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Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 106
March 15, 2018 CET: 18:45
Local time: 18:45 ALEKSANDAR NIKOLIC HALL
Feldeine, Zvezda set scoring marks to beat Valencia
In a battle to avoid early elimination from the playoffs race, Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade enjoyed a club-record offensive explosion while putting away visiting Valencia Basket 106-90 at home on Thursday. Zvezda improved to 11-15 and while Valencia fell to 9-17 and possible elimination later Thursday. Those 106 points were 3 better than Zvezda's previous best, back in 2014, and follows on the team's second-worst offensive showing ever, just 54 points in a loss at FC Barcelona Lassa last week. James Feldeine led the charge with a career-high 30 points, matching Zvezda's club record, while hitting 4 of the team's 13 triples and 10 of 11 free throws. Taylor Rochestie added 17 points and 5 assists, while Mathias Lessort had 16 and 7 rebounds. Milko Bjelica scored 12 points and Dylan Ennis 11 for the winners. Valencia got a career-high 22 points from veteran Rafa Martinez, 16 each from Joan Sastre and Erick Green, as well as 10 from Tibor Pleiss.
A face-up triple by Martinez and a driving layup by Dejan Davidovac were the first field goals for each team. While Lessort detonated a dunk, threes continued to be Valencia's ticket, with two downed by Sastre and another by Martinez on the way to a 7-14 advantage. Stefan Jankovic steadied Zvezda with a tip-in. Pleiss got 3 points the hard way but so did Bjelica after Rochestie hit their team's first triple. Feldeine did the honors to tie it 17-17 on a fastbreak, but Green's free throws and Bojan Dubljevic's put-back kept the visitors ahead. With the help of Ongjen Dobric and 4 perfect free throws from Feldeine, Zvezda was able to tie it again, 23-23, after 10 minutes. Ennis opened the second quarter from downtown and soon Dobric was swinging from the rim for a 30-23 Zvezda lead. Martinez returned to strike from deep and Alberto Abalde followed him with 2 in a row as Valencia suddenly re-took the lead, 30-32. Martinez had 6 points in a row after that for the visitors, but Lessort and Feldeine filled a 9-3 run for Zvezda to take back a 44-41 edge. Green combined 3 free throws with a baseline jumper for a new lead change, but Rochestie tied it and Feldeine's free throws changed it back to 48-46. Dubljevic tied on a tip-in before Ennis flashed for the go-ahead layup and a 50-48 halftime score.
Sastre's third triple flipped the scoreboard before Lessort's three-point play flipped it back at 53-51. Pleiss scored in close and Will Thomas joined the visitors' three-point parade, hitting Valencia's 10th already. Rochestie and Martinez traded both two- and three-pointers in the span of a minute, leaving Valencia ahead 58-61. Martinez already had a career-high 22 points, but Bjelica and Rochestie combined on 6 straight to make it 62-61. Feldeine and Rochestie kept Zvezda a step ahead at 68-65. Dobric's spectacular chase-down block got a rise from the home crowd, but not as much as when Feldeine and Pero Antic buried threes in the last minute of the third quarter for the game's biggest lead by far, 79-67. Feldeine could not be stopped, and his next 2 three-pointers made it 85-69 with 7:45 left. Bjelica joined the fun from deep, with Feldeine and Ennis following him for a 20-point difference, 94-74. The only question left was how much more Zvezda could score, and the answer was 106 points, a club record coming one week after scoring barely half that.
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Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 23 27 29 27
Valencia Basket 23 25 19 23
Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 23 50 79 106
Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade
4 KESELJ, MARKO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
7 DAVIDOVAC, DEJAN 11:36 2 1/1 0/2 2 2 1 3 1 -1
10 LAZIC, BRANKO 22:13 7 1/1 1/2 2/2 1 2 3 2 8
12 ANTIC, PERO 14:04 3 1/4 5 5 2 1 2 1 5
13 DOBRIC, OGNJEN 17:37 6 2/4 2/2 2 1 3 1 1 1 2 10
14 FELDEINE, JAMES 28:09 30 4/8 4/6 10/11 3 3 2 1 1 6 32
16 JANKOVIC, STEFAN 2:40 2 1/1 0/1 1 1 1 1
22 ROCHESTIE, TAYLOR 25:34 17 4/8 3/4 1 1 5 1 1 1 17
23 OMIC, ALEN 14:58 1 1 3 1 2 2 3
26 LESSORT, MATHIAS 22:14 16 6/7 4/4 4 3 7 2 2 2 1 4 4 25
31 ENNIS, DYLAN 15:28 11 1/2 3/4 1 2 3 9
51 BJELICA, MILKO 25:27 12 3/6 1/1 3/3 2 2 4 2 1 2 4 3 13
Totals 200:00 106 23/38 13/24 21/22 9 20 29 17 8 8 3 2 25 22 123
Head coach: ALIMPIJEVIC, DUSAN
0 THOMAS, WILL 28:12 7 0/2 1/2 4/4 2 2 2 1 2 4 11
3 PUERTO, JOSEP 2:02 1 0/1 1/2 1 1 -1
5 GARCIA, SERGI 10:51 2 1/3 1 1 1 -1
6 ABALDE, ALBERTO 20:28 8 1/1 2/2 6 3 3 3 11
14 DUBLJEVIC, BOJAN 15:33 4 2/5 0/1 3 1 4 1 5
16 VIVES, GUILLEM 11:26 0/1 0/3 1 1 2 2 2 -1
17 MARTINEZ, RAFA 21:29 22 3/3 4/6 4/4 2 2 1 1 3 4 23
21 PLEISS, TIBOR 19:10 10 4/7 2/3 1 3 4 2 1 1 3 4 13
22 WILLIAMS, LATAVIOUS 10:07 4 2/3 1 1 2 3 -1
30 SASTRE, JOAN 26:00 16 1/3 4/4 2/2 1 1 3 2 1 2 3 20
32 GREEN, ERICK 18:38 16 4/6 1/2 5/5 2 3 14
42 DOORNEKAMP, AARON 16:04 0/2 3 3 2 1 2 2 1 1
Team 2 3 5 5
Totals 200:00 90 18/35 12/22 18/20 6 17 23 18 5 10 2 3 22 25 99
51.4% 54.5% 90%
Head coach: VIDORRETA, TXUS
ALIMPIJEVIC, DUSAN
"We played with huge confidence. They took some very hard and open shots. We improved our defense in the second half, so it was a very big and important win for us. This victory is all we need because we are still fighting for our fans. I have to say thank you to them for supporting us."
VIDORRETA, TXUS
"Sometimes, it's the other team that does things well. We played a very good first 20 minutes. We needed to improve during the second half with our percentage in the paint. We had good percentage from three, but we were very bad in the paint, where they scored well. Our defense was pretty good in the first minutes of the third quarter, but when we went to the bench, we lost our defensive rhythm. They had many options to go to the free throw line to open up the game, and with that difference they played a real nice last 12 minutes, with great percentage from the three-point line, and that was the key to kill the game."
FELDEINE, JAMES
"I'm just happy we won. I came out and made a few shots and we won the game. I think we started tough after the break. In the first half, they made 10 threes. We didn't want to let them shoot open threes in the third quarter. That helped a lot, and in the fourth we played our basketball. We were running and we made a lot of open shots."
SASTRE, JOAN
"We were good for three quarters, then in five minutes they made every shot. The hit three-pointer after three-pointer, ran away by 20 points and there went the game. But we have to stay with the positive, the first three quarters, and try to improve on the fourth one."
James Feldeine celebrates - Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade
Rafa Martinez - Valencia Basket
Mathias Lessort - Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade
Guillem Vives - Valencia Basket
Ognjen Dobric - Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade
Latavious Williams - Valencia Basket
Dylan Ennis and Erick Green - Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade vs. Valencia Basket
Taylor Rochestie - Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade
Sergi Garcia - Valencia Basket
Milko Bjelica - Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade
Joan Sastre - Valencia Basket
Dejan Davidovac - Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade
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Q: How to create mat-table with sorting with data obtained from HttpClient (Angular) I'm new to angular and I'm having a hard time understanding how I can display data obtained from HTTP requested into a sorted mat-table. Currently what I'm doing is in my app.component.ts I have a getdata method:
  getdata() {
    this.ServiceService.getData().subscribe((data: any[]) => {
      this.data = data;
    })
  }

