Earlier this month, the NBA made League Pass available for all of the world. For $200, you can watch all 30 teams, no matter where you are. As a functioning NBA hipster, I feel I'm uniquely qualified to recommend teams to watch. It's always fun to determine what teams are going to be worth your money and which teams you can tune out. Teams like Golden State and Cleveland are obvious choices, but due to the sheer amount of nationally-televised games, it's a waste of time to recommend them. On the opposite side of the spectrum, you don't need to waste your time watching sleepy teams like the Memphis Grizzlies, so boring teams are obviously exempt from this list. When looking for these "diamond in the rough" teams, there are several qualifications that create the ultimate League Pass darlings.
Note: I'm in love with a good offense, so please, don't be outraged when squads like the Spurs and Jazz don't make this list. They're great teams, but their offensive woes lull me to sleep.
This is definitely going to be the team I watch the most this year. However, I know it's because of the gross, green-team bias I have for my beloved Boston Celtics. That being said, Danny Ainge made a treasure chest of moves this offseason, drafting Jason Tatum, signing Gordon Hayward and trading for the crown jewel, Kyrie Irving. This team is by far the most talented team Brad Stevens has ever had, so I'm excited to see what all he does with them. The offensive scheme is going to be beautiful with floor spacing in almost every possible lineup. My greatest concern is the team not having much cohesion because of the amount of new players entering the season, which is why I have them at this spot.
I feel awkward recommending Clipper games, but Jerry West has constructed a niche team for lovers of the modern offense. This team has sweet new jerseys, an eccentric owner in Steve Balmer, an unknown commodity in Miloš Teodosić (he's been compared to "White Chocolate" Jason Williams, so it's safe to say I'm really excited), not to mention a great NBA character at head coach, Doc Rivers. I went through all of those reasons without mentioning Blake Griffin and his counterpart DeAndre Jordan. This team is full of pass-first guys, bucket-getters, and highlight makers. I have two concerns: Doc Rivers is a headstrong ogre and won't let his team play a European style of basketball, and/or the injury bug ravishes this team and they limp their way to the lottery.
Lonzo Ball is electric, and I'm more than excited to witness his greatness. He makes everyone better around him, and with a Laker team oozing with upside, I feel Lonzo will create stars out of players like Brandon Ingram and Julius Randle. With head coach Luke Walton at the helm, it's practically a guarantee that he will give Lonzo the keys to the offense and enable him to push the floor almost every possession. Bottom line, Ball made Kyle Kuzma look like a lottery pick in Vegas this summer, and I can't wait to see what he does with his teammates this season.
One downside to NBA League Pass is the blackouts. If you live too close to an NBA team, they blackout your game on the NBA League Pass channel and force you to watch it locally on cable TV. For a lot of cord-cutting families like mine, this makes it practically impossible to watch certain teams. In central Arkansas, for example, you can watch every team except the Thunder. The only way to bypass this is signing up for a VPN (virtual private network) service. I wasn't going to pay the extra cash for this service until the Thunder traded for Carmelo Anthony. This team is a must-watch. They enter the season with three of the top-ten best isolation scorers, great versatility, and last year's MVP, Russell Westbrook. They are going to be a phenomenal team to watch compete on a nightly basis.
Oh boy, I love offense. You know who else loves offense? Every single player on the Denver Nuggets. This team is electric. They have bucket-getters at every position and a center in Nikola Jokic who runs the floor like a gazelle on PEDs. I don't think I can quantify just how fun this team should be. When Jokic and Gary Harris aren't running the break, you have straight-up 90s-style isolation scorers in Jamal Murray and Wilson Chandler. If you don't like that style, think of all the flexible lineups Denver can throw at their opponents. Every game will produce a different vibe based on how Mike Malone designs the rotation that night. This team is deep, and I can't wait to watch them take the league by storm. Also, they signed this guy named Paul Millsap this summer… it's kind of a big deal.
This Rockets team has two paths, and both are fun scenarios.
Path One: Chris Paul and James Harden transform an already deadly Rockets team into an even more lethal weapon. I'm talking record-setting numbers. Two of the best playmakers in the entire league are playing alongside a stable of talented three-point marksmen. Not to mention, their head coach is the offensive guru of the century, Mike D'Antoni. It's not totally out of the question.
Path Two: CP3 and Harden hate one another due to their conflicting personalities and we get one of the best beef stories of this NBA season. Who doesn't love watching on-court drama? I can already imagine Chris Paul yelling random obscenities at Harden as he shrugs them off, instantly becoming an overused NBA Twitter meme. Can't you?
All jokes aside, I can't help but be excited for what this team could become.


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Police Scotland doesn't collect roadside breath testing figures
Alison McInnes, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson
Police Scotland does not typically record the number of roadside breath tests it carries out, it has emerged.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson confirmed figures related to the number of motorists who are breathalysed are not collected outwith its drink-drive campaigns such as at Christmas and New Year.
Alison McInnes, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson, said the national force should "reconsider this and adopt a position of greater transparency on roadside breath testing".
Her party submitted a freedom of information (FOI) request asking for the information, with a view to finding out how many breathalysed motorists turned out to have alcohol in their systems.
However, Mr Matheson was forced to admit the data did not exist.
Ms McInnes continued: "Breath tests have been key to preventing and detecting the menace of drink-driving on our roads, but without this information it is nearly impossible to evaluate the extent to which it is an effective use of police time.
"We saw that with stop and search. Hundreds of thousands of people were being subjected to so-called consensual stop and searches with very little being found.
"If we are to ensure we have the right balance between protecting the civil liberties and the safety of motorists, we need an evidence-based approach to policing."
Chief superintendent Iain Murray defended the police force's breath testing practices.
Mr Murray told The Scotsman: "All road policing officers in Scotland are trained to carry our preliminary impairment tests in circumstances where they have reasonable cause to believe that a motorist's ability to drive is impaired through the use of something other than alcohol.
"There are therefore many more vehicle stops each year than there are breath tests carried out, as it is at the discretion of the individual officer to determine whether there are legal grounds to administer a test in each set of circumstances.
"I am confident that the increase in the number of drivers being stopped and spoken to by road policing officers, and the reduction in the number of offences being detected, shows that fewer people are now choosing to put themselves and others so needlessly at risk by drinking and driving."


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Watch Katy Perry's Tearful Tribute to the Manchester Attack Victims
By Kate Samuelson
May 26, 2017 7:53 AM EDT
Katy Perry paid tribute to the victims of Monday evening's terrorist attack outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester and called for a moment's silence during a performance on Thursday.
"It was hard. It was hard for you guys I know that, it was hard for me, because we all love music," the Firework singer told the audience in an intimate central London venue. "You think about it and you think 'that's my friend, that's my sister, that's my brother, that's my cousin, that's the person that loves music.'"
A tearful Perry continued: "It's awful. It's awful. It's awful. And whatever you can do to help you should. And if you can't do anything to help that's fine, but what you should do is not let them win."
Grande and Perry are thought to be friends and rumors have circulated about them collaborating for a while. In 2013, Perry told Sirius XM that the then-up-and-coming 20-year-old had "the best female vocal in pop music today." She added: "She has literally the best voice, the best voice live. She kills it. She's so good."
Write to Kate Samuelson at kate.samuelson@time.com.
Britain's Theresa May to Confront Trump on Manchester Intel Leaks


