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Molecular biologist Richard Jefferson is one of the most prominent scientists in global agriculture, inventor of major enabling technologies in biotechnology, and a pioneer in public participation and transparency in innovation. After a role as senior molecular biologist for the Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN, in 1991 he founded the non-profit social enterprise Cambia to democratize science-enabled innovation, and to bring efficiency and equity to problem solving using science & technology. Jefferson founded the Biological Open Source (BiOS) Initiative, a patent-based commons, and the Patent Lens, the world's leading non-profit patent search and analysis site. In 2009, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lemelson Foundation, Richard became Professor of Science, Technology & Law at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, where he leads the Initiative for Open Innovation, promoting open "innovation cartography", enabling an inclusive innovation ecosystem 'informed by evidence, but inspired by imagination'.


Thanks. The term "store-issued debit/rebate cards" doesn't cover in-store credit or gift/cash cards or gift certificates. I need an unambiguous and intuitively understandable umbrella term to cover them all that also doesn't overlap with the purpose of "credit accounts".
heto wrote: Thanks. The term "store-issued debit/rebate cards" doesn't cover in-store credit or gift/cash cards or gift certificates. I need an unambiguous and intuitively understandable umbrella term to cover them all that also doesn't overlap with the purpose of "credit accounts".
Perhaps the general term of abuse we've used for years would suit: Plastic.
Thanks, but, to me, the term "Plastic" DOES OVERLAP (intuitively) with the purpose of "credit accounts". Also, to me, it doesn't serve well as the umbrella term I mentioned in the above post you quoted.
We need to return to the "gold standard".


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This educational session focuses on the rich heritage of Los Angeles's jewelry industry from the perspective of manufacturing, education, design, retail, importing and the cultural impact that Los Angeles has on the global jewelry industry. We will explore several of the marque brands that have been established in Los Angeles such as Brock, Montgomery, Laykin, Ruser, Flato, Kazanjian, Katz and others...going all the way back to the 1800's when the city had a population of less than 100,000 people and most of the roads were still dirt. The presentation also covers the rise and evolution of the downtown Los Angeles jewelry district which is continues to thrive to this day and is second only to New York's 47th street.
This entertaining and educational session explores the 100 year old relationship between the film and jewelry industry with an emphasis on jewelers whom have operated in Hollywood itself including; Laykin et Cie, Paul Flato, Vedura, David Webb, Ruser, Winston, Trabert & Hoefer, Van Cleef and Arpels, Cartier, Tiffany, Tallarico, Kazanjian, Katz and others. The presentation covers stylistic periods, great film representations of important jewels, lore and history. Included are wonderful stories of Laykin et Cie working with many of Hollywood's legendary personalities from Lucile Ball to Mae West to Zsa Zsa Gabor and Demi Moore!


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The Mayor's Community Service Awards (MCSAs) are an annual campaign to recognize extraordinary District residents who use service to make a significant positive contribution to the community. MCSA recipients were chosen in six categories, including Community Service, National Service, Emergency Preparedness and Public Safety, Education, Youth, and HIV/AIDS Advocacy.
The mayor's community service award went to Carolyn Cook, a native Washingtonian, American University graduate and Chevy Chase advisory neighborhood commissioner. A women's rights advocate, Cook founded United for Equality LLC in 2010 to help ratify the Equal Rights Amendment so that the U.S. Constitution explicitly states that all women are entitled to the same inalienable rights as men.
The deadline for ratification of the ERA expired in 1982, leaving women facing gender discrimination with insufficient protection under the law with which to fight their grievances, Cook said. She is also working with the nonprofit Cultural Tourism DC to establish a women's history trail in the city. Cook was inspired to become an advisory neighborhood commissioner in 2009, after Hillary Clinton lost her bid to become president.
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Data consumption surges in lockdown Britain
Virgin Media O2 reveals performance data showing 2021 was a record year for data consumption
Joe O'Halloran, Computer Weekly
Published: 22 Dec 2021 17:00
In what it calls another rollercoaster year reflected by digital behaviours amid lockdown and varying restrictions, Virgin Media O2 has reported sustained growth in demand for services as customers made a long-term shift to hybrid working, a move that it says enhances a need for ultrafast and reliable connectivity across fixed and mobile networks.
The survey analysed tens of millions of customers between 1 January and 10 December 2021, and revealed the impact of a year of highs and lows on the nation's connectivity habits across the merged company's mobile, broadband and TV networks.
In a year that saw a third national lockdown, a summer of freedom and then the emergence of Omicron and new restrictions, as well as great appetite for major sports and gaming launches, the company said the one thing that remained constant was the nation's reliance on technology.
Indeed, Virgin Media O2 said that during 2021 it witnessed its biggest year for data usage on both broadband and mobile networks, as more people than ever went online to chat, stream, share and game. In 2021, customers downloaded 19% more broadband data than the previous year, with mobile traffic up 45% year on year.
From a business perspective, the company said there had been a trend to move from home working weariness to hybrid working "bliss". Analysis from Virgin Media's broadband network revealed that Brits downloaded on average 18.9GB of data per day between January and February 2021 – a 52% increase on pre-pandemic levels.
The peak period for broadband and mobile download traffic shifted from 8pm to 4pm during lockdown in February 2021. Virgin described this as the time when "frazzled parents relied on streaming TV, YouTube and online gaming to distract their kids" while juggling remote working and Zoom calls. October saw peak download traffic return to 8pm, as Brits adapted to new hybrid working patterns.
During the summer, Virgin witnessed a large uptick in live sport viewing, up 24% annually. The busiest days of TV viewing were linked to some of the biggest sporting moments early in the year, including the India vs England Test Cricket, FA Cup clashes and the Super Bowl. And in early December, Premier League matches streamed on Amazon Prime drove the busiest evening peak of the year, with broadband traffic up 34% on average, and 24% higher than the previous year's events.
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Broadband beats bedrooms for UK homebuyers as research from global communications provider Huawei finds that fast internet access is now a top-two must-have for UK homebuyers.
Hybrid work boom sees 170% increase in TalkTalk full-fibre footprint, as business growth and new ways of working contribute to increasing investment in UK operator's FTTP offering and wider business network over the past year, leading to demand for reliable, gigabit broadband soaring.
Gaming also showed a substantial rise over the year. Lockdown supercharged time spent on Fortnite, Roblox and FIFA, with people at home using more data than ever for gaming. New releases of Call of duty, Fortnite and Apex legends drove large data spikes in February and March, leading to some of the busiest days for broadband traffic.
Even after 2021 lockdown ended in July, gaming on Virgin Media's broadband network continued to rise: 5 December marked the biggest data download day, driven by the hotly anticipated release of Fortnite chapter 3, while Warzone Caldera and Halo infinite, which dropped 13 hours apart, caused evening traffic to surge to the second-highest levels ever on 8 December.
Other consumption highlights include "peak Netflix" day, namely the release of Squid game, which drove the most Netflix traffic on 3 October, jumping 27% over previous weekends. Virgin Media's broadband network saw significantly lower levels of internet usage during England's Euro 2020 matches, with the biggest drop coming during the final, with customers downloading 28% less traffic compared with the previous week as fans were rendered speechless.
Commenting on the survey, Virgin Media O2 chief technology officer Jeanie York said: "The data is clear that these changes are long-lasting: even as we regained our freedom, we continued to connect with friends and family. Whatever 2022 has in store for us, we're fully prepared to keep the country connected with the things they love."
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Last week was a busy one for OAI! We attended the 31st National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, and hosted delegations from two different countries. Early in the week a contingent of about 20 people from Japan joined us and later in the week a group of about 10 people from Germany. Between these two groups the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) were heavily represented, along with representation from several other aerospace companies mixed into the groups. OAI was also featured in a recent Denver Post article, "International Space Symposium Delegates Tour of Colorado Aerospace Sector." You can read the article . All of this on top of the daily work we do to ensure we take great care of our customers and commitments!