this is the method it calls from ServiceService (Simple API call)
getData(){
  return this.http.get('/api/Employee');
}

and in my app.component I have:
  constructor(private ServiceService: ServiceService) { }
  data: any;
  EmpForm: FormGroup;
  submitted = false;
  EventValue: any = "Save";

  ngOnInit(): void {
    this.getdata();

    this.EmpForm = new FormGroup({
      eId: new FormControl(null),
      eName: new FormControl("",[Validators.required]),
      eAddress: new FormControl("",[Validators.required]),
      eEmail:new FormControl("",[Validators.required]),
      eAge: new FormControl("",[Validators.required]),
    })
  }

Then in my app.component.html I just do this

              Id
              Name

              Address
              Email
              Age
              Edit
              Delete

              {{d.eId}}
              {{d.eName}}

              {{d.eAddress}}
              {{d.eEmail}}
              {{d.eAge}}
              Edit
              Delete

This works fine, but I've been banging my head trying to change my normal table into a mat-table with sorting, I'm unsure how I can load this data (*ngFor) into my mat-table, if mat-table is the right choice at all (I just need sorting). Any advice appreciated.

A: Yes, you can use mat-table for your data.
You can refer to this link: https://material.angular.io/components/table/examples
(See an example of Data table with sorting, pagination, and filtering.)
and for your BE data-binding to table :
In your typescript file, you just have to create a variable like
  dataSource: MatTableDataSource<UserData>;

and in your function add like this:
    getdata() {
    this.ServiceService.getData().subscribe((data: any[]) => {
      this.data = data;
      this.dataSource.data = data;
    })
  }

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using EdityMcEditface.HtmlRenderer.Filesystem;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

namespace EdityMcEditface.Mvc.Auth
{
    public class DraftFilePermissions : PathPermissionChain
    {
        private HttpContext context;

        public DraftFilePermissions(IHttpContextAccessor contextAccessor, IPathPermissions next = null)
            : base(next)
        {
            this.context = contextAccessor.HttpContext;
        }

        public override bool AllowFile(string path, string physicalPath)
        {
            //If the file ends with .draft make sure the user has write permission
            var extension = Path.GetExtension(path);
            if(extension == ".draft")
            {
                return context.User.IsInRole(Roles.CreateDrafts);
            }

            //Otherwise return true
            return true;
        }
    }
}

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I am very unhappy with the car dealer Franko Yates and City Chevrolet. My wife and I went to City Chevrolet on February 12 to look into buying my leased Chevy Tahoe or maybe even buying something new. I went through the paper work which Franko Yates supplied me and signed all the necessary paperwork. I was told by Franko Yates that we qualified for my 2012 Chevy Suburban but it would require a $7,200 down payment. So I paid the down payment and drove home in my new car. I have now had the car for 29 days and the finance department contacted me to say The credit department decided not to finance the car? I asked why this was but they gave me the run around saying because I owned a business that it is not filed under a 1041 Schedule C they have no way of verifying my information. I told them that business files a 1120C and they still had no way of verifying my information. I told them that my business business file 1120C because it is a corporation. I pay myself a salary, I provided the W2 which was already submitted to the SSA for income within my business. I also have a primary 8-5 job also, which I also provided check stubs and W2.
Now the car dealer from City Chevorlet Franko Yates are wanting me to return the car after I have already filed my old tag with the NCDMV, transferring the registration. Obtained insurance which I have already made my payment. This is not right is it? Every piece of documentation that I provided has been accurate but now I have to return the car which I love! How is this possible?
Last edited by patrickm; 04-03-2012 at 11:15 PM.
My name is Franko Yates and I tried to obtain finance for this client. The truth is that Patrick's finance fell through and that is why he had to return the car.
Exactly the same thing happened to me although not at this dealership. It's not the fault of Franko Yates but the finance company. One minute I thought I owned a brand new Ford Explorer and the next they were calling me just like Franko Yates to tell me to bring the car back.
yeah, sorry, you can't do a pretend deal. you can't say, okay, you qualify, then say, oh sorry, you don't. it's cheap and easy now to check credit scores/reports.
what happened to the down payment? why should anybody ever deal with you when you do pretend deals, that you later say, oh sorry, it didn't work?


