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I will be honest in saying that I let the sentiment of the general public get to me when it came to choosing whether or not to play The Witcher. Indeed, I had assumed that this game wasn't worth playing mainly because of what I had read about it on the internet.
After paying the huge sum of $2.50 for The Witcher: Director's Cut, I fired the game up and expected something that, as I had read from reviews online, was unpolished, had a horrible combat system, and lacked in so many other areas that I would be convinced to skip it entirely and play The Witcher II instead.
Thirty hours into the game, I can tell you that most of these accusations are overblown or downright incorrect, and that it would be a severe mistake to pass up on the first Witcher just because the second one is an improvement.
First off, one of the primary complaints I heard of this game was that it had amateurish voice over dialogue. While it is important to keep in mind that the game's developers, CD Projekt Red, fixed many of the original voice over errors in the enhanced edition that I bought, I still feel that the complaints about dialogue were overblown.
From Geralt's menacing growl, to Detective Raymond's suave baritone, to Siegfried's unique dialect, nearly all of the important characters in The Witcher have voice overs that get the job done while drawing you into the universe. Though you won't find Bioware like quality here, I'd argue that the voice actors in this game, at the least, match what is done in Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series.
Though there are times when dialogue is recycled and the generic NPC's voice overs make you cringe, all in all I'd say that the voice acting in this game serves as a positive more than it does a negative.
The second major complaint most seem to have about The Witcher is its combat system. I'll admit, it isn't the best. It can get very frustrating when you are fighting a pack of enemies and the combat system causes you to die, as opposed to a lack of skill or preparation on your part (and this is coming from someone playing on normal -- I could only imagine the pain felt by those playing at the hardest difficulty).
Is it game breaking? I don't think so. As long as you upgrade your weapons, make potions, and choose decent talents, you should be able to get through the game's combat just fine.
In case you're wondering why the combat system is so controversial, it's because it's centered around a rhythm based mini game that the player has little direct control over. Essentially, when you engage an enemy, you click on them, and Geralt (your character) will run towards them and begin attacking. While he swings his sword, your cursor will flash from blue to orange periodically. When it's orange, you click your mouse and Geralt will begin to chain together multiple attacks.
If you miss this flashing orange prompt, Geralt stops attacking and you have to begin the rhythm game once more. This becomes annoying in large battles, as the game often gets confused as to who you're attacking, leading you to miss your rhythm prompts constantly, resulting in Geralt standing there being pummeled by enemies without you being able to properly respond.
Situations like that, however, are few and far between. Though The Witcher has a poorly thought out combat system, it does get the job done the majority of the time. Like I said, the main issues occur during large fights, which are fairly infrequent.
Though it is easy to dwell on the lacking combat system, The Witcher offers so much more that should not be overlooked. For instance, CD Projekt Red is able to do what Bioware never could: create areas that contain a certain amount of freedom of movement and exploration.
While Bioware has a talent crafting cities and towns in their games, they are rarely able to craft open areas effectively. The Witcher not only has impressive towns and cities (with the main city of Vizima rivaling Denerim and Kirkwall), but it also includes many open zones that are fully explorable and contain monsters, locations, loot, and more.
While the level of openness is more akin to Fable than it is to Skyrim, it's still much better than anything offered in Bioware games made this generation.
As an aside, the reason I compare CD Projekt Red to Bioware is because the latter is still considered to be the cream of the crop in terms of western rpg developers.
Lastly, I have one more reason for why the Witcher is such a great experience, namely, the fact that there is a huge amount of choice in the game.
I remember near the beginning of the game I made a choice to help a certain group, and near the middle of the game this group came back to screw up several important quests I had (I am being vague purposefully). If I had eliminated them originally, who knows how my game would have turned out. The fact that The Witcher makes you feel like your decisions have an impact on the game world is a major positive in my book.
To wrap this up then, all I have to say is that The Witcher is the rpg fan's dream. If you can get past its wonky combat, what lies beneath is an incredible world filled with decisions, betrayal, intrigue, drama, depth, complex characters, and places to explore. Additionally, as a huge Bioware fan, I can safely say that anybody who enjoys their games will find something to love about The Witcher.
It would be a shame to skip this game just because its sequel made improvements, and at such a low price, you'd be a fool not to give it a try!


