There is currently a lack of safe, designated snow play areas on the Deschutes National Forest, and especially in the area of the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway (CLSB). There are other areas, which are used for snow play, that are not official or considered safe. The nearest official non-fee snow play area is at least 50 miles away. The CLSB is a natural magnet for winter related sports due to consistent snow and numerous other snoparks. Snow play is discouraged at the other sno-parks along CLSB.
The new snow park is designed for families and groups interested in nonmotorized snow play, i.e., tubing and sledding. Has a 97 car parking area (please park diagonally, vehicle length limit of 24 ft. and trailers prohibited, sledding hill, restrooms and fire rings. Provides a designated and relatively safe sledding hill option. State sno-park permit required for parking.
Also provided out of the snow play parking area are three kilometers of nordic trails that are groomed for dogs and their skiing or snowshoeing human guardians. Dogs are permitted on leash only and at all times while on the slope or in the sno-park. Human visitors are not required to have a dog but, dogs must be accompanied by humans. Leashes are required in the sno-park area, clean up after your pet and please maintain voice or physical control of your dog while on the trails.
The shelter was completed under budget by $5,000 by the Moon Country Snowmobile Club with coordination from the U.S. Forest Service. The snowmobile club members volunteered nearly 4,500 hours for construction and volunteers continue to maintain the shelter. All materials were purchased with RTP grant funds with volunteers using the club's tools.


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The uranium rush is on
Saskatchewan's southwestern Athabasca Basin hosts a staking stampede
by Greg Klein
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This could be just what the beleaguered exploration sector needs—a good old-fashioned staking rush. And that's exactly what's going on in northern Saskatchewan's uranium-rich Athabasca Basin. Although the market hasn't fully caught on, companies are flocking into the area, drawn by the sensational Fission Energy TSXV:FIS and Alpha Minerals TSXV:AMW discovery at Patterson Lake South.
A major uranium discovery has diverted explorers' attention
to an under-explored region of northern Saskatchewan.
The Basin's no stranger to frenetic activity. It last happened in the early and mid-part of the century's first decade. But that was on the east side, whose mines now comprise one of the world's most important sources of uranium. This time the stampede is to the west side, some of it a little outside the Basin. Among the driving forces are Saskatchewan's new online staking system, an increasingly optimistic supply-demand scenario and an escalating stream of news from the Fission/Alpha 50/50 JV.
That started in July 2011, when boulder field samples brought assays as high as 39.6% U3O8. By November 2012, drilling confirmed the discovery not only with high grades but—in glaring contrast to the Basin's east side—shallow mineralization. This year's step-outs have the sector wondering just how big this might be. Not surprisingly, other explorers aren't content to watch from the sidelines.
"We were quick to jump in there," says Skyharbour Resources TSXV:SYH manager of corporate development and communications Jordan Trimble. His company snapped up five properties totalling nearly 80,000 hectares, one of the area's largest packages according to a March 20 announcement. Two of the properties lie 27 kilometres and 35 kilometres north of the PLS discovery, another two 15 kilometres south and the fifth 90 kilometres east.
"We have a connection with a guy from Calgary who was one of the first prospectors in there," Trimble points out. "Given that you can now stake online, it's incredibly cheap. We got that land package for about 30 cents an acre. Packages of land have been offered to me in the last few days in the same area, comparable properties for upwards of $10 an acre. So already I think we've created value just with the acquisition at the cost we did."
Last December's inauguration of Saskatchewan's e-registry was "certainly part of it," he says. "But online staking or no online staking, there's no shadow of doubt in my mind that this area would have seen a staking rush, given the [PLS] discovery. It's a one-of-a-kind discovery."
Michael Schuss concurs. The president/CEO of Canadian International Minerals TSXV:CIN says Patterson Lake South "is probably going to be one of the biggest discoveries in Canadian history. I wouldn't call us ambulance-chasers by nature, but we saw the opportunity and thought we better move on it."
Just one day before Skyharbour's announcement, CIN revealed it nabbed a 20-claim, 25,225-hectare package in the same district. Like Skyharbour, the company's looking at further nearby acquisitions.
Of all the news pouring out of the Fission/Alpha project, Schuss singles out the February 19 announcement of 57.5 metres of mineralization from a step-out 385 metres on strike. The JV partners were "either extremely lucky or it's so big you couldn't miss it. I think that's what kicked off the staking rush.
"The excitement of Patterson Lake South is a discovery outside the traditional Athabasca Basin," Schuss maintains. "It shouldn't have been there. The staking has gone way beyond south of the basin. That's something we haven't seen before. It's an exciting time in the industry."
He credits people like Fission director Jody Dahrouge and Alpha director Warren Stanyer, who were among the PLS visionaries. "At first it was wildcatting at best," Schuss says. "To go from concept to discovery in four years is an exceptional timetable. That's part of the excitement. It also shows that in Canada you can still find major deposits in places that people drive right over." Highway 955 cuts through PLS on its way to the former Cluff Lake uranium mine.
Schuss adds, "The staking rush is a nice feeling for a change because we probably haven't had one in Canada since Voisey's Bay, about 20 years ago."
And the excitement brings a new focus to some companies.
"Skyharbour had been dormant for two years, looking for deals," explains Trimble. "We waited patiently through a real tough market, researched uranium, saw it from the perspective of both current equity valuations in the space and the lack of what you could call saturation. You don't have as many uranium companies clamouring for investor dollars."
Alpha Minerals Inc (AMW) · Ashburton Ventures Inc (ABR) · athabasca basin · Cameco Corp (CCO) · Canadian International Minerals Inc (CIN) · Clermont Capital Inc (XYZ.P) · Denison Mines Corp. (DML) · Eagle Plains Resources Ltd (EPL) · Fission Energy Corp (FIS) · Forum Uranium Corp (FDC) · Lakeland Resources Inc (LK) · NexGen Energy Ltd (NXE) · Rio Tinto Plc (RTPPF) · saskatchewan · Skyharbour Resources Ltd (SYH) · Strathmore Minerals Corp (STM) · u.s. · UEX Corp (UEX) · united states · uranium · Yellowjacket Resources Ltd (YJK) · Zimtu Capital Corp (ZC)
This article was posted by Greg Klein - Resource Clips on Friday, March 22nd, 2013 at 10:02 pm.

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Freeky Friendz, the Perfectly Imperfect toy, - Black Sharksley Hand-made "freeky" looking stuffed toys based on kids' drawings.
Hand-made "freeky" looking stuffed toys based on kids' drawings.
All new materials. Anti-pill fleece and polyester fiberfil.
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Freeky Friendz, the Perfectly Imperfect toy, is a company that was started because of an idea of a then 9 year old boy named Dan who wanted a unique present made in the USA for a good friend's birthday and when he couldn't find one in any of the toy stores he visited, he decided to make his own present. With the help of his grandmother, the first ever Freeky Friendz was produced in the fall of 2007. His present was a hit with his friend and lots of other party goers....soon kids in Dan's community were all asking for Freeky Friendz and they were willing to pay so, Dan said, "Let's start a company" and the rest as they say is history. To read the whole story of Freeky Friendz, please visit the website www.freekyfriendz.com.


