Less light and certainly denser than the Barone. Although not as fragrant and immediate, either, this is even more nuanced, intense and complex. There are several layers of rich flavours here, notes of blueberry and cassis fruit infused with minerals, together with sweet/savoury notes of sap and asian spice, this needs time but unravels very well in the glass. Impressive, ageworthy Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon.


By Randall Bolten, longtime Silicon Valley CFO, author of "Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You" and adjunct professor at U.C. Berkeley Extension.
Let's take a look at some of the most messed-up, incomprehensible recent examples of quantation. Not surprisingly, all are graphs. But some come from sources that definitely should know better. With some, try to figure out what went wrong; with others, if you can figure out what the heck they're trying to say, please let me know. Enjoy!
Do those percentages look like they match the length of the bars? And how about that strange scaling? And is that per day? Per year? What went wrong here?
Again, do the percentages match up to the size of the bars? What went wrong here? And how will this affect Girl Scout cookie sales?
Again, do the bar sizes match the percentages? What happened here?
It doesn't get much more incoherent and meaningless than this. If you want to see the reporter – uh, I mean the teleprompter reader – blithely whip through this one, click here. Again I ask: What went wrong here?
… and this is from Bloomberg BusinessWeek, for goodness sake. Warning: there will be a two-hour exam on this in tomorrow's class, with both multiple choice and essay questions.
Along these lines, I once again call your attention to the world's most accurate pie chart. Click here to view it. In at least one sense, it might not be so accurate. Can you spot the problem?


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Q: Is there a way to stop a long blocking function? I have a function that run for minutes and I'm trying to find a way to stop it using a channel.
I think I can't do it like I do in the following code since I think the select will only handle the stop case after the default is done.
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    stop := make(chan int)

    go func() {
        for {
            select {
            case <-stop:
                fmt.Println("return")
                return
            default:
                fmt.Println("block")
                time.Sleep(5 * time.Second) // simulate a long running function
                fmt.Println("unblock")
            }
        }
    }()

    time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
    stop <- 1
}

A: I don't think you can end a goroutine but you can switch to a different one.
You can timeout a function by wrapping it inside a goroutine that send data to a channel once complete. There then needs to be select waiting for the returned channel or the channel from a timeout.
Example:
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func waitForMe(){
        time.Sleep(time.Second*5)
}
func main(){
        c1 := make(chan string, 1)
        go func(){
                waitForMe()
                c1 <- "waitForMe is done"
        }()
        select {
        case res := <-c1:
                fmt.Println(res)
        case <-time.After(time.Second*2):
                fmt.Println("timed out")
        }
}

Note every time you call select, time.After() or have a blocking channel, the goroutines switches to next available goroutine if possible.
Here's what's happening with your program.
Your program with Goroutine statements
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    stop := make(chan int)
    go func() {
       fmt.Println("Goroutine B before for loop")
        for {
            fmt.Println("Goroutine B inside for loop")
            select {
            case <-stop:
                fmt.Println("return")
                return
            default:
                fmt.Println("Goroutine B default case")
                fmt.Println("block")
                time.Sleep(5 * time.Second) // simulate a long running function
                fmt.Println("unblock")
            }
        }
    }()

    fmt.Println("Goroutine A before time.Sleep()")
    time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
    fmt.Println("Goroutine A after sleep")
    stop <- 1
    fmt.Println("Goroutine A after stop")
}

Output
Goroutine A before time.Sleep()
Goroutine B before for loop
Goroutine B inside for loop
Goroutine B default case
block
Goroutine A after sleep
unblock
Goroutine B inside for loop
return
Goroutine A after stop

Useful link:
https://gobyexample.com/timeouts

A: You can only do this if you somehow make your function interruptible, i.e. you can't stop a blocking call on it's own. If you're writing the blocking function yourself, you can usually fashion a select with multiple cases and channels.
Your example would look like
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    stop := make(chan int)

    go func() {
        for {
            fmt.Println("block")
            select {
            case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
                fmt.Println("unblock")
            case <-stop:
                fmt.Println("stopped")
                return
            }

        }
    }()

    time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)
    stop <- 1

    // this is just to give the goroutine time to write "stopped" before we exit
    select{}
}

A: I reckon you can't do it: goroutines in Go are, in a sense, cooperative: until a goroutine actively tries to somehow figure out if it should exit, there's no way to force it to do so.
I'd say it's a feature in fact because if you could forcibly reap a long-running goroutine, you would be unable to be sure it exited cleanly, that is, properly released all resources it had acquired.
So either live with this (say, if your process wants to exit, just wait on that goroutine to finish) or restructure it so that it periodically checks whether it is signaled to quit.  Or even consider offloading the task it performs to an external process (but note that while it's safe to kill a process with regard to releasing the resources it acquired from the OS, it's not safe with regard to external data that process might have been updating — such as files).

