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Woman I Was Before
by Kerry Fisher
Publisher : Sphere
Of all the emotions single mother Kate Jones feels as she walks into her brand new house on Parkview Road, hope is the most unexpected. She has changed her name and her daughter's, and moved across the country to escape the single mistake that destroyed their lives. Kate isn't the only woman on the street starting afresh. Warm, whirlwind Gisela with her busy life and confident children, and sharp, composed Sally, with her spontaneous marriage and high-flying career, are the first new friends Kate has allowed herself in years. Whilst part of her envies their seemingly perfect lives, their friendship might help Kate to leave her guilt behind. Until one day, everything changes. Kate is called to the scene of a devastating car accident, the consequences of which will test everything the women thought they knew about each other, and themselves. Can Kate stop her own secrets from unravelling, or was her hope for a new life in vain?
The Woman I Was Before
Publisher : Forever
In this intense, emotionally gripping novel from the international and USA Today bestselling author of The Silent Wife, a new home can be a happy ending. Or a fresh start. Or a hiding place . . . Of all the emotions single mother Kate Jones feels as she walks into her brand new house on Parkview Road, hope is the most unexpected. She has changed her name and her daughter's, and moved across the country to escape the single mistake that destroyed their lives. Kate isn't the only woman on the street starting afresh. Warm, whirlwind Gisela with her busy life and confident children, and sharp, composed Sally, with her spontaneous marriage and high-flying career, are the first new friends Kate has allowed herself in years. Whilst part of her envies their seemingly perfect lives, their friendship might help Kate to leave her guilt behind. Until one day, everything changes. Kate is called to the scene of a devastating car accident, the consequences of which will test everything the women thought they knew about each other, and themselves.
The Woman I Was Before: A Gripping Emotional Page Turner with a Twist
Publisher : Bookouture
'Wow, what a corker of a novel... exactly the sort of novel that creeps into your life and you don't want to put down... will keep you turning the pages, anxiously, excitedly and soon to reach a thrilling conclusion.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars A new home can be a happy ending. Or a fresh start. Or a hiding place... Of all the emotions single mother Kate Jones feels as she walks into her brand new house on Parkview Road, hope is the most unexpected. She has changed her name and her daughter's, and moved across the country to escape the single mistake that destroyed their lives. Kate isn't the only woman on the street starting afresh. Warm, whirlwind Gisela with her busy life and confident children, and sharp, composed Sally, with her spontaneous marriage and high-flying career, are the first new friends Kate has allowed herself in years. While she can't help but envy their seemingly perfect lives, their friendship might help her leave her guilt behind. Until one day, everything changes. Kate is called to the scene of a devastating car accident, the consequences of which will test everything the women thought they knew about each other, and themselves. Can Kate stop her own secrets from unravelling, or was her hope for a new life in vain? From the bestselling author of The Silent Wife, The Woman I Was Before is a book about the things we hide from those closest to us - and the terrible consequences that keeping those secrets can have. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Liane Moriarty and Diane Chamberlain.
The Woman I Was Born to Be
by Susan Boyle
In April 2009, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for Britain's Got Talent touched the hearts of millions all over the world. From singing karaoke in local pubs to a live performance with an eighty-piece orchestra in Japan's legendary Budokan Arena and a record-breaking debut album, Susan Boyle has become an international superstar. This astonishing transformation has not always been easy for her, faced with all the trappings of celebrity, but in the whirlwind of attention and expectation, she has always found calm and clarity in music. Susan was born to sing. Now, for the first time, she tells the story of her life and the challenges she has struggled to overcome with faith, fortitude, and an unfailing sense of humor.
The Woman Before Me
A Thriller
by Ruth Dugdall
Emma has everything Rose lacks: a faithful husband, beauty, and a healthy baby boy. Rose meets her in the hospital after her own baby dies from premature birth, and when Emma's child dies in a suspicious house fire shortly after, the obsessive and unstable Rose is the primary suspect. Now, after almost five years in prison, Rose is up for parole, but probation officer Cate Austin must first decide whether this accused murderer can be released or if she really is a threat to society. The answer seems obvious at first, but as Cate delves deeper into Rose's disturbing past—a suicidal mother, a distant father, on her own at a young age—the probation officer becomes entangled in the inmate's dark world. Winner of CWA Debut Dagger Award and the Luke Bitmead Bursary, The Woman Before Me is a poignant psychological thriller that explores relationships, dysfunctional families, and the penal system with depth and sensitivity that culminates in a shocking conclusion. Did she really do it? Where does the line between love and obsession lie? Can justice be served?
The Woman Before Wallis
A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal
by Bryn Turnbull
Publisher : MIRA
"Brimming with scandal and an equal amount of heart…a sweeping yet intimate look at the lives of some of history's most notorious figures from Vanderbilts to the Prince of Wales… A must-read."—Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of When We Left Cuba and Next Year in Havana "Bryn Turnbull takes a story we think we know and turns it on its head, with captivating results… A beautifully written, meticulously researched and altogether memorable debut."—Jennifer Robson, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Gown For fans of The Paris Wife and The Crown, this stunning novel tells the true story of the American divorcée who captured Prince Edward's heart before he abdicated his throne for Wallis Simpson. In the summer of 1926, when Thelma Morgan marries Viscount Duke Furness after a whirlwind romance, she's immersed in a gilded world of extraordinary wealth and privilege. For Thelma, the daughter of an American diplomat, her new life as a member of the British aristocracy is like a fairy tale—even more so when her husband introduces her to Edward, Prince of Wales. In a twist of fate, her marriage to Duke leads her to fall headlong into a love affair with Edward. But happiness is fleeting, and their love is threatened when Thelma's sister, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, becomes embroiled in a scandal with far-reaching implications. As Thelma sails to New York to support Gloria, she leaves Edward in the hands of her trusted friend Wallis, never imagining the consequences that will follow. Bryn Turnbull takes readers from the raucous glamour of the Paris Ritz and the French Riviera to the quiet, private corners of St. James's Palace in this sweeping story of love, loyalty and betrayal.
The Woman Before You: The most shocking thriller you'll read this year.
by Carrie Blake
You never know what secrets people are hiding.
A gripping, emotional page turner with a twist
'For fans of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty, this book is an intense page-turner… a book that you won't be able to put down until the very last page. It's awesome, read it!' Our Grand Life A new home can be a happy ending. Or a fresh start. Or a hiding place... Of all the emotions single mother Kate Jones feels as she walks into her brand new house on Parkview Road, hope is the most unexpected. She has changed her name and her daughter's, and moved across the country to escape the single mistake that destroyed their lives. Kate isn't the only woman on the street starting afresh. Warm, whirlwind Gisela with her busy life and confident children, and sharp, composed Sally, with her spontaneous marriage and high-flying career, are the first new friends Kate has allowed herself in years. Whilst part of her envies their seemingly perfect lives, their friendship might help Kate to leave her guilt behind. Until one day, everything changes. Kate is called to the scene of a devastating car accident, the consequences of which will test everything the women thought they knew about each other, and themselves. Can Kate stop her own secrets from unravelling, or was her hope for a new life in vain? From the bestselling author of The Silent Wife, The Woman I Was Before is a book about the things we hide from those closest to us – and the terrible consequences that keeping those secrets can have. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Liane Moriarty and Diane Chamberlain. Readers love The Woman I Was Before: 'It's been a long time since I read a whole book in 24 hours but there was no way I was putting down The Woman I Was Before. No one writes complex, painful family love like Kerry Fisher. Real and raw but funny too. Loved it!' Iona Grey, author of Letters to the Lost 'Wow, what a corker of a novel… exactly the sort of novel that creeps into your life and you don't want to put down… will keep you turning the pages, anxiously, excitedly and soon to reach a thrilling conclusion.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars 'Loved it!!!! Fell in love with the characters, so real and relatable.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars 'I was absolutely smitten with this book! I enjoyed it from the first page to the last.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'I loved this book – I lost my whole Sunday reading – just couldn't put it down!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Kate's secret, when revealed, is gut-wrenching... An excellent read.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'A cracking character-driven story that enthralled me.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars '5 stars! Kerry Fisher has once again nailed it with this fantastic book about how our lives may not really be as wonderful as we like to present them on social media.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'This is the first book I've read by Ms Fisher and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it! It sucked me in from the beginning!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Wives and mothers have an inexplicable need to use social media to share cozy snapshots and smart hash-tags that give the sense of a bright and shiny life. Kerry Fisher writes an endearing story about what really happens outside of the photo frame for women who are dealing with the challenges life brings. A wonderful read.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'There are secrets galore, some big, some bigger. Very well done!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Absolutely loved this book.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'An excellent read.' NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars 'I enjoyed every page.' NetGalley Reviewer
The Woman He Loved Before
by Dorothy Koomson
Publisher : Headline
Libby has a good life with a gorgeous husband and a home by the sea. But over time she is becoming more unsure if Jack has ever loved her - and if he is over the death of Eve, his first wife. When fate intervenes in their relationship, Libby decides to find out all she can about the man she hastily married and the seemingly perfect Eve. But in doing so she unearths some devastating secrets. Frightened by what she finds and the damage it could cause, Libby starts to worry that she too will end up like the first woman Jack loved...
by Ruth Ware
From New York Times bestselling author of the "twisty-mystery" (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware—this time, set at sea. In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant, but as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the desk, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for—and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo's desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong... With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10—one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned.
The Mother I Could Have Been
A gripping and heartbreaking page turner
