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Michael McClure in Victoria, Vancouver, BC
by Splabman | Jan 22, 2011 | Events | 0 comments
Tuesday, February 8 at 6:00pm – February 9 at 11:00pm
Hermann's Jazz Club, Victoria BC
753 View Street
Pacific Rim Review of Books
The Abstract Alchemist of Flesh, Films, February 8th at Merlin's Sun
Reading February 9th at Hermann's Jazz Club
Ekstasis Editions is delighted to announce the forthcoming visit of "beat poet" and award-winning playwright, Michael McClure. Mr. McClure will do a reading from his newest publication Indigo and Saffron: Selected and New Poems (University of California Press) and from the recent book of poems Mysteriosos (New Directio…ns) at 7:30 pm on Wed. February 9 at Hermann's Jazz Club, 753 View Street, Victoria, BC.
At the age of 22, Michael McClure gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. One of the last remaining Beat poets, Michael McClure was closely associated with both Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and appears as the character Pat McLear in Kerouac's novel Big Sur. McClure also served as a poetry mentor to both Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison of 'The Doors' introducing these artists to the work of Rimbaud and Blake. He is featured in Scorcese's film The Last Waltz. McClure's songs include Janis Joplin's beloved Mercedes Benz.
He's also set for an 8pm Feb 11th reading at SFU Harbour Centre… (in Vancouver). He'll screen the film Abstract Alchemist of Flesh Made Real at SFU Burnaby Mountain 2:00p the same day in Library…
McClure at SFU