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The Famous Range
Grouse Country
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The Famous Grouse & RSPB
The good news is that our partnership with the RSPB is set to continue, providing much needed funds to restore and protect black grouse habitats throughout the UK; the total amount raised to date is over £650,000.
Find out more about the RSPB here - https://www.rspb.org.uk/
Is The Famous Grouse suitable for vegetarians & Vegans?
There are no animal products used in our Scotch whisky products so The Famous Grouse is suitable for both vegetarians and vegans.
Our Master Blender advises that fining in the sherry industry is carried out after the sherry is removed from the cask so no animal products come into contact with the casks.
How many calories/ carbohydrates are there in a bottle of The Famous Grouse?
At bottle strength The Famous Grouse contains 225 calories per 100mls and as for carbohydrates, it contains just a trace.
There is no sugar in Scotch whisky, but the alcohol in any spirit at 40% alcohol by volume will contain about 220 kCal per 100ml. A 1 litre bottle would therefore contain approx. 2200 kCal.
(1 kilojoule = 0.239005736 kilocalories)
For Famous Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky at 40% abv:
Energy content: 222 kcal
Protein: none
Carbohydrate: trace
Fat: none
Energy content: 55.5 kcal
Is The Famous Grouse suitable for someone with a Gluten allergy?
We are aware of the condition known as Coeliac disease where a person cannot tolerate a protein called gluten found in many cereals. Whilst the raw material for The Famous Grouse production will include barley, maize and wheat there is no gluten in the finished product as it is removed at the distillation stage. If an allergy is oats specific then you can be assured that this cereal is not used in Scotch Whisky production.
Our knowledge base is in whisky and not medicine so if in any doubt you should consult your doctor, pharmacist or dietician.
Diabetic/ Sugar
We do not state carbohydrate (or sugar) values on the product label as levels will be Nil or trace only. On occasion spirit caramel may be added to Scotch whisky for consistence of colour and caramel itself may contain trace levels of sugar. However, the volumes we use in The Famous Grouse blend are very small.
We must stress though that our knowledge base is in whisky and not medicine so if in any doubt you should consult your doctor, pharmacist or dietician.
Is The Famous Grouse Kosher?
No, because the whiskies which go into The Famous Grouse are matured in sherry casks, this means that The Famous Grouse is not Kosher.
What is the bird used as your logo?
The bird we use as our logo and on our labels is the red grouse (Latin name: Lagopus lagopus scoticus), a wild and free spirit of the magnificent mountains and heather clad glens of Scotland; it was this charismatic national game bird that inspired Perth wine merchant, Matthew Gloag, to create the perfect dram for the growing number of sporting visitors to the Highlands. A whisky as highly prized, beautifully coloured and unique as the red grouse itself - and so the Grouse Brand was born. Its distinctive first label was illustrated by Matthew's daughter, Philippa. Soon it gained such a reputation amongst the Victorian sportsmen and women that it was renamed The Famous Grouse.
However, I suspect you are referring to the animated bird from our TV adverts and I can advise that, unofficially, he is fondly referred to as Gilbert.
Is The Famous Grouse Company listed?
The Famous Grouse is owned by a private limited company and is therefore not listed on any market worldwide. Ultimately The Famous Grouse is owned by a charity - The Robertson Trust.
Company registration nos.:
The Edrington Group - SC36374
Highland Distillers - SC158731
Thank you for contacting The Famous Grouse. For information on recruitment and our current vacancies please visit: http://careers.edrington.com/careers-home/
How long does it take for my order to be dispatched to the UK?
For UK deliveries we advise 2-3 days for delivery, if you placed the order today it will be dispatched tomorrow for delivery Wed/Thursday.
The Famous Grouse Experience / Distillery Enquiries
Unfortunately we made a conscious decision to sell our Glenturret distillery which will mean for the time being we can no longer offer you a chance to experience a tour with us. We do however have exciting plans to create a new brand home for The Famous Grouse which will be publicised in due course.
Can I buy Famous Grouse merchandise?
Unfortunately we do not currently sell any merchandise. However here is a link to our website where you can find our current products available for purchase: https://thefamousgrouse.com/.


Q: When did you know you were over academia?
A: Basically I was bored and frustrated. I didn't like writing papers, I didn't like reading papers anymore, even. It gave me a chill down my spine having to do that all day.
I knew I had wanted to try comedy for fun for a long time. I watched interviews with people on talk shows. Actors always come off as disappointing. Their characters were impressive, but the interviews themselves didn't really have the same depth. But comedians always were sharp and funny on talk shows. If I ever was going to do anything in entertainment, I would have to do comedy.
Q: You're a clean comic. When did you decide to stay clean?
A: From the beginning I wanted to write clean. It was always the comedy I liked the most. I tell people there's no advantage to being a clean comic – there really is no advantage career-wise. You have to do it because it's the kind of comedy you like the best. It's not going to get you on television any quicker, it's not going to get you a bigger audience. If anything, it holds you back, because the clubs put you up first all the time. You have to fight your way out of that position.
Today we have Brian Regan – he's the biggest clean comic out there today and a lot of people have never even heard of him. Jerry Seinfeld, obviously, works clean as well. The funny thing was, I accidentally swore on stage, just because I was frustrated, and I would get laughs.
Q: What does clean comedy do for you?
A: I know a lot of comics who were dirty trying performing clean, and they'd just drop the f-word – that's it, and the joke doesn't work anymore. It's a shortcut I think people rely on a little too much, and I think it keeps you from thinking about what's at the heart of the joke. It cuts the quality down. A lot of comics will disagree with it, they love it. It's the only place you can talk like that, and it needs to be done that way.
I feel like it's an intellectual shortcut. Instead of thinking of "it's so hot that we spontaneously combusted," just say "it's f-----g hot" and get a laugh. There's something intellectually unsatisfying about that.
Q: Does being a comic feel similar to teaching?
A: They are more similar than people think. I used to give talks in front of smart people who made fun of my logic; now I give talks in front of drunk people who make fun of my jokes. But it's essentially the same forum.
I used to do jokes in my talks. I would be giving talks about my research and I would throw in some PowerPoint jokes, just to spice up my talk. I always liked it when people would throw in a Far Side cartoon or some kind of gag slide. So I decided to write some of my own jokes to throw into my talks, and those were my first jokes.


So far I love everything that I've read by Aly Martinez. She does not disappoint. I recommend you read her Wrecked and Ruined series if you haven't yet. Aly has the great ability to draw you in from the first chapter and not be able to set the book down. You fall in love so easily with her characters with the way she writes them.
I love this book! Even when I told my son about it he thought it sounded good and he could care less about most books that I read. It's one of those books that makes you think. It's not all fluffy, no it brings you back to reality, and makes you think about all the people that are out there that have a harder life than you do, that many kids grow up feeling unloved by their parents, go to school dirty, and struggle for each meal. That's not what the whole book is about, but it is the way the characters and many people live.
Till Page stole my heart early on in this book and I don't know if I'll ever get it back. He's a hard worker, working two jobs, taking care of his two brothers, working at the gym, and training to become a boxer. He's dedicated, loyal, and loving. Add that he's slowly going deaf and you cannot not love him. He loves his fantasy world and it causes him some problems with Eliza, but he was so afraid of losing what they had that it was endearing.
While Till had his brothers, Eliza didn't have anyone in the way of family. Her parents paid no attention to her whatsoever and didn't care. All she had from the time they were thirteen was Till and later his brothers.
This is a slow romance. Eliza and Till met when they were thirteen and become secret friends who meet every night in an abandoned apartment building. It's the one place where Till feels that he can get away from his real life. It's his fantasy and he doesn't want to give it up. He doesn't want to lose his best friend that he loves, their lives are already so much of a struggle.
I think I squealed when I read Slate in the book. OK. I don't think I squealed. I know I did and it gets better, almost everyone from the Wrecked and Ruined series makes an appearance or is talked about. I'm happy that they will be connected to this series and we'll get to see more of them.
When I read the epilogue I was happy it gave me what I wanted in most ways but there was one aspect that left me wanting. It was late when I finished and I couldn't get it out of my head to fall asleep. But I got up the other morning and looked on Goodreads to see if she had more information on the rest of the series and it eased my mind as to why she ended it the way she did. It was what I thought. I know I'm being cryptic but I can't give away that tidbit. It would ruin it for you.


