Brimming with wit but tame as far as horror stories go.
One sunny afternoon, an entire neighborhood finds itself the center of destruction when a group of demented villains show up in vans and basically shoot anything that moves. As the residents watch in horror, they suddenly realize that this is no random act and that their quiet little neighborhood is under siege.
The Regulators was published under the name Richard Bachman, but most King fans know that Bachman is the pen name King used for several years. As far as his books go, this is one of the tame ones. There are lots of characters to keep track of in this small neighborhood but their personalities are different enough (in most cases) to keep everyone straight. There is a supernatural element but he doesn't spend too much time on that aspect of it, just the aftermath and how it affects this particularly unlucky neighborhood. The story is a little farfetched but by the end, I was buying it. It's definitely not one of his stronger books, but I did enjoy reading it and it was a quick read.
When I posted about The Summer of King, and how I wanted to spend my summer reading King books, some of you told me that The Regulators and Desperation happen to be related. When I chose those two to read, I had no idea that they featured parallel worlds. Talk about dense. I mean, if you look real hard you can even see how the cover art connects to one another. Anyway, so although this book was a little tame for me, I appreciate King's classic sense of humor in relation to being blown to bits, cheating wives and annoying kids. I chuckled many times and now can't wait to re-read Desperation as I read that one when it first came out and cannot remember a thing about it!
Have you read a King book lately?
Interesting characters and setting, but lacking that special something that makes you think about a book long after reading it.
One can argue that Dean Koontz does not write books with substance. Yes, his books lately have been a little different from the books of his past. I guess his books have always been page turners, meant to captivate a reader for a short amount of time, but some of his older books have stayed with me for decades.
Innocence, starts off strong. A child is forced to live on his own because of a gross deformity that is never fully explained. He seeks shelter under the city, roaming the sewers and only coming up for provisions. At the same time, a young woman, on a quest to find the murderer who killed her father, also lives in secret, hiding from society whenever possible. The two form an unlikely friendship.
SO much could have been done with these characters. The idea of living beneath the city is one that has been done before, but the complexity of doing so successfully and the mystery behind the "deformity" was enough to pull me along. But towards the end, I didn't really understand what I was reading or where Koontz was going with the story. There was literally NO payoff. I felt somewhat cheated.
As a fan of his older works, I now realize why I stopped reading him. There isn't much of a connection between his characters anymore. I still try his books every now and then to see if anything has changed, but I am sorry to say that his newer books seems to lack punch.
I think most of his old-time fans will agree with me, but if there's been a current book of his, say…within the past five years that I need to read, let me know and I will give him another try.
If you'd like to try one of his older books, I highly recommend Watchers (my fave), Phantoms or Lightning.


"We live as we dream--alone...."
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land." In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz.
The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century.
Joseph Conrad was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, his works are viewed as modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell: 254 Graham Greene, Malcolm Lowry, William Golding, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J. G. Ballard, John le Carre, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Hunter S. Thompson, J. M. Coetzee and Salman Rushdie. Films have been adapted from, or inspired by, Conrad's Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, The Duel, Victory, The Shadow Line, and The Rover. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences and on his personal experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world, while plumbing the depths of the human soul. Appreciated early on by literary cognoscenti, his fiction and nonfiction have gained an almost prophetic cachet in the light of subsequent national and international disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries.