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Viewpoints | 05 January 2021
The Hazards of Asset Allocation in a Late-stage Major Bubble
By Jeremy Grantham
Jeremy Grantham
Long-Term Investment Strategist, Co-Founder
Mr. Grantham co-founded GMO in 1977 and is a member of GMO's Asset Allocation team, serving as the firm's long-term investment strategist. He is a member of the GMO Board of Directors and has also served on the investment boards of several non-profit organizations. Prior to GMO's founding, Mr. Grantham was co-founder of Batterymarch Financial Management in 1969 where he recommended commercial indexing in 1971, one of several claims to being first. He began his investment career as an economist with Royal Dutch Shell. Mr. Grantham earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Sheffield (U.K.) and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, holds a CBE from the UK and is a recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy.
The long, long bull market since 2009 has finally matured into a fully-fledged epic bubble. Featuring extreme overvaluation, explosive price increases, frenzied issuance, and hysterically speculative investor behavior, I believe this event will be recorded as one of the great bubbles of financial history, right along with the South Sea bubble, 1929, and 2000.
These great bubbles are where fortunes are made and lost – and where investors truly prove their mettle. For positioning a portfolio to avoid the worst pain of a major bubble breaking is likely the most difficult part. Every career incentive in the industry and every fault of individual human psychology will work toward sucking investors in.
But this bubble will burst in due time, no matter how hard the Fed tries to support it, with consequent damaging effects on the economy and on portfolios. Make no mistake – for the majority of investors today, this could very well be the most important event of your investing lives. Speaking as an old student and historian of markets, it is intellectually exciting and terrifying at the same time. It is a privilege to ride through a market like this one more time.
"The one reality that you can never change is that a higher-priced asset will produce a lower return than a lower-priced asset. You can't have your cake and eat it. You can enjoy it now, or you can enjoy it steadily in the distant future, but not both – and the price we pay for having this market go higher and higher is a lower 10-year return from the peak."1
Most of the time, perhaps three-quarters of the time, major asset classes are reasonably priced relative to one another. The correct response is to make modest bets on those assets that measure as being cheaper and hope that the measurements are correct. With reasonable skill at evaluating assets the valuation-based allocator can expect to survive these phases intact with some small outperformance. "Small" because the opportunities themselves are small. If you wanted to be unfriendly you could say that asset allocation in this phase is unlikely to be very important. It would certainly help in these periods if the manager could also add value in the implementation, from the effective selection of countries, sectors, industries, and individual securities as well as major asset classes.
The real trouble with asset allocation, though, is in the remaining times when asset prices move far away from fair value. This is not so bad in bear markets because important bear markets tend to be short and brutal. The initial response of clients is usually to be shocked into inaction during which phase the manager has time to reposition both portfolio and arguments to retain the business. The real problem is in major bull markets that last for years. Long, slow-burning bull markets can spend many years above fair value and even two, three, or four years far above. These events can easily outlast the patience of most clients. And when price rises are very rapid, typically toward the end of a bull market, impatience is followed by anxiety and envy. As I like to say, there is nothing more supremely irritating than watching your neighbors get rich.
How are clients to tell the difference between extreme market behavior and a manager who has lost his way? The usual evidence of talent is past success, but the long cycles of the market are few and far between. Winning two out of two events or three out of three is not as convincing as a larger sample size would be. Even worse the earlier major market breaks are already long gone: 2008, 2000, or 1989 in Japan are practically in the history books. Most of the players will have changed. Certainly, the satisfaction felt by others who eventually won long ago is no solace for current pain experienced by you personally. A simpler way of saying this may be that if Keynes really had said, "The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent," he would have been right.
I am long retired from the job of portfolio management but I am happy to give my opinion here: it is highly probable that we are in a major bubble event in the U.S. market, of the type we typically have every several decades and last had in the late 1990s. It will very probably end badly, although nothing is certain. I will also tell you my definition of success for a bear market call. It is simply that sooner or later there will come a time when an investor is pleased to have been out of the market. That is to say, he will have saved money by being out, and also have reduced risk or volatility on the round trip. This definition of success absolutely does not include precise timing. (Predicting when a bubble breaks is not about valuation. All prior bubble markets have been extremely overvalued, as is this one. Overvaluation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for their bursting.) Calling the week, month, or quarter of the top is all but impossible.
I came fairly close to calling one bull market peak in 2008 and nailed a bear market low in early 2009 when I wrote "Reinvesting When Terrified." That's far more luck than I could hope for even over a 50-year career. Far more typically, I was three years too early in the Japan bubble. We at GMO got entirely out of Japan in 1987, when it was over 40% of the EAFE benchmark and selling at over 40x earnings, against a previous all-time high of 25x. It seemed prudent to exit at the time, but for three years we underperformed painfully as the Japanese market went to 65x earnings on its way to becoming over 60% of the benchmark! But we also stayed completely out for three years after the top and ultimately made good money on the round trip.
Similarly, in late 1997, as the S&P 500 passed its previous 1929 peak of 21x earnings, we rapidly sold down our discretionary U.S. equity positions then watched in horror as the market went to 35x on rising earnings. We lost half our Asset Allocation book of business but in the ensuing decline we much more than made up our losses.
Believe me, I know these are old stories. But they are directly relevant. For this current market event is indeed the same old story. This summer, I said it was likely that we were in the later stages of a bubble, with some doubt created by the unique features of the COVID crash. The single most dependable feature of the late stages of the great bubbles of history has been really crazy investor behavior, especially on the part of individuals. For the first 10 years of this bull market, which is the longest in history, we lacked such wild speculation. But now we have it. In record amounts. My colleagues Ben Inker and John Pease have written about some of these examples of mania in the most recent GMO Quarterly Letter, including Hertz, Kodak, Nikola, and, especially, Tesla. As a Model 3 owner, my personal favorite Tesla tidbit is that its market cap, now over $600 billion, amounts to over $1.25 million per car sold each year versus $9,000 per car for GM. What has 1929 got to equal that? Any of these tidbits could perhaps be dismissed as isolated cases (trust me: they are not), but big-picture metrics look even worse.
The "Buffett indicator," total stock market capitalization to GDP, broke through its all-time-high 2000 record. In 2020, there were 480 IPOs (including an incredible 248 SPACs2) – more new listings than the 406 IPOs in 2000. There are 150 non-micro-cap companies (that is, with market capitalization of over $250 million) that have more than tripled in the year, which is over 3 times as many as any year in the previous decade. The volume of small retail purchases, of less than 10 contracts, of call options on U.S. equities has increased 8-fold compared to 2019, and 2019 was already well above long-run average. Perhaps most troubling of all: Nobel laureate and long-time bear Robert Shiller – who correctly and bravely called the 2000 and 2007 bubbles and who is one of the very few economists I respect – is hedging his bets this time, recently making the point that his legendary CAPE asset-pricing indicator (which suggests stocks are nearly as overpriced as at the 2000 bubble peak) shows less impressive overvaluation when compared to bonds. Bonds, however, are even more spectacularly expensive by historical comparison than stocks. Oh my!
So, I am not at all surprised that since the summer the market has advanced at an accelerating rate and with increasing speculative excesses. It is precisely what you should expect from a late-stage bubble: an accelerating, nearly vertical stage of unknowable length – but typically short. Even if it is short, this stage at the end of a bubble is shockingly painful and full of career risk for bears.
I am doubling down, because as prices move further away from trend, at accelerating speed and with growing speculative fervor, of course my confidence as a market historian increases that this is indeed the late stage of a bubble. A bubble that is beginning to look like a real humdinger.
The strangest feature of this bull market is how unlike every previous great bubble it is in one respect. Previous bubbles have combined accommodative monetary conditions with economic conditions that are perceived at the time, rightly or wrongly, as near perfect, which perfection is extrapolated into the indefinite future. The state of economic excellence of any previous bubble of course did not last long, but if it could have lasted, then the market would justifiably have sold at a huge multiple of book. But today's wounded economy is totally different: only partly recovered, possibly facing a double-dip, probably facing a slowdown, and certainly facing a very high degree of uncertainty. Yet the market is much higher today than it was last fall when the economy looked fine and unemployment was at a historic low. Today the P/E ratio of the market is in the top few percent of the historical range and the economy is in the worst few percent. This is completely without precedent and may even be a better measure of speculative intensity than any SPAC.
This time, more than in any previous bubble, investors are relying on accommodative monetary conditions and zero real rates extrapolated indefinitely. This has in theory a similar effect to assuming peak economic performance forever: it can be used to justify much lower yields on all assets and therefore correspondingly higher asset prices. But neither perfect economic conditions nor perfect financial conditions can last forever, and there's the rub.
All bubbles end with near universal acceptance that the current one will not end yet…because. Because in 1929 the economy had clicked into "a permanently high plateau"; because Greenspan's Fed in 2000 was predicting an enduring improvement in productivity and was pledging its loyalty (or moral hazard) to the stock market; because Bernanke believed in 2006 that "U.S. house prices merely reflect a strong U.S. economy" as he perpetuated the moral hazard: if you win you're on your own, but if you lose you can count on our support. Yellen, and now Powell, maintained this approach. All three of Powell's predecessors claimed that the asset prices they helped inflate in turn aided the economy through the wealth effect. Which effect we all admit is real. But all three avoided claiming credit for the ensuing market breaks that inevitably followed: the equity bust of 2000 and the housing bust of 2008, each replete with the accompanying anti-wealth effect that came when we least needed it, exaggerating the already guaranteed weakness in the economy. This game surely is the ultimate deal with the devil.
Now once again the high prices this time will hold because…interest rates will be kept around nil forever, in the ultimate statement of moral hazard – the asymmetrical market risk we have come to know and depend on. The mantra of late 2020 was that engineered low rates can prevent a decline in asset prices. Forever! But of course, it was a fallacy in 2000 and it is a fallacy now. In the end, moral hazard did not stop the Tech bubble decline, with the NASDAQ falling 82%. Yes, 82%! Nor, in 2008, did it stop U.S. housing prices declining all the way back to trend and below – which in turn guaranteed first, a shocking loss of over eight trillion dollars of perceived value in housing; second, an ensuing weakness in the economy; and third, a broad rise in risk premia and a broad decline in global asset prices (see Exhibit 1). All the promises were in the end worth nothing, except for one; the Fed did what it could to pick up the pieces and help the markets get into stride for the next round of enhanced prices and ensuing decline. And here we are again, waiting for the last dance and, eventually, for the music to stop.
EXHIBIT 1: BUBBLES – GREAT WHILE THEY LAST
Housing bubble as of 11/30/2011, Tech bubble as of 2/28/2003
Source: S&P 500 (Tech bubble); National Association of Realtors, U.S. Census Bureau (Housing bubble)
