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By: Carnivorous Animals
He smirked. "Have no fear renegade," The loathesome hunter spoke smoothly as he gazed down coldly into a pair of fierce golden eyes, "fore I will not harm you." Sexual Content, Kidnapping, and Violence.
Rated: Fiction M - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 19 - Words: 63,743 - Reviews: 111 - Favs: 69 - Follows: 113 - Updated: 1/7/2016 - Published: 3/14/2011 - id: 2898831
1. Captured2. Wild Beasts3. Hunger4. The Morning Sun5. Taste6. Shards7. A Traitor8. Behaviour9. Children at Play10. Beautiful Nights11. Exhaustion12. Oh Sorrow, Oh Shame13. Judge, Jury, and Executioner14. Nothing to Fear15. Reflections16. Fools and Horses17. Musings on Mortality18. Curiously Killed the Cat19. All's Fair
Disclaimer: This is all mine children.
Warning: Sexually Explicit Content and Violence
Authors Note: Hello, all readers, i'd like to make my formal apologies as always at the beginning of my works, so here we go! I apologize for the following mistakes; spelling, grammar, punctuation, and whatever else bad that I may had done. My excuse is that I haven't got a beta to help me edit the things that I continuously miss correcting. Anyways...
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A group of six sat on crates and barrels in the back upstairs room of a bakery. Among them there were only three speaking, the others sat in silence, listening and keeping to their own devices. Each of them were shrouded in long black cloaks, hiding there features from anyone that may have come stumbling in on them whilst they were in the middle of their very exciting meeting.
These people were just a small fraction of renegades that were scattered throughout the land.
They had come together in order to fight against the Queen, a vicious and heartless creature that worried only of power and riches. She was the sort of woman that stopped at nothing in order to gain exactly what she wanted.
Currently her desire was for the renegades to be eradicated... Not that she hadn't wanted them gone for the last two years, it was just now that they were becoming more of a problem for her.
A soft sigh was uttered from the back corner and some of the cloaked heads turned, taking a glance over at a figure whom sat on a crate, long, black-pant and boot covered legs stretched out.
"You have something that you wish to say, Cypress?" A deep male voice asked, from which figure it came from it was hard to distinguish for no one was moving.
The body in the corner moved its head lazily, "No, not at all." This was the quiet, honeyed, and attractive voice of a woman. "It's just getting to be a bit dull, we've been here an hour and he's yet to arrive, what are we waiting for again?"
There was a huff and a couple other figures sighed. "News, Cypress. He brings news."
The woman snorted in distaste, "Does he not always bring news? Useless, boring, unhelpful news?" She sat up more, pulling her knees upward slightly before slothfully raising her hands and undoing the string on her cloak. "And these heavy things! We're over a bakery, soon enough we'll be as cooked as the bread if we don't take them off!"
She pulled off the piece of clothing and stretched out her arms in front of herself, bending them out and listening to the pleasing pops her bones made as they readjusted.
The woman had to only be in her mid twenties and had a smooth face, her eyes were sharp and gold like that of a hawks and her hair was long, straight, and as dark as the night. Her body was curvy like a woman's should be but it was also toned and she was tall, five foot ten to be exact.
She didn't know it, but on more that a few occasions she'd been described as intimidating by her fellow renegades.
"Well, always one to follow example~!" Someone piped up cheerfully and there was a rustling sound as another cloak was abandoned on the ground allowing a young man, in his early-twenties, with no hair on his head or face whatsoever, to be revealed. If that hadn't been shocking enough his skin was a bright green and his ears were pointed slightly, his eyes were brown.
There was gruff noise and one of the men stood up, he was larger and taller than everyone else, the cloak he wore barely covering him completely. "You fools. We wear these so that no one can tell who we are!" He reminded them, voice consisting of pure annoyance.
"You think that a group of people, wearing the same outfit, all in the same building... Isn't suspicious at all?" Cypress enquired sweetly, cocking her head to the side. She received a glare and let out a soft laugh, "Don't get so uptight Leonis."
Leonis, the large, muscular man snorted, "Why were you allowed to join again?"
Cypress blanked for a moment, blinking and opening her mouth, "Uh... Be-...cause?"
There was heavy sighs from most everyone else in the room, she blushed and smiled. The green skinned young man, Frouyd, smiled kindly, "Because, Cypress, we know that if you really wanted to you could slice us all up in a matter of moments. You're knife-wielding skills are wonderful."
The womans cheeks reddened even more and she straightened. "You're full of shit, you guys give me way to much credit all of the time, it's all going to go to my head soon-"
"You mean that it hasn't already?" Someone else drawled out and another round of laughter resounded about the area of the room.
"You two should put your cloaks back on." Leonis grunted quietly, this wasn't a demand, it was a suggestion.
Cypress huffed, her shoulders slumping. "They know what we look like already, Leonis. The Hunters, they've seen us multiple times, up close, fought with us... And these ones, the ones after us, have got the Queens right-hand man as their leader. We've even got wanted signs milling about alerting townsfolk of our-"
"Exactly!" Leonis exploded and a round of shushes followed close behind. He quickly cooled himself down by taking in a deep breath and exhaling slowly. "Exactly... They may know what we look like, as do many, and that's why we need to keep our appearances hidden, so that we don't get sold out." He maintained slowly, not wanting to build himself up into a fit again.
That trimmed the woman down a little and she shrunk down, cowed momentarily as she thought of a response.
It took her a second but she straightened, serious, "But the head of the hunters is with them anyway, he always finds us sooner or later."
"And we all know about him, the Bringer of Death they call him... Murders any that oppose the Queens will. If he ever got his hands on us, or if his little cronies ever got us, we'd be dead." Ammarand, another one of the men, decided to add. "They say that his hair is dyed from the blood of those he's killed. And his armour is constructed from the dead themselves, blackened from their bitter souls..." Under his cloak he was a skinny fellow with a bearded chin and light blond hair, he was in his thirties, he had been recruited as part of their group because he was a fantastic shot with a bow and arrow.
All of them had their talents.
"Thank you for that extremely enlightening bit of information, we hadn't already known that." Leonis expressed under his breath and shook his head.
Cypress was grinning from ear to ear at them, her golden eyes watching them all. She looked at Frouyd and then laughed, he looked tired of being in that hot, small room with all of them.
To be honest it was smelling of sweat and frustration.