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Facebook wants to help you make your next impulse buy.
The company is diving full-force into ecommerce, with a handful of ad products and features meant to ramp up its shopping efforts.
In a blog post Monday morning, the company highlighted several of its existing and experimental efforts, including a new way to browse products that it's calling "Canvas," plus an expanded "Shop" section.
Facebook's last major attempt at winning ecommerce in 2011/2012 flopped, in part because people didn't want to mix shopping with social. A popular analogy at the time was that it felt like Facebook was trying to sell you stuff while you were hanging out at a bar with your friends.
The company suggests that that mindset is no more, though, referencing a survey that shows that "nearly half of people come to Facebook to actively look for products."
"The core message underlying all of our early tests is that we're looking to make it easier for people to discover relevant products, while helping businesses drive sales on mobile," Emma Rodgers, who leads Facebook's product marketing efforts, told Business Insider.
As more people spend time on their smartphones versus desktop computers, they focus 85% of that mobile time in apps, with each person only dedicating heavy usage to about five of them, including Facebook and Instagram.
Because of that shift, and because retailers' mobile sites are often pretty wonky, Facebook wants them to use its Canvas platform and their Pages to list more products.
With Canvas, if users click on a company's product ad on their Newsfeed, it will open up a super fast-loading catalog of other items they can buy. It's like Facebook's Instant Articles, but for shopping ads, with the idea that more people will actually make purchases if the experience is fast-loading and seamless.
The more people who actually buy something through the ads, the better for both the retailer and for Facebook. If shops are seeing higher "conversions," they'll likely buy more ads (and potentially at higher prices since each one is more effective).
Although Canvas directs users to make purchases off-site, the company also continues to test a proper "Buy button" that lets them make their purchase directly on Facebook.
Facebook launched the buy button in July, and, for now, doesn't take a cut of sales for each purchase.
The other update Facebook talked about is its revamped Pages which have "Shop" sections where retailers can list their products. Facebook also plans to create a new, general "Shopping" section that will curate different relevant products in one place for each Facebook user.
The items that appear will be based on which Pages the users have liked, as well as content being sold in Facebook Groups that they're part of (potentially: Facebook says it's going to "explore" this idea).
This is perhaps the biggest new feature Facebook announced, because it will give users a way to directly search for specific products. For now, Facebook is testing the feature with a small set of businesses that are also using the Shop section on their Page, and didn't mention the potential for advertising within that section.
However, it's easy to imagine Facebook allowing retailers to pay to appear first when a user searches a specific product. Because the shopper would be showing an intent to buy by searching specifically for that product, Facebook could charge much more for these kinds of ads. It would also more directly compete with the ad offerings from Amazon and Google Shopping.


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    matrix_id: '2404',
    name: 'power',
    group: 'Newman',
    description: 'Western States Power Grid, Watts & Strogatz',
    author: 'D. Watts, S. Strogatz',
    editor: 'M. Newman',
    date: '1998',
    kind: 'undirected graph',
    problem_2D_or_3D: '0',
    num_rows: '4941',
    num_cols: '4941',
    nonzeros: '13188',
    num_explicit_zeros: '0',
    num_strongly_connected_components: '1',
    pattern_symmetry: '1.000',
    numeric_symmetry: '1.000',
    rb_type: 'binary',
    structure: 'symmetric',
    cholesky_candidate: 'no',
    positive_definite: 'no',
    notes: 'Network collection from M. Newman
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/netdata/

Western States Power Grid

Compiled by Duncan Watts and Steven Strogatz

The graph "power" contains an undirected unweighted representation of the
topology of the Western States Power Grid of the United States, compiled by
Duncan Watts and Steven Strogatz.  The data are from the web site of
Prof. Duncan Watts at Columbia University,
http://cdg.columbia.edu/cdg/datasets.  Node IDs are the same as those used
by Prof. Watts.

These data can be cited as:

  D. J. Watts and S. H. Strogatz, "Collective dynamics of `small-world
  networks", Nature 393, 440-442 (1998).

Note by Tim Davis: this graph has the same number of nodes and edges
as the Pajek/USpowerGrid graph.  They are related as follows:

   Prob1 = UFget (\'Newman/power\')
   Prob2 = UFget (\'Pajek/USpowerGrid\')
   A = Prob1.A ;
   B = Prob2.B ;
   n = size (A,1) ;
   p = [2:n 1] ;
   isequal (A (p,p), B)

This is because of the way the Pajek data set converted 0-based node IDs
to 1-based.  In the Pajek set, node 0 is renamed node n, and this
translation was then imported into the Pajek/ Group in the UF collection.
The standard convention in MATLAB, and (elsewhere) in the UF Collection,
is to map nodes 0:n-1 of a zero-based graph to 1:n.  The latter translation
preserves the relative numbering of all the nodes; the Pajek translation
does not.

