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Persistence and Change: Marriage and Family Among the Overseas Indians in the Caribbean
Author(s): Kiran Jha
Email(s): kiranlambjha@gmail.com
DOI: 10.52711/2321-5828.2021.00032
Address: Kiran Jha
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, CSJM University, Kanpur 208024.
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Indians came to the Caribbean under the system of indenture to augment the labour shortage in the plantations around the middle of the nineteenth century. Rather than returning after the contractual period, many Indians stayed on, accepting the Caribbean as their new found home. Thus began a symbiotic relationship of the Indian culture with the Caribbean society in the new habitat. This paper outlines the lives of the overseas Indians with reference to aspects of marriage, including the selection of spouses, different kinds of marriage and its dissolution. The paper also discusses the institution of family and its internal mechanisms in terms of patterns of authority, inheritance, conflicts, the position of women and the system of kinship. The overseas Indians moved from tradition to modernity, and from custom to legality. There was also resistance to change and deviations as some values struggled to be reinforced, while others were discarded. On the whole, kinship relations remained of vital importance for the sake of mutual cooperation and social intercourse in a foreign land. Interpersonal relations helped to regulate and standardize behaviour. In providing these accounts, this paper seeks to portray the persistence and change of traditional Indian social intuitions and customs among the overseas community in the Caribbean.
Kiran Jha. Persistence and Change: Marriage and Family Among the Overseas Indians in the Caribbean. Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2021; 12(3):186-2. doi: 10.52711/2321-5828.2021.00032
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Craig Warner (born 25 April 1964) is a multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter who lives and works in Suffolk, England.

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He wrote The Queen's Sister for Channel 4, which was nominated for several BAFTA awards (including Best Single Drama), Maxwell for BBC2, which garnered a Broadcasting Press Guild Award nomination for Best Single Drama and won David Suchet an International Emmy for Best Actor, and The Last Days of Lehman Brothers, for which Warner was longlisted for a BAFTA Craft Award for Best Writer, and which won him the award for Best Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards in 2010. He wrote the mini-series Julius Caesar for Warner Bros., which gained Warner a Writers Guild Award nomination for Best Original Long-Form Drama, and he performed an extensive uncredited rewrite on The Mists of Avalon, also for Warner Bros., which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award and nine Emmys, including Best Mini-series. Warner wrote the screenplay for Codebreaker, a film about Alan Turing.

Craig Warner started out writing for the theatre and for radio. His first radio play for BBC Radio 4, Great Men of Music, was performed by Philip Davis and was included in Radio 4's first Young Playwrights Festival. His second play By Where the Old Shed Used to Be, with Miranda Richardson, won the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Plays of the Year, and it was included in the volume of winners for 1989, published by Methuen. His play Figure With Meat also won a Giles Cooper Award and was published in the Methuen volume of 1991. Craig Warner is the award's youngest ever winner, having received it for the first time when he was 24. He is also a composer and has written music and songs for a number of his works, including a full-length musical for BBC Radio 3 about the legend of Cassandra, called Agonies Awakening.

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Awards
 2012: Winner – Best Production, EuroPAWS Science TV Audience Award, Codebreaker
 2010: Winner – Best Writer, Seoul International Drama Awards, The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
 2008: Nominated – Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Best Single Drama, Maxwell
 2006: Nominated – BAFTA TV Award, Best Single Drama, The Queen's Sister
 2004: Nominated – Writers Guild of America, WGA Award (TV), Best Original Long-Form Drama, Julius Caesar
 1998: Nominated – Verity Bargate Award, Soho Theatre, Dark Leaves
 1997: Nominated – Vivian Ellis Prize, Kings Head Theatre, Agonies Awakening
 1992: Nominated – European Broadcast Union Award, High Flyer
 1991: Winner – BBC/Methuen Giles Cooper Awards, Best Radio Plays of the Year, Figure With Meat
 1989: Winner – BBC/Methuen Giles Cooper Awards, Best Radio Plays of the Year, By Where the Old Shed Used to Be

Television
 2011: Codebreaker, Channel 4 – with Henry Goodman, Ed Stoppard
 2009: The Last Days of Lehman Brothers, BBC2 – with James Cromwell, Ben Daniels, Corey Johnson, Alex Jennings, Michael Landes, Henry Goodman, Michael Brandon, James Bolam
 2006: Maxwell, BBC2 – with David Suchet, Patricia Hodge, Dan Stevens
 2004: The Queen's Sister, Channel 4 – with Lucy Cohu, Toby Stephens, David Threlfall
 2002: Julius Caesar, Warner Bros./TNT – with Christopher Walken, Richard Harris, Jeremy Sisto, Valeria Golino, Chris Noth
 2001: The Mists of Avalon (uncredited), Warner Bros./TNT – with Anjelica Huston, Joan Allen, Julianna Margulies

Theatre
 2013: Strangers on a Train, Gielgud Theatre, West End, London – with Jack Huston, Laurence Fox, Miranda Raison, Imogen Stubbs, Christian McKay, and MyAnna Buring. Directed by Robert Allan Ackerman. Produced by Barbara Broccoli.
 2004: Disguises, Alabama Shakespeare Festival
 2002: Fallen, Merrimack Theatre, Boston
 1999: Love to Madeleine, Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh Festival
 1992: Caledonian Road, White Bear Theatre, London
 1988: God's Country, Old Red Lion, London
 1987: Matthias, Cooper Square Theatre, New York
 1986: A Place to Watch Her Grow, Cooper Square Theatre, New York

Radio
 2013: Tosca's Kiss, BBC Radio 3 – with Stephen Dillane, Kate Fleetwood
 1997: Agonies Awakening (book, music and lyrics), BBC Radio 3 – with Anton Lesser, Miles Anderson, Clare Holman, Hugh Quarshie, Josette Simon
 1996: Beaumarchais, six-part serial, BBC Radio 4 – with Henry Goodman, Ronald Pickup, Bill Nighy, David Calder, Ron Cook
 1996: Strangers on a Train, BBC Radio 4 – with Saskia Reeves, Michael Sheen, Anton Lesser, Bill Nighy
 1995: The Mind-Body Problem, BBC Radio 4 – with Bill Nighy, Michael Maloney, Geraldine James
 1993: A Romance, BBC Radio 4 – with Michael Maloney, Kristin Milward
 1992: High Flyer, BBC Radio 4 – with Mick Ford
 1992: A Sense of Things Moving Forward, BBC Radio 4/World Service – with Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber, Simon Russell Beale, Patrick Malahide
 1991: Figure with Meat, BBC Radio 3 – with Clive Merrison, Judy Parfitt, Lynsey Baxter
 1991: Piece, after Iain Banks, BBC Radio 5 – with Bill Paterson
 1990: Love to Madeleine, BBC Radio 4 – with Richard E. Grant, Miranda Richardson, Phil Davis
 1989: By Where the Old Shed Used to Be, BBC Radio 3 – with Miranda Richardson, Anton Lesser, Judy Parfitt
 1988: Great Men of Music, BBC Radio 4 – with Phil Davis

