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Q: How to stop VS Code from omitting parentheses after auto-formatting? I am using ReactJs and as recommended, I put JSX code inside parentheses after return statement like this:
 return (

...

)

However when I saved it, it automatically became like this:
return
...

I think it's because of some auto-formatting extension (I'm using Prettier).
Could you guys please show me the way to keep the parentheses without disabling Prettier or any other autoformat extension? Thank you.

A: I know I'm late, but I found the answer for someone in the future.
i had to uninstall prettier and go to settings.json and erase the lines
"prettier.arrowParens": "avoid"
"editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",


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From a nudist on the MTR to Hong Kong's first-ever female Chief Executive, here's a recap of all the big news stories we've been talking about in 2017
By Olivia Lai | Posted: Monday December 18 2017
2017 witnessed Donald Trump's first year as President of the United States and the potential threat of nuclear war between America and North Korea. Okay, in comparison, Hong Kong has had a less dramatic year, but it was far from boring.
Aside from welcoming a slew of great new restaurants and films, the city also celebrated 20 years since the handover and (finally) a new Chief Executive. We take a look back at the past 12 months and reminisce about all the biggest watercooler moments...
Most notable moments of 2017
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Football fans boo the national anthem
Hongkongers have continued to boo and yell profanities during the national anthem at international football matches despite multiple warnings to refrain from such behaviour by the Hong Kong Football Association. China's top legislative body has formally inserted a law into Hong Kong Basic Law that now makes such behaviour illegal, though it remains to be seen how the law can be enforced.
Joshua Wong is sentenced to jail
The face of the Occupy Movement, Joshua Wong and two other student leaders were sentenced to jail in August for unlawful assembly and storming the government headquarters back in 2014. The event helped trigger the two-month-long protest in Admiralty and the students were given a six-to-eight-months sentence. However, the trio were freed on bail after two months and vowed to continue fighting for a democratic Hong Kong upon their release.
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Trump, Ryan face off in rare public GOP clash over steel, aluminum tariffs
By ASSOCIATED PRESS March 5, 2018
General Government Manufacturing Aluminum GOP government manufacturing Ryan Steel tariffs Trump
Canada and Mexico would not be spared from his plans for special import taxes.
Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump.
Photo: Shealah Craighead)
WASHINGTON — In a remarkably public confrontation, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican allies of President Donald Trump pleaded with him Monday to back away from his threatened international tariffs, which they fear could spark a dangerous trade war. Trump retorted: "We're not backing down."
The president said US neighbours Canada and Mexico would not be spared from his plans for special import taxes on steel and aluminum, but he held out the possibility of later exempting the longstanding friends if they agree to better terms for the US in talks aimed at revising the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"We've had a very bad deal with Mexico; we've had a very bad deal with Canada. It's called NAFTA," he declared.
Trump spoke shortly after a spokeswoman for Ryan, a Trump ally, said the GOP leader was "extremely worried" that the proposed tariffs would set off a trade war and urged the White House "to not advance with this plan."
Likewise, Republican leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee circulated a letter opposing Trump's plan, and GOP congressional leaders suggested they may attempt to prevent the tariffs if the president moves forward.
Trump's pledge to implement tariffs of 25% on steel imports and 10% on aluminum imports has roiled financial markets, angered foreign allies and created unusual alliances for a president who blasted unfavourable trade deals during his 2016 campaign. Union leaders and Democratic lawmakers from Rust Belt states have praised the planned tariffs, joining with advocates within the administration including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.
But the president has been opposed internally by Defence Secretary James Mattis and White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, who warned against penalizing US allies and undercutting the economic benefits of the president's sweeping tax overhaul.
Likewise, the statement from Ryan's office said, "The new tax reform law has boosted the economy, and we certainly don't want to jeopardize those gains."
Asked about that public rebuke, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, "Look, we have a great relationship with Speaker Ryan. We're going to continue to have one, but that doesn't mean we have to agree on everything."
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Canada is the United States' No. 1 foreign supplier of both steel and aluminum. Mexico is the No. 4 supplier of steel and No. 7 for aluminum.
Congressional Republicans say any tariffs should be narrow in scope, and they privately warned that Trump's effort could hurt the party's hopes to preserve its majority in the fall elections.
As the president dug in on his position, any potential compromise with foreign trading partners and Republican lawmakers was expected to still include some form of tariffs.
"Trump is not someone who retreats," said Stephen Moore, an economist with the conservative Heritage Foundation and a former campaign adviser. "He's going to need to be able to declare some victory here."
The tariffs will be made official in the next two weeks, White House officials said.
"Twenty-five per cent on steel, and the 10% on aluminum, no country exclusions – firm line in the sand," said Navarro, speaking on "Fox and Friends."
Republican critics on Capitol Hill and within the administration argue that industries and their workers that rely on steel and aluminum for their products will suffer. The cost of new appliances, cars and buildings will rise for Americans if the president follows through, they warn, and other nations could retaliate.
Two dozen conservative groups, including the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and the National Taxpayers Union, urged Trump to reconsider, writing in a letter that the tariffs would be "a tax on the middle class with everything from cars to baseball bats to even beer."
The Trade Partnership, a consulting firm, said the tariffs would increase US employment in the steel and aluminum sector by about 33,000 jobs but would cost 179,000 jobs in the rest of the economy.
The end result could erode the president's base of support with rural America and even the blue-collar workers the president says he's trying to help.
"These are people that voted for him and supported him in these auto-producing states," said Cody Lusk, president of the American International Automobile Dealers Association. Lusk noted that of the 16 states with auto plants, Trump won all but two.
The administration has argued the tariffs are necessary to preserve the American aluminum and steel industries and protect national security. But Trump's comments and tweets suggested he was also using them as leverage in the current talks to revise NAFTA. The latest round of a nearly yearlong renegotiation effort is concluding this week in Mexico City.
At those talks, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said March 5 that progress has been less than many had hoped and "our time is running short."
"I fear the longer we proceed, the more political headwinds we will feel," he said. And he added that if three-way negotiations don't work, "we are prepared to move on a bilateral basis."
More upbeat about progress until now, Dan Ujczo, a trade attorney with Dickinson Wright PLLC in Columbus, Ohio, said, "We were moving toward the finish line in NAFTA." But he added, "This has the potential to throw the NAFTA talks off track."
He said neither Canada nor Mexico will want to be seen as giving in to US pressure. Indeed, he said, Canada is probably already drawing up lists of US products to tax in retaliation.
Separately, Mexican Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo tweeted: "Mexico shouldn't be included in steel & aluminum tariffs. It's the wrong way to incentivize the creation of a new & modern #NAFTA."
The president opened the door to exempting Canada and Mexico from the tariffs, saying, "That would be, I would imagine, one of the points that we'll negotiate." But he added, "If they aren't going to make a fair NAFTA deal, we're just going to leave it this way."
Trump has long threatened to pull out of the 24-year-old trade pact if it can't be overhauled and encourage manufacturers to bring factory jobs back the United States.
But Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the tariff plan "absolutely unacceptable."
Trudeau's office said he "registered his serious concern" about the tariffs in a conversation with Trump, saying they "would not be helpful to reaching a deal on NAFTA."
And overseas, Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, said the European Union could respond by taxing American goods including bourbon, blue jeans and Harley Davidson motorcycles.
Trump threatened to tax European cars if the EU boosts tariffs on American products in response to his plan.
"If they want to do something, we'll just tax their cars that they send in here like water," Trump has said, lamenting European "trade barriers that are worse than tariffs."
The chairman of the European Parliament's international trade committee says the EU should target American goods that will "really hurt" the United States if President Donald Trump goes ahead with threats to raise tariffs on foreign-made steel or cars.
Bernd Lange says the European Union doesn't have to match U.S. tariffs cent for cent, but should carefully aim at American exports such as soya bean, sweetcorn and corn.
For congressional leaders, those products hit close to home. The iconic motorcycles are produced in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin, and Kentucky, the home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is well-known for its bourbon.
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An unexpected medical bill put an Atlanta woman's credit score in jeopardy.
Single mother Rachel Seltzer visited her doctor for a routine physical. Her doctor sent her to Georgia Cancer Specialists, which is an affiliate of Northside Hospital, for extra blood work out of concern over low platelets.
Seltzer told Channel 2 Action News that she was told there would be three labs performed. An estimate of fees given to her stated the cost would be around $2000.
She told Channel 2 Action News that she was shocked to receive a bill for nearly five times that amount and that tests she had never been told about had been performed.
"The bill is $10,000," Seltzer said. "I don't even know what to do at this point."
After the extra tests, Seltzer was given a clean bill of health, but the unexpected cost left her feeling sick.
"It's kept me up at night. It stresses me out. It's been very hard," Seltzer said.
After her insurance company paid its portion, Seltzer was left owing just under $7,000.
Multiple calls with both her doctor and the billing department at Northside left Seltzer feeling helpless.
Berneta Haynes with the nonprofit consumer advocate Georgia Watch told Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray that these kinds of surprise medical bills are not uncommon in Georgia.
Haynes said even when patients get an estimate and make sure a provider is in their insurance network, they may still be caught off-guard.
"No matter what, it seems so many consumers still get a surprise in the mail sometime later," Haynes said.
This summer, Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation that will limit surprise medical bills. The new law won't go into effect until January.
Under the new law, health insurers can't send balance bills, commonly referred to as surprise bills, to patients who received emergency services from an out-of-network provider.
"The whole purpose of the Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act really was to take patients out of the middle of these disputes between insurers and providers," Haynes said.
The law would likely not have helped Seltzer. Her bill is from an in-network provider.
"Estimates are quotes of anticipated charges for scheduled services. If the patient's provider subsequently orders additional tests, which occurred in this case, the final bill can vary greatly from the price estimate provided. Out-of-pocket costs also can increase if the patient has a high-deductible insurance plan, which also is the case in this situation," Northside told Channel 2 in a statement.
To prevent the bill from entering collections, Seltzer used her federal pandemic stimulus check to pay down some of the debt.
"I'm like, 'Take it. I don't want it to go to collections,' because I've worked so hard on my credit, you know? I eventually want to buy a home. So, I'm like take $1,200. Take this money, but they still sent it to collections," she said.
Haynes told Gray there are steps patients need to take to file an appeal with their insurance company if they've received a surprise bill.
The appeal should be filed within 180 days. If the appeal is rejected, they can file an external complaint with the state's insurance commissioner.
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Q: jQuery UI draggable: Use other element for containment and snapTo calculation I have 2 elements that both need to be dragged. The simplified markup is as follows:

