With Earth ravaged by the Celestial War of 2044, humans have found themselves existing on a planet much less forgiving than the past.
With existing settlements in an extreme cold climate, Saskatchewan was an excellent choice for wandering New Age families, groups that could survive the winters while protecting their unchanged children. Protection of a parent's young was paramount, as children did not evolve until maturity and thus were vulnerable. Until the children could mature and gain their own new abilities, strict supervision and protection was integral for survival in this new world.
Although the story focuses on Saskatchewan, Canada, as the centrifuge for important events, the setting of Rustwalker investigates the corruption, greed and destruction in other major cities around the world. From New York's decimated wasteland of rubble as far as the eye can see, California's barren Desert of Glass, the overgrown and treacherous forests of Toronto, to across the world where most of Europe has submerged under water, Asia has become infested with the Shifted Army, and nobody has heard a word from the Oceanic realm, the world of Rustwalker has been reborn and is an entirely new and dangerous world.
Uncompromising and relentless, a world where only the strong survive, Rustwalker breathes life into an exceptionally detailed and original setting.


WIM Vantika Agrawal won again National Child of the Year award 2017 for exceptional achievements in Chess !
GCA Coaches Sandeep Chitkara and Akshay Anand won prizes at Delhi International Open 2018 !!
Mr Sandeep Chitkara with his students Vantika Agrawal & Anishka Vikram at World Youth!
GCA Coaches Sandeep Chitkara, Aryan Singh and Akshay Anand won prizes at Delhi International Open 2017 !!
GCA Coach Akshay Anand won Delhi State Seniors FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2017!! GCA Coach Aryan Singh got 4th position!
GCA Coaches Akshay Anand and Aryan Singh won Punjab State Open Chess Championship 2016 and Delhi State U 25 Chess Championship 2016 respectively !!
Vantika Agrawal of Genius Chess Academy won the National Child of the Year award for exceptional achievement in Chess !
Rosh Jain won National Schools Under 7 Chess Championship 2018 !
Magnus Carlsen of Norway retained his title when he beat the Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin 6-6 (Classical), 3-1 (Rapid Tiebreakers) to win the FIDE World Chess Title for the third time at New York on November 30, 2016.
Carlsen celebrated his 26th birthday in style, winning the four game rapid contest that lasted 209 moves in all on the final day. This was the best the spectators got in lower Manhattan venue of New York.
Top 10 Trophies & Consolation prizes in each category !


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Countering Hillary's Coup With a Counter Coup – or Not?
By DailyBellStaff - November 03, 2016
Video: Corruption, Cooptation, Cronyism: The Hillary Clinton "Takeover", The "Counter-Coup", Action of America's Intelligence Community –Global Research
Is it possible the recent counter coup announced by Steve Pieczenik, a former official in numerous Republican administrations, is actually part of a much larger dominant social theme designed to reinforce positive perceptions regarding the most secretive and powerful government agencies?
Global Research, one of the very best alternative websites, does us the favor of providing "a video presentation by Dr. Steve Pieczenik, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State." It has also provided us with a transcript of Pieczenik's remarks.
Pieczenik "has served as foreign policy expert in several US administrations including Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush."
The analysis and focus presented below must be taken very seriously. It sheds light on the ongoing political crisis in the US and the opposition which is developing from within the US intelligence community against the Clinton crime cabal.
According to Steve Pieczenik, "Hillary and Bill Clinton are attempting a takeover of the United States and will stop at nothing. A coup d'état of this magnitude has never been affected in such a subtly calculated way."
Pieczenik goes on to explain how the FBI, CIA, Pentagon and other official military-industrial agencies have gotten together silently to fight the silent "coup" of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Basically the argument is that "pay-to-play" has been created by the Clinton Foundation, which is apparently under substantive investigation.
Hillary and Bill would use their contacts and influence to push the US government into taking action in ways which enhanced the interests and profits of certain countries and individuals if they contributed to the Clinton Foundation.
The Foundation is evidently a government-in-waiting for the Clintons and having such a large entity as their disposal enhances their power considerably.
But both Hillary and Bill Clinton don't seem to be very stable people. Hillary has a horrible temper and is evidently contemptuous of those beneath her. Bill Clinton has been the subject of rape accusations and organized, international drug dealing – and Hillary has evidently abetted some of his worst behavior..
Yet it is certainly possible that neither Bill nor Hillary are fully aware of the scale of the manipulation in which they are enmeshed, nor its timeline. Are they now part of a rapidly unfolding psyop that has its roots decades ago?
Maybe Pieczenik, Julian Assange and others are indeed true heroes for countering the Clinton's emergent authoritarianism, as they appear to be. This is certainly an incredibly admirable and deserved perspective. But there are other interpretations.
Our primary purpose is to analyze elite dominant social themes and that's why we are raising these questions, hypothetical as they may be. Hillary Clinton is an apparent threat to the what's left of the liberties of the USA but there is a possibility, perhaps a slim one, that this new "coup" narrative is not what it seems.
Regardless of the status of the US – corporation, democracy, republic – the US functions, day-to-day, with a certain expectation of freedom. This is why those on "right" – libertarian or conservative – are evidently shocked (on videos and in print) when the US government and those behind it take actions that one would not expect to take place in a "republic."
Now we are informed that this sentiment is an animating force in parts of the Pentagon, CIA, FBI, etc. The counter-argument, of course, is that the FBI, CIA and Pentagon have not usually been seen as guardians of "freedom."
The FBI has put hundreds if not thousands of people in jail because of flawed fingerprint and hair analysis that some in the bureau knew to be false all along. To the best of our knowledge, a lot of the damage was never properly addressed.
The CIA is responsible for the deaths, injuries and miserable lives of millions, even billions, around the world because it represses freedom in favor of elite control of countries and their governments.
Constitutionally speaking, the FBI and CIA probably should not exist, let alone be spread around the world. The Pentagon, which recently mislaid $8 trillion, supports CIA covert intel actions with its own more overt military activities.
It is wonderful that people within them are supportive of freedom. But the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, etc., don't actually work for the people in the US. At the top levels, they seem to work for the private banking interests that have installed and organized them and are pursuing a greater globalism that likely includes the destruction of the US..
Today there is considerable conflict between private banking interests and the alternative 'Net media, and the people it represents. One way to reduce this conflict would be to make it clear to people who value a culture of freedom that the most authoritarian agencies in the US are secretly aligned with them. (See also our skeptical comments regarding the Brexit vote in our "populism vs. globalism articles.")
This seems beyond the pale and ludicrous but these banking interests are both subtle and powerful. One way or another, they evidently control the central banks of the world and thus hundreds of trillions of dollars. They may even have propagated a kind of nuclear myth, as we have pointed out here in the past, that has affected people's sentiments and priorities for decades.
They tend to work through the dominant social themes we analyze because they are absolutely determined that people are to back their globalist plans on a voluntary basis without knowing they are doing so.
In the Internet era, these "memes" have begun to founder in critical ways. But those creating them continue to try. They are abetted by millions (and more), who are aligned with them professionally or emotionally – some because they don't know any better.
At the very top, everyone else is likely disposable (except for a handful of owners) and apt to be manipulated as necessary.
This is probably an article that many may react to emotionally and even negatively. But we are certainly not trying to support Hillary's campaign, only to point out that in this world not everything is at it seems, especially when it comes to authoritarian agents of the state.
Conclusion: Your first priority is to take care of yourself and your family. Politics, especially today, seems to offer the hope of greater freedom but usually does not. For more on the issues we've raised, please use a search engine to find "TheDailyBell" and "populism versus globalism" (here, here and elsewhere). These issues may be tied to an an even larger propaganda campaign.
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Film Programme Manager at the British Council.
She joined the British Council in 2001 following stints managing development projects in Bangladesh and heading the British Council office in Gaza. She has curated British film festivals in countries as diverse as India, Armenia, Ukraine and Russia as well as working with international festivals to profile UK work across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Over the last seven years Christine has focused on documentary, developing projects with partners including the Grierson Trust, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Scottish Documentary Institute, Guardian Docs and One World Media. She is also the Documentary Programme Advisor for BFI London Film Festival.
Associate Professor in UWE Bristol's School of Film & Journalism, director of DCRC, and co-director of i-Docs.
Mandy Rose researches the politics and poetics of emerging documentary. A filmmaker who started out in the London independent film scene in the 1980s, Mandy has led ground-breaking participatory projects including BBC's "Mass Observation" camcorder project – Video Nation and the Capture Wales digital storytelling project. She is co-investigator of the EPSRC research project – Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters. She is co-editor of i-docs: The evolving practices of interactive documentary – Wallflower Press 2017. @CollabDocs


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Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to the PS4 next year in Japan.
Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to the PS4 next year in Japan. The PS4 version will be playable at next month's Tokyo Game Show. The game was first released in Japan on PC back in 2012.