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BARTHOLOMEUS: text is taken from Caxton's English version of the Golden Legend (Ellis edition)
Life of S. Bartholomew the Apostle
Here beginneth the Life of S. Bartholomew the Apostle, and first the exposition of his name.
Bartholomew is expounded the son of abovehanging the waters, or son of overhanging the sea. He is said of bar, that is as much to say as son, and tholos, which is as much to say as sovereignty, and of moys, that is to say water. And hereof is said Bartholomew, as a son hanging over the waters. That is of God, which enhanceth the minds of doctors on high, for to shed and bespring beneath the waters of doctrine. And it is a name of Syriac and not of Hebrew. And the first three suspendings that he had, ought to be noted: He was suspended or taken up from the love of the world, and he was suspended, that is to say ententive, in heavenly love, and he was suspended, that is to say wrapped, in the grace and in the aid of God. Not by his merits his life shone, but by the aid of God. Of the second came the deepness of his wisdom, of which deepness of wisdom Denis saith, in his mystical theology: The divine Bartholomew, of whom is much divinity and right little, and that the gospel is broad and great, and also it is short. And after the entent of S. Denis, Bartholomew will show that all things may be affirmed and showed of God under one consideration, and by another consideration may be more properly denied.
Of S. Bartholomew the Apostle.
S. Bartholomew, the apostle, went into India, which is in the end of the world. And therein he entered into a temple where an idol was which was named Astaroth, and he, as a pilgrim, abode there. In that idol dwelt a fiend that said that he could heal all manner sicknesses, but he lied, for he could not make them whole, but might better them but for a while. And the temple was full of sick people, and could have no answer of that idol, wherefore they went in to another city whereas another idol was worshipped named Berith, and they demanded him wherefore Astaroth gave to them no answer. And Berith said: Your god is bound with chains of fire that he neither dare draw breath ne speak after that Bartholomew, the apostle of God, entered into the temple. And they said to him: Who is that Bartholomew? And the devil said: He is the friend of God Almighty, and he is come into this province for to avoid all the gods of India. And then they said: Tell us some tokens and signs that we may know him and find him. And the devil said to them: He hath his hairs black and crisp, his skin white, eyes great, his nostrils even and straipht, his beard long and hoar a little, and of a straight and seemly stature. He is clad in a white coat, and a white mantle, which in every corner hath gems of purple and precious stones therein. And it is sith twenty-six years that his clothes never waxed old ne foul. He prayeth and worshippeth God on his knees a hundred times a day, and a hundred times by night. The angels go with him, which never suffer him to be weary ne to be an hungered, he is always of like semblant, glad and joyous. He seeth all things tofore, he knoweth all things, he speaketh all manner languages, and understandeth them, and he knoweth well what I say to you. And when ye seek him, if he will he may show himself to you, and if him list not, not shall ye find him. And I pray you, when ye find him, that ye pray him that he come not hither, that his angels do not to me as they have done to my fellow. Then they went and sought him diligently and busily two days, and found him not.
On a day, one that was beset with a devil cried, and said: Apostle of God, Bartholomew, thy prayers burn me. And the apostle said: Hold thou thy peace and come thence. And anon he was delivered. And when Polemius, king of that region, heard this thing, which had a daughter lunatic, he sent to the apostle, praying that he would come to him and heal his daughter. And when the apostle was come to him and saw that she was bound with chains, and bit all them that went to her, he commanded to unbind her. And the ministers durst not go to her. And he said: I hold the devil fast bound that was in her, and therefore be not afeard; and then anon she was unbound and delivered. And then would have presented to the apostle camels charged with gold and silver and precious stones, but he could not be found in no manner. And on the morrow following, the apostle appeared to the king, alone in his chamber, and said to him: Wherefore soughtest thou me yesterday with gold and silver and precious stones? Those things be necessary to them that covet things worldly, but I desire no things terrien ne carnal. Then S. Bartholomew began to say many things, and inform the king of our redemption, and among other things how Jesu Christ vanquished the devil by marvellous and convenable puissance, justice, and wisdom. For it was convenable that he that overcame the son made of the earth, that was Adam, while he was yet a virgin, should be overcome of the son of the virgin. He overcame him then mightily, when he threw him
puissantly out of his lordship which had thrown out by force our forefather. And thus, as he that overcometh some tyrant, sendeth his fellows tofore for to set up his sign over all, and to cast out tyrants, in like wise Jesu Christ sent his messengers over all for to take away the honour and the worshipping of the devil righteously. For it is right that he that vanquished man by eating, and held him, that he should be overcome by a man fasting, and hold man no longer. For it is rightful that he which by the art of the devil was despised, that by the art of Jesu Christ he should be vanquished. And like as the falcon taketh the bird, right so took he Jesu Christ in desert because he fasted, and would assay if he had hunger; and if he had hunger, that he might have deceived him by meat, and if he had no hunger, then knew he well without doubt that he was God. But he might not know him, for he had hunger, and consented nothing to him ne to his temptations.
And when he had preached the sacraments of the faith, he said to the king that, if he would receive baptism, he would show him his god bounden with chains. And the day following, when the bishops sacrificed within the palace of the king, the devils began to cry and say: Cease, ye cursed wretches, to do sacrifice to us, lest ye suffer worse than I that am bounden with chains of fire by the angels of Jesu Christ, whom the Jews crucified and supposed to have brought to death. Which death, that is our queen, he hath imprisoned, and hath bound our prince in chains of fire. And anon then they set cords on the image for to pull down and overthrow the idol, but they might not. The apostle then commanded the devil that he should issue and go out and break the idol all to pieces, and he issued out and destroyed and brake all the idols of the temple. And anon the apostle made his prayer, saying: O God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, which hast given to us such power that we enlumine the blind, and cleanse the lepers, I desire and require that this multitude might be healed, and they all answered, Amen. And forthwith all the sick people were cured and healed. And then the apostle did do hallow and dedicate that temple, and commanded the devil to go in to the desert. Then the angel of our Lord appeared there, and flew round about the temple, and ensigned and graved with his finger the sign of the cross in four corners of the temple, saying: Our Lord saith this: Like as I have you cured and made you clean of all your sickness, so let this temple be made clean of all filth and ordure. but I shall show him of all filth and ordure. But I shall show him to you that dwelleth therein tofore, to whom the apostle hath commanded to go in to desert. And doubt ye not to see him, but make in your forehead such a sign as I have graven in these stones. And then he showed to them an Ethiopian more black than thunder, the face sharp, the beard long, his hairs hanging unto his feet, his eyes flaming as hot fire, and cast out sparkles of fire, and casting out of his mouth flames of sulphur, and his hands bound with chains of fire behind his back. And then the angel said to him: Because that thou hast heard that the apostle hath commanded, and hast broken all the idols of the temple, I shall unbind thee; go in to such a place whereas dwelleth no man, and be thou there unto the day of judgment. And when he was unbound he went his way with a great braying and howling, and the angel of our Lord mounted up to heaven in the sight of them all. And then was the king baptized, with his wife and his children and all his people, and left his realm and was made disciple of the apostle.
Then all the bishops of the idols assembled them together and went to Astrages the king, and brother to Polemius, and complained of the loss of their gods and of the destruction of their temples, and of the conversion of his brother made by art magic. Astrages was wroth and sent a thousand men armed to take the apostle, and when he was brought tofore him, the king said to him: Art thou not he that hast perverted my brother? And the apostle answered to him: I have not perverted him, but I have converted him; and the king said to him: Like as thou hast made my brother forsake his god and believe in thy God, so shall I make thee forsake thy God, and thou shalt sacrifice to my god. And the apostle said : I have bound the god that thy brother adored, and showed him bound, and constrained him to break his false image, and if thou mayst do so to my God, thou mayst well draw me to thine idol, and if not, I shall all to-break thy gods, and then believe thou in my God. And as he said these words, it was told the king that his god Baldach was overthrown and all to-broken, and when the king heard that, he brake and all to-rent his purple in which he was clad, and commanded that the apostle should be beaten with staves, and that he should be flayed quick, and so it was done. Then the christians took away the body and buried it honourably. Then the king Astrages and the bishops of the temples were ravished with fiends and died, and the king Polemius was ordained bishop, and accomplished the oflfice of a bishop twenty-two years much louably, and after that rested in peace full of virtues.
There be divers opinions of the manner of his passion. For the blessed Dorotheus saith that he was crucified, and saith also: Bartholomew preached to men of India, and delivered to them the gospel after Matthew in their proper tongue. He died in Alban, a city of great Armenia, crucified the head downward. S. Theoderus saith that he was flayed, and it is read in many books that he was beheaded only. And this contrariety may be assoiled in this manner, that some say that he was crucified and was taken down ere he died, and for to have greater torment he was flayed and at the last beheaded.
