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The Tasman Sea (Māori: Te Tai-o-Rēhua, ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about  across and about  from north to south.  The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1642 was the first known person to cross it.  British explorer Lieutenant James Cook later extensively navigated the Tasman Sea in the 1770s during his three voyages of exploration.

The Tasman Sea is informally referred to in both Australian and New Zealand English as the Ditch; for example, "crossing the Ditch" means travelling to Australia from New Zealand, or vice versa. The diminutive term "the Ditch" used for the Tasman Sea is comparable to referring to the North Atlantic Ocean as "the Pond".

Climate
The south of the sea is passed over by depressions going from west to east. The northern limit of these westerly winds is near to 40°S. During the southern winter, from April to October, the northern branch of these winds from the west changes its direction toward the north and goes up against trade winds. Hence, the sea receives frequent winds from the southwest during this period. In the Australian summer (from November to March), the southern branch of the trade winds goes up against west winds and produces further wind activity in the area.

Geography
The Tasman Sea is  wide and has an area of . The maximum depth of the sea is .
The base of the sea is made up of globigerina ooze. A small zone of pteropod ooze is found to the south of New Caledonia and to the southern extent of 30°S, siliceous ooze can be found.

Extent
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Tasman Sea as:

Ridge

The Tasman Sea's midocean ridge developed between 85 and 55 million years ago as Australia and Zealandia broke apart during the breakup of supercontinent Gondwana. It lies roughly midway between the continental margins of Australia and Zealandia. Much of Zealandia is submerged, so the ridge runs much closer to the Australian coast than New Zealand's.

Islands
The Tasman Sea features a number of midsea island groups, quite apart from coastal islands located near the Australian and New Zealand mainlands:
 Lord Howe Island (part of New South Wales)
 Ball's Pyramid (part of New South Wales)

Adjoining bodies of water
 North: Coral Sea
 Northeast and East: Pacific Ocean
 East: Cook Strait
 South and southeast: Southern Ocean
 West: Bass Strait

Animal and plant life
A deep-sea research ship, the RV Tangaroa, explored the sea and found 500 species of fish and 1300 species of invertebrates. The tooth of a megalodon, an extinct shark, was also found by researchers.

History

In 1876, the first telegraph cable connecting Australia and New Zealand was lain in the Tasman Sea. Moncrieff and Hood were the first to attempt a trans-Tasman crossing by plane in 1928. The first successful flight over the sea was accomplished by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm later that year. The first person to row solo across the sea was Colin Quincey in 1977. The next successful solo crossing was completed by his son, Shaun Quincey, in 2010.

See also

 Axis naval activity in New Zealand waters
 List of seas

References

Further reading

External links

Coastline of New Zealand
Marginal seas of the Pacific Ocean
Australia–New Zealand border
Coastline of Australia
Bodies of water of Australia
Bodies of water of New Zealand
Seas of Oceania


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PVD Monthly's Who to Watch 2019
PVD Monthly's Who to Watch
Providence's Progressive State Senator Samuel Bell and Representative Moira Walsh
Posted Friday, December 21, 2018 10:24 am
Providence's Progressive State Senator Samuel Bell
Photo by Brandon Harmon
Providence's Progressive Representative Moira Walsh
By Megan Schmit
You could say 2018 was defined by politics. We watched the races unfold on local, state, and national levels: From city council to Congress, it was a tense but energized midterm election year. The freshly laid groundwork promises more change and momentum in 2019, especially for Providence Progressives.
"We won some huge victories this year in the Rhode Island General Assembly, and our party took back the House nationally," says State Senator Samuel Bell, who defeated long-time incumbent Paul Jabour. "As scary as politics is today, it's very exciting that we're fighting back at the state and national level, and we're winning."
However, Bell also recognizes the uphill battle yet to come, listing the less-than-desirable conditions of schools and roads, cuts to healthcare programs, and a housing crisis as issues preventing families from acquiring the basics, making "fixing the political system one of the most important things we can do to make life better" in 2019.
"The sheer volume of women who ran for office this year made my heart so happy," Representative Moira Walsh shares, applauding Providence City Council's historic first female majority. Despite hiccups, like the controversial challenge from GOP-turned-Democrat Michael Earnheart, Walsh defended her title in the primaries and is determined to reshape the face of the progressive party this coming year. Her plan: To work on the party's messaging. "'Progressive' shouldn't be a dirty word," she says.
Similarly, Bell sees need for change in progressive administration; he told voters this year, "It just isn't possible to win sweeping change until we break the machine and elect legislative leaders who want to actually help the people."
Both Walsh and Bell point out that 2019 – or beyond, if necessary – will mean fighting for basic progressive legislation in Rhode Island, like the fight for reproductive rights.
Get a chance to meet State Senator Samuel Bell and Representative Moira Walsh and celebrate with RI's leading trailblazers at the first great event of the year; Providence Monthly's Who to Watch Party on January 16 at Skyline at Waterplace! Click here to reserve your ticket to this can't-miss event.

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MESSRS WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK LTD (Builder)
SIR BERTRAM MACKENNAL KCVO RA (Sculptor)
SIR BERTRAM MACKENNAL KCVO RA (Architect)
Date: 16th January 1921
Attended by: LORD CHEYLESMORE
Rededicated
Attended by: REV HUGH WYBREW VICAR
Attended by: REV E A ROWLAND VICAR
Corner of High Street and Grange Gardens
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Three-stepped base surmounted by column with four sloping faces indented to give shape of cross. Names on metal plaques attached to each face. WW1 dedicatory inscription carved into the base of the 6 o'clock face. Plaque for WW2 inscription placed at the base of the ?12 o'clock face Top is surmounted by a wreath connected to each face by stone hanging ribbon.
6 O'Clock Face: (Names)/ IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM/ PINNER WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1919/ IT IS BETTER FOR US TO DIE IN BATTLE THAN/ TO BEHOLD THE CALAMITY OF OUR PEOPLE 3 and 6 O'Clock Faces: (Names) 12 O'Clock Face: (Names)/ FOR OUR TOMORROWS THEY GAVE THEIR TODAYS./ IN MEMORY OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS/ OF PINNER WHO LAID DOWN THIER LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WAR/ OF 1939 - 1945 AND IN SUBSEQUENT/ STRUGGLES IN THE DEFENCE OF FREEDOM
Adcock, G
Aitken, E
Allingham, F
Anderson, F T
Appleton, E
Astrldge, J A
Atkinson, F
Atkinson, R D
Baker, R A
Barcock, W C
Served and returned: 0
Died: 130
Exact count: no
Total names on memorial: 0
Died: 0
Information shown: Undefined
Non-Specific Conflict
Measurements: depth 10MM, height 1110MM, width 380MM
Measurements: depth 1880MM, height 2900MM, width 1880MM
Materials: Stone - Derbyshire Gritstone
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Condition: Fair [last updated on 27-02-2017]
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Site: £1100
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The Silence of the Marsh
A successful, cold-blooded crime novelist gets involved in a kidnapping case while uncovering the corrupt ties between politicians and the local mafia in Valencia, Spain.
Director: Marc Vigil, Sergio Francisco
Actors: Àlex Monner, Carmina Barrios, Javier Godino, José Ángel Egido, Maite Sandoval, Miguel Ángel Romo, Nacho Fresneda, Pedro Alonso, Raúl Prieto, Zaira Romero
The Invisible Guardian
When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours…
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Liars All
On New Year's eve in London, a provocative game spins out of control and ends in murder, the true killer elusive amidst conflicting testimony and hidden motives.
Evidence of Truth
A forensic investigator begins to suspect her new husband is the serial killer the police department has been hunting. This puts her and her ex-boyfriend — a detective on the…
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
The Grudge 3
Jake Kimble, the sole survivor of the Chicago massacre, is killed while in solitary confinement. His doctor begins investigating the claims he made about a long-haired woman in white, as…
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
Minutes Past Midnight
As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts and monsters swarm the world in these tales of the supernatural, the fantastic, and the just…
Deadly Sibling Rivalry
Two twins lead separate lives since one of them blamed the other for the accidental death of his father. Years later, one carries a conventional family life while the other…
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officer, Lt. Paul Cutler, is sent to train the Detroit S.W.A.T. team on new anti-terrorism and homeland security techniques. Cutler has a hard time settling into his…
The Invisible Witness
A businessman must explain to his lawyers how he came to be found in a locked hotel room with his dead partner, whose body was covered in money.
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected – but which one?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller