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Community Spotlight: Bradford McIntyre
September 10, 2015 Community Spotlightaging, Brad McIntyre, HIV/AIDS, positivelypositive.ca, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal Honoree, Vancouver CourierVIDC Connect
This month's community spotlight sheds light on an issue that's worth celebrating yet heartbreaking. Bradford McIntyre — more commonly known as Brad to us at VIDC — is a friend of VIDC who has successfully outlived the 6-months-to-live diagnosis he was given in 1984.
Brad was recently featured in an article by the Vancouver Courier entitled "Living longer with HIV." He was the prime example of how the field of HIV is rapidly changing. Not too long ago, being diagnosed with HIV was considered a death sentence; now, because of the new treatments available, people like Brad are living well into their sixties.
"New research from the Canadian Observational Cohort Collaboration found the average life expectancy for HIV-positive people receiving antiretroviral therapy is now 65. " Vancouver Courier (19 Aug 2015)
This is great news! This means we are slowly but surely making great progress in our fight against HIV. However, this also spotlights a new issue: an aging HIV-positive population.
"McIntyre has been a longtime advocate for HIV/AIDS awareness and started his website positivelypositive.ca in 2003 to share his story and the latest research. He has a good life and enjoys cooking, gardening and spending time at the beach. But he says aging with the virus comes with its own unique set of challenges. These include health, emotional, financial and social effects. " Vancouver Courier
Because of the advancements in the field of HIV research, people who were expecting to die at a young age, are now given a new hope — a new hope with a new challenge. That means there is a growing population of more senior individuals living with HIV.
The challenge, however, is not just on the individuals who are now given a shot at a longer (and ideally, a more fruitful) life. Society, at large, is also faced with a new challenge. Because an aging HIV population is a fairly recent phenomenon, our society has yet to catch up with services and infrastructures — and especially the knowledge — to care for and support this growing population. Most importantly, the stigma and discrimination that comes with the virus, is ever so present.
Brad's photo on the Vancouver Courier website.
This is the new reality that Brad — along with the rest of society — has to face. All the more reason for Brad to keep doing what he does!
As mentioned earlier, Brad has a blog called positivelypositive.ca where his primarily goal is to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and education.
"I receive thousands of emails from around the world," says McIntyre. "Oftentimes there's an individual that has just found out they're positive and is thinking the worst. Then they find my website and see that I've lived all these years and I'm married and it gives them hope." – -Vancouver Courier
Brad turned a death-sentence into a mission. His website provides information, resources, and — most importantly — hope. Resources like positivelypositive.ca are constant reminders that although stigma and discrimination that come with HIV is very real, there is hope of dispelling them through education and awareness.
To find out more about the work that Brad is involved with — did you know that he is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for excellence in the field of HIV/AIDS in Canada? — visit his blog: positivelypositive.ca!
It is because of amazing individuals like Brad that we are encouraged to keep doing what we're doing. People like him remind us that there is hope, and that there are more and more people getting involved with promoting HIV/AIDS awareness, research, education, prevention, etc!


Don't you just hate it when you look in the sale and spot some of your recently purchased clothes? My entire outfit has been in the Topshop sale, all in my size too... Sods law.
Anyway! Where's the sun gone all of a sudden? We all got into the summer mood and now the typical English weather has come back to haunt us all. Booo. I refuse to switch back to my winter wardrobe so fingers crossed the sunshine appears again soon... Not too much though - I hate having uni deadlines when it's nice outside!
I'm officially home from university for Easter/for good, so I've spend all of today clearing out my wardrobe and chest of drawers, getting rid of unworn clothes so I can fit everything in. I filled 1 small suitcase, 1 holdall and 1 weekend bag... and I still had to leave some in Sheffield. I'm not sure how I managed to collect so many clothes! The charity shops are going to LOVE me next week when they receive all this.