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Scandalous by Sybil Bartel
@SybilBartel @XpressoReads
categories: Noteworthy Book Releases, Book Blitz, Contemporary Romance
Title: Merciless
Author: Sybil Bartel
Series: Alpha Bodyguard #2
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform on November 6, 2018
Bodyguard.
Mercenary.
Gun for hire.
I didn't care what you called it, the end result was always the same.
You paid me for a job, you got results. The Marines trained me to shoot, but life taught me to aim. Working for the best personal security firm in the business was a stepping stone. Put in my time, build the résumé, then move on. I didn't do attachments, on any level.
Until a smoking-hot former one-night stand crossed the street in front of me, holding a kid who was my spitting image. She tried to play it off, deny he was mine. She said she didn't remember me, right before she turned around and ran. She thought she'd made a clean escape.
But she was about to find out how merciless a bodyguard could be.
*MERCILESS is a sexy new standalone book in the Alpha Bodyguard Series.
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She stood on tiptoe and reached to put the glass away in the cupboard, but she wasn't quite tall enough. The glass fumbled in her fingertips.
It was pure reaction. I stepped behind her and caught it before it shattered on the tile floor.
Then the back of her body was against me and the reaction was immediate. My dick instantly hard, I sucked in a breath of pure fucking female, and she froze.
"Thanks," she whispered, every muscle in her body going taut.
"Welcome," I rasped, shoving the glass onto the shelf, telling myself to step the fuck back. But before I could put distance between us, she shocked the fuck out of me for the second time.
She leaned into me. Her head under my chin, her body tucked in to mine, she put her hand on my thigh.
"Brookelyn," I warned.
Her voice even quieter. "What?"
Jesus, she was small. "What are you doing?" The top of her head barely grazed my pecs. With all of her wild hair and baggy clothes, I hadn't realized how fucking petite she actually was.
Pressing in to me with deliberate intent, she squeezed my leg. "Something I shouldn't."
About Sybil Bartel
Sybil Bartel grew up in Northern California with her head in a book and her feet in the sand. She dreamt of becoming a painter but the heady scent of libraries with their shelves full of books drew her into the world of storytelling. She loves the New Adult genre, but any story about a love so desperately wrong and impossibly beautiful makes her swoon.
Sybil now resides in Southern Florida and while she doesn't get to read as much as she likes, she still buries her toes in the sand. If she isn't writing or fighting to contain the banana plantation in her backyard, you can find her spending time with her handsomely tattooed husband, her brilliantly practical son and a mischievous miniature boxer…
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Here are ten things you probably really want to know about Sybil.
She grew up a faculty brat. She can swear like a sailor. She loves men in uniform. She hates being told what to do. She can do your taxes (but don't ask). The Bird Market in Hong Kong freaks her out. Her favorite word is desperate…or dirty, or both—she can't decide. She has a thing for muscle cars. But never reply on her for driving directions, ever. And she has a new book boyfriend every week—don't tell her husband.
To find out more about Sybil Bartel, be sure to follow her on Twitter (she loves to hear about your favorite book boyfriend!), visit her website, like her on Facebook or join her Facebook group Book Boyfriend Heroes for exclusive excerpts and giveaways.
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Crazy Scottish Love by Jessie Donovan
@JessieDauthor @XpressoReads
Title: Crazy Scottish Love
Author: Jessie Donovan
Series: Love in Scotland #1
Published by Mythical Lake Press, LLC on October 15, 2018
Tired of the online dating scene and her nagging mother, Donella Spencer braves her eccentric extended family and heads for a month-long visit to Scotland to stay with them. As long as she keeps to herself and avoids her family as much as possible, it should be easy to relax, right?
What she doesn't count on is running into Robbie Campbell, the guy who tried so hard to ditch her nearly twenty years ago that it took a search and rescue team to save her. Not only that, she doesn't expect to fall for Robbie's daughter's big, brown eyes and agree to hold a themed costume party for Donella's 31st birthday. One that involves her relatives dressing in nineteenth century safari garb and dusty, old animal outfits.
And none of that even begins to address her grandmother's attempts to matchmake and marry off Donella within the month.
It's going to be one long, trying summer in Scotland. However, sometimes the strangest situations can show what someone needs in life. Because if Donella falls in love with a man who can put up with her family, she may finally have her happy ending in sight.
Provided her relatives don't drive her crazy first.
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Archie barked and in the next second, Donella fell against his chest. He managed to release her hand and place it on her waist to steady her.
For a few beats,they remained that way, her chest against his front, his hand just above the curve of her hip. His heart pounded, and as Donella's sweet feminine scent filled his nose, he nearly lowered his head to nuzzle her cheek.
However, Donella raised her face so she could meet his gaze again. Between her flushed cheeks and soft body, he leaneda fraction closer to her lips. Catching himself, he froze.
Robbie opened his mouth to apologize, but Donella spoke first. "Just kiss me, Robbie. I'm tired of wondering."
There were plenty of reasons why he should step away and refuse. After all, the best way to protect Ruby was to keep others away from her. If he never fell in love with a woman again, there was no risk of breaking his daughter's heart if something went wrong.
And yet, he remembered Donella agreeing to have a fancy-dress party because Ruby asked. Or, how she'd taken his daughter inside and easily agreed to look at a rock collection. Bloody hell, she'd even given up her first full day in Scotland to spend it with him and his daughter.
Maybe, just maybe, Donella Spencer was different.
Before he could change his mind, Robbie closed the distance between their lips and kissed her.
About Jessie Donovan
Jessie Donovan has sold over half a million books across multiple formats, has given away hundreds of thousands more to readers for free, and has even hit the NY Times and USA Today bestseller lists. She is best known for her dragon-shifter series, but also writes about magic users, aliens, and even has an upcoming crazy romantic comedy set in Scotland. When not reading a book, attempting to tame her yard, or traipsing around some foreign country on a shoestring, she can often be found interacting with her readers on Facebook. She lives near Seattle, where, yes, it rains a lot but it also makes everything green.
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Death by the River
by Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor
@alexandreaweis @XpressoReads
categories: Noteworthy Book Releases, Book Blitz, Horror, Young Adult
Title: Death by the River
Author: Alexandrea Weis, Lucas Astor
Published by Vesuvian Books on October 2, 2018
Genres: Horror, Young Adult
A high school "American Psycho."
SOME TRUTHS ARE BETTER KEPT SECRET.
SOME SECRETS ARE BETTER OFF DEAD.
Along the banks of the Bogue Falaya River, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from prying eyes, the teens of St. Benedict High gather here on Fridays. The rest of the week belongs to school and family—but weekends belong to the river.
And the river belongs to Beau Devereaux.
The only child of a powerful family, Beau can do no wrong. Handsome. Charming. Intelligent. The star quarterback of the football team. The "prince" of St. Benedict is the ultimate catch.
He is also a psychopath.
A dirty family secret buried for years, Beau's evil grows unchecked. In the shadows of the ruined St. Francis Abbey, he commits unspeakable acts on his victims and ensures their silence with threats and intimidation. Senior year, Beau sets his sights on his girlfriend's headstrong twin sister, Leslie, who hates him. Everything he wants but cannot have, she will be his ultimate prize.
As the victim toll mounts, it becomes crystal clear that someone has to stop Beau Devereaux.
And that someone will pay with their life.
Leslie followed him along the shoreline until they came to a rusted iron gate with a No Trespassing sign secured to it. Decorated with crosses and swirls, the sign marked the entrance to The Abbey grounds. Stepping through the open gate, she peered up at the imposing structure.
Two spires of white limestone, shaped like the tip of a sword, cut into the blue sky. The structure of red brick and limestone, the front windows and doors secured with loose scraps of plywood, sat in the middle of a field of high grass. The squat stone building of cloisters behind The Abbey remained intact. The Benedictine monks who had run the seminary school demolished the dormitories, refectory, and library after the site had been abandoned.
