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Volunteer Opportunity: ACM SIGGRAPH External Relations Committee Chair
Volunteer Opportunity: the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee is Recruiting for an External Relations Committee Chair
The ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee is recruiting for a Chair of their External Relations Committee. The chair and their committee will establish and oversee ACM SIGGRAPH's agreements with organizations and conferences worldwide; manage relationships with external professional societies, organizations, and companies; and work with the ACM Executive Committee to identify and pursue relationships with new organizations and companies in alignment with the current strategic plan.
The External Relations Committee will also work with the Specialized Conference Committee to strengthen existing ties and identify new venues, emerging themes or potential relationships with other conferences and organizations to broaden the scope of SIGGRAPH.
The Chair of the External Relations Committee will assemble a small committee of 2-5 individuals interested in strengthening the relationships between the SIGGRAPH organizations and other organizations and companies. The committee members should be selected from different sub-fields of graphics so that they can work with organizations and companies related to their area of expertise such as displays, design, and robotics. They should also be geographically diverse because many of our agreements are with organizations outside the U.S.
Some of the current partnership agreements that have been cultivated by former external relations chairs include:
Computer Graphics Arts Society (CG-ARTS)
Digital Content Association of Japan (DCAJ)
Spark Computer Graphics Society
VFX Rio
The Executive Committee would like to broaden out the areas covered by the organizations and companies that SIGGRAPH has relationships with to include areas that are synergistic with computer graphics and interactive techniques and aligned with the organizational mission of "Enabling Everyone to tell their Stories."
We estimate that this role will require about two hours/week.
If you are interested in this position, please contact: Rebecca Strzelec
Chair, External Relations, Nominations


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South African R2 With Updated Furniture
Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons just released a video of the South African Defence Forces R2 rifle with its modified furniture. The R2 was originally a Portuguese made G-3 rifle purchased by the SADF for use by second-line troops and the South West Africa Territorial Force.
South West Africa is the former name for the modern country of Namibia. The country was a South African "protectorate" under a League of Nations mandate after World War One. This mandate was abolished in 1966 by the United Nations but the South Africans held on in whole or in part until 1990.
Getting back to the R2, there were problems with the handguards due to the climate of the region. Ian writes this about it.
The Portuguese hand guards and buttstocks were found to be unsatisfactory, however. In the heat and harsh ultraviolet radiation of South West Africa (now Namibia) in particular, the plastic would shrink and lose its fit, leading to the guns being called "rattlers" by the SADF troops. The fix this, the American firm of Choate Machine & Tool was contracted to make new hand guards based on the H&K export pattern - wider and longer and with fittings for a bipod. New stocks were also made, duplicating the shape of the R1/FAL stock.
Given the similarities of the G-3 and R2 with the currently produced PTR-91, it would be very interesting to see if you could find some of these Choate Machine handguards and stocks to use on a PTR-91. I like the looks of the Choate handguards and stocks better than the originals. While I don't own a PTR-91, I do own a boatload of magazines for it because they were a dollar or less at the time. One of these days I'll finally get around to obtaining a rifle to use with those magazines!
As always, Ian has produced an informative and interesting short video.
Labels: Choate Machine, G-3, Ian McCollum, Namibia, PTR Industries, PTR-91, SADF R2, South Africa
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Even as the US FBI warned that business email compromise losses had hit $US12 billion and were continuing to grow, Ticketmaster was warning customers about a payment-card hack after the compromise of a chat-bot tool led to a high-profile compromise.
This sort of event has become more common, highlighting the importance of having an adequate defence against advanced persistent threats (APTs) and consideration of defences against corporate espionage.
Effective security starts from the inside, of course. Yet with small and medium businesses (SMBs) still struggling to get up to speed with adequate security solutions, the message quickly gets more complicated – even around seemingly uncontroversial tools such as single sign-on (SSO) platforms.
Support from the judiciary could help simplify things, with the UK set to open a court in London that specialises in cybercrime.
Insurance-industry support is also proving valuable, with the EU GDPR and other new compliance requirements driving businesses to consider new ways of protecting their data and their insurance cover.
Yet even as businesses get more options for protection, they also face new threats such as the continuing evolution of complex Internet of Things (IoT) security issues.
IoT has followed, conceptually at least, in the footsteps of cloud computing – whose rapid emergence and evolution has created new security issues as quickly as customers can adopt it.
There were warnings about the adequacy of the security in new WPA3-certified routers, which provide an incremental improvement to data security.
Those seeking to improve security should perhaps consider reading up on tactics for better securing cryptographic keys. And, Microsoft argues, they should also consider upgrading to Windows 10 – which the company credits with stopping a 'double zero-day exploit' before anybody was infected.
Mozilla will trial the HaveIBeenPwned data breach search tool, while Chrome 67 users were automatically getting defences against the Spectre vulnerability.


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Efficacy of modern antipsychotics in placebo-controlled trials in bipolar depression: A meta-analysis
Nuria Cruz, Jose Sanchez-Moreno, Ferran Torres, Jose Manuel Goikolea, Marc Valent, Eduard Vieta
Department of Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Laboratory of Computational Medicine research group
Randomized, controlled trials have demonstrated efficacy for second-generation antipsychotics in the treatment of acute mania in bipolar disorder. Despite depression being considered the hallmark of bipolar disorder, there are no published systematic reviews or meta-analyses to evaluate the efficacy of modern atypical antipsychotics in bipolar depression. We systematically reviewed published or registered randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials (RCTs) of modern antipsychotics in adult bipolar I and/or II depressive patients (DSM-IV criteria). Efficacy outcomes were assessed based on changes in the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) during an 8-wk period. Data were combined through meta-analysis using risk ratio as an effect size with a 95% confidence interval (95% CI) and with a level of statistical significance of 5% (p<0.05). We identified five RCTs; four involved antipsychotic monotherapy and one addressed both monotherapy and combination with an antidepressant. The two quetiapine trials analysed the safety and efficacy of two doses: 300 and 600 mg/d. The only olanzapine trial assessed olanzapine monotherapy within a range of 5-20 mg/d and olanzapine-fluoxetine combination within a range of 5-20 mg/d and 6-12 mg/d, respectively. The two aripiprazole placebo-controlled trials assessed doses of 5-30 mg/d. Quetiapine and olanzapine trials (3/5, 60%) demonstrated superiority over placebo (p<0.001). Only 2/5 (40%) (both aripiprazole trials) failed in the primary efficacy measure after the first 6 wk. Some modern antipsychotics (quetiapine and olanzapine) have demonstrated efficacy in bipolar depressive patients from week 1 onwards. Rapid onset of action seems to be a common feature of atypical antipsychotics in bipolar depression. Copyright © 2009 CINP.
International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
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Randomized Controlled Trial Chemistry 66%
Bipolar Depression Psychology 66%
Olanzapine Chemistry 55%
Placebo Chemistry 44%
Quetiapine Chemistry 33%
Monotherapy Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 33%
Relayed Coherence Transfer Chemistry 22%
Cruz, N., Sanchez-Moreno, J., Torres, F., Goikolea, J. M., Valent, M., & Vieta, E. (2010). Efficacy of modern antipsychotics in placebo-controlled trials in bipolar depression: A meta-analysis. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 13(1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1461145709990344
Cruz, Nuria ; Sanchez-Moreno, Jose ; Torres, Ferran et al. / Efficacy of modern antipsychotics in placebo-controlled trials in bipolar depression: A meta-analysis. In: International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2010 ; Vol. 13, No. 1. pp. 5-14.
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Q: Data table sorting is not working properly friend please help me...
i am facing problem regarding data table sorting when i click on sort button in asc its show some rendom id like first row id is 20 second row is 18 like that
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              "dom": 'lfrtip',
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A: Are you using serverside sorting? if yes then make sure the field which you want sorting must be INT  datatype or relevant to numeric datatype in database.