The new curriculum aims to ensure that as they progress through EYS, KS1 and KS2, children will become more confident about applying their Digital Skills, becoming increasingly efficient and effective communicators, collaborators, researchers, analysts, evaluators who show imagination and creativity in their use of technology in different aspects of their learning and life beyond school.
This event looks closely at the demands of the new computing curriculum and will support those who attend to plan a whole school strategy, review available and new resources, focus on the implications and impact for learning and achievement and help delegates to create a skills strategy to take back and implement in school.
Curriculum managers and leaders with responsibility for designing and delivering a computing strand to the learning agenda in school. Also teachers from specific year groups who want to develop their own skills in order to plan a computing strand that dovetails into the wider curriculum. Also those with responsibility for CPD and staff development who can use the learning and the resources to cascade the training to others back in school.


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Q: 'The transaction has aborted' error after transaction completed In the following method, I want to upload and save an image to a server directory, then insert a record (with that image's path as a field value) to database in a transaction scope. but after transaction complete (in next line of ts.Complete() - when first transaction scope's using statement complete with { ) I take this error:'The transaction has aborted'. how can I resolve it?
This is my method:
    private void Save( String fullPath, Uploader DocImageUploader, string docImageFileName, htPinPadDelivery pinPadDelivery, User user, Enumes.ActionType actionType)
    {
        BasketResult<bool> rtnBasketResult = new BasketResult<bool>();
        fullPath += "\\";

        using (var ts = new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Required, new TransactionOptions()
        {
            IsolationLevel = System.Transactions.IsolationLevel.ReadCommitted,
            Timeout = new TimeSpan(0, 1, 0)
        }))
        {
            bool transactionIsSuccess = true;

            if (!Directory.Exists(fullPath))
            {
                String path = Helper.GetFileName(fullPath);
                Directory.CreateDirectory(path);
            }

            //Upload image to a server directory:
            transactionIsSuccess = UploadFile(DocImageUploader, fullPath, docImageFileName, user);

            //Insert to database
            if (transactionIsSuccess)
            {
                pinPadDelivery.UploadedDocImage = docImageFileName;

                BasketResult<Boolean> basketResultOfSave = PinPadDeliveriesSave(actionType, pinPadDelivery, user.UserID);
                transactionIsSuccess = basketResultOfSave.IsSuccess;
                if (!transactionIsSuccess)
                    basketResultOfSave.persianErrorMessages.Add(Messages.Err_UploadFileFaild);
            }
            else
                transactionIsSuccess = false;

            using (TransactionScope outOfTransactionScope = new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Suppress))
            {
                rtnBasketResult.IsSuccess = transactionIsSuccess;
                rtnBasketResult.Result.Add(transactionIsSuccess);
                if (!transactionIsSuccess)
                    rtnBasketResult.persianErrorMessages.Add(Messages.Err_UploadFileFaild);

                outOfTransactionScope.Complete();
            }

            if (transactionIsSuccess)
                ts.Complete();
        }

    }

with deeper review I knew that the main error is:

Network access for Distributed Transaction Manager (MSDTC) has been disabled. Please enable DTC for network access in the security configuration for MSDTC using the Component Services Administrative tool.

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Q: What are the screen dimensions of the iPhone 4s and iPhone 5s? What are the dimensions of the screen on the iPhone 4s and 5s? I mean the length and width of the actual display, in mm or cm. I tried searching for it online but all the sites I looked just provide the resolution and not the actual dimensions.

A: This can be easily calculated with the available information. Since screen dimensions are always specified as the diagonal measurement, the rectangle can be divided into two equal right-angled triangles, with the hypotenuse being the diagonal measurement and the aspect ratio of the display providing inputs for the calculation of the height and width.
iPhone 4S

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*Display size (always specified as the diagonal size): 3.5 inches or 89 mm

*Aspect ratio: 1.5 (which is specified as 3:2 and can be calculated from the resolution - 960 x 640 pixels; 960/640 = 1.5)

*Calculating the height and width when the ratio of the sides and the length of the hypotenuse are known can be done manually or even quicker, by using WolframAlpha.

*Check this calculation link for iPhone 4S on WolframAlpha. The result is 74.05 mm by 49.37 mm.
iPhone 5s

*

*Display size (always specified as the diagonal size): 4 inches or 100 mm

*Aspect ratio: 1.775 (which is specified as 16:9 and can be calculated from the resolution - 1136 x 640 pixels; 1136/640 = 1.775)

*Calculating the height and width when the ratio of the sides and the length of the hypotenuse are known can be done manually or even quicker, by using WolframAlpha.

*Check this calculation link for iPhone 5s on WolframAlpha. The result is 87.12 mm by 49.08 mm.

A: Wanna add info about iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus:
iPhone 6

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*http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=119.38+mm+screen+aspect+ratio+1.778

*1334 x 750 = 1.778

*iphone 6 = 104.1 mm x 58.52 mm

iPhone 6 plus

*

*http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=139.7+mm+screen+aspect+ratio+1.778

*1920 x 1080 = 1.778

*iPhone 6 plus = 121.8 mm x 68.48 mm


This booklet illustrates a selection of twenty prints from the series of woodblock prints by Ando Hiroshige called Meisho Edo Hakkei or One hundred views of famous places in Edo. These were published between 1856 and 1859, the last series Hiroshige designed. All prints are in the collection of the Department of Eastern Art, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
The series title is the longer, vertical cartouche in the upper right hand corner of the print, the same for all of the series. Beside it is the individual title for each print, giving the location within or near Edo, modern Tokyo. The obligatory censors' seals, from which the date of production of each print can be deduced, are either in the upper margin on the right or in the lower left margin. Sometimes they have been trimmed off, or they may be concealed by the mount.
The set was issued in no logical order; neither the locality nor the seasons seem to have had any influence. The order used here is adapted from other publications. This selection was made purely on aesthetic considerations, from those prints that are represented in the collection.
The pigments used for Japanese woodblock prints are fugitive and damaged by exposure to light. This means, unfortunately, that they cannot often be exhibited.


The horse and his rider, athletes?
Is my horse an athlete? Am I an athlete?
Even if you feel like you're going to die when you run 3 minutes, you don't chain 10 pushups and squats go over your head, you can keep reading.
When you see mermaid at first glance it is not said that it is ready for the Prix Saint Georges (or after). But it's still an athlete (who ignores herself) at the bottom of the meadow full of mud.
Already the fact of being able to sleep standing for me is a feat. What to recall is normal for horses.
Anatomically already they are designed for racing being prey and not predators. With a huge heart that measures about 26cm in diameter. The frequency is normally very low and little climb very high during a significant effort.
Muscle side they have 469. Even if not all are used to make the horse move, it's still a lot.
So no they are not all great athletes who roam the world under the saddle of our idols (or jockeys it also works for racing horses). But they're all a bit of athletes.
If only to wear a rider on his back.
But who does not ignore the aches after a session of getting in the saddle!
The aches and pains that means that the muscles we worked no? Nobody says "Oh la La yesterday I made a Quidditch pong, I have aches everywhere" (no it probably has a hangover but it's another story).
Riding is certainly not a very cardio sport on our mundane sessions. Even though some of them are really sweating. Horseback riding makes the back work, especially in relation to the seat we have in the saddle. Arms, especially when you have one who wants to graze every four seconds. Joke aside it makes the abdominals work, the big and middle buttocks etc… And since I'm not a specialist I put you a nice link: the muscles of the riders.
Now that we're athletes, how can we be a happy athlete?
A happy athlete is an athlete who does not hurt.
Whether it is rider or horse, when you have pain you do not want and especially there are movements that you can not do.
Have you ever wondered why your horse couldn't do an exercise?
It may be a problem that needs to be resolved with an osteopath, or a dentist, or even the podiatrist. It may be that the exercise is not suitable for the horse, or that you do not ask for it properly. But it can also be that he does not have the muscles for!
You ask me the very following to make you tractions I am not even sure to make one, but with a suitable training I would do it later.
When you go up properly, you should have a uniform result on your horse's musculature. When it has no worries is understood. How many times we see messages like: How to muscle neck, rump etc etc. Isn't there a problem?
A happy athlete is an athlete who varies the exercises.
Because even Usain bolt is diversifying (Usain Bolt starts playing soccer). To be muscular evenly it is necessary to vary the exercises. A champion of CSO he doesn't jump bars every day. If you want exercises you have the Pinterest of Chevaletmoi. And it's not bad for morale too.
To be an athlete not necessarily happy but at least accomplished, you have to know what to set goals. What is more satisfying than passing steps, crossing goals? Even if your horse does not care about your goals, to reach them you will have to think about its well being. And its well being goes through good living conditions.
A suitable nutrition (yes, one day I would write the article promised a long time ago).
Suitable accommodation (which includes freedom of movement, comfort for rest, and thermal comfort).
Possibility of expressing behaviors related to its species.
So we're thinking of doing regular checkups with the dentist, the osteopath and the vet. (An article should happen on dentistry, one also happens on osteopathy, or not, finally maybe). We learn about the feet of his horse (whether it is railroad or not, I have already written an article). And we make an adapted ration, and since it's super complicated to take everything into account we go through a pro! If you want to know more about nutrition I leave you the address of a blog that I hope you already know.
Hard to finish this article without repeating a sentence that you have already seen in this blog, even if a little adapted.
To train a happy athlete couple, listen to yourself, respect yourself and take care of yourself.


