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We Read Things Differently
April 30, 2013 • By Joan Gordon
WHEN PEACE WAS first published in 1975, it was marketed as a mainstream novel and that is how I read it. One reissue, the one with a cover by Gahan Wilson to which Neil Gaiman refers in the afterword to this new edition, flags it as a ghost story. I've had almost 40 more years of reading Wolfe's fiction to make clear to me that virtually everything he writes is a ghost story, and I've heard persuasive arguments by John Clute, Robert Boski, and others that it is indeed a ghost story, yet when I reread the novel for this review, it still seemed like a work of mainstream realism with psychological explanations for its ghosts. I'm probably wrong as far as Wolfe himself is concerned, yet here I am reading it stubbornly in my own way, and I have my reasons. It isn't that I think I'm right and they're wrong but that this novel contains many readings, as many readings perhaps as there are readers, which is as it should be. I would maintain that the best books have such potential, that they are like Thematic Apperception Tests but much, much better; they are books of gold, as Severian — the protagonist of Wolfe's magnum opus, The Book of the New Sun — would point out. This is one of the best books: it is richly metaphorical, deeply layered, evocative, convincing, beautifully paced, gracefully written — still, after all these years, and after so many other wonderful novels, novellas, and short stories, one of Wolfe's best, which is saying a great deal.
Peace is the fictional memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, written out of sequence, but describing his growing up, coming of age, financial success, and physical decline in a small Midwestern town. Embedded in it are a number of ghost stories, and stories about the people in his life, especially his Aunt Olivia. Having told you this, I have told you nothing really that indicates the novel's power. The story begins with the fall of an elm tree, thus, as Robert Boski and many others, claim, "liberating the ghost of Dennis Weer." The rest of the novel proceeds from there. It is apparent that Weer's house, in which he wanders and gets lost but which helps trigger his memoir's episodes, is a house of memory, more metaphorical than architectural, so that too supports the theory that this is a ghost story, I suppose.
Here is the ghost story interpretation (from Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Article and the Reader): "A ghost (Alden Dennis Weer) haunts the memory places of his life.... The title.... alludes to Weer's quest for peace as he revisits his memories in the hope of finding a meaning to his former life." This is the interpretation to which I have heard John Clute and Gary Wolfe also ascribe, not to mention Neil Gaiman in this edition's afterword, and Borski, quoted above — even though, as Wright points out, "no reviewer recognised Weer's deathly state ... and the ghost's story quickly became Wolfe's first misinterpreted narrative." Wright's particular wrinkle is that the reason so many people miss the correct interpretation is not because they miss the symbolism of the tree falling on a tombstone, as I did, but because Wolfe is "encoder" and reader "decoder of elliptical yet elegantly labyrinthine conundrums"  or, as Wright says later, and in a more exasperated way about The Book of the New Sun, "This element of choice is Wolfe's principal device for confounding the reader." I have to admit that the ghost story is probably the correct interpretation, although I vehemently disagree that Wolfe's goal is to confound the reader. He does often confound me, but that is my limitation, not his.
Robert Borski refines the ghostly interpretation with a very careful textual analysis that follows what he calls "The Brimstone Trail," multiple references in the novel to alchemy, Faust, and many other works, esoteric and otherwise, to claim that "Alden Dennis Weer may be the Devil incarnate." Borski provides an overwhelming number of citations to support what at first seems an unlikely claim, seeing Aunt Olivia as also embodying "the fire-and-brimstone connection." I resist his interpretation. There is no doubt in my mind that Den, as he is often called, has done some very bad things — you will discover them as you read — but I'm not sure that makes him the devil. The name Weer connects him not only or inevitably with evil werewolves but also and more obviously with an author named Wolfe. And, just as Borski finds a number of connections between Weer and the devil, he, and I, find a number of more autobiographical connections. But Gene Wolfe is not evil, nor is he sympathetic with the devil, and Wolfe has said of Weer, "we have similar souls."
Olivia is self-centered and manipulative but, again, not, it seems to me, evil. After all, she does take care of her nephew when his parents leave him with her, and Den has fond memories of the experience. Borski describes Olivia as "overeating — a classic symptom of rejection," but the novel merely notes that she has grown "plump ... until she was a comfortable size 14," as a result of not having to cook for herself any longer. Since something like this has happened to me, then, I can't possibly see it as something more sinister than domesticity. Further, would Wolfe have sent me as a wedding present many years ago a beautiful bowl painted in the manner of Aunt Olivia, a bowl we refer to as the Peace bowl? Borski's interpretation, though ingenious and persuasive, seems to miss the tone of the book and might be one of the readings the story contains without being the one truest to Wolfe's tone. It is certainly a reading I need to resist for my own reasons, as you might imagine, given the beautiful bowl I use as often as possible. I resist it also because the description of Olivia reminds me of Wolfe's much beloved wife Rosemary. Clearly, my reasons are more personal than intellectual, but such is the reading process.
If Borski is right, then he is right about one of the characters who troubles me already. Louis Gold is a book forger, and a Jew. As I read the novel I was uncomfortable already with his portrayal and that of his wife and daughter: why were they tagged as Jewish? Was Wolfe suggesting that the forger's dishonesty, for instance, was connected to his Jewishness? But if Borski is right, then Louis Gold is stereotyped as more than a greedy Jew; he becomes a servant of the devil. I have always been able to see the portrayal of Gold as colored more by exoticism than anti-Semitism, because it is very difficult to imagine Gene Wolfe as anti-Semitic. I cannot believe that Wolfe would intend to portray Jewishness in the light Borski suggests. Therefore, I must resist this interpretation as well. How personal is the act of reading! How like a psychological test of character, especially in the case of a complex and ambiguous a novel such as Peace.
And this leads precisely to my own reading of the book, as I outlined it many years ago in The Starmont Reader's Guide to Gene Wolfe (1986), and which, as I reread it for this review, I still prefer to the other interpretations, true or not. When I first wrote about the novel, then, I suggested that, while Weer's situation as narrator is ambiguous (he might be the old man traveling back in time to seek help, in which case this is science fiction, or he might be that same old man seeking help through remembering, in which case it isn't), the interpretation that allowed the most "symbolic resonance," I claimed, was that:
Peace is narrated by Weer as a middle-aged man, suffering some kind of mental breakdown caused by over-work and loneliness. His memoir is largely a response to the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT).... Each question ... triggers a long and detailedset of memories.
I still like this interpretation not only because it is a reasonable one, given the evidence of the text, but also because it resonates with the themes of loneliness, abandonment, and the power of memory that recur as often in Wolfe's writing as do ghosts. Even more, though, I like it because I arrived at this interpretation with the help of my father, a psychologist, not long before he died. That makes Peace function not only as a TAT for its narrator, but for me, its reader.
How fitting that this novel of memory evokes such strong memories in me, that it makes me write a review that is also a kind of memoir. It may well do that for other readers also, making them form associations with their own childhoods, with their regrets, with their guilt, with the things they longed for or expected. The novel's very ambiguity makes room for the reader who doesn't mind living with uncertainty.
Peace provides other pleasures than those of interpretation and memory. Its individual scenes are sharply evoked so that we travel in time, along with the narrator, to the novel's streets and houses and afternoon parties, as well as to stranger and more grotesque places such as the cave, the circus, the pharmacist's house (I'll leave you to find those). The embedded stories are gripping. And the language is gorgeous. Just in the first section, "Alden Dennis Weer," look how Wolfe collapses the cosmic perspective of science fiction with that of religion in an ecstatic description:
This planet of America, turning round upon itself, stands only at the outside, only at the periphery, only at the edges, of an infinite galaxy, dizzily circling. And that the stars that seem to ride our winds cause them. Sometimes I think to see huge faces bending between those stars to look through my two windows, faces golden and tenuous, touched with pity and wonder.
Or, again in the first section, consider the reverie, evoked by a boy scout knife with "simulated black staghorn," about the "simulated stag," which he imagines:
ranging the forest among the now-waking trees, trees whose leaves are dying with the summer in every color, like bruises, but bruises beautiful as the skins of races unborn, withheld from us because God, or destiny, or the bland chance of the scientists (whose blind, piping ape-god, idiot-god, we have met before; we know you, troubler of Babylon) has denied us the sight of all those scarlet and yellow — truly red, orange, russet-brown — races on our sidewalks, and all the wonderful richness of stereotypes we might have entertained ourselves with if only they had permitted us.
And the passage goes on, cascading from metaphor to metaphor. No one else writes like that.
Considering how great Wolfe's technical skill, how rich with meaning his work is, how inviting of multiple interpretation, how widely all of this is recognized (read the quotations from reviews at the front of this edition), one would think the SF journals would overflow with articles about his work. But they don't. With a very few exceptions, the corridors of Science Fiction Studies, Extrapolation, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and Foundation echo emptily. Robert Borski has written a great deal of scholarly analysis, mostly online or in the semi-prozine The New York Review of Science Fiction. Michael Andre-Druissi has a few articles in the scholarly journals but most of his work is in small press publishing outside academic circles. Peter Wright has his book on Wolfe and a collection of interviews with the author as well, both from Liverpool University Press, and I have my early Starmont volume. Sometimes I wonder if we're simply afraid to commit to the permanence or authority of putting our scholarship in a scholarly home, since it is quite likely, given how layered, and allusive, and illusive the fiction is, that we'll be wrong. It's much easier to admit to uncertainty and to an inability to know as much as the author, to confront the personal nature of one's response, in the less threatening venue of a book review such as this one. And if I find myself responding to Wolfe's writing in kind, with memoir and story and metaphor, it seems more suitable here than in the cool halls of academe.
But if you, my reader, wonder whether you should read Peace for the first time, fearing it might be too difficult, or whether you should read it again, wondering if it won't be as good this time, don't worry. Peace has riches to offer on the most casual of readings and doesn't disappoint the most thorough. You may be wrong, but you may not mind. You are bound to discover something no one else, maybe not even Gene Wolfe himself, has seen.
Joan Gordon
Joan Gordon is an editor for Science Fiction Studies and Humanimalia and received the Pilgrim Award for science fiction research. She writes extensively on science fiction, especially in connection with animal studies, and she authored The Starmont Reader's Guide to Gene Wolfe (1986), which was the first extended criticism of Wolfe's work. Her most recent article, "The Responsibilities of Kinship: The Amborg Gaze in Speculative Fictions about Apes," will be published in Extrapolation. She is raising a puppy.
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Washington Post Jan. 16, 2014 Updated: Jan. 16, 2014 9:47 p.m.
Congress has included a secret provision in the federal budget plan that would restrict funding to transfer drone oversight from the CIA to the Pentagon, officials said.
WASHINGTON — Congress has moved to block President Barack Obama's plan to shift control of the U.S. drone campaign from the CIA to the Defense Department, inserting a secret provision in the massive government spending bill introduced this week that would preserve the spy agency's role in lethal counterterrorism operations, U.S. officials said.
The provision represents an unusually direct intervention by lawmakers into the way covert operations are run, impeding an administration plan aimed at returning the CIA's focus to traditional intelligence gathering and possibly bringing more transparency to drone strikes.
The move also reflects some lawmakers' lingering doubts about the U.S. military's ability to conduct strikes against al-Qaida and its regional affiliates without hitting the wrong targets and killing civilians.
Those apprehensions were amplified after a U.S. military strike in Yemen last month killed a dozen people, including as many as six civilians, in an 11-vehicle convoy that tribal leaders said was part of a wedding procession.
U.S. officials said that the strike was aimed at a senior al-Qaida operative but that reviews of the operation have raised concern that it failed to comply with White House guidelines requiring "near certainty" that no civilians would be harmed.
The extent of the restrictions contained in the drone provision remained unclear.
The measure was included by members of the House and Senate appropriations committees, officials said.
Other senior lawmakers and congressional officials declined to comment on the contents of the classified annex, which details funding for U.S. spy agencies.
Still, senior lawmakers have been vocal in expressing concern at the prospect of the CIA ceding responsibility for drone strikes to the military.
Among Feinstein's colleagues on the Intelligence Committee is Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who is also chairwoman of the appropriations panel responsible for the budget bill. A spokesman for that committee declined to comment.
A person familiar with the omnibus bill confirmed that the annex includes language on the drone program but would say only that the provision is more complicated than merely withholding funds to prevent drone operations from being transferred to the Pentagon.
Spokespeople for the White House, CIA and Pentagon declined to comment.
The spending bill sets budgets for agencies across the federal government for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
The bill, which cleared the House late Wednesday and the Senate on Thursday, awaits Obama's signature.


