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Madison confirmed to feature at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
The men's Madison was removed from the Olympic track schedule after 2008 and has never been included in the women's programme
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The Madison has been reintroduced to the men's Olympic track programme tomorrow, and added to the women's schedule for the first time.
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are expected to approve the inclusion of the Madison for the Tokyo 2020 Games, insidethegames reports.
It was last included in 2008 when, memorably, favourites Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins failed to win gold for Great Britain.
It hasn't featured in the London 2012 or Rio 2016 Games but has remained ever-present at the Track World Championships, where Cavendish and Wiggins won gold last year.
The discipline was added to the women's programme at the Worlds this year when British duo Elinor Barker and Emily Nelson took silver.
There has long since been support at British Cycling and other national federations for the Madison to be added to the Olympic programme, a stance supported and pushed by the UCI.
The women members of the GB team practised the Madison each week throughout the winter and all raced with one another.
Now the Madison is added to the Tokyo schedule, it takes the number of track events from 10 to 12 and provides equal parity in the gender ratio of events; however, there isn't expected to be an increase in the number of riders – it is thought that the Madison rider would have to come from the endurance squad.
Iain Dyer, BC's head coach, told Cycling Weekly in April: "A Madison rider has to be a very good bunch racer, and a very good endurance and tactical rider. Riders are interlinked. We are keen for people to explore all the opportunities [of partners].
Rob Hayles and Wiggins earned a bronze medal in the discipline at Athens 2004.
The IOC met to approve new disciplines for the Tokyo Games. BMX freestyle park – an event where riders perform tricks and stunts on a skate park – has also been added.
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Coast of Death
documentary, Spain, 83 min, 2013
in Spanish/Gallego with Hungarian subtitles
Director: Lois Patiño
Costa da Morte is a region in Galicia (Spain), which was considered as the end of the world during the Roman period. Its dramatic name comes from the numerous shipwrecks that happened along history in this area made of rocks, mist and storms. We cross this land observing the people who inhabit it, fishermen, gatherers of shellfish, loggers... We witness traditional craftsmen who maintain both an intimate relationship and an antagonistic battle with the vastness of this territory. The wind, the stones, the sea, the fire, are characters in this film, and through them we approach the mystery of the landscape, understanding it as a unified ensemble with man, his history and legends.
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La Costada Morte es una región de Galicia que fue considerada el fin del mundo durante el Imperio Romano. Su dramático nombre proviene de los numerosos naufragios que han sucedido a lo largo de historia en esta zona de rocas, nieblas y temporales. Atravesamos esta tierra observando a las personas que la habitan: pescadores, mariscadores, madereros.
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Natsu vs Luffy: Who Would Win?
By Arthur S. Poe / August 2, 2021 November 12, 2021
One Piece is considered to be one of the "Big Three" (or "Big Four", if you count the slightly older Dragon Ball) anime series. On the other hand, Fairy Tail is considered to be one of the best post-"Big Three" anime. This is why we have decided to do a crossover comparison of the shows' protagonist, one Monkey D. Luffy, from One Piece, and Natsu Dragneel, from Fairy Tail. Who would win in this fight? Find out here!
Although we might agree that Natu's powers, at their full potential, are greater than Luffy's, we still think that Luffy would be able to win this one. Why? Luffy is simply more determined, more durable, and more pure-hearted than Natsu, and his enormous fighting experience would certainly help him overcome Natsu in the end.
Our comparison is going to be divided into three sections. The first is going to bring an overview of the two characters, after which we are going to compare their powers, including their signature weapons. Finally, we're going to bring you a detailed analysis of the two characters to determine which one would win in a direct clash.
Natsu and his powers
Monkey D. Luffy and his powers
Comparing the powers of Natsu and Monkey D. Luffy
Who would win, Natsu or Monkey D. Luffy?
Natsu Dragneel is the main male character of the Fairy Tail manga, created by Hiro Mashima in 2006. Nicknamed "The Salamander", he is one of the four dragon hunters of the Fairy Tail guild, and uses dragon hunter magic in the form of fire. He teams up with Happy, Lucy Heartfilia, Erza Scarlett, Gray Fullbuster, Wendy Marvell, and Carla.
About 400 years before the start of the series, Natsu, being a baby, died, but his brother Zeref kept him in an incubator in order to revive him. After he did, Zeref intended to care for and raise him, but he did not want to in the end, so he ultimately left him in the hands of the fire dragon king.
Igneel (his adoptive father to him) raised him as his own son, teaching him to speak, read, write and use his powerful style of magic, the Dragon Slayer. However, Igneel disappeared on July 7, 777, leaving Natsu alone, until Makarov found him and took him to Fairy Tail.
So far, Natsu has reunited with four other Dragon Slayers: Gajeel Redfox, Wendy Marvell, Sting Eucliffe, and Rogue Cheney (whose dragons also disappeared on the same day and year as Igneel). However, it is revealed that Gajeel, Wendy, Sting, and Rogue had met once a year with Natsu, for 400 years.
Throughout the series, Natsu also finds out that there are three different generations of Dragon Slayer. The first generation, in which they receive the teaching of a dragon, as is the case with Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy. The second is by implanting a tear as in the case of Cobra and Laxus (but they did not receive the teaching from a dragon). And the third is that they have the teaching of a dragon, but they also have the tear of the same Dragon implanted in their body, as is the case with Sting and Rouge.
Natsu joined the guild on an unknown date, but it is known to have been after Erza's arrival. When he was very little, he found an egg in the forest. He at first thought it was a dragon egg and with Lissana's help the egg hatched, giving birth to Happy, which Natsu thought was a dragon.
Natsu was the one who gave him the name Happy, because, at the time of hatching, the guild gathered around him, they stopped fighting and rejoiced. The dark magician Zeref meets Natsu, but he does not recognize him (because his memory is not stable and was erased).
The reason why Igneel disappeared was that the dragons decided not to intercede for the humans, for the welfare of their species, however, Igneel was always watching Natsu's growth from within, he used Natsu's body as a place to store his spirit.
Monkey D. Luffy, often referred to as the Straw Hat Luffy, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Japanese One Piece franchise created by Eiichirō Oda. He is presented as a boy with an elastic body, a faculty he developed after eating a Devil Fruit.
He is the founder and captain of the Straw Hat crew. His lifelong dream is to become the Pirate King by finding the legendary treasure, the One Piece, left behind by the late Pirate King, Gol D. Roger. According to him, the pirate king is the freest man in the world.
After his actions on Totto Land and against Emperor Big Mom, he is currently considered by the world press as the 5th Emperor. He is the son of the leader of the Revolutionary Army, Monkey D. Dragon, as well as the paternal grandson of Navy hero, Monkey D. Garp.
He is also the adoptive brother of the former captain of the 2nd Fleet of Whitebeard's crew, the late Portgas D. Ace, and the Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Army, Sabo.
Luffy is known worldwide in the One Piece universe as a troublemaker, such as when he challenges the Grand Corsairs, the Navy, and the Four Emperors, and when he commits actions deemed threatening by the World Government. In addition, in the majority of these fights, he emerged victorious.
He has also gained a reputation for being "reckless" and in some cases "mad", such as during the incident at Enies Lobby, during his attack on a celestial dragon on the Sabaody archipelago (also known as the incident at Enies Lobby), the Impel Down and his participation in the Battle of Marine Ford.
He is therefore infamous for being the only known pirate who not only deliberately attacked the three most important government facilities, but also managed to escape alive by taking on incredibly powerful opponents there.
The fact that he knowingly struck a celestial dragon and the scope of his inheritance earned Luffy the label of a dangerous future element by the World Government and Chief Admiral Sakazuki. After the events of Totto Land, Luffy's actions further enhanced his reputation.
Newspapers revealed his fraternal relationship with Sabo, the fleet that unofficially formed under his command, his undercover operation in Big Mom territory where he defeated two of the Sweet Generals, Charlotte Cracker and Charlotte Katakuri, his failed assassination attempt on the Empress, his involuntary destruction of the latter's castle and alliance with the Germa 66, the Sun Pirates and the Fire Tank crew, before escaping by Totto Land.
