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Exploring the Multi-Chain Universe Amid Incentives & Upgrades
On-Chain Markets Update by Lucas Outumuro, IntoTheBlock Smart contract platforms' tokens have been amongst the top performers of 2021. While Ether has recorded a remarkable 330% return year-to-date, newer platforms such as Solana, Avalanche and Terra have seen their tokens grow over 1,000% in 2021. The rise in these platforms has been driven initially by […]
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DeFi Research
On-Chain Markets Update by Lucas Outumuro, IntoTheBlock
Smart contract platforms' tokens have been amongst the top performers of 2021. While Ether has recorded a remarkable 330% return year-to-date, newer platforms such as Solana, Avalanche and Terra have seen their tokens grow over 1,000% in 2021.
The rise in these platforms has been driven initially by their lower fees and more scalable blockchains, but more recently sizable incentives programs have also buoyed their tokens. At the same time, Ethereum is pushing further with upgrades improving its proposition as a store of value and scalability. As so-called "Ethereum killers" have quickly grown, it is worth taking a step back and analyzing the evolution of the space to better understand how the multi-chain universe is unfolding and creating opportunities for both users and investors.
In terms of market cap, the top 10 smart contract platforms reached an all-time high in early September with an aggregate valuation of over $750 billion.
The recent run-up in valuations has been driven by platforms such as Cardano and Solana hitting new all-time highs. While Ethereum has remained below its May high, Luna, Avalanche, Solana, Cardano, Algorand and Cosmos reached new heights in late August or early September.
This has resulted in Ethereum's market share dropping in terms of valuations.
Ethereum's market share out of the top 10 smart contract platforms is currently around 60%. However, as many will know, valuations of many of these platforms are not necessarily rational given that some do not have applications currently running on top of their blockchains.
Looking at the top 10 smart contract platforms by total value locked (TVL), we obtain a better understanding of their market share based on traction in DeFi.
As decentralized finance has grown into one of the most relevant sectors for applications on top of smart contract platforms, TVL has become widely used as its gauge for adoption. Though imperfect for reasons we won't discuss here, TVL does provide a measure for the amount of capital entrusted by investors to each protocol and its underlying blockchain.
In Ethereum's case, its market share of TVL (70%) is significantly higher than its 60% share of market capitalization. This points to Ethereum being priced at a discount relative to the adoption of its DeFi ecosystem. Regardless, the charts are similar with Ethereum losing market share in May and September.
The leading contenders in terms of TVL have been BSC and Solana, which managed to attract users with lower fees and faster transactions. Applications built on top of these blockchains also gained momentum offering high yields through liquidity mining. This approach has become mimicked by chains like Polygon and Avalanche offering incentives in their own native tokens to users of certain applications, especially for "blue-chips" such as Aave and Curve.
These incentives have accelerated the path towards a multi-chain world. As yield-seeking participants enter the market or deploy more capital, liquidity mining has proven effective at driving both usage and appreciation of native tokens as seen with Avalanche below.
As seen above, the announcement of the incentives program on Avalanche — dubbed Avalanche Rush — led to a parabolic increase in both TVL and AVAX's market cap. A similar pattern occurred on Polygon when their incentive program kicked off in April. Throughout the three months of the initial program, TVL on Polygon increased over 60x from $150M to $10B. Afterwards, MATIC rewards were decreased by 70% and TVL dropped by 50% to $5 billion, still 30 times higher than prior to the program.
Given the success of these incentives, several more smart contract platforms have announced their own liquidity mining programs and many more are likely to continue to do so. Just like we saw with DeFi Summer at the application layer, liquidity mining incentives by smart contract platforms are propelling the quick rise of the multi-chain universe.
While these programs are likely to continue to take market share from Ethereum, the first smart contract platform has an arsenal of upgrades pushing it forward. The release of Arbitrum and Optimism are likely to lead to greater adoption of Ethereum as layer 2 solutions significantly lower fees for users.
Moreover, Ether's proposition as a store of value is growing in momentum. Following EIP-1559, Ether's issuance has halved on average and even been negative for a few days.
Source: IntoTheBlock's Ether Supply Metrics
The decrease in issuance and strong adoption of Ether for applications in DeFi and NFTs support its potential for it to become a store of value and be priced as such. Furthermore, following the merge of the Beacon Chain, which is expected in early 2022, net issuance is projected to sustain negative levels, benefiting ETH holders from transactions on the Ethereum blockchain and boosting its potential to develop a monetary premium.
That being said, in seeking this path the Ethereum community risks losing ground to the emerging smart contract platforms that already offer lower fees and in many cases subsidized usage through incentive programs. This sets the base for quick growth and strengthening competition in a multi-chain world where ultimately users and investors stand to benefit.


From Starry Sky Scans: Timid Yasumori is always wearing half a smile with fear in his eyes as he gets bullied. Takemi who has had Yasumori on his mind, rescues him, and in the heat of the moment, he confesses his feelings to Yasumori. In reply, Yasumori gives an unexpected answer: "That means you'll submit to me, right?" While love takes on many different forms, these feelings can't be replaced— A love story packed with the inconsistent meanings of "love" uniting as one.


'SharkCam' was deployed by researchers off the coast of Mexico last year, designed to offer a unique view of wild great white sharks. Luckily, it was also designed to withstand some serious shark bites.
August 6, 2014, 1:24 p.m.
Last year, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) released a robotic "SharkCam" off Mexico's Guadalupe Island, hoping to catch rare underwater video of great white sharks in action. The sharks, meanwhile, were just hoping to catch some juicy seals.
As the video above shows, neither the scientists nor the sharks got quite what they were expecting.
The SharkCam — aka Remote Environmental Monitoring Units, or REMUS — is a torpedo-like robot equipped with six GoPro cameras as well as other tools for locating, tracking and recording radio-tagged wildlife. It was supposed to find tagged great whites and film them from a pre-determined "stand-off distance," but the sharks beat it to the punch. They quickly began hunting it like they hunt seals: stalking from darker waters below, then surging up to bite the robot in its tail or midsection.
These seem to be predatory attacks, the researchers say, suggesting the sharks really thought they were hunting a seal. It's fascinating to watch these ancient predators crash into their prey, displaying a level of gastronomic gusto that has helped them survive for more than 400 million years. (You can even see one lose a tooth on REMUS at the 2:01 mark.) It's also fascinating to watch them realize this isn't food, letting it drop unceremoniously as they swim off for something more palatable.
As monstrous as these sharks look chomping onto REMUS, it's worth noting they aren't the man-eaters often depicted in movies. Most humans are too scrawny to be worth their time, which helps explain why sharks of all species — not just great whites — kill fewer than 10 people worldwide in an average year, compared with the 100 million sharks killed annually by us. That doesn't mean sharks aren't legitimately scary, of course. It's just a reminder that we can be even scarier.
REMUS has now tracked basking sharks and great whites, but it also has less harrowing missions on the horizon. According to WHOI, plans are underway to enlist the robot's help in studying sea turtles.
Do marine reserves matter? Ask sharks in Fiji.
'SharkCam' was supposed to stalk sharks off the coast of Mexico's Guadalupe Island, but they beat it to the punch.