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JV Volleyball Team Finishes Season with a Win
Katie Reid, Contributor|October 30, 2017
The Lyme-Old-Lyme High School JV volleyball team went out with a bang, finishing the last game of the season with a win against Creed on Wednesday, October 25. The JV team swept in 2 sets with scores of 25-6 and 25-17. Freshman Emma Boardman and sophomore Caroline King had a kill a piece while sophomore Leah Fouquette had 6 aces and 3 digs, sophomore Katelyn Wells had a dig, 2 aces and 2 kills, and freshman Juliette Atkinson had 4 aces.
The JV team has worked tirelessly this season, and every player should be proud of their achievements. Many girls come to the high school with very minimal knowledge of the game, but by the end of the season, they are playing like pros. From developing skills of hitting and passing to understanding the complicated serving rotation, learning the game of volleyball is no simple feat. The players are grateful to Coach Todd, more affectionately known by the team as Zeta, for helping the players to understand the game. As the JV coach, Coach Todd provides the necessary foundation for the girls who are just learning the game. She explains rules and demonstrates skills in a way that makes learning a whole new sport just a little less overwhelming, and the team thanks her for sharing her love and knowledge of the game with both the JV and varsity players.
Led by captains Olivia Stack and Olivia Tetreault, the JV volleyball team established a close-knit sisterhood of supportive friends and teammates. Between each play, regardless of whether the point was won or lost, the girls would run to the center of the court and pat each other on the back or exchange high fives. This simple gesture of support and unity kept the team's spirits and energy high. Additionally, many girls were able to flawlessly step up into leadership positions as a few JV players were called upon to play for varsity. The combination of strong sophomore leaders and incredible freshman allowed JV to have a fantastic season full of fun memories, and there is no doubt that many girls have begun to experience the feeling of truly falling in love with a sport. OLVB is already looking forward to next season and meeting the next group of freshmen that will contribute to the success of next year's JV team.
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Ride Across the River - Dire Straits
Ride Across the River
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"Ride Across the River" first appeared as the sixth track on the band's 1985 multi-platinum selling album Brothers in Arms. It is very different from the band's other works, with Latino-style beats and flutes. The lyrics are about wars (or the same war) described by two opposing views: one follows guerrilla members and the other follows mercenary warfare. At 6 minutes and 58 seconds, "Ride Across the River" is the fourth longest song on the album. The song opened the second side of the original LP. It was never released as a single. The song was used in the Miami Vice episode Knock Knock, Who's There? and The Last Ship episode El Toro.
Dire Straits were a British rock band from Newcastle, United Kingdom, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (guitar and vocals), his brother David Knopfler (guitar), John Illsley (bass), and Pick Withers (drums), and subsequently managed by Ed Bicknell. The band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. Dire Straits emerged during the post-punk era of the late '70s, and while their sound was minimalistic and stripped down, they owed little to punk. Show more ...
I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of man
We are the chosen, we're the partisan
The cause it is noble and the cause it is just
We are ready to pay with our lives if we must
Gonna ride across the river deep and wide
Ride across the river to the other side
I'm a soldier of fortune, I'm a dog of war
And we don't give a damn who the killing is for
It's the same old story with a different name
Death or glory, it's the killing game
Nothing gonna stop them as the day follows the night
Right becomes wrong, the left becomes the right
And they sing as they march with their flags unfurled
Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world
1) Sultans of Swing
2) Money for Nothing
3) Walk of Life
4) Brothers in Arms
5) Romeo and Juliet
6) So Far Away
7) Your Latest Trick
8) Private Investigations
9) Tunnel of Love
10) Lady Writer
11) Calling Elvis
12) On Every Street
13) Down to the Waterline
14) Heavy Fuel
15) Telegraph Road
16) Six Blade Knife
17) Love Over Gold
18) The Man's Too Strong
19) Ride Across the River
20) Water of Love
21) Twisting By the Pool
22) One World
23) Once Upon a Time in the West
24) Why Worry
25) Wild West End
1) Dire Straits - The Man's Too Strong
2) Dire Straits - One World
3) Mark Knopfler - What It Is
4) Mark Knopfler - Why Aye Man
5) Eric Clapton - Cocaine
6) Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
7) Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff
8) Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
9) Toto - Hold the Line
10) Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
11) Supertramp - The Logical Song
12) The Police - Roxanne
13) Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
14) Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is
15) Genesis - I Can't Dance
16) The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
17) Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
18) Chris Rea - Auberge
19) Pink Floyd - Money
20) Queen - I Want It All
21) Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
22) Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
23) Supertramp - Breakfast in America
24) Toto - Africa
25) Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe


Beware the corporate grandees who claim Brexit would cost Britain dear | City A.M.
Roger Bootle is managing director of Capital Economics and the author of The Trouble with Europe, published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing.
ONE OF the chief arguments of those who are keen to maintain the status quo with regard to the EU is that a huge number of jobs is bound up with the continuation of the UK's membership, not just in the City but throughout the whole economy. In the UK, both the present coalition government and the previous Labour government have said that 3.5m jobs are linked directly and indirectly to the export of goods and services to the European Union. Several other sources have come up with similar figures.
It is true that very many jobs are connected with trade with the EU. As so often with economics, though, the issue is not about the precise number – 3.5m, or 3.9m, or 2.8m – but rather with the concepts underlying the estimate. The number of jobs concerned with exports to the EU is not the same thing as the number of jobs which would disappear if EU membership were to end.
First, there would be powerful incentives, on both sides, to ensure that considerable UK-EU trade continued after any break. More importantly, as I argue in my new book The Trouble with Europe, the economic case for EU exit is that the whole gamut of economic consequences that flow from EU membership, including the ludicrously intrusive flood of regulations, harm economic growth and prosperity. If this is right, then outside the EU, the UK stands the chance of being more prosperous. More prosperity translates into more jobs – even if they aren't exactly the same jobs that exist today.
The issue of trade and employment bedevils the lobbying by various business groups in favour of continued EU membership. Typically, some grand, lavishly-paid, corporate panjandrum, often bedecked with some gong or other, and speaking as the chairman of this, that or some other business organisation, opines to the effect that EU membership is vital to their business and, by extension, to the whole of the UK economy. There they are, having been throughout their life immersed in widgets, or insurance, or water management, and now in their 60s, given a position of power and prestige, newly able to pronounce on the state of the world beyond the widget.
For instance, in May 2013, a group of prominent and distinguished business people wrote a letter to the newspaper The Independent, accusing eurosceptic MPs of "putting politics before economics" by calling for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. This letter said that "the economic case to stay in the EU is overwhelming," and that EU membership is worth as much as £92bn a year to Britain.
We should beware of such wisdom. The economic case to stay in the EU, just like the economic case to come out, is far from overwhelming. The arguments need to be carefully weighed, leading to a balanced judgement. With a few honourable exceptions, such corporate wizards should go back to their widgets, insurance, water management or whatever, and leave the issues of national economic and political management alone.
The essential problem is that, in so far as they can accurately assess the interests of the current widget making industry, or their own part of it, they cannot judge how the widget industry will change, whether or not there will be any need for widgets in five years' time, or whether, if there is, widgets will all come from China. Nor can they speak for the widget manufacturers, still less the manufacturers of widget substitutes, as yet unborn.
Most importantly, they cannot speak for the huge part of the economy, the dominant part, which has nothing whatever to do with making widgets, and yet is still profoundly affected by the EU and its various interferences.
The essence of economics is substitution and uncertainty. The essence of successful economic policy-making is to fully recognise the latter and to give full rein to the former. This has little relevance to the widget-making processes so well-known by Sir Thingumy Whatnot.
Roger Bootle is managing director of Capital Economics. This is an extract from his new book The Trouble with Europe, published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing.