Crop

Resize

They need to be contained in an area and also snapTo certain elements in that area. The problem is that I want draggable to look at .item and not .wrapper when calculating how it should be contained. Because the buttons area positioned slightly outside .item.
If I use draggable on .item, .wrapper does not move along.
If I use draggable on .wrapper, .item can not be positioned completely to the top, right or bottom of the element used for containment.
Simplified code:
$('.wrapper').draggable ({
    containment: '.page',
    snap: '.page-grid',
    snapMode: 'inner',
    snapTolerance: 20
});

Does anybody have an idea on how to solve this? Your help is greatly appreciated.

A: if you don't have overflow:hidden applied to your wrapper then just make the wrapper exactly the same measurements as your item. You still can position your buttons with negative values like: bottom:-5px. This way they will stay the same way like you have them now with that slight padding on your wrapper.
#wrapper{ padding:0 }
.buttons{position:absolute; bottom:-5px;right:-5px}

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an English physician who projected general reforms in medical education, practice and publication. His views were Paracelsian and Helmontian, and he participated in the Hartlib Circle.
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John Smith [3] 1618 1644
an English philosopher, theologian, and educator. Smith entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1...
Pierre Gassendi 1592, Jan 22 1617
a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church po...
Theodore Tronchin 1582, Apr 17 1608
a Swiss Calvinist theologian, controversialist and Hebraist. He studied theology at Geneva, Basel...
Edward Fisher unknown 1627
an English theological writer. He is generally considered the author of The Marrow of Modern Divi...
Margherita Costa 1600 ca 1628
a singer, poet, playwright and feminist, is the most Baroque of the seventeenth-century Italian w...
Menasseh Ben Israel 1604 1632
a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebr...
Henry Cockeram unknown 1623
an English lexicographer. In 1623, he authored the third known English Language dictionary, and t...
Henry Robinson 1604 ca 1640
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an English merchant and writer. He is best known for a work on religious toleration, Liberty of C...
Richard Balam unknown 1650
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Saul Levi Morteira 1596 ca 1616
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Claude Lancelot 1615 ca 1638
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Nathaniel Bacon [3] 1593, Dec 12 1645
an English Puritan lawyer, writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times...
Thomas Fuller 1608 1630
an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worth...
Laurence Clarkson 1615 1646
an English theologian and accused heretic. He was the most outspoken and notorious of the loose c...
Robert Abbot [1] 1588 ca 1610
an English theologian who promoted puritan doctrines. He is sometimes mistakenly described as the...
William Aspinwall unknown 1648
a nonconformist English minister. He proceeded B.A. in 1657, but having obtained orders, went no...
Cu Choigcriche O Cleirigh unknown 1624
an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery. Along with Brother Mí...
William Day 1605 ca 1624
an English cleric and biblical commentator. He received his education at Eton College. He was ele...
Jean Ogier de Gombauld 1576 1624
a French playwright and poet. Gombauld was born in Saint-Just-Luzac, Charente-Maritime and was a ...
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an English antitrinitarian preacher, imprisoned in 1665. A short paper of arguments for the deity...
John Trapp 1601, Jun 5 1622
an English Anglican Bible commentator. His large five-volume commentary is still read today and i...
John Webb 1611 1628
an English architect and scholar. In 1654 Webb designed the first classical portico on an English...
Robert Bayfield 1629 1650
an English physician. He was born in Norwich and wrote with much energy on both religious and med...
Sarah Blackborow unknown 1650
the author of tracts that strongly influenced Quaker thinking on social problems and the theologi...
William Brough unknown 1630
an English royalist churchman, Dean of Gloucester from 1643. Brough was a supporter of William La...
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh unknown 1640
an Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist. He was one of the last traditionally trai...
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a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in We...
Robert Herrick 1591, Aug 1623
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a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. T...
John Milton 1608, Dec 9 1623
an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of Engl...
Roger Williams 1603, Dec 21 ca 1628
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a Puritan, an English Reformed theologian, and later a Reformed Baptist who was expelled by the P...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598, Dec 7 1609
an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sc...
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an English, Nonconformist, Puritan preacher and author. He showed strong Presbyterian views durin...
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Denzil Holles 1599, Oct 31 1624
an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the Five Members whose attempted unconstitu...
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an English author. Weamys has been identified as the author of A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydne...
Colonel Cuthbert Potter 1637 ca 1653
Born in England and died in Barbados. He practiced law in Lancaster County, Virginia, as early as...
John Evelyn 1620, Oct 31 1640
an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries, or memoirs, are largely contemporaneou...
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an English author. His most important work is Theatrum poetarum (1675), a list of the chief poets...
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an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The...
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a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been conside...
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Mount Hood
One of the first things we saw as we exited the interstate when we arrived in the Portland area was Mount Hood off in the distance. Mount Hood is located about 45 miles east of Portland and only about 30 or 35 miles east of where we were staying in Barton Park. We saw Mount Hood from the Japanese Garden and caught glimpses of it just about every time we headed back to the campground.
At a height of 11,249 feet, Mount Hood is the highest mountain in Oregon and the fourth highest mountain in the Cascade Range. Mount Hood is a dormant volcano, and the last eruption was in 1907.
We decided to take a closer look at Mount Hood, so we drove to Trillium Lake located a few miles south of Mount Hood. The photo below is looking across Trillium Lake toward Mount Hood.
Trillium Lake is a man-made lake that is popular for fishing. In winter, the area is used for Nordic skiing.
The area of the lake used to be part of the Barlow Road, which was part of the Oregon Trail in later days. Barlow Road was a log toll road across the marshes that were in this area.
On the road to Trillium Lake, we saw numerous tall, white flowers that looked like snowballs called bear grass. The leaves look like clumps of grass, but bear grass is actually in the lily family. The photo below shows bear grass in bloom.
From Trillium Lake, we drove up the south face of Mount Hood to Timberline Lodge, which is one of only a few year-round skiing locations in the United States. On the way up to the ski area, we got great views of the peak.
The next photo is a little closer shot taken from the entrance to the parking area. The ski area and ski lift are to the left side of the mountain.
The lodge itself sits at an elevation of about 6,000 feet. The lodge was built from 1936 to 1938 as a WPA project during the Depression. The lodge sits just below Palmer Glacier, which is one of Mount Hood's twelve named glaciers.
The parking area was filled with skiers. Some, like the one in the photo below, were clomping across the parking lot in their ski boots.
Others were carrying the skis and wearing flip-flops.
We sat and watched the skiers come down the hill for a while...
...then we headed back down the mountain. On the way down, we had good views of Mount Jefferson about 45 miles to the south. Mount Jefferson is 10,497 feet high and is yet another volcano in the Cascade Range. We pulled off for a photo.
From the same pull-off, we could also see Trillium Lake where we stopped earlier.
From Mount Hood, we headed back to the motor home and chilled out the rest of the afternoon. Stay tuned for our next adventure.
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Oregon City is about 10 miles west of where we were staying in Barton Park and about 15 miles south of Portland. Although there were numerous cut-offs and branches to the Oregon Trail, Oregon City is the officially designated end of the trail. It is also the location of the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center.
The center is located on land once owned by George Abernethy who arrived in Oregon by ship in 1840 as a Methodist missionary. He was in charge of the mission's mercantile business and later got involved in Oregon politics by becoming provisional governor of the territory.
When he arrived in Oregon, Abernethy claimed 640 acres that included a neck of land that extended to the Willamette River a little below Willamette Falls. The neck of land was called Abernethy Green and was the arrival site for many overland emigrants. Since the emigrants arrived in late fall or early winter, many of them wintered over at Abernethy Green. They headed out in the spring to search out land in places like the fertile Willamette Valley to the south.
Clackamas Heritage Partners operates the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, and admission to the heritage center also includes admission to the Museum of the Oregon Territory and the Stevens-Crawford House, which are also operated by Clackamas Heritage Partners.
The End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center is designed to suggest the appearance of covered wagons.
The Oregon Trail was one of the major migration routes across the North American Continent in the mid 1800s. The route started in Independence, MO and followed portions of routes established by Lewis and Clark during their 1804 to 1806 expedition as well as the routes of other explorers, trappers, missionaries, and traders. The eastern portion of the trail was also followed by other trails such as the California Trail and the Mormon Trail.
One of the first groups of emigrants to follow what was to become the Oregon Trail was the Bidwell-Bartleston Party of about 100 farmers and their families who started out in 1841 for California. Some of the group changed their minds en route and instead opted for Oregon.
The numbers of emigrants traveling the Oregon Trail fluctuated somewhat, but was up to several thousand a year by the mid 1840s. However, when gold was discovered in California in 1848, the number of emigrants skyrocketed to 30,000 in 1949. In 1850, there were 55,000 on the Oregon Trail.