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Community Rights Paper #13: Breaking the Planet
"And then, we wept."
Such were the words of Professor Terry Hughes, the head of the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. Hughes was responding to the Centre's recent findings that over 90 percent of the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing bleaching, and that northern portions of the reef are now half-dead.
The Great Barrier Reef isn't the first ocean ecosystem to be hit by the effects of global warming, of course – mass coral death around the Pacific island nation of Kiribati was reported earlier in 2016, and new studies confirm that these are part of a massive ocean die-off of coral.
Those surprised at the results of these studies – which document the ongoing demise of the planet's major ecosystems – simply haven't been paying attention.
Even to the most casual of observers, it has become clear that our little blue orb has suffered long and hard from the effects of human occupation. What's surprising isn't that we're now seeing the effects of that occupation, but that the planet has been able to bear it for so long.
In the United States alone, 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals – including 72 million pounds of known carcinogens – are released into the atmosphere each year from 20,000 industrial polluters. Two trillion pounds of livestock waste – laced with antibiotics, hormones, and chemicals – are dumped into waterways and applied to land. Eleven million people now live within one mile of a federal Superfund site. Eighty thousand industrial chemicals are currently in use, with more than 700 of those chemicals now found within every human body. Eighteen hundred new chemicals are introduced annually.
If anything could surprise us at this point, perhaps it's learning that over forty years after the major U.S. environmental laws were passed, the environment is worse than ever. Forty percent of our waterways fail to meet even the most basic standards imposed by federal and state clean water laws, 90 percent of the country's forests have been logged, and half of all animal species on earth have been driven to extinction.
We've broken the planet.
And there's far more on the horizon. Today a growing number of climate scientists agree that predictions about the worst effects of global warming now appear to be downright optimistic.
The arrogance of the human race – that we can continue to exhaust the planet that gives us life while avoiding any adverse consequences to our own survival – lies at the base of our current tragedy. The belief that endless economic growth is not only possible, but necessary for our daily lives, serves as the underlying platform for the legal and economic systems that are driving the world off the cliff.
To be clear, clearcutting, pollution, fracking, and the like aren't what's killing the planet. Rather, it's the manic belief system that we can do those things without repercussion, that somehow the human race has been elevated above the basic laws of nature. It's delusion of the highest order, and like Icarus melting his wax wings by flying too close to the sun, we too have begun to plummet to the ground.
We do not have the luxury of waiting for prevailing belief systems to change to finally affect the decision making of those currently in power. Rather, says Mary Geddry, "We must revoke our consent to be governed."
Geddry, a community leader in Coos Bay, Oregon, is working to stop a proposed new gas pipeline from coming into her community. She explains that to effect real change, we must replace our permission for others to govern us by assuming the mantle of governing ourselves.
People like Geddry are calling for the emergence of a time similar to that when Americans seized control of the colonies from Great Britain; when slaves rose in Haiti; when abolitionists and slaves broke their manacles in Britain and the U.S.; when suffragists forced their way into the ballot box; when farmers joined together in the late 1800s to challenge the banks and the railroad corporations; and when civil rights protesters dared to march.
"Suffragists Parade Down Fifth Avenue - 1917". New York Times. 1917.
Over the past one hundred years or so, our "consent to be governed" by others has turned us into rubberstamps for an unholy alliance of professionals – lifetime politicians, large corporations, and a small elite of policy-makers who profit from control over politics, the economy, and our system of law.
Our "consent" has been turned into such a mockery that we've come to believe that we're incapable of governing ourselves. Indeed, we believe that we would be lost without those professionals managing our complex political, economic, and legal systems.
It is that belief in our own dependency which makes us so vulnerable to manipulation. It is that belief which makes it so easy to present us with superficial choices which aren't really choices at all (the 2016 presidential primaries an excellent case in point). And yet we earnestly believe that we're deciding for ourselves. It's as if the choice between paper versus plastic at the grocery store has invaded all facets of our life. Instead of being in charge, we're increasingly divorced from being able to make real decisions that actually matter to our survival.
It is a farce to call any of this democracy.
The first step, the hardest one of all to take, is to cleanse our brains of all that we've been fed – like mushrooms in the dark that have been fertilized with shit – and understand that not only are we the best qualified to make decisions about the future, but that we're the only ones who can.
In short, we must begin to believe that we're not only capable of seizing the power to make critical decisions about the future, but that we would make them better than those currently in charge.
Reversing Course to Save Ourselves
Beginning nearly a decade ago, the people of Tamaqua Borough, Pennsylvania, a small enclave of 7,000 people in the rural Schuylkill area part of the state, began to believe.
Faced with a state plan to dump PCB-laden river dredge into abandoned deep mines, along with a slew of other projects that over the last century have turned parts of their county into cancer clusters, the people of Tamaqua gave up hope. They gave up hope that state and federal environmental agencies would protect them, or that their state government was working on their behalf. They gave up hope that the unholy alliance of those who governed them actually cared about what happened to the people and natural environment of Tamaqua.
The people in Tamaqua then proceeded to do what people and communities have historically done when they've come to grips with the failure of their own government to help them – they revoked their consent to be governed and took steps to govern themselves.
Their first step was to adopt a law that banned the dumping of PCB dredge. The law contained a local bill of rights, which included a right to clean air and water. Further, it reaffirmed their right to govern themselves as a community, and elevated that right above the rights claimed by waste corporations and the state government to force toxic dredge into their community.
Seizing powers that the current system of law denies that they have, the people of Tamaqua understood that if they didn't exercise those powers, that they were guaranteed to receive the dredge. They further understood that only by driving their own municipality up against both the corporations and the state government – in a giant game of chicken – did they stand any chance of not becoming a dumping ground again.
That was lightning in a bottle by itself.
But they didn't stop there. Understanding that protecting the people of Tamaqua required protecting the natural environment upon which the human race depends, they adopted a law that recognized ecosystems within the Borough – groundwater, streams, and rivers specifically – as having legally enforceable, independent rights to be free from toxic dredge.
Photo: River by Enrique Comba Riepenhausen, Flickr Creative Commons
Their law openly and directly refuted one of the most fundamental rules of the system that has brought us to this place – that nature has no rights of its own – such that ecosystems can be used and exploited by whomever owns them, or by whomever holds a permit to pollute them.
Several years after Tamaqua adopted its law, the people of Ecuador would arrive at a similar conclusion – voting to adopt a new national constitution that recognized that all ecosystems in Ecuador must be afforded basic rights – the right to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve.
The first case to be brought in Ecuador under those constitutional provisions –Vilcabamba River v. the Province of Loja – resulted in a ruling upholding the constitutional rights of the river to flow, against a local government's dumping of road debris into the river. Since then, the constitutional rights of nature have been invoked in several cases, including by the national government itself in actions aimed at stopping illegal gold mining.
The Rights of Nature – Liberation Ecology
In the 1950s, a new strain of Catholicism arose against dictatorial governments and severe poverty in Latin America. Called "liberation theology," priests cast Jesus as a political figure and revolutionary who sought to free the poor from an oppressive governmental elite. Priests decentralized the practice of Christianity, transforming disenfranchised communities from being the object of church teaching to becoming direct interpreters of the Bible and designers of their own worship services.
Liberation theology became a threat to the church by critiquing the economic and social structures on which the church structure relied. In response, the Vatican ordered purges of Catholic priests to suppress the doctrine.
The community rights movement emerging in the United States has much in common with the major themes of liberation theology, in seeking to decentralize decision making authority to marginalized communities, and positing that the highest role of the law is the protection of human and natural communities, rather than protection of the ruling elite.
Its critique is much the same – that an unholy alliance of governmental and corporate elites prey on communities, and people have no choice but to submit to fracking and other corporate projects, thus allowing the elite to expand their power over people and nature.
While "liberation ecology" has been used in the past to describe the authority of human communities to serve as good stewards of the planet, it must go further – towards an expansion of community lawmaking which recognizes nature not as property to be well-used and conserved by humans, but as possessing the highest rights protections capable of being afforded by our system of governance.
Without a true liberation ecology activism – in which community democratic authority is expanded to enable people to ban that which harms human and natural communities, and to begin to construct a new system which affords those communities the highest protections of the law – dependence on the old order will guarantee the destruction of the planet continues.
Ecosystem rights must be enforced against those causing global warming.
Whether it's bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the slow death of Lake Erie and the Chesapeake Bay in the United States, disappearing glaciers around the globe, or an ice-free Himalaya, people that are part of those vanishing ecosystems must act to harness their own governmental power to protect them.
People in Toledo and other Ohio municipalities must adopt a Lake Erie Bill of Rights; Australia's cities, local councils, shires, and district councils must adopt a Great Barrier Reef Bill of Rights; municipalities bordering the Chesapeake Bay must adopt a Chesapeake Bay Bill of Rights; local governments in Nepal must adopt a Himalayan Bill of Rights.
As in Ecuador, people in those places – with the help of those with resources who care about the planet – must step into the shoes of those ocean, estuary, bay, mountain, and other ecosystems to use every judicial, legislative, and other institution in existence to stop that which threatens them.
Precisely because the health and well-being of those ecosystems are dependent upon a planetary climate which can support them, ecosystem rights must also then be enforced against those actors – both private and governmental – who are violating those rights by causing global warming. That may mean directly challenging international norms – by providing for jurisdiction of those lawsuits in community "climate courts" established for exactly that purpose.
In response to fracking, new gas pipelines, and a slew of energy projects, communities across the United States have begun to adopt local laws which recognize a right to, and a right of, the climate to be free from fossil fuel emissions. Those laws must then be used to drive lawsuits and new laws that begin to reverse climate change.
To do anything else means relying on those who are destroying the planet to voluntarily restrain themselves from doing so. That's akin to hoping that the slave owners of the 1840s would abolish slavery on their own, or that Woolworths would voluntarily desegregate its lunch counters.
As Kiribati and other small island nations sink into the sea, as the die-off of land and ocean species accelerates, we must ask what actions should be deemed too radical to remedy the radical damage that is being done to the planet and ourselves. Past people's movements were forced to ask similar questions, and similarly, were forced to admit that the institutions which created and depended on the existing system were incapable and uninterested in extracting them from it.
They built mass movements to change the existing order. It's time we do the same.
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File this one under nostalgia. In my recent move, I discovered a box of older Bibles I haven't seen in a couple of years, including my original copy of the New Geneva Study Bible, the precursor to today's Reformation Study Bible. I bought it at a Ligonier Conference when they first came out. The layout was a turn-off, of course. Desktop publishing was still fresh back then, and people hadn't figured out that being able to put grayscale boxes behind everything was no excuse for actually doing it. Still, re-acquainting myself with the New Geneva, I'm impressed how pleasant the genuine leather of yesterday was. What happened in the last fifteen years? Did all the cows turn into cardboard?
This is a season of Study Bibles, with a new edition of the NIV SB out and both the NLT and ESV SBs waiting in the wings. Personally, I prefer wide-margin editions, which give you an opportunity to create your own study tool, but there's no denying the value of a good SB when it comes to ready reference. Although the notes may not be exhaustive, they offer a good starting point for finding the answers.
Another detail I like about the NGSB is the gold imprinting along the inside edge of the cover. That's a nice detail you don't see so often anymore.


