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Q: UIProgressBar within CollectionViewCell always set to 1.0 after being in background I'm stuck while working on a custom calendar. Each day is within an Array and then put into custom CollectionViewCells.
Within the cell of the current day, I want to put a kind of "marker" (I use a UIProgressBar for this) to show the progress of the day. Means at noon of today, the UIProgressBar should be at 0.5 and so on.
To handle this, I have the following function which return a Float with one decimal to use it in the UIProgressBar:
    func getPercentage() -> Float {

        var cal = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
        cal.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: "UTC")!
        let hours = cal.component(.hour, from: Date())
        let minutes = cal.component(.minute, from: Date())

        let allHours = Float(hours) + (Float(minutes) / 60)

        let result = round((allTimeInHours / 24) * 10) / 10

        return allTimeInPercent
    }

Within the cellForItemAt indexPath im checking if the cell is the cell of today, and if it's the case, I'm calling the getPercentage() method to set the UIProgressBar within the cell accordingly:
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
        let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: MyCollectionViewCell.identifier, for: indexPath) as! MyCollectionViewCell

    //other functionality + cell-setup

        if dateArray[indexPath.item] == todayAsDate() {

            cell.progressBar.isHidden = false
            cell.progressBar.progress = getPercentageOfDay()

        } else {

            cell.progressBar.isHidden = true
        }

        return cell
    }

So far everything works fine and looks like this:

However whenever I go to the Home Screen and then back to the app, the UIProgressBar is always set to 1.0.

After completely closing out the app via the AppSwitcher and restart the app, everything works fine again.
Im guessing there's a problem because I use dequeueReusableCells but im not really getting behind it. I don't know where the 1.0 for the UIProgressBar is coming from, even when I change the default in the Storyboard the result is the same.
Also if anyone has a suggestion to use something else than a UIProgressBar im open for any ideas. Actually I would prefer to just have vertical line moving left to right according to the time of the day.
I'm pretty much a beginner and happy for any hints! :)


Jay Goth flew to London in mid-May with a purpose. While millions of others converged on Windsor Castle for the marriage of Prince Harry and Megan Markle, Goth set forth on his own impressive mission: chairing the infrastructure and investment track at the World Precision Medicine Conference, the first owner of an incubator to speak at the event.
As he spoke, Goth was opening the blinds to his office in the Murietta Innovation Center in Southern California's Inland Empire, thousands of miles from festive London. Murietta Genomics focuses primarily on precision medicine research and application, but is also primed to serve agriculture, forensics, consumer products, and veterinary medicine.
Between San Diego's biopharm community, Orange County's medical tech, and LA's university-rich environment, Murietta Genomics is perfectly located as the only genomics testing service provider in Southern California.
That is one end of the business. The other involves Goth's and Powers' determination to help promising ideas become contributors to genomics and medicine — their new incubator.
The incubator lab is still under construction, but Goth and Powers have begun taking on fledgling companies — or clients with great ideas that will one day become businesses. Goth's managing partner status at Forentis Fund, an early stage biotech VC, adds the funding piece nicely. Eventually, he sees 12 to 15 companies per year launching from the Murietta Genomics incubator. "Even after they leave, if we provide seed funding, our goal is to stay involved through their lifecycle," Goth explained.


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When I read about the recent news article "Kidney-for-sale: CK Tang chairman charged with 3 counts" on 10 Jul 2008, Straits Times, I couldn't believe my eyes. CK Tang's chairman Tang Wee Sung, 55, was charged in court with trying to buy a kidney from a living donor, for which he was willing to pay $300,000 to a middleman to procure it.
Mr Tang Wee Sung is the second son of the late Mr Tang Choon Keng, founder of Tangs department store. He joined the Company in 1975, at the age of 22. The late Mr. C.K. Tang died at the ripe age of 99 on 3 Sep 2000.
I remember when I was still staying with my Godparents place at Beatty Road, in the 60s and 70s, C.K. Tang was commonly known as 詩家董百貨公司. You may read more about how C.K.Tang started in Singapore here.
– 1923, Mr. C.K.Tang came to Singapore. He started off as a door-to-door salesman and would hired a rickshaw to put his pair of tin trunk which probably still around now (but no photo of it shown so far). He was later known as the "Tin Trunk Man" or "Curio King". His products then were just hand-made Swatow lace, emboidery and linen.
– 1932, 9 years after he came to Singapore, he saved enough to set up his first store on the first floor of a building in River Valley Road. His initial capital was only $3000!
Credit : Photo taken by Victor Koo. Gainurn Bldg in 2008. As mentioned by Victor, note the pillars of both bldg.
– 1958, he bought a 1,351sq.m. piece of land at the corner of Orchard Road and Scotts Road at a price of $10,000. Though this site faced the then Tai Shang Ting cementary, he believed it had commercial value.
Credit : Editions Didier Millet, Over Singapore 50 Years Ago, by Brenda Yeoh and Theresa Wong.
A few months before the above strike in 1960, Mr. Tang was kidnapped by four armed thugs, but was freed unharmed within 84 hours after the family reportedly paid S$150,000 in ransom. I really respect his "never give up" attitude.
– 1982, the old green tiled roof building was demolished to make way for expansion – a 33 storey Dynasty Hotel (now renamed as Singapore Marriott Hotel) and the Tangs shopping complex (now Tang Plaza).
Hope that all these stone lions can bring good luck to their owners.
How many still remember the fire at Tangs in 2006 December?
Oh, there is one thing that was memorable about CK Tang – it was probably the only major shopping centre that did not operate on Sunday until 1996! That was to allow his family and his Christian staff to attend church on Sundays.
Ah, that's a nice aerial photo of Orchard Road in the past. So different from now.
I happened to be across the road from Tangs just after the fire was put out (I think). The fire engines were still parked outside but there didn't seem to be much commotion. Just a lot of curious onlookers.
Over Singapore 50 Years Ago is such a wonderful, wonderful book. I've got a lot to thank that book for, it was so helpful in figuring out little nagging questions and I LOVE how it included so-called ulu places like Woodlands Road. I got a thrill figuring out which roads were already there in the 50s and imagining what nearby areas would look like in the kampong days with no main roads and flyovers etc.
I have been wondering what was the old building with the Imperial-palace roof by the Singapore River. In fact, I wanted to put up an "old building" quiz soon to ask readers. But I found the answer in this post. Thanks.
You are pretty fast in posting your comments – just within a couple of hours of my posting hehe. Guess the fire was not a big one but wonder how it got started?
You are right Passerby, that Over Singapore 50 years ago is really a very wonderful book. Hope to borrow it again but forgotten which library I came across this book.
I'm not 100% sure of that green roof building near the Singapore River. I'm only guessing….maybe Peter or Chun See can confirm it.
The side road in front of the Marriot Hotel facing the slip road from Scotts Road into Orchard Road was not a part of the old CK Tang store. There used to be a 2-storey row of shop-houses; a piano shop called Liew Piano or something like that, a laundry shop. Ang mos like to shop at Tangs because they sold plenty of camphor chests, cutleries, bedlinen. On top of that if you buy above a certain dollar value they do home deliveries to where you stay. So it was only the local store besides Robinson's that offered this home delivery service.
When I was young, below 10 years old (that was in the 1980s), CK Tang, was one of the few buildings that I could instantaneously recognise from miles away when I see it from a distance away.
One more shop I remember – Noritake House. Popular for its Japanese pottery stuff for the kitchen and dining table.
Thanks Peter. Now I can confirm that green roof building by the river was OCBC.
Wait a minute, how did C.K.Tang get its name?
The last time I checked, Tang Choon Keng is not 董詩家 leh.
You are right Icemoon. CK Tang Chinese name is (simplified Chinese: 董俊竞; pinyin: Dǒng Jùnjìng). And why is it known as 詩家董 is probably a direct dialect translation from his English name CK Tang.
Or anyone knows the reason??
Here is a photo of Gianurn Building taken last Monday.
The photos look different, don't they? But if you compare the pillars on the ground floor of the building between the 2 photos (as LKK is wont to do), they match exactly in number and spacing. So the building is the same one in the two photos. Just an opinion from a new 2nd-shooter.
Thanks Victor. I've uploaded it and compared them – agreed, they seem to be the same. Based on the same angle that you have taken that shot, that bldg still looks "depthless" like the Gateway Bldg (triangular in shape). I wonder if it is really triangular in shape.
Thanks once again for taking the trouble to take a photo of it.
No trouble at all. I was on leave on Monday and was exploring the River Valley area on my bicycle. I remember your post and so I took a photo of the building for comparison purpose.
Incidentally both the Ck Tang Building and the OCBC building with the green roof was designed by the same architech, my great grandfather Seah Eck Jim. He was the first local architech in singapore. I am still looking up on his works, any info on his works would be appreciated.
P.s.: I'm doin a project on Chinese firm, and i chose CK Tang. do email me if u had e time to do so yeah? thx again!
If I had a penny for each time I came here! Amazing writing!
can anybody help me to trace the family lineage of CK Tang. His elder sister is my maternal great grandmother. I would like to find the name of my grandmother who passed away when my father was just 2 years old during the Japanese occupation in 1942.
I lived in Singapore all through the sixties. Tangs was my favourite place to go – it really was a treasure trove back then of all things oriental and quality.
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The SAP Open men's tennis tournament is on this week in San Jose. While watching some of the early round play it occurred to me that team situational awareness is not only found in world-class doubles teams like the Bryan Brothers (who clearly have a form of ESP that takes this to a whole new level), but is also apparent elsewhere on the court.
The ball kids did a great job of providing the information necessary to enable inputs (balls) to be with the right people at the right time, managing external requirements (feeding the balls to the players when requested), anticipating performance needs (stationing themselves appropriately on the court), and managing interruptions (not running into each other). In the picture below you can see the ballkid showing empty hands, meaning, "I don't have any balls to give you." This signal is given to the teammates on both sides.
I'm generally not a fan of field trips as part of team training (studies of transactive memory – another key dimension of team success -- suggest that team training should focus on the task the team is actually going to do), but if it means a free ticket to the tennis, maybe I'll change my mind. Watching ballkids in action provides a great opportunity to use another team's performance to assess your own. How much effort went into thinking out the team's task, the staffing, the training, how team members will communicate with each other, incentives, etc. The ballkid team is especially explicit with this process given they are short-term volunteers who may have no experience.
What signals (either social or technical) do your teams use to keep the rest of the team apprised of the situation? Yes, team members can use implicit processes (e.g., tracking workflows, seeing the number of replies on an email) to try and make sense of the situation. But sometimes we need to do more. The ballkids have the benefit of being engaged for a relatively short time – they rotate so attention stays high – and they are working face to face on a single team. We can use "open mic" strategies (see comment to earlier post), but that may only work when team members are focused on a single project. I hope to have some more ideas soon, but would appreciate hearing from your experiences, especially when you're on multiple teams.


