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.class public Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;
.super Landroid/app/AlertDialog;
.source "DatePickerDialog.java"

# interfaces
.implements Landroid/content/DialogInterface$OnClickListener;
.implements Landroid/widget/DatePicker$OnDateChangedListener;

# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/MemberClasses;
    value = {
        Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog$OnDateSetListener;
    }
.end annotation

# static fields
.field private static final DAY:Ljava/lang/String; = "day"

.field private static final MONTH:Ljava/lang/String; = "month"

.field private static final YEAR:Ljava/lang/String; = "year"

# instance fields
.field private final mCalendar:Ljava/util/Calendar;

.field private final mCallBack:Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog$OnDateSetListener;

.field private final mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

.field private mImm:Landroid/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager;

.field private mTitleNeedsUpdate:Z

# direct methods
.method public constructor <init>(Landroid/content/Context;ILandroid/app/DatePickerDialog$OnDateSetListener;III)V
    .locals 6
    .parameter "context"
    .parameter "theme"
    .parameter "callBack"
    .parameter "year"
    .parameter "monthOfYear"
    .parameter "dayOfMonth"

    .prologue
    .line 113
    invoke-direct {p0, p1, p2}, Landroid/app/AlertDialog;-><init>(Landroid/content/Context;I)V

    .line 59
    const/4 v3, 0x1

    iput-boolean v3, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mTitleNeedsUpdate:Z

    .line 115
    iput-object p3, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mCallBack:Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog$OnDateSetListener;

    .line 117
    invoke-static {}, Ljava/util/Calendar;->getInstance()Ljava/util/Calendar;

    move-result-object v3

    iput-object v3, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mCalendar:Ljava/util/Calendar;

    .line 119
    invoke-virtual {p0}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->getContext()Landroid/content/Context;

    move-result-object v1

    .line 120
    .local v1, themeContext:Landroid/content/Context;
    const/4 v3, -0x1

    const v4, 0x104052f

    invoke-virtual {v1, v4}, Landroid/content/Context;->getText(I)Ljava/lang/CharSequence;

    move-result-object v4

    invoke-virtual {p0, v3, v4, p0}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->setButton(ILjava/lang/CharSequence;Landroid/content/DialogInterface$OnClickListener;)V

    .line 123
    const/4 v3, -0x2

    const/high16 v4, 0x104

    invoke-virtual {v1, v4}, Landroid/content/Context;->getText(I)Ljava/lang/CharSequence;

    move-result-object v4

    new-instance v5, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog$1;

    invoke-direct {v5, p0}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog$1;-><init>(Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;)V

    invoke-virtual {p0, v3, v4, v5}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->setButton(ILjava/lang/CharSequence;Landroid/content/DialogInterface$OnClickListener;)V

    .line 134
    const/4 v3, 0x0

    invoke-virtual {p0, v3}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->setIcon(I)V

    .line 136
    const-string v3, "layout_inflater"

    invoke-virtual {v1, v3}, Landroid/content/Context;->getSystemService(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v0

    check-cast v0, Landroid/view/LayoutInflater;

    .line 138
    .local v0, inflater:Landroid/view/LayoutInflater;
    const v3, 0x109003a

    const/4 v4, 0x0

    invoke-virtual {v0, v3, v4}, Landroid/view/LayoutInflater;->inflate(ILandroid/view/ViewGroup;)Landroid/view/View;

    move-result-object v2

    .line 139
    .local v2, view:Landroid/view/View;
    invoke-virtual {p0, v2}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->setView(Landroid/view/View;)V

    .line 140
    const v3, 0x102029b

    invoke-virtual {v2, v3}, Landroid/view/View;->findViewById(I)Landroid/view/View;

    move-result-object v3

    check-cast v3, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    iput-object v3, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    .line 141
    iget-object v3, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    invoke-virtual {v3, p4, p5, p6, p0}, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;->init(IIILandroid/widget/DatePicker$OnDateChangedListener;)V

    .line 142
    invoke-direct {p0, p4, p5, p6}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->updateTitle(III)V

    .line 150
    invoke-virtual {p0}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->getContext()Landroid/content/Context;

    move-result-object v3

    const-string v4, "input_method"

    invoke-virtual {v3, v4}, Landroid/content/Context;->getSystemService(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v3

    check-cast v3, Landroid/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager;

    iput-object v3, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mImm:Landroid/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager;

    .line 151
    return-void
.end method

.method public constructor <init>(Landroid/content/Context;Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog$OnDateSetListener;III)V
    .locals 7
    .parameter "context"
    .parameter "callBack"
    .parameter "year"
    .parameter "monthOfYear"
    .parameter "dayOfMonth"

    .prologue
    .line 96
    const/4 v2, 0x0

    move-object v0, p0

    move-object v1, p1

    move-object v3, p2

    move v4, p3

    move v5, p4

    move v6, p5

    invoke-direct/range {v0 .. v6}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;-><init>(Landroid/content/Context;ILandroid/app/DatePickerDialog$OnDateSetListener;III)V

    .line 97
    return-void
.end method

.method static synthetic access$000(Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;)Landroid/widget/DatePicker;
    .locals 1
    .parameter "x0"

    .prologue
    .line 48
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    return-object v0
.end method

.method private tryNotifyDateSet()V
    .locals 5

    .prologue
    .line 193
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mImm:Landroid/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager;

    if-eqz v0, :cond_0

    .line 194
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mImm:Landroid/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager;

    invoke-virtual {p0}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->getWindow()Landroid/view/Window;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Landroid/view/Window;->getDecorView()Landroid/view/View;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Landroid/view/View;->getWindowToken()Landroid/os/IBinder;

    move-result-object v1

    const/4 v2, 0x0

    invoke-virtual {v0, v1, v2}, Landroid/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager;->hideSoftInputFromWindow(Landroid/os/IBinder;I)Z

    .line 197
    :cond_0
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mCallBack:Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog$OnDateSetListener;

    if-eqz v0, :cond_1

    .line 198
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    invoke-virtual {v0}, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;->clearFocus()V

    .line 199
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mCallBack:Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog$OnDateSetListener;

    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    iget-object v2, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;->getYear()I

    move-result v2

    iget-object v3, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    invoke-virtual {v3}, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;->getMonth()I

    move-result v3

    iget-object v4, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    invoke-virtual {v4}, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;->getDayOfMonth()I

    move-result v4

    invoke-interface {v0, v1, v2, v3, v4}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog$OnDateSetListener;->onDateSet(Landroid/widget/DatePicker;III)V

    .line 202
    :cond_1
    return-void
.end method

.method private updateTitle(III)V
    .locals 5
    .parameter "year"
    .parameter "month"
    .parameter "day"

    .prologue
    .line 237
    const/4 v0, 0x0

    .line 239
    .local v0, title:Ljava/lang/String;
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mCalendar:Ljava/util/Calendar;

    const/4 v2, 0x1

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2, p1}, Ljava/util/Calendar;->set(II)V

    .line 240
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mCalendar:Ljava/util/Calendar;

    const/4 v2, 0x2

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2, p2}, Ljava/util/Calendar;->set(II)V

    .line 241
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mCalendar:Ljava/util/Calendar;

    const/4 v2, 0x5

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2, p3}, Ljava/util/Calendar;->set(II)V

    .line 242
    sget-object v1, Ljava/util/Locale;->KOREA:Ljava/util/Locale;

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/util/Locale;->getLanguage()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-static {}, Ljava/util/Locale;->getDefault()Ljava/util/Locale;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Ljava/util/Locale;->getLanguage()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/String;->equals(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z

    move-result v1

    if-eqz v1, :cond_0

    .line 244
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mContext:Landroid/content/Context;

    iget-object v2, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mCalendar:Ljava/util/Calendar;