Translations
 1990: The Devil by Maupassant, BBC Radio 4 – with Ian Holm
 1989: The Baptism by Maupassant, BBC Radio 3 – with Anton Lesser

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1964 births
Alumni of King's College London
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
English television writers
American dramatists and playwrights
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Deadshirt is Watching: Racism! Superheroes! GREASED LIGHTNING!!
Deadshirt Is Watching…is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt staff, contributors, and guests sound off on the television shows we're tuned into, from intense dramas to clever sitcoms to the most insane reality shows. This week: Legends of Tomorrow, Agent Carter, Chelsea Does and Grease Live!
Haley Winters is watching…
Grease: Live!
Sunday, January 31st, Fox
For a little over two years, NBC has been the sole runner in the the live-musical-television-event race, with its three consecutive offerings—The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and The Wiz—achieving varying degrees of milky non-success. But with this past Sunday's Grease: Live!, Fox grabbed that ambitious torch, ran an extra lap around the track with it, and then put out the smoldering ashes on its predecessor's face. Fox's single production outdoes NBC's three on almost every level, including the ones that don't even work. We sing, Rydell, to thee.
The difference between Fox and NBC's approaches to their respective extravaganzas ultimately comes down to the same age-old turf war that has always rifted the American entertainment industry: that of East Coast versus West, the civility of Broadway theater against the spectacle of Hollywood cinema. While Peter Pan et. al. were filmed quietly on an insular Long Island soundstage, Grease was shot across Warner Bros' expansive studio lots, gleefully casting Burbank itself as the star of the show. We follow the actors on and off stage, hopping onto the occasional golf cart as they are shuttled between sets. Directors Thomas Kail and Alex Rudzinski are a dream team, the former using his Hamilton pedigree to orchestrate dynamic, complex stagework, and the latter applying the sweeping, seamless live camera choreo of Dancing with the Stars to tie it all together.
Broadway star Aaron Tveit is an unmistakably talented (if slightly Ace Ventura-reminiscent) Danny; Julianne Hough, whose career has been built on high-stakes live television, is even better as Sandy. Her obvious ease with the material—yes, even the singing—grounds the show nicely, as a good Sandy ought to. Vanessa Hudgens (a lithe Rizzo) displays not only superhuman fortitude less than a day after her father's passing, but the honed skill and power of a true professional. Keke Palmer also showed off some muscular vocals as the man-eating Marty Maraschino, although her acting was leadened with a seeming inability to tone down the thea-taaah. Carly Rae Jepsen, bless her perfect pop heart, trailed as Frankie in an ill-advised new number (quickly forgotten, as it led directly into "Beauty School Dropout," sung, in a brilliant conceptual move, by Boyz II Men). The requisite breakout performance of the night belonged to 21-year-old Jordan Fisher, adorable beyond adorable as the oft-forgotten Doody, who stole his scenes with an easy charisma.
But even more than the seasoned cast and deft directing (not to mention wonderful choreography by Glee maverick Zachary Woodlee), it's the sheer, shameless balls-to-the-wallness of it all that makes this live show so buoyantly and aggressively fabulous. The Sound of Music Live may have founded the city, but Grease Live brings the circus to town.
Highlight: There are many (as there are lowlights, but this is a short review, so we must focus on what's important), but Master of Ceremonies Jessie J delivered an opening "Grease is the Word" that set the tone – and the bar- for the rest of the night.
You'll never recapture the excitement of seeing Grease: Live! live on television, but you can watch it on demand on fox.com.
Max Robinson is watching…
"Pilot, Part 1 & Part 2"
Thursdays at 8/7c on The CW
The CW's small screen-imatic DC Universe has come a long way from the first season of "ashamed to even call him Green" Arrow. It took a little while but, thanks to the tonal kickstart provided by its "swinging for the fences" efforts with The Flash, we've gotten to the point where these shows really do feel like live action comic books. And, boy, does Legends of Tomorrow absolutely revel in this fact. Do you know those Claremont X-Men comics where they like play baseball or have heartfelt one-on-ones right before a big battle? This is that exact shit, but as a primetime TV show featuring Firestorm, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, The Atom, White Canary, Captain Cold, and Heatwave battling Vandal Savage on a soundstage in Vancouver across time and space.
There's a kind of hilarious brazenness to how The CW channels its references with these characters. Viewers already know how Brandon Routh's The Atom armor JUST HAPPENS to make the same noise as Iron Man's repulsor blasts; here we get Arthur Darvill playing cockney time lord master Rip Hunter as a "not even removing the shopping tag" knockoff of The Doctor. These may sound like complaints, but honestly there's something kind of charming about all this; it's like watching giant human action figures move. It's the television equivalent of the greatest game of HeroClix ever played.
Story-wise, Legends of Tomorrow wisely moves briskly and never seems to take itself too seriously. Straight up, DC Comics seriously signed off on a show where Firestorm smokes a joint before a supervillain showdown, and it's played as a wacky gag. Despite boasting a sizeable cast (with one member dead by the end of the two-part pilot), Legends never feels bloated by its bench or hampered by mindless obligation to canon. There's a Breakfast Club sort of chemistry to the lineup of B-listers and supporting players that make up Legends of Tomorrow's temporal Justice League of Losers. Darvill's Diet Doctor Who never overstays his welcome, and every minute that Wentworth Miller or Victor Garber is on screen is gold. Guardians of the Galaxy and WB's upcoming Suicide Squad suggest a distinct tonal shift within live action superhero fare, and it's great to see The CW really lean into that with Legends of Tomorrow, delivering a show that's so far just full-blown cornball cosmic comic book craziness.
Episode Highlight: ALL OF IT? LIKE, SERIOUSLY, TAKE YOUR PICK. This is a show where a time-tossed White Canary, Captain Cold, and Heatwave get hammered to Captain and Tenille at a '70s dive before getting into a bar brawl. Literally imagine trying to explain to someone ten years ago that this show FUCKING EXISTS.
Andrew Niemann is watching…
"Better Angels"
Tuesdays at 8/7c on ABC
Peggy is back, baby! Marvel's already stellar ABC show makes the case for being elevated to the ranks of its Netflix cousins in the long-awaited Season 2. When we last saw Peggy Carter, she was still in mourning for Captain Steve "America" Rogers, and helping Big Papa Stark and his trusty butler Edwin "Not a Robot" Jarvis unravel a mystery tied to a HYDRA-esque Soviet cell named Leviathan, all under the auspices of an early ancestor of SHIELD called the SSR. This season, she travels to sunny Los Angeles to investigate mob-like dealings with more strange, wonderful artifacts and experiments gone wrong.
The change of atmosphere offers a much more humorous tone, balanced with the Raymond Chandler noir vibe that made the first season such a success. In the third episode, entitled "Better Angels," Peggy enlists the help of inventor-turned-Hollywood-film director Howard Stark (making a Kid Colt film!) to help gain access to an exclusive club so she can investigate a politician's shady dealings and possible connection to a bizarre murder. She also squares off against the politican's wife, Whitney Frost, who is possibly turning into this universe's Madam Masque.
Frost (Wynn Everett) is the missing element Peggy Carter lacked: a sympathetic and interesting villain. Everett is playing the role as Hedy Lamarr by way of Joan Crawford, and it's pretty spectacular to witness. A moment when she discovers what she can do with her newfound powers is particularly horrific, but also makes you feel bad for the character. The chemistry between Atwell, D'Arcy, and Cooper (Peggy, Jarvis, and Stark, respectively) continues to be completely on point and rivals even the dialogue and dynamics in the Avengers films. If there's a gripe to be had, it's that the continued presence of agents Sousa and Thompson don't really quite click as well. The characters are uninteresting anchors to the first season, when the second clearly wants to introduce new characters and new scenarios.
Episode Highlight: Whitney Frost absorbing a sexist director Shang-Tsung style into her body is definitely a highlight. However, I think I enjoyed Howard Stark's interactions on the set of Kid Colt, including Peggy's assertion that films based off of comic books would never work.
Joe Stando is watching…
Episode 3, "Racism"
Netflix Original
Chelsea Does, the Netflix original documentary series from comedian and late-night personality Chelsea Handler, is both engaging and aggravating in equal measures. In this episode, Handler discusses racism in a broad range of contexts, from driving around Los Angeles with Loni Love and joking with store owners about stereotypes to sitting down with Shimon Peres and Al Sharpton to talk history and policy. It's an interesting piece with a wide variety of tones, and Handler herself is complicated and entertaining. Early on, she discusses racist jokes with comedians like Aasif Mandvi and Margaret Cho, in a bit reminiscent of comedians playing poker in Louie. Handler's take is that engaging racism head-on is the best way to deal with it in comedy (yeah!) and that political correctness is the real racism (noooo).
Her investigation transitions from social taboos and jokes to interviews with Confederate history buffs, white supremacists, and the family of a victim of fatal police brutality. As it becomes increasingly serious, Handler is empathetic and unfazed as she confronts bigotry. There's a pretty deep level of honesty here, as we see Handler both defending vulgar stereotypes from her late-night show and confronting Southern groups who try to whitewash the history of slavery and segregation. On some level, everyone thinks of themselves as the balanced centerpoint in any given discussion, with vile bigots to their right and overly sensitive folks to their left. Watching her play both roles is refreshing in its own way, and the show doesn't go out of its way to make her critics look bad. It's an interesting project for Handler, and I like what I've seen so far of it.
Episode Highlight: The highlight for me is probably Handler herself, who manages to be both snarky and empathetic in her interactions with friends and interviewees. I wasn't a fan of her as a late-night host or a comedian, but she has a nice sense of conversational humor and doesn't back down from both defending her views and exploring criticisms of them. Her discussion of the Holocaust, specifically, was interesting, as she talked about the fear of it happening again in the context of Israel, but then immediately discussed the occupation of Palestinian land and the treatment of refugees. I'm not a fan of Handler's "equal opportunity" take in comedy, but a willingness to discuss all sides of an issue is essential in journalism, and she uses it well.
That's what we've been watching this week. What are you tuned into? Let us know in the comments, post on our Facebook page, or tweet us @DeadshirtDotNet!
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Rapper and fashion designer Kanye West was hosted by President Donald Trump in the Oval Office today, and even a man of Trump's brashness and crassness seemed to find Ye just a bit much.
Surrounded by reporters, West launched into something between a spoken word poem and a tirade, throughout which he declared that his Make America Great Again hat is like a "superman cape" that gives him "balls", blamed a lack of male role models in the world for his attraction to Trump, and detailed some redesign plans for Air Force One.
"If he don't look good, we don't look good. "This is our president, he has to be the freshest, the flyest, the flyest planes, the best factories and we have to make our core be in power".
And it pretty much just got worse from there. We'd go into further detail about the things he said but I think we can all agree that the guy hasn't got a clue what he's saying. At best.
When asked if West could be a future president, Donald Trump said he could well be. West chipped in to say "Only after, it would have to be 2024".