Dr. Michele Salati is a Staff Thoracic Surgeon at the Thoracic Surgery Unit of the University United Hospitals of Ancona, IT.
Dr. Salati has been a visiting Professor for 6 months in 2016-2017 at the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculty of Medicine University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Dr. Salati is currently member of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database Committee. He is also external professor in a course of post-graduation in Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery about large database research at the Faculty of Medicine University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Crossfire in the Street - Lone Jack 1862
The Civil War yielded many bloody battles and the Battle at Lone Jack was among the worst. Fought across a sixty-foot strip of dusty road, brothers fought brothers, neighbors fought neighbors, cousins fought cousins, and the blood of horses and men ran together in the street under the blistering August sun.
The Green family tried to keep from being caught up in the war headed for their doorstep, but their efforts were lost—even before the Yankees came to town.
In their youthful exuberance and ignorance, sixteen and fifteen year old Hank and Jesse sneak into town to watch the battle—and find more trouble than they bargained for. Pete, the oldest brother, joins the Rebels and fights to save his life—and that of his brothers. Cora, the oldest daughter on the cusp of becoming a woman, loves a boy who runs off to fight with the Federals—and breaks her heart.
Read the first two chapters here.
The Old Coots: Blue, Gray and Gold
Read the prologue here.
THE OLD COOTS: Tom
Tom Whitmore's only love was raising and racing horses - until Abby came along. Losing his heart to this filly, as wild and willful as either of his studs, he must tame her or lose himself.
Yankee by birth and southern gentleman by residence and trade, Tom understands better than most the political chasm between north and south long before the War Between the States becomes reality.
Following his heart, he enlists in the Northern Cause with the 8th Ohio Volunteers and spends the next three years in a living Hell.
Will his love survive? Will he?
THE OLD COOTS: Sam
Sam Whitmore hates slavery. Turning his back on his slave-holding family, he purchases a run-down tobacco plantation with the hope of someday making it a success. Freeing Horace and Jefferson, the slaves who came with what he now calls Summerset, they become Sam's new family...
Until the night he meets Ellie Baker and his life changes forever. Ellie believed what Sam believed and upon their marriage, she happily stays in Tennessee to help him make Summerset a success. The first few years Sam's dreams are realized, but soon after the weather deserts him, leaving a worthless property and a wife who wants only to return home with their two children—to Missouri.
The next ten years are prosperous, until the Missouri/Kansas border explodes in violence, a precursor of the coming Civil War.
From Missouri to Tennessee, Virginia, Gettysburg, and finally Appomattox, against all he believes, Sam fights for the southern cause—to soothe the burning need for revenge that burns in his belly—and costs him almost everything.
Read the complete first chapter here.
Elizabeth's WAR Missouri 1863
In a time when raiders, bushwhackers, and Redlegs rode the Cass County, Missouri, countryside bringing fear and destruction with them, Elizabeth Miers and her family barely survived into the next day. When the enemy, in the form of Elizabeth's neighbors, comes a-calling more than once with mischief on their minds, Elizabeth fights back to keep her children safe against men she once called friends.
On August 25, 1863, following the issuance of General Order No. 11 by Union General Thomas Ewing, thousands of women, children, and the elderly were forced to vacate their homes in the brutal summer heat within fifteen days. With determination and a plan, Elizabeth sets out on a sixty-mile trek toward St. Clair County. Carrying enough prepared food and water on a rickety built sled to reach her aunt and uncle's farm, she prays her kin are there to welcome them, not knowing whether they lived through the burning of Osceola two years prior—or not.
Facing more than just the lack of food and shelter and the unbearable heat, they're set upon by raiders and foraging soldiers who try to take more than just their meager provisions. Much more. Left with little after their supplies are stolen and their property destroyed, Elizabeth and her fellow travelers continue south, facing more indignities before their journey is done.
Through Elizabeth and the thousands of other refugees that traveled ahead of and behind her, feel what they felt in the wake of General Order No. 11, an order that took everything and left them destitute and afraid they wouldn't live to see one more day.
Although BEGINNINGS: Into the Unknown, is the last book in THE WHITE OAKS SERIES, it is really the beginning. A prequel to the existing series, BEGINNINGS takes the reader back to the opening of Independence and Westport and brings the hardships the early pioneers faced to the fore. Beginning with a frightening steamboat trip up the Missouri, BEGINNINGS depicts how weather played such an important role in the every day lives of those settlers. Experience a "star shower," the loss of a loved one, the Great Flood of 1844, both the Mexican-American War and pre-Civil War, and not one, but two cholera epidemics, to name a few of the hardships early settlers faced. BEGINNINGS follows Jonathan and Emma Carter as they meet those challenges head-on to gain their fortune in the booming town of Independence and make their dreams come true.
Maggie - The most recent entry in THE WHITE OAKS SERIES.
Join Maggie Douglas as she goes from Boston to Cheyenne to Deadwood and, finally, to the Standing Rock Reservation hoping to "make a difference" in the lives of the people around her. Whether it's stomping for women's rights, writing for the Cheyenne Sun, riding the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage to a burned out Deadwood and facing Indians, harsh weather, and desperate men to get there, or helping the Lakota at the Standing Rock Reservation, Maggie has one goal--to make a difference.
She makes that difference, and gets into all kinds of trouble doing it.
With the first shots fired across Charleston Harbor, Amy Ross knew her life would never be the same. When the War Between the States lands right on her family's doorstep that April 12th morning, they are forced to live with unprecedented hardships to survive. From the bombardment of their Charleston home and running the Union blockade, to stragglers from both sides taking what they no longer had to give, runaway slaves, murder, and the destruction of their plantation home by the Union Army, Amy and her family struggle to make it through every day alive.
When everything she holds precious is lost and gold is found in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Amy sets out to find a new beginning. What she finds instead is captivity and hardship among the Lakota before and during the Battle of the Little Bighorn; but in that hardship Amy also finds love—once she lets her frozen heart melt from the crippling past she's already endured.
The lure of FREEDOM was great! Caleb, freed by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, seeks that freedom. The journey is long and full of danger, including slave catchers, bushwhackers, led by a past enemy who stumbles upon Caleb and is anxious to repay him for past transgressions, and finally, Mother Nature at her worst. In his search Caleb meets Prudy, the woman who would become his wife; Smokey, a small boy who needs a family, and Lula, an aged woman with a wisdom only time and experience can teach who freely imparts that knowledge—whether wanted or not.
Caleb's quest for respect is blocked by racism and intolerance. After numerous battles and hard-won victories, he gains the respect he so desperately sought and settles in to a new life, but another adventure waits. A request is made he can't refuse that takes him back to an old friend and an old debt he must repay—or die trying.
To read an excerpt from Caleb, click here.
Ghost Dancers
Surviving the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Hawkins returns to Fort Leavenworth to resume his duty as a cavalry lieutenant. Though nearly killed in that battle, George's sympathies lie with the Indian. Raised with a half-blood Sioux who is now his blood brother, George understands the true nature of what's happening to the Indians, and hopes to somehow change the course of events before they spiral out of control. Assigned to General George Crook to chase down the renegades Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse during what has come to be known in history as "the Horsemeat March," George learns early on that his task will not be easily accomplished. When he blatantly disobeys a direct order to kill an Indian woman and her son (in a factual "battle"), he is arrested, court-martialed and tossed out of the army.
Seeking a new life, yet too ashamed to return to the ranch where he was raised side-by-side with Blue Fox, George meets Maggie Douglas, the strong-willed, impetuous daughter of the rancher he goes to work for. As their relationship grows, George realizes Maggie has other things she wants to do. Things that don't include him. A strong advocate for women's rights, Maggie goes to "find her voice" with Miss Susan B. Anthony and leave George to, once again, seek new direction in his life. When both an opportunity for work and the ability to help the Indians reveals itself, George takes the chance. Delivering goods as a teamster to the Indians for the newly established reservation system, George thinks it's just what he's been looking for. But again, he learns that helping the Indians will be much harder than he imagined. During his time as a teamster, he learns how crooked the reservation system is at the hands of unscrupulous men. He is unable to stop Crazy Horse's death with the help of one of his own braves. And unable to stop an entire band of Sioux attempting to escape incarceration from quarters far too small for their numbers, who are slaughtered on a bitter, winter day.
While lobbying for the Indians in Washington, George chances upon Maggie, whom he's never forgotten. Disillusioned by her own quest, they resume their relationship, marry and return to the reservation together to "make a difference".
But again, it's not to be. A new phenomenon has swept through the Sioux Nation--The Ghost Dance. The Dance of Ghosts instills fear in the white soldiers and Indian Agent at Pine Ridge. Now acting as the sub-agent at Pine Ridge, George is once again helpless as Sitting Bull is murdered by Agency Police, while in a surreal display nearby, the renowned chief's show horse performs it's dancing act from the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. In a last ditch effort to keep disaster from striking further, George sets out after the fleeing Sioux, but again cannot stop the destruction at Wounded Knee Creek, where 300 men, women and children are killed and left to freeze in the bitter temperatures as a blizzard rages and blankets the dead.
This is the story of one man's struggle of conscience against orders, heart against wants, and right against wrong.
To read the complete first chapter of Ghost Dancers, click here.


