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Bride of the Darkened Rider
Bride of the Darkened Rider is a 3rd level adventure by Kim C. Frandsen. Rick Hershey is listed as an artist on RPG Now, but the illustrations appear to be public domain images. Bride of the Darkened Rider is published by Fat Goblin Games.
Disclosure: I was given a chance to write for this imprint, which I had to decline because the offer conflicted with other writing commitments.
Right upfront, this adventure piqued my interest with an appropriate quote by the estimable Robert E. Howard. On top of which, the public domain illustrations come from collections of fairy tales and legends, as far as I can tell, making this adventure easy to slot into the world of Faerie Tales from Unlit Shores. That was, in fact, one of the reasons that I declined the offer, as I feel rather honor-bound to send further fairy tale-inspired manuscripts to Purple Duck Games until the FT Series is complete.
The author does a good job making use of fairy tale elements, and does an excellent job of using the "death throes" advice in the Dungeon Crawl Classics core rulebook to make opponents have a final surprise. There are a number of pieces in the adventure that are quite flavorful. The author also includes a number of vignettes which demonstrate something of day-to-day life in the adventure setting. The monsters encountered are flavorful, and definitely hit the "make monsters mysterious" mark.
Writing to make the work fit pre-existing art is rather like writing sonnets when compared to writing free verse. I think that Kim Frandsen did a good job of linking art to words, so that the art actually compliments the adventure.
I should also mention that this adventure includes a complete new patron, Morketh, Lord of Darkness and Unspoken Pleasures. Morketh does not have patron spells, but rather grants an extra spell slot when client wizards can gain 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level spells.
For all that, there are some problems with this product, and you should be aware of them before purchasing. First off, this is a really medieval adventure that uses some jarring modern parlance. Par for the course with a lot of adventures, I know, but when a dryad suggests "We better go up and check it out" or a minstrel doesn't know where the dark knight "originally worked", it jars with the tone of the rest of the adventure.
Secondly, the adventure really, really needed another editing pass. Minor glitches abound, but there are places where a lack of editing drops parts of sentences or makes it more difficult than necessary to understand what the author intended. At one point, your PCs enter a combat encounter with three individuals, only one of whom has a statblock (p. 19). The editing also damages the utility of the unique patron, as his first spellburn entry is incomplete. There is a poison that does more damage to you if you succeed than if you fail; I imagine that the damage on a failure is intended to be permanent, while the other is temporary?
Third, I am not sure how much Dungeon Crawl Classics the author has played, but the spellburn table for Morketh, while flavorful, will need some work to match the framework of spellburn in the DCC rules. Similarly, while most examples of patron taint in the core rules (or other sources) have three levels of most taints, so that if rolled again, the effects become more severe, the client wizard of Morketh gets off somewhat easily. I would also imagine that more play experience would have increased the difficulty of the fights for 3rd level adventurers considerably. I would be happy to throw this adventure, as written, at 1st level adventurers. Against 3rd level PCs, you may wish to beef up the opposition.
Finally, although the first half of the adventure as written is very linear, I imagine that as played, the linear parts will go by quickly enough not to bother the majority of players. Some of the linear material could have used more detail - for instance, what if you refuse to help the dryad? What boons can the old wizard on page 17 give PCs who befriend him (i.e., who are looking to learn spells)? What if they decide to kill him and take his stuff? What is his name? Is there any benefit to becoming the dryad's lover? I ask these questions because I know that they are the kinds of questions that players ask, either directly or indirectly through their actions at the table.
Because this is currently pdf-only, a lot of these issues could be cleaned up before (hopefully) a print version appears. There is more than enough good stuff here that I am glad that I bought it, but if the aforementioned problems were addressed it could be stellar.
EDIT: Many problems were fixed prior to print, but the cut-off table in the patron listing is sadly still there.
Here's hoping for a long and prosperous product line!
Curtisin 6 March 2017 at 20:34
If I'd known you'd be reviewing it, I'd have gotten you a review copy. I'll try to keep you in mind should any more DCC be released, but otherwise, please just remind me so I can look into it for you.
Before I start I should note that I normally would leave reviews well alone. It feels like I'm trying to defend my own creation and reviews should be allowed to stand on their own. Regardless of whether I think they're fair (like in your case) or not, it is the experience of the player/judge/reader and they have the right to their opinion.
Right, with that out of the way, I'm going to have a look at your review. I hope that's OK. :)
First off, I'm glad that you liked it, just to get it out of the way, and I hope we're able to get more of these made in the future. :)
The choice of mixing modern day language and the medieval setting was actual a concious one on my part. English is not my first language, but I'd like to think I'm fluent in it (in fact, my wife is English herself), but one thing I have noted is that when you're playing with non-english speakers you vary your language a lot, as in the "read-aloud" text comes out in English, but your actual gameplay is in your native language. That leads to a fair bit of confusion at any gametable, but the biggest problem really is the technical or historical jargon/language. Playing in a group where not everyone is fluent in english gives a lot of moments of "what does that mean?" - Hopefully mixing the language eliminates that, but I can certainly understand why it's jarring.
The Editing pass: This one really is more for the editor, but I'll forward it to him, as I know it'll bother him, and he would likely then fix it, and send out an update for the PDF and get it out of the way for the print version. ;-) - That said though, you're actually the first to catch this mising statblock on page 19! I forgot, and the editors and proofreaders simply didn't notice. I'll try and get that one fixed too. :)
And here comes the one that bothers me personally. The lack of experience, because you're right. My own experience with DCC is somewhat limited (the project came out of the blue to be honest, so I had to pick it up on the fly, but will definetily be getting in more gameplay after this). - Just as importantly though, we went out and tried to get several playtest groups, to iron out any issues, but that is where we failed, as we were unable to get hold of any. For the next one though, I plan to spread the net far and wide for that, as I want at least 2 groups (beyond my own guineapigs) going through it to try it out.)
- The linearity of the first half of the game is on purpose, it's even on the product description. :P
The old man's name is Terrick (it's one of the first things the Dryad says to him, though it is quite well hidden). There is no boon to working with him (he even explains how his powers were stolen, though that could be expanded upon after the death of the villain).
Right, I went off on far more of a rant than planned there, sorry about that. As said, I'm glad you liked it, and I'll see about getting the editing issues fixed. :)
ravencrowking 7 March 2017 at 03:50
Hey, thanks for the reply!
It doesn't seem like a rant at all.
The document does need another editing pass, and a serious one at that. The statblock was the biggest glitch, but there are others you might want to have looked at.
If English is not your first language, you did very well indeed!
There's no need to offer review copies; this blog will eventually contain some discussion of every DCC product, as near to alphabetical order as I can manage. It is a joy to provide this to the DCC community.
I am jammed solid trying to get things done in time for GaryCon, or I would offer to do a full editing pass now, but I would be willing to help you drum up playtesters in the future, or give things a look-over.
(Where there is linearity, I feel that the potential DCC judge should know. I don't think the linearity hurts the product. In writing, as I said, I feel it lasts longer than it would in actual play.)
I'll be more than happy to take you up on the offer of some playtesters the next time around. :) - Incidentally there's going to be another editing pass over the next day or so. :)
ravencrowking 13 March 2017 at 05:25
Excellent. Glad to do it.
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Kotaku Game Club: Modern Warfare 2 Discussion Resumes.. NOW (Levels 13-15)
Outer space and betrayal are a part of the fourth (of five) Game Club meetings about the Modern Warfare 2 campaign. Thoughts on the penultimate batch of levels?
We're covering:
-Second Sun (Goodbye, space station)
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Those of you who didn't exactly follow Game Club protocol already began to spoil that the levels we're discussing today would include a plot twist. Once teased, it was obvious what the twist would be.
So let's talk about plot twists... We just had one in Modern Warfare 2. Have the twists been done well in this game, compared to, say the twists in the first Modern Warfare or other games with big surprises such as Knights of the Old Republic? (When you answer, please show some restraint about spoiling too many other games.)
Also, what do folks think of territory-defense levels like Loose Ends? I was frustrated in the 90s with GoldenEye's late-game level like this. But I rather liked the one near the end of the first Gears of War. I believe MW2's was another success, offering the player to make tactical decisions, something the campaign otherwise seldom permitted.
NOTE - The next Game Club meeting will be on Monday, same time as this one, 2pm Kotaku Time, 4pm ET. We'll be covering the game's final campaign levels.
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How to Get the Perfect Feng Shui Hair Cut for Good Luck
July 10, 2015 by BollywoodPresents Team
You may have probably already heard of Feng Shui (Wind and Water)? Yes, its the practice of arranging your environment so that energy or "chi" flows through your home or business environment. Its more or less similar to 'vaastu shastra' (in concept) and usually applies to home or office settings and building designs.
But did you know that there's a new trend catching on abroad – getting your tresses Feng Shui'd?
Yes, that's correct! There are many who are now getting a specific haircut and colour based on Feng Shui to attract better luck and greater success.
How Does it Bring Better Luck?
As per the ancient principles of Feng Shui, all energy falls into any of the five elements – fire, earth, metal, water or wood.
With the right shape and colour, you can keep the elements in harmony. And many now believe that the correct hairdo can boost an individual's chi (personal energy).
Celebrities Endorsing It
Hollywood stars like Jennifer Aniston, Lady gaga and Charlize Theron have also reportedly tried it.
Will the trend take off here too in Bollywood? We'll have to wait and watch!
Hollywood celebrity hair stylist, Billy Yamaguchi, is reported to have said that he can identify a person's energy and customize a haircut, hair colour and makeup to show these elements.
Complement Your Personal Energy
Feng shui practitioners claim if you're able to match your hair to your own feng shui chart, your tresses will look youthful.
Here's a chart that will help you find out what will work for you.
If you have a rectangular-shaped face, which is 'metal on wood', do not go for a rounded hair style.
If you have an oval face cut, go simple and straight and avoid a rounded hair cut.
If your face is square (stands for metal over earth), you can easily wear a rounded mane.
Those whose elements falls under fire can go for a shorter length with layers
If you wear your hair in a braid, it can leave you feeling focused and self-confident
If you do a side parting or wear your hair in soft curls, it could bring about feelings of romance and light-heartedness.
So basically, what you try to do here is to make your hair style in a way that radiates the harmony of your internal world to onlookers, making you feel confident, relaxed and more beautiful.
Things to Avoid
Its important to have things together that complement each other well. For example, an individual influenced by wood and born in summer, may not have great hair because summer is an element of fire, which has a natural tendency to weaken wood.
So what can you do to improve your hair quality? Wear blue toned clothes! It'll provide a soothing effect to Fire (summer). Similarly there are other things that you should take care of.
Avoid Plastic Accessories
Wear natural flowers in the hair, not plastic accessories, to increase the 'energy' around your tresses.
Red is the preferred hair color
The color red represents fire and is said to stand for love, richness and luxury and so wearing this hue on your hair is said to attract good fortune.
When it comes to Feng Shui, its important to remember the relationships between the five elements in order to nurture your hair and let it grow. Its always better to stick to natural products.
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In This Article Matteo Ricci
The European World
Iberia in Asia and the Jesuit Missions
Religion in Late Imperial China
Writings by Ricci and Earliest Biographies
Writings and Sources on Other Jesuit Missionaries in China
Sources in English Translation
Collections of Sources in Western Languages
Chinese-Language Sources
Modern Biographies of Ricci
Studies on the Jesuit China Mission
Ricci's Chinese Interlocutors
Ricci and His World Map
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia
Matteo Ricci (b. 1553–d. 1610) was born in Macerata in the Papal States. In 1571 he joined the Society of Jesus in Rome and studied at the Collegium Romanum before volunteering for overseas missions. In 1578 Ricci arrived in Goa and served in Portuguese India for three years before traveling on to Macao. In 1583 Ricci accompanied Michele Ruggieri to Zhaoqing, establishing the first Jesuit residence in China. Learning the Chinese language and classics, Ricci also transmitted Western scientific, philosophical, and religious knowledge, rising in the society of Ming China, as he made his way from the South to the imperial capital in Beijing, where he died in 1610 and won posthumous fame as the most famous missionary to China.
To understand Ricci, one should start by knowing his world, which encompassed both Catholic Europe of the Counter-Reformation, Portuguese India, and China in the late Ming dynasty. The following titles represent selected works that illustrate that world and are divided into three subsections on the European World at the time of Ricci, Iberia in Asia and the Jesuit Missions, and Religion in Late Imperial China.