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Rockstar Realtor
Luis Cardenas
The Melting Suns
BROSQUITOS
Latter Reign
eBay eCommerce
LUCARDI Enterprises
I grew up in the outskirts of Los Angeles. Taking music lessons at the age of 5 and playing at my dad's freinds night clubs by the ripe old age of 7. I played in my first garage band as a 10 year old and emulated drummers like Peter Chris,John Bonham and Roger Taylor.
I was in several rock bands before starting my own band in the early eighties which I named "RENEGADE". Renegade played locally at clubs like Gazzari's, The Whisky A Go Go, The Troubadour and the Starwood. We were rubbing shoulders and playing the Hollywood
circuit with bands like Motley Crew, Poison and Quiet Riot.
Renegade started breaking nationally; opening for bands like Foreigner, 38 Special, Journey and Night Ranger.
I was also a singer and sang mostly backup vocals in Renegade but sang lead vocal in a few songs I composed for Renegade.
My music and persona gained national recognition in countries like Japan, Mexico and Canada as I embarked on a solo career. As a singing drummer like Phil Collins and Kelly Keegy of Night Ranger. I recorded a solo album called "Animal Instinct" which sold highly all around the World hitting platinum status. "RUNAWAY" my first video was number 1 around the world as well as being the most added video in history in all countries. I received a Grammy nomination and won several awards at film and video festivals for "RUNAWAY" around the industry.
In 1986 I was inducted into "The Guinness Book of World Records" for playing the Largest drum kit in the world played by a professional drummer. I recorded with
"The London Phil Harmonic" at the BBC for a video played in Europe for The Guinness World of Records show.
I have recorded and produced several albums for myself and other artists. "Touch of Paradise", "GENERATIONS",
"LatterReign", "Black" and "Shameless" to mention a few of the albums.
I've had great success in the music industry and am delighted to have performed in front of so many unbelievable audiences around the world. Music has been a ride to remember and a thrill that will never go away.
See You at the show !
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This small restaurant that is a strong earning business is situated in a busy strip mall of Goldstream Ave with generous amount of parking. This gem is a successful family-run restaurant over decades. High traffic location in Downtown Langford. Come make this your Destined business!


Laserable Leatherette offers the look and feel of genuine leather at a fraction of the price. This richly textured, synthetic material is water resistant, easy to clean and durable enough for the rigors of daily use. The high quality workmanship of each leatherette piece is sure to impress every recipient with its elegant individuality. Laserable leatherette items can be personalized through laser engraving for a sharp contrast, or screen printing for a full-color effect.


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Q: Python request module - results differ from chrome I try to scrap this url: http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/2013#!hol=25
Specifically i want all special dates from the US - Year 2013 with the filter "Holidays and some observances". When i go to http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/2013 i can see a lot of holidays, after i applied the "Holidays and some observances" filter i see a table with all holidays i want to scrap. With the "inspect element" function of chrome i figured out that the holiday table contains still all holidays but the one hidden have the class "dn". So i used BeautifulSoap to filter out all the holidays with the class 'dn' and expected to get only those which i can see when i click on http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/2013#!hol=25
Unfortunately that didn't work out so far.
r =  requests.get("http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/2013#!hol=25")
print(r.url)
> http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/2013#!hol=25   #URL seems to be right

soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, "lxml")

n = 0
for link in soup.find_all('tr'):
   if link.get('class')[0] != 'head':  #removes the 2 head rows of the table
       if link.get('class')[0] != 'dn':
          n += 1
print(n)
> 197  # instead of 17 as in Chrome

Since request seems to handle the url in the right way i have no clue why i don't get the same result as in Chrome?
Is it possible that request() doesn't take care of the "#!hol=25" part of the URL?

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Hm, so u just wanna get in etc for adminlvl?
I think he can't describe it too well in English, tho age can be a good explanation too.
ETc|w00t! wrote: I think he can't describe it too well in English, tho age can be a good explanation too.
i think at the age of 12 it's hard to act like adult and find balance doing admin stuff. I would not be so impolite if u would not write this "be admin". But it seems that, what u need is power and this is very fragile tool. Need light hands.
That is not up to me hammer, I've just expressed opinion.
Hey Hammer!We dont recruit atm and you are a little too young!You have to be 16 or older!But you are allways wellcome on ETc|Server!See you!
why that w00t u say no old limite now i will not join thank u very much w00t!
We have (had) members younger than 16, so it shouldn't be a problem. The problem now is that we are full, so the only one thing we can offer is Wanna be group.
It's not so easy... YOU have to prove us that you deserve to be ETc not vice-versa.


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Rob has been in public service for some 17 years, holding several specialized assignments, and becoming a law enforcement and emergency services instructor. He has 10 years in the military and currently serving as a reservist, fire team leader and medic. He enjoys learning, writing, doing grunt work, and helping other vets in need. To further that goal, they started Grunt's BBQ and Easy Company. A future mobile chow hall, coming to an AO near you.
Highlander Outdoors – roving all terrain
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I have been in love with the teachings and learning bestowed upon me in Chiang Mai. I had the privilege of learning from different teachers having different styles of Thai Massage but having the same goal, Wellbeing.
Ms Picnic, Director/Teacher of SMH, is one of the most respected teachers in Chiang Mai. Her School SMH (School of Massage for Health) is one of the first few schools recognized by the Ministry of Education, Thailand. She takes care of her students like a mother taking care of her children. She offers much more than just training, which helps the students to understand the essence of Thai Massage. Ms Picnic has created a beautiful environment for learning, which also has a spacious and lush garden setting.
Mr. Jack Chaiya, Director / Teacher at 'Jack Chaiya Thai Massage School', is one of the most amazing teachers in Chiang Mai. Kru Jack has inherited the legacy and great reputation of his mother, Momma lek Chaiya, Her style is called "Nerve Touch" Thai Massage. Kru Jack, is a very friendly natured teacher with whom learning becomes easy. The techniques he practices and teach are highly effective and the feeling after a massage session with him cannot be just put in words.
Ajarn Sinchai Sukparset is a blind practitioner and Teacher of Thai Massage. He is Chiang Mai's most experienced and competent practitioner of therapeutic Massage. He also specializes in paralysis and stroke rehabilitation. His knowledge in therapeutic massage is simply amazing. He has been an inspiration for me to start Thai Massage classes for the blind community in India.
Raghu is the Founder / Teacher at IMOSHA. Seen through the eyes of his students as a master of his discipline; It is Raghu's passion for bodywork and focused ability to channel healing energy that makes what he does a form of art. After years of experience in working with the human form, and imparting inexhaustible knowledge onto his many students, he still views himself and nothing more than a devoted student of this practice.


The Titans Academy program is an alternative to the traditional recreational team program. It offers boys age 7-10 years old the opportunity for advanced development in soccer through a progressive and sophisticated curriculum and unique academy structure. The Titans Academy is committed to providing the correct environment and structure to create a well-rounded, competitive ready player. The Titans Academy follows a training curriculum that is innovative, challenging, and FUN. The unique structure of the Academy and the distinctive nature of the curriculum is conducive to optimum player development. The objective of the curriculum is to develop each of the four components of a player: Technical, Tactical, Psychological, and Physical in a progressive and age appropriate manner. The Titans Academy is a challenging and rewarding experience for the players involved and serves as a bridge to competitive soccer. The Titans Academy Staff are licensed coaches that pride themselves on providing a FUN & SAFE learning environment that facilitates player growth and passion for the game.