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Five guys from the Freeman Street section of the South Bronx, all of Hispanic (Puerto Rican) decent, met in 1957 while in Junior HS. They formed a singing group and originally called themselves The Gleamers. The members of this quintet included: Ernie Sierra, Carlos Girona, Fred Hodge, Alex Miranda and Anibal Torres. Although they emulated The Flamingos, The Spaniels and The Heartbeats, it was two novelty Latin-flavored tunes that put them on the Rock 'N Roll map.
One day Bill Martin, a noted vocal group manger and dancer, happen to hear them rehearsing. He was very impressed with this young group of teenagers and became their manager. He coached the boys and when their sound was distinct and polished, he brought them to Morty Craft, owner of Melba Records. Girona had written a seasonal tune entitled "Christmas in the Jungle" and it was that song that brought them to Beltone Studios in the late spring of 1959. The lyrics were revised by Girona to accommodate a post holiday season release. The new title was then, "Rockin' in the Jungle" and was released on The Hollywood Records label. With that came a name change for the Group to The Eternals. It was suggested by their manager based upon a passage in the Bible.
Their second recording, "Babalu's Wedding Day," another spirited novelty rocker, featured Girona's bouncy Latin lead, Alex Miranda's incomparable bass and a hot sax solo by King Curtis. Its flipside, "My Girl," was written and led by Ernie Sierra for his then girlfriend, who he would eventually marry.
In 1960, Fred Hodge joined The Army and was replaced by George Villanueva. The Eternals' next release on Morty Craft's Warwick Records label was "Blind Date" and featured George on the B side with "Today."
Personnel changes and the passing of Alex Miranda (1967) brought new members (George "Tito" Santiago and Hector Garcia) into The Eternals. There were few and infrequent engagements, but no new releases. Family and occupational responsibilities slowed things down for the group till the early 1970's. The Eternals reformed with Ernie Sierra steering the group and along with George "Tito" Santiago and Herman Velez (The Hemlocks), providing the nucleus of the present day Eternals. Fred Clavel joined as bass and the return of George Villanueva provide the longest lasting aggregation of The Eternals.
The Eternals have remained a "Class Act" and have been on stage with the best of the ever shrinking great original groups. The Eternals have released The Eternals' CD "Through the Years" and recorded a Ronnie I Clifton Records release entitled "The Eternals, Today." Through the years, The Eternals have performed at such notable venues as New York's Radio City Music Hall, Westbury's Music Fair shows, the Pittsburgh Oldies Record Collectors Club shows, the UGHA shows and many more. They have endeavored to stay true to their original sound and have been successful through the efforts of founder, Ernie Sierra and through the talents and spirit of this unequivocal quintet, The Eternals.
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Scottish farmers 'badly let down' by Tories, SNP MEP candidate says
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Heather Anderson said the failure of the UK Government to pass on money from the EU owed to Scotland underlines the danger of a Tory power-grab after Brexit
SCOTTISH farmers have been "badly let down" by the Tories, SNP European election candidate Heather Anderson has said.
Anderson, a farmer, said the failure of the UK Government to pass on money from the EU owed to Scotland underlines the danger of a Tory power-grab after Brexit.
Scottish farmers receive £580 million annually through the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The SNP and Scottish farming organisations argue Scotland is owed the £160 million of EU convergence uplift payments to the UK for the period 2014 to 2020.
The convergence cash was triggered due to the low rate of CAP payments given to Scottish hill farmers.
READ MORE: SNP demand Tories return 'stolen' £160m payment to Scots farmers
The UK Government plans a power grab over agriculture – despite the Leave campaign promising that powers in devolved areas would automatically come to the Scottish Parliament after Brexit – raising fears of a repeated snub to Scottish farmers and crofters.
The National Farmers Union Scotland have supported the Scottish Government's position that all decisions affecting farming and food production in Scotland should be taken in Scotland
Anderson said food producers are suffering from ongoing Brexit uncertainty.
She added: "There is no good Brexit for Scottish farming. As well the potential loss of support and control, farmers in Scotland are deeply concerned over export markets, the future of farm support and ability to hire seasonal staff.
"Ultimately this comes down to a question of trust.
"We know we can't trust Westminster to give us the money we are due. The Tories kept the £160 million uplift payment due to Scottish crofters and farmers and we have now endured three years of uncertainty about whether there's a market for our beef, lamb and other produce.
"On top of that, there is now the risk of our domestic market being flooded with food imports that don't meet any of the high welfare and safety standards we farm to.
"Scotland's future lies in Europe. A vote for the SNP is a vote to make clear Scotland says No to Brexit and to protect Scottish farming."


