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. (Prog) Mikael Akerfeldt says the fact that he no longer knows how to describe Opeth's sound is what makes them a prog band. In the first episode of FreqsTV's new Into The Machine series, the frontman recalls the band's early death metal roots and explains how they forged a more progressive sound as their career took off.
He says: "We started out being a death metal band. We were finding our feet in that scene. We were hungry, young, aspiring musicians who wanted to have a career in music and do what we loved doing. And I still love our brand of death metal.
"What kept us in the genre was that type of vocals. But if you'd taken that type of vocals out of the equation, we wouldn't have been a death metal band, we'd have been a progressive metal band."
He continues: "By the time we did the very first record, I had personally moved away from consuming that type of music. For my own influences I was going back and listening to 60s, 70s stuff. And with time, 25 years later, I don't really know what we are anymore - which makes us a progressive band." Watch the episode here.


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In Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change, Sumudu Atapattu, links the challenges of climate change to a human rights framework, with an emphasis on the international legal implications for climate change mitigation, adaptation, and adjudication. In addition to looking at specific issues, such as citizenship and access to resources, the book examines the disproportionate impact of climate change on certain groups: "climate refugees", indigenous peoples, and women.
In her discussion of "Women, climate change, and inequality," Dr. Atapattu describes how climate change will exacerbate existing inequalities and vulnerabilities. Gendered power differentials in many parts of the world already result in disproportionate workloads, higher levels of poverty, and greater human insecurity for women, disparities that are likely to be aggravated by climate-induced migration and extreme weather events . Using the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as a framework, Dr. Atapattu argues that existing agreements and policies, including UNFCCC, run the risk of gender-blindness. This could result in adaptation and mitigation plans that are insensitive to the unique ways that women are affected by climate change.
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Do you remember your first VCR? It was the greatest, wasn't it?
You no longer had to be there to watch a program live. You could record it and watch it later. Now, the truth was that you had to have an engineering degree from MIT to set the clock on the thing, and you had to pay hundreds of dollars for this big, huge, bulky box. But it was a VCR—a video cassette recorder! It was the highest pinnacle of technology, and it was sitting in your living room!
Now, let's be honest. You may not have your VCR anymore. You've probably even moved on from your DVR. Regardless, you still have some recording device, and you love it because now you not only can record shows, but when you watch those favorite shows, you can watch them in fast forward, right?
You no longer have to waste away through the commercials. You no longer have to wait to see which house they choose on "Fixer Upper." You no longer have to hear the phrase, "This is Jake from State Farm." Now, you can fast forward. You can even go to the end of the game and see who wins!
Wouldn't it be great if life had a fast forward button?
And more importantly, in our life as Christians, wouldn't it be great if in our maturation process as followers of Jesus, we could just push a button to see where we were going to be? Wouldn't it be great to know where God was taking us in our growth with him?
Well, in 2 Peter, the Apostle Peter wrote a letter to Christians who were looking ahead. They were living in fast forward. In other words, they wanted to peek ahead to the new heaven and the new earth. They wanted to look ahead to the Day of the Lord. Peter knew that, so he talked to them about their future, and he told them they could look forward to their future with confidence, because God had given them wonderful promises to stand upon today.
Here is how he phrases it in 2 Peter 1:4, "God has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in this world caused by evil desires." In other words, he was saying that people can't deal with the possibilities of the future until they know the certainties of today, and those certainties can only be found in the promises of God!
Texas Baptists, just as our ancestors in the New Testament needed God's promises, so we, too, need them today! God's promises allow us to look into our future with confidence, because we know that God has a stable plan right now.
• When God gives a promise, we can know it's certain and true!
Thank goodness, because in our world, it seems like promises are made to be broken. How great it is that God's promises are not fleeting, false or fading. His promises are certain and true.
• When God gives a promise, many times those promises are conditional!
"If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you wish, and it will be given to you." It is a conditional promise, and it shows us how it works. Many times, God makes a certain promise, and he will do it "if" we will do our part. His part we cannot do, and our part he will not do.
• God's promises reveal his character!
It's easy to see this one. I mean, the fact God has never broken a promise reveals he is someone who can be counted on and someone who is faithful.
Let me close with this: In just a few short weeks, the IRS and income tax will be on all of our minds. But did you realize right now the IRS is looking for thousands of people? They aren't looking because these people owe taxes. They are looking because these people are owed a refund! Since the year 2000, well over $2.5 billion has gone unclaimed, the IRS actually reports.
How tragic it would be for you to have thousands of dollars due to you, yet you never claim it! But how much worse it would be for there to be thousands of promises of God that you never took for your own!
I encourage us as Texas Baptists to take the promises of God and allow them to give us confidence as we fast forward into our tomorrow!
Danny Reeves is president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and pastor of First Baptist Church in Corsicana.