In the year of our Lord three hundred and thirty-one, Saracens assailed Sicily, and destroyed the isle of Lipari whereas the body of S. Bartholomew lieth, and brake up the sepulchre and threw the bones hither and thither. And it is said that his body came in such wise from India thither into that isle. When the paynims saw that this body and his sepulchre were greatly honoured for the miracles that befell, they had thereof great despite, and laid them in a tomb of lead, and threw them into the sea, and by the will of God they came into this isle. And when the Saracens had departed and thrown the bones here and there, and were departed thence, the apostle appeared to a monk and said to him: Arise up, and go and gather together my bones that be departed. And he said to him: By what reason shall I gather together thy bones, and what honour ought we to do to them, when thou sufferest us to be destroyed? And the apostle said to him: Our Lord hath spared this people here a long while by my merits, but for their sins that they have sinned, which cry vengeance unto heaven, I have not con get pardon ne forgiveness for them. And then the monk said: How shall I among so many bones find thine? And the apostle said to him: Thou shalt gather them by night, and them that thou shalt find shining thou shalt take up. And the monk went, and found them all as he had said, and took them up, and brought them with him in to a ship, and sailed with them to Benevento, which is chief city of Apulia, and thus were they transported thither. And it is said now that they be at Rome, howbeit they of Benevento say they have the body.
There was a woman that brought a vessel full of oil for to put in the lamp of S. Bartholomew, and how well she inclined the vessel for to pour out the oil, there would none issue out, how well she touched with her finger the oil clear. And then one cried and said: I trow this oil be not agreeable to the apostle that it should be in his lamp, wherefore they put it in another lamp and it issued anon.
When that the emperor Frederick destroyed Benevento, and he had commanded that all the churches that there should be destroyed, and enforced them to bear away the goods from that city into another place, there was a man which found men all white shining, and him seemed that they spake together of some secret thing, and he marvelled strongly who they were and demanded them, and then one of them answered and said: This is Bartholomew, the apostle, with the other saints which had churches in this city, that speak and ordain together in what manner and by what pain this emperor should be justified, that hath cast them out of their tabernacles. And they have now confirmed among them by firm sentence that he, without tarrying, shall go to the judgment of God for to answer thereupon. And anon the emperor died an evil death.
It is in a book read of the miracles of saints that, a certain master hallowed solemnly the feast of S. Bartholomew, and the devil in the form of a maid appeared to this master that preached. And when he saw her, he bade her to come and dine with him, and when they were set at the table she enforced her much for to draw him to her love. And then S. Bartholomew came to the gate and prayed that he might come in for the love of S. Bartholomew, and she would not, but sent him bread, and he would none take, but prayed the master by his message that he should say what thing that he supposed was most proper in a man. And he answered: To laugh. And the maid said: Nay, it is sin in which a man is conceived, born and liveth in sin. And S. Bartholomew answered that he had well said, but she had more profoundly answered. And the pilgrim demanded after at the master, where the place was contaimng the space of a foot where had God made greatest miracle. And he said, the sign of the cross, in which God had made many miracles. And she said: Nay, it is the head of a man, in which the little world is. And the apostle allowed the sentence of that one and of that other, and then he demanded the third time: How far it was from the sovereign siege or seat in heaven unto the lowest and deepest place of hell. And the master said that he wist not; and she said: I know it well, for I fell down from that one to that other, and it behoveth that I show it to thee. And the devil fell down into hell with a great bruit and howling, and then they sent for the pilgrim, and he was vanished and gone and away and they could not find him. And in like wise nigh according to this is read of S. Andrew.
The blessed Ambrose saith thus in the preface that he made of this apostle in abridging his legend: Jesu Christ, thou hast vouchsafed to show to thy disciples, preaching, many things of thy divine Trinity in marvellous manner, and thy majesty, among whom thou hast sent the blessed Bartholomew honour by right great prerogative in to a far country. And how be it that he was all far from human conversation, nevertheless he deserved by the increasing of his predications to mark and think in thy sign the beginning of that people. Ah! by what louings is the marvellous apostle to be honoured. And when the hearts of the people of his neighbours sufficed not to him to receive his seed, he through-pierced like in fleeing in to the last countries of the lands of India, and entered in to the temple where there was great company of sick people without number, and made the devil so mute that he gat no remembrance to them that adored him, and the maid that was lunatic by torment of the devil he did unbind and delivered her all whole to her father. Oh, how great was this miracle of holiness, when he made the fiend, enemy to the lineage human, to break and destroy his own idol, and to bring it to nought. Oh, how worthy is he to be numbered to the heavenly company to whom the angel appeared, to praise the faith of him by his miracles, and came from the sovereign hall and showed to all the people the devil chained, and right foul, and the sign of the cross impressed in the stone bearing health. And the king and the queen were baptized, with the people of their cities. And at the last the tyrant brother of Polemius, new in faith by the relation of the bishops of the temple, made the blessed apostle, constant in the faith, to be beaten, flayed, and receive right foul death. And as he denounced the mischief of death, he had and bare with him, in to the glory of heaven, victory of his glorious strife.
And the blessed Theodore, abbot and noble doctor, saith of this apostle in this manner among other things. The blessed apostle Bartholomew preached first in Licaonia, and after in India, and at the last in Alban, a city of great Armenia, and there he was first flayed and afterward his head smitten off, and there he was buried. And when he was sent of our Lord to preach, as I suppose, he heard how our Lord said to him: Go, my disciple, to preach, void out of this country, and go fight and be capax of perils. I have first accomplished and finished the works of my father, and am first witness, fill thou the vessel that is necessary and follow thy master, love thy lord, give thy blood for his blood, and thy flesh for his flesh, and suffer that which he had suffered, let thine armour be debonairty in thy sweatings, and suffer sweetly among wicked people and be patient among them that perish thee. And the apostle recoiled not, but as a true servant and obeissant to his master went forth joying, and as a light of God illumining in darkness the work of holy church, like as the blessed S. Austin witnesseth in his book, that, like a tiller of Jesu Christ, he profiteth in spiritual tilling. S. Peter the apostle taught the nations, but S. Bartholomew did great miracles. Peter was crucified the head downward, and Bartholomew was flayed quick, and had his head smitten off. And they twain increased greatly the church by the gifts of the Holy Ghost. And right as a harp giveth a right sweet sound of many strings, in like wise all the apostles gave sweet melody of the unity divine, and were established by the king of kings. And they departed among them all the world, and the place of Armenia was the place of Bartholomew, that is from Ejulath unto Gabaoth. There thou mayst see him, with the plough of his tongue, ear the fields unreasonable, sowing in the deepness of the heart the word of the faith, and in planting the vines of our Lord and trees of paradise. And to every each setting medicinally the remedies of the passions, rooting out pernicious thorns, cutting down trees of felony, and setting about hedges of doctrine. But what reward yielded the tyrants to their curate? They gave to him dishonour for honour, cursing for benediction, pains for gifts, tribulation for rest, and right bitter death for restful life. And sith that he had suffered many torments, he was of them discoriate and flayed quick, and died not, and yet for all that he had them not in despite that slew him, but admonished them by miracles, and taught them by demonstrances, that did him harm. But there was nothing that might refrain their bestial thoughts, ne withdraw them from harm. What did they afterwards? They enforced them against the holy body, and the malades and sick men refused their mediciner and healer, the city refused him that enlumined their blindness, governed them that were in peril, and gave life to them that were dead. And how cast they him out? Certainly, they threw the body into the sea in a chest of lead, and that chest came from the region of Armenia with the chests of four other martyrs, for they did also miracles and were thrown with him into the sea. And the four went before a great space of the sea, and did service to the apostles like as servants in a manner, so far that they came into the parts of Sicily in an isle that is named Lipari, like as it was showed to a bishop of Ostia which then was present. And these right rich treasures came to a right poor woman. And these right precious margarets came to one not noble, the bright shining light came to one right heavy. And then the other four came in to other lands, and left the holy apostle in that isle, and he left the other behind him. And that one which was named Papian went into a city of Sicily, and he sent another, named Lucian, into the city of Messina. And the other twain were sent into the land of Calabria, S. Gregory into the city of Columna, and Achate into a city named Chale, where yet at this day they shine by their merits. And then was the body of the apostle received with hymns, louings, and candles honourably, and there was made and builded a fair church in the honour of him. And the mountain of Vulcan is nigh to that isle, and was to it much grievous because it received fire, the which mountain was withdrawn by the merits of this holy saint from that isle seven miles, without to be seen of any body, and was suspended toward the sea. And yet appeareth it at this day to them that see it, as it were a figure of fire fleeing away. Now then, therefore, I salute thee, Bartholomew, blessed of blessed saints, which art the shining light of holy church, fisher of fishes reasonable, hurter of the devil which hurted the world by his theft. Enjoy thee, sun of the world, enlumining all earthly things, mouth of God, fiery tongue pronouncing wisdom, fountain springing goodly, full of health, which hallowest the sea by thy goings and ways not removable, which makest the earth red with thy blood, which repairest in heaviness, shining in the middle of the divine company clear in the resplendishour of glory. And enjoy thee in the gladness of joy insatiable. Amen. And this is that Theodore saith of him.
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Q: ERB like library for C# I am looking to find a librray that emulates part of the capabilities of Ruby's ERB library. ie substitute text for variables between <% and %>. I dont need the code execution part that ERB provides but if you know of something that has this I would be super appreciative.