Government interest is growing in the potential for design to improve policy. Miles Ayling, Director of Innovation at NHS England and Catherine Makin, Project Manager for Health at the Design Council, explain how a partnership between NHS England and the Design Council has reduced aggression, improved staff morale and led to better patient experience across A&E departments.
In less than 12 months, 97% of Syria's declared chemical weapons programme has been destroyed. Ben Merrick, Head of Arms Control and Proliferation in the Ministry of Defence, explains how outstanding cross-governmental co-operation made this possible.
The decline in young people studying languages at university could have serious implications for GCHQ, and its ability to protect the UK from international threats. The organisation's language analysts are striving to combat this by inspiring school pupils to learn some of the most needed languages.


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Home » Eagles Stumble Against Merrimack, Off to Worst Start in 80 Years
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Eagles Stumble Against Merrimack, Off to Worst Start in 80 Years
by Bradley Smart
November 3, 2018 Updated June 18, 2020 at 7:26 pm
The last time Boston College men's hockey started a season 0-5, the price of gas was 10 cents, Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office, and the Eagles were in just their fifth season of play after taking several years off due to the Great Depression. On Friday night at Lawler Rink, BC returned to those depths, opening its regular season Hockey East title defense in disappointing fashion, falling to Merrimack, 2-1.
The Eagles (0-5, 0-1 Hockey East) played even with their hosts in shots, but committed two more penalties and the penalty kill couldn't hold up over 10 attempts, allowing the upstart Warriors (3-5, 2-2) to skate to their first win against BC in over a year. The Eagles had just one loss in the last 13 matchups between the Hockey East foes, but, like the four preceding games this season, it ended up going sideways.
BC played better for much of the early going, seeming eager to shed off the disappointment of a midweek blowout at the hands of St. Cloud State. It controlled the puck and kept it in the Warriors zone for much of the first nine minutes of the game, sending five shots toward goaltender Craig Patano. The senior had been a sieve against a surprisingly strong Massachusetts team his last time out, conceding four goals, but he was much more composed at his home rink against the Eagles.
Patano would ultimately turn away 31 of 32 shots, and it was his early denial of efforts from J.D. Dudek, Oliver Wahlstrom, and Jack McBain that kept his team in it. BC went on the power play, too, and despite winning three faceoffs and sending four shots on frame, it came up empty. Logan Hutsko was especially prevalent on the attack, but his first two shots were saved and a final effort before the penalty expired was blocked by defenseman Matt McArdle.
Some five or so minutes later, the Warriors got their own power play chance—and didn't miss out on it. After BC's Christopher Brown went to the box for boarding, Merrimack started to push forward and found success. Simon Loof, Johnathan Kovacevic, and Chase Gresock all had shots saved by Joe Woll, but eventually the constant pressure paid off. Kovacevic's shot skipped wide off the end glass and came back to the waiting stick of Derek Petti, who buried the rebound for the advantage.
The Warriors added to it with the eventual game-winner midway through the second period, also coming on a power play. Hutsko went to the box for interference, undoubtedly frustrated that BC hadn't been able to crack Patano despite decent pressure throughout. The Eagles came within three seconds of killing the sophomore forward's penalty, but at the 1:57 mark of the two-minute penalty, Merrimack scored a backbreaking goal. Tyler Heidt took a desperation shot from near the center point and it deflected through traffic, with Woll unable to deny it on his glove side.
After going 0-for-3 on its first three power play chances, BC finally cracked the Warriors kill with a minute and a half left in the second. The teams had played four-on-four for two minutes after Jacob Tortora was whistled for roughing while his Merrimack counterpart Tyler Drevitch drew five minutes for interference. Neither team generated a shot during the shorthanded play, but when the Eagles went up a man, it didn't take long to answer—just 32 seconds after they returned to full strength, Hutsko and Julius Mattila had a 2-on-1, with Mattila setting up his teammate for a one-timer that Patano didn't have a chance at.
The goal in the waning minutes of the second sparked hope that BC, with momentum in hand out of the locker room, could shake off the woes of four consecutive losses and at least salvage a draw. It wasn't able to. The Eagles had managed just four shots in the second period and upped that to 10 in the third, but Patano and the Warriors defense held strong. Woll was pulled with a minute and a half remaining, but Merrimack was able to turn away the extra attacker and hand a team that has historically dominated them a tough one-goal loss.
Many circled Friday night's game as a chance for BC to get back on its feet. The Warriors entered just 2-5, had dropped 21 games a season ago, and had a new head coach. The Eagles, meanwhile, were the defending regular season champions and had taken all four matchups with Merrimack a season prior—and had arguably reloaded. It was a chance to forget the previous four losses, all to ranked opponents, and find solid footing for the inevitable trudge through the Hockey East regular season. Alas, the ground seems even more shaky. BC, picked to win the conference, played even with a team picked to finish last.
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Tourist Reviews Travel Tours Historical Salvador City Tour
Historical Salvador City Tour
Walking on the streets in the Historical District of Salvador feels like being taken back to ancient times in Brazilian history. Visit the first fort that was built at the entrance point of the bay of All Saints to protect the city from an attack. A stop at the city center is a must for anyone staying in Salavador da Bahia!
The streets of Central Salvador take tourists back to the beginnings of Brazil. Your tour begins at the Barra Lighthouse, passes the Teatro Castro Alves, home to the Bahian Symphony Orchestra and on to the Bal


"Homemade" vaporizers are not only cheaper - presence of aromas makes them more attractive. It threatens business-models Altria, Reynolds and Lorillard for electronic cigarettes of which buyers should acquire replacement cartridges from the same manufacturer. Lorillard has already encountered fall of sales of electronic cigarettes by 23% to 88 million USD in the first half year of current year.
This fact increases uncertainty that surrounds electronic cigarettes that also encounter increased attention of regulators. World Health Organization has recommended governments to restrict advertising of electronic cigarettes, their use in the premises and aromas that attract youth. Food and Drug Administration of USA (FDA) in April has offered to introduce number of restrictions including ban on sale of electronic cigarettes to persons younger than 18 years old and warning about health harm.
Shares of Altria and Reynolds in sale of electronic cigarettes in the shops of everyday assortment in USD terms have reached 14% and 11% correspondingly for 4 weeks that have elapsed on August 2nd after their national launch in June, according to Wells Fargo that relates to data of shops monitoring from Nielsen. However the total sales of electronic cigarettes in the shops of everyday assortment have reduced during the same period by 7.5 to 41.4 million USD.