The everyday struggles that many young people face living as grown-ups are being turned into popular graphic narratives.
There comes a time when you are suddenly seen as an adult. You're definitely not ready for it and you feel like you barely got any warning, but there it is – you're an adult. Deal with it.
Author and illustrator Andersen's first book, which was released in March, accurately sums up the struggles we all face when forced to enter the "real world" and buckle up for the roller coaster that is adulthood. For most of us it's somewhere around the time we hit our 20s and go from having everything taken care of for us to doing it ourselves (translation: trying to not have a melt down on a daily basis).
Andersen's book started life as a webcomic titled Sarah's Scribbles, and follows the adventures of the messy haired, awkward and highly relatable protagonist as she takes on the world (well, in a sense), dealing with social anxiety, body image issues and laziness along the way with her pet rabbit by her side at all times. It is a comic everyone needs to read to realise that they are not alone, and that "adulting" is awkward for everyone attempting it.
In the past we've seen works by cartoonists like Allie Brosh, Gemma Correll and Brian Gordon take on similar issues: the horrors of everyday life that most post-millennials just about manage to live through – whether it is dealing with social interactions (which always have the potential of going horribly wrong) or the challenges of parenthood (shudder!).
Cartoonist and self-proclaimed "champion overthinker" Gemma Correll has been dealing with anxiety issues all her life, learning to laugh at them over the years. There's a lot to worry about in this competitive, fast-paced world, and in her book The Worrier's Guide To Life, Correll manages to capture every moment of self doubt and debilitating social fear that most experience on a regular basis.
The heart wants what it wants, but the brain sure as hell will try to make responsible decisions. They might fight, but they're still friends. Webcomic Heart And Brain depicts the relationship between these two vital emotional organs and their equation with the others.
As you grow up, the brain takes precedence over your heart's desires and you must choose responsibility over a walk in the park. The webcomic by Awkward Yeti tells you that it is okay to let the heart win sometimes.
Approaching the business of living (and dying) with a twisted sense of humour, Allie Brosh started blogging in the form of comic strips about growing up with depression and other incidents from her life. The source of many internet memes, Hyperbole And A Half reads like an account of an adult still living in the curious (and strange) mind of a child. Her blog is fuelled by her darkly comic view of the world – something she is constantly apologising for to the people around her. And while Brosh depicts herself as an odd outsider, we can all relate to her struggles.
By way of explanation for all the mishaps and adventures she gets herself into, Brosh writes on her blog: "I was a horrible, mischievous child who lived in the backwoods of North Idaho and had very little to occupy myself outside of causing trouble. Also, I'm impulsive. I just seem to draw chaos toward myself".
True enough, her latest post has a four-year-old Brosh dressed like a dinosaur for Halloween. Inevitably, all hell breaks loose as she goes on a power rampage, gets sent home from school, eats her weight in sugar, colours the the walls of her house with crayons, eats toothpaste, and ends the day watching her parents burn the dinosaur costume.
You made it through your 20s with your sanity intact. Congratulations! You procreated and now you're a parent! Congratulations (translation: oh, crap)!
Illustrator Brian Gordon's webcomic Fowl Language expresses this very sentiment through the (mis)adventures of a duck family. Dealing with the challenges of parenthood and all the joys (and horrors) that come with it, Fowl Language follows Dicky the duck as he tries to embrace being a dad. Inspired by Gordon's own experiences as a father and "a constant, crushing wave of self-doubt and anxiety", Fowl Language is a must read for every modern day parent.


Efficiency has been a buzzword in business since 1913, when Henry Ford started up the very first industrialized assembly line. In 1937, McDonalds brought efficiency into the food service by offering the same method and adding a very limited menu. And for a long time we've been talking about 'lean' and 'just in time' operations to describe progress in efficiency. However, very quietly and from some unexpected sources, a new type of efficiency has been blossoming.
I'm talking about the highly efficient use of randomness to make processes easier and quicker. This may sound counter productive but everyone from Amazon to Southwest Airlines uses it. Amazon warehouse storage is famously random, and South West refuses to assign seats. However, both systems are highly efficient. But why is this?
If you're a mathematician or physicist you might argue what they're doing isn't random at all. It's simply passing the decision making process down the line to employees and customers. And this is partly true. Let's take a look.
In the Amazon example, as I'm sure you've seen, items in the warehouse are placed wherever there is space. The new product is placed, the aisle and box number saved and when the item is ordered the location is shown. They don't follow a code as books in a library do and for good reason – they don't need to. Library books are in order of subject, then author name and then publication date. This makes using them academically more efficient. The point of interest is the subject, not the name.
At Amazon, it doesn't matter one iota if you arrange items by subject. After all, if you buy a Dyson vacuum cleaner today, you're hardly likely to be buying a Hoover at the same time. So there's no advantage to grouping. The other efficiency drive is allowing the stocker on the ground to make their own shelving decision in real time. If they need to place something large, they will visually locate a free space for it. There's no 'pattern or predictably' and this is more efficient because it means no one (or program) is managing this pattern.
Can you imagine the alternative – if products commonly ordered together were located in proximity? With the millions of orders processed by Amazon every single day, this room-program approach to sorting would always be shape changing.
We've all been there, shuffling our feet to board the plane – thinking of five ways, right off the top of our heads, how this could be made more efficient. However, airlines are seemingly insusceptible to initiate change – except when it comes to baggage fees.
This thought process is so common, they did a Myth Busters episode on it, finally establishing, what we all suspected - window passengers should board first. However, nothing happened. The airlines didn't adopt it.
Like me, you might have recognised the snag. If window seat passengers boarded first – that would mean a lot of unaccompanied children – because kids love those seats. Also what about people travelling in twos and threes? Basically, it gets very complicated. And if there's one group who hates delays even more than the passengers, it's the airlines. Delays, missed windows and extra time on the tarmac costs airlines a fortune.
In this case, Southwest Airlines took a leaf out of the European budget airlines' rulebooks and worked out the power of pushing the decision-making envelope forward. Most passengers-created boarding delays are the product of people needing to find a place for their bags, struggling to stow and then return to their seats. It causes cues and bottlenecks. Also, passengers are selfish. They don't care if they're holding you up. Me first.
However, if you make passengers be efficient to secure their preferred seat, natural behaviors modification occurs. Namely, passengers pack a lighter bag, check luggage, and sit down more quickly for fear of mission out.
So these two examples of randomness in efficiency highlight something important. Randomness is also a form of organizing. Human's are almost incapable of being perfectly random – which is why we toss a coin. So by instilling random processes into service design and work processes, we are simply stimulating inmate human level organization behaviors – and these are never random.