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Tax hike in Madison County passes to pay for teachers, salaries and courthouse repairs
Madison County residents will see their property taxes climb by 5.7% next year.
Tax hike in Madison County passes to pay for teachers, salaries and courthouse repairs Madison County residents will see their property taxes climb by 5.7% next year. Check out this story on citizen-times.com: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/madison/2019/07/02/tax-increase-madison-county-pay-teachers-county-salaries-and-facility-repairs/1592965001/
Paul Moon, Asheville Citizen Times Published 12:55 p.m. ET July 2, 2019
Madison County Commissioners Norris Gentry, Mark Snelson and Craig Goforth vote in favor of the 2019-20 budget that includes a 3-cent property tax increase. (Photo: Paul Moon/The News-Record & Sentinel)
Madison County residents will see their property taxes climb by 5.7% next year. On a 3-2 vote, the county's Board of Commissioners passed a budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year that hikes property taxes from $.52 to $.55 per $100 of assessed value.
The 3-cent tax increase will add $30 to the tax bill of a property valued at $100,000. For residents in a $100,000 property paying the ad valorem tax as part of their monthly mortgage bill, the increase amounts to just over $2 per month.
Budget projections show the tax increase will raise $523,000 in additional revenue.
Where the money is headed
In his message to commissioners on the budget, County Manager Forrest Gilliam said the funds generated from the tax increase would help pay for four new elementary school teaching positions to meet state requirements reducing K-3 class size, repairs to county facilities and salary increases for certain positions where pay has lagged behind surrounding counties. The budget also sees the minimum wage for county employees climb to $10 an hour.
Salary and benefit increases will cost the county $375,000, according to the budget. Select positions at the Madison County Sheriff's Office and the Department of Social Services will see the biggest raises to help keep pay competitive with salaries offered in neighboring counties.
The new teaching positions will add $160,000 in local funding to public schools, which now totals nearly $2.9 million, or $1,266 per student.
The budget sets aside $313,000 for investments in building renovations and vehicle purchases, including $151,000 prioritizing improvements at the Madison County Courthouse. In prior budget talks, commissioners explored the possibility of setting aside that capital outlay expenditure as part of a loan payment to cover projects including an addition at the animal shelter, renovations to an existing county space to create an auxiliary courtroom and the courthouse improvements. Commissioners are likely to discuss any capital improvement loan in the upcoming months.
The county's bottom line also sees a $112,00 boost in net revenue from a contract with the state to house juvenile inmates at the Madison County Jail. The agreement replaces a deal to house federal inmates.
The budget keeps the $160 household disposal card, or dump fee, in place and keeps all fire tax rates constant.
Split vote
Following Gilliam's budget presentation, all four residents to speak in public comment shared their support for the tax increase. That support from residents, who will see a larger tax bill when invoices are mailed in August, came a surprise to Commissioner Mark Snelson.
"I figured I'd come in here to people just raising hell about their taxes going up, so it's kind of nice to hear from people because Forrest did do a good job on letting you know what the money would go for," Snelson said before his vote in favor of the $25.9 million budget. "We've got people here making $8.39 an hour. How would you like to go back to 2009 and live off what you made then? It's just that, plain and simple."
Barbara Coulson expresses her support for a tax increase in remarks to the Madison County Board of Commissioners June 21. (Photo: Paul Moon/The News-Record & Sentinel)
Norris Gentry, the board's chairman, described the budget vote as a choice between staying in the past or moving towards the future. "In order to have the revenue to address generational neglect in Madison County, I support the tax increase and the full budget," Gentry said. He added that the spending and revenue plan would address two key priorities: "Number one: we have to hire, retain and adequately compensate the public servants who make this county work," and "Number two: we have to invest in our very badly neglected public facilities, from this building (referring to the Madison County Courthouse) on down."
Commissioner Craig Goforth conceded that while a tax increase may not be popular – "I don't want to do it. No one in their right minds wants to raise taxes," he said – the hike was necessary. "We have to do something. We (commissioners) talked, 'If we don't do this, what are our alternatives?' We were silent, because there aren't any alternatives."
Comments from the two commissioners who voted against the budget – and the tax increase – underscored Goforth's message. Neither Matthew Wechtel, the board's only Republican, or Wayne Brigman, a Democrat, offered an alternative to the tax increase during the budget hearing inside the Madison County Courthouse June 21.
While Wechtel did highlight that county employees benefit from a health plan that sees 100% of their premiums covered, he did not offer a plan that would see the county save by requiring employees to contribute to their insurance coverage. He said his vote against the budget reflected his concern that residents living on a fixed income could not afford the hike.
"I was elected, I feel, to look out for the taxpayer, and that includes the taxpayers that were not able to come here and speak for themselves," Wechtel said.
In his comments, Brigman said he voted against the budget because of his concerns about the property revaluation currently taking place across the county. That process, which puts a new taxable value on every property in Madison County, is scheduled to finish by the end of the calendar year. "I cannot support a tax increase unless I have all the findings of the revaluation," he said.
Brigman's concern suggests a misunderstanding of the property tax revaluation timeline and process. Tax bills for the 2019-20 fiscal year reflecting the three-cent tax increase will be mailed to property owners in August, well before a new taxable value is placed on every home and property in Madison County. Representatives with the county's tax assessors office are currently visiting every property in Madison County to evaluate homes for improvements and additions.When new values are calculated, which will likely reflect rising real estate prices across the county, they will not take effect until the 2020-21 budget year.
Commissioners will then have the opportunity to change the property tax rate next year to account for any increase in value. After new values are set this coming winter, homeowners will have an opportunity to appeal those findings before the county's Board of Equalization and Review, which is comprised of the same five men on the Board of Commissioners. When the appeals process is complete in spring 2020, commissioners will then set a new property tax rate that accounts for the new values as part of its 2020-21 budget.
The three commissioners who voted in favor of the tax increase will next face reelection in 2022. Brigman and Wechtel, should they seek another term, will be on the ballot in 2020.
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Le menhir de Tingwall, connu également sous le nom de Murder Stone (« Pierre du Meurtre »), est un mégalithe situé dans l'archipel des Shetland, en Écosse.

Situation
La pierre se dresse au bord de la route B9074, à proximité du Loch de Tingwall, entre Scalloway et , dans le centre de l'île de Mainland.

Tingwall dérive du vieux-norrois Þingvǫllr, « champ (pré, plaine) du thing ». Dans la société viking, le thing était une assemblée populaire ; le menhir de Tingwall semble marquer un ancien lieu de rassemblement.

Description

Il s'agit d'un menhir datant de l'Âge du bronze mesurant environ  de hauteur.

La tradition veut que la « Pierre du Meurtre » marque l'endroit où, à la fin du , le comte des Orcades Henry Sinclair aurait tué son cousin Malise Sperra, petit-fils de Malise V de Strathearn, probablement au cours d'une lutte pour le contrôle des Shetland.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Article connexe
 Liste des sites mégalithiques du Shetland

Bibliographie
 Noel Fojut, A guide to prehistoric and Viking Shetland, Shetland Times, 1994.

Liens externes

  « Tingwall stone » sur le site The Megalithic Portal

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Dividend Increases for the Week Ending March 6
publication date: Mar 8, 2015
author/source: Valuentum Analysts
Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending March 6. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the 'Symbol' search box in our website header.
Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week
Avago Technologies (AVGO): now $0.38 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.35.
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS): now C$0.68 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.66.
Best Buy (BBY): now $0.23 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.19.
Big Lots (BIG): now $0.19 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.17.
Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ): now C$0.23 per share quarterly dividend, was C$0.225.
Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI): now $0.08 per share annual dividend, was $0.04.
Douglas Dynamics (PLOW): now $0.2225 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.2175.
FBL Financial (FFG): now $0.40 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.35.
FMC (FMC): now $0.165 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.15.
GameStop (GME): now $0.36 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.33.
General Dynamics (GD): now $0.69 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.62.
Hill-Rom Holdings (HRC): now $0.16 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.1525.
Horace Mann Educators (HMN): now $0.25 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.23.
Miller (MLR): now $0.16 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.15.
Monroe Capital (MRCC): now $0.35 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.34.
Myers (MYE): now $0.135 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.13.
Pattern Energy (PEGI): now $0.342 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.335.
Peak Resorts (SKIS): now $0.1375 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.1091.
Saul Centers (BFS): now $0.43 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.40.
Spartan Stores (SPTN): now $0.135 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.12.
Symetra Financial (SYA): now $0.11 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.10.
Tri-Continental (TY): now $0.205 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.2005.
Tyco (TYC): now $0.205 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.18.
World Fuel (INT): now $0.06 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.0375.
>>Last week's dividend increases.
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Chaos begs pardon from faithful readers, having been on holiday and personally witnessed a portion of the devolution of the airline industry (there is now, apparently, an extra charge of $25 for 'overweight' bags, forcing Chaos to squat humiliatingly in front of the ticket counter, removing heavy items from said bag). Along with charging more for aisle seats, and attempts to develop standing room only "seats," this marks the beginning of the end of easy air travel.
Upon return, Chaos was fortunate enough to come across this exceptionally well-written open letter to the public on gas prices, courtesy of the aptly named EngineerPoet. Chaos has really nothing to add to this, save that for the chosen few, this letter will never reach its intended audience. So, fellow travelers, count yourselves among the rare and fortunate.
An Assault on the School System!


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admin April 10, 2017 Constitutional Law, U. S. District Court, District of Kansas
Today, we filed an amicus brief in support of a motion to suppress evidence in a criminal case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The case is on remand from an appeal to the Tenth Circuit which resulted in a decision written by Judge (now Justice) Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch had pointed out that the search of an email with its attachments could constitute a violation of the email owner's property interest protected by the Fourth Amendment, applying the Supreme Court's United States v. Jones principle. Our amicus brief pointed out that the Jones property principle is primary, but also, the search of the email violated the defendant's privacy interest in the communications.
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Q: R - Unexpected '{' even with matched brackets? If all of my brackets are matched, and (I think) I'm not using any misplaced characters, how does the 'unexpected '{' in ' {' error still pop up?
Here is the code:
listsarw<-function(s){
  drunkwalk<-as.data.frame(matrix(ncol=s,nrow=4^s-1))
  is.self.avoiding<-vector(mode="logical",length=4^s-1)
  for(i in 0:4^s-1){
      a<-convers(i,4)
      drunkwalk[i,]<-a
      if((!checkbacktrace(a))&&(!anyDuplicated(coords(a))))
        is.self.avoiding(i)<-TRUE
  }
  lim<-sum(is.self.avoiding)
  sarw<-as.data.frame(matrix(ncol=s,nrow=lim))
  ctr<-0
  for(i in 0:4^s-1){
    if(is.self.avoiding(i)){
        sarw[ctr,]<-drunkwalk[i,]
        ctr++
    } #error is pointing to this bracket
  }
  return(sarw)
}

A: R does not support the ++ operator. Hence why the closing } is unexpected.
ctr = ctr + 1

Will do the trick.

A: R does not have increment and decrement operators. Instead of ctr++, you should use ctr <- ctr + 1.


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Анга́рський кряж, — кряж в Іркутській області Росії.

Протягується в південно-східній частині Середньосибірського плоскогір'я від передгір'їв Східного Саяна на північний схід до сточища Нижньої Тунгуски на відстань близько 800 км, заввишки до 1022 м.