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From age six through high school, I played baseball. Playing baseball ended, rather abruptly it seemed, when I went to college, but the lure of the game has always remained. To my colleagues, it must seem that I can hardly understand the world without the comfort of baseball analogies. I was thrilled when my son Ryan, age 12, saw the movie Moneyball and told me that he wanted to see it again, with me. For my son, the movie is a drama about baseball and a true story related to players that he has heard about. Ironically, my baseball-smitten mind instead saw a story about leadership and organizational structure. I saw struggles easily recognizable and relatable in our medical culture.
In baseball (as represented in this movie), there are five groups of stakeholders: the fans, the players, the coaches and scouts, the baseball administrators (general manager), and the owner. By analogy, in medical systems there are: the patients, the clinicians at the point of care, the medical leaders (such as department Chairs), the organizational administrators, and the big boss (CEO, president).
In Moneyball, the main character is Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt). Mr. Beane is a former player who had an unsuccessful playing career and is now a general manager (GM) for a "small market" baseball team in Oakland trying to compete against the overwhelming bankroll of teams like the New York Yankees. He is the "hero" who decides to implement a new strategic paradigm for evaluating players and for actual strategy on the field. Mr. Beane, as GM, sees the players like spoiled children and the coaches and scouts as fools who are stuck in old-fashioned ways of thinking about the game. Inspired by some fresh quantitative metrics that seem clever and well-suited to the challenge of trying to succeed as a small market team, Mr. Beane and his brilliant assistant GM force their hand on the players directly, circumventing the coaches. They have some amazing success, but do not ultimately achieve their goal of winning the World Series.
As I considered this analogy between the baseball hierarchy and that of medical systems, I found myself yearning to upgrade the attitude and approach of not only the GM, but also the players and coaches. The GM was correct in being innovative and challenging the status quo, but he failed to lead, choosing instead to aggressively exercise his authority and behave as a bully. The coaches and scouts seemed stubborn, resistant to change. And certain players did seem spoiled and entitled. The entire baseball hierarchy would have benefitted from a heaping serving of equipoise. That is, rather than being so enamored of their way of doing things and perceiving the world, they needed to take a deep look at some unfamiliar ways of thinking and doing their work, and consider alternative approaches. With mindful reflection and equipoise, they might discover that their mutual interests could be better served working in concert (achieved through dialogue) rather than each entity acting in its own perceived self-interest.
In science, we understand and treasure this notion of equipoise, but outside the confines of an experiment, the principle can slip away from our awareness. This leaves us vulnerable, at all levels in the medical hierarchy, to falling short of our goals and even losing sight of the real goals due to arrogance or fear. Respectful interactions between all levels and all individuals, courage, creativity, equipoise, and ultimately teamwork are attributes that enrich the probability of fully realizing the healthiest goals.
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Nov, 02 2011 8:17 PM
I wanted to post a comment about the book "Moneyball" 2 years ago. I just reread the book and recommended it to Al Lichter and Blase Polite of ASCPO. What strikes me is the way nonconvention overtook the way we rate baseball players and that what we thought were sacred metrics (RBI, batting average, errors etc) were inaccurate. As institutions and organizations try to judge quality of care using various narrow benchmarks it becomes obvious that they fall way short of the mark. For instance, adverse outcomes in an institution where sicker patients make up the denominator and where socioeconomic barriers stress otherwise excellent caregivers, our errors appear to be magnified in number because we have to try harder to 'make the play'. But our outcomes are measured as inferior compared to some other hospital demographic where it is easier to avoid those missteps because we don't have to try harder to 'make the tough plays'. What Billy Beane and Bill James teach us is that 'sabermetrics' is a synonym for useful and accurate metrics in the health care delivery system.But we haven't found out a way to do it right just yet. Looking for a new general manager position at CMS, Billy?
We need to show these institutions that good outcomes are result of carefully planned inputs or evidence based algorithms and as branch rickey once said then, "... luck is the residue of careful planning". And if our outcomes fall as outliers then we shouldn't trade ballplayer just yet but find out if it his other team mates who make him look bad- especially if someone else is willing to pay him for his true market value (or reimburse a physician for his true contribution to quality of care.
Nov, 06 2011 10:45 AM
Dr. Provenzano's comments about the sabermetrics of quality measurement in oncology reminds me of the adage applied often to healthcare "you can only manage what you measure". Another way to understand this would be "if you measure and prioritize things wrongly, you are likely to mismanage." I think this is true for both quality measurement and productivity metrics. These metrics are complex and require significant dialogue between stakeholders in any healthcare organization to make appropriate use of them. Too often, we succumb to the lure of a simple solution (such as the Moneyball movie example where on-base percentage becomes the golden metric). This brings to mind the quote attributed tol H.L. Mencken: " For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Your points are well taken. but the measurements of such complex multididimensional interactions often default to the 'simple, neat and wrong' process. And billy beane was most concerned about the 'process' which is the ultimate surrogate for outcome but practically cannot be quantified (yes there are no 'OBP's' in oncology). Unfortunately, the organizations responsible for the measurements and reporting are looking for 'simple and neat'. We as oncologists need to be heard but only after much introspection regarding how we can get all the providers and payers on the same page. This is the biggest challenge and has been since i've been practicing for the last 30 years. Nonetheless, references to popular media and print can help us explain to our bewildered patients the complexities of what we do.
What makes Moneyball such a great book -- and by extension a quality film -- is that so many of its principles are applicable to areas far, far away from the diamond. There are lessons about leadership to be learned, certainly, though as someone who worked in baseball journalism before joining the ASCO staff this year, I have to say many of the scenes between Beane and Art Howe or Beane and his scouts were severely dramatized. Hey, that's Hollywood for you.
Anyway, Moneyball has had two lasting philosophical impacts on me -- one directly from the protagonist Beane and one learned as a consequence of his failures.
The first, from Beane, is to always challenge paradigms, to search for inefficiencies, to question authority and tradition. Baseball as an industry really was begging for a statistically-based revolution and Beane really was at the fore of carrying it from the fevered midnight writings of Bill James into baseball's front offices. For that, he deserves tons of credit. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and every front office is now literate in sabermetrics and, more broadly, trying to find the next version of OBP.
The second, gleaned in part as a result of Beane's failings, is to take a holistic view wherever you possibly can, to never shut out any piece of information that might be useful simply for the sake of slavish adherence to "your system." Based on my years covering baseball, I've come to the conclusion that the best front offices are incorporating sabermetric principles on a grand scale -- but that the word incorporating is the most important there. Numbers aren't enough. Neither are grizzled veteran scouts. Combine the two, though, along with other forms of quantitative analysis and, on some level, instincts and you're in position to have a very good baseball team.
Those are lessons that apply everywhere in life, and again, that's what makes the lasting impact of Moneyball so impressive.


Saz Parkinson, P.M.; Belfiore, A.; Fidalgo, D.C.; Clark, C.J.; Kerr, M. et al.: On the highest energy emission from millisecond pulsars. In: Proceedings of Science 2017 (2017), Nr. October.
Fermi has detected over 200 pulsars above 100 MeV. In a previous work, using 3 years of LAT data (1FHL catalog) we reported that 28 of these pulsars show emission above 10 GeV; only three of these, however, were millisecond pulsars (MSPs). The recently-released Third Catalog of Hard Fermi- LAT Sources (3FHL) contains over 1500 sources showing emission above 10 GeV, 17 of which are associated with gamma-ray MSPs. Using three times as much data as in our previous study (1FHL), we report on a systematic analysis of these pulsars to determine the highest energy (pulsed) emission from MSPs and discuss the best possible candidates for follow-up observations with ground-based TeV instruments (H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS, and the upcoming CTA). © Copyright owned by the author(s).


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Announced during the 10 Years of Dragon's Dogma event, Capcom announced the long-awaited Dragon's Dogma 2.
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Rob Cram has hundreds of video game reviews, thousands of articles under his belt with years of experience in gaming and tech. He aims to remain fair and free from publisher/developer influence. With his extensive knowledge, feels his gaming opinions are valid and worth sharing. Agreement with his views are entirely optional. He might have a bias towards cyberpunk.