Although technically Newman/power is a duplicate matrix, I have added it
to the UF Collection to preserve the original relative node ordering.
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    min_singular_value: '3.108519e-19',
    condition_number: '2.407272e+19',
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    null_space_dimension: '593',
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And before we explain why KBIA plays classical music at all, we have an important announcement. Just last week, our station's general manager, Mike Dunn—who you may have heard in station promos—announced that KBIA and the University of Missouri purchased KWWC 90.5 from Stephens College in Columbia. If you caught Views of the News this week, you heard how excited some faculty are.
What this means is that (pending FCC approval) KBIA 91.3 will become a daytime news station. So, the chunk of time between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. when you can now groove to Beethoven will become local and national news. The new station, 90.5 will become a 24 hour classical station available on the dial and online.
For many in our area, probably including that curious Redditer, this is good news. But why all the hubbub about classical in the first place? If KBIA is an NPR member station—part of a news organization—why would we broadcast classical music? For the answer to this question, we've got to put on our big glasses, flare out our pants, and go all the way back to 1972.
So, imagine you're an instructor at the Missouri School of Journalism. You're just exiting the golden era of radio news—Murrow's days. And you look around and realize that your eager journalism students have no news radio station at which to work. In fact there's not even really a local news fm station to listen to. So what do you do? You ask the University to buy a station and create a lab for radio news.
And that's what happened. But MU and the Missouri School of Journalism didn't exactly have the resources to provide news all day long. One major reason for this was because NPR had just gotten off the ground and there weren't the gamut of shows that exist today for stations to play.
The way NPR member stations function is pretty different from how commercial tv and radio stations operate. Most people think of NPR as a "headquarters" and the member stations as "local outlets" in a similar arrangement to KOMU and NBC. But NPR member stations have complete discretion over what programs they carry. Local member stations like KBIA pay for nationally produced shows, but you'll hear a mix of programs, all created by different distributors include APM, PRI, PRX and shows produced right here at KBIA.
And where do we get money to pay for shows like this? Well, a lot of places actually. KBIA, like many local stations, is partially supported by a university—though a good deal less so today than 40 years ago when it started. The station also gets a large portion of its operating budget from listener support—hence our fund drives (which, Dunn said, will increase in frequency with the addition of the new station. Womp, womp). Businesses also make large donations to the station, which we call underwriting. Finally, we receive grant money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is a federally funded corporation. In an unexpected way, NPR is very indirectly supported by federal dollars because member stations often use grants to help pay for NPR shows.
So back in 1972 NPR didn't have very many shows to buy, in fact they only had one: All Things Considered. A few years later in 1979 they added Morning Edition. And since the journalism students couldn't produce enough content for all day new, KBIA needed something to play, and that something was classical music.
Why? Because the university felt classical music was an important part of our culture that needed a source of preservation, and because no other stations in Columbia played classical music at the time.
"Continuing to offer the music of the masters was considered to be a part of your mission," Dunn said of public radio stations.
Classical music also wasn't accessible when KBIA launched as it is today.
And this change in access is what's driving a lot of public radio stations to reconsider their missions. According to an article from the New York Times, classical audiences have an average age of 63, and Dunn said KBIA listeners prefer news to classical at a rate of 4 to 1.
Many markets have adopted a similar strategy to KBIA's new plan—separate the stations so both audiences are happier. And this is helping keep classical alive, while giving newsy types access to news all day.
But changes to access to news, just like classical music, are changing the scape of public radio, too.
People can now access NPR directly for news all day online, bypassing local stations playing classical and news. And this is a problem, not just local station, but also for NPR, which is supported by those stations.
New formats are popping up to try to deal with these changes. Some are networks of podcasts, shows available online for streaming and download, who go directly to their audiences for funding through Kickstarter. Another solution is NPR One, a product of NPR where listeners can stream national content with local stories mixed into the stream on mobile devices and online.
Today University of Missouri officials and KBIA today announced the purchase of 90.5 FM (KWWC-FM) from Stephens College in Columbia.
This week we answer all your burning questions about roadkill.
Why can't Missouri pronounce its towns right?
This week CoMo Explained explores some of the more "alternative" pronunciations in Missouri place names.


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Iraq Comparison Exposes Anti-Israel Hypocrisy
By: Eric Rozenman March 1, 2003
The argument that both Israel and Iraq violate U.N. resolutions and should therefore be treated equally is based on a false premise.
Thumbs Down to Hassan Fattah
Thumbs Down to Steve Weizman
Eric Rozenman Eric Rozenman is Washington director of CAMERA. Before that, he was editor of the Washington Jewish Week and then, executive editor of B'nai B'rith's International Jewish Monthly. A former congressional press secretary and reporter for the Ohio Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Rozenman has published commentaries and analyses on Israel, U.S. politics and culture in dailies including The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today and Philadelphia Inquirer and periodicals such as the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism and the Journal of International Security Affairs.

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This a tour made by walk. It can be done by a public boat or private boat.
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Ali Yalniz is a professional, licensed tour guide and official Turkish tour operator with over 20 years experience. A member of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, Ali organizes private tours of Istanbul and Turkey for travellers interested in experiencing Turkish Culture, enjoying typical Turkish food and looking for reliable places for shopping.