"Some place, huh?" Derek let go of her hand and trudged his way across the high grass.
Leslie's apprehension bloomed in her chest. The grounds, unkempt after years of neglect, were a hodgepodge of weeds, overgrown trees, and green vines. On the way across the thigh-high grass, they passed a beautiful triple-tiered fountain with an angel on top, raising her arms to the heavens—a silent witness to the past.
How do people come here at night?
"You ever wonder why those priests just up and left it?" she asked, uncomfortable with the eerie quiet. Even the birds had stopped singing. "I know everyone in town says they got a better offer from the seminary in New Orleans, but it seems funny a bunch of people abandoned the place for no reason."
"They left because it's a wreck." Derek parted a thick pile of tall grass with his shoe. "My mom told me it was falling apart when she was a kid, and the Archdiocese didn't have the money to fix it. So they packed up the seminary school, the priests, and all the staff and shipped them to New Orleans."
"Seems a shame, though. I read once that the structure dates back to the early 1800s when the Devereaux family built it as a private church." Leslie eyed the frame of the empty belfry atop one of the square-shaped towers. "You'd think they'd want to save it."
Derek nudged her with his elbow. "Maybe the ghost drove the priests away."
Beau's tale had been in the back of her head the whole time, but Derek's comment spooked the crap out of her. "By ghost, do you mean the lady in white?"
"Yep." He scanned the land around them. "They say she wears a glistening white cloak and wanders the priests' cells. She only appears when the moon is full or during storms."
The thought of being alone in such a disturbing place terrified her. "Have you ever seen the ghost?"
Derek searched the thick foliage ahead of them. "Nah. I've come here a few times with Mark and Andrew to hang out, but we've never seen anything."
Granite steps rose out of the high grass as they drew near the entrance.
Leslie kicked herself for letting him talk her into coming to the remote location. "What about the wild dogs? Have you seen them around The Abbey?"
"Not to worry, baby. I'll protect you from ghosts, wild dogs, and Beau Devereaux." He climbed the granite steps, encouraging her to join him. "But I have to draw the line at your mother. There's no way I'm taking her on in a fight."
On the porch, beneath the cracked and chipped stone arch over the front doors, she waited while Derek wrestled with the plywood covering the entrance. She scanned the landscape, searching for any hint of trouble. But despite the creep factor, the lush green trees encircling them did have a soothing effect. Leslie breathed in the fresh pine scent and mossy aroma of the tall grass. Then a fly zipped past her face.
Thud.
She spun around to the source of the noise. Derek had pushed one of the large pieces of plywood securing the door out of the way, leaving a nice sized gap to crawl through.
"How did you do that?"
Derek held the plywood to the side for her. "The loose boards have been rigged to open easily. Found out about it the first time I came out here with Mark."
Leslie dipped her head and looked through the doorway. "You sure it's safe?"
His smile won over her fears.
"Baby. I wouldn't bring you here if it wasn't."
About Lucas Astor
Lucas Astor is from New York, has resided in Central America and the Middle East, and traveled through Europe. He lives a very private, virtually reclusive lifestyle, preferring to spend time with a close-knit group of friends than be in the spotlight.
He is an author and poet with a penchant for telling stories that delve into the dark side of the human psyche. He likes to explore the evil that exists, not just in the world, but right next door behind a smiling face.
Photography, making wine, and helping endangered species are just some of his interests. Lucas is an expert archer and enjoys jazz, blues, and classical music.
About Alexandrea Weis
Alexandrea Weis is an advanced practice registered nurse who was born and raised in New Orleans. Having been brought up in the motion picture industry, she learned to tell stories from a different perspective and began writing at the age of eight. Infusing the rich tapestry of her hometown into her award-winning novels, she believes that creating vivid characters makes a story memorable. A permitted/certified wildlife rehabber with the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries, Weis rescues orphaned and injured wildlife. She lives with her husband and pets in New Orleans.
Twisted Lies 4 by Sedona Venez
@SedonaVenez @XpressoReads
Title: Twisted Lies 4
Author: Sedona Venez
Series: Dirty Secrets #4
Published by One Wish Publishing on September 19, 2018
From USA Today Bestselling Author Sedona Venez comes an edge-of-your-seat captivating, heart-wrenching, romantic suspense.
If you're a fan of love/hate relationships, then read Twisted Lies 4. Or, just read it anyway.
A beautiful, captivating, angst-filled story with lessons about the fine line between love and hate—and two beautifully broken characters who will stick with you long after you finish this series.
For Core and Sin… there's a thin line between love and hate—and nothing is what it seems.
Core's a billionaire bad boy—living in a dangerous world—with an empire filled with dirty secrets, twisted lies, and scorching lust.
He's a corporate god, one that sassy, curvy Sin hasn't been able to avoid… or resist. But now the truth has come to light, and all secrets have been unveiled.
Lives are destroyed, and old wounds resurface.
It changes everything.
Core and Sin are teetering on losing the love of a lifetime.
A decision must be made… but Core has one last chance to make Sin his—or ruin what they have—permanently.
Sin is the only one who can heal Core's broken heart—but she no longer knows if she wants it.
Can Sin trust Core?
Or will she walk away and abandon their future… forever?
Twisted Lies 4 is the last book in the suspenseful and sexy contemporary romance Dirty Secrets Series by author Sedona Venez. A steamy romp of twists and shocking turns, readers will fall in love one last time with the ending of the popular and highly anticipated Twisted Lies serial.
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He rasped, "You going somewhere, Sin?"
There was no smile. When he crossed his muscular arms, my eyes traveled up his tall, well-built body that was pure rippling muscle. Hardened abs trailed downward to the waist of his black designer-looking jeans.
Damn, no man should look this fucking good all the time.
And why the hell wasn't he wearing a damn shirt? His body, from chest to wrist, was a beautiful composition of Japanese tattoos and other beast-themed ink.
"Yep," I replied. "I've got shit to do."
He arched a brow. "Like?"
"Like it's none of your business," I replied while slowly plodding toward him, stepping into his massive kitchen. We stood face-to-face as I leaned my hip against the granite kitchen counter.
He scowled. "That's where you're wrong. Everything about you is my business." He was studying me too closely, his expression brooding.
About Sedona Venez
Sedona Venez is a romance author with a dirty mind. She lives in New York City with her hot ex-military hubby--hooah--and their fur baby. She loves writing sizzling, sexy intricate stories about strong but broken characters who push limits, overcome their fears, and risk it all for love.
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Title: Scandalous
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform on September 10, 2018
Babysitter.
Chauffeur.
Not what the hell I thought I'd be doing with my life.
Especially not for a spoiled Hollywood actress on location in Miami Beach. But triple pay and carrying a gun had its advantages. I'd shove away paparazzi and screaming fans for a lot less. The Marines trained me to be Force Recon—intimidation and crowd control was child's play compared to four tours. This assignment should've been easy money.
But the doe-eyed starlet with the perfect ass dragged me down her rabbit hole. Living for the spotlight, she leaked the perfect scandal. I warned her making headlines wasn't in my job description, but she kept smiling for the cameras.
Now she was going to find out just how scandalous a bodyguard could be.
*SCANDALOUS is a sexy standalone book in the new Alpha Bodyguard Series!
The Alpha Bodyguard Series
SCANDALOUS – Tank's story
MERCILESS – Collins's story
RECKLESS – Tyler's story
RUTHLESS – Sawyer's story
I started the Escalade and checked the rearview mirrors. The last thing I wanted to deal with right now was the fucking paparazzi.
I backed out of the parking space.
She crossed her arms. "You're not saying anything."
I spun the SUV around and headed up the exit ramp. "What did you want me to say?" The anger and determination in her expression before the call to her lawyer had morphed into something I couldn't decipher.
"You're not working for my agent anymore."
I never worked for that prick. I worked for Luna first, myself second. Everything after that was relative. "Your point?" I checked the street for any asshole with a camera before I pulled out.
"Do you have a problem working for me?"
Besides the fact she was up to something and I'd bet my fucking Harley it was trouble? "Said I didn't."