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D&D 5E Do you want D&D Next to succeed?
Thread starter RangerWickett
Dark Mistress
Lanefan said:
WotC stopping production of D&D won't change anything - someone will come along and buy the D&D name and IP;
I don't think that would happen. Hasbro as far as I know has never sold a IP once they owned it. Instead the mothball them and then in 10, 20 years later they bring them back and see if they stick. If 5E fails I wouldn't be remotely surprised if that doesn't happen.
Libramarian
Tequila Sunrise said:
I can already tell that 5e would require a lot of house rules, which is a big step backward for me.
What house rules are you envisioning for 5e, out of curiosity?
Neonchameleon
Yes, sadly; somewhere along the line they turned into an industry. And it could be argued that this single development has already sunk three editions of D&D - those being 2e, 3e and 4e - they all collapsed (or in 4e's case, would have soon enough) under the bloat demanded by the industry.
Only three? AD&D was created due to licensing issues (Arneson's name) and then there was the whole Lorraine Williams fiasco.
And 4e I can argue stopped at almost exactly the right time. I want precisely two more supplements for 4e: Birthright and Spelljammer. Complete with mass combat, domain management, and wacky semi-sci-fi stuff. Other than that I can't think of a single new supplement I want for 4e. (I'd also love a Planescape book but only if they undo the Faction War).
I do, however, want a 4.5 edition. Taking out and burning approximately a thousand feats no one ever uses and another 100 that were designed to plug holes that have been better fixed elsewhere would be a good start. As would taking the bonusses off the magic items (seriously, there's nothing wrong with 4e's magic items other than the mini-spreadsheet most of them get).
Dark Mistress said:
I think WotC have once since they were taken over by Hasbro.
Steely_Dan
Neonchameleon said:
(seriously, there's nothing wrong with 4e's magic items other than the mini-spreadsheet most of them get).
I talked with David Noonan in the London Dungeon in 2007, he told me all about their "magical math spreadsheet"; boy, did he lie.
FireLance said:
Truth. It makes me think of the current and all previous editions as D&D "Classic".
And that's about as far as I will go with that.
Worse- if there is a subsequent edition, "DnD Next" becomes a pretty darn stupid name, because all of a sudden the "next" edition was the last edition, which is kind of stupid, and it is bound to just confuse those people interested in but unfamiliar with D&D.
billd91
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the Jester said:
As long as they give it a proper name when it's fully released, no worries. I work for a software company and when planning projects, we often refer to future versions as Next or Next+1. Then as we start to settle on the development and release schedule, the names solidify into 2012, or 2014 (we number our versions by year).
Of course I want D&D Next, 5e, Crystal D&D, New D&D or whatever the heck they end up calling it to succeed. I've been playing every iteration of this game for 26 years now, wouldn't want to stop now. Just because I play a lot of pathfinder now, doesn't mean I've quit my once a month 4e game or biweekly Amethyst one (4e based).
I didn't want D&D to fail when I was playing White Wolf mostly, or FASA, or Palladium, or...
so why would want I it to fail now?
ForeverSlayer
If I like it I like it.
If I don't then I have plenty of other games to fall back on until another edition of D&D comes out.
Obryn
I hope it does well and gives many gamers many excellent hours. I will get the core books and likely give it a go, but it looks like Next might be the first edition which I don't see as a clear and obvious improvement over what's come before.
I'm very happy with 4e now, and won't move on unless my group overwhelmingly wants to. We had fun with the first playtest, and will play the next one, but I think we're basically set for quite some time.
And when I want to play a retro-style D&D, I can pick up and run AD&D again. It's still an incredibly good game that I thoroughly enjoy.
-O
Umbran
RangerWickett said:
Will you be happy if the game is popular, even if it's not one you'd want to play?
Yep. Not everything has to be my thing.
Will you be willing to give it a try to support the D&D brand that has brought so many people years of fun, even if the rules aren't perfect?
I am willing to give it a try, but not for the purpose of supporting the brand. I'll try it because I might like it, and I want to find that out.
Do you trust that the game designers are people who love gaming, who want to help others have fun, and who are trying to make a game that best encapsulates what they think the audience wants D&D to be?
Mostly. I think they love gaming, want others to have fun, and are trying to make a game that folks will want to play. I am open to the idea that they can find stuff that is good, that the audience doesn't know about yet, and so cannot currently want. That's a bit of a cornerstone of innovation.
Do you think that the benefits of having Hasbro's infrastructure to help market, distribute, and sell the game outweigh whatever limitations might be passed down from a corporate level?
As a hypothetical, no. "....whatever limitations might be..." is a lot of territory. We know little on the internal discussions, but things have always sounded pretty hands-off - Hasbro only asks that they maintain some basic profitability, it seems. And, if that's true, yes, the infrastructure should outweigh the restrictions.
Will you not begrudge your fellow gamers if they have different tastes than you?
I want other people to like things I don't. If everybody liked what I liked, the world would be BORING!
Mercule
I am overjoyed by anything that keeps the hobby alive and prospers it.
Will you be willing to give it a try to support the D&D brand that has brought so many people years of fun, even if the rules aren't perfect? (And really, have you ever thought any version of D&D had perfect rules?)
Define "try". I'm more than willing to give it a shot. We played 4e for 2-3 months before deciding it wasn't a good fit. I see no reason not to give 5e the same courtesy, other than that the play test will probably serve the same purpose.
If it turns out to be a game that isn't as fun as something else, I don't have brand loyalty of the sort that would cause me to play the second-best game in a genre.
Yes. Absolutely. They have bosses, though, who may be great or may be another Lorraine Williams.
Only time will tell. Hasbro obviously doesn't have contempt for games, in general. Whether they "get" table-top RPGs well enough is an open question, though. It may be a moot point, if the CRPG market weakens the TTRPG market sufficiently.
After gaming for 30 years, the preference for AD&D vs 3e vs 4e seems petty. To me, AD&D still defines the kernel of D&D. Whatever comes after that must respect it in more ways than just name. But, I'd rather see people playing a TTRPG that isn't what I consider D&D rather than see the hobby die. I may not play at your table, but that probably doesn't say anything about my feelings toward the people present.
Let's stand behind D&D Next. What do you say?
If 5e is fun and suits my needs/style, I'll absolutely choose it. If I don't care for it, I'll be playing Shadowrun, WoD, or something of the sort. I wouldn't play 3e or 4e again. I won't knock your choice, but you'll find me as scarce around here as I was during the 4e run. I spent several years struggling with 3e and trying to "make it work" before realizing that I just didn't care for it. I won't do that again. I don't have nearly enough recreation time to waste any of it not having fun.
DM Howard
Pickles JG said:
Well at the very least there will be the "What modules are you using?" discussion which looks like the same thing pretending not to be. There will be a very large number of combinations of modules not just a handful like editions.
And on that topic you are hoping for the demise of Pathfinder 4e & all the other hold outs.
No, no. I love all those other games like Pathfinder, Savage Worlds and Fantasycraft. What I meant is that when people are talking about D&D, not RPGs in general but D&D, they won't ask what edition.
I kind of see what you're saying with the modules but it almost seems as if at least on the player side each player can use the module he likes the best and it will all fit together. At least that's what I've gathered from reading and listening to podcasts. I might easily be wrong there or misunderstood something.
Summer-Knight925
I want it to succeed for the sole purpose of D&D.
I felt like I was witnessing the end of a great game with 4e (no offense, just my opinion) and that the fact Pathfinder was doing so well scared me.
I love pathfinder, I'm introducing some people to it tomorrow, should be a blast, but saying "I'm playing Dungeons & Dragons" is just that much more awesome. Everyone knows the name D&D, and explaining the brutal recent history is a mouth full, especially when you're explaining it to your Girl Friend's mom.
I call Pathfinder D&D often, and I feel D&D is actually a state of mind.
Does it have Dungeons?
Does it have Dragons?
Then it's D&D.
So I would like it to do well, for the sake of D&D, I'll probably still play Pathfinder, DCC, Palladium Fantasy, Basic Fantasy, and a homebrew Call of Cthulhu medieval.
I want it to live for the sake of the game, not my sake.
I absolutely want D&D Next to succeed. In a big way across all generations of D&D fans. If for no other reason than to shut all the edition wars the F*** up.
Having more players to enjoy the game with is a boon as well.
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I did it! What did I do? Well I took the drive to see the Birmingham UFO group, here in the UK. I had gone with a specific goal in mind, to see a friend who runs a blog HPANWO and alongside does podcasts, writes books and runs his own Youtube channel.
Ben was there to speak about an incident in Nottingham, a Roswell type of affair that happened in 1987 in Nottinghamshire. Now I wouldn't say I necessarily believe in alien contacts here on Earth in the manner that many may, but I am confident enough that science supports extra-terrestrial life somewhere out there so I would perhaps be a hypocrite to outright deny these things. More to the point this blog would be awfully boring with a NO stamped all over it… besides I think I am on the side of The X-Files here – I WANT TO BELIEVE.
So who better than to give me an interesting, and very interesting case? Well that would be a combination of BUFOG (link) and Ben Emlyn-Jones.
The case presented (link here for the full talk) was about the Nottinghamshire area, encompassing Mansfield down towards Arnold, see the video for the map or simply check it out online if you need the area. Now followers of this blog will no doubt recognise one of the areas in there, Ravenshead where I looked into Newstead's Sanatorium.
12th November, 1987 is when the event happened and locals in the area remember the noise which came with a giant boom and displaced tiles and chimneys. The reports suggested two points of interest for crash debris, Thieves Woods and a portion of the land where Annesley Hall is located. The part which made me sit up and think about this was when it was mentioned the major road (A60) had been closed off and it was military intervention.
Now I cannot tell the story the way Ben does, he has done some great research, but I can tell you that there was some very interesting points brought up. For instance – why would it be closed in such a vast area for a whole week? Also the top soil was removed from that section which wouldn't be normal for an average crash surely? And I have to admit I came away with questions, questions about the local area and what effects had come from it.
So as you may guess from this article, as well as many others, I write with an air of middle ground, neither committing to nor denying events which I find presented to me. What I can say with absolute certainty is that the BUFOG and HPANWO gave me an amazingly welcome reception, were open and candid, have a great sense of humour and if anyone could convince you of the reality of these events I'd pin my money on them! Unfortunately for me I missed a wonderful opportunity to meet a abductee who could have told me more but I met people that were able to confirm their sightings and what they felt was at play in this big old world of ours.
I hope they think I have been fair and just in my first review of this kind. I hope that it helps someone skeptical to think about approaching groups like this and to dive into the subject without bias or abuse. Without people like us, and people that go forwards with things you wouldn't get conspiracy theories to become a matter of conspirifact… 1605 and the Gunpowder plot, 1865 and the Lincoln assassination plot, 1961 Cuban Plot, etc etc.
The Manila Film Centre is a national building located in Pasay City, in the Philippines. From 18th to the 29th of January 1982 the building was the main theatre for the 1st Manila International Festival. A great deal of consultation went into the building and over 4,000 workers working in shifts across 24 hours. Unisco's input was considered invaluable in parts of the design.
In 1981 about 3am on the 17th November an awful accident occurred. The buildings scaffolding collapsed and at least 168 workers fell and were buried in the quick drying cement. Marcos administration immediately imposed security there and they would not allow rescuers or ambulances to the site. This was because they would not allow them on the site until an official statement had been prepared. They were finally allowed there nine hours later.
In 2005 GMA Network's i-witness produced a documentary that stated all 168 workers were traced, a dozen died and the bodies were recovered for a proper burial. However there are stories that this was a cover up and that workers were willingly buried alive in the concrete.
The building had been leased on various occasions and is currently in use. In 2013, it had a three-hour fire that had costly damages but fortunately no casualties.
The events of 1981 have led to an urban legend that before rescuers made it in the workers there were entombed alive. The bodies were left in hardened concrete slabs and "spirit questors" confirmed that the spirits are crying out for their recovery and a proper burial.
I could find no particular experiences listed that could give me more about the paranormal side but probably because this is an urban legend that has sprang up around a tragedy.
Here is a little video about the history of the place.
Thought by UFOlogists to be part of a series of at least 716 Circular Stone discs, dating back around 12,000 years. On these stones tiny hieroglyphics may be found, there is, however no evidence of their existence.
Supposedly they were given to Tsum Um Nui for study in 1958, by 1962 he claimed to have deciphered them about a story of spacecraft which had landed and contained the Dropa people. Unable to leave Earth they then had to adapt to it, he then claimed that the local Ham tribesmen then hunted the Dropa people down.
In 1962 it is said he published his findings and then apparently went in to self-exile. It's said that he died not long after he completed his manuscript.
Tsum Um Nui is not, according to the claims, a real Chinese name and there is no mention of him within China outside of the Dropa Stones. It is said that the stones were housed in several of the Chinese Museums but again there seems to be no records of this happening.
In the northern hills of Chile lays an old abandoned mining town which brings with it a true Ghost Town story. The cemetery opposite is where the towns original inhabitants were buried, they are said to rise from the graves and walk through their towns as they once did.
Le Noira was a large mining town in the 19th Century, when economics forced the town closed it was left deserted, but it seems that the tale only begins there!
The management were said to have treat the workers so badly when it closed they they killed those they could not trust to talk, any they thought that might be a potential tell-tale were murdered by the management. They killed the unfortunates and then buried them in the cemetery opposite where many were already the victims of terrible accidents.
This particularly gruesome tale may have weight to it as there have been sentimental items such as photographs found left around the home.
Nearby locals have been known to physically stop unwanted tourists. The shallow graves are scattered, the sand that was used to cover them has blown away over the years. Partially dressed skeletons in various conditions now lay in their semi-buried graves or in some cases not in them at all.
The poor people of La Noira have not been truly allowed to rest in peace.