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Герб Вовковинців — офіційний символ смт. Вовковинці Деражнянського району Хмельницької області. Затверджений 26 січня 1993 року рішенням сесії сільської ради. Автор — І. Д. Янушкевич.

Історія
Протягом своєї історії селище не мало королівських та великокняжих привілеїв. Відсутні згадки про герб і печатку. Є припущення, що юридичні акти в містечку скріплювались повітовою печаткою Летичева.

26 січня 1993 р. сесія Вовковинецької селищної ради затвердила сучасний герб.

Опис герба
У зеленому полі золота вовча голова з червоним язиком у вишкіреній пащі, над нею — три срібні зірки. Вовча голова символічно нагадує давню місцевість — «Вовчу балку», де виникло поселення. Три срібні зірки стилізовано відображають населені пункти, підпорядковані селищній Раді — Кайтанівку, Плюшки, Вовковинці. Щит обрамований декоративним картушем.

Примітки

Див. також
 Прапор Вовковинців

Посилання
Українська геральдика

Герби селищ Хмельницької області

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Back in stock- Suzuko Koseki Fat 16th Bundles in 2 versions, includes both older oop styles and new prints.
Welcome to Sew Me A Song where you'll find an assortment of Japanese prints from Yuwa, Lecien and more as well as a fun assortment of text, low volume, and slightly quirky prints. If you have any questions or would like a custom listing set up please convo me.
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I'm already a big believer in checklists. At home I have a constant shopping list on the go and a reminder of what we need to purchase the next time we head to Bunnings. At Bluewire we have project to-do lists where steps are ticked off at each stage of a project, but we're always looking for ways to do things better.
Good checklists are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do no try to spell out everything–a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps–the ones that even the highly skilled professionals using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical.
For me this was a light bulb moment. Instead of getting our team to tick off rigid steps in a predetermined checklist (which most of the time doesn't suit the project), why don't we identify those important steps that are often overlooked. This list then becomes our mandatory checklist plus each project team can then create their own daily checklists (with the client) to complement and enhance the mandatory list.
By far this was the biggest take home for me. Checklists shouldn't include every single step of a process. You still want people to be able to think for themselves. Instead, a checklist should highlight those steps that are super important and yet often so obvious or simple that they're missed.
'The Checklist Manifesto' offers numerous real life examples which makes the book an interesting an enjoyable read. Plus, Gwande takes you on a journey while he develops a checklist that is now being used in operating theatres around the world.


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Q: Bulk insert when using IDENTITY This is my table structure.
CREATE TABLE emp
   (empid INT IDENTITY(101, 1),
    empname VARCHAR(20),
    salary DECIMAL(10,2),
    Created_date DATETIME DEFAULT(GETDATE())
   );

Now I have records like
'Ramesh',10000
'Arun',20000

in a .txt file.
I need to bulk insert those records into the table. Please guide me to write the bulk insert query.

A: Basically, you first need a staging table that has a structure that exactly matches your .txt file:
CREATE TABLE emp_staging
   (empname VARCHAR(20),
    salary DECIMAL(10,2)
   );

Then, BULK INSERT the data from the .txt file into your staging table and check:
BULK INSERT dbo.emp_staging
   FROM 'd:\temp\emps.txt'
   WITH
      (
         FIELDTERMINATOR =',',
         ROWTERMINATOR ='\n'
      );

SELECT * FROM dbo.emp_staging

Once that's done - now you can insert the data from the staging table into the actual table using INSERT .. SELECT ...:
INSERT INTO dbo.emp
        ( empname, salary )
    SELECT empname, salary
    FROM dbo.emp_staging

SELECT * FROM dbo.emp

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The root of Mitchell is the Christian name Michael, of Hebrew origin (meaning "with the likeness of God"). Medieval clerks would inscribe Michael in its learned Latinate form. But its early pronunciation appears to have been Michel, in the French style.
The "t" was introduced into the spelling to signify that "ch" was a hard sound "tch," rather than the soft "sh" French pronunciation. This hard "tch" was particularly prevalent in Scotland.
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Scotland. It was said that a Mitchell family from Mitcham in Surrey brought the Mitchell name to Scotland. The Mitchell name took root there and evolved in many parts of the country. It appeared in 1354 on the Treaty of Berwick. A John Mitchell was rewarded in 1489 for holding Dumbarton castle. And Mitchells became landowners in Ayrshire and Stirlingshire.
The largest numbers of Mitchells were later to be found in the northeast of Scotland, in Angus and Aberdeenshire where the diminutive Mitchie name was also to be found.
Some of these Mitchells left the area in the 19th century to join the British army or to emigrate. But many stayed. One third of the Scottish Mitchells were to be found in this part of Scotland at the end of the 19th century. A Mitchell family in Letham, Angus has been producing quality Scottish-raised chickens since 1904.
England. While the Mitchell name may have originated in Surrey, there was a larger concentration in the north of England, particularly in Yorkshire.
Yorkshire Early sightings of the name, in Elzabethan times, were to be found in and around Halifax in the West Ridings. Nonconformist Mitchells from this area were among the early emigrants to America. There was the rather gruesome story of Anthony Mitchell being beheaded on the Halifax gibbet in 1650 for the crime of horse theft. In the 1840's, William Mitchell started Mitchell's brewery in Pontefract.
SW England There were also Mitchells in the southwest of England from early times. The Devon Rawkerayne family dates from about 1410. Later Mitchell families were to be found at Colyton, Gittisham, and Plymstock. Philip Mitchell was a local 19th century landscape painter of the area.
the Mitchells of Sligo can be traced to Hugh O'Maoilmhichil (Owen Mitchell) in the late 17th century.
another Mitchell line there has been traced to Barnabrach farm in Sligo.
Other Mitchells in Ireland were of Scots descent.
America. Experience Mitchell was one of the early New England settlers, arriving on the Anne in 1623 and later settling in Duxbury.
Dr. Abraham Mitchell, of Scots-Irish extraction, was the forebear of the Mitchell family of Cecil County, Maryland. Their home, originally built in 1764, is being restored to its original condition by the Elk Creeks Preservation Society.
The name of Elisha Mitchell, an early university professor, has been remembered with some affection in North Carolina. Dr. Mitchell was the first scientist to argue that the peak in the Black Mountains was the highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi. In 1857 he fell to his death on a waterfall on the side of this mountain. The mountain was subsequently named Mount Mitchell in his honor.
Heading West. Mitchell pioneers who headed inland included James Mitchell to Cole County, Tennessee in the 1830's and William Mitchell to Dade County, Missouri in the 1840's. Asa and Eli Mitchell were early settlers and soldiers during the Texas Revolution.
Alexander Mitchell from Aberdeen in Scotland immigrated to America in 1839. He pursued a career of banking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ended up as one of the wealthiest men in the state. Mitchell Park in Milwaukee is named after him. His son John Mitchell became the US senator for Wisconsin and his grandson General Billy Mitchell is considered the father of the US Air Force.
San Francisco. A Mitchell family moved to San Francisco from New York in 1865 and started a small dairy farm in the hills above what is now Noe Valley. Edward Mitchell ran the farm until his untimely death in the late 1890's, leaving his wife with eight young children to raise on her own. She leased out the land to another farmer and in 1913 had the apartment building that now houses Mitchell's Ice Cream built on the corner of 29th Street and San Jose Avenue. It was in 1952 that two Mitchell brothers Jack and Larry turned this space into their famed ice cream parlor.
John Mitchell had arrived in San Francisco from Illinois also around 1865. His son Edward was one of the earliest and one of the most prolific postcard publishers in the United States during the golden age of postcards at the turn of the century.
Canada. Most Mitchell immigrants were of Scots or Scots-Irish origin. Allen Mitchell, for instance, came from county Armagh on the Miltiades in 1846 and settled in Maryborough township, Ontario. William and Catherine Mitchell from county Cavan farmed in Quebec near Ottawa. Their sons later homesteaded in Saskatchewan. Another Mitchell family from Dublin ended up in Victoria, British Columbia. And Dorothea Mitchell, of Anglo-Indian roots, achieved some local fame in the early 20th century as a lady lumberjack.
Mitchells in Saskatchewan It was a Mendel not a Mitchell family that started a meat packing business in Saskatoon in 1940. However, this business was rebranded Mitchell's Gourmet Foods in 1970 when Fred Mendel's daughter, Johanna Mitchell, became President.
What happened next might have come from Shekespeare's King Lear. Her son Fred battled and won control from an alliance involving his mother, a brother and sister. Complicating the matter was Fred's marriage to a former local beauty queen. Never accepted by members of the Mitchell family, LuAnn Mitchell nevertheless managed to take over the company following her husband's death.
Australia. Sir Thomas Mitchell from Craigend in Stirlingshire was the surveyor who made four expeditions into the unknown interior of Australia in its early years. David Mitchell arrived from Forfar in 1852 and made his name in the construction of many of the public buildings in Melbourne. His daughter Helen Mitchell is better known as the Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba.
and Henry Mitchell from Yorkshire who founded Mitchelltown, a suburb of Wellington. He had built small cottages there for workers in the 1870's.
Sir Thomas Mitchell was a Scots surveyor and explorer in Australia in its early years, after whom a number of places in Australia are named.
John Mitchel, the son of a Scots Presbyterian minister in Ireland, became a strident activist for Irish nationalism in the 1850's and 1860's.
Helen Mitchell is better known as the Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba.
General Billy Mitchell is considered the father of the US Air Force.
Joni Mitchell is the Canadian-born folk singer.
George Mitchell is considered the father of the US fracking industry. He was the grandson of Greek immigrants who had adopted the Mitchell name.


