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Daily News Roundup: Wednesday 5th December 2018
Posted: 5th December 2018
Norway-style deal will not work for City
The Bank of England governor Mark Carney and his deputy Jon Cunliffe have warned that the City could become a "rule taker" if it adopted a Norway-style deal. Speaking in front of the Treasury Select Committee, Mr Cunliffe said: "I think our financial sector is about 20 times bigger than Norway's. It's much more connected internationally, it's much more complex? I think for a financial sector this large, this complicated, it would be as the governor says, quite uncomfortable." Mr Carney added that would be highly undesirable to be a rule taker and to lose supervisory autonomy for any long period of time. Mr Carney also dismissed criticism of his decision to report on a worst-case Brexit scenario as "entirely unfair". He was speaking as the former governor of the Bank of England, Lord King of Lothbury, said Mr Carney's analysis was "not plausible" and he compared it to the "Project Fear" campaign before the EU referendum. Lord King also said Theresa May's Brexit deal was a "betrayal of Britain" and a "result of incompetence of a high order" that should now be voted down by MPs.
Tech giants pose threat to banks
Agustin Carstens, the head of the Bank for International Settlements, has said that internet and big data giants such as Amazon and Alipay pose an existential threat to traditional banks. Carstens argued that the huge amounts of data that big internet companies gather on their customers meant they potentially have advantages over established banks. He explained that the tech firms may have better information on customers' spending and lifestyles, which might make it easier to judge the risks of providing a loan.
Rates for first-time buyers at record low
Banks are currently offering the lowest mortgage rates since records began, thanks to competition among lenders, making it easier for first-time buyers to get on the property ladder. According to the latest Bank of England figures, two-year mortgages now come with an average interest rate of 3.33%, down from 4.02% a year ago, while for five-year mortgages, the average rate was 3.89% at the end of October, compared with 4.71% in the same month the previous year.
Banks need to look at ways to share costs
Katherine Griffiths in the Times suggests that banks needs to collaborate more in order to save costs. One idea, she poses, is that banks could share the findings, and associated costs, on extensive money-laundering checks on individuals and small businesses when they take them on. Griffiths adds, however, that banks need to think hard about whether to work together. She says it is possible that pooling resources in areas ranging from taking on customers to back-office functions could lead to more commonality over pricing or products.
Sweden will be cashless society within five years
Cecilia Skingsley, the deputy governor of the Swedish central bank, has said that Sweden is likely to become a cashless society within the next five years. She said that physical cash would not be banned, but so few people and firms were likely to need to use it beyond that timeframe that it would become practically useless.
German criminal probe zeroes in on tiny unit sold by Deutsche Bank
The FT reports that the Deutsche Bank business being investigated in a money laundering probe is a barely profitable Virgin Islands-based unit which was put up for sale in 2016.
Former official embroiled in 1MDB scandal
A former justice department employee has admitted conspiring to deceive banks about millions of dollars in lobbying funds linked to the US investigation into the 1MDB scandal. George Higginbotham is said to have been hired to help to transfer tens of millions of dollars from foreign banks to the US.
Privatbank faces £7m legal bill
Privatbank, Ukraine's largest bank, is facing a £7m legal bill after the High Court ruled that its billion-pound battle against its former oligarch owners - Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov – cannot be decided in London. The bank has claimed that fraud under its former owners - who deny any wrongdoing - resulted in a loss of around $5.5bn (£4.2bn) before it was nationalised in December 2016.
Wells Fargo to miss estimates
Wells Fargo has warned that the firm's net interest income (NII) would be lower than analysts have predicted. CEO Tim Sloan said NII will be flat compared with the previous three months, when the bank collected $12.6bn (£9.9bn) in interest.
Toyota warns MPs over hard Brexit
Toyota has warned that a no-deal Brexit would be "disastrous" for UK car making. Its European deputy managing director Tony Walker told the Commons' Business Select Committee that a hard Brexit could cost the firm around £10m a day and that Theresa May's draft withdrawal agreement was preferable to the previous confusion: "To say because it is not perfect we should go back to square one is not understandable to us as business people," he said.
Audi makes bumper electric and self-driving fleet pledge
German carmaker Audi will invest £12.5bn in electric mobility and autonomous cars over the next five years. Investments will also be made in property, plants and equipment, as the company plans to increase its research and development expenditure.
UK construction firms point to tentative recovery in November
The UK construction industry continues to expand, according to IHS Markit's construction managers purchasing index, which rose to 53.4 in November from 53.2 the prior month, despite Brexit uncertainty complaints.
More savers seeking help from watchdogs
Over 173,000 people visited the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) ScamSmart website between August and October - one every 27 seconds - with pension fraud victims losing an average of £91,000 each last year. The FCA and The Pensions Regulator, which launched a joint campaign in the summer, have reported ever increasing numbers of complaints about scammers.
New EU regulations hitting IG
Spreadbetter IG Group is anticipating a revenue hit of 6% for the first half of the year, following new European rules restricting the provision of contracts for difference (CFDs) to retail clients. Revenue within the Esma region (UK and EU) is expected to be 20% lower than the same period last year.
'London Blue' hacker group targets chief financial officers
A hacking group called London Blue has targeted 35,000 CFOs with bogus requests for money transfers. The FBI warned in July that the scam had cost companies $12bn since 2013.
Thomas Cook shares still falling
Thomas Cook's shares have now fallen by nearly 60% in eight days after it last week issued a second profit warning in two months. By late Tuesday morning, the firm's equity market value had fallen to £363m, placing it on course to be demoted from the FTSE 250 mid-cap share index.
Thomson Reuters to cut jobs
As part of a plan to streamline the business and reduce costs, Thomson Reuters has said it will cut its workforce by 12% in the next two years, cutting 3,200 jobs. Co-chief operating officer Neil Masterson told investors staff had already been informed about 90% of the planned cuts. Thomson Reuters is aiming to grow its annual sales by at least 3.5% by 2020.
Sorrell acquires Mighty Hive
Sir Martin Sorrell has made his second acquisition since leaving WPP, with his purchase of US tech-based advertising firm Mighty Hive for $150m (£118m).
Wickes sale under discussion
Wickes DIY could be sold by owner Travis Perkins as part of the builders merchant's plans to focus on trade customers in an overhaul of the company which also includes a sale of its plumbing and heating division. Travis Perkins said that it is executing a "significant cost reduction programme" at Wickes while also "looking to review the options for maximising the value of Wickes in the medium term."
Firms yet to prepare for Brexit
The Bank of England's (BoE) regional agents survey has found that the majority of companies have made no changes to their business plans ahead of Brexit. The BoE asked 369 companies in October and November whether they had made changes to their supply chains, set up new legal entities or relocated office ahead of a no-deal scenario or a transition deal, but less than a third had made any move. Aerospace and car manufacturing firms were among the most concerned about how their business models would be affected, due to international supply chains. The report also found that businesses expect their output to fall by 7% if Britain crashes out of the EU, but will rise by almost 3% if a deal can be agreed.
One in five forced to borrow for Xmas
A new report from financial app Curve has found that one in five people will be forced to borrow from friends and family to fund Christmas. Financial pressures mean a further one in five will have to take out a bank loan.
Health and wealth biggest concern for retirees
Health and wealth top the list of biggest concerns for retirement, according to a study by Hargreaves Lansdown. The research found that people aged over 55 are most worried about not having enough money, becoming ill and losing mental capacity.
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The play Happy Warriors tells the remarkable true story of writer Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill - son of Winston - finding themselves locked in a farmhouse in the second world war.
The piece itself also has a remarkable story, in that it was written by debut playwright James Hugh Macdonald, who is 91 years old.
You can see Happy Warriors, upstairs at the Gatehouse theatre in Highgate until 22nd April.