I have compared the .csproj files and .wixproj files, and as best I can tell the differences are appropriate (e. g. list of included .cs files). I have changed the non-working .wxs to call the working custom action instead of the non-working custom action and it works as epxected.
What else can I look at to get this working?
Edit: Just to be complete 1154 refers to an invalid DLL - net helpmsg translates it (in English) to "One of the library files needed to run this application is damaged."
Second edit: ran peverify against the dll (grabbed a copy out of \windows\installer while the installer was running) and it says everything is fine in the dll. The DLL only has the custom action method with a "return success" so there's not a lot for it to verify, but it does confirm the DLL is not corrupt.
Also you'll find a DTF help chm in the start menu under WiX.
Basically it sounds like to me you are wiring the .NET assembly into the installer instead of the unmanged wrapper dll. Read the above article for an overview of how to look at it in Depends and to know what to expect. The WiX | C# Custom Action project should output Foo.dll and Foo.CA.dll. You want the later in your installer.
Are you referencing the correct DLL in the Binary table?
Are you referencing the correct exported function name?
Take Session as an Argument?
Any one of these can cause an 1154 error. This is the reason I wrote a comprehensive blog article on the subject and linked to it in this answer. It's important to fully understand how managed code is presented to the unmanaged Windows Installer service and to know how to use Depends to validate that the public static method is exported as a stdcall function in the resulting .CA.dll that WiX/DTF produces.
After changing the method it worked just fine.
If you create your custom action in Visual Studio (Votive) be sure that you created a Wix Custon Action project and not a class library, otherwise you have to use MakeSfxCA tool to pack your custom action.
Comparing various causes other people have found it seems to me that error 1154 means in most cases, "DLL entry not found".
Another reason I saw this error was because I forgot to add the [CustomAction] attribute to the name of my c# function.
In my case it was the function name length. It was 27 characters, and we were getting the error. We changed the function name to 24 characters, and it worked.
in hopes of getting a better error message. I have received different error messages depending on how the action was called. Also, try using fuslogvw.exe. It might give you a pretty nice error message too.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged c# wix wix3.5 custom-action votive or ask your own question.
Does running a wix installer on a client machine require installing the wix framework on that machine?
WIX c# CustomAction, what am I doing wrong?


Keeping the most competitive scenario in mind, we are focusing on Intensive approach with specially designed modules to get an entry into various competitive exams like EAMCET, IIT and many more with constant testing, teaching and counselling. We prepare the students to compete in state, national and international levels.
With an extensive effort and intensive planning, Gowtham Model School has been a pioneer in implementing various educational programmes for the betterment in learning procedure for students.
This programme includes Intensive Coaching (IC) Programmeme for SSC students. This Programme has been into practice since 2003 which starts from December 1st and ends on March 15th every year after completion of the syllabus. The Programme has been designed to cater the needs of the average and slow learners where every day is assigned to one subject for the revision and assessment which covers the entire syllabus.
The Programme is continuously monitored and followed up by the specific staff members, where every teacher is allotted 5 to 8 students based on the strength of the class for the follow up of home study hour, wake up calls and counselling. There is a different approach for every subject to make the students perform better by taking the given challenges. In the IC Programme we first identify the difficult area and re-teach the topic as per the student's choice. Other procedures involve paper discussion, planning the day schedule, error rectification and regular follow up for absentees. Meticulously planned worksheets are designed for gifted students in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and English to enhance their performance.


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Random Joke Thread
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Postby palladino » Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:12 am
So one day i was talking about these hot sluts I wanted to bang, and my friend said to me "tim, all you care about is a girl's outside". I said "no i care about a girl's inside too.........................if its tight or not"
Thunderhorse
Postby Thunderhorse » Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:32 pm
How do you hide money from a hippy?
Put it under the soap!
Easts
Postby Easts » Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:01 am
A guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: 'Talking Dog For Sale ' He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard.
The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there.
'You talk?' he asks.
'Yep,' the Lab replies.
After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says 'So, what's your story?'
The Lab looks up and says, 'Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA. In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping.'
'I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years running. But the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn't getting any younger so I decided to settle down.. I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded a batch of medals.'
'I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired.'
The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.
'Ten dollars,' the guy says.
'Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so cheap?'
'Because he's a liar. He never did any of that crap!'
If i filled my pool with dry ice,does that mean i could swim without getting wet?
Postby BRMBug » Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:51 pm
How do you catch a Polar Bear?
Well, you need a chainsaw, and a bag of frozen peas. You use the chainsaw to cut a hole in the ice, and then carefully arrange the peas around the hole. Then when the Polar Bear comes along to take a pea, you kick him in the ice hole.
Postby Pip Tweek » Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:41 pm
Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
Because it was dead.
seamus yarr
Postby seamus yarr » Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:45 pm
alright i would like to make myself clear befor I tell this joke:
I am not racist in any way and this joke does not express my opinion
I hold absolutely nothing against the Jewish community and would like to apologise in advance iff i offend anyone
anyway, how do you know a jew is living next door
there is wet toilet paper hanging on the washing line
"I tried to watch the Spurs game in my hotel room but I fell asleep"-Arsene wenger
Niels0827
Postby Niels0827 » Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:22 am
This one made me crack up.
Two friends - Jeremy and Colin - are sitting in a bar drinking beer. Colin says to Jeremy "I know everyone in the world."
Jeremy says "That's bullsh*t. How can you possibly know everyone in the whole world?" Colin says "I just do..."
Jeremy says to him "Okay, prove it. Prove to me that you know Madonna".
So they fly out to Los Angeles, knock on Madonna's door, and she answers..."Colin! How are you! Long time no see!"
Jeremy says "Okay, so you know her, big deal. Prove to me that you know the president of the USA".
So they fly out to Washington DC, and enter the oval office. The president says "Hey, Colin! How have you been?"
"I don't believe this", says Jeremy. "Okay, one last one. Prove to me that you know the pope."
So they fly over to the Vatican. There's a massive crowd outside the church waiting for the pope to step onto the balcony. Colin says to Jeremy "He won't see me in this huge crowd. Let me go inside and talk to him".
So Colin goes up to the balcony and talks to the pope for a few minutes, then comes back down to the crowd to find Jeremy fainted on the ground. He asks him "What happened?"
Jeremy says "I was doing just fine until everyone around me started saying "Who's that man on the balcony up there with Colin?"
Postby Pip Tweek » Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:26 am
A guy walks into a mental health counselor's office with a a duck sitting on his head. The counselor says, "oh my, you certainly seem troubled.
"You bet I am," says the duck. "If you could just get this guy out from under my ass, that'd be swell."
Postby Peg » Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:48 pm
What do you have if you have two green balls in your hands?
Kermit's full attention.
Oh hi. So, how are you holding up? Because I'm a potato.
Postby BRMBug » Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:01 pm
It's time for some Norm Funnies.
What do you call Santa's helpers? Subordinate Clauses.
Did you hear about the big story up in Frisco? Police were called to a Day Care up there. Apparently a three year old was resisting a rest.
What was the name of the roundest Knight at King Arthur's table? Sir Cumference.
By the way, I'm giving out dead batteries, free of charge.
Y'know, in Democracy it's your vote that counts, but in Feudalism it's your Count that votes.
A grenade fell on to a kitchen floor in France. You know what it resulted in? Napoleon blown apart.
Hey, what's the difference between your privates and a bonus? Your wife will always blow your bonus.
Blue Twilight
Postby Blue Twilight » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:13 am
So a patient enters the doctor's office, and upon entering, the doctor exclaims "Sir, you look awful!"
"Well that's what all of my friends told me," said the patient. "But I can assure you I feel good."
"But you look awful!" the doctor reiterates.
"Yeah, but I feel good," insists the patient.
The doctor ponders this for a bit. "Looks awful, feels good... looks awful, feels good... I've figured out your problem, sir. You must be a vagina!"
Illegitimi non carborundum.
Postby BRMBug » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:48 am
What do you call a Koala with a PHD? Koalafied.
What's the difference between a hockey team and Courtney Love? The hockey team showers after three periods.
Postby BRMBug » Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:16 am
What does a man with a 12 inch cock eat for breakfast? So do you mean to tell me that you don't know what a man with a 12 inch cock eats for breakfast?
I had bacon and eggs.
This next one is long, and I can't exactly remember how all of it goes, but it is related to 1403:
So there was this doctor who kept every foreskin from every patient he'd ever circumcised in a jar of formaldehyde. Well after about 30 years, he finally retired, and had jars and jars of foreskins just lying around, so he decided to have a leathersmith make something out of all of them. When he asked the doctor "well just what do you want me to make out of all of these", the doctor said "I don't know, just do what you can". Well nearly a year went by, when the doctor finally got a call to come into he shop and pick up his project. So he gets in there and asks the leathersmith what he was able to make out of it, and he says "a wallet." "A WALLET?!?" the doctor says. "A Wallet? but there were a nearly a thousand foreskins in there!" "I know", said the leathersmith. "But if you give it a rub, it'll turn into a suitcase."
steelspine
Postby steelspine » Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:01 pm
Here's one I heard a couple of days ago I think this is how it went.
An aspiring young lawyer was sitting in her office late one night, when Satan appeared before her. The Devil told the lawyer "I have a proposition for you..."
"You can win every case you try for the rest of your life. Your clients will adore you, your colleagues will stand in awe of you, and you will make embarrassing sums of money. All I want in exchange is your your husband's soul, your children's souls, the souls of your parents, grandparents, and the souls of all your friends and law partners."
The lawyer ponders this for a moment, then finally asks: "So, what's the catch?"
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words ... words might hurt me deeply, causing great emotional, mental, and psychological damage leading to a lowered self-esteem and decreased work-related efficiency."
-- Anonymous
Postby BRMBug » Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:00 pm
So this morning on The Courage Boys; The Musers, they were talking about mustaches because one of the hosts was saying that he was thinking of growing one. As time went on, the discussion turned to how most of the men you see with only mustaches, no beard or goatee to break it up are gay. Then the question became "Why is it that gay men have mustaches". To which an emailer replied "To hide the stretch marks".