Nothing in investing perfectly repeats. Certainly not investment bubbles. Each form of irrational exuberance is different; we are just looking for what you might call spiritual similarities. Even now, I know that this market can soar upwards for a few more weeks or even months – it feels like we could be anywhere between July 1999 and February 2000. Which is to say it is entitled to break any day, having checked all the boxes, but could keep roaring upwards for a few months longer. My best guess as to the longest this bubble might survive is the late spring or early summer, coinciding with the broad rollout of the COVID vaccine. At that moment, the most pressing issue facing the world economy will have been solved. Market participants will breathe a sigh of relief, look around, and immediately realize that the economy is still in poor shape, stimulus will shortly be cut back with the end of the COVID crisis, and valuations are absurd. "Buy the rumor, sell the news." But remember that timing the bursting of bubbles has a long history of disappointment.
Even with hindsight, it is seldom easy to point to the pin that burst the bubble. The main reason for this lack of clarity is that the great bull markets did not break when they were presented with a major unexpected negative. Those events, like the portfolio insurance fiasco of 1987, tend to give sharp down legs and quick recoveries. They are in the larger scheme of things unique and technical and are not part of the ebb and flow of the great bubbles. The great bull markets typically turn down when the market conditions are very favorable, just subtly less favorable than they were yesterday. And that is why they are always missed.
Either way, the market is now checking off all the touchy-feely characteristics of a major bubble. The most impressive features are the intensity and enthusiasm of bulls, the breadth of coverage of stocks and the market, and, above all, the rising hostility toward bears. In 1929, to be a bear was to risk physical attack and guarantee character assassination. For us, 1999 was the only experience we have had of clients reacting as if we were deliberately and maliciously depriving them of gains. In comparison, 2008 was nothing. But in the last few months the hostile tone has been rapidly ratcheting up. The irony for bears though is that it's exactly what we want to hear. It's a classic precursor of the ultimate break; together with stocks rising, not for their fundamentals, but simply because they are rising.
Another more measurable feature of a late-stage bull, from the South Sea bubble to the Tech bubble of 1999, has been an acceleration3 of the final leg, which in recent cases has been over 60% in the last 21 months to the peak, a rate well over twice the normal rate of bull market ascents. This time, the U.S. indices have advanced from +69% for the S&P 500 to +100% for the Russell 2000 in just 9 months. Not bad! And there may still be more climbing to come. But it has already met this necessary test of a late-stage bubble.
It is a privilege as a market historian to experience a major stock bubble once again. Japan in 1989, the 2000 Tech bubble, the 2008 housing and mortgage crisis, and now the current bubble – these are the four most significant and gripping investment events of my life. Most of the time in more normal markets you show up for work and do your job. Ho hum. And then, once in a long while, the market spirals away from fair value and reality. Fortunes are made and lost in a hurry and investment advisors have a rare chance to really justify their existence. But, as usual, there is no free lunch. These opportunities to be useful come loaded with career risk.
So, here we are again. I expect once again for my bubble call to meet my modest definition of success: at some future date, whenever that may be, it will have paid for you to have ducked from midsummer of 2020. But few professional or individual investors will have been able to have ducked. The combination of timing uncertainty and rapidly accelerating regret on the part of clients means that the career and business risk of fighting the bubble is too great for large commercial enterprises. They can never put their full weight behind bearish advice even if the P/E goes to 65x as it did in Japan. The nearest any of these giant institutions have ever come to offering fully bearish advice in a bubble was UBS in 1999, whose position was nearly identical to ours at GMO. That is to say, somewhere between brave and foolhardy. Luckily for us though, they changed their tack and converted to a fully invested growth stock recommendation at UBS Brinson and its subsidiary, Phillips & Drew, in February 2000, just before the market peak. This took out the 800-pound gorilla that would otherwise have taken most of the rewards for stubborn contrariness. So, don't wait for the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys to become bearish: it can never happen. For them it is a horribly non-commercial bet. Perhaps it is for anyone. Profitable and risk-reducing for the clients, yes, but commercially impractical for advisors. Their best policy is clear and simple: always be extremely bullish. It is good for business and intellectually undemanding. It is appealing to most investors who much prefer optimism to realistic appraisal, as witnessed so vividly with COVID. And when it all ends, you will as a persistent bull have overwhelming company. This is why you have always had bullish advice in a bubble and always will.
However, for any manager willing to take on that career risk – or more likely for the individual investor – requiring that you get the timing right is overreach. If the hurdle for calling a bubble is set too high, so that you must call the top precisely, you will never try. And that condemns you to ride over the cliff every cycle, along with the great majority of investors and managers.
As often happens at bubbly peaks like 1929, 2000, and the Nifty Fifty of 1972 (a second-tier bubble in the company of champions), today's market features extreme disparities in value by asset class, sector, and company. Those at the very cheap end include traditional value stocks all over the world, relative to growth stocks. Value stocks have had their worst-ever relative decade ending December 2019, followed by the worst-ever year in 2020, with spreads between Growth and Value performance averaging between 20 and 30 percentage points for the single year! Similarly, Emerging Market equities are at 1 of their 3, more or less co-equal, relative lows against the U.S. of the last 50 years. Not surprisingly, we believe it is in the overlap of these two ideas, Value and Emerging, that your relative bets should go, along with the greatest avoidance of U.S. Growth stocks that your career and business risk will allow. Good luck!
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1 Jeremy Grantham, CNBC, November 12, 2020.
2 A SPAC is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, a shell that is created for the specific purpose of merging with some private company to take that company public more quickly than could have been the case with a normal initial public offering (IPO) process.
3 My paper of January 2018, "Bracing Yourself for a Possible Near-term Melt-up," has substantially more data and exhibits on this topic.
Disclaimer: The views expressed are the views of Jeremy Grantham through the period ending January 5, 2021, and are subject to change at any time based on market and other conditions. This is not an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security and should not be construed as such. References to specific securities and issuers are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to be, and should not be interpreted as, recommendations to purchase or sell such securities.
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The Scarlet Claw is one of the best entries in the series, and a particular favourite of mine. It borrows some elements from The Hound of the Baskervilles and features plenty of fog-enshrouded sets, and a murderer with a talent for disguise to rival the great detective's himself. Nigel Bruce has a fantastic scene in the village pub, getting drunk as he tries to prise information from the patrons.
The films opens on a foggy night in the Canadian village of La Mort Rouge, with the local church bells peeling forth a cry of help from Lady Penrose. She's been fatally stabbed and now clutches the rope, desperately ringing the bells for help, as her life slips away. The priest answers her call, along with Potts the postman but they arrive too late to save her.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in Canada attending a conference on the occult when the chairman, Lord Penrose, receives a message that his wife has been murdered. Penrose is convinced that his wife was killed by supernatural forces. Holmes and Watson are about to return to England when Holmes receives a telegram from Lady Penrose, issued before her death, asking for help as she fears for her life. Holmes decides to investigate.
Holmes and Watson arrive at the remote village, where they go to see Lord Penrose and examine the body of his murdered wife. The claw-like wounds on Lady Penrose could be supernatural, animal or man-made, and Holmes recognises Lady Penrose as the former actress Lillian Gentry. Holmes and Watson's presence is not welcome in the Penrose household however, so they soon leave and go to see the local police sergeant to discuss the case.
After chatting to Sergeant Thompson about the murder, Holmes and Watson check into Journet's, the village's hotel. Holmes questions the nervous landlord, Emile Journet, and his frightened daughter Marie about the murder of Lady Penrose but Journet denies any involvement. Holmes asks Watson to spend the evening in the hotel bar questioning the patrons, while he slips out and investigates the marshes surrounding the village.
Watson has a fine time in the hotel bar, at the end of which he's regaling all the villagers with tales of his adventures with Holmes. Out on the marshes, Holmes runs into the monster of La Mort Rouge who leaves behind a torn piece of shirt fabric covered in luminescent paint. When Sergeant Thompson tells Watson that Holmes is on the marshes alone, the doctor races out to find him, only to run into the monster himself – "a roaring furnace, spitting fire in all directions" – who pushes him into a boggy hole.
As Watson recuperates from the chill he caught on the marshes, Holmes goes to see Sgt. Thompson and they study the shirt fabric. The local shop keeper tells says that the shirt it came from belongs to the housebound Judge Brisson. Holmes and Watson go to see the isolated Brisson in the morning and Holmes soon sees through his pretence of being a cripple. The judge gives Holmes the clue to who has his old shirt, a man who did some gardening work for him called Tanner.
Holmes, Watson and Sgt Thompson go to find Tanner at his hideout on the river where they find a luminescent shirt that explains the flame-spitting monster of La Mort Rouge, but before they can arrest him, he escapes out of the window and into the river below. Watson and the Sgt think they've shot and killed him but no such luck. Holmes found a half-torn photograph of Lady Penrose in Tanner's room, and goes off to break into Lord Penrose's house, where he finds the other half of the torn photo.
Lord Penrose explains that a man called Alistair Ramson murdered a fellow actor in his wife's acting company in a jealous rage. Ramson has escaped from prison and is now in La Mort Rouge – in character as Tanner, and he most probably has other characters to hide behind as he wreaks revenge for his punishment. Ramson killed Lady Penrose is now after Judge Brisson, the magistrate who sent him to gaol.
Holmes arrives at the Brisson's home a fraction too late, Ramson disguised himself as the housekeeper, broke in, and killed the old judge with a five-pronged garden weeder. Holmes phones Sgt Thompson and tells him of the latest murder, whilst he goes to the hideout on the river to look for Ramson. He finds Ramson who holds him at gunpoint and explains everything, and he's about to tell Holmes who his third victim is to be, before Watson falls on the stairs and comes to Holmes' rescue. Ramson escapes again, this time through a secret panel.
Holmes deduces that Emile Journet is the next victim, he was a former prison guard of Ramson's. However, Journet has gone into hiding, aware that the killer is after him. Ramson kills Marie Journet for not revealing her father's whereabouts as Holmes searches for Journet's hiding place. When they find Journet, Holmes tells him of his Marie's murder and manages to convince Journet to help set a trap for Ramson.
Back in Journet's, Holmes and Watson announce that after failing to catch the killer, they are to return to England. Journet has come out of hiding and is also in the hotel bar, he lets it be known that he's going to the church across the marsh to offer a prayer for Marie. Ramson attacks Journet out on the marsh, only to discover that it's Holmes in disguise. The two men struggle, Ramson escapes but only to be caught and killed by Journet with his own weapon; the five-pronged garden weeder.
The film ends with Holmes and Watson travelling along in a open top car on their way back to England, with Holmes quoting Churchill as he makes a speech extolling the virtues of Canada, "the linchpin of the English-speaking world".
Holmes: Consider the tragic irony, we've accepted a commission from a victim to find her murderer. For the first time we've been retained by a corpse.
Drake: I'm getting out! As soon as the bus I'm waiting for hoots its hooter.
Watson: I believe they say 'honks its hooter' in these parts.
Drake: Hoots to me, honk to you. Hoot-hoot!
Holmes: Judge Brisson, if you'll answer a few questions, I may be able to save your life.
Brisson: I have the fullest confidence in my own defences. And I will not trade them for any theories of Mr Sherlock Holmes; however plausible you make them sound. Now, get out will you!
Despite the French-Canadian setting, only the Journet's have French accents.
The Canadian policeman who close in on the killer at the film's climax look uncannily like London bobbies.
The name of the village, La Mort Rouge, is misspelled "La Morte rouge" on the map in one scene.
Watson's scene in Journet's bar, as he drinks with the locals.
Drake's drunken farewell, and warning, to Watson and Potts in the bar.