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Xiaomi has recently launched most awaiting flagship Mi 6.
The Mi 6 will first go on sale on April 28, Friday via Mi.com in China.
Ahead of first flash sale Xiaomi has received overwhelming responses from the Chinese Mi Fans.
According to our source, almost two million pre-order already booked for the Mi 6.
The Xiaomi MI 6 is announced in four color variants- Black, White, Silver and Blue respectively.
Unfortunately, the appealing Silver variant of Mi 6 faces production issues and will not be up for sale in the first flash sale.
Mi fans have to wait a little time longer to get their hands on the Silver variant.
The Mi 6 Silver color variant is now in testing stage and subject to limited productions.
There is no exact time frame when Mi Fans will be able to get Mi 6 Silver color variant.
Let's wait and see how much time takes to release the Mi 6 Silver color variant.
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NFL Week 11 with Vinny Bonsignore and the Maddbacker Adrian Ross! Thursday, November 14, 2019
NFL Week 11 with Vinny Bonsignore and the Maddbacker Adrian Ross!
Hosted by Mike Abadir with Co-Host Gino Buccola
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In this week's episode, Mike and Gino talk NFL with expert guests: • Vinny Bonsignore, LA Rams beat writer for The Athletic LA and also the Oakland/Raiders beat writer for the Las Vegas Review Journal • Adrian "Maddbacker" Ross, ex #Bengals LB ?? We'll cover everything from last weekend's NFL games to giving out our picks for Week 11! To call us: 1-866-472-5787 Tweet us: @mikeabadir @ItsMeGinoB Be sure to join us for this must listen edition for all NFL fans!
The Mike Abadir Show
Thursday at 4 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Variety Channel
The Mike Abadir Show brings out a unique sports and business perspective. A current NFL agent licensed by the NFLPA, Mike started his career with the Oakland Raiders as an intern before earning his J.D., so he delivers a knowledgeable approach. Having negotiated numerous deals, Mike shares his insight through a forum that is interview driven. The emphasis of the show is to provide you the quality content that can't be found through mainstream media outlets.
Along with covering the vastly popular NFL world, the show also has a focus on bringing industry guests from a broad spectrum of sports and business backgrounds. Having grown up with a passion for horse racing, baseball, soccer, and basketball, Mike engages in dialogue covering relevant hot topics, as well as interviewing television personalities and business experts for their detailed insight. Weekly features include a horse racing report with long-time TVG host, Gino Buccola, and much more.
Mike Abadir with Co-Host Gino Buccola
Mike Abadir, a unique and polished negotiator in the areas of sports and real estate contracts, brings his voice to sports radio. His vast experience started as an intern with the Oakland Raiders and has continued to develop as a NFL player agent. He's always held firm to his mission, which is to work with the athlete to be the best football player on and off the field. Based on his business knowledge and the intricacies of the NFL salary cap, Mike has provided expert analysis on the topic at numerous sports industry seminars, radio shows, and television appearances as a guest NFL player agent.
Mike graduated from U.C. San Diego and later received his law degree from John F. Kennedy University School of Law. Mike is certified as a player-agent by the National Football League Players Association, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
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Is it possible to connect a keyboard to the wl-500g Premium and if yes which interface (serial adapter?) is necessary?
Modern keyboards either have PS/2 or USB connectors, that leaves USB as a possible solution.
If you have the right kernel modules (don't know which without researching), you could access the keyboard in some way.


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Q: Integration QlikView and python How can I perform python Integration in QlikView or can anyone suggest me any blog for this or link?

A: The basic help page about Analytics Connections (which is how you integrate Python) is here. You may also find the page on writing Server Side Exentions helpful, including getting started in python page.
Hope that helps.


One of the major promoters of the Nigerian fashion industry is calling all private sector practitioners, textile companies, retailers, & manufacturers, fashion retailers, luxury fashion brands, designers, and fashion entrepreneurs, for the 2016 Fashion Business Series which will be happening on the 15th of April!
Hosted by Style House Files, founders, Heineken Lagos Fashion and Design Week and sponsored by PAL Pensions and theNigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), the Fashion Business Series is a forum for exchanging ideas, networking and exploring strategies to grow the industry.
This year's edition is themed, "The Future of Fashion", and it will touch on critical sectors of the fashion industry such as manufacturing, retail, e-commerce, PR, communications and more. Industry stakeholders will discuss on varied topics including: 'Retail and 'Etail': Maximizing Opportunities and Reducing Risk','Communicating Fashion', 'Exporting Fashion to the World' amongst others.
Facilitated by PAL Pensions, FBS will also feature a VIP Signature Session, titled "The Next Level". Open to fashion entrepreneurs operating for a minimum of five years, the session will host thought leaders in Fashion and the Private Sector as they discuss how to build a sustainable business.
The Fashion Business Series will hold on the 15th of April 2016 at The Metropolitan Club, Kofo Abayomi, Victoria Island, from 9am – 4pm.
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Android P features you'll love: Restricted apps to save you battery life
Android P will help you make apps that don't behave stop sucking down your battery by putting them on restriction.
Jerry Hildenbrand
We all have different wants and needs about what our phone can do for us, but we all have one thing in common, too: we want our battery to last longer. Whether you get more than a day from a phone like the ASUS Zenfone Max and its 5,000mAh battery or you barely make it through the day with a phone that has a more, erhm, modest battery, you still want a longer time between charges. So do I. Charging a phone isn't hard, but not charging it is easier. Google knows this, too, and that's why Android P has several features designed to extend your battery.
A part of Android's power management called Background Restrictions is one of the things in Android P that tries to tame unruly apps and ease your battery life woes. As part of Android P, it uses an aggressive approach to do something we've needed for a long time — clamp down apps that don't use any of the newer battery saving features found in the latest versions of Android. Putting the decision in your hands instead of an app developer's is pretty awesome.
How Background Restrictions work
The beauty of how these Background Restrictions work is in their simplicity.
If an app exhibits some of the bad behaviors described in Android vitals, the system prompts the user to restrict that app's access to system resources. This is a new feature for Android P.
Android vitals is a Google initiative designed to do one thing — improve performance and stability of every Android phone. That's a tough task; Google can test the Pixel phones, Samsung can test the Galaxy phones, LG can test their ThinQ phones and so on, but once we get them the first thing we do is add apps. Those apps were not there when the Samsungs and LGs of the smartphone world tested the software for stability and performance. Those apps can do horrible things. Those horrible things all cause the battery inside our phones to drain faster than it should.
Power management in Android P gets a little perturbed when apps exhibit any of the bad behaviors described by the Android vitals initiative. There are also two stand-alone things that will draw Android P's power management ire: Wake locks when the screen is off and apps built to target versions lower than Oreo and try to have "excessive" background services running.
If the active power management subsystem notices any of this sort of thing happening from an app, it notifies you and gives you the option of restricting the apps services. Think of it as putting that app in detention.
What restrictions are placed on a "bad" app?
That is up to the developers who built the software for your phone. And it should be because Android can run on a lot of different hardware and not all hardware is equal. A Galaxy S9+ can handle a lot more load than an entry-level phone a carrier might include with a service plan. The company that made the phone will know what it can handle and what is just too much to ask.
Google gives us a baseline using a stock AOSP build for phones that can officially run them (Pixel and Pixel 2 models). Restricted apps can't do any of the following when they aren't in the foreground (actively being used because you wanted something done):
Run jobs. A job is a single unit of work that you, an app, or a part of the OS called a scheduler (it runs things on a schedule) assigns to the operating system.
Fire alarms. An alarm is an alert or event that gets sent from an app to the operating system. These are different from the types of notifications you see.
Use the network. This means any network — LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, etc.
For a chart showing Android P's Power Management Restrictions, Look here.
The developers who designed the operating system for your phone and set all the right parameters and worked all the long hours will decide what an app that does bad things is not allowed to do when you're restricted its background use. All we need to do is notice the notification and tap away to send that bad app into the corner for a timeout. It's a beautiful idea that took nine versions to happen.
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Shelley Smith reached a milestone recently. At present she just finished chemo and is officially done with cancer!
This was a long hard road for Shelley but nearly every time she was at the gym, she was smiling, joking and overall, optimistic. She didn't whine and didn't complain. It's been amazing to witness. We are lucky to have her example.
Take her advice (get checked) and adopt her attitude (be positive).