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'Want to live in a war zone?' California homeowners face ruin after wildfires
Trevor Hughes
PARADISE, Calif. – Thousands of wildfire-weary Californians face financially and emotionally difficult years ahead as they begin rebuilding their homes and communities destroyed by the rampaging flames.
In Northern California where the Camp Fire still burns, 6,543 homes have been destroyed, along with hundreds of businesses. Near Malibu, the Woolsey Fire has destroyed about 370 structures.
Most evacuees have no idea how their homes fared because evacuation orders keep the public from the dangerous conditions caused by the Camp and Woolsey fires. Though a few people know – including actor Gerard Butler and singer Robin Thicke – most evacuees are stuck waiting for information, begging reporters for updates and trying to finagle their way past road closures.
Matt McNeill, 53, knows his house is gone. It burned down in Paradise as he desperately fled in his car, scooping up neighbors on the way. He has homeowner's insurance but isn't sure he'll rebuild.
A general contractor, McNeill has been building homes in Paradise since 1990. He faces the thought of returning to a community vastly different from the one he fled.
The commercial district lies in ruins, dozens of business and municipal facilities destroyed by the fire. Thousands of burned trees will have to be cut down for safety, changing how Paradise looks for years to come.
"Would you want to live in a war zone for a decade or more?" McNeill said by text. "But then, our kids grew up there – great, great memories, beautiful people. Not really sure where life is headed now. Have to really think about that one."
Authorities have not begun notifying McNeill's neighbors about how their homes fared, in part because firefighters are trying to control the Paradise and Woolsey fires. Sending in ground-based survey teams remains too dangerous.
From thousands of feet in the sky, specialists working for the nation's insurance companies take photos that building inspectors, assessors and firefighters can use to help inform the public.
"Underneath that smoke are people's lives that have come unraveled," said Jim Schweitzer, senior vice president and chief operating officer of the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
The bureau works with insurance companies across the country to fight insurance-related fraud and crime, including vehicle thefts, but also to combat disaster-related fraud. In some cases, unscrupulous contractors perform shoddy work or conspire to get insurance companies to pay for extra work not caused by a disaster, which can bring felony charges and void a homeowner's coverage.
The stakes are high in the fires, which threaten nearly 50,000 homes valued at about $18 billion, according to property data company CoreLogic. The value of the destroyed homes has not been compiled because authorities don't have a complete assessment of the damage.
The insurance bureau partnered with imaging company Vexcel Imaging to create the Geospatial Intelligence Center, a not-for-profit initiative of the bureau funded by a consortium of insurers. Technicians take high-resolution aerial imagery of disaster areas with $1.5 million Vexcel cameras shooting out the bottom of airplanes.
A little more than a year old, the GIC's Colorado-based teams have deployed to numerous natural disasters across the country, most recently to the East Coast to image the damage left by Hurricanes Michael and Florence. They fly over the Paradise and Woolsey fires.
The GIC mission includes mapping virtually every home and building in the country, providing insurers with "before" photos to compare with post-disaster imagery.
The searchable database of photos is initially available only to first responders, recovery agencies and member insurers but will be made public shortly.
"Like it or not, it's a confirmation. That alone can go a long way to beginning the recovery process," Schweitzer said. "The uncertainty is gone, and you can move forward."
In addition to helping insurers fight fraud, the photos allow them to reach out directly to their policyholders to help them with temporary housing and living expenses even before victims have a chance to check on their homes in person, Schweitzer said.
For many people who lost their homes, the journey to recovery is just beginning. McNeill said he has been overwhelmed by the generosity of strangers, who gave his family clothes and even a bike for his grandson. His family is adjusting to the loss, he said: "You think, 'I don't have that anymore.' (But it's) the little things that get you through. Gonna smile our way through it."
More:'Unprecedented' Camp Fire's death toll hits record 42 and is likely to rise
More:California's fire dilemma: Rebuild knowing homes will burn again?
More:One man's desperate search for his grandparents missing in California's deadliest wildfire
For others, the routine of work provides some level of normality, even amid the devastation. Butte County sheriff's Deputy Brian Evans, 42, is still on the job even though his house burned down before he could grab anything from it. Wearing his uniform, which is pretty much the only clothing he owns, Evans spent the weekend helping search for missing neighbors and friends.
Rebuilding Paradise won't be easy, he said as smoke rose from the ruins. His son's school burned down, their neighbors all lost their houses, and dozens of the people he served died in the fire.
Disasters such as the Paradise and Woolsey fires inevitably change the face of a community for decades. Some evacuees will never return. Some homeowners will choose to rebuild elsewhere. Small businesses may go under, and employment may be hard to come by for the thousands of people whose cars were destroyed. Evans said he's committed to seeing it through. This is his home, after all.
"It will take a while," he said. "But it will get better. It always does."

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For the past few years, the Coleman Heritage Center in Gurteen, Sligo, has been busy producing collections of archival recordings. This one, the newest, is a little unusual as, instead of consisting of a collection of mostly private recordings by different musicians and from different time periods, it is a re-release of two commercial LPs produced in the late 1970s by the US label Shanachie, John Vesey's "The First Month of Spring," and Eddie Cahill's "Ah! Surely." Although it would have been nice to hear those two master musicians play together, these were solo LPs, with guitar accompaniment, and the producers of the new release made a point of keeping them separate by making this a 2-CD set. For those who never had a chance to get those classic recordings when they were first out, here's a great opportunity to hear them, with their plusses and minuses--Brady's guitar playing, good technically otherwise, sounds rather odd juxtaposed to Vesey's playing, and Moloney's tends to drag things down on the Cahill album. But this is how it was done then and, a bit like one who listens to 78s must often mentally filter out bad piano accompaniments, this is not reason enough to ignore two great documents of the "Sligo style."