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Judge Orders Federal Government to Improve Care, Decide on Gender-Affirming Surgery for Transgender Woman
CHICAGO – For the first time ever, a federal court has ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate a transgender woman for gender-affirming surgery. This care would end the years of suffering Cristina Nichole Iglesias has experienced from being denied adequate medical care while in federal custody.
The Court's order follows a November hearing in which U.S. District Court Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel heard from Ms. Iglesias and an expert psychologist who testified to the harm caused by Ms. Iglesias's lack of treatment, as well as a representative for the BOP.
"For years, Cristina has suffered greatly from the denial of appropriate healthcare and the constant threats to her life while in BOP detention," said John Knight of the ACLU of Illinois who represents Ms. Iglesias. "Cristina has fought for years to get the treatment the Constitution requires. The Court's order removes the unnecessary hurdles and delays BOP has repeatedly constructed to prevent her from getting the care that she urgently needs."
Even though about 1,200 transgender prisoners are currently in federal custody, no prisoner—past or present—has ever yet received gender-affirming surgery from BOP. The Court's order that BOP must evaluate Ms. Iglesias for gender-affirming surgery marks the first time the federal Government has been ordered to make this decision for a transgender prisoner.
Ms. Iglesias has been in BOP custody for more than 27 years and currently lives in a federal prison in Texas. BOP has known that Ms. Iglesias is transgender since she first arrived in prison in 1994 and identified as a woman. Since then, she has been denied basic medical care to treat her gender dysphoria and was housed in men's prisons for more than two decades, where she experienced severe physical and sexual violence. (Previously, in May 2021, this lawsuit resulted in Ms. Iglesias being one of the few transgender prisoners ever moved to a federal prison that aligns with her gender.) Ms. Iglesias has been seeking gender-affirming surgery to treat her gender dysphoria since at least January 2016.
Under the Court's order, BOP must decide by January 24, 2022, whether to recommend Ms. Iglesias for gender-affirming surgery. If BOP's Transgender Executive Council (TEC) recommends Ms. Iglesias for surgery, BOP's medical director must assess Ms. Iglesias within 30 days and report to the Court about progress on locating a surgeon to perform the procedure. If the TEC does not recommend Ms. Iglesias for surgery, a detailed explanation must be filed with the Court.
The Court found that Ms. Iglesias "suffers daily and is at risk of self-mutilation and suicide" because of her inadequately treated gender dysphoria and that she is "running out of time." Rejecting the Government's arguments that the Court should defer to BOP's judgment, the Court held that "the public has the 'highest' interest in ensuring that Iglesias's constitutional rights are not violated by Defendants." The Court also found that BOP's unwritten criteria used to justify Ms. Iglesias's delay in transfer to a female facility and its ongoing denial of surgery—including alleged concerns about security classifications and hormone levels—were "forbidden post hoc justification[s] created in response to litigation." None of the reasons BOP offered were sufficient to justify its refusal to evaluate Ms. Iglesias for surgery.
"We hope that the order directing BOP to move forward will result in medically necessary and long overdue healthcare for Cristina—and, in time, for the many other transgender people in BOP's custody who have also been denied surgery and other much-needed gender-affirming care," added Knight.
Ms. Iglesias is represented by a legal team that includes counsel from the ACLU of Illinois, the American Civil Liberties Union, Winston & Strawn LLP, and Feirich/Mager/Green/Ryan.
**The full order from the Court can be found here.**
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Alexandrite Gemstone Earrings. Buy either a single or pair of these gemstone earrings and gaze upon the vivid, colour changing hue.
Alexandrite stone often described as miracle stones are the most unique jewels in the world. These atones are often quoted to be, "emerald by day and rubies by night". They have a nature of changing color. They appear to be of two different colors during day and night. The reason behind this change is the variety of Chrysoberyl content in the stones. They were originally found in Russia's Ural Mountains but are now only found in Sri Lanka and Brazil. The genuine stones of this variety are exceptionally rare.
The alexandrite gemstone earrings offered by BMG exhibit a deep green shade during the day and a ruby pink shade in incandescent light. The gemstones generally used worldwide are not genuine and do not change color. However, at BMG the stones used are pure in quality and are 80 percent color changing. They are some of the best alexandrite available today.
Choose a metal for your alexandrite gemstones to be encrusted on from platinum, 14ct white gold, and both 18ct rose and yellow gold. The stones are available in 2.5mm, 3mm and 3.5mm. It has been favorably priced due to its rarity.


Each summer, rising current second-year students at UF Levin College of Law participate in the Unified Write-On Competition.
Transfer students entering their first semester at UF Levin College of Law may participate in the Write-On Competition over the summer prior to starting at UF.
Each fall and spring, the Journal will host an Interdisciplinary Write-On Competition for UF Graduate Students.
For more information on the the Write-On Competition, please email the Journal at jlpp@law.ufl.edu.


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After hiking Cascade and Porter last week, I wanted to try a "next step" High Peak, and the friendly, smart people on the Aspiring 46ers Facebook group suggested that Phelps, Wright, or Big Slide might be good options. My friend Sandy and I settled on Wright and set out on the trail after lunch yesterday, hoping that a forecast for clearing skies as the day went on might let us stay dry and catch a slightly better view at the top.
The trail starts out at Adirondack Loj, where we were happy to find plenty of parking, since the holiday weekend hadn't officially started yet. We started off through the woods on the Van Hoevenberg trail toward Marcy Dam. After almost a mile, the trail to Wright Peak and Algonquin diverges and goes on a while longer before it starts to get steeper.
We were watching for the left turn to the Wright Peak trail (the main trail continues on to Algonquin, which we'd planned to save for another day) and worried we might have missed it, but two summit stewards on their way down the mountain assured us it was up ahead. They reminded us to stay on bare rock at the summit to protect the fragile alpine vegetation, which is truly lovely and has made a great recovery in recent years, thanks to raised awareness. We found the trail junction, hiked a bit more, and after a steep rock scramble, started the last push to the summit.
The summit was cloudy, but there were some fleeting glimpses of neighboring Algonquin.
After a little time at the summit, we hiked down through the rocks to see the wreckage of a B-47 bomber that crashed here during a training mission in 1962.
It was after four, and we knew we had a steep climb down, so we didn't take as much time as we might have to explore the top of the mountain before heading back down into the clouds.
When we got closer to the Loj, we saw these cool mushroomy, fungusy looking things growing among the conifers. I'd seen them on an earlier hike here and found out this is actually a parasitic plant called Monotropa uniflora, also called ghost plant, or Indian pipe. It's not green because it doesn't have chlorophyll, which other plants need to make food. Instead, this plant steals food from the roots of nearby trees.
We made it back to the Adirondack Loj at about quarter after seven, just about six hours after we'd set out. I learned two things on this hike – first, that I think I prefer getting an earlier start to the day so there's less clock-watching at the summit and on the way back. And second, I learned that I like to hike with trekking poles. Sandy had brought an extra pair for me to try, and they really made a difference, especially on the way down, so I'm going to shop around for a pair soon.
Already looking forward to the next peak!


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Prince Harry met Rihanna and they could not stop laughing
Prince Harry and singer Rihanna attend a Golden Anniversary Spectacular Mega Concert at the Kensington Oval Cricket Ground.
By Rachel Thompson 2016-12-01 11:06:26 UTC
LONDON — Prince Harry might have grown up surrounded by royalty, but — until this week — he hasn't really been in the presence of true pop royalty.
On Wednesday, Harry fulfilled what was surely a lifelong wish — to meet the Queen of Pop, Rihanna. And, it wasn't just a one-off — the pair actually met twice in the same day.
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The prince — currently on a tour of the Caribbean — met RiRi for the first time at an afternoon event in Bridgetown, Barbados marking the country's 50 years of independence.
True to form, the prince's first words to Rihanna were frightfully British: "Hello, it's very nice to meet you."
Prince Harry visit to the Caribbean - Day Eleven. Prince Harry meets Rihanna as he attends a Toast to the Nation Event in Bridgetown, Barbados, on the country's 50th anniversary of independence, during his tour of the Caribbean.
Image: Chris Jackson/PA Wire
Later that day, the pair sat next to each other on stage at a concert celebrating the anniversary of independence at the Kensington Oval cricket ground. And they couldn't contain their laughter.
Image: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Could this be the beginning of a beautiful friendship?
The pair seem to be having a lot of fun together.
The question remains: are they BFFs now?
BONUS: Princess Charlotte and Prince George's balloon game reminds us of what childhood's really like
Topics: caribbean, Culture, prince harry, Rihanna, royal family, UK


The original plat for the Town of Stickney was filed on August 17, 1905. A man named T. S. Siniser sold the land, which is now Stickney, to David G. Glenn, on May 18, 1885. After the land had passed through several hands, S. R. and Mamie Woods obtained 109 acres, sold it to C. E. Floete on May 25, 1905.
Stickney originally consisted of nine blocks, two strips of three blocks north of Main Street, one strip of three blocks south of Main, running east and west.
Railroad street (north and south) was the west boundary.
Mr. Floete, representing the Milwaukee Land Company, turned the land over on June 14, 1905.
John O. Wallace, a deputy state surveyor, surveyed the original town of Stickney. Main Street was to be 100 feet wide. Railroad street was to be 50 feet wide, all other streets and avenues to be 60 feet wide, and alleys 20 feet wide.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray O'Brien held the abstract to the original Siniser property, the same lots bought by Julius J Kissman in 1906, who built a house there. The O' Briens house was taken down in the 1990's and a new house, owned by Mary Koenig was placed on the block where three houses were razed, including the O'Brien house. The lot is now vacant at the corner of North Forth Street, and North Second Avenue.


