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' Copyright (c) Microsoft.  All Rights Reserved.  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.  See License.txt in the project root for license information.

Imports System.Xml.Linq
Imports Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Commands
Imports Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.UnitTests.Extensions
Imports Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.UnitTests.Workspaces
Imports Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.VisualBasic.ImplementAbstractClass
Imports Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Text
Imports Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text
Imports Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Operations

Namespace Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.VisualBasic.UnitTests.Diagnostics.ImplementAbstractClass
    Public Class ImplementAbstractClassCommandHandlerTests

        <WorkItem(530553, "http://vstfdevdiv:8080/DevDiv2/DevDiv/_workitems/edit/530553")>
        <WpfFact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.CodeActionsImplementAbstractClass)>
        Public Async Function TestSimpleCases() As Task
            Dim code = <text>
Imports System

Public MustInherit Class Foo
    Public MustOverride Sub Foo(i As Integer)
    Protected MustOverride Function Baz(s As String, ByRef d As Double) As Boolean
End Class
Public Class Bar
    Inherits Foo$$
End Class</text>

            Dim expectedText = <text>
    Public Overrides Sub Foo(i As Integer)
        Throw New NotImplementedException()
    End Sub

    Protected Overrides Function Baz(s As String, ByRef d As Double) As Boolean
        Throw New NotImplementedException()
    End Function</text>

            Await TestAsync(code,
             expectedText,
             Sub() Throw New Exception("The operation should have been handled."),
             Sub(x, y) AssertEx.AssertContainsToleratingWhitespaceDifferences(x, y))
        End Function

        <WorkItem(530553, "http://vstfdevdiv:8080/DevDiv2/DevDiv/_workitems/edit/530553")>
        <WpfFact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.CodeActionsImplementAbstractClass)>
        Public Async Function TestInvocationAfterWhitespaceTrivia() As Task
            Dim code = <text>
Imports System

Public MustInherit Class Foo
    Public MustOverride Sub Foo(i As Integer)
End Class
Public Class Bar
    Inherits Foo $$
End Class
                      </text>

            Dim expectedText = <text>
    Public Overrides Sub Foo(i As Integer)
        Throw New NotImplementedException()
    End Sub</text>

            Await TestAsync(code,
                 expectedText,
                 Sub() Throw New Exception("The operation should have been handled."),
                 Sub(x, y) AssertEx.AssertContainsToleratingWhitespaceDifferences(x, y))
        End Function

        <WpfFact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.CodeActionsImplementAbstractClass)>
        Public Async Function TestInvocationAfterCommentTrivia() As Task
            Dim code = <text>
Imports System

Public MustInherit Class Foo
    Public MustOverride Sub Foo(i As Integer)
End Class
Public Class Bar
    Inherits Foo 'Comment $$
End Class
                      </text>

            Dim expectedText = <text>
    Public Overrides Sub Foo(i As Integer)
        Throw New NotImplementedException()
    End Sub</text>

            Await TestAsync(code,
                 expectedText,
                 Sub() Throw New Exception("The operation should have been handled."),
                 Sub(x, y) AssertEx.AssertContainsToleratingWhitespaceDifferences(x, y))
        End Function

        <WpfFact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.CodeActionsImplementAbstractClass)>
        Public Async Function TestNoMembersToImplement() As Task
            Dim code = <text>
Imports System

Public MustInherit Class Foo
End Class
Public Class Bar
    Inherits Foo$$
End Class</text>

            Dim expectedText = <text>
Imports System

Public MustInherit Class Foo
End Class
Public Class Bar
    Inherits Foo

End Class</text>

            Using workspace = Await GetWorkspaceAsync(code)
                Dim editorOperations = workspace.GetService(Of IEditorOperationsFactoryService).GetEditorOperations(workspace.Documents.Single.GetTextView())
                Test(workspace,
                 expectedText,
                 Sub() editorOperations.InsertNewLine(),
                 Sub(x, y) Assert.Equal(x.Trim(), y.Trim()))
            End Using
        End Function

        <WorkItem(544412, "http://vstfdevdiv:8080/DevDiv2/DevDiv/_workitems/edit/544412")>
        <WpfFact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.CodeActionsImplementAbstractClass)>
        Public Async Function TestEnterNotOnSameLine() As Task
            Dim code = <text>
MustInherit Class Base
    MustOverride Sub foo()
End Class

Class SomeClass
    Inherits Base
    'comment $$
End Class
</text>

            Dim expectedText = <text>
MustInherit Class Base
    MustOverride Sub foo()
End Class

Class SomeClass
    Inherits Base
    'comment

End Class</text>

            Using workspace = Await GetWorkspaceAsync(code)
                Dim editorOperations = workspace.GetService(Of IEditorOperationsFactoryService).GetEditorOperations(workspace.Documents.Single.GetTextView())
                Test(workspace,
                 expectedText,
                 Sub() editorOperations.InsertNewLine(),
                 Sub(x, y) Assert.Equal(x.Trim(), y.Trim()))
            End Using
        End Function

        <WpfFact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.CodeActionsImplementAbstractClass)>
        Public Async Function TestWithEndBlockMissing() As Task
            Dim code = <text>
Imports System

Public MustInherit Class Foo
    Public MustOverride Sub Foo(i As Integer)
End Class
Public Class Bar
    Inherits Foo$$
</text>

            Dim expectedText = <text>
Imports System

Public MustInherit Class Foo
    Public MustOverride Sub Foo(i As Integer)
End Class
Public Class Bar
    Inherits Foo

    Public Overrides Sub Foo(i As Integer)
        Throw New NotImplementedException()
    End Sub
End Class</text>

            Await TestAsync(code,
                 expectedText,
                 Sub() Throw New Exception("The operation should have been handled."),
                 Sub(x, y) AssertEx.AssertEqualToleratingWhitespaceDifferences(x, y))
        End Function

        Private Async Function TestAsync(code As XElement, expectedText As XElement, nextHandler As Action, assertion As Action(Of String, String)) As Task
            Using workspace = Await GetWorkspaceAsync(code)
                Test(workspace, expectedText, nextHandler, assertion)
            End Using
        End Function

        Private Sub Test(workspace As TestWorkspace, expectedText As XElement, nextHandler As Action, assertion As Action(Of String, String))
            Dim document = workspace.Documents.Single()
            Dim view = document.GetTextView()
            Dim cursorPosition = document.CursorPosition.Value
            Dim snapshot = view.TextBuffer.CurrentSnapshot

            view.Caret.MoveTo(New SnapshotPoint(snapshot, cursorPosition))

            Dim commandHandler As ICommandHandler(Of ReturnKeyCommandArgs) =
                New ImplementAbstractClassCommandHandler(workspace.GetService(Of IEditorOperationsFactoryService))
            commandHandler.ExecuteCommand(New ReturnKeyCommandArgs(view, view.TextBuffer), nextHandler)

            Dim text = view.TextBuffer.CurrentSnapshot.AsText().ToString()

            assertion(expectedText.NormalizedValue, text)
        End Sub

        Private Function GetWorkspaceAsync(code As XElement) As Task(Of TestWorkspace)
            Return TestWorkspace.CreateAsync(
                <Workspace>
                    <Project Language="Visual Basic" AssemblyName="Assembly" CommonReferences="true">
                        <Document>
                            <%= code.Value %>
                        </Document>
                    </Project>
                </Workspace>)
        End Function
    End Class
End Namespace