The huge numbers of travelers dropped after the gold started to run out, but emigrants continued to use the trail until the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. The total number of emigrants to use the Oregon Trail is estimated at about 400,000.
It took four to six months to travel the Oregon Trail from Missouri to Oregon. Wagon trains would start out as early in spring as possible, but they had to wait until the grass started to grow so their animals would have enough to eat. If they started too late, they would be trapped by winter weather crossing the mountains.
Inside the interpretive center there are displays depicting early pioneer life. The photo below shows the type of clothing that may have been worn by hunters and trappers.
The next photo shows a simulated trapper's lean-to.
Most of the wagons that traveled the Oregon Trail were covered farm-type wagons with a flat bed 10 to 12 feet long capable of carrying about 2,500 pounds. The larger Conestoga wagons used in the east for the freight trade were too big for the Rockies. Horses and mules were not strong enough or durable enough, so most of the wagons were pulled by oxen. However, the horse-drawn buggy in the photo below did make it across the Oregon Trail in the late 1800s.
Speaking of wagons, they had an interesting hands-on display with a wagon bed and a stack of typical items that the emigrants might have carried with them. Visitors were invited to try to pack all the items into the wagon. All the items in the photo below, plus some that are hidden from view, were supposed to fit into the wagon. Paul started to give it a shot, but gave up when he saw all the canned goods on the shelf on the left.
There is also an excellent movie which includes excerpts from diaries and journals of people who actually traveled the Oregon Trail. We were struck by the hardships the pioneers faced when they left their homes back east and went searching for a new future in the west. Even though we took the tourist photo below with us looking like pioneers, we have trouble imagining we could have made the arduous trip across the country back then.
After the interpretive center, we headed north toward Portland to Otto's Sausage Kitchen, which was another restaurant we saw recently on the Food Network program Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Otto Eichentopf started the business in 1929, and it is currently run by Otto's grandson. They make 50 varieties of smoked and fresh sausages and wursts. They sell the sausages and other deli items in the store. There is also a lunch counter, which is the reason we went.
Outside on the street corner, they are grilling wieners, smoked pork sausage, and chicken sausage. There was a steady line at the charcoal grill and most of the picnic tables were filled.
We started with a wiener and a pork sausage, which we shared so we could both have a taste of each. In the next photo, Paul is about to take his first bite.
The smoked sausage was terrific - a nice smoky flavor with a hint of garlic. The wieners were excellent - a nice crispy skin from the charcoal fire, juicy inside, and not over-spiced. We bought some wieners to take back home with us. :-)
Inside, we perused the sandwich menu. The lunch counter is shown in the photo below.
We decided to split a Dakota Boy, which is a pastrami on rye with sauerkraut, melted Swiss cheese, horse radish, and mustard. It was yummy.
After our late lunch, we stopped by the Fabric Depot. Margery had picked up a brochure somewhere and since it was fairly close to Otto's, Margery wanted to check it out. The Fabric Depot store covers 1½ acres and has over 11,000 bolts of fabric. They also have special materials like upholstery fabric, shade cloth, embroidered overlays and appliques for wedding dresses, speaker cloth, billiard cloth, awning material, and more. The photo below shows just part of the inside of the store. There was also a large section outside where they had close-outs.
The next photo shows Margery looking at some of her favorite Thimbleberry quilt fabric.
Margery didn't have a quilt project in mind, so we made it out of the store with only buying a pair of knitting needles. From the Fabric Depot it was back to the motor home to get ready for our next adventure.
Portland, OR Part II: Gardens
Oregon has a reputation of being a haven for gardeners because of its relatively mild winters, plenty of moisture, and surprisingly warm and sunny summers. One of the best testimonies to that is the fact they use roses as landscape plantings at some of the interstate exchanges around the area. Therefore, it is fitting that Portland should also be the home of the International Rose Test Gardens.
Although Paul was an avid gardener before we became full-time RVers, he was never too fond of roses. It wasn't that he didn't think the flowers were pretty, it was because roses are sometimes a hassle to grow. They need to be pruned, sprayed for insects, sprayed for fungus and diseases, and protected in winter (at least in our old hometown of Pittsburgh).
Portland must be much more conducive to growing roses than many other locations because they had 20 miles of rose-lined streets in the early 1900s when Portland earned itself the name "City of Roses." In 1917, the Portland Rose Society, with the help of the American Rose Society, convinced Portland city fathers to establish a rose test garden. The garden, which is located in Portland's Washington Park, is the oldest, continuously-operating rose test garden in the world. Washington Park is located on the western side of Portland, and there is ample free parking in the vicinity of the rose gardens. The rose gardens are also free, but donations are accepted.
The International Rose Test Gardens, which cover about 45 acres, are built on several terraces above the Willamette River. The photo below shows one of the walkways leading down the terraces.
There are over 7,000 rose plants in the gardens. The next several photos give you an idea of the number and the variety of the roses.
In addition to shrub roses that are most familiar, there were also miniature roses and climbing roses like the one on the lamp post in the next photo.
There were so many beautiful roses we didn't know where to look next. Below is a composite of just a few of the varieties.
Adjacent to the International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park is the Portland Japanese Garden. We were able to hit both gardens from the same parking spot. The is a walk up the hill to the Japanese Garden isn't too strenuous, but there is a shuttle available if you would rather save your energy. We chose to walk. The next photo shows Margery at the Antique Gate at the bottom of the hill.
In 1962, the city created a commission to establish a Japanese garden in Washington Park at the former site of the Portland Zoo, which was moved to a new location in the park in 1959. The Portland Japanese Garden, which has been recognized as being one of the most authentic Japanese gardens outside Japan, was opened to the public in 1967.
Japanese gardens are full of symbolism and are highly stylized. They usually have three elements - stone representing mountains and the earth, water (either real or represented symbolically by pebbles or raked sand or gravel in dry stream beds and dry ponds) signifying purity, and plants to provide color and texture and to denote growth.
There are lots of intertwining walkways in the garden, so we followed the numbered map so we wouldn't miss anything. The first feature we came to was the Flat Garden. The rake marks in the sand symbolize ripples on a pond or sea.
After passing the Wisteria Arbor (the wisteria wasn't in bloom), we came to the Strolling Pond Garden. Here at the upper pond, sculptures of cranes were silhouetted before reflections of different textures and colors of foliage.
Adjacent to the upper pond is an authentic Japanese tea house. The garden surrounding the tea house is very subdued. Features of the garden, like the water feature in the photo below, are intended to add to the calming aspect of the ritual of the tea ceremony.
Past the tea house is the Zig Zag Bridge leading through the iris beds at the edge of the lower pond. The purpose of all the turns of the Zig Zag Bridge is to give the visitor reason to pause and take in the new view at each turn.
We were fortunate to be at the garden in late June, which is when the Japanese iris bloom.
At the end of the lower pond is Heavenly Falls, visible between the rock and the lantern.
At the far end of the garden is the Natural Garden. Stone paths wind down a hillside and provide constantly-changing views of trees, shrubs, ferns, moss, and a shallow stream.
As we exited the Japanese Garden, there was a view of part of downtown Portland with Mount Hood in the distance.
When we left the gardens, we were hungry, so we headed downtown to look for the Blueplate Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain. We had recently seen the Blueplate on the Food Network program Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. It is just a little place with seating for only about 25 people.
The next photo shows Margery at the Blueplate.
From our seats at the counter, we could watch all the action. Believe it or not, all the cooking is done on portable electric griddles and hot plates. Since they couldn't install a vent hood, they couldn't install professional cooking equipment and they have to rely only on the portable cooking units. Even though there is a limited menu, there is a lot of hustling going on behind the counter. The owner does all the cooking, and two gals serve food, make sodas and milk shakes, rinse dishes, load and unload the dishwasher, and do whatever else needs to be done. The photo below shows the owner plating up some food.
We ordered two lunches to share - cheeseburger sliders smothered in Tillamook cheddar cheese with pesto mayo and a pulled-pork barbecue sandwich on Texas toast (the special of the day). Both had sides of mashed potatoes (they were out of mac and cheese already) and both were delish.
With our bellies full, we headed back to the motor home. Stay tuned for our next adventure in the Portland area.
Portland, OR Part I: Columbia River Gorge
When we left our site at Winchester Bay RV Resort near Reedsport, OR, it was 51 degrees at the marina at about 9:30 AM. By the time we had driven just a mile or two into town, it was 68 degrees. That gives you an idea of how much lower the temperature was right at the coast.
We had a little another four-hour drive that was again lengthened a bit by construction. It seems Oregon is getting more than its share of stimulus money because there are road projects going on everywhere. We finally made it to Barton Park, which is a Clackamas County park about 20 miles southeast of Portland, OR.
Barton Park has about 90 RV sites as well as a day-use area for picnicking. About 30 of the sites are paved with grass between and the rest are all grass. The sites have 50 amp electric and water hookups. The site width isn't too bad, but it's a little less than you expect to see in a state or county park. There were only a few people there when we arrived earlier in the week. They were only about half filled for the Fourth of July weekend, and we're not sure why. It's a nice enough campground, the price is reasonable ($16 a night), it's close to a major city, and there's plenty to do (hiking as well as rafting and tubing in the nearby Clackamas River). It's the emptiest campground we've ever seen on a holiday weekend, anywhere...but we weren't complaining. The photo below shows our site at Barton Park.