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Ljava/util/Calendar;->getTimeInMillis()J

    move-result-wide v2

    const v4, 0x10016

    invoke-static {v1, v2, v3, v4}, Landroid/text/format/DateUtils;->formatDateTime(Landroid/content/Context;JI)Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v0

    .line 259
    :goto_0
    invoke-virtual {p0, v0}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->setTitle(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)V

    .line 260
    return-void

    .line 251
    :cond_0
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mContext:Landroid/content/Context;

    iget-object v2, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mCalendar:Ljava/util/Calendar;

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Ljava/util/Calendar;->getTimeInMillis()J

    move-result-wide v2

    const v4, 0x18016

    invoke-static {v1, v2, v3, v4}, Landroid/text/format/DateUtils;->formatDateTime(Landroid/content/Context;JI)Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v0

    goto :goto_0
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public getDatePicker()Landroid/widget/DatePicker;
    .locals 1

    .prologue
    .line 172
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    return-object v0
.end method

.method public onClick(Landroid/content/DialogInterface;I)V
    .locals 0
    .parameter "dialog"
    .parameter "which"

    .prologue
    .line 154
    invoke-direct {p0}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->tryNotifyDateSet()V

    .line 155
    return-void
.end method

.method public onDateChanged(Landroid/widget/DatePicker;III)V
    .locals 0
    .parameter "view"
    .parameter "year"
    .parameter "month"
    .parameter "day"

    .prologue
    .line 163
    invoke-direct {p0, p2, p3, p4}, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->updateTitle(III)V

    .line 164
    return-void
.end method

.method public onRestoreInstanceState(Landroid/os/Bundle;)V
    .locals 4
    .parameter "savedInstanceState"

    .prologue
    .line 273
    invoke-super {p0, p1}, Landroid/app/AlertDialog;->onRestoreInstanceState(Landroid/os/Bundle;)V

    .line 274
    const-string/jumbo v3, "year"

    invoke-virtual {p1, v3}, Landroid/os/Bundle;->getInt(Ljava/lang/String;)I

    move-result v2

    .line 275
    .local v2, year:I
    const-string v3, "month"

    invoke-virtual {p1, v3}, Landroid/os/Bundle;->getInt(Ljava/lang/String;)I

    move-result v1

    .line 276
    .local v1, month:I
    const-string v3, "day"

    invoke-virtual {p1, v3}, Landroid/os/Bundle;->getInt(Ljava/lang/String;)I

    move-result v0

    .line 277
    .local v0, day:I
    iget-object v3, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    invoke-virtual {v3, v2, v1, v0, p0}, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;->init(IIILandroid/widget/DatePicker$OnDateChangedListener;)V

    .line 278
    return-void
.end method

.method public onSaveInstanceState()Landroid/os/Bundle;
    .locals 3

    .prologue
    .line 264
    invoke-super {p0}, Landroid/app/AlertDialog;->onSaveInstanceState()Landroid/os/Bundle;

    move-result-object v0

    .line 265
    .local v0, state:Landroid/os/Bundle;
    const-string/jumbo v1, "year"

    iget-object v2, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;->getYear()I

    move-result v2

    invoke-virtual {v0, v1, v2}, Landroid/os/Bundle;->putInt(Ljava/lang/String;I)V

    .line 266
    const-string v1, "month"

    iget-object v2, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;->getMonth()I

    move-result v2

    invoke-virtual {v0, v1, v2}, Landroid/os/Bundle;->putInt(Ljava/lang/String;I)V

    .line 267
    const-string v1, "day"

    iget-object v2, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;->getDayOfMonth()I

    move-result v2

    invoke-virtual {v0, v1, v2}, Landroid/os/Bundle;->putInt(Ljava/lang/String;I)V

    .line 268
    return-object v0
.end method

.method protected onStop()V
    .locals 0

    .prologue
    .line 209
    invoke-super {p0}, Landroid/app/AlertDialog;->onStop()V

    .line 210
    return-void
.end method

.method public updateDate(III)V
    .locals 1
    .parameter "year"
    .parameter "monthOfYear"
    .parameter "dayOfMonth"

    .prologue
    .line 183
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/app/DatePickerDialog;->mDatePicker:Landroid/widget/DatePicker;

    invoke-virtual {v0, p1, p2, p3}, Landroid/widget/DatePicker;->updateDate(III)V

    .line 184
    return-void
.end method

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Before finding their stride in December and early January, San Jose had to be considered a major disappointment. Despite returning an almost-identical roster from its playoff-appearing 2017-18 season, the Sharks struggled mightily to integrate the new singular talent of Karlsson.
It's hard to look at the delicate balance San Jose has managed to strike by the All-Star Break and believe they can seamlessly fold in a Matt Duchene or a Wayne Simmonds.
Even last year's deadline acquisition — Kane — followed his hot start with a frustrating disappearing act in the playoffs. Kane has found his footing in this, his first full year with San Jose, but he remains an example of the fact that stars are not plug-and-play like Atari 2600s.
Like all contending teams, the Sharks can always use more good players. Their forward depth is slightly suspect and the goalie play has been overall lackluster despite a recent uptick from Martin Jones.
But despite Wilson's can-do attitude, the fact remains that the Sharks lack both the resources and the organizational capability to land an impact player and blend him into their winning formula.
He's right — but in the wrong way. The Sharks will not get better by making a splash at the deadline. They will get better by standing pat and building on their current foundation.


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For folks who have been waiting on the cooperative infiltration game, Hacktag, to hit early access on Steam, we've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that early access plans have been pushed back to allow for more testing. The good news is that said testing is taking the form of an open beta, available now.
We've kind of grown to think of early access on Steam as a sort of beta testing period in and of itself. The folks over at Piece of Cake Studios disagree when it comes to their upcoming title, Hacktag. They're obviously going to keep working on the game once it hits Steam, but they'd rather bring the best product possible to that table straight from the word go. We're a fan of this plan.
According to a recent report from Gamespot, the team aimed to have Hacktag ready for early access by May 18. Instead, they've pushed that timeframe back to June 1, so it's not like we're talking about a huge delay or anything. Still, for those of you who were hoping to start playing the game this week, you still can. They're opening it up to a beta period for the next couple of weeks, and everyone is invited. You just have to head over to the game's official site, sign up and, boom, you're ready to roll.
If you're curious as to what type of game Hacktag is, Piece of Cake aptly describes it as a mix between Mission Impossible and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. If those pieces aren't quite fitting together in your head, here's a look at the game in action.
If the visuals still aren't doing the trick, here's a breakdown: Two players work together to infiltrate a trio of dastardly organizations. Also, you're anthropomorphic animals. We're not sure about the reasoning behind that one but, sure, we'll run with it.
Anyway, the game works with online multiplayer or with local play and the levels are procedurally generated, so you'll never run out of fun things to do. While one player takes on the role of the infiltrator (Think Hitman or Metal Gear, but without the killing), the other player hacks every-damn-thing in the building.
You know how in most infiltration games the helper AI says they're hacking, say, a door, and then the door opens? Well now the second player actually has to play through mini-games of their own in order to do stuff like that. They'll open doors, turn off cameras, activate devices, etc. while the other player sneaks around and tries to complete their mission, all while using a bunch of abilities of their own.
It's one of those concepts that makes us wonder how it possibly took this long for someone to come up with, but we're sure glad Piece of Cake went ahead and got it done.