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Australia'Until my last breath, we won't give up': William Tyrrell's foster parents open up on the toddler's disappearance in rare candid interview and reveal their biggest regret
22:03 01 july 2019
22:03 01 july 2019 Source: dailymail.co.uk
New vaccine could give little boy second chance at life
Two-year-old Marko Magic has spent most of his life fighting a rare cancer but with his cheeky laugh and big grin, you'd have no idea. "He loves dinosaurs, puppy dogs, baby goats … he's really playful, social and resilient" said Marko's mum Jelena Magic. Marko was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer, when he was a baby. Surgeons removed a tumour and things were looking up for the Magic family. © A Current Affair Marko Magic has spent most of his life fighting a rare cancer.
William Tyrrell's foster parents have given a rare interview about the missing toddler, five years on from his disappearance.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited William Tyrrell (pictured) vanished without a trace from the front garden of his foster carer's home The boy in the Spiderman suit was three years old when he vanished from his foster grandmother's property on Benaroon Drive in Kendall, on the mid north coast, in September 2014.
His foster parents, who cannot be identified, have shared the torment they have endured since William's disappearance as part of a podcast investigation with 10 News First.
Toddler with severe disability could be deported over healthcare costs
Kayban Jamshad, 2, lives with haemophilia, spastic quadriplegia and seizures but could be sent back to the Maldives where he may not receive the health care he needs to live.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited William Tyrrell's female foster (pictured) has vowed to never give up on the little boy with the infectious smile
The pair, who are still the caregivers for William's older sister, said every day has its challenges as the enduring mystery remains unsolved.
They said it has been particularly difficult watching their foster daughter grow up without her brother.
'We have to watch his sister learn to play and learn to be an only child,' his foster mother said.
Italy arrests 18 for allegedly brainwashing and selling children
Italian police have arrested 18 people including a mayor, doctors and social workers for allegedly brainwashing vulnerable children into thinking their parents had abused them so they could then be sold to foster parents.
Despite more than five years passing since William disappeared, the couple still remain hopeful that he is alive and have vowed to never give up on him.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited William Tyrrell's foster mother (pictured right) describes her desperate search for missing three-year-old to police in never before seen video shot days after his disappearance 'Till my last breath, we will not give up on William,' William's foster dad said.
'We need to know where he is and we know what happened to him, because we can't go on living like this,' his foster mother said.
Axed top cop expected to be grilled at the William Tyrrell inquest over his 'intense interest' in washing machine repairman Bill Spedding
The former lead investigator of the William Tyrrell case will appear as a witness at an inquest into the boy's disappearance, where his methods of investigation will be called into question.
The pair have remained relatively silent throughout the investigation in the hopes of shielding William's sister from the media attention.
William and his sister had been drawing on the veranda of their foster grandmother's home on the day he went missing.
His foster mother and grandmother had been at the property at the time.
Viral video shows lucky catch of falling toddler in Istanbul
A viral video has turned a young man into the hero of the hour in Istanbul after he was seen catching a toddler as she plummeted from a second-floor window.
The three-year-old had become bored of drawing and began playing his own game.
Daddy Tiger was a game the toddler had invented.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Since William's disappearance five years ago, wild theories and rumours about how he vanished quickly emerged, including allegations that blamed his own birth family
He began roaring as he crawled along the grass - imagining he was a tiger.
He had tried to convince his sister to join in but she was happy drawing.
'I heard a roar… he sounded really close,' his foster mother said.
Police hunt for driver after toddler 'hit and run'
The driver may not even know he was involved.
After a couple of minutes he went quiet.
The roaring had stopped and William was gone.
Police searched for nine days in neighbouring houses and surrounding bushland before calling off the hunt, but have scoured other areas nearby Kendall in the years since.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Police search grassland (pictured) near where the boy disappeared as part o the investigation
Police investigators ruled William's devastated foster and biological parents had no involvement in his disappearance.
A coronial inquest into the disappearance and suspected death of William was held in March, where the court heard details about the volume of the neighbour's radio and unfamiliar cars on the street on the day of his disappearance.
The court heard how neighbours searched neighbourhood cubby houses, swimming pools and drains for a sign of the boy, last seen in his favourite Spiderman costume.
The inquest will hold public hearings in August, which are expected to focus on persons of interest in the boy's disappearance.
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Home » Speakers » Igor Barinov Explained Public Sidechain of Ethereum
Igor Barinov Explained Public Sidechain of Ethereum
What is a Stable Chain?
POA Network's tech lead Igor Barinov will make an appearance at Bitcoin Wednesday on 7 August, 2019. POA is a public sidechain of Ethereum that attempts to make it less expensive, faster and easier to run smart contracts. This sidechain relies on a proof-of-authority consensus model which designates a collection of recognized nodes — the authorities — who can create new blocks and secure the blockchain.
The POA team has created Token Bridge, a decentralized application on the POA sidechain, which aims to deliver interoperability between stand-alone blockchains. This feature will allow digital currencies to be transferred from one blockchain to another in a secure and verifiable way. In addition, POA has built the xDai Stable Chain, which they claim is the first US dollar stable blockchain.
During Bitcoin Wednesday Igor will give a demo of the xDai Chain. He writes:
xDai Chain applications will give users fast transactions at very low gas prices. Since the xDai Stable Chain is Ethereum compatible, data assets can be transferred seamlessly to the Ethereum mainnet, giving backend safety and limitless scaling possibilities. This synergy between security, stability, scalability and speed opens the door for many exciting applications and new use cases.
Alongside this stable chain POA Network has also launched the POA Zero Knowledge Fund that offers grants for including zero knowledge proofs in applications that support the xDai Chain. It is their hope that these new services will eventually provide anonymity to users of the xDai Chain.
Igor Barinov is an authority on blockchain scalability who has been working with Ethereum since 2016. He won blockchain hackathons at Consensus, the Texas Bitcoin Conference, BitHack and Distributed Trade and has lived in Russia, Estonia, Singapore, Israel and the United States. Before helping to launch POA Network he helped launch Block Notary, a notarial service built with blockchain technology which generates products that are now recognized as self-authenticating evidence based on the State of Vermont's blockchain application law. He also built the first Know Your Customer application recognized by the state. He has a degree in material science from the Russian State Technological University and also studied computer science at Lomonosov Moscow State University and the University of San Francisco.
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POA Network's tech lead Igor Barinov is an authority on blockchain scalability and interoperability who has been working with Ethereum since 2016. He has helped build one of the world's first stablecoin side chains. He is also involved in the launch of one of the world's first stablecoin sidechains and is a Co-Founder of Block Notary, a notarial service built with blockchain technology.