Although his actions have been slightly exaggerated by the press, these acts led the World Government to put a bounty on his head totaling 1.5 billion Berrys.
Having a bounty of 300 million Berrys before arriving on the Sabaody Archipelago, Luffy is considered to be part of the Terrible Generation.
Our second section will contain a comparison of the two characters' powers. It won't be a direct comparison as much as a listing of their powers abilities, which is going to serve as a basis for our analysis in section three of our article. Now, let us begin.
Natsu is a fire-type Dragon Slayer mage. This type of magic uses the fire created by the user himself as an offensive and support element since, if he ingests it, he becomes more powerful. Despite that, he cannot eat his own fire.
His energy seems to increase the more emotional he becomes, like when he had a fight with the dark wizard Erigor. This made him angry, and Natsu's power increased as there was more tension in the environment, reaching the point of creating a squall that raised the wind that Erigor created to defend himself.
It is also known that Natsu can eat magic other than fire (but this causes side effects for a while). When he ate the Etherion in the battle against Jellal, he entered the Dragon Force mode, a transformation characteristic of the Dragon Slayer that grants them great power, with which he could easily defeat him, similarly when he fought against Master Zero, where he ingested Jellal's Flame of Guilt and also when he ate Laxus lightning in the battle against Master Hades, entering the Lightning Flame Dragon mode.
After the 7-year time skip, special training before the Magic Games, and obtaining the Second Origin with the help of Ultear, Natsu is able to enter the Lightning Flame Dragon state of his own free will, without the need to eat lightning bolts. However, he still cannot enter Dragon Force mode voluntarily.
Natsu is rarely able to enter this state, as it is necessary to ingest a large source of magic to gain access to this state, and he has not yet trained to use it voluntarily. However, when activating Dragon Force, his speed and strength are multiplied several times.
The only times he has used it have been when he eats Etherion in the fight against Jellal, and also when he fights Zero and Jellal gives him her flames. Natsu managed to activate his Dragon Force of Fire in the Arc of Tartaros saga against his final enemy before Zeref's appearance.
Luffy has shown to have incredible superhuman strength and a good capacity for fights. At first glance, his thin appearance makes him seem weak, but that is very deceptive for the enemy's eyes. Throughout the series, Luffy has shown a strength far superior to humans, even defeating a sea king with one punch.
This is a result of the intense training that his grandfather Monkey D. Garp subjected him to, which consisted of throwing him far in the middle of dangerous jungles, tying him to some balloons to raise him to great heights, ultimately making him one of the most powerful One Piece characters in the series, alongside Zoro and Sanji.
Luffy, despite not being very smart or strategic, he has demonstrated incredible prowess when facing users of Logia-type Devil Fruits
When Luffy was a child, he unknowingly ate a Devil Fruit, which belonged to Shanks' crew. The fruit was the Gomu Gomu no mi (Gum Gum) and it gave him the elastic properties of gum, but, as a side effect of the fruit, he cannot swim, since the water cancels his energy, paralyzing his body.
In fights, Luffy takes advantage of his elastic properties to stretch one or more of his limbs and make them return by throwing them towards his opponents. This, combined with his outsized strength, makes Luffy a highly powerful character.
Luffy can reach places that no one could reach just by stretching the parts of his body (his arms or his legs or his neck). He can even inflate himself to be able to block enemy attacks (like cannonballs), and is totally immune to bullets and these usually bounce off Luffy's body and return to the shooter or fly elsewhere.
He is also totally immune to physical blows, thanks to the resistance of his rubber body, although this was contradicted on several occasions throughout the series.
If there is something that can affect him, it is sword or knife cuts, since Luffy's body is totally flexible, which makes him very vulnerable to cuts.
After the Enies Lobby battle, Luffy developed a technique to eat while sleeping. This technique allows him to eat as if he were awake. However, this "technique" itself, does not seem like a technique in reality, as Luffy seemed to be in a sleepwalking state, so that may be more of an act. sleepwalking that a technique was involved.
In addition, during the encounter with Duval, it was observed that Luffy began to develop a kind of "Spiritual Energy" (Haki), just like the one that Shanks and Sylvers Rayleigh displayed.
Haki is a kind of spiritual energy that every living being possesses, but that only some are capable of awakening this power, very similar to the common senses of people.
And now, for the most important and interesting section of our article – the analysis. Here, we are going to use what we have found out about these two characters and analyze how all these facts would (or would not) help them in a fight against each other. These two characters are quite different, but it is their differences that make them so interesting. Let us see who it is.
From what we could gather from their powers and abilities in the preceding section, Natsu seems to be way more powerful than Luffy. He is a mage that can use very powerful magic, while Luffy, although he is superpowered, can still "only" stretch his body and pack a powerful punch; okay, he can use the Haki as of recently, but he is not nearly as experienced in it like Natsu is in using magic.
In terms of sheer power, Natsu would be the undisputed winner here, as Luffy doesn't really have much to counter Natsu's attacks. He can beat him to a pulp, but before he'd get the opportunity to do so, he'd probably be roasted by Natsu's fire magic. Still, there is a catch, as Monkey D. Luffy has something Natsu doesn't – determination.
Namely, Luffy is, as all One Piece fans will know, extremely determined and strong-willed. Out of all the characters I have personally seen, Luffy is probably on top when it comes to beating impossible odds. Impossible in what way? The most literal way possible! This guy has managed to defeat opponents much stronger than himself through sheer willpower, using only his extreme determination. Luffy wants to become the best and he will stop at nothing to do so. If Natsu were his opponent, we are quite certain that Luffy would not submit here either.
This brings us to our ultimate conclusion: Monkey D. Luffy is not as powerful as Natsu, that is quite clear, but his determination, his willpower, and his experience in fighting is why we think that he would be able to defeat Natsu. Luffy doesn't give up, even if the opponent is significantly stronger. In that aspect, he is probably the most durable character ever and that is why we think that he would ultimately beat Natsu in a fight.
And that's it for today. We hope you had fun reading this and that we have given you all the information you were looking for. See you next time and don't forget to follow us!
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Gibraltar close in on Uefa place
The Rock is the signature of Gibraltar
Gibraltar has been named as a provisional member of Uefa after seven years of campaigning.
European soccer's chiefs said they had "no choice" but to allow Gibraltar provisional membership after a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
CAS ordered Uefa to comply with Gibraltar's request after the applicants appealed to the court.
Spain had opposed the application that must now be ratified by the Uefa congress in January.
A Uefa statement said: "The Uefa executive committee has duly taken note of the CAS award of 6 July and had no choice but to admit the Gibraltar FA as a provisional member.
"Furthermore, the Uefa executive committee has also taken note of the decision of the Fifa executive committee."
I'm sure the Spanish FA will press other members to vote against Gibraltar
Gibraltar FA president Joe Nunez
Spain disputes the sovereignty of the British overseas territory and the Spanish FA had submitted papers opposing Gibraltar's inclusion.
And in 2000, the Spanish Football Federation said it radically opposed Gibraltar's membership of the organisation and would refuse to take part in any competition which involved the colony.
President of the Gibraltar FA, Joseph Nunez, told BBC Sport he was delighted with the outcome but still angry with Spain's continuing opposition.
"We've campaigned 10 years for this, although I was always sure the decision would be a positive one," he said.
"Unfortunately, Spain have taken a political rather than a sporting stance over this matter. A few years back they said they would not compete in competitions that we would take part in, but that's just stupid."
"I hope we get full membership, but I'm sure the Spanish FA will press other members to vote against Gibraltar."
Meanwhile, world football's governing body, Fifa, has ruled the Gibraltar FA "does not meet the statutory requirements" for Fifa membership.
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Q: Linux (Bash) - Create a PDF with a form with editable fields from the Acrobat Reader Is it possible to create from Linux, from the command line (bash), a PDF that contains a form with fields that can then be edited with Acrobat Reader?