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Supreme Court: No Cell Phone Searches Without a Warrant
By Julie Borowski
I'll be honest.
Being an activist for liberty can occasionally be downright depressing. Sometimes it feels like it's just one bad news after another as the government continues to grow and take away our basic freedoms.
Every now and again, there is some good news though!
The Supreme Court just ruled that police officers must obtain a warrant before searching through an arrestee's cell phone. This unanimous decision has huge implications as 12 million Americans are arrested every single year and most carry cell phones with vast amounts of personal information.
Of course, this issue should be a no brainer. The Fourth Amendment, which clearly prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, should still apply in today's digital age.
Up until now, however, the law has been unclear about smart phones. For better or worse, the Supreme Court has upheld that personal items, such as wallets, may be subject to search after arrest. The Obama administration has previously defended cell phone searches by saying that the devices are no different than anything else a police officer could find on a person.
Thankfully, the Supreme Court disagreed and ruled in favor of cell phone privacy. Chief Justice Roberts writes how cell phones deserve greater privacy protection in the majority opinion:
Cell phones differ in both a quantitative and qualitative sense from other objects that might be carried on an arrestee's person. The term "cell phone" is itself misleading shorthand; many of these devices are in fact minicomputers that also happen to have the capacity to be used as a telephone. They could just as easily be called cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, librararies, albums, televisions, maps, or newspapers.
The justices are right. Cell phones are in a different category than wallets because the devices store so much private and sensitive information about a person. In today's world, searching through someone's phone can be as intrusive as searching through their home.
The majority opinion goes on to say:
Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans "the privacies of life." The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought. Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple— get a warrant.
FreedomWorks applauds the Supreme Court for upholding the Fourth Amendment. This is a huge win for personal privacy. We hope that this means that the Supreme Court has decided to take civil liberties issues seriously.
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Isn't it odd to be celebrating what should be a given? We are so suppressed these days that your own cell phone has become an issue?! Has anyone else felt this? We are no freer here than in Russia! I am ashamed we took so long to see it.
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FreedomWorks Statement in Response to Democrats' Calls to Pack the Supreme Court
BY Peter Vicenzi
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to Democratic Presidential Candidates' comments that they would not rule-out adding additional Justices to the United States Supreme Court, Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks President, commented:
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A Small Victory Against Civil Asset Forfeiture at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court issued an opinion on Wednesday that is a shot across the bow of defenders of civil asset forfeiture. In a unanimous judgment, the justices incorporated the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the states. The Court didn't rule on the dubious constitutionality of civil asset forfeiture, leaving that issue for another day.
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Regulatory Action Center Review - January 23, 2019
BY Daniel Savickas
Welcome to FreedomWorks Foundation's second regulatory review of 2019! Our Regulatory Action Center proudly updates you with our favorite tidbits from the swamp. We want to smash barriers between bureaucracy and the American people by delivering regulatory news straight to FreedomWorks activists. Check back in two weeks for the next edition.
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Supreme Court Likely to Deliver a Long Overdue Blow to Civil Asset Forfeiture
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Timbs v. Indiana. The case centers around the use of civil asset forfeiture and whether or not to incorporate the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the states. Although the Court won't decide the case until next year, the oral arguments show that most of the justices appear ready to deal a long overdue blow to civil asset forfeiture.
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Key Vote YES on the Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
On behalf of FreedomWorks' activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and urge them to vote YES on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Kavanaugh is a worthy nominee who will interpret the Constitution as written and stop unconstitutional government expansion.
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Democrats Attempt to Plunge Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing Into Chaos
There was no shortage of fireworks in the Senate Judiciary Committee during the first day of the confirmation hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who has received a "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association. Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) hadn't even completed the first sentence of his opening statement before Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) interrupted, beginning nearly 90 minutes of obstruction by Democrats who serve on the committee and frequent outbursts from protestors in the audience.
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Here's What You Need to Know About Brett Kavanaugh
President Donald Trump named Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve as the next associate justice on the Supreme Court on Monday evening to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is retiring at the end of July after serving for 30 years on the bench. Judge Kavanaugh is President Trump's second nominee to the Supreme Court, and he's a good choice because of his experience and approach to the law, but he's not a home run nominee.
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Senate Democrats' Desperate Attempt to Stop the Another Trump Nominee to the Supreme Court
President Donald Trump is expected to announce his second Supreme Court nominee tonight at 9:00 pm. As one might expect, Democrats are losing their collective minds over Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement and the thought of another conservative jurist on the Court. But their primary argument for not confirming a nominee is very different from the set of circumstances that the Senate faced in 2016.
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Supreme Court Deliver Victory for Privacy Rights
BY Samantha Debicki
The Supreme Court issued a decision Friday in the Carpenter v. U.S. case. The Court's decision means that a warrant must now be obtained before being able to access cell site location information which is very similar, if not more accurate, than the Global Positioning System (GPS). This is a big victory for the American people and for privacy rights.
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Some Form of Line-Item Veto Is Necessary, But It Isn't a Cure for Washington's Spending Addiction
In a press conference on Friday, President Donald Trump criticized the process that Congress used to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act, H.R. 1625, although he signed the spending bill into law. Still, he threatened to veto a future spending bill that was packed with wasteful spending and unrelated legislative priorities.
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Q: The size of the contact picture is changed when inserting and updating I have a problem inserting or updating a contact picture.
It seems that Android compressed the picture.
For testing, I created a PNG with 200 x 200 px and saved it in the internal app storage.
The size of the byte[] is 52490.
But the size of the contact picture (high res) is always 6767 bytes.
Tested on a HTC U11 (Android 9) and Sony Xperia (Android 8)
Reading the image from internal storage:
byte[] readPicture(String filename) {
    FileInputStream in = null;
    byte[] result = null;
    try {
        in = context.openFileInput(filename);
        result = new byte[in.available()];
        int read = in.read(result);
        Log.d("FileUtil", read + " bytes read from " + filename);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        closeStream(in);
    }
    return result;
}

Insert the picture to a specific contact:
picture = readPicture(filename);
ContentProviderOperation.Builder builder = ContentProviderOperation.newInsert(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI);
builder.withYieldAllowed(true);
builder.withValue(ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID, contactId);

builder.withValue(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE);
builder.withValue(ContactsContract.Data.IS_SUPER_PRIMARY, 1);
builder.withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.PHOTO, picture);

ops.add(builder.build());

Load the full-size contact picture:
// contact.getContactId() == ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID
// contact.getLookup() == ContactsContract.Data.LOOKUP_KEY
ContactsContract.Contacts.getLookupUri(Long.parseLong(contact.getContactId()), contact.getLookup());
InputStream is = ContactsContract.Contacts.openContactPhotoInputStream(cr, uri, true);
ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] result = null;
if (is != null) {
    byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
    int length;
    try {
        while ((length = is.read(buffer)) != -1) {
            os.write(buffer, 0, length);
        }
        result = os.toByteArray();
    } catch (Exception ignored) {
        return null;
    } finally {
        FileUtil.closeStream(is);
        FileUtil.closeStream(os);
    }
}
return result;

I think I'm doing something wrong, but I have no idea what.