She stared straight ahead for a moment. "You're attracted to me."
Bold as fuck, I'd give her that. "What gave you that impression?" I asked only to fuck with her.
Dropping her guarded expression, she turned halfway in her seat. "Oh, come on. Mr. Kinky Dominant Handcuff, now you're going to pretend to be professional?"
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Hitman Wedding by Eve Langlais
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Today we have the release blitz of HITMAN WEDDING by Eve Langlais!
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Title: HITMAN WEDDING
Author: Eve Langlais
About HITMAN WEDDING:
The employees of Bad Boy Inc. are gathering for a celebration. The bride sported the latest in bullet proof corsets. The groom wore a gun. The guests came armed for action. But the cake blew up before they could eat it. As for the honeymoon, it's going to be a mad chase across the globe dodging bullets and bombs to find the culprit who wants them all dead.
Once upon a time, Darren fell for a woman while in the world's most romantic city. In full view of the Eiffel tower he had his heart torn from his chest and stomped on.
Time for revenge. Francesca played Darren for a fool, but he won't let it happen again. Now that he's found her, she's going to pay for her actions. Problem is she's getting under his skin. Rubbing against his skin. Making him remember those Paris days and hotter nights.
Before he can decide if he's crazy enough to fall in love with her again, everything explodes after the wedding.
"Who hired you?"
Fran snorted. "Come now, Darren. You and I both know I am not going to answer that."
She sighed. "You're being ridiculous."
"There is nothing wrong with demanding answers." He waggled the point of his knife at her.
She still didn't flinch. "Are you going to torture me? Is that what you do now? Torment women because your ego is bruised?"
"The last time I tortured someone, it was with my tongue, and as I recall, you screamed for more."
A slight flare of her nostrils showed that she remembered what he spoke of. There was no mistaking the slight hint of pink in her cheeks. She never could hide her blushes, especially when aroused.
She still wants me, too? Heat flashed through him followed by an instant cold bucket of don't-fall-for-it-you-idiot. This wasn't real.
"You need to let me go. You don't know what you're doing. My surveillance of you was standard industry business. You, of all people, should understand that."
Yes, Darren knew all about espionage, especially that of companies and people. But who was behind it of late? Who kept laying traps and trying to kill the people trained at his academy?
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Assassin Next Door
Pint-Sized Protector
Deadly Match
Killer Daddy
About Eve:
New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Eve Langlais is a Canadian author who loves to write hot romance. She likes to blame her twisted imagination for her sarcastic sense of humor which tends to heavily influence her stories. She loves to write, and while she might not always know what her mind is going to come up with next, she does promise it will be fun, probably humorous and most of all romantic, because she believes in a happily ever after.
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The Good Sister by Rachael Stewart
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categories: Giveaways, Book Review, Book Blitz, Contemporary Romance, 7.5/10, Erotica
Title: The Good Sister
Author: Rachael Stewart
Published by Deep Desires Press on August 21, 2018
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Erotica
Source: Rachel's Random Resources
HE WASN'T HERS TO LOVE … BUT HER HEART DOESN'T CARE…
When Isla Evans agrees to switch lives with her rising star of a twin for three weeks, she has no idea the move will thrust her into the same bed as her teenage celebrity heartthrob, Bradley King. Trapped there at her sister's request, she gives her desire free reign and finds herself falling hard and fast.
And she's not alone.
Bradley wants a wife to tick all the boxes, save for one: love. It's not part of the deal, never was, never will be. But when he returns home early to find his hopeful-fiancée behaving all sorts of different, he likes it. A lot. Suddenly, he wants a real marriage, with all the trimmings, and he will stop at nothing until he gets it.
But this Hollywood HEA faces one big hurdle—she's not who he thinks she is…
Juicy, romantic, and deliciously racy!
The Good Sister is a steamy, passionate story that mixes the hardworking, supportive Isla who's determined to not only help out her sister but keep the man of her dreams safely out of her heart, and the charming, delectable Bradley who may finally discover that falling in love is even better than companionship with benefits.
The writing is smooth and sultry. The characters are hesitant, flirty, and endearing. And the plot is an enticing mix of instant attraction, familial drama, steamy chemistry, playful banter, tender moments, and smouldering heat.
Overall, I would have to say that The Good Sister is a salacious, alluring, erotic treat by Stewart that has a lighthearted storyline, engaging characters, titillating romance, and a happy-ever-after ending that will make you smile.
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About Rachael Stewart
Rachael Stewart adores conjuring up stories for the readers of Harlequin Mills & Boon and Deep Desires Press, with tales varying from the heart-warmingly romantic to the wildly erotic.
Despite a degree in Business Studies and spending many years in the corporate world, the desire to become an author never waned and it's now her full-time pleasure, a dream come true.
A Welsh lass at heart, she now lives in Yorkshire with her husband and three children, and if she's not glued to her laptop, she's wrapped up in them or enjoying the great outdoors seeking out inspiration.
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Entrapped by Claire Ayres
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categories: Noteworthy Book Releases, Excerpt, Book Blitz, Contemporary Romance
Title: Entrapped (Musicians Hope #1)
Author: Claire Ayres
Genre: 18+ Contemporary Romance
Release Day: August 17th
Cellist, Luka, has moved to Bristol to start a new job and recover from the betrayal of finding his best friend and his girlfriend in bed together. He doesn't plan on the emotional thunderstorm that meeting his next-door neighbour Jess causes.
Jess had everything, a man she loved, friends she adored and then the world crashed around her. Depression came from nowhere and slowly started ripping her life away. Now she lives a lonely, sad life but the music which she keeps hearing next door is waking her up and she doesn't know why.
Join Luka and Jess as they discover life after heartache, how to forgive and how to live and love again.
*Entrapped is an 18+ Contemporary Romance with several graphic sex scenes*
As if on cue she hears music start drifting from next door, the same beautiful sound as Friday night, except this time she recognises the tune, it's a track by The Blaze a popular rock band. Again, she finds herself pulled towards it.
Before she realises what she is doing, she has stood up and walked to the boundary between the two balconies. She presses tightly against it and leans over to listen as closely as possible. There is something about that man and his music which pulls her towards them. Her thoughts imagine him listening to the music the way that she does, his entire body and soul captured by the sounds in the same way she is and finally she starts to imagine her body entwined with his. The music leading them in a slow dance which is sensual even with his strong arms wrapped around her and his body leading the way. Jess is so caught up in her daydream she doesn't notice her feet lifting off the ground. Her knuckles are white from gripping the top of the boundary which her belly is balancing on. She is stretching her neck to get as close as possible to the doors on the other side and hear the music, which is igniting her whole body. The music is making all of the small hairs everywhere stand to attention, ready to march into battle, although she is not sure what battle they are expecting. Her breaths are becoming pants, and there is a ringing in her ears accompanying the pulsing between her legs.
As she strains to hear better the music stops and she topples forward almost falling headlong into his balcony. Saved only by strong arms, the arms she was fantasising about. Now those arms are catching her by her waist, not before they brush her breasts and sends heat signals to parts of her body which need no further encouragement.
He lifts her back to her side of the balcony, where she glances up, taking a glimpse of him through her eyelashes and feeling the heat rising from her neck into her cheeks she hastily picks up her Kindle and turns to her patio door. The humiliation that he caught her falling into his balcony burned through her like the heat of a thousand suns. She paused briefly to look over at him standing calmly watching her. "Ummm, thank you," she says before quickly running inside to the sound of a deep chuckle following her.