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Jay Leno recovering from burn injuries
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Jay Leno is recovering from burn injuries following a gasoline fire, according to a statement from the hospital where he is getting treatment.
Aimee Bennett, a spokesperson at the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles, told CNN that Leno was in stable condition, being treated for "burns that he received to his face and hands from a gasoline accident in his garage over the weekend."
"He is in good humor and is touched by all the inquiries into his condition and well wishes," the statement said. "He wants to let everyone know he is doing well and is in 'the best burn center in the United States.'"
CNN has reached out to representatives for Leno for comment.
Leno, an avid car collector, was working on one of his vehicles in his garage when it reportedly burst into flames.
"I got some serious burns from a gasoline fire. I am ok. Just need a week or two to get back on my feet," the former "The Tonight Show" host told Variety.
Leno, 72, canceled an appearance at The Financial Brand Forum conference in Las Vegas on Sunday, according to a report by People, citing organizers.
"His family was not able to provide us very many details, but there was a very serious medical emergency that is preventing Jay from traveling," an email to conference attendees and obtained by the publication stated. "All we know is that he is alive, so our prayers go out to him and his family tonight."
The conference had billed Leno as a special opening night performer for attendees who purchased a gold pass for the event.
CNN has reached out to The Financial Brand for comment.
CNN's Jason Kravarik contributed to this report.