A: Don't you need to loop the read, in following code:
while(in.available()>0){
    result = new byte[in.available()];
    int read = in.read(result);
    //or better make a loop until in.read(readBytes[])!=-1
    Log.d("FileUtil", read + " bytes read from " + filename);
}

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Something as simple as planting a tree can have a great impact on the Earth. Being that today is Arbor Day, there's no better time to start than today.
Still not sure? Here are 15 reasons you should plant a tree…today!
Well-maintained trees and shrubs can increase property value by 14-27%.
One tree produces an estimated 260 pounds of oxygen per year. How much is that? It's enough to support two people every year.
A single tree can absorb as much carbon in a year as a car produces while driving 26,000 miles.
Trees are renewable, biodegradable, and recyclable.
Trees generate jobs and contribute raw materials for buildings, newspapers, books, and more.
Some studies indicate that neighborhoods with trees had lower crime rates.
Other studies show a strong link between being in nature and improved stress levels.
People who live near trees are generally happier and have healthier relationships.
Each average-sized tree provides approximately $7 savings in annual environmental benefits such as energy conservation and reduced pollution.
Plant a fruit or nut tree on your property and enjoy the fruits of your labor!
Trees help reduce soil erosion and water runoff from storms.
When planted alongside roads, trees can help reduce glare.
I can't stress the importance of planting trees! They are miracle workers when it comes to recycling, protecting, and providing. Many can take 20+ years to grow to maturity so the best time to plant a tree is now.
If you live in an area where you just can't plant a tree, check out the Arbor Day Foundation to see how you can help. It's also worthwhile to look into your local park systems. Many need volunteers to lend a hand. There are also several groups such as the New Jersey Tree Foundation that organizes tree planting and educational events for communities.
Let's start caring a whole awful lot and watch things get better because this planet is the only one we've got! Plymouth Rock Assurance wants to know: how are you celebrating Arbor Day this year?
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RNHA Endorses Susanne Hayne for State Representative in Kansas' HD-103
October 30, 2020 Endorsements RNHA Endorsement
The Republican National Hispanic Assembly is proud to endorse Susanne Hayne for State Representative in Kanas' HD-103. Susanne Hayne is a life-long resident of Kansas. She is currently a mother of four and has been married for 24 years. Susanne Hayne is an extremely talented individual who is currently working in an accompanying position at
The RNHA Endorses Dennison Rivera for State House District 79 in Montana
The Republican National Hispanic Assembly is proud to endorse Dennison Rivera for State House District 79 in Montana. Dennison is married and settled down in Helena some time ago. Rivera is running on the Republican-ticket as the only Latino in the Montanan House District Legislative race. Dennison Rivera is a small business owner who understands the
The RNHA Endorses Pattrick Penn for Kanas HD-85 State Representative
The Republican National Hispanic Assembly is proud to endorse Pattrick Penn for Kanas State House district 85. Pattrick Pen is a natural leader who has served in the Army. As an enlisted man, he attained the rank of Sergeant and became a Paralegal Supervisor. As a Paralegal Supervisor, he leads legal and tax support teams
RNHA Endorses Greg Conchola For Kansas State Rep Dist. 32
The RNHA is proud to endorse Greg Conchola for Kansas State House of Representative District 32. Greg Conchola is a retired Kansas City Police Master Detective. Conchola served in Leawood PD for 2.5 years and then worked for KCKPD for 25 years. Greg Conchola is a fighter who has been fighting in and out of
The RNHA Endorses Dr. Roger Marshall for Kansas U.S Sentator
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The RNHA is proud to endorse Dr. Roger Marshall in his Senate Race in Kansas. Dr. Marshall is a physician and family who grew up in Butler County, Kansas. Dr. Marshall was the first member of his family to attend college. Dr. Marshall received his Bachelor's degree from Kansas State University and received his M.D
The Republican National Hispanic Assembly is proud to endorse Jake LaTurner for Congressman in Kansas District 2. Jake LaTurner was born and raised in Galena, Kanas. He is a 6th-generation Kansan who was raised to have faith in God, the importance of family, love of country, and the dignity of work. Jake attended Pittsburg State
The RNHA Endorses Jesus Solorio for Congressman in Illinois 4th Congressional District
The Republican National Hispanic Assembly is proud to endorse Jesus Solorio for Congressman in Illinois' 4th congressional district. Jesus Solorio is the son of Mexican immigrants and a native of Chicago's Southside. Jesus is a dedicated conservative leader who will fight for small businesses and education. Solorio is a strong proponent of policy and has
The RNHA Endorses Aliscia Andrews for Congresswoman in Virginia's 10th Congressional Distinct
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The Republican National Hispanic Assembly is proud to endorse Aliscia Andrews for Congresswoman of Virginia's 10th congressional distinct. Aliscia Andrews is a family oriented woman who is married with three children. She is a Marine Corps veteran and national security expert that has served her country faithfully for many years. In 2005, she joined the Marines
RNHA National Endorses Debbie Lesko for Congresswoman in Arizona's 8th District
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The Republican National Hispanic Assembly is proud to endorse Debbie Lesko for Congress in Arizona's 8th congressional district. In 2018, Debbie Lesko was sworn in as a Congresswoman in the U.S House of Representatives after winning the special election. Lesko serves on the House Judiciary Committee, The House Rues Committee and the Homeland Security Committee.
RNHA National Endorses Doug Collins for U.S Senate in Georgia
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The Republican National Hispanic Assembly is proud to endorse Doug Collins for U.S Senate. Collins grew up in Northeast Georgia, where he gained a passion for public service from his father who served as a Georgia state trooper and his mom a cared provider for local senior citizens. Doug Collins followed in their foots steps