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Q: How to revert the "clearsOnBeginEditing(true) effect" (remove older value at beging editing) on textField if it is left blank? I have a function firing on two observers - keyboardWillShowNotification and KeyboardWillHideNotification, and what I basically do is resetting a text field while editing, emulating the effect of clearsOnBeginEditing. However, if the user left the field blank I want it to return the original value, before editing. Here's my experimental code:
@objc func keyboardWillChange(notification: Notification) {

    if notification.name == UIResponder.keyboardWillShowNotification || notification.name == UIResponder.keyboardWillHideNotification {

            if textField.isEditing {
                let originalValue: String!
                originalValue = textField.text!
                textField.text = ""
                print("content while editing is \(originalValue)")

                if notification.name == UIResponder.keyboardWillHideNotification {
                    print("this is content on end editing \(originalValue)")

                        if textField!.isEmpty == true {
                            print("this is nill")
                            textField.text! = originalValue
                        } else {
                             textField.text = textField.text
                             print("found a value")

                        }
                }
            }
    }

What's the right way to do it?

A: You do not need to implement keyboard delegates for this. This is easily acheivable using the UITextFieldDelegate methods textFieldDidBeginEditing and textFieldDidEndEditing.
var orignalValue: String = ""

func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {
    originalValue = textField.text
    textField.text = ""
}

func textFieldDidEndEditing(_ textField: UITextField, reason: UITextField.DidEndEditingReason) {
    if textField.text?.isEmpty {
        textField.text = orignalValue
    }
}

Note: Your view controller would need to conform to UITextFieldDelegate and your text fields should have their delegates set to self.


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Dean Smith no longer needs Manchester United outcast for Aston Villa's midfield – opinion
Date: 20th November 2018 at 7:00pm
Written by: Crippy Cooke
Aston Villa were linked with a move for Scott McTominay back in mid-October, but Dean Smith doesn't have a need for the Manchester United midfielder now. McTominay is a combative player who breaks up play in the middle of the park, but Villa are overstocked in this department.
Smith has John McGinn, Mile Jedinak, Birkir Bjarnason and Glenn Whelan to provide more substance in midfield, so it's unlikely they will return for McTominay in January. That may open the door for Leeds United to pounce, as they were also interested in his signature last month.
McTominay has made just four appearances in all competitions for United this season and barely makes the matchday squad anymore. With Fred, Paul Pogba, Ander Herrera and Nemanja Matic ahead of him in the pecking order, the 21-year-old's future at Old Trafford looks grim.
And while Villa don't need McTominay now, they could make a move for him next summer. Jedinak and Whelan are both 34 years of age while Bjarnason turns 31 at the end the season. Smith will need fresh blood in the midfield, so it may be worth monitoring his progress. An approach won't be required just yet, however.
Crippy Cooke's previous article
https://astonvilla.vitalfootball.co.uk/is-henri-lansbury-any-closer-to-returning-for-aston-villa


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1 edition of ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts found in the catalog.
ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts
Published 1998 by Clarendon Press in Oxford .
Egyptian language -- Inscriptions.
Statement translated into English by R. O. Faulkner.
Contributions Faulkner, R. O. 1894-1982., Sethe, Kurt, 1869-1934.
LC Classifications PJ1961
Pagination xii, 330 p., 88 p. :
The Pyramid Texts were funerary inscriptions that were written on the walls of the early Ancient Egyptian pyramids at Sakkara. These date back to the fifth and sixth dynasties, approximately the years B.C.E. However, because of extensive internal evidence, it is believed that they were composed much earlier, circa B.C.E. You have power over your body, there is no one to oppose you. You are born because of Horus (in you), you are conceived because of Seth (in you). You have purified yourself in the Hawk nome (Third Nome of Lower Egypt), you have received your purification in the Uninjured-Ruler nome (Thirteenth of Lower Egypt) before your father, before Atum.
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Probably compiled and reedited during the 16th century bce, the collection included Coffin Texts dating from c. bce, Pyramid Texts dating from c. bce, and other writings. Read the Pyramid Texts of Unas in the order of your choice.
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Edward Krasinski
Intervention 15
© The estate of Edward Krasinski, courtesy Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
In Tate Modern
Performer and Participant: Edward Krasiński
Edward Krasinski 1925–2004
Interwencja 15
Tape and paint on hardboard
Support: 699 × 500 × 33 mm
Presented by Tate International Council 2007
T12568 is an axonometric painting, with black acrylic lines depicting a white three-dimensional geometric object on a black background. The term 'axonometric' refers to a drawing method used to represent a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional support – vertical lines are drawn to scale, but the diagonals are distorted in order to give the illusion of depth and volume. The painting also features Krasinski's signature blue Scotch tape, which has been positioned so that it appears to pass from the wall to the left of the painting onto the canvas, following the contours of the three-dimensional object depicted, and continuing onto the wall to the right of the painting. The strip, which is usually positioned at exactly 130cm from the ground, is therefore subjected to the inner logic of the image.
Krasinski began making these axonometric paintings in 1973. He called them Interventions and displayed them as a series connected with a blue line. Through these paintings, Krasinski explored forms of geometric representation and their relationship to the architectural space of the gallery. As critic Pawel Polit has commented, Krasinski created, 'a kind of visual narrative between two heterogeneous realms: a real space, exposed to the contingencies of passing time, and an ideal, timeless space of geometry' (quoted in Breitwieser, p.74). Krasinski was a close friend of Henryk Stazewski (1894–1988), a key figure of the Polish avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s and a representative of the constructivist movement. Despite the importance of line and geometric space to Krasinski's work, it seeks to challenge the logic of geometry and three dimensional space that constructivism took for granted. As the curator Lena Kiessler comments: 'The properties of the material, its inherent reactions to certain physical forces, are not respected by Krasinski and become involved in a visual game. We could therefore speak of a critique of visuality, where all trust in the visual comprehension in perceptual experience is deceived.' (Kiessler and Mytkowska, p.5.)
Krasinski first used the blue strip that would become his trademark in 1968. He progressed from simply sticking the strip in surprising places to making assemblage constructions that incorporated it. As he explained: 'I wanted to "pull" something out of the wall; I framed parts of reality, like a fragment of my door with the handle and the frame and made a picture out of it' (quoted in Breitwieser, p.22). For the Tokyo Biennale in 1970, Krasinski's works were delayed in shipping. He sent a telex to the organisers containing the word 'BLUE' repeated 5000 times, along with instructions to display the roll of perforated telex paper with the code for the word 'blue' on it (reproduced in Breitwieser, p.182). After 1974, he turned away from assemblage constructions to concentrate on axonometric designs. As Polit describes, Krasinski not only displayed these images in gallery spaces, but also in such unusual locations as a toilet, a bedroom in his own flat, a hospital, a pigsty and as butcher's shop (Breitwieser, p.75). Krasinski remained reluctant to discuss the meaning of the tape, commenting: 'The tape had ascribed meaning to itself. Once it came into being, it was then free to do anything, to frolic. The meaning is inherent in the tape; I inspired only its spirit.' (Quoted in Breitweiser, p34.)
Born in Luck in the Ukraine, Krasinski studied Applied Arts and Fine Arts in Krakow, and began his career in the 1960s as a surrealist painter. In the early 1970s, he moved into Henryk Stazewski's studio where they lived together, and remained there after Stazewski's death in 1988. In 1966, Krasinski was one of the founders of the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, which acted as a focal point for experimental conceptual artists. He participated in the first happening in Warsaw in 1965, initiated by the artist and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor (1915–90), and later played the role of conductor in Kantor's Panoramic Sea Happening 1967 at Lazy, near Osieki. He began using blue tape in his actions, installations and photo-based works from 1968, often working with the photographer Eustachy Kossakowski (1925–2001). In 1970, he applied tape to the walls of the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the windows of Rive Gauche galleries. He met Daniel Buren (born 1938) on that occasion, and the two artists remained friends. There is a strong conceptual likeness between the two artists' work, as both use unchanging and potentially infinite stripes to challenge the definition of art and ways of looking at art (see Buren's work T12316, One of the Possibilities 1973). Krasinski described the ambivalent and challenging meaning of his use of the blue tape, which became his signature mark: 'Blue Scotch Tape, 19mm wide, length unknown. I place it horizontally at a height of 130cm everywhere and on everything. I encompass everything with it and go everywhere. This is art, or is it? Yet one thing is certain: blue Scotch Tape, 19mm wide, length unknown.' (Quoted in Kiessler and Mytkowska, p.83.)
Lena Kiessler and Joanna Mytkowska (eds.), Edward Krasinski: Interwencja, Warsaw 2001.
Sabine Breitwieser (ed.), Edward Krasinski: Les Mises en Scène, Vienna 2006.
Pawel Polit (ed.), Edward Krasinski: Elementarz/ABC, Krakow 2008.
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There is something about the winter months that makes me want Pizza for dinner even more than I usually do, which lets face it, is a lot. Who doesn't like Pizza? It's a comforting circle of cheesy bread love, plus the topping options are endless. One step better than going out for your favorite slice is inviting a few friends over for some homemade pizza and last week I turned your average pizza night up a notch to do just that. I teamed up with Ecco Domani to share my take on a homemade pizza party, it's a little bit fancy and a little bit casual, and the best part is that you can win a slew of goodies to create a memorable pizza night of your own.