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Murder by Death est un groupe de rock indépendant américain, originaire de Bloomington, dans l'Indiana. Son nom vient du film de Robert Moore, Un cadavre au dessert (Murder by Death en anglais), sorti en 1976.

Biographie

Débuts (2000–2006)
Murder by Death est formé en 2000 à Bloomington, dans l'Indiana, à l'origine sous le nom de Little Joe Gould, par le guitariste Adam Turla, la violoniste Sarah Balliet, le percussionniste Alexander Schrodt, le claviériste Vincent Edwards, et le bassiste Matt Armstrong. L'un des premiers concerts du groupe se fait au café de Channing-Murray, The Red Herring, situé à Urbana, dans l'Illinois, avec l'ancien batteur d'American Football, Steve Lamos, projet solo de DMS. En 2001, ils auto-produisent l'éponyme EP Little Joe Gould et contribuent, l'année suivante, à la chanson I'm Afraid of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf pour la compilation publiée chez TEAM AV, Foreign Nationals. Peu après, le groupe change de nom et se rebaptise Murder by Death.

Toujours sous le nom de Little Joe Gould, le groupe effectue une tournée de 11 dates entre la Californie et la Louisiane avec le groupe Volta do Mar. À cette tournée, le groupe enregistre ses premiers morceaux pour son premier album. La tournée et les enregistrements sont gérés par le label TEAM AV ; il en résulte donc l'album Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing au label Eyeball en août 2002. Le groupe tourne en soutien à l'album avec d'autres groupes comme Cursive, Interpol, et The American Analog Set. En juillet 2003, le groupe sort son split album avec Volta do Mar intitulé Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm Zimmer. Avec les morceaux Canyon Inn, Room 16 de l'EP Little Joe Gould, Murder by Death contribue aussi aux morceaux Knife Goes In, Guts Come Out et le morceau instrumental We Watch a Lot of Movies avec une version alternative de A Masters in Reverse Psychology. En décembre, le groupe publie un single hommage pour leur am iet musicien Matt Davis, du groupe Ten Grand, qui est mort plus tôt cette année, avant de continuer à tourner à l'international avec Lucero, The Weakerthans, William Elliott Whitmore, et Rasputina

In Bocca Al Lupo (2006–2008)
Le pianiste Vincent Edwards quitte le groupe en 2004. La violoncelliste Sarah Balliet s'occupe désormais aussi des claviers. D'autres tournées suivent durant lesquelles le groupe écrit un nouvel album, In Bocca Al Lupo, qui est publié en mai 2006 sur leur propre label Tent Show Records, une empreinte de East West Records. Ils sortent l'album In Bocca Al Lupo qui est un album-concept, qui comprend des genres musicaux inhabituels incluant waltzes, jig et gospel. Les chansons sont présentés dans le style d'un western spaghetti comme pour ses prédécesseurs.

Red of Tooth and Claw (2008–2010)
Red of Tooth and Claw, le quatrième album de Murder by Death, et premier au label Vagrant Records, est publié en mars 2008. Produit par Trina Shoemaker, enregistré au Dark Horse Recording Studios, et mixé aux East Iris Studios de Nashville, Tennessee, l'album fait participer l'ancien claviériste Vincent Edwards sur le morceau Ball and Chain et est le premier à faire participer le nouveau batteur Dagan Thogerson, qui a remplacé Alex Schrodt. Il est bien accueilli par la presse spécialisée. Pour célébrer la sortie de l'album, Murder by Death joue deux concerts à Bloomington. La chanson Comin' Home es incluse dans la bande-annonce du film Inglourious Basterds.

Good Morning, Magpie (2010–2012)
Le , Murder by Death annonce la sortie d'un cinquième album, Good Morning, Magpie, le  la même année. Plusieurs chansons sont écrites par le guitariste et chanteur Adam Turla pendant u ncamping de deux semaines en solo aux Great Smoky Mountains. Après avoir tourné à la fin 2010, le multi-instrumentaliste Scott Brackett (de Okkervil River fame) se joint comme membre permanent en .

Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon (2012)
Le , le groupe annonce son sixième album, Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon, pour le , au nouveau label Bloodshot Records. Le premier single de l'album, intitulé I Came Around, est publié le . Le , ils comptent $100 000 récoltés sur Kickstarter pour financer leur projet.

Big Dark Love (2015)
Le , le groupe publie son septième album, Big Dark Love, chez Bloodshot Records. Une pré-vente sur Kickstarter récolte $278 486.

Style musical
Murder by Death fait dans l'instrumental, le rock et la country alternative. Le groupe fait usage du violoncelle (électrique pour les concerts) crée un effet rock gothique aux références Western. Le groupe parle souvent de whiskey et du diable dans les albums concept. Par exemple, leur deuxième album, Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?, décrit une histoire dans laquelle le diable déclare la guerre à un petit village mexicain.

Membres

Membres actuels
 Adam Turla – chant, guitare, claviers (depuis 2000)
 Matt Armstrong – basse (2000–2017)
 Sarah Balliet – violoncelle, claviers (depuis 2000)
 Dagan Thogerson – batterie, percussions (depuis 2007)
 David Fountain – piano, percussions, mandoline, banjo, chœurs (depuis 2013)

Anciens membres
 Vincent Edwards – claviers (2000–2004, 2008, 2014)
 Alex Schrodt – batterie, percussions (2000–2007)
 Scott Brackett – claviers, accordéon, mandoline, chœurs (2011–2013)

Chronologie

Notes et références

Liens externes

Groupe musical formé en 2000
Groupe américain de rock indépendant
Groupe musical de l'Indiana
Quintette américain
Bloomington (Indiana)
Artiste de Bloodshot Records
Artiste de Vagrant Records

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1. A recent case we had where a worker was on top of a pile of trash on the back of a truck and fell to the ground, sustaining a severe injury. The employer tried to argue that he was diabetic and had probably fainted due to his diabetes which caused him to fall. We argued that, even if that were the cause of the fall, the fact that his work placed him in a dangerous position was the real cause of the injuries, not necessarily the fall. If he were at home sitting on the couch, he wouldn't have been injured.
2. A case I handled a few years ago where a truck driver had a heart attack and ran his truck into a mountain and died. Again, the heart attack itself had nothing to do with his work, but the fact that he's driving 80,000 pounds of cargo 70 miles an hour places him at a greater "positional risk", making the effects of the injury compensable. Again, if he were sitting on his couch at home when the heart attack occurred, he would probably still be with us today.
Just a little interesting part of Arizona Workers Compensation Law from us at Snow, Carpio, and Weekley.


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Hydrophorus praecox is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It is found in the  Palearctic .