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Easter Pilgrimage to Chimayó
The last stretch of sky is much too wide, full of turkey vultures and hot air balloons. Under it, we're on our way to the Lourdes of the Southwest: El Santuario de Chimayó, a pilgrimage center tucked in a nearly blank spot of the New Mexican map, north of Santa Fe, southwest of Taos.
The most devout walk the last miles through the high desert, dragging huge crosses with them, each gasping breath bringing in the scent of sage and creosote.
As many as 40,000 people over Easter weekend, and nearly 300,000 people over the course of a year come this far into the middle of nowhere because dirt taken from a pit inside the church cures anything. Anything at all. People put sprinkles of it on their tongues to cure hearts and bowels; women stand by the edge of the pit, rub dirt on their arms, their knees, the heads of small children. Whatever needs fixed.
It's taken us two days to get here, driving up from the Arizona desert through a high pass that would have shown seven ranges of mountains had only snow not been falling like a scrim. We've spent much of our time in the car trying to decide when a pilgrimage begins. Less than a minute after I picked up my friend James and we left his house, we started arguing about it. Is it when you leave home? Is it when you join a known trail? Is it when some scent in the air lets you know you're doing something different than normal life?
Outside the main chapel, offerings of prayers, candles, flowers, and rosary beads in front of a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe. (© Luc Novovitch / Alamy Stock Photo)
James is fresh out of law school, having learned from my mistakes. We'd met years ago, right about the time I finished my master's degree in religious studies. James, then headed for divinity school, opted out. "I can take being disillusioned with the law," he told me, "but not with God."
James is on this trip with me because he probably believes. I'm on the trip with him because I wish I believed. But at least pilgrimage is where I understand a certain sense movement allowing for the awesome, in the grand, old meaning of the world.
Were we already on pilgrimage when we stopped at Holbrook's Wigwam Motel, on a ghost stretch of Route 66? Here at the edge of the Navajo Reservation, we snapped pictures of the concrete teepees — not wigwams at all, but either way, nothing like the traditional Navajo hogan, a kind of igloo made of mud and logs — and I told James about the puppy my ex-wife and I had rescued from right across the street, years ago. Rufus had been abandoned a couple days after Christmas, and until we found him a home with a good boy, all he wanted to do was sit under my chair and play tug of war. That's the lesson of a dog that we all need to learn: wag your tail at life, and life will wag back. A dog's pilgrimage is as simple as getting up and celebrating what the world smells like today.
People, though, are a little tougher and need better guidelines, so for many of the devout, the Easter pilgrimage to Chimayó officially begins near the Santa Fe Opera House, where the police barricades start. For the next 30 miles, a quarter of the road is blocked off behind an orange plastic fence, making room for the walking faithful.
We want to stop and talk to them but think it's wrong to interrupt. Their minds are elsewhere. Some groups look cheerful, like it's a church picnic; others are somber, concentrating on each step. They're dressed somewhere between good Sunday clothes and the kind of stuff you buy at REI to go hiking.
Nearly 300,000 over the course of a year come this far into the middle of nowhere because dirt taken from a pit inside the church cures anything.
We drive right past them, and as the desert gives way to a river-bottom oasis, quite suddenly we're there.
Pilgrimage is as old as the world. The Bible is full of pilgrimages, in both the Old and New Testaments. In Islam, of course, there's the pilgrimage to Mecca, which all able faithful are required to perform once in their lives.
I've stood, surrounded by monkeys, in a spot where the Buddha preached. I've walked hundreds of miles in the back country of Japan, following the footsteps of Kobo Daishi, ninth-century saint and all-around good guy. At Santiago de Compostela, in northern Spain, where James the Apostle is said to be buried, there's a marble pillar all the faithful touch in thanks for a safe journey. So many people have put their hands there over the centuries that when I did the same, my hand sank half an inch deep in the worn-away stone.
And El Santuario de Chimayó breathes the same kind of power. The church sits in a small, adobe-walled courtyard, up a slight hill from an outdoor worship area underneath cottonwoods with hundreds of crosses made of twigs and grass stuck into the bark. Hundreds more are twined and woven into the chain-link fence that keeps a braying donkey away from a few graves half climbed by thick weeds.
The church itself looks like only one thin room, with reredos — small but marvelously decorated and colored altars — to the left and right where the apse would be in something larger. Mud-colored sun filters in through smudged windows, falls on images of San Gabriel holding his sword, San Rafael with a fish.
During Holy Week, the faithful, the penitent, and the curious march to El Santuario de Chimayó — the largest religious pilgrimage in the U.S. (© Chuck Place / Alamy Stock Photo)
But after our eyes get used to the light, we notice a low doorway to the left of the altar; it opens to another, even thinner room, hung with prayer beads and retablo and crutches. A man leads his child around, stopping at paintings of cures, shrines the size of Barbie suitcases. "Hands together," he tells his son, clasping his own tattoo-covered hands — anywhere else, I'd think they were gang tattoos, but here they seem quite different.
Pilgrimage as an art form, that great impulse to let your mind follow your feet, never really took hold in the United States — we are too much a product of Protestantism, which did away with pilgrimage — but here it is, and all its beauty requires nothing but attention. I can't help but stand here and think we are missing something large and wonderful simply because we forget to look.
Pilgrimage is an expression of gratitude, and for myself, it's been a long time since I've been this happy, this grateful, to be somewhere.
So many people come here, giving thanks over Easter, that signs everywhere ask you not to light candles. Even the flagstones would go up in the flames of devotion.
The church has only one more room, hardly bigger than a shower stall. We have to bend over double to get through that doorway. Inside, the room is almost empty, except for a shallow pit a foot or so across.
And that's why we're all here. It's where the dirt is. The object of the pilgrimage.
El Santuario de Chimayó isn't particularly old. It was built by communal labor in 1816, villagers getting together to make this chapel, patting down three-foot-thick adobe walls. The church was founded when a man named Bernardo Abeyta, who was walking penance in the hills, saw a bright light coming from a hole. He ran down to the spot, started digging, and discovered a crucifix of Our Lord of Esquipulas.
But the site had long been a popular place of healing for the Isleta Pueblo natives, who'd spent a few thousand years in the area. They knew that this tiny river valley was a place where the earth itself was curative. The very planet belched out smoke, fire, hot water here, from a pit called Tsimajopokwi. But when the twin gods of war killed the guardian of the pit, the springs dried up.
The locals made the best of a bad situation; the pit still cured. People came from hundreds of miles to rub its sand on their bodies, and so when, in the early 1700s, the Catholics moved in, it didn't seem that strange for them to do the same thing.
Today, the priest, wearing blue pants to match the sky and a clean white shirt, smiles at us, makes sure we don't need anything translated — a little puzzling, since even if we are the only Anglo faces, everybody is still speaking English — and then gets back to his business. More of us than can fit into the church are scooping up bits of dirt, so he's setting up for Mass under the cottonwoods.
At the fount, people are filling gallon jugs with holy water.
The dirt is sandy and cool. I imagine the altar boys, noticing the pit getting low, carrying a shovel and whistling while they walk past the donkey to get more dirt from the stream banks. On Good Friday, there must be a bucket brigade passing more in. Each time the dirt gets refilled, the priest offers special blessings, as if the pit were some kind of giant battery charger of the sacred, spreading itself out into grains of sand.
Ladies scoop the dirt into envelopes, Tupperware, special containers sold under a dizzying selection of rosaries (and those forbidden candles) at the nearby gift shop. Once they have their dirt, they smile shyly at each other, adjust their shawls, and say a final prayer, their mission complete. They're set until next year, when it will be time to make the journey all over again.
I envy them, deeply. They have what they need, whereas I find myself, yet again, not able to make that leap, to find myself where they are.
We get our dirt, packing it in tiny bottles. Months later, it will still be on my desk, and if I pop the container open, I'll catch the aroma of a perfect day in a perfect place.
I may never bring myself to use it. As much as I try, I'm simply not that open to the world yet.
We step out of the church into the wide-open, impossibly huge blue sky, and despite all the roadblocks I put up in front of myself, I feel like Rufus the dog must have: how glorious, glorious the world smells right at this moment.
James and I never were able to figure out when a pilgrimage officially starts, and as we walk back toward the car, crossing a stream so small my shoes alone are almost enough to bridge it, he asks me, "When's a pilgrimage over?" as if the 15 years I've spent researching the subject means I have any kind of answer. He should know me better than that.
The priest flips the wrong switch on the PA system, blasting enough noise to shake leaves off the cottonwoods, rustle the grass crosses. He looks up apologetically, turns the electronics over to his assistant.
After a minute, the donkey starts his own sermon again, and I figure that's a good enough answer to James' question.