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namespace download {

TEST(BaseFileWin, AnnotateWithSourceInformation) {
  const char kTestFileContents[] = "Hello world!";
  const base::FilePath::CharType kZoneIdentifierStreamName[] =
      FILE_PATH_LITERAL(":Zone.Identifier");

  struct {
    const char* const url;
    const char* const referrer;
    bool expected_internet_zone;
  } kTestCases[] = {
      // Test cases where we expect a MOTW.
      {"http://example.com", "http://example.com", true},
      {"", "http://example.com", true},
      {"", "", true},
      {"http://example.com", "", true},
      {"data:text/plain,Foo", "http://example.com", true},
      {"data:text/plain,Foo", "", true},
      {"data:text/plain,Foo", "data:text/plain,Bar", true},
      {"data:text/plain,Foo", "ftp://localhost/foo", true},
      {"http://example.com", "http://localhost/foo", true},
      {"ftp://example.com/foo", "", true},

      // Test cases where we don't expect a MOTW. These test cases result in
      // different behavior across Windows versions.
      {"ftp://localhost/foo", "", false},
      {"http://localhost/foo", "", false},
      {"", "http://localhost/foo", false},
      {"file:///exists.txt", "", false},
      {"file:///exists.txt", "http://example.com", false},
      {"file:///does-not-exist.txt", "", false},
  };

  base::ScopedTempDir target_directory;
  ASSERT_TRUE(target_directory.CreateUniqueTempDir());

  for (const auto& test_case : kTestCases) {
    GURL url(test_case.url);
    GURL referrer(test_case.referrer);

    // Resolve file:// URLs relative to our temp directory.
    if (url.SchemeIsFile()) {
      base::FilePath relative_path =
          base::FilePath().AppendASCII(url.path().substr(1));
      url = net::FilePathToFileURL(
          target_directory.GetPath().Append(relative_path));
    }

    SCOPED_TRACE(::testing::Message() << "Source URL: " << url.spec()
                                      << " Referrer: " << test_case.referrer);

    BaseFile base_file(download::DownloadItem::kInvalidId);
    int64_t bytes_wasted = 0;  // unused
    ASSERT_EQ(DOWNLOAD_INTERRUPT_REASON_NONE,
              base_file.Initialize(base::FilePath(), target_directory.GetPath(),
                                   base::File(), 0, std::string(),
                                   std::unique_ptr<crypto::SecureHash>(), false,
                                   &bytes_wasted));
    ASSERT_FALSE(base_file.full_path().empty());
    ASSERT_EQ(DOWNLOAD_INTERRUPT_REASON_NONE,
              base_file.Rename(
                  target_directory.GetPath().AppendASCII("test_file.doc")));
    ASSERT_EQ(DOWNLOAD_INTERRUPT_REASON_NONE,
              base_file.AppendDataToFile(kTestFileContents,
                                         base::size(kTestFileContents)));
    ASSERT_EQ(DOWNLOAD_INTERRUPT_REASON_NONE,
              base_file.AnnotateWithSourceInformationSync(
                  "7B2CEE7C-DC81-4160-86F1-9C968597118F", url, referrer));
    base_file.Detach();
    base_file.Finish();

    base::FilePath path = base_file.full_path();
    base::FilePath zone_identifier_stream(path.value() +
                                          kZoneIdentifierStreamName);

    ASSERT_TRUE(base::PathExists(path));

    std::string zone_identifier;
    base::ReadFileToString(zone_identifier_stream, &zone_identifier);

    if (test_case.expected_internet_zone) {
      // The actual assigned zone could be anything and the contents of the zone
      // identifier depends on the version of Windows. So only testing that
      // there is a zone annotation.
      EXPECT_FALSE(zone_identifier.empty());
    } else if (!zone_identifier.empty()) {
      // Seeing an unexpected zone identifier is not an error, but we log a
      // warning just the same so that such cases can be identified during
      // manual testing.
      LOG(WARNING) << "Unexpected zone annotation for Source:" << url.spec()
                   << " Referrer:" << test_case.referrer
                   << " Annotation:" << std::endl
                   << zone_identifier;
    }
    base::DeleteFile(path, false);
  }
}

}  // namespace download


THEY MET in Palm Springs after he fled the city to escape the L.A. riots.
Jack Merrick is fond of saying that Rodney King brought he and his wife Margot—"the love of my life"—together.
At the end of the evening, in walked a gaggle of females celebrating a bachelorette party, with Margot as the ringleader.
The rest, as they say, is history. The Merricks, who recently moved to Malibu Canyon after living 20 years in the Hancock Park area, have been married 18 years. They have three kids: James, Jackson and Genevieve, and a business called Good Company Senior Care in the Miracle Mile.
It took Diane and Vic Hawley a little over two months to realize they wanted to be together forever.
TIMING was right for them.
The pair were grad students at a two-year program at Harvard Business School who lived in the same apartment building and had mutual friends. Somehow, though, their paths never crossed.
They all decided to meet the following week, and that night Vic asked her out for dinner and a movie.
"Wow! I wasn't looking for that," Diane recalled with a laugh.
BARBARA and Bob Terry met in San Francisco.
Bob Terry's dry cleaner played cupid when Terry was a bachelor living in San Francisco. The owner continually fixed Bob up with her single lady customers, including one gal who brought in a wedding dress for storage.
It turned out that her wedding had been called off, so the dry cleaner suggested that Bob should call her.
The couple, residents of Mansfield Ave., are celebrating 15 years of marriage with their son Nicholas, 12.