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It's crab feed season in Turlock
Catch an in-depth look at one of the previous Pentecost Association's crab cioppino feeds in a February 2014 Studio209 episode, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QATCJ5QZJFc. - photo by Journal file photo
Grab your bib and butter warmer, it's crab feed season. Those looking to hop from event to event can support a number of causes while enjoying buckets-full of that winter seafood treat, crab legs.
One of the biggest and longest-running crab feeds is the one held every winter by the Turlock Pentecost Association at the Turlock Ball Room.
"We usually serve about 2,500 people," said Mike Ralls. "We hope to do just as well this year."
Catch an in-depth look at one of the previous Pentecost Association's crab cioppino feeds in a February 2014 Studio209 episode, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QATCJ5QZJFc.
Last year, a number of fundraising crab feeds were cancelled or postponed due to a health advisory that was issued in November 2016 when state officials found unsafe levels of a toxin in crab caused by algae, known as domoic acid.
The West Coast commercial Dungeness crab season opened in waves this year due once again to elevated domoic acid levels that made the crustacean unsafe to eat — but acid levels aren't the only challenge for those looking to purchase crab meat this season.
Dungeness crab fishers from Northern California to the Canadian border are vowing to continue their strike over the purchase price.
Ken Bates, vice president of Humboldt Fishermen's Marketing Association, says that as of Monday the Dungeness crab fleet is tied up from Morro Bay, California to Westport, Washington.
The strike started Dec. 28 after Pacific Choice Seafood in Humboldt County, California, offered to pay $2.75 a pound for the tasty crustacean. Crabbers whose seasons had already opened had negotiated a price of $3 per pound.
Crab fishermen who are receiving $3 a pound say they won't let others receive any less for the wildly popular seasonal food.
LOCAL CRAB FEED EVENTS:
Turlock Firefighters Crab Feed
The Turlock Firefighters' annual crab and pasta feed to benefit the Random Acts of Kindness Fund will be held at 6 p.m. Jan. 21 at the Assyrian American Club, 2618 Golden State Blvd., Turlock.
Tickets for the all-you-can-eat crab and pasta dinner are $40. To order tickets, email: turlockfirefightersrak@yahoo.com.
American Legion Crab Feed
American Legion Post 88 will hold its annual crab feed at 6 p.m. Feb. 3 at 75 Bothun Rd., Turlock. Tickets for the all-you-can-eat crab, pasta, salad and wine dinner are $40 each. To reserve tickets, call John Haggstrom at 277-2497, Gunner Bruce at 485-2297 or Bob Russell 535-7542. Tickets can also be picked up at the Legion Hall on Tuesdays and Fridays after 4 p.m.
Turlock Pentecost Association Annual Crab Cioppino
Each year the Turlock Pentecost Association purchases thousands of pounds of crab and fresh seafood for their crab cioppino. Tickets are $60 and festivities begin at 5 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Turlock Ball Room. There is a no-host bar and dancing. For more information, call Mike Ralls 495-9056.
Warrior Athletics Crab feed
A crab feed to benefit the Warrior Athletics Scholarship Fund will take place March 18 at the CSU Stanislaus Main Dining. There will be a social hour at 5:30 p.m. and dinner will commence at 6:30 p.m. including all-you-can-eat crab, pasta, salad and bread. Tickets are $55 per person and 10-person tables can be reserved for $650 and include a bottle of wine. There are VIP sponsorships available for $1,500 and includes a table for 10, a cioppino sampler, a hosted bar and electronic logo projection throughout the evening. For more information and additional sponsorship opportunities call 667-3016.
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Air quality officials ask residents to avoid wood burning
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> Load template engine helpers (handlebars, lo-dash, etc) from file paths, globs, arrays or objects.

## Install
#### Install with [npm](npmjs.org):

```bash
npm i helper-loader --save-dev
```

## Usage

```js
var Loader = require('helper-loader');
var helpers = new Loader();
```

## API
### [loader](index.js#L29)

Create a new instance of `Loader`, optionally passing default `options`.

* `options` **{Object}**: Default options for front-matter and helper naming.

**Example:**

```js
var Loader = require('helper-loader');
var helpers = new Loader();
```

### [.option](index.js#L82)

Set or get an option.

* `key` **{String}**: The name of the option.
* `value` **{*}**: The value to assign.
* returns: {*}

```js
loader.option('a', true)
loader.option('a')
// => true
```

### [.load](index.js#L133)

Resolve and load helpers onto the cache.

* returns **{Object}** `loader`

```js
// require a helper
loader.load(require('foo'));

// Pass a string or array of file paths or glob patterns
loader.load('a.js');
loader.load(['a.js', 'b.js', 'c.js']);
loader.load(['*.js']);

// pass an object
loader.load({
	a: function (str) {
  	return str;
  }
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helper.load([{
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  	return str;
  },
  b: function (str) {
  	return str;
  }
}]);
```

### [.set](index.js#L164)

Store a `helper` on the cache by `name`.

* `name` **{String}**: Helper name
* `helper` **{String}**: File path, glob pattern or object.

```js
loader.set('foo', function(str) {
  return str;
})
```

### [.get](index.js#L184)

Get `helper` from the cache.

* `helper` **{String}**: The name of the helper to get.

```js
loader.get('foo')
//=> [function]
```

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**Jon Schlinkert**

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## License
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Released under the MIT license

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This topic has been deprecated; Tox protocol is fully supported.
This is an official "what works/doesn't work" list in Miranda.
Below is the current state of Tox protocol support in Miranda.
When testing client interoperability, it is tested against uTox (latest version) + qTox (latest version) windows client.
Adding a buddy using Toxme.io - it will properly list the tox id in netlog, but something with the addition goes wrong.
Proxy support - requires TCP mode to work!
- pausing - not in miranda - but if the sender client supports pausing (such as qtox/utox) miranda will work properly and wait for file to be unpaused. Resulting file undamaged.
Set own status message/see contact's status message - works, but only after connected. If you're connecting with a status message, it will be blank.


Suffering, death, and loss lay at the heart of a person's connection to their sense of personal identity. It is in our most vulnerable moments that we come to know those things most dear to us; indeed, the people, possessions, and pursuits we are most afraid to lose come rushing to the surface when we confront the possibility of their actual–not merely fantasized, loss.
Paul Kalanithi in his excellent memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, relates his own pursuit of neurosurgical excellence through residency cut short by his stage IV lung cancer diagnosis as a building of potential, "potential that will now go unrealized" (120). Kalanithi reports that it is the duty of the neurosurgeon to learn what renders a patient's life worth living, and either save those things or allow the peace of death if not (113). Kalanithi then interprets his own terminal diagnosis as a loss of his identity, by reader inference, as a loss of those things that makes his life worth living; things that for Kalanithti cannot be saved. He learns this truth first as clinician, then as patient. A dichotomy few of us experience, except by virtue of accepting the gifts offered in such a moving memoir as Dr. Kalanithi's.
This difficult truth guides Abraham Verghese to pen in the forward to Kalanithi's memoir, "See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way" (xix).
Suffering is a gateway toward untold truths. An identifier to mark one as separate, as picked out, as an exemplar, not one of the norm, as statistically set apart and standardly deviated. That through suffering is the path to learn one's identity, or to identify with oneself, and I am not sure which direction the causal arrow points in these cases. Whether to know oneself intimately is reveal one's identity, and suffering facilitates this discovery. That suffering allows us to plumb the depths of our selves. Alternatively, that it may be the case that to identify oneself in a reflexive and self-realizing manner is to make ourselves vulnerable to suffering. That identifying with oneself, renders us vulnerable in an exceptional way that those who do not reveal themselves may be injured but may not suffer. That those who have not ventured to explore their inner lives are somehow less vulnerable to the suffering that leads to beauty, not merely death and loss.
If we are to make sense of suffering, we first must make sense of our selves, and regardless of what suffering may lie ahead, we are better to heed this invitation to know oneself. Even if it makes one more vulnerable. Vulnerability is the ticket to beauty.
Many have said, "Adam, you are an inspiration," and I think, "how brave it is to reveal oneself in this way." We are each of us inspirational when we seek to know ourselves and to reveal ourselves.
I wonder, do I suffer? Do I know my true self? Do I know what makes my life worth living?
On the operating table when we (surgeons and I) decided to end the resection with residual tumor remaining in the margins of my surgical cavity, "especially anteriorly," reads the operation notes, the decision was made for engagement with my children, not wanting to risk permanent left-sided paralysis, but instead, risking more expedient recurrence and death for the sake of running and chasing after my kids.
I am struck that my disease will reveal my mortality. A woman, a mother, in an online discussion forum, reports the final year of her son's life following his GBM diagnosis, "I thought we would have more time," she relates. It is his rapid decline that is most frightening to me. He was 32. He said, "I don't feel like I have cancer." (I have spoken these words.) Yet from a bad scan in October showing progression, he is in hospice by December, dead by January. All of this within one year of his diagnosis. His standard of care therapy mirroring my own. GBM leads to death; whether in six months or sixty, this is the unknown.
Let these narratives serve as further invitations to identify your own pursuits, that should you have to chose, should your doctors, should your loved ones, that your identity makes obvious to the world what they are.
Should we all be brave enough to reveal ourselves in this way.
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Q: Java JDBC MySQL multiple INSERTS in one executeUpdate() I'm using JDBC to make my Java application handle SQL statements to my MySQL database.
For some reason it can't do multiple insert statements in one executeUpdate() method.
My code looks like this:
PreparedStatement statement = connection().prepareStatement(sql);
boolean success = statement.executeUpdate() > 0;