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We're stopping by Gamestorm tomorrow!
Evanwill be at Gamestorm in Portland, OR tomorrow playing some After the Empire and testing some of our newer designs. If you want to join us or check it out, shoot us an email!
We'll be at PAX Unplugged in Philly!
We really enjoyed last year's event, so we'll be at PAX Unplugged pitching games to publishers, hanging out with our colleagues and friends, and having a great time generally! There is a rumor that After the Empire may even make a special showing, but we'll let you know if that materializes.
If you want to playtest any of our games in development, please shoot us an email!
We may bring one or two more, but let us know if you want see any of the above!
We hope to see some of you folks there and play some games!
We'll be at Origins in Columbus next month!
We'll be in town pitching several games to publishers, play-testing, and having fun! We don't have a booth or any specific area reserved, so if you want to catch a game of After the Empire or any of the other games we've been cooking up since, just send us an email! We'd love to get your input and see what you think!
We'll be at Gamestorm in our hometown, Portland, OR!
We'll be at Gamestorm in a couple weeks! We had such a blast last year that we had to come back. We don't even have to leave town for this one! We do have a playtest scheduled for one of our newer games, Mountain God's Revenge, at 3pm on Saturday, April 7th. Click here for the link to sign up for the event. Of course, we'll be bringing After the Empire with us as well. If you want to make sure you get a play in with us of either game (or want to help us work on some other new ones), just shoot us a message and we can probably make that happen!
We're going to PAX Unplugged in Philly!
We'll be at PAX Unplugged in just a couple short weeks! We don't have a booth, but we'll be showing a few new games in progress guerrilla style. If you want to check out any of our new games, just shoot us an email and let us know and we'll do our best to get together with you.
Of course, we'll be bringing After the Empire, too! So, if you're excited to get in a sneak peak last stages of development prototype play in before the launch in Q1 or Q2 of 2018, that's fair game, too!
After the Empire at GenCon 50!
We'll be at GenCon 50! Please come by and join us for a game!
Gen Con is the original, longest-running, best-attended, gaming convention in the world!
Featuring 500+ exhibiting companies from the game industry, award-winning authors and artists, costumed attendees, more than 16,500 events, a Family Fun Pavilion, and the debut of exciting new games, Gen Con truly is The Best Four Days in Gaming™!
After the Empire at Origins!
Hoping to get in game of After the Empire? Whether it's your first play through or you're just excited to see the updates we've been working on, come find us this weekend at Origins Game Fair!
Plus, we have some very exciting news to announce at Origins. We're brimming with excitement and can barely hold it in any longer! We've been working hard to make After the Empire the best darn game we can in preparation for our big reveal. So, stay tuned or just come on down to Columbus, Ohio and ask us about it!
After the Empire at KublaCon!
We'll be in the kickstarter/small publisher section for this event. We hope to see you there!
Make your plans for fun! KublaCon is the West Coast's largest gaming convention, with over 72 hours of non-stop gaming FUN! Running from Friday at 1pm to Monday at 5pm, you'll experience a huge choice of games from board games, to roleplaying, to special events of all sorts! Begin making your plans to join us this year by registering and booking your room at the hotel. Special hotel rates are available but are in limited quantities.
After the Empire at Geekway to the West!
"Four days of peace, love, and board games in St. Charles, Missouri, May 18th-21st at the 13th annual Geekway to the West!"
Come join us for a wonderful weekend of gaming! Also, we will be at the Geekway prototype event on the tables in the lobby area near the library Friday night from 6pm - 9pm. We'll add details as we know more about our schedule and where else we'll be setting up for this event. See you there!
Come join us at PDXage here in Portland! We'll be there. Come and play a game or two with us!
After the Empire at Gamestorm!
We've just returned from a wonderful weekend of fun in Utah for SaltCON 2017, where we met so many wonderful people and had some great and encouraging feedback for After the Empire!
Side by side games of After the Empire at SaltCON 2017!
909 N Hayden Island Dr.
Gamestorm will have lots of other awesome events like organized role playing, LARPing, Cheating for Charity Munchkin, Play and Win, Math Trade, and many more.
After the Empire at Salt Con 2017!
UNPUB board game playtesting event!
Portland Gamecraft is very pleased to announce that we will be at another UNPUB event , the UNPUB Mini Portland 2, on Feb 18 at the Interactive Museum of Gaming and Puzzlery (8231 SW Cirrus Dr, Beaverton, OR 97008) from 1pm - 7pm, likely in their "Archives" section. There will be a suggested donation of $5 for all attending to support the museum. Come on out and check out After the Empire and nearly a dozen local unpublished titles there with us by local designers who want your feedback! The museum plans to live-stream the event on their Twitch channel here: https://www.twitch.tv/imogap. For more details about the event, go here!
"Game-On" by Damien Lopez - Card game // Augmented Reality // 2 - 4 players // 10+ depending on variant played - A fun and original amalgamation of traditional card gaming and augmented reality gaming. Enjoy one or all of the variants available to play; with or without the use of any smart device.
"Emprise" - Dickie Adams - Dungeon Crawl / Fast - paced / Real - time / card game // 2 - 4 players // Work with your allies as you race through a dungeon in search of treasure and glory, but beware, only one adventurer can be the greatest .
Haikosha challenges players to move their pieces from one side of the board to the other, towards a triangle of scoring spaces. The furthest spaces earn more points, but a couple pieces earn double points, while one piece earns triple points. Pieces do not have an inherent move that they are allowed, but each have a move that they themselves allow; one piece can move any other exactly one space, one moves them exactly two, and the valuable Mooch piece doesn't move any pieces anywhere, though it does score triple points. Players are not restricted to moving their own pieces, so long as the power of their piece is used to move another player's piece.
"Potent Potions" pits 3-5 players in a head to head race to be the first to discover the elusive recipe to the Elixir of Life. It melds some of your favourite mechanics from a classic euro game with all the great parts of a deduction game like Clue.
2 - 4 // 12+ // 30 - 60min // War dice game w/ Drafting // In "Huck Them Dice" players strategically draft locations on the field of battle. Players or teams will compete over 2 resources: Energy and Factories. Conflict is resolved by Hucking dice and upgrading your robots to programmers to help your dice rolls. Resources are tight and battles are tense. Which faction will come out victorious? Only your skill and luck will decide!
2-4 // 10+ // 30 mins // Skirmish // H.E.A.D. Hunters is a new kind of tabletop game that combines a miniatures game with a collectible toy.
In Eridu players take the role of caravanner in ancient Mesopotamia trying to improve their reputation by selling goods, erecting temples, bribing local magistrates, and hiring raiders. The base mechanic uses an action-taking rondel and requires a bit of planning to execute.
2-4 Players//13+//30-60 minutes//Strategy// 2 Players go head-to-head with their elemental dragon armies to wield control over the Spirit Spheres, to control their enemy's home pagodas or to destroy their opponent entirely. But movement and attack can come from any direction as the board itself is played in 3 dimensions.
In Summiteers, players race to be the first climber to reach the top of the mountain. Climbers take turns playing cards to ascend towards victory. However, the climb won't be that easy, as other players and even the mountain itself may have other plans.