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import sublime
import sublime_plugin
import difflib
import time
import os.path

def is_st2():
    return sublime.version()[0] == '2'

class DiffTabsCommand(sublime_plugin.WindowCommand):
    def run(self, group, index):
        window = self.window

        aview = window.active_view()
        if window.get_view_index(aview) == (group, index):
            return
        bview = window.views_in_group(group)[index]

        aname = aview.file_name() if aview.file_name() else aview.name()
        bname = bview.file_name() if bview.file_name() else bview.name()

        a = aview.substr(sublime.Region(0, aview.size())).splitlines()
        b = bview.substr(sublime.Region(0, bview.size())).splitlines()

        adate = time.ctime() if aview.is_dirty() else time.ctime(os.stat(aname).st_mtime)
        bdate = time.ctime() if bview.is_dirty() else time.ctime(os.stat(bname).st_mtime)

        diff = difflib.unified_diff(b, a, bname, aname, bdate, adate, lineterm='')
        difftxt = u"\n".join(line for line in diff)

        if difftxt == "":
            sublime.status_message("Files are identical")
        else:
            v = window.new_file()
            v.set_name(os.path.basename(bname) + " -> " + os.path.basename(aname))
            v.set_scratch(True)
            if is_st2():
                v.set_syntax_file('Packages/Diff/Diff.tmLanguage')
                edit = v.begin_edit()
                v.insert(edit, 0, difftxt)
                v.end_edit(edit)
            else:
                v.assign_syntax('Packages/Diff/Diff.sublime-syntax')
                v.run_command('append', {'characters': difftxt})

    def is_visible(self, group, index):
        window = self.window
        view = window.active_view()
        return window.get_view_index(view) != (group, index)


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Viddy arrives as a flat-pack, DIY kit printed on thick cardboard, like its predecessor. But the new and improved design is half the size of Videre, easier to assemble, and available in four colors. It's compatible with medium format and 35mm film.
"To me it's really important to get these little features right," Angood told Co.Design last spring, noting the difficulty of perfecting details like the vintage-style "texture" on the cardboard punch-card.
Pinhole and Polaroid cameras have experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years as filter-weary photographers look for ways to return the documentary art to its roots. Rather than a lens, a pinhole camera features a simple hole; the photographer controls the shot by adjusting the exposure time. For amateur photographers looking for guidance, Angood is developing an app that recommends precise exposure times based on film speed and light conditions.
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Ajda est un prénom féminin existant dans plusieurs cultures.

C'est, tout d'abord, un prénom kurde signifiant "germe, jeune pousse".

C'est aussi un prénom qui se trouve au sud de la Suède, dans la région de Scanie, forme locale d'Agda, diminutif suédois d'Agatha.

C'est aussi la forme bosniaque du prénom arabe Aïda/Ayda عائدة. Ce prénom a été popularisé en Turquie par Ajda Pekkan dont la mère était bosniaque.

Ce prénom en slovène signifie aussi "sarrasin".

Notes et références

Prénom turc
Prénom kurde
Prénom slovène


I want to set up a regular schedule of postings to help you enjoy the things you love and do good at the same time. "What kinds of things?" you may ask. How about chocolate, coffee, shoes… most people have at least heard of TOMS shoes and the work they do. There may be many that we'll discover as we journey together.
I want to introduce you to companies and organizations that DO GOOD WHILE DOING WELL. I also want to hear about what you find that we can share. Some may be old news to you, but I hope you will learn about new ones as well. I may use phrases that are vaguely familiar; I'll help define those for you. I also want to show you how to be an active participant and encourage you to make any change you are capable of making. Some involve a little monetary sacrifice, others just a little time or inconvenience. I think we place too high a priority on convenience at the detriment of others. This can also be a challenge to you.
We'll start here next week. I think it entirely appropriate that we start our Monday morning with a GOOD cup of coffee. I know it is necessary for me, and generally for the health and welfare of those around me. In the meantime, let me know who or what you are passionate about that also lets you help others at the same time. Just leave it in the comments below. Thanks for your input. We'll learn about this together.
Love this! I will keep my eye and ear out so that I can share. :) I KNOW I will learn a lot!
Thanks a lot. Excited to see what you find.
Ah, we have so much to learn, don't we?!! I love supporting my friend's businesses and entreprenurial efforts. Many of them will sell products to support different causes and I think this is brilliant. My kid's schools always do a hat and mitten drive in the winter. This year, I bought the hats from my friend who crochets. Win-win!
That is such a good idea. I love things like that.


I grow hair like a yeti. No, seriously.
This is me after only a couple of weeks without shaving. My 'stache is already looming in on Ron Swanson levels. And with the winter chills a comin' I find the thought of clear-cutting the whole thing a chilly thought. So, while I'll de-stubble the hair cul-de-sac in the morning, you.. the lads and lassies I admire most.. get to help me come up with suitable beard/mustache concepts.
Ideas will be accepted in words and pictures. So please, think about my asschin.