if (doClose)
    closeConnection();
return success;

where sql is a string of the SQL statement.
It tells me there is a sql syntax error, where the new insert statement begins.
The SQL looks like this:
INSERT INTO subscriptions(user_id,`status`,subscription_type,offer_type,offer_expires,offer_effect,card_id)
VALUES (18,'ACCEPTED','FREEMIUM',NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL);
INSERT INTO contact_informations(user_id,email,first_digits,phone_number,phone_is_mobile,street,floor,postal,city,country_title,country_indexes)
VALUES (18,'cool@gmail.com',45,57104998,false,'Nørrevang 15','5. th.','2528','Holbæk','Tyskland','DE');

It works perfectly, when I split the two statement, but in my MySQL workbench editor, it handles the statement in one take.
Is there a way to perform both in one JDBC statement?

A: You should try adding ?allowMultiQueries=true to your JDBC connection URL.
Example:
jdbc:mysql://server-name:server-port/database-name?allowMultiQueries=true

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Air Force-complete makeovers as seen on the Jenny Jones show.
Marines-rise at 0500, train until 2000.
Army-rise at 0600, train until 1900.
Navy-rise at 0900, train until 1100, lunch til 1300, train till 1600.
Air Force-rise at 1000, breakfast in bed, lunch at 1200, nap at 1400, training ceases at 1500.
Marines-Meals-Ready-to-Eat 3 times a day.
Army-one hot meal, 2 MRE's.
Air Force-catered meals prepared by the Galloping Gourmet, Julia Childs, and Wolfgang Puck. All you can eat.
Air Force-for every four hours of training, recruits will receive eight hours of leave and liberty.
Marines-will address all officers as "Sir" and refer to the rank of all enlisted members when speaking to them (i.e. Sgt Smith).
Army-will address all officers as "Sir", unless they are friends, and will call all enlisted personnel Sarge.
Navy-will address all officers as Skipper, and all enlisted personnel as Chief.
Air Force-all Air Force personnel shall be on a first name basis with all other personnel.
Marines-medals and badges are awarded for acts of gallantry and bravery.
fitness test passed, and bed made.
Navy-will have ships engineers make medals for them as needed.
Air Force-will be issued all medals as they will most likely be awarded them at some point early in their careers.
Marines-work uniform, to be worn only during training and in field situations.
Army-will wear it anytime, anywhere.
Navy-will not wear cammies, they do not camouflage you on a ship. Captains will make every effort to TRY to explain this to our sailors.
Air Force-will defeat the purpose of camouflage by putting blue and grey service chevrons and name tapes on them.
Marines-all Marines shall be considered riflemen first and foremost.
Army-doesn't matter, all career fields promote to E-8 in first enlistment.
Navy-nobody knows. Navy still trying figure out what all the SMC, BNC, BSN, and all the other ratings things are.
Air Force-every recruit will be trained in a manner that will allow them to leave the service early to go on to higher paying civilian jobs.


Smith's speculations that transgene insertion disrupts gene expression in genetically modified plants were based on one experiment that was performed with animal cells. This experiment was done using a gene-chip that measures many gene activity levels in cells. A number of similar experiments done with plants demonstrate exactly the opposite. Gene expression studies using gene-chips are very difficult to perform and harder still to reproduce. Small changes in conditions appear to cause large changes in gene expression. Nonetheless, the evidence published in the peer-reviewed literature not cited by Smith shows exactly the opposite of what he claims. It is also the case that scientists try to select modifications that will not disrupt plants, and that after transgenes are inserted, thousands of plants are carefully screened to find plants that have no unintended or unwanted changes. If a genetically engineered plant had suffered drastic changes in gene expression they wouldn't be normal and wouldn't be selected.
1. Gene-chip studies in soybean show that transgene insertion is less disruptive than conventional breeding. Gene chips or microarrays are devices that are used to measure the activity levels of tens of thousands of genes. Studies using gene chips to examine perturbation of genes in soybeans revealed that the disturbance from a transgene insertion is much less than the larger disturbances caused by conventional breeding. Typically in cross-breeding trials between different conventional varieties of soybean, it is found that about a thousand genes vary in their activity among the progeny emerging from the cross (Cheng and others 2008).
2. Gene-chip studies in wheat show that the creation of a new GM wheat variety causes fewer changes in gene expression than does conventional breeding. The introduction of a transgene into wheat has been shown to disturb many fewer other genes than when wheat varieties are crossed using conventional cross-pollination breeding methods (Baudo and others 2006).
3. Gene-chip studies in rice show that transgene insertion causes fewer alterations in gene expression than using radiation for crop breeding. Examination of rice using the gene-chip technique reveals there is a much greater disturbance in gene expression from radiation-induced mutations than when a transgene is introduced using genetic engineering (Batista and others 2008).
4. Transgenes cause little disturbance compared with conventional breeding methods. There is an extensive body of evidence now accumulated proving that introduction of a transgene produces relatively little disturbance to the activity of other genes (Di Carli and others 2009, Kärenlampi and Lehesranta (2006), Catchpole GS and others 2005). The yardstick for being able to say confidently that transgene introduction causes a low amount of change is that it has been repeatedly observed that much greater genetic disturbances are routinely seen with conventional breeding techniques than with genetic engineering. Furthermore the process of screening thousands of plants for those with the desired properties during the commercial development of a new crop variety allows breeders to reject any plants that have drastic alterations.
5. Most DNA insertions do nothing. Survey experiments with the model plant Arabidopsis demonstrate that most DNA insertions introduced into this plant using genetic engineering are silent in terms of observable effects (Bouché and Bouchez 2001, El Ouakfaoui Miki 2005) ).
Batista R and others (2008). Microarray analyses reveal that plant mutagenesis may induce more transcriptomic changes than transgene insertion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(9): 3640–3645. Radiation treatment causes more genetic change than does insertion of a transgene.
Baudo MM, and others (2006) Transgenesis has less impact on the transcriptome of wheat grain than conventional breeding. Plant Biotechnol J. 2006 Jul;4(4):369-80.
Bouché N, Bouchez D.(2001) Arabidopsis gene knockout: phenotypes wanted. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2001 Apr;4(2):111-117 A survey of many insertions shows most DNA insertions do change the plant phenotype.
Catchpole GS and others (2005 ) Hierarchical metabolomics demonstrates substantial compositional similarity between genetically modified and conventional potato crops. PNAS October 4, 2005 vol. 102 no. 40 14458-14462. Another study in which it is found that genetic engineering courses few changes to other genes.
Cheng KC and others (2008) Effect of transgenes on global gene expression in soybean is within the natural range of variation of conventional cultivars. J Agric Food Chem.56(9):3057-67. Gene chip studies show that genetic engineering courses smaller unintended changes than are seen with traditional breeding.
Di Carli and others (2009). Leaf proteome analysis of transgenic plants expressing anti-viral antibodies. Journal Proteome Research 8(2):838-848. Protein profile analysis of transgenic plants shows that very few unexpected changes occur in leaf proteins.
Dubouzet JG, and others (2007). Integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of high tryptophan rice expressing a mutant anthranilate synthase alpha subunit. J Exp Bot. 2007;58(12):3309-21. Epub 2007 Sep 4. Comprehensive surveys of this study showed that genetic engineering causes relatively little change to other genes.
Zhang L, and others 2006 Rpr1, a gene required for Rpg1-dependent resistance to stem rust in barley. Theor Appl Genet. 2006 Sep;113(5):847-55. Epub 2006 Jul 11. this radiation induced mutation caused the activity of many other genes to be disturbed.
1. One study using a micro-array gene chip found that 5 percent of the host's genes changed their levels of expression after a single gene was inserted.
2. The changes, which are in addition to the deletions and mutations already discussed [by Smith], are not predictable and have not been fully investigated in the GM crops on the market.
3. These massive changes may have multiple health-related effects.
By extrapolating from a single study of genetic disease in human cells, Smith asserts that introduction of a transgene into plants will disturb the activity of large numbers of other genes.