2-4//8+//20-30 min//abstract, tile placement//In "Leaf" players take turns adding leaf shapes to the forest floor. Each leaf has specific scoring requirements. Players attempt to connect their leaves to as many other leaves as possible to gain maximum scoring tokens points. When a leaf's condition is met the scoring tokens are added to the root system, unlocking special powers and determining which player aided the tree the most.
We are excited to be involved with Protospiel PDX @Red Castle Games (6406 SE Foster Rd, Portland, OR 97206). We will be joining 7 other Portland area game designers as we playtest our original, unpublished projects. See the game details below! Come on down, have some fun, share your feedback, and speak with the designers. Plus, you can bring your own game to playtest if time & space allow. Please visit the event page linked above to RSVP, as this helps show people that they should come, too! Also, invite your friends and leave a comment!
Players cooperate to gather resources, appeasing a Troll Boss until a player can rise to power.
Do you love locally designed games, being one of the first people to play up and comers, and/or need other designers to play and give feedback on YOUR locally designed up and coming game? Well, we go to the Portland Game Store all the time to playtest games and hang out. Of course we bring After the Empire, but it's also great fun to see all the other great stuff that the folks bring to these events. We will be in Washington for OrcaCon this weekend, but if you can't come see us up there, then definitely come to The Portland Gamestore and play some of the other great stuff being locally designed!
Look at the kind of stuff they put up with as you develop your game! It's our original high quality playtest board! Thanks Michael's craft store and binge-watching bad movies! You made this all possible!
"Come to The Portland Game Store to test out your newest game and talk design. We meet twice monthly to playtest, design and refine our work-in-progress games. Join us!"
After the Empire at OrcaCon!
Please send us an email to let us know if you plan to take part in either of these times, and want a guaranteed spot. We'll send a confirmation email, but please check-in with us at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled time day of to confirm your spot. Otherwise we'll be accepting players on a first-come, first-served basis. And, of course, we're always up to show the game any other time that weekend as free table-space allows, so if you can't make one of these times, just let us know!
Citizen Heroes by Jason Harris - Asymmetrical set collection / card game // 3 - 5 players // Players take on the role of ordinary citizens who join forces in order to remove the threats posed to Metroville by a devious villain, played by 1 other player.
The Planetary Phase by Joseph Sturgis - Semi-Cooperative / Euro-style // 3 - 5 players // Set in a not-to-distant future, players compete to have the highest reputation as Coordinators for the Earth Alleviation Service Exchange (EASE) by using resources to devise, launch and coordinate global service projects.
Potent Potions by Sam williams - Euro-style / Resource Management / Deduction / Pick-up & Deliver // 3 - 5 players // Set in a fantastically illustrated world, players take control of a Druid of Fenwood Forest racing to discover the Elixir of Immortality.
Emprise by Dickie Adams - Dungeon Crawl / Fast - paced / Real - time / card game // 2 - 4 players // Work with your allies as you race through a dungeon in search of treasure and glory, but beware, only one adventurer can be the greatest .
Bummer Summer by Lee Benson - Turn-based / Card game // 2 - 4 players // Stuck at a dull summer camp, you and your fellow campers set out to lie, cheat and steal in order to avoid doing chores and earn special camp goodies.
Jane Austen's Dreams by Teresa Jackson - Strategy // 3 - 5 players // Take on the role of one of Jane Austen's classic heroines as they guide a 12 yr old Austen's growth as a writer by navigating scenes from her life and stories, in her dreams.
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After the Empire will be at Pax NW Seattle (September 2-5)!
Portland Gamecraft, aka Evan Halbert and Ryan Mauk, are very pleased to announce that will be at Pax NW in Seattle showing off our game and running playtesting events, checking out all the other cool events and awesome games at the con, and hopefully meeting you! So if you're planning to be there, swing on by and say hi, or stay and try the game out if you've never had the chance! More details to follow as we learn them!
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Why do so many people get on their knees, bow their heads and close their eyes when praying? Is that taught in Scripture? Or is that only a man made tradition and custom? If so, is it wrong to do?
And what about putting our hand together, or clasping our fingers together, when we pray? Is that even Scriptural?
In other words, did Yahshua and Bible teach us to get on our knees, clasp our hands/fingers together, bow our heads, close our eyes, and pray?
I have never seen it taught by Yahshua or Scripture, so why do so many millions of Christians and people do it?
The act of one clasping their hands while praying is not at all exclusive to Christianity, in fact, nearly all major religions, including pagans, clasp their hands, in like fashion, while praying to their god(s).
The Jewish Talmud, which was NOT inspired by Yahweh, states that "Raba removed his cloak, clasped his hands and prayed,", so we know at one time, even the Jewish people may have occasionally prayed with clasped hands; however, the written Torah does not command them to do so. Today, Jewish people do not pray with their hands clasped, in fact, they are unlike the entire world.
As you will see, nearly every major religion prays with their hands clasped, except for one -the Jewish people. The pagan origins of the "Praying Hands", starting in ancient Sumeria (ca. 888-885 BC).
In 8th century BC, the people of Sumeria (i.e. Modern Day Iraq) were worshiping the sun god Shamash. Here in the image below we have a stone relief, discovered in Iraq (ca. 1881 AD), of pagan priests performing religious worship of the sun god, Shamash.
Notice in the photo on the left, the man clasping his hands. Here we have possibly one of the earliest known records of hand clasping for religious purposes, roughly 800 years before the birth of Yahshua Messiah, being used in the pagan worship of elemental deities, such as the sun and moon.
Therefore, if the Jews had ever learned to clasp their hands in prayer, then they are likely to have learned this from the Babylonians while they were in captivity during the time of Daniel, toward the end of the 5th century BC (i.e. 500 years before Yahshua). They likely stopped folding their hands as a result of Roman persecution in 1st century AD when they noticed that they too also clasped their hands in prayer to their elemental deities.
Today, there are literally hundreds of false religious groupings. Look at the photo below to see how Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, and Buddhists pray and notice how all of them clasp their hands, except for one group, the Jews. The clasping of the prayer hands are from Sun worship, Paganism and NOT from Holy Scripture!
In summation, nowhere in the entire Holy Bible does it ever mention anyone closing their eyes, bowing their heads, clasping their hands to pray, so where did we get the idea that we as Christians should clasp our hands to pray?
The obvious answer is from paganism, just as Christmas, Easter, and Halloween. Sunday Holiness etc are all originally pagan in origin. This closing eyes, bowing heads and holding hands together, is nothing more than brainwashing, where children watch their parents do it, and keep this false un-biblical tradition going.
Also, we should ONLY pray to Father Yahweh, as Messiah Yahshua taught us to do in Mat 6:9-13. Many people are praying to "Jesus" or the Messiah or the Holy Spirit, but that is NOT Scriptural and should NEVER be done!
In addition, some English translations in Mat 6:13, include a part that ends with "Amen", however this does NOT appear in the oldest and earliest Scripture manuscripts, so we should NEVER end our prayers with "Amen", as "Amen" is a pagan god. For further reading regarding this, please click here.