A: The first approach could be creating a LaTeX file with your form and generating the PDF file using a bash command.
For instance, the Creating Fillable PDFs post explains how to write a LaTeX file to produce a PDF form.
Once you have written all the LaTeX files, you could simply run:
$ pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode ${latexFile}

Where the -interaction=nonstopmode flag disables the user interaction and the ${latexFile} points to your latex source file

A: yes it is possible.
You can pick a programming language with good pdf library supported, E.g java and itext, design your pdf layout, decide which fields should be editable. Then generate the pdf.
In shell you just call the program you've developed.
If you ask for pure bash itself, No, it cannot do it for you.


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Robert Smythe Hichens o Robert Hichens (14 de noviembre de 1864 – 20 de julio de 1950) fue un periodista, novelista, letrista musical, cuentista, crítico musical y colaborador en obras de éxito inglés. Es recordado como un satírico de los "Naughty Nineties".

Biografía
Hichens nació en Speldhurst en Kent, hijo mayor de un clérigo. Fue educado en el Clifton College, el Royal College of Music y desde el principio tuvo el deseo de ser músico. Más tarde en la vida sería crítico musical en el World, ocupando el lugar de George Bernard Shaw. Estudió en el London School of Journalism. Hichens fue un gran viajero. Egipto fue uno de sus destinos favoritos - fue por primera vez allí en la década de 1890 por su salud. Durante la mayor parte de su vida posterior vivió fuera de Inglaterra, en Suiza y en la Riviera. Hichens era homosexual; nunca se casó.

La primera novela de Hichens, The Coastguard's Secret (1886), fue escrita por él cuando sólo tenía diecisiete años. Llegó a ser bien conocido entre el público lector con The Green Carnation (1894), una sátira de sus amigos Oscar Wilde y Lord Alfred Douglas; ya que la obra aclaró que Wilde era homosexual fue retirada de su publicación en 1895, pero no antes de ayudar a establecer las bases para la desgracia y la ruina pública de Wilde.

Hichens fue también amigo de otros muchos escritores, entre ellos E. F. Benson y Reginald Turner, así como de la compositora Maude Valerie White.

El primer gran éxito de Hichens fue An Imaginative Man (1895); establecido en la ciudad de El Cairo, Egipto, un lugar que fascinó a Hichens, es un estudio de la locura, en el que el héroe tiene un número de aventuras sexuales y luego rompe su cabeza contra la Gran Esfinge. Otras obras de ficción temprana incluyen The Folly of Eustace (1896), una colección de historias entre las que se incluyen algunas sobrenaturales; Flames (1897), una historia que se asemeja a El extraño caso del doctor Jekyll y el señor Hyde; The Londoners (1898), una sátira del Londres decadente; The Slave (1899), una fantasía sobre una esmeralda increíble; Tongues of Conscience (1900), una colección de cinco historias de terror que incluye "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" (esta historia es acerca de una visita sobrenatural y es considerada por algunos como la mejor obra de ficción de Hichens - se antologiza con frecuencia). "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" no fue bien recibida inicialmente; Frederic Taber Cooper denominó a la historia como "un fragmento horrible de morbosidad" y Edmund Wilson la desestimó considerándola "basura". Comentarios posteriores de la historia fueron más positivos; para J. A. Cuddon "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" era "excepcional" y la equiparó a "The Horla" de Guy de Maupassant y a "The Beckoning Fair One" de Oliver Onions. Brian Stableford describió la historia como una "auténtica obra maestra de la literatura de terror", y Jason Colavito describió "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" como "posiblemente una de las más grandes historias de su época".

El Felix de Hichens (1902) es un temprano tratamiento ficticio de la adicción hipodérmica a la morfina, mientras que The Garden of Allah (1904) se vendió bien internacionalmente y fue llevada al cine en tres ocasiones.

Hichens publicó sus memorias en 1947, Yesterday.

Obra
Novelas
 The Coast Guard's Secret (1886)
 The Green Carnation (publicado anónimamente, 1894; reeditado, 2009)
 An Imaginative Man (1895)
 Flames (1897)
 The Londoners (1898)
 The Slave (1899)
 The Prophet of Berkeley Square (1901)
 Felix (1902)
 Black Spaniel, and Other Stories (1905)
 The Garden of Allah (1904), elaboradamente presentado como una obra de teatro en la ciudad de Nueva York y filmado tres veces, en 1916, 1927 (con Alice Terry) y 1936 (una de las primeras representaciones en Technicolor de tres tiras, con Marlene Dietrich y Charles Boyer)
 Call of the Blood (1905)
 Barbary Sheep (1907)
 Bella Donna (1909), interpretada por Alla Nazimova en Broadway en 1912, filmado en 1915 y en 1923
 The Spell of Egypt (1911)
 The Dweller on the Threshold (1911)
 The Way of Ambition (1913)
 In the Wilderness (1917)
 Snake-Bite (1919)
 Mrs. Marden (1919)
 Spirit of the Time (1921)
 December Love (1922)
 The Last Time (1924)
 After The Verdict (1924)
 The First Lady Brendon (1927)
 Mortimer Brice (1932)
 The Paradine Case (1933) – Versión cinematográfica dirigida por Alfred Hitchcock en 1947
 The Power To Kill (1934)
 The Pyramid (1936)
 The Sixth of October (1936)
 Daniel Airlie (1937)
 Secret Information (1938)
 The Journey Up (1938)
 That Which Is Hidden (1939)
 The Million (1940)
 A New Way of Life (1941)
 Veils (1943)
 Harps in the Wind (1945)

Colecciones
The Folly of Eustace: And Other Stories (1896)
Bye-Ways (1897)
Tongues of Conscience (1898, 1900)
The Black Spaniel: And Other Stories (1905)
Snake-Bite: And Other Stories (1919)
The Return of the Soul and Other Stories (2001; ed. S. T. Joshi)

No ficción
Yesterday (1947)

Antologías que contienen historias de Hichens
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957)
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
Medley Macabre (1966)
Black Water (1984)
I Shudder at Your Touch (1992)
4 Classic Ghostly Tales (1993)

Historias cortas
"How Love Came to Professor Guildea" (1900)
"Demetriadi's Dream"

Referencias

Fuentes adicionales
"Robert S. Hichens". Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 153: Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists. First Series. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.
 Author and Book Info.com

Enlaces externos
Obras de o sobre Robert Hichens en Internet Archive (ediciones originales escaneadas de las obras ilustradas a color)
Obras de Robert Smythe Hichens en LibriVox (audiolibros de dominio público)
Robert S Hichens, breve bibliografía en Fantastic Fiction

Novelistas de Inglaterra del siglo XIX
Autobiógrafos de Inglaterra
Escritores de terror de Inglaterra
Escritores gais
Personas homosexuales de Reino Unido
Novelistas de Inglaterra del siglo XX
Escritores en inglés del siglo XIX
Escritores en inglés del siglo XX
Fallecidos en Zúrich


Simple functions for constructing HTML documents.
Attributes and children of the element. Named arguments become attributes, and positional arguments become children. Valid children are tags, single-character character vectors (which become text nodes), and raw HTML (see HTML). You can also pass lists that contain tags, text nodes, and HTML.
The tags environment contains convenience functions for all valid HTML5 tags. To generate tags that are not part of the HTML5 specification, you can use the tag() function.
Dedicated functions are available for the most common HTML tags that do not conflict with common R functions.
The result from these functions is a tag object, which can be converted using as.character().


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/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */

/*
 * Support routines for PKCS7 implementation, none of which are exported.
 * This file should only contain things that are needed by both the
 * encoding/creation side *and* the decoding/decryption side.  Anything
 * else should just be static routines in the appropriate file.
 *
 * Do not export this file!  If something in here is really needed outside
 * of pkcs7 code, first try to add a PKCS7 interface which will do it for
 * you.  If that has a problem, then just move out what you need, changing
 * its name as appropriate!
 */

#ifndef _P7LOCAL_H_
#define _P7LOCAL_H_

#include "secpkcs7.h"
#include "secasn1t.h"

extern const SEC_ASN1Template sec_PKCS7ContentInfoTemplate[];

/* opaque objects */
typedef struct sec_pkcs7_cipher_object sec_PKCS7CipherObject;

/************************************************************************/
SEC_BEGIN_PROTOS

/*
 * Look through a set of attributes and find one that matches the
 * specified object ID.  If "only" is true, then make sure that
 * there is not more than one attribute of the same type.  Otherwise,
 * just return the first one found. (XXX Does anybody really want
 * that first-found behavior?  It was like that when I found it...)
 */
extern SEC_PKCS7Attribute *sec_PKCS7FindAttribute (SEC_PKCS7Attribute **attrs,
						   SECOidTag oidtag,
						   PRBool only);
/*
 * Return the single attribute value, doing some sanity checking first:
 * - Multiple values are *not* expected.
 * - Empty values are *not* expected.
 */
extern SECItem *sec_PKCS7AttributeValue (SEC_PKCS7Attribute *attr);

/*
 * Encode a set of attributes (found in "src").
 */
extern SECItem *sec_PKCS7EncodeAttributes (PLArenaPool *poolp,
					   SECItem *dest, void *src);

/*
 * Make sure that the order of the attributes guarantees valid DER
 * (which must be in lexigraphically ascending order for a SET OF);
 * if reordering is necessary it will be done in place (in attrs).
 */
extern SECStatus sec_PKCS7ReorderAttributes (SEC_PKCS7Attribute **attrs);