Education is important. The problem is that what we learn in school rarely has anything to do with being able to get around in life. Learning algebra is fine for a mental skill but how does this knowledge help you have better relationships with others, make more money without relying on a job, or improve your health? It doesn't, and that's why so many people find ordinary education irrelevant and ultimately useless. Want to go into debt for six-figures to get a degree that won't help you get a job and live your dreams?
When you take control of your education, you focus on learning what you need to know to achieve your goals. When you let others control your education, you pass through a meaningless series of topics that often have no relevance to your life or goals, and when you graduate, you get a piece of paper that's supposed to magically grant you access to better jobs just by virtue of the fact that you studied for a fixed number of years at an institution.
Adults need to know a reason for learning something.
Experience and even mistakes and errors provide the basis for learning.
Adults are responsible for choosing what they want to learn.
Adults are interested in learning subjects with immediate relevance to their lives.
Adult learning focuses on solving problems, not just learning for the sake of learning.
The idea that you can attend school for a fixed number of years, get a piece of paper, and magically be prepared for a better paying job is a fantasy. If that's the way you've been going through life, be prepared for a surprise. Having an education won't automatically give you a better paying job for the rest of your life. Being able to produce results for other people is what will give you a better lifestyle for the rest of your life.
Educating yourself doesn't meant ignoring any forms of education like books, schools, or training. It does mean you learn what you need to achieve a greater goal that helps you produce more results for others and get paid for doing it.
Most people expect a college degree to give them automatic access to a better paying job. Wrong. Being able to bring in more money for a company or yourself is what gives you a better paying lifestyle whether you work for others or yourself.
Whether you're working for others or yourself, you must keep learning. Don't learn irrelevant topics like Greek history or French literature (unless that's your passion and you know how to parlay that into helping others). Learn practical skills like marketing, sales, networking, leadership, and whatever topic you're most passionate about.
The more you know and the more you know how to help others with what you know, the more financially secure you'll be. The more you know alone won't help anyone. Nobody pays you for what you know. Everyone pays you for what you can do for them with what you know. That means more knowledge is pointless unless you also know how to use that knowledge to help others solve their most pressing problems. Do that and people will gladly give you money.
Education alone is never the secret to success. Applying knowledge is the real secret to success, and that means knowing something useful and also knowing how to apply your knowledge to help others.
Knowledge alone will get you nowhere. It's all about applying your knowledge to help others and knowing how to find people who need your help. Do that and it doesn't really matter how much formal education you have. Your future is firmly in your own hands. The real question is what are you going to do about it?


Lack of permissive mechanisms and abundance of inhibitory molecules in the lesioned central nervous system of adult mammals contribute to the failure of functional recovery, which leads to severe disabilities in motor functions or pain. Previous studies have indicated that the neural cell adhesion molecule L1 constitutes a viable target to promote regeneration. In the present study, we describe the cloning, functional expression in Escherichia coli cells and purification of a recombinant αL1 Fab fragment that binds to L1 with comparable activity as the function-triggering monoclonal antibody 557.B6 and induces neurite outgrowth and neuronal survival in cultured neurons, despite its monovalent function. Infusion of αL1 Fab into the lesioned spinal cord of mice enhanced functional recovery after thoracic spinal cord compression injury. αL1 Fab treatment resulted in reduced scar volume, enhanced number of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive axons and increased linear density of VGLUT1 (vesicular glutamate transporter 1) on motoneurons. Furthermore, the number and soma size of ChAT (choline acetyltransferase)-positive motoneurons and the linear density of ChAT-positive boutons on motoneurons as well as parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the lumbar spinal cord were elevated. Stimulation of endogenous L1 by application of the αL1 Fab opens new avenues for recombinant antibody technology, offering prospects for therapeutic applications after traumatic nervous system lesions.


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Woodley BioReg's China region Business Development Director, Lisi Huang has posted a review of training workshop held last month. WBR are connecting with our Chinese clients through WeChat, the number one social media platform in China. To find out more follow this link.
Woodley BioReg was invited by the Tianjin Municipal Government, the Tianjin Science and Technology Commission, and the Tianjin International Biopharmaceutical Cooperative Research Institute and other institutions during the "China Fair" in Tianjin. Ash Ramzan delivered a very successful training workshop on the theme of EU and US Pharmaceutical Regulations and International Certification to Chinese Pharmaceutical companies with an interest in expanding their markets.
There will be more information on future trips to China so please keep an eye on WeChat.
Ash and Lisi then went on to participate in CPhI Shanghai. They had a very busy three days with existing clients meetings and project updates. They were also able to connect with new contacts while there.
Woodley BioReg offers bespoke/ tailored training on a number of topics, for more information please contact us on enquiry@woodleybioreg.com or +44 1484 434343.


Entropy (S) is a property of a substance, as are pressure, temperature, volume, and enthalpy. Because entropy is a property, changes in it can be determined by knowing the initial and final conditions of a substance. Entropy quantifies the energy of a substance that is no longer available to perform useful work. Because entropy tells so much about the usefulness of an amount of heat transferred in performing work, the steam tables include values of specific entropy (s = S/m) as part of the information tabulated. Entropy is sometimes referred to as a measure of the inability to do work for a given heat transferred. Entropy is represented by the letter S and can be defined as ΔS in the following relationships.
Like enthalpy, entropy cannot be measured directly. Also, like enthalpy, the entropy of a substance is given with respect to some reference value. For example, the specific entropy of water or steam is given using the reference that the specific entropy of water is zero at 32°F. The fact that the absolute value of specific entropy is unknown is not a problem because it is the change in specific entropy (Δs) and not the absolute value that is important in practical problems.


