor the Reserve Bank of India mortgaged last November's 200-ton purchase from the International Monetary Fund to "the world's central banker", the Bank for International Settlements, for currencies to fight its roaring 10% inflation. Nor is there any hint China is boosting bullion reserves despite Beijing's steady public skepticism of the Obama Administration's dollar strategies.
But popular gold demand in China has grown in 2010. China doesn't officially disclose gold imports. However, total volume traded the first six months on the Shanghai Gold Exchange jumped 59% from a year earlier. China's already has the world's sixth largest hoard at 1,054 tons.
The usual suspects – gold promoters and participants in China's boom — have welcomed the new regulations as part of China's promised liberalization. That echoes Beijing's rhetoric — if little action — its response to pressure from its trading partners to curb its unprecedented dollars accumulation resulting from currency manipulation and export subsidies.
Now the People's Bank said it would "actively push infrastructure for gold trading and reserves to fend off disasters". Underlining the announcement, five other government entities countersigned, saying "the need to perfect foreign exchange policies in the gold market is clear." But the government also hinted at more bullion taxes and dropped is earlier partial endorsement of gold as investment.
What seems more than likely is that operating again in omnipresent corruption, Beijing is battening down the hatches with what are, in reality, new controls, attempting to prevent a stampede by savers into gold. What with growing suspicion of its debt-ridden banks and investors shying away from the Shanghai stocks casino, gold fever increasingly has gripped those Chinese who can't get their funds out of the country through massive export/import manipulation. Total 2009 consumer demand for gold – mostly for jewelry, a traditional Asian way of saving — grew 7 percent to more than $14 billion, 11% of global demand. China now has become the world's second largest customer after India as well as the No. 1 producer. Its hoard is the world's sixth largest at 1,054 tons.
Simultaneously Chinese spindoctors argue that gold is not all that useful. Why then does Beijing announce expansion of its own market? The big four state-owned banks will be permitted trading in gold bars. Qualified foreign gold suppliers may be allowed into the Shanghai market. Plans for investment in foreign bullion are on the docket. All this looks like Beijing's familiar way of attempting control in finance and manufacturing through government fiat.
No doubt Beijing remembers those old frantic post-war years. But Confucius say: he who rides back of tiger may end up inside belly.
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That is a central thread running through "Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists," the rotating exhibit of nearly 70 works now up at the Library of Congress's Swann Gallery from its Prints and Photographs Division.
"This show has been years in the making," says its curator, Martha H. Kennedy, noting that her vision for "Drawn to Purpose" long preceded 2017's shifting zeitgeist amid the #Resist and #MeToo movements.
"When I started [here] as a curator and as I got to know the collections, I realized that a lot of women have been overlooked and underrecognized and underappreciated," says Kennedy, who authored the companion book of the same title that, through University Press of Mississippi, will publish in the spring.
Kennedy's aim, though, isn't merely to showcase undersung American artists since the Civil War, or to celebrate this century's more acclaimed women creators. The exhibit thoughtfully traces the shifts in the thematic content, particularly as more work moved beyond the domestic sphere, and as common social roles evolved with the times.
One of the show's earliest works is "A Pretty Girl in the West," an 1889 graphic-and-wash illustration by Mary Hallock Foote, who herself moved away from a growing art career in the East when she headed westward with her mining-engineer husband and created under more rugged conditions. The artwork's rural scene is rendered in mostly soft, meditative tones, yet there is a tension not only in the young woman's hammock, but also between her and the male onlooker seated feet away. Perhaps the woman is playing a role as much as she is playing the guitar, exercising a quiet power even in these new surroundings.
That scene provides an intriguing counterpoint to "Tugged," an Anita Kunz watercolor and gouache over graphite illustration created for Working Woman more than a century later. In portrait, a woman is trying to maintain a calm facade, yet her eyes can't disguise the stressors of a demanding life, as five symbolic little creatures — including screens, a briefcase and a cellphone — yank at her tousled hair in a psychic tug of war. The image offers a beautifully stoic grace within a beleaguered state, as if Kunz's woman were a multitasking Mona Lisa. You might smile at her plight only because it rings so true.
The show flows fluidly through American illustration's pre-World War II "golden age" with an overlap of the early comics era, here notably represented by Grace Drayton's rouge-cheeked Campbell Kids (they debuted in streetcar ads in 1904) and Rose O'Neill's cherub-cheeked Kewpies (they debuted in Ladies' Home Journal in 1909, four years before she patented the Kewpie Doll).
As enduring as those iconic creations are, they also embody in their wee rotund features the art of professional limitation: Women commercial artists were steered toward drawing kids, critters and objects that were cute, innocent and sometimes harmlessly fantastical. It was not till 1940 that Dale Messick would achieve a milestone by launching her syndicated strip "Brenda Starr, Reporter," depicting a strong working woman on the eve of so many American women joining the workforce as part of the war effort.
One section of the show, titled "New Narratives, New Voices," spotlights some of the gifted women who followed the comics path led by Messick and peer Jackie Ormes. These contemporary works will register as the most familiar to the modern viewer, including strips from Lynn Johnston's "For Better or For Worse," Hilary Price's "Rhymes With Orange" and Lynda Barry's autobiographical "One! Hundred! Demons!" Part of the brilliance of such creators is their ability to mine sharp humor from deeply textured characters and delightfully absurd situations.
In this same section, the viewer would do well to linger over Alison Bechdel's "Dykes to Watch Out For!" The 1993 strip "Through a Glass, Hardly" weaves the narrative centering on a hate crime (a brick is thrown at a bookstore display copy of "I Was a Lesbian Marine") with a layered range of responses that feel truthful to each character. It is this gifted storytelling that would presage Bechdel's autobiographical epic "Fun Home."
Other notable comics worth dwelling over range from Marge Henderson Buell's playful "Little Lulu," which debuted in 1935 in the Saturday Evening Post, to the sociopolitical "Where I'm Coming From" strip by Barbara Brandon-Croft, who in 1991 became the first nationally syndicated black female cartoonist.
Elsewhere, the changing styles of magazine illustration come to the fore with such beautifully composed covers as Anne Harriet Fish's 1920 art for Vanity Fair, as social interplay between men and women is pictured through alluring dance, and Kunz's haunting 1992 illustration for Ms. Magazine, "Child Abuse."
The exhibit also rightly features one of the most popular true originals in American cartooning. Roz Chast's 2008 New Yorker comic "Mixed Marriage: Takes Two to Tango" is a fitting representation of her comic pacing that builds to its own sublime anxiety, and her kinetic lines sing the body frenetic.
"Drawn to Purpose" is a smartly curated show that rewards seeking out the social context for all the enduring content. The show also whets the appetite for a fuller feast, so here's hoping that such exhibits attract more worthy comic art by women to the library's collections — perhaps from the next generation of talent that includes Kate Beaton, Jillian Tamaki, Lisa Hanawalt, Fiona Staples and Nilah Magruder.
Just across the street, in the U.S. Capitol, are the seats of power where, nearly one year ago, a sitting woman senator was shushed into silence.
Amid so much necessary change, it is illuminating to stroll from Capitol Hill over to the library's Jefferson Building, and view up close how women have rendered judgment on the past century of social evolution. Because lasting art still speaks volumes.
Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Graphic Arts Galleries.