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Ural Federal District
Major cities of Ural Federal District are : Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Kurgan, Nizhnevartovsk (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District), Novy Urengoy (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District).
YEKATERINBURG (formerly Sverdlovsk)
Population: 1 500 000
The number of travel agencies: more than 800 agencies (among them not more than 120-140 actively working).
Airport: Koltsovo International airport
Yekaterinburg is the capital of Ural Federal District. This is the city where on the same street about 100 travel agencies might be located. The most popular tour operators in the region are: Pegas Touristik, Coral Travel, Natalie Tours, Tez Tour, Anex. There is also big local tour operator Vedi Tour Group. Except individual travel agents and agents working under the brand of one of the federal agency network, there are big local agency networks: Ross Tour and Kleo Tour who have most of the offices in Ural, and some offices in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and other cities of Russia.
The most significant cities from tourism point of view are: Verkhny Tagil, Nizhny Tagil, Pyshma, Kirovograd, Krasnoural'sk, Pervouralsk, Sukhoi Log, the population of these cities is from 70 000 to 400 000 people.
Koltsovo airport is also used by the citizens of Perm and Chelyabinsk. Ural region has its own airline, Ural Airline, who has daily flights to Moscow and major cities of Ural and Russia. Most of the charter flights from the region are organized with Ural Airlines.
There is annual tourism exhibition which is held every spring, "Summer".
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Population: about 1.2 million people
The number of travel agencies: more than 450 agencies (among them about 100 - 130 actively working).
Airport: Balandin International Airport
Almost all major tour operators of Russia have their offices or representatives in the city. Before 2015, the direct flights from Chelyabinsk were organized to all popular mass destinations. The exotic destinations were offered only with flights from Moscow. Although there are about 12 daily flights from Balandin airport to different airports of Moscow.
The most significant towns of Chelyabinsk region are: Magnitogorsk, Miass Chebarkul. Travel agents from Chelyabinsk usually visit the annual tourism fair in Yekaterinburg, Summer Fair. Most of the tour operators organize their own presentations for travel agents in the city.
Population: 600 000
The number of travel agencies: more than 300 agencies (not more than 130-150 of them actively working)
Airport: Roshchino International airport
Previously, there were organized charter flights of the majority of tour operators of Russia, but in the last two years the operators reduced their programs from the region, re-directing tourists on tours with departures from Yekaterinburg.
The major cities of the Tyumen region include Noyabrsk, Yugorsk, Vikulovo and others which population numbers from 20 000 to 150 000 people and the number of travel agencies is on average from 15 to 80.
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I hope the days of vision and mission statements are nearly over. They're the paperwork of traditional management models. They're strategic compliance, and as such, they get deliberated over at great length and then forgotten. For the most part, they're also self-centred – all about what the organisation wants to achieve for itself, all about how it intends to achieve whatever it deems important. They often don't suit the much more open, interactive, social ways in which business is increasingly being done.