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Shockers Thump Braves
After losing three in a row, the New Market Shockers were able to bounce back with an 11-2 win at home over the first-place Montezuma Braves on Wednesday, June 30. The win avenged a 6-5 Braves walk off over the Shockers from June 23. The game was slated to start at 7:30 pm, but due to inclement weather, it was pushed back an hour. With the win, the Shockers improved to 6-4, while the Braves fell to 6-2 with just their second loss of the season.
Michael Prosperi picked up the win for the Shockers with six strikeouts in six innings, only allowing one run to move to 1-0. Elijah Dunlap took the loss to fall to 2-2, giving up eight runs in five and a third innings pitched on nine hits.
The Braves got two quick outs from New Market in the bottom of the third, but a double from Frankie Ritter and a single from Pearce Bucher would give the Shockers a 1-0 lead.
In the top of the fourth, Prosperi would strike out all but one Braves batter. That batter was Jacob Critzer, who would launch a two out solo shot to center field to tie the game at one.
The Shockers would take the lead back for good in the bottom of the fifth. Following a double from Henry Delavergne, Dunlap would throw the ball past first on a grounder from Matt House, allowing Delavergne to score, and House to reach second. Bucher's sharp single would deflect off of Critzer at third to bring House home to make the score 3-1.
To start the bottom of the sixth, Luke Estep pushed a single past Dunlap, Ty Bennet was walked, and George Auel reached first on a bunt to load the bases. Delavergne came up to the plate and ripped a grand slam to left to put the Shockers up 7-1. While his at-bat produced four runs, Delavergne was actually just looking for a sacrifice fly to drive in Estep.
"I took a good swing to try to get a fly ball," Delavergne told RCBL's Dean Barker. "Once I hit it, I was pretty sure it was going to go out or hit the wall."
Following Dunlap's exit, Ritter and Bucher would double steal to put two runners in scoring position. A sacrifice fly from Josh Tayman would drive Ritter home, and then a single from Dawson Russel would score Bucher to make the score 9-1 New Market.
Montezuma would cut the deficit in the top of the seventh, as an RBI groundout from Logan Jones scored Critzer to make it 9-2. Kyle Armstrong would steal third, but would be stranded there to end the inning.
The Shockers would try to push the lead to ten in the eighth, which would've called the mercy rule into play. Pinch hitting for Russel, Joel Smith would drive in Bucher with an RBI single, and Luke Estep would then drive in Estep with a single. However, New Market would leave runners on the corners. Cade Templeton retired the Braves 1-2-3 in the top of the ninth, allowing one earned run and striking out three in the final three innings.
Delavergne led the Shockers, going 2-5 with four RBIs and two runs scored. Bucher was 3-4 with an RBI and two runs scored. Luke Estep went 2-4 with an RBI and a run scored. Ritter was 2-5 with two runs scored.
Critzer went 1-4 with the Braves, with one RBI and scoring both of Montezuma's runs. Jones was 0-3 with an RBI groundout. Michael Robertson went 2-4, but had no RBIs or runs scored.
The Shockers outhit the Braves 15-5, and were walked three times, while only one Brave was walked. New Market managed to get by despite leaving ten runners on base, compared to four from Montezuma. The Braves had three errors accounting for one unearned run, while the Shockers had two errors, neither of which allowed the Braves to score.
Delavergne believes that big offensive outbreaks like Wednesday will help the Shockers to return to where they were before the losing streak.
"The past couple of times, we just couldn't get the offense rolling, so hopefully this is a start of something that we can do consistently, like we were in the beginning of the year," Delavergne said. The Shockers have scored a total of 70 runs in games they've won this season.
The Shockers will have two nights off before traveling to Grottoes to face the Cardinals Saturday, July 3 at 7:30 pm. The Braves will hope to bounce back at home against the Clover Hill Bucks on Friday, July 2 at 7:30 pm.


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Q: Workaround for missing child dependency in maven My pom.xml has a dependency like so:
<dependency>
  <groupId>foo.bar</groupId>
  <artifactId>baz</artifactId>
  <version>9.8.7</version>
</dependency>

If I navigate inside the repo I'm using, I see that the jar file is there.  If I look at the pom for that jar, it has a dependency like so:
<dependency>
  <groupId>foo.bar</groupId>
  <artifactId>biff</artifactId>
  <version>2.4.6</version>
</dependency>

If I navigate inside the repo I'm using, I see that the source jar file is there, but the compiled jar is not.
Assuming I cannot make any modifications to the maven repo, is there anything I can do to get this working?  Can I download the source, compile it and point to it locally?

A: I went ahead and downloaded the source, compiled and pointed to it locally.

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Let's be real, who doesn't love wine? It's the best way to unwind after a long day or a long week. For those who swear by wine, you'll be in for a real treat when you learn about the Rosenthal Estate. Wine enthusiasts in Malibu know all about Rosenthal, because it's one of the reasons why Malibu is on the map. Rosenthal is Malibu's exquisite vineyard, providing a delicious variation of red and white wines.
Visitors come to Rosenthal for the wine experience that is not found anywhere else in Malibu. Choose from the different crafted wines set on a beautiful 250 acres of the Malibu-Newton Canyon and walking distance from the ocean. Guests stop by this destination for the tasting room, which is located on property right off the beach. Enjoy a laid back atmosphere, live music and breathtaking ocean views, all while sipping on high quality wine right from the vineyard.
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The perfect mattress: it's all about you!
Selecting the right mattress can be quite overwhelming. With so much information to consider, ever-changing technologies and materials, it is important that you make the right decision to keep you sleeping comfortably for many years.
Similar to selecting the correct pillow, the right mattress is one that provides you with the right level of support, provides you with a sleep surface that is pressure-relieving and comfortable, and helps you maintain a neutral sleep position where your spine is neutrally aligned.
Other factors must be considered: for example, you may share your mattress with a partner or you may require a high level of pressure relief for conditions such as arthritis.
So it's important to ask yourself a few questions "about you" before you go shopping to simplify your search. Based on many years' experience and the questions we ask our customers, we have created The Five Ps Self-Assessment for you to fill out. Bring this self-assessment into any Mattress & Pillow Science store and our specialist sleep consultants will combine all the factors of your assessment and advise you on the mattresses that most suitably match your scores.