Whilst we have specialist skills in carrying out fast track works in hotels, pubs and restaurants across a wide geographical area, in our local area of Dorset and Hampshire we have always been, and still are a General Building Contractor. We are experienced in all types of construction including planned maintenance work through to new build construction and structural alterations.
Situated within car park of existing hotel – 1999, 32 week project.
Reduced level excavations to form lower ground floor area housing 3 No new conference rooms and public toilets, all within tanked area.
Steel framed structure clad in cavity walls with tiled roof on trussed rafters, precast concrete plank floors. Constructed using tower crane based on site throughout. All to create 24 bedrooms over 4 floors.
Demolition of existing Wacky Warehouse and construction of new IKL on existing footprint. Alterations to Big Steak pub to create Toby Carvery.
Constructed in 2000, 24 weeks project.
Additional trench fill foundations formed as required. Traditional cavity wall construction, tiled trussed rafter roof with dormers.
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Fifty-six provinces including Bangkok will face thunderstorms over the next 24 hours, the Meteorological Department said in a forecast on Thursday.
As storms batter the country, waves in the Andaman Sea will be as high as two metres, according to the forecast. A climate expert said the severe weather is a sure sign of the beginning of monsoon season.
"We're transitioning into the rainy season," explained Seree Supratid of Rangsit University's Climate Change & Disaster Center over the phone. "We should expect to see heavy rain – even flooding – in August."
Rain and thunderstorms are set to cover 40 percent of the northern region, which includes provinces like Chiang Mai, Lampang, Tak and Phrae, until Friday morning.
40 percent of Isaan and central provinces will also experience thunderstorms, which will fall mostly in provinces such as Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, Nakhon Ratchasima and Surin. Kanchanaburi, Nakhin Sawan, Chon Buri and Trad are among provinces that will be affected in the heartlands.
The capital will see thunderstorms cover a third of the city until 6am tomorrow, with lows of 26 degrees celsius.
60 percent of the south will be battered with rain and waves up to two metres high. Provinces affected include tourist areas such as Phuket, Krabi, Phang Nga and Trang.
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Click the photo or here to watch Chester Mitchell interviewed on TBN. Fast forward to 1 hr, 25 min as Carman introduces Chester and his brother Paul. After the interview Chester Mitchell preaches and closes out the program with a prayer.
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Simple cargo net made with some grommets and shock cord. Mostly to make my OneWheel visually distinctive but it can free up a hand.
I spent some time optimizing my Linux laptop (Thinkpad X1 Yoga 1st gen) for power usage and the results were a dramatic improvement in battery life. One of the most amazing features of this laptop is the absolutely beautiful OLED display. Since OLEDs only consume power when emitting light, showing a white screen takes much more power than a dark screen. I used 'powertop' to help optimize my ubuntu 18.04 system as much as possible and ran it in two runs with a full battery. The _only_ difference between the two was one running in a maximized xterm with a white background and the other was running in a maximized xterm with a black background. Here are the results next to each other.
The change was dramatic. almost a 15 hour battery lifetime with a black background vs a 4 and a half hour one with a white background. Since I spend 90% of my time in a full screen xterm or vim window with black background this translates into the longest practical battery life I have ever gotten out of a laptop. For some reason Lenovo has discontinued the OLED option, but they can still be found second hand.
full screenshots so you can see there are no shenanigans.
whaw 0.3 has been released. whaw is a window tiling system for xwindows that is independent of the underlying window manager allowing you to add basic tiling to any window manager.
The major new features are that it can now be triggered in one shot mode, for instance from a keybinding, it now handles maximized windows properly for fluxbox, and when you press shift while clicking on a window, it will give it more room than it would otherwise.
I have also started mirroring certain projects on github however development is still done via darcs.
I have been working on using a laser to directly expose photosensitive PCBs for etching using a modified version of Henner Zeller's design in the ldgraphy project. One of the major issues is that the focal point of the laser changes as it sweeps across the PCB, impacting the minimum feature size that can be etced. There are various solutions given in the design document however the best one, a circular mirror is currently not used.
DSO Shell – A neat little kit scope.
The jyetech DSO Shell is a pretty neat little toy oscilloscope kit. It can only go to 100khz or so and is single channel, but it is actually fairly useful sometimes. Also, the fact it comes with schematics and source code is great for learning how scopes work.
The main issue with it is that it requires external power via a DC jack, which can be a pain. Like many people I decided to add a battery pack to mine. Not the prettiest, but it does give the scope a nice heft to it.
Painless IPSec setup for a home network.
I have written a script to painlessly set up fully secured encrypted network traffic between systems on a small LAN or home network. Although more specialized than other IPSec solutions such as SWAN or Racoon, it does provide for the common use case of securing otherwise sensitive protocols such as nfs, dns, web based device configuration pages, and samba that are often sent in the clear or with minimal authentication.
Network security has always been something of a pain, different protocols require completely different systems that must be independently learned and implemented. A signed certificate for https, a kerberos server for secure NFS, the woefully uncommon DNSSEC for DNS as well as many protocols that have no easy way to add security other than piggybacking on something such as SSH or stunnel.
IPSec makes all of this a non-issue. All traffic between hosts is encrypted and verified, no matter what the underlying protocol is. The encryption and verification is done in the kernel and is fully transparent to apps. Unfortunately, it also can be a bit complicated to set up in general due to the need for a daemon to handle the public key exchange, However for the common case of secure communications within a LAN between known hosts a lot of the usual complications can go away since you can pre-distribute the keys beforehand resulting in a simpler setup. I have written a script to automate this process.
I introduce a byte stuffing algorithm for general use that has many useful properties that are not found together in other common algorithms. It obtains very low statistical overhead on arbitrary data without signifigantly increasing the entropy of the data stream. It does this by permuting the escape characters, taking them from a PRNG stream, rather than modifying the raw data. This means that the compressibility and radix locality of the encoded stream is preserved.
Similar to Cuckoo Hashing the algorithm has a pair of escape codes at any time from which values are ejected and a new one is chosen when they are shown to increase the size of the coded stream. By only ejecting a choice for an escape character on conflict, the algorithm is self optimizing, when the symbols of the data stream are not uniformly distributed, cuckoo stuffing achieves greater than the maximum theoretical efficiency for random data. In particular, ASCII and UTF8 data have zero overhead for arbitrarily long streams even when they contain embedded null characters.
True online operation requiring zero bytes of lookahead, data can be output as soon as it is generated. By adding a single byte of lookahead the average size overhead can be further reduced. Said lookahead can be done opprotunistically based on data availability without changing the decoder.
The encoded byte stream preserves locality and compressibility, long runs of similar values remain long runs of similar values in encoded form. When possible, the stream remains unchanged aiding debugging by hardware protocol analyzers. This means that the encoded stream may directly be used as a radix tree key with the same efficiency as the unencoded stream.
Worst case 2x overhead but average case 0.2%, On any form of structured data with a non uniform distribution, the overhead asymptotically approaches zero. unlike other probabalistic algorithms the average case is over arbitrary data, not just random data. There are no generic pathological patterns to exploit.
The encoding/decoding algorithm requires only 7 bytes of RAM and no buffer. An implementation that takes only about 100 words of program memory on an atmega 8 bit mcu is provided. The PRNG is chosen to be particularly fast on both 8 bit and 32/64 bit architectures. Coding is extremely fast as PRNG only needs to be run on the rare collision.
Sample implementation released under completely free open source BSD style license.
Encoding takes a byte stream with arbitrary binary data and produces a byte stream that never has a byte equal to zero within it. Decoding inverts this process.
The algorithm relys on a PRNG that can generate a random sequence of bytes. At any given point, there are two escape codes active, e1 and e2. e1 is used to replace the zero byte, e2 is used to indicate that a literal e1 or e2 needs to be inserted. When a literal e1 or e2 occurs in the stream, it is replaced by the sequence e2 e1 or e2 e2 respectively and a new escape value is chosen by iterating the PRNG until the next number that is not zero and not equal to the other escape code. A new code is chosen only when a two byte escape code is generated.
e2 e1 -> e1  and replace e1 with next code in sequence.
e2 e2 -> e2  and replace e2 with next code in sequence.
e1 -> e2 e1  and replace e1 with next code in sequence.
e2 -> e2 e2  and replace e2 with next code in sequence.
The PRNG chosen is based on an 8 bit xorshift algorithm, It performs very well on the Diehard tests and although specified as an 8 bit algorithm, it admits a particularly fast implementation on 32 or 64 bit architectures where the 4 middle ops can be replaced by a single shift in a full register.
These were chosen to give a good chance of zero overhead on common data streams.
A new version of the jhc optimizing haskell compiler has been released with a new licence, new libraries, and lots of improvements.
After a long hiatus, I have released a new version of my haskell compiler jhc.
New license, jhc is now released under a permissive BSD style licence rather than the GPL. The license is compatible with that of ghc allowing code mixing between them.
New library layout based around the standards, there are now haskell98 and haskell2010 packages that are guarenteed to be future proof strictly compatible with the respective standards. A package haskell-extras contains the additonal libraries from ghc's base.
library Num support in the works.
support for android as a target, you must install the android NDK to use this.
allowing targeting bare hardware with no OS.
namespace and can share names.
ForeignPtr's now have working finalizers when collected by the RTS.
CTYPE pragma to allow promoting arbitrary C types to FFIable entities.
Window tiling is nice; automatically placing your windows to not overlap and maximally use screen space. Switching fully to tiling window managers is not always feasible. Whaw is a program I wrote to tile windows on your screen completely independently of your window manager. It plays nicely with anything from modern window managers to using no window manager at all, calculating the proper arrangement then sending commands to your manager to carry out the placement.
As a kid, I always like those 300-in-One Electronic Project Lab toys. Although not really useful for real work, it was nice to have everything in one place. I decided to attempt to build one the way I want it to be. So far, I just have the power supply and external connectors set up. I can set it to unipolar +9V or +18Vor bipolar +9/GND/-9 volts for analog work. Plus dedicated +5V and +3.3V rails. I used the dead simple method of generating a bipolar supply, I simple used two battery packs in series. Eventually I may upgrade to some sort of switcher circuit, but you can't beat the pair of batteries for a low noise power source.
I included easy attachment points for connecting an oscilloscope or multimeter and phono jacks for routing audio signals and testing homebrew audio effects. By putting them near the edge I can move the board around without the cables interfering with teh breadboard or falling out.
I am using a random cigar box, they make great project boxes and can be gotten cheaply or for free from cigar shops. It turned out quite attractive if I do say so with its red/black motif. I wonder if I can find solid black breadboards to keep it on theme.
After this, I will add some panel meters and LEDs, some of the more common things needed when breadboarding. I am leaning towards a rotary encoder, a couple buttons, and a Voltmeter at the moment. Unlike the 300-in-1 style kit, I will have proper debouncing and quadrature circuitry built in to give nice clean logic level outputs and high impedance inputs.