Dè tha Jim Murphy ris?
A rèir a charaid Làbaraich Diane Abbott, 's e "ceannachd bhòtaichean Albannach le airgead Lunnainn".
Am beachd Mèir Lunnainn, Boris Johnson, 's e "cleas gun phrionnsabal" a dh'adhbhraicheadh sgaradh eadar diofar phàirtean dhen Rìoghachd Aonaichte.
Am bi Mgr Murphy làn aithreachais, a' rannaich a-steach don Irn Bru aige?
Tha ceannard ùr nan Làbarach Albannach, a rinn tòrr airson taic fhaighinn don Rìoghachd Aonaichte ro bhòt na Sultaine, ag ràdh gu bheil e iomchaidh cìs a chur air taighean mòra - a' mhòrchuid dhiubh ann an ceann a deas Shasainn - gus nursaichean ùra fhastadh ann an Alba.
Nach b' e sin adhbhar an Aonaidh anns a' chiad dol a-mach, airgead a roinn a-mach air feadh na dùthcha?
Mar sin, chuir Mgr Murphy taic ri cìs air taighean mòra ag ràdh gun toireadh i cothrom dha mar phrìomh mhinistear an ath-bhliadhna 1000 nurs a thoirt a-steach do sheirbhis na slàinte ann an Alba.
Tha an SNP ag ràdh gu bheil an àireamhachd aige fada ceàrr agus nach tigeadh airgead gu leòr gu Alba bhon chìs gus sin a dhèanamh.
Agus thuirt ceannard nan nàiseantach aig Westminster, Aonghas Robasdan, gun robh an SNP air cur ris na bha ann de nursaichean ann an Alba mar thà.
Ach ann an dòigh, chan e am polasaidh fhèin an rud as cudromach.
Nuair a dh'iarr Jim Murphy taic a' phàrtaidh aige ron Nollaig, b' e a rud a bu chudromaiche toirt air na Làbaraich taghaidhean a bhuannachadh a-rithist.
Agus, gus sin a dhèanamh, tha Mgr Murphy a' creidsinn gu feum e sealtainn gu bheil saorsa aige na polasaidhean aige fhèin a leantainn.
Ao-choltach ri Johann Lamont, a dh'fhalbh le gearan nach robh a leithid de shaorsa aicese, thuirt Jim Murphy nach b' fheudar dhasan cead fhaighinn bho dhuine sam bith ann an Lunnainn airson nam polasaidhean a chuireadh e an sàs mu thuath.
An turas-sa, thuirt e, cha do bhruidhinn e ri Ed Miliband mus do dh'fhoillsich e am polasaidh agus nach b' e gnothach Diana Abbott a bha ann idir.
Ceart no ceàrr, tha Jim Murphy a' tomhas nach dèan gearan bho Lunnainn cron sam bith air anns an oidhirp aige na Làbaraich a thoirt air ais gu cumhachd ann an Alba.
Às dèidh spòrs na Nollaig, is coltach gum bi cleasan gu leòr anns a' bhliadhna ùir.


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2019 U.S. Open: Jordan Spieth explains words to caddie Michael Greller as 'frustration, not blame'
By T.J. Auclair · June 14, 2019
Jordan Spieth said an exchange caught on live TV Thursday evening between he and caddie Michael Greller was simply one of frustration — not blame. Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports
The eighth hole at Pebble Beach in Thursday's opening round of the 119th U.S. Open was a rough one for three-time major winner, Jordan Spieth.
And it included an ugly moment captured on live TV.
Spieth bogeyed the difficult par 4 after hitting one shot in the water and another over the green. After the second shot that went long, Spieth vented to longtime caddie Michael Greller.
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"Two perfect shots, Michael," Spieth said. "You got me in the water on one and over the green on the other."
On social media, Spieth was sharply criticized for the way he spoke to Greller. Here's one example, along with video of how the moment went down.
Jordan Spieth just completely called out his caddie on national TV. Whether the caddie misjudged it or not, that's a bush league move. At the end of the day, you're the one hitting the golf ball.#USOpen pic.twitter.com/lFSYQSGrvR
— Danny Vietti (@DannyVietti) June 13, 2019
Spieth finished the first round with a 1-over 72 and was seven strokes behind leader Justin Rose (65).
A lot of the criticism Spieth received was centered around the fact that he typically analyzes his play using the word "we" – as in "with Greller" – but in this case Thursday evening he used the word, "I" and appeared to blame the caddie for what went wrong.
Along with that, many noted that – ultimately – it's the player who hits the shot, not the caddie, and, as such, the player is always the one who gets the final decision.
After the round, Spieth said if it looked like he was blaming Greller, that wasn't the case at all. He was instead letting out frustration. He said they agreed on club selection for both shots and, well, the shots just didn't work out as planned.
"When you hit a couple of shots exactly where you want and one's in the water and the next one's dead over the green, I'm going to be frustrated that as a team we didn't figure out how to make sure that didn't happen," Spieth said. "I may have looked like the bad guy, but my intentions were that we should be in play if the ball is hit solidly."
ESPN.com's Michael Collins, who also contributes to The Caddie Network, asked Greller about the exchange following the round. Here's what Collins reported through his Twitter account:
Caddie Michael Greller was so unfazed by the exchange that happened on the 8th hole with Jordan Spieth when I asked him about it. He looked at me confused and said, "What exchange? What did he say? I don't remember."
So, there you have it. It appears, at least from what Greller had to say, that this was just a case of some serious bad timing for Spieth — some major championship frustration captured in the heat of the moment with the mics open on live TV for all to hear.
T.J. Auclair
T.J. Auclair is the Director of Content for The Caddie Network and has covered professional golf since 1998, traveling to over 70 major championships.
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I'm an evening / a morning person but I like sleeping! I usually sleep for eight hours, but sometimes I sleep for ten hours! I love that!
I drink a lot of water -- well, two liters in winter, and more in summer. I don't usually drink alcohol -- except when I go out with my friends!
I have a healthy diet. I eat a lot of fruit. I love fruit! And I always have vegetables or salads in my meals. I use olive oil in my salad! Olive oil is very healthy. I also eat chicken and fish. I hardly ever eat meat. I love bread and butter! / I'm a vegetarian. I never eat meat, any kind of meat. / I'm a vegan. I never eat anything from animals. /Oh, and I have cereals (for breakfast) and pulses, too: lentils and chickpeas are my favourite!
I smoke about three cigarettes a day. And I don't do much exercise, really. I just walk to work. Well, nobody's perfect! / I don't smoke. I do exercise every day. I go swimming three times a week. I go running every weekday. And at weekends I go trekking in the mountain. When I stay here some Saturdays I play football with my friends.
The worst for me is rushing. Some days I rush everywhere! And then I'm stressed out!
Most days I don't rush. I have a good time with people, or on my own. And every day I try to do something good for someone, including myself!