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Q: Follow up call to my API returns Preflight HTTP status error I have been struggling with a strange issue for about a week now. I have searched through the answers here and elsewhere on the internet and I'm not quite sure what my specific issue might be. I do however think the error message I am getting doesn't have anything to do with my actual error. I thank you for any help or suggestions you might have.
My setup is as follows (all running locally):

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*Frontend website - Angular - running on standard ng serve

*Backend API - PHP / MySQL - hosted locally via XAMPP

The error:
{"headers":{"normalizedNames":{},"lazyUpdate":null,"headers":{}},"status":0,"statusText":"Unknown Error","url":"http://192.168.64.2/resourcer/api/menu/47693eb3-ca82-467b-af68-020150a5e4a6","ok":false,"name":"HttpErrorResponse","message":"Http failure response for http://192.168.64.2/resourcer/api/menu/47693eb3-ca82-467b-af68-020150a5e4a6: 0 Unknown Error","error":{"isTrusted":true}}

The concept:

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*Log in, authenticate on the php side, get jwt token.

*The jwt token has a property called 'access'. I use this to return the menu based on the role.

*Once I receive the jwt, I set the user object, append the jwt to bearer token auth header.

*Call the retrieve menu call with the access property received from the server.

All of this works up until I change user. I have added 2 users to test the different menu items coming back, and when I log a user out (clear local storage), I try the second user's credentials.
I log in successfully, get the jwt and the user object, but when I request the menu I get the error message. I cannot get past this at all. The only way this gets fixed is by commenting all the code required to return the menu and just echo 'ok'. Then I do a request, get the ok, uncomment the code and then it's all back to normal until I log out again.
Have no idea what on earth is going on. Here is my code:
Angular Interceptor Service:
export class InterceptorService implements HttpInterceptor {
  constructor(private authService: AuthService) {}

  intercept(
    request: HttpRequest<any>,
    next: HttpHandler,
  ): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {
    const currentUser = this.authService.currentUserValue;

    if (currentUser && currentUser.token) {
      request = request.clone({
        setHeaders: {
          'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
          Accept: 'application/json',
          Authorization: `Bearer ${currentUser.token}`,
        },
      });
    } else {
      request = request.clone({
        setHeaders: {
          'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
          Accept: 'application/json',
        },
      });
    }

    return next.handle(request);
  }
}

Angular Auth Service:
signIn(signinCredentials: AuthCredentials) {
    return this.dataService.signIn(signinCredentials).pipe(
      map((data) => {
        const helper = new JwtHelperService();
        const decoded = helper.decodeToken(data.jwt);
        const user: User = decoded.data;
        user.token = data.jwt;

        localStorage.setItem('currentUser', JSON.stringify(user));
        this.currentUserSubject.next(user);
        return user;
      }),
    );
  }

logout() {
    localStorage.removeItem('currentUser');
    localStorage.removeItem('navItems');
    this.currentUserSubject.next(null);
  }

Angular Login Page:
signIn() {
    this.submitted = true;
    this.loading = true;

    this.authService
      .signIn(this.signinCredentials)
      .pipe(first())
      .subscribe(
        (data) => {
          this.currentUser = this.authService.currentUserValue;
          this.getMenu();
        },
        (error) => {
          this.error = error;
          this.loading = false;
        },
      );
  }

getMenu() {
    this.dataService.getNavigationItems(this.currentUser.access).subscribe(
      (menu) => {
        if (menu) {
          this.envService.setNavItems(menu.menu);
          this.router.navigate([this.returnUrl]);
        } else {
          this.authService.logout();
          location.reload(true);
        }
      },
      (error) => {
        this.authService.logout();
        location.reload(true);
      },
    );
  }

Now on my PHP side, I use an .htaccess file to redirect my URL:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule app/api/ app/api/index.php

PHP Index:
<?php

header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");
header("Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8");
header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS");
header("Access-Control-Max-Age: 3600");
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Content-Type, Access-Control-Allow-Headers, Authorization, X-Requested-With");

define('PROJECT_ROOT_PATH', __DIR__);

include_once 'config/db.php';

--- Controller imports etc happen here

$uri = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);
$uri = explode('/', $uri);
$requestMethod = $_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"];

$headerToken = getBearerToken();

if (isset($uri[3])) {
    switch ($uri[3]) {
        case 'users':
            $userId = null;
            if (isset($uri[4])) {
                $userId = (int) $uri[4];
            }
            $controller = new UserController($db, $requestMethod, $userId, $headerToken);
            $controller->processRequest();
            break;
        case 'companies':
            $companyReference = null;
            if (isset($uri[4])) {
                $companyReference = $uri[4];
            }
            $controller = new CompanyController($db, $requestMethod, $companyReference, $headerToken);
            $controller->processRequest();
            break;
        case 'login':
            $controller = new LoginController($db);
            $controller->login();
            break;
        case 'menu':
            $roleGuid = null;
            if (isset($uri[4])) {
                $roleGuid = $uri[4];
            }
            $controller = new MenuController($db, $roleGuid, $headerToken);
            $controller->getMenuItems();
            break;
        default:
            header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");
            exit();
    }
} else {
    header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");
    exit();
}

function getAuthorizationHeader()
{
    $headers = null;
    if (isset($_SERVER['Authorization'])) {
        $headers = trim($_SERVER["Authorization"]);
    } else if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'])) {
        $headers = trim($_SERVER["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"]);
    } elseif (function_exists('apache_request_headers')) {
        $requestHeaders = apache_request_headers();
        $requestHeaders = array_combine(array_map('ucwords', array_keys($requestHeaders)), array_values($requestHeaders));
        if (isset($requestHeaders['Authorization'])) {
            $headers = trim($requestHeaders['Authorization']);
        }
    }
    return $headers;
}

function getBearerToken()
{
    $headers = getAuthorizationHeader();
    if (!empty($headers)) {
        if (preg_match('/Bearer\s(\S+)/', $headers, $matches)) {
            return $matches[1];
        }
    }
    return null;
}

When I mentioned that I comment out the controller code with an echo ok, and it works, happens in this index file.
I'm stumped.