A: I modified a class I used to test some things a while ago. It's not even nearly as good as ERB but it gets the job done substituting text. It only works with properties though, so you might want to fix that.
Usage:
Substitutioner sub = new Substitutioner(
    "Hello world <%=Wow%>! My name is <%=Name%>");

MyClass myClass = new MyClass();
myClass.Wow = 42;
myClass.Name = "Patrik";

string result = sub.GetResults(myClass);

Code:
public class Substitutioner
{
    private string Template { get; set; }

    public Substitutioner(string template)
    {
        this.Template = template;
    }

    public string GetResults(object obj)
    {
        // Create the value map and the match list.
        Dictionary<string, object> valueMap = new Dictionary<string, object>();
        List<string> matches = new List<string>();

        // Get all matches.
        matches = this.GetMatches(this.Template);

        // Iterate through all the matches.
        foreach (string match in matches)
        {
            if (valueMap.ContainsKey(match))
                continue;

            // Get the tag's value (i.e. Test for <%=Test%>.
            string value = this.GetTagValue(match);

            // Get the corresponding property in the provided object.
            PropertyInfo property = obj.GetType().GetProperty(value);
            if (property == null)
                continue;

            // Get the property value.
            object propertyValue = property.GetValue(obj, null);

            // Add the match and the property value to the value map.
            valueMap.Add(match, propertyValue);
        }

        // Iterate through all values in the value map.
        string result = this.Template;
        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, object> pair in valueMap)
        {
            // Replace the tag with the corresponding value.
            result = result.Replace(pair.Key, pair.Value.ToString());
        }

        return result;
    }

    private List<string> GetMatches(string subjectString)
    {
        try
        {
            List<string> matches = new List<string>();
            Regex regexObj = new Regex("<%=(.*?)%>");
            Match match = regexObj.Match(subjectString);
            while (match.Success)
            {
                if (!matches.Contains(match.Value))
                    matches.Add(match.Value);
                match = match.NextMatch();
            }
            return matches;
        }
        catch (ArgumentException)
        {
            return new List<string>();
        }
    }

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A: Have a look at TemplateMachine, I haven't tested it, but it seems to be a bit ERB-like.

A: Updated the post
the links which were of help are not longer available. I have left the titles so you can google them.
also look for "C# Razor" (this is the template engine which MS use with MVC)

there are a couple more out there.
Visual Studio ships with T4, which is a templating engine (that is vs 2008, 2005 requires a free add on)
Free T4 Editor - DEAD LINK
T4 Screen Cast- DEAD LINK
There is an open sourse project called Nvolicity, which was taken over by Castle Project
Nvolictiy Castle project upgrades - DEAD LINK
HTH
Bones

A: I just released a very simple library for substituting slightly like ERB.
You cannot evaluate in <%%> braces, you can only use these braces: <%= key_value %>. key_value will be the key for the Hashtable you pass as substituting arguments and with the braces being replaced by the value in the Hashtable. That's all.
https://github.com/Joern/C-Sharp-Substituting
Yours,
Joern

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Finally a netbook that might just be worth getting excited about. Introducing Litl.
Netbooks are already getting a little stale. Sometimes it feels like we're just making do with them until Microsoft or Apple create a usable tablet we've been hoping for for so long.
With netbooks still 'in' however, it's nice to see something a 'litl' different (see what I did there?).
There's still little to share in terms of specs or pricing but what is for certain is it's a browser centric design (much like the Crunchpad), the screen can flip both ways (as seen below), it only has 1 GB of RAM, 2 gigs of flash storage all in a 3 pound package. It also has WiFi, and USB ports, as well as HDMI out. And if reports are true, the device is being developed in some custom version of Linux.
In any case this little gizmo looks promising.
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Q: Error "Failed to initialize virtualenvwrapper." (WSL Windows 10) Intro
In my WSL (Wsman Shell commandLine, version 0.2.1) on Windows 10, I got pyenv installed and try to use pyenv-virtualenvwrapper.
Yet, I can't seem to get it up and running, not even with the same .bashr and .profile config-files as I used for my Ubuntu - PC.
In what follows, I'm going to delineate what I've tried.
Check pyenv
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ pyenv
pyenv 1.2.26
Usage: pyenv <command> [<args>]

Some useful pyenv commands are:
   --version   Display the version of pyenv
   activate    Activate virtual environment
   commands    List all available pyenv commands
   deactivate   Deactivate virtual environment
   exec        Run an executable with the selected Python version
   global      Set or show the global Python version(s)
   help        Display help for a command
   hooks       List hook scripts for a given pyenv command
   init        Configure the shell environment for pyenv
   install     Install a Python version using python-build
   local       Set or show the local application-specific Python version(s)
   prefix      Display prefix for a Python version
   rehash      Rehash pyenv shims (run this after installing executables)
   root        Display the root directory where versions and shims are kept
   shell       Set or show the shell-specific Python version
   shims       List existing pyenv shims
   uninstall   Uninstall a specific Python version
   version     Show the current Python version(s) and its origin
   version-file   Detect the file that sets the current pyenv version
   version-name   Show the current Python version
   version-origin   Explain how the current Python version is set
   versions    List all Python versions available to pyenv
   virtualenv   Create a Python virtualenv using the pyenv-virtualenv plugin
   virtualenv-delete   Uninstall a specific Python virtualenv
   virtualenv-init   Configure the shell environment for pyenv-virtualenv
   virtualenv-prefix   Display real_prefix for a Python virtualenv version
   virtualenvs   List all Python virtualenvs found in `$PYENV_ROOT/versions/*'.
   virtualenvwrapper   Setup virtualenvwrapper into current shell.
   virtualenvwrapper_lazy   Setup virtualenvwrapper_lazy into current shell.
   whence      List all Python versions that contain the given executable
   which       Display the full path to an executable

See `pyenv help <command>' for information on a specific command.
For full documentation, see: https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv#readme

Try to run pyenv virtualenvwrapper as listed above in the options
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ pyenv virtualenvwrapper

Failed to initialize virtualenvwrapper.

Perhaps pyenv-virtualenvwrapper has not been loaded into your shell properly.
Please restart current shell and try again.

username@hd1pcms0347:~$ virtualenvwrapper
virtualenvwrapper: command not found
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ which virtualenvwrapper
username@hd1pcms0347:~$

Install virtualenvwrapper via pip
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ pip install virtualenvwrapper
Collecting virtualenvwrapper
  Using cached virtualenvwrapper-4.8.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting stevedore
  Using cached stevedore-3.3.0-py3-none-any.whl (49 kB)
Collecting virtualenv
  Using cached virtualenv-20.4.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl (7.2 MB)
Collecting virtualenv-clone
  Using cached virtualenv_clone-0.5.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (6.6 kB)
Collecting pbr!=2.1.0,>=2.0.0
  Using cached pbr-5.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (111 kB)
Collecting six<2,>=1.9.0
  Using cached six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Collecting appdirs<2,>=1.4.3
  Using cached appdirs-1.4.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (9.6 kB)
Collecting distlib<1,>=0.3.1
  Using cached distlib-0.3.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (338 kB)
Collecting filelock<4,>=3.0.0
  Using cached filelock-3.0.12-py3-none-any.whl (7.6 kB)
Installing collected packages: six, pbr, filelock, distlib, appdirs, virtualenv-clone, virtualenv, stevedore, virtualenvwrapper
Successfully installed appdirs-1.4.4 distlib-0.3.2 filelock-3.0.12 pbr-5.6.0 six-1.16.0 stevedore-3.3.0 virtualenv-20.4.7 virtualenv-clone-0.5.4 virtualenvwrapper-4.8.4

Check again if it works
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ virtualenvwrapper
virtualenvwrapper: command not found
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ pyenv virtualenvwrappr
pyenv: no such command `virtualenvwrappr'
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ pyenv virtualenvwrapper

Failed to initialize virtualenvwrapper.