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praecox
Insects described in 1822
Asilomorph flies of Europe
Taxa named by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann


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Q: Why is the GETDATE() an invalid identifier Why is the GETDATE() an invalid identifier says Oracle Sql Developer tool when I debug this code:
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER SPName
AFTER UPDATE
ON TableName
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
    UPDATE TableName SET LastModifiedDate = GETDATE() WHERE TableName.DET_ID = :new.DET_ID;
END;

A: Use ORACLE equivalent of getdate() which is sysdate . Read about here.
Getdate() belongs to SQL Server , will not work on Oracle.
Other option is current_date

A: I think you want SYSDATE, not GETDATE(). Try it:
UPDATE TableName SET LastModifiedDate = (SELECT SYSDATE FROM DUAL);

A: getdate() for MS-SQL, sysdate for Oracle server

A: SYSDATE and GETDATE perform identically.
SYSDATE is compatible with Oracle syntax, and GETDATE is compatible with Microsoft SQL Server syntax.

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Playoff Preview: Three key points about Miami Heat vs. Charlotte Hornets
By Sean HighkinApr 15, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT
This is the 3-6 matchup, but Miami and Charlotte ended the season as part of essentially a four-way tie with the Hawks and Celtics. This is one of the hardest matchups to get an early read on in the first round, with lots of variables for both teams in terms of lineups and options.
With that said, here are a few things to keep an eye on.
1. Three-point shooting: The Hornets have plenty of solid shooters, including Courtney Lee, Nicolas Batum and Marvin Williams. The Heat don't have much in that department outside of their midseason pickup, seven-time All-Star Joe Johnson. This is where they miss Chris Bosh, who matches up well with the Hornets' bigs, who are capable of stretching the floor.
2. Is Nicolas Batum healthy? Batum suffered an ankle injury in the last week of the season. With Michael Kidd-Gilchrist out for the year, he was a major part of Charlotte's success at both ends of the floor, and he proved a particularly devastating pairing with Kemba Walker. If Batum isn't fully healthy, that's a huge blow for the Hornets' prospects in this series.
3. How effective will Hassan Whiteside be? Whiteside has been excellent in a bench role for most of the season for Miami, but the last few games of the season he's moved back into the starting lineup. One can only assume Erik Spoelstra will start him to match up with Charlotte's bigs. Whiteside is an outstanding rim protector, but he gets lost in Miami's defensive schemes sometimes.
Prediction: Heat in 6.


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Directed by Michael Apted
Language: English [audio]
Genres: Thriller, Based on Literature, Drama, Crime
Joanna Pacula
Writer Martin Cruz Smith
Murder, seduction and intrigue in the Kremlin! Based on the best-selling novel by Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park is a gripping and brilliant classic thriller starring William Hurt (Body Heat), Lee Marvin (The Dirty Dozen), Brian Dennehy (Best Seller) and Joanna Pacula (The Kiss). When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow's Gorky Park with their faces and fingertips removed, Detective Renko (Hurt) is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer, but when the clues point toward the involvement of the KGB, Renko is hunted by the secret police and confronted by an intricate web of deception and treachery reaching to the highest political levels. Directed by Michael Apted (The World is Not Enough) with a great supporting cast that includes Ian Bannen (The Offence) and Richard Griffiths (Withnail & I).
"William Hurt is superb as a Moscow militia detective caught between his desires to be simply a good cop and the unfathomable motives of the secret Soviet government, all complicated by an unexpected love for Joanna Pacula." - VARIETY
"It remains a taut, clever thriller throughout, with Mr. Apted's direction establishing its intensity immediately and sustaining it well."- THE NEW YORK TIMES
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This week we began our science unit on simple machines. We discussed how simple machines were some of the very first pieces of technology that humans invented, in order to do more work than they could with their muscle power alone. We built a marble ramp to show how and inlined plane can move objects. Using Lego Duplo pieces, we built a seesaw that acts as a lever, allowing one Lego person to balance two Lego people on the other side of the seesaw if she is sitting further away from the center than they are. We also built a Lego car to show how wheels and axles allow us to move heavy weights along a flat surface. Gears, wheels with teeth, can be connected to cause a complex chain of events.


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Arnon Grunberg
Arnon Grunberg (b. 1971) debuted at the age of 23 with the novel Blauwe maandagen (Blue Mondays, 1994). His next two novels, Figuranten (Silent Extras, 1997) and Fantoompijn (Phantom Pain, 2000), strengthened both the readers' and the critics' conviction that he is a great writer. Some of his other titles are De asielzoeker (The Asylum Seeker, 2003) and De joodse messias (The Jewish Messiah, 2004). Grunberg also writes plays, essays and travel columns. His work has won him several literary awards, among which the AKO Prize for Fantoompijn and De asielzoeker, and both the Libris Literature Prize and the Flemish Golden Owl for Tirza (2006), his last novel to date. Under the pseudonym Marek van der Jagt he published the successful novels De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid (The History of my Baldness, 2000) and Gstaad 95-98 (2002). Arnon Grunberg lives and works in New York.
Arnon Grunberg's work
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do you back to game?
Well, no to getting items and the original account back. But yes to making another account and starting anew. But maybe... wait, banned users aren't actually deleted, right? They just go to some other world that they can't leave?
It would be pretty cool if all the banned users were just banished to a single world...that would be awesome. Unfortunetly though there just a message saying "You are perminently banmed" when you try to log in...I don't think the account's are deleated though.
I've considered making a new account, but it would take ages to get back up to where I was, and I honestly wouldn't know what to do. Maybe making another building competiton? Those were always fun.
Well sometimes the journey is better then the destination. If it's been a while since you've played then you might have some new people to accompany you on your way. You can take a nostalgia trip and if you're dedicated to building, even recreate your old buildings or accomplishments. I'd like to look on the brighter side of things. Anyway, about being sent to another world for banned users, there used to be a world where users with karma would go and be stuck there until the end of the duration. Just wanted to note.
It depends on the seriousness of the offense.
Governor was pretty big a year ago, How did he get banned?
Believe me, it was no such thing.
Exactly. That is why I am here, but I have yet to hear back from Lisa about our exchange regarding my original character reinstatement in Februrary.


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Mondo Explore The 'Spider-Verse' With New Prints And Pins
Superhero comic fans love alternate universes and the doppelgangers that reside within, which is part of the reason that Dan Slott and Olivier Coipel's "Spider-Verse" was such a hit. To celebrate the many incarnations of the webhead, Mondo have just released two limited edition prints…
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The Top Five Alternate Spider-Men
If there's one thing we've learned from our years on the Internet, it's that there's no aspect of comics that can't be broken down and quantified in a single definitive list, preferably in amounts of five or ten. And since there's no more definitive authority than Comic…
Gwen Stacy As Hero: Latour, Rodriguez & Renzi On 'Spider-Gwen'
Gwen Stacy was meant to stay dead. Her death back in 1973 in Amazing Spider-Man #121, by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane, was a mark of maturation for the genre, a sign that superhero comics were ready to embrace more sophisticated storytelling. Her death became as defining to Spider-Man's story as t…
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The Power Of Great Superhero Costume Design
We live in a time of awesome superhero costumes in comics. The rise and rise of cosplay culture, the emergence of comic artists with a savvy understanding of fashion, and the slow diversification that's making heroes palatable to a broader audience, have all contributed to a costuming culture w…
'Edge Of Spider-Verse' #2 Preview: Spider-Woman's Rad Band
If you weren't already sold on writer Jason Latour (Southern Bastards) and artist Robbi Rodriguez (FBP) doing a re-imagining of Gwen Stacy in which she is a new version of Spider-Woman in Edge of Spider-Verse #2, what if I offered you this to sweeten the deal: Gwen is the drummer in a band, the…
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Marvel Announces New Spider-Woman Series From Hopeless & Land
The annual Women Of Marvel panel at San Diego Comic-Con is always one of the most positive places to spend Sunday morning at the show. This year it plays host to Marvel's final Spider-Verse announcement of the weekend, with the news that writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Greg Land will oversee …
Marvel's Spider-Verse Event Launches 'Scarlet Spiders' And 'Spider-Verse Team-Up' Minis
Marvel's Spider-Verse panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday saw the announcement of two new mini series spinning out of the multi-dimensional event. In Scarlet Spiders, a trio of spider-clones come together for a potential suicide mission, while Spider-Verse Team Up features multiple Spider-Me…
'Superior Spider-Man' Returns In August, But How?
Next month, Otto Octavius will once again don the red-and-black tights and highly reflective lenses of his Spider-Man costume in Superior Spider-Man #32 by Dan Slott, Christos Gage, Giuseppe Camunicoli and Adam Kubert.
There's just one major problem with that: Octavius was inhabiting Peter Par…
'Edge Of Spider-Verse' Solicits Tease New Spider-Types
One of the things I love most about Spider-Man (and let me tell you, there's a lot I love about Spider-Man) is how adaptable the character is to different situations, settings, and even different characters taking on the role.
Amazing Spider-Man writer Dan Slott and an assembled team of writer…