It's been called the Oscars of Detroit, where the cars are the stars; the North American International Auto Show Charity Preview gala is the place to be Friday!
But the question is one many of us ask ourselves before a big event: What should I wear?
"It's just a big celebration and it's fun," said Anna Castaldi Roselli, the owner of Roma Sposa.
She just got back from Paris and says this year's fashion trends take us back in time.
"The designers were inspired from the 90s."
Expect to see lots of satin and saturated, bold colors.
"So when we talk about pink, we talk hot pink," she explained. "We talk about yellow. It's like a yellow that you cannot miss."
If the fabric is sheer, pastels are the way to go.
Every year, the Golden Globes' red carpet fashion sets the trend for Charity Preview.
This year, all the celebrities wore black for the #MeToo movement.
Now, Anna says it's best to look for what came off the runway in the latest fashion shows in London and Milan.
If you don't like full-length, jumpsuits and high-low dresses are in.
"It becomes comfortable because you are confident, definitely a beautiful alternative," she said. "Different textures of fabric, like satin, it becomes automatically very elegant."
Anna says it's time to try something new, especially since stripes and floral prints are in.
But if you want something more simple, make sure you still have a little glamour.
Whatever you decide to put on, Anna says the most important accessory is confidence.


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Shouts, cheers and applause filled the air when Allied Arts announced the amount of money raised in its annual campaign. A banner was revealed by a group of young ballet dancers. Suddenly, the house was quieted to hear that the amount shown was in error. Actually, the volunteers had raised $20,000 more between the time the poster was created and the announcement was made. The actual total at that time was $3,223,746.
Everyone went wild with joy about this. And even better, some of the volunteers still had money to turn in. What a celebration this was.
Deborah Senner, CEO of Allied Arts, called the meeting to order and Allied Arts board President Tricia Everest joined her to get the celebration started. The honorary campaign chairs, Polly and Larry Nichols, were introduced and presented with a work of art as a thank-you for their support. Campaign chairs Aimee and David Harlow were honored for their leadership and received a work of art. Then they revealed the goal.
This will be a wonderful year for the 26 cultural agencies supported by Allied Arts. Other cultural organizations also will share some of this money.
Great work by all, but remember, more donations will be welcome.
Did you know that Thursday is World Giraffe Day? Neither did I but the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden folks did and they've planned a lot of activities in honor of their giraffes – and folks like us.
The OKC Zoo and Bob Moore Subaru have planned activities Thursday to generate support, raise awareness and bring attention to the challenges giraffes face in the wild.
From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. guests at the zoo will participate in activities that focus on giraffe and habitat conservations. Activities are free with zoo admission.
For adults 21 and over, the fun continues at Drafts for Giraffes Thursday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Roughtail Brewery, 1279 N. Air Depot Blvd. in Midwest City, where information about giraffes will be available.
To learn more, call 405-425-0262 or visit okczoo.org.
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Q: Using I18N messages in grails cucumber test I'm writting cucumber test cases in grails project. I want to access messages that are configured in message.properties file
e.g. I have a property configured in message.properties file as:
view.user.page.title = View user

I have a cucumber step ViewUserSteps.groovy
Given(~'^I looged in into the app$') { ->
  //code related to login
}
When(~'^I click view users tab"$') { ->
   // click user tab logic
}
Then(~'^I see I am on View User page$') { ->
   at ViewUserPage
}

And ViewUserPage.groovy is
import geb.Page
import grails.util.Holders
class ViewUserPage extends Page{
    static url = "${Holders.config.app.url}/users/view"
    static at = {
       waitFor(30,2) {
           title == "Edit user"  // this title should be fetched from message.properties file
       }
    }
}

Here in ViewUserPage I should be able to fetch the title that is configured in message.properties. Something like g.message(code:'view.user.page.title') or by some other way so that if I change in message.properties, no need to change test case. Any thoughts?

A: You can get ask the messageSource bean what the text is and then compare that to the result of the request.
This can look like this (with responseData.errors.username being the result of the request (i.e. the When step):
Then(~'^an error message is shown that the user name is already used$') {->
    assert responseData.errors.username.contains (message ('user.username.unique'))
}

message is a small helper function to get the text of the message:
String message (String code) {
    getBean ('messageSource').getMessage (code, null, null)
}

We added message to the World object, so that it is automatically available in steps.


The World….aka….Reality is an Ocean of Materiality moved by the winds of words….Matter_I_Reality….The Royalty of the Holy Mother..Her mane art the waves that weave the one-der.
In this talk I will present etymological evidence of a reality that exists as a matter of fact….a world that is alive….and meaning-full….and boundless….and whole…and imperfect…and all ways will be.
I will also make a call for the re-development and investment in our cultures of matriarchal materialism and for the deconstruction and divestment in patriarchal spiritualistic culture.
Our attention follows our intention, and that which we attend to….comes to be. We art cultural cultivators.
Joe Bob Merritt is a professional Re-Creation-All-ist and a practitioner of Spirit-U-All-Material-All-ism, an Artkitect, and community conspirator functioning within an on-going life-design project called South Main Gunnison – a live/work habitat developed by Merritt on a revitalized industrial ground in Gunnison, CO.
In addition to his architectural design practice, art making habits, and funked junk furniture manufacturing activities, he is currently focused on developing several business enterprises down on South Main Gunnison including: Salvage & Such – an up cycling enterprise, Star House Goods – a gallery of future primitive furnishings and visionary art, Seed Temple Goods – a garden arts museum, Blue Thunder Circle Artifactory, and Sanctuary Somatic Arts – a space for movement.
South Main Gunnison is a thriving ecosystem of businesses who are woven together through a network of direct and indirect collaborative, creative, mutually beneficial relationships. Our vision is to be one of the most inspirational mixed use creative zones on the western slope of Colorado. The South Main Gunnison, Industrial Park For Good serves as a functional example of a Holonic Enterprise. It is a living template for small scale, live/work, mixed use, Real Estate and Oikonomic Development based on the idea of co-operative companionship and radical materialism.


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The 1946 All-Southern Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by coaches and sports writers on behalf of the Associated Press (AP) and United Press (UP) as the best at each position from the Southern Conference during the 1946 college football season.

Two triple-threat backs, Howard "Touchdown" Turner of NC State and Nick Sacrinty of Wake Forest, were rated as the most consistent players in the conference.

Duke led the conference with three players chosen on the first team: end Kelly Mote; tackle Al DeRogatis; and guard Bill Milner. William & Mary followed with two players on the first team: back Jack Cloud and guard Knox Ramsey. DeRogatis, Cloud, and NC State halfback Charlie Justice were late inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

All-Southern Conference selections

Backs
 Charlie Justice, North Carolina (AP-1, UP-1)
 Howard Turner, NC State (AP-1, UP-1)
 Nick Sacrinty, Wake Forest (AP-1, UP-1)
 Jack Cloud, William & Mary (AP-1, UP-1)
 Robert Thomason, VMI (AP-2, UP-2)
 George Clark, Duke (AP-2, UP-2)
 Leo Long, Duke (AP-2, UP-3)
 Tommy Korczowski, William & Mary (AP-3, UP-2)
 Harold Hagain, South Carolina (AP-3, UP-2)
 Richard Brinkley, Wake Forest (AP-2)
 Nick Ognivich, Wake Forest (AP-3)
 Hosea Rodgers, North Carolina (AP-3)
 Earl Dunham, South Carolina (UP-3)
 Buddy Milligan, Duke (UP-3)
 Walt Pupa, North Carolina (UP-3)

Ends
 Kelly Mote, Duke (AP-1, UP-1)
 Bill Chipley, Washington & Lee (AP-1, UP-2)
 Paul Gibson, NC State (AP-2, UP-1)
 Robert Steckroth, William & Mary (AP-2, UP-3)
 Art Weiner, North Carolina (UP-2)
 John O'Quinn, Wake Forest (AP-3, UP-3)
 U.S. Savage, Richmond (AP-3)