Congratulations on deciding to get into the real estate market in Massachusetts! This a big step, and like any big life decision, it is important to be prepared. The best way to get acquainted with property sales is to review real estate laws of Massachusetts. With so many legal implications in home sales, this is a critical step that will make the whole process much easier, and safer, as you go along. Once you are familiar and confident in the local laws, choose an area where you will be looking.
Once you have become confident with local real estate laws and chosen a specific area to look in, it is time to get familiar with the market. Every market is different, and each carries a variety of factors from the local economy to real estate specific supply and demand. Get a feel for what your goal market is asking, and be prepared to begin making a budget for your purchase. Keep in mind the various fees associated with real estate transactions. When selling your home, you should prepare to budget about 6% to commission fees or consider listing your home with a for sale by owner resource like beycome to bypass those fees and save money. Being flexible in both finances and timeline will give you the best advantage when entering into a real estate transaction.
Along with commission fees, another area that could eat up your budget is home repairs and upgrades. If buying, keep in mind that this might be an area where you will need to save some of your budget toward future projects. If selling, know that this is an area where, done well, you can greatly increase your home value, and put yourself ahead of the game with some thoughtful upgrades and repairs.
As you are looking over the Massachusetts real estate market, and getting a sense for both the local real estate market and your own budget, it will be important to take into account what type of financing you are eligible for and interested in. Below are the common mortgages available to home buyers.
Lenders will use a variety of factors to determine which of these loans you are qualified for. Things that they take into account include income history, money available toward down payment, savings, and credit score. Having a lender go over these options for you is the first step to pre-approval, which you will need to have before starting the search process. You can also bypass fees by using websites like better.com.
For a simplified process, check out sources like beycome for what you need.
As you get your pre approval processed for a home loan, it would be a good time to start considering what is the most important to you in buying a new home. Perhaps the home itself should have certain specifications, like number of bedrooms or living area size. You might also consider surrounding amenities, like being near a school district of choice or being accessible to shopping.
As for the surrounding area, make sure that you look beyond the house, as well. When you buy a home you are buying into the neighborhood as well. Consider things like the distance between homes, the lot size and what it is adjacent to, nearby parks, or potential noise pollutants like railroad tracks.
Start your search! There are plenty of ways to find homes for sale in Massachusetts. Keep an eye out online, go to open houses, and check local publications for listing alerts. This is the time to get a good feel for what home in Massachusetts for sale are really like, and see how they compare to your plans.
While photos can speak to the basics of what a home is like, it is important to go see homes in person to get a true sense of their state. Photos can easily gloss over issues like cracked foundations, or water leaks. Going to homes in person can either be done by going to open houses, or through setting up private showing at a property.
Have a keen eye when you go in person to look at a house. While you want to make sure it ticks your main boxes, also keep in mind the bones of the home. Check and record any issues with locks, windows, doors, floors, plumbing, water pressure, outlet number and locations, lighting appliances and pests.
If you find a home that you are interested in making an offer on, it is a good idea to look into comparative market analysis to get a feel for how similar homes are valued in your area. Use that guide as a starting point, while also considering details like how quickly the sellers need to move, or even how the season might be affecting the market (Massachusetts snow can really slow down the market in the winter).
When working in a high demand market, there are times that a lender or agent will choose to forgo some contingencies to move the sale along more quickly. Another area to consider in a high demand market is the need to be an attractive buyer to the owners of the home. A personal letter can go a long way in convincing owners that you are the right buyer. Additionally, offering a larger earnest money deposit could always sway them in your favor.
In general, owners are going to be looking for the bid on their home that will move the most quickly, and be the least likely to fall through for any reason. Being more flexible with timelines and contingencies, as well as having a secured loan and earnest money, will put you ahead of the game in case of a bidding war.
Once an offer is accepted, the contract will be processing for a period of time, typically 30-40 days. During this time it is important to stay alert to the contingencies, and keep on top of your credit and payments. A contact will be written up with important dates that you will want to be sure to fulfill in a timely and accurate manner. Some of the elements of the contract will include earnest money, inspection, and insurance purchasing. A closing date will be set where you finalize all of the paperwork with a title company, making you an official Massachusetts homeowner!
Massachusetts is a beautiful state, steeped in history and keeping pace with all the progress of a modern city. Whether you are more of a historical site explorer, or a nightlife aficionado, you will be sure to find something you love.
Harvard Museum of Natural History: Go back in time, long before Boston was settled, and learn about the natural world at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Microbial life to dinosaurs, this museum covers it all.
Whale Watching: Once you've learned about its origins, go see the natural world for yourself! One popular way to get out is to go whale watching with a company like Captain John's, where you can get up close and personal with local marine life.
Cape Cod National Seashore: Prefer sand to sea creatures? No problem! There are miles and miles of beautiful beach to explore at the Cape Cod National Seashore.
Faneuil Hall Market: If you are looking for something more cosmopolitan, be sure not to miss Boston's Faneuil Hall Market. From home goods to happy hour, there is plenty to see and experience in this marketplace of goods, food, and entertainment.
Ward Ski Area: In the winter, head inland to hit the slopes. Ward Skip Area offers tubing, downhill and even has a racing team.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art: Known as MASS MoCA for short, this museum will satisfy any contemporary art lover.
Take a BNB Getaway: All along Nantucket you can find beautiful and historical bed and breakfasts. Book a stay for a long weekend, and enjoy the area when you are being pampered at your lodging.
Old Sturbridge Village: To visit this historic village is to step back to another period. Learn how Massachusetts residents lived in the 1800s, and enjoy the time away from technology.
Fenway Park: Opened in 1912, this historic ballpark is a must see for baseball fans. Go to a game, or take a guided tour.
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Deciding to sell your home is a huge step, and being fully prepared will ensure that you are able to sell your property quickly, making as much money as possible off of the transaction. Consider your budget as you prepare to sell your house. Some things to keep in mind for costs include marketing your home, investing in upgrades to make it more sellable, or fixing repairs that would hinder you from putting it on the market in the first place.
Closing costs are another financial aspect to keep in mind. Massachusetts homes for sale by owner are on the rise, and there are plenty of useful resources online to help you if you go this direction. Selling your home yourself will cut down on the closing and transaction costs that come with home sales.
Since you have already made a budget, you should have an idea of how much money you have available to spend on repairs and upgrades. First, go through your home and make note of all necessary repairs that need to be made. Once everything is running properly, use the information you gathered from looking at comparable homes to decide if there are some upgrades you can invest in to make your property stand out to more buyers.
If you are on the selling end of a residential transaction, it is important to be sure that you have as much information as possible before making your listing public. Do research to be sure that your home is adequately priced for the area to be sure you are attracting the most, and the best, possible buyers. Looking at similar homes in Massachusetts sold in a recent time period (within the last sale quarter), will give you a good idea as to how you can price your own home.
To get an idea of other listings that are for sale by owner, lookup homes that are specifically found by searching "Massachusetts home for sale by owner." Get an idea for the overall market by looking at the average median for home costs in Massachusetts.
As you find homes that look comparable to your property, make a list of their stats and price. It is also a good idea to go see homes in person. Find similar homes to yours that are on the market, and check out their open house. This will give you a much better idea as to how your home holds up to the rest.
While looking at houses that are similar in age, size and location, keep an eye out for any elements that make other homes more appealing than yours. Seeing how others upgrade their homes might give you a sense of some changes that you can make to increase your price and volume of offers.
Once you have made the repairs and upgrades needed to attract potential buyers, it is time to get the word out about your property. There are a lot of ways to market your home from print advertisements to websites. Getting your information online in places like Craigslist will go a long way in letting the local market know that your home is ready to sell.
While many people are active online, it is also important to market your home in other ways. Common options are yard signs, newspaper ads, or fliers. Be sure all relevant contact information is available when you are putting out these ads so that potential buyers can easily reach out to place their offer.
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Your property is a valuable part of the Massachusetts real estate market, and buyers should know that! When you decide to sell a home yourself you cut out the costs associated with have an agent, and make sure that potential buyers know just how unique your property is. Working with a company like beycome ensures you have the tools you need to make this dream a reality, and get the most out of your home sale you can.


The CORE is a Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funded research laboratory at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan) in Kelowna, BC. The CORE dedicates its research to helping individuals achieve a healthy weight and improve their overall health and well-being through behavioural modifications and novel interventions such as Small Changes and ENHANCE. The Centre is directed by Dr. Lesley Lutes along with the co-director Dr. Derrick Wirtz.


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Q: CSS selecting the element located BEFORE another element
Possible Duplicate:
CSS :checked - change  background
Is there a CSS parent selector?

Submenu 3

I need to select this element

Sub-submenu 3

I need to select this element

Sub-sub-sub 1

Sub-sub-sub 2

Basically, I need to select every
 element that is located BEFORE ul element with class="submenu" (ul class="submenu"'s parent)
I need to select this element

A: This is not currently possible with CSS alone. The functionality is currently being specced, but it won't actually be available for public use for quite some time (if ever).
 /* Only matches LIs with a UL.submenu descendant */
 li:has(> ul.submenu) {
  background:red;
 }

Note: The example provided is valid according to the current Editor's Draft, but the syntax may change or the functionality may be removed entirely before browser vendors even begin implementing it.
Originally taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/10436066/526741

A: This is not possible. Your best option would be to use jQuery. That would give you many options to complete this task.
According to the link below it does look like CSS4 will have the ability to specifiy which element you would like.
Is there a CSS parent selector?

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This is for 2 slims which is what you will need.
One slim needed for her boots.
This is for 2 slims for Henrietta's vest.
One slim for the outline of the flowers.
12 Slims with a 12 Slim Special Pricing : This includes: 4 Rose Green Leaves, 4 Avocado Heaven and 4 Olive Elf .
The border for Henrietta using rich Red chocolate.
This is 1/2 yard of each Henrietta's parchment and Henrietta's Parchmnet Lite for a total of 1 yard.
This special package is for Henrietta - Gone West and the hand dyed wool needed to hook her. I based the mounts using a #6 cut. If using a #8 cut you may probably need more for the background and border in particular.


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Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) is the process of generating more revenue, sales or leads from a website or mobile app through structured ongoing user research and onsite testing.
We implement a structured CRO campaign utilising A/B, multivariate and split testing to test hypothesis and changes to the website. This removes any guess-work or risk, giving you a definitive answer on whether you should implement a change on your website.
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Maximising the conversion rate on your website will give you the edge over your competitors. Whereas your competitors will invest in getting more traffic to their website and not think about converting the existing visitors into customers.