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Q: How to get GUI back after freeze interrupted an Nvidia driver update? I just went through a driver update. The OS froze, so I had to hard reboot the PC. Now I just get the login prompt in terminal. So, I tried to run startx.
codeError: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 304.43
but this NVIDIA driver Component has version 295.49`

I just got this error. I have to type sudo su then modprobe ndiswrapper to get my Wi-Fi to work, so step by step instructions after that would be greatly helpful.

A: This problem usually occurs when your nvidia drivers are not installed properly. Usually it is the result of installing the drivers from nvidia's website before or after the drivers that you get from the Ubuntu repositories (which is the recommended source, I might add).
To solve this, you need to remove the driver (if you installed it using the run file, you can uninstall it using the same file (see below)).
Or, you can delete the libraries associated with it (my apologies as I'm not on my nvidia powered laptop at the moment so I cannot check for certain as to which files you have to remove).
If you installed from nvidia's website, you can remove the drivers using:
nvidia-installer --uninstall
Optionally, you can run:
sudo apt-get --purge nvidia-current
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

A: To solve this I ran
sudo apt-get -purge nvidia-current-updates

After that I ran
sudo apt-get -purge ndiswrapper

then I re-installed ndiswrapper, and reinstalled nvidia-current-updates.
Now typing this from my working gui.
Thank you Roland Taylor


PARABOL - en serie lydarbeider hos Galleri 3,14 kuratert av Lydgalleriet gjennom hele 2009. Parabolen brukes fortsatt av 3,14 anno 2018.
Lydgalleriet supplerer i år utstillingene til Galleri 3,14 med komplementerende, kommenterende eller kompromitterende lydarbeider, avspilt gjennom en Parabolhøyttaler i inngangspartiet til galleriet.
Først ut er Peter Cusacks ISTANBUL SOUNDSCAPE, en rekke fantastiske, særegne, merkelige og vakre opptak fra en reise han gjorde i 2007. Peter Cusack er kjent for alle som har lest David Toops "Haunted Weather" og er en av grunnleggerne av LMC (London Musicians' Collective). Han har vært en viktig del av den britiske impro-scenen siden 70-tallet og har parallelt med dette arbeidet med feltopptak, spesielt med serien "Sounds From Dangerous Places", med opptak fra bl.a. Baikal-sjøen, Tsjernobyl, olje-felt i Aserbajdsjan og de kontroversielle oppdemmingene av Eufrat og Tigris.
ISTANBUL SOUNDSCAPE tar oss under byen til vannsystemene og den korte undergrunnsbanen, over bakken til backgammon-spillende menn og bordtennis i moske-hagen. Samtalene som Cusack har med dem han møter, finner ofte sted på tross av - ikke på grunn av - den språklige forståelsen, men ønsket og viljen til kommunikasjon er alltid tilstede. Lydbildene gir oss denne helt spesielle atmosfæren som skapes av helt små og nære lyder koblet med stedenes grandiose klangpotensiale.
Gregory Whitehead uncovers the latest attempts to harness sound as a weapon.A mock-umentary about the Jericho Institute, where the U.S. Army is researching sonic weapon applications of the Voice of God.
Gregory Whitehead is a writer, audio artist, and the director of sea-crow media. He has produced over fifty radio features, voice works, and earplays for programs in the United States and abroad. Drawing on his background in improvised music and experimental theater, Whitehead has created a body of radiophonic work distinguished by its playfully provocative blend of text, concept, voice, music, and pure sound. Production credits include: Dead Letters, Pressures of The Unspeakable (Prix Italia, 1992), and New American Radio commissions: Lovely Ways to Burn (1990), Shake, Rattle and Roll (1992) (BBC Award, Prix Futura, 1993) and The Thing About Bugs (1994). He is also the author of numerous essays on subjects relating to language, technology, and "the public", and he co-edited Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde, a selective history of audio and radio art (MIT Press).
"Created in a short number of days, "Weather" and "Worn" actually mark the first recordings I have done solely with acoustic instruments and a minimum of effect processing. Although not entirely planned, these two pieces are quite fittingly warm and a bit noisy, scratchy and tactile. Each track is based around a drone and then extended by further explorations around the same note. There is a stillness and feeling of tension which then give way to clarity. When the work is played loudly, it becomes ever-present, yet is gentle and calm when played softly. There is a sense of struggle between the weather and my mood, between the technology and imperfection..."
Taylor Deupree (b. 1971) is an American electronic musician, graphic designer, and photographer residing in New York. In 1997, he founded 12k, a record label that focuses on minimalism and contemporary musical forms. In 12k's 12 years of existence Deupree has released over 60 CDs by a roster of international sound artists and has developed 12k into one of the most respected experimental music labels in the world. Rooted in minimalism 12k's sound has evolved over the years to incorporate the hyper-synthetic elements of minimal techno to acoustic avant garde and instrumental post-rock. In September 2000, Deupree and sound artist Richard Chartier formed LINE, a sublabel of 12k that curates its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism. In January 2002 (as a celebration of 12k's fifth anniversary) Deupree launched term., an online series of MP3 releases. While 12k's emphasis lies not only in sound but also on design and presentation, term. exists entirely in the digital domain with no physical object or package. In September, 2003, Deupree started a 3rd record label called Happy to promote unconventional japanese pop. Happy was born from Deupree's interest in Japanese pop and the fact that it is quite unknown outside of Japan. In 2007 Happy was folded into 12k as the sounds of the two labels started to merge.
(2004)"My favourite Place er et stykke som kombinerer digitale lyder, feltopptak og et sample fra mitt Magnus luftorgel. Det inngår på min andre soloplate Possible Landscape som ble sluppet på Asphodel i 2004. Et flytende harmonisk landskap danner fundamentet, hvorpå en raslende rytme stykker det hele opp. Ulike feltopptak passerer i sakte tempo, en skranglende leke, en stemme eller en dör som lukkes. Min nabo sin papegøye sang av full hals ut i bakgården. Jeg firte ned med min mikrofon som om jeg var en russisk spion på hemmelig oppdrag. Senere har jeg fått vite at den rømte og forsvant. My favourite placehandler om steder en liker å være; huset ved havet, cafeen ved parken eller leiligheten i femte."
Alexander Rishaug is a sound artist and electronic musician based in Oslo, Norway. A member of the country's fertile experimental music scene, Rishaug has toured throughout Europe and the US and appearedon compilations on the Rune Grammofon, Jester and Smalltown Supersound labels. His first full-length, the critically acclaimed Panorama, was released in 2002 by Smalltown Supersound. Also a member of the improv trio ARM with Arne Borgan and Are Mokkelbost (Single Unit), Rishaug has collaborated with numerousother artists including Håkon Kornstad, Pål Asle Pettersen, Tonny Klyften, John Hegre, Jørgen Træen, Toshimaru Nakamura and Salvatore.
Yoichi Nagashima, composer/researcher/PE, was born in 1958 in Japan. He learned and played some instruments: violin, recorder, guitar, keyboards, electric bass, drums, and vocal/choral music for 35 years. He was the conductor of Kyoto University Choir and composed over 100 choral music, and studied nuclear physics there.As the engineer of Kawai Musical Instruments, he developed some sound generator LSIs, and designed some electronic musical instruments, and produced musical softwares. From 1991, He has been the director of "Art & Science Laboratory" in Japan Hamamatsu, produces many interactive tools of real-time music performance with sensor/MIDI, cooperates some researchers and composers, and composes experimentally pieces. He is also the key-member of Japanese computer music community.
From 2000, he has also been the associate profrssor of SUAC (Shizouka University of Art and Culture), Faculty of Design, Dapartment of Art and Science, and teaches multi-media, computer music and media-art. As a composer of computer music, he collaborates with many musicians in his composition: Piano, Organ, Percussion, Vocal, Flute, Sho, Koto, Shakuhachi, Dance,etc... He organized and was the General Chair of NIME04.On April 2007 he became a professor.