Perhaps pyenv-virtualenvwrapper has not been loaded into your shell properly.
Please restart current shell and try again.

username@hd1pcms0347:~$ pyenv-virtualenvwrapper

Failed to initialize virtualenvwrapper.

Perhaps pyenv-virtualenvwrapper has not been loaded into your shell properly.
Please restart current shell and try again.

username@hd1pcms0347:~$ pyenv global
3.9.4
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ pyenv local
pyenv: no local version configured for this directory

Try to install pyenv-virtualenvwrapper again from github page following along the steps mentioned
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ $ git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper.git $(pyenv root)/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper
$: command not found
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper.git $(pyenv root)/plugins/pyenv
-virtualenvwrapper
fatal: destination path '/home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper' already exists and is not an empty directory.
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ export PYENV_VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PREFER_PYVENV="true"
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ pyenv virtualenvwrapper

Failed to initialize virtualenvwrapper.

Perhaps pyenv-virtualenvwrapper has not been loaded into your shell properly.
Please restart current shell and try again.

username@hd1pcms0347:~$ virtualenvwrapper
virtualenvwrapper: command not found

Check where the executables are located
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ ls -R /home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper
/home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper:
LICENSE  README.md  bin  install.sh  shims  test

/home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper/bin:
pyenv-sh-virtualenvwrapper  pyenv-sh-virtualenvwrapper_lazy  pyenv-virtualenvwrapper  pyenv-virtualenvwrapper_lazy

/home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper/shims:
deactivate

/home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper/test:
command.bats    pyvenv.bats  stubs             tmp         version.bats       virtualenvwrapper.bats
installer.bats  setup.bats   test_helper.bash  unset.bats  virtualenvwrapper  virtualenvwrapper_lazy.bats

/home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper/test/stubs:
stub

/home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper/test/tmp:

/home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper/test/virtualenvwrapper:
virtualenvwrapper.sh  virtualenvwrapper_lazy.sh

Trying to execute the scripts of interest "virtualenvwrapper.sh"
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ ./home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper/test/virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper.sh
-bash: ./home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper/test/virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper.sh: No such file or directory
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ bash /home/username/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper/test/virtualenvwrapper/vi
rtualenvwrapper.sh
virtualenvwrapper.sh is loaded
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ virtualenvwrapper
virtualenvwrapper: command not found
username@hd1pcms0347:~$ pyenv virtualenvwrapper

Failed to initialize virtualenvwrapper.

Perhaps pyenv-virtualenvwrapper has not been loaded into your shell properly.
Please restart current shell and try again.

I don't know what else to try to make it work. Frankly, it is also astounding that on every other Ubuntu/Linux - distro different problems arise with this pyenv and virtualenvwrapper apps. Generally, when they work, they are marvelous, but setting them up is a pain in the a** more often than not.

A: I had the same error while trying to setup virtualenvwrapper on my mac (on the bash shell on BigSur 11.5.1). Finally I solved this issue: after installing pyenv and virtualenvwrapper your ~/.bashrc should look like this:
export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"

export PYENV_VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PREFER_PYVENV="true"
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs

eval "$(pyenv init -)"
pyenv virtualenvwrapper_lazy

Then source ~/.bashrc (also make sure that your .bash_profile or .profile is sourcing .bashrc).


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Bitcoin — Blockchain
Crypto Scam Via Social Media is Surging, Says FTC Report
June 6, 2022 . 10:56 AM
According to a US Federal Trade Commission report, nearly half of the consumers who reported losing 1 billion USD in cryptocurrencies to scams since 2021 said it started with an advertisement, post, or message on a social media network like Instagram or Facebook.
Source: FTC
Since the beginning of 2021, more than 46k people have reported losing more than 1 billion USD in cryptocurrency to scammers, accounting for roughly one out of every four dollars lost, says FTC in its analysis. The losses reported in 2021 were over 60 times more than those reported in 2018.
Bitcoin (70%), Tether (10%), and Ether (9%) were the main cryptocurrencies lost to scammers. According to the FTC, bitcoin accounted for nearly four out of every ten dollars lost to social media fraud since the start of 2021, significantly more than any other payment method.
Instagram (32%), Facebook (26%), WhatsApp (9%), and Telegram (7%) were the main platforms identified in these reports.
Different Strategies Used by Scammers
Most of the recorded crypto fraud losses on social media were investment schemes. Since 2021, false investment opportunities have accounted for 575 million USD of all crypto fraud losses submitted to the FTC, significantly more than any other fraud.
With 185 million USD in recorded crypto losses since 2021 – nearly one out of every three dollars reported lost – romance scams came in second.
Counterfeit business and government scams came in third, with a total of 133 million USD. Scammers target consumers, stating their capital is at risk due to fraud or a government inquiry.
People between the age group of 20 to 49 were more than three times as likely to have disclosed losing cryptocurrencies to a scammer as those in older age groups. Individuals in their 30s were the hardest hit, with cryptocurrencies accounting for 35% of their reported fraud losses since 2021.
The median individual reported loss, on the other hand, tended to rise with age, peaking at 11,708 USD for those in their 70s.
A Word of Caution by FTC
The FTC outlined several strategies to avoid falling victim to cryptocurrency fraud. According to the warning indications, only scammers will guarantee riches or large returns.
No cryptocurrency investment, much alone a large one, can ever be guaranteed to make money. Nobody who is legitimate will ask you to buy cryptocurrency to solve an issue or protect your funds. That is a ruse, noted FTC in its report.
Scammers are drawn to crypto for a variety of reasons, which may explain why reported losses in 2021 were approximately sixty times higher than in 2018.
There is no centralized entity, such as a bank, to flag questionable transactions and tries to stop fraud before it occurs. Crypto transfers are irreversible; once the money is gone, it's gone forever. And the majority of people are still unaware of how cryptography works. These factors are not unique to cryptocurrency transactions, but they all play into scammers' hands.
Also, never combine online dating with financial advice. It is a scam if a new love interest wants to teach you how to invest in cryptocurrency or asks you to transfer cryptocurrency, says FTC.


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Neeti, Shakti, Mukti Mohan in self-isolation after returning from Australia
Bollywood singer Neeti Mohan and his dancing brothers Shakti and Mukti are in self-isolation these days. The Mohan sisters, as they are popularly known, along with Neeti's husband Nihaar Pandya , had gone to Australia on March 6 to support the I20 T20 Women's Cricket Team. However, they returned home a few days after Hollywood star Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive for Down Under coronavirus.
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Mukti says, "Shakti di, Neeti di, my brother-in-law and I had gone to Australia to support the women's cricket team. We had also planned to visit some other places in Australia after the match, but when we heard that Tom Hanks was in the same city as us and he had tested positive for coronavirus, we returned home immediately. We haven't met our parents since then. All four of us are in isolation at a farmhouse owned by Nihaar's family. It has been 13 days since we have responsibly quarantined ourselves, "says Mukti from her isolation den, which is situated in the outskirts of the city.
The family had to drive from Sydney to Brisbane overnight to catch their last-minute flights. Nihaar recalls, "After Tom Hanks and another Indian in Melbourne tested positive, I called up my brother, and I asked us to either stay in Australia till the crisis subsides (which could have taken months) or take the next flight to Mumbai. So, we decided to rush back home and had to travel from Brisbane to Singapore, then Dubai and finally, Mumbai. It was scary to see the airports nearly empty, but the authorities were helpful. When we landed in Mumbai on March 13, we thought that we might be stuck for hours, but it went pretty smooth and after the temperature tests, we were allowed to leave. For the initial three-four days, we stayed in an apartment in Andheri, where Neeti's parents used to live earlier. Later, we shifted to a remote location on the outskirts of Mumbai and have been living here since. "
Neeti adds: "When the BMC authorities learned about our travel history, they began to review us every other day. Throughout this period, we make sure we don't contact anyone, not even our parents! They are anxious, but I suppose they are looking for solace in the fact that we managed to stay in touch through video calls.
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While self-quarantine can be boring, the quartet ensured that they kept themselves entertained. Since we come from a family of singers, dancers and actors, we were constantly having fun by singing, practicing splits and what not, says Shakti. "The best part is that we kept each other in good spirits. The isolation will be over today, but we had fun throughout, "concludes Mukti.
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Jon Favreau is one of the most powerful Hollywood directors in the film industry. Recently, the director shared some fantastic tips not only for aspiring actors but for also up and coming filmmakers.
While Jon Favreau began his career as an actor, he has received more acclaim in recent years for his directing including working on the 2008 hit movie Iron Man, 2014's Chef, and 2016's The Jungle Book and now he's working on the live-action movie The Lion King.
He is one of a few actors who became successful as an actor. As a result, Favreau has insight into both careers even though he told audiences during a special Tribeca Talks: Directors Series session at the Tribeca Film Festival the two roles are more closely related than people might realize.