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Backpage, Censorship, Cindy McCain, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, John McCain, News, Opinion, Sex Work, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin
Arizona Republic 'Reporter' Falsely Accuses Renowned Journalists of 'Murder' and Misreads Indictment
by Stephen Lemonson September 1, 2021 September 5, 2021
Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas goes all in for the prosecution's bogus theory of the Lacey/Larkin case.(AZPBS via YouTube)
In a slanderous piece for the Arizona Republic, Richard Ruelas regurgitates prosecution talking points, misreads the indictment and falsely accuses Lacey and Larkin of murder.
In hindsight, I should not be surprised by "reporter" Richard Ruelas' shameful steaming pile of a hit piece in the Arizona Republic yesterday.
After all, the first thing the Republic lifer did when veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin were arrested by the FBI on April 6, 2018 was run to Cindy Lou Hensley McCain for a video chat, in which Ruelas unquestioningly swallowed everything the gloating Consort of Cornville said about the arrests, with zero rebuttal. He didn't even bother to ask if the McCains might have an ax to grind with Lacey and Larkin, something Front Page Confidential has documented at length.
But Ruelas' reporting in his preview of the Lacey/Larkin trial is so blatantly inaccurate, so willfully ignorant and so grotesquely biased that he might as well have let lead prosecutor Kevin Rapp write it for him. At least Rapp would not have made some of Ruelas' rookie mistakes, like misreading the indictment and putting a quote ascribed to Larkin into Lacey's mouth, which I'll get to shortly.
I mean, Ruelas actually "teaches" at ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism. Which is scary. And a great argument for why J-schools should be abolished.
(Perhaps I'm being too harsh on the profession, both the Associated Press and Channel3/Channel 5 did fair pieces on the upcoming trial. So the issue is more specific to Ruelas.)
Does Ruelas teach aspiring journalists how to accuse a person of murder who is innocent of that charge?
Because that's what he did with Lacey and Larkin, the founders and former owners of the Phoenix New Times and Village Voice Media, by doing the prosecutors' filthy business for them, alleging that, as the onetime owners of the classified listings site, Backpage.com, they are somehow vicariously responsible for homicides that they did not commit and had nada to do with.
It's worth noting that Lacey, Larkin and their four co-defendants are not charged with murder or other heinous crimes, like sex trafficking or child sex trafficking. Rather, they are charged with 100 counts related to facilitating misdemeanor state prostitution offenses in violation of the U.S. Travel Act, as well as attendant money laundering and conspiracy charges.
Murder and Misdirection
How did Ruelas get from facilitating prostitution, which a majority of adults want decriminalized, to murder?
Wrong-way Ruelas achieves this Super Dave Osborne-like leap of logic by leading his screed with the details of the murder of a young woman who was working for an escort agency when she was stabbed to death by a psychopath in 2012. Her name was Crystal MacMartin.
An escort agency sent her to a Scottsdale apartment occupied by the killer, who took a butcher knife to her. Ruelas tells us the murderer pleaded guilty and is doing life, but he overlooks the man's name.
And no, it wasn't Lacey or Larkin. It was James Michael Matthews, according to court documents.
Ruelas might've gotten the story straight if his tongue hadn't been surgically connected to the prosecutor's ass.
Police found MacMartin, Ruelas says, "Covered in blood, nearly two dozen stab wounds to her back, abdomen and chest, including a fatal one that punctured her heart."
He continues, writing,
"MacMartin would be listed as Victim 6 in a lengthy indictment handed down in 2018 against the founders of the Backpage website. Her death was used to build the case that executives and employees of the since-shuttered website knew they were facilitating prostitution and continually turned a blind eye to the consequences."
Ruelas' judgemental tone continues throughout. He mentions a police detective's conversation with a dispatcher who sent the young woman to Matthews' apartment. The escort agency allegedly placed an ad on Backpage for an anonymous "Nadia," but Ruelas doesn't hold the agency to the same standard as Backpage.
Ruelas laments that federal Judge Susan Brnovich has ordered that details of such third-party "murders" cannot come into the trial, because they would be prejudicial.
But no one is charged with murder in this trial, and even the government's attempt to link murders to legal escort ads is more akin to a Rube Goldberg contraption than anything.
Judge Brnovich previously wrote in an order that, "If evidence of the details of the murders were introduced, it is likely to inflame the passions of the jurors against the defendants or create confusion that defendants are responsible for the murders."
Bertrand on Point
On Tuesday, in the wake of Ruelas' slimy excuse for journalism, defense attorney Joy Bertrand, who represents one of Lacey and Larkin's co-defendants, filed a motion asking Brnovich to enforce her previous order against the prosecution, preventing the government from introducing irrelevant, prejudicial evidence.
Bertrand makes the following points, which Ruelas might have included in his piece, if his tongue was not surgically connected (metaphorically speaking) to the prosecution's ass and he'd made a few phone calls.
Bertrand writes:
1. Escort Services are legal in Scottsdale. The city even licenses them.
2. Ms. MacMartin filled out an employment application to work at the escort service. In that application, she noted she had worked as an escort in Las Vegas, before moving to Arizona.
3. The Government can point to no evidence that shows she was forced into working as an escort or "trafficked."
4. Ms. MacMartin's significant other drove her to the appointment with Matthews – further underscoring that Ms. MacMartin worked as an escort voluntarily and did not hide what she did for a living. Ms. MacMartin's significant other insisted that Ms. MacMartin did not have sex for money.
5. The escort service did not use Ms. MacMartin in an ad. Rather, the service used generic ads that described different kinds of women (e.g., slender brunette, busty blonde).
6. The Government offers no evidence to show that Ms. MacMartin intended to do anything other than provide escort services to Matthews.
The police report discusses the tearful testimony of MacMartin's boyfriend, who told the police that his girlfriend was not a prostitute. Is the boyfriend responsible for MacMartin's death? Um, hell no. Unlike Ruelas, I don't shift the moral blame for crimes to innocents.
The "Mundane" Amendment
Ruelas also pooh-poohs the First Amendment right to publish as "vital, if mundane."
Huh? The same right that the Republic enjoys? As Lacey's attorney Paul Cambria has explained, the publication of third-party speech, uploaded by users to an interactive site like Backpage, is presumptively protected by the First Amendment.
There's nothing 'mundane' about the First Amendment. It is the pillar of American democracy. If Ruelas doesn't like it, perhaps North Korea would be more to his liking.
That principle protects the Republic, as well as the wide range of classified ads that were uploaded to Backpage — including massage, dating and escort ads.
Only speech that is illegal on its face is not protected by the U.S. Constitution. And it is the government's responsibility to prove that speech is unprotected. The content of adult-oriented ads is often ambiguous, and federal courts have repeatedly ruled such language to be 100-percent legal.
There's nothing "mundane" about the First Amendment. It is the pillar of American democracy. If Ruelas doesn't like it, perhaps North Korea would be more to his liking.
There are so many screw-ups in Ruelas' piece that it would take too much time to address them all. But one of the dumbest occurs when Ruelas misreads the indictment and ascribes a quote to Lacey that should be attributed to Larkin.
It's where Larkin allegedly states, in an email, that adult-oriented advertising is in the company's "DNA."
Rueles corrected it after I pointed it out on Twitter numerous times.
Like they taught us in grade school, friends: Reading Is Fundamental.
BTW, there's nothing incriminating in that DNA comment. Adult ads were common for decades in alternative weeklies, the Yellow Pages and even the sports page of some dailies.
You know, because they were legal. And should remain so, if you ask me.
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And, ICYMI, please read:
STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL LACEY AND JIM LARKIN ON THEIR UPCOMING TRIAL
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(Phys.org)—NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has once again proven that it is an excellent tool to search for rotating neutron stars emitting beams of electromagnetic radiation, known as pulsars. A team of astronomers, led by H. Thankful Cromartie of the University of Virginia, has recently used the 305-meter Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to observe unidentified sources of gamma rays detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi spacecraft. As it turns out, six of these objects indicated by LAT are rapidly rotating neutron stars, with periods of a few thousandths of a second, called millisecond pulsars (MSPs). The scientists published their results online on Jan. 20 on the arXiv pre-print server.
The objects of the study were chosen from the LAT's 4-year point source catalog. The astronomers chose 34 from over 1,000 unidentified sources of gamma rays to observe them in detail with the Arecibo telescope. The catalog provided crucial spectral data that helped distinguish possible MSPs from other gamma-ray-emitting objects, like active galactic nuclei (AGNs).
"Overall, the search for MSPs in the galactic disk has been made extremely efficient by employing Fermi-LAT data in selecting radio search targets," the researchers noted in their paper posted on arXiv.
Arecibo observations were conducted from June to September 2013. The telescope's raw sensitivity and its large gain makes it a very efficient tool for finding millisecond pulsars. Thanks to Arecibo, the researchers were able to detect six MSPs with rotation periods ranging between 1.99 and 4.66 ms. One of the newly detected pulsars is a typical neutron star, a white dwarf binary with an 83-day orbital period. According to the research, the other MSPs are in interacting compact binaries wit orbital period less than eight hours.
Three of the discovered pulsars were categorized as "black widows" and two as "redbacks," while one is a more classical neutron star-white dwarf binary. "Black widows" are neutron stars in which much of the mass has been stripped away or accreted by the pulsar, leaving a companion with a mass less than 0.1 the mass of the sun. In contrast, "redback" is a term coined to describe binaries in which the pulsar is frequently eclipsed by outflows from a companion weighing over 0.1 solar masses.
The fastest MSP discovered by Cromartie's team is a "black widow" designated PSR J2052+1218. Located about 7,400 light years from the Earth, it has a pulse period of 1.99 ms. The pulsar is also intriguing for the scientists due to its short binary period, only 2.6 hours.
The "slowest" one is a "redback" that received designation J1048+2339. It has a spin rate of 4.66 ms, orbital period of six hours and is approximately 2,160 light years away.
The odd neutron star-white dwarf with an orbital period of 1980 hours was named J1824+10. It is located about 8,160 light years from our planet and has a pulse period of 4.07 ms.
Other MSPs include two "black widows": J1805+06 and J0251+26, having spin periods of 2.13 and 2.54 ms respectively. The second "redback" spins at a rate of 2.56 ms.
According to the scientists, 17 other still unidentified sources indicated by LAT are strong MSP candidates and need follow-up observations to eliminate uncertainties. Overall, 30 percent of known millisecond pulsars in the galactic disk have been detected in previously unidentified sources of gamma rays pointed out by Fermi. These auspicious results herald more future findings regarding rapidly rotating neutron stars.
We have discovered six radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in a search with the Arecibo telescope of 34 unidentified gamma-ray sources from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) 4-year point source catalog. Among the 34 sources, we also detected two MSPs previously discovered elsewhere. Each source was observed at a center frequency of 327 MHz, typically at three epochs with individual integration times of 15 minutes. The new MSP spin periods range from 1.99 to 4.66 ms. Five of the six pulsars are in interacting compact binaries (period < 8.1 hr), while the sixth is a more typical neutron star-white dwarf binary with an 83-day orbital period. This is a higher proportion of interacting binaries than for equivalent Fermi-LAT searches elsewhere. The reason is that Arecibo's large gain afforded us the opportunity to limit integration times to 15 minutes, which significantly increased our sensitivity to these highly accelerated systems. Seventeen of the remaining 26 gamma-ray sources are still categorized as strong MSP candidates, and will be re-searched.
Incredibly interesting objects. They provide ways to probe extreme physics and extreme states of matter.
cosmology vedas Interlinks-Inspire Knowledge base. I am inventor of Omni-Antenna -tested wide band -this frequency at 327 MHZ is very interesting -and the data provides Space confirmatory Index.
PSR J2052+1218-7400 LY, J1048+2339 at 2160 LY,J1824+10 at 8160 LY - are helpful in triggered mode Conscious search for transition regions- partly identified steps in my books.
Many thanks for the information- 34 out of 1000- identiefied sources-pulsars.