I cannot believe it has taken us an entire year to get back to Wimpole. I seem to forget how close it actually is to us and having driven right past the door on our way to Cambridge, we made sure that this was our next destination with this lovely family. Despite having so much of the estate still unexplored, we stuck to the park, walled garden and farm for this visit but with Kerrie now a National Trust member too (hurray!), I sense this may become our new go-to spot.


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A: Here is the full explanation here. Read this.
http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/
If you want to vertical & horizontal center to unknown height, width element. you must add the style for parent as display:table and the style for child as display:table-cell.
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A: There is another common technique, based upon "absolute positioning" and negative top margin.
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Portsmouth woman calls for ban on selling fireworks to the public to protect animals and the elderly ahead of New Year's Eve 2021
DEBATES have raged over the years over whether to ban fireworks – and one Portsmouth woman wants sales to the public to be stopped.
By Freddie Webb
Friday, 31st December 2021, 4:56 pm
With New Year's festivities planned across the city tonight we're sure to see fireworks light up the sky again.
But for many pet owners, the loud bangs and whizzes are a dangerous prospect for their animals.
Marena Adams, who owns a Romanian rescue dog named Micha, called for the sale of fireworks to the public to be banned on social media.
Marena's rescue dog Micha takes medication for seizures, and gets petrified when she hears loud bangs from fireworks.
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She said she doesn't mind organised displays, but wants more protection for terrified pets and the elderly.
She said: 'It's the people who buy some just to make a nuisance of themselves.
'If it was always organised displays, like in Cosham, I wouldn't mind as much.
Marena has had to give Micha and other pets recommended medication in the past to sedate them while firework displays are going on.
'It's the people who buy them willy nilly, often youngsters, and set them off at 10pm or put them in bins that frustrate me.
'I've had quite a few animals who have been absolutely petrified by them.'
Ms Adams, who lives near St Georges church in Portsea, said she's had to buy recommended medication to sedate Micha – making sure to protect her from the loud noises.
The rescue dog receives treatment for seizures, and gets edgy and scared whenever fireworks are let off.
Ms Adams said she doesn't mind planned fireworks displayed, as she can plan and make sure Micha doesn't get caught up in the noise.
She added the situation has improved, as the loud noises would go on for weeks in the past, but more care needs to be taken.
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The pet owner said: 'I don't want to stop any child having fun with their family, providing they take the elderly and others peoples animals into consideration.'
Portsmouth residents joined in the heated debate on Facebook.
Steve Clarke posted on Facebook: 'Yes, ban them from the irresponsible public and only use them at shows.'
Rob Rogers agreed by writing: 'Yes, mainly because the brain dead idiots that get hold of these fireworks can't just call it quits with just a few fireworks.
'They've got to re-enact the battle of Waterloo into the early hours of the morning.'
Others, including Jamie Andrews, disagreed with a ban.
He posted: 'is it not more irresponsible to expect everyone to change their traditions etc just because of your personal choice to get a dog?'
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Q: Why does this converge to $\|x\|$ Take $h_n(x) = x^{1+ \frac{1}{2n-1}}$ on the set $[-1,1]$
Then if we take $\lim_{n \to \infty} h_n(x)$ shouldn't this converge to $x$
seeing as
$$\lim_{n \to \infty} h_n(x) = x \lim_{n \to \infty} x^{\frac{1}{2n-1}} = x?$$

A: Here are the steps
$$ \lim\limits_{n\to\infty}x^{1+ \frac{1}{2n-1}}= \lim\limits_{n\to\infty}x^{\frac{2n-1+1}{2n-1}}= \lim\limits_{n\to\infty}x^{\frac{2n}{2n-1}}$$
$$= \lim\limits_{n\to\infty}\left(x^2\right)^{\frac{n}{2n-1}}= \left(x^2\right)^{ \lim\limits_{n\to\infty} \frac{n}{2n-1}} $$
$$= \left(x^2\right)^{ \lim\limits_{n\to\infty} \frac{1}{2-\frac1n}}= \left(x^2\right)^{\frac{1}{2-0}} = \left(x^2\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} $$
$$= \sqrt{x^2}=|x|$$

A: Because $x^{1+\frac{1}{2n-1}}=x^{\frac{2n-1+1}{2n-1}}=(x^2)^{\frac{n}{2n-1}}$ you will have the positive numbers $x^2$ with Exponent $e_n := \frac{n}{2n-1}$. When you compute $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} e_n = \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{1}{2-\frac{1}{n}} = \frac{1}{2}$ you will get for the Limit $(x^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}$, a square root of These positive numbers. Clearly: $\sqrt{x^2}=|x|$.

A: With all due respect,
this answer is to argue that the OP is right
and the example in a book gets the limit wrong.
Let's $-1<x<0$ to focus on the negative numbers only.
The illustration of the curves $h_n(x)$ for several values of $n$
suggests that the author's argument
is something similar to:
since $\forall n\in\mathbb{N}$ an odd root of a negative number $x$ is negative:
\begin{align}
\sqrt[2n-1]{x}&=-\sqrt[2n-1]{|x|},
\end{align}
then
\begin{align}
x\cdot (\sqrt[2n-1]{x})=-x\cdot(\sqrt[2n-1]{|x|})=|x|\cdot(\sqrt[2n-1]{|x|}).
\end{align}
And then a limit is taken:
\begin{align}
\lim_{n \to \infty}|x|\cdot(\sqrt[2n-1]{|x|})=|x|.
\end{align}
And indeed, an illustration clearly shows that the curve
is closer and closer to $|x|$ with bigger $n$,
but can you spot a false step here?
What is missed here is that the limit of a sequence
is something different from the sequence elements,
which can sometimes have some properties that none of the items $h_n$ has.
The very basic assumption "the root is odd" is valid
for any arbitrary big $n$, but it is not true when $n=\infty$.
In other words, the $-1$ can "ecsape" any gravity of the odd root, except the infinite one.
The original limit is simple, if we just look at the power:
\begin{align}
1+\lim_{n \to \infty}{\frac{1}{2n-1}}=1,
\end{align}
and $x^1=x$, period.
What the book (and the other two answers) suggests
is that that limit is somehow
something different from the number $1$, which is absurd,
similar to that kind of "proofs" like
$-1=1$.


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In "Red Dead Redemption" How Do I Access My Satchel?
By K.C. Moore
"Red Dead Redemption" is a western action shooting game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 home gaming consoles. Players take on the role of John Marsten, a former outlaw who is helping the government take down the members of his former outlaw gang. Marsten keeps all of his essential items in his satchel, in keeping with the western motif of the game. The satchel menu features several screens through which players can browse through their consumable items, such as whiskey and tobacco; look at acquired treasure maps; view horse deeds and perform other game functions.
Press the "Back" button on the Xbox 360 controller at any time to bring up the satchel menu.
Press the "Left Bumper" and "Right Bumper" on the Xbox 360 controller to switch the corresponding submenu in the satchel menu. Use the control stick to highlight different selections; press the "A" button to activate a highlighted selection.
Press the "Back" button on the Xbox 360 controller to exit the satchel menu.
Press the "Select" button on the PlayStation 3 controller at any time to bring up the satchel menu.
Press the "L1" and "R1" buttons on the PlayStation 3 controller to switch to the corresponding submenu in the satchel menu. Use the control stick to navigate through the selections; press the "X" button to activate a highlighted selection.
Press the "Select" button on the PlayStation 3 controller to exit the satchel menu.
K.C. Moore has been writing professionally since 2008. He has contributed to "Eye on Life," Kingdom Hearts Ultimania and several online publications. Moore has also worked professionally as a game adviser for Blockbuster Video since 2004. Moore is a graduate of Central Michigan University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in English with a concentration in creative writing.


