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var bench = require( '@stdlib/bench' );
var isBoolean = require( '@stdlib/assert/is-boolean' ).isPrimitive;
var pkg = require( './../package.json' ).name;
var isReferenceError = require( './../lib' );

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bench( pkg, function benchmark( b ) {
	var values;
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	values = [
		{},
		[],
		null,
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		true,
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			b.fail( 'should return a boolean' );
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	b.toc();
	if ( !isBoolean( bool ) ) {
		b.fail( 'should return a boolean' );
	}
	b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
	b.end();
});

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How it works: the Team High Point combines participation as well as performance to determine an overall winning yacht club.
Each registered Newport-area sailor receives 1 point toward their yacht club team score. Travel teams receive 5 points per registered sailor.
Top 5 finishers in each class are awarded points based on their ranking (1st: 10 points, 2nd: 8 points, 3rd: 6 points, 4th: 4 points, 5th: 2 points) in addition to their participation point(s).
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Grub Street Project :: People :: Elizabeth Inchbald
Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821)
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Elizabeth Inchbald
Elizabeth Simpson
Note: the 19th- and early 20th-century biographies below preserve a historical record. A new biography that reflects 21st-century approaches to the subjects in question is forthcoming.
INCHBALD, ELIZABETH (1753–1821), novelist, dramatist, and actress, the youngest but one of the numerous children of John Simpson, a farmer and a Roman catholic, and his wife Mary, was born at Stanningfield, near Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, on 15 Oct. 1753 (Boaden; 16th, Haydn, Index ). After the death of her father on 15 April 1761 she picked up such education as she could obtain from books, and after her brother George went on the stage she applied without success in 1770 to Richard Griffith, manager of the Norfolk theatre, for an engagement as actress, a profession for which a serious impediment in her speech seemed to disqualify her. After brief visits to London and elsewhere, in the course of which she made the acquaintance of various people connected with the stage and coquetted with proposals from her future husband, she left home abruptly and without warning on 11 April 1772 to seek her fortune. Endowed with much beauty and very slenderly furnished with money, she underwent various adventures, real or imaginary, in London, where she applied in turn to Reddish and to King. From James William Dodd [q.v.], through whom she sought to obtain an engagement, she received dishonouring proposals, by which she was thoroughly frightened, and which she resented with characteristic impetuosity. Feeling the need of a protector, she married Joseph Inchbald, an actor and portrait painter, on 9 June 1772, at the house of her sister, Mrs. Slender, through the agency of a catholic priest named Rice, and on the following day was married again in church according to protestant rites. This second marriage cast some suspicion upon the statement that her husband was a catholic. On the day of his marriage Inchbald is said—probably in error, since the part, according to Genest, was played by Reddish—to have enacted Mr. Oakley in the 'Jealous Wife.' The following day, 11 June 1772, she started with him for Bristol, where, after some delays, she at length appeared on the stage, 4 Sept., as Cordelia to her husband's Lear. She then visited Scotland, and repeated Cordelia at Glasgow to her husband's Lear, 26 Oct. 1772, and on 6 Nov. played Anne Bullen in ' Henry VIII ' to her husband's Cranmer and the Wolsey of West Digges, her manager. In Edinburgh she appeared, 29 Nov., as Jane Shore, playing subsequently Calista in the 'Fair Penitent.' In the following year she appeared as Calphurnia, Lady Anne in 'Richard III,' Lady Percy, Lady Elizabeth Grey in the 'Earl of Warwick' Fanny in the' Clandestine Marriage,' Desdemona, Aspasia in 'Tamerlane,' Mrs. Strictland in the 'Suspicious Husband,' and the Tragic Muse in the 'Jubilee.' From Edinburgh or Glasgow she visited Dundee, Aberdeen, and various other Scottish towns, playing a large number of characters, among which were Juliet, Imogen, Violante in the 'Wonder,' Monimia in the 'Orphan,' and Sigismunda. She also took lessons in French, and practised painting. Her journeys were taken in the roughest fashion, sometimes on foot. On 2 July 1776, after her husband had quarrelled with the Edinburgh public, she took ship with him from Shields for Saint Valery, and went to Paris, where Inchbald vainly sought occupation as a painter, and his wife conceived the notion of writing comedies. Returning to Brighton on 19 Sept. she proceeded on the 30th to London, and on 4 Oct. by Chester to Liverpool,where she made the acquaintance of Mrs. Siddons, which ripened into friendship, and played on 18 Oct. Juliet, followed by Cleopatra in ' All for Love,' &c. While here and at Manchester she made many applications to Tate Wilkinson, which were ultimately successful, and wrote the first outline of 'A Simple Story.' Mrs. Inchbald and her husband here also formed their close friendship with John Philip Kemble, who sat for his portrait to Inchbald. After a visit to Canterbury, the pair reached York in January 1778, and were treated with much friendliness by Tate Wilkinson. She acted in York, Leeds, and other Yorkshire towns, and was well received in Yorkshire society. On 6 June 1779 her husband died suddenly, under painful circumstances (see Tate Wilkinson, The Wandering Patentee , ii. 56-9). Inchbald, as an actor, although little seen in London, stood high in favour in comic old men, Justice Credulous, Sir Anthony Absolute, &c., and did some scene-painting for Tate Wilkinson, who had a warm regard for him as a friend and an actor ( ib. i. 277). A son George, not by Mrs. Inchbald, was also a member of Tate Wilkinson's company, and George's wife subsequently played in Bath. Inchbald was buried in Leeds, John Philip Kemble, who contemplated marrying his widow, writing a long Latin epitaph for his tombstone, and dedicating to his memory a poem palpably imitated from Collins.
On 14 June 1779 a performance was given at Leeds for Mrs. Inchbald's benefit. She acted her old characters in Wakefield and Doncaster in September, her first part after her bereavement being Andromache, and finished writing ' A Simple Story.' The following year she refused offers of from 'Dicky' Suett and others, began a new play, and obtained a long-coveted engagement from Harris for Covent Garden. She quitted the York company 19 Sept. 1780. As Bellario in 'Philaster,' to the Philaster of Lewis and the Arethusa of Mrs. Mattocks, she made on 3 Oct. 1780, at Covent Garden, her first appearance in London, but failed to attract much attention. Other characters followed, including Mrs. Strictland, Queen in 'Richard III,' Mariana in ' Measure for Measure,' Constantia in the ' Chances,' and many others. Her salary rose from 1l. 6s. 8d. per week to 3l. She appeared at the Haymarket on 16 July 1782 as Emma Cecil in the ' East Indian.' She quitted the Hay market on 16 Sept. 1782, acted a month at Shrewsbury, and opened in Dublin in November as Bellario, returning to London in the following spring. She resumed acting at Covent Garden at an augmented salary, and retired from the stage, where her success was never great, in 1789. According to Genest, her last appearance was on 14 May 1789, when she acted Mrs. Blandish in the 'Heiress' at Covent Garden Theatre.
Mrs. Inchbald had at an early date written farces, but when she first sent her manuscripts to Harris and to Colman neither manager took any notice of them. In the summer of 1782, however, Harris accepted a play from her, and gave her 20l. on account. Colman agreed on 7 March 1784 to give her one hundred guineas for 'The Mogul Tale, or the Descent of the Balloon,' and produced it at the Haymarket 6 July 1784, with much success. It was not apparently printed until 1824. Mrs. Inchbald played a small part, in which she all but broke down. Colman produced, on 4 Aug. 1785 (8vo, 1786), her 'I'll tell you what,' a five-act play which greatly augmented her reputation; her manager wrote both prologue and epilogue. On 22 Oct. Harris gave at Covent Garden her 'Appearance is against them' (8vo, 1785). Her subsequent dramatic productions consisted of: 1. 'The Widow's Vow,' an adaptation of 'L'heureuse Erreur' of Patrat (8vo, 1786), Haymarket, 20 June 1786. 2. 'All on a Summer Day,' Covent Garden, 15 Dec. 1787, damned the first night, and not printed. 3. 'Such things are,' a comedy, Covent Garden, 10 Feb. 1787 (8vo, 1788). 4. 'The Midnight Hour,' a comedy, Covent Garden, 22 May 1787 (8vo, 1788), from the French of Damaniant. 5. ' Animal Magnetism,' a farce, Covent Garden, 26 May 1788, eighth performance (12mo, 1789 ?). 6. ' The Child of Nature,' Covent Garden, 28 Nov. 1788 (8vo, 1788), from Madame de Genlis. 7. 'The Married Man,' Haymarket, 15 July 1789 (8vo, 1789), from 'Le Philosophe Marié' of Destouches. 8. 'Hue and Cry,' farce, Drury Lane, 11 May 1791, from the French, not printed. 9. 'Next-door Neighbours,' Haymarket, 9 July 1791 (8vo, 1791), from 'L'Indigent' of Mercier and ' Le Dissipateur of Destouches. 10. 'Young Men and Old Women,' Haymarket, 30 June 1792, from the French, not printed. 11. 'Every one has his Fault,' Covent Garden, 29 Jan. 1793 (8vo, 1793; attacked in the 'True Briton,' and successfully defended by the author). 12. ' The Wedding Day,' a comedy, Drury Lane, third time, 4 Nov. 1794 (8vo, 1794). 13. 'Wives as they were, and Maids as they are,' Covent Garden, 4 March 1797 (8vol, 1797). 14. ' Lovers' Vows,' Covent Garden, 11 Oct. 1798 (8vo, 1798), from Kotzebue. 15. 'Wise Man of the East,' Covent Garden, 30 Nov. 1799 (8vo, 1799), from Kotzebue. 16. 'To Marry or not to Marry,' comedy, Covent Garden, 16 Feb. 1805 (8vo, 1805). 'The Massacre' and 'A Case of Conscience' were printed from her manuscripts by Boaden with the ' Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald 'in 1833. Most of these pieces are translations, and some of them are trifling enough. Those which are original are chiefly improbable, but display power of characterisation and command of dialogue.
Mrs. Inchbald's great romance, by which she is principally known, 'A Simple Story,' was finished by her at her lodgings in Frith Street, and was published, 4 vols. 12mo, 10 Feb. 1791. It obtained an immediate success, a second edition being ordered on 1 May. For the copyright she received 200l. In spite of the break in the middle, which practically divides it into two parts, and of the unexpected frailty of the heroine, it is a supremely tender and touching work, written with much happiness of style, and giving a very lively portraiture of character. It exercised a powerful influence; it was one of the earliest examples of the novel of passion, and seems to some extent to have inspired 'Jane Eyre.' 'Nature and Art,' an able but inferior story, followed in 1796, 2 vols. 12mo. In 1806-9 she edited 'The British Theatre,' in 25 vols., with biographical and critical remarks. Though sensible in the main, her observations upon various plays involved her in disputes with George Colman the younger and others. The contents of the `Modern Theatre,' 10 vols. 1809, and 'A Collection of Farces,' 7 vols. 1809, were simply selected by her. When in 1808 John Murray was starting the 'Quarterly,' under the guidance of Gifford and Walter Scott, he was most anxious to secure Mrs. Inchbald as a contributor, and it was only her extreme diffidence which led her after some hesitation to decline the offer (Smiles, Mem. of John Murray , i. 122). She contributed, however, to the 'Edinburgh Review,' and received 50l. for her first article, or, as she said, 'for five minutes' work.' The prices paid her for literary work were invariably high. She received, indeed, from Harris as much as 600l. for a single play. She invested her money so as to secure herself a yearly independent income of over 260 l.; but, equally prudent and generous, she gave large sums to various members of her family. Mrs. Inchbald died Wednesday, 1 Aug. 1821, at Kensington House, and was buried on the 4th in Kensington churchyard. The memoirs of her life, for which she had been offered 1,000l., were by her peremptory injunction destroyed at her death; in this matter she acted on the advice of Bishop Poynter. Her will was signed 29 April 1821. In all she left about 6,000l. In her private life she was blameless, though she was given to sentimental attachments, and, despite her anxiety to marry again, she declined many offers, some of them advantageous. She died a devout Roman catholic. Singularly fascinating and gracious, although a little apt to take and give offence, she was very popular in both literary and fashionable society (cf. Clayden, Rogers and his Contemporaries , i. 4, 46). William Godwin's daughter, Mrs. Shelley, wrote in a notice of considerable interest 'relative to Mrs. Inchbald ' that she had heard a rival beauty complain that when Mrs. Inchbald came into the room and sat in a chair in the middle of it, as was her wont, every man gathered round it, and it was vain for any other woman to attempt to gain attention. Godwin admired her greatly. (He used to describe her as a piquante mixture between a lady and a milkmaid, and added that Sheridan declared she was the only authoress whose society pleased him' (Kegan Paul, Godwin i. 74). Her beauty she retained until late in life, and she always dreaded its loss. According to an account penned by an admirer which she preserved in her papers, and endorsed 'Description of Me,' she was handsome in figure, but stiff; above the middle height; fair, but a little freckled, and 'with a tinge of sand, which is the colour of her eyelashes; no bosom; hair of a sandy auburn; … face beautiful in effect and beautiful in every feature; … countenance full of spirit and sweetness, excessively interesting, and, without indelicacy, voluptuous; … dress always becoming and very seldom worth so much as eight-pence.'
A portrait of her was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and one by W. Porter was exhibited in the Royal Academy. A third, by Harlowe, is in the Garrick Club, where is also a representation of her, by De Wilde, as Lady Jane Grey. Most of her plays have been reprinted in collections, such as those of Cumberland, Oxberry, Lacy, and 'The London Stage.' Her 'I'll tell you what' was translated into German, Leipzig, 1798, and her stories were more than once translated into French. Of 'A Simple Story' and 'Nature and Art ' many editions have appeared, one, with a memoir by William Bell Scott, being published in 1880. Both works are in the 'Collection of British Novelists,' Thomas Button, author of the 'Dramatic Censor,' 1801, in which Mrs. Inchbald is freely handled, wrote 'a satirical poem' on her entitled 'The Wise Men of the East, or the Apparition of Zoroaster, the Son of Oromases, to the Theatrical Midwife of Leicester Fields.'
[The chief authority for the life of Mrs. Inchbald is the Memoir by James Boaden, 2 vols. 1833. Boaden seems to have had access to her correspondence, and to have seen in manuscript portions of her diary. Most of the magazines of the last century supplied biographies more or less untrustworthy, which were copied into the theatrical biographies of the early years of this century. In works such as Peake's Colman, Dunlap's Cooke, Fanny Kemble's Records of a Girlhood, Forster's Goldsmith, and the Life of F. Reynolds are many particulars concerning her. Tate Wilkinson rhapsodises over her beauty and virtues in the Wandering Patentee. Genest's Account of the Stage; the Biographia Dramatica; the Georgian Era; Gillow's Bibl. Dict. iii. 532; New Monthly Magazine, 1821; Rose's Biog. Dict.; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. may be consulted.]
NCHBALD, MRS ELIZABETH (1753–1821), English novelist, playwright and actress, was born on the 15th of October 1753 at Standingfield, Suffolk, the daughter of John Simpson, a farmer. Her father died when she was eight years old. She and her sisters never enjoyed the advantages of school or of any regular supervision in their studies, but they seem to have acquired refined and literary tastes at an early age. Ambitious to become an actress, a career for which an impediment in her speech hardly seemed to qualify her, she applied in vain for an engagement; and finally, in 1772, she abruptly left home to seek her fortune in London. Here she married Joseph Inchbald (d. 1779), an actor, and on the 4th of September made her début in Bristol as Cordelia, to his Lear. For several years she continued to act with him in the provinces. Her rôles included Anne Boleyn, Jane Shore, Calista, Calpurnia, Lady Anne in Richard III. , Lady Percy, Lady Elizabeth Grey, Fanny in The Clandestine Marriage , Desdemona, Aspasia in Tamerlane , Juliet and Imogen; but notwithstanding her great beauty and her natural aptitude for acting, her inability to acquire rapid and easy utterance prevented her from attaining to more than very moderate success. After the death of her husband she continued for some time on the stage; making her first London appearance at Covent Garden as Bellario in Philaster on the 3rd of October 1780. Her success, however, as an author led her to retire in 1789. She died at Kensington House on the 1st of August 1821.
Mrs. Inchbald wrote or adapted nineteen plays, and some of them, especially Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are (1797), were for a time very successful. Among the others may be mentioned I'll tell you What (translated into German, Leipzig, 1798); Such Things Are (1788); The Married Man ; The Wedding Day ; The Midnight Hour ; Everyone has his Fault ; and Lover's Vows . She also edited a collection of the British Theatre , with biographical and critical remarks (25 vols., 1806–1809); a Collection of Farces (7 vols., 1809); and The Modern Theatre (10 vols., 1809). Her fame, however, rests chiefly on her two novels: A Simple Story (1791), and Nature and Art (1796). These works possess many minor faults and inaccuracies, but on the whole their style is easy, natural and graceful; and if they are tainted in some degree by a morbid and exaggerated sentiment, and display none of that faculty of creation possessed by the best writers of fiction, the pathetic situations, and the deep and pure feeling pervading them, secured for them a wide popularity.
Mrs Inchbald destroyed an autobiography for which she had been offered £1000 by Phillips the publisher; but her Memoirs , compiled by J. Boaden, chiefly from her private journal, appeared in 1833 in two volumes. An interesting account of Mrs Inchbald is contained in Records of a Girlhood , by Frances Ann Kemble (1878). Her portrait was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