The nearby city of Portland is located along the Columbia River about 100 miles upstream where the river meets the Pacific. The Columbia River flows from British Columbia, Canada, down through eastern Washington State, and forms much of the boundary between Oregon and Washington.
The Columbia River Gorge is about 80 miles long and lies to the east of Portland. The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area follows Oregon side of the gorge. Camping, fishing, windsurfing, and sightseeing are popular activities along the gorge.
Long ago, the river began slowly eroding the gorge through the mountains as the Cascade Range was being uplifted; but the most drastic changes took place at the end of the last Ice Age as flood waters from the rapidly-melting glaciers finished cutting the gorge through layers of volcanic rock.
We had heard and read about the beautiful scenery and the waterfalls along the gorge, so we went for a drive to take a look. The Historic Columbia River Highway winds along most of the Columbia River Gorge. The highway was built between 1913 and 1922 and was the first planned, scenic highway. Parts of the scenic highway are steep, winding, and narrow.
We started the drive at the western end of the scenic highway in Troutdale, OR. About 11 miles east of Troutdale is Vista House. Vista House was built in 1916-1918 at a basalt promontory known as Crown Point as a place where visitors could stop to rest and to observe the Columbia River in both directions. Today, Vista House serves as a museum, a gift shop, a coffee shop, and a rest stop. The photo below shows Vista House.
The next photo is looking west from Vista House toward Portland...
...and the photo below is looking east.
As we continued driving east from Vista House, we came to Bridal Veil Falls. It was about a 2/3 mile round-trip walk along a somewhat steep path to the falls overlook. Bridal Veil Falls, which is shown in the photo below, is about 140 feet high.
There are a series of waterfalls along the scenic highway, but the tallest and most popular is Multnomah Falls. There is a 543 foot plunge for the upper falls, an 8 foot cascade between the falls, and a 69 foot drop for the lower falls. At a total height of 620 feet, Multnomah Falls claims to be the second-highest, year-round waterfall in the United States. Like Burney Falls we saw in California, the water for Multnomah Falls comes from underground springs. The photo below shows Multnomah falls.
The trail crosses Benson Footbridge right at the crest of the lower falls. The next photo shows the view looking back down toward the gorge from the bridge.
After the trail crosses the bridge, it climbs all the way to the top of the falls if you have the stamina to follow it. We settled for going just beyond the bridge so we could get the next photo from the base of the upper falls.
The next photo shows Benson Bridge from the trail on the upper side.
When we got back to the car, we drove a little farther to the east where we found a nice, shady pull-off to have our lunch. After that, we turned around and headed back to the motor home. We took I-84 on our return trip. While the Historic Columbia River Highway follows a more winding path higher up the side of the gorge, I-84 travels closer to the river. We stopped at a pull-off and got the photo below of the Columbia River looking east. It is a little different view of the same stretch of river we got earlier from Vista House. Vista House is at the top of the promontory to the right of the photo below.
There's lots more to see around the Portland area. We look forward to sharing what we found.
Medford, OR
We left Redding, CA and headed north up I-5 toward Medford, OR. About 50 miles north of Redding, we passed majestic Mount Shasta. We could sometimes see Mount Shasta from certain areas around Redding, but the view was usually hidden by the local hills or distant clouds. The photo below shows Mount Shasta from I-5.
Mount Shasta means "white mountain." At a height of 14,179 feet above sea level, Mount Shasta is the second highest mountain in the Cascade Range. Mount Rainier is the highest at 14,411 feet. Mount Shasta is one of many volcanoes in the Cascades, and the last significant eruption of Mount Shasta took place in 1786. Geological studies show it has been erupting about every 600 years, so area residents should be safe for the foreseeable future.
We had a drive of about 3 1/2 hours from Redding to Joseph Stewart State Recreation Area, which is about 30 miles north of Medford on Lost Creek Lake. Joseph Stewart State Recreation Area has a boat launch and day-use area as well as a campground with almost 200 sites. The internal roads and the pads in the campground are paved, and the sites are mostly grass. After staying at fairgrounds and private campgrounds, it was nice to get back to the spacious sites you typically find at state parks. However, like most state parks, Joseph Stewart campground has 30 amp electric and water hookups, but no sewer. Also, some of the sites, like ours, were not very level front to back. We had to use blocks under the rear jacks to get the rear high enough to be level.
The campground was nice and quiet - no highway noise and no trains. It was fairly empty when we first arrived early in the week; but it was filling up by the time we left on Friday. We suspect it gets fairly crowded (and possibly noisier) on the weekends. The photo below shows our site at Joseph Stewart State Recreation Area.
Medford, OR is the home of Harry and David, the company that sells mail-order gourmet foods and gifts. Harry and David has tours of their facilities, so we drove into Medford to have a look. Their busiest time of year is November and December - over half their 2.8 million orders are delivered during those months. They have about 1,300 year-round employees with about 6,000 to 8,000 extra people for the peak of the holiday season.
Harry and David is busy leading up to Mother's Day, then things slow down until after July 4th. After July 4th, they already begin to ramp up for the holidays. Unfortunately, when we were there at the end of June, the factory was completely shut down for maintenance to prepare for the increase in production that begins in July. They still have tours, but we had to rely on the tour guide's descriptions (which were excellent) and the videos they show along the way (which were also excellent) to get an idea of what goes on. The bus for the tour boards at the Harry and David store, which is shown in the photo below.
Harry and David were brothers. Their father moved to the Medford, OR area from Seattle, WA in 1910, and he bought 240 prime acres planted with pear trees. Harry and David took over the business when their father died in 1914 and they decided to specialize in Comice pears, a variety that only grows in a few areas in the world. Harry and David named their pears Royal Riviera to differentiate them from Comice pears grown elsewhere. They did well during the 1920s exporting the pears to the grand hotels of Europe until the stock market crash of 1929. In 1934, they decided to try selling their pears by mail. They initially visited captains of industry and pitched their pears as business gifts. Soon, orders started pouring in, and the Harry and David direct marketing company was born.
Harry and David both died in the 1950s - one from a heart attack and one in an accident. The company is currently owned by an investment company.
The first stop on the tour was the candy-making facility and bakery. One of Harry and David's more popular items is Moose Munch, which is a mix of caramel-coated popcorn and nuts. It is available plain or chocolate coated. In the photo below, the worker on the far right was performing maintenance of the machine that makes Moose Munch.
The same building also has a bakery area where things like cookies and cheese cake are made, and it has candy-making lines where they make truffles and other chocolate treats. At the end of the tour of the bakery, we were given sample boxes with raspberry-filled cookies and a chocolate mint truffle. The next photo shows our tour guide handing out samples.
From the candy-making facility/bakery we went to the fruit-packing building. Here, gift baskets and boxes of fruit are packed by hand for shipment. There was no packing going on, but we got a good idea of the hustle and bustle that normally takes place from the video.
The packers are paid a base salary plus a bonus for the number of baskets packed. Although the sizes and contents of the baskets vary, there are two long-time employees who are sisters who can each pack a basket in an average of about 45 seconds. The photo below shows the area where the gift baskets are packed.
The specialty of Harry and David remains the Royal Riviera pears. In the next photo, the machine to the right, which is called "Big Red," has a series of buckets that weigh the pears and dump them onto the appropriate conveyor so each box of pears ends up with the correct total weight.
Upstairs of the packing floor, dozens of workers make bows by hand for the gift baskets. They tried machine-made bows, but customers complained so they went back to hand-made bows. A lot of work at Harry and David is done by hand, and it seems customers expect that and are willing to pay for it.
Outside the fruit packing building were stacks and stacks of metal racks (in the foreground) used for cold storage of fruit and wooden boxes (in the distance) used for picking fruit. The picking boxes were also being repaired during this maintenance time. Harry and David still grows most of their own fruit in orchards in the nearby area.
Harry and David has very high standards for fruit that is sold through their catalog and shipped in gift boxes and baskets. Fruit that doesn't quite measure up is sometimes sold at their store at a discount. Fruit that isn't quite good enough to sell at the store is sold to a nearby company that manufactures baby food. Seconds from the bakery are made available in the employees' break room. Items are also donated to food banks and senior centers. Very little goes to waste.
From the packing building, the mini-bus took us back to the store where we had a chance to look around. The next photo shows some of items available in the Harry and David store.
We have received gifts from Harry and David in the past, and everything is excellent quality; and they have a no-questions-asked guarantee. They will refund your money or send out a replacement product if you're dissatisfied for any reason. Harry and David products make excellent gifts, but unfortunately, most things cost more than we were willing to spend on ourselves. We only bought a few items of produce (which were more reasonably priced than the gift items) before heading back to the motor home.
On the way back to the motor home we stopped to gas up the car. That was our first encounter with the Oregon law that prohibits the consumer from pumping their own gas. We couldn't remember that last time someone pumped the gas for us. Oregon and New Jersey are the only states that prohibit self-service gas pumps.
There's more to see in the Medford area, so look for our next post.