Складається з декількох паралельних пасом з вирівняними міжріччями, складений нижньопалеозойськимі карбонатними і террігеннимі відкладеннями, пластами інтрузіями трапів. При перетині трапів річки Ангара і її притоки утворюють великі пороги.

На північному сході — модринова тайга, на південному заході — соснові ліси з масивами ялицево-кедрової тайги. Родовища залізняку.

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Гори Росії
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Orient Refractories Ltd is available on the website of the Company and on the website of National Securities Depositories Limited (NSDL).
Pursuant to Section 108 of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules framed thereunder, the Members of the Company holding shares either in physical or in dematerialised form as on August 15, 2014, are provided with the facility to cast their vote electronically through e-voting services provided by NSDL on all resolutions set forth in the Notice of the AGM.
The e-voting period shall commence on Saturday, September 20, 2014 (9.00 a.m. IST) and ends on Monday, September 22, 2014 (6.00 p.m. IST), after which voting shall not be allowed. The e-voting module shall be disabled by NSDL for voting thereafter. Once the vote on a resolution is cast by the Member by e-voting, he shall not be allowed to change it subsequently.
Further, Members have an option to cast their vote through a Ballot Form in lieu of e-Voting. The Members desirous of doing so, may write to the Company or send an e-mail to investor@orlindia.com requesting for a Ballot Form. The last date for receipt of duly completed Ballot Forms is on or before the date of Annual general meeting i.e. Friday, September 26, 2014.
A Member can opt for only one mode of voting, i.e., e-voting or Ballot. If a Member casts vote by both modes, then vote cast through e-voting shall prevail and Ballot shall be treated as invalid.
Notice is hereby given to the Members that the Company has on August 21, 2014 completed the dispatch of Notice of Postal Ballot under Section 110 of the Companies Act, 2013, along with Explanatory Statement, Postal Ballot Form and prepaid self-addressed business reply envelope in relation to 4 (four) Special Resolutions, seeking Members' consent on the special business, to be passed by postal ballot including voting by electronic means, as per the details mentioned in the Postal Ballot Notice.
The Board of Directors of the Company has appointed Mr. Naresh Verma, Company Secretary in Practice (Membership No. FCS-5403), having office at 416 / 7 & 8, First Floor, Karkarduma Village, Near Barat Ghar, Delhi 110092 as Scrutinizer for conducting the Postal Ballot in a fair and transparent manner.
The voting through Postal Ballot shall commence from the date of completion of dispatch of postal ballot notice i.e. Thursday, August 21, 2014 and voting through electronic means i.e. e-voting shall commence from Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 9.00 A.M. The Members are requested to note that the Postal Ballot Form, duly completed and singed, should reach the Scrutinizer on or before 6.00 P.M, on Saturday, September 20, 2014 and voting through electronic means i.e. e-voting will be available only till 6.00 P.M, on Wednesday, September 17, 2014. All Postal Ballot Forms received after the said date will not be valid and voting through electronic means beyond the said date and time will not be allowed.
A Member may request for a duplicate Postal Ballot Form by making an application to the Company, if so required.
The voting rights of the Members shall be reckoned as on Friday, August 15, 2014, which is the cut-off date. Members holding shares either in physical form or in dematerialized form may cast their vote electronically.
Notice of postal ballot is also displayed on website of the Company www.orientrefractories.com and on the website of National Securities Depositories Limited (NSDL).
Notice: 4th Annual General Meeting, September 26, 2014, New Delhi, India.
The Company will conduct Postal Ballot for obtaining the approval of members for the resolutions as mentioned in the notice enclosed.
The Company has appointed Mr. Naresh Verma, Company Secretary in Practice (Membership No. FCS-5403), as Scrutinizer for conducting the Postal Ballot process in a fair and transparent manner.
FURTHER the Company provides its members facility to exercise their right to vote for the Postal Ballot by electronic means through e-Voting Services provided by National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL).
The register of members and share transfer books shall remain closed from Thursday, September 11, 2014 to Thursday, September 18, 2014 (both days inclusive) for the purpose of final dividend, if declared, and 4th Annual General Meeting of the Company.
Mr. K K Thirani, an independent director and Chairman, due to some pre-occupation, has resigned from the directorship of the Company w.e.f. July 30, 2014.
Mr. A K Jain, an independent director, due to some personal reason, has resigned from the directorship of the Company w.e.f. July 30, 2014.
A meeting of the Board of Directors of Orient Refractories Limited is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 to, inter alia, approve and take on record the unaudited financial results of the Company for the quarter ended June 30, 2014.
The Board has approved shifting of registered office of the Company from 1307, Chiranjiv Tower, 43, Nehru Place, New Delhi-110019 to 804A, Chiranjiv Tower, 43, Nehru Place, New Delhi-110019 w.e.f. June 01, 2014.
The Board of Directors have recommended a final dividend of ` 1.25 (125%) per share on fully paid-up equity share of ` 1.00 each. The dividend on Equity Shares, if declared by the Members at the 4th Annual General Meeting of the Company, will be credited / dispatched to the members after the Annual General Meeting.
A meeting of the Board of Directors of Orient Refractories Limited is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, May 28, 2014 to, inter alia, approve and take on record the audited financial results of the Company for the quarter and twelve month ended March 31, 2014 and to consider recommendation of dividend, if any.


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Q: upload files to the server in .net I am writing an application in .NET Winform. The data files produced are required to upload to our server.
I dont know what are the approaches supporting for this? The one came to my mind immediately is FTP. Is there any other way in .NET Winform?
Thanks in advance.

A: FTP is the easiest and what I would recommend in this situation.
Some alternatives in order of what I think suits best:
HTTP, very good support, basically plug&play, just like FTP.
TCP/IP, the basics of most networking protocols, not too difficult to implement, but you need to have it running on your server machine.
NNTP, but that requires different kinds of encoding, Base64 will do, but that'll result in having to upload way much more than necessary. yEnc solves this problem but is more difficult to implement.
SMTP, send a mail with an attachment, have the server pick it up from there.
All of these are supported in the .Net Framework except NNTP, for which you'll have to use an external library.
I still highly recommend FTP, example from MSDN:
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

namespace Examples.System.Net
{
    public class WebRequestGetExample
    {
        public static void Main ()
        {
            // Get the object used to communicate with the server.
            FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://www.contoso.com/test.htm");
            request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;

            // This example assumes the FTP site uses anonymous logon.
            request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential ("anonymous","janeDoe@contoso.com");

            // Copy the contents of the file to the request stream.
            StreamReader sourceStream = new StreamReader("testfile.txt");
            byte [] fileContents = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sourceStream.ReadToEnd());
            sourceStream.Close();
            request.ContentLength = fileContents.Length;

            Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
            requestStream.Write(fileContents, 0, fileContents.Length);
            requestStream.Close();

            FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

            Console.WriteLine("Upload File Complete, status {0}", response.StatusDescription);

            response.Close();
            }
        }
    }
}

Or if you don't want to do it the traditional way, go for WCF, which is more like a combination of all of these, and you just configure what it does under the hood.

A: Depends on what your server is and what software it runs, but if it is a Windows box you could have an MTOM enabled WCF service for receiving and processing the uploaded files.