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During an Association of Medical Media (AMM) meeting in New York City last month, a panel-led discussion of media executives spoke on the increasing challenges media companies are facing to better serve advertisers and sponsors.
Today's media demands are tougher than ever. Advertisers continue to require high viewability numbers in the upward numbers of 80%-100% viewability, engagement guarantees, segment targeting among other deliverables.
Measurement of effective online advertising has shifted from just analyzing impressions and CTRs to a focus on other metrics like viewability. Media companies traditionally sell channel-based banner spots to target relevant content to the right audience. With identity-driven targeting on the rise and becoming a mainstream preference, this change is forcing publishers to sell beyond their comfort level. Advertisers now want to know the "who" to ensure ad units are reaching both real people with relevant interests in a product or service.
This is a radical change in how we do business.
According to Digiday, viewability "…is an online advertising metric that aims to track only impressions that can actually be seen by users." For an example of viewability let's say an ad unit is located "below the fold" on a web page. If the user does not scroll down to see the ad, the served impression has no viewability–and is not counted.
Digital ad fraud affects everyone. Even the publishers who took the precaution of selling ads only on what are called "private ad exchanges" to tightly control their inventory and allow only brand-consistent advertisers on their sites have been victimized by fraud. In certain industries, any IVT traffic measuring over 3% constitutes an automatic make good. Publishers are playing catch up implementing measures to make sure that paid ads are being served to real people.
ONEcount, a customer data platform (CDP) combined with a data management platform (DMP), is leading the way in helping media companies deliver the results advertisers want.
The platform's IVT mitigator differentiates real traffic from fraudulent traffic. If the traffic sources are deemed as IVT, the platform serves house ads so that paid impressions are shown to real people.
ONEcount's Persona & Segmentation engine allows for instant targeting based on identity and/or behavior. One of its key features is the ability to match profiles to create first-party segments instantly serving ads to an advertiser's customer list. Clients report increases in higher click-thru rates due to the relevant targeting.
In today's digital world changes happen by the day, if not the hour. Previous historic reporting took days to compile and usually delivered to advertisers on a weekly or monthly basis. If a change was needed, it would've been delayed or not made until after the campaign.
Advertisers are demanding real-time reporting. ONEcount's real-time advertiser dashboards allow media advertisers to access up-to-the-minute analytics and insights. Rather than reviewing needed optimizations after-the-fact, the platform's dashboards allow for modifications to strategies, creative, copy and other tactics to be made to a campaign mid-stream.
Now is the time to take advantage of the opportunity to increase the value of advertising by cutting waste, targeting the who and providing real-time data and metrics.
Increase the value of advertisement's CPM by using the platform to target real audiences, cut IVT by up to 50% in just days after implementation, and stop over-spraying impressions to fake audiences. Save time and impress advertisers with real-time dashboards that provide performance data while the campaign runs-allowing for changes to be made to optimize ads.
Contact Joanne Persico, President, and co-founder of ONEcount by phone at 203-665-6211 x204, or e-mail joanne@one-count.com to learn how you can adapt to the change in what is important for your advertisers by using ONEcount's audience activation platform.


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Advancing Faculty Learning Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 102
Book by: Elizabeth G. Creamer and Lisa R. Lattuca, (Eds).
Review by: Joyce E. Howland
Mentor/Unit Coordinator, Alfred Unit
Are your research interests in areas where interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to success? If so, do you worry whether your efforts will garner the credit needed for retention, tenure and promotion? Is finding a way to meld participants from varying disciplines into a cohesive unit a challenge? Advancing Faculty Learning Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration suggests ways to improve the functioning of interdisciplinary teams while insuring that participants get the credit they deserve.
This volume grew out of a symposium presented at the 2002 meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Several authors write its 7 chapters. After a general introduction, the second chapter outlines the importance of context to learning as explained by sociocultural learning theory. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 analyze three instances of interdisciplinary collaboration in the areas of service, research and teaching. The first, on service, says little about the actual project, but presents the clearest theoretical model for how a group can move from being a collection of individual experts who work together to becoming a fully functioning collaborative team. The next chapter looks at a research group that, despite almost a decade of collaboration, remains divided by disciplinary perspectives. Still, this team has succeeded in working together and has developed a number of techniques for appropriately sharing both the work and the credit for the team's publications. The essay on interdisciplinary teaching indicates that collaboration works well when all have a common objective; in less goal-oriented situations, the differing viewpoints cause student confusion and unease. Next, the case studies are examined from the perspective of sociocultural learning theory. The volume concludes with suggestions for ways to improve interdisciplinary collaboration while increasing recognition for the faculty involved in these activities.
The volume will be most intelligible to those well versed in the theories of learning and cognition; readers with background in education and/or psychology will be better equipped to understand the theoretical second chapter and the chapter which discusses the case studies in light of sociocultural learning theory. However, all readers will find that the case studies provide a number of suggestions for enhancing collaboration among professionals working on a joint project. While the reader would benefit from a quick review of the case studies, they are not essential background for the final essay, which provides the most useful material in the text. Presented here are a series of recommendations for how to credit the work of collaborators more clearly so that each participant's contribution to the interdisciplinary project can be properly recognized in personnel decisions. While many of these recommendations have been under discussion for some time, it is helpful to have them all considered in one place. Additional ways to structure and manage projects that enhance the development of collaborative teams are outlined.
Academic advisors from both the professional and faculty ranks will find relevant information presented on recognition of the contributions of various team members and the suggestions for improving the functioning of disciplinary teams. This information may be particularly helpful to those working with groups that include faculty from many different departments or disciplines.
Advancing Faculty Learning Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 102. (2005). Book by Elizabeth G. Creamer and Lisa R. Lattuca, (Eds). Review by Joyce Howland. Jossey-Bass. 112 pp., $29.00 (paperback). ISBN # 0-7879-8070-6.


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Bellingham based halibut anglers will have lots of places to fish for halibut this year. Early reports indicate there's lots of halibut on the inside waters, all the way to Campbell River B.C. While the inside halibut fishery is limited in days to fish, I still suggest trying some new areas. This map of Waldron Island shows a couple areas that have produced halibut in years past and should put some fish on the hook this year. Remember, halibut put their eyes into the current, waiting for bait to come along, so choose your spot accordingly.
Position your boat, either anchoring or drifting, to fish downhill. If drifting, start on the uphill side and drift downhill, or deeper. When anchoring choose the top of the bank or ridge or the bottom of it for best results.
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Some things to de-clutter your mind.
Make a list of everything you haven't done or completed yet. On your list of uncompleted items aka "procrastination list", write the uncompleted task. Clean car, next to it write how long you think it will take to complete and by what date. Here's what it should look like.
You get the general gist of it. Right? Anything that has been weighing you down because it's incomplete be sure t0 complete!!!! Do it! Call that person. Mail that letter! Clean that dresser drawer. Store it! Throw it out. Give it to charity. Paint that wall. Sew that hem that came out last year. Do whatever it is you have to do to get these things off the list and off your mind!Climb the highest building! Run a marathon. JUST DO IT!
When speaking with clients and helping them, I call this taking care of intolerance's. Take care of what you no longer need to tolerate. De-clutter your mind and space for a more peaceful existence. I do believe, anyone can have a happier life if you focus on these types of things and change your attitude towards them. Don't procrastinate – just do it!
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Sri Ramakrishna Math Vivekananda Centenary Girls Higher Secondary School was started in commemoration of the Centenary Celebrations of Swami Vivekananda on 19th July 1962 by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai. The current strength of the school is 800 and most of them are from the socio-economically deprived Mint area in North Chennai and the Math is successfully helping them join the mainstream. In 2008, the school was upgraded to Higher Secondary School and provided with all facilities including a fully equipped lab and computers.
Out of 109 students who appeared for the Xth standard examinations, 102 students passed the exams. Total pass percentage 94%.
Out of 151 students who appeared for the XIIth standard examinations, 146 students passed the exams. Total pass percentage 97%.
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Q: How to change file extention of every file in directory unix/linux I have a directory of 5,000 files. All these files end with an extention of .xml I'd like to change that and have them all end with .txt
How can I accomplish this in linux/mac?