/*
 * Create a context for decrypting, based on the given key and algorithm.
 */
extern sec_PKCS7CipherObject *
sec_PKCS7CreateDecryptObject (PK11SymKey *key, SECAlgorithmID *algid);

/*
 * Create a context for encrypting, based on the given key and algorithm,
 * and fill in the algorithm id.
 */
extern sec_PKCS7CipherObject *
sec_PKCS7CreateEncryptObject (PLArenaPool *poolp, PK11SymKey *key,
			      SECOidTag algtag, SECAlgorithmID *algid);

/*
 * Destroy the given decryption or encryption object.
 */
extern void sec_PKCS7DestroyDecryptObject (sec_PKCS7CipherObject *obj);
extern void sec_PKCS7DestroyEncryptObject (sec_PKCS7CipherObject *obj);

/*
 * What will be the output length of the next call to encrypt/decrypt?
 * Result can be used to perform memory allocations.  Note that the amount
 * is exactly accurate only when not doing a block cipher or when final
 * is false, otherwise it is an upper bound on the amount because until
 * we see the data we do not know how many padding bytes there are
 * (always between 1 and the cipher block size).
 *
 * Note that this can return zero, which does not mean that the cipher
 * operation can be skipped!  (It simply means that there are not enough
 * bytes to make up an entire block; the bytes will be reserved until
 * there are enough to encrypt/decrypt at least one block.)  However,
 * if zero is returned it *does* mean that no output buffer need be
 * passed in to the subsequent cipher operation, as no output bytes
 * will be stored.
 */
extern unsigned int sec_PKCS7DecryptLength (sec_PKCS7CipherObject *obj,
					    unsigned int input_len,
					    PRBool final);
extern unsigned int sec_PKCS7EncryptLength (sec_PKCS7CipherObject *obj,
					    unsigned int input_len,
					    PRBool final);

/*
 * Decrypt a given length of input buffer (starting at "input" and
 * containing "input_len" bytes), placing the decrypted bytes in
 * "output" and storing the output length in "*output_len_p".
 * "obj" is the return value from sec_PKCS7CreateDecryptObject.
 * When "final" is true, this is the last of the data to be decrypted.
 */
extern SECStatus sec_PKCS7Decrypt (sec_PKCS7CipherObject *obj,
				   unsigned char *output,
				   unsigned int *output_len_p,
				   unsigned int max_output_len,
				   const unsigned char *input,
				   unsigned int input_len,
				   PRBool final);

/*
 * Encrypt a given length of input buffer (starting at "input" and
 * containing "input_len" bytes), placing the encrypted bytes in
 * "output" and storing the output length in "*output_len_p".
 * "obj" is the return value from sec_PKCS7CreateEncryptObject.
 * When "final" is true, this is the last of the data to be encrypted.
 */
extern SECStatus sec_PKCS7Encrypt (sec_PKCS7CipherObject *obj,
				   unsigned char *output,
				   unsigned int *output_len_p,
				   unsigned int max_output_len,
				   const unsigned char *input,
				   unsigned int input_len,
				   PRBool final);

/************************************************************************/
SEC_END_PROTOS

#endif /* _P7LOCAL_H_ */

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Bracon platygaster es una especie de insecto del género Bracon de la familia Braconidae del orden Hymenoptera.

Historia
Fue descrita científicamente por primera vez en el año 1846 por Brullé.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

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Let's be real: Traveling is quite expensive. However, it can get surprisingly cheap when you land the best airfare deals. But to get these deals, you need to know where to look. To help you through this overwhelming process, we've compiled the latest airfare offers and discounts to help you save money for your next trip.
Who Has the Best Airfare Deals?
To lure more travelers, airlines may discount their flights or offer a limited number of discounted seats. For example, Emirates regularly offers two-for-one sales where you get to pay a marked-down airfare if you're a couple. Cathay Pacific, on the other hand, occasionally offers discounted economy class round-trip flights from select U.S. cities to select Asian destinations.
Delta Airlines offers SkyMiles deals throughout the year, where you get Delta One awards tickets on select round-trip flights that are 98,000 miles and longer. Another option is JetBlue, which has excellent airfare coupons and promos, such as the 70% off special vacation rates on select nonstop flights. You can also sign up for its rewards program, known as the TrueBlue, where you can earn points by purchasing JetBlue products and services, and then redeem them for flights. Most airline-sponsored flight deals usually have restricted travel dates, tight cut-off times for purchasing and a limited number of available seats. So frequently check out the websites of your favorite carriers to see what offers are available.
Whether you're looking for daily airfare promo codes or once-in-a-lifetime offers, be sure to check out flight deal-hunting sites like Lastminute, Airfare Spot, Thrifty Traveler and Flight Deal. For daily airfare alerts on your favorite routes, sign up with travel fare aggregator websites like Airfarewatchdog and Skyscanner. With these sites, you'll be able to easily monitor the airfare of a particular route and then head out when the prices plummet and you find the best travel deal.
You can also score good flight deals when you shop through online travel websites like Priceline and Expedia. You can save even more when you go for the tour package deals on these sites. The tour packages are usually inclusive of flights, accommodations, car rental and more—all at a discounted, bundled price, so you won't have to worry about spending too much on your vacation.


GreenMantra Technologies, a rapidly growing producer of high-value waxes from recycled plastics, is introducing to the roofing industry its line of Ceranovus wax modifiers designed to improve asphalt roofing manufacturing and performance.
Reduce oxidation times and emissions in air blowing and oxidation applications.
Ceranovus waxes are valuable additives in both SBS (styrene-butadiene-styrene) and APP (atactic polypropylene) modified bitumen roofing systems. The waxes help to reduce the mixing time necessary to completely blend the polymer, improve heat stability, and greatly improve resistance to deformation in roll or shingle.
Ceranovus waxes are synthesized from 100 percent recycled materials, providing the added benefit of a sustainable, environmentally suitable raw material to enhance the environmental profile of finished roofing products.
Ceranovus wax is available in pastilles or granules, with packaging available in 45-pound bags, or gaylords and supersacks.