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In 2019 telde het 11.269 inwoners.
Het kanton werd gevormd ingevolge het decreet van 17 februari 2014 met uitwerking op 22 maart 2015, met Le Chambon-sur-Lignon als hoofdplaats.

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Het kanton omvat alle gemeenten van de opgeheven kantons Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille en Fay-sur-Lignon, naast gemeenten uit de opgeheven kantons Tence en Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, namelijk :
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 Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille
 Montusclat
 Moudeyres
 Présailles
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Private vehicle not a Public Place under Section 43 of NDPS Act: Supreme Court
Chandrani Mitra Posted on 19 April 2021,
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In a judgement observed by the Supreme Court on the 16th of April, 2021, it was held that a private vehicle would not come under the ambit of the expression "public place" as has been explained in Section 43 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS Act)."
The Apex Court reaffirmed that private cars did not amount to public place in the case of Boota Singh v. State of Haryana, where since recovery of narcotics was made from the applicants from a private car which was parked in a public place, the applicants were acquitted since they could not be charged under Section 43 of the Act which provided for the search and seizure of narcotics in the public place.
On the 28th of January, 2002, a raid was conducted on a private car parked in a 'kacha path' in Rori-Jatana Road based on a secret information that "poppy straws", a substance illegal to be sold commercially other than for medical purposes was being sold on the vehicle.
From the back of the private car was recovered two bags, one containing 39 kgs of poppy straw and the other containing 36 kgs.
On explanation of the contents of the charge to the accused, they pleaded 'not guilty' and claimed trial.
The trial court released the jeep on which such poppy straw were found and awarded a judgement in favour of the accused.
Further, the three accused were convicted and awarded with rigorous imprisonment of ten years under the provisions of Section 15 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
The applicants in the instant case had appealed to the apex Court to challenge the order of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana which had reinstated the order of the Trial Court.
Adv. Praveen Kumar, the counsel for the appellants, contended that the vehicle from which the substances were recovered was a private one, and hence the provisions of Section 43 of the NDPS Act was not applicable in the first place, based on which the punishment was awarded. The applicable section for seizure in public places, Section 42 of the Act, were not complied with, and therefore, the accused applicants were "entitled to acquittal".
AAG Rakesh Mudgal, representing the State argued that the decisions taken by the Trial Court and the High Court in this regard were correct.
But both the parties agreed that the private vehicle was not a public place.
The Court observed, "The evidence in the present case clearly shows that the vehicle was not a public conveyance but was a vehicle belonging to accused Gurdeep Singh. The Registration Certificate of the vehicle, which has been placed on record also does not indicate it to be a Public Transport Vehicle. The explanation to Section 43 shows that a private vehicle would not come within the expression "public place" as explained in Section 43 of the NDPS
Act."
The Court also noted that it was an admitted position that there was total non-compliance of the requirements of Section 42 of the NDPS Act, and held that "In the circumstances, the courts below fell in error in rejecting the submissions advanced on behalf of the appellants. We, therefore, allow this appeal, set-aside the view taken by the High Court and acquit the appellants of the charge levelled against them."
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Dream with me. Create with me. All is well and all is truly unfolding and proceeding marvelously. For we see you all as the superheroes of this universe and are so excited to see what you Human children will do next!
The darkness is being cleared. Do not fear the changes ahead for they will be gripping - intense and we need our ground crew to hold the light, the peace, and the neutral point to balance these energies of high intensity that are streaming in through your atmosphere. Breathe me in and let us co-create together as one.
This one is fatigued so we will keep it short and sweet tonight. Be at peace. I am always available for you. I am your Mother God.
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"I will talk with all of you about the departure of the cabal souls and what that means for you on the ground. You will learn about the soul process that will allow the dark ones to raise themselves back to the Light and to redeem themselves after the thousands of years without my guidance or comfort.
It will give you a perspective on the deep connection we have with you. The energies you now feel are helping you toward ascension, and part of that process is the growing flow of Love and support you are all sending to your Higher Selves. For the first time, you are experiencing the possibility of an equal relationship with your Higher Selves and with the Company of Heaven.
This new partnership is possible because of the lifting of the quarantine that has been in place around Planet Earth since the fall of Atlantis. No energies from the surface of Earth have been allowed to be transmitted into the higher dimensions because of the danger presented by the cabal. This quarantine is being gradually lifted, as safety permits.
This will be the first of a series of programs to teach you more about your destiny as souls, and how you fit into the Great Plan. Please join me this day, as I send you all my Love through Kathryn and her beloved team of Lightworkers.
I am your Father/Creator, the one you call Source."