Why would you walk away from the one person you can't live without? As a child, Vicky Hall never had the sort of family she wanted. The least important person in her new step-family, ignored by her mother in favour of her two younger half-siblings, Vicky was always an afterthought. Sitting alone at her graduation ceremony at the age of twenty-one, she vows to create her own family and her own life, one which is full of the love and attention she has always craved. When Vicky meets William and falls pregnant in Greece that summer, it isn't planned. But the two of them believe they can make it work, showering their child with the love which they believe should be enough. But when her son Theo is two, Vicky leaves him in the care of her mother-in-law, walks out of her front door and drives to a hotel where she takes a room for the night. She doesn't return. It's unthinkable. What kind of mother does that? The kind who is hiding a story you can never imagine. The Mother I Could Have Been is a heartbreaking story of impossible decisions and second chances, from the bestselling author of The Silent Wife and The Woman I Was Before. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Liane Moriarty and Diane Chamberlain. Readers are loving The Mother I Could Have Been! 'WOW!… An amazing read!!!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'I wish I could have read this book in one sitting… I literally couldn't put it down.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Kerry Fisher goes from strength to strength, with The Mother I Could Have Been being her best book yet.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'This is a book that once I picked up, it totally consumed me. I ended up reading it in one evening as I was so absorbed by what was in front of me and I had to see how everything was going to end… An absolute must read.' By the Letter Book Reviews, 5 stars 'I have loved every book I've read by this author and this is no exception. I loved it. I didn't want it to end. Excellent read.' NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars 'An incredible read. So well written and heartfelt.' NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars 'I don't even know how to start this review as I know my words will never do it justice. Each time I pick one of Kerry's books up, I wonder how it is going to top her previous book as each and every one I've read has absolutely blown me away and warmed me to the core.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Another great Kerry Fisher read… this book makes you want to hug your loved ones and tell them you love them as you never know what's around the corner!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Awesome story… grab your hankies! Read in one day.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'LOVED this book so much… Beautifully written and such a great read. Highly recommend.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars '5 stars! I absolutely love Kerry Fisher's writing… Highly recommend The Mother I Could Have Been.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'A cracking good read… Loved it.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Oh my goodness what a story! …I absolutely was drawn into it from the very beginning.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars 'Loved it!!! When I got to the end, I shouted NOOOOOOO!!! (In my head, not out loud.) I couldn't believe it was over.' NetGalley reviewer 'Gripping, heartbreaking, emotional page turner! Wow! … I couldn't stop reading this book! I was hooked! This book has drama written all over it!' Goodreads reviewer 'I'm going to go out on a limb here and say – if I were to ever re-read books, this would be one I would re-read.' Goodreads reviewer
The Girl He Used to Know
by Tracey Garvis Graves
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
New York Times bestselling author of On the Island, Tracey Garvis Graves, presents the compelling, hopelessly romantic novel of unconditional love. Annika Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social situations where she finds most people's behavior confusing, she'd rather be surrounded by the order and discipline of books or the quiet solitude of playing chess. Jonathan Hoffman joined the chess club and lost his first game—and his heart—to the shy and awkward, yet brilliant and beautiful Annika. He admires her ability to be true to herself, quirks and all, and accepts the challenges involved in pursuing a relationship with her. Jonathan and Annika bring out the best in each other, finding the confidence and courage within themselves to plan a future together. What follows is a tumultuous yet tender love affair that withstands everything except the unforeseen tragedy that forces them apart, shattering their connection and leaving them to navigate their lives alone. Now, a decade later, fate reunites Annika and Jonathan in Chicago. She's living the life she wanted as a librarian. He's a Wall Street whiz, recovering from a divorce and seeking a fresh start. The attraction and strong feelings they once shared are instantly rekindled, but until they confront the fears and anxieties that drove them apart, their second chance will end before it truly begins.
Letters to the Lost
by Iona Grey
Publisher : Macmillan
An accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging; her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go. I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if I'd live to see the start of another week. Now it looks like forever is finally running out. I never stopped loving you. I tried, for the sake of my own sanity, but I never even got close, and I never stopped hoping either. Late on a frozen February evening, a young woman is running through the streets of London. Having fled from her abusive boyfriend and with nowhere to go, Jess stumbles onto a forgotten lane where a small, clearly unlived in old house offers her best chance of shelter for the night. The next morning, a mysterious letter arrives and when she can't help but open it, she finds herself drawn inexorably into the story of two lovers from another time. In London 1942, Stella meets Dan, a US airman, quite by accident, but there is no denying the impossible, unstoppable attraction that draws them together. Dan is a B-17 pilot flying his bomber into Europe from a British airbase; his odds of survival are one in five. In the midst of such uncertainty, the one thing they hold onto is the letters they write to each other. Fate is unkind and they are separated by decades and continents. In the present, Jess becomes determined to find out what happened to them. Her hope—inspired by a love so powerful it spans a lifetime—will lead her to find a startling redemption in her own life in this powerfully moving novel.
The Secret Child
A Gripping Novel of Family Secrets That Will Leave You in Tears
"Susie was forced to do something she will always regret: giving her baby son up for adoption. Everything that led to this child, this choice, had to be buried and forgotten. Her secret echoes down through the years, tainting everything it touches. Her husband wonders why his wife is so distant. Her daughters can't understand their changeable mother. Susie knows her past is pushing her family apart, and the guilt is eating her up, but she can't escape the longing for her lost son"--Back cover.
The Girl I Was Before
by Ginger Scott
Publisher : Ginger Scott
I'm the selfish one. I suppose that's the nicest thing people say about me. I've heard the other things, too. "Paige Owens is a pretty girl with nothing else to offer. She's just a good time at a party. She's stupid, heartless, cold and useless. All she cares about is getting a guy to look at her. Why would anyone want to be her friend?" Some of those things are true. Others were true. They're all hurtful. None of it matters. I'm ready to make the hard choices. I'm ready to face the consequences. I'm ready to be the girl I was before, and I'm done being the one who lost her way. I'm ready to become the girl Houston Orr sees when he looks at me. Houston isn't a star athlete. He doesn't play in a band. He's never going to be president, and his life is so far away from simple and easy it isn't even funny. He wasn't part of my plan. But I'm starting to think plans are overrated, and maybe our stories are what we make them. And mine depends entirely on me, and the choices I make…starting now. Houston is my fairytale. He's perfectly imperfect. He's poetry and life. He's truth and heartbreak, all rolled up in a tall body with dark hair, broad shoulders and green eyes that lull me into submission. He's nothing I ever thought I wanted, but the very thing I need. He's the only guy I've ever really loved, and he thinks I'm a princess. I fell into him, and now I'm holding on. But sometimes life takes away our ability to choose. Sometimes…things aren't in your control. Sometimes, it hurts to be selfless. My only hope is that when it comes time to choose, I get it right. Welcome to my once upon a time and wish for happily ever after.
by Evie Wyld
Publisher : Pantheon
The lives of three women weave together across centuries in this dazzling new novel. Sarah, accused of being a witch, is fleeing for her life. Ruth, in the aftermath of World War II, is navigating a new marriage and the strange waters of the local community. Six decades later, Viv, still mourning the death of her father, is cataloging Ruth's belongings in Ruth's now-empty house. As each woman's story unfolds, it becomes increasingly clear that their choices are circumscribed, in ways big and small, by the men who seek to control them. But in sisterhood there is also the possibility of survival and a new way of life. Intricately crafted and compulsively readable, The Bass Rock burns bright with love and fury—a devastating indictment of violence against women and an empowering portrait of their resilience through the ages.
by D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : e-artnow
Women in Love follows lives of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula a schoolteacher, and Gudrun a painter. They meet two men who live nearby, school inspector Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, heir to a coal-mine, and the four become friends. Ursula and Birkin begin a romantic friendship, while Gudrun and Gerald eventually begin a love affair. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an intense psychological and physical attraction between Gerald and Rupert. All four are deeply concerned with questions of society, politics, and the relationship between men and women. The novel ranges over the whole of British society before the time of the First World War and eventually concludes in the snows of the Tyrolean Alps.
A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
by Bernardine Evaristo
Publisher : Grove Press
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow you to turn away from its momentum."—Booker Prize Judges Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley's former students, is a successful investment banker; Carole's mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter's lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows technique from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that shows a side of Britain we rarely see, one that reminds us of all that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.
I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted
by Sandra Martz
Publisher : Papier Mache Press
Stories, essays, and poems deal with women coming to terms with their appearance, sexuality, childbirth, menopause, and aging
by Naomi Alderman
Publisher : Little, Brown
What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? "The Power is our era's The Handmaid's Tale." --Ron Charles, Washington Post **WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION** One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of the YearOne of President Obama's favorite reads of the YearA Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of the YearAn NPR Best Book of the Year One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearA Bustle Best Book of the Year A Paste Magazine Best Novel of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn Amazon Best Book of the Year "Alderman's writing is beautiful, and her intelligence seems almost limitless. She also has a pitch-dark sense of humor that she wields perfectly." --Michael Schaub, NPR In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, THE POWER is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.
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Wild Arms 5, pubblicato in Giappone come , è il quinto capitolo della serie di videogiochi di ruolo iniziata con Wild Arms. Il gioco celebra il decimo anniversario della serie, inserendo apparizioni cameo di personaggi dei precedenti giochi. Prodotto dalla Media.Vision per piattaforme Sony PlayStation 2, è stato pubblicato in Giappone il 14 dicembre 2006 ed in America Settentrionale il 28 agosto 2007. Una versione per l'Europa della 505 Games era prevista inizialmente per il 30 novembre 2007, e poi posticipata per il 2 febbraio 2008.