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Claire lives in Bristol, UK and has taken her inspiration from the people and the places she has seen over the years. She always has a book close at hand and devours Fantasy and Romance like some devour chocolate! Claire loves a happily ever after followed by lots of bloody sword-fighting and dangerous dragons! But when writing her debut novel Entrapped drew on her childhood ambition to be a musician and one of the instruments she played and still loves as a centre-point.
Claire is also a passionate mental health advocate who lives with bipolar disorder and has done regular radio interviews and even some TV. She is also a huge heavy metal fan and can regularly be found banging her head at a concert or festival.
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In Too Deep by Dani Collins
@DaniCollinsBook @XpressoReads
Title: In Too Deep
Author: Dani Collins
Series: Blue Spruce Lodge #3
Published by Tule Publishing on August 7, 2018
The family he didn't know he needed…
At her wit's end with her twelve-year-old niece, Wren Snow takes the manager's job at Blue Spruce Lodge so Sky can get to know her father, Trigg Johanssen—a tycoon snowboarder with a playboy reputation.
Gold-medalist Trigg Johanssen is furious she kept Sky a secret, but quits competition to focus on his newly discovered daughter only to have his chemistry with Wren complicate their attempts to co-parent.
When outside forces threaten the ski resort he's rebuilding, a marriage of convenience seems like the answer. It would give his daughter the life she deserves, but is it too much for a heartbroken woman still nursing past hurts?
SETUP: Wren has just arrived at Blue Spruce Lodge with her niece, Skylar. Sky wanted to meet her father, Trigg—a man who had NO IDEA he was a father until Wren showed up a month ago and revealed her sister had kept his baby.
~ * ~
Wren drew a deep breath of the clean mountain air, closing her eyes and letting the sunshine bathe her face. Construction noises sounded in the distance. Birdsong overlaid it with the pulse of rap music and a sudden, sharp whistle.
She opened her eyes and Oh. She started to flush with self-conscious heat even before she fully registered that Trigg Johansson was coming out of the lane and walking toward her. Her brain said, Hot man alert, then she recognized him and a fresher, more startling rush of sexual awareness went through her.
Déjà vu all over again. Damn it.
When she had arrived here in May, he had been sitting in a small, open-topped ATV kind of vehicle right here where she was standing. He'd been talking to another man who'd given her a friendly nod.
She might have said, "Hi." She honestly couldn't remember because her brain had been exploding.
Trigg had given her a wolfish look that she had felt in the pit of her belly. She had recognized him, having stalked him online, but even as she had met his gaze with hysterical disbelief, her girl-parts had scanned the mouth-watering selection and ordered the full buffet.
That's why she had chickened out on speaking to him directly. She had gone inside, ears ringing with her pounding heart. He'd been gone when she walked outside again.
By then, she had secured a tentative job offer and the knowledge that her life would never be the same.
She had dreaded seeing him after that. Not just because she'd seen firsthand that he was a player. Of coursehe was a player. He had knocked up her sister when he was seventeen. He probably had a whole flock of Skylars out there.
But who could blame Mandy or any of the women he'd conquered? He was built like a god and moved like a cat, as though he knew how to use each of his muscles exactly as intended. He wore jeans and a T-shirt today and had light stubble the same color as his dark brows. His hair had been in a man-bun the last time she saw him. Today it was shaved into business on the sides, rumpled bedhead on top. His eyes were a sharp, mountain-lake blue, his smile flat and tense. Forced.
That vaguely hostile, hard expression made her heart slip and judder while her limbs felt loose and lubricated.
The way he had smiled at her the first time had been very inviting and approving.
The second time, when they'd all met in a lawyer's office for twenty minutes, he'd worn a suit and hadn't smiled at all.
She wasn't able to find a smile right now. She was standing here like a virgin on her wedding night, throat dry, waiting for him to come to her.
Something nudged her in the crotch, scaring the shit out of her.
"Oh my God!" She jerked back and clipped her hip on the driver's side mirror. Pain streaked through her hip bone while she scrabbled for balance by grasping at the warm roof of the car.
"Murphy. Sit." Trigg stopped behind her taillight and snapped his fingers by his thigh.
The dog let his haunches drop, but stayed in front of her, tail swirling like an electric beater, sweeping through bits of gravel on the concrete. His pink tongue lolled out of his black-lipped mouth and he cocked his head at her. His ears and face were black, but he had a white stripe that came down between his eyes. The stripe ended in speckles above his black nose. There were more speckles on his white chest and legs. Border collie and heeler maybe, with Labrador eyes that offered instant and eternal love.
"Quite the welcoming committee." She smoothed her hand down the short, silky fur on his hard head.
"We usually charge extra for that, but since you're a VIP…" Trigg shoved his hands into the front pockets of his jeans. She could tell they were curled into fists. The mask of tension across his face bore an eerie resemblance to the one stonewalling in the passenger seat of her car.
About Dani Collins
USA Today Bestselling author, winner of 2013 Reviewer's Choice Award from Romantic Times Book Reviews
Before making my first sale to Harlequin Mills & Boon in 2012, I spent two decades writing and submitting to every publisher with a transom while holding down a day job and raising a family with my high school sweet heart. Since then, I've gone to contract on over thirty books.
While Harlequin Presents remains my first love, I also write romantic comedy, medieval fantasy romance, erotic romance, and small town contemporary romance for Tule Publishing's Montana Born. In fact, I write just about anything, so long as it's romance. P.S. I'm also Canadian.
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The Proposition by A.M. Salinger
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categories: Noteworthy Book Releases, LGBTQIA, Book Blitz, Contemporary Romance
Title: The Proposition (Nights, #6)
Author: A.M. Salinger
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance
They call me the Charmer. My best friend Wade tells me it's because I'm suave and mysterious. But he doesn't know my secret. The one I've kept hidden from him for twelve years. The one I will never reveal to him — Rhys
They call me The Brute. Probably because of my physique. And, let's face it, because I'm a total dick at times. So Rhys likes to tell me anyway. Thing is, there's something Rhys isn't telling me. Something I'm dying to hear from his lips. His sinful confession. You see, I know Rhys's secret — Wade
Rhys Damon has spent most of his adult life watching Wade Tucker bed woman after woman, his dark desire for his best friend and business partner a secret he is determined to take to his grave, since he knows it will never be reciprocated. With their design firm thriving across two continents, Rhys finds himself content burying his heartache in a string of meaningless, casual sex arrangements. Until the night everything changes.
When Wade Tucker stumbles upon his best friend calling out his name as he pleasures himself, he knows his relationship with Rhys will never be the same again. A year later, the memory of what Wade saw is still branded in his mind and his feelings for Rhys have evolved into something he never anticipated. As tension mounts and the relationship between the two business partners becomes increasingly strained, things finally come to a head the night Wade follows Rhys and discovers him with another man.
After an explosive confrontation, Wade makes Rhys a proposition he can't refuse: that they try things out for six weeks. Six weeks of exploring a side of each other they never knew before. Six weeks of torrid kisses and sultry touches. Six weeks of screamingly good, scorching hot sex. Six weeks of utterly losing themselves to one another.
But as the end of their proposition looms in sight, can Wade persuade Rhys that he wants more? Or will Rhys's deep-seated fears stop him from fully surrendering his heart and soul to the one man he thought he could never have?
Discover Rhys and Wade's wickedly intoxicating story in this sixth novella in the hot, contemporary romance series Nights by A.M. Salinger. Note from the author: although each book in Nights can be read as a standalone, you will enjoy this series even more if you read the books in order!
This is a novella length MM romance with a HEA.
A muscle jumped in Rhys Damon's jaw as he strode across the open plan workspace of the Tokyo branch of Damon & Tucker. He ignored the curious looks of the men and women seated at the neat, uncluttered cubicles lining the ebony floor and stormed inside a large, glass-lined office. He slammed the door shut and glared at the figure on the other side of the sleek desk dominating the stark masculine room while he flicked a switch. The outside world disappeared as the privacy glass changed from clear to frosted.