Tackles
 Al Derogatis, Duke (AP-1, UP-1)
 John Maskas, VPI (AP-1, UP-1)
 Ralph Sazio, William & Mary (AP-2)
 Ted Hazelwood, North Carolina (AP-2, UP-3)
 Dom Fusci, South Carolina (AP-3, UP-2)
 Taylor Moser, NC State (UP-2)
 Malachi Mills, VMI (AP-3)
 Louis Allen, Duke (UP-3)

Guards
 Knox Ramsey, William & Mary (AP-1, UP-1)
 Bill Milner, Duke (AP-1, UP-1)
 Bernard Watts, NC State (AP-2)
 Ernest Knotts, Duke (AP-2, UP-3)
 Ralph Strayhorn, North Carolina (UP-2)
 Harry Varney, North Carolina (AP-3)
 Bob Leonetti, Wake Forest (AP-3, UP-2)
 Frank Gillespie, Clemson (UP-3)

Centers
 Bryant Meeks, South Carolina (AP-1, UP-1)
 Chan Highsmith, North Carolina (AP-2, UP-2)
 Tommy Thompon, William & Mary (AP-3)
 Ralph Jenkins, Clemson (UP-3)

Key

See also
1946 College Football All-America Team

References

All-Southern Conference football team
All-Southern Conference football teams

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SETTING UP A COMPANY IN NIGERIA
A business formation in Nigeria ordinarily commences with the registration of a company. A company can be referred to as a corporate entity, which upon incorporation becomes a separate legal entity with the perpetual succession and the capacity to sue and be sued. The cradle of a company is on its incorporation and this entails registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). The law governing how to register a company in Nigeria is the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) LFN 2020.
A company may be incorporated as a company limited by shares, a company limited by guarantee, and an unlimited company. Any of these types of companies may either be a private or public company. This article will mainly focus on the requirements for the incorporation of a private company in Nigeria either by indigenous citizens or foreigners who have the intention of carrying on business in Nigeria.
The first step towards setting up a company in Nigeria is to check for the availability of the proposed name of the new company for registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission and to reserve it. Upon approval of the proposed name, the memorandum and articles of association, as well as other incorporation documents, will be prepared, stamped, and submitted at the CAC for registration, after which CAC will issue a Certificate of Incorporation.
The following documents are required for the incorporation at the Corporate Affairs Commission:
Signed and Stamped Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association
Two (2) Originals of an application for registration of a company (Form CAC 1.1) which contains the following information:
Address of registered office of the company
Authorized Share Capital of the company
Particulars of First Directors and their Consent to Act
Statutory Declaration of Compliance with the requirements of CAMA by a Legal Practitioner
Photocopy of the information page of the passport or the national identity card of each director and shareholder.
Original resolutions of the Board of Directors of the companies incorporating the company (where a company subscribes to the Memorandum and Articles of Association)- Where the shareholder is a corporate entity, the original Resolution of the company shall be required. Such Resolution shall include clauses expressly authorizing the company to subscribe to shares in the new company; and appointing a newly named person to execute all documents relating to the incorporation of the company. The contents of the Resolution shall include an appointment of a named person to execute all documents relating to the incorporation of the Company.
Furthermore, there are other registrations to be done by a company intending to carry out business in Nigeria, especially a company having a foreign shareholder that include the following:.
Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) Business Registration:
Registration with NIPC is vital. This Commission among other things, coordinate, monitor, encourage and provide necessary assistance and guidance for the establishment and operation of enterprises in Nigeria, initiate and support measures which shall enhance the investment climate in Nigeria for both Nigerian and non-Nigerian investors among others as well as perform such other functions as are supplementary or incidental to the attainment of the objectives of NIPC Act. NIPC business registration is a major prerequisite for a business permit.
Business Permit:
This is issued by the Ministry of Interiors, to enable foreign companies to conduct business within the government's geographical jurisdiction.
National Office of Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) Registration:
Where the business of the company would require the company to enter into an agreement(s) with any person outside Nigeria which is wholly or partially connected with the use or supply or trademarks and patents, technical/management expertise or assistance, basic or detailed engineering, machinery or plant, such agreements are required to be registered with the NOTAP.
Application for Tax Registration: VAT and Corporate Tax:
Every company is expected to register at the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) for Income Tax and Value Added Tax (VAT) purposes within 6months of incorporation. Upon registration, a tax identification number (TIN) would be allocated to each registered company and a tax file shall be opened for such company in the nearest FIRS to the company's address. The TIN number must be inserted on all the company's invoices. The current Companies Income Tax rate is 30% assessed on a preceding year basis.
Expatriate Quota:
This is consent in writing issued by the Minister of Interior on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria to a foreign-owned company duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission to employ foreign experts. The expatriate quotas are issued to the company and not to the individual expatriates.
In Conclusion, it is noteworthy to state that a single individual cannot set up a company in Nigeria. Every company must be composed of a minimum of 2 members (shareholders) and directors. And pursuant to the provisions of the NIPC Act, every company with a foreign shareholder and/or director must have a minimum of N10,000,000 authorized share capital.
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Post news Report RSS	Dev Log #4: The alpha countdown has begun!
Today we got a major announcement : here comes the alpha ! We're very proud indeed to tell you that a public alpha version of Dead Galaxy will be available on the Android market starting from next Wednesday. Also we give you an in depth review of our Arena game mode.
Today we got a major announcement : here comes the alpha !
We're very proud indeed to tell you that a public alpha version of Dead Galaxy will be available on the Android market starting from next Wednesday.
But there's more. In order to have you patiently wait, we'll introduce you to our very exciting arena mode !
The arena is a mode totally unrelated with the main story where you'll find yourself alone in a closed environment, and will have to take down infinite waves of enemies. This mode has several interests : you can test your weapons, sharpen your reflexes, put to the test your endurance, or simply farm money to buy a state-of-the-art gear !
You will be confronted with all sorts of enemies, from zombies to monsters, including giant bosses. Moreover, in order to propose a real challenge, the difficulty is increasing wave after wave. As you progress in the main story, you'll unlock new arenas with different settings and enemies.
That's all for this devlog. We're really can't wait for you feedback and first impressions on Twitter, IndieDB or Tumblr, so don't hesitate to comment.