Alzheimers robs us of our loved ones, a little at a time, and still we can recognise what is left behind as the individual we have known and loved. . . .
that is an alzhiemers riddled brain.
mixed with taste of toilet bowl.
Hermes' wings. New York 1962.
Tragic, but so well written here...Niall...a privilege to share..
Sad but beautifully crafted. Tq for sharing, Niall O Connor.
A beautiful poem, so sad. Thanks for sharing.


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I've been living in Atlanta now for four and a half months. I'm sitting tonight in my little attic apartment with the door open to let in the cool Fall air. Tomorrow morning I will go four blocks down the street and spend the day working as an office PA for a film production company, helping to coordinate commercials, corporate videos and even indy films. And then in the evening I will go rehearse for a hilarious Christmas improv show at the theater that I have been playing in since I was barely drinking age. I will sneak out afterward to have dinner with two amazing German directors who came in to town five weeks ago to help us put up a Fassbinder play in Decatur. They will be leaving on Wednesday to go back to Berlin, and I will be close on their heels. Well, maybe I'll wait til Spring, but it will be difficult to be patient until then - the work we did together was some of the best work I think I've ever done.
I'm on the stage again. I'm trying to pay my bills doing things that I am proud of - voice overs, production work, plays... It's not glorious. But it's what I can give and keep giving, because it doesn't drain my heart. I love being busy, I love being challenged, and I love being close to my family.
I will never say it was a mistake to have moved to LA. I don't hate LA. But four months later, I still cannot tell you why I left. I do know that I have not spent one moment wishing I hadn't moved. And I can give you plenty of reasons why I'm glad I'm here now.
Everyone coming to my house for Thanksgiving.