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Home Car News First Official Pictures Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat
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► 797bhp and 707lb ft
► 8-speed auto only
► Not coming to the UK
This is the Dodge Challenger Hellcat SRT Redeye, and no, it's not coming to the UK. With that out the way, it's time to talk about specs – because the 2019 Challenger Hellcat Redeye generates some very big numbers. In fact, Dodge says the new Redeye is the quickest, most powerful muscle car you can buy right now.
So, the Dodge Challenger SRT Redeye specs…
Packing in a 6.2-litre V8 mated to a 2.7-litre belt-driven supercharger, the Hellcat Redeye is capable of putting out a staggering 797bhp and 707lb ft of torque. As you'd expect, that power makes it extraordinarily quick – in a straight line at least. Sixty arrives from standstill in 3.4 seconds, and a top speed of 203mph will come if you find a road long and straight enough.
If that sounds a little too much, the Redeye will also let you dial power down to 'just' 500bhp in Normal mode.
No stick-shift though...
Interestingly, the Redeye is only available with an automatic transmission, with Dodge offering customers no alternative to an eight-speed 'box. If you'd rather drive 'stick,' you'll have to opt for the standard Hellcat, which makes do with a more modest 717bhp.
There are actually two versions of the Redeye: the Widebody version shown here with a larger track, and a standard model – and we're told the Widebody is slightly slower.
Still, those 3.5 inches of extra footprint somehow make the Widebody version of the Redeye even more menacing.
As for the price? A Redeye could be yours for just $69,650, which translates to just £52,923 at the time of writing. Bargain...
But it's not coming to the UK..?
Unfortunately, we almost certainly won't see the Redeye on sale in the UK, but Dodge tells us we could get the arguably more ridiculous Trackhawk, instead. Which would you rather have? Be sure to sound off in the comments below!
By Curtis Moldrich
CAR's online editor and racing-sim enthusiast


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A proposal to give undocumented immigrant students in-state tuition passed the Senate Education committee with a 7-2 vote and little debate.
Shelby County needs 504 mentors to serve the record number of high school seniors who applied for the state's free community college program.
A record number of Tennessee high school seniors have applied to Tennessee Promise, requiring a record number of volunteers to help those students achieve their goals.
The new counselors will go to schools where students attend college at a rate lower than the state average of 60 percent.