If you have wide space and large gaps in a bedroom, then these empty spaces are easily fitted with a Console tables UK. These types of tables will not only fill the space in a room, but it also gives an elegant look and it will add some sense of style. These tables can also used as a storage space. Totally, you can make use of the console tables in various ways according to your needs.
This type of table can able to form a practical viewpoint and it will add an elegant look to the room, and also define a space. This kind of table is used in order to add the ornamentation and light, in case if the room is largely symmetrical, a small vase of flowers and a pair of lamps are ideal one, if not, you should try to set up the table in the L shape with a small framed photograph and ornaments making the base and as tall striking lamp as the upright.
When it comes to the small rooms it is essential to have the furniture such as sofa in order to place them against a wall. When rooms are large, multi-purpose or open plan, then it is essential to have the free standing sofa with a sofa table. In this case, a Console tables is the best option in order to fill the empty place. In order to intensify the available light, some of them used to hang a mirror above the console tables; it will help to reflect the light that is emerging from the lamp. Ensure that, a light place in the entrance of the hall always looks amazing.
The hallway is the important part of the interior of the home that a guest sees. As you all know, the first impression will count, so the hallway is extremely essential, it requires setting a mood. For outside and in a hallway acts as a bridge, so it requires to be welcoming and warm. So the warmth of a suitable sturdy wooden console tables is the ideal one, as the entryway is generally narrow and long, this table fits perfectly or you can also place this table opposite to the entrance, with this you can add lovely flowers, set up the green plants, lamps and other type accessories.


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Telling the story of the organized black communities from the Colonial Period through the 19th century, The Museum of African American History is dedicated to conserving and preserving African American heritage.[Learn more]
Opened on the nation's centennial on July 4, 1876, the MFA housed 5,600 works of art in Copley Square before moving to Huntington Avenue in 1909 where it still sits today. Currently, it is one of most comprehensive art museums in the world.[Learn more]
Dine with dinosaurs, sip cocktails with virtual sea life or take a journey to the stars all in one day at Boston's Museum of Science. With unique surroundings and experiences, the museum is one of the city's most entertaining venues.[Learn more]
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Inside the walls of the Old State House, Samuel Adams, James Otis, John Hancock, and John Adams made history as they discussed the future of the British colonies in the 18th century.[Learn more]
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Friendship, loss and a tantalizing trip to Paris in this highly praised #1 Amazon Best Seller!
Paris has always embraced the new. Yes, the bones stay the same—the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, and Notre-Dame will be there forever—but new buildings and monuments continue to be built (like the Bibliothèque Nationale) and new priorities increasingly shape daily life (more ways to recycle seem to pop up every day).
Corn on the cob. Traditionally, corn was not an ingredient you saw a lot of in France. If it appeared in a salad, well, that was what made it a "salade exotique." But now corn seems to be everywhere. Street markets sell unshucked cobs (it's called "maïs doux"). Grocery stores offer pre-cooked corn on the cob, shrink-wrapped in plastic the way cooked beets and potatoes are sold. One day we saw a street vendor hawking freshly grilled corn, like roasted chestnuts. Even popcorn is now a thing in Paris. Boutiques specialize in selling different flavors, and colors, of pre-popped popcorn.
Wheels, wheels, wheels. Paris, above all, has always been a walking city. If you don't or can't walk you took the Métro, bus, or taxi. Then, a dozen or so years ago, bicycles went from seldom-seen to ubiquitous. But it didn't stop there. This time we noticed a huge uptick in scooters ("trottinettes"), used by both adults and children, sometimes in electric versions. Occasionally we spotted an electric-powered adult tricycle, and you can now hire a pedi-cab in some areas of Paris. But the most spectacular new form of wheeled transport, at least to us, was something called a "solo wheel" ("monoroue"). It's basically a battery-powered, beachball-sized wheel, with footrests. You stand on it and zip through traffic along with the cars. No helmet. No safety devices of any kind. Terrifying.
Cleaner and safer. Good news: city buses no longer spew diesel fumes; they are hybrid-powered. Walking is more pleasant, too. There's far less litter (i.e., dog poop) and more streets are now pedestrian only. Plus, motorists actually stop for you at crosswalks now, even when they have the right of way (the first time this happened we thought it was a fluke, but it was not).
Healthier. Joggers in Paris used to be relatively unusual, except around the big hotels. Now you see them every day, everywhere. Some parks have been transformed into virtual outdoor gyms; at Parc Monceau one weekday morning we saw people lifting weights, boxing, doing yoga, working out with personal trainers, and practicing martial arts and parkour. Fewer people seem to smoke and indoor restaurants now ban it. Finally, and you may or may not think this is healthy, fruit juice has become a thing. One day we met a Parisian friend at a café and she ordered cranberry juice. And got it.
More convenient. Many more stores have Sunday hours now (we're not sure if this is a good change or not). More restaurants seem to serve food all day, rather than just at lunch and dinner. More grocery stores stock pre-made salads and sandwiches; some are really good.
But there's no need to worry. Paris is still Paris. The markets still bustle, the cafés still teem with lovers and students, the museums are still bursting with wonderful art, and the croissants are still flaky. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose !
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(because she does definitely share Amy's passion for Paris).
thereby learning a lot about the world of work.
She currently writes a weekly career advice column for The Seattle Times.
with her husband and cat.
At the same time, Velvet Morning Press announces the audiobook of two other great books set in France – click on the covers to order the book.
When newly-single party girl Vicki moves to Paris, she hopes to indulge in wine, stuff her face with croissants, and fall in love. It proves to be much more difficile than she imagined. In this laugh-out-loud memoir, this cheeky storyteller recounts the highs and lows of her life in the City of Light. Sassy and shamelessly honest, Vicki makes you feel as if you're right there in Paris stumbling along the cobblestones with her.
When perfumer Zoe Flore travels to the South of France to collect a formula, her inheritance from the family she never knew existed, she realizes this perfume may unlock a long-hidden family secret. Before Zoe can discover the truth, the formula is stolen. And Philippe, the enigmatic competitor who makes her heart race, is the only one who can help her find it.
I love a good audiobook and hopefully the narrator is able to capture this book fully!