A: If available in your shell, rename is one option that is quick and easy:
rename .xml .txt *.xml

So to demonstrate, let's use a loop to make 500 files, rename them, and then delete them.
for i in $(seq 500); do touch document_${i}.xml; done
ls document*.xml
rename .xml .txt *.xml
ls document*.txt
rm -f document*.txt
ls document*.txt

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In the Event
When a memoir, or work of fiction, or even biography/autobiography become too much like the ongoing pulse of Reality, your first tendency is to set the project to one side. This tendency is followed in rapid succession by your wish to pile something—books, magazines, note pads, administrative communications from universities—on or about the project in the matter of camouflage.
With enough such things piled on or near the project, you and it will be distanced long enough so that when you return to it, recognize it for what it was and what it was not, you no longer feel any protective instincts about it. In fact, your great likelihood is to feel irritation toward the project.
The point here is that the events of Reality are not like the events in dramatic writing.
This begins with you in that you wish most of the events you engage to have some dramatic feel if not actual dramatic consequence to them. This is why you began reading in the first place.
You read to get away from the painful effects going on about you related to the dregs of what has been called The Great Depression, and the trickle-down effects on your life of the rise and proliferation of The National Socialist Party in Germany.
In brief, your parents, once riding the crest of comfortable life style, saw their status tumble. You read stories and, eventually, met individuals whose life had been further destabilized by the effects of The National Socialist Party taking bigger bites out of Europe and its populations. You came to realize that were you to have lived in Europe, whence came your maternal and paternal grandparents, your life experiences would have been of a significant difference from what they were in the Reality of the city of your birth, Santa Monica, and the various suburbs of Los Angeles in which you lived before starting a journey to the eastern and, later, southern portions of the country of your own birth.
You lived in two bubbles, the bubble of Depression-era Los Angeles and the bubble of the books and magazines you read. Then you moved to places where diversity, attitudes, and tastes were of significant difference from anything you'd seen or known. At least one bus driver in Miami Beach, Florida, yanked the emergency brake to full ratchet, left his seat, and did a Woody Woodpecker on your chest with his index finger because you sat in your favorite bus seat, which happened to be behind a wide black line, dividing the interior of the bus into two parts. You were the only person in the portion behind the wide black line, but, as you were told, if one of "them" got on the bus, and found you sitting where "they" customarily sat, "they" would feel uncomfortable because, once again, "they" would feel exploited and God knew already that "they" were being exploited enough as it is, and your willingness to move, should anyone want to sit where you were sitting cut no mark because "they" were entitled to board a bus and see their place waiting for them at all times.
You'd had a similar experience when you were "caught" drinking out of the "wrong" water fountain in Washington D.C., where it was hot to the point where one of "them" might see you drinking out of "their" water spigot and decide that it was alright for you to drink out of "their" spigot but that they could never presume to drink from a proper spigot, not with all the trouble that had been stirred by allowing them to consider drinking in the same building in the first place.
There was always a first place, one of them being that it was all right for you to enter some of the buildings with signs on the lawn limiting who could and could not enter the building because you were providing a service each time you attempted to deliver a copy of the Miami Herald and had no thought of remaining in the building after you'd delivered it.
These were some of the events you were hoping to read your way beyond. Other events were less dramatic in nature. They were also more random, not connected by consistent attitudes. Reality is not always consistent; it is in fact inconsistent in the same general way drama is always consistent. Reality and story may both be irrational but they are irrational in idiosyncratic ways.
Story has a determinism and causality that distinguishes it from Reality. Characters in story frequently observe a situation or event taking place that no one in reality would believe. Individuals in Reality often observe that it is not some damned story or movie. Writers and readers are amused by this seeming conundrum but both know that an event, however crazy it may seem, must be crazy enough to seem real, while at the same time, seem real enough that characters go along with it.
You observe individuals caught in the squeeze of not expecting things to work in Reality the way they are made to work in Story and not expecting Story to be too real, which is to say too filled with supportive logic, that fantasy or magic should be ruled out.
And yet, poorly written story often seems to mock the very Reality it seeks with such earnestness to portray.
Too real to be true, too true to be real. The writer walks a narrow cusp, always pushed to greater feats of rebelliousness by a reader who will do anything rather than have to put up with another minute of Reality.


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Escape to Panther Gorge
By Mary Lou Recor
Panther Gorge has always interested me, given its remote location in the deepest heart of the High Peaks, shadowed by the walls of Skylight, Marcy and Haystack. I imagined it as dark and mysterious. Even its name evokes fanciful thoughts of wildness and an edge of danger.
But until this past summer I had never been to Panther Gorge, mostly because it required a two-day trip. I didn't want to rush in and out on a day hike. I wanted to steep myself in its mystique. I wanted to spend the night. I also realized that having been there once, I probably would not return.
So last July Fourth weekend, perhaps the busiest of summer, I wedged my Toyota Corolla into the last parking space at the public lot near Elk Lake – between a blue pickup truck and the sign for the Dix Trail. This was not a good omen. I envisioned myself sharing a campsite with a gaggle of overly enthusiastic middle-aged peak-baggers and a troop of sweaty, cranky Boy Scouts. I need not have worried.
The remote Panther Gorge lies between Mount Marcy and Mount Haystack. Photo by Carl Heilman
My hiking partner, Chris, and I crossed the road to the Marcy Trail and left the motorized, computerized, industrialized, synthesized, suburbanized, cellularized world behind. We met no one over the next nine miles, past three piles of bear scat, past an irate mother grouse, past the trail to Marcy Landing, all the way to the lean-to at Panther Gorge.
Three sleeping bags lay across the floor in the lean-to, and a small tent was pitched irresponsibly close to Marcy Brook, but no one was around. After setting up our tent and caching our bear-proof canister, we climbed the backside of Haystack, returning to camp at dusk. Still deserted. We fell asleep to the sound of the brook running at the bottom of the hill. The next morning, we were on the trail before anyone else was up, and we had the delightfully remote bald summit of Skylight to ourselves.
Bushwhacking the herd path between Gray and Marcy, we saw no one, not even our own feet. The top of Marcy was, as expected, dotted with self-absorbed clusters of climbers. As we hiked the miles back to Elk Lake, we met not another being, except for the conniving mosquitoes and deer flies that, sensing in their insect brains that we would return by the same route we had taken in, descended on us with a vengeance as we passed through Marcy Swamp and tormented us all the way to Nellie Brook.
I no longer spend every weekend hiking in the Adirondacks as I once did, but I have heard the High Peaks are crowded. Doubtless that is relatively true, judging by the numerous parking lot expansions at the Adirondak Loj, the need for a bus shuttle to the Garden and the burgeoning number of recorded Forty-Sixers. But it's reassuring to know that there are still places in the High Peaks where even on a sunny holiday weekend, we can escape the mass hiker ingress and be lulled to sleep by the quiet sound of a running brook.
Mary Lou Recor is president of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers. This article originally appeared in the group's magazine, Peeks.
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Jim Phillips is a shareholder in the Tax and International Law Practice Groups in the Milwaukee office. His practice is concentrated in the areas of domestic and international tax structuring, planning and controversy matters, corporate and business law, acquisitions and venture capital. He provides counsel to corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and individuals.
Jim has been involved in a variety of tax and business transactions over the years. Representative examples include restructuring private companies to take them public, restructuring pass-through entities such as S corporations to accommodate ineligible equity owners, structuring and advising venture capital funds regarding their formation, operation and investments, representing purchasers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions, advising companies, investors and management regarding the allocation provisions for partnerships and limited liability companies upon the entry and departure of partners and the contribution and distribution of appreciated and depreciated assets, tax planning for troubled and insolvent companies, advising companies on the structuring of their operations abroad such as China and Europe, negotiating and structuring joint venture arrangements, advising the acquiror in the largest S corporation ESOP transaction of its kind in the state, forming and advising non-profit and tax-exempt entities, and representing parties in tax disputes at the federal and state level.
The Tax Planning Group works as a team to stay up to date on federal and state tax developments, and has the resources to advise clients on a variety of taxes in addition to income and franchise taxes, such as sales/use, employment and excise taxes. Jim, like many other members of the group, has working knowledge of many of the taxes, with the resources within the Group to assist clients when needed.
Jim has spoken on a variety of topics. He has taught courses at the University of Wisconsin Law School on corporate acquisitions and restructurings, covering both the corporate and tax aspects of recapitalizations, stock acquisitions, asset acquisitions and mergers. Jim is a member of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Iowa Bar Associations.
Jim received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Iowa Law School in 1976 and 1979, respectively. He served as an editor for The Journal of Corporation Law.