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Q: Закрыть модальное окно, если data-success, vanilla-form.js

<button id="myBtn">Получить памятку</button>

        x

            <form action="/standard-contact-form.php" method="post"
                class="vanilla-form3" novalidate="novalidate">

                <input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Ваш email" required>
                <input type="submit" value="Отправить" data-error="Не все заполнено"
                    data-processing="Отправка..." data-success="Спасибо!">

            </form>

При data-success="Спасибо!" нужно, чтобы модальное окно закрывалось

A: Предлагаю такой вариант:

myForm = new VanillaForm(document.querySelector("form.vanilla-form3"));
myForm.successForm = function () {
    // Вызов базовой функции
    VanillaForm.prototype.successForm.call(this);

    // Код для закрытия модального окна.
    // Код ниже лишь пример. В реальном приложении лучше использовать функции плагина модального окна
    document.querySelector('#myModal .close').click()
}


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Breaking news • INSPIRATION • Interiors
MGallery by Sofitel: 10 years of Heritage, Serenity and Signature
Life, literature and culture enthusiasts, rejoice. The collection of high-end hotels, MGallery by Sofitel, where fascinating experiences are lived and shared celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and invites you to join them in all intimacy and serenity to their two Moroccan addresses in Rabat and Essaouira.
https://www.accorhotels.com/2820
The brand, full of history and singular personality, is a collection of boutique hotels. Each MGallery hotel steps into a new adventure – be it a bygone era, a hidden haven or a spectacular natural landscape. Inspired by one of the collection's three atmospheres: "Heritage": the hotels are places that resonate in history, where walls bear witness to the past with historical architectural style, famous people having stayed in the building … "Serenity": treasures hidden in a natural refuge, real haven of relaxation (sea, countryside, mountain) or in town, offering a soothing and well-being services. "Signature": the hotels evoke a trendy aesthetic environment- contemporary architecture or old building with modern decoration.
An identity that is reflected in the offers and services proposed by each of the 90 boutique hotels around the world. Hence these latter are in perfect harmony with the "spirit of the place", initiating guests to various pleasures and discovery.
Elegance and sobriety in Rabat
Le Diwan MGallery in Rabat, which opened in March 2009 as MGallery, is the perfect example. Located in the imperial city's center, close to embassies and ministries, this address is ideal for exploring on foot the typical neighborhoods and monuments of the Capital. With its elegant and sober facade, Le Diwan combines modernity and Moroccan touches to offer a refined, chic and urban stay. Le Diwan, with its Neroli-based olfactive imprint, recalls a contemporary and trendy feel, with a strong personality through unique stylistic signatures such as Jean Baptiste Barian for decoration and Philippe Starck for furniture.
Serenity and escape to Essaouira
Steeped in the history of the city that saw its birth in October 2012 under the brand MGallery, Le Médina Essaouira Hôtel Thalassa sea & spa offers an exclusive experience to its guests. With a unique architecture inspired by both the Moroccan Riad and the maritime ellipse, the hotel combines with a harmony of charm traditional materials and local crafts; purple-red walls, a bright red dye; a central courtyard and an outdoor pool. On the basis of a resolutely modern orientation, the hotel highlights the colorful and exotic atmospheres while remaining true to its Moroccan roots borrowed from calmness and brightness.
MGallery hotels are gateways into another world, whether in terms of customized design, mixology using all senses, or a wellness offer focused specifically on the needs of women. The brand is part of the AccorHotels group, a world leader in the field of travel and lifestyle.
Hôtel Le Diwan – MGallery by Sofitel, Place de l'Unité Africaine, Rabat. Tel: (+212)0530200390
Le Médina Essaouira Hôtel Thalassa sea & spa-MGallery by Sofitel, Avenue Mohamed V, Essaouira. Tel : (+212)0525072526
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The Moroccan national anthem has never sounded so melodic.
Casablanca: Radia Aitouny gets the highest grade 20/20 at the...
After Soumia Daoudi, the 17-year-old Moroccan high school graduate who obtained the highest grade...
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A platform launched for children's rights in Morocco
A platform for the monitoring of child rights indicators has just seen the daylight. It was...
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Gad Elmaleh poses for Hassan Hajjaj in Marrakech
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On on July 8 in Assilah, the Moroccan artist Nabila Maân took the audience of the 41st edition of...


This is a great review! It's nice that you saw so many positives in this book.
Thanks, Ian. It was a very nice read. I hope you enjoyed it, too.
Miss, thanks for including this book, I really liked it.
No problemo! I'm glad you liked it.


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Q: Use nginx Rewrite root url to remove the url directory I have this config which is trying to send all request to /login/ to be served from the php directory /var/www/saml_provider/www/ :
  location ^~ /login/ {
    root /var/www/saml_provider/www/;

    index moo.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /login$is_args$args =404;

    location ~ \.php$ {

        fastcgi_pass presentation-php-fpm:9000;
        include fastcgi_params;

        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
        fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "error_log=/var/log/nginx/php_errors.log";
        fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
    }
}

unfortunately it then expects the files to be at /var/www/saml_provider/www/login/ as root appends the url to the path. How can I rewrite this to remove the /login/ so that the files are found in the correct place? (NB moving files down into login directory is not an option). Thanks

A: You could rewrite /login to /saml_provider/www internally, and hide the latter from external access:
location ^~ /login {
    rewrite ^/login(.*)$ /saml_provider/www$1 last;
}
location ^~ /saml_provider/www {
    internal;

    root /var/www;
    index moo.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /saml_provider/www/index.php$is_args$args;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;

        fastcgi_pass presentation-php-fpm:9000;
        include fastcgi_params;

        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
        fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "error_log=/var/log/nginx/php_errors.log";
        fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
    }
}

It simplifies the rewrite for root problem and avoids the use of an alias. But it does mean that the URI /saml_provider/www is removed from external access, but hopefully it is unlikely to collide with another application on the same server.


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A multi use Touch Screen Kiosk which is great for Digital Signage projects. Deliver vital information to wide audiences in waiting and reception areas. They can provide access to health related information, patient surveys or be used for way finding. The kiosk can provide enough information for many users so they do no not have to speak with the reception team and reduce queuing in your Hospital.