"We haven't exactly reached any point with this little conversation have we? So why don't we... I don't know... Get on with the meeting and when he does happen to arrive then we can hear what his information is? Hm? Yes? Sounds good?" The only woman in there suggested warmly, her slender black eyebrows arched at Leonis.
He growled and then huffed heavily, he had given up and she was right, there was no point waiting any longer.
Clearing his throat he began with giving the usual information like; where other renegades were, what plans they'd put into action, assassination attempts, group movements, and other such dribble.
"And, since the Hunters ruined our last attempt at taking down the Queens war Commander we've been set back quite a bit." He finished off after about half an hour of near constant speaking.
There were some soft hums of agreement around the room, everyone was very down-trodden. The plan they'd had to assassinate the Commander had been going completely as it should until some Hunters had unexpectedly showed up just as they were breaking into the soldier camp.
To say the least it really hadn't gone very well once the soldiers had been woken up.
Frouyd scratched the side of his green neck. "Then we'll just have to find someway to get in there good next time, disguise ourselves somehow. Cypress can't go because she's a woman and I can't go because I'm... Not of correct species." He declared and nodded curtly to himself.
"We'd have to be undercover for a couple of days."
"Yes, and those not undercover would have to track us somehow..."
A few more suggestions were added in now and again as they all tried to figure out what their next move would be.
There was a loud noise from downstairs and everyone stopped speaking altogether, stalk still and watching the door. More noises sounded and rapid footfalls started to pound up the stairs.
They'd been found out.
When this realization struck they all stood, looking at each other anxiously before Cypress and Frouyd quickly gathered their cloaks and put them on, hiding their appearances just as the door busted open.
The cloaks would only help to make sure that none of them were targeted directly by the group of Hunters, it would also add some confusion to the chase.
"Well, well, well... Looks like we've stumbled into a rats nest, boys." A male spoke, stepping into the room followed by about four others. This one had dark hair cut short and light eyes, he had the face of a weasel and Cypress could tell why he'd called them rats, this man most likely had a case of low self-esteem.
Poor Weasel-face.
Another man caught her attention, this one was blond, his hair wild and his eyes wide, his hands trembling. "Rats shouldn't be in a bakery, right? Haha, right?" He cackled, voice sharp and showing that he didn't happen to be all there mentally. "Let's exterminate them!" He cried rapturously and pulled out a knife, making a move forward but being stopped by another man.
Weasel-face tisked and shook his head in dismay, "I'm sorry, we can't do that, remember? The boss told us if we kill any of them then it'll be our heads." He looked around at the six darkly-clothed figures and gave a dirty smile. "So let's all be very cooperative and get you rats round up nice and quietly so that nobody gets hurt, alright?"
Another moment of silence fell over them as each group stared apprehensively at the other.
The Renegades certainly wouldn't be giving themselves over without a fight, but they also had a rule about never getting civilians caught up in their ordeals.
It would be hard to duke it out and not get innocents involved if they were over top of a bakery and inside of a town
Leonis, being the large bull of a man he was, charged forward into the Hunters sending them crashing out into the hallway.
The Renegades went rushing away, going in different directions from one another, splitting up as to not let themselves all get caught together.
Cypress opened the window quickly and climbed out of it, sliding down the slanted roof and springing off of it, she landed on her feet at the back of the bakery, next to her was a man on a black horse. Her gaze lifted and her heart skipped a beat as wild shock and fear ran through her.
She was staring at the man known as the 'Bringer of Death'.
And he was staring directly back at her.
Neither of them moved as they observed one another.
He could see nothing of her features but she could see his quite well.
The Hunters leader was a tall man, lean but also very strong looking looking, his eyes were the exact grey of clouds before a storm, his eyelashes were long and black. His skin was tanned from hours in the sun and scars marred his features, one was near his left eye, vertical and small but many shades darker than the rest of his skin, it looked like a nick from a switchblades. Another scar was near his nose, also on the left side, it went right from the corner of his eye and slanted down to past his nostril. His worst facial scar was the one on his right cheek, it started about half an inch from the corner of his mouth and kept going until it reached where his jaw-line curved up.
The most eye-catching feature of his though, in her opinion, was his hair.
It was indeed the same colour as war, violent, bloody, and burning. It most reminded her of when the afternoon sun hung suspended in a purple and pink washed sky over a site which held the remains of a very recent battle.
Somehow he managed to frighten her immensely.
"Renegade..." The man spoke, his voice was so smokey and quiet it made her start to tremble.
Cypress heard the sound of the door of the bakery hitting the wall and then loud yells and hysterical laughter.
She also noticed the man turn his head to look in the direction, as soon as his eyes were off of her she took off, running at top speed away from him. It was only a moment before she heard the sound of hooves loudly pounding after her and catching up quickly.
The woman cursed, to her right there were more buildings, on her left there was a brick wall.
Her breathing picked up as she ran even harder, knowing if she didn't make a decision quickly she'd be caught by the intimidating man on horseback.
Ahead of her there was a pile of crates, it was pressed against the wall, she thanked the lady of luck for that.
By this point she was sprinting and trying to ignore how the distance between them was fast becoming minimal. As she got close to the crates she took a leap and landed upon them, climbing fast before launching herself over the brick wall. This time she hit the ground on her knees and let out a sharp cry before hissing lowly and standing, her legs shaking beneath her from the pain.
Her eyes scanned around.
There was one large field and behind it there was a thick forest, she sucked in a breath.
If she could get in there then she'd be safe.
Cypress swiftly shook out her limbs before shooting off through the field, moving the best she could as her legs throbbed from the rather badly planned landing.
Her head turned slightly and her jaw nearly dropped when she saw the Head Hunter coming for her once more. He must have gone through one of the exits of the town to continue stalking his pray. He was smart, she'd give him that... She also supposed he was very determined too, she wondered how much money it took to motivate him to do this.
Then again he may have just been the sort of man that enjoyed the thrill of the chase, from the look in his eyes she supposed that would have been a better explanation.