Sponsorship from Eton Environmental Group has helped a team of young footballers hit the back of the net.
Leven AFC Youth U12s Royals have started the 2018/19 season with a bang after winning four of their first five games and drawing the other. They have also won their first two cup games of the season.
Eton provided £450 to buy the Royals' strips for their new season in Division 3 of the Teesside Junior Football Alliance (TJFA) league.
They were approached for sponsorship by Lisa Hanrahan, who works as Accounts Manager at Eton but is also Secretary of the Royals. Her son, Caden, plays in the team.
She said: "Eton supports various organisations/charities across the UK as part of its corporate social responsibility programme, so I was delighted when they agreed to sponsor Leven this season.
"Like all youth football clubs, we are almost wholly reliant on sponsorship and fundraising, so we are very grateful to Eton for their support.


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Manchester City flop Samir Nasri available for just £12million this summer as Pep Guardiola struggles to find a buyer
Former Arsenal star has just returned from loan spell at Sevilla but City are yet to receive any offers for permanent deal
By Daniel Cutts
Manchester City are ready to slash Samir Nasri's £16m asking price because of a lack of interest.
The French ace has been on loan at Spanish giants Sevilla this season, who are looking likely not to take up their permanent option to buy him.
Man City are ready to accept bids of just £12m for Samir Nasri
And others clubs from across Europe are being out off by his high fee and hefty £150,000-a-week wages.
His former club Marseille have shown an interest, but no offer has been received and City want him off their books.
It is understood the 29-year-old does not want to return to Manchester and Pep Guardiola does not have him in his plans for the future.
The Frenchman has returned from a loan spell at Sevilla
Pep Guardiola is desperate to offload Nasri this summer
He is thought to be keen on a move back to La Liga, but could be open to a switch to another Premier League side if the right offer comes in.
City do not want to loan him out for another season, and with his deal running out in 2019, they want to cash in.
An Etihad source said: "Nobody is really looking at him at present. The fee is too high for most and could be cut.
"Sevilla have an option on him but interest has waned and other clubs are being put off by his high wage demands.
The arrival of Bernardo Silva means competition for places is fierce
City originally wanted £16m for the Frenchman
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The gang outreach nonprofit Brothers and Sisters Keepers is no longer contracted with the City of Portland. The city and the nonprofit say they have ended the contract, "by mutual agreement."
But a letter and documentation obtained by The Skanner News reveals the nonprofit's use of city funds is at issue.
City Auditor James Van Dyke wrote April 17 to Tonya Dickens, BSK's director and a longtime gang outreach worker.
"I am writing to inform you that the Mayor's Office of Youth Violence Prevention on behalf of the City of Portland demands the return of $20,934.68 in funds that have not been spent in accordance with the above-mentioned grant agreement," writes Van Dyke in the letter.
Dickens, who spoke to The Skanner News before receiving the letter, said she did not want to be quoted directly about the dissolution of the contract. She said the nonprofit would continue its gang outreach work, paid or unpaid. She said the city wanted too much documentation on how the grant was spent.
The entire 2011-12 budget for the Office of Youth Violence Prevention was $592,272. Brothers and Sisters Keepers were budgeted to receive $96,813, for outreach workers, phones and administration costs. The city asked BSK to deliver its financial records, March 1 and again March 15.
A budget reconciliation document from the city shows that Brothers and Sisters Keepers reported spending more on cell phones and personnel than it could document. The nonprofit's documented expenses were $75,878.
The city currently funds 10 gang outreach workers through five different agencies. Three outreach workers formerly employed by BSK under the city's program have been transferred to Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center.
"The City and BSK recently agreed to mutually terminate a grant agreement to fund three street level gang outreach worker positions," says Antoinette Edwards, director of the Portland's Office of Youth Violence Prevention.
"These very important three gang outreach workers have been placed within the portfolio of Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center (POIC), another City grantee that already oversees other gang outreach workers. We're very pleased that POIC can provide a seamless transition for these workers."