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OBAMA'S KENYAN BIRTH RECORDS DISCOVERED IN BRITISH NATIONAL ARCHIVES
The Daily Pen ^ | July 18, 2012 | Dan Crosby
Posted on 07/19/2012 5:28:21 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
click here to read article
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 1,621-1,625 next last
Also from the article:
"Several sources show that Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton made a sudden visit to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British agency which oversees Public Records Archives from colonial protectorates, to speak with the Chief Executive of the Archives in early August of 2009. African news agency expressed surprise at Clintons arrival since she did not announce her intentions of stopping in Great Britain before embarking on her two week trip to Africa."
1 posted on 07/19/2012 5:28:31 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
To: Seizethecarp
Need to see the records,if not...just another UBC.
2 posted on 07/19/2012 5:32:55 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
read that about an hour ago and sent it to a few in the know for confirmation....At the beginning of this research there was much talk that Kenya's records were kept in an archive at Oxford. Recently passed that information on to others who had the resources to check it out. is this the results?....or is there more?
Where is Lord M...when we need him
3 posted on 07/19/2012 5:34:19 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
To: LucyT; Brown Deer; melancholy; null and void; Red Steel; WhizCodger; circumbendibus
Ping to claim of finding record of two BHO Sr. sons in the British National Archive recorded in colonial Kenya prior to 1963, including one in 1958 (presumably Malik) and another one in 1961 (presumably Barry).
Prior to a Hillary visit to the archive in 2009 just before she went on the Kenya the supporting details (names of babies) had been available to the public, but were then suddenly sealed under a national security statute, according to the article.
History will record that there was NOT EVEN ONE (1) person
who TRUTHFULLY swore allegiance to the US Constitution
in the entire Congress OR SCOTUS on this matter.
5 posted on 07/19/2012 5:35:11 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
Will say this...His white mom liked men of Africa...alot. She never had time for him so she pushed little obammy off on his white grand parents to raise. I feel sorry for the socialist punk in that respect.
The hand written line records first discovered in 2009, indicate several events were registered to the name Barack Obama (appears to be handwritten and spelled "Burack" and "Biraq") beginning in 1953 and include two births recorded in 1958 and 1960, a marriage license registration in 1954 and a birth in 1961.
7 posted on 07/19/2012 5:37:55 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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A request for information from the BNA on the specification of birth information contained in the series of thousands of logs indicates that only vital events registered in Kenya's Ministry of Health offices were recorded in the registration returns and were placed in the National Archives care before they reached 30 years old (the law was amended to 20 years after creation in 2010).
The line records do not specify the identity or names of the children, only gender. However, the line records are associated with index numbers of actual microfilm copies of certificates, licenses and registration applications filed in the archives. According to researchers, Obama's line records were discovered in Series RG36, reference books. Not surprisingly, when researchers specifically requested access to the relevant microfilm for the Obama birth registrations, they were told that the records were currently held under an outdated "privileged access" status, meaning researchers were denied access under Chapter 52, Sections 3 and 5 of the British Public Records Act of 1958.
However, evidence shows these records were available for public access before August of 2009, the approximate date of arrival of Hillary Clinton in Great Britain during her trip to Africa that year.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/access-to-public-records.pdf
Several sources show that Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton made a sudden visit to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British agency which oversees Public Records Archives from colonial protectorates, to speak with the Chief Executive of the Archives in early August of 2009. African news agency expressed surprise at Clintons arrival since she did not announce her intentions of stopping in Great Britain before embarking on her two week trip to Africa.
LOL. Whadda great screen name. Hope the Kenyan usurper fails.
9 posted on 07/19/2012 5:40:40 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (I wish this president would learn how to be an American)
To: Dallas59; SvenMagnussen
She may have lost custody of her son, due to Lolo adoption and his return or being returned to HI. If sven's comments about him becoming a ward of Catholic Services and grandmother being appointed guardian, it is likely her custoday was terminated.....Total abandonment is difficult for any child...but those whose parent remain in the picture often suffer even more.
10 posted on 07/19/2012 5:40:40 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
The government just doesn't want you to know, now... get over it.
11 posted on 07/19/2012 5:40:58 PM PDT by rovenstinez
To: Diogenesis
I swear he flubbed the oath on purpose and Roberts knew exactly why!
He is CEO of UNITED STATES, INC.
But President of the united States of America?
Probably not, at least Constitutionally...
12 posted on 07/19/2012 5:41:06 PM PDT by djf ("There are more old drunkards than old doctors." - Benjamin Franklin)
The burden of proof should be upon the president to show that he was not lying about his place of birth.... NOT the other way around.
To date, the media, congress, as well as the courts have upheld the notion that we must prove a negative in regards to where Obama was born. As we have seen, that process of proving the negative can literally take years...if it's not impossible... Which is why the burden of proof positive must be provided by the applicant. (unless of course you are black and running for president)
Now it sounds like we have proof positive he was born where everybody knows he was born... in Kenya... but God have mercy on anyone who has the balls to say that the emperor has no clothes.
13 posted on 07/19/2012 5:41:35 PM PDT by Safrguns
Well, if this is true, then it would be a bit helpful to have at least a photo of this document. Even with a copy of that document it would still be an uphill battle. Without it, this whole discussion is pointless.
14 posted on 07/19/2012 5:41:55 PM PDT by Cementjungle
Everything that is secret will be revealed, eventually. Pray.
15 posted on 07/19/2012 5:43:15 PM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
Is Alex Haley still around to track the real "Roots" of Obama. ;-)
16 posted on 07/19/2012 5:43:19 PM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
17 posted on 07/19/2012 5:44:18 PM PDT by tutstar
That blog never posts links or screenshots. Sometimes they do an inset - but that's all. Very well written, but no source "proof".
18 posted on 07/19/2012 5:44:30 PM PDT by Ladysforest
Glad you highlighted the area about where it is located. I've been shaking so much after discoverying it am almost unable to comprehend what I read.... By G..I think we've got it!
20 posted on 07/19/2012 5:46:48 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer (We're supposed to be more angry about what Romney does with his money than what Obama does with ours)