With the first compliance period in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) coming to a close in December, it seems an appropriate time to look back at what we can learn from the country's first market-based program aimed at reducing emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants. A report released Tuesday by the Analysis Group analyzed the economic impacts of RGGI – how the program impacted electricity prices, power producers' costs, and consumers' electric bills, and what effect the millions in quarterly auction proceeds has had, and will have, on the region's economy.
The report does not try to predict what will happen or should happen to RGGI to update it for 2012 and beyond. Instead, it takes the last three years as a snapshot, and models the impacts that the allowances sold and money spent by the states through the last 3 years will have over the next 10 years.
Overall, the 10 states took in $912 million from the auctions, which, when invested by the states in various programs and initiatives, added $1.6 billion in net present value to the region's economy, even when taking into account the nearly $1.6 billion loss in income that power producers face with more efficient energy usage reducing prices and consumption. The report also found that the first three years of RGGI have created over 16,000 new "job years" – from employing people to conduct energy efficiency audits or install efficiency measures, to maintaining workers in state-funded programs that might have been cut had a state not used RGGI funds to close budget gaps.
The study found that, although the cost of the allowances was largely passed along to consumers, RGGI only increased consumers' bills by an average of 0.7% over the last 3 years. The study predicts that, over time, RGGI will lower consumers' bills, because the states invested a substantial amount of the allowance proceeds on energy efficiency programs. By 2021, consumers of electricity in the 10-state region will enjoy a net savings of nearly $1.1 billion on their electricity bills, and, due to efficiency programs focused on insulation and heating efficiency, another $174 million in savings from avoided expense on natural gas and heating oil.
The analysis I found the most interesting concerns how state decisions to spend RGGI proceeds affected local economies. The Memorandum of Understanding that set up RGGI required that the states invest at least 25% of the proceeds for "public benefit," but left the rest up to each state. As a result, there was a divergent approach to spending that, according to today's report, resulted in significant differences in returns.
New England states spent 86% of their RGGI funds on energy efficiency, and only 3% on direct assistance to low-income consumers. Because the investment in energy efficiency introduced funds into the economy twice – both when the state paid into the efficiency program, and when consumers paid less for electricity, leaving them free to spend elsewhere in the economy – the overall macroeconomic impact of RGGI in New England was almost $900 million, even though those states only took in $275 million in allowance funds.
In comparison, the states in the PJM regional transmission organization (New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland), spent 41% of their funds on direct bill assistance and only 13% on energy efficiency. The direct bill assistance also freed consumers to spend money elsewhere in the economy, but the analysis found that, without the multiplier effect of energy efficiency, the returns for these states were not as great. As a result, although these three states received more money from allowance sales than New England — $310 million – the net positive impact of RGGI was only $341 million.
It's not much of a surprise that the investment of auction proceeds in energy efficiency is one of the big success stories of the first three years of RGGI. Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see whether the report's conclusions regarding the relative impact of spending on energy efficiency as compared to low-income assistance will influence how states spend their auction proceeds going forward.


Time for another laugh again with our monthly classic comedy segment back on the show. This week the comedy of Pat Cooper on the radio. News on a popular TV show being sued over musical rights, and no, Robin Thicke has nothing to do with it. And what do you think about reincarnation, a story that might surprise you.


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7/25-26: Opera, Digital Rock and Wings
Opera in the park, digital rock at Lumen, Wing Fest and the Mayhem Festival
By Wendy Wollenberg	• Published at 3:51 pm on July 24, 2009
SASHA COLLAZO
ALL KILLER, NO FILLER: Head to Millennium Park before the glorious Venetian Night display for the Grant Park Orchestra performing hits from such crowd-pleasing operas as "Carmen," "La Boheme" and "La Traviata." The high-spirited concert is part of the ongoing Grant Park Music Festival. Sat. 6:30PM, free.
RIDE 'EM COWBOY: See Lady Gaga collaborator Space Cowboy perform live at Fulton Market hotspot Lumen. Dubbed the "first digital rock artist," Mr. Cowboy will perform a DJ set followed by a live show featuring his hit songs "Falling Down" and "We Like to Party" off of his new album. A private reception (RSVP to info@lumen-chicago.com) featuring Ultimat Vodka cocktails will take place from 9-10PM. Sat. 9PM-3AM, $20.
WINGING IT: Head to the ninth annual Wing Fest at Schaumburg's Alumni Club. You'll get to vote for your favorite chicken wing recipe from a variety of local restaurants, including Hooter's, Moretti's and Rosati's, while listening to live music. Sun. 12-5PM, $20.
BANG YOUR HEAD: More than 13 metal bands will take over the First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre in Tinley Park for the Mayhem Festival. You won't want to miss headliners Slayer and Marilyn Manson, but you might want to consider ear plugs. Sun. 2:15PM, $25-$57.50.

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The New Orleans Culinary & Cultural Preservation Society Introduces $25,000 Cocktail Apprentice Scholarship Program
When you were chosen as a cocktail apprentice, we saw the future of the industry in all your shaking, stirring, muddling and more. Now we're giving you the support you need to continue shaking up the world of cocktails with the Cocktail Apprentice Scholarship Program! A select number of scholarships will be granted to former Tales of the Cocktail Apprentices to pursue opportunities that will help them grow their skills. It's a small thank you for your service during Tales of the Cocktail. But more than that, it's an investment in the future cocktails to be served across the world.
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Q: Open Source Canvas - NoMethodError (undefined method `lti_guid' I'm trying to install 'Open Source Canvas' from the following documentation (https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Quick-Start).
I have it installed, but after starting the server and trying to hit the URL I get a "NoMethodError (undefined method `lti_guid'" error.
/var/lib/gems/2.4.0/gems/activemodel-5.1.6.2/lib/active_model/attribute_methods.rb:432:in `method_missing':
def method_missing(method, *args, &block)
  if respond_to_without_attributes?(method, true)
    super
  else
    match = matched_attribute_method(method.to_s)
    match ? attribute_missing(match, *args, &block) : super
  end
end