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Reporter, writer-in-residence at Seton Hall University
The Price of Change in the Castros' Cuba
12/01/2015 05:50 pm ET Updated Nov 30, 2016
I went to Cuba last month wearing a rubber bracelet like the ones distributed by the Livestrong Foundation. But mine is white, not yellow, and instead of spelling out Livestrong, it spells out Cambio, the Spanish word that means Change. Several years ago, Cubans in the United States were making such bracelets available as a sign of protest, or an expression of their hope for Cuba's nationhood.
In truth, so much has changed in Cuba recently that it is hard for someone like me, who has been traveling to the island since 1978, to keep track of it all.
And yet it is also evident that much there hasn't changed at all.
One afternoon during this most recent trip, I sent a text message to my wife in New Jersey from the offices of Granma, the newspaper that is the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party, and I did it on my Samsung Galaxy S5 without having to use a SIM card, or make any other special arrangements with Verizon, my cell carrier. I just turned on the phone, tapped out the message and hit send, just as I would have had I been at home.
What was unthinkable a year ago, and improbable during a previous visit in June, has become ordinary today.
One afternoon, I drove past the newly reopened United States Embassy on the wide Malecon boulevard that skirts the open waters of the Caribbean.
In June, that same building was just a placeholder, serving as the Special Interests Section, as it had for over half a century President Eisenhower threw up his hands and declared that the United States would no longer deal with the Communist government of Fidel Castro.
Now the flag waves in the salt air in front of the embassy for all to see.
And one evening, I walked along the edge of Havana's Central Park dodging knots of Cubans--young and old--tapping on their smart phones, picking up a signal from one of the 35 new wi-fi hotspots that the Cuban government has opened since I was there in June.
Just a few months ago, those smart phones would have been useless luxuries, unresponsive as the trees in the park without any data signals to grab in the vicinity.
Much of this alternative reality was ushered in by the Obama administration's decision to end five decades of hostility toward Cuba and change basic U.S. policy from promoting the removal of the Castro government to paving the way for a soft transition to a government that respects basic human rights and protects the interests of the United States.
But the Cuban government has also had a hand in this, loosening up the economy and providing more space for divergent interests.
Even Granma, that stodgy voice of Socialist rhetoric, seems to be loosening up. In its Friday edition, which balloons to 16 pages, double the size of other days, Granma carried two pages of letters to the editor. There were complaints about Havana's awful bus service. And one from the province of Las Tunas lamenting the decade-long delay in repairing a municipal museum. There was even a letter from a reader who was incensed by the way stores run by private businessmen, known as cuentapropistas, were marking up the prices of soda, juices and cigarettes. Ten years ago no one openly complained about such things.
At dinner one evening, a Cuban friend noticed the Cambio bracelet I wore and, after asking to read what it said, told me quite clearly that if he were caught wearing such a thing, he could lose his job working for one of Cuba's tourism-related agencies. I knew he was neither kidding, nor exaggerating, for despite some of the evolutionary steps I had noticed, some basics in Cuba had not changed.
According to an analysis by the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) at the University of Miami,http://panampost.com/belen-marty/2015/11/16/1403-arbitrary-arrests-in-cuba-under-us-embassy-watch/ since the Stars and Stripes went up on the Malecon in August, 1,403 Cubans had been arbitrarily arrested, many of them for small actions of protest that were no more threatening to the Castro regime than was my Cambio bracelet.
While I was in Havana, more than 2,000 Cubans who were desperate to get out of the Castros' Socialist paradise were marooned in Costa Rica, their exodus to the United States blocked by Nicaraguahttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34832184. Instead of offering them assistance, a statement from the Cuban government was read on the Mesa Redonda news program blaming the United States for instigating a refugee crisis by continuing the wet-foot, dry-foot program that welcomes Cubans into the country.
I don't know how much longer the creaking government of the Castros will be able to play this game of loosening the economy while keeping a tight grip on freedom. An upcoming election in Venezuela seems likely to remove Nicholas Maduro and slow the inflow of support from that country started by Fidel's protégé, Hugo Chavez.
And while Granma is unlikely anytime soon to publish a letter clamoring for freedom of speech or demanding a stop to the arbitrary arrests of regime opponents, the number of uncensored blogs and independent news websites continues to grow, and ingenious Cubans are finding ways to get around the blockages installed by the government.
One of the biggest changes of all is the way in which the old triumphalist dogma about the Revolution itself has been all but silenced and replaced by nods to the hardships of the special period of deprivation after the Soviet Union collapsed, as though a reminder of how the people, willed on by Fidel, prevailed over incredible odds.
That's the government's view. But what I saw, and what is evident in the masses of Cuban huddled in Costa Rica, betting everything on making their way to the United States, is that patience is running out and thousands of the brightest and most ambitious Cubans are not willing to wait any longer for the special period to finally end and real change to begin.
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The formal handover last Tuesday (September 30th 2014) by the Royal Air Force of its EH101 Merlin Helicopter Force to the Royal Navy combined with standing down of 78 Squadron at RAF Benson and the standing up of 846 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) marks the end of one era and the beginning of another. But there is another side to the story as well as this should be seen as a further strengthening of Joint Helicopter Command.
The change is a very significant one for both the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy and it also highlights the growing importance of Joint Helicopter Command (JHC) which now has responsibility for all land based Royal Air Force Chinook and Puma HC2 helicopter operation in the UK. To an extent the change may also be considered as equally symbolic as it marks closer the day when, following the standing down in 2015/16 of 202 and 22 Squadron Sea King HAR3/3A Search and Rescue (SARF) force capability will, apart from the RAF Akrotiri based 84 Squadron currently flying Griffin HAR 2 helicopters, mark the end of a long chapter of Royal Air Force control of rotary based operation.
For the time being my understanding is that 846 NAS will work alongside 28 (AC) Squadron at RAF Benson until the new RNAS Squadron unit relocates to Yeovilton early in 2015. At that point 28 (AC) Squadron will also be stood down. While the loss of the superb AW EH101 Merlin Mk 3 fleet from Benson and RAF control will be regarded as a sad day for a great many this should in my view be set in context with the fact that the 25 upgraded Merlin Mk 4 helicopters that will eventually emerge from the ongoing Fleet Air Arm conversion programme and that will, when complete, replace the venerable fleet of Royal Navy Sea King HC.4 helicopters has been very well thought out and planned. As Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir Andrew Pulford said in his speech marking the handover at RAF Benson last week, "rather than mourn [the loss of 78 Squadron Merlin force] we should use this as an opportunity to celebrate the partnership between our two (Royal Navy and Royal Air Force] services".