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Makes a gorgeous gift for that special person who loves to try new gins!
This gift set allows you to try five different Foxdenton Gins.
There are 2 x 5cl bottles of Damson, Apricot, Rhubarb, Raspberry, and Plum presented in a gorgeous Foxdenton gift box.
A great present if you are not sure which of the flavours your friends or relatives will like.


SS501 are a boyband who combine pop and R&B elements in their songs. In songs such as Fighter there is even a rock edge. It is this variety within their music which has gained them a place as one of the most loved boybands in Korea.
More recently the band has taken a hiatus from their Korean activities to concentrate on expanding their fanbase into Japan as well.


HomeOwners for Better Building - TRCC AN ARRESTING EXPERIENCE!
Meet Pat and Bob Egert, law abiding citizens, neither of whom have ever had even a traffic ticket. Building a modest log cabin on their northeast Texas ranch which Pat inherited seemed like an exciting project and a fun place to enjoy their grandchildren.
Today they find themselves victims of builders Bobby Fines and Vickie Leggett, who defrauded them of $65,000 (plus building materials) and who have friends in a Fannin County [Texas] good ol' boy system. As it turns out, Fines is allegedly related to former sheriff Talmadge Moore. Fines' attorney shared offices several years ago with current District Attorney Richard Glaser, which might begin to explain the Egerts' dilemma and why Glaser has so far refused to prosecute Fines for his over-decade-long pattern of walking off construction jobs while keeping clients' money.
On Monday, March 19, 2007 Pat and Bob Egert with grace and dignity that most, given the same circumstances, would find it impossible to muster, testified before the House State Affairs Committee about their ordeal of a four and one-half day misdemeanor trial, and conviction for filing a complaint with the TRCC against their builder. Pat told of the prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Setterberg claim of harassment when the Egerts, on the suggestion of the Attorney General's Office, filed a complaint with the TRCC and the Better Business Bureau.
At the conclusion of Pat Egert's testimony she politely asked Chairman Swinford to please sign the paper from her probation officer that allowed them to travel to the State Capitol to speak with lawmakers.
If you find yourself the victim of a builder and the Attorney General suggests you file a complaint with the builder-dominated "Agency Bob Perry Built" (Texas Observer), the TRCC – consider the risks.
Update: After the trial ended on December 21 2007 this is what has happened to the characters.
A credible source claimed that he had first-hand information that the IRS, in the past month, confiscated the sawmill owned by Bobby Fines (Cedar Log Homes) and business partner Vicky Leggett.
Delta County Sheriff Mark Bassham goes to prison after pleading guilty to a federal felony.
The Fannin County judge who recused himself from the Egert's trial (and who was quoted in the newspaper account) resigned two weeks after the newspaper story on the trial was published.
Defense Attorney Randy Taylor for the Egerts was indicted for attempted capital murder in an unrelated incident in a neighboring county.
"I had planned to go to the Egerts' trial to support them. I figured it would last about an hour. Instead, with out-of-state relatives at home for the Christmas holidays, I spent 4 1/2 days sitting in the court room. What I heard and saw changed my previous view of our justice system. A free-lance journalist, I couldn't write fast enough to copy down all the false and misleading statements by the prosecutor. It was quickly obvious this was a hatchet job, especially since the homebuilder admitted under oath to taking their money! Even that admission did not prompt the judge to shut down the court or for the district attorney to prosecute the offender. The Weekly Gazette editor decided to publish my story after reading it. That took great courage in a small town! Sharon Banister"
Is There Justice for Homeowners in Fannin County?
A Citizen's Lament - Was justice denied in a Fannin County court?
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Since the Treaty of Amsterdam, sustainable development is legally enshrined among the fundamental objectives of European integration as laid down in article 2 of the EC Treaty. In 2001, this objective became the focus of political attention at the highest level. The European Council agreed on a 'European Union Strategy for Sustainable Development' and also referred to sustainable development in its Laeken Declaration on the future of the EU, among the values defining the identity and role of the EU in the world. Five years later, the EU Sustainable Development Strategy is undergoing a review process culminating at the June 2006 European Council.
These are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to this volume, who bring a diversity of perspectives to bear on both the internal and external dimensions of the EU's ambiguous relationship with sustainable development. The diversity of views reflected in this book testifies to the politically sensitive, essentially contested nature of the concept. But it cannot be denied that sustainable development policies have become institutionalized in the EU and its Member States and, as such, constitute an important new subject of inquiry and debate for all those interested in the fate of the European project.
Dr. Albena Azmanova is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies, and Director of its Master's Programme in International Political Economy. She has been working as policy analyst for the European Commission and the European Parliament.


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I'm not going to run for president, period. End of story.
— Despite MIchael Bloomberg's 2010 statement, he's now considering a run in 2016
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Ask Kate about refinancing an FHA mortgage in exchange for lender paid mortgage insurance (LPMI): Denise has been offered a refinance package with a better interest rate. It will lower her monthly payment by $225 a month. So far so good, right? But here's the catch. Because of insufficient equity, her mortgage will now be saddled with LPMI, lender paid mortgage insurance.
Hi Kate, I just bought your book (The Mortgage Freedom Project) and am about to start reading it. I do however have a question you might be able to advise on.
I got an FHA Mortgage in March 2010 with 3% down, borrowing $263,000 at 4.875% (paying PMI as well so monthly cost of $1675 repayment). I've kept watch on the market and was continuously told it wasn't worth my while refinancing.
But recently after reading about FHA increasing PMI costs, I contacted my Suntrust people again.
Now they are offering me a refinance plan that saves me $225 per month but have explained that they are including closing costs of $6,500 and they are providing LPMI (they pay the insurance).
I've done some reading online as I'd never heard of this but from what I read, it's better to stick to the PMI I'm paying as it cancels out when I hit 78% LTV whereas I'd have to keep paying the LPMI on the new rate of 4.25%.
The deal would be my mortgage payments drop by $225 per month with a new rate of 4.25%. But as I have no plans to sell my condo in the future, am I wiser to stay as I am and try to pay more down on my principle? Or should I consider saving the $225 per month on the new rate and using that savings to pay down principle each year?
The condo was appraised at $285,000. I also read that with LPMI you can claim more interest rebate on taxes. Any thoughts?
Many thanks if you have time to advise. I can't figure out which is better to do - save the extra $225 per month and pay more off principle or stick with PMI now and have it go away eventually at 78%. But then I'm still paying a higher rate (4.875%) vs. the new rate of 4.25%.
Should I take new offer and then hope to refinance again in 2 years or so?
LPMI has been the source of frustration for many homeowners who've wanted to participate in the Making Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP).
Hindsight being 20/20, I believe many homeowners wish they'd approached lender paid mortgage insurance with greater reluctance. But I can understand the savings of $225 a month is attractive.
In general though, I've cautioned homeowners about accepting inferior mortgage terms today based on the hope of improving their financing via a refi in a couple of years. This last decade, America has learned the hard way that refinancing for a lower mortgage rate can never be guaranteed.
Do this! Assume that you will need to retain the new mortgage with LPMI until you have paid it off in full. Then ask yourself if your lender's offer is still a good deal.
Another area of caution. Be careful when you read that with LPMI you receive more interest deductions from the IRS. How much is 'more'? $2? $2000? Annually or over the life of the loan?
On the flip side, assuming it's true that you'll keep the mortgage insured with LPMI for only a few years, the brevity could render the tax benefit inconsequential. But only a CPA is qualified to give you individual tax advice based on your personal circumstances.
So read the LPMI fine print if you decide to go forward with the refinance and don't be shy. Ask your lender a boat-load of questions. After all, it's your mortgage and only you are responsible for making the payments. See When Lender Paid Mortgage Insurance Is Clear as Mud.
I suggest before making a final decision about your refinance that you finish reading The Mortgage Freedom Project. My goal is for homeowners to take control of their finances instead of depending on the bank to better their position!
My goal is to empower homeowners! Please spread the word about Refinancing an FHA Mortgage in Exchange for Lender Paid Mortgage Insurance (LPMI) with your friends!
Comments for Refinancing an FHA Mortgage in Exchange for LPMI.
by: Ken from Leland, N.C.
You say in your answers that it is possible to refinance a loan that has LPMI. My home in North Carolina is about even between value and mortgage owed but I cannot find a bank or mortgage company that will do it.
I have excellent credit and income. My mortgage is with BOA. Can you give the names of banks or mortgage companies that will help with a HARP with LPMI.
But back to lender paid mortgage insurance. Here's the deal. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have allowed HARP refinancing for homeowners insured with LPMI for almost a year. But this does not stop certain lenders from adding overlays. Go to HARP 2 Program Guidelines vs Infuriating Lender Overlays to learn about overlays.
You didn't mention if you've contacted Bank of America. I'd start there since they service your loan.
But I'd also ask friends and relatives which mortgage professionals they've used for HARP 2, whether or not your acquaintances have lender paid mortgage insurance.
Here's why I say this - The mortgage originator is as important (if not more so) as the bank itself. So get a hold of a professional through a referral and ask if he or she refinances loans insured with LPMI.
If not, ask who does. This way, you will get current HARP contacts, as opposed to a quickly outdated list.
Hi Kate, Thanks for replying - I talked to the Mortgage guy I'm dealing with today and asked him to run up the numbers for me.
He's adamant that I will not have a problem refinancing in a year or two or more if I choose to, given my salary and credit score (800). I think I do need to read more about HARP though as I don't fully understand how that affects refinancing.
I'll read the small print carefully and see how things look when he runs the numbers.
I'll keep reading your website. My aim is to do exactly what you said in your book, regardless of PMI, LPMI. I have no loans other than my mortgage and have no other debt. So figure I should focus on cutting my mortgage as much as I can and save interest.
I'm making that my goal from now on!
Many thanks - great website!
You are welcome! My door is always open!