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City 12-18
Thu Dec 18, 2008 | 12:00am
The Santa Barbara City Council on 12/16 voted to replace outgoing Planning Commission member George Myers with longtime slow-growth proponent and former Santa Barbara mayor Sheila Lodge. Incumbent member Stella Larson faced some competition for her seat from Michael Jordan, an insurance agent who previously served on the city's Creeks Commission, but Larson ultimately proved victorious.
The City Council also voted to appoint bicycle advocate Ed France-of bike collective Bici Centro fame-to the city's Transportation and Circulation Committee. The decision to elect France indicated to some a preference for alternative transportation over more traditional means of people-moving, as France's rival for the position was Michael Self, an active traffic traditionalist. Incumbent Mike Bradley and Dave Tabor were reappointed.
Habitat for Humanity unveiled its plans to build a four-unit housing project on San Pascual Street on 12/10. The structures' future inhabitants were chosen from a pool of candidates who met Habitat's financial and citizenship requirements and who are obligated to put in 250 hours of labor during construction. The project marks Habitat for Humanity's second ever in Santa Barbara County. (/habitat1218)
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Mark E. Schweitzer
Mark Schweitzer is senior vice president of research and advisor to the research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He is responsible for making economic presentations to the Bank and branch boards of directors, business advisory councils, and internal and external groups, along with undertaking other projects that focus on special topics. Dr. Schweitzer's own research has focused on the macroeconomic impact of labor market developments and the identification of factors contributing to regional economic growth.
Dr. Schweitzer joined the Bank in 1992 as an economist. From 2000 to 2002, he took leave to serve as a senior economist at the Bank of England. After returning to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, he was promoted to assistant vice president and director of the Regional Economic Issues Program in 2004. He left Cleveland in 2007 to serve as vice president and branch executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Denver Branch. In 2008, he returned to the Cleveland Reserve Bank to serve as its research director, and from 2015 to 2017 he oversaw the external outreach and regional analytics unit.
An economics graduate of the University of Chicago, Dr. Schweitzer holds both an MA and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. A native of Seattle, Washington, Dr. Schweitzer lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He is married and has two daughters and a son.
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Michael W. Clark is the Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics. He earned a B.A. in Management and an M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kentucky. Prior to coming to UK, Dr. Clark was the Chief Economist for the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission. He conducts applied economic and policy research focusing on labor, health, economic development issues. His work has been published in the Journal of Labor Research. He has conducted research for various Kentucky state agencies including the Department of Public Health, the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, and the Department of Income Support.
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William Hoyt is Bryan Endowed Chair of Public Finance in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration and the Director of Graduate Studies for the MPA and MPP programs. Previously Professor Hoyt has served as Chair and Gatton Professor of Economics at the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky (2012-2020) and Director of the Martin School (2009-2012). He is a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) in Munich, Germany and former editor of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. Professor Hoyt's research has focused on public policy, benefit-cost and program analysis, and taxation issues. His research has been published in numerous economics journals and funded by private, state, and federal agencies and institutions including the National Science Foundation. Along with Bill Fox, he served as economic consultant to the Governor's 2012 Blue Ribbon Commission on Tax Reform.
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Ms. Hensley is a native of Lexington and a graduate of the University of Kentucky with degrees in accounting and marketing.
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By emilymarciniak30 on April 12, 2016 • ( 0 )
In early February, Concordia became home to the first officially chartered women's computer science group at a private university in Wisconsin.
Chartered under the Association of Computing Machinery for Women (ACM-W), a national organization, the group is called GRACE, which stands for "Girls Rocking Algorithms, Computers, and Engineering".
"This group is about empowering and providing events and information to help women experience things in the computing field and network for future jobs," club treasurer and computer science student Alexis Rolenc said.
GRACE's mission is to empower female students in computer science and information technology fields, or any female student or faculty member with interest in these areas.
"This is such a big opportunity not only for our Computer Science department but also for Concordia University as a whole," GRACE's faculty sponsor Professor Antoinette Spencer said.
CUW is the third Wisconsin university to host an ACM-W chapter, in addition to UW-Eau Claire and UW-Madison, and is the first private school in the state of Wisconsin with a chapter.
GRACE offers monthly events for interested students and faculty. Past events included a 'Take-Apart-A-Computer' day, an hour of coding competition, and a robotics night. Additionally, the club hopes to organize study groups for interested students in Computer Science and IT courses.
"We have such a great team that I know for sure that we will do great things under the Lord's," Spencer said.
The group aligns it mission to the Bible verse Genesis 1:27 that says "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." GRACE is committed to helping its members embrace their God-given vocations as they live the university's mission and retains Christ at the center of the club's mission.
For more information on GRACE and its upcoming events, contact Professor Spencer or check the group's Facebook page.
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In a generation of 'this girl can' and 'tough mudders', we wanted to take this spirit one step further and create a rallying call for woman all over to play fierce, be competitive and tackle life head on.
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I-44 narrowed in Oklahoma City as crews work to fix hole in bridge - Restore T.R.U.S.T.
OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — A portion of I-44 in Oklahoma City will be narrowed Monday as crews work to fix a hole in a bridge.
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation reports that westbound I-44, traveling south, is narrowed to one lane between May Avenue and NW 36 Street due to a 6-inch, by 6-inch hole in the bridge.
Repair work is expected to last until the late afternoon. Drivers are urged to expect delays..


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Q: CSS3 / jQuery: Accordion hover I've this accordion (Closed) as below:
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This is what I see on hover as below:
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I'm trying to create hover all in green without any light blue are visible as above? How Can I  solve it?
This is a problem CSS code as below:
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This is a whole CSS code as below:
.toogle_wrap{background-color:#e4f6f8; border:1px #bfeaf0 solid;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;border-radius:5px; width:92%; padding:3% 4%; margin:5px 0 10px 0;}
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A: If its a jQuery Mobile site, use the jQuery Mobile ThemeRoller to create custom color schemes.