Sometimes she wondered why she let the Renegades recruit her in the first place, then she remembered she hated the Queens system and laws and that she was bored with her mundane town life.
Her eyes saw the fence that divided the forest from the field coming up and she got ready for another jump.
As she approached she saw that it was made of wood and barbed wire, she swore under her breath but kept going and grabbed onto the wire once close enough, pulling herself over. As she was moving away from the fence her cloak got snagged, she tried to tug it away but the fabric wouldn't tear.
The stupid thing had always been a nuisance to her.
Throwing the secret of her identity to the wind she untied the cloak and let it drop from her, revealing her to the man on the horse who only happened to be ten feet away on the other side of the fence.
Her breath caught in her throat, he was far to close for comfort.
He had stayed his horse and they now stared one another down once again, the wind whistling against the trees and the grass swaying slowly about them.
The man didn't utter a single word this time, he just watched her with his penetrating eyes, waiting for a sign of movement.
Cautiously she straightened, the breeze lifting her hair up as it went past, they were both trying to size one another up it seemed.
The sun glinted off of the tight, black chest-plate and his black metal, spiked gauntlets. Other than those to pieces of armour he appeared to be dressed in a dark purple-red poets shirt and black pants with leather boots.
Hunters never dressed like normal soldiers, knights, or royal guards but somehow his attire made him seem far more cruel than any other man she'd ever had the pleasure of seeing
She took one step back and his horse took a step forward.
Her eyes narrowed at him, looking over his face darkly.
This was not the first day that they'd glimpsed one another, but it was certainly the first time either of them had gotten a good look at the other or had ever been in such close proximity.
Nor had she ever seen his features so clearly.
She wished that she had continued to be ignorant to them, if she had then she wouldn't have been able to let his eyes dig their way deep into her memory.
It was then that she noticed that they were far away enough from the town for her to attack him.
Her hand slipped into her sheath and she pulled out a dagger, took her aim and whipped it at him, almost to fast to notice.
It was going straight at his forehead and just before it seemed like it was going to hit he tilted his head to the side and the knife went whizzing past.
Cypress' eyes widened.
The man was fast.
She turned and ran, going straight into the forest, bounding over bushes and dodging the trees as she went.
He wasn't deterred from his goal though, he was still coming after her.
Her legs continued to carry her until she heard the horse right behind her, felt its breath on her head. Suddenly her knees buckled and she fell to the ground, her body hunched forward and her head turned a little so she could look behind herself.
The horse had reared back, giving a loud neigh of annoyance and then settling down.
Cypress turned her head away again, straightening her torso and holding her head up high, she would not show fear or weakness to this man.
Her body though nearly jerked when she heard the sound of him dismounting though and she swallowed quietly, taking in a deep breath and calming down her heart.
Her eyes stared straight ahead even as he moved to stand directly in front of her.
She felt his gaze on her and a shiver of discontent made its way down her stiff spine.
Would he kill her?
She saw one of his frighteningly gloved hands coming towards her face and her eyes shot up, meeting his fiercely.
"Don't worry, renegade." He spoke gently and tilted her chin up with two fingers, gazing at her face, an odd look in his eyes. He seemed to be coming to a decision of some sort and she was getting very nervous. She wished he'd get his hand away from her, it made her very uneasy.
The man continued to watch her, "I've seen you many times before, you've been with the renegades a long time, and you're so young." He pointed out in an obvious manner.
'And you're quite young yourself, you filthy mutt.' Cypress thought to herself as she watched him, her lips pursing in disgust for everything that this Hunter stood for. If he were acting high and mighty or patronizing like his underdogs then she surely could have vomited right then and there.
But, he was being quite civil with her.
Thus any illness she wished that she was feeling was unattainable at the moment.
He kneeled down in front of her, bending forward to be at eye level with her. They were staring at each other still. "You haven't anything to say?" The man asked and gained no response, just a silence and a dark glare.
He smirked and ran his hand down the side of her throat slowly, feeling her body tense beneath his gauntlet covered hand. "Maybe you'll be more adverse to speak later." He murmured thoughtfully and her eyes narrowed just as she felt him pinching her collarbone.
For a single, stilled moment, nothing happened and then her vision went black and she collapsed forward against his arms, submerged into deep unconsciousness.
So, this is a new one... And, as I was editting it, fictionpress decided to log me out, so when I had finished editting and went to save... I... Couldn't. And I had to do it all over again of course, and I really hate doing that, it's a lot of work, and it hurts my poor brain reading my own writing over and over again.
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Using better communication with neighbors to allay any fears, Wynns said, the district hopes to use HUD assistance in future subsidized teacher housing at other sites in the city.
The plan to build teacher housing has drawn criticism even among the educators it was designed to help. Many of the district's 4,400 rank-and-file instructors, who are seeking a new contract that includes a 30% raise, said the money should be spent on higher salaries.
Starting pay for San Francisco teachers is $31,000 in a city where the median home price is $470,000 and where one-bedroom apartments rent for $2,000 a month.
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Many residents of the Sunset neighborhood said they fear that the housing would attract low-income residents and raise the crime rate.
"Too many people sadly jumped to the conclusion that 'Oh, this is a HUD project and therefore it's bad,' " Wynns said. "At the public meeting, a retired policeman stood up to say that the city's highest crime areas are always around housing projects like this one. And the hysteria just went from there."
Supervisor Leland Yee, a critic of both the project and HUD's involvement, said school officials learned a lesson about the need to keep the community informed.
"The whole project was developed in isolation, to exclusion of the people who live around there," he said. "The school board didn't feel they needed to consult with people. Now they know."
Neil Stroth said the district should forget the whole idea.
"These people don't even do a good job educating our kids," said Stroth, whose four grown children attended the school where the project is due to be built.
"Why do they think they'd do any better at becoming apartment managers?"