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The public is often surprised after a major election when they learn that there's often thousands of ballots countywide remaining to be counted, according to the Clerk-Recorder's Office.
Uncounted ballots include vote-by-mail ballots, ballots that need to be duplicated because they haven't been processed yet due to rips or stains, and provisional ballots for people who changed their mind on Election Day or had a new home address.
Certified election results from the 2010 and 2008 elections also came in late November. Certification marks the end of counting and makes the tallies official.
Watch a small group of protestors rally against Rep. Devin Nunes' SLO fundraiser
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Ghorroj
About Ghorroj
Enfuzzened One
Somewhere Foreign (nr. Scarfolk)
First of the Ghor
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ViverFever
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Ghorroj replied to ViverFever's topic in Wilds of Fracture
The trees didn't give away their secret places easily. Still, Fiji reflected to himself as he parted a curtain of ivy and looked into the revealed stone hollow, at least they weren't giant, purple-capped psychotropic mushrooms. That had been a bad world and, afterward, apparently a bad lifetime. The ivy fell back into place as Fiji turned away and wandered through the woods, his pointed ears swivelling and shiny black nose twitching. His glacier blue eyes were half-closed, his posture relaxed and his stride was more of a sleepwalker's stagger that nevertheless kept his feet on rocks or exposed and semi-rotten logs. He paused suddenly, mid-stride, his foot still raised, as his head turned and his ears focused on something. His foot lowered as he listened intently, and then he stalked through the shadowy woods with a new purpose. He stumbled a few times. The darkness of unmanaged woodland hid moss-covered logs and submerged stones where they could not be easily seen. The few anaemic shrubs that tried to grow in the leafmould were easy to rip out and place, roots pointing the way. If he got his own way, Fiji decided as he clenched his lacerated fist to cover his lacerated palm, he'd turn the entire forest into an open mining pit. That'd teach nature not to mess with him. He grinned, fangs gleaming against the darkness, as he imagined the reacion of the emotionless popinjay in his Tower, and then huffed out a breath. He'd never go for it. Not for a few decades, at least, and the entire idea was a short-term fancy anyway. Sunlight glimmered through the trees and the breeze brought with it the scent of flowers. "I still think it's pretty odd." The wargs rolled, cuffed at each other with their immense paws, and play-bit, their black-spotted, coppery hides covered in dust from the road. "Yeah. They're pretty odd, alright." Tats pulled another one of the long pins out of the cart and started wiggling the other wheel free of its axle. "But they've done their bit, at least until-" "Not them!" Blondie straightened a little from levering the other wheel free and levelled a glare at his twin brother. "I mean that new guy. Dogface. If I could travel like that, Nisnav would never find me or my family. Makes you wonder what he's here for." "Maybe you could try asking." The growly voice made Blondie flinch, and the cart suddenly tipped towards him. Fiji's clawed hand caught the top of the cart bed before it could fall very far. "So. Who's this 'Dogface', and am I going to have to savage you over an insult?" "Don't mind my stupid brother." Tats leaned on the top of the cart as his brother backed away from Fiji with his hands up. "I'm Tats. That's Blondie. Fish is the four-armed guy sorting the weapons and shit. You're Dogface. No names, see? Keeps our... work from getting back to our families." "I do see." Fiji's pointed ears flicked down briefly; a Ghor apology that he knew quite well that the humans probably wouldn't even notice, let alone understand. He set the cart down gently on the road. "I found a clearing. Far enough from the road so we can't be seen. Close enough to get to easily in a hurry." He paused. "Do the savage, terrifying, exceptionally fierce and modest beasts have names?" It was Tats' turn to flinch. He turned slowly to look at the Wargs and relaxed visibly when he saw that they were still play-fighting. "You don't. Ever. Name the wargs that you take with you. If they don't like something you call them, they tend to tell you off." He looked at Fiji. "It's very painful to get told off by a Warg. Blood everywhere." "Sshow me thiss clearing." Fiji turned to look at Fish, who was walking towards them and wiping a clear film of grease from his hands with a pair of rags. The black-scaled fishman's tail thumped the ground behind him once or twice, the delicate-looking fins on the end throwing up rainbow hues. "Of course," said Fiji as he started walking towards the trees. "This way." Once more, the cool darkness of the woods swallowed him. @Spooky Mittens @ViverFever
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Ghorroj replied to supernal's topic in Chat
Woo! I must have stolen the right raffle box this time. Although it was in the same pub as last time, and had a lot more tickets than I was expecting. Apparently one of the prizes for the title-raffle is a barrel of beer..?
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Attention GMs and Quest-Givers! Potential antagonist for your quest or role-play!
Ghorroj replied to Tyler's topic in Water Cooler
If you're still open for curse suggestions: The Duck Curse. A perfectly ordinary waterfowl* flies over from somewhere nearby and lands on the cursed character's head. Said character cannot see, feel or hear the duck, and will be unable to believe anyone who points it out to them. The 'duck'* will immediately start quacking loudly and randomly during conversations, and will certainly be able to cover the conversation with incessant noise. If the original 'duck' dies and the curse hasn't run its course, another waterfowl will fly over and land on the cursed characters head, only this one will be a lot meaner and far more aggressive. This second 'duck' will actively attack the characters it isn't using as a perch. The third duck will also be aggressive, and will have the temporary ability to breathe fire when threatened. It should get much, much worse from here. Possible suggestion: DuckZilla. *Any waterfowl will do, as long as it is relatively light and can make loud and obnoxious noises. This curse is a reference to 'The Duck Man' from the novels of Terry Pratchett
Location: One mile from Blairville First Day (Mid-Morning) It was a lovely day for a stroll. Birds sang, bees buzzed from wildflower to wildflower, and small animals dived for cover and trembled as the cart rumbled along the road at the same speed as an enthusiastic jogger. Occasionally, the four-armed fish-man on the carter's seat twitched the reins he held in to of his hands, only to be completely ignored by the large, wolfish Wargs who pulled the thing along. Jogging next to the smallish cart were two men who were dark-haired and fairly well-muscled; both had stripped to the waist, although that didn't stop one of them from jingling with every step from the sheer amount of chains and apparently ornamental keys hanging from his belt and a collection of thin, white scars that covered every inch of bare skin. He was the normal-looking one. Someone given to understatement would have said that his companion was covered in tattoos, except that would have completely missed the opportunity to use the phrase 'walking carnal instruction manual'. Every arm movement, muscular twitch and deep breath caused by the light exercise he was taking resulted in something explicit and R-rated happening somewhere on the man's torso. Someone given to distraction would have tripped over their own feet; indeed, the man's scarred companion had distinctive marks on his hands where he'd presumably saved himself from greater injury while falling over, and was avoiding looking in the direction of the pornographic display. Loping a fair distance behind the cart was a tall, wolf-headed beast-man. Thick, light blue fur covered him from head to toe and his hunched, muscular shoulders flexed with every one of his own footfalls. His tongue hung out as he panted under the far-too-cheery sun, until he stopped, bent over and put his clawed hands on his knees. "Screw this," he muttered under his breath and stalked to the side of the road. He straightened and looked further ahead, and then he crouched and drew something in the soil with his foreclaw. He looked at the line of peculiar symbols, frowned, counted on his fingers, and then added a few more symbols underneath the row he'd already inscribed. He looked up and a patch of blue flame burst into being in mid-air and completely failed to burn any of the thorned hedgerow that hid the view. The flames widened, with a distinctive, slightly threatening hum, and hung in the air like a panel showing a view of a blue inferno. Abruptly, the view within the square patch of flame rippled from the centre and cleared until it showed the image of a road surfaced with white limestone next to a set of fields. The still-panting beastman stepped into the panel. The image didn't ripple or make any other movement; it looked exactly the same as if he'd stepped into a completely normal doorway. On the other side of the flame-edged portal through space, the wolfman looked around, stepped further into the centre of the road, took note of the cart way in the distance, then wandered back to the edge of the road and settled down in the grass to wait. He didn't look behind him as the panel he'd stepped through snapped shut with a pop of displaced air. Location: Six Miles from Blairville First Day (Midday) The cart rumbled slowly up to Fiji, who looked up from making a daisy-chain and squinted at the fish-man as the vehicle stopped. The two dark-furred Wargs in the traces were panting heavily and looked thoroughly displeased with their lot as Fiji carefully placed the flower crown he'd made on his head, so that it dangled over his ears. "What do you think, guys?" Fiji said, tilting his head from side-to-side as the human bandits collapsed at the roadside. "Does it suit me?" "How?" croaked the fish-man. "I gave you the letter from Nisnav." Fiji's rumbling voice held a note of mild reproach. "I told him my abilities, demonstrated them even, and he said I'd be useful to this team. And you didn't even bother finding out what I could do." He squinted, then shielded his eyes to look at the black-scaled fish-man. "If you give me parchment and ink, I can make doors. They lead to places I can see. If you don't give me parchment and ink, I'll have to make the door in the soil here and you'll have to turn the cart around." "I vote... water." The voice belonged to the intellectual Porno-Bandit who'd read the letter in the first place. "I suggest watering yon wolf-beasts first." Fiji stood and brushed a few leaves off his furry behind. "Actually, I'll do that while you all get your breath back. Maybe pass out some water skin-" He stopped as he looked into the back of the cart, and then levered a greenish-tinged corpse with a leather hat on its head out of the way. "Beats me why you guys put the party-snacks on top of the