This head to head review compares between the EVGA GeForce FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 and the EVGA GeForce Black SC ACX 3.0 GPUsTo this end we analyze the features and specifications of the EVGA GeForce FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 and EVGA GeForce Black SC ACX 3.0, comparing their Performance.
Better than 84% of the GPUs, 15% are better than it.
To sum it up, the When we look at the Performance, EVGA GeForce FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 is slightly worse in comarison with EVGA GeForce Black SC ACX 3.0.


TORONTO/8/22/06—Harlequin Enterprises Limited (www.Harlequin.com), the global leader in series romance and one of the world's leading publishers of women's fiction, has announced the launch of four digital entertainment ventures, specifically: Harlequin Mini (TM) eBooks, Harlequin Mini(TM) Round Robin eBooks, the launch of the eBook Boutique on eHarlequin.com and www.writeharlequin.com, a platform for gathering reader-generated content.
"Harlequin is the brand in publishing that is trusted by women around the world to provide them with great entertainment," says Donna Hayes, Publisher and CEO of Harlequin Enterprises Limited. "We are uniquely positioned to serve their needs and offer entertainment in new digital formats. Put simply, a lot of women are already there, and those who aren't trust us to help them navigate the evolving digital space."
"The modern romance reader has gone digital," says Pam Laycock, Executive Vice President of Harlequin's New Business Development department. "She demands the portability, depth, breadth, immediacy and convenience of romance novels in downloadable formats." Ms. Laycock illustrates this fact by pointing to the success of the company's eBooks on the bestseller lists of many eBook Web sites, including eReader.com, where Harlequin titles out- performed The Da Vinci Code just prior to the release of the film.
Responding to reader demand for even more romance fiction in a digital format, Harlequin is launching the Harlequin Mini eBook. These are short-series eBooks written by Harlequin authors, including New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers-ideal for readers who want a "quick fix" but don't have the time for a longer novel. "No other publisher is doing anything like this," says Malle Vallik, Editorial Director of Harlequin's New Business Development department. "These delicious 'bite-size' stories are exclusive to eHarlequin.com's eBook Boutique." Ten Harlequin Mini eBooks will be available during the August launch of the imprint. Four new Harlequin Mini eBooks will appear every month thereafter. Each story costs only 99 cents to download.
The Harlequin Mini Round Robin eBook is an outcome of Harlequin's collaboration with its readers. These stories are launched by a published author, and subsequent chapters are created-and hotly competed for-by fans and aspiring writers. Many of Harlequin's talented new voices have been discovered through this interactive round robin challenge, including launch author Mia Zachary. The popular Writing Round Robin has been a feature of eHarlequin.com since 2000. This is the first time it will be available as an eBook. As a special introduction, the Harlequin Mini Round Robin eBook will initially be available for free download.
Harlequin Enterprises Limited is at the leading edge of digital publishing, offering about 40 new titles every month in eBook format. As of today, all of these titles will be available in the new eBook Boutique at http://ebooks.eharlequin.com. It will be the exclusive eRetailer for the Harlequin Mini and Harlequin Mini Round Robin eBooks. eBooks from the eHarlequin Boutique will be available in three formats-Adobe PDF, Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket.
"Harlequin has an unmatched involvement, engagement and participation with its readers," says Pam Laycock. "Because of this intimate relationship, Harlequin is going beyond reader participation in the Round Robin to tap the creativity and wisdom of our global community via www.writeharlequin.com. We ask such burning questions as "What Is Love?" or "What Was Your Worst Date Ever?" and anyone and everyone can send in responses. A collection of the most appealing answers will be published in a digital format early in 2007 and then later as a print version."
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Professor Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford, introduces the Redirecting Fleet Street: Media Regulation and the Role of Law conference.
Some art has strong historical value. These paintings by Croatian American artist Marijana Grisnik depict memories of an old Kansas City neighborhood known as Strawberry Hill.
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can alarm company cancel contract at will and then what April 9, 2022
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can alarm company cancel contract at will and then what
We are using the Residential All in One contract form. Can the Alarm Company legally cancel the contract, at will?
Here is a summary of a scenario we are having. We installed a burglar alarm system for a subscriber's vacation home. Recently a family member moved in and requested three cameras to the system. The subscriber has not paid for the cameras and the Supplemental Rider has not been signed yet.
The family member calls in constantly because of paranoia about people hacking into his internet and security system. He is very rude and unreasonable to our staff. The subscriber wants us to transfer the contract to the family member, so that he does not have to deal with it. I am refusing to do that.
At this point I just want to wash my hands of the situation and cancel the services. Do I have the legal right to do that and remove the new cameras?
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You cannot cancel the Standard Alarm Contracts at any time and for no reason. I suspect such a provision might render the entire contract unenforceable because it becomes illusory; both parties would have to have the right to cancel at any time. It's almost like the terminate for convenience clauses that we see, especially from municipalities.
You should not have installed the cameras without a contract in place. Seems like you used the Supplemental Rider, though that form is really for add-ons during initial installation or shortly thereafter. Your "add-on" [my terminology, not yours] was really an upgrade or new installation; a new All in One would have been the better option for a contract; you would have provided for a new term [5 years]. But the cameras are in and you don't have any contract for them.
You cannot remove the cameras. You sold them to the subscriber. Once installed you cannot remove your equipment just because it wasn't paid for. You could file a UCC-1 Financing Statement and then foreclose your Security Interest, but that's much too costly and complicated for 3 cameras.
So you can't cancel for no reason, but you can terminate the contract for the subscriber's breach of the contract. The subscriber hasn't paid for the cameras, and even though you didn't get the camera sale in writing you can likely call the All in One in default. If there isn't a monetary default it's more than likely that the subscriber has not named you as an additional insured on his liability policy, and that is a non-curable breach of the All in One, permitting you to call the contract into default.
Since the subscriber asked that you transfer the contract to the family member it's likely that the subscriber will also permit you to terminate if you request termination. By the way, while the family member may be paranoid about hacking, he may be entirely correct to be concerned about hacking.
Luckily the All in One also deals with encryption and hacking issues, none of which are your responsibility unless you also provide and sell encryption security service, an option on some versions of the All in One.