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'Living with Yourself' Ending Explained: What Happened at the End and What It Means for Season 2
By Samuel Spencer On 10/19/19 at 5:00 AM EDT
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Over eight episodes, Netflix's Living with Yourself tells the story of an unconventional love triangle between Miles (played by Paul Rudd), his wife Kate (Aisling Bea) and Miles' clone (also Paul Rudd). This plot comes to a head at the end of the season after a confrontation between the two Miles and a game-changing reveal from Kate that gives fans of the show an idea of what might happen if Netflix renews Living with Yourself for Season 2.
But first, a recap of what led to that final scene:
What happened at the end of Living with Yourself?
Note: For sake of clarity, we will refer to the original Miles as "Miles 1" and his clone as "Miles 2."
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The finale begins with one of the Miles being dragged out of a van and into the breast-pumping room of a police station, where he is questioned about being a clone. This is the direct result of a tip-off to police Miles 1 made earlier in the season, where he tried to get Miles 2 out of his life by reporting the cloning facility masquerading as a spa.
After some very invasive polygraph questions, like whether he ever sodomised his first kiss, it is discovered that the lie detector is broken, leading the person we now know is Miles 1 to tell the police they can verify he is the original Miles because he has an appendectomy scar. However, before anyone is able to verify that, the case is shut down due to a lack of funding, down to a lack of prosecutions of clones—turns out they're very hard to spot, as any viewer of Living with Yourself who spent much of the season confused which Miles was which can attest.
Paul Rudd at the end of "Living with Yourself". Netflix
Freed from the breast-pumping room (though not before sampling some breast milk and trying a pump on himself out of boredom), Miles 1 heads home to apologise to Kate. He does this, and the two seem to reconcile before she reveals she slept with Miles 2. Hearing this, Miles 1 decides to end this mess once and for all and kill his clone.
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Flashing back, it turns out Miles 2 had the same plan to win back Kate, but Miles 1 had got there first, leading him to consider suicide after seeing Miles 1 and Kate perform the dance she earlier said to Miles 2 she couldn't remember.
Following this, the two Miles confront each other and fight, making more of a mess of the room than they do of each other (among the furniture casualties is the credenza that has felt almost like a supporting character in the show so far). However, eventually Miles 1 overpowers Miles 2 and tries to smother him with a pillow. He seems to be successful and Miles 2 seems to be dead. However, the guilt of what he has done hits Miles 1 and he is able to resuscitate his clone.
The ending of "Living with Yourself" sees Kate announce to Miles and his clone that she is pregnant. Netflix
The two reconcile and make a pact to be better when Kate walks in with some news: She is pregnant, and what with their identical DNA, either Miles could be the father. The episode ends with them in a three-way hug.
If Netflix does give the show a second season (and they have not done so yet), then this seems to set up a plot that will see Kate and the two Miles trying to navigate life as an unconventional throuple, as they try and raise the child while dealing with all the emotions left unresolved in the first series of Living with Yourself. Call it "Two Clones and a Baby."
Living with Yourself is streaming now on Netflix.
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Home Columns Queerness In Comics Queerness in Comics: Subvert oppressive symbols with HEATHEN Volume One
Queerness in Comics: Subvert oppressive symbols with HEATHEN Volume One
A warrior stands against an oppressive god-king in this queer Norse epic.
Avery Kaplan
Welcome to Queerness in Comics, a bi-weekly column by Avery Kaplan, which will explore queer representation and themes in comics. This week, Avery is exploring Heathen: Volume One, originally published in 2017.
Writing & Art: Natasha Alterici
Letters: Rachel Deering
Covers: Tess Fowler & Tamra Bonvillain
Variants: Natasha Alterici, Jen Bartel, Nathan Gooden
Publisher: Vault Comics
Heathen is the story of a Viking warrior named Aydis who has been exiled from her village because she's gay. When she is introduced in the first issue, she and the woman she had been caught kissing meet in the woods, after their respective punishments have been meted out.
However, both Aydis and Liv have been given different punishments for the same "crime" (kissing another woman, once). According to custom, their respective fathers are given an ultimatum: they must decide if their daughter will be married to a man or executed.
Liv's father decides that she will be betrothed, and when Liv and Aydis meet early in the first issue, Liv has unfortunately internalized the implications of the nightmarish punishment that has been doled out to her: not only does she defend the decision to penalize them for their kiss, she claims that the kiss itself was "unnatural." Perhaps worse still, Liv says that she thinks being forced to marry a man and being taken away on his ship might "fix her."
Aydis and Liv share an intimate moment in Heathen: Volume One.
As Aydis tells her, there is nothing wrong with her. Nevertheless, while Aydis respects her decision to remain a part of the community and marry the man she is betrothed to, Aydis herself follows a different path.
Sins of the Father
In issue 2, we see a flashback to the day punishment for the indiscretion is doled out. When faced with the decision to either marry Aydis to a man or to personally execute her, her father lies to the Elders' faces, telling them that he has elected to murder his daughter because she kissed a woman.
Aydis and her father in Heathen: Volume One.
As Aydis tells the story, she admits that she almost believed the lie herself. Instead of murdering her, however, her father takes her to the place in the woods where her late mother birthed her and releases her. Her father tells her that she must be brave, continuing on alone, in exile from their home.
When Liv encounters Aydis in issue 1 after Aydis has been exiled, Liv calls her former lover a ghost, and in one sense, that's extremely accurate. While Aydis was spared execution by her father, her exile from her village is nevertheless a kind of death – however, she is not precisely a ghost, because the exile is also a rebirth.
At the climax of the first issue, Aydis comes upon the carcass of a buck. She skins it and harvests its antlers, fashioning a horned helmet that she then dons on an arresting splash page. As she fashions the hat, her internal dialogue describes her decision to embark on a quest to free Brynhild, the Valkyrie exiled to a prison of flame atop Mount Hinderfall. According to the edict of Odin, Brynhild is to remain in exile until a mortal man frees her and claims her hand in marriage – a punishment not so different than the one doled out to Liv and Aydis.
Aydis crafts her helmet in Heathen: Volume One.
When Aydis arrives at the summit of the mountain in issue 2, Brynhild's first interaction with the warrior is to assess the helmet that Aydis crafted near the conclusion of the first issue. While Brynhild admires the needlework and declares the helmet to be a classic example of the headgear worn by the northern seafaring people, she notes that the antlers are something of an aberration: as Brynhild notes, Vikings do not have helmets adorned with horns.
Aydis explains that the antlers are an affectation that she appropriated from the lies that have been spread about her people by the Christians from the southern lands. When the Christians learned that the Vikings worshipped other gods, Aydis explains to Brynhild, they began to create depictions of the Vikings that showed the warriors with horns on their head – suggesting that the Vikings were analogous to "the demons of their religion."
The horns are therefore used to denote that the Vikings are heathens. However, by embracing the symbol and affirmatively claiming it as her own by fashioning her own helmet using the antlers, Aydis embraces the power that comes with being labeled demonic.
But the horns also differentiate Aydis from the rest of the Viking community, so thoroughly that Brynhilde immediately remarks on the fact that they are uncharacteristic of the Vikings. This is a physical, visible symbol of the fact that Aydis has been exiled from her people: she no longer belongs among them, and her helmet ensures the beholder is immediately cognizant of this fact.
The Power of Symbols
In issue 4, Brynhild comes upon a village in turmoil. She discovers that the villages have turned against a witch, predominantly because one of the young men in the community has claimed that she summoned a demon to possess him.
Brynhild separates the witch from the angry residents and then listens to her side of the story: the young man was gay, and came to her hoping for a "cure" for his "unnatural" condition (the echo of the word "unnatural," which was used by Liv to describe her mutual attraction with Aydis, must be intentional).
Knowing that there was no cure for being gay, the witch thought to soothe his pain not by "curing" him, but by arranging a secret, regular tryst for him with a gay man from another nearby settlement. However, when the villages nearly discovered the truth about the young gay man, he elected to lie and claim that the witch had summoned a demon to possess him rather than reveal the truth.
Brynhild dons the helm given to her by Odin: the god-king gave each of the Valkyries this headgear, to serve as a symbol of the authority he vested in each of them. And the power imparted by this symbol is what Brynhilde uses to quell the rage of the villagers: she uses the authority imparted by the helmet to extend protection over both the falsely accused witch and her confused and fearful accuser.
However, while Brynhilde does use the authority symbolized by the helmet for good – protecting the innocent witch and her misguided accuser, who is himself a victim of the same societal machinations that plague Aydis – she nevertheless rejects the helmet at the conclusion of issue 4. She declares that she no longer wishes to be bound by Odin's authority, connected to his power, or at the mercy of his permission: she wants power all her own, without having to answer to anyone else.
It is for similar motivations that Aydis chooses to craft the horn-adorned helmet. By incorporating Christian demonic imagery into the helm, she has laid claim to power that would otherwise have been used to demonize her. Furthermore, the fact that she crafts the helm with her own two hands is meaningful, as well: while the basis of the headgear might be a standard design for the Vikings, this particular example is borne entirely from the warrior's own labor.
The fact that when many people picture Vikings they imagine a helmet similar to the horned design worn by Aydis is a delicious subversion of centuries of Christian demonization: while Brynhilde identifies the horns as an anomaly, for most readers, it will immediately symbolize that Aydis is a Viking warrior.
Heathen issue 3 Jen Bartel cover variant featuring Aydis and Freyja.
Find Heathen: Volume One and the continuing adventures of Aydis at your local library or comic book shop today, or check out the Tapas adaptation of the comic for mobile.
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MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was down 0.4. Friday's activity is likely to be subdued, with some of Asia and much of Europe closed for Labour Day and May Day holidays.
Investors will be focused on China's official Purchasing Managers' Index report due at 9 p.m. EDT, to gauge the strength of manufacturing activity in the Asian economic powerhouse and the likelihood that the government will take additional stimulus measures. On Wall Street on Thursday, the three major stock indexes posted modest gains for the month of April, but ended the session with losses over 1 percent after weak earnings reports.