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Vote Paul Holmes – but organise the rank and file!
Posted by Jeremy Dewar | Nov 23, 2020 | Trade Unions
Jeremy Dewar looks at the manifestos of the Unison General Secretary candidates
Unison is the sleeping giant of the trade union movement.
Despite having 1.3 million members, including the bulk of key workers in various low-paid and/or insecure roles from cleaners and nurses to teaching assistants and bin workers, the union barely makes a sound, unless it's a local initiative, like the Tower Hamlets strikers.
Retiring General Secretary Dave Prentis and his leadership team have ruled Unison for 20 years, sometimes with an iron fist, but never used the union's collective strength against the class enemy. Their record is shameful.
Members now have the chance to elect a new General Secretary who will set the union's direction in the coming years. Ahead of the ballot deadline on 27 November, we look at the state of the union and the policies of the four candidates.
Unison's membership has been on the sharp receiving end of austerity programmes imposed by Tory and (to a lesser extent) Labour governments. Real pay has fallen by between a fifth and a quarter in a decade. Hundreds of thousands of jobs in the NHS and local government have been lost.
Our pensions have been reduced and contributions increased. Privatisation, PFI deals, and the academisation of schools have forced down wages, service levels and working conditions, while ripping up any shred of accountability. Now covid has exposed the fragile condition of our most cherished institutions, like the NHS.
One of the few times that Unison has stepped up to the plate was the aborted pensions strike of November 2012. After promising a fight "bigger than the miners", the strike was called off abruptly after one day and without consultation. A litany of other misdeeds can be added to the case for change, including witch-hunts of good militants, corruption in the last General Secretary election and the eagerness to join in the demonisation of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party.
Three of the candidates do promise "change". The fourth, Christine McAnea, proudly stands on her record of 25 years as a Unison officer. So when McAnea says, "when you retire, I will still be there for you, campaigning for fair benefits," remember that pensioners only need benefits because McAnea was part of the leadership team that sold out your public sector benefit.
Like McAnea, Roger McKenzie is also an Assistant General Secretary and has been for 10 years. Yet he is the bureaucracy's outsider – and an active anti-racist campaigner. He has the support of a host of left Labour MPs including Jeremy Corbyn – though not Unison member John McDonnell – and many Labour Party and Black members. But McKenzie does not acknowledge the mistakes of the past decade let alone propose any solutions going forward: just an "increasing [amount of] expert advice".
There is also another Black candidate, Hugo Pierre, who like Paul Holmes is a rank and file candidate, i.e. a member who actually has a job among those he is campaigning to represent. It is between these two that members who want real change have to choose.
Both have excellent track records of leading strikes and campaigns, perhaps Paul's being more impressive, building one of the biggest branches in the country in Kirklees, Yorkshire. Paul has consistently got up the noses of management and Unison bureaucrats (he is currently suspended by both).
Having said that, Pierre has the better policies, calling for a "renationalised NHS under workers control and management" and "re-nationalisation of energy companies…with compensation only on the basis of proven need".
The trouble is, these are stock demands of the Socialist Party, of which Pierre is a member, and who unfortunately never put such words into practice when they win positions high up in the unions, e.g. in the PCS. This is particularly problematic when we remember that Hugo stood in the Unison United Left hustings and, when he lost, chose to stand anyway, knowing this would decisively damage the chances of a left victory. With so much potentially at stake for a million members, unity should weigh heavily on the scales unless there are differences of principle – which there are not.
"United" Left candidate Paul Holmes' manifesto, like his entire campaign, is very short on detail; reliance on personality and charisma is never a good sign. Nevertheless, many of the same policies are there: "nationally coordinated action" for a "substantial pay rise for health, care and school workers"; "£15 per hour minimum wage"; an "anti-austerity programme and campaign for decent jobs, training and affordable housing"; ending casual contracts; and a fight against "racism, homophobia, disability discrimination and sexism".
Paul also pledges to divert money away from bureaucratic perks and towards branches and activists, including doubling branch budgets, organising among contracted out cleaners, call centre staff and caterers and aiming for "a Unison steward in every workplace". In this vital area he is more concrete than Hugo.
Rank & file
But none of the candidates put forward a real rank and file perspective. This would have to include not only taking a worker's wage instead of the £130,000 Prentis took every year, which both Paul and Hugo support, but also ensuring all Unison officials are subject to election and immediate recall, the right of members to control their own disputes, including strike action, preparedness to break the undemocratic anti-union laws where necessary and to use Unison's strength to fight for socialist policies and leadership of the Labour Party.
Holmes says every union decision should be democratic but for him this simply means the "reporting back of the decision should be quick and transparent". What could be quicker or more transparent than members making those decisions themselves in mass meetings and under a leadership, i.e. strike committee, that they themselves elect and direct?
Such a transformation, which is imperative in the face of the Tories' new pay freeze and looming spending cuts to pay for the coronavirus stimulus programme, cannot be achieved by a General Secretary election. It has to be the work of the rank and file themselves, organised into a movement to radically transform the union.
We should demand, win or lose, that Holmes and United Left convene a national meeting of all Unison activists and left branches to discuss starting such a campaign. If they do so, thousands of Unison members, facing unemployment, downgrading, worse contracts, shorter hours and ever greater workloads, could be mobilised to fight the Tories and the bosses and make them pay for the impending crisis.
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On January 19, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) rolled out what it is calling its "Fleet of the Future" in a ceremony that drew political leaders, everyday riders and stakeholders who have wanted for years for the system to roll out a more efficient rail cars that will ultimately replace cars that have been in use since the system launched service in the September 1972.
The sleek, energy-efficient rail cars drew rave reviews – they are quieter, cooler, more comfortable, and featuring a colorcoded digital mapping system that informs riders of next stops. The most notable difference is the trainsets feature three doors on each side of the cars, allowing for more seamless one-and-off boarding and allowing the system to increase capacity.
The Authority's $140 million investment in BART's state-of-the art fleet is part of its Statewide Rail Modernization program that is designed to invest billions of dollars in infrastructure and rail improvement investments throughout the state. The funds will strengthen and improve existing rail networks, while also connecting them with the high-speed rail system. Ultimately, BART is working to extend their service to San Jose's Diridon Station, allowing for a seamless connection to the high-speed rail system that will run from San Francisco to the Los Angeles.


The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa ('JSE') is a licensed exchange which provides electronic trading, clearing and settlement in equities, financial and agricultural derivatives as well as financial information and surveillance. According to its website, the JSE is 'Africa's premier exchange' (c2008).
JSE is a signatory to the Financial Sector Charter on Black Economic Empowerment.


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Top 5 Christmas Games Set On or Around Christmas
Playing with Holiday Power
Jordan Biordi | Dec 24, 2021
It's Christmas Eve, and even though the stockings have been hung, and the halls have been decked, I find myself thinking about the strange absence of Christmas themed media as it pertains to video games. It seemed like, for a while, when the holidays rolled around, there was always a blockbuster movie to go along with it—lord knows the Hallmark Channel has that all wrapped up now anyway—but there were never any video games that deal with Christmas, or ones that put you in the role of jolly 'ol Saint Nick.
So, to celebrate Christmas, I've compiled a list of the five best Christmas games that are set on or around Christmas!
Kicking off the list, we've got the "Die Hard is a Christmas movie, insofar that it's set at Christmas," entry. Bayonetta 2 begins with some pretty open, and hilarious holiday flair, as everyone's favourite witch goes Christmas shopping with her foul-mouthed stereotypical Italian cohort Enzo. Rodin even shows up in full Santa garb once some begrudged angels show up to start wreaking havoc on the city.
While the rest of the "christmas" game itself doesn't really indulge in Christmas iconography or spirit, some may argue that Bayonetta's main goal of rescuing her best friend from the clutches of Hell is very much in the Christmas spirit—friendship, goodwill and all that; but that would be a stretch. However, the reality is, much like everyone's favourite edgelord Christmas movie pick, a bloody, violent piece of action media is technically a Christmas product, so long as it's set around that day. Hallelujah, Holy shit.
Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage
If you don't remember Viscera Cleanup Detail, it was a unique little indie game that came out back in 2015. The premise was simple: so many games are focused on the beefy action hero, blasting his way through alien space stations and underground facilities, but nobody ever considers the mess that gets left behind, and the unappreciated workers who have to deal with it. Players take on the role of a space janitor, coming in after a bloody shootout, and making sure the scene is clean and ready for work tomorrow.
The Santa's Rampage DLC was a great little bit of dark Christmas game comedy, much in the way of Gremlins, or even Krampus, where players find themselves in Santa's workshop on—as Weird Al famously put it—the night Santa went crazy. The Christmas workload and demands of children finally got to the big guy, and he tore up his workshop and murdered every elf in the vicinity. I really like this DLC because, not only is it a hilariously grim take on the season, but it highlights the effects of mass consumerism, and what the stress of Christmas can do to a person.
But this is perfectly balanced by Viscera Cleanup Details' chill, zen-like gameplay of slow, methodical cleaning. Furthermore, it touches on that one element of Christmas that no one really thinks about—once all the presents have been furiously torn open, and the turkey is consumed, someone's gotta clean up the mess—and it's usually your poor mother!
Kingdom Hearts 2 (Halloween/Christmas Town)
Kingdom Hearts is a fantastic mess of a series, and one that, upon revisiting, I've realized was never as good as our teenage minds convinced us it was. But by that very same notion, it was probably the timing of the game that made the inclusion of a world, based on The Nightmare Before Christmas, resonate with such effect—as my faux-edgelord teenage brain thought Jack was so deep.
The Nightmare Before Christmas has had two bizarre video games, neither of which were particularly bad, but they didn't really stand out either—what can you expect when adopting a property like that for a game. Oddly enough, both were released around the same time, in October 2005, which is infuriating to me since it is not a Halloween movie, and were both totally different genres.
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge was a God of War-style Beat 'em Up with rhythm game singing segments (not actually featuring any new music); and The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King was a Metroid-style exploration action game.
But what you'll notice about both of these entries is that neither of them has anything to do with Christmas. That's why Kingdom Hearts 2 is a standout example for me of a Christmas game set on and around Christmas, as it's inclusion of The Nightmare Before Christmas actually follows the movie to some degree—unlike the first Kingdom Hearts.
In Kingdom Hearts 2, not only does this version feature a fairly unique interpretation of the movie's Christmas Town, but it sees not only Jack, but Sora, Donald and Goofy in festive attire. It even features an appearance by the Big Guy himself—and there's something heartwarmingly hilarious about seeing our Keyblade-wielding anime hero get genuinely excited about seeing Santa Claus. Interestingly enough, Santa tells Sora that he is actually on the Naughty List for something he did in grade school, reminding players that at some point, Sora did have a life beyond Hearts and Darkness.
Christmas NiGHTS Into Dreams
NiGHTS Into Dreams is a very bizarre game that I got very obsessed with as a kid, despite never owning a Sega Saturn—although this could be attributed to my love of the Sonic the Hedgehog comics, which for a short while, ran a series based on NiGHTS. It featured both a genuinely unique look—fresh from the kooky mind of Yuji Naka—and a gameplay style that was part time-attack, and part action. The titular NiGHTS was a colourful, carefree jester who flew around in people's dreams and defended them from evil forces known as the Nightmarens.
Naturally, when it was released in 1995, it had nothing to do with Christmas, but later that year, Sega released Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams—which was part of a promotional sampler disc for the Sega Saturn that was put out around the holiday season. In terms of gameplay, it was essentially identical to the standard NiGHTS into Dreams, albeit paired down to one level, and completely reskinned with excessive Christmas flair.
The titular NiGHTS' outfit is recoloured red, and altered slightly to resemble that of Santa's coat; the plot is centred around finding the star off the top of a Christmas tree; and features some neat little presents players could unlock, and even featured a clock feature that would change the game based on certain days of the year.
I actually remember playing this briefly at a Blockbuster (ask your parents), and while it may only be tangentially related to Christmas, for a holiday so lacking in good Christmas video games, Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams genuinely manages to capture the Christmas spirit—being both a neat little holiday offering, that may have resulted in a Christmas day Sega Saturn, but also a pretty solid game in its own right.
Animal Crossing (Toy Day)
When it comes to games that really capture the Christmas spirit, I can think of no better example than Animal Crossing. Christmas—or "Toy Day" as it's called in-game to be as inclusive as possible—has taken many forms throughout the several entries in the series. In the beginning, it was as simple as Animal Crossing itself; just talk to Tortimer or Jingle the Happy Reindeer to receive gifts.
Due to the limitations of the Nintendo DS, Toy Day—as well as many other holidays—were omitted from Animal Crossing: Wide World, but as that was the first in the series to include multiplayer, players could create their own version, meeting with friends and exchanging gifts online.
In Animal Crossing: City Folk, Toy Day was a bit more…commercialized; as players would receive gifts from Jingle, and could trick him by changing outfits and accessories for more gifts. However, Animal Crossing: New Leaf really nailed Toy Day and made it feel like a month-long event that players needed to really invest in.
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, throughout the month of December, villagers will drop small hints in conversation about what kind of gift they'd want for Christmas. Players will have the entire month to purchase a Santa outfit from the Able Sisters, and on the night of the 24th, Jingle will appear and inform players that he needs help delivering the gifts.
I can remember my first Toy Day, and how genuinely bummed out I was that none of my villagers got the gifts they wanted—something I'm sure many players and even individuals can relate to. The next year, I spent the whole month jotting down details in a little notepad, so when the big day came I could make sure everyone was happy.
It felt like I had done a genuinely good deed; I took the time to listen, and pay attention and deliver the thing the villagers wanted most, trivial though it may seem. It felt like I really was playing as Santa—making my list and checking it twice and making everyone happy on the day. And the special reward of Jingle's photo for getting everything right was the cherry on top.
There's a very special, nostalgic feeling I get from Toy Day. It's the sense of calm and quiet that came from walking through my snowy town at night—thanks to the game's real-world clock mechanic—coupled with the festive. The wholly unique Toy Day theme added an extra layer of peaceful charm to the holiday affair. That is the reason that, even to this day, I make sure to boot up Animal Crossing on Christmas Eve, just to experience Christmas in the way only it can offer.
File Under: Animal Crossing, Bayonetta, Christmas, Holiday, Kingdom Hearts
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Roux er en blanding af hvedemel og fedtstof, der opvarmes og bruges til jævning. Den jævner en sauce, nuancerer smagen og farver evt. retten. En roux er begyndelsen til en opbagt sauce.