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The Charrúa Report: April 21, 2015
Posted on April 21, 2015 April 21, 2015 by El Bolso
Hello fans! El Bolso is back with another Charrúa Report. It's mostly good news this week, so let's get to it!
Wanderers players celebrate as the team books its passage to the next Libertadores Cup round. (Sportal)
Remember how last week I told you about Wanderers' Libertadores chances had taken a big hit? Well, the last round of games came and went, and when the dust cleared the Bohemios were standing tall in second place, thanks to a 3-0 road shellacking of Zamora FC and Palestino's 2-0 loss to Boca Juniors. The Argentines took first place with a perfect record, 6 wins in 6 games, and will face nemesis River Plate (yes, that River!) in the next round. Wanderers also advances, and will know it's next opponent when the rest of the groups finish next week.
This was a huge win by the Uruguayans, getting 3 points on the road against a team that gave them all they could handle at home, and moving on to the second round for only the second time in the team's history. Coincidentally, the first time it happened, in 2002, Wanderers came in second behind Boca Juniors, narrowly beating out a Chilean team (that time it was Santiago Wanderers). Congratulations to the Bohemios, the only Uruguayan team left in the premier South American club competition, and good luck in the next phase!
Meanwhile, Danubio continued it's run of futility, losing 2-1 to Sao Paulo in Montevideo. The result officially eliminates the Uruguayans, although we've known they were dead in the water for a while now. Say what you will about Danubio, it's a remarkably consistent team: they lost all three of their home games 2-1 (two of them on last minute goals after being up early), and suffered matching 4-0 defeats in their visits to Brazil. I guess we know what to expect this week as they travel to Buenos Aires to take on San Lorenzo… This Libertadores campaign has been a complete disaster for the defending Uruguayan League champs, although as we'll see later on they're doing pretty well in the local league.
Hey, remember when I told you that Marcelo Tabárez (no relation to National Team coaching legend Oscar) had tested positive for a banned substance in one of those 4-0 losses? The Danubio forward swore he hadn't taken anything illegal, and even went so far as to submit to further tests to prove it. And prove it he did! Apparently, the excess somatotropin (a type of growth hormone) in Tabárez's system was not due to any doping shenanigans, but to a malign testicular tumor, which was promptly surgically removed later in the week. the 25 year old is currently recovering from the operation and awaiting word on follow up treatment, but it's a good bet that the doping test may have saved his life. Best of luck to Marcelo going forward!
Of course, several teams showed support for Marcelo by carrying signs and wearing special shirts as they took the field during local league action this weekend, including both Nacional and Peñarol. Danubio tried to do the same during the game against Sao Paulo, but after several hours of negotiations with CONMEBOL personnel they could not gain approval for the gesture, so they hung the sign in the stands and wore shirts with Tabárez's name during warmups only. Stay classy, CONMEBOL.
Tomorrow Never Dies
Alonso is back (3 goals in the last two weeks), and not a moment too soon for Nacional's title hopes. (Teledoce)
Ok, people, I know I said I wasn't going to get too excited about how Nacional has been playing lately, but after this past week I'm feeling pretty damn optimistic again. After weeks and weeks of being the better team and letting defensive errors and poor finishing spoil the final result, Nacional won a game they had no business winning, defeating Racing 4-2 to pretty much clinch the annual table. Racing was the better side throughout most of the game, controlling possession and pushing Nacional into its own half of the field, but the Tricolores finally showed some efficiency, scoring on 4 of their 6 total chances to come away with the win. Granted, a big reason for Racing's dominance may be that Nacional had a 2 goal lead 15 minutes into the game, but the Cerveceros still deserved better than a loss, and they didn't get it because Nacional was the same opportunistic, lethal side from the last Apertura.
Leandro Barcia opened the scoring just a minute in after Carlos De Pena ran down the left side and sent a perfect cross into the box (basically the same combination that opened the scoring last week against Rampla). In the 14th minute, Iván Alonso doubled the advantage (I swear, I wasn't just watching last week's game again) after yet another beautiful cross. Racing got closer at the half hour mark thanks to a great header by Mauricio Affonso, and Nacional had to sweat out the end of the first half and the beginning of the second. Gastón Pereiro restored the 2 goal lead in the 58th minute after a great feed from Alonso, but Diego Zabala once again pulled Racing closer just 9 minutes after that. Racing could have tied it from the penalty spot moments later, as it sure looked like a long ball into the box hit Diego Polenta in the hand, but the referee deemed the contact unintentional. then, in the 79th minute, Diego Arismendi clinched the win for the Tricolores with a strange goal: Racing's keeper punch out at a cross that was clearly headed out of bounds, barely grazing the ball and giving Nacional a corner kick. As the kick came into the box, the Racing defenders first whiffed on it, forcing the goalie to make a great diving save, then they fought each other for the rebound with no Nacional players in sight, until the ball bounced softly over towards Arismendi, who slid forward to put it in the net.
With this win, Nacional moves into 6th place in the Clausura table (not bad for a team that was 14th two weeks ago, still 6 points off the lead. More importantly, Peñarol's 1-1 tie against Atenas means the Tricolores now own a 13 point lead in the annual table with only 18 points left in play. It sure looks like Nacional will have the advantage in the title playoff. Peñarol's misstep also dropped them down to second place in the Clausura, as defending champion Danubio beat Cerro 1-0 to claim sole ownership of the top spot. Danubio fans celebrated as you would expect, by surrounding the players' exit and demanding the resignation of coach Leo Ramos, because soccer fans are insane. The team's head of security stopped Ramos from going after the fans, and eventually everyone calmed down, but the club's executive council is looking into the incident to see what needs to be done. Apparently, Danubio fans don't like winning; Ramos was also the coach for last season's title run. I know the team had a weak Apertura and has disappointed in international competition, but come on guys, YOU'RE IN FIRST PLACE. Enjoy life a little.
The Man with the Golden Gun
One minute, that's all it took. He hit Valencia in the ribs and its insides shook. (The Big Lead)
It took Luis Suárez all of 55 seconds to win this weekend's match for Barcelona. The Uruguayan forward took a great feed from Lionel Messi and put the ball past Valencia's keeper, and that was all the scoring needed in this one. Sure, Valencia had several chances to tie the game, including a missed penalty kick, and Messi added an insurance goal in extra time, but Suárez's goal, his 11th in this year's La Liga tournament, ended up being the difference in the match and the reason Barcelona maintained its 2 point advantage over Real Madrid.
Meanwhile, Edinson Cavani played a role in PSG's 3-1 victory over Nice (nice!), scoring the team's third goal on a penalty kick that he himself caused. Olympique Lyon's 2-2 tie against Saint-Étienne means the Parisians are tied with Lyon at the top of the table, but they do have a game in hand.
Finally, last week marked the passing of one of my favorite authors, Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. Galeano was one of the premier voices of the Latin American left of the past 50 years, and the author of the seminal 1971 text Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina, which addressed the impact of European and North American colonization and exploitation of the region's natural resources. Like most Uruguayans, he was a huge soccer fan, and spent many hours thinking about the sport's inner workings and its relationship to society at large; one result of this was the excellent 1995 volume El Fútbol a Sol y Sombra (Soccer in Sun and Shadow), a collection of reflections and vignettes about his experience as a fan of the world's greatest sport. Galeano, who was 74, had been fighting lung cancer for a while, and has now passed. He will be missed.
And that's all for today, friends. I'll leave you with the dulcet tones of Pasión Tricolor (two weeks in a row!) See you next week!
Eduardo Galeano image courtesy of Radio Zero.
About El Bolso
El Bolso is Uruguay's foremost soccer-fan-in-exile, a true authority on the Celeste and its favored son, the Club Nacional de Football. He believes in precision passing, tireless marking, and strong finishing, and is not above the occasional slide tackle from behind when the situation calls for it.
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The Writing Barn: The Logic of Storytelling
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How do you build a story that keeps readers engaged from start to finish? How do you create a character whose goals and motivations are so compelling that readers will follow her anywhere she goes? How do you give readers a conclusion that makes the journey worth it? In this workshop, we'll consider these questions and more by breaking down the storytelling process into manageable pieces. We'll tease apart successful published books to see the framework underneath, and discuss how that framework can be applied to your own works in progress.
In her ten years as an editor at Penguin Random House, Leila Sales found common threads throughout her manuscript feedback. Though the specifics varied with each book, the same issues arose again and again: we don't understand the character's goals or why it matters whether or not she achieves them; the middle of the book drags and lacks in direction; the resolution doesn't feel earned. This workshop gives writers the tools to diagnose and fix these common problems in their own manuscripts—it gives you the questions an editor will ask and the answers an editor will suggest before you even go out on submission.
—fiction and narrative nonfiction writers (children's, young adult, adult)
—writers with a first draft that they're looking to bring up to a submittable or publishable level
—writers who are outlining or conceptualizing a new project
—writers who feel that they're getting lost in the middle of their stories, and want to gain more confidence and purpose in their narrative structure
Leila Sales (leilasales.com) is the author of six critically acclaimed middle grade and young adult novels, including THIS SONG WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Leila has spent the past eleven years at Penguin Random House, where she edited bestselling and award-winning fiction and nonfiction for children and teens, including books by Viola Davis, Gayle Forman, Max Brallier, Sally Green, Greg Pizzoli, and more. She is now based in Austin, where she runs the Book Engineer (thebookengineer.com), a book development agency. Follow her @LeilaSalesBooks.
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The "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" is a Turkey Day tradition, and every year the parade is filled with celebrities making appearances. 2015's biggest star was set to be Justin Bieber, but according to "Entertainment Tonight," the "Purpose" singer had to cancel his pre-taped performance when a personal emergency required that he stay in Los Angeles.
That also means that Bieber will no longer be making his prescheduled performance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," which he apologized for on Twitter.
The talk show host was understanding about the cancellation, at least judging by Bieber's thankful response to him. "Sometimes life kicks our a** and we need to deal with it," writes Bieber, also promising that he would be on the show soon. "I look forward to making it up to you soon," he writes.
In an unconfirmed report from a Hollywood Life source, Bieber could have still been a part of the parade. According to their source, "It was a scheduling conflict, something came up and he had to stay in LA," and that Bieber offered to film in Los Angeles instead.


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Ashcroft RCMP Detachment Police Report: farewell to an old friend
Cpl. J.R. Michaud, acting detachment commander since March, is heading back to Kamloops, as the detachment welcomes a new chief.
Farewell and welcome
Cpl. J.R. Michaud, who has been acting detachment commander in Ashcroft since March, is returning to duty in Kamloops.
The detachment's new commander, Sgt. Kat Thain, takes over on September 27. She comes to Ashcroft from Keremeos.
Michaud was stationed in Ashcroft for three years as head of Central Interior Traffic Services before being transferred to Kamloops in 2012. While on patrol in December 2014 he was seriously injured when Kamloops resident Kenneth Knutson opened fire on him during a police stop.
In March 2016, Knutson pled guilty to a charge of attempted murder and was sentenced to 16 and a half years in prison.
Michaud will be with IRSU (Integrated Road Safety Unit), and will be travelling to different communities within the area for enforcement as needed. "My new position in Kamloops will give me a chance to be in Ashcroft once in a while, and I'm looking forward to being back."
He says a thank you to everyone who had kind words for him when they saw him back in town. "A lot of people recognized me. And a lot of people waved at me—with all five fingers—which is good.
"I would have liked to stay longer, but I know the detachment will be in good hands with Kat, who is a good fit for the community."
Missing from scene
On September 17 at 6 a.m., police received a call about a vehicle that had been in a crash on Thompson River Drive off Highway 1 near the Walhachin turn-off. When a member attended he found the vehicle had been abandoned.
No one was located in the area, but there was blood on the ground near the driver's door. Further investigation at the site revealed several bags of drugs in and around the car. Hospitals around the area were checked, but the driver apparently did not seek medical attention. Anyone with information is asked to call the Ashcroft RCMP at (250) 453-9161.
On September 17 at 8:21 a.m., a woman from Logan Lake found a purse at the brake check in Ashcroft on Highway 97C, and brought it to the detachment. Simultaneously, a woman from Cache Creek reported that she had lost her purse. It was quickly returned to its owner.
Charges pending after assault
On September 17 at 4:45 p.m., police received a report of one woman being assaulted by another in the parking lot of the Ashcroft Apartment and Motel. The mother of one of the two women also became involved in the fracas. Charges of assault, uttering threats, and possessing an imitation weapon are among those pending against a 46-year-old woman.
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The track will be Radio X's Record Of The Week.
Blossoms are back with a brand new single in Getaway, and it's set to be our Radio Record Of The Week.
The track comes along with a shiny new psychedelic video, and follows previous singles Charlemagne and At Most A Kiss which both went straight to the UK iTunes chart.


Welcome to my Web page. It is a great pleasure to work as a neonatologist at the Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center. I have excellent colleagues and a staff that make each day at work a wonderful experience. I'm glad to have this opportunity to share my credentials and personal information with you.
I moved to California after getting married. I completed my residency training at Children's Hospital of Orange County and my fellowship at USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I chose to become a neonatologist because I wanted to make sure that parents' dreams of holding their baby in their arms could be fulfilled. Sometimes taking care of sick and very small newborns is a challenge, but the hope in the eyes of the parents make me rise up to the challenge and give it my best.
I work with a team of neonatologists who are great clinicians and also great people. I love coming to work each day because the team of doctors and nurses and other staff work very hard to give high-quality care to the babies. I get a feeling of satisfaction and fulfillment when graduation music is played in the neonatal intensive care unit as one of our small babies gets discharged.
I believe a healthy body houses a healthy heart and a healthy mind. Despite the stress and pressure of work, I try my best to eat well and exercise. I take the stairs at work as much as possible and work on my rowing machine at home. Running around in the backyard with my kids and the dog is another great way to relax after work.