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Bitcoin surges to a 5-month high above $57,000, outperforming wider crypto sector
By Publisher inBitcoin, Financial
Bitcoin surged to a five-month high on Monday, climbing back above $57,000 to outperform the broader cryptocurrency sector.
The digital currency claimed an intraday high of $57,776 before paring gains to trade up 3.48% at $57,331 as of 12:50 p.m. ET Monday. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization hit a record high of $65,000 in April.
Tim Frost, the CEO of the digital-wealth-management platform Yield App, couldn't point to one particular reason behind the rally. Catalysts could include the Securities and Exchange Commission's recent approval of an exchange-traded fund made up of stocks with bitcoin exposure, growing institutional adoption of the digital asset, and the daily settlement hitting $31 billion worth of transactions for the first time last week, he said.
But bitcoin could be headed for another short-term dip.
Continue reading at businessinsider.com
Robinhood warns crypto, payment for order flow regulation poses risk to business model
By Publisher inBitcoin, Financial, Investments
Robinhood has sounded the alarm to investors about potential risks to its business model related to increased regulatory scrutiny of cryptocurrencies and payment for order flow (PFOF), a payment arrangement with market makers which allows trading platforms to offer low-commission or commission-free trading.
According to Robinhood, payment for order flow and transaction rebates from cryptocurrency trading accounted for 79% of the company's total revenue in the second quarter, with PFOF making up 38% and cryptocurrencies making up 41%.
"Regulation of the cryptocurrency industry continues to evolve and is subject to change. Moreover, securities and commodities laws and regulations and other bodies of laws can apply to certain cryptocurrency businesses," the platform said in an amended S-1 filing on Friday.
Continue reading at foxbusiness.com
Walmart seeks crypto product lead to drive digital currency strategy
By Publisher inBitcoin, Technology
North American retail giant Walmart is looking for an experienced crypto expert who can develop and drive an ambitious digital currency strategy and product roadmap.
In the listing for the role, Walmart indicates it is looking for someone who has a track record in leading and scaling businesses, with at least 10 years of experience in product/program management and technology-based product commercialization. The ideal candidate would have expertise in cryptocurrencies and blockchain-related technologies and in-depth knowledge of the crypto ecosystem and its core actors.
Walmart has hinted at the focus of its future digital currency strategy by noting that it already enables a "broad set of payment options for its customers" — although not yet in cryptocurrency. Back in 2019, Walmart had already filed a patent for a blockchain-based U.S. dollar-backed digital currency that was, at the time, similar to Facebook's early proposals for what was then known as Libra.
Continue reading at fxstreet.com
Bitcoin Fans Are Suddenly a Political Force
By Publisher inBitcoin, Curiosities, Financial
A clash over tax rules for digital currencies like bitcoin turned into a political coming-of-age moment for the cryptocurrency industry, galvanizing a usually fractious coalition of investors, exchanges, financiers and social-media influencers.
In public, Ashton Kutcher, Elon Musk and Square Inc. Chief Executive Jack Dorsey brought the Twitter heat over a provision in the $1 trillion infrastructure bill seeking to expand and strengthen tax enforcement of crypto transactions. That helped prompt tens of thousands of followers to call members of Congress.
Behind the scenes, lobbyists, trade-group officials and executives at crypto companies hopped on Google Meet every few hours to coordinate Congressional outreach and tracked legislative contacts in a shared spreadsheet.
Continue reading at wsj.com
Corporate Cryptocurrency Adoption Could Transform Payments
By Publisher inBitcoin, Curiosities, Technology
It is well-known by now that cryptocurrencies are here to stay. They have become an asset class with a market cap of over $1.7 trillion to their name. The market even topped the $2 trillion mark back in April.
Yet, despite the growing adoption, the gap between crypto and fiat worlds is still some ways off from completely closing. There are two main issues holding back cryptocurrency adoption.
The first is that while crypto and blockchain applications are prevalent, it isn't straightforward for companies in the fiat world to integrate cryptocurrencies into their service offering.
A good example is Revolut. While they have the resources to introduce crypto-related services, they are still in the process of rolling out crypto-derived services after several years' worth of effort. They only introduced a crypto withdrawal facility earlier this year.
Similarly, crypto projects have a hard time accepting payments in fiat. There are practically no solutions that make conducting local/cross-border payments possible for such projects.
Continue reading at beincrypto.com
Bitcoin holds above US$45k as US vote on crypto tax nears
Bitcoin managed to hold above its key US$45,000 price level on Tuesday as a key vote on crypto regulation neared in the US Senate, raising hopes of a further bull run.
In late morning trading in London, Bitcoin was up 2% in the last 24 hours at US$45,791, giving it a market cap of just over US$860bn.
The increase means Bitcoin has broken above its 200-day moving average for the first time since April, which was then followed by a strong bull run for the digital currency, leading many analysts to predict a similar trend will emerge this time.
Continue reading at proactiveinvestors.co.uk
A Bitcoin-Tracking Financial Instrument on TASE UP in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
By Publisher inBitcoin, Financial, Security, Technology
Digital Currency Investment House, Silver Castle, and The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd (TASE: TASE) announced today the first-ever issuance of Bitcoin linked and backed bonds on TASE UP. This new channel of investment in Bitcoin creates a pathway for institutional and qualified investors into the digital currency realm and further diversification of their investment portfolio.
The series of bonds issued will have term of three years and will not bear interest. The capital raised in the issuance will be used solely in the purchase of Bitcoin and the monies will be fully exposed to the exchange rate of the Bitcoin. The trading of the bonds will be subject to the rules of TASE UP. The redemption of the Bitcoin will be paid for in Shekels, based on the exchange rate of the Bitcoin on redemption date, less commissions. Weekly early redemption will become available at the end of three months, based on a formula that weights the exchange rate of the Bitcoin on early redemption, less commissions.
The new instrument enables exposure to Bitcoin with significantly reduced operational risks and product holding costs. Until now, Bitcoin could be obtained by way of direct purchase and holding, bitcoin delivery agreements, and Israeli or foreign hedge funds. Starting today, institutional and qualified investors can also purchase Israeli Bitcoin bonds on TASE UP.
Continue reading at prnewswire.com
Bitcoin Should be Part of Your Retirement Plan, Says Scaramucci
By Publisher inBitcoin, Investments, Security
Former White House Chief of Communications, Anthony Scaramucci, continues to tout cryptocurrencies as an integral part of people's financial future.
Anthony Scaramucci has been a proponent of digital currencies for a while now, specifically bitcoin (BTC). In a recent interview with 401K Specialist magazine, he doubled down on his push for Americans to invest sooner rather than later in the world's most popular digital currency.
While Scaramucci does warn that investing in such a volatile currency should be done in "bite-size, digestible chunks," he firmly believes that bitcoin should be part of people's retirement plans. Even if it is just a small amount. In fact, the volatility of digital currencies is exactly why he believes in investing in bitcoin. The co-founder of SkyBridge Capital said that:
"People can trade within their 401k without tax consequences. If we're right about bitcoin and I was your financial advisor, I would tell you that over the next 100 years, this is the technology that people are going to use for a large swath of commerce on the planet."
Continue reading at finance.yahoo.com
Bitcoin Vs. Ethereum: A Technical Performance Comparison
By Publisher inBitcoin, Ethereum, Technology
The entire crypto market saw a crash last week and both of these cryptocurrencies took a hit. Below is a comparison of the charts over the past month.
Bitcoin Daily Chart Analysis:
Bitcoin was unable to break out of the ascending triangle pattern. It saw a large dump after it was unable to cross above the $60,000 level.
Bitcoin is trading below both the 50-day moving average (green) and the 200-day moving average (blue), indicating the sentiment has been bearish.
Each of these moving averages may hold as an area of resistance on the chart.
Continue reading at benzinga.com
Banks say they are ready to integrate cryptocurrency into their financial products
US banks may soon give their customers to buy cryptocurrencies – Gecko
The New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) is a financial service dedicated to financial services Bitcoin. It has partnered with global banking technology solutions group Fidelity National Information Service (FIS) to provide and provide guidance to US banks seeking to offer exchange services.
When asked by the American channel CNBC on Wednesday, Patrick Sell, director of banking solutions for NYDIG, said that many small banks had already signed up for the program, but also that the firm was in contact with large institutions . Actually, according to him, big banks prefer JP Morgan Or Bank of America, previously reluctant to bitcoin, may change its mind if the adoption of cryptocurrency trading proves successful for small banks.
More and more US banks' increasing interest in access to crypto-assets can be explained by the success of exchange platforms Robin Hood Or Coinbase, the latter recently went public with flying colors. The amount of money deposited in the accounts of these platforms is staggering. Some 9.5 million Americans have traded cryptocurrency on the Robinhood platform since the beginning of the year and Coinbase deployed in Q20 2021 has revenue of $ 765 million. According to NYDIG President Yan Zhao, banks want a piece of the pie: "It's not just banks that think their customers want bitcoin, they say: We have to do it, because we see the numbers." They see deposits known in the world's Coinbases, Galaxies and Krakens".
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It would not be true to say Song Qingchun had a close relationship with Su Zhinian's mother, especially not after that incident, she had no interaction with Su Zhinian, much less his mother.
In Song Qingchun's memory, his mother was pretty, kind, and affectionate, in essence, a completely different character from her son. Song Qingchun could not be sure whether Su Zhinian's mother remembered her or not, and she too realized her sudden visit could be construed in a wrong way, but for the sake of Song Empire, for the sake of her sick father and dead brother, Song Qingchun still went to visit Su Zhinian's mother one Saturday afternoon.
The bungalow was located on a hill northern side of Beijing. It was right next to a water dam and had a perfect surrounding. Song Qingchun managed to locate her home using the address that she found on the internet.
The bungalow door was open wide and there was no guard. Song Qingchun stepped into the perfectly trimmed patio and pressed the doorbell. Several minutes later, she could hear footsteps coming from within. The door then opened to reveal a pretty face that had some similarities to Su Zhinian's features.
Even after so many years, Song Qingchun could tell at first glance this was Su Zhinian's mother. She gave her the presents that she bought and introduced herself politely.
"Auntie Su, I am Qingchun."
Su Zhinian's mother probably still remembered Song Qingchun because she invited her in only after hearing her name and did not ask about anything else. Her enthusiasm and kindness soothed Song Qingchun's beating heart. Su Zhinian's mother had a good impression of the girl and vice versa. After a short conversation, all the awkwardness went out the window.
When it was five pm, Su Zhinian's mother started to prepare dinner. Since her impression of Song Qingchun only improved through the afternoon, she even invited Song Qingchun to stay for dinner. Song Qingchun's purpose was to meet with Su Zhinian, so she accepted her invitation and even joined her in the kitchen to cook two dishes.
After cooking dinner, Song Qingchun excused herself to use the toilet. When she pulled the bathroom door open, she heard the click of the front door. Song Qingchun subconsciously turned to look down at the entrance and saw Su Zhinian in a black windbreaker walk in.
Su Zhinian was shrugging off his windbreaker when he saw Song Qingchun. His action stopped for a second as his brows creased into a frown. He then asked with obvious displeasure, "What are you doing here?"
Before Song Qingchun could answer, Su Zhinian's mother, who heard the front door open, exited the kitchen and said, "Zhinian, you're home!"
Then she came to take his son's windbreaker that was stuck on his arms and hung it on the coat rack. She then added, "You still remember Qingchun, right? She is your Uncle Song's daughter, she came to visit me today, and I invited her to stay with us for dinner."
After hearing his mother's explanation, Su Zhinian shot an icy glance at Song Qingchun. Song Qingchun could hear the displeasure in Su Zhinian's earlier question, and when she received his cold gaze, she had a feeling he would toss her out the next second and her heart stopped.
To her relief, Su Zhinian only glared at her for about five seconds before shifting his gaze away and nodded at his mother as he mumbled an incoherent "mm", signifying his understanding.
His mother smiled. "Alright, stop standing there. Go wash your hands and prepare for dinner."


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Q: rails bundler version issue I have rails project working on Ubuntu.
Now I installed WSL on another machine and cloned the very same project.
Now when I try to install bundler with
gem install bundler

it installed bundler 2.0.2 and on bundle install it gives error:
Could not find gem 'bundler (< 2.0, >= 1.3.0)', which is required by gem 'rails (~> 5.0.0)'
Now I looked at the gemfile.lock it was bundled with 1.16.4, I installed it with
 gem install bundler -v '1.16.4'

Now I do a simple bundle install, then it uses 2.0.2, so I have to do
bundle _1.16.4_ install

It completed successfully, but now when I am trying to do rails db:create, it says
The git source https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack.git is not yet checked out. Please run bundle install before trying to start your application
What's wrong here?