1. A sound policy has government do only what individuals and associations cannot do for themselves.
2. A sound policy considers long-term consequences over all groups of people not just the short terms effects on one group.
3. A sound policy will enhance: choice, competition and freedom.
4. A sound policy focuses on measurable outcomes, not just inputs and good intentions.
5. A sound policy aligns incentives by moving up the hierarchy of Friedman's Law of Spending.
6. A sound policy would enable governance (like decisions about taxes and expenditures) closest to the people.
7. A sound policy would impose the same standards, norms and punishments for non-performance on governments as are imposed on non-state providers.
8. A sound policy will not sacrifice the rights of an individual for the interest of many.
9. A sound policy is based on the premise that people are responsible, resilient, and self-governing given the right set of incentives and framework of law.
10. A sound policy should often have an expiry date (sunset clause).


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Technology Used Correctly: Better Business Practices
Chico's boosts marketing spend; 2010 sales improve
Women's specialty retailer Chico's FAS increased marketing expenses by $4.4 million in its fiscal fourth quarter of 2010. Kent Kleeberger, EVP, CFO and treasurer of the company, said it spent more on e-marketing initiatives across all three Chico's brands.
"Return on marketing spend is a new world," said Kleeberger on a February 23 earnings call. "Our CRM group [has] done a lot of very good work. As a result, we were able to mail more efficiently. We were able to increase business with less circulation."
He added that Chico's, which operates the Chico's, White House/Black Market and Soma Intimates brands, took catalog circulation spending and invested it in paid search and social media marketing.
"We're also looking at adding TV [marketing] for the Soma brand and a test for TV for White House," said Kleeberger.
Overall full-year sales at the company increased 11% year-over-year to $1.9 billion. Net sales in fiscal Q4, which ended January 29, increased 9% compared with the previous Q4 to $475 million.
Chico's FAS reported net income of $20.7 million in its fiscal Q4, an 18.3% increase compared with the same period of the prior year. For the full fiscal year, the company earned net income of $115.4 million, an increase of 66% compared with the previous fiscal year.
"We're pleased to report sales and earnings increases in spite of a winter weather pattern the likes of which I've never seen in my retail career," said Dave Dyer, president and CEO of Chico's. "We saw snowstorm upon snowstorm, ice storms, torrential rains and mudslides, occurring coast to coast just in time for busy weekends. What's next? Locusts? I was pleased to see how well our teams reacted."
Full-year net sales at the Chico's and Soma Intimates brands increased 10.1% to $1.3 billion compared with the previous year. Fourth-quarter net sales at Chico's and Soma increased 8.8% to $320.7 million.
Full-year net sales at the White House/Black Market brand increased 14.3% to $590.3 million. Fourth-quarter net sales at White House/Black Market increased 9.2% to $154.3 million.
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Nasteha Hassan is the Field Assistant for the South Central office in Somalia. She has a master's degree in accounting and finance from Sudan International University, Khartoum, and a bachelor's degree in accounting from Mogadishu University (MU). In addition to her advanced degrees, she has certifications in multiple accounting applications (Peachtree, DacEasy, QuickBooks, and Excel), human resource management, and project management and planning. She is fluent in three languages: Somali, English and Arabic.
Nasteha has been involved in finance and management for many years in both the private and nonprofit sector. Prior to joining Shuraako, she worked in administration and finance with Ta'meer Group (an Architecture & planning, Engineering Consultancy and Construction Management Company) and Asal Technology Group where she was the head of Administration and Finance. In her free time, Nasteha enjoys reading and spending time with family.


Kathy manages a global organization to deliver comprehensive platforms for Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD) solutions. She leads a team that is developing in-car platforms needed to create increasingly sophisticated solutions for highly autonomous driving needs, is aligning the breadth of Intel's assets with those of recently acquired Mobileye to deliver end-to-end solutions for fully autonomous driving, and is leading Intel's efforts to build out its autonomous fleet. Kathy is seen as an expert in the field and has shared how autonomous driving is changing the automotive industry as a keynote speaker at SemiCon West and Eliv as well as a panelist on CNET at CES. Kathy was also recognized by EETimes as part of its Women in Tech: 25 Profiles in Persistence in 2017.
Prior to joining Intel, Kathy led automated driving efforts, global new-growth strategies for embedded and aftermarket software products, and cloud-based automotive and consumer services at Delphi Electronics & Safety. She was named as one of Automotive News' Top 100 Impactful Women in the Automotive Industry, she and her team won numerous awards, such as the Edison Award for Innovation, Popular Mechanics Best, and USA Today's Readers' Choice for Road Trippers. And in April of 2015, she developed and executed the first-ever, record-breaking cross-country drive by an autonomous vehicle. Prior to Delphi, Kathy spent many years at Motorola where she led their mass market Android smart phone business encompassing all aspects of product lifecycle management including software, hardware, service plans and 3rd party applications.