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China critic silenced during live TV interview
Becky Davis
3 August 2018, 4:55 am
Vocal critic Sun Wenguang had written an open letter to President Xi Jinping last month that criticised China's chequebook diplomacy in Africa, just as Xi embarked on a trip to the continent
A vocal critic of China's government has disappeared without a trace after security forces strong-armed their way into his home in the middle of a phone interview with a US-funded television network. Retired academic Sun Wenguang, who is in his mid-80s, was speaking live to a Chinese-language TV show for Voice of America (VOA) when the authorities suddenly showed up. "The police are here to interrupt again," Sun said from his home in Jinan in the eastern province of Shandong, counting as many as eight intruders as he spoke in an audio broadcast on Wednesday. "It's illegal for you to come to my home. I have my freedom of speech!" are the final words heard from Sun. The dramatic recording highlights the increasing intensity of China's efforts to silence critics of its policies as the ruling Communist Party aggressively nurtures a cult of personality around President Xi Jinping. Sun had written an open letter to Xi last month that criticised China's chequebook diplomacy in Africa, releasing it just as the leader embarked on a trip to the continent, according to VOA and online screenshots that could not be independently verified by AFP. "Listen to what I say, is it wrong?" Sun asked the security detail in the recording. "People are poor. Let's not throw our money in Africa," he said, telling the intruders that "throwing money like this is of no good to our country and society" before the line went dead. - 'Real tyranny' - Sun, who is one of China's oldest activists, is kept under regular surveillance. He was a co-signer of the pro-democracy manifesto Charter 08 -- a quickly censored document that landed co-author and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in prison. Liu died last year, the first Nobel winner to die in custody since Nazi Germany. In 2009, Sun was viciously beaten by authorities when he snuck past guards watching his building in an attempt to pay his respects to ousted Communist leader Zhao Ziyang -- who opposed the use of force to quell the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests -- on the fourth anniversary of the former premier's death. Repeated calls by AFP to his mobile and home phone number went unanswered Friday, as did messages sent via social messaging app WeChat. Calls to the Jinan public security bureau and the publicity department of Shandong University, his former employer, also yielded no response. "Every time you hear overblown rhetoric about how we are on the verge of 'tyranny' or 'authoritarianism' in America remember what real tyranny and authoritarianism looks like," said US Senator Marco Rubio of the incident on Twitter. VOA is "monitoring the situation closely and will provide an update to program viewers once more information becomes available," its spokeswoman Bridget Serchak said in a statement.
Republicans are worried that a corporate backlash stirred by the deadly Capitol insurrection could crimp a vital stream of campaign cash, complicating the party's prospects of retaking the Senate in the next election. The GOP already faces a difficult Senate map in 2022, when 14 Democratic-held seats and 20 Republican ones will be on the ballot. Eight Republican senators voted to reject Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, even after the ransacking of the Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters who were exhorted by the president to stop Congress from certifying Biden's victory.
US troop levels cut to 2,500 each in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Alaili Dadda
Alaili Dadda, Djibouti
January, like December, in Alaili Dadda, Djibouti, is a moderately hot winter month, with average temperature fluctuating between 19.6°C (67.3°F) and 27.7°C (81.9°F). With an average high-temperature of 27.7°C (81.9°F) and an average low-temperature of 19.6°C (67.3°F), January is the coldest month. Weather in January »
February, the last month of the winter, in Alaili Dadda, is also a moderately hot month, with average temperature varying between 28°C (82.4°F) and 20.4°C (68.7°F). In February, the average high-temperature is almost the same as in January - a still warm 28°C (82.4°F). Weather in February »
March, the first month of the spring, in Alaili Dadda, is also a moderately hot month, with average temperature varying between 29.7°C (85.5°F) and 21.6°C (70.9°F). In Alaili Dadda, the average high-temperature is essentially the same as in February - a still moderately hot 29.7°C (85.5°F). Weather in March »
April is a tropical spring month in Alaili Dadda, Djibouti, with average temperature varying between 23.3°C (73.9°F) and 31.6°C (88.9°F). In Alaili Dadda, the average high-temperature in April is practically the same as in March - a hot 31.6°C (88.9°F). Weather in April »
May, the last month of the spring, in Alaili Dadda, is another hot month, with average temperature ranging between min 25.7°C (78.3°F) and max 34.7°C (94.5°F). In Alaili Dadda, the average high-temperature in May slightly increases, from a tropical 31.6°C (88.9°F) in April, to a still hot 34.7°C (94.5°F). Weather in May »
The first month of the summer, June, is a very hot month in Alaili Dadda, Djibouti, with average temperature ranging between max 37.4°C (99.3°F) and min 28.2°C (82.8°F). In June, the average high-temperature is essentially the same as in May - a torrid 37.4°C (99.3°F). Weather in June »
July, like June, in Alaili Dadda, Djibouti, is a very hot summer month, with average temperature varying between 28°C (82.4°F) and 38.2°C (100.8°F). July is the warmest month, with an average high-temperature of 38.2°C (100.8°F) and an average low-temperature of 28°C (82.4°F). Weather in July »
The last month of the summer, August, is also a sweltering month in Alaili Dadda, Djibouti, with temperature in the range of an average low of 27.3°C (81.1°F) and an average high of 37.4°C (99.3°F). In August, the average high-temperature is essentially the same as in July - a still torrid 37.4°C (99.3°F). Weather in August »
September, the first month of the autumn, in Alaili Dadda, is also a sweltering month, with temperature in the range of an average high of 35.7°C (96.3°F) and an average low of 27.3°C (81.1°F). In Alaili Dadda, the average high-temperature is relatively the same as in August - a still sweltering 35.7°C (96.3°F). Weather in September »
October, like September, is a hot autumn month in Alaili Dadda, Djibouti, with average temperature fluctuating between 32.6°C (90.7°F) and 23.8°C (74.8°F). In October, the average high-temperature marginally drops, from a torrid 35.7°C (96.3°F) in September, to a tropical 32.6°C (90.7°F). Weather in October »
November, the last month of the autumn, in Alaili Dadda, is another warm month, with average temperature varying between 21.5°C (70.7°F) and 29.8°C (85.6°F). In Alaili Dadda, the average high-temperature is essentially the same as in October - a warm 29.8°C (85.6°F). Weather in November »
December, the first month of the winter, in Alaili Dadda, is still a warm month, with average temperature fluctuating between 20.4°C (68.7°F) and 27.9°C (82.2°F). In Alaili Dadda, the average high-temperature is practically the same as in November - a still warm 27.9°C (82.2°F). Weather in December »
What is the coldest month in Alaili Dadda?
January is the coldest month, with an average high-temperature of 27.7°C (81.9°F) and an average low-temperature of 19.6°C (67.3°F).
How much does it rain in Alaili Dadda?
Throughout the year, in Alaili Dadda, 135mm (5.31") of rain is accumulated.
What is the driest month in Alaili Dadda?
The month with the least rainfall in Alaili Dadda is June when 2mm (0.08") of precipitation is typically aggregated.
When are the longest days in Alaili Dadda?
June has the longest days of the year in Alaili Dadda, with an average of 12.9h of daylight.
What is the warmest month in Alaili Dadda?
July is the warmest month in Alaili Dadda, Djibouti, with an average high-temperature of 38.2°C (100.8°F) and an average low-temperature of 28°C (82.4°F).
What is the wettest month in Alaili Dadda?
The month with the most rainfall is August when 19mm (0.75") of precipitation is typically aggregated.
What is the month with the shortest days in Alaili Dadda?
With an average of 11.4h of daylight, December has the shortest days of the year in Alaili Dadda, Djibouti.
The month with the lowest average high temperature is January (27.7°C).
The month with the highest average low temperature is June (28.2°C).
The coldest month (with the lowest average low temperature) is January (19.6°C).
The wettest month (with the highest rainfall) is August (19mm).
The driest month (with the least rainfall) is June (2mm).
The month with the shortest days is December (Average daylight: 11.4h).
July is the warmest month in Alaili Dadda, Djibouti, with an average high-temperature of 38.2°C (100.8°F) and an average low-temperature of 28°C (82.4°F). The month with the least rainfall in Alaili Dadda is June when 2mm (0.08") of precipitation is typically aggregated. [634562]