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Karl Gustaf Pettersson, född 16 juli 1853 i Rudskoga, Värmland, död 5 september 1921 i Frändefors, Dalsland, var är en svensk konstnär och gåramålare. Han gifte sig 1897 med Klara Natalia Fagerström.

Pettersson började utbilda sig till yrkesmålare 1869, som konstnär var han autodidakt. Han vandrade runt i södra Dalsland och målade av fastigheter på beställning och utförde dekorativa utsmyckningar.

Hans konst består av stafflimålningar med motiv från Dalsland med en genuin naivism och en barnslig charm.

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Svenskt konstnärslexikon, del IV sid 417, Allhems Förlag Malmö.

Personer från Rudskoga socken
Svenska målare under 1800-talet
Svenska målare under 1900-talet
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In tutorial, we will walk through the steps to automatically build and deploy a Django application with Pipelines.
Django is a Python framework that lets you create web applications easily. For information on Django, visit the Django project website.
Git installed on your development machine.
A Pipelines account. Register for a Pipelines account.
A GitHub account. Register for a GitHub account.
An Amazon EC2 account. For steps to set up your EC2 account, see How to Set Up an AWS EC2 instance.
If you already have a Django application, create a GitHub repository for your application, and add your code to your repository. Then, skip to Step 2 of this tutorial.
Open the sample Django application in the GitHub repository.
Click Fork. The Example-Django-App repository is copied to your GitHub account.
Next, we will link the GitHub repository to Pipelines. After it is linked, your application is automatically built every time you make changes to the application.
Log into your Pipelines account. The home page for your account opens.
On the top right, click New App. The New App page opens.
In the Name your app field, type a name for your app.
Click GitHub. You are prompted to allow Pipelines to access your GitHub repositories. After you grant access, the New App page opens.
Click Use GitHub. A list of your GitHub repositories is shown.
Select the Example-Django-App repository that you forked in the earlier step. The list of branches for the repository is shown.
Select the master branch, and click I'm Done. The Configure your Build Steps section expands.
Build Steps are instructions that describe how to build and package your application. For this tutorial, in the PkgInclude section, add an asterisk (*). This includes all the application's files in the build.
Click Done. A summary of your build configuration is shown.
From the Build Image menu, select Distelli Python (Docker), and click Start Build. The application is added to your account, and the build begins. To see the status of the build, click Go to Build.
Now that the application is added to Pipelines, we can deploy it to your EC2 instance.
In your Pipelines account, in the top menu, click Applications. The list of your applications opens.
Click the name of your application. The application's settings page opens.
Click the Manifest tab, and expand the Deployment Manifest section. In this section, we provide the commands that your server runs when the application is deployed.
In the next step, we add an environment for your application, and launch an EC2 instance to deploy the application to.
If you have set up an Amazon EC2 account, you can launch a new EC2 instance for your application from within Pipelines.
If you have not set up your Amazon EC2 account, see How to Set Up Amazon EC2 for steps to set one up.
In your Pipelines account, from the top menu, click Applications. The list of your applications opens.
In the top menu, click Servers. The Servers page opens.
Click Add Server. The New Server page opens.
Configuration Type: Select New EC2 Configuration.
AWS Region: Select a region that's closest to you.
Instance Type: For this tutorial, select a General Purpose instance that works for you.
Depending on your EC2 configuration, select additional options, such as your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), EC2 key pairs, and so on.
In the Add Tags, User Data and Environments section, select the environment that you just created.
When you have finished selecting your EC2 configuration, click Launch to start the instance.
In the next step, we will deploy the application to your server.
From the top menu, click Applications. The list of your applications opens.
Click New Deployment (the "rocket" icon). The New Deployment page opens.
Click Deploy a Release. You are prompted to choose your application.
Click your application's name, and select the latest release.
When prompted to select an environment, select the environment you created in the previous step, and click All Done.
Click Deploy. Your application is deployed.
To test the application, navigate to http://<SERVER-IP-ADDRESS>:8080, where <SERVER-IP-ADDRESS> is the IP address of your EC2 instance.
To enable automatic deployments for your application, you create an application pipeline to ensure that all successful builds are automatically deployed to your servers.
On the right, under App Pipeline, ensure that the Auto Build option is enabled.
To add a step to the pipeline, click Add Step, and select the environment you created earlier.
Click Add. The environment is added to the pipeline.
To enable automatic deployments, enable the Auto Deploy check box, and from the menu, select If the Build Succeeds.
Now, every time you push new code to your GitHub repository, Pipelines builds your application and deploys it to your server. Let's make a small code change, and push it to the repository to observe this automation process in action.
On your development machine, navigate to the folder where you added the sample application, and from the templates folder, open index.html in a text editor.
Change some text in the HTML file, and save the file.
Your changed application is automatically built and deployed.
Now, when you navigate to http://<SERVER-IP-ADDRESS>:8080, you can see your changes.


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George Healy
President of the United States Football Association from 1919 to 1923.
Healy, who had played soccer as a schoolboy in England and later in Detroit, moved up steadily through the administrative ranks in the early years of American soccer. In 1905, he became president of the Detroit league, which he had organized several years earlier. From 1913 to 1919, he was president of the Michigan state soccer association, which he also had organized. In 1916, he became a vice president of the U.S. Football Association, and served in that position for four years before becoming the USFA's fourth president in 1919.


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Q: Regular expression: how to capture word with only one repeated symbol Having an input of
aaadds bbbbb/bbbbb asdfdasf cccccccccc  \n
fffffff

What is the correct regex for getting cccccccccc and fffffff?
It should be something like [.]+ except for the fact that dot inside the square brackets is literal and one can't simply backslash it.
UPD: also this should work for
aaadds bbbbb/bbbbb asdfdasf cccccccccc  \n s """""
    fffffff
adding c and """"" to the result.
thanks arshajii for the correct answer

A: You can try something like:
(?<=\s|^)(\w)\1*(?=\s|$)

demo
The problem with something like \w+ (or .+) is that the \w doesn't need to be the same character all the way through; that regex simply means one of more word characters and not one or more of the same word character.
Instead, we can make use of capturing groups. We capture the \w with (\w) and reference its value with \1: i.e. (\w)\1* which does indeed mean one or more of the same word character.

A: You want only words that contain only the same letter repeated?
/\b(\w)\1+\b/

That is: \b word boundary; (\w) one word character; \1+ the captured word character at least 1 time; \b another word boundary.