A: Please change CSS as below:
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If easy payment plans were to be really efficient, patrons' lifetimes had to be extended!
Carrin decided that he could trace his present mood to Miller's suicide last week. But the knowledge didn't help him get rid of the vague, formless fear in the back of his mind. It was foolish. Miller's suicide didn't concern him.
But why had that fat, jovial man killed himself? Miller had had everything to live for—wife, kids, good job, and all the marvelous luxuries of the age. Why had he done it?
"Good morning, dear," Carrin's wife said as he sat down at the breakfast table.
You just couldn't tell about people, Carrin decided, and dialed his breakfast. The meal was gracefully prepared and served by the new Avignon Electric Auto-cook.
"Have a good day, Billy."
"See you later, honey." He kissed his wife as she left to go shopping.
At any rate, he thought, watching her go down the walk, at least she's happy. He wondered how much she'd spend at the A. E. store.
The shower room was a glittering plastic wonder, and the sheer luxury of it eased Carrin's mind. He threw his clothes into the A. E. automatic Kleen-presser, and adjusted the shower spray to a notch above "brisk." The five-degrees-above-skin-temperature water beat against his thin white body. Delightful! And then a relaxing rub-dry in the A. E. Auto-towel.
But worth every penny of it, he decided, as the A. E. shaver came out of a corner and whisked off his rudimentary stubble. After all, what good was life if you couldn't enjoy the luxuries?
His skin tingled when he switched off the Auto-towel. He should have been feeling wonderful, but he wasn't. Miller's suicide kept nagging at his mind, destroying the peace of his day off.
"Have I forgotten something?" he asked out loud.
"The Avignon Electric finance man will be here in fifteen minutes," his A. E. bathroom Wall-reminder whispered.
"I know that. Is there anything else?"
The Wall-reminder reeled off its memorized data—a vast amount of minutiae about watering the lawn, having the Jet-lash checked, buying lamb chops for Monday, and the like. Things he still hadn't found time for.
"All right, that's enough." He allowed the A. E. Auto-dresser to dress him, skillfully draping a new selection of fabrics over his bony frame. A whiff of fashionable masculine perfume finished him and he went into the living room, threading his way between the appliances that lined the walls.
A quick inspection of the dials on the wall assured him that the house was in order. The breakfast dishes had been sanitized and stacked, the house had been cleaned, dusted, polished, his wife's garments had been hung up, his son's model rocket ships had been put back in the closet.
The door announced, "Mr. Pathis from Avignon Finance is here."
Good God, why hadn't he thought of it!
The Automatic Bartender was manufactured by Castile Motors. He had bought it in a weak moment. A. E. wouldn't think very highly of that, since they sold their own brand.
"A very good day to you, sir," Mr. Pathis said.
Pathis was a tall, imposing man, dressed in a conservative tweed drape. His eyes had the crinkled corners of a man who laughs frequently. He beamed broadly and shook Carrin's hand, looking around the crowded living room.
"A beautiful place you have here, sir. Beautiful! As a matter of fact, I don't think I'll be overstepping the company's code to inform you that yours is the nicest interior in this section."
"Now, then, is everything functioning properly?" Mr. Pathis asked, setting his briefcase on a chair. "Everything in order?"
"Oh, yes," Carrin said enthusiastically. "Avignon Electric never goes out of whack."
"The phone all right? Changes records for the full seventeen hours?"
"It certainly does," Carrin said. He hadn't had a chance to try out the phone, but it was a beautiful piece of furniture.
"The Solido-projector all right? Enjoying the programs?"
"Absolutely perfect reception." He had watched a program just last month, and it had been startlingly lifelike.
"How about the kitchen? Auto-cook in order? Recipe-master still knocking 'em out?"
"Everything is swell," Carrin said, a trifle untruthfully since he hadn't unpacked every item yet. "Just wonderful."
"I'm so glad," Mr. Pathis said, leaning back with a sigh of relief. "You have no idea how hard we try to satisfy our customers. If a product isn't right, back it comes, no questions asked. We believe in pleasing our customers."
"I certainly appreciate it, Mr. Pathis."
Carrin hoped the A. E. man wouldn't ask to see the kitchen. He visualized the Castile Motors Bartender in there, like a porcupine in a dog show.
"I'm proud to say that most of the people in this neighborhood buy from us," Mr. Pathis was saying. "We're a solid firm."
"Was Mr. Miller a customer of yours?" Carrin asked.
"That fellow who killed himself?" Pathis frowned briefly. "He was, as a matter of fact. That amazed me, sir, absolutely amazed me. Why, just last month the fellow bought a brand-new Jet-lash from me, capable of doing three hundred and fifty miles an hour on a straightaway. He was as happy as a kid over it, and then to go and do a thing like that! Of course, the Jet-lash brought up his debt a little."
"But what did that matter? He had every luxury in the world. And then he went and hung himself."
"Yes," Pathis said, the frown coming back. "Every modern convenience in his house, and he hung himself with a piece of rope. Probably unbalanced for a long time."
The frown slid off his face, and the customary smile replaced it. "But enough of that! Let's talk about you."
The smile widened as Pathis opened his briefcase. "Now, then, your account. You owe us two hundred and three thousand dollars and twenty-nine cents, Mr. Carrin, as of your last purchase. Right?"
"Right," Carrin said, remembering the amount from his own papers. "Here's my installment."
"Fine. Now you know, Mr. Carrin, that you won't live long enough to pay us the full two hundred thousand, don't you?"
"No, I don't suppose I will," Carrin said soberly.
He was only thirty-nine, with a full hundred years of life before him, thanks to the marvels of medical science. But at a salary of three thousand a year, he still couldn't pay it all off and have enough to support a family on at the same time.
"Of course, we would not want to deprive you of necessities, which in any case is fully protected by the laws we helped formulate and pass. To say nothing of the terrific items that are coming out next year. Things you wouldn't want to miss, sir!"
"Well, suppose we make the customary arrangement. If you will just sign over your son's earnings for the first thirty years of his adult life, we can easily arrange credit for you."
"If you'll just sign here, sir."
"Well," Carrin said, "I'm not sure. I'd like to give the boy a start in life, not saddle him with—"
"But my dear sir," Pathis interposed, "this is for your son as well. He lives here, doesn't he? He has a right to enjoy the luxuries, the marvels of science."
"Why, sir, today the average man is living like a king. A hundred years ago the richest man in the world couldn't buy what any ordinary citizen possesses at present. You mustn't look upon it as a debt. It's an investment."
"That's true," Carrin said dubiously.
"What's wrong?" Pathis asked cheerfully.
"Well, I was just wondering," Carrin said. "Signing over my son's earnings—you don't think I'm getting in a little too deep, do you?"
"Too deep? My dear sir!" Pathis exploded into laughter. "Do you know Mellon down the block? Well, don't say I said it, but he's already mortgaged his grandchildren's salary for their full life-expectancy! And he doesn't have half the goods he's made up his mind to own! We'll work out something for him. Service to the customer is our job and we know it well."
"And after you're gone, sir, they'll all belong to your son."
"Excellent!" Pathis said. "And by the way, has your home got an A. E. Master-operator?"
It hadn't. Pathis explained that a Master-operator was new this year, a stupendous advance in scientific engineering. It was designed to take over all the functions of housecleaning and cooking, without its owner having to lift a finger.
"Instead of running around all day, pushing half a dozen different buttons, with the Master-operator all you have to do is push one! A remarkable achievement!"
Since it was only five hundred and thirty-five dollars, Carrin signed for one, having it added to his son's debt.
Right's right, he thought, walking Pathis to the door. This house will be Billy's some day. His and his wife's. They certainly will want everything up-to-date.
"Hello, darling!" He awoke to find his wife was home. She kissed him on the ear. "Look."
She had bought an A. E. Sexitizer-negligee. He was pleasantly surprised that that was all she had bought. Usually, Leela returned from shopping laden down.
She bent over for a kiss, then giggled—a habit he knew she had picked up from the latest popular solido star. He wished she hadn't.
"Going to dial supper," she said, and went to the kitchen. Carrin smiled, thinking that soon she would be able to dial the meals without moving out of the living room. He settled back in his chair, and his son walked in.
"How's it going, Son?" he asked heartily.
"All right," Billy answered listlessly.
"What'sa matter, Son?" The boy stared at his feet, not answering. "Come on, tell Dad what's the trouble."
Billy sat down on a packing case and put his chin in his hands. He looked thoughtfully at his father.
"Dad, could I be a Master Repairman if I wanted to be?"
Mr. Carrin smiled at the question. Billy alternated between wanting to be a Master Repairman and a rocket pilot. The repairmen were the elite. It was their job to fix the automatic repair machines. The repair machines could fix just about anything, but you couldn't have a machine fix the machine that fixed the machine. That was where the Master Repairmen came in.
But it was a highly competitive field and only a very few of the best brains were able to get their degrees. And, although the boy was bright, he didn't seem to have an engineering bent.
"It's possible, Son. Anything is possible."
"But is it possible for me?"
"I don't know," Carrin answered, as honestly as he could.
"Well, I don't want to be a Master Repairman anyway," the boy said, seeing that the answer was no. "I want to be a space pilot."
"A space pilot, Billy?" Leela asked, coming in to the room. "But there aren't any."
"Yes, there are," Billy argued. "We were told in school that the government is going to send some men to Mars."
"They've been saying that for a hundred years," Carrin said, "and they still haven't gotten around to doing it."
"Why would you want to go to Mars?" Leela asked, winking at Carrin. "There are no pretty girls on Mars."
"I'm not interested in girls. I just want to go to Mars."
"You wouldn't like it, honey," Leela said. "It's a nasty old place with no air."
"It's got some air. I'd like to go there," the boy insisted sullenly. "I don't like it here."
"What's that?" Carrin asked, sitting up straight. "Is there anything you haven't got? Anything you want?"
"No, sir. I've got everything I want." Whenever his son called him 'sir,' Carrin knew that something was wrong.
"Look, Son, when I was your age I wanted to go to Mars, too. I wanted to do romantic things. I even wanted to be a Master Repairman."
"Well, I grew up. I realized that there were more important things. First I had to pay off the debt my father had left me, and then I met your mother—"
"—and I wanted a home of my own. It'll be the same with you. You'll pay off your debt and get married, the same as the rest of us."
Billy was silent for a while, then he brushed his dark hair—straight, like his father's—back from his forehead and wet his lips.
"How come I have debts, sir?"
Carrin explained carefully. About the things a family needed for civilized living, and the cost of those items. How they had to be paid. How it was customary for a son to take on a part of his parent's debt, when he came of age.
Billy's silence annoyed him. It was almost as if the boy were reproaching him. After he had slaved for years to give the ungrateful whelp every luxury!
"Son," he said harshly, "have you studied history in school? Good. Then you know how it was in the past. Wars. How would you like to get blown up in a war?"
"Or how would you like to break your back for eight hours a day, doing work a machine should handle? Or be hungry all the time? Or cold, with the rain beating down on you, and no place to sleep?"
He paused for a response, got none and went on. "You live in the most fortunate age mankind has ever known. You are surrounded by every wonder of art and science. The finest music, the greatest books and art, all at your fingertips. All you have to do is push a button." He shifted to a kindlier tone. "Well, what are you thinking?"
"I was just wondering how I could go to Mars," the boy said. "With the debt, I mean. I don't suppose I could get away from that."
"Unless I stowed away on a rocket."
"But you wouldn't do that."
"No, of course not," the boy said, but his tone lacked conviction.
"You'll stay here and marry a very nice girl," Leela told him.
"Sure I will," Billy said. "Sure." He grinned suddenly. "I didn't mean any of that stuff about going to Mars. I really didn't."
"I'm glad of that," Leela answered.
"Just forget I mentioned it," Billy said, smiling stiffly. He stood up and raced upstairs.
"Probably gone to play with his rockets," Leela said. "He's such a little devil."
The Carrins ate a quiet supper, and then it was time for Mr. Carrin to go to work. He was on night shift this month. He kissed his wife good-by, climbed into his Jet-lash and roared to the factory. The automatic gates recognized him and opened. He parked and walked in.
Automatic lathes, automatic presses—everything was automatic. The factory was huge and bright, and the machines hummed softly to themselves, doing their job and doing it well.
Carrin walked to the end of the automatic washing machine assembly line, to relieve the man there.
"Sure," the man said. "Haven't had a bad one all year. These new models here have built-in voices. They don't light up like the old ones."
Carrin sat down where the man had sat and waited for the first washing machine to come through. His job was the soul of simplicity. He just sat there and the machines went by him. He pressed a button on them and found out if they were all right. They always were. After passing him, the washing machines went to the packaging section.
The first one slid by on the long slide of rollers. He pressed the starting button on the side.
"Ready for the wash," the washing machine said.
Carrin pressed the release and let it go by.
That boy of his, Carrin thought. Would he grow up and face his responsibilities? Would he mature and take his place in society? Carrin doubted it. The boy was a born rebel. If anyone got to Mars, it would be his kid.
But the thought didn't especially disturb him.
"Ready for the wash." Another machine went by.
Carrin remembered something about Miller. The jovial man had always been talking about the planets, always kidding about going off somewhere and roughing it. He hadn't, though. He'd committed suicide.
Carrin had eight hours in front of him, and he loosened his belt to prepare for it. Eight hours of pushing buttons and listening to a machine announce its readiness.
Carrin's mind strayed from the job, which didn't need much attention in any case. He wished he had done what he had longed to do as a youngster.
It would have been great to be a rocket pilot, to push a button and go to Mars.