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A: An AsyncTask can only be executed once. Execute is being called multiple times inside onBindViewHolder in your case.
New instance of AsyncTask is required for every executes.

A: You can also use the executeOnExecutor of the AsyncTask.Which are able to execute multiple tasks at once.
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Bike wars heat up with Lyft said to be near deal for Motivate
Biz & Tech // Business
Carolyn Said June 1, 2018 Updated: June 1, 2018 4 p.m.
The ride-hailing firm Lyft is reportedly on the verge of buying the company that runs the Ford GoBike rental program in the Bay Area.
Photo: Michael Short / Special to The Chronicle 2017
Let the bike wars begin!
Lyft is on the verge of buying Motivate, the company that runs the Ford GoBike rental program in the Bay Area and CitiBike in New York, according to the Information.
The $250 million deal, which the Information said is not yet final, comes on the heels of Uber's $200 million acquisition of dockless e-bike renter Jump Bikes in April.
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The move would pit the two ride-hailing rivals against each other in another form of urban transportation — one that doesn't rely on cars. Both companies have said they see their missions as helping users get from Point A to Point B, and want to offer them different ways to do so.
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Motivate recently added 250 e-bikes to its stable of docked pedal-driven bikes in San Francisco.
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by William John Hilliar & Albert M. Wilson & John Mulholland
(4 reviews, 21 customer ratings) ★★★★★
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This product bundle includes 53 items:
The Sphinx Index
The Sphinx Volume 1 (Mar 1902 - Feb 1903)
The Sphinx Volume 10 (Mar 1911 - Feb 1912)
The Sphinx Volume 52 (Mar 1953)
Total of individual products: $280.00
You get all 52 volumes (597 issues), almost 17,000 pages as color PDF files (one for each volume). We have added to that a complete index stretching over 540 pages. (Don't ask us how long it took to prepare this index because it will bring up painful memories.) Additionally you receive an introduction by Bill Kuethe, an article about The Sphinx by Gabe Fajuri, a presentation about The Sphinx also by Gabe Fajuri and the personal research A. M. Wilson's granddaughter, Mary Syphus, conducted about Wilson.
One could write long articles about The Sphinx. Two are included as introductions to this ebook; one by Gabe Fajuri and another by Bill Kuethe. Another article was written by Gabe Fajuri in Magic Magazine, March 2002. The Sphinx is arguably the most important magic magazine and complete files are extremely rare. I am not absolutely sure but I heard that some early issues only saw a print run of 75 copies. A complete set in good condition goes today for around $5000. This is the time for you to own a complete file in digital form.
Here are a few of the names who have contributed to The Sphinx: Ted Annemann, Al Baker, David Bamberg, Ross Bertram, J. B. Bobo, Fred Braue, Jack Chanin, Milbourne Christopher, Joseph Dunninger, Ade Duval, Bruce Elliott, Dariel Fitzkee, Karrell Fox, Frank Garcia, Martin Gardner, Robert Harbin, Guy Jarrett, Fu Manchu, Dr. Stanley Jaks, Ed Marlo, Ed Miller, John Mulholland, Okito, Augustus Rapp, John Scarne, Matt Schulien, Slydini, Harlan Tarbell, Peter Warlock... and the list goes on and on. The Sphinx has more hidden gems than any single person can use in a performing lifetime.
Reviewed by Georg Walter (confirmed purchase)
★★★★★ Date Added: Monday 19 February, 2018
Für historisch Interessierte ist die "Sphinx" unschlagbar und ein absolutes MUSS. Mit halbwegs ordentlichem Schulenglisch wird man sich zurecht finden.
[Translation: For historically interested people, the "Sphinx" is unbeatable and an absolute MUST. With halfway tidy school English you will find your way around.]
Reviewed by Chet Cox
★★★★★ Date Added: Thursday 15 March, 2012
There should be a higher rating than 5 stars, because the rating code at the bottom of this page (the one on which I'm typing; not the one which you're reading) says that 5 stars means merely "good." This set is much, much more than "good." It is, according to your needs:
- an invaluable history of magic,
- the strongest collection of powerful effects from the greatest magicians who lived,
- completely and utterly searchable; you want background on Thurston? You've got it! Want a LOT of versions of any specific favorite of yours? It's instantly findable!
- the backgrounds, the photos of the great masters, the programs, the reviews of books and effects which are again new, and the ability to watch as someone is noted as a newcomer - and eventually becomes a master wizard by our time!
- John Mullholland, the MagiCIAn (Look it up)
When you get these disks, guard them well - let nothing happen to them. Because they are well worth far more than the asking price of $499 - there is information herein which would be otherwise lost to the ages.
Reviewed by Dustin Stinett
★★★★★ Date Added: Sunday 04 June, 2006
Sometime in my teens (during the 1970s) I became fascinated with old magic periodicals. They are little self-contained time machines: an easy trip in Mr. Peabody's Way-Back Machine to times remembered by few but, thankfully because of these periodicals, never lost.
I began buying the reprinted copies of The Phoenix, The Jinx and other readily available works. Somewhere along the line I learned about The Sphinx and ignorantly wondered when a reprint of it would become available. It wasn't until I became a member of the Magic Castle and I saw the complete file in the library that I fully grasped the enormity of the magazine. I realized that there was little chance that it would ever be reprinted. I decided that I was going to have to buy a complete file. Acquiring a file of The Sphinx became, so to speak, my "Holy Grail."
"He who would cross this bridge must answer me these questions three, ere the other side ye shall see!"
Ask your questions, bridge-keeper!
"What is your quest?"
I seek a complete file of The Sphinx!
"What is your desire: bound or loose?"
It doesn't matter! I'll take either one!
"What is your bank balance?"
I quickly learned that money would be an issue in my quest; a major issue. So, for many years, I resigned myself to visits with Mr. Peabody and his Way-Back Machine during trips to the Magic Castle. For over twenty years, every time I visited, I looked at the light green clothbound volumes with longing.
So what is so special about this magazine that acquiring a file could become an obsession?
The Sphinx was published during the first half of the 20th century. This period of time covers much of the "Golden Age of Magic," from its peak through to its demise, and it is well chronicled within the pages of this astounding magazine. In its pages we see Harry Houdini rise to fame, reinvent himself as needed, and then his untimely death. We can follow the careers of Kellar, Thurston, Dante, Germain, Malini, LeRoy and so many others. Fifty-plus years of magic history at our fingertips: I get shivers just thinking about it. Fifty years of magic journalism that captures the modern growth of a once great performance art (that was a cornerstone of show business) to its fall into mediocrity as a mere amusement and hobby. (It was then Genii magazine that chronicled magic's partial resurrection.)
One of the great challenges of flipping through the pages of The Sphinx was pointed out to me by Mike Caveney: "I defy anyone to be able to go through that magazine and not get distracted." Sure enough: You start in on one article, perhaps on a specific subject you are researching, and pretty soon you find yourself wandering off into other interesting worlds. The advertisements alone are an absolute joy to read!
I had to get a file of that magazine!
But then there was that whole money thing, and as time wore on, the price of complete files—when they became available—increased as my trips to the Castle decreased. Then an interesting thing happened: Somebody actually took the time to scan every page—nearly 17,000 of them—and put it on some little silver discs I could shove into my computer. Now I had some real soul searching to do. I am a casehardened book guy. One of the pleasures I get from looking through The Sphinx is visceral: I love the idea that a page I just turned is anywhere from fifty to one-hundred years old! And I guess I just love the smell and feel of deteriorating paper (many years of The Sphinx were printed on less than high-grade paper). "The text is on the discs; but it's just not the same thing," I told myself. But the price was right; frankly, this looked like my best opportunity to at least come close to my quest.
Then a miracle happened. I stepped into the dealer's room of a magic collectors' convention and something caught my attention. There were the sounds of angels singing and a wondrous light radiating from one corner of the room. Within this glow lay an unbelievable sight: My Holy Grail! It was a gorgeously bound, complete file of The Sphinx. The man selling them, who was dressed in flowing white robes, beckoned me. I went to him asked the price; he answered. It dawned on me that, at that time, I did have the money: I could acquire this treasure! "But I have a guy on a cruise ship right now who is interested," he said. "I can have a cashier's check here today," I said. "You have first right of refusal after the guy on the ship," was his answer.
Okay, so I'm exaggerating: The seller wasn't wearing white robes.
Before we sealed the deal, I talked with many trusted advisors. Several said, "Get them; it's a good price." One said, "What? Are you nuts? Get he digital edition!" The best advice I got came in the form of a question:
"What is your goal?" ("…answer me these questions three…")
I want the magazine! I want to read it and touch it and smell it! I've wanted this for a very long time. I had the answer to all three of the questions that would see me to the other side of the bridge.
The guy on the ship passed and the magazines were mine. So the wondrous glow and sound of angels singing now radiates from my library shelves.
One day I was working under a deadline (something I never had to deal with in my past) and turned to my treasure for some research. The indices of The Sphinx are adequate, but not perfect. So, as is usually the case, I dialed down to a year and began looking through issues. The mixing of love and work is intoxicating! And I promptly failed the challenge offered by Mike Caveney: I was distracted. But I couldn't afford to be distracted! I was under a deadline! For the first time ever, time became an issue.
I found what I was looking for and completed my project. But I realized I had to do something radical for a casehardened book-guy: I would acquire a copy of The Digital Sphinx to complement my real file. Now, when time (which runs faster the older you get) becomes an issue, I can save a lot by using the search capabilities of the PDF files. A list of entries for my subject quickly appears on my computer screen and in a mouse click I am reading what I need to read. Acquiring the bound file of The Sphinx was a miracle for Dustin the collector and lover of books and magazines. But The Digital Sphinx is a miracle of modern technology for the time-challenged multiple job-holding Dustin.