"Why did you take Misaki off the Osaka project?" Rhys snapped.
Wade Tucker placed his pen down on the file he was working on and leaned back in his leather chair. His expression grew shuttered as he locked gaze with Rhys, his slate blue eyes unreadable.
"She's not fit for it right now."
Rhys inhaled shallowly and counted to five.
Breathe. Just breathe. Don't let him get to you.
"Would you care to explain?" Rhys said between gritted teeth. "We agreed months ago that it was time to give her the lead on one of the new contracts and we did so. We're now six weeks from the deadline. The timing of this couldn't be any worse."
Wade drummed his fingers on the white laminate table, a slight frown darkening his chiseled face. Rhys found his eyes drawn to Wade's large hand and immaculately clipped nails. He wondered if Wade had touched anyone with that very hand the night before. Had dipped his fingers inside a woman's hot mouth and her wet pussy. Had gripped her ass and her hips while he thrust his hard dick repeatedly into her body.
Rhys reigned in on the torrid images flashing across his inner vision and cursed internally.
Now is not the time to indulge in your usual fuck fantasies about this dipshit.
Rhys thinned his lips, leaned against the door, and folded his arms across his chest. "I'm still waiting, Wade."
Wade let out a rueful sigh and ran a hand through his hair. "She's made several mistakes in the past two weeks that would have jeopardized the entire project had one of the other designers on her team not picked up on them."
Surprise jolted through Rhys at Wade's words. It was followed by a surge of irritation. "Why the hell didn't you tell me about this sooner? That doesn't sound like the kind of thing she'd—"
"Because I only managed to pin her down and talk to her last night," Wade said, his own voice laced with annoyance.
Rhys stilled, his mouth suddenly dry. "Wait…please tell me you didn't sleep with her!"
Shock flared across Wade's face. He scowled and jumped to his feet, his hands flat on the desk.
"What?! No! What the hell do you take me for?" he barked.
"An asshole who likes to dip his stick in any wet hole he can find," Rhys said bluntly.
Wade blinked owlishly, his expression so disconcerted Rhys would have laughed had the candid statement he had just made not burned through his very core.
He'd watched Wade bed woman after woman in the sixteen years they had known each other, and it still hurt just as badly as the day he realized he wanted the man who ended up becoming his closest friend and business partner.
Fate is a sick, twisted bitch.
"You're such a fucking contradiction," Wade muttered.
Rhys stiffened under Wade's heated stare. "What do you mean?"
Wade's eyes darkened with a mixture of frustration and amusement.
"You've got that whole suave, sophisticated, butter-wouldn't-melt-in-your-mouth look down to a T," he said, his laser-like blue gaze roaming Rhys from his carefully-styled, dark blonde hair to the polished caps of his Italian loafers, "yet you've got the filthiest mouth of anyone I've ever met."
Rhys ignored the fire licking across his skin where Wade had literally kissed his body with those dangerously mesmerizing eyes of his. He unfolded his arms, pushed away from the door, and tucked his hands in the pockets of his tailor-made trousers as he strolled casually across the office. He stopped opposite Wade and faced him across the desk.
"Of course." Rhys arched an eyebrow arrogantly. "After all, that's why they call me The Charmer and you The Brute."
Wade's lips twitched at the nicknames that had plagued them since their college days. "I still maintain they should have named us The Joker and The King."
Rhys's shoulders relaxed, the tension that had been with him since that morning slowly abating. "With me in the role of king, obviously," he said tartly.
Wade chuckled, his mouth curving in a lopsided grin that brought out his dimples. Rhys swallowed a groan when he felt his dick stir in response.
Sexy fucker.
Wade's expression gradually sobered. "Misaki's pregnant. And she's thinking about having a termination," he said quietly.
Rhys inhaled sharply, surprise tightening his muscles once more.
Wade sighed. "And no, before you ask, it isn't mine."
Rhys's heart thudded in his chest as he considered Wade. "Who's the father?" he mumbled.
Wade rolled his eyes. "You get one guess."
Rhys's mind raced frantically as he thought of their staff and anyone Misaki had shown interest in of late. From Wade's words, it had to be somebody they both knew.
"Not Reo?" Rhys said. "I know she had a thing for him a while back but he just got engaged, didn't—"
"For one of the smartest guys I know, you sure are dumb sometimes," Wade interrupted, deadpan. "It's Itsuki."
Rhys ignored the insult and frowned. "We haven't got an Its—" He froze as a face swam before his eyes. "Oh my fucking God, you mean that Itsuki?!"
Wade nodded, his eyes sparkling with mirth at Rhys's stunned expression.
"The sandwich guy?!" Rhys spluttered. "That baby-faced kid who looks like he hasn't hit puberty yet? The one who delivers our lunch every day?!"
"Shush, keep your voice down!" Wade said with a frown, eyes darting to the frosted glass separating them from the outer office.
"We both know it's soundproof," Rhys said absent-mindedly. He crossed his arms and leaned his hip against Wade's desk, still startled by Wade's revelation. "Is she serious? About the termination?" he said after a while, chewing his lower lip thoughtfully.
They both knew Misaki was deeply committed to her career at Damon & Tucker. She had been with their Tokyo branch ever since its inception four years ago.
Wade's gaze dropped fleetingly to Rhys's mouth. He sat down slowly.
"I've told her to take some time out and think about it." He picked up his pen and rolled it between his fingers. "Her head is all over the place right now and, until she makes her decision and comes to terms with it, she won't be able to concentrate fully on work."
"Good move," Rhys murmured. He was still annoyed Wade had kept what had happened from him, but he was also pleased Wade had chosen to address things personally with Misaki first, before hauling her over the coals about her mistakes in front of the entire office. It was one of the reasons they had built such a successful business together and had fiercely loyal employees who rarely jumped ship.
"So, who are you thinking of giving the lead on the project to?" Rhys said curiously.
The pen stilled in Wade's hand. The strangest look flashed in his eyes as he gazed at Rhys.
"I thought you and I could take this one on together." A faint smile curved his sculptured lips. "Like the good old days."
Rhys's stomach plummeted as he stared back at Wade. The last thing he wanted to do with Wade was get back to their "good old days". In fact, he couldn't think of anything worse.
Rhys knew there was no way he could be that close to Wade again without doing something stupid. Like kiss him. Or jump his bones.
"It'll please our client. And with the both of us working on it, it won't impact too much on our schedule," Wade continued in a wary tone, as if he were testing the waters.
"What about Gabe?" Rhys said, conscious he was grinding his teeth. He took a breath and deliberately relaxed his jaw.
"He's got his plate full with the Hawaii project." Wade grimaced. "Besides, I can practically see heart-shaped bubbles above his head whenever I look at him these days. If he wasn't a guy, I'd swear he was pregnant, too. He's positively glowing."
Gabe Anderson, one of their senior and most sought after design consultants, had recently gotten engaged to his boyfriend. Their relationship hadn't been without its trials though, and it was a testament to the two men's commitment to one another that they had come this far in such a short time.
"Well, if anyone could impregnate a guy, I'd say it was Cam Sorvino," Rhys murmured as he thought of the gray-eyed king Gabe had tamed. He smiled faintly when another man's face swam before his eyes, one he knew could also lay claim to that improbable scenario. "Or Joe Cavendish. And you, of course."
Wade startled.
Rhys suppressed a bitter smile at his business partner's expression.
"Don't worry," he drawled in the nonchalant tone he had mastered over the years of his friendship with Wade, "I know you have zero interest in sticking your dick in a man's ass." He pushed away from the desk and started for the door.
"Who's Joe Cavendish?" Wade said.
Surprise flashed through Rhys at Wade's tone. He paused and looked over his shoulder. "A friend."
Lines wrinkled Wade's brow. "You should introduce me, one day."
Rhys blinked. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that was a hint of jealousy in his voice. He scoffed at himself internally then. Yeah, like that would ever happen.
"I don't think so," Rhys said smoothly.
Wade's frown deepened.
And there it is.
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Q: When using cmath, why does log10(1/4) not equal log10(0.25)? Working with a friend, I was trying to debug why log10(1/4) returns -inf, while log10(0.25) returns the proper answer of -0.60206.
I was using this program to test it, and tried moving the values to variables.
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
   double t = 1/4;
   double r = 0.25;
   cout << log10(t) << endl;
   cout << log10(r) << endl;