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Board for Certification of Genealogists Adopts Standards for DNA Evidence
October 27, 2018 Certification, DNA & Genetic GenealogyBoard for Certification of Genealogists, certification, dna, genealogy standards, Genetic Genealogy, standardscattaplin
The use of DNA in our genealogical research is becoming more and more prevalent. As the use of DNA has grown, the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) has been assessing how it has affected the field. As a result, BCG has adopted new standards for the use of DNA in genealogical work.
The following news release was received from BCG making the announcement:
For immediate release 27 October 2018
News Release, Board for Certification of Genealogists
On 21 October 2018, the Board for the Certification of Genealogists (BCG) approved five modified and seven new standards relating to the use of DNA evidence in genealogical work. BCG also updated the Genealogist's Code to address the protection of people who provide DNA samples.
The new measures are intended to assist the millions of family historians who now turn to genetic sources to establish kinships. The action followed a public comment period on proposed standards released by BCG earlier this year.
"BCG firmly believes the standards must evolve to incorporate this new type of evidence," according to BCG President Richard G. Sayre. "Associates, applicants, and the public should know BCG respects DNA evidence. It respects the complexity of the evidence and the corresponding need for professional standards. BCG does not expect use of DNA to be demonstrated in every application for certification. However, all genealogists, including applicants, need to make sound decisions about when DNA can or should be used, and any work products that incorporate it should meet the new standards and ethical provisions."
"Standards for Using DNA Evidence," a new chapter to be incorporated in Genealogy Standards, introduces the issues this way:
"Meeting the Genealogical Proof Standard requires using all available and relevant types of evidence. DNA evidence both differs from and shares commonalities with documentary evidence. Like other types of evidence, DNA evidence is not always available, relevant, or usable for a specific problem, is not used alone, and involves planning, analyzing, drawing conclusions, and reporting. Unlike other types of evidence, DNA evidence usually comes from people now living."
In brief1, the new standards address seven areas:
Planning DNA tests. The first genetic standard describes the qualities of an effective plan for DNA testing including types of tests, testing companies, and analytical tools. It also calls for selecting the individuals based on their DNA's potential to answer a research question.
Analyzing DNA test results. The second genetic standard covers factors that might impact a genetic relationship conclusion, including analysis of pedigrees, documentary research, chromosomal segments, and mutations, markers or regions; also, composition of selected comparative test takers and genetic groups.
Extent of DNA evidence. The third genetic standard describes the qualities needed for sufficiently extensive DNA data.
Sufficient verifiable data. The fourth genetic standard addresses the verifiability of data used to support conclusions.
Integrating DNA and documentary evidence. The fifth genetic standard calls for a combination of DNA and documentary evidence to support a conclusion about a genetic relationship. It also calls for analysis of all types of evidence.
Conclusions about genetic relationships. The sixth genetic standard defines the parameters of a genetic relationship and the need for accurate representation of genealogical conclusions.
Respect for privacy rights. The seventh genetic standard describes the parameters of informed consent.
The modifications made to several existing standards call for:
Documentation of sources for each parent-child link.
Where appropriate, distinction among adoptive, foster, genetic, step, and other kinds of familial relationships.
Use of graphics as aids, for example: genealogical charts and diagrams to depict proved or hypothesized relationships; or lists and tables to facilitate correlation of data and demonstrate patterns or conflicts in evidence.
Explanations of deficiencies when research is insufficient to reach a conclusion.
A new edition of Genealogy Standards is expected to be ready by next March. A new application guide and judging rubrics incorporating the new standards will be released at about the same time. In the interim, portfolios submitted for consideration for certification will be evaluated using the existing Genealogy Standards.
1. The Board for Certification of Genealogists® (BCG) contractually granted the publisher of Genealogy Standards the exclusive right to copy, publish and distribute the standards including amendments. However, BCG-certified associates have the contractual right to include reasonable portions of the standards in presentations, articles, blog posts, social media, and the like. In no case may BCG or its associates allow the standards to be published in their entirety because the publisher deems that competitive to its publication rights. ↩
The words Certified Genealogist and the designation CG are registered certification marks and the designations Certified Genealogical Lecturer and CGL are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations, and the board name is registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
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Book Review: Contact
Book Name: Contact
Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1986.
Dr. Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1934. He earned bachelor and master's degrees at Cornell and gained a double doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1960. He became a professor of astronomy and space sciences as well as a director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. He would go on to take a leading role in NASA's Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to other planets.
Dr. Sagan received many prestigious awards in his field of study. As a scientist trained in both astronomy and biology, he has made large contributions in the study of planetary atmospheres, surfaces and the history of the Earth. For twelve years, he was the editor-in-chief of Icarus, the leading professional journal devoted to planetary research. He was a co-founder and President of the Planetary Society, a one hundred thousand strong organization that is the largest space interest group in the world.
An author or co-author of twenty books, including The Dragons of Eden (1977) which won a Pulitzer. His other books include Contact (1985), Pale Blue Dot (1995), and The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark (1996).
Sagan produced and starred in the PBS series, Cosmos, which won Emmy and Peabody awards and brought the concepts of science into the living rooms of everyday people. The series was watched by 500 million people in 60 countries. A book by the same title came out in 1980 and was on the New York Times Bestseller List for seven weeks.
Co-Producer with his wife, Ann Druyan, Sagan turned his popular novel Contact into a major motion picture of the same name which starred Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey in 1977. At the time, Sagan was struggling with bone cancer and two years before his film would be seen the theaters, he lost the battle and passed away. His wife gives the following account of her husband in his last moments in the epilogue of Sagen's last book Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium: "Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever."
"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space." ― Carl Sagan, Contact
Fate comes into play in many factors of a life, a planet, and a universe. It was pure luck that the radio telescopes of the Argus project happened to point at Vega at exactly the right time in the night sky. If not, then the scientists would never have picked up the repetition of prime numbers that showed the first sign of life beyond our own planet. This is the theme of Contact, based on Sagan's studies as an astrophysicist and philosopher, he gives his idea on how our world might reaction to the knowledge of extraterrestrial life.
This is the story of Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, an astrophysicist and radio telescope engineer. She is a scientist working on the SETI project, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. We learn about her childhood and college years as a curious girl who loses her father at a young age. She becomes a rebel who asks questions about religious contradictions and turns to science as the answer.
After college and graduate school, she joins SETI and what is known as the Argus project, a large radio telescope array that is designed to search the universe. Late one night, a signal is picked up. Prime numbers being repeated. The signal is confirmed to be coming from the star system of Vega, twenty-six light years away. Not only prime numbers are transmitted. Two more messages are sent from Vega. One is a playback of the first Earth transmission into space, a speech that embarrasses many, but also a blueprint from a machine, one that is designed to transport people elsewhere.
There is much debate about the machine among the political forces of the Earth. There are also religious forces that wish to find answers. Two prominent American preachers, Rev. Billy Jo Rankin and Palmer Joss meet with Eleanor to talk about the religious implications of the message from Vega. As more about the machine's blueprint is recorded, the more the tensions between the religious and the scientific communities increase.
The machine from Vega is built but later is destroyed by a bomb placed on one of its parts. The American who was supposed to travel in the Machine is killed in the explosion. A second machine is built near Hokkaido, Japan. Eleanor is chosen to be America's representative along with four others from other nations to use the machine to travel.
The machine is activated and the five explorers are shot through a wormhole. They enter a sort of cosmic mass transit system, viewing many star systems along the way. Eventually, they end their journey near the center of the galaxy where a docking station is the end of the line.
The five humans are deposited on what appears to be an Earth beach. When the others go off to explore, Ellie remains behind on the sand. She is surprised when instead of an alien, she is greeted by her long dead father. Eleanor and her "father", who is one of the aliens who took the form to help make Ellie more at ease, talk about Earth's place in the universe and how they traveled to this place. It is suggested that there may be a Creator after all and her "father" suggests that to find the signature of this Creator, she look at the number pi.
The five humans return to Earth using the same method that took them to the way station. Instead of the eighteen hours that they knew was their travel time, they are told that they were only gone for twenty seconds. There is no evidence to back up their claim for being gone as long as they had and since the camera Eleanor carried only recorded static, there is no proof of their journey through space.
Did Ellie and the others actually travel to the center of the universe or are they having delusions? Is the great machine nothing but a big hoax? Can their story be believed simply on faith? You will have to read the book to find out.
My first exposure to Dr. Sagan was via his PBS series Cosmos. Decades later I can still hear that lilting melody of its theme like a perpetual earworm. The show introduced me to concepts of science as a child and sparked not only an interest in the planets and the world around me, but in science based fiction as well. The man had a way of explaining complex subjects in a way that was easy to understand. As I studied science, his name would come up time and again and I realize that his television series and books were only a small part of the amazing accomplishments this man gave to the world. I found the movie Contact to be wonderful in its idea of a great machine that would take us to the stars and that he chose a female protagonist to do the job. In the seventies, this was not a common occurrence. I am not surprised that his first novel won a Locust award for excellence. Contact is a book that I can recommend to people that enjoy "hard science fiction". While there is some relationships that go on in the book, the focus is on the technology and scientific concepts that make the wonders in the book happen.
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Florida Democrat Charlie Crist Abruptly Resigns From Congress Before His Term is Up
Florida Democrat gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist abruptly resigned from Congress on Wednesday. Crist announced he will be resigning ...
Florida Democrat gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist abruptly resigned from Congress on Wednesday.
Crist announced he will be resigning as a Representative serving Florida's 13th Congressional District before his term is up.
"US Representative Charlie Crist announced that effective close of business today, August 31, he will resign from his position as US Representative for Florida's 13th Congressional District.," the statement said.
"Casework operations will continue under the Office of Florida's 13th Congressional District until newly elected members take office in 2023." he said.
"When I took office nearly six years ago, I vowed to defend our Veterans, bring jobs to Florida, fight climate change, and put people over politics," he said.
Crist resigned from Congress to campaign against highly popular Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Democrat Crist isn't off to a good start.
Last week Crist labeled DeSantis supporters "haters" in his first press conference since winning the primary.
"Those who support [Ron DeSantis] should stay with him and vote for him," Crist said shaking his fist.
"And I don't want your vote. If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there!" Crist said.
He continued, "I want the vote of the people of Florida who care about our state."
"Those who are haters, you're gonna go off in your own world," he added.
That's a winning strategy.