Whilst I would admit to having been initially surprised and somewhat disappointed when the announcement of rotary capability policy change was first made I can say now that in hindsight, based on the combination of affordability and improved capability options, I genuinely believe that the policy change is the correct way to move forward. I would add that while this strategy will see the Royal Navy having a substantially upgraded fleet of EH101 Merlin helicopter capability to be eventually be based at RNAS Yeovilton, the transition in rotary force capability will also allow Joint Helicopter Command, responsible for Battlefield Helicopter and Air Assault Force elements of all three services, to finally come of age.
Formed in 1999, operating approximately 197 rotary and aircraft platforms and based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire Joint Helicopter Command (JHC) is an example of Force 'jointery' at its best. JHC is a unique force that is designed to be agile, interoperable, sustainable, resilient and affordable. Today JHC can be seen as having been a hugely successful element in supporting the activities of all three main force elements and should be considered a vital part of the UK's war fighting capability. By combining air assault and battlefield elements of all three of our armed forces together with the back room civil service organisation required, has proved not only that 'jointery' allows the armed forces to capitalise on the available strengths of each other whilst preserving single service ethos and values, but also that it cuts overall cost.
Currently operating Boeing Chinook (Mk 4 and Mk 6) and Apache attack helicopters, Airbus Puma (Mk 2), AgustaWestland Merlin, Lynx (Mk 7 and Mk 9A), Sea King, Wildcat, the Aerospatiale/Westland Gazelle and Bell 212 helicopters together with Islander/Defender airplanes, a large scale fleet change programme is currently underway. While the Sea Kings, Lynx Mk 7 and Bell 212 will gradually be retired over the next three years the introduction of additional Boeing Chinook helicopters, taking planned numbers of Chinook helicopters up to 46 units, the introduction of Wildcat Light Utility/Recon helicopter and the substantial upgrade work on the existing RAF Puma fleet will ensure that as a cohesive and well-structured command unit Joint Helicopter Command, will move forward from here with a modern and very effective rotary capability.
Apart from the substantial Puma 2 upgrade it may also be worth mentioning here that the Merlin Capability Sustainment Programme (MCSP) for the Royal Navy and for which the prime contractor was Lockheed Martin is delivering a substantial upgrade in Merlin Mk 2 capability for the Royal navy on time and in budget. Back to the here and now for JHC means that along with the backbone strength of an eventual fleet of 46 Chinooks, the new fleet of AW Wildcats, the planned £330m Merlin Life Sustainment Programme that aims to convert 25 Royal Air Force Merlin Mk 3 and 3A helicopters to Merlin Mk 4's for operation by the Royal Navy from Yeovilton, plus the prospect that the Apache Attack Helicopter capability sustainment programme will also be given the go ahead possibly next year will, when completed, provide Joint Helicopter Command with a formidable rotary fleet.
Having deployed on operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Philippines, Sierra Leone and many other global locations over the past fourteen years Joint Helicopter Command forces have shown themselves to be well trained and able to operate in mountain, desert and arctic conditions alike. JHC has to my mind more than proved its worth and back in 2005, when I was In Iraq looking at helicopter deployment issues, I was at first hand able to experience the strength of the capability already established by JHC. In a future commentary I will also look individually at the excellence of Chinook capability.
Joint Helicopter Command structure assumes full operational command of Royal Air Force, Royal Navy Commando Helicopter Force (CHF) and of the Army rotary platform component. JHC currently sits within the Army Top Level Budget and its personnel and platforms are funded through the Army. JHC is currently thought to employ around 14,000 personnel of whom around 8,000 are employed in the 16 Air Assault Brigade. I believe that within this figure the current component of Reserves stand at around 1,000 personnel and that approximately 300 MOD civil servants are employed.
Together with the Air Assault Brigade, the high readiness Commando Helicopter Force (based at RNAS Yeovilton comprising around 700 aircrew and support personnel), the Attack Helicopter Force, Royal Air Force Support Helicopter Force (comprising 7, 27, 18 Squadron Chinook Force plus 33 and 230 Squadron Puma capability (based respectively at RAF Odiham and RAF Benson) in terms of force elements JHC is a powerful; combination of capability.
In addition to the above JHC comprises the Army Aviation Centre (based at Middle Wallop), the Aviation Reconnaissance Group (based at Yeovilton, Dishworth and Aldergrove), and the RAF Tactical Supply Wing based at Stafford (a key enabler on the delivery of tactical aircraft fuelling in theatre). JHC should be considered a well-structured and equipped rapid reaction force element that is able to respond to the full spectrum of any crisis requirement be it humanitarian, disaster relief or high intensity warfighting.
Domestically too JHC has found itself involved in Maritime Counter Terrorism, Counter Terrorism, National Standby, Search and Rescue aid to civil powers, police support, aircraft rescue and flood support.
In the pre SDSR 2010 period and particularly in the Afghanistan theatre the need for additional rotary power capability was clear for all to see. This has been answered through the additional Chinook capability now being made available to JHC. New helicopters such as Wildcat and the substantial upgrading of Royal Air Force Puma helicopters and capability sustainment and enhancement programmes on EH101 Merlin over the past few years undertaken by Lockheed Martin show that the UK now has a formidable fleet of rotary power.
In terms of battlefield and support helicopter capability Joint Helicopter Command has already proved great leadership and strength. The bottom line is that force 'jointery' has ensured that Joint Helicopter Command strategy is far more effective, efficient and affordable. Looking further out demand for fast battlefield and humanitarian rotary capability is hardly likely to diminish. Future wars may be about technology but they are also about practicality and common sense. Complex humanitarian and environmental issues are more likely to increase. Air assault forces will always need to be moved to the front line quickly and efficiently and rotary power must always be close at hand to support mission success. Battlefield helicopters can and do provide excellent all round capability and that is able to react and immediately respond to the nature of most crisis envisaged, to lift troops in, to undertake medical evacuation, to carry out manned aerial surveillance and undertake a vast range of other missions. But it takes coordinated planning, effective command and control and everyone working as one team. As a well-structured organisation and that wears an arm badge as opposed to cap badge Joint Helicopter Command has what it takes in spades.