The applicant's agent referred the Sub-Committee to the training policies that had been circulated which should address concerns. He would be referring to the Thwaites case. Hours were reduced, the premises was a restaurant with discreet karaoke and was not a bar or nightclub. The application now fell within the core hours. The representation by the police had been withdrawn. The applicant would enhance the dining experience. The Home Office guidance stated that the police would be the main source of advice on matters relating to the crime and disorder objective. The police were no longer objecting to the application and were satisfied that the application did not undermine the cumulative impact policy. The noise officers were not objecting and staff would be checking that all windows and doors were shut. They had worked through the licensing policy, they were within framework hours, they had created bespoke policies regarding training and dispersal, they could have sought a transfer of the licence if it was still in existence so would not be adding to the cumulative impact. They were not seeking seasonal extensions. The caution had been accepted at another premises in the borough which had been let to another individual who had actually been in breach of the law. The applicant's representative stated that Mr Xie accepted the caution, as he did not understand the position. The lack of address on the application form was an oversight.
In response to questions it was noted that there were no non-standard timings requested. It was reported that all aspects of the application had been discussed at length with the police. It was agreed that the door supervisor be from an external agency. There would be a noise limiting device installed. The applicant, through the use of an interpreter, was unable to name for the Sub-Committee any of the licensing objectives. It was noted that the applicant had let his shop to a tenant and he was removing alcohol from the shelves when he had a visit from council officers. It was accepted that he should have exercised greater supervision.
In summary, the licensing authority stated that the Thwaites case could be distinguished from this premises as, in that particular case the premises were being well run and had no history of complaints. In this instance the applicant had received a caution. Also, the Thwaites case was possibly not in a cumulative impact area. He advised that the number of covers could be provided. In response to this, the applicant's representative stated that there could be a maximum of 40 covers upstairs and 40 covers downstairs. The licensing authority further stated that the applicant had said that he received a formal caution for an offence that he says he did not commit and he wondered why this would be the case. Alcohol would be sold in four karaoke rooms without food and there was therefore the potential for excess alcohol. The premises were in a cumulative impact area and the applicant, although he had a personal licence was unable to answer questions about the licensing objectives. The licensing authority considered this to be unsatisfactory.
The resident reported that she still had concern about the noise from the karaoke rooms and that you could drink in these rooms. She also raised concerns about the number of people in the premises.
The applicant's representative reported that the applicant's response about the licensing objectives was due to the language barrier and there would be two employees on the premises who could speak English adequately. The noise team had not objected and there was no evidence to say there would be noise disturbance. He considered that they would not add to the cumulative impact and considered that their application had been hampered by a diabolical previous licensee. Each application should be considered on its merits. In the Thwaites case it stated that there should be no speculation on what might happen. A number of bespoke polices had been produced and hew conditions offered. Residents had the power of review and the applicant risked losing the licence if he failed to run the licence properly. The applicant's representative asked the Sub-Committee to grant the licence.
RESOLVED that the application for a new premises licence for Old Friend, 277 Caledonian Road, N1 1ET be refused.
The Sub-Committee took into consideration Licensing Policy 2 and Home Office guidance 13.30. The premises fall under the Kings Cross cumulative impact area. Licensing policy 2 creates a rebuttable presumption that applications for new premises licences that are likely to add to the existing cumulative impact will normally be refused, unless an applicant can demonstrate in the operating schedule why the operation of the premises involved will not add to the cumulative impact or otherwise impact adversely on the promotion of the licensing objectives.
The Sub-Committee considered that the activities proposed were likely to add to the existing cumulative impact of the area. The applicant had not demonstrated that the operation of the premises would not impact adversely on the licensing objective of public nuisance and the Sub-Committee did not regard this as an exceptional case. There were no conditions which could effectively mitigate the negative impact on the licensing objective of public nuisance and it was appropriate and proportionate and in the public interest to refuse the application.
The Sub-Committee noted that the previous premises had ceased to operate before this application was submitted. Although the previous licensed premises had had a troubled history, the Sub-Committee accepted the argument of the applicant's representative that it should concentrate on the merits of the current application and gave no consideration to earlier issues with another premises licence holder.
The police, public health and noise team had withdrawn their representations when conditions had been agreed, however, the licensing authority continued to be concerned about the potential for public nuisance. One of the conditions stated that there would be no vertical drinking anywhere on the premises. The Sub-Committee noted that it was not clear from the operating schedule whether the restaurant condition would apply to the entire premises and it was confirmed that in the basement area, where karaoke would take place, substantial meals would not be served. There could be a total of 80 patrons on the premises including 40 downstairs and it would not be possible to impose a condition realistically requiring a restaurant condition to apply to the entire premises.
Under licensing policy 10 the licensing authority, when assessing the applicant's ability to demonstrate a commitment to high standards of management will take into account whether the applicant can demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of best practice, can understand verbal and written advice and requirements, can demonstrate knowledge of the licensing objectives and their responsibilities under the Licensing Act, can run his business lawfully and in accordance with good practice and is able to demonstrate a track record of compliance with legal requirements.
The applicant had accepted a police caution for selling alcohol without a licence in other premises within the last 18 months. Although the applicant's representative stated that this had been due to a misunderstanding and he had not committed the offence, the Sub-Committee considered that it could not go behind the fact of the caution.
When the applicant was questioned on his understanding of the licensing objectives, it became clear that he could not speak English. His colleagues translated the question but he was still unable to answer. The applicant's representative stated that he would be the general manager and there would be an under manager and another person who could speak adequate English at the premises. However, they made no representations at the Sub-Committee and there was no evidence that the applicant could understand his responsibilities under the Licensing Act.


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Q: Vagrant up on Windows 10 virtualbox ignores administrative rights I'm trying to set Vagrant's sync_type to smb, but fail on running vagrant up after changing the configuration.
I receive the following error:

SMB shared folders require running Vagrant with administrative
  privileges. This is a limitation of Windows, since creating new
  network shares requires admin privileges. Please try again in a
  console with proper permissions or use another synced folder type.

I launched both VirtualBox (the GUI) and Cygwin in administrator mode, but the error persisted. Using Git Bash, Powershell or CMD instead of Cygwin didn't fix it. Also re-installing VirtualBox as administrator did not change anything.
I'm running VirtualBox 5.0.24 r108355, Vagrant 1.8.4 and Windows 10 Pro, build 10586.420.
How can I get vagrant to recognize and use the administrator rights?
UPDATE
I found I am able to launch the machine from the VirtualBox GUI (started as admin), suggesting that the VirtualBox interface used by Cygwin may not be running in administrator mode. However, I'm currently unable to connect to the machine through Cygwin.
UPDATE 2
Running VirtualBox GUI as regular user also allowed me to boot the machine.

A: To use the SMB synced folder type, the machine running Vagrant must be a Windows machine with PowerShell version 3 or later installed. In addition to this, the command prompt executing Vagrant must have administrative privileges. Vagrant requires these privileges in order to create new network folder shares.
https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/smb.html#prerequisites