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Chicago Blackhawks: P.A. Parenteau Days Until Banner Raising
By Keith Schultz
We had so much fun doing our Countdown to Faceoff series last season that we decided to do it again. In case you're new to the series, we'll do a roster preview as we count down the days until the Chicago Blackhawks raise their 6th Stanley Cup Banner on October 7th season opener against the New York Rangers.
We are down to 58 days until the banner gets raised, and our countdown actually finds two players in franchise history that have worn #58. The stat sheet didn't get burned up by either of these two players, but it helps in our countdown especially when one of them has had a pretty workman like career in the NHL since leaving the Chicago Blackhawks.
The biggest name on our countdown list is P.A. Parenteau who basically had a cup of coffee with the Chicago Blackhawks, but he did see his first NHL action wearing a Hawks jersey. In 5 games in 2007 Parenteau picked up an assist a -1 and 2 penalty minutes. He would be traded before the start of the 2007 season for the dreaded further considerations.
Parenteau has had some success in his other stops. His best career seasons where with the New York Islanders when he collected 53 and 64 points along the way. He was part of the surprise Colorado Avalanche team that won the Central Division in 2014 before getting upset in the first round of the playoffs by the Minnesota Wild.
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Lastly he's been in Montreal where he picked up this game winning goal late in the third period of Game #5 to push the Eastern Conference Semi's to a Game #6 where the Tampa Lightning would finally extinguish the Canadiens for the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The other Chicago Blackhawks player to have worn the #58 was Ivan Droppa who played in two different seasons for the Hawks, but he only managed to get on the ice 19 times and after that his NHL career was over.
Droppa career numbers are one assist in those 19 games a +4 with 12 penalty minutes for his work with the Chicago Blackhawks. After getting traded to the Florida Panthers Droppa was never seen again in an NHL arena.
Two players with the #58 but not much history so maybe one day a young player will pick the #58 and make it his own and build a Chicago Blackhawks legend out of the number instead of today when it's just a pit stop on our countdown to opening night!
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Q: parted 3.2 says 1024MiB is outside of the device (of size 1024MiB) I'm having a little trouble getting parted 3.2 to accept a partitioning scheme that was valid in parted 2.3 (tested on Debian with jessie vs. wheezy).
parted 3.2 will not accept a partition that goes all the way to the end of a volume (marker 1024MiB on a volume with size 1024MiB), instead it errors out with:
Error: The location 1024MiB is outside of the device /dev/loop0.
Here is a little script to reproduce (also happens when using GPT):
#!/bin/bash -x
truncate disk.raw --size="1024M"
device_path="$(losetup -f --show disk.raw)"
parted --script --align none $device_path -- mklabel msdos
parted --script --align none $device_path -- unit mib print free
parted --script --align none $device_path -- mkpart primary 0MiB 1024MiB
losetup -d $device_path
rm disk.raw

Output with parted 2.3
+ truncate disk.raw --size=1024M
++ losetup -f --show disk.raw
+ device_path=/dev/loop0
+ parted --script --align none /dev/loop0 -- mklabel msdos
+ parted --script --align none /dev/loop0 -- unit mib print free
Model:  (file)
Disk /dev/loop0: 1024MiB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start    End      Size     Type  File system  Flags
        0.02MiB  1024MiB  1024MiB        Free Space

+ parted --script --align none /dev/loop0 -- mkpart primary 0MiB 1024MiB
+ losetup -d /dev/loop0
+ rm disk.raw

Output with parted 3.2
+ truncate disk.raw --size=1024M
++ losetup -f --show disk.raw
+ device_path=/dev/loop0
+ parted --script --align none /dev/loop0 -- mklabel msdos
+ parted --script --align none /dev/loop0 -- unit mib print free
Model: Loopback device (loopback)
Disk /dev/loop0: 1024MiB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start    End      Size     Type  File system  Flags
        0.03MiB  1024MiB  1024MiB        Free Space

+ parted --script --align none /dev/loop0 -- mkpart primary 0MiB 1024MiB
Error: The location 1024MiB is outside of the device /dev/loop0.
+ losetup -d /dev/loop0
+ rm disk.raw

As you can see 3.2 differs slightly in where the partition starts, but that shouldn't make a difference since mkpart only accepts [start] [end] and not [start] [size].
There are of course workarounds for this, like making the last partition smaller or making the volume larger, but I would like to get to the bottom of this and understand why this happens.