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Such an epic marriage of two titans in the world of cannabis strains could actually only have produced a true masterpiece, so it came as no surprise that Dinafem praised their Amnesia Kush as a real smasher. In the vascular tissue of which 70% sativa saps are circulating which causes a mighty electrifying sativa flash that reaches close to the bounds of possibility. Plants exhibit vigorous growth, becoming medium tall with a lot of strong branches full of dense voluminous buds that take 60-70 days to mature. Its souped-up THC count of up to more than 20 percent (CBD 0,1%) makes Amnesia Kush a strain for experienced smokers who can take a lot, whereas novices would be literally overstrained with this THC powerhouse. Also characteristic of this strain is its high limonene content. This lemony terpene gives it a delicious fruity citrusy aroma with secondary spicy tinges. Amnesia Kush also does perfectly well outdoors or in a greenhouse, growing to a height of up to three metres and delivering yields of 600-800 grams per plant under optimum conditions. Under natural light, maturity sets in around Mid October.
As a matter of course, The Doc was extremely keen on Amnesia Kush after he had gotten sky-high on Dinafem's Amnesia strain one year before, and as is well-known, he's very passionate about Kush genetics, too, so he definitely didn't want to miss out on this exciting liaison of two titans of cannabis. A few mouse clicks and one week later, he had a package with three feminised seeds in his hands, of which two went into the ground. Three days later, after a typical Dinafem "express germination", the two seedlings were standing bold upright above the ground. The Doc gave them a veggie time of merely two weeks as his new super-power light equipment, consisting of lots of SANlight S4W LED modules, generates just as much (or even more) growth and branching as his HPS lamps previously did within three weeks. And really, sixteen days after germination, the plants were already very well-developed, with four handsome pairs of dense side branches having shaped bushy compact growth. By the time flowering was induced, the plants measured 25 and 28 cm in height – The Doc enjoyed looking at two pretty uniform, beautifully grown Amnesia Kush plants with dark green thin-fingered leaves.