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    {
        [Fact]
        public void CreateTestPlanThrowsError()
        {
            var client = CommonMethods.GetClientByRoute(TargetProcessRoutes.Route.TestPlans);

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            {
            };
        }
    }
}


Artisanal Imports uses only qualified, vetted tasters for its events, ensuring the customer is educated and appreciated, and that retailers have the promotional products and signage they need.
In-store tastings are an essential element of grassroots beer marketing. They are one of the most direct and powerful routes to customer education, acquisition and retention. After all, first impressions are generally lasting impressions. Here we will discuss the key factors in a successful in-store tasting, perspectives to consider, and how Artisanal Imports can facilitate sales by supporting your events.
The core value of in-store tastings rests on the concept that an increased knowledge and understanding of beer leads to a greater appreciation and desire to discover new flavors. In-store tastings provide a unique face-to-face opportunity to interact with customers, educate them and leave a lasting impression. Consumers often make purchasing decisions based on emotion, how they feel about a product or service and the company that provides it. These events create a positive emotional association both to the hosting establishment and sampled brands, which can pay long-term dividends through loyalty and word of mouth recommendations.
For retail operations, providing or hosting demonstrations is a great way to position your establishment as an expert source of information and to build lasting relationships within your customers. By offering tasting events, your business becomes a gateway for beer discovery, and can help build a community around your retail establishment.
In-store tastings increase foot traffic, keep those feet in-store longer, and increase conversion rates. For retailers, in-store tastings lend an air of authority, demonstrating your ties to the beer industry, and increase the likelihood of return customers. You've given them a positive shopping experience, turning what may have been an errand into an event. In doing so, you have separated yourself from the competition.
Artisanal Imports supports both on and off-premises retailers by offering in-store tastings and education seminars for its portfolio of world-renowned international brands. Please contact us to learn more.
The best way to ensure a smooth landing for a product is by having someone on the ground who is prepared to interface with consumers, retailers and suppliers.
The best ambassador for a brand must be above all, knowledgeable and relatable. Someone who is truly personable will be as skilled at listening as they are at speaking. After all, tasting events are valuable feedback tools, and those real-time first impressions from objective sources perform as a focus group. Furthermore, they are "gateway experiences" for the customer. If you can convince the customer you sell products with quality and individuality, you will increase the likelihood that they will explore your inventory further and recommend your establishment to others.
The right ambassador should also be invested in the well-being of the establishment. If so, they will be better positioned to capitalize on selling opportunities and relay customer feedback. They will also educate the consumer, allowing for a fuller appreciation and understanding of the product.
The success of Artisanal Imports and the brands it supports has been built on long-lasting relationships. We understand that by partnering with like-minded retailers, both parties are building a framework for continued success. For that reason, we are committed to providing retailers with the support they need to host high quality tasting events.
Tasting events build customer loyalty for the establishment and for the brands. Together we can offer the consumer an opportunity to enjoy an unforgettable sensory experience and guide them towards better beer choices in an enjoyable environment.
La Trappe's Governorship program is a shining example of how brands and retail establishments can successfully collaborate to enrich a clientele.
Consider what type of event would best fit your establishment. Is your establishment more suited for a casual, walk-around approach or a more focused sit-down tasting? Artisanal can accommodate whatever style of event would best suit your needs.
Is this a pop-up event, or is it a scheduled event to be promoted? Would it be beneficial to make it a regularly scheduled affair?
Examine the layout of your venue – what area is best suited for a tasting? Three important elements would be visibility, accessibility, and of course, proximity to the beer.
Look for opportunities to utilize other available resources at your disposal. If your establishment serves food, perhaps a paired tasting menu could be created, giving customers the chance to enjoy both food and drink.
What demographic will you be serving to? If there is an element that can be focused, the event can be specifically tailored to engage this audience.
What have we missed? Artisanal Imports is here to help you plan, staff and supply supporting promotional materials to ensure your next value driven tasting event is educational and engaging.


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Q: Cloud Carousel dynamic images not rendering correctly (z-index issue) I have implemented a cloud carousel on my web page, but when the images scoll in a circle, the images on the left don't display correctly when I load dynamic content via php from a database. What happens is the images that are supposed  to be in the behind  actually render in front. see this image to see the problem
carousel Problem http://gzerodesign.com/images/carouselProblem.png
You can see on the left, relay health logo positions in front.  The right side works correctly.  Is this possible to fix when loading dynamic images?
here is my code

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  <a class="thumbnail" href="admin/edit_company.php?co_id=<?php echo $row_rsCompanies['co_id']; ?>" id="trigger"><img class = "cloudcarousel" src="images/logo/<?php echo $row_rsCompanies['co_picture']; ?>"  border="0" />

  <img src="images/logo/<?php echo $row_rsCompanies['co_picture']; ?>" />
<?php echo $row_rsCompanies['co_short_description']; ?>

  <?php } while ($row_rsCompanies = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsCompanies)); ?>

Thanks for any help!!


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Q: How to add content-security-policy to nginx ingress controller in eks I have deployed an nginx ingress controller in my eks cluster. I want to add more security to my nginx deployment i.e add content-security-policy header and the below
X-Frame-Options:
Content-Security-Policy:
X-Content-Type-Options:
X-XSS-Protection:

Is there any document i can follow to do it. please help.
I added in the configmap and turns out it didn't help as well.
Thanks

A: you can try this
ingress:
  enabled: true
  annotations:
     kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
     nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet: |
        more_set_headers "X-Frame-Options: Deny";
        more_set_headers "X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block";
        more_set_headers "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff";
        more_clear_headers "Cache-Control";
        more_set_headers "Cache-Control: must-revalidate";
        proxy_set_header l5d-dst-override

Here is the list of all nginx-configuration-annotations
This fixes my issue and verifies it using zaproxy


We utilized a setup based on extensive pre‐fractionation of proteolytic peptides and nanoflow reversed‐phase LC‐MS/MS to identify the (sub)proteome of human follicular fluid (FF). In this in‐depth screen, 246 specific proteins were identified, the majority of which are involved in coagulation‐ and immune‐response pathways. Our aim is to define a set of FF protein markers, which could predict oocyte quality.
Contribution of the oocyte to embryo quality.
Analysis of the variations of follicular fluid composition during follicular growth and maturation in the mare using proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR).
(2002) N Gérard et al. Reproduction =journal of the Society for Reproduction and Feritlity.
Proteome analysis of human follicular fluid.
(2001) A. Malamitsi‐Puchner et al.
Multiplexed absolute quantification for proteomics using concatenated signature peptides encoded by QconCAT genes (2006) Julie M Pratt et al.
The transcriptome and proteome of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana reveal a diverse phosphorus stress response. (2012) Sonya T Dyhrman et al.
In-Depth Investigation of the Soybean Seed-Filling Proteome and Comparison with a Parallel Study of Rapeseed (2008) Ganesh Kumar Agrawal et al.
Evaluation of oocyte quality: morphological, cellular and molecular predictors. (2007) Qiang Wang et al.
Differential regulation of abundance and deadenylation of maternal transcripts during bovine oocyte maturation in vitro and in vivo. (2007) Aurore Thélie et al.
Exosomal and Non-Exosomal Transport of Extra-Cellular microRNAs in Follicular Fluid: Implications for Bovine Oocyte Developmental Competence. (2013) Md Mahmodul Hasan Sohel et al.
Revisiting oocyte–somatic cell interactions: in search of novel intrafollicular predictors and regulators of oocyte developmental competence (2008) Qinglei Li et al.
Multiple nutrient stresses at intersecting Pacific Ocean biomes detected by protein biomarkers (2014) Mak A. Saito et al.
The preconception Mediterranean dietary pattern in couples undergoing in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment increases the chance of pregnancy (2010) Vujkovic Marijana et al.
Gene expression profile of cumulus cells derived from cumulus-oocyte complexes matured either in vivo or in vitro. (2009) Dawit Tesfaye et al.
Effect of follicle size on mRNA expression in cumulus cells and oocytes of Bos indicus: an approach to identify marker genes for developmental competence. (2009) Ester Siqueira Caixeta et al.
Oocyte environment: follicular fluid and cumulus cells are critical for oocyte health (2015) Dumesic Daniel A et al.
An investigation into the relationship between the metabolic profile of follicular fluid, oocyte developmental potential, and implantation outcome (2012) Wallace Martina et al.
The type of GnRH analogue used during controlled ovarian stimulation influences early embryo developmental kinetics: a time-lapse study (2013) Muñoz Manuel et al.
Transcriptome analysis of in vivo and in vitro matured bovine MII oocytes. (2009) M G Katz-Jaffe et al.
High-throughput analysis of rat liver plasma membrane proteome by a nonelectrophoretic in-gel tryptic digestion coupled with mass spectrometry identification. (2008) Rui Cao et al.
Organelle membrane proteomics reveals differential influence of mycobacterial lipoglycans on macrophage phagosome maturation and autophagosome accumulation. (2011) Wenqing Shui et al.
Genomic RNA profiling and the programme controlling preimplantation mammalian development (2008) Michele D. Calder et al.