I have zero experience in Ruby so this is a bit tricky.
Using:
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Rails: 5.1.6.2
Gem: 2.6.14.4
Ruby: 2.4.6p354 (2019-04-01 revision 67394) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
Yarn: 1.10.1
PostregreSQL: 10.9
NPM: 6.9.0


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Q: Python open screen and execute inside screen I have a py script S1 that I would need to execute inside a screen. On an end-user point of view, I would like them to just execute another python script S2, which will open a screen and execute the script S1 inside that screen.
My S2.py is like this :
import os
os.cmd('echo Outside main terminal')
os.cmd('screen -S sTest')
os.cmd('echo I would like to be inside screen here. Not successfully!. How to send command to screen instead of remaining at main Terminal')
os.cmd('spark-submit S1.py') #this should execute inside screen. currently main Terminal is the one that runs it
#Additional steps to check status, clean up, check if screen is active then spawn another sTest2 sTest3, otherwise close and/or reuse screen sTest, etc.
screen_list = os.cmd('screen -ls')
if 'sTest' in screen_list ...... #let python process

What I want is that end-users can simply run python S2.py, the screen hassle is handled by me at the back. I will need to have extra mechanism to clean up screen, use existing screens etc. Giving users instruction to open screen themselves will litter every terminal with screens.
The reason S1.py needs to be inside screen is due to SSH connection stability if run on main Terminal.

A: Probably best to use subprocess and write the command to screen's stdin.
proc = subprocess.Popen('screen -S sTest', shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
proc.stdin.write('echo I would like to be inside screen here.\n')
proc.stdin.write('spark-submit S1.py\n')
statusProc = subprocess.run('screen -ls', shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
statusString = statusProc.stdout.decode('ascii')
# parse screen's output (statusString) for your status list

You'll probably want to brush up on subprocess.Popen's documentation because there are probably specifics about how to close subprocesses like that properly, but this should get you on the right track.


Deciding not to register your patent, trade mark or design doesn't mean that you are necessarily helpless against counterfeiters. If you don't want to formally protect your intellectual property with the IPI, you can also simply keep an invention secret where practical.
If competitors act illegally by using a copied version of your product that misleads customers, you can most likely take the case to court under the Federal Act on Unfair Competition (in German).


I've got a card today for the Paper Players sketch challenge. I did some more masking and inking although this time I used regular Distress inks and didn't have the paper pilling problem like I did yesterday with the Oxide inks. These Heffy Doodle stamps are NBUS so I was glad to put them to work especially since I can't keep up with the demand for Valentine's cards right now!
This is so cute! I always love a punny sentiment!!! And your masked inking looks fantastic!
Jen, you've mastered the masking and ink technique! And, your sketch with this cute, little guy is spot on! Thanks for joining us at Paper Players!
There's my pun loving girl! So fun, Jen, but who's demanding valentines?
Paper pilling? that doesn't sound like fun! Love your fun design today Jen!
This is just way too cute! Perfect little dino against the (regular) distress ink circle.


We know that God has the power to do anything, but too often, we fail to pray to Him as though He can. Whether we are paralyzed by fear of unanswered prayers, or simply just don't have the faith that He really is powerful, we miss the opportunity to pray to God in the way He should be prayed to. This four-week series will examine four men of the Old Testament and their prayer lives with God. We'll be challenged, not so much in learning how to pray, but how we should live as we follow God and talk to Him.
Includes 4 fully editable manuscripts complete with content, illustration ideas, discussion questions within the lesson, and cues for presentations/slides. Also included are the series title slide and background slides in .jpeg format.