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The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) emerged to bring attention to the overrepresentation of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. It has raised awareness about systemic racism and sexism as well as social and economic conditions experienced by Canada's Indigenous population. Yet, research shows that Indigenous males are the most likely to be murdered in Canada (Mulligan, Axford, & Soecki, 2016). Since Indigenous men are going missing and are murdered in disturbing numbers, and they are fathers, brothers, and sons to Indigenous women and girls, it is understandable that many in the Indigenous community wanted to include them in the inquiry. Our analysis explores how the MMIWG and discourses about inclusion and exclusion have been framed in ways that limit interpretations about the root causes of problems experienced by Indigenous people, especially when they exclude an important part of the Indigenous population—Indigenous males. We draw upon Indigenous perceptions of the inquiry and analyses of social norms and stereotypes in order to explore the conflicting positions and experiences associated with missing and murdered Indigenous people in Canada. We conclude by exploring the need for a more comprehensive inquiry. We recognize that a holistic model of inquiry that honours the voices of Indigenous communities is crucial to a proper investigation into missing and murdered Indigenous people in Canada.


I lived on Portland Street and it's sad to see it now, although there are still parts that I still recognise, there are still traces of the old area.
The final nail in the coffin was when I found out last year about Daniel Hill School being demolished, what a waste of a great building.
I had aunts wjo lived at Westmoreland Street during the 50's and 60's .
Another aunt had the corner shop on Daniel Hill and Westmorland Street.
I have vague memories of the old Kelvin area before the flats…..keeping hold of the pram walking towards West Don Street. My mother told me that the Sally Army place always did well. She was very proud to be the May Queen in 1952.
Does anyone know the Bennett-Pitts or England family from around there?
I remember the corner shop at the top of Daniel Hill. Used to walk past it on the way home.
Also remember trhe wash house, I have spent many a time in there with my mother.
Anybody go to Daniel Hill school?
How did Kelvin flats get that name? I know a lot of the 'streets' on the block had their names taken from local roads, but was / is there a Kelvin Road / Street etc?
I was one of the last tennants on Kelvin!! There were 3 of us left on the top floor (Edith Walk), me and my daughter and another bloke. I lived there for 8 years and was involved with the clearance programme.
I loved the place and cried when I left. I kept my flat key and sneaked back before they fenced it all off. I went in my flat and the workmen had tipped all my furniture over and made a real mess. I tidied the flat up and sat there for ages. How sad is that eh?!!
I have loads of photos which I did start uploading onto a website. Unfortunatley, life has got in the way so it's got pushed to one side lately. Anyway click HERE if you want to see what I started and will aim to finish one day!!!
I HAD MATES THAT LIVED IN THE SKY, I LIVED ON LOFTHOUSE RD AT HILLS, IVE BEEN LOOKING AT YOUR PICS AND THINK THAT YOUR VERY LUCKY TO HAVE THE PICS TO GO WITH THE MEMORIES, I WISH THAT I COULD FIND PICS OF LOFTHOUSE RD THATS GONE TOO... I MISS THE OLD HILLSBROUGH. BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE.
Do you remember the Umevere's? They lived on Edith Walk til the end.


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w.h.s. 10 by Thomas Ruff, 2001. Collection of George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg. Image courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London/Hong Kong.
Ceci n'est pas une immeuble
By SAMMY DALATI | October 18, 2018
The problem with photography, Nicholas Muellner wrote, is that "it is hard to say when we are dealing in 'subjects' and when we are dealing in imaginary projection." Consider: Do we truly know Richard Neutra's buildings or just Julius Shulman's photographs of them? In the scheme of art history, the story of the intertwining of photography and architecture is relatively brief—having begun with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's foggy 1820 photograph of buildings on his estate—but it is complex and fascinating. An exhibition on view at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture, addresses just this.
Colorado Springs, Colorado by Robert Adams, 1968–1971. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Image courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Image Building, which made its debut at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, this spring, surveys nearly ninety years of architectural photography, from the 1930s to today, through sixty objects, most of them pictures. It's a roll-call of familiar names—Abbott, Stoller, Baltz, Sugimoto, Gursky—but isn't catechismal. "I wanted [Image Building] to [be] this sort of multi-layered experience, one that would be very subjective, very visceral, very aesthetic," says curator Therese Lichtenstein. She organized it in a way that enables visitors to "move back and forth between the past and the present and across cultures and across periods."
Chuey House (Los Angeles, Calif.) by Julius Shulman, 1956. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2004.R.10.
The show, divided into thematic sections, is far-reaching in scope, and sometimes feels a touch chaotic. In the section "Domestic Spaces," Shulman's trademark photos of Case Study Houses—all ebullient, diving perpendiculars—are allowed to clash with Robert Adams's and Lewis Baltz's deadpan depictions of suburban sprawl. The battle of ideologies plays out next to the innocuous, emotive work of Luigi Ghirri, which feels like an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of the structures pictured by Adams and Baltz. What we see are mostly single-family homes, hence the title of the section, but the photographers approached them with such very different goals.
Tract House #6 by Lewis Baltz, 1971. George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. Image courtesy Estate of Lewis Baltz and Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica.
Things are similarly complex in the other two sections, "Cityscapes," and "Public Places." Berenice Abbott's nighttime New York, along with Ezra Stoller's and Balthazar Korab's portraits of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building and Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal, are thrown into the mix with the work of blue-chip contemporary art photographers of the Düsseldorf School. Ed Ruscha's anemic Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966) is stuck in for good measure. Image Building is a wonderful survey of photography's biggest hits that happen to have buildings in them, but how to make sense of it all?
Reggio Emilia by Luigi Ghirri, 1973. Collection of Ted and Mary Jo Shen, New York. Image courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Despite Lichtenstein's hope that the show would be something of an associative free-for-all, to really wrap one's head around the work on view it helps to know a little bit about how architecture and photography got to be such good friends. Up until the mid-twentieth century, architecture was published and promoted almost exclusively through hand-renderings—some of them, such as those by Hugh Ferriss and Jules Guerin, works of art in their own right—not photographs. At first, this was a matter of tradition, as well as a technical issue. Before halftone printing was developed in the 1890s, it was impossible to print photographs and text side by side. But what really hitched photography to architecture was the modern movement. How better to picture "machines for living," in Le Corbusier's words, than with another machine? It quickly became essential for modern architects to find themselves photographer attachés: for Corbu it was Marius Gravot, for J. J. P. Oud Evert van Ojen, for the International Style builders it was Korab.
Torre David #2 by Iwan Baan, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles.
It is modernism—its ideology and dissemination—that knits Image Building together, and the photographers whose work is on view are either attracted to or repelled by it. Perhaps nowhere is this dynamic more apparent than in the recurring motif of a spiral. It first appears in "Domestic Spaces" on the cover of an old issue of Arts & Architecture in a vitrine: a swirling concrete parking ramp in a photograph by Shulman. To a modernism lover, the motif might evoke the perfect proportions of a nautilus shell or the concentric rings of angels in Gustave Doré's illustrations for The Divine Comedy. But in a visual analogue hung in "Public Spaces," Iwan Baan's Torre David #2 (2011), showing an unfinished South American skyscraper commandeered by squatters fleeing life in the favela, the form takes on a decidedly different feel, one that's anything but sublime. Gursky's Shanghai (2000), reproduced in the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition, shows an anonymous Asian atrium's endless stack of curved floors. It's downright sinister, like the wall of a urine-colored whirlpool.
Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, New York, NY by Ezra Stoller, 1958. Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
While it's true that many mid-century photographers were champions of modernism, many of those who came later were deeply skeptical of it, and dividing the work on view into polarizing buckets can only shed so much light. For one, much of the earlier work on view was done commercially (Shulman, for instance, bluntly described himself as a "merchandiser"), whereas much of the later photography was made with artistic ambitions. The contrast is made plain in the section "Cityscapes," where Stoller's and Samuel H. Gottscho's builders-commissioned photographs of the indomitable-looking Seagram Building, Notre Dame du Haut, and Rockefeller Center hang next to Hiroshi Sugimoto's contemporary pictures of the same subjects. The same subjects, but different: For his series of large-scale gelatin silver prints, Sugimoto pushed his 8 by 10 view camera totally out of focus. The buildings in his photos look like they're evanescing. Is it a coincidence that the series was made at the turn of the twenty-first century, when the perception of the United States itself as indomitable was changing (a photograph of World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2, not included in the exhibition, is also part of the series)? Thomas Ruff's pictures of other Mies buildings, hung nearby, have a similar ambience. They were made by colorizing archival images from New York's Museum of Modern Art and applying a motion blur. They seem to show modernism speeding into the past . . . or modernism as seen from the window of a speeding car.
Seagram Building by Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1997. Courtesy the artist. Image courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco/ Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Interestingly, if you were to put all the pictures in the show onto a timeline, you'd get something like the stylistic history of photography running in reverse. Ruscha and the mid-century commercial photographers are exemplars of the "straight photography" approach that gained currency after World War I. But in work that chronologically comes later, such as in Sugimoto's and Ruff's, cold, sharp clarity is gone and an allegorical impulse that would be at home in early twentieth-century pictorialism is back. It isn't only in terms of style that things appear to go backwards. In some of the largest, most striking, and contemporary works on view—by James Casebere and Thomas Demand—the built environment has devolved into latency. Casebere's owl's-eye view of what appears to be a moonlit subdivision, Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #2 (2009), is in fact nothing but a table-size model. What's shown is not buildings as they are, but buildings as they might be.
Does architecture itself get lost in the shuffle of all this gorgeous imagery? In a way, architecture doesn't even factor into the equation. "The image, the double, splits what it doubles," Jacques Derrida once wrote. Pictures are treacherous. Image Building is a reminder.
Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #2 by James Casebere, 2009. Collection of Marcia Dunn and Jonathan Sobel, New York. Image courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, New York.
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Sorry I'm a bit late but im on now.
I'm EST also. I'm available most of the time on weekends so whatever works for you is probably fine.
Alright, what's your showdown username?
Okay that time didn't work, when could you do then?