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Q: Numbers on my RAM sticks that come after clock speed I have some Buffered, ECC and Registered sticks here.
They're all "1GB 2Rx8 PC2-3200R-333" sticks (a few are 1Rx4 btw), but some of them have different strings following the "333" bit.

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*One stick says "1GB 2Rx8 PC2-3200R-333-10-B1"  Another says

*"1GB 2Rx8 PC2-3200R-333-11-H0"  And another set (of 20)

*sticks says "1GB 1Rx4 PC2-3200R-333-12"

When I put these into my computer the system reported a memory mismatch error, so I'd like to know what's compatible with what.
Thanks.

A: Your question is a bit contradictory when you say they are all 2Rx8 modules but then you go on to say that some are 1Rx4. Assuming that is not a typo, you've got DRAM ranking issues and you need to RTFM for your motherboard to determine what combinations of memory you can run.

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Q: Invoke a program in a Bash script with command line parameters stored in a variable Is it possible to invoke some program in a Bash script with complete command line parameters (both the key and the value) stored in variables?
I use the following scanimage call in a script:
scanimage -p --mode "True Gray" --resolution 150 -l 0 -t 0 -x 210 -y 297 --format=png  -o scan.png

I want to store some of the parameters in variables. I tried this, concerning the --mode switch:
options="--mode \"True Gray\""
scanimage -p $options --resolution 150 -l 0 -t 0 -x 210 -y 297 --format=png  -o scan.png

but this doesn't work, scanimage says:
scanimage: setting of option --mode failed (Invalid argument)

Storing only the value for the --mode switch does work:
mode="True Gray"
scanimage -p --mode "$mode" --resolution 150 -l 0 -t 0 -x 210 -y 297 --format=png  -o scan.png

but I'd like to be variable about the switches, and I'd also like to customize multiple switches without knowing which will be set.
So is it possible to store not only the values for command line options in a variable, but also the option switch(es) along with the value(s)?

A: You can do this if you use an array instead of a string. Try this:
options=( '--mode' "True Gray" )
scanimage -p "${options[@]}" --resolution 150 -l 0 -t 0 -x 210 -y 297 --format=png  -o scan.png


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Record Numbers for AKC Opener
Wednesday 12th February, 2020 by Media Release
The opening round of the 2020 SP Tools Australian Kart Championship presented by Castrol EDGE has seen an influx of entries to re-write the record books for the sport.
A massive 316 entries have been received across the eight classes to be contested at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia on February 28 – March 1.
In the elite KZ2 class, Queensland driver Troy Loeskow will unveil the prestigious green number one plate as he strives to kick off his championship defence in a winning fashion. Among the 26-strong grid of drivers in the KZ2 class is former Champion Chris Hays, who will be making his 50th round start at the event – the most by any competitor in the history of the championship, and Team 18 Supercars Endurance driver James Golding – who was victorious at the final round of 2019. There are also six entries in the KZ2 Trophy division that has been introduced for 2020.
Never before in Australia has there been so many entries at an event for the highest level of junior karting, KA2. With 47 drivers set to do battle, it surpasses any other entry list in an elite junior category. Included in the field are representatives from every State of Australia and six drivers from across the Tasman.
Along with the KA2 class, Cadet 12 and KA3 Senior are both also over-subscribed with close to 60 entries being received for both classes.
Also being contested will be the Cadet 9 class, where drivers as young as seven will be behind the wheel, the one-make X30 class and the multi-engine TaG 125 category.
"To have such an incredible number of entries for the opening round of the Australian Kart Championship is simply incredible. Year on year, the numbers continue to build and the level of competition continues to rise," said Karting Australia Chief Operating Officer Lee Hanatschek.
"To have every State and Territory represented along with 14 drivers from New Zealand and licence holders from Singapore, Hong Kong and Italy is very pleasing.
"It is the first time that an Australian Kart Championship round has been contested at The Bend Motorsport Park and we are looking forward to showcasing our sport at such a fantastic facility."
Practice for the event will be contested on Friday, February 28 ahead of qualifying and the heat races on Saturday February 29. The finals will be held on Sunday, March 1.
2020 SP TOOLS AUSTRALIAN KART CHAMPIONSHIP
presented by Castrol EDGE
Round 1 – February 28-March 1
Venue: The Bend Motorsport Park, Tailem Bend, SA
Round 2 – April 17-19
Host Club: Eastern Lions Kart Club
Venue: Hume International Raceway, Seymour, VIC
Round 3 – June 19-21
Host Club: Ipswich Kart Club
Venue: Ipswich Kart Track, Willowbank, QLD
Round 4 – July 31-August 2
Host Club: Newcastle Kart Racing Club
Venue: Mt Sugarloaf Raceway, Cameron Park, NSW
Round 5 – September 18-20
Host Club: Go-Kart Club of Victoria
Venue: Port Melbourne International Karting Complex, Melbourne, VIC
Categories 2-stroke, Australia, News, Sprint
Karting Quickies
Entries Up at Golden Power Series Opener