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Windows 8 is Ready for Release
The Buzz on Windows 8
By Will Claney
Microsoft has just announced it will release Windows 8 in October of 2012, slightly ahead of schedule, and with much fanfare the tech giant will introduce its latest, and best operating system ever.
Microsoft officially announced Monday that it will launch its next operating system, Windows 8, in late October. The release to manufacturing (RTM) edition of Windows 8 will be available in the first week of August, Microsoft's CFO Tami Reller said.
The October launch date coincides with the period when Microsoft's hardware partners will begin shipping their PCs, tablets and hybrid devices that will run the new operating system. The release schedule also falls in line with predictions from critics and analysts, such as ComputerWorld, which has said the software will be available Oct. 25.
Windows 8 Features
Windows 8 offers a number of new Windows 8 features from its all new UI (User Interface – what you see on the screen) to Windows App Store and improvised security features. Here's a list of new features and improvements which will arrive with Windows 8: First, Windows 8 will support new ARM (tablet) CPU's along with the standard Intel and AMD processors. ARM CPU's are smaller and less power consuming and are usually offered in tablets and smartphones.
"Support for ARM-based chipsets, touch, and sensors makes Windows 8 work beautifully on your choice of a full spectrum of devices, such as 10-inch slates with all-day battery life, ultra-lightweight laptops, and powerful all-in-ones with 27-inch high-definition screens," Microsoft contends, in a Windows 8 Guide distributed with Windows Developer Preview.
Speaking about the UI, Windows 8 certainly has got a mind blowing interactive UI, which has been extensively redesigned to a "Metro-style" design, which shows the most important information to you, embodies simplicity, and gives you full control over it. The UI is designed to provide a fluid and intuitive interaction and navigation with touch, or a mouse and keyboard.
First and foremost is the extensively redesigned user interface which has been optimized for touchscreens and tablets. Similar to the Windows Phone 7.5 Metro, Windows 8 will feature a new "Start screen" and include live application tiles. The new start screen will also display the user's name and avatar.
Additionally, the new interface is primarily designed for 16:9 screen resolutions with larger screens capable of displaying two Windows 8 applications. Moreover, with such a large focus on apps in today's user marketplace, the new Windows 8 will be much more app focused and allow users to sync their apps and content across devices as well as access the Window Store on any supporting device.
Live tiles populate the Windows landscape through a mosaic of tiles and traditional desktop icons designed to provide feedback to the user in the form of quick information. For example, let's say you have Google mail. The tile will display how many new messages you have in your inbox without the need to log into your mail client.
Windows 8 also introduces the ability to perform all current copy operations into a single dialog box, instead of requiring you to perform file copying in separate dialog boxes for each app. The new dialog box for file copying lets you pause, resume, and stop each copy operation currently under way. It will also warn you if you're beginning to copy one version of a file on top of another.
Microsoft has also added a real time throughput graph. "Now each copy job shows the speed of data transfer, the transfer rate trend, and how much data is left to transfer. While this is not designed for benchmarking, in many cases it can provide a quick and easy way to assess what is going on for a particular [copy] job," noted Alex Simons, director of program management with the Windows 8 management team.
Windows 8 also brings increased support for multiple monitors; The Developers Preview of the new OS includes first-time capabilities for extending the taskbar across two PCs, without any need for third-party apps. You can also stretch wallpaper across two monitors, or display the Start screen on one PC and the desktop on the other, for instance.
It's also easy to switch between multiple monitors. The primary monitor has a start button, and the secondary monitor has a switcher button. Clicking or tapping on the switcher button will swap it out for the start button, allowing you to turn the secondary monitor into the primary one.
In summation, this is an awesome operating system that spans from smart phone to computer and every device in between and it will be here in a blink of an eye. I get my fully operational Windows 8 computer tonight from my local computer expert. How about you? Are you ready for Windows 8?
How much would you pay for this operating system? A million dollars, half million, a thousand, how about three hundred, no? How about $69.95 and we throw in native USB 3.0 support? But, wait, there's more… Later.
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In the past few months, vehicles in the parking lot of our main office have been under attack. Thieves have been having their way, breaking into cars and taking the valuables found within them. Luckily, as of this point, no car belonging to any of our staff members have been broken into, nor have any cars themselves been taken. This article looks to address some of the steps one should take to ensure their possessions remain safe.
First things first, and I'm a little surprised I need to say this, but make sure you lock your car doors. Thieves are opportunists. Should a thief walk by your car and notice that the doors have been left unlocked the chances of them entering your vehicle are greatly increased. Everyone at one point or another has been guilty of failing to adhere to this simple step. In the time it takes for you to quickly run into the gas station and make a quick purchase, a thief could have made their way into your car and taken your purse, your car, or even worse, your brand new i5 LOL! You get the point. Don't make things easier for someone already looking for the easy way out.
Next, if you don't want a thief to take the things in your car, then make sure there is nothing in your car to take. Now I understand that this may pose a problem in some cases, I mean it may not be ideal to take your laptop into the grocery store with you, or your undelivered dry cleaning into the office. What you can do though is make sure that the things you need to leave in your car are not visible to those seeking to invade your space. If you must keep things in your car, do your best to place them in places like your trunk or glove compartment. Hide things under a reclined passenger seat or even under that stack of papers thrown in the back. Do whatever it takes to keep your possessions out of sight. Thieves aren't going to run the risk of getting caught for a hunch. If they don't see anything of value in your vehicle, then they'll go to the car of the individual who didn't read this article and left their valuables in plain sight, ripe for the taking. Aren't you glad you're reading this article?
There is nothing worse than having things like this happen to you at places where a lot of your time is spent such as work or home. To aid in ensuring they don't, the entire community needs to take a proactive role in the deterrence of such events. Just the other day I was walking to my car in our office parking lot and saw a man wondering aimlessly by the trash cans. I had never seen this man before and decided to ask him if there was something I could help him with. To be honest, I wasn't very interested in helping him at all. I was just curious as to what he was doing in our parking lot. The man replied no, and I replied with a simple "oh, ok." This may seem pointless, but the idea is to make individuals aware of the fact that someone is paying attention. Now imagine what a difference it would make in the deterrence of crime if everyone in our office building took the initiative to engage individuals hanging in and around our facility. Criminals commit these acts with the idea that they're going to get away with it. If they feel as though people are watching, then the idea of them getting away with it goes out the window, as oppose to a brick through yours.
The use of technology is a great way to help deter crime but is not necessarily fool proof. Truth is if a thief wants your things bad enough, they will find a way to get them. All you can do is make sure that getting them is as difficult as possible. When a crook walks by your car, make sure they see nothing. Lock your doors and challenge individuals you find suspicious. It is never my advice to put yourself in harm's way, and if you feel that by asking a simple question to a suspicious person does so, it is always your right to notify the authorities. We all work too hard for the things we have. Let's work just as hard, if not harder to protect them.