A: Uninstall bundler 2.0.2:
gem uninstall bundler -v 2.0.2

If you still have problem, you can use:
bundle exec rails db:create

A: You can update to using bundler 2.x if possible with:
bundle update --bundler

This will change the BUNDLED_WITH version in Gemfile.lock.
see: https://bundler.io/guides/bundler_2_upgrade.html
You could also set the default bundler version:
bundler config default 1.16.4
gem list bundler

However I have found this to be a bit error prone.

A: Try to remove all your gems (go to the gems folder of your ruby, remove the specifications folder and the gems folder),

*

*gem list should be more or less empty

*gem install bundler

*And try to bundle install again from scratch.


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Home etc Blogs IBM-Red Hat, Microsoft-GitHub Deals Decode the Bright Future of OSS
IBM-Red Hat, Microsoft-GitHub Deals Decode the Bright Future of OSS
Mukul Yudhveer Singh
More enterprises adopting OSS as operating platforms and Big Blues like IBM and Microsoft acquiring OSS companies like Red-Hat and GitHub have made it clear that the future of OSS is worth endless opportunities and billions of dollars
Dwindling stock prices over last five years and declining revenues have not stopped IBM from acquiring Red Hat at a staggering $34 billion. Touted as one of the biggest software deals ever, it also is the biggest in IBM's 107 years history. Analysts, experts all over the world are busy decoding the deal. While some think that IBM acquiring Red-Hat will put the former back on track, others have argued that the move may not be profitable at all.
But the real question that arises out of this deal is much bigger. It concerns the future of open vs license based software computing, it concerns the future of software companies dealing in licensed/closed source software solutions, and most importantly it highlights the advantages open source will have in terms of profit for the provider and for the enterprises using it.
Is the use of Open Source software the next big thing?
Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat in an email shared to all Red Hat employees had said, "We have barely scratched the surface of the opportunity that is ahead of us. Open source is the future of enterprise IT. We believe our total addressable market to be $73 billion by 2021. If software is eating the world – and with digital transformation occurring across industries, it truly is – open source is the key ingredient."
If one put's the use of Open Source software in meaning in accordance with the technology adoption curve, then the time has arrived when a majority of enterprises will shift to the same as primary operating platforms. The future of open source computing and cloud usage will define how institutions, organizations and governments function all over the world.
The Government of USA's 'code.gov' project website claims its mission as – "Code.gov leverages the power of code sharing and collaboration to help the US Government cut down on duplicate software development and save millions of taxpayer dollars for the American people". It even has a 'progress report' tab that explains which govt departments in the country have open sourced the codes they use. It is worth mentioning here that most of the big players operating in Open Source software technology are based out of USA.
India, world's 6th largest economy also focuses on Open Source software. Its railway ticket booking portal, Aadhaar and GST platforms are powered by Open Source software. In fact, several reports have suggested that Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has been able to save more than Rs 8,300 crores by switching to Open Source software and support by Red Hat India.
Kersi Tavadia, CIO, BSE, on using Open Source software had said, "Google is using open source. Facebook is using it. Everyone else is using it, and that's why they're profitable. They're not spending resources on proprietary software and hardware. We knew we needed to go in that direction as well."
Explaining about the advantages of using Red Hat's Open Source software and support in BSE, Mr Tavadia further said," We were able to cut manual activities substantially, so that tasks that once took four hours to accomplish now take less than one hour. Staffing requirements were reduced from 15 people to just 2 people. The cost savings we've achieved let us release new products and try new ways of doing things."
Flipkart, Amazon, Facebook, Google are the best examples of what Open Source software usage can achieve. A survey published by netcraft said that out of 172 million websites around 75,000,000 used WordPress – an Open Source content management system. And out of these 75,000,000 nearly 37,500,000 were using WordPress hosting.
Microsoft, world's largest licensed-source software provider, acquiring GitHub, an open source developers' community, has further hinted towards the bright future of open source software.
What does the IBM-Red Hat and Microsoft-GitHub deal mean for OSS start-ups? Will there be more acquisitions?
The future of start-ups working on providing Open Source software solutions, at least for now looks very promising. The recent IBM-Red Hat deal will make major players including Amazon, Microsoft and Google, carve out ways aimed towards strengthening their market hold in the Open Source arena and it's a very strong possibility that some of these strategies will include acquiring start-ups that have already made a mark in the Open-Source software services and support.
The fact that a lot of big players were interested in acquiring GitHub before it was eventually bought by Microsoft also raises some positive hints that the acquiring game is not yet over and start-ups in Open-Source space should continue doing their best.
Similarly, the Red-Hat acquisition by IBM at a price that is claimed to be six times Red Hat's market value is a major hint towards the importance Big Blue companies give to OSS start-ups.
Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft, on a blog said, "Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future.
But the way a start-up looks at such big players also matters. If the prime aim of a start-up developing OSS solutions and support is to get acquired by a big blue company instead of creating world-class solutions, then the cause may get lost completely. It is a fact that an OSS solution speaks for itself and does not take much time to get noticed.
The focus should also be on long-term usage and benefits rather than on making profits instantly.
What makes open source software special?
Organisations in the world are turning to open source software for curbing operational costs and for increasing profits. India's Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) operates on Red-Hat's Linux based open source. Several reports have claimed that BSE has been able to save over Rs 8,300 crores just by switching to open source software. Similarly, India's Aadhaar and GST platforms are also powered by Open Source software.
A survey by Black Duck Software and North Bridge pointed out that 78 per cent companies use Open Source software. 55 per cent out of these use Open Source Software because they think that it delivers superior security when lined up against proprietary solutions.
Net Friedman, CEO, GitHub, explaining the importance of OSS on his personal blog, wrote, "Open source was the foundation of my career and some of my closest friendships; but it's also the foundation of millions of products and ideas that only exist because you can get started by grabbing free code off the internet. It's actually hard to remember what the world was like before open source became widespread. Creating something new used to mean that your first step was to build or buy your baseline infrastructure. That's gone today, and with every new piece of open source, the price of admission gets closer to zero."
Open Source software offers an agency the flexibility to modify codes to fit their specific needs ranging from security patching to measuring vulnerabilities in hours. Additionally, OSS is free and support options are available at prices that are much lower than commercial products. A govt using a proprietary software product usually ends up paying millions of dollars in a year to the vendor. However, with Open Source software, they only pay for support, thus saving a large chunk.
What will be 5G's impact on OSS?
5G, touted as 100 times faster than LTE and 10 times faster than 4G will help unlock OSS potential to its max. The network speeds will be faster than ever allowing clouds to function with virtually no lags at all. The support systems will get better over time allowing real time diagnosis of errors.
In fact, 5G may make more institutions, governments and companies to adopt Open Source software as their preferred working platforms. The cost of operations will dramatically come down and will result in increased profits.
Developers around the world will get to share insights and developments regarding codes and solutions on a much faster speed than it is done presently. As a result, OSS platforms will penetrate deeper into all verticals of businesses and life. It will have a positive effect on technologies used in agriculture, health, trading, financial services, IT, communications and more verticals.
Is the end of road for licensed source software providers near?
The trend has cleared that major developers and providers of closed source software services will look out for acquiring open source software communities and companies in order to stay relevant in the future. Though it is impossible to say that institutions and organizations around the world will stop using closed source software completely, it is completely a valid argument that OSS will decrease the dependency on such software dramatically.
Businesses everywhere focus on improving profits by providing better solutions and OSS has already shown its ability to do the same by cutting costs without compromising on the work quality.
Will emerging OSS create jobs?
Open Source Jobs Report (2017) by Open Source Observatory mentions, "Hiring managers are increasingly looking for open source professionals, and two thirds of them say that the numbers of these specialists they hire will increase more than other areas of their businesses. Main drivers are company growth (60%), increasing use of open source technologies (42%), and open source becoming core to the business (30%)."
More companies shifting to OSS platforms will in every way lead to jobs creation. The widespread adoption of OSS will also call for better support services resulting in more professionals required to carry out tasks.
GitHub on achieving the 100 million live repositories milestone, posted on its blog, "Powering this number is an incredible community. Together, you're 31 million developers from nearly every country and territory in the world, collaborating across 1.1 billion contributions." This number – 31 million developers, will only increase with time.
As OSS gets adopted by more institutions, the number of required developers and those providing support will go up automatically. OSS implementation and on-site training will also lead to more job opportunities. There will be more coding jobs as the eco-system expands further.
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NHS managers are making patients wait longer than necessary for operations, with one claiming that treating them quickly "raises expectations" At least 10 primary care trusts (PCTs) have told hospitals to increase the length of time before they see patients in order to save money, an investigation by The Daily Telegraph has found. In some areas, patients endured delays of 12 or 15 weeks after GPs decided they needed surgery, even though hospitals could have seen them sooner. The maximum permitted time between referral and treatment is 18 weeks. In one case a manager said the policy keeps patients in line as "short waiting times also create more demand for treatment due to the expectations this raises". It comes after an NHS watchdog suggested that if patients are forced to wait a long time, they will remove themselves from lists "either by dying or by paying for their own treatment".
And the lessons are? Patients are people, not objects to be maneuvered to meet check list goals. Centralized control has no place in health care. Bureaucrats are not patient friendly. What a disgrace.