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The Alienist (1994) Caleb Carr
Set in New York City in 1896
I read The Alienist soon after it came out, and then read the Angel of Darkness when that came out. And then there it ended, so I forgot about the books.
Apparently a TV show based on the book recently came out, and the ebook was super expensive. And there was a huge waitlist at the library. But I checked back and the waitlist was gone, so I re-read it.
First, I still find it a tiny bit odd that one of the characters is Theodore Roosevelt.
Grief was almost unbearable to Theodore, I'd always known that; whenever he had to come to grips with the death of someone close, it seemed he might not survive the struggle.
I've read plenty of historicals that had real people as characters, but they usually only played bit parts. TR wasn't a main character, but he made a lot of appearances. It was just… weird. But it was a fascinating time, when TR was trying to reform the NYC police.
Laszlo is an alienist, or an early psychologist (psychiatrist, really, since he also studied medicine) and he has become fascinated by those who commit terrible crimes and often plead insanity.
"They'll want him to be mad, of course," Laszlo mused, not hearing me. "The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges, they'd like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the head. It creates certain… difficulties, if we are forced to accept that our society can produce sane men who commit such acts."
Another character is Sara, who wants to become one of the first female detectives, at a time when women had just been allowed to be secretaries.
Sara only clutched her bag tightly without a word; and when the two thugs in the bowlers appeared at the rear end of the hall, apparently sealing our fates, she reached into it. "Don't worry, John," she said confidently. "I won't let anything happen to you." And with that she withdrew a .45-caliber Army Model Colt revolver, with a four-and-a-half-inch barrel and pearl grips.
The victims of the serial killer were boys who had been forced into prostitution. Which brings up two interesting bits. First, about the gay bawdy houses in NYC at the time:
But what was more distinctive about the Hall, along with only a few other such places in town, was a near total lack of the secretiveness that usually marked homosexual dealings in the city. Released from the need to be in any way careful, Ellison's patrons cavorted raucously and spent freely, and the Hall did enormous business.
And the second about the way children were treated:
American society did not then generally recognize (as much of it still does not) that children might not be fully responsible for their own actions and decisions: childhood has never been viewed by most Americans as a separate and special stage of growth, fundamentally different from adulthood and subject to its own rules and laws. By and large children were and are seen as miniature adults, and according to the laws of 1896 if they wanted to abandon their lives to vice, that was their business— and their lookout.
And sadly, this was frightening timely.
The only thing the immigrants ought to be told is that they and their children had better obey the laws of this city. If they don't, nobody else can be held responsible for what happens. Maybe they'll find that point hard to swallow.
It was good, but wasn't quite as good as I remembered. Probably because I tend to prefer female main characters. But at least there wasn't any boinking!
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Oman has been a crossroads of commerce for millennia, with ideas flowing from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf, and across the Indian Ocean. 3rd Millennium BCE Akkadian traders came here from Mesopotamia for copper, Petra's Nabateans for incense. Greek and Roman merchants rode the monsoon winds that blew them to India and back, and Arab seafarers used it as a base for trade to East Africa. Later, it would be Omani sailors piloting the Portuguese and Dutch explorers expanding the then known world.
Always there was the to and fro of caravans across the sands of the Empty Quarter connecting Arabia with the Mediterranean, through trading hubs such as Iram of the Pillars, the legendary lost city of Ubar, swallowed by the sands of the Empty Quarter around AD 300.
The story of Oman is still that of interaction between coastal settlements based around lush wadis and the fertile fringe, and the societies of the pre- and true desert beyond the shielding hills and mountains. Its archaeology has only recently begun to be understood, but is now known to include a rich prehistory of Bronze Age tombs and Iron Age fortresses as well as Classical period trading settlements, and the mosques and emporia of the Islamic Age. Finally, the coastal forts and souqs of the Sultanate were built to control an empire which stretched across the Gulf and along the African coast south to Zanzibar.
Travelling from the mountains of Muscat to beaches of Salalah, we will visit Bronze Age conical tombs at Bat (World Heritage Site), Rock Art in Nakher, copper smelting sites at Samad and the vital irrigation systems of the Iron Age. We explore the hub of Classical Arabia Felix, the great incense city of Sumhuram with a special drive out into the Empty Quarter to take us to the site of the lost city of Ubar, both entrepots of the Frankincense trade. Wander the ruins of the great Islamic port city of Al Balid.
Passing through spectacular landscapes we travel from the rugged peaks and canyons of the northern mountains to the southern and eastern coast (where we can learn of nesting Green Turtles), through desert, and groves of Frankincense trees at Salalah, with her green wadis, waterfalls and date-palm groves.
We fly from London to Muscat. After checking into our hotel, we meet as a group for dinner.
We spend a full day in Muscat, an ancient trading city, noted by the geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century and at times part of the Sassanid Persian Empire. The city was centre of trade and power on the Gulf of Oman and Indian Oceans. The Portuguese held it for a century but from the 17th century it was one of the hubs of the Omani Empire and its rulers ultimately overcame the power of the Imam princes of Nizwa to rule all Oman. Visits in the morning include the Grand Mosque; time to wander through the labyrinthine alleyways Muttrah Souq and the Bawshar Iron Age archaeological site with examples of late Lizq and early Samad period honeycomb tombs. In the afternoon we take a short drive to the Al Alam Palace followed by a visit to the National Museum of the Sultanate of Oman which showcases the nation's heritage from the earliest human settlement through to the present day.