Today's post is one that I know a lot of you have been waiting for...My favourtite places in Europe! As the majority of you know by now, I went travelling for around 3 months and I visited 30 places! So, of course I had to write a blog post all about the best places. I would 100% recommend these places to anyone. If you're going travelling, booking a weekend away or even a holiday...have a look at this list! Obviously, not all of these places would be suitable for a weekend away, but you get the idea that I'm going for!
I was going to start by writing about Skiathos in this post, as this was one of the best places! I did write a LOT of different things and it was super long for one section of this post. So...I've decided to dedicate a whole separate post for Skiathos because I have so many pictures, stories and recommendations for you guys! That will be coming on Friday so be sure to keep an eye out for that one.
Verona is a place I have wanted to visit ever since I can remember and I feel so lucky that I have now ticked it off my bucket list. Verona is a city in Northern Italy best known for the location of Juliet's Balcony. Verona is a beautiful place with lots of amazing buildings and views. It's exactly how I pictured it and more! The streets are just so amazing to walk down and I feel like it's such a great place for pictures! We visited the castle which is stunning and has some really great views from there too. It was one of my favourite places for sure! We also visited Juliet's House of course to see the famous balcony and statue. It was very busy but so worth going. I feel like everyone needs to see it at some point in their life. We didn't go inside the Arena but I would love to go back some day and do it. The whole city just has a great feel to it and the look of everything is just incredible. It's one of the places where I didn't really mind getting lost as there was new things to see! Old style buildings, cute little streets and lots of hidden restaurants. It's 100% a place I am eager to visit again for sure!
As you may or may not know, I really want to start writing more fashion blog posts, so here it is! I must admit that this is a little nerve racking for me and also a little out of my comfort zone. But I'm giving it my best shot! Today I just wanted to speak to you guys about my opinions and thoughts on fashion at the minute and what are my next steps in terms of style. I would really love for you guys to get involved with this one and leave me your fashion blog posts below so I can give them a read!
Style is something that is different for every single person and I believe it's so unique to an individual. Everyone can follow a different trend, create their own trend, whatever they like! No two people are the same so we will all have different opinions and likes when it comes to fashion. You may like the same item as someone but have a completely different style, the complications are endless! I love how every single person can be creative with style and it allows us to experiment on an everyday basis. The word style means something different to everyone. Wether it's feeling confident, comfortable, chic...whatever the case, I think it's a pretty cool thing.
For today's post I am talking about a brand that you have seen on the blog before and that you may have heard me mention before...because I love it! The brand is Arhaus and if you have never heard of them before...why not? They are a furniture company which focuses on natural materials and hand made furniture which I love! Their values are all about sustaining the earth and using the world as inspiration. This is the main reason why I love this brand so much and will always be happy to show you guys more about them! If you want to read and see more about the brand, be sure to check out my last post. I will also be leaving links of where to find them at the bottom of this post!
Today I have created a mood board for you all about my dream living room. Interior is a big thing for me and I am obsessed with scrolling through Pinterest looking at how people design their homes. A living room is one that I can't wait to decorate when I move into my own home, you can do so much with it! I am going to be showing you some really great ideas, details and some beautiful pieces from Arhaus!
Of course the colour's of your living room is one of the most important steps and it's one that I'm always thinking about. For me, I would love to have my living room mainly Grey and White but with a few colours dotted here and there. I think that this always looks so amazing and also looks great in any Instagram photo too! Having the majority around two colours is great because everything will match and go really well together. But...to make it a little more interesting you need to have a little colour in there somewhere. Things like, cushions, rugs, coasters, plant pots and picture frames are all amazing things to add that bit of colour to your living room! I have found some amazing inspiration pictures on Pinterest to show you!
Today's post is a spontaneous one that I have just decided to sit and write here and now. I know that you guys enjoy reading my lifestyle and advice posts so I hope that you love this one today and are able to take something from it!
This is a blog post that probably should have gone up a few weeks ago but it has taken longer to put together than I thought! But it's finally here! This post is a summary of my travelling experience. If you have no idea what I'm talking about...then I'll give you a brief update. I went travelling for around 3 months around Europe with my step sister Abi. Today I just wanted to answer some questions that I have been asked and hopefully give some of you some inspiration to go travelling. My travelling consisted of seeing lots of places, taking lots of pictures and experiencing so much. We got to walk around cities, sunbath on beautiful beaches and just have the most amazing time. We got to try food from various places, visit museums and see landmarks which we've only ever seen in pictures or movies. Hopefully some of the pictures in the post will do a lot better of showing you how much of an amazing time I had!
I'm going to start with the obvious question...where did you go? I visited 31 locations in 71 days, so a lot was seen but I'm so happy that I got to see so much. I am going to list all of the locations for you as so many of you want to know, I'll list them in order too!
I have bought a few new products recently so I thought that it was time do let you know what I thought! There are four beauty products to talk about today and as always...I will tell you my 100% honest opinion. Three of these products I bought in Sephora in Paris and one of them arrived from Misfit Cosmetics while I was away. I have now tried all of them out...so here's my thoughts on if you guys should buy them or not!
Yes...I am so late with trying this product but I can now say that I finally own it, and I love it! I can see why everyone hypes about this product so much. I knew that because I was going to see so many Sephora's on this trip, I 100% had to pick this up. I have wanted to try a new brow product for a while now and this one seems to be a clear winner in the YouTube and Blogging world. I bought this in the shade Soft Brown and this is the perfect colour for me. I like my brows to be darker than my hair colour as lighter brows really don't suit me but it is all down to personal preference. This product is high quality, long lasting and looks amazing! I apply this product with an angled brush and it lasts me all day! I think the price of this product is very reasonable as I know it's going to last me a long time. If you are like me, and are late to the band wagon on this product...it is worth the hype!
So, if you don't know what the Interrail Pass is, I'll start with that! My Interrail is an online company who sells different passes for travellers. They are managed by Eurail Group, on behalf of the participating European Railway companies. I found this website through searching online and it was one of the top searches so we thought that we would give it a go.


Thank you to the Harp Column for including my story about touring with Barbra Streisand in the July/August issue. Here's a featured quote from the article: "It felt as if she was singing just to me, to each one of the 18,000 people in the sold-out arena crowd, and it was unforgettable," says Broadway performer Laura Sherman about her moment on stage with Barbra Streisand. What makes a performance memory last a lifetime? We asked harpists around the globe to tell us about their defining moments in this month's feature article Unforgettable.


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import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationConfig;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.InjectableValues;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DefaultDeserializationContext;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerFactory;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collection;

public class CustomDeserializationContext extends DefaultDeserializationContext {
    final static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CustomDeserializationContext.class);

    public CustomDeserializationContext(DeserializerFactory df) {
        super(df, null);
    }

    protected CustomDeserializationContext(CustomDeserializationContext src,
                   DeserializationConfig config, JsonParser jp, InjectableValues values) {
        super(src, config, jp, values);
    }

    protected CustomDeserializationContext(CustomDeserializationContext src) { super(src); }

    protected CustomDeserializationContext(CustomDeserializationContext src, DeserializerFactory factory) {
        super(src, factory);
    }

    @Override
    public DefaultDeserializationContext copy() {
        if (getClass() != CustomDeserializationContext.class) {
            return super.copy();
        }
        return new CustomDeserializationContext(this);
    }

    @Override
    public DefaultDeserializationContext createInstance(DeserializationConfig config,
                                                        JsonParser jp, InjectableValues values) {
        return new CustomDeserializationContext(this, config, jp, values);
    }

    @Override
    public DefaultDeserializationContext with(DeserializerFactory factory) {
        return new CustomDeserializationContext(this, factory);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean handleUnknownProperty(JsonParser p, JsonDeserializer<?> deser, Object instanceOrClass, String propName) throws IOException {
        final boolean originalResult = super.handleUnknownProperty(p, deser, instanceOrClass, propName);