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Chanukah: the origin of cancel culture
Resist the subversion of darkness in the name of enlightenment
23 centuries ago, the army of Alexander the Great marched into Jerusalem. The ensuing occupation of the Jewish capital proceeded, at the outset, with unexpected smoothness and goodwill.
The Greeks had brought to the world the first secular culture aspiring to more than wealth, lust, and power. Guided by pure aestheticism, Greek art, architecture, and drama demonstrated an affinity for abstract pursuits and singular respect for cerebral engagement. The result was an asynchrony of mutual admiration and appreciation between the Jews and their new masters.
But the veneer of intellectual integrity projected by Greek culture was a sham. Socrates, the teacher of Plato and father of rational inquiry, was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens. His unpardonable sin: posing questions that made his students think by challenging the status quo of conventional wisdom.
Judaism thoroughly endorses Socrates' famous dictum that the unexamined life is not worth living, a philosophy that infuriated the Greek establishment. The foundational principle of Jewish tradition that human beings are not perfect creations, but perpetual works-in-progress, grated against the Greek notion that man is a divine creature in no need of improvement.
Recognizing that the theology of the Jews would never bend to accommodate the worldview of their masters, the Syrian-Greek ruler Antiochus Epiphanes issued edicts forbidding three religious practices: Sabbath observance, ritual circumcision, and the sanctification of the New Month. His assault on these specific institutions illustrates how our ideological enemies often understand us better than we understand ourselves.
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This is Wikiloc's selection to discover amazing volcano trails around the World.
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Namal Rajapaksa MP Tells "New York Times" Confidently "Of Course we have more than 130 Seats in Parliament"
Posted by Administrator on 27 October 2018, 11:49 pm
By Dharisha Bastians and Maria Abi-Habib
President Mathripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka on Saturday suspended Parliament for two weeks as he sought to shore up support for unseating the country's prime minister, escalating a political crisis.
Mr. Sirisena suspended Parliament after ousting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday, a move many lawmakers and government ministers denounced as unconstitutional. Mr. Sirisena swore in as prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, a popular former president who was accused of human rights abuses and corruption during a decade in power.
Mr. Wickremesinghe struck a defiant tone, claiming he was still prime minister. "Convene Parliament, and I will prove it," he said.
By Saturday afternoon, many lawmakers were vowing to stick by Mr. Wickremesinghe, demanding that a formal count be taken in Parliament to determine who held a majority in the house. That's when Mr. Sirisena announced that he was suspending Parliament. He also dismissed the leaders of several government institutions, replacing them with loyalists.
As of 5 p.m. local time, Mr. Wickremesinghe remained in office at Temple Trees — the official state residence of the prime minister — where he briefed diplomats from the United States, the United Kingdom and more on the political developments.
Addressing a news briefing earlier in the day, he pledged to leave office if it was proved that he did not hold the majority in the house. The dispute could be resolved peacefully in Parliament, and there was no need to plunge the country into political crisis, Mr. Wickremesinghe said.
But frontliners in Mr. Rajapaksa's party have warned Mr. Wickremesinghe that they will give him until Sunday morning to leave the official prime ministerial residence unless he wanted the public to "force him out."
To clinch a majority in Parliament, Mr. Sirisena needs to secure just over half of the 225 seats in the house to form a new government with Mr. Rajapaksa's party. A tally on Saturday suggested they held only 98 seats.
But Namal Rajapaksa, a lawmaker and the son of the former president, said by telephone that the numbers were in their favor.
"Of course we have more than 130 seats in Parliament, definitely," Namal Rajapaksa said. "We are already working on our policies to stabilize the economy and provide social stability."
Mr. Sirisena was a cabinet member in Mahinda Rajapaksa's government until he broke from the ruling party to form a coalition with Mr. Wickremesinghe to contest the 2015 elections, which they won by a slim majority.
In the run-up to elections, the coalition promised to investigate alleged war crimes and corruption during the tenure of Mr. Rajapaksa, who simultaneously served as president and finance minister, among other cabinet positions, while his three brothers served as the defense secretary and ministers of economy and ports.
But those investigations lagged under the unity government. The Rajapaksa family denies any wrongdoing, painting the allegations as lies perpetrated by their political opponents.
Acrimonious divisions ultimately doomed the unity government, which was consumed by bitter infighting between Mr. Sirisena and Mr. Wickremesinghe. Sri Lankans have grown unhappy with the economy stagnating and social unrest breaking out at times, including outbursts of sectarian violence.
Whether Mr. Sirisena will face popular backlash remains to be seen. Mr. Rajapaksa is very popular in the country, but this is the first time since Sri Lanka earned independence from Britain that power has been handed over unconstitutionally, observers say.
"The president has no authority to remove the prime minister," Jayadeva Uyangoda, a retired university academic and political scientist explained. "The removal of the prime minister is a function of Parliament, unless he resigns."
Namal Rajapaksa, the son of the former president, remained confident, adding that the majority of Sri Lankans supported the new government because the previous cabinet had failed to govern effectively.
"If you talk to people who voted for the unity government, they all agree that there is not unity in the unity government," he said. "But now you will have stability with the new government. People can oppose us, but at the end of the day, we will achieve a solution for the economic and social instability."
Mr. Sirisena's party may now join with Mr. Rajapaksa's party, Namal Rajapaksa said, giving the family a good shot at reclaiming power in presidential elections next year.
Courtesy:New York Times
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Tamil National Alliance in a Quandary Over Its Future Course of Action After the Coalition Government it Supported Falls Through. »