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Covid-19 and Business Interruption Policies- Courts Are Expected to Be Called into Action Soon
On May 11, 2020 May 11, 2020 By Professor Baris SoyerIn Contract Law, Insurance Law
More than 300 small and medium sized businesses have formed an action group (Hiscox Action Group) with a view to bringing a class action against Hiscox's decision to refuse payment under its commercial business interruption policies. It now looks like the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will also be involved in the ongoing debate by seeking clarity from the courts about whether the wording of some business interruption insurance policies should provide cover as a result of the pandemic. Although this particular class action might involve Hiscox, there is no doubt that other insurers, such as AXA, Allianz, RSA, QBE and Zurich, might face potential multi-million pound lawsuits from businesses such as hotels, pubs, restaurants and leisure groups that allege legitimate business interruption claims have been rejected by their insurers.
The legal issue at stake here is a matter of construing the scope of such policies. Several assureds claim that their policies specifically provide cover for the "inability to use the insured premises due to restrictions imposed by a public authority following an occurrence of any human infectious or human contagious disease." However, Hiscox and other insurers are arguing that cover is only available under such policies if "there is an incident within a mile radius of the insured building" and therefore unless the businesses are closed by authorities due to outbreak of the disease at the premises, the relevant business interruption policy will not respond.
On several occasions, courts have adopted purposive interpretation techniques when construing terms in commercial contracts. Lord Clarke, famously, in Rainy Sky S.A. and others v. Kookmin Bank [2011] UKSC 50 stipulated [at 14]: "The ultimate aim of interpreting a provision in a contract, especially a commercial contract, is to determine what the parties meant by the language used, which involves ascertaining what a reasonable person would have understood the parties to have meant".
On that basis, taking into account the wording in question, it will be hard to say that a reasonable person would not have understood the parties to have meant that cover would not be available if the commercial activities of a business are restricted due to restrictions imposed by authorities following an occurrence of any human infectious or human contagious disease. That said, more recently the Supreme Court seemed to be trending back towards the literal approach moving away from the contextual approach. See, for example, Arnold v. Britton [2015] UKSC 36 where Lord Neuberger [at 17] stated that "the reliance placed in some cases on commercial common sense and surrounding circumstances … should not be invoked to undervalue the importance of the language of the provision which is to be construed."
The Supreme Court in Wood v. Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24 attempted to reconcile these authorities by confirming the validity of both literal and contextual approaches to contract construction. Lord Hodge [at 13] explained the appropriate approach in the following fashion:
"The extent to which [textualism or contextualism] will assist the court in its task will vary according to the circumstances of the particular agreement or agreements. Some agreements may be successfully interpreted principally by textual analysis, for example because of their sophistication and complexity and because they have been negotiated and prepared with the assistance of skilled professionals. The correct interpretation of other contracts may be achieved by a greater emphasis on the factual matrix, for example because of their informality, brevity or the absence of skilled professional assistance. But negotiators of complex formal contracts may often not achieve a logical and coherent text because of, for example, the conflicting aims of the parties, failures of communication, differing drafting practices, or deadlines which require the parties to compromise in order to reach agreement. There may often therefore be provisions in a detailed professionally drawn contract which lack clarity and the lawyer or judge in interpreting such provisions may be particularly helped by considering the factual matrix and the purpose of similar provisions in contracts of the same type. …"
This approach indicates that a more contextual approach can be adopted in construing some commercial contracts. The key question will be whether standard business interruption policies sold to small and medium sized businesses can be viewed as sophisticated contracts negotiated and prepared with the assistance of skilled professionals? That is highly doubtful! So, there might be room for the courts to adopt a more contextual approach when it comes to construing such contracts bearing in mind the factual matrix. Defining the factual matrix in this context will not be an easy task but the approach taken by courts when construing the scope of professional indemnity policies in actions brought by those who suffered from mesothelioma or their families (Employers' Liability Policy Trigger Litigation Durham v. BAI [2012] UKSC 14) might give clues as to the likely direction of travel in this context as well.
On the other hand, one appreciates the genuine concerns of insurers- providing indemnity for losses they did not intend to cover- will have implications on their businesses and also their re-insurance arrangements. They can plausibly argue that higher rate of premium would have been charged if they were expected to cover the financial losses emerging from a global pandemic.
One feels that a lengthy and tough legal battle lies ahead!
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Where did you get your fanatical work ethic?
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You applied to Cornell four times before you were finally admitted. Why was it so important for you to go there?
My parents split up when I was a teenager, and I spent the school years up in Ithaca with my mother. A friend suggested I apply, and I got rejected. My family didn't care – nobody in my family had ever gone to college or ever really talked about it. But that was unacceptable to me. I love what I can't have. I took classes there as a part-time student until they accepted me full-time. It just wouldn't have felt right to go to another school.
How do you go from Queens and Ithaca, New York, to adventure races in the wilderness in places like Alaska, Switzerland, and Canada?
A few years after graduating, I got a job on Wall Street. Within eight months of sitting at the desk, I began to put on the pounds. There was an extremely fit guy in the office, and we started running stairs in the building together. Like, 1,500 flights. The following year, in 1998, he suggested I go to my first adventure race, and I became obsessed. "What's harder than this?" It brought me back to the primal basics.
Many people do one big race like that and then call it quits – check that off the bucket list. Why'd you keep going?
In 2001, I got into a car accident that ripped my hip out of the socket. The first four doctors said I wouldn't ever run again. That made me hyperfocused. I wanted to prove them wrong. I started with Pilates and bounced back from there. By the end of the year, I'd signed up for 14 Ironman triathlons. I crushed them.
Did the adventure-race obsession change you? Did your Wall Street colleagues view you differently?
It changed the way I looked at the world. Rather than meeting clients at a bar, I chose to meet them only during workouts. I'd convince them to do Bikram yoga with me. If we did have to go to a restaurant, I'd have my backpack on to run home. Some people felt alienated by that. I'm a bit of a maniac when I get on a mission.
Why did you finally decide to leave banking and start Spartan Race, Inc.?
I felt like the adventure races I was doing – things like the IditaSport in Alaska, the Raid International Ukatak in Canada, Adrenaline Rush in Dublin – weren't open to the masses. They were extremely expensive and could last eight to 10 days. I said, let's create something shorter in duration and less expensive but equally painful – something that still takes people to that breaking point, where they transform as an individual.
How big do you think Spartan Race will become?
We want to take obstacle racing to the Olympics. That's our plan – to build a participant base in 42 countries, create governing bodies in each, and eventually make an official bid. That's why we're trying to formulate a relationship with NBC, to help broaden our platform.
In Spartan Up!, you mention that you have a few tricks that help you push through pain. What are they?
Your kids are all eight years old or younger now. Will they do Spartan Races someday?
The five-, six-, and eight-year-old have all done multiple Spartan Races. The other daughter is only one. I'm going to see if my eight-year-old son can do the Boston Marathon with me this year.
Structure is superimportant. Kids that age can't make decisions, so you've got to make any worthwhile activity as mandatory as brushing their teeth. We have a kung fu teacher living with us, so every morning at 5:45 AM they do kung fu for an hour, and then again at 5:30 PM. We know how much easier it is to learn languages at a young age, so the only TV we let them watch is in Mandarin. My feeling is, we have a short window to keep the pressure on them. Why would you not? They're gaining discipline, confidence.
Is your wife, Courtney, as intense as you? You mention in the book that on your first date, you took her on an unplanned eight-hour kayak ride with no food. You proposed three months later.
She's an amazing athlete – in college she was the star of her soccer team – but it's because of natural talent, rather than training, like me. She's a lot more balanced. She lets the kids stay up later on weekends. She's definitely my better half.
The last time I came close to quitting, I was doing an Ironman in Utah. Ten miles into the run, I was so nauseous. I thought, "I've done 20 Ironmen; who needs this?" I walked to an ambulance and just started vomiting. But as I'm thinking I'm done, this woman with one leg goes by me. It reset my frame of reference. I spent the next 16 miles of that race keeping pace with the one-legged woman, battling it out.