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Hell and Back | Review of American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag — Melissa Considine Beck
To think that this horde of precious and irreplaceable books was sitting in the woods less than 2 hours away from my home in New England sends chills down my spine. —Melissa Considine Beck
American Philosophy: A Love Story
John Kaag
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016
272 pages; $26.00
O Wild West Wood, thou breath of Autumn's being.
Thou, from those unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed.
—"Ode to the West Wind," Percy Shelley
Holden Chapel, at first glance, is a small, unassuming, forty-foot, Georgian style, brick building on the campus of Harvard University. But it has a rich and interesting history as the third oldest building at Harvard and as one of the oldest college buildings in America. In December of 1741, Harvard accepted a generous donation of 400 pounds sterling from Mrs. Holden, widow of Samuel Holden, and her daughters to build a chapel on campus. The building was erected in 1744 and from that year until 1772 morning and even prayers were held for students in the quaint building and it also served as a place for intimate and engaging lectures. On April 15th, 1895 the American Philosopher William James delivered his famous "Is Life Worth Living?" essay to a group of young men from the Harvard YMCA.
William James, known as the Father of American Psychology, was the son of Henry James, Sr., the Swedenborgian theologian, and the brother of the famous American novelist Henry James. William James contemplated becoming an artist, but in 1861 he enrolled in medical school at Harvard where he eventually graduated with an MD. But James never practiced medicine and was instead drawn to psychology and philosophy and became a pioneer in both of these fields. During his young adulthood James suffered from long bouts of depression which were diagnosed at the time as neurasthenia. His depression and anxiety, which he calls his "soul-sickness" led him to contemplate suicide and he even overdosed on chloral hydrate in the 1870's just to see how close he could come to death without actually crossing that threshold. It was the exploration of philosophy and his attempt to answer the question "Is Life Worth Living" that brings him out of his malaise and inspires him to compose some of the most important philosophical pieces that make up the American school of pragmatic philosophy.
John Kaag's philosophical and literary memoir American Philosophy: A Love Story, begins with the young philosopher's own "soul-sickness" and his frequent visits to the site of James's famous lecture, Holden Chapel, in the Spring of 2008. Kaag is on a postdoc at The American Academy of Arts and Sciences when his crumbling marriage, the death of his alcoholic father and the stagnation of his research push him to contemplate what he believes to be William James's most important philosophical question: "Is Life Worth Living?"
I was supposed to be writing on the confluence of eighteen century German idealism and American Pragmatism. Things were progressing, albeit very slowly.
But then, on an evening in the Spring of 2008 I gave up. Abandoning the research had nothing to do with the work itself and everything to do with the sense that it, along with everything else in my life, couldn't possibly matter. For the rest of my year at Harvard I assiduously avoided its libraries. I avoided my wife, my family, my friends. When I came to the university at all I went only to Holden Chapel. I walked past it, sat next to it, read against it, lunched near it, sneaked into it when I could—became obsessed with it. James had, as far as I was concerned, asked the only question that really mattered. Is life worth living? I couldn't shake it and I couldn't answer it.
Kaag's clipped and pithy sentences which employ asyndeton for maximum dramatic effect make this book about so much more than philosophy and literature. He is not afraid to reveal his darkest thoughts or lowest moments and he is also not above using profanity or embarrassing stories about himself to get his point across. The style of deep, private reflection mixed with philosophical dialogue is reminiscent of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. But, unlike Pirsig, who wrote computer manuals for a living, Kaag's book is a great personal and professional risk for a philosopher whose two previous books are for a very specific, academic, Ivory Tower audience: Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition and Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot.
Holden Chapel, Harvard University
American Philosophy is aptly and cleverly divided into three main parts which recall the journey in Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory and Redemption. Kaag's journey starts in Part I, in "Hell," on his way to the White Mountains in New Hampshire for a philosophy conference on William James at the Chocorua Public Library, but he gets sidetracked for the first of many times throughout the book. There is a sense of wandering and loneliness that punctuates American Philosophy and in this instance, the first real instance of meandering, Kaag can't even bring himself to his end point which is a professional conference. Instead of going to meet his colleagues at the Chocorua Library, he stops at a German bakery where he meets Bunn Nickerson. This kind, ninety-three-year old, local gentleman tells Kaag that William Ernest Hocking, the prominent 20th century American philosophy professor from Harvard, has an estate which is nearby and contains a unique library. Bunn offers to take Kaag there to have a look around.
The family still used the Hocking estate, which was named West Wood, in the summer, but in the fall of 2008 all of the buildings were empty of any human inhabitants and the library appeared to be utterly neglected and abandoned. A copy of The Century Dictionary from 1889, a first edition encyclopedic dictionary with more than seven thousand pages and ten-thousand wood engraved illustrations, catches his eye through the window and his decision to enter this library, even though it was trespassing, completely alters the course of Kaag's life for the better.
Kaag stumbles upon an opportunity to heal his soul in the form of West Wood's stone library which, upon entering, he discovers is home to more than 10,000 books. The books that Kaag finds inside this unlocked and unheated building, especially the number of first editions, are the stuff of dreams for any bibliophile. Among the rodent droppings, porcupines, termites, various other bugs and dust Kaag finds Descartes' Discourse on Method–first edition from 1649, Thomas Hobbes's Levithan-first edition from 1651, the complete, leather-bound volumes of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, John Locke's Two Treatise on Government from 1690, Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft from 1781, Emerson's Letters and Social Aims–first edition, 1875 and on and on. To think that this horde of precious and irreplaceable books was sitting in the woods less than 2 hours away from my home in New England sends chills down my spine.
William Ernest Hocking, the owner of this vast personal library was, like his teacher William James, also a pragmatist who believed that philosophy could have an effect on real life. His personal library was a collection of not only European thinkers and philosophers, but he also amassed books that contained the thoughts of Eastern philosophy. Hocking studied with James at Harvard as well as other American thinkers such as Royce, Palmer and Santayana. In 1908, Hocking moved from his home on the West Coast to accept a teaching position at Yale and in 1916 when his mentor, Josiah Royce died, Hocking took over his chair in philosophy at Harvard. Hocking would go on to spend the next forty years at Harvard making a name for himself as one of the prominent scholars of American pragmatism. Kaag discovers that many of the books in Hocking's library were once owned by Hocking's famous teachers and colleagues at Harvard and some of their signatures, notations and inscriptions inside the books were just as valuable as the leather bound books themselves.
William Ernest Hocking
Throughout the course of Part I, Kaag's "Hell," he comes to the painful decision that his marriage is a mess and not capable of being saved. He leaves his wife in Boston and spends more and more time at West Wind where he becomes acquainted with Hocking's granddaughters, Jennifer, Jill and Penny. The sisters are "surprised and releived" that someone is interested in the books and Kaag begins to catalog the massive collection and attempts to save the oldest, most vulnerable books by moving them to dry storage. As he works his way through the books he continues on his deeply personal and lonely struggle with his own purpose and existence. He writes:
In the following months I started cheating on my wife with a room full of books. I made the trip to New Hampshire repeatedly. My wife and mother—in a unison that always infuriated me—demanded to know where I was going. I could have told the truth but instead I chose to lie, making up conferences that needed to be attended and friends I wanted to visit. Up until that point my life had been so routine, so scripted, so normal, so good—but my brief encounter with my dead father the previous year had brought that life to an unceremonious end. Nothing about life is normal. And nothing about life has to be good. It's completely up to the liver. The question—Is life worth living?—doesn't have a scripted, public answer. Each answer is excruciatingly personal, and therefore, I thought, private.
One of the greatest strengths of Kaag's narrative is that he is not afraid to show that his attempt to escape his wretched existence by means of the library at West Wind was not always noble or dignified or pretty. He skips meals, he neglects his hygiene, he drinks excessively, he begins to prematurely age and he sleeps out in the woods behind West Wind where he catches a nasty case of Lyme Disease. Who among us hasn't hit a low point in our lives to which we can look back and trace our gradual ascent out of the abyss? The stark honesty of Kaag's narrative is brave, especially for someone who is an academic philosopher, because he includes all of the ugliness of his journey from Hell to Redemption which details he could have just as easily skimmed over or avoided altogether.
The ideas and themes of American philosophy and literature which are unfolded within the pages of Kaag's book mimic the philosophers own process of discovery as he unpacks and unfolds the wonders of Hocking's library. One encounters James, Emerson, Thoreau, Coleridge, Camus, Royce, Whitman, Peirce, Frost and Dante just to name a few. Many readers never give much thought to American philosophers, or as Kaag notes, American philosophy is regarded as "provincial" and "narrow in its focus." Kaag, however, delves into the pages of American philosophical writings with unbridled enthusiasm that is enhanced by his literary ability to tell interesting and engaging stories about the real lives of these great American thinkers. As one example of this, Kaag summarizes the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce's struggle with the idea of freedom and the impact chance has on our choices. Peirce took issue with the emphasis of orderly design over chance and freedom that Darwin and the evolutionists promoted. The philosophical theories of Peirce's Design and Chance are discussed by Kaag in the context of Peirce's struggle in his personal life with romantic love. The anecdotes and stories about Peirce's real life struggles makes what could be a dry recounting of Peirce's philosophical pragmatism into a gripping story about a great thinker who is attempting to make sense out of his confusing and chaotic world.
Kaag spends the next year in the woods at West Wood with Hocking's books and continues to contemplate James's important question. As he works his way through the library he reads countless volumes of American philosophy and literature, with a few Europeans mixed in, that help him through the different stages of his emotional and spiritual journey. The most significant turning point in Kaag's Hell is when he begins reading Thoreau and reflecting on that writer's own retreat to the woods. Kaag becomes frustrated with Emerson's idea of self-reliance which he feels is unattainable and unrealistic. Instead he embraces Thoreau's example of simplicity, cultivating the earth, and turning off and tuning out all of the modern amenities that distract us from searching for real meaning in our lives.
At one point Kaag takes a break from sifting through books in the library asks Hocking's granddaughter, Jennifer, the least "intellectual" of the sisters, if he can help her clear a field by scything. As he takes in the simplicity of the landscape at West Wood and tries to deal with this very physical task, Kaag comes to realize through this experience of scything that the process of self-discovery needs to happen for him outside of the walls of the stone library and that this process would be slow and couldn't be forced; he learns to stop and look around him and be mindful of his surroundings and this becomes his first, significant step from Hell to Purgatory.
In Kaag's Purgatory, the subtitle of "A Love Story" is further explained through the first glimpses and descriptions of Carol whom the author confesses he should, by all accounts, have hated. By this point in the book he is divorced and his ex-wife is remarried and moving out west, but Kaag's loneliness and isolation linger. He continues to spend hours and days and weeks at West Wind and to catalogue Hocking's library and to save the most precious volumes from the elements. One weekend he invites Carol, a colleague of his from UMass Lowell, a Kantian feminist, who is also his rival for a tenure track academic job, to join him in sifting through the library at West Wood. Carol is married, but her husband lives in Canada so their long distance relationship gives her plenty of freedom and independence to travel with Kaag to New Hampshire on this as well as many occasions.