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Viewpoint On Ferguson: People Have To Understand The Other Side
And let's hear now from one member of the Ferguson community. Steve Sullivan runs Provident. It's a network of counseling and crisis centers in the St. Louis area that covers Ferguson. Sullivan wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that things will only get better if people work to understand the other side, whatever that might be. Mr. Sullivan is on the line with us. Thanks for joining us this morning.
STEVE SULLIVAN: Thanks, David, glad to be here.
GREENE: So you've lived in the St. Louis area, including Ferguson, most of your whole life. Is that right?
SULLIVAN: That's right. I spent probably the first 30-plus years of my life in North County Ferguson.
GREENE: And we're seeing these violent images coming from a community that you know so well. As you see this playing out, what do you think about?
SULLIVAN: Well, you know, we don't like how Ferguson looks to the world these days. But I really see some positive energy coming out of this. You know, right now, when we're still in these violent times, we're seeing a lot of finger-pointing, a lot blaming but there is an undertow of positive energy coming out of this that I think will survive for the long term.
GREENE: Tell me how you see that positive energy because, you know, what we see in the television images, it's so difficult to see that as an outsider right now.
SULLIVAN: You know, I'm a member of the Urban League as well. And in the first week following the Michael Brown incident, I spent a day down at Canfield Green with the Urban League, the apartment complex where Michael Brown was shot. And first of all, it was a very loving experience. There was no hate. There was no anger. It was a community coming together even in those days. But as young men came out of the apartments, what we heard was a need for some economic opportunities, for some jobs. And I'll tell you, although this hasn't met the made the headlines nationally, we've got some fine St. Louis companies like Centene that's already announced it's going to start a call center in Ferguson. Emerson Electric has come through with money. Express Scripts is a major U.S. corporation right on the border of Ferguson, and they're all coming to the table to see what they can do to bring jobs into the community. So we're on the right track to healing in those ways, in the economic ways.
GREENE: Let me just ask you about what you wrote in the Post-Dispatch, the St. Louis newspaper. You said people in Ferguson have to work to understand each other, which I hear is you saying right now, that's not happening. So what do you see next in the community?
SULLIVAN: Look, I've got friends on both sides of these issues. And, you know, I know some very dear and loving and kind white folks that I talked to that once they see violence, they just shut it off. They say, that's the end of the story. I'm not even going to talk about this anymore. And it's because people feel uncomfortable. And believe me, in no way am I condoning violence or burning down buildings, but we've got to get past that. I mean, we've got to understand that the violence is there because underlying all this, people are very angry. People are very upset. Now, we can turn that negative energy into positive energy. We can really get somewhere in healing the problems that are kind of underlying this whole last few months in St. Louis.
GREENE: But it sounds like actually being open to conversation is a big part of that.
SULLIVAN: Oh - being uncomfortable in your conversation. You know, going somewhere to sit down and talk to people that you would have never thought about before. I'm really hopeful we can really make this a better place.
GREENE: Steve Sullivan runs Provident. It's a network of counseling centers in the St. Louis area including Ferguson. Mr. Sullivan, thanks very much.
SULLIVAN: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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When I was young, my dad belonged to a film club which used to have "Five Objects" competitions every few months. The filmmakers would be given a list of five completely unrelated objects, and they had to make up a story which included all five things. Each filmmaker had to film their own story, edit it, lay the soundtrack and screen the finished product on the night of the competition.
The objects could be introduced in any order, but they had to be more than just arbitrary set dressing in the background – they had to actually play a part in the story. My dad was a good filmmaker and he had a vivid imagination, so his films always did well in those competitions.
I remember the fun we had making the first one. The objects were:
a pound of sausages
a briefcase
a bunch of keys
a screwdriver
a piece of string.
For days my dad puzzled over scenarios about dogs running off with sausages. Which of our dogs would we use? How could we train it to do something like sausage-stealing and yet prevent this from becoming a habit? And so on.
One morning, one of my dad's work colleagues ranted to him about the wasted evening he and his wife had experienced the night before because an encyclopaedia salesman had come to his house and bored them almost to death about how they needed to invest in their children's future by buying a decent set of encyclopaedia for their home. (Yes, this was the 70s when such things existed.)
This gave my dad the spark he needed and before long he had his story:
Housewife preparing a pound of sausages, putting them into the frying pan and setting it on the stove.
Doorbell rings. She leaves the kitchen and goes to the door.
There is an encyclopaedia salesman on the doorstep. He talks his way in with his briefcase of book examples and his car keys.
Once inside her lounge he doesn't stop talking, impressing upon her how important the books will be to her family, blah, blah.
She tells him she's not interested. He takes a long time to accept this, but finally packs up the books and puts them back into his briefcase.
Unseen by him, he catches the edge of his key-ring in one of the books and the keys go into the briefcase too.
The salesman picks up his briefcase to leave but can't find his keys.
As he searches, the housewife suggests they may be in his briefcase. He tries to open it and realises that he can't because it's locked and the keys must be inside. He's in despair.
She tells him not to worry and leaves the room. She comes back with a screwdriver.
The salesman forces the lock of the briefcase, retrieves his keys with great relief and then realises that he can't shut the briefcase because the lock is broken.
The housewife leaves the room again and comes back with a long piece of thick string. Together they tie the string around the briefcase…
… and that's when she smells the burning sausages and runs from the room in the other direction.
She runs back in, holding a smoking frying pan, and yelling at him. He picks up his briefcase and his keys and runs out the door with the angry housewife in pursuit, still holding the smoking frying pan, trailing smoke behind her.
Sometimes my dad would throw his ideas around and ask us for feedback, and when he had the story ready to film, we would all be on hand to move furniture around, help with finding props, move lights on stands, and even become part of the background if he was filming on a not-busy-enough street (which wasn't necessary with this one).
For this story – which he called "The Salesman" – he had a great cast: the housewife was played by my mother, and the salesman was played by my dad's work colleague, complete with three of the books he had been talked into buying for the future of his children. (He knew exactly how to do the salesman talk because he had been duped by it himself.)
My dog even had a cameo role running up to the gate as the salesman left. (At least we didn't have to teach the dog how to steal sausages.) We used burning rags for the burning sausages and ate the real ones for supper that night.
I know this isn't the place to wax lyrical about how much I loved all of this – living out my own movie-set/backstage fantasies – but long before we reached the actual filming of any of the stories, we had the fun of dreaming up scenarios like this, thinking of ideas to suit other lists of objects. I've been doing this my whole life, really – and I never get tired of it. It finally occurred to me not so long ago that it's a good way to build up a basic story for a novel.
It's always fun to throw a bunch of seemingly unconnected bits and pieces into a crucible of some kind and see what comes out of it. If I look at five basic objects or ingredients for a good story, they would have to be:
an interesting place
a hint of danger
an historical artefact or work of art
the timeframe or deadline of a ticking clock.
Add into the mix two characters each with some kind of desire (and because I write romance they need to later develop a shared desire for each other), and a bad guy with crazy ambitions, and there's bound to be a story worth writing.
I love all these enticing ingredients and the challenge they present. I'm a writer of long, rather than short, stories – I have too much that I want to throw into the pot.
When I look back at all of my successful novels, each one has those five ingredients. Even my historical novella From Daisy with Love (which is a romance but not a mystery), has all of the ingredients – the historical artefact would be the box of written letters and objects for a future generation to find, and the bad guy (although slightly removed) would be Kaiser Wilhelm II who was responsible for the war which changed the lives of all the characters.
However, if I look at my two earlier trunk novels it is now easy for me to see why they didn't work and were never good enough to be published. They are both missing several of the vital ingredients. One day I still mean to re-write both of them but don't hold your breath because newer stories pop into my head all the time.
To those who love reading books written by others: do you recognise any of these five ingredients in your favourite books? I do. Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Forgotten Garden, The Goldfinch, My Brother Michael, The Girl You Left Behind, and so many more, from the Amelia Peabody series right back to some of the Enid Blyton books I used to read as a child.
To any writers reading this: what five ingredients do you consider essential in your novels?
This entry was posted on September 19, 2016, in History, Writing and tagged filmmaker, five objects, Inspiration, storytelling, Writing.	5 Comments
My original intention when I started blogging four years ago, was to share writing tips with other like-minded writers, but there were already many writers doing this, and most of them knew a good deal more about the craft than I did. So instead of adding to the white noise of advice that surrounds writers, I decided to write for my potential readers instead. While some of my followers are writers, most are not.
Among the questions readers ask writers are: where do we get our ideas from, and how do we start writing. Every writer has their own way of answering these questions, and the writing process is not the same for all of us.
Since I am about to embark on writing a new novel, I thought it might be fun to share my unique process with my readers, in real time, as it happens. It takes me ages to write a novel, so please don't hold your breath. Over the next year or so, from time to time I'll let you know where I am in the process and how things change as they meander along the slow path to completion.
When I start a new novel, it's because something in my brain has been triggered by a "what if" scenario. I'll imagine a situation or an action in which something hasn't gone according to plan, and I'll think up possible unexpected after-effects which might open a can of worms worthy of a full-length novel. Very often, the original idea will come to me because I am in a particular place, or because I'm thinking about a place I've been to. To be honest, many places I visit cause me to think, "This would be a good setting for a novel," but not all of them are practical.
In The Epidaurus Inheritance I brought together two great loves of my life: Greece and theatre. The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts, and so it was with this combination. I've had a fascination with ancient Greek theatre since the age of about eight. All my later history of art studies, my drama studies, my first visit to Greece where I watched a performance in the ancient theatre of Epidaurus itself, plus my first two decades of working in the theatre industry all conspired to concoct an adventure that begins and ends in that great historic place.
Benicio's Bequest began when an image jumped into my head one afternoon after tea with a fellow writer. While travelling down in the elevator I had a sudden thought about what I might do if the gentleman next to me in the elevator were to suddenly collapse on the floor with a knife protruding from his chest. (Yeah, I know – you're probably wondering what was in that tea and cake…) As the unsuspecting gentleman left the elevator to walk towards the car park, I decided that a beautiful courtyard would be more a more dramatic setting than a car park.
While driving to work that afternoon I fantasized about a sunny courtyard, preferably somewhere old and steeped in history, possibly in Europe. Spain was my first choice, but I had never been there so I chose Italy instead. Which courtyard? Well, it had to be small, intimate and a finite space with only one exit, so I chose the romantic courtyard in Juliet's house, in Verona. The murder would be a planned hit, and would be done with a gun, not a knife, so the gunman could do his deed from a distance and make his escape. Why not shoot from the balcony itself?
I liked the idea of turning the romantic setting for the world's most famous balcony scene into the scene of a shocking murder. Into my head came the accompanying idea that the heroine who witnesses it is not in a particularly romantic mood because she is there on her own, having called off her wedding. She has, of course, used the planned honeymoon as a solitary holiday because it was too late to get a full refund and she needed to get her head around her own problems. Needless to say, witnessing a murder doesn't exactly help her do that. Or maybe it does? The chain of events that this sets off provides the fodder for the rest of the novel.
My newest novel takes place in Oxford, England – a place I visited and loved many years ago. An old stone house, a partially ruined church next door to it, the grounds of Blenheim Palace beyond the back fence, and the charming pub up the road will all form part of the setting.
At this early stage, even while images of setting and romantic places flit through my brain into half-imagined scenarios, there is only a vague story idea. I know that it will be a romantic story, and there will be some kind of historic mystery to solve, but first I need to find some characters who will suit both the setting and the story that grows around them.
This entry was posted on September 9, 2016, in Writing and tagged Greece, Inspiration, Italy, novel writing, setting, Writing.	16 Comments