water. Surely being underneath would keep them fresher?" As he talked, he pulled a leather waterskin from the cart and tossed it to one of the men on the ground. He tossed another one negligently to the fish-man, and then pulled a larger sack from underneath another corpse. It sloshed gently as he lifted it one-handed and without visible effort and walked to the front of the cart. "We have party snacks?" As if in answer, a long, drawn out moan followed by a death-rattle came from the back of the cart. "Wait. Zombies?" "Zombies are the best party-snacks," said Fiji levelly as he set the large, leather water container down. "They're carrion, but you can chase them. My people hold parties in haunted places that are full of walking carrion, and confused people usually pay us to do it." He grasped a deep wooden bowl from the back of the cart and put it down for the Wargs, before filling it from the container. Both of the Wargs stuffed their faces in the bowl and made noisy drinking sounds, clearly not caring when they got splashed. "No downsides whatsoever, especially when they're aged to perfection." Location: Forest (near Coth) First Day (afternoon) The gentle fizz of crickets gave way to a menacing hum and a ball of blue flame formed in midair over the road. It lengthened until it was a line of blue fire eight feet tall, and then widened into a mirror-like pane that was eight feet across. What the flame-edged panel showed wasn't a reflection; rather, the Warg-drawn cart exited the image without even making a ripple in the surface of of the picture. The driver, a four-armed, black-scaled fishman grimaced as he passed through the peculiar mirage, his sharp teeth making the expression disturbing and semi-threatening. Two men, one on either side of the cart, crossed next; each of them had one hand on the wooden vehicle, while the other hand held a bared short-sword. The last through the portal was a blue-furred beastman. He had a sheet of paper held between two hands and was murmuring something that could have been an incantation under his breath. His ears were flat against his head, his blue eyes narrowed in concentration, as he stepped through the flame-edged doorway. The second both of his feet were on the road, the portal moved back, away from the group and snapped shut with a faint pop. "Where are we this time?" "Looks woody. Is that a signpost? Go and have a look." "How far have we come?" "That's it for today." Fiji rumbled, as he rubbed one of his bloodshot eyes with the knuckles of his left hand. "I'm out. No more hops until tomorrow." "Eight miles from Coth!" called the bandit who'd gone to look at the signpost. "Not bad," murmured the other bandit, as he gave Fiji an appreciative look. "Thirty miles in a few hours, and I don't think we even got over a gentle stroll." "Close enough." The fish-man clambered off the cart. "Find a clearing so we can make camp. You know the drill." @Spooky Mittens @ViverFever
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Tavern of Legend OOC
Ghorroj replied to supernal's topic in TOL OOC
@jaistlyn To add a little more detail: the snowmen have makeshift capes made out of trousers (stolen from staff while everyone was sleeping) and are armed with mops and brooms. They're not animated: just ordinary snowmen.
Looking for a TOL mentor
Awesome! Thanks.
rp discussion
jaistlyn reacted to a post in a topic: Looking for a TOL mentor May 17, 2019
Talking of which: is it okay if I put up an exit post in that particular thread? I can't remember whether I'm still allowed to post there, or if my time's up yet.
Raffle ticket you say? Gimme!
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Custom user title 20
GAH! I must have stolen and replaced the wrong raffle box. ... I should have suspected something was up when I found it in the local pub, of all places.
Fun names you've encountered
Epic and hilarious. Have you based a character on them at all yet?
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a game of ambition [yanaihara clan]
Ghorroj replied to vielle's topic in Water Cooler
You already know my interest, and we've already talked about the basic concept of the character I'll be using. I'll run the character sheet by you when she's ready. ...now I just have to make her. ._.
looking for: group - small
looking for: group - large
Favourite name? Lord Touch-Me. I think it's pretty self-explanatory. Other names include: Fairy Poopsie, Whirligig, and Buku-Buku Chagama. That last one apparently means 'bubbling teakettle', but I honestly prefer the almost-poetry of the untranslated name whenever the characters in Overlord say it.
General chat thread
@The Rabbit Emperor Like Supernal, give me a mention when Akhenaten Iwijecht takes his mech out for a spin in wider Valucre. I wanna see what happens.
Okay. Work every thread like a traditional mecha-vs-kaiju story? Check. Have a very positive (or very disturbing, depending on which Court) personality, that could change if the pilots switch? Check. Be able to inject technobabble and shout out incomprehensible moves prior to causing a lightshow, or having the mech's fists pop off, rocket down a hallway and punch someone in the gut/face/elsewhere? Check. Have scenes where the mech is being upgraded/maintained? Check. I honestly can't see any drawbacks. But the main argument for it is that you want to do it. Now punch the part of your brain that is calling the idea 'stupid' in the face, and do it. I'd watch the hell out of that show.
Location: Blairville: On The Road. Grassy cobblestones raced past Fiji's peripheral vision in a blur of green-and-brown. The scent of magic, specifically the reagents that made potions work, mixed with that of perfumes and animals in the Market square. The yells of people diving to one side or another to get out of the way of the large, blue-furred wolf who bounded through the crowd added a patina of minor slapstick to the entire affair, but was swiftly left behind as Fiji turned down another street and raced onwards. About halfway to the gate, Fiji slowed, rose up onto his feet and then tried to rub some feeling back into his fingers. All-four running was fast, no doubt about it, but it was absolute murder on the hands. He walked onwards, then took the plain leather scroll-holder out of his mouth, focused on his destination and lengthened his stride; The giant gates of Blairville loomed ever higher in front of him. Just beyond those elephantine and overly grandiose symbols of of the city, and barely visible around one of the gateposts, was a simple cart. 'the leader is a four-armed man who reeks of fish' Vert's parting words, delivered with a grimace of distaste, came back to Fiji as he looked at the cart and the various Wargs, Orcs and humans milling around it. He saw someone with four arms, right enough, but that person was more 'fish-man' than 'man'. Either the hideous little homunculus had a wonderfully hidden sense of humour and mischief, or he was far more partisan and inclusive than he realised; Fiji resolved to inform him of both options at the earliest convenience, just to see the somersaults Vert's adorably-ugly little face went through. The smile that the thought evoked lasted right up until the fish-man spoke. "You! Dog-face! What are you doing here?" The shuddering breath that the black-and-grey mottled creature took through his gills translated themselves within Fiji's mind into racist swearing that mostly involved Fiji's mother. "My mother was lovely. I assume." Fiji let his nostrils flare briefly, before he handed over the sealed, leather scroll holder. "Here. Orders from someone who told me to look out for you." The fish-man stared at the ornate wax seal intently before cracking it away from the leather and unfurling the single-sheet contents. He stared at it blankly, and then handed it off to one of the two humans with a stern bark of 'Here! Read!'. If Fiji was any judge, the man, who looked like a bandit and smelled like a bandit, would most likely have the same reading ability as a bandit. "Too... ooo Whooo. Um. Whooomeeev-" began the painful dissection. "What are you doing here?" The words, rather faster than the ones that the fishman had been speaking previously, were aimed at Fiji. He looked at the piscine, sharp-toothed face, smiled and pretended nothing was wrong. "Special assignment from Nasniv. I think you're supposed to watch me, make sure I don't do any funny-business." "...iiiit. Con. Cooonceeeer..." "Of course," Fiji continued, ignoring the way the fish-man's eyes were closing more with every word, and the way his teeth were being gradually more bared, "he implied something about wanting to torture and kill me himself if I am disloyal. So your bonus is still on the line. On the other hand, my abilities should be useful, should you want me to use them." "...thiiii- thiii- the pee- per- pers- persimmon..." The brief hiss from the fish-man sounded like a kettle at full-boil and the bizarre fin-like appendages on either side of his face fanned forward. "Fine. Go. Load the cart." The fish-man waved one hand dismissively in Fiji's direction. "Try not to fall over and impale yourself on one of my spears, language-lover." "iiis. Is. Reeee-" "And you can stop that too," added the fish-man, snatching the scroll from the bandit. "Give that back!" Rather than watch the inevitable argument and posturing, Fiji looked around at the motley group. Two Wargs, intelligent, black-furred quadrupeds who resembled large wolves, stared at him intently and ignored the human who was tightening the leather harness on one of them. A skeleton, dressed in sparse, rusted armour, grinned at him from the other side of the cart. Its twin, this one wearing a leather hat but very little else, stood up from where it had been crouched next to the vehicle and stared back at Fiji. The delectable scent of carrion wafted over when the breeze suddenly shifted direction, and the nearby figure that Fiji had assumed was human turned. For a moment, just a moment, the beastman had to hold himself back from leaping at the leather-clad warrior whose face had clearly been gnawed half-off. It was difficult, very difficult, but breakfast had been only ten minutes ago; there was sure to be other things to chase and eat along the way, although it was unlikely that any of them would be as fun to subdue and crack open as a zombie. Two zombies. There was another one standing a little way up the road from the cart, or Fiji's nose was a damned liar. In order to distract himself from potentially eating valuable assets, Fiji looked at the crate that the intellectual bandit had returned to loading onto the cart. He stared for a moment at the mismatched collection of weapons then sighed, wandered over, grasped the crate with both hands and picked the entire thing up. He noted the disbelieving look from the bandit as he simply slid the entire crate onto the back of the cart, then stepped back and dusted his hands off. "What?" he said, innocently. "Bet you won't be able to pull it back off there when we stop," said the bandit, confidently, the scar on his mouth crinkling as he grinned. "Really?" Fiji flicked his ears down. "Want to bet your left forearm?" "Fuck off!" A few minutes later, Wargs tethered to the cart and pulling for all they were worth, they set off. More or less. @Spooky Mittens @ViverFever


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