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MEXICO: Walmex posts slight rise in September same-store sales
By just-food.com | 10 October 2003
Mexican retailer Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) has said its same-store sales edged up 0.3% in September as poor weather conditions affected stocks.
Walmex, which is majority owned by US retail giant Wal-Mart, reported total September sales of 8.79bn pesos (US$783m), a rise of 5.5% compared to the year-ago period, reported Dow Jones International News.
"Hurricane-related storm activity appears to be resulting in crop damage, logistical difficulties and high out of stocks in produce for retailers throughout Mexico," analyst Merrill Lynch was quoted by Dow Jones as saying.
Walmex, which operates more than 600 retail outlets and restaurants in Mexico, said it opened two new supermarkets in September.
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UK: Competition authorities accused of failing to protect convenience stores - report
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US retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to open 12 to 15 new stores in China this year according to the president of its international business, reports the Xinhua news agency....
INDIA: Wal-Mart International chief lobbies to enter Indian market
Wal-Mart International chief John Menzer has met Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and commerce minister Kamal Nath to lobby for permission to enter India's tightly-controlled retailing sector, the...
USA: Wal-Mart's Q1 earnings miss expectations
US retail titan Wal-Mart has reported record sales and earnings for the first quarter but said its results were lower than expected due to higher petrol prices and bad weather....
GERMANY: Wal-Mart Germany cuts prices to attack discounters
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UK: Tesco; beware the Wal-Mart effect (COMMENT)
Not content with pocketing one in every three pounds spent on groceries in the UK, the supermarket giant Tesco has now become the first British retailer to smash the £2 bn ($3.78bn) profit barrier. Ho...
CHINA: Wal-Mart to open two stores in Beijing this year
US retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc, says it will open two outlets in Beijing this year, and at least one more store next year, according to an Asia Pulse report....
USA: Produce sales soar, with Wal-Mart gaining share
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Q: Seemingly wrong instruction pointer reported by VS2017 Edit:
I've investigated more, and the problem reported below seems to happen only when I use Visual Studio 2017 to pause the process. It also seems that when rip is pointing to an invalid location, it's always a +1 byte offset from the correct instruction start.
Also, for context, this is a large C++ project with lots of dlls, some compiled with MSVC 2015, the rest with icc (intel compiler 2017). This is run in a python process using boost C++/python bindings.
Original post:
I am pausing my program randomly to see what are my threads doing during some heavy computation.
Note that I am not debugging a crash, resuming the program works fine.
Howver the VS debugger is sometimes unable to dissassemble the machine code.
For instance, on one thread where rip=000007FE8B048EE2, it shows this:
000007FE8B048EDE  ?? ??
000007FE8B048EDF  ?? ??
000007FE8B048EE0  ?? ??
000007FE8B048EE1  ?? ??
                    }

                    if (params.derandomize) {
000007FE8B048EE2  adc         ebp,eax
                        GetRNG().Seed(id);
000007FE8B048EE4  pop         rax
000007FE8B048EE5  wait
000007FE8B048EE6  adc         byte ptr [rax],al
000007FE8B048EE8  mov         rcx,rax

The decoded x86 instructions also seem wrong (adc, pop, wait, adc ??), so I tried to attach WinDBG as well (non invasive mode):
0:019> u rip
somedll!<lambda239>::operator()+0x132:
000007fe`8b048ee2 13e8            adc     ebp,eax
000007fe`8b048ee4 58              pop     rax
000007fe`8b048ee5 9b              wait
000007fe`8b048ee6 1000            adc     byte ptr [rax],al
000007fe`8b048ee8 4889c1          mov     rcx,rax
000007fe`8b048eeb 8b9570080000    mov     edx,dword ptr [rbp+870h]
000007fe`8b048ef1 e8fa911000      call    somedll!bla::bla::blabla::blabla::Seed (000007fe`8b1520f0)
000007fe`8b048ef6 4c8ba5b0080000  mov     r12,qword ptr [rbp+8B0h]

Ok, it's the same garbage...
But then I tried to dissassemble from an address slightly above rip:
0:019> u rip-30
somedll!<lambda239>::operator()+0x102:
000007fe`8b048eb2 00488b          add     byte ptr [rax-75h],cl
000007fe`8b048eb5 084863          or      byte ptr [rax+63h],cl
000007fe`8b048eb8 81d003000048    adc     eax,48000003h
000007fe`8b048ebe 83f8ff          cmp     eax,0FFFFFFFFh
000007fe`8b048ec1 740a            je      somedll!<lambda239>::operator()+0x11d (000007fe`8b048ecd)
000007fe`8b048ec3 4889c2          mov     rdx,rax
000007fe`8b048ec6 48899570080000  mov     qword ptr [rbp+870h],rdx
000007fe`8b048ecd 486381e0030000  movsxd  rax,dword ptr [rcx+3E0h]
0:019> u
somedll!<lambda239>::operator()+0x124:
000007fe`8b048ed4 483bd0          cmp     rdx,rax
000007fe`8b048ed7 7501            jne     somedll!<lambda239>::operator()+0x12a (000007fe`8b048eda)
000007fe`8b048ed9 cc              int     3
000007fe`8b048eda 80b96303000000  cmp     byte ptr [rcx+363h],0
000007fe`8b048ee1 7413            je      somedll!<lambda239>::operator()+0x146 (000007fe`8b048ef6)
000007fe`8b048ee3 e8589b1000      call    somedll!bla::bla::blabla::GetRNG (000007fe`8b152a40)
000007fe`8b048ee8 4889c1          mov     rcx,rax
000007fe`8b048eeb 8b9570080000    mov     edx,dword ptr [rbp+870h]
0:019> u
somedll!<lambda239>::operator()+0x141:
000007fe`8b048ef1 e8fa911000      call    somedll!bla::bla::blabla::blabla::Seed (000007fe`8b1520f0)
000007fe`8b048ef6 4c8ba5b0080000  mov     r12,qword ptr [rbp+8B0h]
000007fe`8b048efd 488d95f0070000  lea     rdx,[rbp+7F0h]
000007fe`8b048f04 488d8dc0070000  lea     rcx,[rbp+7C0h]
000007fe`8b048f0b 498b0424        mov     rax,qword ptr [r12]
000007fe`8b048f0f 4c8da570080000  lea     r12,[rbp+870h]
000007fe`8b048f16 488942d0        mov     qword ptr [rdx-30h],rax
000007fe`8b048f1a 4c8962d8        mov     qword ptr [rdx-28h],r12

the first instructions "add byte ptr" and "or byte ptr" at 000007fe`8b048eb2 don't make sense because rip-30 likely falls in the middle of an instruction, but after it seems to resync because it corresponds to the source code:
if (id == params.dbgbreak_id) {
    __debugbreak();
}

if (params.derandomize) {
    GetRNG().Seed(id);
}

000007fe`8b048ecd 486381e0030000  movsxd  rax,dword ptr [rcx+3E0h]
000007fe`8b048ed4 483bd0          cmp     rdx,rax                  // if (id == params.dbgbreak_id) {
000007fe`8b048ed7 7501            jne     somedll!<lambda239>::operator()+0x12a (000007fe`8b048eda)
000007fe`8b048ed9 cc              int     3                        // __debugbreak(); }
000007fe`8b048eda 80b96303000000  cmp     byte ptr [rcx+363h],0    // if (params.derandomize)
000007fe`8b048ee1 7413            je      somedll!<lambda239>::operator()+0x146 (000007fe`8b048ef6)
000007fe`8b048ee3 e8589b1000      call    somedll!bla::bla::blabla::GetRNG (000007fe`8b152a40)
000007fe`8b048ee8 4889c1          mov     rcx,rax
000007fe`8b048eeb 8b9570080000    mov     edx,dword ptr [rbp+870h]
000007fe`8b048ef1 e8fa911000      call    somedll!bla::bla::blabla::blabla::Seed (000007fe`8b1520f0)

clearly there is no instruction begining at 000007fe8b048ee2 !
There is je at 000007fe8b048ee1, and call at 000007fe8b048ee3
So... I thought, hmmm there's a bug in the debugger... let's check the registers:
0:019> r
rax=ffffffffffffffff rbx=000000000021d420 rcx=000000000021d5d0
rdx=0000000002696568 rsi=0000000000005d38 rdi=0000000056eefc40
rip=000007fe8b048ee2 rsp=0000000056eef5b0 rbp=0000000056eef5e0
 r8=0000000000000006  r9=000000000021d0b8 r10=0000000006456570
r11=0000000000000006 r12=0000000056eefe50 r13=00000000069a8820
r14=000000000021d1a8 r15=0000000056eefe60
iopl=0         nv up ei pl zr na po nc
cs=0033  ss=002b  ds=002b  es=002b  fs=0053  gs=002b             efl=00000246

What?? rip=000007fe8b048ee2 ?? How is that possible?
It explains why the debugger is showing garbage: it is trying to dissassemble starting from rip, but rip points to the middle of an instruction.
But why is the reported rip wrong? Is the OS culprit?
Am I missing something?