Y3, 4, 5 and 6 had a fabulous morning on Tuesday as they took part in Pulse Games - based on the Rugby World Cup - delivered by a large group of volunteers from Psalms. The children were split into six teams, each representing a different country. Each team perfected a chant to perform to the group, took part in an opening ceremony and competed against one another in a range of fun sports activities loosely based on rugby. Points were accumulated with a large number reserved for sportsmanlike behaviour and team effort. The games were centred around the Christian value of honour. The final results were as follows: Tonga 220, Scotland 245, England 285, New Zealand 305, Japan 310 and the winning team was ......Argentina with 314 points. Each member of the winning team received a medal and all paraded their flags in the closing ceremony. Finally, one child from each team was selected for exceptional sportsmanlike behaviour and received a special certificate. We would like to say a big thank you to all the volunteers who made this great event so memorable.
We were treated to a fabulous assembly on Friday with Otters sharing all that they'd learnt on the Celts and Stone Age period. Dressed in tunics, sheep fleeces and skins and donning shields they'd made, the children not only looked the part but also explained this period of ancient history through a series of short role plays and excellent presentations. It was all very enjoyable and a real pleasure to watch. Thank you Otters.
This week has provided a great opportunity for cross cultural discussion and learning. Visitors from our Indian School have been in and out of classrooms all week, sharing customs and taking part in lessons. We had an interesting question and answer session with Owls class today, with questions like 'What is the national sport of India?', 'Do you have earthquakes and tsunamis?' and 'Do you like Britain and our school?' When asked if the children would like to visit India, the overwhelming response was 'YES!'. We will continue with this brilliant project, with planned collaborative activities in every class over the next two years. We would like to thank the British Council for their generous funding through the Connecting Classrooms award.
A special day was enjoyed by year 6 on Tuesday. They were treated to a morning at the climbing wall in Gloucester, it was good to see some overcome their fears and pluck up the courage to try something they hadn't tried before. Next the children took a guided tour of Gloucester cathedral and after lunch, joined 450 other Y6 leavers to take part in a special service. The theme was 'One Life', a reminder to make the most of every day of our precious lives. Our school banner was held high by Toby and Nell, the cake sale money was donated to Gloucestershire Young Carers and all took a moment to ponder on the journey that lies ahead.
Good teamwork was the name of the game on Monday evening, when eight Y5/6 children took part in rounders fixtures against Woodchester and Cashes Green primaries. Horsley won one game and also lost one. Well done to the team for great sportsmanship and for representing the school so enthusiastically.
Thank you for supporting the bingo event that was held during maths week. We raised an astonishing £206 for new maths equipment. The money will be spent on maths games for the four classes, a pack of 24 game cards and a class set of place value counters. We have also been fortunate enough to receive a generous donation of maths resources from Elizabeth Barr. The children can't help themselves getting excited about numbers now!
Can you make 24 from the card below? You have to use all of the numbers but each only once and you can use any of the four rules. That was the challenge set for nine Y3-5 Horsley pupils on Friday. They competed against Leighterton School and the pace was fast and furious, particularly in the sudden death round.
A specific mention goes to Marcus who happily filled a space on the Leighterton team who also happened to win.... a worthwhile move Marcus! Congratulations to both teams whose attitude, teamwork and enthusiasm (and their mental maths skills) were exemplary.
It's always a pleasure taking our children away as they get so much out of spending their first days away from Mum and Dad and on holiday with so many friends. Owls took part in kayaking, mountain biking, abseiling, a stream walk and a visit to the beach in Somerset. The best bit was getting soaked and utterly covered in mud! Otters stayed more local and visited Nympsfield, Coaley Peak and Uley Long Barrow, with the Y4s managing to complete a 5 mile walk and a night away in Slimbridge. Thanks to the teachers for giving up their time to organise and manage these residential trips. The children loved every moment.
Activities varied across the school but in all classes the theme was the same. Using number skills to solve every day life problems, with a particular focus on money. The oldest children were calculating the best food options from a range of menus to achieve optimum value for money and a tasty meal. The infants measured and weighed ingredients to bake 150 cakes for a community Bingo event. All the children and many parents took part in several bingo games organised by Badgers Class. Thanks to Y6 who teamed up quickly with their YR buddies to help find their numbers. Special magic maths workshops were also held for all classes.
Horsley C.o.E. (VA) Primary School.


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layout: "docs"
page_title: "Custom Configuration - Plugin Development"
sidebar_current: "plugins-configuration"
description: |-
  This page documents how to add new configuration options to Vagrant,
  settable with "config.YOURKEY" in Vagrantfiles. Prior to reading this,
  you should be familiar with the plugin development basics.
---

# Plugin Development: Configuration

This page documents how to add new configuration options to Vagrant,
settable with `config.YOURKEY` in Vagrantfiles. Prior to reading this,
you should be familiar with the
[plugin development basics](/docs/plugins/development-basics.html).

  Warning: Advanced Topic! Developing plugins is an
  advanced topic that only experienced Vagrant users who are reasonably
  comfortable with Ruby should approach.

## Definition Component

Within the context of a plugin definition, new configuration keys can be defined
like so:

```ruby
config "foo" do
  require_relative "config"
  Config
end
```

Configuration keys are defined with the `config` method, which takes as an
argument the name of the configuration variable as the argument. This
means that the configuration object will be accessible via `config.foo`
in Vagrantfiles. Then, the block argument returns a class that implements
the `Vagrant.plugin(2, :config)` interface.

## Implementation

Implementations of configuration keys should subclass `Vagrant.plugin(2, :config)`,
which is a Vagrant method that will return the proper subclass for a version
2 configuration section. The implementation is very simple, and acts mostly
as a plain Ruby object. Here is an example:

```ruby
class Config < Vagrant.plugin(2, :config)
  attr_accessor :widgets

  def initialize
    @widgets = UNSET_VALUE
  end

  def finalize!
    @widgets = 0 if @widgets == UNSET_VALUE
  end
end
```

When using this configuration class, it looks like the following:

```ruby
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  # ...

  config.foo.widgets = 12
end
```

Easy. The only odd thing is the `UNSET_VALUE` bits above. This is actually
so that Vagrant can properly automatically merge multiple configurations.
Merging is covered in the next section, and `UNSET_VALUE` will be explained
there.

## Merging

Vagrant works by loading [multiple Vagrantfiles and merging them](/docs/vagrantfile/#load-order).
This merge logic is built-in to configuration classes. When merging two
configuration objects, we will call them "old" and "new", it'll by default
take all the instance variables defined on "new" that are not `UNSET_VALUE`
and set them onto the merged result.

The reason `UNSET_VALUE` is used instead of Ruby's `nil` is because
it is possible that you want the default to be some value, and the user
actually wants to set the value to `nil`, and it is impossible for Vagrant
to automatically determine whether the user set the instance variable, or
if it was defaulted as nil.

This merge logic is what you want almost every time. Hence, in the example
above, `@widgets` is set to `UNSET_VALUE`. If we had two Vagrant configuration
objects in the same file, then Vagrant would properly merge the follows.
The example below shows this:

```ruby
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.widgets = 1
end

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  # ... other stuff
end

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.widgets = 2
end
```

If this were placed in a Vagrantfile, after merging, the value of widgets
would be "2".

The `finalize!` method is called only once ever on the final configuration
object in order to set defaults. If `finalize!` is called, that configuration
will never be merged again, it is final. This lets you detect any `UNSET_VALUE`
and set the proper default, as we do in the above example.