En klassisk roux foreskriver lige dele fedstof og mel (i vægt). Smør eller klaret smør er klassisk. Svine-, okse- eller andefedt egner sig også. Vegetabilske olier er bedre, da de ikke indeholder protein og derfor ikke udfælder forkullet protein ved høj varme. Ved at bruge klaret smør undgås det. I klaret smør er indholdet af vand og protein fjernet ved smeltning, kogning, bruning og filtrering eller afskumning af det udfældede protein.

Forskellen mellem en lys og mørk roux er opvarmningen af melet og fedstoffet.

En mørk roux laves ved høj varme og anvendes fx i den klassiske "sauce espagnole", mens en lys roux er grundlaget for en bechamelsauce. Roux anvendes også som jævning i supper og stuvninger. En roux jævner tre af de klassiske franske saucer: sauce béchamel, sauce velouté og sauce espagnole.

Sovse
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On adolescence, pen pals, and the Manson girls.
Emma Cline The Paris Review Mar 2014 10min Permalink
The Moon In Its Flight
A 1950s summer romance, imagined by an agonized, metafictional narrator.
"At some point during the evening he walked Rebecca home. She lived on Lake Shore Drive, a wide road that skirted the beach and ran parallel to the small river that flowed into Lake Minnehaha. Lake Ramapo? Lake Tomahawk. Lake O-shi-wa-noh? Lake Sunburst. Leaning against her father's powder-blue Buick convertible, lost, in the indigo night, the creamy stars, sound of crickets, they kissed. They fell in love."
Gilbert Sorrentino Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Apr 1971 15min Permalink
Wolf in White Van [Excerpt]
A disfigured man's encounter with maladjusted teens.
"Coming back around the side of the store to the parking lot, I saw some teenagers hanging out in the bed of a white Toyota pickup. They must have pulled up while I was inside. They were smoking cigarettes in the deliberate self-conscious way of smoking teenagers: two of them, long-hairs. They were also openly watching me as I carried my bag toward the car. People like me prefer teenagers to other people. They are not afraid to stare."
John Darnielle Vice Sep 2014 15min Permalink
Girlhood in the 1970s. An excerpt from Steinke's forthcoming novel, Sister Golden Hair.
"I crossed my arms in front of my chest and angled my head. From practising, I knew the pose I wanted to present when I stepped on the bus. My chin had to have a delicate look and my lips had to be relaxed and slightly parted. I wanted to look mysterious like a Victorian heroine, with pale cheeks and sunken, glittering eyes. In Philadelphia I'd blown the first day of sixth grade by acting friendly and wearing a shirt I'd tried to sew myself out of calico fabric. I swore I would never let that happen again. I had a new persona I'd been planning to introduce the first day of school: a girl wise beyond her years who was not at all nerdy or spastic or prone to crying jags."
Darcy Steinke Granta Aug 2014 40min Permalink
The Dungeon Master
Teens struggle to find their bearings in both their fantasy lives and their real ones.
"He sits behind his screen, which he's ordered us never to touch. We never do, not even when he's at detention. He shuffles some papers—his maps and grids. Dice click in his stubby hand. Behind him, on the wall, hang Dr. Varelli's diplomas. The diplomas say that he's a child psychiatrist, but he never brings patients here, and I'm not sure he ever leaves the house."
Sam Lipsyte The New Yorker Oct 2010 20min Permalink
Young people consider changes to their personalities, and to their relationships.
"When I moved from Kansai to Tokyo to start college, I spent the whole bullet-train ride mentally reviewing my eighteen years and realized that almost everything that had happened to me was pretty embarrassing. I'm not exaggerating. I didn't want to remember any of it—it was so pathetic. The more I thought about my life up to then, the more I hated myself. It wasn't that I didn't have a few good memories—I did. A handful of happy experiences. But, if you added them up, the shameful, painful memories far outnumbered the others. When I thought of how I'd been living, how I'd been approaching life, it was all so trite, so miserably pointless. Unimaginative middle-class rubbish, and I wanted to gather it all up and stuff it away in some drawer. Or else light it on fire and watch it go up in smoke (though what kind of smoke it would emit I had no idea). Anyway, I wanted to get rid of it all and start a new life in Tokyo as a brand-new person. Jettisoning Kansai dialect was a practical (as well as symbolic) method of accomplishing this. Because, in the final analysis, the language we speak constitutes who we are as people. At least that's the way it seemed to me at eighteen."
Haruki Murakami The New Yorker Jun 2014 35min Permalink
An Arizona family unwittingly approaches the cusp of tragedy.
"He looks up at me quick and decides to be pleased. Usually he won't look at a person direct. He says eye contact is counterproductive to comprehension and communication. He's got any number of ways to justify himself, that's for sure."
Joy Williams Granta Nov 2011 15min Permalink
Non Stop Beautiful Ladies
An adolescent girl weeps and sweats blood. Part of the ongoing Tabloid Fiction series.
"Momma told me when I came out of her I was covered in blood and I just kept being that way. She said she used to find me in the crib, crying and slicked with red. She said my daddy couldn't take it and left. She didn't blame me, though. She said the holy spirit was faint in him."
Karolina Waclawiak Hazlitt Feb 2014 Permalink
What Happened In There
Young love in an rural American town is beset by ominous setbacks.
"The only person he could make out was Reverend Kelly, a traveling preacher from England. He sat by a lamp, which illuminated his sharp cheekbones and pointy nose, his sagging mouth formed into a smirk. And those beady eyes. Willie didn't like the way he'd seen those eyes following Lena around earlier in the night."
Mikaela Shea Copperfield Review Apr 2014 10min Permalink
An island house; a series of apparations, dreams, and mysteries.
"Sara put trances on Leigh in the middle of the night, while Leigh was sleeping. Leigh knew but didn't tell Mum or say anything about it to Sara. All three had terrible secrets they kept safe. They kept them safe for so long and so devotedly that they were no longer secrets—they were alternate ways of navigating the world."
Lucy Biederman The Collagist Sep 2013 10min Permalink
The Goldfinch [Excerpt 2]
An act of terror at an art museum.
"When – with difficulty – I made my way into the centre of the space, or what seemed like the centre of the space, I saw that one door was obscured by rags of hanging debris, and I turned and began to work in the other direction. There, the lintel had fallen, dumping a pile of brick almost as tall as I was and leaving a smoky space at the top big enough to drive a car through. Laboriously I began to climb and scramble for it – over and around the chunks of concrete – but I had not got very far when I realised that I was going to have to go the other way. Faint traces of fire licked down the far walls of what had been the exhibition shop, spitting and sparkling in the dim, some of it well below the level where the floor should have been."
Donna Tartt The Telegraph Oct 2013 30min Permalink
A mother and son wander around an art museum; an excerpt from Tartt's latest novel, available tomorrow.
"For me – a city kid, always confined by apartment walls – the museum was interesting mainly because of its immense size, a palace where the rooms went on forever and grew more and more deserted the farther in you went. Some of the neglected bedchambers and roped-off drawing rooms in the depths of European Decorating felt bound-up in deep enchantment, as if no one had set foot in them for hundreds of years. Ever since I'd started riding the train by myself I'd loved to go there alone and roam around until I got lost, wandering deeper and deeper in the maze of galleries until sometimes I found myself in forgotten halls of armour and porcelain that I'd never seen before (and, occasionally, was unable to find again)."
Twenty-Six Men and a Girl
Men working in penal servitude develop a fascination with a sixteen-year-old seamstress.