The Pentagon has officially confirmed the existence of a quasi-secret program to investigate UFOs, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which started in 2007 and is reportedly still ongoing (although its annual $22 million of "black money" funding was cut off in 2012).
There are several interesting details about the sighting here. For one, there were clearly two unidentified objects. The first was a large underwater object that was "much larger than a submarine." For reference, the U.S. Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines are 377 feet long. The object also had some passing resemblance to a "downed airliner." This was technically a USO, or unidentified swimming object. Although much rarer than UFOs, such craft have been sighted over the years.
We know a little more about the UFO itself. It is described as "wingless, white, and shaped like an oblong pill. It was 24-30 (40 in the NYT article) feet long and had no visible markings or glass. The USS Princeton was able to faintly track the "capsule" via its SPY-1B radar system, but the fighters were not able to get a radar lock on the object. The "capsule" was not only more maneuverable than the Hornets but also much faster —for it to have reached the CAP point ahead of the Navy fighters it would have had to have flown in excess of 2,400 miles an hour. According to FighterSweep.com, which published a detailed chronicle of the event in 2015, the object did not emit hot jet exhaust typical of ordinary aircraft.


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title: Publish/Subscribe Configuration
summary: Publish/Subscribe Configuration
tags: []
redirects:
- nservicebus/publish-subscribe-configuration
---

![Pub/Sub configuration](basic-pubsub.png)

The part of the <add> entry stating Messages="Messages" means that the assembly "Messages.dll" contains the message schema. Specific types can be configured using their qualified name: `namespace.type, assembly`.

The part stating Endpoint="messagebus" tells the subscriber's bus object that the publisher accepts subscription requests on that queue. The queue name "messagebus" is short for "the queue named 'messagebus' on the local machine". To indicate a queue on a remote machine, use a format similar to email:MessageBus@RemoteServer.

[Click here](/nservicebus/messaging/specify-message-destination.md) for more configuration options related to mapping messages to endpoints.

However, the input queue of each process does need to be on the same machine as the process.

At this point, the bus in the subscriber process knows about the message schema and the endpoint on which the publisher is willing to accept subscription requests. The bus object then sees that there is application code in the subscriber that wants to handle those messages, and sends a subscription request to that endpoint.

## Subscription intent

Application code in the subscriber handles the messages published by the publisher by implementing the (`IHandleMessages<T>`) NServiceBus interface, as shown:

![Handling messages](nservicebus-eventmessagehandler.png)

This interface requires the single 'Handle' method to accept a parameter of the same type as declared in the class inheritance. Ignore the body of the method for now as it has no bearing on how publish/subscribe works.

Since the message being handled (`EventMessage`) belongs to the message assembly previously described (Messages.dll), and the subscriber's bus knows those messages belong to the publisher (from the app.config above), and the only way that a process can handle messages belonging to someone else is for them to be a subscriber, the bus automatically subscribes. Here's how it works.

## Messaging mechanics

![Subscribing](subscribe.png)

The bus at the subscriber subscribes to the publisher by sending a message to the queue that is configured in its `<unicastbusconfig>` section as described above. In the message, the bus includes the type of message and the input queue of the subscriber. When the bus at the publisher side receives this message, it stores the information.

It is important to understand that each publisher is responsible for its own information. There isn't necessarily some logically central broker which stores everything, although NServiceBus does allow for configuring all publishers to store their information in a physically central location, such as a database.

A subscriber can also be a publisher. It is simple to state that a given process is a publisher.

## How to be a publisher

To indicate that a given process is a publisher, reference the NServiceBus assemblies and write a class that implements `IConfigureThisEndpoint `and AsAPublisher as shown below.

On top of the three NServiceBus assemblies referenced, reference
'log4net', which is the open-source library that is used for logging.
[Logging is configured in NServiceBus](/nservicebus/logging/) slightly differently than the standard log4net model.

![Setting up a publisher](nservicebus-publisher.png)

Ignore the interface ISpecifyMessageHandlerOrdering for now.

## Subscription Storage

NServiceBus internally sets up the storage where subscription information is placed. By default, NServiceBus stores this information in RavenDB but there are also built-in storage options on top of MSMQ and relational databases and in memory. You don't need to specify this yourself either in code or config. See [how profiles work in NServiceBus](/nservicebus/hosting/nservicebus-host/profiles.md) for more information.

By default, the subscriptions are stored in a Raven database with the same name as your endpoint. Subscriptions for each message type are stored as a document in the "Subscriptions" collection.