Today we travel in 4x4s through date palm orchards to Al Hazm fort Al Ayn and the UNESCO Site of Bat where we discover the extraordinary Bronze Age beehive tombs. The tombs are part of a major copper mining settlement of the Umm-an Nar culture of the 3rd millennium BC. This region of Oman was a vital centre of early metallurgy, the ore being exported as far as Mesopotamia and smelting taking place regionally. The distinctive 'beehive' dry stone tombs form an enormous necropolis. We continue to the historic walled town of Nizwa for the night.
We drive to the quaint village of Al Hamra, nestled in the foothills of the Jabel Ahkdar. Its old multi-storied mud houses are surrounded by a vast expanse of lush green date plantations. We visit nearby Has't Ben Sult, a large rock covered with engravings of men, women, and children, to which much folklore of the region is related. On to Wadi Ghul, home of the traditional weavers of Oman, and then to Wadi Nakher, Oman's deepest canyon to see rock art and Bronze Age tombs. Our next stop is Misfah, a lovely village with stone houses precariously clinging to the side of the mountain cliff where we enjoy a picnic lunch. Afterwards we'll explore the Falaj irrigation system.
Today we make our way to Wadi Tanuf, set against the backdrop of the Al Hajar mountains. Here we'll enjoy a short walk to see rock art and Hafit (Early Bronze Age) tombs. Nizwa, capital of the ancient Imamate of Oman, an ancient centre of trade in the pre-desert and the birthplace of Islam. We visit the famous Round Tower Fort, built in the seventeenth century, and its souq, renowned for its intricately hand-carved khanjars (daggers) and ornamental silver jewelry. After lunch in Al Mandi we drive to Jabrin with its beautiful painted murals; more of a fortified palace than a fort, it was built in the 17th century by Bil'arub bin Sultan, one of the Imam princes of Nizwa as a retreat and became a centre of Islamic scholarship and learning. We conclude out day in Iron Age Salut, near Bisyah an archaeological site home to an ancient fortified collection of ruins and fortifications, some of which date to over 3,000 years ago, and which offer rare evidence of the development civilizations in the Arabic peninsula in the Bronze and Iron ages.
The archaeological site of Lizq in Ash Sharqiyah is our first visit today. Discovered in 1979 the hill fort here has pottery similar to Early Iron Age sites. An interesting change from site visits, the traditional weavers in Akhdar is an opportunity to see a small family-run business with fascinating makeshift tools (a bicycle wheel for spinning the wool, parts of a syringe for holding the thread in place etc) - the only manufacturers of the Sultan's turbans. We continue to Samad for a picnic lunch, an oasis town famed for its seven watch towers, its third millennium BC copper smelting place has furnace fragments and slag dotted about the wadi floor. We travel onto Ras al Jinz for an overnight stay at the turtle conservation centre where if we are fortunate, we may see nesting turtles.
The town of Ras al-Hadd is located on the east coast of Oman facing the Indian Ocean at what was an important ancient trading point between East Africa, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula. Located here is a range of archaeological sites with evidence of settlement dating as far back as the Chalcolithic (Copper) Age (about 3,000 BC). Onto Sur, a famous trading port south of Muscat, briefly a Portuguese colony, and to visit the major shipyard. The lateen sailed Dhow, the classic ship of Arabian seas, is still constructed in the yards here. These vessels were the mainstay of trade for centuries, plying as far as China and Zanzibar. We then head back to Muscat via Wadi Tiwi for out flight to Salalah.
Today starts at Khor Rori Creek and the ruined city of Sumhuram, on a bluff overlooking the sea. This was an eastern outpost of the Arabian kingdom of Hadramawt whose centre was to the west, in modern Yemen, and was the capital of the frankincense trade before the coming of Islam. We'll visit the museum here before heading to the nature park Wadi Darbat for lunch while we enjoy majestic views of waterfalls, lakes, mountains, caves, wildlife and lush vegetation. Afterwards in Mirbat, an important town as early as the ninth century for its trade in frankincense, horses, and slaves, we explore old houses famous for their woodcarvings. We'll also reflect here on the 1972 military campaign in Oman, in particular the legendary battle at Mirbat. We stop at Bin Ali's Tomb, a fine example of medieval architecture, on our return to Salalah.
We start today at Hanun, a depot along the frankincense routes, and the nearby, 5th-century B.C. triliths (groups of three stones perched together). Driving into Rub Al Khali, the empty quarter we reach the fabled city of Ubar - Iram of the Pillars at Shisr. Once a crossroads of the frankincense trade across Arabia, Ubar vanished beneath the sands around AD 300 and became a place of myth and Koranic legend. Searches for the vanished city in the 20th century amongst the great dunes proved fruitless, though ancient caravan routes and tracks were occasionally revealed by drifting sands. An expedition and excavation in 1992, partly based on satellite imaging, found an ancient fortified spring which, while clearly not the 'Atlantis of the Sands', might well be the origin of the myth. On the way back to Salalah we will visit a Frankincense tree plantation.
Today we explore Al Balid, or the ancient port city of Zafar. It is the site of the first archaeological park in Oman, and is today part of the UNESCO World Heritage Land of Frankincense. Walking around the ruins, we see remains of watchtowers, pylons of a bridge, and foundations of houses, souqs, and mosques. The site museum houses an excellent collection of finds and frankincense. In the afternoon we travel through a spectacular landscape of plains, mountains, and pastureland to visit the biblical "Nabi Ayoub" Prophet Job's Tomb, perched high in the mountains.
We leave Salalah and travel to Muscat for our onward flight back to the UK.