i install the flytsim in my pc before and its work correctly without any problem.
but when i install it not work.
i install ubuntu 16.04 and flytsim several time but the problem not solved.
here are logs file .please help.
Have you installed FlytSim via docker?
yes. i try to install flytsim docker . but its not install .
i have the nvidia and intel graphic and try to install two method.
lsb-release is already the newest version (9.20170808ubuntu1).
python-pip is already the newest version (9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1).
See "systemctl status docker.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
Un-installing older docker versions, if installed.
Summary: A Python library for the Docker Engine API.
software-properties-common is already the newest version (0.96.24.32.7).
apt-transport-https is already the newest version (1.6.10).
ERROR: Are You Connected to the Internet?
docker-ce is already the newest version (5:18.09.4~3-0~ubuntu-bionic).
i install flytsim again and again .but in localhost address i cant access to flytconsole.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin-Classics Illustrated version, by Fred Hembeck
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The first blogger I knew personally was my friend Fred Hembeck. One of his posts that most impressed me, and probably got me to start blogging a couple months later, was his February 25, 2005 piece on a particular comic book. Fred has allowed me to reprint his story. After a mention of an accidental(?) coloring error in an issue of Sgt. Fury:
I soon realized Gabe WASN'T the first African-American I'd encountered in the comics. A full three years earlier–maybe four–I read a couple of key issues of CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED.
One was their adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's historic 1852 novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"…
Before we get to that particular story, first a few words about CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED in general.
They scared me.
Compared to the sunny Harvey and Dell comics I was used to at that point–this was when I was a mere lad of 6 or 7, and not yet fully aware of the DC and Atlas titles out there, bear in mind–the dark and overly delineated artwork looked to be from another century, and the stories themselves, though greatly watered down from their sources, included what ALL the great classics did–DEATH, and lots of it!
(I touched on this topic in pictorial form in an episode of my "Little Freddy" stripCLASSICS ILLUSTRATED website, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was originally published in 1943, and was never overhauled. The stiff and archaic appearing linework provided by an artist named Rolland Livingstone nearly two decades before I had a chance to read it was the only pulp paper pictures the Civil War-inciting saga was ever to know. To my younger self — and even still now — the drawings look as if they actually could've been done during that era, and at age seven, I found that very notion unsettling.
I also learned that seven full pages had been eliminated from the 1943 version by the time 1960 rolled around, what with ALL comic books reducing their page counts in the interim years. Perhaps that's why the story seemed a bit disjointed–and the Cabin in the title totally absent from the action — when I sat down to read it for the first time in over forty years last night…
(And no, I'd never actually read the original, but oddly enough, it was one of several books ninth-grader Julie was assigned to read this fall for her English class in the new school she's going to, along with "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn", "Ragtime", "The Joy Luck Club", "The God Of Small Things", and "My Antonia" –and that was six more books than she was obligated to read during the entirety of her two-year tenure in our local public school junior high, one of several motivating factors for her change of scene, but that'a topic for ANOTHER time. And no, she didn't READ the comic book version, though I DID offer to let her peruse it after she'd successfully completed her paperback, mainly as an aid in assisting her prepare for testing. True to past form, Julie pooh-poohed the comics, and managed just fine without it. For the record, while she found some of it needlessly repetitive and overly talky, she enjoyed the book for the most part, as there was plenty of engaging melodrama to draw readers in. I'll say!…)
Let's see if I can give this to you as succinctly as possible…
Uncle Tom is an older, beloved slave on a plantation in Kentucky. When his owner gets into difficult financial straights, he has no choice but to sell Tom to an auctioneer, with the provision that he be appraised of just who purchases Tom, so that, once his money troubles are behind him, he can go out and buy back Tom. This of course, sounds awful to a modern audience, but in the story, this fellow's clearly one of the GOOD GUYS!?!
While Tom goes off to the auction, there's a side plot concerning a less accommodating woman slave, who instead runs off to avoid being put up for sale. In trying to escape her pursuers, she has to cross a raging river, breathlessly stepping from one chunk of ice to another in a desperate effort to make it to the other side–all the while holding her infant child in her arms! This sequence was made famous on stage and silent movie versions of Beecher Stowe's book, and rightfully so–it's an unforgettable image.
Too bad the comic devotes a mere four tepidly rendered panels to perhaps the single most visually unique passage in the whole tome.
On the way to auction via steamboat, Tom befriends a beautiful blonde child named Eva — and after he dives overboard to save her from drowning, her grateful father buys Tom, and brings him back to his even more impressive plantation–which is only fitting, because, if anything, he's an even NICER guy than Tom's original owner!
One of the chores given to the wise and patient Tom is teaching a little wild child by the name of Topsy to read — AND to have a positive image of herself. Naturally, this is happily accomplished in a matter of panels.
But tragedy soon rears its ugly head, when lovable little Eva collapses, and, despite the prayers of everyone, white and black alike, is soon taken off to a better place by a couple of rather unique travel agents…
Folks, THAT sequence scared the living bejeezus outta me!!
I couldn't have been all that much older than that cute little girl when I first read those panels, and it was all just so–have I used the term "unsettling" already? Well, pardon me for repeating myself, but that's the word that fits it to a tee. At that age, whatever passing thoughts about death I'd had generally concerned older people–WAY older. Little kids like me didn't croak. And certainly none of my comic book friends–Dennis, Lulu, Tubby, Dot, Audrey, and all the rest (let's just leave Casper out of this discussion for a moment, okay?..)–none of THEM was ever in any danger of taking the nap that never ends! But here, in THIS comic book, that was the last we were ever going to see of the sweet Little Eva! Brrr. And just eyeball that overly symbolic send off! Geez–all of sudden, I'm afraid of angels!
Well, back during that first read through, I didn't quite comprehend how much the plot turned on the youngster's sad demise, but now I found myself suitably impressed with the twisted plot machinations the author surrounded the event with. Had she been alive today, Miss Harriet would've made a fine contemporary writer–of SOAP OPERAS!!
Follow me here: on her deathbed, Eva makes her daddy promise to free Tom if anything should happen to her, and good to his word, shortly after the funeral, the plantation owner informs the grateful slave that he plans to make good on his pledge to his late daughter. He'll sign the necessary papers tomorrow.
First though, it's off to the local cafe for a whiskey. Been a rough day, after all. It was gonna get rougher. Trying to stop a knife fight between two other bar patrons, Tom's owner is accidentally stabbed. To death. And his widow–who'd been portrayed as little more than a vain, selfish, self-absorbed woman, has absolutely no intentions of honoring her late husband's promise to Tom. In fact, she sells the plantation and all the slaves right quick, and for old Tom, the third time is definitely NOT the charm.
Tom's new owner? A fellow with a name you might recognize: Simon Legree.
Yup, THAT Simon Legree. I'll confess that, until I read through my copy of CI the other night, I didn't quite realize that the by-now-generically familiar name had originated within the pages of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", but reading on, he certainly managed to live up to all expectations. Beatings, whippings, the "N" word tossed around casually, filthy living conditions–Tom and his fellow put-upon slaves had to endure all this and more as Legree worked them to the bone in the hopes of making as much money as possible from their dawn to dusk toiling.
Which is not to say escape attempts weren't made. Two younger female slaves in fact hatched a plan to hide in the main house's attic, and then run off disguised as ghosts, knowing full well that Legree possessed an overwhelming fear of the supernatural.
That's sadistic Simon there, flanked by his favored henchmen, Quimbo and Sambo. Yes, that was their names–don't blame ME.
(And yup, even though it's clear that those are only pretend ghosts, that's ANOTHER panel that indelibly etched itself into poor Little Freddy's defenseless noggin! Thanks, grandma…)
Well, old Legree isn't TOTALLY stupid, and eventually figures out that the two women have escaped. He calls in Tom and badgers him relentlessly to give up the whereabouts of the pair, but the proud slave refuses to share any information with his cruel taskmaster.
As you might imagine, that stance didn't go over so well with the heartless Legree, and the hapless Tom is soon fatally bludgeoned by the irate overseer.
In a rare nod to taste, the panel that precedes the one over to the side merely pictures shadows of Legree's raised weapon over the head of his cowering victim, bathed symbolically in blood-drenched hues of red.
And then, the evil Legree stalks off, satisfied that he'd dealt out a sickening sort of justice.
Time for the story to take one last soap-like turn. As Tom lies on the ground, only moments away from death, who should show up but the son of Tom's original owner. Seems as if his dad had passed on, but now that the family is financially flush again, he's there to buy Tom back.
Simon Legree chuckles nastily at the notion, and then offers to let him have Tom for nothing–after all, even he doesn't charge for DEAD slaves!…
The stunned man runs over to the fast expiring Tom, cradles him in his arms, and hears his final words.
(The artwork in this panel reminds me of the work of Guy Colwell, who wrote and drew a series of undergrounds in the late sixties called INNER CITY ROMANCE COMICS, as well as DOLL in the late eighties and early nineties–wonder if that's just a coincidence, or if he was influenced in his depiction of African-American characters by reading this comic around the same time I did?…)
After Tom dies, the outraged son of his former owner punches Simon Legree in the jaw, and then returns home, ultimately deciding to free ALL his slaves–and then delivers an uplifting speech concerning the need to abolish slavery worldwide, just to put the icing on the metaphorical cake.
The message comes through loud and clear–slavery was bad, really, REALLY bad. Not exactly front page news in 1960–now, a comic about the evils of the era's Jim Crow laws, THAT would've been ground-breaking. Didn't happen, of course…
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a tricky book to adapt, even more so now than back in 1943. Obviously, its author was well meaning in her sincere condemnation of the practice of slavery, but without historical context–this really WAS a bold gesture back in 1852–a lot of the relationships between the black characters and the otherwise well-meaning folks who just happen to OWN them, well, they come off as unavoidably patronizing. And the pairing of the little blond curly-haired cutie with the large noble Negro? Hey, how was Ms. Beecher Stowe to know she was writing the template for just about every other Shirley Temple movie ever filmed?
Anyway, it was fascinating revisiting this comic after so many years (via a coverless copy picked up at a convention about ten years back–there's no date on it, but I'm betting it's an even later printing than my original copy, as the printing quality has gone noticeably downhill from the ones Gran bought me off the stands–my apologies for the muddiness of some of the scans.)
Go to Fred's original article and read about Huck Finn in drag. Subsequently, this piece inspired me to write an article about how the term "Uncle Tom" has been misapplied. Thanks, Fred, for letting me purloin your article.
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Reader Wil says:
When I was Young I read the book of course and I was impressed and very sad about all those stories, in which people treated fellow men as inferior to them. See my post about Roy McIver's life in Cape York, Australia, of a few weeks ago. Discremination is the root of all conflicts. This is also Hell like war. You are right: even right wars are Hell.
Auron Renius says:
I found an extract recently from the diaries of a plantation owner, William Byrd. Its not that he was brutal with his slaves that surprised me, it's the matter of fact way he commented on it
"I rose at 5 o'clock this morning and read a chapter in Hebrew and 200 verses in Homer's Odyssey. I ate milk for breakfast. I said my prayers. Jenny and Eugene [two house slaves] were whipped. I danced my dance [physical exercises]……My wife was indisposed again but not to much purpose. In the afternoon I beat Jenny [a house slave] for throwing water on the couch".
Sexually assaulting women of the lower orders was no big deal to Byrd either;
"I rose at 6 o'clock and said my prayers and ate milk for breakfast. Then I proceeded to Williamsburg, where I found all well. I went to the capitol where I sent for the wench to clean my room and when she came I kissed her and felt her, for which God forgive me".
Dan Van Riper says:
This book looks great. I hope I can get to see it sometime.
The significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin? Before the Civil War, abolitionists countered every one of the pro-slavery arguments successfully… except one.
The slave owners said, "When the workers in the Northern factories can't work anymore, the owners turn them out in the streets to starve. When a slave can't work anymore, we let the slaves retire to the cabins out back and we take care of him or her."
In general, this was true. Both Northern workers and Southern slaves were horribly mistreated, but only the slaves had a retirement program of sorts. There was no logical counter argument. But Uncle Tom's Cabin's outrageous depiction of mistreatment made this argument moot for much of the Northern public. Thus H. B. Stowe's extreme rhetoric was very important toward making the Civil War possible.