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Zuckerberg nemesis Aaron Greenspan sues Facebook again (plus the rest of Silicon Valley)
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Aaron Greenspan, the founder of Think Computer, creator of the FaceCash mobile payment system and (according to him) co-founder of Facebook, has been giving Mark Zuckerberg headaches for many years now, and the software entrepreneur is not resting easy.
According to documents filed on 6 May, Think Computer has initiated a lawsuit against a slew of Internet companies and some of Silicon Valley's most prominent investors and entrepreneurs.
More specifically, Greenspan is targeting 'money services businesses', many of which are fledgling digital payment and cash-transfer companies, and a number of professional investment firms and business angels that have financially backed said startups.
The list of defendants includes Facebook, Airbnb, Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Dwolla, Square, Coinbase, Sequoia Capital, A-Grade (the fund co-founded by actor-investor Ashton Kutcher), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DST Global and Sequoia Capital, among others.
Also included in the lawsuit are PayPal and Slide co-founder Max Levchin, Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky, Russian billionaire investor and businessman Yuri Milner, and Reddit CEO Yishan Wong.
We've been able to get a hold of the complaint, which is a whopping 146 pages long. We've embedded the whole thing below, but here's the gist (emphasis ours):
1. Plaintiff brings this action under California Business & Professions Code § 17200 primarily due to myriad violations of the California Money Transmission Act ("MTA") and the Bank Secrecy Act ("BSA") and various other statutes and stemming from unlawful, unfair, fraudulent and deceptive business activities based thereupon.
2. Broadly speaking, Defendants are Money Services Businesses ("MSBs"), also known as "money transmitters," and private investors in such MSBs. In California, MSBs are subject to federal laws and regulations governing MSB activity, as well as the California MTA and money transmission laws ("MTLs") of other states.
3. The California MTA was enacted in 2010 and made effective on January 1, 2011, as then-Article 3 commencing at then-Section 1810, Chapter 14, Division 1 of the California Financial Code. The MTA is now Division 1.2, Sections 2000-2172 of the present California Financial Code. The MTA is presently enforced, at least in theory, by the California Department of Financial Institutions ("DFI").
4. The MTA requires MSBs to obtain a money transmission license from the DFI in order to conduct any operations related to money transmissions. Plaintiff operated a successful MSB under the FaceCash trademark prior to July 1, 2011, when the MTA went into effect and began to regulate domestic money transmissions in California. Plaintiff attempted to comply with the MTA by meeting with DFI personnel as required to begin the license application process prior to the deadline, but encountered insurmountable difficulties with the DFI's unwritten and arbitrary policies that led to a federal lawsuit against the DFI pending in this Court, Case No. 5:11-cv-05496-HRL.
5. Given the increasingly public difficulty associated with proper compliance with the MTA, Defendants decided to simply break the law while growing their businesses "under the radar," knowing that the likelihood of being caught was low, and in many cases fully aware that their activities would violate both state and federal law.
Their investors either supported them in this regard, or were willfully negligent of the implications of funding unlicensed money transmitters.
More information about the Money Transmission Act can be found here, here and here. More info about the Bank Secrecy Act is available here.
If you want to learn more about the specifics of the suit in question, you should start at page 11 ('factual background'). The rest is mainly statutory texts and pieces of evidence of wrongdoing by the defendants, at least presented as such by Greenspan. Either way, it offers a fascinating read on many levels, and we're pretty sure a lot of people who work in the Bay Area will be reading the documents closely today.
We've reached out to Greenspan earlier today, but he declined to comment any further, stating that the complaint speaks for itself.
Greenspan has in the past also sued the likes of Google, the State of California, Sony Pictures, author Ben Mezrich, Random House, Robert Venchiarutti (a deputy commissioner at the Department of Financial Institutions' Money Transmitters division), and others.
In a March 2012 essay, Greenspan wrote the following:
"Does that make me litigious? Yes, it certainly does."
He has previously written about why he's 'furious with Silicon Valley'.
It's fair to say we would have gotten that particular message even if he hadn't been so outspoken about it on his website.
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package com.github.mbarberot.java.jsonapi.configuration;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class EntityConfigurationRelationshipTest {
    private ConfigurationRelationship x;
    private ConfigurationRelationship y;
    private ConfigurationRelationship z;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        x = new ConfigurationRelationship("author", "author");
        y = new ConfigurationRelationship("author", "author");
        z = new ConfigurationRelationship("author", "author");
    }

    @Test
    public void testEquals_ToSelf() throws Exception {
        //noinspection EqualsWithItself
        assertTrue(x.equals(x));
    }

    @Test
    public void testEquals_IncompatibleType() throws Exception {
        //noinspection EqualsBetweenInconvertibleTypes
        assertFalse(x.equals("foo"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testEquals_ToNull() throws Exception {
        //noinspection ObjectEqualsNull
        assertFalse(x.equals(null));
    }

    @Test
    public void testEquals_isSymmetric() throws Exception {
        assertTrue(x.equals(y));
        assertTrue(y.equals(x));
    }

    @Test
    public void testEquals_isTransitive() throws Exception {
        assertTrue(x.equals(y));
        assertTrue(y.equals(z));
        assertTrue(x.equals(z));
    }

    @Test
    public void testEquals_differentAttributes() throws Exception {
        assertFalse(x.equals(new ConfigurationRelationship("foo", "author")));
        assertFalse(x.equals(new ConfigurationRelationship("author", "foo")));
        assertFalse(x.equals(new ConfigurationRelationship("foo", "foo")));
    }

    @Test
    public void testEquals_isConsistent() throws Exception {
        assertTrue(x.equals(y));
        assertTrue(x.equals(y));
        assertTrue(x.equals(y));

        ConfigurationRelationship notX = new ConfigurationRelationship("foo", "foo");
        assertFalse(x.equals(notX));
        assertFalse(x.equals(notX));
        assertFalse(x.equals(notX));
    }

    @Test
    public void testHashCode_isConsistent() throws Exception {
        int initialHashCode = x.hashCode();
        assertEquals(initialHashCode, x.hashCode());
        assertEquals(initialHashCode, x.hashCode());
    }

    @Test
    public void testHashCode_equalsObjects() throws Exception {
        assertTrue(x.equals(y));
        assertEquals(x.hashCode(), y.hashCode());
    }

    @Test
    public void testHashCode_notEqualsObjects() throws Exception {
        assertNotEquals(x.hashCode(), new ConfigurationRelationship("foo", "author").hashCode());
        assertNotEquals(x.hashCode(), new ConfigurationRelationship("author", "foo").hashCode());
        assertNotEquals(x.hashCode(), new ConfigurationRelationship("foo", "foo").hashCode());
    }
}

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People in China often care about China's education. No matter where you are,parents often care about where their children go to school and what they can learn.But they often ingore developing some valuable qualities. Such as autonomy and good habits and so on.The other hand, they often advise their children to study some useless knowledge.If you often stay with children , you will have some thoughts and feelings about school education and family education.That day Hanhan came here and took pictures.When I saw his young face,I thought something about our country's education.