Of course, sometimes you want custom merge logic. Let us say we
wanted our widgets to be additive. We can override the `merge` method to
do this:

```ruby
class Config < Vagrant.config("2", :config)
  attr_accessor :widgets

  def initialize
    @widgets = 0
  end

  def merge(other)
    super.tap do |result|
      result.widgets = @widgets + other.widgets
    end
  end
end
```

In this case, we did not use `UNSET_VALUE` for widgets because we did not
need that behavior. We default to 0 and always merge by summing the
two widgets. Now, if we ran the example above that had the 3 configuration
blocks, the final value of widgets would be "3".

## Validation

Configuration classes are also responsible for validating their own
values. Vagrant will call the `validate` method to do this. An example
validation method is shown below:

```ruby
class Config < Vagrant.plugin("2", :config)
  # ...

  def validate(machine)
    errors = _detected_errors
    if @widgets <= 5
      errors << "widgets must be greater than 5"
    end

    { "foo" => errors }
  end
end
```

The validation method is given a `machine` object, since validation is
done for each machine that Vagrant is managing. This allows you to
conditionally validate some keys based on the state of the machine and so on.

The `_detected_errors` method returns any errors already detected by Vagrant,
such as unknown configuration keys. This returns an array of error messages,
so be sure to turn it into the proper Hash object to return later.

The return value is a Ruby Hash object, where the key is a section name,
and the value is a list of error messages. These will be displayed by
Vagrant. The hash must not contain any values if there are no errors.

## Accessing

After all the configuration options are merged and finalized, you will likely
want to access the finalized value in your plugin. The initializer function
varies with each type of plugin, but *most* plugins expose an initializer like
this:

```ruby
def initialize(machine, config)
  @machine = machine
  @config  = config
end
```

When authoring a plugin, simply call `super` in your initialize function to
setup these instance variables:

```ruby
def initialize(*)
  super

  @config.is_now_available
  # ...existing code
end

def my_helper
  @config.is_here_too
end
```

For examples, take a look at Vagrant's own internal plugins in the `plugins`
folder in Vagrant's source on GitHub.

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In 2007 I graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in musicology and in 2008 in the pipe organ, and then I started postgraduate study in organ. My professional ascent began with the start of classes with outstanding Russian organist – Alexei Shevchenko. By that time I was already 29 years old. I managed to work in different directions – a journalist in publishing house Burda, stylist, manager at the famous Russian photographer, director in a chamber orchestra, a manager in the field of PR-communications, and even in the Ministry of Culture (in the music department), the expert council of the theater festival " Golden Mask ". I organized and successfully held its summer festival" Organ nights in Kuskovo. ". And by my 29 years, I realized I should change my life and began to live only for music and organ performing (and completely finish the administration career). Otherwise I should have completely immerse myself in the world of administrative work.
Soon I moved to Latvia (my husband is from Riga). I've already felt confident as a professional and I was not difficult for me to join the organ environment there. In Latvia there are many organists, but even more organs! I think that there is no such a country in the world where so many organs (about 300) for a small number of people! And almost all of them are historical. We can say that it is a paradise for organists! For example one of the largest organs in Europe – the famous organ of the Duomo, and an even greater organ – in the church of St. Trinity in Liepaja. All organists of the world aspire to play on these organs. And now they are available to me … My colleague Christine Adamaite which recommended me particularly in the Dome Cathedral. So she had a direct bearing on my promotion in Latvia. Christine is a magnificent organist! She successfully plays a lot of solo and ensemble programs.
In November 2014 (after a year of my stay in Latvia), I was invited to the church of St. Paul. Pastor Dirts enthusiastically takes all my ideas. So I spend one month with solo concerts in the church. And as well one concert for children, in which I talk about the organ itself and acquaint children with organ music. These concerts were echoed not only in children but even in adults who previously had never seen the organ. They did not anticipate how it is played, that there are different registers (tremblay). Recently I spent a similar format for the disabled people. It was the request of Sasha Pavlovskaya (she has recently moved to Latvia, she is a social worker). Such format of concerts is difficult to hold in Russia. Most of the organs are in the concert halls, there is a very large rent there, so all the projects become commercial at once. The other situation is in Latvia. Almost all concerts carry out charity. So sometimes I ask myself if I can earn here or all my income will come from touring only. Unlike my colleagues and friends-musicians, I do not aspire to teaching. I'm only interested in solo performance. However I take part in ensembles. I'm glad that my friend Irina Vylegzhanina, cellist, has also moved to Riga. We perform regularly in various churches with Irina. Sometimes I think about the continuation of my administration work, here in Latvia. For example to organize some sort of a festival, but there is always something to stop me. I realize that I can not waste my time, I must strictly follow the chosen path.


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Your way to COP26: Conversations on wash Transport Episode 1: Electronic vehicles in a Green Uber in London
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Number: Richard Waters, Lead Companies Architect, Hitachi EuropeGuest: Christopher Hook, Head of Motors & Clean Air Contribute, Uber
Study highlights from the talk:
Chris: so just how do you try the realm of Electronic automobiles and this also venture?
Richard: Hitachi's become involved with a course also known as Optimise Prime now for after some duration. It's a three-year invention regimen functioning alongside UK electricity systems, SSEN, following three of this biggest car fleets in britain – Royal Mail, Centrica, and undoubtedly, Uber.
We've been comprehending the effect of electrification on fleets, analysing the information and contemplating, as we electrify, do you know the influences probably going to be regarding the electrical power community, and exactly what are the obstacles for use.
For Uber, discover strong obligations to electrification, particularly in London. That was the drivers for beginning on that trip?
Chris: i do believe it was two things. To start with, it's the best course of action. Transportation is a huge source of pollutants, we've got to cut back our emissions as a society. Uber is an essential part associated with transport program, and so you are unable to obviously have a lasting approach on that front side without a view on how you'll get to net zero. Richard: I guess among the many big benefits associated with electrification may be the quality of air. It really is something that as Uber will continue to electrify, we will start seeing improvements to quality of air, basically very important for those who living or are employed in London.
Chris: I'm Hoping so. Many which enabled by the policy surroundings that's been created. The ultra-low emission area, every researches suggest, was very successful as an intervention to cut back contamination. For me personally, it really is an enormous, extra explanation to accomplish the job. My children are developing upwards in London. Really don't want them to breathe contaminated atmosphere.
COP26 is drawing near to
Richard: With COP26 approaching subsequently this present year, Hitachi is actually excited as among their key lovers. We come across it an actual catalyst for governing bodies around the world to restore and strengthen the obligations that they've currently made at Paris. Business keeps a truly, vital role to aid all of those responsibilities in which it could. Hitachi's undertaking lots of operate today with electrification, both in regards to electric cars, but with railway. It seems it may making a proper difference, in fact it is superb.
Chris: I found myself attending ask you to answer a bit about COP26, really. What do you notice as Hitachi's role within COP26? You're a principal sponsor.
Richard: For Hitachi, we're actually trying to make use of places, governments, and companies, and help them bring on the aspirations to-be net-zero. We many different possibilities and business units that are able to deliver products or services to your clients, with fleet electrification getting one particular chance we're addressing.
Optimise Prime and EV Adoption
Chris: do you consider the work that people've started creating on Optimise Prime will probably assist notify some of these campaigns? It's been a few years today.
Richard: This has. Yes. With Uber specifically, that which we're attempting to discover is actually, while the electrification of vehicles increases in London, is there restrictions or solutions utilizing the charging system? For an Uber motorist, charging could be perceived as recovery time when they're maybe not generating, therefore we need to comprehend where the better locations are to put asking infrastructure to reduce the inconvenience.
What's truly exciting is how exactly we're modelling the growth of all of the electric motors concentrating on Uber, then, based on forecast asking need, in which asking system and possible economical support associated with energy community can be necessary.
Variety Anxiety and Obstacles to Use
Richard: one of many some other fascinating circumstances can there be's a touch of an urban myth that extend anxieties is a problem and a barrier for people to adopt electric motors. Without a doubt, a lot of Uber vehicle operators is addressing a significant distance on any certain Equestrian dating site shift, and what the information is telling us, is obviously, number actually a giant boundary to adoption. The drivers which use a power automobile, they will have discovered a method to regulate their unique opportunity while creating and locate opportunities to demand, if this's actually expected anyway. That is really good, while you stated, not only your EV use by various other Uber motorists, however for the wide population as well.
Chris: We're now at a point where we now have a big sufficient society of people who have made that switch to end up being relatively certain that we're not checking at early adopter enthusiasts. It's about dealing with that then phase in which it becomes an all natural choice for as many folks as possible. Which is the way weare going to arrive at 100per cent between the Uber drivers. Which is the way we're going to bring, honestly, to in which we have to getting as a society.
Richard: What we're seeing using the van-based fleets at Royal Mail and Centrica, is whenever they've made that move, the opinions is the fact that they see operating a lot more, for example it's easier, less noisy, and accelerates much better. Early adopters becomes evangelists, and that can let motivate colleagues to transition.
Grid Ability and Smart Charging
Chris: Another common issue concerning the pay attention to electrification is that we defintely won't be in a position to take care of it as a country or we'll placed excessively stress on the grid. That we don't have the actual structure under the crushed making it function? Is the fact that true?