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This is why you can't track the progress of gritting lorries through Lancashire during winter
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READ MORE >>> Live gritting activity will not be revealed because of data protection rules
But legal advice reveals that the refusal was actually the result of concerns that the information could be used to challenge whether the authority had done its duty to keep the roads as clear as could be reasonably expected.
Lancashire County Council does publish the routes which it intends to treat on any given day on its website. These are presented by sub-region and categorised into what the authority classes as "priority" or "secondary" gritting routes - including a map which shows where they are.
The decision not to publish real-time routes is outlined in a document prepared for committee members - and seen by the Lancashire Post - by legal representatives including county hall's senior lawyer from its litigation team.
It explains that the authority is obliged "to ensure that safe passage along a highway maintainable at public expense is not endangered by snow or ice - but only so far as is reasonably practicable".
The advice adds that the county council - which is responsible for the majority of non-motorway routes across Lancashire, except in Blackpool and Blackburn - uses details about which roads have been treated as a way of demonstrating that it has met the "reasonably practicable" test.
The document states: "It is arguable that making this [information] available...enables analysis and potentially increased or fraudulent claims."
Concern is also raised that the publication of live gritting activity might "raise expectations" or lead to increased demands from the public, potentially requesting that particular roads should be visited by gritting lorries.
READ MORE >>> It will have to get colder before Lancashire's roads are gritted
Internal scrutiny member Erica Lewis told the latest meeting of the group that the original data protection explanation for why the the routes had to stay secret should act as "a cautionary tale for people providing evidence to the committee not to make up legal positions".
The county council's gritting lorries are fitted with tracking technology which enables officers to monitor where they are at any given time. But the legal advice revealed that no other local authority provides the kind of real-time information which had been requested by councillors.
Some councils do publish the current location of a gritter, but not its total route. However, this was deemed to be of "limited use" and risked acting as a drain on resources because of the potential to increase enquiries.
A spokesman for the council said: "In July, advice was given that data the council has on tracking gritters cannot be disclosed because of GDPR, as it could be linked to an individual.
"Further legal advice was then given that a live feed produced for operational use should not be disclosed."
WILL MY ROAD BE GRITTED?
Advance information can be found at: https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/winter/gritting/
COLD AS ICE?
The forthcoming winter will be the first that Lancashire County Council has treated roads only once the temperature has dipped to half a degree above freezing.
In previous years, the authority's gritting wagons have been mobilised whenever forecast temperatures have been predicted to fall below one degree celsius.
The change, which was approved by cabinet members in August, is expected to save £100,000 per year.
The authority said it was sometimes being too "pessimistic" about when temperatures might hit freezing point - and so risked sending out the gritters unnecessarily.
Speaking at the time, cabinet member for highways, Keith Iddon, rejected suggestions that the new system could result in roads being left untreated: "We're not like the RAF, we don't scramble when the bell rings. Once we know in the afternoon that the temperature is going to drop to half a degree, the vehicles will turn out to grit."
And council leader Geoff Driver said the authority's commitment to keeping the roads as safe as possible was demonstrated by the fact that its highways budget was "grossly overspent" in response to last year's harsh winter.
ROAD RESPONSIBILITIES
Local authorities are responsible for maintaining all routes except motorways and trunk roads, which are the responsibility of the nationwide Highways Agency.
In Lancashire, that means the county council looks after all ordinary routes, with the exception of the A585 (between the M55 and Fleetwood) and roads in Blackpool and Blackburn, which are overseen by standalone councils in those areas.
The Local Government Association (LGA) says that it is not practical for councils to treat the entire highways network.
"It would cost hundreds of millions of extra pounds to grit all roads. Also, many roads are simply too narrow or too steep for gritting lorry to navigate," the LGA says.
The organisation adds that councils cannot guarantee even treated routes will always be kept clear of snow and ice.
LENGTH OF LANCASHIRE'S ROAD NETWORK
Motorways - 108 miles
A-roads - 498 miles
All other roads - 4,372 miles
Source: Lancashire County Council (figures include routes in Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen council areas)