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The Management Board and Supervisory Board of ElringKlinger AG hereby issue a Declaration of Conformity pursuant to Section 161 AktG, stating that the Company has complied with, currently complies with and will in future comply with the recommendations of the "Government Commission German Corporate Governance Code" in the version dated May 26th, 2010, with the following exceptions.
At present, for organizational reasons the company does not comply with the Code's recommendation on the electronic dispatch of the invitation to the General Meeting of Shareholders. As the company generally has no records of the e-mail addresses of its shareholders, from the company's perspective any additional dispatch would be associated with disproportionate time and effort without actually offering any substantive benefits for shareholders. Within this context, it should also be noted that the invitation to the General Meeting of Shareholders has been and will continue to be available for download from the company's website.
Section 2.3.3: The Company does not provide shareholders' acclamation by postal vote.
The articles of association of a corporation can stipulate that shareholders may cast their vote by postal vote. The articles of association of the company do not provide such a possibility.
Relevant selection criteria for the appointment of the Supervisory Board are also suitability, experience and qualification. A commitment to specifications concerning prospective appointments constricts flexibility without ulterior advantage for the company. This applies all the more as the representatives of the shareholders can temporarily only elect six members of the Supervisory Board with codetermination. Within this context, the specifications mentioned in the Code's recommendation are per se further important criteria for the constitution of the Supervisory Board. So because of the mentioned reasons there is no need of a predefinition of concrete objectives.
No general age limit has been set for members of the Supervisory Board, as the expertise of the individual members is considered an overriding priority. Within this context, experience in particular is seen as an integral element. Given the provisions set out in the German General Equal Treatment Act, which does not apply directly to this case but at the very least provides a basis for analogous application, the company is of the opinion that the approach of specifying an age limit is inappropriate.
The election of the Chairperson of the Supervisory Board is the sole responsibility of the Supervisory Board, as it is best placed to assess the suitability of the candidates. Against this background, the company is of the opinion that prior disclosure of the names of candidates for the Chair of the Supervisory Board would not be appropriate.
ElringKlinger has developed a vision and a mission statement for the company which defines the Group's goals and fundamental values. The company's actions – the way it treats its clients, staff and suppliers – must be geared fully towards these goals and values, which also serve as a benchmark. The mission statement revolves around the concepts of loyalty and responsibility, reliability, courage, appreciation and cost and quality leadership. The vision and mission statement can be viewed online at www.elringklinger.de.
The quality and environmental guidelines for suppliers of the ElringKlinger Group ensure that the company's products always meet the highest standards of quality and that resources are treated carefully and sparingly. The guidelines are published online at www.elringklinger.de. In addition to the above-mentioned principles and guidelines, there are further regulations, instructions and rules precisely stipulating how each division should implement both the legal requirements and other, self-imposed standards. This particularly applies to complying with environmental standards, avoiding hazards and preventing corruption.
The Management Board directs the company and conducts its business. The Management Board consists of three members with a chairperson. The Management Board's tasks are divided into areas of responsibility according to functional criteria. Area of Responsibility 1, directed by the Chairman of the Management Board Dr. Stefan Wolf, covers the area of Aftermarket as well as the areas Affiliated Companies, Legal, Finance/Controlling, Human Resources, IT, Corporate Communication and Investor Relations. Mr. Theo Becker manages Area of Responsibility 2, which covers Shielding Systems, Elastomer Technology/Modules, Cylinder-head Gaskets, Specialty Gaskets, Technical Service, Battery Technology and E-Mobility, as well as Materials Management and Quality and Environmental Management. Mr. Karl Schmauder is accountable for New Business Areas and Sales, which are part of Area of Responsibility 3.
The Supervisory Board has formed an Audit Committee, a Personnel Committee and – pursuant to the provisions set out in the German Codetermination Act – a Mediation Committee from its midst.
The Personnel Committee comprises five members. At present, these members are Mr. Bauer, Dr. Lerchner – Chairman –, Mr. Lechler, Mr. van Husen and Dr. Klinger-Lohr. The structure, procedures and duties are defined within the terms of reference. The Supervisory Board is responsible for determining the appointment and chairmanship of the Personnel Committee. The procedures to be applied with regard to convening the Personnel Committee, passing resolutions and forming a quorum are equivalent to those defined for the Audit Committee. Personnel Committee meetings are convened as required. The Personnel Committee is responsible for preparing appointments to the Management Board by selecting and recommending suitable candidates as Management Board members, drawing up suggestions with regard to the structure of the employment contract and compensation, concluding contracts of employment – responsibility of the Chairman of the Personnel Committee – subsequent to approval by the Supervisory Board, conducting meetings with directors, preparing extensions to contracts and reviewing Management Board compensation on a regular basis, which also includes submitting recommendations to the Supervisory Board with regard to the adjustment of compensation levels.
The Mediation Committee, the formation and composition of which conforms with applicable regulations under the German Codetermination Act, comprises four members. They include the ex-officio members Dr. Lerchner and Mr. Siegers as Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board, as well as Ms. Monteiro-Munz and Mr. Lechler. The sole duty of the Mediation Committee is to submit to the full Supervisory Board recommendations for the appointment of Management Board members if the full Supervisory Board is unable to agree on a candidate with the requisite majority.