To configure MSMQ as your subscription storage:

```C#
public class ConfigureMsmqSubscriptionStorage : INeedInitialization
{
    public void Init()
    {
        Configure.Instance.MsmqSubscriptionStorage();
    }
}
```

You don't need any configuration changes for this to work, NServiceBus automatically uses a queue called "{Name of your endpoint}.Subscriptions". However if you want specify the queue used to store the subscriptions yourself, add the following config section and subsequent config entry:

```XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <!-- Other sections go here -->
    <section name="MsmqSubscriptionStorageConfig" type="NServiceBus.Config.MsmqSubscriptionStorageConfig, NServiceBus.Core" />
  </configSections>
  <!-- Other config options go here -->
  <MsmqSubscriptionStorageConfig Queue="YourQueue" />
</configuration>
```

For multiple machines to share the same subscription storage, do not use the MSMQ option outlined above; instead, use any of the database-backed stores described on this page.

To configure a relational database as your subscription storage, just reference the `NServiceBus.NHibernate.dll` and add:

```C#
public class ConfigureNHibernateSubscriptionStorage : INeedInitialization
{
    public void Init()
    {
        //Usage for version 3
        Configure.Instance.DBSubcriptionStorage();

        //Usage for version 4
        Configure.Instance.UseNHibernateSubscriptionPersister();
    }
}
```

This option requires the following to be present in your config, for version 3:

```XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <!-- Other sections go here -->
    <section name="DBSubscriptionStorageConfig" type="NServiceBus.Config.DBSubscriptionStorageConfig, NServiceBus.NHibernate" />
  </configSections>
  <!-- Other config options go here -->
  <DBSubscriptionStorageConfig>
    <NHibernateProperties>
      <add Key="connection.provider" Value="NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider"/>
      <add Key="connection.driver_class" Value="NHibernate.Driver.SqlClientDriver"/>
      <add Key="connection.connection_string" Value="Server=YOUR_DB_SERVER;initial catalog=NServiceBus;Integrated Security=SSPI"/>
      <add Key="dialect" Value="NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2008Dialect"/>
    </NHibernateProperties>
  </DBSubscriptionStorageConfig>
</configuration>
```

And for version 4:

```XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <!-- dialect is defaulted to MsSql2008Dialect, if needed change accordingly -->
    <add key="NServiceBus/Persistence/NHibernate/dialect" value="NHibernate.Dialect.{your dialect}"/>

    <!-- other optional settings examples -->
    <add key="NServiceBus/Persistence/NHibernate/connection.provider" value="NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider"/>
    <add key="NServiceBus/Persistence/NHibernate/connection.driver_class" value="NHibernate.Driver.Sql2008ClientDriver"/>
  </appSettings>

  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="NServiceBus/Persistence/NHibernate/Subscription" connectionString="Data Source=YOUR_DB_SERVER;Initial Catalog=subscription;Integrated Security=True" />
  </connectionStrings>
</configuration>
```

If you don't want all this information in your config, you can specify it in code through the overload of the `DBSubscriptionStorage` method, which accepts a dictionary of the NHibernate properties above.

The additional `autoUpdateSchema'` parameter, if set to 'true', tells NServiceBus to create the necessary tables in the configured database to store the subscription information. This table is called 'Subscriptions' and has two columns, 'SubscriberEndpoint' and 'MessageType'; both of them varchars.

Read more information on [NHibernate configuration](http://nhibernate.info/doc/index.html), specifically Table 3.1 and the optional configuration options in section 3.5. Table 3.3 can help you configure other databases like Oracle and MySQL.

## How to publish?

To publish a message, you need a reference to the bus object in your code. In the pub/sub sample, this code is in the `ServerEndpoint` class in the Server project, as shown:

```C#
public class HandlerThatPublishedEvent : IHandleMessages<MyMessage>
{
    public IBus Bus { get; set; }

    public void Handle(MyMessage message)
    {
        Bus.Publish<MyEvent>(e =>
            {
                e.SomeProperty = "xyz";
            });
    }
}
```

The 'Bus' property is automatically filled by the infrastructure. This is known as 'Dependency Injection'. All development done with NServiceBus makes use of [these patterns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection) . The technology used as the dependency injection container by NServiceBus is pluggable, with five options available out of the box, Autofac is the default.

In the 'Run' method, you see the creation of the event message. This can be as simple as instantiating the relevant class or using the bus object to instantiate messages defined as interfaces. Read more information on [whether to use interfaces or classes to represent messages](/nservicebus/messaging/messages-as-interfaces.md) .

Once the event message object has been created, the call to `Bus.Publish(eventMessage);` tells the bus object to have the given message sent to all subscribers who expressed interest in that type of message. As we saw in the walk-through, if a subscriber is unavailable, their messages aren't lost they're stored until the subscriber comes back on-line. See the 'store and forward messaging' section of the [architectural principles](/nservicebus/architecture/) of NServiceBus for more information.

## Security and authorizations

You may not want to allow any endpoints to subscribe to a given publisher or event. NServiceBus provides a way for you to intervene in the subscription process and decide whether a given client should be allowed to subscribe to a given message. You can see this in the `SubscriptionAuthorizer` class in the Server project.

The class implements the `IAuthorizeSubscriptions` interface, which requires the `AuthorizeSubscribe` and `AuthorizeUnsubscribe` methods. The implementation that comes in the sample doesn't do very much, returning true for both. In a real project, you may access some Access Control System, Active Directory, or maybe just a database to decide if the action should be allowed.

## Versioning subscriptions

In NServiceBus version 3.0 and onwards subscriptions for types with the same Major version are considered compliant. This means that a subscription for MyEvent 1.1.0 will be considered valid for MyEvent 1.X.Y as well.