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Angela Lansbury's image alongside a swirling collage of ads for television movies and other similar products functions as a reflection on the artist's own navigation of various traumas.
Sculpture for Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury's prominence in this work is a personal reference for Huffman, owing to his grandmother's devotion to Murder, She Wrote, a TV show in which Lansbury starred. Her image alongside a swirling collage of ads for television movies and other similar products functions as a reflection on the artist's own navigation of various traumas. Lansbury stands in for someone solving such an investigation.
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Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Jibade-Khalil Huffman uses found archival material alongside contemporary ephemera to address slippage in memory and language, particularly when it comes to race and visibility. His installation work (often site-specific) uses video, projections, photographic light boxes and photo collages printed on layered transparencies and paper. Huffman works at the intersection of several disciplines, and he holds an MFA in both the literary arts and studio art.
Marfa, Ballroom Marfa, The Way You Make Me Feel, 2018
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Installation view, Jibade-Khalil Huffman: The Way You Make Me Feel, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, 2018. Courtesy of Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles and Magenta Plains, New York. Photography by Alex Marks.
Jibade-Khalil Huffman:
Sculpture for Angela Lansbury, 2018
Archival inkjet print on canvas
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Pregnant women may have special immigration detention rights
By The Law Office of Mana Yegani
A pregnant immigrant from Honduras said that immigration officials shackled her and forced her to board a plane bound for Texas from California just days before she gave birth. The woman, who had crossed the border illegally, said that she was sexually assaulted in a Mexican town. She tells a horrific immigration story involving kidnapping, abuse and substandard medical care. However, the woman was released on humanitarian parole because of her pregnancy status.
The woman was on her way to Houston when she was reportedly kidnapped in a border town and held for three months in a tiny room. Her kidnappers reportedly raped her and impregnated her. When the woman finally made it across the border into California, she was apprehended within minutes.
When the woman was apprehended, she told Customs and Border Protection authorities that she was pregnant, but they refused to call a physician. She did not receive vitamins, food or extra medical care until she arrived at a detention center. She was held at the center for about a week.
Guidelines promulgated in 2011 indicate that pregnant or nursing illegal immigrants should not be held in detention unless they meet certain criteria, such as belonging to a gang. The woman was allowed to leave the detention center after a week, and she was taken to a shelter in El Paso, Texas. Just nine days after her release, she gave birth to a baby girl.
Although the woman was required to spend a week in a detention center, she was ultimately released because of humanitarian guidelines that govern Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities. Pregnant or nursing immigrants who are being held for extended periods of time in Texas detention centers may have additional rights. These immigrants may benefit from consulting a Texas immigration attorney.
Source: KENS 5, "Pregnant woman sent to immigration detention center just days before giving birth" Angela Kocherga, Feb. 28, 2014


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Q: MySQL remove duplicates There is a table of the form:
NAME |    DATE    | INFO  | SPEC
Bob  | 01.01.2010 | Text1 | Student
Ann  | 02.02.2020 | Text2 | Secretary
Bob  | 01.01.2010 | Text1 | Student
John | 03.03.2030 | Text3 | Tester
Bob  | 01.01.2010 | Text1 | Student

How can I get a table (in request) like this:
NAME |    DATE    | INFO  | SPEC
Bob  | 01.01.2010 | Text1 | Student
Ann  | 02.02.2020 | Text2 | Secretary
John | 03.03.2030 | Text3 | Tester

PS: These variants aren't working:
SELECT DISTINCT Name, Date, Info, Spec FROM Table
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM Table
SELECT Name, Date, Info, Spec FROM Table GROUP BY Name, Date, Info, Spec
SELECT * FROM Table GROUP BY Name, Date, Info, Spec

A: You need to use the DISTINCT keyword
Try a query like this:
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM table

A: Use
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM MyTable

However, you would be better off getting rid of duplicates in your table. See Remove duplicate rows in MySQL to find out how.

A: Use DISTINCT. From the docs:

The ALL and DISTINCT options specify whether duplicate rows should be returned. ALL (the default) specifies that all matching rows should be returned, including duplicates. DISTINCT
  specifies removal of duplicate rows from the result set.

So use something like this:
SELECT DISTINCT * from tablename;

A: If there is Primary key other than mentioned columns, then you can use this code,
delete from myTable where pkID not in
(
select min(pkID) from myTable
group by NAME,DATE ,INFO ,SPEC
)

Assuming that pkID is primary key
If there is no other column than these 4 columns, then do it in following way, Using Temp Tables.
Create table #tmp
(
    NAME varchar(50),
    DATE date,
    INFO varchar(50),
    SPEC varchar(50)
)
insert into #tmp
select distinct * from myTable

delete from myTable

insert into myTable
    select * from #tmp

Code is of SQL Server, hope it helps you.