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Huawei announces a new patent, but a strange patent
Despite the sanctions imposed on Huawei in the field of smart phone industry, the Chinese company is still continuing its achievements in the development of smart phone technology, both at the level of software and hardware, hardware security is one of the important areas for Huawei.
A strange patent from Huawei
A new report by Huawei Central indicates that Huawei published a new patent in China for unlocking a smartphone, titled "equipment unlocking method and device" on June 29, 2021. It can be noted from the patent that it will use the biological characteristics of lip movement to determine the identity of an individual. Moreover, it also has adaptability, anti-forgetting features, uniqueness, and versatility for more support.
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According to Huawei Central, the patent describes a method for unlocking the phone, which consists of a scanning module and an identification module.
The procedure following this method can be described in the following terms:
the scanning unit takes the image of the user's lip movement and then scans the first lip movement from the store, where the first lip movement is stored and matches the similarity after scanning, matches the degree between the first and second lip movements after that, Decides whether to unlock the device It is worth noting that the device has pre-stored lip moments as fingerprints to identify an individual's authentication.
The site indicates that if the new Lips Movement Unlock technology is developed by Huawei, it will certainly cause a sensation among consumers, without any confirmation that this will happen soon.
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create a nutritious and flavorful salad during the holidays with brussels sprouts and kale.
One of the best things about kale is it's ability to stay crunchy for hours. If you've ever massaged kale (yes it's a thing) for a salad, or made kale chips in the oven, you know how nicely it holds up despite heat, hours of sitting in the fridge, and so on.
If you're craving a festive side dish that isn't chock full of carbs and sugar, a refreshing salad with roasted hazelnuts and fresh pom seeds should do the trick. Head over to The Sprouted Kitchen today for the full recipe!


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The White Sister is a 1915 American silent film produced by Essanay Studios. It is based on the 1909 play The White Sister by F. Marion Crawford and Walter Hackett. This film, directed by Fred E. Wright, stars Viola Allen, a prominent stage actress in her first movie. Allen had also created the role in the play and it was one of her biggest successes. It is not known whether the film survives.

Cast
Viola Allen – Donna Angela Chiaramonte
Richard C. Travers – Lt. Giovanni Severi
Florence Oberle – Princess Chiaramonte
Thomas Commerford – Monseigneur Saracinesca
Emilie Melville – Mother Superior (aka Emelie Melville)
John Thorn – Filmore Durand
Sidney Ainsworth – Captain Ugo Severi (*Sydney Ainsworth)
Ernest Maupain – Dr. Pieri
Camille D'Arcy – Madame Bernard
John H. Cossar – Minister of War (*aka John Cossar)
Frank Dayton – Colonel Parlo

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1915 films
American silent feature films
American films based on plays
Films based on adaptations
Films based on American novels
Films based on works by Francis Marion Crawford
Essanay Studios films
1915 drama films
Silent American drama films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Fred E. Wright
1910s American films

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Q: How can I make my werewolf claws more effective? So, I'm having a little bit of a dilema over here:
I love the ability to turn into a werewolf and chase people down, but my claws don't seem to do much damage (especially compared to my 2 handed weapon).   How can do more damage as a werewolf making my nightly pillages more terrifying?

A: To all viewing this recently. .
As A.C.M. noted, claw damage increases with character level but is not on a scale with damage from actual weapons.  You will have 0 armor as a werewolf, so the damage output will not keep you alive.  The fear roar does not work on higher level opponents; even bandits are immune at higher levels!
Essentially, after approximately level 30, werewolves are generally useless except for the disease immunity, which sometimes doesn't work anyway.  The ability to carry large amts of gear is offset by their being unable to pick up gear, so it is of reduced usefulness.  Sprinting is the only advantage and pretty much pointless in a game with fast travel.
Final answer:  use a mod someone has made, mod the game yourself, or don't transform, since nearly everything can 1-shot you around lvl 30 or so.

A: The khajit racial attribute of +15 to unarmed attacks will not stack with the werewolf claws. The werewolf is considered a seperate race - and all racial skills and attributes are lost in werewolf form.
I have however heard that the game engine treats the werewolf claw attack as a single handed weapon, and that the dual savagery perk effects the claw attack.

A: If you're an orc you can cast berserker rage right before transforming. So you will deal twice as much damage. You can glitch where you wield weapons in your hands after transformation. I usually go under water dual wielding weapons (usually enchanted so I maintain those effects) to make this bug occur. With Dawnguard installed the first werewolf perks increases your damage by 25% each rank up to 100%.