A Blu-ray disc of the stunning 2014 performance choreographed by Belgian modern great Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, performed by members of the Paris Opera Ballet and set to Music for Eighteen Musicians, Steve Reich's major score composed in 1976. In tandem with the score rendered here by Ensemble Ictus and the Synergy Vocals ensemble, 'Rain' draws it's spatial polyphony which manifests on the stage in a glorious pastiche of dancers and rhythm. Created by de Keersmaeker's company, Rosas in 2001, "Rain" entered the Paris Opera Ballet's repertoire ten years later and reinforces her key role not just in the world of modern dance but in the worlds of contemporary art.


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I'm passionate about cars and my work. Hobbies include travelling, pets and motor sports, having quality time with family and friends.
My family is nuclear and consists of my mother, father, my brother and his wife.
Ours is an affluent, nuclear family with liberal values. We are a reputed family from Pune, India. My father is a businessman while my mother is a homemaker. I have one brother, who is married.


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Hawaiian Airlines letting customers trade points for COVID-19 test kits
By Sarah Polus - 11/12/20 08:55 PM EST
Hawaiian Airlines is now allowing their customers to use their frequent-flier miles in exchange for COVID-19 test kits.
The airline announced a partnership with Vault Health that provides members of their loyalty program with an opportunity to put their unused HawaiianMiles to use as air travel is down due to the global pandemic.
Travelers who have racked up 14,000 miles or more are eligible for the limited-time promotion.
"We remain dedicated to making testing for our guests as convenient and accessible as possible," said Avi Mannis, Hawaiian Airlines senior vice president for marketing, in a statement.
The at-home test process involves contacting a testing supervisor to walk the customer thorough taking a saliva sample. Once the sample is taken, it express-shipped to a lab. Results are generally available within 24 hours of the lab receiving the testing kit, with a guaranteed total turnaround time of less than 72 hours.
"Our at-home supervised saliva COVID test provides a safe, convenient and reliable result delivered pre-travel," said Vault Health Founder and CEO Jason Feldman. "We are excited to work with Hawaiian Airlines who continues to innovate on behalf of their customers making travel easier and safer for everyone."
Vault Health kits are valued at $119.
The news comes as the nation continues to be ravaged by a massive surge in coronavirus cases. The U.S. reported over 140,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday alone.
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TSUSports.com: TSU softball game at SWAC Tournament suspended due to rain
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – For the second time this season, heavy rains delayed the conclusion of a Texas Southern University softball game. The Lady Tigers' game against Alabama State on Thursday will be resumed Friday.
The game between Texas Southern and Alabama State will resume at 8 a.m. on Friday. Thursday's last scheduled game between Prairie View A&M and Alabama A&M will follow before Friday's originally scheduled games will be played.
The Lady Tigers had led 3-2 going into the top of the seventh inning before Alabama State rallied for two runs. TSU has yet to bat in the bottom of the seventh.