Carol Ann (Agan) Jamison 77, a loving wife, mother, and grandmother, of New Albany, Indiana, passed away on Friday, August 18, 2017.
She was born on May 11, 1940 in New Albany to the late Lawrence and Mabel Agan. Carol is survived by her husband of 36 years, Arvin Jamison, Jr.; children, Patricia Petty (Stanford), Susan Bennett, Kenny Bennett, Mary Breeden (fiance' Mike Farris); step-children, Steve, Mike, Mark Jamison, Linda Tomes; grandchildren, Michael, Jerry, Brittany Bennett, Jessica Breeden, Kaitlynn Bennett; and her beloved dog, Sir Buster Brown.
Visitation will be from 2 PM to 8 PM Tuesday, August 22, 2017, at Newcomer Funeral Home (3309 Ballard Lane, New Albany) and on Wednesday after 10 AM. Her Funeral Service will take place at 11 AM on Wednesday at the funeral home with burial to follow at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
Contributions in Carol's memory may be made to the Floyd County Animal Rescue League (215 W. Market Street, New Albany, IN 47150).


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The Jacksons (formerly known as The Jackson 5, The Jackson Five, The Jackson 5ive or abbreviated as J5) was an American popular music quintet from Gary, Indiana, USA. The group, active from 1964 to 1990, regularly played from a repertoire of R&B, soul, funk, and later disco. Considered "one of the biggest phenomenons in pop music" during the early 1970s, the Jackson 5 are also notable for launching the career of their lead singer, Michael Jackson.
The primary members of the group were all the sons of Katherine and Joseph Jackson: Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Michael Jackson, and Randy Jackson (see Randy & The Gypsys). Joseph Jackson formed the band in 1964 and served as its manager, with Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and unrelated youths Reynaud Jones and Milton Hite comprising its original lineup. Within a year, Michael and Marlon joined the band, and Michael became lead singer as the group developed a following in the eastern and midwestern United States during the mid-1960s. Signed to the Motown label from 1969 to 1975, and to CBS Records (as "The Jacksons") from 1975 until their disbanding in 1990, the Jackson 5 were one of the most popular groups of the era and became the first recording act to have their first four major label singles (I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save, and I'll Be There) reach the top of the American charts. Several future singles, among them "Mama's Pearl", "Never Can Say Goodbye" and "Dancing Machine", were Top 5 pop hits and number-one hits on the R&B singles chart. Most of the early hits were written and produced by a specialized songwriting team known as The Corporation™; later Jackson 5 hits were crafted chiefly by Hal Davis.
The Jackson Five's sound was influenced by many of the biggest stars of the 1960s, especially including family funk bands Sly & the Family Stone and The Isley Brothers, soul pioneer Marvin Gaye, doo-wop boy band Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, and soul shouters like Wilson Pickett, Jackie Wilson, Stevie Wonder and James Brown. At the time of their early success, soul and funk stars, especially coming from Motown Records, were among the most popular musicians; Motown had launched the careers of dozens of the decade's biggest stars, most notably Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, and Diana Ross & the Supremes.
1) Blame It on the Boogie
2) Can You Feel It
3) Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)
4) Enjoy Yourself
5) Show You The Way To Go
6) State of Shock
7) Torture
8) Lovely One
9) Walk Right Now
10) Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - single edit
11) This Place Hotel (a.k.a. Heartbreak Hotel)
12) This Place Hotel
13) Can You Feel It - Single Version
14) Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - Single Version
15) Things I Do for You
16) Goin' Places
17) Push Me Away
18) Destiny
19) Everybody
20) All Night Dancin'
21) Your Ways
22) Shake Your Body
23) Give It Up
24) Time Waits For No One
25) 2300 Jackson Street


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Q: What might cause Entity Framework to throw an exception with message "(some type) is neither a super-type nor a sub-type of (some other type)"? I'm dealing with an EF problem I'm finding very difficult to debug...previously, there was a table-per-type inheritance setup governing the different user types in my system - one root type common to all users, and several different subtypes based roughly on the type of person using that account. Now, I have run into issues requiring me to remove the inheritance and instead place a UserId property on each subclass which is a foreign key to a User's Id property. So now instead of being a User, other user types will have a User navigation property.
I've removed all the inheritance associations using the EDMX designer, I've added all the UserId properties and their associations, made sure all the other user types now have their own Entity Keys, and gotten the association and navigation property for the User set up on each specific. However, when I actually run my application, I receive a TargetInvocationException with the message telling me that "User is neither a super-type nor a sub-type of (other type)".
I've been looking for other references to this error message for a little bit now and can't find anything, and I'm unable to determine what's causing it. There appear to be no more references to any sort of inheritance between User and the other types in my EDMX, but still the message persists. No one I know has ever seen it before.
There really isn't any code I can provide for reference; it seems to be a mapping issue. Has anyone seen an exception with this particular message before?

A: It turns out that the problem was not actually inside the EDMX as I had suspected. Usually when there is a problem with the mapping, the code will always blow up on the same line, at the point where I attempt to reflectively instantiate a repository of entities. Since this was where the exception was thrown, I thought it was a mapping issue, but turning custom errors off for the project showed that inside the constructor for a specific repository, another developer had inserted a call to ObjectContext.CreateObjectSet<User>().OfType<(user sub-category type)>(). This is what was causing the problem. I suspect that the exception did not show me this line while debugging because the repository's constructor was called reflectively. After changing this call, everything works.


The mother of Umpqua Community College gunman Chris Harper-Mercer is a prolific poster on online message boards with a love for guns, who struggled to raise her troubled son after separating from his father.
Laurel Harper, a 64-year-old nurse, stockpiled guns in the apartment she shared with her 26-year-old son just minutes from Umpqua Community College. He took six of those guns to his school on October 1, killing his professor and eight classmates before turning the gun on himself.
Police told CNN they are now looking into whether Harper bears any criminal responsibility for the shooting.
Laurel Harper raised Chris Harper-Mercer in Torrance, California, as a single mother. In an article in a local newspaper from 1993 about a local nature center, she said she used to bring her young son to nature shows in California so he could experience nature and feel responsible for it.
Neighbors in California said that Mercer and his mother kept mostly to themselves, the Los Angeles Times reported. His mom would sometimes get involved with the community, such as circulating a petition about eradicating a cockroach infestation because it was keeping her son up at night. One neighbor said that she called him "baby" all the time, even though he was an adult.
They moved to Winchester, Oregon, in 2013, where they lived together in an apartment. Harper, like her son, had Asperger syndrome. There is no link between Asperger syndrome and violence.
Laurel Harper, a licensed practical nurse, worked for a local agency. She was working for a woman with a sick teenage son.
Steele told the Daily News that Harper was a "wonderful nurse" and "detail oriented," but was "always very edgy." She said Harper once refused to take an ID photo.
Laurel Harper once wrote on her now-deleted Facebook page about her gun collection.
"I moved from So. Calif. to Oregon, from Southern Crime-a-mania to open carry. An open carry law won't work everywhere. And when the mood strikes, and as long as we're tossing around brand names, I sling an AR, Tek-9 or AK over my shoulder, or holster a Glock 21 (not 22), or one of my other handguns, like the Sig Sauer P226, and walk out the door. I find the shotguns are a little too cumbersome to open carry," Harper wrote in September 2014.
According to the New York Times, Harper was a prolific poster on the Yahoo Answers message board with the username TweetyBird. Most of her posts were in response to questions about medical issues. She also posted about guns and about the difficult of raising a son with Asperger syndrome.
Her profile shows that she has answered 33,943 questions.
She also wrote on Yahoo Answers about how her son also had a knowledge about guns.
In another post she wrote about reading Donald Trump's book to her son.
Laurel Harper passed on her love for guns to her son. Neighbors and her employer said she often talked about going to the gun range with him. He also talked about guns in rare conversations with neighbors, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Police said they found 14 guns in Harper's home that were purchased by her or another unnamed relative.
She told Shelley Steele, who hired her to be a nurse for her son, that she found a gun club near her home in Oregon where she and her son could shoot without a range master watching.
The relationship between Laurel Harper and her son has eerie similarities to that of Nancy Lanza and her son, Sandy Hook Elementary School gunman Adam Lanza, Before Lanza, who also had Asperger syndrome, went to the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school in 2012, he used one of his mother's guns and fatally shot her while she slept. According to the New York Times and reports compiled after the shooting, Nancy Lanza was also a gun enthusisast and took Adam to the gun range.
The guns Adam Lanza used in the shooting were purchased by his mother. Police have not yet said if Chris Harper-Mercer or his mother purchased the four weapons he brought to Umpqua Community College.
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According to the Los Angeles Times, Laurel Harper married her Ian Mercer in 1989, but they separated just 11 months later. They officially divorced in 2006, citing irreconcilable differences, and shared joint legal custody of Harper-Mercer until he turned 18.
Ian Mercer lives in Tarzana, California. He told CNN that stricter gun laws could have stopped the rampage his son carried out.
"We talk about gun laws. We talk about gun control. Every time something like this happens, they talk about it and nothing gets done. I'm not trying to say that that's to blame for what happened, but if Chris had not been able to get hold of 13 guns, this wouldn't have happened," Mercer said, adding that unlike his ex-wife, he has never held a gun.
Laurel Harper, the 64-year-old mother of Oregon gunman Chris Harper-Mercer, is a nurse, a gun lover and a prolific poster on online message boards.


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