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The results showed that the content of total phenols in Portulaca oleracea powder prepared by microwave drying equipment was significantly higher than that of vacuum microwave drying and hot air drying.
The total antioxidant capacity, reduction capacity, DPPH and hydroxyl radical scavenging capacity of methanol extract of Portulaca oleracea powder prepared by vacuum freeze-drying method were significantly higher than those of Portulaca oleracea powder prepared by vacuum microwave and hot air drying method (P < 0.05), but the clearance of O-. by vacuum freeze-drying sample and vacuum microwave drying sample was higher than that by vacuum microwave drying method (P < 0.05). There is no significant difference in the removal rate. Considering the product quality and processing cost, the vacuum microwave drying method is more reasonable.
Portulaca oleracea is an annual fleshy herb of Portulaca oleracea. As a healthy functional vegetable, Portulaca oleracea is rich in polyphenols, flavonoids and polysaccharides. Besides being edible, it has certain medicinal value.
Portulaca oleracea powder can be added to noodles, bread and biscuits as functional ingredients to bring additional nutritional and health benefits to food. Among all kinds of drying methods, vacuum freeze-drying can maximize the nutrition and active ingredients of products, but the cost is relatively high; microwave drying method is fast, but in some cases it will cause the loss of active ingredients in food; the most widely used hot-air drying method is low-cost, but often leads to product quality degradation. Therefore, it is necessary to study the effects of these drying methods on the quality of Portulaca oleracea powder, especially the difference between antioxidant activity and phenolic compounds.


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Ryo-Aoki theme, which can play properly only with WinGroove. It seems to be signaling that channel 9 should be utilized as the drum track. I'm guessing that this is only available to specific XG and XS synthesizers, however, it could not be included in the standard sound font (it is able to play in a different way than it is a. This is especially applicable to things such as reverb and chorus which will affect the degree of faithfulness this SoundFont is in comparison to its original sound synth. Actually, I meant to mention that I used WinGroove 0.A4 Beta-2, rather than 0.9A Beta-2. I was working from my notes, and I must have mistyped it the moment I typed it down a long time back.
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You can switch instruments as you go and even add reverb. Drag and drop files onto the program or pick an album of songs to create the creation of a playlist. While it's not an MP3 player, it plays on it. This program first introduced me to the wavetable MIDI synthesizer and is now an integral part of my brain as the model for the way MIDI music sounds. Much like most PC users of the late 1990s, I had to live with a Sound Blaster compatible card with an OPL synthesizer, and this was an enormous leap in the quality of sound. Unfortunately, WinGroove was a 16-bit program designed for Windows 3.1 which is why it did not receive any significant changes following 1996.
This software program could be dangerous or could include unwanted software that has been included. WinGROOVE is a great trial version Windows application and is part of the category of Audio software, which includes subcategories Player (more specifically Midi & Wav). With this program, you won't need to worry about bad MIDI sound again as it comes with more than 130 distinct sounds of top quality. I'm willing to substitute samples with ROM samples, but I'd prefer to do this with the updated version to avoid duplicate/undo work. It's very likely that the program is safe.
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So, you can listen to the highest quality sound even on the slowest computer. You can alter the tempo and pitch of songs.
Ability to play different MIDI applications (games sequencers, games, etc.). Since the application was added to our collection of apps and programs in 2002 It has been able to get 50,094 downloads and this week it also gained 17 new installations. Wingrooves is a program that basically lets you access all of the Grooveshark library accessible from your computer. It allows you to access the hundreds of songs accessible on the streaming service and play the songs without opening your browser. If you're tired of the sound cards you have, purchase this.
Reverb and compression support is provided via the software DSP technology. Ten different drum sets each one with a variety of different percussion sounds. I'm planning to release the latest version of WinGroove SoundFont to serve as v1.2 that will incorporate the woodblock correction, as well as the other modifications I spoke about in the past. I'm happy to know that other users are eager to improve and develop the SoundFont, and sharing their expertise to achieve this. I looked over this Woodblock tool in the WinGroove and its tuning appears to be exponential though at a lower scale.
It was odd that as I played the MIDI that you supplied and it worked all over the place, other than WinGroove. I used Voyetra MIDI Orchestrator Plus to play the MIDI back. When I tried either Windows 3.1 Media Player or WG Player, channel 9 was set to drums, as would be expected. MIDI Orchestrator Plus was also refusing to change Channel 9 to the melodic instruments after playing songs that were not in the playlist. Other playback programs could do this without problem, so I am blaming it for not working this time. There is an older MIDI file from the Tenchi-Muyo!
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Choose your preferred method to display your comments. Then select "Save the settings" to save your changes. Lord of the Rings Online Player MIDI and MIDI to ABC converter. The differences between the beta and retail versions are only two things. The range of instruments available is evident when you first start using WinGROOVE therefore possible that this type of sound emulator is a lot of possibilities. The support for SysEx commands like these appears to be dependent on what MIDI playback program, MIDI keyboard, and synth is being utilized. For my case, VirtualMIDISynth worked just fine, and also Sound Canvas VA and my SC-88 Pro (connected using a Roland UM-ONE).
There are a few features of WinGroove that be more than just the reproduction of sound. I've updated the sound font to v1.1 with the addition of the Dance drumkit, and some other minor tweaks. I didn't discover WinGroove until the year 1998 or 1999 when we used a Pentium that ran 133 MHz but had an L2 memory cache. You could play backtracks or even create them without the not excessive hassle, however, games would be affected greatly. The PCM encoding is used in WINGROOV.TPD samples are ULAW, however, the lower half of the sample is reversed. It is a sign that a harmless program is flagged incorrectly as malicious because of the wide detection signature or algorithm that is used by antivirus software. The laws governing the use of this program differ from one country to another.
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As the end of another year approaches, many of us begin thinking about ways we can improve our lives for the coming year. Common goals are to lose weight or to begin an exercise program. It is equally important to take the right steps to build and maintain good financial health. Here are some basic, easy-to-follow tips to finish off 2012 right and to make your 2013 a financially successful year.
1. Watch Holiday Spending — It's easy to spend more than you can afford. Low sale-prices are alluring. You don't even have to go looking for them; you probably have been emailed "great deals" every day. Don't focus on how much you're "saving" when you make a purchase, but on how much you're spending. If you choose to finance a purchase or use a credit card, be sure to factor in any interest costs you will pay. Set a holiday spending budget and stick to it.
2. Gather Tax Documents — Start getting your tax paperwork in order. Position yourself to file your taxes as soon as you receive your W-2 or 1099,s in early 2013. The earlier you file your return, the less time it takes to process your return. Early filers often have their refunds in a week's time. Make sure that you take advantage of any tax deductions available to active-duty military members.
3. Evaluate Your Retirement Plan — Make it a yearly practice to review your retirement account. Set a goal of putting away at least 5% of every check, and have it automatically deducted from your paycheck. Check the investments you've selected, to make sure that you have the right balance. Take full advantage of any employer match, if you or your spouse is eligible. That is free money! Make a large year-end contribution, if necessary, to get the maximum employer match.
4. Make a Budget — A budget is the basic cornerstone of a healthy financial life. It doesn't cost a penny to make a budget. Use one of the free budget tools you can find online. You should know how much income is coming in and how you spend your money. A budget should account for your regular monthly expenses as well as expenses that occur from time to time (e.g., property taxes, car registration, seasonal spikes in utilities, and vacations). Military families move more often than the average Americans. If you're going to move in 2013, make sure to budget for moving expenses. Stick with it. Keeping a budget, just like a diet or exercise, pays off when you keep working on it.
5. Rainy Day Fund — Make 2013 the year that you build up a fund to cover emergencies and unforeseen expenses. Set a goal of saving enough to cover six months of your monthly expenses. That may feel like a big goal, but don't let the size of the goal discourage you from getting started. Ideally, you should set aside a small amount from each paycheck. Use the same strategy to build up money for other, important expenses like a vacation fund. Depositing your tax refund or a holiday work bonus is a great way to build up your fund more rapidly.
6. Pull a Free Credit Report — Maintaining good credit is an important part of your financial health. Your credit not only affects the interest rate you'll get on a mortgage, auto loan or credit card, but it can affect your ability to find a house to rent or how much you pay for insurance. For some military positions that require a security clearance, bad credit can jeopardize your career advancement. Be sure to check your credit report regularly. You can get a free credit report at annualcreditreport.com. Check your report carefully and dispute any inaccurate information.
7. Evaluate Debt Options — Most of us are carrying some kind of debt, whether it is a mortgage, a car loan, a student loan, or some credit card debt. Whether your debt is causing you problems or not, you may be able to improve your financial health by changing how you handle your debt. Do you even know how much debt you have and how much interest you'll pay on it? Use the new Bills.com debt consolidation calculator to see the true cost of your debt and to learn about different strategies you can use to reduce your costs. If you're starting 2013 struggling with debt, review all the debt relief options available and start working on a plan to resolve your debt problems and reduce your stress. Use the resources the military makes available to help you evaluate any debt relief solution you consider, to make sure that it is both the right solution and that it won't harm your military career.