I know that my historian-collector friends reading this now are shaking their heads in dismay, but I beg them to consider my plight. And, it's not like I have given up on my treasure: Not at all! In fact, it's become more of a treasure. I now have the best of both worlds. I can still get lost in the never-ending trails one finds leafing through the magazine; discovering forgotten names and events. And I can use it more efficiently; recording every aspect of a subject without missing some important, but hidden factoid that might be missed during a page-by-page search. To borrow a phrase, the "tapestry of time" that is the history of magic deserves our best, most efficient effort when we are attempting to add to it or put the threads into the right place. As researchers, it is incumbent on us to use the best tools available to make sure we get it right.
Is The Digital Sphinx only for serious historians? Again, not at all! Anyone who loves this art will love rummaging through the pages—electronic or otherwise—of The Sphinx. There are many hundreds of effects, many that have not seen the lights of the stage or the close-up table in decades. "Something new" for your act can very easily be something old enough to be new again!
The treasures of The Sphinx were once available only to those who had (or had access to) a complete file; and they probably paid a hefty price for it. Now, this Holy Grail of Magic is available for a fraction of the cost of what a complete, bound file will cost you.
Don't get me wrong: If you have the means, go out and find a complete file and relish in its visceral glory. Enjoy, as I do, the smell and feel of old paper coupled with the intellectual wonder of discovery every time you turn a page that is as much as one hundred years old! But, if acquiring a file is just not in the realm of possibilities, but you still want the intellectual pleasures of owning an entire file of The Sphinx, then The Digital Sphinx is most certainly for you.
Reviewed by Richard Hatch
★★★★★ Date Added: Saturday 03 December, 2005
A complete file of "The Sphinx" is probably the greatest single resource in English for research on 20th-century magic. From the first issue in March 1902 till the final one in March 1953, it documented the golden age of magic with a profusion of tricks, reviews, photos, playbills, tour routes, letters, and gossip. About four years ago, Christoph Wasshuber of Lybrary.com purchased a near-complete file of "The Sphinx" to scan the pages for this digital project. After he finished, about two years later, the 'digital facsimile edition' was released in 2003, and I received a copy. While the facsimile version came with a searchable index of articles (more on that in a moment), there is a huge difference between searching the index and searching the actual file. Searching the index would tell me every time 'Vernon,' for example, was mentioned in the title or as the author of an article or trick, but to find the many 'Vernon' references in the body of the text you need a version where the digital images have been subjected to high-resolution optical character recognition software, converting the images to reliably searchable text. Essentially, the facsimile edition was page, after page, after page of "The Sphinx" on two DVDs. It wasn't easy to use. This summer Lybrary.com completed and released a searchable version.
The product, "The Digital Sphinx", comes on two DVDs, organized into 54 PDF files, one for each volume, plus one for the index and one containing introductory essays by Wasshuber and Gabe Fajuri (both an expanded version of his March 2002 "Magic" article commemorating "The Sphinx" on its 100-year anniversary and a Power Point presentation he gave at that year's Yankee Magic Collectors' Weekend), and an article by magical scholar Bill Kuethe on "The Lore of The Sphinx", and another on longtime editor/publisher Dr. A. M. Wilson by his great granddaughter, Mary F. Syphus. The latter two were especially prepared for inclusion in "The Digital Sphinx" and have not been published elsewhere. There is also an html file with a hyperlinked version of the index, allowing you to jump to the article of interest by clicking on its indexed entry.
While you can access and search the DVDs themselves, Wasshuber recommends that you copy the files onto the hard-drive of your computer, which will both protect your DVDs and speed up access to the files.
Okay, let's give it a 'test drive': If we want to find the earliest reference to Dai Vernon, we don't want to miss possible references to him under his birth name of David W. Verner, so let's search for every time the consecutive letters 'vern' appear in "The Sphinx". As the search runs, you can see each 'hit' as the Adobe Acrobat reader finds them. Fortunately, you can view them in context without needing to jump to each entry, so it is easy to dismiss the numerous hits on 'Vernelo,' the first publisher of "The Sphinx," the vaudeville act 'Ziska and Vernon,' the ventriloquist Vernon, Harry Vernon of Glasgow, references to 'Mt. Vernon,' as well as any use of the terms 'cleverness,' 'government,' 'cavern,' and so on. When you do want to take a closer look at an entry, clicking on it takes you to the page on which it appears, and the search word is highlighted in context. Within a matter of minutes, we find on page 27 of the April 1916 issue (Volume 15, number 2, page 27, henceforth 15: 2: 27), under the heading 'Broadway Chatter' by 'One of the Boys,' the following quote from, 'Verner (fresh from Canada)': 'You're all a bunch of pessimists. The man with the goods will make good.' In the very next issue, our suspicion that this is indeed the 22-year-old Vernon is confirmed when we learn that 'Dav [sic] W. Verner' and his friend Cliff Greene were elected members of the Magicians' Club of New York on April 25th and showed the others 'some of their work, which is truly wonderful...Verner does second sight and mind reading with cards. He showed us several which are wonders.'
Vernon does not get mentioned again until nearly six years later, when the February 1922 issue notes the presence of 'D. W. Verner of Ottawa, Ontario' as one of 98 participants in Chicago's Houdini Night at the Crystal Room of the Great Northern Hotel, a post-performance celebration that began at 11:30 p.m. and did not disperse until 3 a.m. Could that have been when Vernon famously fooled Houdini?
His first entry as 'Vernon' comes a few months later, in the July issue (21: 5: 171), where Leslie Guest of Cincinnati reports: 'Vernon was in town for a few days recently, and those of the boys who called on him saw some card work that smacked of black magic.' The next issue notes the presence of 'Dallas [sic] W. Vernon, pasteboard expert and magical enthusiast of Ottawa, Canada' at a show in New York City (21: 6: 206). A few pages later in that same issue (21: 6: 211), Leslie Guest reports that he and Stewart Judah had 'each showed some of the card mysteries entrusted to them by Vernon on his recent visit' at the July 11th meeting of the Queen City Mystics.
One of the pleasures of such browsing is finding things you weren't looking for. Just above this last mention is a notice of Blackstone performances in Holyoke, Massachusetts on July 13-15, at which 1,000 people were turned away at each performance. The reviewer notes that, 'Adding the horse to his Ku Klux illusion is sure marvelous.' Does anyone know the nature of that illusion?
Well, we could go on with the many increasing Vernon references, but you get the idea. I literally spent the entire first weekend I had this finding the answers to many things that had long puzzled me, while opening many new avenues for further exploration. Obviously, the same kind of search can be done on Houdini, Kellar, Drs. Elliott, or Daley, Thurston, Blackstone, Malini, etc., or on a particular trick or sleight. The possibilities are literally limited only by one's interests and imagination.
In order to access "The Digital Sphinx," you need a computer with a DVD drive, AcrobatReader 6.0 (available as a free download), and nine gigabytes of space if you want to copy it to your hard drive. Because of its large size, searching the complete file is not instantaneous, and the time will vary greatly depending on the search parameters and the capacity of your computer. I conducted my test drive on an ancient three-year-old home computer and the initial search took nearly three hours to find the 2,538 occurrences of 'vern' in all 54 PDF files. Wasshuber, with a newer, faster computer, can search his 'entire digital library' in just 25 minutes, 20 of which he estimates are due to "The Sphinx." He has a number of recommendations for streamlining searches, such as increasing the size of the Acrobat cache setting, which will speed up subsequent searches, or using one of the emerging third-party desktop search utilities, many of which are available as free downloads and are rapidly improving their indexing capabilities. Adobe Professional (as opposed to the free download) also has an indexing capability, he says, which would make searches virtually instantaneous.
Wasshuber estimates that he and his staff spent 3,000 hours preparing this product, the equivalent of nearly a year and a half of 40-hour work weeks, so he will have to sell quite a few of these at this price to get a decent return on his investment. I hope he does, because this is a terrific product for anyone interested in magic history.
For those who already have a file of "The Sphinx" and just want an index to facilitate their non-digital searching, Lybrary.com's PDF file index to "The Sphinx" is available as a stand alone product, either as a download or on a CD for just $20. The index has nearly 14,000 entries covering tricks (indexed by category), articles (with the exception of monthly columns of local news, such as club reports), obituaries, and even photographs (indexed by caption). This file alone runs 540 pages and is a fantastic resource as well as a way to find out what is available on the complete file. Quick searches on it (each took less than a minute on my computer) produced 29 hits for 'Vernon,' but just 21 on the complete word 'Dai' (to eliminate hits for 'daily,' for example). Given the hundreds of hours Wasshuber estimates it took to prepare the index alone and the fact that the $20 is applicable toward later purchase of the complete file should one decide to upgrade, this is an outstanding value.
[With permission from Magic Magazine, September 2005, p. 38-39. While Magic Magazine does not rate products, Richard Hatch personally gave the five star rating below.]
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Q: machines of two subnets communicate through CentOS(with two NICs) folks.
Firstly, I really have done a lot of searching, but still couldn't find a problem which was exactly the same as mine, and I have tried some of their answers, but didn't work. Finally, I put my problem here.
I have a machine C with two NICs, namely eth0 and eth1, with CentOS 4.9 installed on it. Also I have a machine A connecting to C through eth0 and a machine B connecting to C through eth1. Now I want machine A to be in a subnet(e.g. 192.168.1.0/24) and machine B to be in another subnet(e.g. 192.168.2.0/24) and they could communicate with each other.
For example, here is a scenario
A:192.168.1.100
B:192.168.2.100
In machine A, the command ping 192.168.2.100 could return correctly, and vice vesa.
Above is my demand. But I don't know how to do it. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Hope make myself clear.
Thanks in advance.
Jfhu