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package com.onelio.connectu.Adapters;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;
import com.onelio.connectu.API.ScheduleRequest;
import com.onelio.connectu.Containers.CalendarEvent;
import com.onelio.connectu.CustomViews.VerticalTextView;
import com.onelio.connectu.Helpers.ObjectHelper;
import com.onelio.connectu.Helpers.TimeParserHelper;
import com.onelio.connectu.R;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

public class HorarioAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<HorarioAdapter.ViewHolder> {

  private List<CalendarEvent> data;
  private Context context;
  private String rawPlaces;

  public interface OnItemClickListener {
    void onItemClick(int item);
  }

  private final OnItemClickListener listener;

  public class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    //  each data item is just a string in this case
    public RelativeLayout llayout;
    public RelativeLayout lastL;
    public ImageView left_lineD;
    public VerticalTextView lastT;
    public TextView hour;
    public TextView title;
    public TextView subtitle;
    public TextView text;
    public TextView loc;
    public LinearLayout lloc;
    public TextView instant;
    public View layout;

    public ViewHolder(View v) {
      super(v);
      layout = v;
      llayout = (RelativeLayout) v.findViewById(R.id.horario_relative_layout);
      left_lineD = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.left_lineD);
      hour = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.hourD);
      title = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.titleD);
      subtitle = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.subtitleD);
      text = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.textD);
      loc = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.locD);
      lloc = (LinearLayout) v.findViewById(R.id.llLocD);
      instant = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.instD);
      lastL = (RelativeLayout) v.findViewById(R.id.lastD);
      lastT = (VerticalTextView) v.findViewById(R.id.lastTD);
    }
  }

  public HorarioAdapter(
      Context context, OnItemClickListener listener, List<CalendarEvent> myDataset) {
    data = myDataset;
    this.context = context;
    this.listener = listener;
    // Load future raw for places(aulas)
    try {
      rawPlaces = ObjectHelper.LoadFile("places", context);
    } catch (IOException e) {
      rawPlaces = "";
    }
  }

  @Override
  public HorarioAdapter.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    //  create a new view
    LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext());
    View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.view_horario_actividad, parent, false);
    HorarioAdapter.ViewHolder vh = new HorarioAdapter.ViewHolder(v);
    return vh;
  }

  @Override
  public void onBindViewHolder(final HorarioAdapter.ViewHolder holder, final int position) {
    CalendarEvent event = data.get(position);
    holder.title.setText(event.getTitle());
    holder.subtitle.setText(event.getSubtitle());
    holder.text.setText(event.getText());

    String minutes = TimeParserHelper.parseTime(event.getStart().getMinutes());
    String hours = TimeParserHelper.parseTime(event.getStart().getHours());
    holder.hour.setText(hours + ":" + minutes);

    if (!event.getLoc().isEmpty()) {
      holder.lloc.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
      String loc = ObjectHelper.getPlace(rawPlaces, event.getSigua());
      if (!loc.isEmpty()) {
        holder.loc.setText(context.getString(R.string.view_horario_loc) + " " + loc);
      } else {
        holder.loc.setText(context.getString(R.string.view_horario_loc) + " " + event.getLoc());
      }
    } else {
      holder.lloc.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    }

    if (!event.isAllDay()) {
      // Has started?
      String instant = TimeParserHelper.getDifference(context, new Date(), event.getStart());
      if (!instant.isEmpty()) {
        holder.instant.setText(context.getString(R.string.view_horario_in) + " " + instant);
      } else {
        // Is there some time until finish?
        instant = TimeParserHelper.getDifference(context, new Date(), event.getEnd());
        if (!instant.isEmpty()) {
          holder.instant.setText(context.getString(R.string.view_horario_started) + " " + instant);
        } else {
          instant = TimeParserHelper.parseTimeDate(context, event.getEnd());
          holder.instant.setText(context.getString(R.string.view_horario_ended) + " " + instant);
        }
      }
    } else {
      holder.instant.setText(context.getString(R.string.view_horario_allday));
    }

    if (event.getType().equals(ScheduleRequest.CALENDAR_DOCENCIA)) {
      holder.left_lineD.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#0091EA"));
      String duration = TimeParserHelper.getDifference(context, event.getStart(), event.getEnd());
      if (!duration.isEmpty()) {
        holder.lastL.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        holder.lastT.setText(duration);
      } else {
        holder.lastL.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
      }
    }
    if (event.getType().equals(ScheduleRequest.CALENDAR_EVALUACION)) {
      holder.left_lineD.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#009688"));
      holder.lastL.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    }
    if (event.getType().equals(ScheduleRequest.CALENDAR_EXAMENES)) {
      holder.left_lineD.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#F50057"));
      holder.lastL.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    }
    if (event.getType().equals(ScheduleRequest.CAlENDAR_FESTIVOS)) {
      holder.left_lineD.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#FFEB3B"));
      holder.lastL.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    }

    holder.llayout.setOnTouchListener(
        new View.OnTouchListener() {
          @Override
          public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
              listener.onItemClick(position);
            }
            return false;
          }
        });
  }

  @Override
  public int getItemCount() {
    return data.size();
  }
}

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Q: PhpSpreadsheet: How to check if a cell has a strikethrough? How to check in PhpSpreadsheet if a cell has a strikethrough ?
Tried this one:
    $cell0 = $sheet->getCell('C73');
    $isStriked = $cell0->getStyle()->getFont->getStrikethrough();
    print_r($isStriked);

doesn't work whether the target cell has a strikethrough or not it gives a blank value...

A: For Strikethrough you need a font object see documentation here here. To check you must use getStrikethrough(). To set you must use setStrikethrough(). See documentation here
$cell0 = $sheet->getCell('C73');
$isStriked = $cell0->getStyle()->getFont()->getStrikethrough();