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How can I use my business number?
1) List your business line on the bottom of all of your appointments and invoices by adding it to Settings > Business line.
2) Forward all of your PocketSuite calls to your business line by going to Settings > Numbers > Tap on the number > Add a number to Forward calls to and press Save.
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Nicolas  de Larmessin est un marchand, éditeur et doreur de livres parisien du .

Sa boutique fut installée rue Saint-Jacques, puis rue Chartière.

Son nom est surtout associé à deux de ses fils, Nicolas  et Nicolas III de Larmessin, devenus de célèbres graveurs et éditeurs d'estampes.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Librairie à Paris
Commerce dans le 5e arrondissement de Paris


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/**
 */
package org.tud.inf.st.mbt.functions.impl;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.Notification;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClass;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.impl.ENotificationImpl;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.impl.EObjectImpl;

import org.tud.inf.st.mbt.functions.FunctionsPackage;
import org.tud.inf.st.mbt.functions.LongFunction;

/**
 *
 * An implementation of the model object 'Long Function'.
 *
 *

 * The following features are implemented:
 *

 *
{@link org.tud.inf.st.mbt.functions.impl.LongFunctionImpl#getValue Value}

 *

 *

 *
 * @generated
 */
public class LongFunctionImpl extends EObjectImpl implements LongFunction {
	/**
	 * The default value of the '{@link #getValue() Value}' attribute.
	 *
	 *
	 * @see #getValue()
	 * @generated
	 * @ordered
	 */
	protected static final long VALUE_EDEFAULT = 0L;

	/**
	 * The cached value of the '{@link #getValue() Value}' attribute.
	 *
	 *
	 * @see #getValue()
	 * @generated
	 * @ordered
	 */
	protected long value = VALUE_EDEFAULT;

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	protected LongFunctionImpl() {
		super();
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	protected EClass eStaticClass() {
		return FunctionsPackage.Literals.LONG_FUNCTION;
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	public long getValue() {
		return value;
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	public void setValue(long newValue) {
		long oldValue = value;
		value = newValue;
		if (eNotificationRequired())
			eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET, FunctionsPackage.LONG_FUNCTION__VALUE, oldValue, value));
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public Object eGet(int featureID, boolean resolve, boolean coreType) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case FunctionsPackage.LONG_FUNCTION__VALUE:
				return getValue();
		}
		return super.eGet(featureID, resolve, coreType);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public void eSet(int featureID, Object newValue) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case FunctionsPackage.LONG_FUNCTION__VALUE:
				setValue((Long)newValue);
				return;
		}
		super.eSet(featureID, newValue);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public void eUnset(int featureID) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case FunctionsPackage.LONG_FUNCTION__VALUE:
				setValue(VALUE_EDEFAULT);
				return;
		}
		super.eUnset(featureID);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public boolean eIsSet(int featureID) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case FunctionsPackage.LONG_FUNCTION__VALUE:
				return value != VALUE_EDEFAULT;
		}
		return super.eIsSet(featureID);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 */
	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return ""+value;
	}

} //LongFunctionImpl

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Read Dr. Steenbarger's article on A Mechanical Strategy That Has Produced Consistent Stock Market Profits. Awesome! Just awesome!
"Buy and hold over the course of a 25 year investment career has never lost money going back to the start of my historical data in 1901."
"How many in-and-out traders, over the course of a 25-year career, can achieve such consistency and returns? How many actively managed funds can boast of such a record?"
"...an investor needs to tune out the many, many "sky is falling" jeremiads that were issued over those years, as market commentators became convinced that market meltdowns were in the offing. Consider the fact that, for the career investor, those cries of doom have never been vindicated. Never."
"If we were to trade in and out of careers every time we became fearful of our current career progress or every time another career looked better, we'd wind up with a lifetime of unfulfilled promise."
If you give me the latitude, I can pick any asset class and show similar positive performance as long as I can choose the time frame.
Oh yeah, and "never lost money" is different than having a good return. How would you feel if you made 1% over the next 25 years by buying the Dow today and ignoring it? That's the implication.
Read Unexpected Returns by Ed Easterling if you think Steenbarger was good. Easterling will blow your mind.
I appreciate your comments and truly wish I agreed with you and Mr. Easterling. I have read his book...and at one time thought it was fantastic. That was before I spent the last 6 years undergoing a variety of market timing tests proving so many things that sound "right" and completely logical...to be untrue.
That is the thing that frustrates me so. There are so many smart people out there sharing so many "sound" and logical ideas. What truly blows my mind is that almost all of them prove untrue when tested on the market...both in backtesting and in real-time.
Then of course, there are all the ideas I have generated over the course of 10 years of market trading/investing that have proven untrue as well.
Sure, there are the investors/traders that succeed with the various approches out there in the marketplace. I'm just not smart enough nor lucky enough to make them work.
I'm not kidding you...I have probably logged over 10,000 hours testing every possible thing and have found just a few very simple ideas that really work...really prove true. Of course, one of these simple ideas is buying and holding stocks as long as possible...only selling when a trailing stop is hit.
Another simple idea that hurts me everytime I write about it...market timing doesn't help your returns. On any test I have done...trying to add logic to skip a few bad years or even several...does not help your returns over an investment career. In fact, it becomes just a blip on the radar.
You might ask...well what happens on a Japan type scenario with decades of stock market decline? Well, sad to say...buying over the long-term works better than anything I've tested with that type of market environment as well. Crazy to believe even shorting a market like Japan that has declined for 18 years doesn't produce better returns than buying and holding stocks in that same market.
Want to know an even more frustrating thing? Doesn't even matter what stocks you buy. Don't even bother to pick out which ones will and won't succeed. Cause you'll be so surprised at the ones that make the money versus the ones that do nothing.
You know, I became so enamored with stock market cycles that I created all kinds of charts, graphs, theories for it. It was one of the things I really truly believed in. Heck, you might even find a few of those things on this blog a few years back. In fact, when my bubble was burst on this cycle theory...I almost gave up trading/investing.
Okay, probably more than you asked for. Sorry, just...just heard in your post a vibe that I had at one time. And wanted to share my reasons for avoiding such great logical and sound ideas as Mr. Easterlings.
Enjoy your weekend. And please don't take my word for any of this. Mr. Market is the only place to learn such things.