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Edinburgh, October 2005, a photo by landhere on Flickr.
What will happen in 2015 if Scotland has just voted Yes to independence and if it's looking increasingly likely that England will vote to pull the rUK out of the EU, and potentially even out of the Internal Market?
Read the rest of this blog posting on Arc of Prosperity.
Scottish Thistle Coin 1602, a photo by Tropic~7 on Flickr.
There was an extremely interesting blog posting on Wings over Scotland about the size of Scotland's exports.
This made me think about the consequences for the finances of an independent Scotland.
First of all, the figure provided by WoS is $20,886 per capita, but that's excluding oil. According to STV, Scotland's oil and gas exports are worth about £7.6bn, which is about half the amount produced. If we assume that half of this is actually exported to England, we get a rough figure of £11.4bn, which is $18bn. Per capita this is $3400, so a very rough estimate of an independent Scotland's exports including oil would be slightly more than $24,000 per person, which would make us number six in the World rankings, between Norway and Ireland.
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IRVINE WELSH: IN PERSON, a photo by EIFF on Flickr.
Bella Caledonia has today published an original article by Irvine Welsh (of Trainspotting fame).
It's a very thoughtful piece by a writer who has spent a long time in England, and I strongly recommend reading the whole thing.
Please visit Arc of Prosperity to read the full blog post.