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Sales people hate cold calling, but it is the sales managers' job to make sure they are building a healthy pipeline. Listen to this episode to learn an easy way to make cold calling fun and competitive.
Let's be honest. Most salespeople would rather have root canal than cold call. Yet, it is the sales manager's job to make sure the sales team is constantly building a healthy prospect pipeline. Here's a way to inject some fun into cold calling.
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INTUG and CCIA strongly encourage removing access barriers in telecoms services, to lower user prices, facilitate global supply chains and boost economic growth and innovation. Nick White, EVP INTUG, was one of the main speakers at a webinar organised by CCIA and INTUG on 24 May to brief Trade Negotiators from around the world involved in the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA).  Nick summarised the needs of business users and stressed the importance of making cross border online trade easier.
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Changes will never happen in your life until you make some changes to your life. We all have to stop complaining about things we don't want to change in our lives.
Don't expect everyone around you to support your change because it only reminds them that they are not changing but YOU ARE changing.
So it won't be easy but it is worth it. We all have to make the decision of being happy, of changing our lives and our way of thinking. We should start by accepting what we are going through and accepting that we do not have to stay in that situation.
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The Hill – A Historical Novel About Witches
Bruce Springsteen's Magic
Posted by kitperriman on October 5, 2021
(Bruce Springsteen)
I got a coin in your palm,
I can make it disappear.
I got a card up my sleeve,
Name it, and I'll pull it out your ear.
I got a rabbit in the hat,
If you wanna come and see.
This is what will be.
I got shackles on my wrists,
Soon I'll slip and I'll be gone.
Chain me in a box in the river,
And I rise up in the sun.
Trust none of what you hear,
And less of what you see.
(Photo: Public Domain)
I'll cut you in half, I got a shiny saw blade, All I need's a volunteer,
I'll cut you in half,
While you're smiling ear to ear.
And the freedom that you sought,
Drifting like a ghost amongst the trees.
Now there's a fire down below,
But it's coming up here.
So leave everything you know,
Carry only what you fear.
On the road the sun is sinking low,
Bodies hanging in the trees.
And here's The Boss himself:
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Kit's Crit: HEIR TO A PROPHECY (Mercedes Rochelle)
What Does It Mean To Be A Witch?
Boggarts and Bogeymen January 20, 2022
Olde English Cottage Pie v. Shepherd's Pie. January 19, 2022
The "Witch" Church January 18, 2022
The Goddess Within January 17, 2022
Kit's Crit: The Familiars (Stacey Halls) January 14, 2022
Magic Colors January 13, 2022
Spellcaster: Two January 12, 2022
Brighid: Goddess and Saint January 11, 2022
Witches Galore: The Real Deal January 10, 2022
Three Real Shakespearian Witches January 7, 2022
Shakespeare's Recipe For Disaster January 6, 2022
Spellcaster: One January 5, 2022
Olde English Rice Pudding January 4, 2022
In The Beginning . . . January 3, 2022
Gearing Up For Hogmanay! December 30, 2021
The First Temptation December 29, 2021
Tradition December 28, 2021
Post-Christmas December 27, 2021
Kit's Christmas! December 24, 2021
Happy Holidays! December 23, 2021
Kit's Crit: The Hangman's Daughter (Potzsch) December 22, 2021
Old Demdike's Charme December 21, 2021
Tarot Cards December 20, 2021
Dark Magic December 17, 2021
The Last Wolf In England December 16, 2021
Kit's Crit: Wicked Enchantments (Froome) December 15, 2021
Olde English Honey Crispels December 14, 2021
On Edge December 13, 2021
Chris de Burgh's A Spaceman Came Traveling December 10, 2021
Olde English Parkin December 9, 2021
A Less-Known Lancashire Witch: Meg Shelton December 8, 2021
The Scrying Game December 7, 2021
Exodus 22:18 December 6, 2021
My Kind December 3, 2021
Anne Boleyn, the Witch: Part Four December 2, 2021
Anne Boleyn, the Witch: Part Three December 1, 2021
Anne Boleyn, the Witch: Part Two November 30, 2021
Anne Boleyn, the Witch: Part One November 29, 2021
Olde English Christmas Pudding November 26, 2021
Thanksgiving Blessing November 25, 2021
Coldplay's Magic November 24, 2021
Return Of The Druid November 23, 2021
A Word From The Wise November 22, 2021
Olde English Flapjack November 19, 2021
Kit's Crit: The Wise Woman (Philippa Gregory) November 18, 2021
Shape-shifting November 17, 2021
Put to Question: The Strappado November 16, 2021
Put to Question: Pressing November 15, 2021
Kit's Crit: The Witch (Movie) November 12, 2021
Put To Question: The Pear November 11, 2021
What Do You Believe? November 10, 2021
Fairy Dust November 9, 2021
Queen's It's A Kind Of Magic November 8, 2021
Put To Question: The Thumbscrews November 5, 2021
Put To Question: The Rack November 4, 2021
Blessed Be November 3, 2021
Paws For Thought November 2, 2021
Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze November 1, 2021
Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) October 29, 2021
Happy Halloween! October 28, 2021
Season of the Dead October 27, 2021
Almost Halloween! October 26, 2021
Kit's Crit: The Hour of the Witch (Chris Bohjalian) October 25, 2021
Olde Scottish Shortbread October 22, 2021
Queens of the Stone Age's Burn the Witch October 21, 2021
Fear October 20, 2021
Lancaster Castle October 19, 2021
Halloween Joke #2 October 18, 2021
Kit's Crit: Waking the Witch (Pam Grossman) October 15, 2021
Do You Believe In Ghosts? October 14, 2021
Rose October 13, 2021
Lana Del Rey's SEASON OF THE WITCH October 11, 2021
The Hill October 8, 2021
Olde English Hotpot October 7, 2021
What Does It Mean To Be A Witch? October 6, 2021
Bruce Springsteen's Magic October 5, 2021
Kit's Crit: HEIR TO A PROPHECY (Mercedes Rochelle) October 4, 2021
Resurrection October 1, 2021
Contacting The Dead September 30, 2021
"I See Dead People!" September 29, 2021
Olde English Mince Pies September 28, 2021
The Baby Blues September 27, 2021
The Divine Comedy: Dante's Demons September 24, 2021
Kit's Crit: The Inferno of Dante (Robert Pinsky) September 23, 2021
Hole's Softer, Softest September 22, 2021
Olde English Scones September 21, 2021
The Witch-finder General September 20, 2021
The Mystica September 17, 2021
Ten Famous Witch Trials In England September 16, 2021
Spellbound! September 15, 2021
Elvis Presley's Devil In Disguise September 14, 2021
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Tituba the Witch September 10, 2021
A Brush With Power September 9, 2021
Steve Miller Band's Abracadabra September 8, 2021
Abracadabra! September 7, 2021
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In the wake of the apparent self-destruction of the Forerunner empire, two humans - Chakas and Riser - are like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed.
Captured by the Master Builder and then misplaced during a furious battle in space, they now find themselves on an inverted world where horizons rise into the sky and where humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect. They have become both research animals and strategic pawns in a cosmic game whose madness knows no end - a game of ancient vengeance between the powers who seeded the galaxy with life, and the Forerunners who expect to inherit their sacred Mantle of duty to all living things.
Since this is the second book in the Forerunner saga I'm going to try to be as vague as possible to avoid any major spoilers. I highly suggest that you read Halo: Cryptum first or skip to the verdict if you want to avoid any chance of spoilers.
Halo: Primordium continues on directly after the events in Halo: Cryptum and focuses on one of the human characters, Chakas. Chakas finds himself stranded on a severely damaged Halo ring where he meets up with another group of humans who have lived their entire lives on the Halo. Together with two of these humans, Vinnevra and Gamelpar, he traverses the Halo in search of his lost companion, Riser, and a way off the ring. Chakas has to face many obstacles and during his journey he makes surprising discoveries about himself, the Halo and the machinations of the Forerunners and The Primordial.
The story is told in a first-person narrative from the viewpoint of Chakas and throughout the story we get a much more intimate glimpse of him and the warrior personality, the Lord of Admirals, imprinted in his genetic material. Chakas is a tragic figure, never quite in control of his own life and he is always being forced along the paths chosen for him. You can't help but sympathise with him and wish for something good to happen to him.
Initially the pacing is quite slow and I found it frustrating at times. Most of the first half of the novel is taken up with their journey through the Halo. The characters stumble from one place to the next in a constant need to find food and shelter. While doing so there are striking descriptions of their surroundings, chance encounters and various conversations through which the history of the Halo and other essential background is revealed. There's a lot of ground to cover and I think Greg Bear does an admirable job of balancing story progression and back-story which is a very difficult task given the huge scope of the Halo universe.
The second half of the novel is a well-deserved reward for persevering and that's where Primordium truly shines. There are some more startling revelations; stunning twists; a very poignant moment; and a cliffhanger ending that thrusts the ancient past firmly into the present-day Halo universe.
Halo: Primordium continues to delve into the history of the Halo universe offering quite a few surprises along the way. Die-hard Halo fans will definitely love discovering more about The Flood, the Precursor and what Chakas ultimately becomes. The cliffhanger ending also gives an enticing glimpse of how the story might tie in with the forthcoming Halo 4 game. More casual readers might find the slow pace a bit daunting, but it's well worth persevering till the end. If you are looking for an action-packed adventure then you'd be better off looking at some of the other novels in the Halo franchise.
Despite the slow pacing I managed to enjoy Primordium and I can't wait to see how things turn out. Hopefully the third and final installment will answer a few unresolved questions and deliver a far more action-orientated storyline. Recommended.
Thanks to Kelly from Pan Macmillan S.A. for providing the review copy.
In order to make up for not buying any books in January I went slightly overboard this month. It seems all the local online shops decided to have sales at the same time, and since I don't get to actual bookshops very often I just had to jump at the opportunity.
I'm pretty happy that I managed to control the darker urges of my book addiction and kept the number of new books bought down to just seven.