A: Just use DISTINCT in your select query


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Kenna is tired of being "normal."
The only thing special about her is that she isn't special at all. Which is frustrating when you're constantly surrounded by superheroes. Her best friend, her ex-boyfriend, practically everyone she knows has some talent or power. Sure, Kenna's smart and independent, but as an ordinary girl in an extraordinary world, it's hard not to feel inferior.
So when three villains break into the lab where she interns, Kenna refuses to be a victim. She's not about to let criminals steal the research that will make her extraordinary too.
Tera Lynn Childs is the RITA-award-winning and bestselling author of teen fiction about a mythological high school, mermaid princesses, monster-hunting triplet descendants of Medusa, and dark fae princes.
Tracy Deebs is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling and criticially-acclaimed author who writes under many pseudonyms, including young adult novels about surfing mermaids and technological armaggeddon.
If I could have any superpower, right now, I'd choose the ability to reach through glass. One thin, little pane is all that separates me from bliss...of the midnight-snack variety, to be exact. The chocolate bar hangs halfway to freedom but refuses to take the plunge, as if the vending machine is mocking me, taunting me.
As if it knows I'm powerless.
Annoyed, I slam my palms against the glass. Everything inside shudders. My chocolate bar-pure Swiss milk chocolate dotted with toasted hazelnuts-doesn't budge.
"Come on," I beg as if the candy can hear me. "Just a little farther."
Then again, when have I ever been lucky? I'm just glad no heroes are around to see me lose a battle with a vending machine. I would be the punch line to every joke for a year.
Thankfully, the lab is pretty much empty at this time of night. Even Mom went home two hours ago, leaving me to transcribe the notes from today's sessions. I prefer to work when no one is around. My experiments fall into a gray area in the Superhero Code of Conduct, and even though I'm not technically a superhero-yet-I try not to piss off the powers-that-be. The last thing I need is to lose my lab privileges before I've perfected my formula.
Copying down Mom's scribblings is like deciphering some previously unknown ancient language. It isn't exactly the most glamorous summer job ever, but it pays okay and gives me access to the facility.
I'm almost done with tonight's transcription from the digital white board Mom and her team spent all day filling with chemical equations for her newest power-enhancing formula. Maybe twenty more minutes, and then I can get back to my test samples.
My stomach rumbles in protest, reminding me that I skipped dinner. I really want that stupid chocolate bar. But since I just used my last quarters, my only hope is that one of the security guards upstairs has change for a ten.
I turn away from the vending machine alcove and start back around the corner to grab my wallet from the lab.
Right before I make the turn, I hear hurried footsteps. Not wanting a repeat of last week's collision with Dr. Harwood-my favorite jeans still smell like sulfur-I hang back a step.
But the boy who rushes around the corner looks nothing like the balding, old scientist who works nearly as many late nights as I do.
No, this guy is tall and lean, but not too skinny. He's got major biceps and I can see the outline of some pretty impressive muscles beneath his shirt. Yum. He's probably about my age or a little older, eighteen or nineteen maybe. And everything about him is shrouded in black-his tee and jeans, his heavy-duty boots, his shoulder-length hair-everything but his eyes.
If we weren't in superhero central, I'd say he looks like a stereotypical villain.
You'd think with all that darkness, he'd be nothing more than shadow. But he's all angles: his cheekbones, his jaw, even the collarbones I can see peeking out from the low neckline of his tee. Light seems to reflect off him like moon glow at midnight. Surrounded by all that sculpted darkness, his icy blue irises burn like the hottest flames.
Our gazes collide, and though I know it's vain, I instantly wish my hair wasn't pulled back in a messy braid and that I was wearing something-anything-more appealing than my dad's ratty old 1996 Stanley Cup Champions tee.
Hot guys in the underground lab are few and far between-Who am I kidding? Hot guys in my life are few and far between-so most of my wardrobe choices involve comfort and whether I mind if the garment gets ruined by acid, dye, or any of a million other compounds we work with every day.
If my best friend, Rebel, were here, she'd be doing an I-told-you-so dance because she's been wanting to give me a makeover forever. That, and she'd already have his number and email address, and they'd be making plans for their date this weekend. Me, I can't even manage a simple "hello."
The fact that he's scowling at me, those dark brows slashing low over those bright eyes, isn't helping anything.
"The lab is supposed to be empty," he says.
His voice is flat, but his comment almost feels like an accusation.
"I'm working late," I answer, trying not to sound defensive. "What are you doing here?"
He lifts an eyebrow. "You're working in the hall?"
"I needed a break to come get chocolate," I say, gesturing at the vending machine behind me.
He nods down at my empty hands. "You don't have any chocolate."
"That thing hates me. Took my money and kept the candy bar."
In a graceful movement that looks almost choreographed, Dark-and-Scowly steps around me and up to the greedy machine. He presses his palms to the glass, just like I did. Hey, maybe he has the power to reach through glass. After all, around here pretty much everyone but me has some kind of super ability.
When his hands don't immediately sink through the surface, I say, "I tried smacking it already. Didn't work."
Moving his hands closer to the edge, he curls his fingers around the frame. Then, with his boots braced on the floor, he gives the whole machine a solid shove. The heavy hunk of metal rocks back once, then comes forward, its front legs hitting the tile floor with a sharp thud. On impact, the chocolate bar sails against the glass before falling into the trough below.
He turns to face me, a cocky smile twisting one side of his mouth. "Takes a special touch."
I duck down and reach through the hinged door to grab the candy bar.
"You're my hero," I joke.
I stand up, chocolate clutched safely in my hand. There's an awkward silence that stretches into uncomfortable territory. When I can't take it anymore, I wag the candy and say, "Well, thanks."
I start to walk around him, to head back to the lab, when he steps into my path.
"So, what boring work do you have to take breaks from?"
I try to sound casual, like I'm not eager to keep talking to him. "I'm transcribing notes in the manipulation lab."
As I point down the same hall he came from, he turns his head to follow the direction of my gesture. I automatically check for the mark of the League beneath his right ear. If it's there, I can't see it behind his hair. He could be a hero. Or he could be an ordinary, just like me.
Suddenly self-conscious, I tug a piece of hair forward to cover my unmarked skin.
When he looks at me again, his scowl is back in place and even deeper.
He asks, "You're working in Dr. Swift's lab?"
"She's my mom. I'm helping her out." I shrug. "There are worse summer jobs."
He gaze skims over me. "You're Kenna Swift?"
And that's the end of that.
My mom is famous in hero circles. She's developed more than a dozen different formulas for the superhero world, from sprays that thaw victims of freeze rays to supplements that keep thought-readers out of someone's mind. She's earned the League Medal of Valor three times. And those were just for the inventions they know about. She's their very own Einstein, Edison, and Jobs rolled into one.
The only thing I'm famous for is being the powerless daughter of a superhero. My dad was one of the best of the best. And I'm...nothing.
I shift my weight, wanting to redirect the conversation away from me. "You never answered my question. What are you doing down here so late?"
Those bright blue eyes sear into me as he takes a step back. "I have to go."
His sudden evasiveness makes me suspicious, so when he starts to move past me, I sidestep into his path. "Excuse me," I say, "but this is a secure level. Are you even authorized to be down here?"
"My dad," he says, scowling at me. "He's a security guard."
A security guard? The facility might be so big that I can't keep track of everyone who works in every lab, but I know all the guards by name. Especially the night guards, since I'm usually the last one here.
Travis and Luther are on duty tonight. Travis and his wife just had their first baby, a girl named Tia. Luther is old enough to be my great-grandfather and he never married.
I take half a step back as my suspicions turn to concern. "Who's your dad?" I demand.
This guy definitely has the look of a villain.
What if he really is one?
He glances nervously over his shoulder. "He's-"
I shake my head and start to walk away before he can finish the lie.
He reaches for me, but I shrug him off. My heart is beating way too fast. This could go way bad, way quick.
"Please, just listen." He waits until I'm looking him in the eye before he continues. "You know me," he says, his voice taking on this weird, hypnotic tone. "We've met before."
Suddenly, the floor beneath my feet shudders violently, knocking me off balance. I lurch forward into Dark-and-Scowly's arms. He catches me, grabs my upper arms, just as a concussion wave of air and sound hits us.
That sounded-and felt-like a bomb went off in the lab. If we weren't a hundred feet underground and shielded by every protection science and superheroes can create, I'd think the supervillain Quake had struck. But that's impossible.
Then again, impossible doesn't always apply in the superhero world. After all, impossible didn't keep Dark-and-Scowly from being where he doesn't belong.
Suddenly, every alarm in the facility blares. I freak. The lab! All that research-Mom's and mine-is priceless. The superhero blood samples alone are more valuable than anything else in the building.
Panic overrides judgment and I push away, but his grip only tightens. The jerk. A little super strength would be really useful right now.
"You can't go in there."
"Who are you?" I demand, struggling to get out of his grasp. If he really is a villain, I don't want him near me or this lab. Not with what villains are capable of. "What have you done?"
He doesn't answer. More pissed than ever, I fake left and pull right. He follows my fake-out, and as his hair swings with the momentum, I see the mark I'd been looking for earlier. Not under his right ear like the superheroes. Under his left.
"You're a villain." It's not a question. I struggle harder. "What did you do? Let me go!"
"Don't!" he shouts above the roaring sirens. "If you go in there, you could get hurt. They're upset-"
I might not have superpowers, but I know how to knee a guy in the nuts. Before he can finish his sentence, he's doubled over, gasping for breath. I dash for the corner, but I don't get two steps before his hand clamps around my elbow.
"No, Kenna, you can't!" he shouts. "Trust me. If you-"
Anger overwhelms me. I've spent my whole life running from villains-from what they've done to my family. From what they might do to me. And I'm sick of it. I'm fed up with the whole steer-clear-of-anything-remotely-dangerous thing my mom's had me doing for so long.
Just because I don't have a power doesn't mean I'm powerless.
I turn on him with a furious growl and, using the karate-chop technique Rebel taught me, land a solid hit to the side of his neck. He releases me and I wrench open the door to the janitor's closet, use my entire body weight to shove him inside, then slam the door in his stunned face.
Holding the door handle with one hand, I use my other to dig out my security badge. I run it over the reader pad until I hear the lock engage. I leave him pounding against the door.
Who's the helpless ordinary now?
I sprint down the hall and around the corner to find the area outside the lab full of smoke. I hold my arm up to my face, covering my mouth with my sleeve as I look around.
The windows that line the wall between the lab and the hall have shattered, covering the floor with a million shards of safety glass. No ordinary bomb could have done that. Whoever that v-bag in the closet is, he obviously has help. There's another villain here. One with some kind of explosive power.
For a moment, fear paralyzes me. A villain like that killed my father, used his evil power to blow Dad up right in front of me. That same villain would have killed me if the heroes hadn't come along and stopped him. I was only four, but I remember watching my dad die. One moment he was yelling for me to run. And the next he was gone, nothing more than scorch marks on the tile.
Rage rips through me at the memory, burning away the last of my fear and sending me careening straight toward the lab. Villains have already taken my father from me. No way are they getting their disgusting paws on my mother's lab-and my research-too. Between the smoke and the strobe lights from the fire alarms, the lab looks like a better-lit version of the club Rebel always wants to go to. Or a designated disaster area.
Through the haze, I pull open the door. I know every inch of the lab by heart. Even smoke-blind, I can find my way to the emergency ventilation button.
Weaving around stools and counters, I hurry along the front edge of the room. Seconds later my stomach connects with the counter that lines the far wall. I lean forward, tracing my fingers up the tile until I feel the big, red button.
I smack my palm against the plastic. A whooshing sound fills the lab, so powerful it almost drowns out the alarm sirens. Faster than I expect, smoke gets sucked up and out of the room through the massive vent in the middle of the ceiling. As the haze dissipates, the shadow of a figure emerges. A man stands in the back corner of the lab, facing the vault.
And the door is wide open.
I'm too late. I've failed.
"No," I whisper, terrified at what the villains might get their hands on.
I have to find a way to warn the League. Right now. The system automatically sends alerts, but there have been a number of false alarms lately. I don't want them to dismiss this as another one.
I glance around wildly and see my cell phone charging on the other side of the lab.
Using the counter to push off, I launch myself into a sprint. Only I don't take into account the stool I had pulled into the center of the room while working on the transcription earlier. I crash into it and send myself stumbling into the nearest lab table.
"What have we here?" a sneering voice asks with a crisp British accent.
I turn to the guy standing in front of the vault. Like Dark-and-Scowly, he's dressed in all black. Must be the standard-issue villain uniform these days. Except that his shock of red hair-which is currently standing on end-and the look of surprise on his face make him seem more startled-matchstick than villain-capable-of-blowing-up-the-vault.
That is, until he narrows his eyes at Dark-and-Scowly, who has somehow appeared in the blown-out doorway. I have a moment to wonder how the hell he got out of the janitor's closet before Matchstick hisses, "I thought you were supposed to take care of problems like this."
"I am," Dark-and-Scowly answers. "I've got everything under control."
The other guy snorts. "Don't look like it to me."
I cut off that train of thought before it can go anywhere. I'm not that helpless little girl anymore, and anyone who thinks otherwise is going to be in for a big shock.
"Leave now," I tell them. "Before it's too late."
Matchstick starts toward me. "Why is that, sweetheart?"
"The guards are coming." I steel myself for whatever comes next. "Their response time is less than thirty seconds."
He starts laughing before I finish. Smirking, he says, "Your guards aren't coming. Aren't even in the building." He steps into the center aisle. "They took an unexpected vacation."
I don't want to believe him-he's a villain, after all-but the cockiness in his tone tells me that, at the very least, he believes the guards are gone. Besides, it's been at least thirty seconds since the alarms started blaring. Help should be here by now.
Which means I'm on my own.
Calling the League is the only option.
I try not to think just how badly a confrontation with two villains can go as I glance at my phone, still twenty feet away, and then back at the redheaded villain. His eyes flick to the counter, and when his gaze returns to me, he's shaking his head. He can't have missed my hot-pink case against the stainless-steel countertop.
Matchstick spreads his arms wide, his fingers stretched to maximum breadth, and his palms begin to glow. And I stop breathing.
This isn't going to be good.
Powerless 4.4 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 9 reviews.
Very good and exiting. I liked the romance VERY much. The characters had a depth that I liked. Reccomend to all who love action or fantasy/superheroes.
Powerless by Tera Lynn Childs & Tracy Deebs is the 1st book in their new YA Hero Agenda series. When I read the description of the book, it appealed to me and I decided to read it. WOW I am glad I did. I really enjoyed Powerless, as it was exciting and a fun read. It is a YA story, in a world of Superheroes and Villains, and a perfectly fun book for adults We meet Kenna Swift, our heroine, as she is working late in her mother's lab. Kenna feels inferior, as she is powerless, which is rare, as she comes from a strong family. Her mother is a renowned scientist and her deceased father was a powerful super hero. Kenna has been taught to hate and fear powerful villains. While working late night at the lab, she hears a noise and before she can do anything 3 of those feared Villains are in the lab. They tell her that they mean no harm, they are trying to find one of the villains brother, who they claim is being tortured by the super-heroes. Kenna does not believe them, and stands up to the three Villians. She turns out to be a tough, sassy, fearless heroine, even if she is powerless. The three men escape when Kenna manages to sound off the alarms. Kenna begins to suspect something is not what she believes, and accidently finds the young man who is missing being tortured. What will follow is an exciting adventure, where Kenna will meet up again with the three young men, as well as her best friend, Rebel and an ex boyfriend, who is a tech geek. Together they try to beat the odds in fighting the unknown superheroes who may just be the villains after all. Kenna will begin to see that not all the good guys are truly good, and not all Villains are bad. The last 1/3 of the book was a hold on to the edge of your seat exciting climax, with many surprises and twists. There was also a budding romance that was developing between Kenna and Draven, one of the Villains. This did not go too far, but I expect more from this couple in the future books. Powerless was a fun and exciting story, which I feel all ages would enjoy. This is the start of a wonderful collaboration between Tera Lynn Childs & Tracy Deebs. I cannot wait for the next book in this series.
Superheroes. The only word I needed to hear to want to pick up this book. I love books about superheroes. There is something so fascinating and elusive about a great superhero novel, so different from comics and movies. I can count on one hand the superhero books I've really enjoyed. Well, Powerless pulls off the superhero theme pretty well. Kenna is a great heroine- she is clever and used to standing up for herself in a world of men and women who are much stronger, faster and generally better at reading minds than she is. But Kenna does have one trick up her sleeve - she is immune to superpowers. Which comes in pretty handy when a group of villains break into the top-secret hero lab and demand information. But there is one other complication - the villains don't seem all that villainous. Secrets are exposed. Things are blown up. People are kidnapped. Kenna is going to quickly learn that there is a whole lot more to her world than she thought. While this was a fun read, I was left with a few unanswered questions about the hero and villain world. For example, do humans know superheroes exist? This was never explained clearly, but perhaps this will be expanded upon in the next book. Also, the very absolute and almost stereotypical divide between heroes and villains seemed a little unexplained. This too, I'm guessing, will be explored in the following book. Overall, a fun read. The publishers provided a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.