While sifting through the pages of Hocking's library and taking hikes through the White Mountains together, it is evident that Kaag's feelings for Carol become more than friendly. There is a hint in the text that Kaag, in the tradition of Dante, wants to find his inspiration, his Beatrice and he has found just such a companion in Carol. But her marriage and his general uncertainty about the direction of his life makes for an unexpected element of suspense in the midst of the book as he debates how or when he should reveal his true affections for her. Thoughts of American philosophy and James run through his mind as he is mulling over his decisions:
Shall I profess my love? Shall I be moral? Shall I live? These are the most important questions of modern life, but are also questions that do not have factually verifiable answers. For James such answers will be, at best, provisional. There are no physical signs that one is emotionally ready to become a lover or husband, auguries that suggest one will be any good at any of it. In fact, there is often a disturbing amount of countervailing evidence. But human beings still have to choose, to make significant decisions in the face of uncertainty. Love is what James would have called a "forced option"—you either choose to love or you don't. There is no middle ground.
Kaag deliberately chooses to exclude the details of his development of an intimate relationship with Carol. The decision to keep this part of his personal life between himself and Carol is worthy of great admiration and respect—he knows that an author can cross the threshold into the type of salacious writing that is meant to sell books and Kaag stops just shy of veering into the realm of romance. Kaag simply remarks about their decision to choose love and to choose one another: "Some things are better left unsaid, and others can't be said at all."
But we do get a glimpse of their life together in the final part of American Philosophy which has the hopeful title of "Redemption." Kaag finds happiness, true love and companionship and Hocking's books find a safe haven in the library at UMass Lowell. But despite the happy ending for all persons and things involved in his journey, Kaag is still all too aware of the ephemeral nature of our existence and he acknowledges that we are responsible for making our own meaning in life with what we are given.
Kaag concludes with a reflection of his time at West Wood and how far he has come from those lonely days in 2008 when he was obsessed with Holden Chapel. In 1780 religious services ceased to be held in Holden Chapel and in 1800 it was converted into a chemistry and dissection lab for the students of Harvard medical school. Bones that were the remains of medical dissections were discovered in the walls of the chapel when it was renovated in 1990. Nowadays Holden Chapel reverberates with the sweets sounds of music as it is used by the Harvard Glee Club for practice. Kaag notes that in the Middle Ages it was not uncommon to bury the bones of the dead in buildings for apotropaic purposes but also because they were good for the acoustics. This strange mix of the sounds of the living occupying the same space as the bones of the dead in this small, historical chapel is reminiscent of the opening lines of Yves Bonnefoy's Ursa Major:
What's that noise?
I didn't hear anything….
You must have! That rumbling. As if a train had roared
through the cellar.
We don't have a cellar.
Or the walls.
But they're so thick! And packed so hard by so many
—Melissa Considine Beck
Melissa Beck has a B.A. and an M.A. in Classics. She also completed most of a Ph.D. in Classics for which her specialty was Seneca, Stoicism and Roman Tragedy. But she stopped writing her dissertation after the first chapter so she could live the life of wealth and prestige by teaching Latin and Ancient Greek to students at Woodstock Academy in Northeastern Connecticut. She now uses the copious amounts of money that she has earned as a teacher over the course of the past eighteen years to buy books for which she writes reviews on her website The Book Binder's Daughter. Her reviews have also appeared in World Literature Today and The Portland Book Review. She has an essay on the nature of the soul forthcoming in the 2017 Seagull Books catalog and has contributed an essay about Epicureanism to the anthology Rush and Philosophy.
2016, NC Magazine, Reviews, Volume VII, No. 12, December 2016
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Cybercrime | Hacking
Press H To Hack: Hacking in Videogames
Posted: June 2, 2014 by Christopher Boyd
With the release of Watch Dogs, we ponder the reality of a CCTV World and look at some of the best and worst examples of hacking in video games.
The first time I realised hacking existed was tied into the world of computer games, way back on a Commodore 64 where hitting the RUN STOP key allowed me to enter lines of code altering the game in some way (commonly called a poke).
It pretty much blew my mind that with a few lines of code I could turn my weird-looking pixelated character made up of muddy green and brown hues into, well, a weird-looking pixelated character made out of slightly different shades of green and brown. A game of crazy golf became the Battle of the Somme. One time I turned a spaceship into a cucumber.
I can see you're impressed.
It blew my tiny little mind even further when I realised people were making games based around the same concept – get into a system, tamper with it to get the job done and get out before anyone notices (hopefully in a spaceship that looked like a cucumber, which had nothing to do with me, your honour and members of the jury).
Some 20 years on, hacking in games continues to surface – more often than not an excuse for a storyline progressing mini game than any sort of actual feature (a rare thing indeed if you see a game dev video where they spend ten minutes talking about pattern matching instead of all those explosions and faces being punched. I had a nightmare trying to find developer videos discussing these often overlooked aspects of video games, and I can't link you to videos of 14-year-olds screaming profanities every five seconds).
Watch Dogs is the latest title to step up to the hacking in video games plate, and amazing bomb squad pr disaster aside it looks pretty decent.
Focusing on the interconnected nature of a city and using those connections to HACK THE PLANET, a lot has been made of how realistic the concept of taking over a city with your cellphone is.
I recently talked to Cameron Robinson over at Gamespot Reality Check on this very subject (and the state of our CCTV tinged existence in general), and here is the video:
This got me thinking about notable (and terrible!) examples of hacking from video games gone by.
Almost all hacking in games has to walk a fine line between simplistic puzzle mini games so everyone can take part, and somewhat realistic depictions of command line interfaces to appeal to those with a more definite hacking mentality.
Go too far in one direction and you risk losing a good portion of your audience. Make a hash of the hacking and you risk losing all of them.
Alpha Protocol, take a seat – we'll be giving you a good telling off later.
I couldn't cover everything – apologies to System Shock 2, Shadowrun and Fallout 3, and an honourable mention goes out to the fake internet complete with emails buried inside Front Mission 3 – but I did look at some titles you may not have seen before.
Apart from Deus Ex. You've all seen that one.
Paradroid (1985)
Paradroid was probably the first game I saw which focused almost exclusively on hacking (sure, there was Hacker but I had no idea how to play that).
Cast as an incredibly weak robot on a deadly space cruiser filled with trigger happy droids, you had to hack your way up the food chain and take over increasingly more powerful enemies to clear the ship.
You did this via a hacking mini game which involved logic gates and a fixed amount of "charges" to fire at the enemy set against a time limit. If you ended up with more of your own colour in the central section of the screen, you won – if not, kaboom.
With a little practice, gamers could quickly leap from the 001 droid to very high levels. There was a pretty good YouTube video of someone leaping from 001 to 999 a while ago, but it seems to have turned into an advert for a wine bar or something. If you know where it is, feel free to share.
Deus Ex 1 (2000) and Deus Ex Human Revolution (2011)
Deus Ex came out in 2000, yet really gave the player a lot of options in terms of social engineering.
Who needs potentially terrible mini games when you can exploit the all too trusting humans wandering around the gamespace? Meanwhile, the much more recent Human Revolution gave us more chances to find clues, listen to people going about their business and, uh, guess the password (along with the occasional business proposition).
There was also a pretty fun mini game that balanced a countdown based system takeover with real-time consequences – while hacking, you could be caught by guards wandering around so the player was encouraged to be an unseen stealth ninja of silent footsteps and wavering shadows.
Me, I did this.
Realtime hacking – that is, being aware that the game environment is still playing out in the background and can catch you unawares – has become more popular over the years, a bit like those first person shooters which insist on you selecting weapons in realtime while terrorist organisation x is still firing fifteen RPGs and a thermonuclear warhead at your face.
I think I prefer the realtime hacking, to be honest.
Uplink (2001)
Uplink is getting on a bit now, but still offers one of the "purer" strains of in-game hacking that doesn't descend into peculiar mini games disconnected from the world around them in both execution and spirit. It has you hightailing it out of systems, it has data streams tracing across the globe, it has IRC(!) and it has the PC effectively standing in for your character, which must be upgraded to survive the increasingly difficult hacking challenges thrown at you.
Humorously, when you create an in-game user account you also need a password so it is entirely possible to forget it then lock yourself out of your game and have to start all over again.
Number of times I have done this: six.
If only there was an in-game password manager…
Bioshock (2007)
Taking the whole "Internet is a series of tubes" thing a bit too literally, Bioshock can be felt even now where influence on hacking in video games is concerned.
For reasons best known to the game developers, they decided to represent the act of hacking various machines in the game world by funneling some form of liquid from one pipe to another on a slide tile deck.
If you ever played Pipe Mania back in the day, then congratulations: you're already a level 99 Gibson hacker and will likely breeze through these sections.
They tried to make the hacking more immediate and realtime for Bioshock 2:
Unfortunately they ran into some issues with colour blindness (later fixed with an update).
Alpha Protocol (2010)
Alpha Protocol is an astonishingly underrated game, where you take on the role of a spy trying to save the world from [generic bad guy group goes here].
The controls are clunky, the crosshairs for your weapon is hilariously gigantic, the lead character is the most non-spy type of guy you could ever imagine – nice disguise – but the whole thing is very hard to stop playing despite the flaws and somehow works.
What doesn't work, is the hacking. My initial 20 minute playthrough of the tutorial went from "ooh, nice" to "ooh, I'm going to switch it off now" after running into the brick wall that is the hacking mini game.
It's rather difficult to explain, but you have a screen of rapidly changing codes and about 10 seconds to find the two which don't alter. You then sort of move the two codes you control with your left and right hands simultaneously, dropping them onto the stationary sequences before they decide to move on you.
Steel yourself, then try to make sense of this video.
A mini game so bad, people found it helpful to develop independently moving retinas to continue.
After somehow finally being able to muddle through the hacking, the game then throws circuit breaking at you and it all goes wrong for the second time. You have a very short time limit to clip the circuits in order, which is accomplished by
a) looking for the number 1 on the board
b) following the line back to the bottom and clicking it
c) doing that all the way up to 10, unless the timer counts down for the fiftieth time and you throw your keyboard out of the window.
It was entirely possible to play this game on the hardest difficulty level, be confronted with a door you didn't have enough skill points to open without sheer luck and be stuck there forever (or at least until such time that the PC followed the keyboard out of that same window).
Weirdly, this game never had a sequel.
Sleeping Dogs (2012)
Set in Hong Kong and placing you in the shoes of an undercover detective taking down the Triads from the inside, hacking was more of a multi-stage journey than a "hack and you're done" affair.
First, you beat up a bunch of thugs in a designated location. Then you had to trace a power cable to a junction box (assuming the game didn't do something odd). Then you had to hack it in order to monitor a drug deal on a nearby CCTV camera and call in the cops to make the arrest.
Unfortunately the "hacking" was a case of simply selecting 1234, then working your way up to 9 and reordering the numbers as required. The CCTV bust wasn't exactly difficult either, given a large shield indicator appeared over the dealer after about ten seconds.
Nice idea, but let down by the execution. You did get to jump kick terrible people down stairwells though, so there's that.
Gunpoint (2013)
Gunpoint does a great job of integrating the hacking into the game – no disconnected mini games here, everything is done on the fly and when you're trying to rewire lights or elevators the stylised beams of light being shuffled across the screen feels more natural than a Simon Says puzzle (Mass Effect, what were you thinking).
I think I'm all hacked out.
If I didn't cover your favourite bit of in-game hacking, feel free to give it a mention in the comments. There's quite a lot of good examples I didn't mention, and I am curious to know if you prefer the "Hollywood movie" style realism of something like Uplink or terminal based shenanigans, weird simplistic mini games which often have little to do with anything in the game you happen to be playing or a big red button with an onscreen prompt that says "Press H to Hack"…
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Q: Using Reflection in maven project Here is mavenized project stucture