Feast your eyes on the gorgeousness that is Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds. Isn't that cover just stunning?
This is one of my most anticipated titles of 2012 and I can't wait to get started. A huge thank you to Andrea from Jonathan Ball Publishers for sending me a review copy.
The Polity Collective stretches from Earth Central into the unfathomable reaches of the galactic void. But when the Polity finally encounters alien life in the form of massive, hostile crablike carnivores known as the Prador, there can be only one outcome - total warfare.
Chaos reigns as, caught unawares, the Polity struggles to regain its foothold and transition itself into a military society. Starships clash, planets fall, and space stations are overrun. But for Jebel Krong and Moria Salem, trapped at the center of the action, this war is far more than a mere clash of cultures, far more than technology versus brute force. This war is personal.
One sunny day in 2008 I was perusing the donated book section of my small local library in search of some science fiction to read. I had already exhausted all the offerings in their normal collection so almost anything would do. Squeezed in amongst the stacks was this little book called Prador Moon by someone called Neal Asher. The cover looked science-fictiony enough so I grabbed it and headed for the checkout counter without even reading the blurb.
That 'little' book simply blew me away. I was astounded at the scope and complexity of the futuristic world crammed into just 222 pages and I loved every minute of the action-packed bloody encounters between the Polity and the Prador. Four years later I found myself in dire need of some 'bloody mayhem' to take my mind off things and Prador Moon was the first book that came to mind.
Revisiting old favorites can sometimes be a huge disappointment since they never quite seem to live up to that experience of first discovery. I'm glad to say that after all those years Prador Moon still managed to enthrall and thoroughly entertain me. All the elements that hooked me the first time round are still there and just as effective as when I first read it.
What drew me to the story was the technology and ideas at play. The AI controlled society of the Polity, the monstrous crab-like Prador with a penchant for human flesh, the war drones and golems, human-bonded spaceships, fantastically destructive weaponry and the flawed human characters all come together to tell one heck of a story about inter-species conflict on a truly vast scale.
Prador Moon was my first introduction to Neal Asher's work and made me a lifelong fan. The premise might seem somewhat over the top and simplistic at first glance. Yes, nasty aliens attacking humanity has been done countless times before, but what sets Prador Moon apart is how that simple premise is morphed into something much more complex by bringing some very interesting concepts together.
Prador Moon packs a vicious punch. If you are looking for a fast-paced, action-packed read and you aren't afraid of blood and gore then this should satisfy nicely. Highly recommended. Now let's go make some crab cakes!
Procrastination provides solace for a weary soul. What can be more comforting than the knowledge that you can put something off for yet another day? That's my excuse and I'm going to stick to it!
I've been so busy with other things that this new arrival post is more than two weeks overdue. So, before I get lost in yet another bout of procrastination here's the latest batch of books I received.
I ordered these from Better World Books just before Christmas and they arrived a week before the end of January (yes, this post is THAT late).
Pan Macmillan SA was kind enough to send me a review copy of Halo: Primordium the second novel in the Forerunner series. Isn't that cover just amazing? I can't wait to get to it. Thanks Kelly!
On the reading front things are tough. I'm a month behind in my reading for the Wheel of Time challenge. I'm currently busy with book four, The Shadow Rising, and need to read book five, The Fires of Heaven, by the end of the month in order to get back on track. Those books are tomes, so I doubt I'll manage it.
If you're a military history geek, you've probably heard the origin of the Gatling gun.
Designed by the American doctor Richard J. Gatling in 1861, he figured the multiplied firepower from a single weapon would reduce the demand for massive armies and large, set-piece battles, and ultimately show the world's leaders the savagery and futility of war. Enter the American Civil War with 620,000 dead; more than the total American losses from every conflict from the War for Independence to Vietnam. Combined.
What about the theory of long-range, large-scale strategic bombing that was developed after the appalling carnage of World War One? Strike at vital war-making centers, shorten the conflict, save lives, right?
Unfortunately the theory didn't quite play out as expected a quarter century later, as the residents of London, Tokyo, Berlin, and other cities can attest. Take as an example the city of Dresden, Germany, on which Allied bombers dropped almost 4,000 tons of explosives over the course of two days, demolishing 15 square miles of the city and an estimated 25,000 German civilians.
Remember when television and the internet were touted as world-changing educational tools that would raise the collective intellect of Mankind?
It's the thought that counts. I guess.
The staple of Science Fiction is the notion that Society and Humanity will advance with Science and Technology. All Mankind needs is FTL or nano-tech or faster broadband, and eventually, inevitably, we'll be lifted beyond the meat, the mud, the divisions into a new, enlightened phase of human existence in which we can boldly go where no man has gone before.
Nice idea. Only trouble is history says otherwise, with repeated tragic eloquence.
Let me be clear here: I'm not a scientist or sociologist. I'm just an debut author offering thoughts on constructing realistic science fiction settings, so sprinkle your grains of salt liberally as you read. Your mileage may vary.
Whenever I approach a sci fi story as a writer, my foundational premise is this: Technology won't carry Humanity beyond itself; it merely creates new avenues of expression for what we already are. So will nano-tech processors that can build anything imaginable given enough raw material eliminate economic disparity? Probably not. Sure they'd be revolutionary and incredibly beneficial. Absolutely true. But the first agenda of the powerful is to maintain power, so if you think people won't construct value systems and some form of currency that enables them to accumulate influence, affluence, and social distinctions, you're fantasizing.
Occupy Proxima Centauri! Good Luck with that. Rather than envisioning a Worker's Paradise In Space, I think the real challenge for the Spec-Fiction writer is to hypothesize regarding that future economy's mechanisms and how they impact society and individuals. Who will be the new Power Brokers, Refugees, Luddites? What drives them? What scares them?
If History is any indicator, Humanity is hard-wired against Socialist Utopia. People have equal value but not equal abilities. Cybernetics, bio-tech, gene-therapy will certainly be used to off-set disease and disabilities, but they will also be employed to increase those distinctions. Someone will always strive to be stronger, faster, smarter, ahead of the curve. The issue isn't the Body, it's the Heart. Technology is simply a new appendage.
In my opinion, the second important premise of good science fiction is that it isn't about fictional science. Fact is, I loathe books that read like a doctoral thesis. Ark ship to Gliese 581c? I'm not interested in a physics-contorting treatise on practical FTL travel. I want to see people dealing with relative aging, extended space travel, leaving Earth and all known references behind for an alien planet, not read page after page detailing viable cryogenic hibernation or sustainable eco-systems in deep space, low-grav arcologies – except to the extent they apply to the characters in your story. Scientific theory may titillate the more cerebral reader, but people read fiction for more visceral reasons.
Good fiction that strikes that primal chord is about people's struggles, their failures and triumphs. Good science fiction (IMO) is about people wrestling with the new iterations of those issues in the face of advancing technology and discovery. Any prescience in speculative fiction is the result of asking the right questions and discerning what impulses really move us as human beings.
I agree wholeheartedly, and confess that's my ultimate target every time I write. I think one of the most mysterious yet infuriatingly recognizable feature of any century, any locale, any culture will always be the human heart.
A while back, I saw author Cory Doctorow on a Google interview and he said all futurists really did was throw shovelfuls of the present at the big gaping unknown around the next bend. Guilty as charged, yer Honor. The third thing I do is shove current trends off the edge. I extrapolate. So whether it's another model of the M-series assault rifle, the dramatic rise of private military contractors, the exponential increase in robotics and remote-control drones in every field, or the latest U.N. numbers on the amount of people who don't even have clean drinking water, (estimated 1 billion as of this writing, or one out of every seven people on the planet.) expanding common denominators makes the background familiar yet foreign.
I find this facet the most fascinating to research. I end up with pages of notes, video references, hyperlinks, and a fairly long reading list. Sometimes explained, mostly hinted at, all of it goes into the backdrop that forms and frames the characters.
As I close, of course you're free to disagree and find exceptions. You read what resonates with you, and you have to write what moves you. I keep coming back to the notion authors are called to tell stories that fire the imagination, not deliver lectures that notify the intellect. Those are lectures, sermons. Fiction certainly can and does inform, but it's a horse of a different color. As far as constructing realistic fictional settings, I believe they are rendered most convincingly not when they're holding up not a "window into the unknown", but a mirror angled further down the road. Whether we take comfort or warning depends on what we see, but we must remember part of the image is a reflection of right now.
Should Humanity expand into our solar system and beyond, the simple fact is we'll bring ourselves with us. Our elemental struggles will continue in different skin, under different stars. If justice, compassion, peace and genuine civilization prevail, it's won't be owing to robots and networks but because we carried them with us, and struggled mightily to establish them.
Patrick Todoroff's debut science fiction novel, Running Black was published in 2010. His next installment in the Eshu International series, Shift Tense, is nearing completion and should be released this year. To find out more about his work head over to Pattodoroff.com.