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her, but the Bothan's violet eyes were turned toward Karrde. Setting her teeth, Leia focused on the board behind him and reached out with the Force : and without even a click the intercom was on. Another effort and the comm was, too. "I don't understand," she said to Karrde. "What other priorities could Councilor Fey'lya have?"
"It's simple enough," Karrde said. "Councilor Fey'lya is motivated solely by his own political survival. He's running away from the fight because he's put his most ardent supporters aboard this ship and he can't afford to lose any of them."
Leia blinked. "He's what? But I thought-"
"That this was the normal crew of the Quenfis?"
Karrde shook his head. "Not at all. The captain and senior officers are all that remain, and they were mostly on his side in the first place. That's why Fey'lya wanted a few hours before leaving Coruscant: so that he could shift duty assignments around and make sure everyone aboard was fully loyal to him." He smiled thinly. "Not that any of them realized that, of course. They were given the impression that it was a special security arrangement."
Leia nodded, feeling cold all over. So it wasn't just the captain. The entire ship was on Fey'lya's side.
Which meant it was over, and she had lost. Even if she was somehow able to take out Fey'lya himself she had lost.
"So you can imagine," Karrde went on off handedly, "how reluctant Fey'lya is to risk losing any of them over anything so outmoded as loyalty to one's comrades. Especially after having worked so hard to convince them of how much he cared for the average fighting man."
Leia threw Karrde a sharp look, suddenly seeing where he was going with this. "Is that true, Councilor?" she asked Fey'lya, putting disbelief in her voice. "All this talk about being