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Upswing Poker featured pros Doug Polk and Ryan Fee were together on-stream this weekend, discussing their potential entry into the 2016 WSOP Tag Team Event. Saturday's Upswing Poker Twitch live stream featured a back-and-forth between the two superstars on whether they will team up at this year's Series.
The unique $1,000 buy-in bracelet event (in which each winning team member receives a piece of hardware) begins Wednesday, July 6th. Teams can consist of 2 to 4 players. The total team buy-in remains the same, so a four-player team will only require $250 per person to register. In The Money finishes will be paid out in equal parts to every individual on the team.
How Does the WSOP Tag Team Tournament Work?
2014 WSOP bracelet winner Polk posed this very question to his partner, and Fee was happy to oblige and spread the word among Twitch live viewers.
The restriction-free substitution rules in Event #61 cause Polk to visibly do a double-take on-air as he mucks 6-3 offsuit.
The duo joke that the format should simply be implemented in every tournament, but WCGRider just has to verify one final time that team members can sit down and stand up from a table at will.
Fee again confirms there isn't, and suggests that he had originally planned to run a promotion where an Upswing Poker subscriber would get a spot on the team. However, the idea was discarded since not all team players are guaranteed time at the table.
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It appears as if the two are seriously considering playing in the event. "We would swap-out… occasionally," Polk tells Fee as they laugh at their visualization of how that would work.
In a throwback to the Tom Landry era of the Dallas Cowboys and alternating plays for superstars Roger Staubach and Tony Dorsett, team players could literally substitute in-and-out every single hand during the tournament.
The conversation then switched over to how Team Upswing's bench-warmer can get the most out of the experience — and Polk wasted no time in taking a page from Joey Ingram.
That way, the next team member is fresh and ready to go when a hot tag is needed.
Will the two Team Upswing headline pros make a go of it in next month's WSOP Tag Team event? Follow Upswing Poker on Twitch for the latest updates as well as real-time online poker action!