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HomeMedia ReleasesNewsEnhancer of luxury SUVs up and running in Danville
Enhancer of luxury SUVs up and running in Danville
Overfinch, the British enhancer of luxury SUVs that announced last year its plans to bring 41 jobs to the Dan River Region over five years, built six vehicles at its facility in Danville nearly two weeks ago and hopes to build up to 100 next year.
"We are building and selling cars now," said Alex Sloane, vice president of Overfinch North America. "We've got a cross-section of customers."
Majority of its U.S. customers are from New York, Florida and California, but there have also been clients from Virginia, Louisiana, Texas and Washington, Sloane said during an interview Thursday morning at the Overfinch facility at 500 Stinson Drive.
Overfinch has been building enhanced Range Rovers since 1975.
Since its announcement in July 2016, Overfinch in Danville — the company's only U.S. location — has two employees and is offering a position to a third, Sloane said.
Overfinch began operations here in April.
"We've only recently started building cars in this facility," Sloane said.
The facility has built a considerable number of cars since April — "in line with our expectations," he said. The company has used local subcontractors to help build cars until it gets established.
Overfinch North America made the announcement in July 2016 at the Farnborough International Air Show at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England. The company is supposed to bring 41 new jobs within five years of the start of operations.
The company has no intention of opening another U.S. distribution center.
The pace of hiring those workers will depend on demand, said Julie Allen, Overfinch North America business manager.
"That's going to be sales-driven," Allen said.
Demand will increase in 2018, 2019 and 2020, the first three years of a new model of vehicle, Allen said.
Overfinch North America in Danville is a sales, assembly and distribution center, with parts coming from its parent company in the UK, Allen said. Those parts are put onto vehicles or distributed, Allen said.
The company is the U.S. arm for a UK company.
When Overfinch North America in Danville has enough demand, it will begin making some of its own parts. The first thing they want to produce on their own is carbon fiber pieces used for exterior enhancements, Allen said.
"The carbon fiber is essential in our exterior cosmetic package," she said.
Overfinch North America plans to eventually become a manufacturing facility.
"That is going to be determined by demand in the U.S.," Sloane said.
The company enhances Range Rovers according to customers' specifications. Vehicles cost from $120,000 to $300,000, with the average price $170,000, depending on models and customer specifications, Sloane said.
Danville Economic Development Director Telly Tucker said Overfinch — like any business — will "ramp up at its own pace, according to whatever goals it wants to achieve."
There was a lot of construction at the Stinson Drive building during the first six months, Tucker said. They had to go through licensing to be a certified automobile dealer in multiple states, Tucker said.
"Those things take time," Tucker said. "Unless you're in the industry, you don't know the minutiae of what it takes to start up a new business."
John Crane reports for the Danville Register & Bee. Contact him at jcrane@registerbee.com or (434) 791-7987.


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Chef Greg Perrault of June
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Celery Root and Salt Cod Napoleon, Pickled Egg Yolk, and Confit Mushrooms
Portland loves its meat, but that doesn't stop Greg Perrault from executing his vegetable-centric vision of cuisine at his built-from-the-ground-up restaurant, June. And for Perrault, the journey from aspiring chef to restaurant owner and vegetable advocate (among a crowd of grunt-tastic Portland menus) all began with a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration from Washington State University. While he was there, Perrault worked for WSU catering for added practical training. After graduating in 2002, BA in hand, he headed straight for the St. Helena campus of The Culinary Institute of America for an advanced culinary arts certificate. While at the CIA, Perrault racked up work experience as a line cook in St. Helena's restaurants, including Miramonte/Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen and Martini House.
Having worked in Washington and California, Perrault decided to give the East Coast a try. In 2004 he headed to New York as a line cook at Bouley and later as a sous chef at The Tasting Room, where he stayed for another two years. Heeding the call of Oregon's rich produce, Perrault eventually left the Big Apple to work on farms outside of Portland. That knowledge of local produce proved pivotal when it came time for Perrault to build his own menu. He left the farms to head the pint-sized kitchen at Portland restaurant DOC, a year-long (and perfect) preparation in working in petite kitchen spaces with phenomenal local fruits and vegetables.
When it came time to open June, Perrault and his furniture-building partner Matthew Peterson built the business from scratch, using mostly refurbished materials. This is the kind of independent drive and faith in materials—from scrap wood to frikeh and black radishes—that fuels both the restaurant and Perrault's cuisine.
Interview with Portland Rising Star Chef Greg Perrault of June - Portland, OR
Antoinette Bruno: What first inspired you to pursue cooking professionally?
Greg Perrault: I first started cooking while I was in college and was looking for more nutritious alternatives to what is commonly available to students. Then on a trip to Italy, I fell in love with the concept of Slow Food and dining out as an experience. I had never seen anything like it growing up, yet it seemed so natural.
AB: What culinary school did you go to?
GP: The CIA Napa Valley ACAP program.
AB: Would you recommend culinary school to aspiring cooks?
GP: I think it really depends on the person. I had just finished college and was looking for a way to jump-start my career as a chef. If I was 18, I might not have gotten the same education. It's all about your mindset.
AB:What do you think you'd be doing right now if you weren't a chef?
GP: That's tough. I often wonder what I might do in the future after June, and I can't imagine anything. It would definitely need to be something where I could be outside. Kitchens are the only place I like inside. Maybe landscaping. You have an opportunity for creativity and you're outside doing physical labor.
AB: Tell us about getting June off the ground. How did you go about opening your own restaurant?
GP: It was a lot of fun. We had the money lined up and spent some time looking for the right spot. It was an easy decision when we saw the space. Then it was a mad dash to finish our business plan.
AB: How did that part work for you?
GP: The buildout was a huge learning experience. The space was blank, just an uneven concrete flour and four walls. My partner, Matthew [Peterson], and I did everything except the electrical and plumbing—all the planning and execution. It definitely helped that Matthew has a degree in architecture. He had the programs to draw up building plans for the city, and we had the time to figure things out and do it right. He also is a skilled wood worker, and I think you can feel it when you are in the restaurant. It was about doing things right from square one. Sometimes I thought it would never be finished, but we did it.
AB: Anything you wish you had known before opening your own place?
GP: Just how to better deal with employees.
AB: How are you involved in your local culinary community?
GP: I don't do a lot of extracurricular activities. We've contacted the school about getting externs.
AB: What is your philosophy on food and dining?
GP: For me, it's very important where food comes from. That's where I started. I don't say, "Oh man I really want this product. I really want peas!" It's what do you have to offer me that's at it best right now? That's what I do. From there I think it's try to have fun with it.
AB: What's the toughest thing you've had to do in your job?
GP: Things can be challenging. Waking up Saturday morning after the last day of the week you have to say, "Get up, get to the market, get stuff, get back." But I don't think I consider that a hard thing for me.
AB: If you had one thing that you could do over, what would it be?
GP: I would have gone to Europe while I was little bit younger. I would have gone and worked in Europe or somewhere in another country.
AB: What's next for you? Where will we find you in five years?
GP: It's a good question. We have a five year lease, and both Matthew and I feel like restaurants have a lifespan. We want to do other things, not knowing what as of yet. He wants to pursue furniture-making. And as for me, I could do anything I want in five years. I couldn't imagine.
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