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Growing Up TV
By Danielle King November 26, 2012
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When I first began working on this piece, I got a small rush, a kind of childlike excitement. The opportunity to probe (albeit, superficially) the Mowry twins was going to be exciting. Tia and Tamera Mowry represent more than a simple celebrity fad for me, and I imagine, for countless other kids who fell into the "not quite black enough" category. Routinely castigated by cousins embarrassed by my ignorance of rap music, and puzzling to white peers who didn't understand my preference for the company of novels and the Internet, I'd spent my childhood idealizing a set of norms that their various characters all had in common. They nearly always seemed to somehow not belong, and I envied how easily it appeared for them to wear the burden.
Their most famous roles, portraying newly reunited adopted sisters Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell, had the sisters playing two sides of the same coin, a trope not unfamiliar in our cultural depictions of identical twins; while always similar enough to cement the reality of their sibling relationship, the girls, particularly when viewed as a single unit, were always just a little different from their peers. They existed somewhat outside regular teen behavior like most sitcom kids, but the pair also enjoyed a relatively gentle version of cultural misplacement as black kids who didn't exactly act like anyone's conception of black kids: too smart, too funny, too klutzy, too carefree. Whatever the reason, and intentionally or not, this pair routinely defied convention.
The "smart" twin from the inner-city was often unaware of what was cool and usually preferred to take refuge from the sometimes frightening, unkind world in books and schoolwork, which provoked little to no complaint from her single mom. The "cool(er)" twin, hailing from the suburbs, got into quirky scrapes (occasionally enlisting her sister as a scapegoat) and preferred rap music and boys to homework, much to the chagrin of her unmarried father. Each was in her own way a contradiction of type, and even when one sister had a hard time identifying with the other, there was always something in their discourse that belied an understanding the rest of the world would be reluctant to extend. despite spending their childhoods apart, the sisters of Sister, Sister got one another. That was what made their dynamic—and the extremely watchable relationships they cultivated—so entertaining and reassuring. Somewhere, even for the strangest among us, there might one day be an equal, a partner in crime who will complete us.
I loved those wacky twins, and I was eager to relive that love with the now-adult actresses' reality show. Following them through the trials of marriage, parenthood, and careers that have frankly lost a bit of their former luster, the show is actually one of the least offensive members of the august genre of celeb-reality. And even as I trudged through the first season episodes of Tia & Tamera, I continued to nurse my decades-old fondness, conceding to myself that everybody grows up, me and the twins both. Had you or I aged like the Mowrys in the hell dimension that is the Hollywood spotlight, and had we come of age in front of flashbulbs like the Olsens before them, wouldn't any of us be attached to life on screen?
After about four episodes, a few things became pretty clear, primarily that you can only make so many excuses for people to whom you owe no obligation. despite spending many of my preadolescent years concocting an elaborate fantasy in which I was the clever, quick-witted younger sister of the most famous African American twins on national television, I found that it was as I had feared. All the things I had expected to hate about the pathos that drives celebrity, all of the things my liberal arts education taught me to loathe, were right there on a show about the lives of my childhood heroes. I wasn't crushed by what I saw of the twins on this TV show so much as I was crushed that this was a TV show I had to watch, and that, once I'd begun, it was nearly impossible to turn away.
Damn Style Network.
There's plenty to hate about celeb-reality TV. There's enough in the lives of an "average celebrity" that will bore anyone who's been watching The E! Network or Bravo for the past ten years. But what you aren't ready for if you've managed to avoid it for the most part is how embarrassing it feels to watch the intimate parts of others' lives. To witness actual sisters at odds over one another's priorities while undergoing a shared experience of motherhood is to try to reconcile how strange it must be for them to find this level of intrusion ordinary or at all comforting. This is what's scary about the cult of personality in pop culture: We truly have commodified our entertainers' personal lives. And they've largely accepted it, because the privilege of a society's attention is, I imagine, a rather unparalleled high. This is, culturally speaking, who we are.
A collective fascination with the rich, the famous, and the powerful has a mildly ameliorative, humanizing effect. What we used to idealize has become converted into the sort of accessible fantasy that keeps a dorky preteen company. I came to see my former idolization of the Mowrys with a bit of selfreflective revulsion. It's not that they're revolting; on the contrary, they've grown into incredibly attractive and humorous women with much of their lives ahead of them, in or out of the public eye. But at its core, our cultural tendency to romanticize and adore characters we "know" from sitcoms is a selfsatisfying projection, a way to cast ourselves in worlds centered around us.
The way America has loved these twins, along with their somewhat more successful counter-parts, the Olsens, feels a lot like a bad romance. We loved them until they began to fade from our view, and then, once out from under the oppressive weight of our scrutiny, they grew up. But we didn't handle the way they moved on without us very well, especially given how much of their early stardom depended on our affections. There began to sprout up all these little things to remind them how important they once were to us. At their trials and mistakes, we jeer mockingly from the sidelines; and at their achievements, we scoff and think to ourselves, "They're nothing without us."
As regards most aspects of celebrity, that's ostensibly true. you're not famous if you aren't, well, famous. But there's something that a child star in particular, growing up behind the reflective glare of American television, has to face. We're all actually waiting for them to "lose their innocence," to succumb to the trappings of the life that our constant scrutiny has suggested they deserve.
Which brings us to the long-lost Mowry brother: Barack Obama.
Now there's an example that a black nerd can get behind. The Ivy League, followed by a marriage to a fabulous wife who doesn't mind that he's kind of a huge geek, followed by command of the greatest military force the world has ever known. It's like going to sleep with thick plastic glasses and waking up with superpowers. And a Nobel Peace Prize.
I remember Election day 2008, sitting up until the polls closed with my family and a few friends. I don't remember a dry eye in the house, as President-Elect Barack Obama took the podium and promised to deliver change to America. And I remember thinking, I can't believe that I believe in a politician, that my heart is truly moved by how compassionate and committed to justice and dedicated to truth this guy seems. I, along with much of the world, had the audacity to hope for a better world in his hands.
But how disappointed we get when the ideal sticks around for a while. We begin to realize that, in time, not only does the paragon's glimmer begin to fade, but right along with it disappears our capacity to even trust our expectations. I can only imagine how tricky that degree of exposure and level of expectation must be to navigate if you have the nation's nuclear arsenal at your disposal.
They all asked for it. No one told the Mowrys, or President Obama, or anyone else to get up there and dance for us. And yet, aren't we very much the reason that these young women continue to work for our affections? Isn't it our collective despair at the state of things a huge reason why a bunch of people gave a headstrong, young, inexperienced junior Senator from Illinois, the purported antithesis of corruption in a state infamous for the same, a shot at changing the culture of governance? It wasn't the president who gave us hope, we instilled it in him, all the while knowing he'd never manage to fix our problems. Just like teen celebrities do all the time, the president accepted a bad-faith job offer.
That there is a racial subtext may well be a huge part of this. For why do we have such great hopes for these folks in particular? The charming, smart, quirky light-skinned African Americans who, with such a gentle hue had a lot of folks betting on them. They could inspire the nation rather than just us. Perhaps they still do.
America constructed for itself a paradigm through which "white" and "black" could look similar enough to confuse any passerby: educated, well-spoken (or, avoiding anger and ebonics), and not natural-born athletes. And in the twins' case, we lucked into two of them.
With them, we almost don't notice that we are complicit in this horrible, stress-inducing thing that happens to people who are probably of perfectly noble character in their own right. Since these individuals gifted us with their virtue of inoffensiveness, we have come to believe that we are entitled to push them up onto the stage for our collective judgment, a process in which precious few can stand non-participation. If you can stay on the right side of public opinion, life is probably pretty sweet. But it never, by definition, lasts forever.
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It's the projection of our ideals in this way that gets us into trouble. Trying to know ourselves through the lens of our most pervasive archetypes is a failing on our part. Creating an accessible model, with which we can all be proud to identify, does some good: in these examples, we work to get past racial prejudice by supplanting nasty notions of black inferiority with, say, visions of the former editor of the Harvard Law Review or clever but dilemma-prone twin sisters. But it also has the effect of confusing celebrity with virtue, our own quality with the rise and fall of symbols.
I came out of the Sister, Sister and Tia & Tamera "research" feeling expectedly empty. I'd lost illusions I realized I'd been holding onto tighter than I thought. But the shattering of childish daydreams allowed for some clarity, along with the understanding that I've got new, far better reasons to cherish the Mowry twins, if not the system that brought them into my life.
They're not the ideal, but a reminder that the notion of perfection is self-deluding by its very nature. Also, maternity clothes shopping is apparently a nightmare.


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Indian GM Harikrishna wins Chess960 event at Biel Festival
Harikrishna remained unbeaten through the seven rounds and benefited from the loss of Radoslaw Wojtaszek in the final round to Noel Studer to claim the top spot.
P. K. Ajith Kumar
Chennai 19 July, 2020 16:52 IST
Harikrishna showed his mastery in the Chess960 format as he won the Biel event ahead of strong Grandmasters like David Anton Gujaro of Spain and Radoslwav Wojtaszek of Poland - Biel Chess International Festival
P. Harikrishna won the Chess960 event of the 53rd Biel International Chess Festival in Switzerland. It is the first major chess tournament taking place over the board since the coronavirus outbreak.
The World No. 26 from Guntur, who is now living in Prague, scored 5.5 points from seven rounds to top the field of 8 players.
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Chess960 is one of the three events of the main section of the Biel festival, the others being rapid and classical. In Chess960, a format invented by the late World champion Bobby Fischer, the game is played with the pieces randomly shuffled on the back rank of either player, because of which the advantage of opening theory is minimised.
Harikrishna showed his mastery in this challenging format as he won the Biel event ahead of strong Grandmasters like David Anton Gujaro of Spain and Radoslwav Wojtaszek of Poland. He finished with 5.5 points, half-a-point ahead of Vincent Keymer, the 15-year-old German prodigy.
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The tournament is played under strict guidelines, with the players separated on the board by a plexiglas panel and the pieces, the clock and the board being disinfected after each game. It concludes on July 29.
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