NOTE: Version 2.X required a perfect match. This should make it easier to upgrade your publishers without affecting the subscribers.

## Best practices

When you tell NServiceBus that your messages are events, the framework helps you enforce best messaging practices by only allowing you to Bus.Publish|Subscribe|UnSubscribe events. Other calls result in a exception. More on [best practices](/nservicebus/messaging/messages-events-commands.md) .

As you can see, there is a lot going on under the hood. NServiceBus gives you full control over every part of the message exchange while abstracting the underlying technologies. Try modifying the sample a bit, adding your own message handlers, and debugging through the various pieces to get a better feel for what's going on.

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I'm giving the kids a nudge toward a more Primal lifestyle this week by making them Primal school lunches. I gave the kids a few options and they chose which they wanted to put in their lunch boxes. I also made up a batch of Primal waffles for them to eat for breakfast during the school week. I'm hoping to see a little less bouncing off the walls and a little more concentration from them. Maybe taking the gluten out of their diets will help a bit with that. And I'm hoping I won't have too many uneaten lunches return from school this week. We'll see what happens!
The girl has 2 days of Apples and almond butter and 3 days of sliced turkey, cheddar cheese and fruit.
The boy has 3 days of boiled egg white (he won't eat the yolk), oranges and cheese and 2 days of apples, almond butter and cheese.
wow. your kids don't eat much! do you put some lemon on the apples or anything to keep them from turning brown? my kids won't touch an apple that has been sliced more than about 5 seconds beforehand... not that they are dippers anyway, but the slices would be nice, especially for the toothless one.
I don't put anything on the apples. I just slice them with a sharp, non-serrated (sp?) knife and they don't seem to turn brown.
I'm actually lucky if they eat all of that at school and don't bring part of it home with them. When they had sandwiches, the boy would bring home half almost every day and eat it for his after school snack.


Memorial Day is about remembering and thanking those who've lost their lives in the name of the United States, and we here at PSH would like to contribute. In World War I, in World War II, in Korea and in Vietnam, many former and active major league baseball players served in the armed forces. While many served, only a few professional ballplayers died; the first of which spent 4 seasons as a third baseman with the Phillies.
Eddie Grant was born in 1883 in Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard, giving him the nickname "Harvard Eddie." He broke into the majors in 1905 with the Cleveland Naps. After a year in the minors with the Jersey City Skeeters, Grant was signed by the Phillies in 1907. He played 74 games that season, batting .243 and stealing 10 bases. From 1908 to 1910, Grant started at third base for the Phillies and batted leadoff. His best year was 1909, in which the light-hitting infielder batted .269, scored 75 runs and stole 28 bases. The educated Grant was somewhat of a grammar nerd on the field: he would not yell the accepted "I got it" when pop-ups were hit his way, instead opting for the grammatically correct "I have it." After his years with the Phillies, Grant finished his 10-year professional career with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants and retired after the 1915 season.
After baseball, Grant returned to Massachusetts to practice law. By this time, World War I had been raging in Europe for three years and many of Grant's Harvard classmates were volunteering their services just behind the trenches even though the U.S. wasn't officially involved. When the U.S. did enter the war in April 1917, Eddie Grant was one of the first men to enlist. As a college-educated man, he was appointed Captain of Company H of the 307th Infantry Regiment of the 77th Division of the American Expeditionary Forces.
Deployed to the Western Front, Grant's battalion fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France. This was one of the fiercest offensives in American military history as the U.S. forces battled through the Argonne forest, which housed entrenched and experienced German forces. During the offensive, a group of men became pinned down by the Germans and isolated from the American forces. U.S. aviators were sent to locate the "Lost Batallion" and finally did. Even though his Company had been fighting on the front lines for 4 straight days, Grant led his men into the forest to rescue the Lost Battalion. Pounded heavily by German artillery, the U.S. Forces and Allies were taking a lot of losses. One of the wounded being brought back past the troops advancing to the location of the Lost Battalion was the commander of the Grant's battalion. He recognized Grant and informed him that all of the superior officers were either killed or wounded; Eddie Grant was now in charge of a battalion. As he led his battalion closer to the isolated Americans, the German shelling increased. As Grant and some of his officers were being briefed, a German shell exploded near them and killed two lieutenants. Grant was yelling orders for his men to take cover and for medics when another shell exploded just above him and he died instantly. He was buried in the Argonne forest just a few yards from where he was killed.
The Giants commemorated Eddie Grant's sacrifice by installing the plaque pictured above at Polo Grounds and placing a wreath around its base every Memorial Day. (You can see the plaque in it's position at Polo Grounds here. It's just below the 483 ft. sign, and yes, that's a photo of the Willie Mays' catch). After the last game at the Polo Grounds, the plaque was stolen when fans tore up the stadium taking every souvenir they could. It popped up a few years later, but was then lost for good. When the franchise moved to San Francisco, a replacement plaque was not installed until 2006 after multiple requests for the Giants to do so.
He fought for Liberty—and died.
*In addition to Grant, two other major leaguers were killed in WWI: Tigers' pitcher Robert Troy and Yankees' outfielder Alex Barr. Also, Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson suffered gas poisoning during the war which led to tuberculosis and his ultimate death in 1925. In WWII, 50 former or active professional players lost their lives. Of the 50, two were ex-major leaguers: catcher Harry O'Neill, who died on Iwo Jima, and outfielder Elmer Gadeon, who was killed in France. Only one former major league baseball player was killed in Korea: shortstop Bob Neighbors. No former or active major leaguers were killed in Vietnam, or any subsequent conflicts.