   return 0;
}

That returned -inf and -0.60206.
Why would 1/4 not behave the same as 0.25?

A: 1/4 is integer division, and the result is 0, which is then assigned to t. The conversion to double doesn't occur until after the result's been calculated already. To force floating point division and get 0.25, use 1.0/4.
This would have been fairly obvious if you tried printing out the value stored in t rather than just log10(t).

A: Because 1 is an int, and 4 is an int, so it is the same as:
int one = 1;
int four = 4;
double x = one / four; // zero

Conversion from int to double happens at the end, after division has already taken place.

A: In C++ (and most other programming languages), the division of an integer by an integer is always an integer. The result of 1/4 is truncated to produce 0.
Try 1.0 / 4 instead, as a float divided by an integer is always a float.

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The re-release will have 5 songs from the original, 5 brand new songs, and 2 remixes. It also comes with a Malice N Wonderland mini-movie, where Snoop plays a super hero named Malice.
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The Ex-Bing Crosby, fewer than 7,000 miles recorded, 1966 Aston Martin DB6 Vantage Saloon
Chassis no. DB6/2389/L Engine no. 400-2474-V
Sold for US$ 298,500 inc. premium
The Scottsdale Sale
19 Jan 2012, 14:00 MST
Scottsdale, The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa
The Ex-Bing Crosby, fewer than 7,000 miles recorded
1966 Aston Martin DB6 Vantage Saloon
Chassis no. DB6/2389/L
Engine no. 400-2474-V
*3,995cc DOHC in-line six cylinder engine
*325bhp with triple Weber carburetors
*Five-speed manual transmission
*Documented celebrity provenance
*Desirable Vantage specification
*Factory left-hand-drive example
The culmination of Aston Martin's long-running line of 'DB' six-cylinder sports saloons, and thus considered by many to be the last 'real' Aston, the DB6 was introduced in 1965, updating the DB5. Aware that increased headroom and legroom were required to extend the car's appeal to a wider market, Aston Martin lengthened the wheelbase by 4" and undertook an extensive re-style, incorporating a more-raked windscreen, raised roofline and reshaped rear quarter windows. Although still recognizably related to the original Touring-styled DB4 of 1958, the DB6 abandoned the Superleggera body structure of its predecessors in favor of a conventional steel fabrication. Opening front quarter lights made a reappearance, but the major change was at the rear where a Kamm-style tail with spoiler improved the aerodynamics, greatly enhancing stability at high speeds.
The Tadek Marek-designed six-cylinder engine had been enlarged to 3,995cc for the preceding DB5 and remained unchanged. Power output on triple SU carburetors was 282bhp, rising to 325bhp in Vantage specification with triple Webers. Borg-Warner automatic transmission was offered alongside the standard ZF five-speed gearbox, and for the first time there was optional power-assisted steering.
This DB6 Vantage, a left-hand-drive example to manual gearbox specification, has a significant albeit brief history. It was believed to be sold new to noted American singer and actor Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby. Early records are not available to confirm with certainty that Bing was its original caretaker, however, accompanying the vehicle is a copy of a 1976 California title in the name of Harry L Crosby, registered to a Burlingame, California address. Indeed, a man of Bing's stature would likely not have had a "used" Aston!
The indicated mileage of just under 7,000 is said to be actual according to the Aston's present long-term owner; the original interior, showing signs of careful use but in very good order overall, would seem to confirm this statement. The Vantage engine, designated as such by the 'V' suffix to the engine number, retains triple Weber carburetors. Painted in 2006 in its current grey hue, this DB6 is a lovely example overall, in desirable Vantage specification, with documented celebrity provenance. With the values of LHD DB5 models approaching stratospheric levels, a factory LHD DB6 in such good order would seem a smart investment indeed.
As the catalog went to press Bonhams obtained a copy of the original build sheet for this car. The recorded mileage of under 7,000 is now not believed to be original, as the factory records record the car returning to the Works for service in 1971 with indicated mileage exceeding 39,000. The car was delivered new to Garage Mirabeau in Paris and served as a demonstrator.
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How bad is the current water crisis?
Home › Blog › How bad is the current water crisis?
About 71% of our world is covered with water, most of which is saline (97%) or frozen in ice sheets & glaciers (2%), only the remaining 1% being fresh water. How is it possible that in a water-rich planet, humanity is struggling with water crisis? Water accessibility and availability are major drivers of the water crisis.
In the last decade, rainfall patterns have increasingly adopted radical alterations throughout the planet. Whereas in some parts of the world, floods are now a common scenario. In some other regions, rainfalls have become more rare and occasional. In this sense, climate change is contributing to a growing water crisis and risking the life of millions.
The current events happening with extreme droughts and heatwaves causing unprecedented wildfires, like those recently happening in Australia, whereas in Asia millions were struggling with intense floods.
In that same scenario, and according to the World Health Organization, out of the world's population (about 8 billion people), 2.2 billion (1/3) cannot rely on safely managed services;
4 billion lack basic services as an improved water source located within a 30 minutes journey
206 million have limited services, requiring a round trip longer than 30 minutes to collect water
435 million people consuming water that is not treated
144 million collecting unsafe drinking water from surface water sources
People living in industrialized nations sometimes take drinking water for granted. Inequality persists and the climate crisis sharpens in towns and rural areas but also in urban areas and cities, which all are under a similar threat - Water scarcity.
Water scarcity does not distinguish between social or economic classes nor does it about a developed or an underdeveloped country. On the other hand, it has also shown its consequences in countries like the U.S, China, India, Belgium, and many others as seen in Figure 1.
Figure 1:Comparison between countries in the world and their freshwater situation
Water scarcity is not an issue limited to short-term consequences but reaches far into the future as a threat to human health. In regions with the increasing scarcity of rainfalls, a decrease in the volume of aquifers generates a large concentration of harmful pollutants and microorganisms in water springs, making humans vulnerable to water-related diseases
Polluted water and poor sanitation are bound to the transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, Typhoid, and Polio. According to a Pacific Institute analysis, around 34 to 76 million people could perish due to polluted water issues, including water-related diseases by the present year.
Water Scarcity
Water scarcity occurs as a consequence of uncontrolled water resource exploitation and the lack of adequate wastewater management techniques. Water use has grown at more than twice the rate of the human population within the last century
Around 1.7 billion people live in areas where water withdrawal reaches up to 80% of their available freshwater supply every year. Figure 2 shows the increase in freshwater use since 1900, registering a radically augmented consumption when moving to the year 2009 and beyond.
Figure 2: Global Freshwater use for agriculture, industry and domestic use timeline
What is Water Stress?
Water stress is cataloged as a crisis that nobody talks about, yet it is capable of causing food insecurity, conflict, and migrations, as well as financial instability. Water stress is caused when the demand for water surpasses the availability during a certain period, or when poor quality restricts its use.
These circumstances spoil the quality and quantity of freshwater resources. Increasing world population, improving living standards and increased consumption patterns, as well as extensively irrigated agriculture, are the main drivers of water scarcity. Additionally, deforestation, increased pollution, GHG emissions, and the unconscious use of water cause a deficient supply. Forecasts point to half of the world's population living in water-stressed areas by 2025.
Water scarcity threatens humanity not only from a health perspective but also in terms of food security. When soils dry-out and get compacted, the most superficial layer gets washed away by rainfalls. This process carries contaminants to crops, instead of being soaked into the ground. The agricultural sector itself accounts for 70% of global freshwater withdrawals.
Figure 3: World Resources institute ranked water stress countries
A region is said to experience water stress when annual water supply drops below 1,700 cubic meters per person per year, according to the Falkenmark Water Stress Indicator. When a country is below 1,000 cubic meters per person per year, the water stress becomes water scarcity.
Figure 3 shows the countries currently facing water-stress conditions, with Belgium, ranked in the 23rd place.
As a means of comparison, Figure 4 shows water use in Europe.
Figure 4: Water Use in Europe. Source: European Environment Agency
Can we solve the water crisis?
When no less than 44 countries in the world are experiencing high levels of water stress, as shown in Figure 4, a new generation of solutions must come at a rapid pace.
2018 was the year that marked "Day Zero" for Cape Town in South Africa. Nonetheless, by changing the city's habits, along with the return of some rain, Cape Town managed to flatten the sharp tip of water scarcity. As time passes by, this unfortunate view will not be uncommon anymore. This is why effective solutions must come from all players in society.
Within the current economic system, water is intimately linked with economic growth. Governments must take action on creating integral water management plans that consider the complete water cycle.
Society counts on the technology and the necessary knowledge to accelerate a positive outcome out of this situation. Improving agricultural water use efficiency, decreasing water use, and promoting wastewater recycle and reuse are measures that without a doubt help to tackle water scarcity and water stress. Some of the proposed solutions that helped Cape Town to halt the growing water scarcity are shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Some general solutions to adopt for a sustainable water future
Additionally, as suggested by the International Resource Panel (IRP), governments must also take part by investing in R&D projects to improve wastewater managing technologies, raise interest in building sustainable infrastructure to improve water use efficiency and avoid contamination of water resources, introduce policies to curb water demand, strengthen and direct research into the value of ecosystem services and water to human welfare and economic development.
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It started out like any other potluck. I made chili, but the Crock-pot was only half full, so I added cooked macaroni and corn and ripe olives and green peppers until the Crock-pot was full. I found if it was only half full it burned around the edges. Besides, you don't go to a potluck with a half full Crock-pot.
Back to the "3 in 1 Slow Cooker" – it was hard enough controlling my envy the year she received it; but it got worse each year because it came to every family dinner after that. She always had the right size bowl for whatever she wanted to bring – usually "Little Smokies" wrapped in bacon.
At the beginning of the summer I started making many meals in the Crock-pot instead of heating up the house. I decided I was going to buy myself a "3 in 1 Slow Cooker" and justify it by the savings on the air conditioner.
I just couldn't bring myself to do it. So I wrote down the measurements of the two Crock-pots I already own. One was 4 quart and the other was a 1 quart. All I needed was a 2 quart Crock-pot for the recipes that were smaller in volume.
I went online and found one for $10.00. That was much easier for me to spend than the $50.00 to $70.00 on the "3 in 1 Slow Cooker".
I used all three Crock-pots for one family dinner in July. We had three hot dishes and the house did not get heated up.
The moral of this story is to look at what you already have and buy only what you need.
As for my sister-in-law – I give up, she will always be more trendy than me!
These are my three Crock-pots!
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Yes chuckling here as we have 3 as well! Not using a stove so we love our crock-pots especially when it is hot and since I do not cook …….he can work late and we still eat :D . Have had to re-invent frugal for ourselves last couple of years so I am here visiting.
Luckily, frugal times do not last forever! They do come and go, though. I thought I was the only one who did not use her stove. It is closed from April to October.