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Tag Archives: funeral
1992. Things that quickly fade
Annette loved flowers. She always had several vases of flowers in her living room and a little retro corkless medicine bottle on the window sill of the kitchen with a sprig of rosemary and a twiglet of this and that.
When her husband died the undertaker quietly asked Annette in the cemetery if she wished to have the flowers sitting on the coffin when it was lowered or would she prefer that the flowers were placed on top of the grave once it was filled in.
"Oh God no!" exclaimed Annette, speaking slightly louder than the undertaker. "I'm taking all the flowers home!" And she did! It's not that she didn't love her husband. But what use are flowers dying on a grave? Flowers from the funeral arranged in her living room were a much better reminder of her sad loss and a heart-felt tribute to her husband. That way too she could appreciate in full the kindness of the people who had sent condoling flowers.
Great-aunt Matilde paid a sympathy visit, mainly because Annette always served with a mug of coffee some homemade chocolate chip cookies that used ground oatmeal, nuts, and lots and lots of extra chocolate. In fact, Annette grated into the mixture several chocolate bars more than the recipe called for.
"I think flowers at funerals are a complete waste of money," declared great-aunt Matilde surveying the living room bouquets. "When I die I don't want people spending money on things that quickly fade."
As occasionally happens, great-aunt Matilde was 88. She went home and sadly passed away shortly after. Annette arranged the surviving living room flowers and took them to place on great-aunt Matilde's filled-in flowerless grave.
Not a dime was spent on things that quickly fade.
This entry was posted in A Story a Day, Creative, Fiction, Flash fiction, Tales, Yarns and tagged bouquets, chocolate chip, death, drabble fiction, dribble fiction, fiction, flash, flowers, funeral, great aunt, grief, micro fiction, story on November 8, 2020 by Bruce Goodman.
1986. Pulling a few strings
Today is the Feast of All Hallows or All Saints; hence yesterday's Halloween (All Hallows' Evening). It is my favourite day of the year to remember the dead. It is the feast day of all who have gone before us. It's a pity that the first two days of November, which used to be reserved to recall everyone who has died, has been smothered in candy and reduced to a previous evening of pretend ghouls. I want to commemorate the real first of November by telling you a personal story – simply because it's a coincidence that happened in my life that I've always marvelled at. Perhaps it's not a coincidence at all. I hope you don't find it too long and boring!
I'm not sure how most university systems work overseas, but in New Zealand it goes Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's Honours, Master's, Master's Honours, Doctorate. I had long finished my Bachelor's degree in English and Music. As many of you know, I was a monk at the time and after ten years of teaching I was sent back to university in Wellington, New Zealand, to get an Honours degree in Music. That went very well, and not simply because the mother of the Professor of Music had been my piano teacher when I was a kid at school!
During that year my father had died and in between assignments and the like I had an hour's drive every day to visit him at home. My father had been an Anglican and was from a very VERY anti-Catholic family. He was also a plumber and among his plumbing clients was the local convent of nuns (known as the Leper Sisters for their work throughout the Pacific). Dad got on especially well with the Mother Superior, Mother Camilla, who was an American. This is long before I was even thought of. Anyway, Dad died and I did the funeral.
At the end of the academic year I was visited by "the head monk" who asked if I had anything to say. I said two things: The community's fridge is broken and we need another one, and secondly if I got an extra year at university I could complete a Master's degree. The next day a new fridge arrived! I thought, Aha! he did listen after all. Some weeks later I got a message: we think you should go ahead and complete your Masters, BUT you should do it in Boston, USA!!!! Boston America!!!! Me? In Boston America!!! Little me from the backblocks of New Zealand?!!
The first thing to do after being accepted at the university was to find somewhere to live. I wrote to a number of catholic parishes in Boston asking if I could live there in exchange for weekend services. St Joseph's Parish in Waltham in Boston answered. They were a French-speaking parish but that didn't matter. I was very welcome to stay and help out! Off I went!
After a couple of weeks there was a phone call one evening. It was the local convent. The visiting priest's car had broken down and could someone come around and take the church service. I said I would go. When I walked into the room an old nun said "Goodman from New Zealand? Do you know a Frank Goodman?" I said he was my father. The nun, called Sister Basil, had been in charge of the convent buildings in New Zealand. She said, "I have spent more time in the toilet with your father than I have with any other man!" Mother Camilla (Dad's friend) had died around the same time as Dad. She had donated her body to Harvard Medical School. When the bones come back, could I do the burial?
A few weeks later I did the burial. Her name before becoming a nun had been Mary Borke. I told the pastor of St Joseph's. He said that the rectory was the old Borke Family homestead. Mother Camilla would have been born in this house, possibly in the very room I was sleeping in.
Anyway, on this Feast Day of All Saints, I cannot help but think that perhaps Dad and Mother Camilla had been pulling a few strings.
This entry was posted in A Story a Day, Creative, Reflections-Awards, Tales, Yarns and tagged all saints, coincidence, funeral, leper nuns, nuns, plumber, reflection, saints on November 1, 2020 by Bruce Goodman.
1846. A sometimes over-sombre occasion
This, declared great grandmother Thelma at her husband's burial, this family is now matriarchal. I am now the person at the top; not grandfather. He did a grand job holding this family together, and now it's my turn.
I didn't at all like the way he favoured some over others. From now on we shall all be equal. None of this privileged nonsense of boys over girls when it comes to handouts. Yes, I know there is some Chinese blood crept into the tree, but they are children of grandchildren, and therefore they don't count. I can't be responsible for everyone in the human race. After all, we're all descended from Eve – and Adam.
To help out those in the family less fortunate I would ask those families well-off, and let's face it that's most of you, to make a generous donation to the memorial fund for Dennis. You would have seen a box for donations at the church door. Or you can mail it.
I reiterate, this is now a matriarchal family, and…
Come along now Thelma, said Nurse Sherry. Nurse Sherry was in charge at the retirement home just across from the cemetery. Thelma was forever dashing out when there was a burial, standing on the artificial grass mound, and making her regular speech. In fact, some mourners grew to be a little disappointed if Thelma failed to turn up. She cast a certain insobriety to a sometimes over-sombre occasion.
This entry was posted in A Story a Day, Creative, Fiction, Flash fiction, Tales, Yarns and tagged fiction, flash, funeral, home, matriarch, mourning, retirement, speech, story, tale, yarn on June 12, 2020 by Bruce Goodman.
1842. A garden makeover
It was possibly the most exciting thing that had happened to Clarence in a long time. It had been a terrible year; a terrible, terrible year. And now this happened! How wonderful!
In January his wife had died after a long and painful illness. He had nursed her over the weeks. It had brought him to the edge of life. The only thing that kept him going was the thought that if he went there would be no one left to care for his wife. Their only child, a daughter, had long disappeared overseas in pursuit of an alternative lifestyle.
It's amazing how sometimes lifelong friends abandon you in times of need. Only a few came to her funeral. Friends over the years had drifted away during his wife's illness and proved themselves no friends at all. That hurt Clarence more than anything. In fact he had trouble drumming up enough pallbearers to carry the coffin.
Clarence thought that the only solace would be in his garden, but that had gone to wilderness during his wife's illness. Somehow, after the funeral, the heart had gone out of the garden. Clarence tried to tidy it up a bit but he didn't make much progress. And then he entered a competition for a free garden makeover. There were a number of conditions; the garden had to be substantial in size; the owner had to go away (all expenses paid) for a whole week while the garden got its makeover; the owner had to trust the garden designer's ability to come up with a creative concept. Clarence thought he fulfilled all the conditions.
The phone went. It was the television company. They were to record the makeover. Clarence's garden was on the shortlist. Would he mind the television cameras coming to film the garden before anything was done?
Next, a garden designer visited in person. She interviewed Clarence. What would Clarence like to see in the garden? Did he want a water feature? A patio/barbecue area? Trees to block out not the sun but the neighbour's prying eyes?
Clarence said he'd like to be surprised. They could do with the garden whatever was creative, whatever would make it lovely. He had just the one request; his late wife's name was Iris. Would it be possible to have a garden bed of irises in her memory? Of course it was! What a fantastic idea!
Anyway, Clarence's garden wasn't selected in the final choice, so none of the above mattered.
This entry was posted in A Story a Day, Creative, Fiction, Flash fiction, Tales, Yarns and tagged death, fiction, flash, funeral, garden, iris, irises, makeover, micro, mourning, story, wife, yarn on June 8, 2020 by Bruce Goodman.
1797. Funeral demands
(Please note that this story and subsequent stories for the next number of weeks were composed and scheduled before Covid-19 reared its ugly head. So my apologies if aspects offend certain sensibilities. Thanks)
Neralie was adamant; when she died she was not to be buried but cremated. Sure, waking up in a coffin in the middle of a cremation would be a horrifying experience, but to wake up in the coffin and be in a hole six feet down and covered in dirt… oh the panic! The fear! The claustrophobia! Cremation did it quickly and once and for all; if you hadn't died but had simply entered into some temporal comatose state, then cremation was the way to.