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The bold, empowering entrepreneur and music artist
The idea is to show artists support in the third year of the pandemic, they can feel discouraged and give up. That is why I try to reach out and encourage them," said Jasmee toor
Jasmee is part of a team that recently launched an online radio station called ten3radio https://ten3radio.com/ Its a 24/7 Canadian Hip Hop and RnB live stream station to give underground artists a chance to be heard.
Jasmee toor is an entrepreneur and singer, she was born in canada in a city called vancouver B.C , She is the founder and CEO of Jasmee Cosmetics and also an music artist. Throughout her entrepreneurial journey, she has stayed consistent with working hard for her dreams and goals. She began each step in her process, through the cosmetics, music, and software industries, as a way to follow her passions and continue doing what she loves
She has been blending her music with all wonderful strains of love and peace to bond people all across the globe. Jasmee has since found her space within the hip-hop and R&B genres, having amassed over 7,000,000 plays. One of her songs also received a Gold Plaque and #1 Record Pool for DJ's looking to spread new music around the world.
Jamee has a message for everyone and says,
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"Svefn-g-englar" är en musiksingel av Sigur Rós som släpptes 1999. Titelsången, Svefn-g-englar finns med på albumet Ágætis byrjun och singeln innehåller dessutom sången Viðrar vel til loftárása och liveinspelningar av låtarna Nýja Lagið och Syndir Guðs som spelades in i Islands operahus i Reykjavik. Låten Nýja Lagið har inte spelats in i studio och Syndir Guðs kommer från debutalbumet Von.

Singeln släpptes från början på Pias år 1999 och släpptes endast på Island, men återsläpptes av Smekkleysa Records år 2001 och distribuerades i Storbritannien.

Singeln släpptes på både cd-skiva och på 12" vinylskiva, med olika låtar på utgåvorna.

Låtlista

CD-version
 Svefn-g-englar
 Viðrar vel til loftárása
 Nýja Lagið" (live på Islands operahus, 12 juni 1999)
 Syndir Guðs" (live på Islands operahus, 12 juni 1999)

12" vinylversion
 Svefn-g-englar
 Viðrar vel til loftárása
 Veröld ný og óð

Sigur Rós-låtar
Sånger 1999
Musiksinglar 1999

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Close to one of 10 (9%) of respondents selected establishing rules and structure in the organisation.
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"When asked how well employees understand their role in leadership's vision, business owners gave themselves a disappointing C- average," Stephen James, managing director, The Alternative Board, New Zealand, said in a press release.
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Of the companies that did rate providing a vision as a priority, 7.1 out of 10 leaders admitted needing help communicating it.
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