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20. Seigi no Mikata Ja nai Hero – Team B
If you are an AKB48 fan, probably one of the news items that probably affected you most was the new team shuffle. While I was a fan of the old team B (both original and after the first shuffle), I was tentatively very excited for the new Team B, which contains almost every favorite member of mine in the 48 groups, but the thing that really solidified new Team B for me as being really great is their first original song, Seigi no Mikata Janai Hero.
It's not quite as cutesy as Team B has been in the past ( a la Love Jump), but I think really works well with all the members currently in the team. It's high energy, has some really good guitar solos, and I am a total sucker for anything that has a back and forth like this song does. All the members sound really good, and mix well together, which is an achievement for a song with so many people. It's catchy and fun, and really succeeded in getting me pumped up for new Team B, which was really the purpose of the song.
19. Kari Keiyaku no Cinderella – Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku
私立恵比寿中学『仮契約のシンデレラ』Sub R/E/K by asahi2307
While I am a big fan of the entire Kari Keiyaku no Cinderella single (especially the song with some purposefully unenergetic rapping, Utae! Odore! Ebidada), ultimately it was the A-Side that I came back to again and again. Since this was Ebichu's first major debut single, it did a really good job of taking a lot of the things that made Ebichu great on their Indies label and just did it a step beyond. In my opinion one of Ebichu's biggest strengths is just the overall level of energy they bring to everything, and I really don't think a different group could pull this really strange song off. All the fast singing really stands out (including Ayaka singing the first 15 digits of pi really quickly), as does the tempo/style changes. Quite frankly, this is a weird song. However, that's part of what makes it great, and underneath everything is a really catchy, strong melody that makes this a really great song and a really great start to Ebichu's major label career.
18. Parade – Aso Natsuko
Being the one idol I've seen live, I have a really strong soft spot for Aso Natsuko. Her music does back this up too; her first two albums are excellent, she has a lovely voice, and her A-sides are catchy and infectious (since she does a lot of anime openings). However, while I love the ballads she sings, Nacchan is at her best singing infectious, upbeat songs. So even though her other singles this year, Lovely Girls' Anthem and Fighting Growing Diary, were very very good, Parade feels like a return to the style that made me a Nacchan fan in the first place, somewhat similar to Diamond Star and Perfect Area Complete in style. There's the fast singing she perfected in More More Lovers, a great guitar solo and the whole song feels almost uplifting (singing about moving into the future and whatnot). So while I love when Nacchan tries different things, this was a welcome return.
17. Samba de Toriko – Hyadain
OK, a male artist on this list, but I'm counting it because Hyadain writes for idols, so he counts. Anyways, I'm a fan of pretty much everything Hyadain does, but Hyadain is at his most interesting when he's genre-bending, taking all sorts of different instruments, styles and vocals. And while Hyadain is ready to admit that this song isn't a Samba, the tropical theme is certainly a big part of the charm of Samba de Toriko. While he has explored this in Momoiro Clover's Coco * Natsu, he takes this to a different level with lots of different tempos and sounds blended into one really fun, energetic song. While I know some people don't like this, I think this really shows Hyadain's mastery of songwriting and arrangement, and it works really well here. While Samba de Toriko wasn't immediately as catchy as some of his previous singles (at least in my experience), it really grew on me and became one of my favorite songs of the year.
16. Kataomoi Finally – SKE48
The fact that Kataomoi Finally isn't even in the top 15 of my list shows how strong a year 2012 really was. Kataomoi Finally blew me away at the beginning of this year, and continues to be one of my favorite songs and PVs. However, the song itself shines apart from the spectacular PV. It's a mature, darker sound, but it definitely worked well with the normally upbeat and energetic SKE48. The song has a lot of impact, and the forceful nature of the song really sometimes makes me shiver. I'm a sucker for a good string sound, and the rest of the arrangement is fantastic. Kataomoi Finally really showed how strong that SKE48 can be, it started 2012 with a bang and is still remembered as one of the best songs of the year.
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Rep. Jim Jordan: Comey 'Central Figure' in Flynn Case
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio (Getty Images)
By Marisa Herman | Thursday, 11 June 2020 06:32 PM
Rep. Jim Jordan thinks that former FBI Director James Comey is a "key" player in the case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
During a Thursday appearance on Fox's "America's Newsroom" the Republican lawmaker from Ohio shared a timeline of events leading up to Flynn being investigated for alleged involvement in Russia's supposed interference in the 2016 election. His timeline involved Comey.
"I think Jim Comey is the central figure in all this," Jordan said.
"Jan. 4, 2017, the FBI is going to drop the case against General Flynn and Jim Comey tells [former FBI agent] Peter Strzok, 'Go tell the agents don't drop the case, we're going to go after Flynn,'" Jordan said, adding that the "very next day" Comey "meets with President Obama and talks about the Michael Flynn case."
"The day after that, Jan. 6, Jim Comey, the FBI director, goes to Trump Tower and briefs President-elect Trump on the dossier he already knows is false and he knows is Russian disinformation and he knows is paid for by the Clinton campaign," he continued.
Jordan then said that two weeks later Comey "sneaks two agents into the White House to set up and trap Gen. Flynn."
Jordan said what Comey did was an abuse of power.
He also ripped John Gleeson, an attorney and retired judge, who was asked by Judge Emmet Sullivan to opine on whether federal prosecutors should be able to dismiss the case against Flynn.
The Justice Department decided to drop its criminal case against Flynn. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his relationship with a Russian ambassador.
"Facts surrounding the filing of the government's motion constitute clear evidence of gross prosecutorial abuse," Gleeson wrote in the Wednesday filing. "They reveal an unconvincing effort to disguise as legitimate a decision to dismiss that is based solely on the fact that Flynn is a political ally of President Trump."
"What's rich here is Judge Gleeson using the term 'abuse of power,'" Jordan said in response to Gleeson's filing. "Are you kidding me?"
He blasted Gleeson for flip-flopping his opinion on the situation. He said when Gleeson was a judge, he wrote that prosecutors have "near-absolute power" to dismiss a case in 2013.
"Now he suddenly changed, which shows how political this is from his perspective and I think from Judge Sullivan's perspective," Jordan said.
"And this judge is talking about abuse of power now?" Jordan asked, saying it was Comey who abused his power.
Ex-Judge Blasts DOJ on Flynn Case Dismissal: 'Abuse of Power'
Senate Judiciary OKs Subpoena Power in Trump-Russia Probe
Rep. Jim Jordan thinks that former FBI Director James Comey is a "key" player in the case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.During a Thursday appearance on Fox's "America's Newsroom" the Republican lawmaker ...
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I was one lonely Soldier because I got no mail for several months. My mail was being forwarded every time I moved back and forth across the English Channel to hospitals, through replacement depots etc. I wrote to my mother and Shirley almost daily but had no idea what was happening to them or others in the family.
When I finally did get my mail there was a basket full and I spent a couple of days reveling in it until I got the one that told about my brother Malcolm being wounded and that was a shocker. I misread it at first and thought it said one of his injuries was to his heart. Fortunately (or not?) it was to his ear.
Our stay in Austria was fairly pleasant and further memories there include "Du maken hase kaput." As I stated previously our rations were being siphoned off in Paris and other distribution points for some money making guys in the supply line and we were particularly anxious for meat, cigarettes, beer and some of the finer things like coffee, sugar etc. My mother sent me packages frequently but we were always on the lookout for food prospects.
One morning I awakened and reaching for my boots I brushed them against a duffel bag on the floor. The bag started jumping around and startled me somewhat. One of the guys in an adjoining cot started to break up laughing and told me that the bag was full of rabbits. Some of these characters had found a rabbit hutch in another part of town, went out the previous night and brought the rabbits back. They told me that they had done the hard part and I was duty bound to kill the rabbits and get them cooked.
The old lady in the place where we were housed was pretty friendly and she also lacked a regular supply of meat. She would be discreet and cook the rabbits if I would kill them. The next problem was where to go to perform the execution. The owner of the rabbits had already spread the word about their theft and I couldn't just take them out in the yard and it wasn't thought permissible to do the job right there in the house.
The house was a large one and had a couple of decorative balconies out of the front rooms on the second floor and we decided that this would be a good place to stage the rabbits demise. Another guy and I took the rabbits out on one of the balconies and after carefully looking around we didn't see anyone on the street and proceeded to make the rabbits ready for the cook to skin and prepare. I don't remember what instrument we applied to the rabbits heads, but they were dispatched quickly, returned to the duffel bag and given to the cook.
Later that day I was outside the house and was approached by a pain in the neck kid who belonged to the lady of the house. He grinned at me and said "Du maken hase kaput" which I recognized even with my limited knowledge of the language meant: You killed the rabbits. The little pest had been somewhere out of our sight, but had observed our activity on the balcony. I denied the accusation but he pointed to the balcony and repeated his allegation.
Some candy and a chat with his discreet mother, our rabbit cooker, ensured that he didn't go around town telling his story. We had a real meal that night, the cook having used a can of Campbell's tomato soup from a package from my mother to make a sauce.
We were fortunate in the British having a scout car, which carried us to and from our guard post up in the mountain pass. It was also very handy to go to a neighboring town once in a while. The vehicle had a seat for only the driver and one passenger as I recall, but we would pile half a dozen of us on the outside and tear around the countryside when a visit to another town was in order.
Fortunately the vehicle had a tall metal rod welded to the front end with a cutting slot in it. This was to catch and cut wires that some of the Austrian Nazis were wont to string across the roads from time to time. There were several of these ex-soldiers; alleged to have been SS troops in the area where we were. They didn't really like us and a decapitation of a careless jeep or scout car passenger would please them no end.
Another happening I remember is one day when I was on guard duty a caravan of Hungarians came up from their side of the pass, in flight from the coming Russian occupation of their territory. The were alleged to be mostly members for the Hungarian Natl. Bank and their families. Our headquarters said it was ok to let them through and they were quite a sight to see. Many were well-dressed men and women and they were driving, pushing and pulling all kinds of carts and wagons, some of which had horses, but many with a horse and cow, pair of oxen, and all adults pushing and pulling. They camped out in our area for a short time and then continued their journey. They were scared to death of the Russian Occupation forces.
Finally the day arrived when we were told that we would be going back to the USA if we had enough points.
The services had a point system for releasing personnel and there were so many points for time in service, decorations, battle stars etc. I was crestfallen when I added up mine and found that I was five points short. However when the time came for orders to load up and move, my name was on the roster.
I didn't tell a soul about my point count and went right along with the formation into trucks and started the journey to Camp Lucky Strike in Marseilles, France. I was happy to be going, but fearful that at any minute someone would go over the list and find that I should not be there.