Here's how can you maximise your returns by better understanding costs.
Cash is always king, but even if cash is flowing it can be a heart-stopping experience for a business owner to discover that you can make a $100,000 worth of profits, and still risk going under.
There are many KPIs involved in a start-up, or an existing business, but few are more important than cash flow. People get into business because they have a passion, but then can find running a business is a whole separate job.
Few relish the idea of doing administrative work and even fewer would rush to sort out accounts. And when you do, it's usually because the quarterly accounts must be done for compliance reasons. The truth is, few of us have any real interest in knowing how you record expenses like Costs of Sales or Operating Expenses.
A good book-keeper makes sure the business meets its financial obligations, and also can review the financials, produce ratios which the business owner can track and manage.
Millions of Australians need their daily coffee fix. The most recent ABS data shows there were 13,987 cafe/restaurant businesses in Australia. Statistics provided by Food & Catering Association suggests that once the number of fast food outlets and restaurants are factored out of the gross numbers, there are more than 8500 café businesses in operation across Australia.
Gross data shows the operating profit margin for those businesses is 3.8% - this is below bank term deposit interest rates. Many new entrants lack the business skills necessary to survive. Anecdotal evidence suggests that 1 in 3 of these businesses go under, or simply give up.
George Sabados, a 20-year hospitality industry veteran; who owns GS Roasting and industry portal YourCafeSuccess.com.au says, "It's a joke; the number of people who come into this game under-funded, believing that they make a sustainable business.
"A majority of failures are due to a lack of proper planning. They don't understand they need to be able to fund the business for 12 to 18 months; in order to meet the capital requirements of upfront lease costs, fit out, stock, equipment and working capital. First timers often get burnt."
Sound financial controls lie at the heart of any sustainable small business, but often remain elusive in this industry.
Debra Lewis, chief executive officer of the Bookkeeping Institute of Australia, says that many small businesses cut corners and fail to keep adequate records. She says the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has identified a direct link between good record keeping and compliance, embracing superannuation contributions, staff liabilities, and how much is owed to the ATO.
When things are tight people look at how to reduce costs, but they should always be careful about cuttings costs that could be detrimental to the business, for example, marketing spend and presentation materials.
Some business owners discount their products without fully appreciating the impact on profits. You need to have a significant increase in volume. For the average retailer a 10% discount would require something like a 20% increase in volume to maintain profit levels.
A business owner needs to map out the supply chain and identify opportunities to gain discounts, to buy in bulk, to pay promptly. Every business owner should have a basic understanding business' cost drivers.


Senecio graciliflorus is a rhizomatous herb of 25 to 80 cm height. It has an erect stem branching above. Leaves are pinnatipartite, terminal lobe oblanceolate, lateral lobes are 8 to 10. Flower heads are yellow, cylindrical 4 to 10 corymbs.
In moist shady places and grassy slopes, near rivulets.
It is found in deeper parts and middle part of the valley.
Following are some of the pictures of the Senecio graciliflorus,hope you will like them all. If yes do not forget to comment or share with your friends.


Mount Etna is the most active stratovolcano in the world, which makes it an important laboratory in volcanology, geophysics and other earth science disciplines.
The Xinjiang Tianshan mountain system in China features glacier-capped peaks, undisturbed forests, meadows, canyons, rivers and lakes.
The Xinjiang Tianshan mountain system in China spans roughly 2,350 square miles (6,085 square kilometers). It is part of the larger Tianshan mountain range, which extends across China, Kazakstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, from east to west.
China's Xinjiang Tianshan mountain system features snowy mountains with glacier-capped peaks, undisturbed forests and meadows, clear rivers, lakes and red canyons.
A forest and meadow on the north slope of Tomur, one of the four sections that make up China's Xinjiang Tianshan mountain system.
Canyons in the Xinjiang Tianshan mountain system in China. The landforms and ecosystems at this natural site have been preserved since the Pliocene epoch, which extends from approximately 5.332 million to 2.588 million years ago.
The Tarim River in China's Xinjiang Tianshan mountain system.
A meadow and wetland in Bogda, one of the four sections that make up the Xinjiang Tianshan mountain system in China.
The Namib Sand Sea in Namibia is the only coastal desert in the world that includes extensive dune fields influenced by fog.
The Namib Sand Sea covers nearly 11,600 square miles (30,000 square kilometers) in Namibia.
The Namib Sand Sea in Namibia is composed of two dune systems: One that is ancient and semi-consolidated, and a younger active one.
The Namib Sand Sea in Namibia features gravel plains, coastal flats and rocky hills.
Fog is the primary source of water in the Namib Sand Sea in Namibia. The fog accounts for its unique environment for invertebrates, reptiles and mammals.
The Mount Kenya-Lewa Wildlife conservancy was included on UNESCO's World Heritage List as an extension to the Mount Kenya Natural Park.
The Mount Kenya-Lewa Wildlife conservancy consists of nearly 77 square miles (200 square kilometers) situated between a tropical ecosystem and semi-arid savannah grasslands.
Giant lobelias, a type of flowering plant, at the Mount Kenya-Lewa Wildlife conservancy in Kenya.
A view from the summit of the Mount Kenya-Lewa Wildlife conservancy.
Tajik National Park is a mountainous and sparsely inhabited site in Tajikistan. It consists of a high plateau in the east, and rugged peaks to the west.
Rich flora species of both the south-western and central Asian floristic regions grow in Tajik National Park in Tajikistan.
The mountainous Tajik National Park is situated at the center of the so-called "Pamir Knot," which acts as a meeting point of the highest mountain ranges on the Eurasian continent.
The Hill Forts of Rajasthan in India consist of six majestic forts that were built as a testimony of the power of the Rajput princely states that flourished in the region from the 8th to the 18th centuries.
Enclosed within defensive walls are major urban centers, palaces, trading centers and temples.
The Hill Forts of Rajasthan in India consist of six components: Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh, Sawai Madhopur, Jhalawar, Jaipur, and Jaisalmer.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) named six new natural sites, plus one addition to an existing candidate, to its World Heritage List on June 21, 2013. Mount Etna, pictured here, was one of the newly added sites, along with the Xinjiang Tianshan mountain system in China and the Namib Sand Sea, a coastal desert in Namibia. The Mount Kenya-Lewa Wildlife conservancy in Kenya, was also added as an extension to Mount Kenya Natural Park/Natural Forest, which was designated a World Heritage Site in 1997.
Mount Etna is located on the eastern coast of Sicily, and is the highest Mediterranean island mountain and the most active stratovolcano in the world.
Mount Etna's eruptive history can be traced back 500,000 years.


I have encountered a weird problem. I am working on a presentation in Impress and I added slide numbers and the date but then they disappeared and I can't get them back.
I go to Insert->Page Numbers and select the date and page numbers. I save the document and then when I open it again the settings are unchecked. What is going on? I am using version 5.3 which is supposed to be like the newest and the best LibreOffice has to offer.
My document is saved in MS Office format but I tried with the odt format and still no joy.
How to select multiple objects and assign the same animation and sub settings.
How to modify bullet style in Impress ?


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Tingvall Trio
Music for film and theatre
martin tingvall
SWR Bigband plays Tingvall
That Tingvalls's music not just work with piano trio or piano solo shows last night's with SWR bigband which played a whole concert with Tingvall's songs. His Swedish colleague Magnus Lindgren (see picture) arranged the songs and conducted the bigband while Tingvall accompanied as a solist.
Tingvall, who was really happy about this cooperation, composed extra two brand new songs for this concert.
Martin Tingvall: "This year I'm trying new musical directions, such as musical, new compositions for films and now this cooperation with SWR bigband and Magnus Lindgren. These new cooperations are such a pleasure and a great inspiration for my creativity both in playing and composing."
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