Doubts have been cast over the plans for the new nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point C, after the EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said an inquiry would probably be launched into the agreed strike price for the power station.
A deal in October between EDF and the UK Government set the strike price for Hinkley Point C at £92.50/MWh – falling to £89.50/MWh if EDF decided to go ahead with a second nuclear plant at Sizewell.
Earlier this year EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger described Britain's plans for long-term nuclear contracts as "Soviet". Environment Expert Mark Johnston landed himself in hot water after he tweeted the comment, which was meant to be reportedly anonymously under Chatham House rules.
A spokesman for DECC said: "We have always been clear that EDF will only be offered an Investment Contract if it is fair, affordable, value for money and consistent with State Aid rules.


Dinner at Parm where a dish is a must have!
It has been too long we went to Parm and had an occasion recently to go back being in their neighborhood. Parm is a sort of old school Italian that serves some amazing dishes. Must have is their baked ziti that take 15 minutes to get ready. On its own, this dish is superb, but what makes it even better, besides the fact that it has tons of cheese and a delicious tomato sauce, is that they fry the sides in a pan, giving a nice crispness to it.
The other must have are the meatballs: tasty and not dry, I had them in a hero that was soft and let these sublime meatballs shine. If the hero is too big for you, know they they also propose a smaller version on a roll.
With reasonable prices, Parm is like your neighborhood Italian joint that serves comfort food. Too bad it is not in MY neighborhood!


"But the disk is perfect and plays in my DVD/BD player!"
What is the correct play list [insert title here]?
does unselecting a title also unselect children?
Last version 1.14.2 not work.
[Newbie] - which file to choose when ripping?
I lost the serial Number!
Time from purchase to receive registration key?
Is a purchased reg. key only good on 1 PC?
MakeMKV ever go on sale?
New Beta Key? Or link to Purcashe?