Let's go back to autumn 1977 and a 16-year-old who was by then already 'post-punk' fell into the world of local government influenced either by an inherent public service ethos or the fact it was November and too cold to work outside... We were then a decade away from the birth of the internet and mobile phones and yet to benefit from the much more important breakthroughs in genetic sequencing and ATM's. A whole different world.
Having spent most of the next 40 years in HR (or 'personnel' as we used to call it) I don't want to look back at how much the 'people management' profession has changed but would suggest we need to climb above the noise of the 'here and now' and think about the future in the face of the exponential rate of social change and technological development.
The world of HR in 2018 is about ensuring that the value of people is intrinsic to the thinking of decision makers at every level in our sector. 'People' means the people who are delivering all those essential public services, increasingly stretching beyond those who are employed. HR is not about systems, but what systems tell us about our people and what impact they have on our people. It's more about the business, about connections, helping people to work better and more effectively at individual, team, organisational and sectoral levels. As Dave Ulrich said at our recent loveyourHR conference 'it's all about relationships'. He's right.
Can we predict with any degree of confidence what the public sector will look like in 2028 and what that will mean for 'people management'? I can't and if you can, you are welcome to offer your vision through our #loveyourhr blog site. What I will predict though is that the means of public service delivery will more rapidly both consolidate and disaggregate. The cash (supply) and service (demand) is already leading to a 'beyond' blurring of traditional boundaries across the public sector and alternative delivery mechanisms (ADMs not ATMs!) will soon become the norm rather than the new.
So, how is our profession preparing for this brave new world? I consciously didn't use the term HR in that sentence as I'm not even sure the term will retain its place let alone its influence over the next decade. Its work and its (internal) marketplace have already divided and we all need to let go of the past. The transactional processes will be automated to the point of being the domain of system driven customer services, delivered on a 'shared' basis across much wider (geographical and technological platforms).
Who would bet against 'Amazon People Transactions' having cornered the market by 2025? It should go without saying but if we are still delivering operational advisory services for those managers delivering services on behalf of the sector then we will have already failed by not enabling them to manage their people, or taken the easy route for all by doing an integral part of their job for them.
If my (hardly startling) predictions of consolidation and disaggregation develop at pace, then I may also contend 'organisational development' will become a redundant term, as 'organisations' per se will cease to be the 'territorial' frame in which we try to shape culture (and 'operating models' – whatever that means).
When recently trying to help a local authority reposition and redefine its corporate enablers as part a restructuring, I was pushing at an open door regarding the recognition of the need to integrate HR and OD with their transformation and policy & performance teams under a single managerial remit. However, despite my best efforts I failed to persuade them to lose the term OD (which is 'loaded' with individual perceptions of meaning) and use the more simple and meaningful word 'change'.
I didn't even try to persuade them that within their new combined 'multi-disciplinary' structure they should be designing single roles that go beyond better connecting their HR professionals to their other 'change focused' colleagues and which are focused on diagnosing, developing, supporting and delivering business change. While the latter may be too radical for some (and threatening the identity of our 'profession') if we are the preachers of change, then we have to be willing to lead that change from the front.
Of course, that little example remains constrained in its own institutional boundaries and really needs to be positioned in the context of what public service delivery will look like over the horizon four years onwards from now.
While no doubt 'commercialism' will be an essential dimension to underpinning and sustaining public services, I'm not sure its contribution as an income or efficiency generator has the potential to prevent a 'wave' of Section 114 warnings as the public service funding gap widens at pace. In my view, it's just one of a suite of necessary individual competences and organisational characteristics.
At West Midlands Employers (WME) we'd like to think we can at least try to contribute to this debate in as many places as we can. Our Aspire strategic HR business partnering programme – delivered in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the Local Government Association (LGA) – has been very successful, albeit just a little step along the change curve the people management profession needs.
We're ready to talk to the LGA, health bodies and other colleagues about defining need and designing opportunities for individual development that goes beyond OD and is focused on developing people into enablers of change who are fit for the future. If you want to join that conversation, your blog offers are welcome.
Delivering real change demands that magic mix of the right experience, energy and freshness. As I move on after 41 years since being the post-punk 16-year-old, if you think you have the ingredients to lead WME in its people and leadership services and see an opportunity to play a part in helping shape the 'whole new world', both regionally (West Midlands) and nationally then look out for our advert in The MJ early next month.
At WME we don't have all the answers to the issues public services face, but we have the passion to be part of the solution.


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Pinterest: the perfect picture for Libertex traders
Following the recent incorporation of Lyft to its platform, Libertex continues to expand the list of assets for its clients. Today, the Libertex trading platform announces the launch of CFDs (contracts for difference) for Pinterest (PINS), valued at $10 bn after the IPO that took place this April 17th, 2019.
The IPO price, initially set at a range of $15 to $17, quickly moved on to $19, proving the interest of investors since the very first hours, and it's easy to understand why just having a look at some key facts about the company founded in 2010 by Ben Silbermann, a former Google employee, and Evan Sharp, ex designer at Facebook:
250 million users every month, of which 83% are women who make 80% of total volume of purchases.
In the US, the site is used for purchasing goods more often than any other social media.
It is a perspective platform both for advertising and retail business with its own solutions for e-commerce.
At present, the rate of increase in Pinterest revenues amounts to 60% and given the growth forecast for digital ad market, Pinterest may become a very alluring candidate for investments.
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Libertex is an international brand with a twenty year history in financial markets and online commerce. Libertex provides investors with access to trading stocks, currencies, indices, commodities, gold, oil, gas and many other financial instruments. The Libertex team has more than 2,200,000 customers in Latin America, Europe and Asia owing to its first-class service. Libertex has more than 150 commercial instruments. In 2016, Libertex was recognized by Forex EXPO Awards as the best trading platform; and Global Banking and Finance Review named it the best trading application in the EAEU. In 2017-2018 Libertex was announced as Best trading application and Best cryptocurrency broker by Forex Awards.


Whilst the team were involved in incident 47 a further call came in from the police to the base for a male and female walkers who were lost on Scafell Pike. The grid reference put them on the side of Slightside (Scafell). Duddon and Furness MRT were called in to assist and found the couple who had also joined up with another group of lost walkers. They were located and walked off back to Brotherikeld. See D&F MRT website for full details. Incident and base closed at 6.00 a.m.
Incident started at 20:00 and ended at 06:00 making 10 hrs in total.