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Even though Jack the Giant Slayer didn't fare too well at the box office, Disney wants another crack at the classic fable. Deadline reports the House of Mouse has picked up Beanstalk, yet another revisionist take on the familiar tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. However, this one just might get your attention, because the detailed outline that inspired Disney to pick u pthe project comes from "Breaking Bad" and its spin-off series "Better Call Saul" creator Vince Gilligan. And if you're a fan of those shows, you'll also be glad to hear the script will come from of the Emmy-winning writers, Thomas Schauz. Sounds like a sweet deal.
As of now, there aren't any details on how this new take on the classic tale will go, but we'll trust in Gilligan that he's crafted something original. And since Disney is the one who picked it up, that certainly gives it some weight as well. Gilligan certainly won't have to do much to beat the disappointing but admirable Jack the Giant Slayer, or whatever the previous film was that adapting the short story into a feature length film. The project will be developed as a possible directing vehicle for Gilligan as well, but it's early days, so we'll see if he ends up directing it down the road.
I get the feeling that this is Gilliagan's screw up I was waiting for to happen.
I want him to make GRAPES OF WRATH.
Wasn't Disney also supposed to make an animated movie based on Jack And The Bean Stalk?


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Tyehimba Jess's first book of poetry, leadbelly (Verse Press, now Wave Books, 2005), is a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. He won the 2001 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award, an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry for 2000 2001, and the 2001 Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Award. He was on the 2000 and 2001 Chicago Green Mill Slam teams, received a 2005 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a 2004-05 Winter Writing Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. A proud Cave Canem alumnus, he is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jess's fiction and poetry have appeared in Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence (Penguin Books, 1996), Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (Manic D Press, 2000), Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Three Rivers Press, 2001), Beyond The Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century (Black Classic Press, 2002), Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2002), and Dark Matter 2: Reading the Bones (Aspect Press, 2004). His first non-fiction book, African American Pride: Celebrating our Achievements, Contributions, and Legacy (Citadel Press, 2003), was published in December 2003.
ABOUT THE POET 'Tyehimba Jess'
1912: blind lemon jefferson explaining to leadbelly
leadbelly vs. lomax at the modern language association conference, 1934
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sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn (live, April 2005)
five year sentence (live, April 2005)
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Malice is a total conversion for Quake, developed jointly by Team Epochalypse (which would go on to form Ratloop) and Quantum Axcess, and published by Quantum Axcess in November 1997 as a commercial game. It would later be bundled with both the original Quake and the Q!Zone add-on in the form of the Resurrection Pack for Quake compilation, distributed by GT Interactive in 1998. Malice, not being a stand-alone total conversion, requires the full version of Quake in order to be played.

Plot
Set in the 23rd century in the year 2230, the player assumes the role of a bandana wearing mercenary named Damage. Working for Colonel Bossman and his underground crime syndicate, B.O.S.S., the player is pitted against Bossman's main rival, Takahiro Industries. Takahiro Industries has its own security, too, with an army of guards as well as various sophisticated robots. It is these that Damage has to fight against, going through various futuristic environments in order to assassinate Takahiro himself.

Gameplay
Being a total conversion of Quake, Malice features a similar gameplay style to that title. The game includes eighteen new levels, fourteen new enemies, various additional items (known as "Toyz" in the game), a new soundtrack, and new weapons. Unlike in Quake, weapons in Malice can be manually reloaded.

Reception

Press reactions to Malice were generally high in praise, with the game earning positive reviews from all publications featured. Online publication Adrenaline Vault gave the game 4.5/5 and it won their "Best Addon Award" in 1997. PC Gamer UK gave the game their "Game of Distinction Award" in 1997. PC Zone also praised the game, noting favourably how well Malice managed to get away from the original Quake and awarded the game 80%.

References

External links
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 Malice: 23rd Century Ultraconversion for Quake at MobyGames

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