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The following playlists include videos some of our past guests. These guests all come from very different backgrounds and places of the world to speak at our events.
1-3: Chautauqua Evening Session
4. Jeanne Sakata, television, film, and stage actress and playwright
5. Emily Kuroda, actress, best known as Mrs. Kim in "Gilmore Girls"
6. Takayo Fischer, television, film, stage, and voiceover actress
7. Vincent Ward, film director, screenwriter, and artist
8. Joyce Vincent, musician with Tony Orlando and Dawn
9. Pauline Méliés, actress
10-11. Karolyn Grimes, actress, best known as Zuzu Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life"
t1. Bruce Haigh, Australian political commentator
2. Bobby Plump, member of the Milan High School state championship team
3. Sister Helen Prejean, American advocate against the death penalty
4. Benjamin Mee, director of the Dartmoor Zoo
5. David Patterson, screenwriter of "The Bridge to Terabithia"
6. Daniel Diaz, McFarland cross-country team member
7. John McLaughlin, 9/11 survivor
8. Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, whistleblower on the tobacco industry
9. Chautauqua Evening Session
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Services Help with Successful Reentry to the Community
Prince William Times
By Prince William Times Staff
More than 90 percent of people who are in jail will eventually be released, according to the Prince William County Office of Criminal Justice Services, or OCJS. The question is, then what? Thanks in part to the OCJS, providing certain services can help them succeed once they are released. These services range from the time people enter the criminal justice system until they are set to return to the community; and they all play a critical role in doing what's best for the person and the community.
According to Steve Austin, Prince William County's director of OCJS, one such service is a pretrial release program called Diversion Intercepts for Varied Emergency Responses and Treatment, or DIVERT. This program involves a team that includes judges, the Commonwealth Attorney's office, the defense attorney, treatment professionals and pretrial probation officers that helps people with serious mental illness stay out of jail as they await trial.
"We get them assessed by a mental health professional through Community Services. If they are eligible, they are then diverted from the jail after their arrest and they get treatment pending trial," Austin said. "We like to divert them as soon as possible. It's a rapid process that assesses people quickly and gets them diverted from the jail as quickly as possible. It's not good for people with mental illness to be in jail for a long period of time if they don't have to be."


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Vassili Vassílievitx Nalímov (; 4 de novembre de 1910 – 19 de gener de 1997) fou un filòsof i humanista rus. Les seves àrees principals de recerca van ser la filosofia de la probabilitat i les seves manifestacions biològiques, matemàtiques i lingüístiques. També va estudiar els rols de l'agnosticisme i el misticisme en la ciència. Va escriure sobre Psicologia transpersonal. Als 26 anys fou condemnat per contrarevolucionari a un camp de treball a Kolymà per 5 anys, però s'allargà 13 anys més fins al 1954, a la mort de Stalin. La seva rehabilitació, no completa segons ell, no arribà fins al 1960.

Nalímov és conegut també per la seva reputació dins l'àrea de la Cienciometria, atès que fou un del primers a emprar el terme en rus "Naukometriya" juntament amb Mulchenko en l'obra pionera del 1969. Aquest és el terme que es traduiria com cienciometria. Eugene Garfield promogué la traducció a l'anglès del seu llibre pioner i col·laborà a donar difusió de la seva obra a nivell mundial.

El 1987 guanyà la medalla Derek de Solla Price.

Referències

Morts el 1997
Filòsofs russos
Nalímov
Medalla Derek de Solla Price
Alumnes de la Universitat Estatal de Moscou
Moscovites
Morts a Moscou
Soviètics


Watershed Description: A total of 17 watersheds (3 core and 14 non-core watersheds), each located in a different European country which ranged in size from 254 to 10,797 km^2, were simulated with multiple models in this study. SWAT was applied to the three core watersheds: 685 km^2 Ouse, located in northeastern England, in the United Kingdom; 3314 km^2 Vansjo-Hobol in southeastern Norway, and 901 km^2 Enza in northern Italy. SWAT apparently was also applied to four of the non-core watersheds but it is not clear which ones. (more details about the characteristics of these watersheds are provided in: Bouraoui et al. 2009. Basin characteristics and nutrient losses: the EUROHARP catchment network perspective. Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 11(3): 515-525. Doi: 10.1039/b822931g).


Step 1: Mix all the marinade ingredients together in a bowl and allow it to sit overnight in a ziploc bag.
Step 2: The next day, pour the ingredients over the raw chicken and bake at 350 degrees for (app.) 60 minutes.
Step 3: Within the last 10 minutes of baking, Drizzle Amber agave nectar on top of the chicken and enjoy!
In Maryland, steamed crabs are a big deal. They are steamed up with a spicy local seasoning called Old Bay, and eaten in large quantities with big crowds around a picnic table covered in brown paper. They are washed down with sometimes copious quantities of cold beer.
It's a rare day when I can't finish eating whatever crabs are in front of me.
On this occasion it was necessary to make some crab cakes out of leftover crab meat. Maryland crab cakes are made with maryland crab.. or at least with some old bay in them. These crab cakes were spicy with a little hot pepper, bell pepper, and sweet basil in them.
These were a little spicy, so I ate them with a little greek yogurt. Yum!!!
I was looking for unique tomato recipes and I came across the idea of a roasted pesto-stuffed tomato. I love pesto, but if you stuff a large tomato with just pesto, you will have an overly salty/oily/basil-y dish. Perhaps this would work with very small tomatoes, but not with the ones I had grown.
Luckily I had just made a batch of almond-basil pesto from the basil I was growing, so I had that on hand to start with!
I made a simple modification– I added shredded zucchini to the pesto and a little bit of minced mixed/spicy pepper to a pan, cooked it up, added pesto and the innards of the tomatoes I hollowed out, and then stuffed the tomatoes with that. I topped it with a little Parmesan cheese.
Slice the top off each of your tomatoes and hollow them out carefully. Discard the seeds and pulp, but keep the firmer fleshy parts.
Grate or food process a zucchini or squash and squeeze out any excess water. If you leave the water in it, the result will be soggy.
In a bowl, combine zucchini, minced bell or spicy pepper (optional), pesto, and the diced innards of your tomatoes.
Stuff the tomatoes with the zucchini/pesto mixture. Top with grated cheese.
Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until the cheese begins to brown. You can let these roast for as long or as little as you like.
Enjoy! I had these with my squash-noodle pasta topped with homemade bolognese sauce and a delicious rosemary roll from Atwaters :).
Pesto makes a delicious pasta sauce, sandwich spread, or dip.
With so much basil growing in my garden this year, it was about time to make a batch. Unfortunately a huge plate full of basil blends down to very little pesto, so make sure you have a LOT before getting started.
Combine basil, nuts, garlic, and cheese in the food processor. Add just enough olive oil so that the ingredients blend well. Add salt and pepper to taste.
I was unpleasantly surprised at how much olive oil is required to make a creamy pesto… but I did read a tip about using chicken broth or some other stock to achieve a similar consistency without as much oil.
Enjoy! This came out delicious!