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using System;
using System.Linq.Expressions;

namespace PeanutButter.TestUtils.Entity
{
    public static class PropertyDataObjectExtension
    {
        public static PropertyData<T> PropertyDataFor<T>(this T item, Expression<Func<T, object>> memberExpression)
        {
            return new PropertyData<T>(item, memberExpression);
        }
    }
}

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The studio will be busy with wee ones next month! This beautiful Mama to be and her husband are blessed to be expecting their first sweet baby in February. This little girl is already so loved and I cannot wait to see this couple turn into a family of 3!
This couple seems to have so much fun together. It was a blast documenting this amazing time in their lives for them! How cute is this sign from their baby shower? Their little one has been referred to as "nugget" since the beginning, and their friends and family have signed and sent messages of love on this adorable sign to hang in her nursery.
Thank you so much to Mom and Dad for trusting me to capture your maternity portraits! I can't wait to meet you little one in a few weeks!
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For best results maternity photo shoots should be scheduled for between 32 – 36 weeks of pregnancy. This allows us to capture the beautiful curves without too much risk of baby arriving early and missing the opportunity to do a maternity photography session.
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It is said that, in China, the second thing a person wants after a television is a fridge. In recession-hit America, the home of the walk-in refrigerator, it seems they are now heading in the opposite direction.
Sandal-wearing, ponytail-sporting folk have a new obsession: living without a fridge. The idea has taken root in some communities struggling with rising energy costs and, one can imagine, a pricking conscience after years of sitting on the fence over climate change.
The "living without a fridge" movement has spawned television programmes, leading articles and websites – designed to try and wean consumers off their behemoth refrigerators and back to a simpler way of life, based on fresh food and, presumably, warm beer.
However, the movement seems to have come unstuck following a high profile experiment reported in the pages of The New York Times. A group claiming to be living without a refrigerator were, it turns out, using freezers in the basement or ice generating plant running on electricity.
Unless you want to live on a diet of pickled herring, the only way to genuinely live without a fridge is to shop for food every day. That means a daily trip to the store for fresh vegetables, meat and dairy products. I don't know this for sure, but I would hazard a guess that if the population of the US had to go to the shops every day of the week in their cars, this would put a lot more carbon into the atmosphere than running a fridge.
The important question is not how much energy fridges use. It is how much more energy would be consumed if they did not exist. In terms of efficiency, the best of today's modern refrigerators is light years ahead of the old rumblers of yesteryear. Which is a lot more than can be said for the typical American car.
Good sandal-wearing folk should change their mantra from "living without a fridge", to "living with a sensibly-sized and high efficiency fridge". It's not revolutionary, but it is progress. And they get to drink cold beer. OK, mineral water.
It's proving a long, hot summer for those laid up in hospital down under. We reported last month from Australia where air conditioning in wards is being turned off to save money, while cooling in staff offices continues to whir away.
News reaches us that in New South Wales, one quarter of hospitals are without proper air conditioning. Given the extreme weather conditions affecting that part of the world, it is a surprise that such a developed country has such a backward approach to the care of sick people. There are suggestions that some frail and terminally ill patients are confined to their rooms with only a ceiling fan to cool them.
Things look set to get worse. As the heat wave migrates across the continent towards Sydney, it is anticipated that some 60 hospitals in the west will be without adequate cooling.
For those injured in the fires sweeping the area, it must be a deeply painful irony that time spent recovering in hospital will be blighted by an absence of proper cooling. This is the sharp end of climate change and energy scarcity.
As scientists warn that such conditions will happen more often in future, it has reawakened the idea of developing effective solar powered cooling. This is very attractive in principle; it not only harnesses a source of free, zero carbon energy, but the energy source increases in direct proportion to the amount of cooling required at any given moment.
Dr Mike Dennis, a senior research fellow in the Centre for Sustainable Energy, is developing a solar powered air conditioner that does not rely on a conventional electrically-powered compressor, Instead it uses in a solar-powered thermal compressor, which harnesses heat from solar hot water collectors.
Known as ejector cooling, the technology operates using compressed air expanded out of a jet and can harness several kinds of refrigerant, including water. A two-year development program starts this year. The first commercial could be available in 2010.
No approximate price is yet available. But with only one moving part, the researcher predicts that the cost to manufacture the system will be low. If it works, the world will beat a path to his door.
The Government backed Zero Carbon Hub, which oversees the responsibility for delivering homes to zero carbon standards by 2016, has secured funding for the next financial year to March 2012.