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*Give machine C an IP address on eth0 in the subnet 192.168.1.0/24, and an IP address on eth0 in the subnet 192.168.2.0/24 (I use .254 for all my routers, but others prefer .1 -- it's a personal choice).

*Configure machine A to have a default gateway of whatever IP address you put on machine C's eth0, and give machine B the default gateway of the IP you put on machine C's eth1.

*Make sure that machine C has IP forwarding turned on, and any relevant iptables rules are not going to block the traffic you want to allow through.

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"Commercial airplane," "component," and "superefficient airplane"—Definitions.
(1) "Commercial airplane" has its ordinary meaning, which is an airplane certified by the federal aviation administration for transporting persons or property, and any military derivative of such an airplane.
(2) "Component" means a part or system certified by the federal aviation administration for installation or assembly into a commercial airplane.
(3) "Superefficient airplane" means a twin aisle airplane that carries between two hundred and three hundred fifty passengers, with a range of more than seven thousand two hundred nautical miles, a cruising speed of approximately mach .85, and that uses fifteen to twenty percent less fuel than other similar airplanes on the market.
[ 2010 1st sp.s. c 23 § 517; 2008 c 81 § 12; 2007 c 54 § 20; 2003 2nd sp.s. c 1 § 17.]
Effective date—2010 1st sp.s. c 23: See note following RCW 82.04.4292.
Findings—Intent—2010 1st sp.s. c 23: See notes following RCW 82.04.220.
Findings—Savings—Effective date—2008 c 81: See notes following RCW 82.08.975.
Severability—2007 c 54: See note following RCW 82.04.050.
Finding—2003 2nd sp.s. c 1: See note following RCW 82.04.4461.


Dimitri Zaitsev wondered what it'd look like if you mixed the dystopian worlds of Fallout and Judge Dredd. So he put together this incredible outfit to find out.
In the gallery below you'll see the amount of work that went into the costume, not just in terms of its construction, but the weathering and other effects that genuinely make it look like it's something that would be worn at the end of the world.
Zaitsev runs Nuclear Snail, a business that doesn't just make cosplay for fun, but also for stuff like magazine spreads and even museum exhibits.