The age admission requirements of our local public school boards are followed here at St. Brendan School. Children must be five (5) by October 1st for entrance into our Kindergarten. Our Pre-K programs are for children who will be three or four by October 1st.
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Up a flight of stairs, Antidote's sparse dining area feels far away from the bustling wine bar below, where aficionados can sup and swirl their way through an extensive array of natural and biodynamic bottles. The food is attention-grabbing stuff, driven by carefully sourced ingredients. Our crab and cucumber salad was enriched with a purée of brown crab meat and pointed up with green apples and fluffy cucumber mousse, while silky-soft brill fillet was paired with delectable smoked Jersey royals, before a rich chocolate moelleux hit the decadent high notes. Overall, big flavours make up for decidedly small portions, but we can't help but feel that upstairs misses out on the more convivial fun of the bar area.
If you're tired of London, they say, you're tired of Life. Well, if Antidote can't pick you up before then, nothing will. Walking in downstairs I'm struck by the layout, with the long bar and high stools for casual dining, and an overwhelming sense of calm. It is uncluttered, simple, sleek and looks immensely poised and elegant. Yet it is also very welcoming and relaxed: the waiting staff prop me up at the bar and pour water and then, after a suitable pause, bubbles whilst I wait for my friend. It's one of those places you could happily retreat to for a restorative lunch by yourself and not feel out of place. As it was I was here with a friend and we requested one of the few tables in the shady side passage to which we were duly moved at exactly the right moment ie after letting us catch up with aperitifs at the bar but before we felt abandoned. Pacing of the entire meal is perfect and the staff are there when you need them and gone when you don't. As to the food, we had a very reasonable set lunch menu and, extra points, this looks like it actually changes daily. Mine involved tender scallops, suckling pig and a strawberry dessert, all beautifully presented and perfectly cooked with hints of serious kitchen panache but without any pretension, and yes the bread is also very more-ish. I don't remember what wine we had but it hit the spot and I remember there was plenty of choice to placate even the most organo-phobic of wine buffs. My friend picked up the bill but as he didn't raise his eyebrows I'm sure it was reasonable. Certainly a 3 course set menu for around £25 for this food in this central location strikes me as very good value. It is all extremely assured and assuring. The name begs the question "antidote to what?"; the answer is "life, the universe and everything".
L'Antidote is very 'genuine' and a welcome addition to the Carnaby St. area. The food is solid French bistro fare and quite well executed. The wines served are biological/biodynamic and I guess 'interesting' but very pricey at that. The two things that stand out are the dedicated and friendly service and the very snug ambiance, nice lighting and overall feel-good factor. Not cheap but a good option in this part of town.
The managers helped me to plan the perfect 25 birthday this month! It was a crazy leap as I'd never even eaten there but upon my first visit for an after-work glass, I knew that the team would meat my every need. The service was just as I'd needed, personal, friendly and every accommodation was made. On top of that, my guests could not stop raving about the quality of their food. It was quite authentic, and all very well prepared at a very good price. Forget 5 Star Michelin, Antidote is down to earth, a great place to be, and will please both you and your taste buds! I have a sneaky suspicion, they'll be seeing me again!


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Q: DRY search every page of a site with nokogiri I want to search every page of a site.  My thought is to find all links on a page that stay within the domain, visit them, and repeat.  I'll have to implement measures to not repeat efforts as well.
So it starts very easily:
page = 'http://example.com'
nf = Nokogiri::HTML(open(page))

links = nf.xpath '//a' #find all links on current page

main_links = links.map{|l| l['href'] if l['href'] =~ /^\//}.compact.uniq

"main_links" is now an array of links from the active page that start with "/" (which should be links on the current domain only).
From here I can feed and read those links into similar code above, but I don't know the best way to ensure I don't repeat myself.  I'm thinking I start collecting all the visited links as I visit them:
main_links.each do |ml|
visited_links = [] #new array of what is visted
np = Nokogiri::HTML(open(page + ml)) #load the first main_link
visted_links.push(ml) #push the page we're on
np_links = np.xpath('//a').map{|l| l['href'] if l['href'] =~ /^\//}.compact.uniq #grab all links on this page pointing to the current domain
main_links.push(np_links).compact.uniq #remove duplicates after pushing?
end

I'm still working out this last bit... but does this seem like the proper approach?
Thanks.

A: Others have advised you not to write your own web crawler. I agree with this if performance and robustness are your goals. However, it can be a great learning exercise. You wrote this:

"[…] but I don't know the best way to ensure I don't repeat myself"

Recursion is the key here. Something like the following code:
require 'set'
require 'uri'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

def crawl_site( starting_at, &each_page )
  files = %w[png jpeg jpg gif svg txt js css zip gz]
  starting_uri = URI.parse(starting_at)
  seen_pages = Set.new                      # Keep track of what we've seen

  crawl_page = ->(page_uri) do              # A re-usable mini-function
    unless seen_pages.include?(page_uri)
      seen_pages << page_uri                # Record that we've seen this
      begin
        doc = Nokogiri.HTML(open(page_uri)) # Get the page
        each_page.call(doc,page_uri)        # Yield page and URI to the block

        # Find all the links on the page
        hrefs = doc.css('a[href]').map{ |a| a['href'] }

        # Make these URIs, throwing out problem ones like mailto:
        uris = hrefs.map{ |href| URI.join( page_uri, href ) rescue nil }.compact

        # Pare it down to only those pages that are on the same site
        uris.select!{ |uri| uri.host == starting_uri.host }

        # Throw out links to files (this could be more efficient with regex)
        uris.reject!{ |uri| files.any?{ |ext| uri.path.end_with?(".#{ext}") } }

        # Remove #foo fragments so that sub-page links aren't differentiated
        uris.each{ |uri| uri.fragment = nil }

        # Recursively crawl the child URIs
        uris.each{ |uri| crawl_page.call(uri) }

      rescue OpenURI::HTTPError # Guard against 404s
        warn "Skipping invalid link #{page_uri}"
      end
    end
  end

  crawl_page.call( starting_uri )   # Kick it all off!
end

crawl_site('http://phrogz.net/') do |page,uri|
  # page here is a Nokogiri HTML document
  # uri is a URI instance with the address of the page
  puts uri
end

In short:

*

*Keep track of what pages you've seen using a Set. Do this not by href value, but by the full canonical URI.

*Use URI.join to turn possibly-relative paths into the correct URI with respect to the current page.

*Use recursion to keep crawling every link on every page, but bailing out if you've already seen the page.