Not to be buried was simply one of the many stipulations Neralie made about the post-demise behaviour of her relatives and friends. Everyone was welcome to bring flowers, but nothing purchased. Only cut flowers from the garden. And they had to be either deep red or pure white or a mixture of both. Red would stand for the suffering she had experienced throughout her life; white would stand for light and relief and the promise of an eternal future freed from all her suffering. Oh! All the suffering! "You've no idea how I've suffered" was one of Neralie's catch phrases.
Then there was the music to be played at her funeral. None of this namby-pamby pop stuff – she demanded the Kyrie from Mozart's Requiem. And if some people found it too long, then bully for them. They should show some respect.
The six pallbearers should dress as befits a funeral. None of this open-neck shirt stuff; no coloured garments; black with a bit of white – perhaps a white shirt. Well ironed.
Neralie's list of demands went on and on. It was gigantic – like she didn't have anything better to do in the last five years of her life. And sing! Sing the chosen hymn full throttle. None of this singing into ones beard like a wimp.
And then she died.
No one came to the funeral of the lonely imperious decrepit martinet. They stayed away in droves.
The undertaker had Neralie buried.
This entry was posted in A Story a Day, Creative, Fiction, Flash fiction, Tales, Yarns and tagged burial, cremation, cut flowers, death, flash, funeral, story, tale, yarn on April 22, 2020 by Bruce Goodman.
1606. Why be morbid?
The plan was to dress eccentrically. That's what the invitation said. It read, well in advance of the event, that on the last day of the coming month, Shane's funeral would be held after he had been put down humanely by Elaine and the rest of the family. Dress eccentrically.
Well! What a conundrum it caused! What a hubbub! Shane, who hadn't been at all ill but was generally tired of life, was to be put down. There was nothing unusual in that. Elaine had done it twice before to previous husbands. In fact the joke went around that being married to Elaine was the main cause why her (now third) husband had requested a humane demise. But that was not what the hubbub was about. That was not the conundrum.
The bother that sent all into a tizzy was what to wear. What comprises eccentric? Is it colour? Is it design? Is it a combination of both? Shona and her two inseparable "friends" were in a quandary. In the end, on the morning of the funeral, they dressed conservatively in cut, but with fabric that Nigel had found on the cheap at the second hand store. It was partly floral, and excessively loud. If they turned up to the funeral with a brightly coloured cocktail and a handful of sticky spaghetti it would possibly steal the show.
And steal the show they did! Elaine said afterwards that it was well worth putting Shane down just to wring out of her three best friends such a display of bizarre vibrancy. She particular liked the spaghetti touch and Jock promised that when it happened again he would bring some meatballs!
What a worthy lesson for us all! How much nicer is it to have a happy funeral, rather than mooch around like it's the end of the world? All agreed. It was such fun! They couldn't wait to do it again!
Now who's next?
This entry was posted in A Story a Day, Creative, Fiction, Flash fiction, Tales, Yarns and tagged clothes, death, eccentric, fiction, flash, funeral, micro, story, tale, yarn on August 31, 2019 by Bruce Goodman.
1541. Things happen in threes
What an extraordinary day it had been! First, Nola's husband had checked the lottery ticket numbers and Nola and her husband, Cresswell, had won thirty-three million three hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. While they were dancing around the living room, whooping and hollering, Cresswell suffered a heart attack and died.
That took the edge off the excitement. Nola had to organize and go through the funeral. After twenty-two years of marriage, she was sad. Of course she was sad. But it was also a relief. Their relationship had been strained over the last few years, and Nola had frequently dreamed of freedom. Now with the sudden death of her husband and the winning of the lottery, that freedom could become a reality. Of course his death was a shock. It was devastating. It always is. But at least she had security for the future. She genuinely sobbed as the undertaker carted Cresswell's body from the house to the funeral parlour.
At last the funeral was over. Things began to settle. Nola, who hadn't wanted to appear too excited at winning thirty-three million, knew that the time had come to claim the money! But where was the ticket? Oh! It was in Cresswell's back pocket when she had him cremated.
This entry was posted in A Story a Day, Creative, Fiction, Flash fiction, Tales, Yarns and tagged celebration, cremation, death, fiction, flash, freedom, funeral, lottery, lotto, marriage, story, tale, yarn on June 21, 2019 by Bruce Goodman.
1526: A fairly sad funeral
Amelia and her late husband, George, may have shared the same address but over the last ten years or so they had shared little else. Even their circles of friends were different. Amelia turned up to her husband's funeral wearing a bright floral frock. Apparently George had requested that people wear something bright to his funeral. As she moved up to sit alone in the front pew she noticed she was practically the only one who had bothered to wear something bright. It showed you how people cared. Even her friends hadn't bothered to turn up.
Amelia sat throughout the service barely listening. The panegyrics and prayers droned on and on. All she could think was how little a mark she had made in her life: a futile marriage, no children, friends who had deserted her when needed. Those who saw her dab her eyes thought it was grief, but it was remorse. It was remorse for having lived such a trite life. From now on things would be different.
Amelia followed the casket out of the church as if she was in a trance. It was dreamlike, surreal, bizarre – whatever word you wish to use. As she descended the church steps she overheard a little boy say:
"Mummy, who was the funny lady up the front in the dress with flowers on?"
"She a bit strange," said the mother. "She thinks she was Hector's wife, but Hector's wife died last year."
It was then that Amelia realized she had gone to the wrong church.
This entry was posted in A Story a Day, Creative, Fiction, Flash fiction, Tales, Yarns and tagged church, fiction, flash, frock, funeral, futile, panegyric on June 4, 2019 by Bruce Goodman.
1525: A lucky strike
When Constantia murdered her husband she had no idea how expensive the funeral would be. Mondale's departure was meant to be liberating for her. She would be free of the shackles of "the man of restriction" (as she liked to call him when she had had a wine or two). Now she was lumbered with an unnecessary expense because of the extravagant cost of the funeral. Not to give him a lavish funeral might well caste suspicion on the method of his demise. After all, they were rather rich.
It had been a well-planned murder. Constantia hadn't personally murdered her husband; she had paid a hitman to do it for her. The hitman was a helicopter pilot. That too had cost the earth. However, Constantia, and her friend Barbara, had made a major contribution to the murderous methodology. Mondale had been decapitated by a helicopter rotary blade, slap bang on the back lawn. The most difficult part of the murder was trying not to sound excited when calling the emergency centre. Having starred in a high school musical many years earlier was certainly reaping dividends when it came to acting.
All that the hitman had done was to grab Mondale from behind as he was boarding his helicopter and hoist him high enough for his head to be chopped off. It was a bit messy, but was a simple idea simply executed. Why the hitman charged so much for doing practically nothing was beyond Constantia's comprehension. Constantia referred to the incident as "a lucky strike". She had watched and seen how simple the operation was.
And now the hurdle was to cope with the wretched expense of the funeral. Life was so unfair. Barbara, Constantia's friend who knew everything, was willing to post online a Give-a-little-to-the-poor-widow-whose-husband-was-decapitated Fund. Constantia got thousands of dollars.
The next thing Barbara was demanding ten percent. It was such a relief when Barbara was accidentally decapitated by a rotating helicopter blade, slap bang on the back lawn.
This entry was posted in A Story a Day, Creative, Fiction, Flash fiction, Tales, Yarns and tagged fiction, flash, funeral, helicopter, hitman, murder, story, tale on June 3, 2019 by Bruce Goodman.
1524: Funeral arrangements
The cold, hard reality was that Amelia had nothing to wear. Now was hardly the appropriate time to go shopping for clothes. It was her own fault. She had been given a good six months to think ahead, during her husband's final illness, and now that George had passed on she still had nothing fitting to wear to his funeral.
It's not exactly true that she had been remiss in looking ahead. She had purchased a beautiful outfit. Black. The matching hat had black lace to hide her reddened mourning eyes. The dress looked fabulous once the jade and diamond brooch had been brought out of its bank vault to see the light of day; a green and dazzling piece of jewellery that was unspeakably beautiful against the black fabric.
Unfortunately Amelia had worn that ensemble to Fiona's husband's funeral three weeks earlier. Amelia wouldn't be seen dead in the same outfit twice. It was most inconsiderate of Fiona's husband to drop off just a few weeks prior to her George.
There was only one thing for it; in the closet, Amelia had a stunning floral frock. It verged on the outrageous; it was brash, garish, loud. She had bought it to upstage everyone at her daughter's wedding but the wedding had most fortunately been cancelled. A despicable man; and not at all good-looking.
Yes! The floral dress was the answer. Amelia hastily penned a note for the newspaper's funeral announcement: For his funeral George requested that we wear something bright.
This entry was posted in A Story a Day, Creative, Fiction, Flash fiction, Tales, Yarns and tagged black, clothes, fiction, flash, funeral, mourning, story, tale, widow, yarn on June 2, 2019 by Bruce Goodman.