Proj1
--Module 1
----Submodule 1
------Submodule1-child1
------com.module1.submodule1.child1
------Submodule1-child2
------com.module1.submodule1.child2
----Submodule 2
------com.module1.submodule2
--Module 2
----Submodule 3
------com.module2.submodule3
----Submodule 4
------com.module2.submodule4

In each submodule there are no. of classes.
What I suppose to do is create one more class in submodule 4, which will list out all classes in submodule1 and its child modules. I also need to load any of those classes.
I am familiar with reflection, but I am stuck with maven. How can I put dependency for module1 in my pom, so all classes under module1 and its submodule will be in classpath

A: Add a dependency element to the POM for each of the modules that you want to include.  Once the dependencies are defined, all of the classes will be available for your code to load.

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Select ONE of the following topics to answer for the Lesson Writing Assignment. The writing assignment should be a minimum of 500 words. You should find most of the information you need to complete the assignment in the chapter, but you are allowed to use outside sources as well (such as news articles or government websites). DO NOT simply copy the information word for word from your sources. If you use information directly from the textbook or another source, it should be cited in the text and the properly formatted citation should be provided at the end of the assignment. All assignments will be analyzed with Safe Assign to identify possible plagiarism.
1. Read Chapter 9, including "You Decide: Voices of Texas: Elected or Appointed Judges?" and write an essay answering the following questions:
How well does the racial and gender composition of the judiciary reflect the demographics of the state's population?
Should judges be elected or appointed? What are the arguments for electing judges? What are the arguments for appointing judges?
Should the selection system vary according to the type of judge? Why or why not?
How should judges be selected in Texas? Is there a way to make the process less political?
In the case of elected judges, should judges recuse themselves or abstain from cases that affect their largest campaign contributors?
How informed do you think the public is about judicial elections and judicial candidates?
If you were voting for a judge, would you take the time to learn about the candidates and their qualifications or would you vote based on party affiliation?
2. Read Chapter 12, including "You Decide: Voices of Texas: Abortion Policy in Texas," and write an essay answering the following questions:
How does Texas compare to other states with regards to providing services for poor citizens?
What is the age and race/ethnicity breakdown of the uninsured in Texas?
What programs are used to provide coverage to the uninsured? How are those programs funded?
What steps has Texas taken to influence abortion rates in the state?
Does Texas' sonogram law violate free speech for the physician? For the patient?
Should the state pass laws mandating what information physicians share with their patients?
3. Read Chapter 13, including "You Decide: Voices of Texas: Cite and Release: Necessary Cost-Savings or Soft on Crime?" and write an essay answering the following questions:
Are all defendants treated equally in the Texas criminal justice system? Why or why not?
Why do you think certain groups are overrepresented or underrepresented in the prison system?
At times the integrity of the criminal justice system has been called into question. What are some of the events that have led to this situation?
What is cite and release and why was it implemented?
Do you believe that more counties should adopt cite and release? Why or why not?
Discuss at least two changes that you believe would increase fairness in the criminal justice system.


Judy Baar Topinka dedicated herself to a lifetime of service to the people of the State of Illinois. After graduating from Northwestern University, she began a career in journalism as a part-time reporter for the Berwyn, Cicero, and Stickney-Forest View Life Newspapers, before being hired full-time in 1971. During her award-winning journalism career, she was a reporter, education editor, feature writer, feature editor, and photographer. She received honors from the Illinois Women's Press Association, the Illinois Press Association, and the Illinois State Medical Society for her work covering advances in the medical field.
Judy Baar Topinka's legacy is one of good government, ethics, compromise, and love of heritage. Her life demonstrates how anyone with passion, drive, and hard work can succeed in face of great odds. Judy took on the establishment and the status quo and succeeded. She never gave up in life, whether as a child, mother, student, newspaper reporter, legislator, or state level leader. Her life has solid lessons for future generations; she is a true role model in any environment. We need more people like Judy making things better for us all. The scholarship/honorarium is designed to fund living expenses or other costs while a student is an intern/fellow following a professional path in the spirit of the scholarship/honorarium's namesake.


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Craig O'Shannessy is widely respected as the world leader in the tennis industry researching and teaching the strategy of the sport. Craig is the strategy analyst for the ATP World Tour, Wimbledon, New York Times and the Federation of Italian Tennis. Craig runs a tennis strategy website at braingametennis.com that delivers new tennis knowledge for players, coaches and fans.
Craig's data analysis work with Team Novak Djokovic form 2017-19 helped the Serb return to the number one ranking and win four Grand Slam titles including back-to-back Wimbledon titles. He is also on the coaching team of Matteo Berrettini, helping take the Italian from outside the Top 50 into the Top 10 in 2019, including reaching the semi-finals of the US Open. Craig's work simplifies the game, uncovers key patterns of play and disrupts a sport that has traditionally relied on feel - replacing myths with metrics.
Craig is a native of Australia, and came to the USA on a collegiate tennis scholarship, where he was an All American. Craig now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Kelly and two children, Rourke and Riley.