"Life was stuffy and tight in a stone box under a low heavy ceiling, coated in soot and cobweb. It was hard and sickening in thick walls, spotted in dirt and mold. We rose at 5:00 AM, unrested, and — dull, indifferent — by 6:00 we were making kringles from dough our comrades made while we slept. And all day at a table from morning to ten at night, shaping elastic dough and rocking to and fro so as to not go numb, while others kneaded flour with water. All day sadly purred boiling water in the pot where kringles cooked; on the stove the baker's shovel hit fast and angrily, flinging slippery boiled dough on hot brick. Morning to night wood burned in the oven and flared, reflecting red flame on the workshop wall, as if silently laughing at us."
Maxim Gorky Befrois Jan 1899 20min Permalink
Thigh River
Boys and girls showcase themselves on opposite sides of an anatomical river.
"It only takes a split second for all of my cells to light up with horror-shock, a split second before I start gagging. The river is full of thighs, pushing along like fish, huge as bass, moving downstream. The thighs bump up against each other, create awkward waves, a strange flood of lone limbs in water, it is a tide of skins."
Sarah Rose Etter Everyday Genius Jan 2012 Permalink
A Teen Tale
A comical imagining of a teenager's story about teenager drama.
"Arnold, a shy sophomore, was a real loser. Everyone hated him, even his guidance counselor; meanwhile, he was crazy for Julie, a senior cheerleader whose father drank and whose mother was having an affair with a dairy farmer. But since Julie was the most popular senior in the school, no one knew about her crummy home life except her best friend Suzie, who everyone in school hated because she was the most popular girl's best friend and therefore thought she was all that."
Lou Gaglia Untoward Magazine Jan 2012 Permalink
Alligator Language
Family faults, loss, and discontent arise when a widower watches his grandson during a summer in Florida.
"In the calm that follows his tears, Fowler sees clearly how Mary, in dying, not only took herself away from him, but also widened the gap between he and his daughter and his grandson. Fowler would have to take on his wife's best qualities — her patience, her unconditional love for people despite their flaws — in order to stop that gap from widening. This realization terrifies him — he doesn't have that kind of strength — and as his heart beats fast with that fear, he notices the boy's socks on the floor near the bed. He picks one of them up and uses it to wipe at his eyes. He blows his nose into the sock, breathes in the fabric's sour scent."
Jason Nemec TINGE Magazine Jan 2011 30min Permalink
The Dream Of Doctor Bantam [Excerpt]
A young adolescent goes to IHOP with her nihilistic older sister in the middle of the night.
"She got into the car next to her sister. Tabitha lit a cigarette, a tulip of fire surrounded by the black petals of her painted nails. Against the light her eyes were red at the edges. She turned the key."
Jeanne Thornton Vol. 1 Brooklyn Jan 2012 15min Permalink
Escalating competitions between two boys take an unexpected turn.
"Most of my losses, though, were at the hands of the son, Jimmy Knockwood Jr. Two years older than me, Jimmy wore a hint of Iroquois aristocracy in his cheekbones, and some part of his body was usually sheathed in a dirty plaster cast. He beat me at every sport we had equipment for. At 13, he had arms like a man and could throw a baseball with such force that after playing catch with him you couldn't turn a doorknob. Once, when we were wrestling, he put me in a choke hold that made my vision go white. I cursed Jimmy's mother, and he rubbed a toad into my teeth. Seeing me in tears afterward, my father asked why I put myself through the disgrace of playing with Jimmy. He had forgotten the infatuation a boy has no choice but to feel for a peer who is good at everything."
Wells Tower ESPN Jan 2011 Permalink
Adolescent desires and yearnings permeate the memories of an all-boys academy.
"At school, we were allowed to wear costumes but were not allowed to bring treats. So we'd made the most of it -- we wore our costumes, we overcrowded the hallways with streams of sleepy ghosts. And often, through the punctured eyeholes of our masks, we tried to imagine how things might be if only we had girls. We envisioned an influx of princesses, maybe a witch or two or three positioned by the lockers. But we were an academy, an all-boys academy, and the possibility of both girls and treats were, in Principal Foster's eyes, completely out of the question."
B.J. Hollars Hobart Jan 2007 Permalink
Fiction Travel
You Leave Them
A troubled mother and daughter spend their first day in Los Angeles.
"I wonder what we looked like then, that day we drove over into California. My mother could probably still tell you what we wore. We were driving to California from Bay City, Wisconsin, just the two of us, so I could be a television star. We'd taken Ted's Mobile Credit Card and stayed in motels, charging gasoline and Cokes on the bills. We dug up to our shoulders in the ice chests, bringing the cold pop bottles up like a catch. We'd stolen vegetables all across America, anything we could eat without cooking. My mother spotted the trucks."
Mona Simpson The Paris Review Jan 1985 15min Permalink
Stupid Girls Never Go Crazy
Two troubled high school friends cope with their families and depressions.
"A half-an-hour later, Bambi slipped through her front door, hoping to sneak upstairs unnoticed by the mass of humanity that lived at her house. She shared her space with four younger brothers who'd been born so close together that they all resembled the same kid in a different stage of metamorphosis. So much testosterone flowed through the house that she had gotten lost in the shuffle. Her dad really didn't know quite what to do with her and tried to avoid the discomfort of female emotional interaction. He focused on the easy rapport he had with her brothers and spent most of his free time talking sports or taking them fishing. Her mom was usually frazzled and easily irritated. She was starting her cocktail hour a bit earlier every day and was usually comfortably anesthetized by dinner time. She seemed to have slipped into a complacency that bordered on being in a coma."
Tracy Fowler Black River Review Jan 2005 15min Permalink
Arabella Leaves
A story about a young woman's history of drug addiction.
"They had met just before the holidays. She was still shaky from rehab, having jagged days, nightmares, humongous cravings. She hadn't felt that bad in years, not since after the accident, when she was sixteen and went through the windshield near dawn after a long foggy night at the clubs on Sunset. Then she had stayed in a coma for weeks. (Her mother always talked about it in this dramatic voice, 'Arabella was in a coma for weeks, she came back from the dead.') It was cozy enough for her, she was feeling no pain, just morphine and voices and a sense of almost being where she belonged. In a coma was fine with her. Coming out of it was a bitch."
Jane Ciabattari Ms. Magazine Jan 2002 20min Permalink
Friendship between two quirky outsiders turns into a tumultuous love.
"He got her screenname from one of the other members of the group and started sending her jokes and one-liners, nothing too creepy or personal. Nothing threatening. He told her that he was part of their little group. He told her to guess who he was. There was no fear in this. Norm was a true original. He'd been locked away so long that he had no real sense of how others viewed him."
Neil Richter The Bad Version Jan 2012 15min Permalink
A high school couple discuss their future in a wave of public lust.
"The laugh echoed in Missy's ears as she stuck her tongue in JP's mouth. JP's mouth was the best place she'd ever been. It was like falling asleep and waking up. Could there be a room in the dream house that would feel like JP's mouth? Oh wait, she could just kiss JP in any of the rooms."
Rachel B. Glaser NOO Journal Jan 2008 Permalink
A P
Three girls and a checkout boy, up against authority in a New England summer.
"You know, it's one thing to have a girl in a bathing suit down on the beach, where what with the glare nobody can look at each other much anyway, and another thing in the cool of the A P, under the fluorescent lights, against all those stacked packages, with her feet paddling along naked over our checkerboard green-and-cream rubber-tile floor."
John Updike Jan 1961 10min Permalink