        // log exception without throw it
        final Collection<Object> propIds = (deser == null) ? null : deser.getKnownPropertyNames();
        final UnrecognizedPropertyException e = UnrecognizedPropertyException.from(_parser, instanceOrClass, propName, propIds);
        logger.error("Unrecognized field is logged but ignored [FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES=false]", e);

        return originalResult;
    }
}

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Abiyoyo : Abiyoyo [With CD]
by Pete Seeger and Michael Hays
A young boy and his father save the town that ostracized them from a hungry giant in this picture book adaptation of a South African lullaby and folk story.
In a small town, one young boy loves walking around playing the ukulele, but the people get tired of the clink, clunk, clonk and beg him to stop while covering their ears The boy's father has a magic wand he uses to make things disappear, like a playing card or a glass of water--or a chair just as someone's about to sit.
The townspeople have had quite enough of the boy's noise and the father's tricks and drive them from the town. But then the giant called Abiyoyo comes to town and starts gobbling up everything in sight. If they work together, can the magician and his son make this very big problem disappear?
Publish Date: October 2001
Dimensions: 10.33 x 8.09 x 0.63 inches
Reading Level: Ages 4-8


Frequently associated with wolframite. Also found as rolled pebbles in placer deposits ('stream tin'). Usually found in veins associated with quartz, in or near granitic rocks.
Vein and greisen Sn-W deposits are magmatic-hydrothermal systems and made up of simple to complex fissure filling quartz veins or replacement orebodies, both proximal and distal types in a wide variety of structural styles.
Wolframite is found in quartz veins and pegmatites associated with granitic intrusives. Associated minerals include cassiterite, scheelite, bismuth, quartz, pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite .
Cassiterite is also associated with muscovite within the vein, whereas wolframite is distributed throughout the veins. As a rule, wolframite is later than cassiterite. Scheelite also occurs in the veins, but in much smaller amounts than wolframite; in general, it also postdates wolframite. All the veins contain carbonates (siderite, dolomite and calcite), which belong to the last hypogene stage.
Scheelite and/or wolframite are frequently positioned in rather narrow veins which are faintly disposed and often widen with the intensity. Open pit mines subsist but are exceptional. The ore is first compacted and milled to unshackle the tungsten mineral crystals.
Wolframite, (Fe,Mn)WO 4, is an iron manganese tungstate mineral that is the intermediate between ferberite (Fe 2+ rich) and hübnerite (Mn 2+ rich). Along with scheelite, the wolframite series are the most important tungsten ore minerals. Wolframite is found in quartz veins and pegmatites associated with granitic intrusives.
Wolframite Its dark color, one direction of perfect cleavage, and high specific gravity distinguish this mineral from others. It is a comparatively rare mineral found usually in pegmatites and high temperature quartz veins.
Most gold is commonly found in quartz veins in association with pyrite and other sulphides. Visible gold is rare and most gold is detected by chemical analysis. In Newfoundland, gold is produced by Royal Oak Mines at Hope Brook on the southwest coast and on the Baie Verte Peninsula.
Wolframite is commonly found in granite and pegmatite dikes, and is often associated with cassiterite; it also occurs in sulfide veins and placer deposits. Because heat causes tungsten to expand at about the same rate as glass, the metal is widely used to make glass-to-metal seals.
The wolframite-group minerals are also found in moderate and low-temperature veins as well as in contact metamorphic deposits adjacent to granitic intrusions. The concept that manganese,/iron ratios of mem-bers of the wolframite group may vary according to the conditions of formation was recently called to attention by Taylor and Hosking (1970).
In Nova Scotia, at Moose River and Waverley, the quartz veins in which the tungsten ores are found are mostly barren of gold: but in the Porcupine area, Ontario, scheelite has been found in considerable quantities, closely associated with the gold; and the tungstite of the Kootenay Belle, B.C., carries good gold values.
Veins and greisen deposits are found within or near highly evolved, rare-metal enriched plutonic rocks, especially near contacts with surrounding country rock; settings in or adjacent to cupolas of granitic batholiths are particularly favorable.
Wolframite and scheelite, the two main tungsten-bearing minerals, appear mainly in quartz veins, but scheelite is also found in skarns originated by granite metasomatism on magnesian marbles. Generally, wolframite is later than cassiterite.
wolframite (wŏŏl´frəmīt´), reddish-brown to grayish-black lustrous mineral, a tungstate of iron and manganese, (Fe,Mn)Wo4, occurring in crystals of the monoclinic system. It is the chief ore of the metal tungsten.
WOLFRAMITE Dictionary entry overview: What does wolframite mean? • WOLFRAMITE (noun) The noun WOLFRAMITE has 1 sense:. 1. a mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks Familiarity information: WOLFRAMITE used as a noun is very rare.


Waking in a elevator heading down into the unknown with someone urging you to escape. Slowly it dawns upon you that you're the unwilling participant in a weird experiment. Armed only with a pin-point accurate railgun you need to survive the deadly experiment long enough to escape.
In this project the team wanted to create a game using a more realistic feel than the previous Quantum Games. Knowing this would require a lot out of the various disciplines set up a gameplay concept that would work with this vision. As a level designer I was excited to design levels trying to active a degree of realism. Since 10 weeks is a too short time to create a realistic FPS game we decided to set the gameplay in a testing facility that could place the non-realistic parts in a context.
I once again turned to pictures for inspiration. I wanted to create one open, spacious level and one with a more cramped feeling.
For my open level I went for a mall. The open layout and scarcely propped floors would work well with our limits of available props and at the same time offer interesting gameplay in the form of a multi-floored environment. I wanted to create a feeling of vertigo and looked at pictures with elevators descending trough malls. A mall from Indonesia in particular caught my eye due to it's layout and clean shapes.
For my other level I focused on Asian capsule hotels. I liked how I with few assets could create a believable level. The setting of a cramped sleeping environment worked with the general story and lastly I could see how the gameplay with a rows of traversable pods could fun for a player. I pitch a idea to the team about the a smoke filled floor obscuring vision if the player did not stand on the row of pods.
We changed the pipeline for this game. With the artist having a limited time to polish assets we decided to try out a blockout in Probuilder first and then set the modular pieces from what we decided was needed from the blockout. In this state we could already try the general feel of the level with a scripted unity FPS. This was helpful to get my proportions and distances more accurate. From the blockout the team built modular pieces and props that would be suitable for our levels.
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Once we had received the modular pieces I started to build towards the whitebox. I had to make some changes in the Levels. The major change was a divide in the levels into smaller parts to facilitate higher FPS the other was cutting the first part of the mall since the team felt it was not possible to complete all we had planned.
Mall: second part. Hard to capture but the elevator decent was the UPS for this part.
In order to increase the production speed we had spitted the dressing, light, decals and particles from the basic layouts. This way the artist responsible could work simultaneously as the designers on the levels without conflicts occurring. Once the pieces was they were combined the team could enter the gold phase and polish the game.
The different parts of the game put together made all the difference.
I scripted the levels in the same fashion as when I scripted for the RoboReboot game. I used functions provided by the programmers to create level essential scripts such as elevators, doors and triggers. The collision management needed attention and forced me to put less time in environment scripts that I might have liked but since the rest of the game used a harsh style it worked anyway.