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There may be an admission charge when events take place and please call to check if there is a wedding taking place that may affect your visit.
From Colchester take the A12 to Witham. Head out towards Braintree on the B1018. Cressing Temple Barns are well sign posted.


We have found 1 local tutor offering private language lessons in Dalian.
I am a native Chinese speaker. I have master degree in education. I can speak good English. I hope to help you to improve your Chinese. Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. My expertise is in teaching Mandarin for commercial communication and academic purposes. I am able to teach simple characters. I believe that myrelaxed approach and understandable teaching methods will help any person master the language.


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Q: Can't find images stored in folders I've managed to build a website, which has tons of images. I stored all of those images in folder named "img". Inside the folder "img", there are some images and folders (which contains other folders containing images, too).
I tried to open it offline (with a browser), all the images show perfectly. But then, I uploaded it online, some of the images went missing...

So you see, the images inside folder "img" shows perfectly fine, but all images inside the folder of "img" went missing...
As you see, all the folder is online-friendly (right?). I can't figure it whats preventing the images from showing, as all of them shows up when i opened it offline ...
Sorry for the possibly confusing explanation...
EDIT : Server side folders
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EDIT : the code to call the images

                        Bak Karet

A: Maybe you moved the file to another folder or maybe  the FTP deleted thf images as soon as they were sent. Depends on the settings


The temperature has been dropping rapidly, being around 15 degrees Celcius. At the Talent center it's not yet a problem since the building is under direct sunlight and gets heated naturally during the day. In Smile center though it's starting to get chilly and the house owner has gracefully lended their gas heater to heat up the space. At the Joy center and eventually at the Talent center we will need to burn wood outside and use the burned remains in clay pots to use as heaters inside. But even with the heating the temperature inside will become very low and the children will need to dress up.
During the off-computer time children like to play games and build with the blocks. Our volunteers guide them with some common children's games and plays.
The children are gradually starting to prepare the annual Christmas celebration. Last year we had a great show in a big community hall. This year we are probably trying to get the same place. More new will follow and we will most likely also organize a Christmas fundraiser. Some pictures from last year's celebration.


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