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By: Shannon McKenna
Tess Langley is a massage therapist who has the hots for her handsome client, Jonah Markham. Jonah seems to be attracted to her too and has asked her out three times, but each time, Tess politely turns him down. After seeing the claw marks on his back, she figures he's a playboy who only views her as his next conquest, and she has no intention of getting her heart broken again. When Jonah offers her a huge amount of cash to come to his vacation home for the weekend and provide private massages for him and his friends, she can't turn him down. The money could make it possible for her to finally open her own massage studio like she's dreamed of. Little does she know that Jonah is the only one she will be giving massages to this weekend, and he plans to fulfill all her sexy fantasies too, including some she didn't even know she had.
Touch Me was my first read by Shannon McKenna, and it left me with somewhat mixed feelings. I had heard that Ms. McKenna has created some serious alpha males, and I can see why she's earned that reputation. Her writing in many ways reminded me of Lora Leigh's with the stubborn alpha hero and lots of arguing between him and the heroine, which isn't really my cup of tea. The story started off pretty good, but the further I got into it, the harder it was to remain engaged. Practically all the hero and heroine did was eat, have wild monkey sex, and argue, including during sex, which wore thin after a while.
As individuals, I generally like Jonah and Tess. Tess has a troubled past and some fairly significant body image issues. She's petite but has a generous bosom and rear. This and several other "imperfections" in her appearance and personality earned Tess some pretty harsh criticism from both her mother and her ex-fiancé. Tess is also understandably reluctant to become involved with someone like Jonah whom she assumes, from the suspicious claw marks on his back, is a playboy who only sees her as his next conquest. All of this made her vulnerable, but the way Jonah handles her issues was a little odd to me. I loved how Jonah was a whiz in the kitchen and cooked Tess delicious meals, and I also loved how he pursued her and always told her how beautiful she was. However, Tess's issues were so deep-seated that sometimes him saying the smallest thing could set her off, and then he would just get angry right back at her for being too sensitive. I really didn't understand him using anger to provoke her during sex either. That seemed counterproductive to me, and in several of their sexual encounters both characters seemed to be using sex as a weapon, which was not romantic to me at all. I kept trying to make sense of it, but the psychology behind what they were trying to accomplish simply eluded me. Underneath his hard, sometimes arrogant exterior, Jonah had some mild vulnerabilities of his own in that he was afraid of losing his grandfather, even though the odd codger won't speak to him after Jonah turned down the opportunity to run his bank. In the end though, both characters' problems just seemed to magically melt away, which didn't entirely work for me.
Overall, Touch Me had some good points and other than being a little narrative heavy at times, the writing itself was pretty good. If Jonah and Tess had been more consistently nice to one another instead of going back and forth between gentler moments and intense anger, it would have been a great story. As is though, I simply couldn't become fully invested in their HEA when they were fighting almost right up until the end. There were things about each character that I related to, but the way the author handled their relationship, their stubborn resistance to openly communicating, and the way anger seemed to turn them on didn't really make sense to me. Touch Me was good enough to keep me open to trying more of Shannon McKenna's work in the future, but didn't really wow me. This novella can be found in the I Brake for Bad Boys anthology.
Note: This novella contains some mildly erotic content in the form of a little light bondage and dominant behavior, as well as a small amount of explicit language that is typically reserved for the erotic sub-genre.
Shannon McKenna
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Q: Existence of open set in product topology Let $X$ be a compact topological space and $Y$ a Hausdorff space. Let $C \subseteq Y$ be closed in $Y$ and $U$ an open set in $X \times Y$ which contains $X \times C$. Prove there exists an open set $V \subseteq Y$ such that $X \times C \subseteq X \times V \subseteq U$.
Here's what I tried.
Let $b \in C$ fixed. For each $x \in X$ find open sets $U_{x}$ and $V_{x}$ in $X$, $Y$ respectively containing $x$ and $b$. Then the colecction $\{U_{x}: x \in X\}$ covers $X$ so by compactness of $X$ , we have $X \subseteq \bigcup_{i=1}^{n} U_{i}$. From here how to obtain the open set $V$ ?, if we take $V$ as the finite intersection of the V_{i} then this won't satisfy $X \times V \subseteq U$. Also I don't see where to use the hypothesis that $C$ is closed.
I don't think the above approach works. Can you please help? Thanks.

A: Closedness of $C$ is irrelevant. Here's an argument:
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*Let $f: X \to Y$ be a (not necessarily continuous) function between topological spaces which is closed, i.e., maps closed sets to closed sets. If $A \subset Y$ is arbitrary and $U \subset X$ is open such that $f^{-1}(A) \subset U$ then there is $V \supset A$ open such that $f^{-1}(V) \subset U$.

*If $X$ is compact and $Y$ is Hausdorff then the projection $\pi: X \times Y \to Y$ is closed.

Since $\pi^{-1}(C) = X \times C \subset U$, combining 1. and 2. with $A = C$ yields $V \supset C$ open such that $\pi^{-1}(V) = X \times V \subset U$.
Proof of 1: Since $f$ is closed, the set $V = Y \smallsetminus f(X \smallsetminus U)$ is open. Since $f^{-1}(A) \subset U$ we have $A \subset V$. Moreover, $X \smallsetminus U \subset f^{-1}(f(X \smallsetminus U))$ yields $f^{-1}(V) = X \smallsetminus f^{-1}(f(X \smallsetminus U)) \subset X \smallsetminus (X \smallsetminus U) = U$.
Proof of 2: Let $F \subset X \times Y$ be closed and let $y \in Y \smallsetminus \pi(F)$ be arbitrary. Observe that $F \cap (X \times \{y\}) = \emptyset$. Since $(X \times Y) \smallsetminus F$ is open and contains $X \times \{y\}$, the definition of the product topology yields for each $x \in X$ open sets $U_{x} \subset X$ and $V_{x} \subset Y$ such that $(x,y) \in U_{x} \times V_{x} \subset (X \times Y) \smallsetminus F$. Since $X \times \{y\}$ is compact, there are $x_{1},\ldots,x_{n}$ such that $X \times \{y\} \subset (U_{x_{1}} \times V_{1}) \cup \cdots \cup (U_{x_{n}} \times V_{x_{n}}) =: W$. By construction $W \subset (X \times Y) \smallsetminus F$ and the open set $V := V_{x_{1}} \cap \cdots \cap V_{x_{n}}$ contains $y$ and satisfies $\pi^{-1}(V) \subset W$, hence $V \cap \pi(F) = \emptyset$, hence $Y \smallsetminus \pi(F)$ is open.


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Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
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Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen (a very young Brooke Shields), who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?
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I had not anticipated the extent to which this would also be a period piece about early 60's Catholics in New Jersey. It's amazing that this director could show a fair degree of skill and insight in his first film, then work steadily for decades after, never doing anything half as good ever again.
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This one works pretty well, combining that East coast Catholic community dynamic and imagery 8with a broken family, a villain wearing an unsettling mask and raincoat recalling Don't Look Now, and an especially creepy focus on a correspondingly creepy young girl's budding sexual maturity. American giallo is a pretty neat descriptor for this movie. There's so much that's right in this movie despite the modest budget and effects, it definitely gets my approval.
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The wingspan is 21–22 mm. The forewings are fuscous with an indistinct blackish dot beneath the costa near the base. The stigmata are blackish, partially edged with light greyish ochreous, the plical larger, obliquely before the first discal. The costa is somewhat suffused with pale greyish ochreous towards the middle and there is a suffused pale greyish-ochreous spot on the costa at about three-fourths, with faint traces of a curved transverse line rising from it. The hindwings are grey, becoming paler and tinged with whitish ochreous towards the base.

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Endemic moths of South Africa
Gelechiinae
Moths described in 1909

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