Welcome to Level Two! Led by improv tutors Joel Luscombe and Jan Feld. In this follow-on class you will discover the unique, absurd and downright hilarious world of GAME OF THE SCENE. You'll build on the foundation skills learned in Level One to delve deeper into the rhythms of comedy, discover the inherent funny patterns that pop up during a scene, and learn to milk them for maximum FUN!
There'll be an end of term class performance for friends and family (scheduled for Thursday 28th March 7- 8.15pm) to show off everything you have learned!
Joel discovered stretch jeans in 2017 and loves them almost as much as teaching and performing with BaseJump Improv. While avoiding corporate work, Joel has spent way too much time making stuff up at iO Chicago, UCB and The Annoyance theaters in L.A. and Chicago. He has so many names to drop but nobody knows them. If not drinking energy drinks you can find him at The Scruffy Bunny Improv Theatre where he serves as Co-Artistic Director. Joel is more into cats but is partial to Pembroke Welsh Corgis. He's up to talk about either.
Contact James@basejumpimprov.co.nz for further info.


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Weirdos Vs. Quimboids
Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Natasha Desborough
Cursed by the initials BUM, saddled with woolly liberal-minded hippies for parents and an UNDYING love for the Proper Real-Time HOT Felix Winters, BLOSSOM UXLEY-MICHAELS is a seething mass of sexual frustration and political confusion. But when she s invited to work on the school radio, Blossom s convinced her status is about to rocket from Weirdo to Winner . . .
Longlisted for the UKLA Book Award and selected for The Summer Reading Challenge Young Adult List where it was featured as one of the 10 'must reads' for 14+
"A perfect fit for fans of Louise Rennison and Sue Limb who, in my eyes, are the Queens of Comedy. It's laugh-out-loud funny, clever and quirkier than on of Paloma Faith's hats."
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'Should come with a free pair of socks because you'll laugh off your current ones.'
Greg James, Radio 1 DJ
'...brilliantly funny moments...a cringeworthy account of life for ateenage geek'
School Library Association
Karl Pilkington says: "This book is as good as all the others I haven't read."
Other publications by Natasha Desborough
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On the face of it, mirror touch synesthesia can be associated with deep empathy. Empathy can literally mean being in somebody's shoes. The irony is that these mirrored feelings go beyond the emotional feelings and are physically associated with synesthete.
Imagine the feel of someone gently applying a soothing ointment on your bare back simply because you are watching a message therapy guide on your favourite body health program. Or even worse, imagine feeling the prick of the needle on your finger when you see the doctor prick your friend's finger. According to Michael Banissy, a lecturer of Psychology at Goldsmiths University of London, "The mirrored feeling is experienced in exactly the same part of the body- a finger for a finger, an arm for an arm and an eye for an eye".
A study shows that out of 100 people, one or two have empathy synesthesia. For such people, the most intense experiences are attained with the observation of pain. Their challenge is to calm themselves down because the feelings that they are having are not actually happening to them, a task which has been described as tough by Michael. However, with happy sensations, the intensity of the experience is normally less and does not last long. These pleasant occurrences include caresses, nice hugs and touches.
For most people with mirror-touch synesthesia, the experiences they have directly mirror what they observe. If they observe someone touch a glass with ice with their left hand, they feel a cold in their left hand and vice versa.
In another study that involved brain imaging, two groups of subjects were asked to watch videos of other people being touched. The two groups; those with and those without mirror touch synesthesia had brain scans connected on them. Upon comparison of the two images, it was deduced that there were changes in the parts of the brain that perceived touch in both groups. However, people with empathy synesthesia have an empathic system that can be over-excited to the levels of allowing them to literally experience tactile sensations.
This condition can have adverse effects on a person's life. An article published in the Guardian about a lady, Fiona, who has the same condition reveals the true experience that this category of synaesthetes have. She says that she avoids both drama and thriller films because of the effects they have on her. "When I watch a film, I feel as if I'm starring in it" she says. Fiona recounts a time when she had felt physical pain while she was watching a movie. The scene was the torture of Lisbeth Salander, a character in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". She felt as if she was the one that was being tortured.
Luckily, pain is not always what she feels, she experiments happiness with the same magnitude that she feels pain. "If someone is happy, it's like hearing an orchestra and I feel extremely excited" she says in an interview done by Gary Cansell of the Guardian where she shares her experience about living with mirror touch synesthesia.