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Amagi helps Fremantle's BUZZR to unify operations
Amagi has enabled Fremantle's BUZZR, the only vintage game show network in the US, to transition into cloud-managed broadcast operations for efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Amagi: OTT and broadcast content is now handled by Amagi CLOUDPORT
Using Amagi's next-generation cloud platform, BUZZR has successfully integrated its broadcast workflows across over-the-air, cable and digital OTT operations on to a single unified platform.
BUZZR, 'a pop culture time capsule', offers viewers classic content from Fremantle's portfolio of more than 40,000 episodes of iconic game shows such as Family Feud, What's My Line, To Tell the Truth, Match Game, Password and Card Sharks. BUZZR is broadcast to more than 70% of US Designated Market Area (DMA) households. The network is available in 67 broadcast markets including all top 10 DMAs. It is also available on cable operators such as Spectrum, Xfinity, Verizon, Frontier, Altice USA, Cox Communications and Wide Open West. In addition, BUZZR is also available nationwide on DISH and on OTT platforms Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, The Roku Channel and STIRR, as well as via live stream.
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"Working with Amagi has helped us to significantly simplify our channel management efforts across distribution models, while also saving costs. Amagi's cloud-based platform with a web interface gave us a high degree of transparency and greater flexibility to check for potential issues and fix them proactively," said Mark Deetjen, general manager, BUZZR. "Amagi gives us real-time access to all parts of the broadcast workflow – a huge advantage when compared to traditional managed services we had used in the past. Also, their solution integrates with WideOrbit scheduling software that we were using. It made the entire workflow seamless, smooth, and simple.
"In our experience, we've found that unifying operations across broadcast TV and streaming gives TV networks the much-needed control, efficiencies and better chance at resource optimisation," said Srinivasan KA, co-founder, Amagi. "BUZZR has demonstrated how forward-thinking TV networks can embrace the technology shifts and advancements to its advantage in pursuing a multi-screen growth strategy. We're delighted to partner with BUZZR and demonstrate the merits of a unified broadcast workflow as it excels across platforms."
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Just in time for the festive period, 'I Want You' is a whirring assault on crass commercialism and a feminist call to reject the trash and go for what you really want. Filled with swooping glitchy beats, twinkling '80s reminiscent synth hooks and soaring, resonant vocals, it's the perfect antidote to the saccharine drivel you can find yourself inundated with at this time of year.
A gritty sonic delight, 'I Want You' is all you could ever need in your ears this Christmas.
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Nicky Robinson – Gloucester and Wales
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Nicky Robinson
Rugby World caught up with 'Dai' while he was just settling in to life in the Cotswolds. We spoke about his chocolate lab Frasier, favourite jokes, and life after rugby.
RUGBY WORLD: How have you settled in at Gloucester?
NICKY ROBINSON: I moved up quite early in July so I've been here a few months now and have settled in really well. There's a good bunch of boys here.
RW: What about going from city to country?
NR: It's a bit different to Cardiff. Cheltenham's smaller than I thought and the boys are more spread out, but apart from that everything's pretty similar. I wanted to move to live in a different area, to not know exactly where I was going, and I've found things out as I've gone along. The whole idea was a change, a new experience.
RW: Have you found local accents difficult around Gloucester?
NR: A couple of boys, like Andy Hazell, have strong Gloucester accents but it's been fine. They seem to think I talk with a strong Welsh accent, though. I've never thought that, but they think that I sound really Welsh when I say certain words. They think I sound like Daffyd out of Little Britain and have started calling me Dai! Gareth Cooper told me they called anyone Welsh Dai. I've tried to change it but don't think I have much choice.
RW: If your house was on fire, what three things would you save?
NR: My dog, my coffee machine – I've really got into it in the last couple of months and bought a new machine. It's great. Lastly, my Sky remote.
RW: Who are the jokers at Gloucester?
NR: Luke Narraway always has something to say – he's good to have around the training park! Andy Hazell's quite chirpy too.
RW: If you could have one superpower, what would it be and why?
NR: To turn back time. It would stop me being late all the time and getting fined. It was £10 at Cardiff but £100 here!
Jokes, Phobias and the Future…
RW: What's your favourite joke?
NR: I had to do this for Sky Sports but can't do the same one without the hand gestures. Here's another one: A bear walks into a bar and says, "Can I have… a pint of bitter please?" The barman replies, "Why the big pause?"
RW: What would you like to achieve outside of rugby?
NR: I'd like to have my own business. I've no idea doing what so if anyone's got any thoughts let me know. If anyone's got a business that's already quite successful that they want me to take over that's even better! I'd basically like to have enough time to play two rounds of golf a week.
RW: Who'd you like to be stuck in a lift with?
NR: Andy Powell – it would be entertaining.
RW: Do you have any phobias?
NR: Lifts! I hate getting in lifts. The one at Kingsholm seems to work okay, but there was the worst lift in the world at Cardiff Arms Park. It could only hold about four people and was on its last legs. It was horrendous.
RW: And bugbears?
NR: Bad drivers, slow drivers. I also get really agitated when I'm hungry; when I'm hungry I'm horrible.
RW: Who is your ideal woman?
NR: Rachel from Friends. Not Jennifer Aniston but her character, Rachel.
RW: What couldn't you live without?
NR: My dog. I've got a chocolate labrador called Frasier, who's two. I live near Cheltenham racecourse so there are some good walks around here. He's enjoying it a bit more than the middle of Cardiff! I take him out twice a day, once before breakfast and again after training. He's a big old boy so when he's on the lead he tends to pull me round a bit. He's good fun and likes lying on your lap so he's good for warmth.
RW: If a film was made of your life who would you want to play you?
NR: Now, who do I like? Mark Wahlberg's cool.
RW: How would you like to be remembered?
NR: That's a bit deep. As a good bloke.
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Kings of the Rod, Rifle and Gun. In Two Volumes.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: London. Hutchinson and Co. 1901., 8vo. 21cm, first edition, xii,688pp., in 2 volumes, with 32 plates including frontis, index, original maroon red cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, t.e.g., a very good set (sp). ~ Biographies of notable British anglers and hunters many with portraits. Includes Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir Humphrey Davy, Sir Richard Sutton, Alexander Russel, and many more.
A Quaint Treatise on "Flies, and the Art Artyfichall Flee Making". By An Old Man well known on the Derbyshire Streams as a first-class fly-fisher a century ago. Printed from an Old Ms. Never Before Published, the Original Spelling and Language Being Retained, with Editorial Notes and Patterns of Flies and Samples of theMaterials for Making Each Fly. - With Two Chromo-Lithographic Facsimiles from water drawings by James Poole.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: London. John B. Day. 1876., 4to, 27.5cm, the First Edition, Second Issue, xiii,(errata page),91p., plus 2 chromo litho colour plates & 25 actual specimens of flies and fly making material in 22 oval mounts on 8 (six double sided) hard card plates with 22 recesses of real flies and materials, the text and mounts in red double line borders throughout, in the original dark green cloth, elaborately decorated spine and upper cover with gilt titles, black stamped borders and decorations & gilt vignette fish and fly pictorial decorations, bevelled boards, a.e.g., some slight foxing else in fine condition, an attractively produced book. Westwood & Satchell p3. Heckscher 18. Sage p3. "With two chromo-lithographic facsimiles. The various patterns and samples are inserted on heavy card stock in an oval frame with raised edge to protec tthem". First book to use actual fly tying materials and flies. It is said approximately 220 copies were produced.
Atlantic Salmon and the Fly Fisherman. Sketches by Ed Sutton.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Toronto. Doubleday Canada. 1985., 4to, 28cm,,240,p., the first edition, limited edition 150 numbered copies& signed by the author & illustrator, this being #56, many sketches,illustrations and plates by Ed Sutton, & numerous plates andillustrations from photographs including some in colour, maps, bound infull speckled beige Bangladesh goat (kid), titles and fly devicedecorations stamped in dark brown on the spine, with large gilt salmonfly decoration on the upper cover & repeat on the upper and lower coversof the brown fine-grain linen slipcase, a fine copy.
The Whole Art of Fishing. Being A Collection and Improvement of all that has been written upon this Subject: with many New Experiments. Shewing The Different Ways of Angling, and the best Methods of taking Fresh-water Fish. To which is added, The Laws of Angling.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: London. Printed for E. Curll, 1714., 12mo, 16.8cm, the First Edition, [iv],110p., engraved frontispiece by Hulsbergh "men fishing with Windsor Castle in the background", woodcut head & tail pieces, the frontis is shaved along the fore-edge to the image, wanting the last page and the index page, supplied in manuscript in a contemporary hand, (last four pages), in early half crushed green morocco, gilt and blind ruled raised bands, gilt titles, marbled boards and endpapers, very good to fine. W&S p18. Heckscher, 98.
A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing. With an Introduction by W. Keith Rollo.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Newcastle Upon Tyne. Privately Printed. (By Mawson Swan & Morgan). c.., 31p., plus 5 plates (inc.frontis portrait, in full dark blue calf, spine titles on the upper cover, original shipping wrapper folded and loosely inserted, first edition, limited to 65 copies, bound with: Set of 11 card mounts containing the 164 hackles described in the text, in the original full dark blue leather folding drop-back Solander box, the 11 mounts are twice cupped (the actual defection is up to 1cm is depth), causing some twisting on the box side of the case, there is no damp staining anywhere, probably indicating a unusual reaction to normal humidity, the one other copy we had previously there was slight plate warping, - all specimens are present. Gingrich pp287-288. Litchfield 75; Kerridge 79. Baigent was the first to understand the importance of using a hackle and how it reflects light (colour) as opposed to the artificial material. See Gingrich. The limitation is variously described at being between 40 and80 sets. Note: because of the plastic cover it is nearly impossible to photograph these plates because there is so much bounce back. The picture does give an indication of the curving on these plates. The one other copy we had did have some plate curving as well, which may indicate the curving is common to this special edition.
The Fly Fisher's Guide, illustrated by Coloured Plates, Representing Upwards of Forty of the Most Useful Flies, Accurately Copied from Nature.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Liverpool. Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers. 1816., sm4to,25.3cm, The First Edition, Large Paper Issue, Limited to 12 Copies,viii,150,pp., with 9 copper engraved plates (8 hand-coloured)including frontis, 2 text vignette illustrations, first and last text pages, on hand made watermark paper, in the original crushed half dark green morocco, raised blind ruled bands, gilt spine titles, pebbled green cloth boards, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., two engraved heraldic book plates, in fine condition, very rare.Author's Signed Presentation, "Alex Pringle Esquire M.P. of Whythank, . with the Author's best respects. June 14th, 1836". Pringle's bookplate on this front endpaper. Together with:Autograph Letter Signed; laid in, from the Author, same date, one sheet, folded to 28.6x 11.3cm, "I regret that the binder has made such a *bungling job in the management of the plates - To remedy this is not in my haven, as the copper plates are no longer in my possession, I trust therefore you will excuse their irregularity. ". Alexander Pringle, of Whyteband and Yair, was the Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire. and obviously an avid angler - A Fine Copy of a Rare and Important Work. Westwood & Satchell p20. A very scarce copy of the large paper edition, one of only 12 copies believed to exist. Heckscher 120. Starkman p61. One of the earliest books to include colour plates of tied flies. This is considered the precursor to Ronalds' Flyfisher's Entomology, 1836, and is only the second work, (after George Scotcher's Fly-fisher's Legacy,Chepstow, 1800) on angling to be illustrated with hand-coloured engravings of trout & salmon flies. According to Westwood & Satchell "Twelve copies of the first edition were in 4to., coloured with greater care, and published at two guineas."* the plates are placed high on the page, the strike line near or touching the top margin.
Angling; or, How to Angle, and Where to Go. (Routledge "Books for the Country", series.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: London. George Routledge and Sons. N.d. c.., 12mo. 16.5cm, new edition, 188p., with 8 plates including frontis, publisher's ads on the endpapers & rear board, original black stamped and decorated orange cloth, a fine copy (tgc). ~ A fishing treatise with all types of fish studied as well as baits and flies. The author writes of fishing in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and France. One of Routledge's "cheap book" editions.
The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing: With the Natural History of River, Pond, and Sea-Fish. Illustrated with 133 Cutts.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: London. Printed by and for John Watts. 1740., 12mo, 16.2cm, [xiv],249,[xi]p., (index & ads,), with 133 text illustrations from engravings, in contemporary full calf, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt decorations and borders in the panels, brown leather label, hinges restored, a very good sound copy. (spg) W&S. p42. Listing many editions. Heckscher 302. Sage p45. Gee, p87. A most popular work which ran through many editions, corrected and enlarged.
Fishing Gossip or Stray Leaves from the Note-Books of Several Anglers.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Edinburgh. Adam & Charles Black. 1866., 12mo, 19cm, x,329,p., ads., septia tone frontis view & title-page vignette, 1 plate (mayflies), in the original fine grained maroon cloth, blind stamped decorated borders on the boards, gilt titles and decoration on the spine, one section slightly jumped but sound, front free fly replaced with contemporary fly that almost matches, very good condition. (Spg) Westwood & Satchell p169. Dr. Albert Gunther, Curator of the Ichthyological Department of the British Museum, contributed the article "The Silurus Glanis" to "Fishing Gossip". Pennell contributed "Dum Capimus Capimur", Bagnall's Bungles", and "The Puff Piscatorial". William J. Ffennell, H.M. Inspector of Fisheries for England, wrote "Early and Late Salmon Rivers and Close Seasons". Other writers include; Edward Murta, W.B. Lord, Thomas Westwood, W. Pinkerton, H.R. Francis, Jonathan Couch, Alexander Russel, Grenville Fennell. W.C. Stewart, Thomas Tod Stoddart and Frank Buckland.
Modern Improvements in Fishing Tackle and Fish-Hooks.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. N.d. ., 12mo, 18cm, 194p., frontis portrait (author), 250 woodcuts, ads, index, green gilt decorated cloth, gilt titles, very good to fine Included is a description of the author's own system of eyed-hooks and method of attachment direct to the line. He claims to have sold 30,000 of his hooks in a few weeks by one London tackle maker. One of the "Pennell" series.
Trout-Fishing for the Beginner. With Twenty-Two Diagrams by the Author.
Life and Sport on The North Shore of the Lower St. Lawrence and Gulf. Containing chapters on SalmonFishing, Trapping, the Folklore of the Montagnais Indians and Talesof Adventure on the Labrador Peninsula.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Quebec. Daily TelegraphPrinting House. 1909., 8vo, 23cm, 440p., frontis portrait & 36illustrations & maps, lists of birds, in contemporary half darkgreen black morocco, gilt decorated raised bands, gilt ruled borderand gilt center panel devices, gilt titles, marbled boards andendpapers, inner linen hinges, t.e.g., upper hinge expertlyrepaired, a very good to fine attractive bound copy of the scarcefirst edition. Comeau's skills, his hunting and fishing exploits,and his knowledge of aboriginal culture formed the basis of thearticles he published in the National Geographic Magazine(Washington) and in Forest and Stream (New York). In 1909 hebrought out at Quebec the present autobiography which is full ofanecdotes and observations, including salmon fishing, trapping,the folklore of the Montagnais Indians, tales of adventure on thefringe of the Labrador Peninsula and his inventory of birds. Itwould be reissued in 1923 and 1954". - DCB. AB 3356.
Insects. Injurious and Beneficial. Their NaturalHistory and Classification for the use of Fruit Growers, Vine Growers,Farmers, Gardeners and Schools.