A: To do more damage as a werewolf you need to increase your level. The damage your claws do is separated into level brackets.e.x.lvl -20 = 20dam lvl 20-30 = 30dam etc. (note these are not actual values they are just an example Ill find actual levels and damage and get back to you) but unfortunately the damage doesnt get very higher and more often then not you will do more damage as a human.

A: There is actually a way to make your claw attacks stronger but it is technically considered a bug.
If you are dual wielding enchanted weapons when you transform into a werewolf, the enchantments will stay on your claws.
This is a great way to increase damage output as a werewolf but could be considered an exploit.

A: Here's the thing about werewolves. They are incredibly fun to play if done right. Mines level 34 and here or some of the things I did.
You can start at as any race, but it helps to be a race with a elemental resistance, i.e. Nord, breton etc. Breton works best imho. 25% magic resist + lord stone + alteration perk magic resistance + agent of mara = 95% magic resist. From what I read the magic resist cap is 97. Pretty good if you ask me.
Now for physical defense, put perks in alteration all the way up to stability and expert and use Ebonyflesh. Since the werewolf is considered unarmored, casting ebonyflesh + the mage armor perk + lord stone gives you 350 armor. Granted thats still about 200 armor under the damage cap of 567 (I think its 567, may be 587), put remember that just because you are a monster doesnt mean you are a tank. Remember that there are some effects that carry over from regular form to werewolf form, like the Orcs berserker trait.
note* You could also use dragonskin to meet the 80% damage cap for physical attacks but its only for 30 seconds. Dual casting ebonyflesh makes the length stay on for 90 seconds. Depends on what you want I suppose.
The claw damage scale doesnt compare well in later levels with actual weapons, but the advantage the Werewolf form does have is an extra 100 stamina and killer knockback effects that work on all but the biggest enemies. This allows you to fight dragon priests and draugr high levels pretty easily because of the ability to use power attacks.
I have done all this on mine and I am loving it. I should also note that go ahead and level an armor tree and weapon tree as well just in case there are times that transforming wouldnt be the best choice. I have had a few of those but they are extremely rare, for what I have done at least.

A: If you have the dlc and improve your bestial strength and acquire the totems, especially the totems of brotherhood, you can kill even the toughest enemies including dragons, dragon preists, draugr, and bandits within seconds with the power attacks and summoned wolves/werewolves.

A: I don't know how to make the claws stronger but I know you can stack spells on top of your werewolf. I am an ORC and before I transform into my werewolf I use the Dragon aspect shout, any cloak spell, Ebony Flesh, Dragon hide and berserk rage and also some perks do transfer over such as Atronach allows you to absorb 30% of magic thrown at you you can also get the Atronach stone or Lord stone for added bonus and then there are the rings for the werewolf which you can buy in the Dragonborn DLC.
I hope this helps.


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Old stone house leveled in 1920 to make way for Scenic Drive
Trish Long
An old stone house built in 1886 by M.J. McKelligon, which hosted parties, picnics, hunters and couples, was leveled to make way for Scenic Drive. This March 6, 1920, El Paso Herald article by Alden A. Evans gives the history of the house:
The old rock house on the slope of Mount Franklin has sheltered its last hunter. It has served for the last time as a refuge for mountain climbers and Kodak parties and picnickers. No more pictures will be taken of couples standing in the doorway of the massive little building or leaning against its strong rock walls.
Lovers will have to go elsewhere on Sunday afternoons than to this old rock house on the mountain side, to carve their initials or their names and the dates of their courtship.
The old rock house, ancient landmark of El Paso, haven for the hunter, refuge for the weary, comfort station for autoists and hikers, is being torn down.
In way of Scenic Drive
As the old order changeth, giving place to the new, and as shacks are torn down to give way to skyscrapers, so now the old house, which has stood the wind and sandstorms and rain and snow and sun for more than three decades, is being razed to give place to the route of the new scenic driveway around Mount Franklin.
When El Paso was a village and land around Mount Franklin was selling, or rather was on the market and could be bought for $1 an acre, M.J. McKelligon, an old timer in El Paso, bought 680 acres of land in the vicinity of the mountain.
Under the state law, 1/40 of the purchase price had to be cash and the rest paid out in 40 years at 3 percent interest. Under the law, it was necessary for a man to live on land bought from the state for three years.
In 1886, Mr. McKelligon built the old rock house from rocks picked up from the mountainside. The house was finished inside with wood, made comfortable throughout, and had three rooms, a living room, a bedroom and a kitchen.
Mr. McKelligon lived in the house for three years, got a title to the land and later sold it to P.E. Kern, of Kern Place.
The house was for rent for a while, but everybody seemed to think it was too far away from civilization to be an attractive residence.
Soon it became known as "Crazy Harry's House." There was an old, long-haired man nicknamed "Crazy Harry" who was more religious than the average churchgoer.
Was 'Sermon on the Mount' site
Harry used to put his Bible under his arm every day and hike up Mount Franklin "to get closer to God," as he used to say. When he climbed high enough to reach the old rock house, Harry thought he was about as close to heaven as his wind would permit him to go for a while, so he would stop and give vent to his religious feeling and rend the mountain air with his sermons.
Harry was not always alone in his trips to the mountains. In those days there was a boy who had the ambition to be a great musician. This boy, who is now a grown man and is in the employ of the city, played a cornet, or at least wanted to learn to play one. His mother wouldn't let him practice at home because he disturbed the peace and other things in the neighborhood, so he often went with Harry to the old rock house, where next to nature, he could blow his lungs out.
Later, Harry went to his reward, which is some higher than Mount Franklin, it is alleged, and the musician cast aside his cornet and took a job with the city.
After awhile, as a new generation came on, the children began to climb to the house for picnics and parties. Someone fell to calling it "the haunted house" and for years it had been known among the younger generation as "the haunted house on the mesa."
The big rocks which formed the walls of the house are torn down. Turn them over and one will see the name of Mabel, Agnes and Beckie and Tom, Dick and Harry carved on them with various dates between 1886 and 1920. Initials, however, are more popular, and if one had good enough memory, he could figure out the initials of a number of married men and women, some of whom are still living together.
The old house, as fate would have it, stood in the right of way of the workmen who are building the approach to the scenic driveway. The driveway itself, which will be about 4 miles long, will be completed in about six months, but automobile parties viewing the scenery of three states and two nations from the scenic drive will never again use the old rock house to stop in.
A haven for boys
Beside the remains of the old house is a ditch cut through the narrow strip of mesa, worn away to almost nothing at this point. Few remember why the ditch was cut. A small "railroad' once ran through the cut, to a point northeast of the stone house to a rock quarry. The road was used to haul stone to an old lime kiln, the ruins of which may still be seen below the McKelligon home. Boys of that time — Will Marr, Walter Kohlberg, the Krakauer boys and others — used to have big times on Sunday afternoons riding the cars on this little road. They would laboriously push them up the hill and then ride down on the momentum of the car. Oftentimes, a car would jump the track and there would be a lot of bruised bodies and skinned faces, but nobody ever got seriously hurt.
That all happened in "the good old days." Today, the boys have to put up with six-cylinder automobiles for their Sunday afternoon joyrides.
Trish Long is the El Paso Times' librarian and spends her time in the morgue, where the newspaper keeps its old clippings and photos.