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package jp.co.tis.gsp.tools.db.beans;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@XmlRootElement(name="RELATION")
public class Relation {
	private Integer id;

	private String label;

	private String name;

	private Integer parentEntityId;

	private Integer childEntityId;

	private Integer showType;

	@XmlAttribute(name="ID")
	public Integer getId() {
		return id;
	}

	public void setId(Integer id) {
		this.id = id;
	}

	@XmlAttribute(name="P-NAME")
	public String getLabel() {
		return label;
	}

	public void setLabel(String label) {
		this.label = label;
	}

	@XmlAttribute(name="L-NAME")
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}

	@XmlAttribute(name="P-ENTITY")
	public Integer getParentEntityId() {
		return parentEntityId;
	}

	public void setParentEntityId(Integer parentEntityId) {
		this.parentEntityId = parentEntityId;
	}

	@XmlAttribute(name="C-ENTITY")
	public Integer getChildEntityId() {
		return childEntityId;
	}

	public void setChildEntityId(Integer childEntityId) {
		this.childEntityId = childEntityId;
	}

	@XmlAttribute(name="SHOWTYPE")
	public Integer getShowType() {
		return showType;
	}

	public void setShowType(Integer showType) {
		this.showType = showType;
	}
}


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Q: Button in JTable won't perform action I have a JTable where I have inserted two buttons (delete, search) in each row.
For each button I specify the proper action in my constructor like this:
        Action search = new AbstractAction() {

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            JTable table = (JTable) e.getSource();
            int modelRow = Integer.valueOf(e.getActionCommand());
            System.out.println("Search action for row: " + modelRow);

            // do some processing here
            // tb.searchMore(modelRow);
        }
    };

And then I specify to which column the button should be created like this:
    // column 4 of JTable table should implement action 'search'
    ButtonColumn searchButtonColumn = new ButtonColumn(table, search, 4);
    searchButtonColumn.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_D);

And I have a proper Button Renderer Class.
The delete button (which is being created and initialized exactly the same way) works just fine. So does a similar save button I created for another table.
The problem is with the search button. It creates the graphic button in the table, but its action is never actualluy being called. I noticed that this happens when I place it in a column other that the very first one. Any ideas for this strange behaviour? The column I am placing it is not out of bounds. Is there a problem with placing two buttons in tha same row?
Below is the Button Renderer code:
public class ButtonColumn extends AbstractCellEditor
    implements TableCellRenderer, TableCellEditor, ActionListener, MouseListener {

private JTable table;
private Action action;
private int mnemonic;
private Border originalBorder;
private Border focusBorder;
private JButton renderButton;
private JButton editButton;
private Object editorValue;
private boolean isButtonColumnEditor;

/**
 *  Create the ButtonColumn to be used as a renderer and editor. The
 *  renderer and editor will automatically be installed on the TableColumn
 *  of the specified column.
 *
 *  @param table the table containing the button renderer/editor
 *  @param action the Action to be invoked when the button is invoked
 *  @param column the column to which the button renderer/editor is added
 */
public ButtonColumn(JTable table, Action action, int column) {
    this.table = table;
    this.action = action;

    renderButton = new JButton();
    editButton = new JButton();
    editButton.setFocusPainted(false);
    editButton.addActionListener(this);
    originalBorder = editButton.getBorder();
    setFocusBorder(new LineBorder(Color.BLUE));

    TableColumnModel columnModel = table.getColumnModel();
    columnModel.getColumn(column).setCellRenderer(this);
    columnModel.getColumn(column).setCellEditor(this);
    table.addMouseListener(this);
}

/**
 *  Get foreground color of the button when the cell has focus
 *
 *  @return the foreground color
 */
public Border getFocusBorder() {
    return focusBorder;
}

/**
 *  The foreground color of the button when the cell has focus
 *
 *  @param focusBorder the foreground color
 */
public void setFocusBorder(Border focusBorder) {
    this.focusBorder = focusBorder;
    editButton.setBorder(focusBorder);
}

public int getMnemonic() {
    return mnemonic;
}

/**
 *  The mnemonic to activate the button when the cell has focus
 *
 *  @param mnemonic the mnemonic
 */
public void setMnemonic(int mnemonic) {
    this.mnemonic = mnemonic;
    renderButton.setMnemonic(mnemonic);
    editButton.setMnemonic(mnemonic);
}

@Override
public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(
        JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, int row, int column) {
    if (value == null) {
        editButton.setText("");
        editButton.setIcon(null);
    } else if (value instanceof Icon) {
        editButton.setText("");
        editButton.setIcon((Icon) value);
    } else {
        editButton.setText(value.toString());
        editButton.setIcon(null);
    }

    this.editorValue = value;
    return editButton;
}

@Override
public Object getCellEditorValue() {
    return editorValue;
}

//
//  Implement TableCellRenderer interface
//
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(
        JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int  column) {
    if (isSelected) {
        renderButton.setForeground(table.getSelectionForeground());
        renderButton.setBackground(table.getSelectionBackground());
    } else {
        renderButton.setForeground(table.getForeground());
        renderButton.setBackground(UIManager.getColor("Button.background"));
    }

    if (hasFocus) {
        renderButton.setBorder(focusBorder);
    } else {
        renderButton.setBorder(originalBorder);
    }

//      renderButton.setText( (value == null) ? "" : value.toString() );
    if (value == null) {
        renderButton.setText("");
        renderButton.setIcon(null);
    } else if (value instanceof Icon) {
        renderButton.setText("");
        renderButton.setIcon((Icon) value);
    } else {
        renderButton.setText(value.toString());
        renderButton.setIcon(null);
    }

    return renderButton;
}

//
//  Implement ActionListener interface
//
/*
 *  The button has been pressed. Stop editing and invoke the custom Action
 */
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    int row = table.convertRowIndexToModel(table.getEditingRow());
    fireEditingStopped();

    //  Invoke the Action

    ActionEvent event = new ActionEvent(table,
            ActionEvent.ACTION_PERFORMED, "" + row);
    action.actionPerformed(event);
}

//
//  Implement MouseListener interface
//
/*
 *  When the mouse is pressed the editor is invoked. If you then then drag
 *  the mouse to another cell before releasing it, the editor is still
 *  active. Make sure editing is stopped when the mouse is released.
 */
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
    if (table.isEditing()
            && table.getCellEditor() == this) {
        isButtonColumnEditor = true;
    }
}

public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
    if (isButtonColumnEditor
            && table.isEditing()) {
        table.getCellEditor().stopCellEditing();
    }

    isButtonColumnEditor = false;
}

public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
}

public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
}

public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {
}
}

A: I guess you forgot to set the action command to the rendered button. You rely on that command in your action. Try something like
editButton.setActionCommand(String.valueOf(column));

in your cell renderer.


Talking therapies can help all sorts of people in lots of different situations. You may also hear them referred to as talking treatments or psychological therapies. Talking therapy is for anyone who's going through a bad time or has emotional problems they can't sort out on their own.
For many adults, they may be the same or more effective than medication.
CNWL ( Central and North West London) Talking Therapies Service provides a range of talking therapies for people who feel anxious and worried or down and depressed.
Register online and submit the form, they will contact you to arrange a telephone screening appointment to assess your suitability for their services.
Alternatively, you can send an email on cnw-tr.brent.iapt@nhs.net if you prefer paper registration form, they can either email or post the form to you, and you will return it back to them. Again, once they receive it, they will contact you to arrange a telephone screening appointment to assess your suitability for their services.
Counselling can help you make sense of your life, resolve specific problems, help you make decisions, help you deal with phobia, stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, addictions, abuse, bereavement, divorce or separation, conflict with others, relationships, and many other issues affecting emotional and mental well-being.
EACH is for people with an alcohol or mental health problem: including their partners and families.
Psychologists can help mentally and emotionally disturbed people adjust to life and may help medical and surgical patients deal with illnesses or injuries.