Is a transport service a single and composite service or is it a set of separate services?
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Article 4, paragraph 4, last sentence, of the Rome Convention on the applicable law to contractual obligations must be interpreted in the sense that the provision applies to transport commission contract only when the principal object of the contract consists in actual transportation of the merchandise involved.
The defendant, managing director of a company, rented four vehicles to a non-resident company on the French territory. The transport, ordered by the defendant were carried out under cover (CMR); the defendant was convicted as the commander of illegal cabotage.


TD Canada Trust provides a wide range of products and services including chequing accounts, savings accounts, mortgages, loans, credit cards, insurance, investment products, and travel services.
Q: if i want to get 800000 $ from the bank of canada and i will pay its intrest at first, HOW MUCH IS ITS INTREST FOR 5 YEARS ??? How much does it cost for me to pay intrest of that loan at first????
I find it pathetic how TD when overnite rates were dropping they reduced high interest rates on savings as quickly and often next day. However now that they are rising they stall on the savings interest rate increase by around 10 days & only allow only a portion of the bank rate increase. In addition the last bank rate adjustment was not passed on to their customers. Some of my holdings are now with another provider.


I'm quite satisfied to have got this done finally, as while hosted services are convenient, they drastically lack flexibility and it's not that much more difficult to run a wordpress installation of your own. I think you'll agree that the new blog layout is much more beautiful than this one. It was designed by my colleague Richard and put into CSS/XHTML/PHP by me.
Pixel-Love started as just a place to keep copy-pasted press clippings, and that's exactly what you'll find if you go far enough back into the archives. When I joined the company I thought it was a bit cheeky to just copy people's content. Even though it does also guard against link rot, the trail of attribution is integral to online work and culture. Things have moved on a lot since Pixel-Love started up at blogger nearly four years ago. Not just in terms of blogging platforms, but with very reliable bookmarking services like delicious integrating further with browsers, and desktop apps making it much easier to sample images and video. The web is getting easier to use in more powerful ways, and we're now going much further to attribute and highlight good work we see.
Pixel-Love spent most of 2007 and 2008 switching from a slightly random press archive to a place for commentary, and we've finally hit our stride in terms of what it is. Pixel-Love will contain commentary on anything related to the game industry, outside of Pixel-Lab that we find interesting and want to talk about. We'll talk about the company itself on the Pixel-Lab news page, but blog.pixel-lab.co.uk should now serve as a permanent home for Pixel-Love, so please update your RSS feeds and any bookmarks you might want to keep.
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