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// Copyright 2022 The Chromium Authors
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

package org.chromium.chrome.browser.password_manager;

import android.accounts.Account;

import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import androidx.annotation.VisibleForTesting;

import com.google.common.base.Optional;

import org.chromium.base.Callback;
import org.chromium.base.Predicate;
import org.chromium.base.task.PostTask;
import org.chromium.base.task.SequencedTaskRunner;
import org.chromium.components.password_manager.core.browser.proto.ListPasswordsResult;
import org.chromium.components.password_manager.core.browser.proto.PasswordWithLocalData;
import org.chromium.components.sync.protocol.PasswordSpecificsData;
import org.chromium.content_public.browser.UiThreadTaskTraits;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Fake {@link PasswordStoreAndroidBackend} to be used in integration tests.
 */
public class FakePasswordStoreAndroidBackend implements PasswordStoreAndroidBackend {
    private final Map<Account, List<PasswordWithLocalData>> mSavedPasswords = new HashMap<>();
    private SequencedTaskRunner mTaskRunner =
            PostTask.createSequencedTaskRunner(UiThreadTaskTraits.USER_BLOCKING);

    public static final Account sLocalDefaultAccount = new Account("Test user", "Local");

    public FakePasswordStoreAndroidBackend() {
        mSavedPasswords.put(sLocalDefaultAccount, new LinkedList<>());
    }

    public void setSyncingAccount(Account syncingAccount) {
        mSavedPasswords.put(syncingAccount, new LinkedList<>());
    }

    @Override
    public void getAllLogins(Optional<Account> syncingAccount, Callback<byte[]> loginsReply,
            Callback<Exception> failureCallback) {
        mTaskRunner.postTask(() -> {
            Account account = getAccountOrFail(syncingAccount, failureCallback);
            if (account == null) return;
            ListPasswordsResult allLogins =
                    ListPasswordsResult.newBuilder()
                            .addAllPasswordData(mSavedPasswords.get(account))
                            .build();
            loginsReply.onResult(allLogins.toByteArray());
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void getAllLoginsBetween(Date createdAfter, Date createdBefore,
            Optional<Account> syncingAccount, Callback<byte[]> loginsReply,
            Callback<Exception> failureCallback) {
        mTaskRunner.postTask(() -> {
            Account account = getAccountOrFail(syncingAccount, failureCallback);
            if (account == null) return;
            ListPasswordsResult allLogins =
                    ListPasswordsResult.newBuilder()
                            .addAllPasswordData(filterPasswords(mSavedPasswords.get(account),
                                    pwd -> hasDateBetween(pwd, createdAfter, createdBefore)))
                            .build();
            loginsReply.onResult(allLogins.toByteArray());
        });
    };

    @Override
    public void getAutofillableLogins(Optional<Account> syncingAccount,
            Callback<byte[]> loginsReply, Callback<Exception> failureCallback) {
        mTaskRunner.postTask(() -> {
            Account account = getAccountOrFail(syncingAccount, failureCallback);
            if (account == null) return;
            ListPasswordsResult allLogins =
                    ListPasswordsResult.newBuilder()
                            .addAllPasswordData(filterPasswords(mSavedPasswords.get(account),
                                    pwd -> !pwd.getPasswordSpecificsData().getBlacklisted()))
                            .build();
            loginsReply.onResult(allLogins.toByteArray());
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void getLoginsForSignonRealm(String signonRealm, Optional<Account> syncingAccount,
            Callback<byte[]> loginsReply, Callback<Exception> failureCallback) {
        mTaskRunner.postTask(() -> {
            Account account = getAccountOrFail(syncingAccount, failureCallback);
            if (account == null) return;
            ListPasswordsResult allLogins =
                    ListPasswordsResult.newBuilder()
                            .addAllPasswordData(filterPasswords(mSavedPasswords.get(account),
                                    pwd -> hasSignonRealm(pwd, signonRealm)))
                            .build();
            loginsReply.onResult(allLogins.toByteArray());
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void addLogin(byte[] pwdWithLocalData, Optional<Account> syncingAccount,
            Runnable successCallback, Callback<Exception> failureCallback) {
        mTaskRunner.postTask(() -> {
            Account account = getAccountOrFail(syncingAccount, failureCallback);
            if (account == null) return;
            PasswordWithLocalData parsedPassword =
                    parsePwdWithLocalDataOrFail(pwdWithLocalData, failureCallback);
            if (parsedPassword == null) return;
            assert parsedPassword.getPasswordSpecificsData().hasSignonRealm();
            assert !containsPasswordWithSameUniqueKey(mSavedPasswords.get(account), parsedPassword)
                : "Trying to add password with the same unique key,"
                  + " updateLogin() should be called.";
            mSavedPasswords.get(account).add(parsedPassword);
            successCallback.run();
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void updateLogin(byte[] pwdWithLocalData, Optional<Account> syncingAccount,
            Runnable successCallback, Callback<Exception> failureCallback) {
        mTaskRunner.postTask(() -> {
            PasswordWithLocalData parsedPassword =
                    parsePwdWithLocalDataOrFail(pwdWithLocalData, failureCallback);
            if (parsedPassword == null) return;
            Account account = getAccountOrFail(syncingAccount, failureCallback);
            if (account == null) return;
            assert parsedPassword.getPasswordSpecificsData().hasSignonRealm();
            List<PasswordWithLocalData> accountPasswords = mSavedPasswords.get(account);
            List<PasswordWithLocalData> loginsWithSameUsrAndOrigin =
                    filterPasswords(accountPasswords, pwd -> hasSameUniqueKey(pwd, parsedPassword));
            accountPasswords.removeAll(loginsWithSameUsrAndOrigin);
            assert !containsPasswordWithSameUniqueKey(mSavedPasswords.get(account), parsedPassword);
            accountPasswords.add(parsedPassword);
            successCallback.run();
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void removeLogin(byte[] pwdSpecificsData, Optional<Account> syncingAccount,
            Runnable successCallback, Callback<Exception> failureCallback) {
        mTaskRunner.postTask(() -> {
            PasswordSpecificsData parsedPassword =
                    parsePwdSpecificDataOrFail(pwdSpecificsData, failureCallback);
            if (parsedPassword == null) return;
            Account account = getAccountOrFail(syncingAccount, failureCallback);
            if (account == null) return;
            List<PasswordWithLocalData> pwdsToRemove = filterPasswords(mSavedPasswords.get(account),
                    p -> parsedPassword.equals(p.getPasswordSpecificsData()));
            mSavedPasswords.get(account).removeAll(pwdsToRemove);
            successCallback.run();
        });
    }

    @VisibleForTesting
    public Map<Account, List<PasswordWithLocalData>> getAllSavedPasswords() {
        return mSavedPasswords;
    }

    private static List<PasswordWithLocalData> filterPasswords(
            List<PasswordWithLocalData> list, Predicate<PasswordWithLocalData> predicate) {
        List<PasswordWithLocalData> filteredList = new ArrayList<>();
        for (PasswordWithLocalData pwd : list) {
            if (predicate.test(pwd)) filteredList.add(pwd);
        }
        return filteredList;
    }

    private Account getAccountOrFail(
            Optional<Account> syncingAccount, Callback<Exception> failureCallback) {
        Account account = syncingAccount.isPresent() ? syncingAccount.get() : sLocalDefaultAccount;
        if (!mSavedPasswords.containsKey(account)) {
            failureCallback.onResult(new BackendException(
                    "Account " + account + " not found.", AndroidBackendErrorType.NO_ACCOUNT));
            return null;
        }
        return account;
    }

    private static @Nullable PasswordWithLocalData parsePwdWithLocalDataOrFail(
            byte[] pwdWithLocalData, Callback<Exception> failureCallback) {
        try {
            return PasswordWithLocalData.parseFrom(pwdWithLocalData);
        } catch (Exception parsingError) {
            failureCallback.onResult(parsingError);
            return null;
        }
    }

    private static @Nullable PasswordSpecificsData parsePwdSpecificDataOrFail(
            byte[] pwdWithLocalData, Callback<Exception> failureCallback) {
        try {
            return PasswordSpecificsData.parseFrom(pwdWithLocalData);
        } catch (Exception parsingError) {
            failureCallback.onResult(parsingError);
            return null;
        }
    }

    private static boolean hasDateBetween(
            PasswordWithLocalData pwd, Date createdAfter, Date createdBefore) {
        return pwd.getPasswordSpecificsData().hasDateCreated()
                && pwd.getPasswordSpecificsData().getDateCreated() >= createdAfter.getTime()
                && pwd.getPasswordSpecificsData().getDateCreated() <= createdBefore.getTime();
    }

    private static boolean hasSignonRealm(PasswordWithLocalData pwd, String signonRealm) {
        return pwd.getPasswordSpecificsData().getSignonRealm().contains(signonRealm);
    }

    private static boolean hasSameUniqueKey(
            PasswordWithLocalData pwd, PasswordWithLocalData parsedPassword) {
        PasswordSpecificsData data1 = pwd.getPasswordSpecificsData();
        PasswordSpecificsData data2 = parsedPassword.getPasswordSpecificsData();
        return data1.getUsernameElement().equals(data2.getUsernameElement())
                && data1.getUsernameValue().equals(data2.getUsernameValue())
                && data1.getOrigin().equals(data2.getOrigin())
                && data1.getSignonRealm().equals(data2.getSignonRealm())
                && data1.getPasswordElement().equals(data2.getPasswordElement());
    }

    private static boolean containsPasswordWithSameUniqueKey(
            List<PasswordWithLocalData> list, PasswordWithLocalData pwd) {
        for (PasswordWithLocalData p : list) {
            if (hasSameUniqueKey(p, pwd)) return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}


Supporting the indigenous people and promoting environmental conservation and eco-tourism in the Island of Mindoro, Philippines.
We welcome all people who can bring support and volunteers with skills and background in marketing, project management, multimedia arts, writing, community development, indigenous people's rights, animal and environmental conservation, and more. Please send us your CV and enclose a cover letter mentioning the kind of service you wish to offer and we'll definitely find a place for you!