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16 - The Role of Transparency in Patient Safety Improvement
from Part V - Transparency and Outcomes: Promoting Health and Safety
By Michelle M. Mello, David M. Studdert, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, Allen Kachalia
Edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, Barbara J. Evans
Book: Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States
Print publication: 06 June 2019, pp 244-259
Getting the "Informed" into "Informed Consent," and Proving It
David M. Studdert
Journal: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics / Volume 46 / Issue 4 / Winter 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2021, pp. 975-977
Print publication: Winter 2018
Adjudicating Severe Birth Injury Claims in Florida and Virginia: The Experience of a Landmark Experiment in Personal Injury Compensation
Gil Siegal, Michelle M. Mello, David M. Studdert
Journal: American Journal of Law & Medicine / Volume 34 / Issue 4 / December 2008
Policy debates over medical malpractice in the United States involve a complex amalgam of legal doctrine, public demands to address the problem of medical errors, and the interests of various stakeholder groups. Most parties can agree, however, that the current system for compensating medical injury performs poorly. It falls short of achieving its two main goals: compensation and deterrence. The current system of tort liability is "neither sensitive nor specific in its distribution of compensation:" the vast majority of patients injured by negligent medical care do not receive compensation, yet the system compensates some cases that do not appear to involve negligence. Sometimes, it awards more in noneconomic damages than seems reasonable to many observers. Ultimately, tort liability appears to do little to improve health care quality and safety, yet it spurs costly defensive medicine. Physicians and health care organizations face burdensome insurance and legal costs, leading some to threaten to curtail their services. These concerns about the burden of medical injury and the malpractice "crisis" have sharpened calls for reform.
1 - The Medical Malpractice System: Structure and Performance
By Michelle M. Mello, teaches courses in Public Health Law and the EthicalBasis of the Practice of Public Health, the Harvard School of Public Health., David M. Studdert, associate professor of law and public health, Harvard School of Public Health
Edited by William M. Sage, Columbia University, New York, Rogan Kersh, Syracuse University, New York
Book: Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System
Few aspects of American law provoke as impassioned a public debate as medical liability. Physicians, insurers, lawyers, consumer groups, and politicians frequently clash over the effectiveness, fairness, and costs of the medical liability system, with the din reaching a crescendo during periods of "malpractice crisis." Notwithstanding the high degree of civic engagement on this issue, evidence suggests that the medical liability system and its effects on health care are not well understood by the public. In a recent poll, a majority of respondents expressed a belief that malpractice suits were effective in preventing medical errors and making doctors take better care of their patients, but a majority also felt that too many lawsuits were brought and that providers' liability should be limited.
This snapshot of public opinion nicely captures the cognitive dissonance about the malpractice system that characterizes the broader policy debate about tort reform. It also illuminates the need for empirically informed analyses of the system and its performance. In this chapter, we describe the structure of the medical liability system – what happens when a lawsuit is filed, what the system costs, and where the money comes from. We then review the best available evidence on how well the system performs its primary functions of compensation, deterrence, and corrective justice and how it affects the way health care is delivered in the United States.
STRUCTURE OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL LIABILITY SYSTEM
The Litigation Process
American medical malpractice law revolves around the concept of negligence.
6 - Liability, Patient Safety, and Defensive Medicine: What Does the Future Hold?
By Troyen A. Brennan, chief medical officer of Aetna., Harvard Medical School, Michelle M. Mello, Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, David M. Studdert, associate professor of law and public health, Harvard School of Public Health,
Print publication: 12 June 2006, pp 93-114
Approaches for dealing with medical injuries are developing quickly today. Publication of the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) report, To Err Is Human, in 2000 unleashed a variety of innovative ideas, some of which have already prompted policy changes. But the field of patient safety is in its infancy and policy responses to the problem of medical errors remain in flux, suggesting that significant changes lie ahead in the way we address the challenge of reducing the number of patients injured by medical care.
To help anticipate how these new policies may affect the medical profession and health care industry, it is critical to examine the recent medical malpractice "crisis." The connections between strategies to reduce medical injury and the medical malpractice system are vital and often overlooked. Developments in the medical liability arena will affect the evolution and eventual shape of methods used to combat error in medicine. Moreover, we believe that medical injury policy can and will significantly affect medical liability policy.
This chapter focuses on the implications of the medical injury/medical malpractice dynamic for physician behavior. It is informed by research on defensive medicine we undertook with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts in 2003 and 2004. This research was motivated in part by the ongoing national crisis in medical liability, which hit Pennsylvania particularly hard from 2001 onward.
Clinical Trials Registries: A Reform that is Past Due
Jennifer L. Gold, David M. Studdert
Several high-profile episodes have recently thrust drug safety and the pharmaceutical industry's practices into the spotlight. Merck's recall of the drug Vioxx, for instance, was a major news event. GlaxoSmithKline's suppression of data linking suicidal behavior among children to Paxil also galvanized tremendous public attention. What differentiates these events from the usual evolving process of scientific knowledge, and marks them with an aura of "scandal," are questions about the propriety of corporate behavior. Who knew what, and when did they know it? Concerns are growing about the potential for industry sponsors to suppress negative results from clinical trials research. Scientists, medical journal editors, legislators, and the public have called for greater transparency in the conduct of clinical trials and the drug approval process.
Physician Responses to the Malpractice Crisis: From Defense to Offense
Allen Kachalia, Niteesh K. Choudhry, David M. Studdert
Journal: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics / Volume 33 / Issue 3 / Fall 2005
Print publication: Fall 2005
Medical science brings innovations in patient care at an astounding pace today - new chemotherapeutic agents, coated stents, and minimally invasive surgery are just few recent examples. For physicians, though, the specter of malpractice liability can overshadow the marvel of practicing in this era. Many physicians are working in a volatile liability environment; they face spiraling costs for malpractice insurance, have difficulties purchasing liability coverage at any price, and see record payouts in a growing number of claims against their colleagues. The American Medical Association (AMA) has declared that at least 20 states are currently in a malpractice "crisis," with another 24 states showing early signs of an impending crisis.
There have been two comparable periods of instability in the last thirty years, but these predecessor crises differ from the current one in important ways. First, while physicians mainly experienced dwindling options for obtaining coverage in the mid-1970s (i.e., availability) and exorbitant prices in the mid-1980s (i.e., affordability), the current crisis appears to have elements of both availability and affordability.


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A bill that would require prisons and jails to provide all necessary feminine hygiene products and give women inmates some privacy protections from male corrections officers won approval Tuesday from the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee.
House Bill 49, sponsored by Democratic state Reps. Shevrin Jones of West Park and Amy Mercado of Orlando, the "Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act", requires that the Florida Department of Corrections and Department of Juvenile Justice and county jails make feminine hygiene products and other products available as needed at no costs, ending a situation where only limited supplies area available and women sometimes are forced to go without.
"Just imagine you are a person who has their period inside a correction facility. You are given limited supply of menstrual products per month often of low quality," Jones said. "You are forced to make your own menstrual products from clothing or paper.
"We should do everything we can to protect the dignity of women," Jones added.
The bill also forbids male correctional employees from conducting pat-down searches on a woman unless she is at immediate risk of harming herself or others, entering a housing unit without announcing his presence, or entering an area where women may be in a state of undress, unless it is an emergency.
This is the first of three committee stops for the bill. The Senate counterpart is Senate Bill 332 from state Rep. Jason Pizzo of Miami.
"As a woman I was astonished that these products and understanding were not offered to our females who are incarcerated," said Republican state Rep. Heather Fitzenhagen of Fort Myers.
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– House Bill 515, from Democratic state Rep. Mat Whillhite of Wellington, allowing people to take licensure courses online to become unarmed security guards.
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