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Q: Prove this Fourier series converges to a continuous function Problem

Consider the space $\mathcal D$ of continuously differentiable functions on the unit circle and the operator on $L^2$ (of the unit circle) with domain $\mathcal D$ given for $f\in\mathcal D$ by $A(f)=if'$. Prove that $A$ is symmetric. Prove that if $f$ is in the domain of $A^\dagger$ one may find a continuous function $g$ such that $f=g$ almost everywhere. Hint: this is difficult if you do not use Fourier series.

Exercise 2.5.12 in What is a Quantum Field Theory by Michel Talagrand. It's the second part I'm asking about.
Failed attempt
Suppose $f\in\mathcal D(A^\dagger)$. Then by definition we may choose a constant $C$ such that $|(f,A(g))|\le C\Vert g\Vert$ for all $x\in\mathcal D(A)=\mathcal D$.
The Fourier series of $f^*$ is $g(y)=\sum_{n\in\mathbb Z}a_n e^{inx}$ where $a_n=\frac1{2\pi}\int_0^{2\pi}f(x)^*e^{-inx}dx$.
For each $n\in\mathbb Z\setminus\{0\}$, define $h_n\in L^2$ by $h_n(x)=n^{-1}e^{-inx}$. Then $h_n\in\mathcal D(A)$, since $h_n(0)=h_n(2\pi)=n^{-1}$; and $(A(h_n))(x)=ih_n'(x)=e^{-inx}$. Note also $\Vert h_n\Vert^2=2\pi/n^2$. Hence $(f,A(h_n))=\int_0^{2\pi}f(x)^*e^{-inx}dx=2\pi a_n$, so by our choice of $C$ we have $|a_n|\le\frac C{2\pi}\Vert h_n\Vert=\frac C{\sqrt{2\pi}}|n|^{-1}$.
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I was aiming to use the Weierstrass M-test to show that the Fourier series $g=a_0 + \sum_{n\in\mathbb Z\setminus\{0\}}a_ne^{inx}$ converges uniformly, and then show that $g$ is the continous function sought. But I fall short: we have $|a_ne^{inx}| \le M_n = \frac{C}{\sqrt{2\pi}}|n|^{-1}$, but $\sum_{n=1}^\infty n^{-1}$ does not converge.
Can this be tightened up, or do I need a different approach?

A: For simplicity, we think of the circle as the interval $[0,1]$, $L^2(\mathbb{S}^1)$ as $L^2([0,1])$, and $\mathcal{D}$ as $\{ f \in C^{1}([0,1]): f(0)=f(1), f'(0)=f'(1) \}$.
Let $(y,z) \in A^*$, i.e $y \in \text{Dom}(A^*), z \in L^2$ and $A^*y=z$. Thus, $\int_0^1 z(t) \mathrm{d}t=0$ ( * ).
Define, $\hat{y}(t)=-i\int_0^t z(s)\mathrm{d}s +\int_0^1 y(s)\mathrm{d}s.$
Because of ( * ), for all $x \in \mathcal{D}$, we have:
\begin{align}\langle Ax,\hat{y} \rangle &=\int_0^1 ix'(t)\overline{\left( -i\int_0^t z(s)\mathrm{d}s +\int_0^1 y(s)\mathrm{d}s\right)} \mathrm{d}t
\\
&=-\int_0^1\left(\int_0^t x'(t) \overline{z}(s)\mathrm{d}s\right)\mathrm{d}t\stackrel{\text{Fubini}}{=}\langle x,z \rangle.\end{align}
Or, $\langle Ax,\hat{y} \rangle = \langle Ax,y \rangle $ for all $x \in \mathcal{D}.$
Therefore, $\hat{y}-y=\mathrm{const}$ a.e. Besides, $\int_0^1 \hat{y}(t)\mathrm{d}t =\int_0^1 y(t)\mathrm{d}t $.
Hence, the desired conclusion.


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This is a collection of thoughts on "Loneliness" by The Figure Of Speech Literary Movement.
"The darkest thoughts come around when just a soul is left breathing in the room".
"The greatest loneliness is lying in a cremated hole, with bugs and faggots feasting without fears".
"Love is breathing in two nations in a room. Loneliness is breathing in ten nations… after a wipe out".
"Loneliness doesn't kill. It only makes the veins all but a vain vessel of red waters".
"Behind the weeping blankets I buried my troubled shadow thinking it will be a shade to my lonely heart".
"Loneliness is a broken string of guitar, a potsherd in the potter's cave".
"Today, I lie in the odor of my blanket. For I can no longer find the fragrance of her blank chest".
How do we curl up into ourselves and then accuse the world of deserting us?
"When I was the only one left in the market place, it became a tomb filled with corsages".
"Of broken towns and shredded villages. Broken dreams and haunting nightmares. None feels the tragedy like an orphan – with no tongue".
"I live in ten cities…but I never knew how their soil tastes like. Because…they stepped on me. I never stepped on them. My footprints…on the TV screen…always".
"The tragedy is not that an envelope destroyed Giwa…the tragedy is that the letter still hangs unread in the parcel".


The simple answer is that there are use cases for both. There are differentials to both and the benefits may or may not suit each individual.
The Tiger takes strength, power and tenacity to dig deep enough into the body's internal structures. This would make it ideal for stronger individuals over the smaller and weaker type. This not only takes stronger hands, but also full body constriction focused into the attacking weapon or tool.
The Crane does not require strength, but more nimble accuracy and quickness, making it more suitable for smaller and weaker practitioners. These are based on concussion, not with strength but with loose snapping energetic transference.
The Kyusho Black Tiger methodology is far more invasive and damaging upon the body. It also leaves observable and sometimes irreparable damage to the recipient. Whereas the Kyusho Crane Attacks, leave no observable or irreparable damage.
Again as mentioned many times, today's Martial Artist must be more aware and cautious on the damages they inflict. We are a litigious society and for every physical conflict you are in, you are liable to the court system and the laws that protect others from damages. This is irregardless of the initiator attacker or defender as much as in days of old. If you cause damage, disfigurement and permanent disability (as the Black Tiger inflicts), you may be the one that is guilty in the court of law, even if only defending yourself. The Crane methodology is faster as well as safer as it does not cause the physical damages as does the Tiger.
The Tiger is also far more difficult to enact than the Crane methods... so anyone beginning their journey in the study of Kyusho is urged to work first with the concussive applications of the White Crane.