A: Well, technically, 1024MiB is outside if it's only 1024MiB large and you consider the end to be inclusive...
Try unit s and print free, that should you show exactly what's available to the sector and let you create a maximum size partition. It probably won't show correctly with unit mib since there's too much rounding going on.
Also, you can just use 100% for the [end]; although it might still leave some sectors free anyway, probably due to alignment?
Also with GPT partition scheme, you won't be able to go all the way to the end since there is a secondary GPT header located there.
Leaving a bit free at the end also makes sense for other reasons, not all drives have the exact same size and even if you still use msdos partitions now you might want to be able to convert them to GPT at a later point in time.


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Renowned comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham explains why his brand of funny has found global acclaim, talks the ever-changing state of comedy, and details the genesis of his famed character 'Achmed the Dead Terroist'. Plus, Jeff and his wife Audrey preview their new Food Network show, and Larry gets an opinionated dose of the one and only 'Walter'!
Larry King interviews Jeff Dunham, a renowned ventriloquist, stand-up comedian, and 'New York Times' bestselling author whose Spark of Insanity tour holds the Guinness World Record for most stand-up comedy tickets sold. Dunham is currently doing the Perfectly Unbalanced comedy tour, and starring on the Food Network show 'Incredible Edible America' with his wife Audrey. Larry asks if Dunham was a kid ventriloquist, and he confirms, recounting how he got his first dummy in third grade. In response to what makes a great ventriloquist, Dunham talks about his early performances and learning to be funnier to match the other comedians. Even his tour titles are fun nods to the fact that he is essentially a grown man playing with dolls, a hard worker who knows his work is ridiculous.
Larry asks Dunham why he tours when he can stay and perform in Vegas. Dunham says his domestic tours turned into international surprises, and how it's a wonderful thing to go around the world and make different people laugh the same. Larry asks how he comes up with his characters, and Dunham says he responds to what's going on in society and what makes people laugh the hardest. In reply to whether he has comedic bounds, Dunham acknowledges that every good comic knows the limits, especially since people are now worried about being politically correct. King gives the examples of Bill Maher and Kathy Griffin, cases which Dunham distinguishes between. Dunham says you should surround yourself with some people who disagree with you, and listen to both sides.
The new side of Dunham's work includes a Netflix special he shot in Ireland, and he talks about creating a special character for the trip—a baby with a drinking problem. Larry asks how Dunham came up with his character Achmed the Dead Terrorist, and Dunham describes the process of creating a dead Osama a year after 9/11, with appropriate and well-received jokes. Larry receives another guest onto the show, welcoming Jeff's wife Audrey Dunham as she talks about 'Incredible Edible America.' The Dunhams already travel on the road together and find fun foods in each city, so they simply teamed up with the Food Network to do a show. A clip from their show is played, featuring cool and insane dishes. Larry asks if Dunham has taught his wife ventriloquism, but he can only teach the basics, since the larger skill is magician-like misdirection. To demonstrate, Dunham brings out his puppet Walter, a curmudgeonly old man character. He jokes around with Larry via Walter, who answers Larry's questions with funny banter.


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Brown, Arline, 1924-. Oral History Interview, 1 November 1980.
Southern Minnesota Historical Center
The Arline Brown collection consists of one audiocassette tape, a CD duplicate of the audiocassette, a transcript, and a biographical form and interview outline of an oral history interview conducted between Brown and Phyllis M. Wisen on 1 November 1980. Brown was a faculty member at Mankato State University and taught Economics from 1957 to 1977. This interview deals with Brown's perceptions of Mankato State University during the years she taught there including, but not limited to, issues concerning female faculty members and the growth of the Economics Department.
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Arline Brown graduated with a master's degree from Iowa State University in Economics and went on to teach at Colorado State College in Fort Collins. She came to Mankato State College in 1957 and taught Economics until her retirement in 1977. During her tenure at Mankato State College she also held the position of director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research and was a Mankato City councilwoman.
Information was gathered from the interview and articles in the Reporter and the Mankato Free Press.
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Undefeated Prospect Justin Carter Signs with MMA Tee Company
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To echo these comments Justin Carter just sent me really aggressive, rude, and scary messages on ig after I did not match with him on Tinder. He has a problem and I would be really concerned about the companies that choose to endorse or partner with him.
Miles Aug 01, 2021
This man is a pedophile. We met on grindr and I gave him my instagram, he then added my 16 year old friend. I told him to back off because he is 16, and justin is at least 22.
He then unfollowed, but added my friends phone number (which was in his bio). He told my friend that his name was justin and he was 17 (he is 22.). As soon as I called him out he blocked me. I have screenshots of everything.
Alex Apr 18, 2021
This guy is a creep and has been threatening my friend who has literally never met him. The matched on Grindr and Tinder and this Justin 'the wild card' Carter has been harassing him ever since with these weirdly creepy messages saying he knows where we live and that he is going to kill my friend. I'm not sure what this guys issue is or how hurt his ego was but this isn't a cute look. Like try again baby. I have recites so if anyone wants to reach out me for these messages just contact me via the email I left.


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Q: Become another user with ansible I have a user called alex that I log into the server with.  alex can sudo without a password.  I have another user called jenkins that has not password.
To manually configure something as jenkins I could go like this:
$ sudo su
# su jenkins
$ whoami
jenkins

or like this
$ sudo su jenkins
$ whoami
jenkins

I am trying to do something similar with Ansible 2.9.10:
$ virtualenv/bin/ansible -u alex -k -K example.com --become-method su --become-user jenkins -m command -a whoami
SSH password:
BECOME password[defaults to SSH password]:
example.com | CHANGED | rc=0 >>
alex

$ virtualenv/bin/ansible -u alex -k -K example.com -b --become-method su --become-user jenkins -m command -a whoami
SSH password:
BECOME password[defaults to SSH password]:
example.com | FAILED | rc=-1 >>
Incorrect su password

I have tried adding and removing -b, different --become-method... I can't get it to answer jenkins
There seem to be a lot of similar questions, but they are all referring to configuration files, and I was hoping to see it work like this first.
Some people suggest allowing user jenkins to log in from the outside world, but I don't think that is an option in this case.
What do I have to do?


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Q: Combine while and for loop Python I'm looking for an efficient (maybe a native function that I don't know of) way of going through a string character by character as long as each consecutive character matches a criteria. As soon as it doesn't match the whole shebang can be terminated.
Here's the loop start:
while (char == '-' or char == '+') for char in string:

How to efficiently code this line?

A: To loop through a sequence and terminate the loop once a condition isn't met, you can use break:
for char in string:
  if char not in ('-', '+'):
    break

  do_something_with(char)

However, if you want to just collect those items matching the condition, you might be looking for itertools.takewhile:
def find_sign_prefix(s):
  sign_prefix = list(itertools.takewhile(lambda char: char in ('-', '+'), s))
  return sign_prefix

print find_sign_prefix("--+-++---3.141592+-+")
# '--+-++---'

Or specifically for examining a prefix of a string, you can use a regular expression:
def find_sign_prefix(s):
  # `[+-]*` means "a '+' or '-' character, zero or more times";
  # `re.search` only matches at the beginning of a string;
  # group 0 is the matched substring
  return re.search([+-]*, s).group(0)

A: Iterate over each character using a while loop, and break the loop if the condition you are looking for comes up
string = '....'

for i in range(len(string)-1):

    char_i = string[i]
    char_i_1 = string[i+1]
    if not (char_i == '-' and char_i_1 == '+'):
        break

A: Are you looking for checking each character against a condition like this?
string = 'AB++-A+B-'
for char in string:
    if char == '+' or char == '-':
       # Do something
       print(char)


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