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A cool concept with divisive writing: A Ready Player One Review
Posted on March 29, 2018 March 29, 2018 by Brandon
Someone needs to bless the rains down in the comment sections on sites because it seems like everyone has an opinion about Ready Player One.
The first time I heard about the novel Ready Player One all I kept hearing about it was how cool the concept was. There existed three layers people seemed to be in a tizzy about. The concept of a virtual reality, the nostalgia factor, and the dystopian genre.
Now, the dystopian genre is still something people enjoy, but it's one that many have expressed of seeing a lot of. You could walk into the YA section of a bookstore, close your eyes and spin around, and when you reopen your eyes you'd most likely be facing a dystopian book. Maybe even an entire shelf of them. Yeah, it was definitely a thing.
So when Ready Player One came out, people jumped at it because of the interesting take of the dystopian society. I was definitely intrigued at how a society could be so engrossed in virtual reality and still be in disrepair.
The allusion to our cellphone/internet obsessed lifestyle wasn't lost to me, but I appreciated how the message wasn't bonking me over the head.
However, the dystopian aspect of the novel didn't age well as more and more people started to search for different fads. I have definitely heard more than once people saying about the book, "Another white male savior dystopian novel? No thanks."
Yeah…there's definitely a lot of that sentiment going around.
And while I'd love to unpack that, that's definitely a whole other post in itself.
For now, I'll say that I don't agree with that notion. On the surface level it's right, but Ready Player One is self aware enough to know that it's protagonist is a white male, and it uses that narrative, and flips it over and over, and that really changes the discussion.
Yet, the novel harkens back to 80s movies to describe the path it decided to go down. This is where Ernest Cline starts to shovel out the nostalgia page after page. Readers are reminded that, yes, awesome movies, games, and music came out during the 80's.
And with the 80's plethora of media, white male protagonists were all around to see. From Ferris Bueller's Day Off to the original Star Wars trilogy.
It became very apparent that Cline was framing the novel with this; trying to highlight and rave about media from the 80s while simultaneously creating an 80s movie narrative.
It worked for me, and it worked for others who were swept up in the cheesy yet cute 80's inspired journey.
For others though, Ready Player One became another white male nerd victory story because of this surface level narrative structure.
I won't lie, there were times when the nostalgia factor got overwhelming. There was only so much information about a video game or a movie that readers can retain before it starts to feel like we're reading from a nerd textbook. Or Video Game Mansplaining 101.
I don't doubt that Ernest Cline is smart. I don't doubt that he knows a lot about 80's movies, video games, and music. And I also don't doubt that a lot of people would not know the trivial details surrounding these things. Even so, Cline should have trusted in his readers more and left out some of the explaining. A trivia detail here and there would be okay, and I especially loved when those same details played into the plot, but we really don't need to feel like we're reading Wikipedia: the book.
There are different ways Cline could have achieved this with his writing, but perhaps he didn't know how to. The writing in Ready Player One was definitely divisive, with some people relishing the opportunity to pick apart sentences and dialogue. The two biggest faults with the writing seems to stem from Cline's insistence that Wade Watt's journey fit into the 80's narrative framework. The story hums along, hitting different beats, like Japanese characters speaking as though the feudalist days were last year, and chasing the girl Wade has a crush on (practically with a speaker playing music).
People hated these things.
They definitely fall under a certain kind of crude, a blemish of unpolished writing.
What I was surprised people weren't talking about was the theme of friendship. 80's movies loved showing a group of friends going on adventures, and discovering stuff. The journey with Wade and his online friends felt very real, speaking as someone who has had online friends greet him almost every day. It was completely endearing to read about online friends having a place in fiction that was still about how alone the protagonist is in the real world, but isn't limited to that trope. Wade, Aech, and Artemis, felt very real, and their virtual journey together stood out because of that.
It's a huge part of the novel that not many people give credit for, and it was definitely the biggest highlight for me. I loved every second of reading about these kids logging in everyday and trying to solve this elaborate treasure hunt. What made it even more incredible was the 80's nostalgic feel that zipped along, framing this journey. Wade's friendship was celebrated, and not in the way that antisocial gamers who 'live in their mom's basement meeting people' is depicted, but celebrated as real people in different cities or countries forming a bond over a mutual interest. It's a phenomenon that my generation doesn't even think about. A whole world of people who are interested in the same things you are, and you can talk and interact, and form a real relationship with, even if you can't physically be next to them. It's that positive opportunity technology has given us. Almost like magic. And Ready Player One was eager to tell us how amazing these relationships truly are.
At the end of the day, it's whether the good of the novel outweighs the bad. Sure I didn't like some of the cringe worthy dialogue, handling of certain characters, and the block after block of useless trivia information. But I definitely love the expansive virtual journey, the theme of friendship being at the forefront, and how whimsical the 80's nostalgia could feel when done right.
The search for the three keys and the all or nothing prize is a journey that will stay with me, dancing in the background of my memory every time I listen to Toto's Africa.
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Who is going to be the new ISI Chief?
ISLAMABAD - Lt Gen Asim Munir is expected to be the new chief of Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI after its current boss, Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar, retires on Monday, according to a media report.
The Army Promotion Board headed by Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa approved the promotions of six generals in place of five generals who are retiring on Monday.
Director General Maj Gen Asim Munir, Maj Gen Syed Muhammad Adnan and Frontier Corps IG Maj Gen Waseem Ashraf.


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require 'csv'
require 'csv_monster/version'

class CSVMonster
  attr_reader :filepaths

  def initialize(filepaths = nil)
    self.filepaths = filepaths
  end

  def filepaths=(filepaths)
    @filepaths = [*filepaths]
  end

  def +(other_csv_monster)
    self.class.new self.filepaths + other_csv_monster.filepaths
  end

  def ==(other_csv_monster)
    content == other_csv_monster.content
  end

  def content
    return @content if defined? @content

    @content ||= []
    @filepaths.each_with_index do |csv_filepath, i|
      csv = CSV.parse(File.read(csv_filepath))
      csv.shift unless i == 0

      csv.each do |row|
        @content << row
      end
    end

    @content
  end

  def content_length
    content.length
  end

  def split(split_count)
    header, *entries = self.content
    splits = []

    entries.each_with_index do |row, i|
      if (i % (entries.length / split_count)).zero? &&
            split_count > splits.length
        splits << self.class.new
        splits.last.content << header
      end

      splits.last.content << row
    end

    splits
  end

  alias_method :'/', :split

  def write!(outfile = nil)
    outfile ||= default_outfile_name
    CSV.open(outfile, "wb") do |csv|
      content.each do |row|
        csv << row
      end
    end

    outfile
  end

private

  def default_outfile_name
    "#{Time.now.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")}_#{@filepaths.length}_files.csv"
  end
end


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"Blessed Be, Aho, and Amen," aren't the words members of the Iowa House of Representatives are accustomed to hear at the closing of the invocation marking the House's opening ceremonies, but that's just what happened yesterday when a Wiccan priestess delivered the prayer.
A number of Christian lawmakers didn't attend the opening ceremony to protest the priestess' historic invocation.
Members of the Fort Des Moines Church of Christ organized prayers outside the Capitol. "We feel that this is completely out of sync with the traditions of our state and our nation to seek guidance from the occult. We believe it is just not a good idea," said their Pastor Demastus, according to the Des Moines Register.
State Rep. Liz Bennett (D-Iowa) says she didn't know inviting the witch would "be as controversial as it has been," she told KCCI.
Really? You can't see why inviting the guys who dance around Stonehenge with made-up incantations would be the least bit controversial?
The religion appeared in the 20th century and relies on a mixture of neopagan beliefs and practices. There's no one leader or central authority, and they're represented by a 5-point pentagram star inside a circle.
Maynard, who calls herself a Cabot witch, said that the hardest part was limiting her prayer to one minute.
The peculiar ending to the witch's prayer seems to be a weird hodgepodge of religions and cultures. "Blessed Be" is a neopagan Wiccan greeting that means "you wish good and positive" things upon the person greeted. "Aho" is a Native American word that means "thank you" and "Amen" means "So be it" and is used by Christians traditionally at the end of prayers.
"We call this morning to God, Goddess, Universe, that which is greater than ourselves to be here with us today. By the Earth that is in our bones and centers us, may all here remember our roots and those whom we are here to represent.