Nerves are difficult to detect with the naked eye, because they have the same colour and structure as connective tissue and minor blood vessels. And the risk is considerable: If, for example, the nerve serving the vocal cords is damaged during an operation on the thyroid gland, the patient might be plagued by chronic hoarseness, loss of voice or breathlessness.
In a pilot project, the researchers have been able to demonstrate the basic feasibility of continuously monitoring the nerve to the vocal cords during thyroid surgery. The two pairs of electrodes are attached to the respiration tube inserted in the patient's trachea. Under software control, one pair of electrodes stimulates the nerve into contracting the laryngeal muscle. The second pair of electrodes records the muscle response, which is immediately evaluated by the software. The planned system even contains a safeguard against imperfect attachment or slippage of the electrodes: the software calculates which of the numerous electrode contacts is in the best position to stimulate the nerve.


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Your Excellencies,
Foreign Diplomatic Missions in Lebanon,
UNRWA, the UN Agency for Relief and Works Agency, has lately started to reduce the level of services provided for Palestinian refugees in its five areas of operation.This includes cancelling shelter aid provided to Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria and will be followed by halting clothes and food aid by the end of September. A decision is being mulled which might impact the education sector where UNRWA General-Commissioner, Mr. Pierre Krenpol, has announced that harsh steps might be taken at UNRWA schools thus affecting 35,000 Palestinian students during the academic year 2015-2016.Mr. Krenpol has also declared that UNRWA might be obliged to close all UNRWA schools and reduce services in other sectors, including health and relief,due to a financial deficit estimated at $101 million.
This fact is extremely dangerous as it threatens about 43,000 Palestinians displaced from Syria, who have become homeless and without relief assistance as they have to suffer harsh humanitarian conditions. It also threatens basic services for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon including health and aid services.
The responsibility of financing UNRWA to continue its role towards the refugees rests basically on the international community and the United Nations in addition to the countries hosting refugees.
By failing to provide UNRWA with financial support necessary to cover essential services for Palestinian refugees, the international community might be changing refugees into time bombs that would reflect negatively on world peace and security.
We, at the Palestinian Association for Human Rights "Witness," address you to intervene urgently to support the following:
1. Serious efforts are needed to safeguard sources of funding to meet the urgent deficit in the UNRWA budget.
2. UNRWA is responsible for the relief of Palestine Refugees as well as for seeking sources of funding and launching relevant urgent appeals.
3. The international community should shoulder its responsibilities towards refugees either by opening the borders for them to return to their homeland, or by providing financial support for UNRWA to provide a full range of services for refugees until their case is resolved.
4. Host countries should exercise pressure on the international community to continue its financial support for UNRWA in order to avoid the negative repercussions of their human and social conditions on the countries hosting them.
Beirut,31/07/2015
The Palestinian Association for Human Rights
"Witness"
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Dead Souls - Part III
Dead Souls • 2h 55m
Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2018 • 175 minutes
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as "ultra-rightists" in the Communist Party's Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the Jiabiangou and Mingshui reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.
"A film of resistance that, in discussing the past, also confronts the present-day activities of the Chinese government; [foretelling future memorials] for the victims of today's camps and bearing witness to the cruel injustices of the country's reigning overlords." —The New Yorker
"Weighty and mindfully austere, Dead Souls shines a bright and steady spotlight into a dark corner of 20th century Chinese history." —Film Comment
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Today, developer Fntastic (previously known as Eight Points) and publisher HypeTrain Digital announced that plot-driven survival game The Wild Eight is set to finally release on PC via Steam Early Access on February 8, 2017 at the price point of $19.99 USD. As for the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game, there is still no word on a release date.
When talking about why it chose to release on Early Access, Fntastic in a Steam Community update post says it is because development of the game is still ongoing, and that there's a "big world expansion" it has in mind. Additionally, it needs to further tune the game balance, and fix minor bugs. All of this the developer expects to take around three months.
Updates will arrive every two weeks, and Fntastic plans for some special cosmetic reward for Early Access players. What exactly this will be — was not divulged.


i don't think we ever grow out of our insecurities. For awhile I thought that the older we got the less we worried about what other people think of us we would be. She'll always worry about seeing her old high school crush at a friend's wedding, even though she's happily married, has a house and a great job. She'll always avoid people she knows because small talk makes her uncomfortable and she's sure they're laughing at her back as she walks away. It comforts me to know that I'm not the only one who is still like this.
Work might be frustrating me. I might feel invisible sometimes.
I miss North Carolina a lot these days. I am not unhappy here nor do I regret moving back. The exact opposite in fact. I'm just lucky enough to have two homes and when I am in one my heart is in the other. I also miss Bette and am not sure why she had to go so far away that I cannot reach her by cell phone. Upsetting that I cannot share random goodness with her. Email is not the same.
I recently finished the most amazing book I have ever read, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen. This book literally changed my life and I beg you to read it. In fact I will buy it for you. It honestly deserves some sort of review but I've lent it to Sam so that will have to wait. Please at least check out the website – www.threecupsoftea.com. It is truly amazing the impact that one man can have on so many people.
I like receiving lamps, talking about taking trips and talking on the phone for at least half an hour every night I don't see you. I could get used to this but probably shouldn't let myself do that. Just in case. A girl's gotta be on the defensive because you never know.
And now you must explain to me why I am up at 1:15AM on a week day. I blame the cookies.


In New York they say 'get organised or go hungry', and although it's not quite that bad it is a good idea to book ahead for the more popular restaurants, especially at the weekend. In order to eat anywhere decent on a Saturday night you will definitely need to make a reservation ahead of time.
If you get really stuck you can often get a table in the touristy areas, such as around Times Square and Broadway. Restaurant Row on 46th Street between 8th and 9th Avenue has an abundance of interesting places to eat where you can normally get a table relatively easily. Check out their website at http://www.restaurantrownyc.com/. Also, many nice restaurants allow you to eat at the bar without a reservation which can be quite handy.
I use OpenTable: NYC Restaurants to make the majority of my restaurant reservations. The website allows you to make instant confirmed bookings at the majority of New York's restaurants. Also, every time you make a booking you receive dining points which can be exchanged for vouchers to use for a free meal!
For reliable reviews, a recent copy of the 'Zagat-New York City Restaurants' guide is a must. It lists the majority of New York restaurants with accurate reviews, as well as ratings on food, decor, service and price. A good Zagat rating indicates a good restaurant. You can pick up a copy of the guide in most book shops or online at http://www.zagat.com/newyork.
However, no matter how much research you do, there is still quite a bit of trial and error involved when finding decent restaurants. This is true of any city though and it can be great fun finding the hidden gems from the tourist traps in your local neighbourhood. I will be posting regular reviews of the restaurants I visit on this blog.
There are so many great places to eat I am sure you will have a wonderful time exploring the culinary delights on offer in New York City. Happy eating!


Three great forwards from Sheffield Steelers' history celebrate birthdays this weekend.
Sunday is a big day for Tommy Plommer - he turns 50.
Plommer was a no-nonsense winger whose small stature belied his tenacity on the ice; he was a Steeler from 1992-2000.
Evidence of his competitiveness isn't hard to find - check out this youtube clip.
Ken Priestlay becomes 51 today.
While Jamie Leach is the junior of the trio, he becomes 49 on Saturday.


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