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use secsp_parser::syntax::SyntaxKind;
use secsp_parser::TokenSource;

use crate::token::Token;

pub(crate) struct TextTokenSource<'t> {
    text: &'t str,
    tokens: Vec<Token>,
}

impl<'t> TextTokenSource<'t> {
    pub fn new(text: &'t str, tokens: &'t [Token]) -> Self {
        let non_trivia_tokens = tokens
            .iter()
            .filter(|tok| !tok.is_trivia())
            .cloned()
            .collect();

        TextTokenSource {
            text,
            tokens: non_trivia_tokens,
        }
    }
}

impl<'t> TokenSource for TextTokenSource<'t> {
    fn kind(&self, idx: usize) -> SyntaxKind {
        if idx >= self.tokens.len() {
            return SyntaxKind::TOK_EOF;
        }

        self.tokens[idx].kind()
    }

    fn text(&self, idx: usize) -> &str {
        if idx >= self.tokens.len() {
            return "";
        }

        let tok = &self.tokens[idx];
        let range = tok.range();

        &self.text[range]
    }
}


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HomeUSListen: 71 percent of FBI's foreign counterintelligence budget diverted to Russia probe
Listen: 71 percent of FBI's foreign counterintelligence budget diverted to Russia probe
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FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a House Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, on oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
One of the consequences of the Obama Administration's unprecedented decision to launch a counterintelligence investigation on the Trump political campaign in 2016 is the drain on Department of Justice resources to chase down the "Russia connection" at the expense of other national security concerns.
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, a retired military intelligence officer and a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research says that over seventy percent of the FBI's current budget dedicated to foreign counterintelligence investigations have been diverted to support the probe's activities. Shaffer made the revelation on my radio program Monday afternoon on WMAL in Washington DC:
O'Connor: And then there is another incident that I didn't, I'm bringing up your whole rogues gallery, first John Brennan, now how about James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence at the time under Barack Obama. He's the guy, according to James Comey, that suggested that Comey sit alone, one-on-one just the two of them, with he and President-Elect Trump to brief them on the Russian dossier. But only the salacious sexual parts of the Russian dossier.
Lt. Col. Shaffer: And never once thought mentioning that the origins of all that was from opposition research.
O'Connor: And then two days later, suddenly, CNN reports on the existence of the Russian dossier. They said that they reported on it because, well, the President-Elect has been briefed on it, that makes it news worthy. Is there any doubt that this was leaked for this sole purpose, to cripple the Trump presidency before it even began?
Lt. Col. Shaffer: Yeah absolutely. Look, the two pieces of this really is what you just said. It was a setup Larry. I mean basically how would CNN had ever known a briefing like that was given and more importantly the President was owed a complete and detailed explanation of the sourcing. That to me right there is criminal negligence on the behalf of Comey. And let me tell you a little bit too.. I'm going to drop some information with you and your audience which is not public yet and I want y'all to have it…According to my sources 71 percent of the FBI's foreign counterintelligence budget has been diverted to focus only on what we're talking about here, Clinton and The President. Which means that all the stuff we're seeing now to include what you just mentioned regarding CNN, everything has been diverted to this completely false narrative that James Comey presented to the President, the media then got a hold of it because James Comey leaked it to them. That's how they got it.
O'Connor: Or James Clapper. But wait, hold on a minute. Seventy-one percent of the FBI's counterterrorism investigative budget right now is going to this thing? What things are they missing? What mad man in a white van is about to plow down Pennsylvania Avenue because they're looking at this?
Lt. Col. Shaffer: BINGO. So that's what I'm telling you. Everybody has been so focused on dealing with domestic political issues Larry, no one is actually monitoring working at the shop. Everybody has been moving on here to this. So, the vast majority of the effort is focused on everything you're seeing now regarding getting some evidence on President Trump or trying to explain a way and not look at the Hillary Clinton stuff. So you have to ask yourself, what's been going on over the past year before last and this last year, when they are diverting all their resources to these… Let me be clear on this, they are supposed to be focused on foreign threat but they have now diverted the majority, the bulk of their funding to go after domestic targets. This is very frightening and this is what we're seeing now play out.
Listen to the entire interview here:
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[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT56i07AYuI[/embedyt] Nunes on looking into the origin of the Russia investigation House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes says on 'Sunday Morning Futures' that potential 'major irregularities' exist at the State Department. House Intelligence Committee […]
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A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort – suggesting they lied about the scope of the investigation, are seeking "unfettered power" […]
DOJ asks watchdog to look into possible 'impropriety' after Trump demands probe on alleged campaign 'infiltration'
.@hogangidley45: "They never mess up in favor of @POTUS. Every misreported fact is always bad to @POTUS. It never helps us out." #MediaBuzz pic.twitter.com/ixieJcO0AW — Fox News (@FoxNews) May 21, 2018 The Justice Department asked […]


It's no secret that I'm really into talking about transitional wardrobe pieces. I'm also all about chunky sweaters! With the temps dropping, it just seems like the natural wardrobe option. You may be tired of me talking about "transitional items" and such, but it is MY DUTY to share these outfit ideas with you. After all, we take personal style seriously around here, right? So here is another look at the same sweater I wore in yesterday's outfit, styled a different way. This look is a bit more casual and chic, wouldn't you agree?
In this post I mentioned my hesitation about styling these faux leather leggings. However, chunky sweaters and leather leggings have become "my thing" as of late. These leggings have quickly become a fall wardrobe staple. Since I'm already a lover of leggings, it wasn't hard to start rotating this pair.
This outfit is perfect for a casual date night, shopping or even a night out with your girlfriends. It's no-fuss, chic and comfy. Investing in a sweater like this is great because as you can see, it's super easy to transition the piece for different occasions. Of course, you can add a pair of heels to give the outfit some sass, but if you're like me stylish animal print flats do the trick.
So tell me, what do you think of chunky sweaters and leather leggings? Would you try this combo? Let me know!
Thanks, as always, for stopping by. Until tomorrow, be blessed and stay safe…XO!


I was hoping that someone could give me a definitive answer as to whether or not a Durango lift gate will fit as a replacement on my Aspen? I know from both experience and forum feedback that the doors are not backward compatible (even though many wreckers and some dealers suggest that they are).
How did this replacement work for you?


Karen Hinds is the Founder and CEO of Workplace Success Group, a strategic talent development firm.
Karen is also a visiting professor at the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business at Post University, and a frequent guest on radio, TV and podcasts. She is a former board member of the Connecticut chapter of The World Affairs Council.
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, if you desire to have an effective online organisation you most likely currently understand that there are a whole lot of elements that go right into it.. , if you are brand-new to the on the internet advertising and marketing globe in some cases placing all the items with each other can be a little frustrating.. That's why a lot of individuals utilize online marketing business to assist them out.
There is no lack of selections of these specialized online marketing business to collaborate with. With so numerous to select from, just how do you recognize which business to choose?
It is all concerning you locating what firm you really feel comfy with. There are some points that any kind of excellent firm will certainly do or have, make certain you look for these points prior to you make your selection.
Some firms specialize in simply one or 2 locations such as SEO or pay per click. Make certain you have a complete understanding of what each firm can provide your online organisation.
Once more, discovering a firm that will certainly permit you to customized develop your very own strategy is the ideal. In the future when you are making even more loan, you might determine to include some various other components to your company.
Make note of the business's call info. Is it defined just how much communication you will have with the business? Will you have someone particularly appointed as your advisor to address your service inquiries or will you constantly obtain somebody various whenever you call?
Having a single person as your get in touch with individual that can remember what both of you have actually spoken about each time from one to the following is the very best means to go. You can obtain the connection you require by doing this and also have the ability to maintain blunders to a minimum. Due to the fact that you will not constantly have to bring a brand-new individual up to speed up, it additionally makes it less complicated.
Check out the testimonies on their websites to locate out just how much experience the firm has as well as if they supply any kind of kind of efficiency warranties. If the firm you are looking at is brand-new this could be a little complicated and also you should not always rule out them out particularly if they do use some kind of warranty.
If you've specified in your web marketing that you recognize you require some aid, you can locate web marketing business that can aid show you all you require to recognize to actually expand your company.
That's why so lots of individuals utilize web advertising and marketing firms to assist them out.
There are some points that any type of excellent business will certainly do or have, make certain you look for these points prior to you make your selection.
Make certain you have a complete understanding of what each firm can use your online organisation. Make note of the firm's call details. If the business you are looking at is brand-new this may be a little complicated as well as you should not always rule out them out specifically if they do use some kind of assurance.


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Summary of "Response to the letter by O. Barbier, D. Mainard."
Stereoselective Barbier Type Allylations and Propargylations Mediated by CpTiCl3.
Invited Response Letter to the Letter "Our Experience Regarding the Association between Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor and Bariatric Surgery. A Response to a Letter "Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: Be Awake Before, During, and After a Bariatric Procedure".
Response to Letter: Progesterone Receptor Status Predicts Response to Progestin Therapy in Endometriosis.
Reply to Letter to the Editor: Measuring and Defining Response and Non-response After Bariatric Surgery.
Response to the letter to the editor.
A form of electrophysiologic audiometry in which an analog computer is included in the circuit to average out ongoing or spontaneous brain wave activity. A characteristic pattern of response to a sound stimulus may then become evident. Evoked response audiometry is known also as electric response audiometry.