Jaedra and Carl recently relocated to Cedar Mountain, leaving behind the hustle and bustle of city life for a more peaceful existence in the country. We hope you love it out here as much as we do, and take full advantage of everything that this beautiful area has to offer.
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The watch area has a list of variables to be viewed as the program executes. The variable values are updated whenever the program execution stops. New values can be assigned by clicking on the value field.


Fews days ago, i've bought the season pass from the site cause i can't buy from the game. i followed all steps but at the end the game detect that i buy the Seaon Pass 2, all step was showing me the third but i received 3200 Crystals and at this moment i was thinking about crystals that season pass gives. And i go on my mail and they tell me i've bought the Season Pass 2.
How to get the Season Pass 3, i haven't touch all crystals that i received and it's weird we can buy the second pass when it's over.


Dipper and Mabel and the Curse of the Time Pirates' Treasure!
A "Select Your Own Choose-Venture!"
Blendin Blandin is searching for the legendary Time Pirates' Treasure, and he needs Dipper and Mabel's help . . . and yours, too! Journey through time and explore the dragon-infested medieval era, the Weird-and-Wild West, and the laser-and-giant-baby-filled future. YOU choose from multiple paths that lead to different wacky adventures! You might end up finding the greatest treasure ever known, or you could send the twins and Blendin into an abyss from which they will never escape! This all-new Select Your Own Choose-Venture time-travel treasure hunt book features thrilling adventures, original artwork, and an exclusive double-sided poster! The book's author, Jeffrey Rowe, wrote episodes of Gravity Falls; Alex Hirsch, the creator of the show, provided additional story for the book; and the book's illustrator, Emmy Cicierega, was a storyboard artist for the show.


"They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees"
"The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects"
"It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges"
"After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists"
"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity"
"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted"
"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever"
"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action"
"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear"
"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual"
"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action"
"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery"
"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once"
"The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve"
"Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step"
"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own"
"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty"
"The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors"
"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved"
"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers"
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done"
"I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!"
"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them"
"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"
"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery"
"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing"
"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted"


Displair – an Invisible Display or an Evaporated Startup?
Sometimes, to make money out of nowhere, you don't need to do anything. The Russian startup Displair developed a cold fog display and obtained big investments for its development. However, big money spoiled a big dream yet again.
Russian startup Displair has invented displayless displays of the future. It creates 3D images projected on sheets of vapor which are interactive and can be touched and moved.
Investors liked the idea, and in 2012, Displair and its founder, Maxim Kamanin, received $6.38 million in venture capital funding.
However, all the steam went into the whistle. Instead of developing a working prototype, Kamanin began to build a basis for the future corporation.
That included offices with foosball tables, business trips to Dubai and the US, $5000 a month salaries for entry-level employees, a staff of more than 70, and a pricey marketing strategy centered on global PR and production.
These strategically important efforts overshadowed the development of a working prototype.
Then the money ran out - no surprise. At the beginning of 2014, two years after the first round of funding, Kamanin called his staff from a Vegas conference he attended in hope to bring more financing and let everyone know that there was no means to finalize the product.
Another genius inventor that stumbled over a principle of life: If you are not living your idea, big money will push you off the track.
And if you give in to temptation, your dream might evaporate.


Providing jockey Joel Rosario and trainer Chad Brown with a sweep of Del Mar's two Grade I stakes events this weekend, Great Britain-bred Uni rallied from next-to-last with a blazing burst of speed in the stretch to win the $300,000 Matriarch Stakes Sunday, closing day of the 16-day fall racing season.
Content to allow Uni to lag in the early stages of the one-mile race over the infield Jimmy Durante Turf Course, Rosario steered his mount to the outside at the top of the stretch and the four-year-old daughter of More Than Ready responded brilliantly to overhaul 25-1 longshot Daddy Is a Legend in the last half-dozen strides and win by a length in 1:34.35.
Daddy Is a Legend, piloted by Manny Franco, appeared all over a winner until overtaken by the winner and was a length and one-quarter in front of third-place Quidura, also trained by Brown. The 2-1 favored Vasilika was a neck farther back in fourth in pursuit of her ninth straight victory. Withdrawn from the race for older fillies and mares was Ms Bad Behavior.
Rosario and Brown teamed to win Saturday's $300,000 Hollywood Derby in similar come-from-behind style with the talented Raging Bull. They also won the 2017 Matriarch renewal with Off Limits, and Rosario won the race in 2014 aboard La Tia.
Uni, owned by Head of Plains Partners and Bethlehem Stables, scored her fourth consecutive stakes win in four starts this year. Sent off at 5-1, Uni paid $13.20, $6.40 and $5 while earning $180,000 to swell her bankroll to $892,880. Daddy Is a Legend paid $16.40 and $10.80, while Quidura returned $6.40.
The stakes win was the second of the meet and third (he won it last year with Off Limits and in 2014 with La Tia) in the Matriarch for rider Rosario. He now has 26 stakes wins at Del Mar.
The stakes win was the second of the meet and the second (he won it last year with Off Limits) in the Matriarch for trainer Brown. He now has seven stakes wins at Del Mar, six of them in Grade I races.
The winning owners are Head of Plains Stable of Sol Kumin of New York City, Bethlehem Stable of Michael Caruso of Bethlehem, PA, and Robert LaPenta of Yonkers, NY.


Low fare: seniors, students, childrens (7–17), large family, museum workers, persons with flyer of the exhibition.
Free: for children under 7, orphans, persons without parental care, disabled, veterans of WW, WW participants, war invalids, combat veterans, repressed, heroes of the Soviet Union, heroes of the Russian Federation, holders of the Order of Glory, ICOM members, the Trustees of the Polytechnic Museum with their invited persons.
If you have a valid exhibition ticket, you can attend the other event on the same day (if there are any) for free within working hours.
Natalia Fuchs, art historian (MediaArtHistories, Donau Universitɚt, Austria) and specialist incultural management (Cultural Management, University of Manchester), curator of interdisciplinary projects of Polytechnic museum and «Polytech.Science.Art» program.
We have come a long way to begin this partnership with the Ars Electronica Center, and I am very glad that it was the Polytechnic Museum that succeeded in reaching strategic agreement. We are knit together by the ideas of public education, science and technology communication, as well as the purpose of creating a platform for free thought and experimentation not only for professionals, but for all people, visitors of our exhibitions, lectures, and special events. In the context of the EARTH LAB project, I feel deeply attached to its idea of rethinking our planet as a laboratory in a creative way, and also to the artists whose works were selected for the exhibition.
Manuela Naveau lives and works in Linz, Austria. Since completing her studies at Linz Art University, she has worked asan artist and curator in Austria and abroad since 1997. She returned to Linz in 2003 to assume curatorial and project management responsibilities at Ars Electronica. In collaboration with Gerfried Stocker, artistic director of Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, Manuela Naveau developed the Ars Electronica Export division, which she has co-headed since its inception. In addition to curating, producing and placing Ars Electronica exhibitions at museums and institutions world-wide, her interest is focused on the manifold manifestations of contemporary artistic practice. Since 2014 Manuela Naveau is lecturer for "Artistic / Scientific Research Methods"at the University for Art and Industrial Design in Linz / Interface Culture and currently finished "Crowd & Art"; her PhD thesis research investigates new forms of internet-based participation in the artistic process and their influence on artistic practice that isin a phase of constant flux.
Alexey Shcherbina – independent curator, founder of modern music and media art festival MIGZ, curator of educational programs devoted to the interaction of new technologies and art atthe Moscow International Festival «Circle ofLight», organizer of a number of Russian and international events related to music and newmedia.
In recent years, the Polytechnic Museum has created a new community of creative intellectuals, scientists, engineers, software developers, and other technology professionals. Collaboration of these outstanding characters builds up the Russian section of the project between the Polytechnic Museum and the Ars Electronica Center in Moscow, and the project itself is certainly a major step towards integration into the global community.


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Q: error: implicit declaration of function 'rl_replace_line' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration] I'm trying to implement rl_replace_line() in my code but when I try to compile it like that:
gcc -lreadline test.c -o test

I get this error message:
error: implicit declaration of function 'rl_replace_line' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]

however I think I used the good header files?
here is my code:
# include <stdio.h>
# include <readline/readline.h>
# include <readline/history.h>
# include <unistd.h>
# include <stdlib.h>

char    *get_line()
{
    char *line;

    line = NULL;
    if (line)
    {
        free(line);
        line = NULL;
    }
    line = readline("Minishell>");
    if (line)
        add_history(line);
    return (line);
}

void    sig_handler(int signum)
{
    if (signum == SIGINT)
    {
        printf("\n");
        rl_on_new_line();
        rl_replace_line("", 0);
        rl_redisplay();
    }
}

int main(void)
{
    char    *line;

    signal(SIGINT, sig_handler);
    line = get_line();
    printf("%s\n", line);
}

I don't understand why it doesn't work, I hope you guys can help thanks!

A: I managed to solve my problem by including the correct path with:
-L .brew/opt/readline/lib and -I .brew/opt/readline/include
now I compile like this and it's working:
gcc test.c -o test -lreadline -L .brew/opt/readline/lib -I .brew/opt/readline/include

A: I solve the issue by finding the libreadline.a  with the command ==> find / -name libreadline.a 2> /dev/null.
The result is ==> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/readline/8.1.2/lib/libreadline.a
So I put the correct path for the compilation:
-L libs -lft -L /opt/homebrew/Cellar/readline/8.1.2/lib -lreadline.
No this is working perfectly