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Vincent (disambiguation)
Over the Hedge
List of Lost characters
Vincent is a Latin-derived given name.
Vincent may also refer to:
Vincent, Alabama, a city
Vincent, California, a census designated place
Vincent, Iowa, a city
Vincent, Kansas, an unincorporated community
Vincent, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville, Australia
City of Vincent, a local government area of Western Australia
Vincent, Jura, France, a commune
Vincent, Sud, Haiti, a village
Vincent (1982 film), a 1982 stop-motion short film by Tim Burton
Vincent (1987 film), a documentary film by Australian director Paul Cox
Vincent (novel) or Torture the Artist, a novel by Joey Goebel
"Vincent" (song), a 1971 song by Don McLean
Vincent (TV series), a television series on ITV1
Vincent (opera), an opera by Einojuhani Rautavaara
Vincent (music producer) (born 1995), Canadian electronic music producer and pianist
In the military
Vickers Vincent, a British biplane introduced in 1933
USS Vincent (SP-3246), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 or 1918 to 1919
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Over the Hedge is a syndicated comic strip written and drawn by Michael Fry and T. Lewis. It tells the story of a raccoon, turtle, a squirrel, and their friends who come to terms with their woodlands being taken over by suburbia, trying to survive the increasing flow of humanity and technology while becoming enticed by it at the same time. The strip debuted in June 1995.
A raccoon con artist, RJ takes pride in being extremely lazy. He apparently envisions himself as an intellectual; however, his "facts" are obviously false. He loves to ransack human homes, as well as watch them and their televisions through the windows. While he enjoys commenting on human life, most of his statements are false as well, although he has studied humans and knows their ways of getting food, and even has slightly imprinted on them. He was shown to care for Clara even before she was born, (after he learned that babies can hear some things outside of the mother from Verne) by reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame and singing a horrible version of "Stairway to Heaven". He is sometimes shown without a brain, using his brain cavity to store his "hanky", and breath mints. He is shown to have the ability to expand to fit a massive amount of food, and is known as "that horrible raccoon kid" on Halloween. He claimed in one strip that he is an immortal god, and once "confessed" to Verne for "lighting the fuse" to the Big Bang, which he explained was because "The matches were right there, and the sign said "Don't light this fuse!!!", so...". He also said that the universe "will have to reschedule the time when the Sun will burn out", as he has "a tail rinse that day".
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The characters from the American drama/adventure television series Lost were created by Damon Lindelof and J. J. Abrams. The series follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet from the fictional Oceanic Airlines crashes somewhere in the South Pacific. Each episode typically features a primary storyline on the island as well as a secondary storyline, a flashback from another point in a character's life.
Out of the 324 people on board Oceanic Flight 815, there are 71 initial survivors (70 humans and one dog) spread across the three sections of the plane crash. The opening season featured 14 regular speaking roles, making it the largest cast in American prime time television when it premiered.
Casting and development
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Huet may refer to:
Alfred Huet du Pavillon (A.Huet, 1829-1907), a botanist
Conrad Busken Huet (1826–1886), Dutch literary critic
Cristobal Huet (born 1975), goaltender for Lausanne HC ice hockey team in Switzerland.
Edmond Huet, Paris Metro engineer
Gérard Huet (born 1947), French computer scientist
Guénhaël Huet (born 1956), French politician
Gustavo Huet (born 1912), Mexican Olympic shooter
Henri Huet (1927–1971), French war photographer killed in Vietnam
Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811), French painter and designer
Paul Huet (1803–1869), French painter
Pierre Daniel Huet (1630–1721), bishop of Soissons
Thomas Huet (died 1591), Welsh biblical scholar
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DINC 2.0: A New Protein–Peptide Docking Webserver Using an Incremental Approach
antunes2017_dinc2.pdf
Antunes, Dinler A.; Moll, Mark; Devaurs, Didier; Jackson, Kyle; Lizée, Gregory; More... Kavraki, Lydia E. Less...
Molecular docking is a standard computational approach to predict binding modes of protein–ligand complexes by exploring alternative orientations and conformations of the ligand (i.e., by exploring ligand flexibility). Docking tools are largely used for virtual screening of small drug-like molecules, but their accuracy and efficiency greatly decays for ligands with more than 10 flexible bonds. This prevents a broader use of these tools to dock larger ligands, such as peptides, which are molecules of growing interest in cancer research. To overcome this limitation, our group has previously proposed a meta-docking strategy, called DINC, to predict binding modes of large ligands. By incrementally docking overlapping fragments of a ligand, DINC allowed predicting binding modes of peptide-based inhibitors of transcription factors involved in cancer. Here, we describe DINC 2.0, a revamped version of the DINC webserver with enhanced capabilities and a more user-friendly interface. DINC 2.0 allows docking ligands that were previously too challenging for DINC, such as peptides with more than 25 flexible bonds. The webserver is freely accessible at http://dinc.kavrakilab.org, together with additional documentation and video tutorials. Our team will provide continuous support for this tool and is working on extending its applicability to other challenging fields, such as personalized immunotherapy against cancer.
Antunes, Dinler A., Moll, Mark, Devaurs, Didier, et al.. "DINC 2.0: A New Protein–Peptide Docking Webserver Using an Incremental Approach." Cancer Research, 77, no. 21 (2017) AACR: e55-e57. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-17-0511.
DINC webserver; incremental algorithm; molecular docking; protein-peptide complexes
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This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by AACR.


Cartwright Hall is home to the Drake University Law School.
Drake University and the Drake University Law School are offering a workshop Friday morning to highlight legal issues facing business startups and technology related fields.
The event, "Tech Startups: Navigating the Legal Maze" is a Continuing Legal Education event for attorneys but organizers have invited angel investors, startups and founders to attend.
The workshop starts at 8 a.m. Friday at the Neal and Bea Smith Law Center at 2400 University Ave. in Des Moines.
Speakers will present on technology and business topics such as mobile applications, website agreements and privacy issues, entrepreneurial resources and founders agreements.
A panel will also use a hypothetical example of a startup to help guide the audience in "issue spotting." It will focus on intellectual property issues, product development, designing and maintaining a website and other general issues.
Cory McAnelly will moderate the panel and is an Intellectual Property Attorney for the law firm of Goodhue Coleman and Owens.
He said he was contacted last year about organizing a potential workshop and had just so happened to be returning from a similar event in South Dakota.
The event is sponsored by the Drake Intellectual Property Law Center. Shontavia Johnson, Director of the Drake Intellectual Property Law Center, says lawyers, angel investors, startups and founders are invited.
Johnson said in addition the event will provide opportunities for professionals to network across disciplines and professional circles.
Anyone interested in signing up can do it here.