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WTA Finals 2021 - Maria Sakkari extends top-five run against Aryna Sabalenka, but will she beat Anett Kontaveit?
Maria Sakkari has won her last seven matches in a row against top-five players, but will she win the WTA Finals? She faces Anett Kontaveit in the semi-finals in Guadalajara, Mexico on Tuesday, while fellow Spaniards Paula Badosa and Garbine Muguruza meet in the other semi-final, bidding to become the first Spanish woman to make the WTA Finals since Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in 1993.
Highlights: Krejcikova beats Sakkari in epic to reach first Grand Slam final
James Walker-Roberts
Published 16/11/2021 at 12:21 GMT
When it comes to facing the very best in the world, Maria Sakkari is on a roll.
Sakkari beat world No 2 Aryna Sabalenka in their final WTA Finals group match on Monday to book her place in the semi-finals of the season-ending tournament in Guadalajara.
The victory not only ended her four-match losing streak against Sabalenka, but extended Sakkari's winning run against top-five players to seven in a row. The streak dates back to February 2020 when Sakkari beat Belinda Bencic, who was ranked No 5 in the world, in the quarter-finals in St Petersburg.
Medvedev beats Kyrgios and the crowd, Sabalenka's service troubles - Australian Open diary
She has since followed up with wins over:
World No 5 Elina Svitolina in 2020 Ostrava
World No 4 Sofia Kenin in 2021 Abu Dhabi
World No 2 Naomi Osaka in 2021 Miami
World No 5 Sofia Kenin in 2021 Roland Garros
World No 4 Karolina Pliskova in 2021 US Open
World No 2 Aryna Sabalenka in 2021 WTA Finals
The last time that Sakkari lost to a top-five player was in Brisbane in 2020 when she was beaten in three sets by Naomi Osaka.
"I think I'm just closer to them now," the world No 6 said after her 7-6(1) 6-7(6) 6-3 win over Sabalenka. "My ranking shows that, my results shows that. It's just that I'm really getting closer to them.
Sakkari beats Sabalenka to make semi-finals
Kyrgios denies he wants Australian Open cancelled
"I proved to myself and everyone that I can beat them like I did today."
The match between Sakkari and Sabalenka was the longest of the WTA Finals so far at nearly three hours. Both players had chances to serve out the first two sets before clinching them in tiebreaks, and Sabalenka's serve then proved to be her downfall as she fired down 10 double faults in the final set, taking her total for the match to 19.
'Screaming at me!' - Sakkari upset at fan shouting out mid-point
"I think it was a rollercoaster match from both of us," said Sakkari. "I was up a break, then she was up a break. It was just a matter of who took the chances. I think at the end I just played with my heart and fought well, just turned things around."
Next up for a Sakkari is a clash against in-form Anett Kontaveit, who had won 28 of 30 matches, including 12 in a row, before losing her final round-robin match to Garbine Muguruza.
Kontaveit beat French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova and Wimbledon runner-up Karolina Pliskova in straight sets in her first two matches in Mexico, and powered past Sakkari in their last meeting in the final in Ostrava in September.
"I told her in Moscow that I'm going to see her here," said Sakkari. "I'm very glad that she's here because she's a very nice person and she deserves it.
"But it all comes down to obviously who plays a better match tomorrow. I'm going to fight for it, do whatever I can to advance to the final. I just really want to enjoy tomorrow's match because the atmosphere here is just unreal.
"I'm not going to have so much time to rest. My fitness level is, I believe, one of the best on tour, without being arrogant, but I believe fitness is one of my strengths. I'll do everything to recover. If Anett is better tomorrow, it's too good. But I'll try to recover and just take advantage of the good things I felt today on the court."
Sakkari will have just 24 hours rest before she faces Kontaveit, while the first semi-final will take place on Tuesday evening between fellow Spaniards Paula Badosa and Muguruza.
Badosa saw her eight-match winning streak ended with a loss to Iga Swiatek in her last round-robin match on her 24th birthday. Muguruza qualified for the semi-finals with victory over Kontaveit in her final group match. The winner of the semi-final will be the first Spanish woman to make the WTA Finals since Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario finished as runner-up in 1993.
"This is amazing," said Muguruza, who was beaten in the semi-finals in 2015. "1993, I was born that year. It's amazing there are four players left and two of them are Spaniards. I mean, that just shows that Spain has a great level of tennis and a great school. It's going to be a fun match….historical. Hopefully the crowd is going to be on the match. Whoever plays better is going to get the final."
This will be the first time that Muguruza and Badosa have met on tour, having played for Spain at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the summer.
"I've been very happy for her," said Muguruza. "She started the year obviously further back. She made her way to the top playing amazing, winning Indian Wells. We shared fun moments in the Olympics. We've talked a little bit. We get to know a little bit more of each other. It's a special week to bond. "She's always had the talent. I think now she's putting the puzzle together. She's playing great. Everybody can see it."
'The best gift' - Cornet shocks Muguruza in straight sets; Swiatek, Sabalenka through
Australian Open order of play: Day 4 - Murray, Raducanu lead GB charge, Kyrgios show rolls on
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For this exhibition, the American artist Tony Oursler takes over the Chapelle de l'Oratoire with an original installation designed specifically for the place.
Through this immersive work, the artist invites visitors on a journey that combines visual references to the history of hypnotism and various contemporary anxieties linked to digital technologies, from smartphones to big data.
Born in New York in 1957, Tony Oursler is a major figure on the American art scene. It was at Cal Arts (California Institute of Arts) that he made his first video tapes and met the artist Mike Kelley, with whom he founded an experimental punk-rock band, The Poetics, in 1977.
Within video art, Tony Oursler uses a form of theatricality that hybridizes a wide variety of mediums: video, film, photography, painting, sculpture but also musical and soundtracks that are the subject of specific work. Very early on, he broadened the notion of screens to include unusual media, on the scale of architecture and public space, but also, on rag dummies (the famous dummies or dolls that appeared in 1992 and made him famous on the international art scene), in narrative and spectacular installations made up of sets that are both burlesque and tragic in nature.
His works can be found in the largest collections, such as the Centre Pompidou. His work was recently presented at the MoMA in New York, resulting in the publication of a catalogue of his personal collection of historical documents related to the popular culture of entertainment, the occult and magic shows.
Portrait de Tony Oursler © Courtesy of the artist
Tony Oursler's immersive installation – Chapelle
- Performers: Emily Allan, Jean Brassard, Dominique Bousquet, Sarah de Burgh, Jason Scott Henderson, Leah Hennessey, David Johansen, Joy Mattar, Ruby McCollister, E.J. O'Hara, Brandon Olson, Jack Oursler, Emilie Rochefort, Samantina Zenon
- Editing: Jack Colton
- Props: Corey Riddell
October 16, 2020 - March 14, 2021
Cube -1 and Chapelle de l'Oratoire
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The exhibition in pictures
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The city of Grand Coulee has denied a business license for a marijuana retail store here.
City Clerk Carol Boyce said Tuesday morning that she is denying the license application by Jean Comstock because it is still a federal crime to possess marijuana. She said she is given the authority by city ordinance.
Comstock's application had created a storm of protest by more than 25 people who attended to the city council meeting May 19, to ask the city to deny the request.
Many of these same people had attended the city planning commission the previous week to ask commission members to recommend to the council that it deny the application. The planning commission was split with two in favor of granting the license and two in favor of denying it.
The council decided to not address the issue, and passed the problem on to the city clerk.
Boyce received the application the next day and then took some time off because of the holiday. She returned Tuesday with her decision.
Comstock could not be reached Tuesday.
She had received one of the coveted State Liquor Control Board permits, and told the council that if the city issued a license she would open her retail store in an office building on Burdin Boulevard.
The whole issue came on the scene when Washington state voters passed Initiative 520, allowing licensed recreational marijuana retail stores.
Those appearing and speaking against the license at both the planning commission and city council meetings largely addressed the "public peace, health or welfare" part of the ordinance.


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First Sapphire shipment arrives at Newcastle
July 25 - The Port of Newcastle has welcomed the first shipment of wind turbine components bound for the Sapphire Wind Farm, which it claims will be the largest wind turbines to be imported into Australia.
The CWP Renewables development will see eight shipments arrive over nine months for the 270 MW facility, located in the New England Tablelands plateau in New South Wales. According to the Port of Newcastle, the facility will be Australia's tallest and second-largest wind farm.
The first shipment on board ABC Maritime's multipurpose vessel Helvetia, delivered the first of the turbine tower sections, which when combined will measure 136 m long.
The turbines will be stored at the port's Mayfield Site and will be transported by truck to Glen Innes.
"Our berth-side storage is a huge advantage to our customers, as it removes a step from the supply chain and offers greater efficiency and cost savings," said Geoff Crow, ceo at the Port of Newcastle. "For example, we have imported and stored 70 turbines over the last nine months for another wind farm development which allowed for optimum staging of the project."
The following shipments will carry other turbine components as well as the 63 m long blades, with construction expected to begin later this year.
According to Barnaby Joyce, deputy prime minister and member for New England, the Sapphire Wind Farm, along with other solar and wind projects in the Glen Innes and Inverell area, bring the renewable energy investment in the local area to more than AUD1 billion (USD792.6 million).
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Finnlines adds to management
Finnlines has appointed Merja Kallio-Mannila and Torkel Saarnio as members of the group's management board.
Appointments at Link-Belt
Link-Belt Cranes has appointed Gene Martin as vice president, engineering; Richard Shultz as vice president, manufacturing; and Jaime Hernández as international district manager for Latin America.
EIC adds to board
The Energy Industries Council (EIC) has appointed ACL Impact's Audrey Louis, Vysus Group's David Clark, and deugro group's Tim Killen as non-executive directors of its board.