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Contemporary Mexican artist Gonzalo Lebrija initiates a clash between traditional Mariachi and the music of Wagner in this world-premiere performance. Dallas's only all-female mariachi ensemble performs a newly commissioned work by composer Jesús Echevarría. The Gonzalo Lebrija's performance Mariachi Wagner is an event presented by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as part of SOLUNA International Arts & Music Festival.
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Devon holds a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in geography from the University of New Mexico, and is nationally certified to teach in the Iyengar tradition. Devon began formal practice of Iyengar Yoga in 1978, and since then has studied with senior-level Iyengar teachers both here and abroad, as well as with Mr. Iyengar, his son Prashant and his daughter Geeta in Pune. She has taught since 1980 in New Mexico, Africa, and Texas, and opened Clear Spring Studio in Austin in the spring of 1990, inviting all Iyengar teachers to join in the first dedicated yoga studio in Austin.
Devon has also worked with Peggy Kelley and other teachers on Iyengar teacher training projects for over twenty years, and recently rewrote the Austin Iyengar Yoga teacher training curriculum. She also likes art and craftwork.
Peggy is the founder of the Austin Yoga Institute. She began her study of Yoga in the late 60's in Cambridge, Massachusetts, having since studied with Senior Yoga teachers in Europe, Canada, and the US. In India, Peggy has studied with B.K.S., Geeta, and Prashant Iyengar, and other Yoga masters.
She began teaching yoga in British Columbia over 30 years ago and has taught in Mexico, Europe, and the southwest United States. She was a founding member of the Iyengar Yoga Association of the US and served from 1990-1994.
She is certified to teach and to recommend teachers for certification. In addition to her yoga training, Peggy has studied insight Meditation with Rodney Smith and Ayurveda with Bri. Maya Tiwari, David Frawley and The American Institute of Ayurveda, where she received her certificate in 2003.
Anne has practiced yoga since 1994 and found the Iyengar method not long after that. Anne regularly attends workshops and teacher training sessions with senior instructors in the Iyengar tradition. She studies most closely with Laurie Blakeney and Randy Just. She studies locally with Peggy here in Austin.
Anne serves on the IYNAUS national board, and is on the steering committee for the 2019 IYNAUS national convention.
In her abundant free time, Anne is Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. She also directs the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core.
She maintains a popular blog, teachingphilosophyandyoga.blogspot.com.
As a practitioner, yoga has helped her to grow, recover and rebuild many phases of her life. She believes that yoga has the ability to transform the way you interact with the world both on and off the mat. Shortly after passing the Iyengar Introduction II assessment in 2015 she relocated her family from Amsterdam to Austin. Since moving to Austin Val has been working towards her Junior I certification. As a teacher, Val strives to create a warm and positive setting which inspires students to connect both body and mind through asana and breath in order to cultivate a deep sense of awareness.
Vicky has studied Iyengar yoga since 2000, and has been one of Peggy Kelley's students since 2003. A week after her first Iyengar class, she wrote, "I've started taking yoga, and I think it's going to change my life." She was right. In addition to her experience studying and teaching Iyengar yoga, she draws on more than 15 years as a university instructor to tailor her pacing and instructional approach to each class and student. She considers it a privilege to teach, and an extraordinary privilege to teach Iyengar yoga.
Sheryl Abrams is originally from Austin, but has spent the last 10 years living in the Midwest. She tolerated the cold weather but perhaps the best result from enduring subzero winters were the years she studied with some of the top Iyengar teachers in the U.S. They included Chris Saudek, Lois Steinberg, Kristin Chirhart, Lee Sverkerson, Dean Lerner, Laurie Blakeney and Kathleen Wright. In 2005, Sheryl had the opportunity to study under BKS Iyengar during his Light on Life tour and with Geeta in 2007 during her Las Vegas visit. Sheryl is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor working towards her Junior 1 certification.
Tay (Sulie Anna Tay) is an Iyengar Yoga student since 2000 and teacher in training since 2013. From Australia, Tay first attended class with Alan Goode, before studying with Australian Certification Chair Christine Barnes, Chicago senior teacher Patrina Dobish, Shaw Jiun in Seattle, and Iyengar workshops and classes during her extensive travels. She visited Pune with Peggy Kelley in 2015 and attends regular classes with Anne Marie Shultz and Melissa Hagen. Tay enjoys a vegan lifestyle and works as a technology consultant.


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The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is the peak professional body and voice for the nursing profession in Australia. ACN advocates, develops policy, and provides education to advance the status, recognition, and respect for nursing nationally and internationally.

ACN was established in 2012 from the unification of its predecessor organisations, the Royal College of Nursing, Australia, and The College of Nursing (previously New South Wales College of Nursing). Both had a rich history of championing the nursing profession since 1949.

ACN is the Australian member of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in collaboration with the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF).

Mission
ACN is committed to 'Shaping Health, Advancing Nursing' to enhance the health care of all Australians. ACN does this by advocating for the nursing profession, creating an engaged community of nurses, offering world-class education, preparing nurses to lead, representing the profession in policy development and driving social impact.

Presidents

 Carmen Morgan FACN (2013-2015)
 Adjunct Professor Kathy Baker AM FACN (DLF) (2016)
 Emeritus Professor Christine Duffield FACN (2017-present)

Chief Executive Officers

 Adjunct Professor Debra Thoms FACN DLF (2012-2015)
 Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward FACN (2015-present)

Advocacy
ACN advocates at State and Federal levels and shares valuable insights and recommendations to ensure the collective nursing voice is heard.

ACN has 23 specialty Faculties that inform specific areas of practice by connecting like-minded ACN Fellows and Members, which are:

 Adolescent & Young People
 Advanced Practice
 Chief Nursing Informatics Officers
 Climate & Health
 Clinical Research Nurses
 Chronic Disease
 Cosmetic-Dermatology Nursing
 Disaster Health
 End of Life Care
 Enrolled Nurses
 First Nations
 Global Nursing
 Healthy Ageing
 History
 Leadership
 Legal & Ethical Issues
 Military Nursing
 National Nursing Executive
 Next Generation
 Nurse Informatics & Digital Health
 Nursing in the Community
 Nursing Regulation
 Rural and Remote Nursing.

Policy Summit
The ACN Policy Summit is an annual forum where high-profile nurses and health policy advocates connect in Canberra to address significant policy issues for nursing and health care. The Summit brings together nurses and other health professionals to identify and discuss major policy opportunities and strategies to address these.

Notes

External links
website

Nursing schools in Australia
Education in Sydney
Distance education institutions based in Australia
Educational institutions established in 1949
1949 establishments in Australia
National Rural Health Alliance organisations


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