A: You are missing some things.
A local reference can start with /, but it can also start with ., .. or even no special character, meaning the link is within the current directory.
JavaScript can also be used as a link, so you'll need to search throughout your document and find tags being used as buttons, then parse out the URL.
This:
links = nf.xpath '//a' #find all links on current page
main_links = links.map{|l| l['href'] if l['href'] =~ /^\//}.compact.uniq

can be better written:
links.search('a[href^="/"]').map{ |a| a['href'] }.uniq

In general, don't do this:
....map{|l| l['href'] if l['href'] =~ /^\//}.compact.uniq

because it is very awkward. The conditional in the map results in nil entries in the resulting array, so don't do that. Use select or reject to reduce the set of links that meet your criteria, and then use map to transform them. In your use here, pre-filtering using ^= in the CSS makes it even easier.
Don't store the links in memory. You'll lose all progress if you crash or stop your code. Instead, at a minimum, use something like a SQLite database on disk as a data-store. Create a "href" field that is unique to avoid repeatedly hitting the same page.
Use Ruby's built-in URI class, or the Addressable gem, to parse and manipulate URLs. They save you work, and will do things the right way when you start encoding/decoding queries and trying to normalize the parameters to check for uniqueness, extracting and manipulating paths, etc.
Many sites use session IDs in the URL query to identify the visitor. That ID can make every link different if you start, then stop, then start again, or if you're not returning the cookies received from the site, so you have to return cookies, and figure out which query parameters are significant, and which are going to throw off your code. Keep the first and throw away the second when you store the links for later parsing.
Use a HTTP client like Typhoeus with Hydra to retrieve multiple pages in parallel, and store them in your database, with a separate process that parses them and feeds the URLs to parse back into the database. This can make a huge difference in your overall processing time.
Honor the site's robots.txt file, and throttle your requests to avoid beating up their server. Nobody likes bandwidth hogs and consuming a significant amount of a site's bandwidth or CPU time without permission is a good way to get noticed then banned. Your site will go to zero throughput at that point.

A: It's a more complicated problem than you seem to realize. Using a library along with Nokogiri is probably the way to go. Unless you're using windows (like me) you might want to look into Anemone.


Africa may have totally embraced civilization, but it has not been able to cut its ties with culture and tradition, especially the barbaric ones. While millions of girls are enjoying the benefits of education around the world, there are still girls suffering because they menstruate.
Menstruation is something every woman pray to witness in her girl, and when it delays there is this panic that is spread around the females of a home. In Ghana, there is a school that requires you to cross a river called River Ofin, before you learn from it. In this river lives a god that can only speak to those who hear it.
This assumed god has given an order that a girl should not cross the river while menstruating, and as a result they have to miss 20 out of 60 days of their school classes. While mothers are struggling to keep their girls in school during their periods, a god from somewhere is thwarting this effort.
The River Ofin, which is a boundary between the Ashanti and Central Region is violating the right of a child girl. Ghana is not the only place where menstruation is considered sacred. In Botswana, menstruation topic is spoken in hushed tones. The elderly women will make sure that the topic is sacred and it is treated as a secret. The topic is something that only women can speak without the men.
There are names for menstruation around the world, and whichever name that you call it, it has not changed the way most men considered women during their periods. Menstruation is often taken as an embarrassment that most ladies will never speak about it. Some little girls may hide it from their mothers for many months until they are caught.
The stigma around menstruation is something that does not give room for a lot of discussion. Most ladies see it as dirt that should never be mentioned in public. The god in River Ofin may not be the only force that does not want to deal with menstruating girls. There are some husbands or partners who stay far away from their wives or girlfriends during this period. Even though, there is no harm staying close to these ladies during their periods, the mere mention of blood can drive most of them insane.
Africa should stand up to their girls. A menstruating girl is not a plague and should not be treated as an outcaste. If we cannot support these little girls during periods and allow them grow with this stereotype, it may be difficult to correct some notions.
It is not only in Ghana that girls are suffering during their periods, there are thousands of places around Africa where girls are confined, treated badly or made to suffer because they are menstruating. It is time to make the world better for these girls.


Photo Guide to the larvae of Dragonflies in North-West Europe. Dragonflies spend most of their life as larvae. As presence of these larvae is a good indicator of water quality, researchers will welcome this identification guide.
'Fotogids Larven van Libellen' is a logical successor to 'Fotogids Larvenhuidjes van Libellen', which allows readers to identify species from their exuviae.
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LOS ANGELES—A Shen Yun Performing Arts performance often leaves its audience members in amazement of its beauty. Such was the case on April 23, when theme park designer Phil Hettema took in a performance at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
New York-based Shen Yun, renowned for its classical Chinese dance, has been wowing people like Mr. Hettema all over the world for a decade. According to its website, the New York-based company is bringing back the once-divine culture that was China's to theater-goers everywhere—except in China itself, where recent communist campaigns like the Cultural Revolution were unleashed to uproot those old beliefs and destroy the culture's treasures as if to erase China's ancient civilization from the annals of history.
Through music and dance, a Shen Yun performance takes its viewers on a journey through 5,000 years of heavenly realms, ancient legends, and heroic tales that made up that rich culture—a culture that's been lost over the last half-century of communist rule in China.
The dancing in particular is what Shen Yun is really known for. It's very rigorous—with tumbling techniques like flips, spins, and leaps—yet at the same time expressive, which allows for storytelling through the dancers' movements.
It's something that's certainly not lost on the audience.
"The quality of the dance, and the beautiful choreography, and the really beautiful staging," said Mr. Hettema, when asked what stood out the most in this performance.
In addition to the dancing, an accompanying orchestra combines the beauty of Chinese music with the power of a Western orchestra to produce one grand sound, while a unique animated backdrop helps Shen Yun tell the story of China's history.


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Did you know: POSTMAN collection for REST API!
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Home > Contents > Online exhibitions > American Civil War (1861-1865)
Title • Introduction • First image • Lightbox • Checklist • Resources • PhV
Directories of American Civil War Photographers
Kelbaugh, Ross J. Directory of Civil War Photographers (Baltimore, MD: Historic Graphics, 1990)
Witham, George F., comp. Catalogue of Civil War Photographers: A Listing of Civil War Photographers' Imprints (Portland, OR: G. F. Witham, 1988)
Mathew Brady
Hobart, George Mathew Brady (London: Macdonald & Co., 1984)
Hoobler, Dorothy, and Hoobler, Thoma. Photographing History: The Career of Mathew Brady (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977)
Horan, James D. Mathew Brady: Historian with a Camera (New York: Crown Publishers, 1955)
Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve, and Kunhardt, Philip B., Jr. Mathew Brady and His World (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1977)
Meredith, Roy Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady (New York: Dover Publications, 1974)
Meredith, Roy Mathew Brady's Portrait of an Era (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1982)
Milhollen, Hirst D. "The Mathew B. Brady Collection." In A Century of Photographs, 1846-1946 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980) pp. 30-37.
Milhollen, Hirst D. "The Brady-Handy Collection." In A Century of Photographs, 1846-1946 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980) pp. 38-50.
George Barnard
Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign. 1866 (Reprint. New York: Dover Publishing, 1977)
Davis, Keith F. George N. Barnard, Photographer of Sherman's Campaign (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1990)
Gardner, Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War (Dover, 1959) [Reprints available: 0486227316]
Katz, D. Mark. Witness to an Era: the Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner (New York: Viking Studio Books, 1991)
Wilson, Joseph M. A Eulogy on the Life and Character of Alexander Gardner (Washington, DC: R. Beresford, 1883)
Timothy O'Sullivan
Horan, James D. Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Forgotten Photographer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1966)
Andrew J. Russell
Russell, Andrew J. Russell's Civil War Photographs (New York: Dover Publishing, 1982)
General material
Davis, William C., ed. The Image of War, 1861-1865 (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1984)
Fralin, Frances. The Indelible Image: Photographs of War - 1846 to the Present (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985)
Frassanito, William A. Gettysburg: A Journey in Time (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974)
Frassanito, William A. Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978)
Frassanito, William A. Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns, 1864-1865 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983)
Lewinski, Jorge. The Camera at War: A History of War Photography from 1848 to the Present Day (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980)
Marder, William, and Marder, Estelle. Anthony: The Man, the Company, the Camera (Plantation, FL: Pine Ridge Publishing Company, 1982)
Miller, Francis Trevelyan. The Photographic History of the Civil War (New York: T. Yoseloff, 1910)
Sweet, Timothy. Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)
Trachtenberg, Alan. Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (New York: Hill & Want, 1989)